Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Otis Elevator Company

Meidensha Corporation

Nippon Otis Elevator Company

Hirotomo Tanaka

Satoshi Yoshida

Yuuki Maeda

Ryo Fujita

Mitsuru Kato

Makoto Anno

Takaaki Yano

Kosuke Tsujita

Shou Kikuchi

Hiroyuki Toriyabe

Takashi Takeuchi

Yusuke Watabe

Ryuji Onoda

Yoshiki Nota

Nobuhiro Kawamura

Hiroya Igarashi

Munetaka Sakata

Makoto Niwakawa

Kazuaki Chida

An elevator rope monitoring device, provided with: line sensor camerasfor imaging the entire circumference of the traveling elevator ropea speed/position detecting devicefor detecting the traveling speed and traveling position of the elevator ropean image recording partfor inputting the image acquired by the line sensor camerasin association with the traveling position of the elevator ropedetected by the speed/position detecting meansan image creating partfor creating an entire circumferential image of the elevator ropefrom the image imaged by the line sensor camerasand an image processing partfor detecting an abnormality in the elevator ropeby analyzing the entire circumferential image.

Elevator rope monitoring device and elevator rope monitoring method

A printing system provides an efficient operation process by automating work for producing a print product that meets quality terms requested by a customer with an information format for transferring quality terms or a quality report. A control method for an information processing apparatus includes receiving order data including quality request data from an order receiving system, interpreting the received quality request data, generating a job containing information that is used for quality adjustment to be performed by a production system, based on the interpreted quality request data, and sending the job to the production system. The job containing quality request data in a data format that is same as a data format of the received quality request data is generated.

Information processing apparatus, control method for information processing apparatus, and storage medium

An inspection apparatus registers, as a reference image, image data generated based on a print job or image data obtained by scanning a printed sheet. The inspection apparatus sets a determination criterion value used in an inspection of a printed material to determine quality of the printed material and determines, in an inspection method for inspecting the printed material using the registered reference image which is based on image data generated based on a print job, quality of the printed material based on a difference between scanned image data that is obtained by scanning the print material and the registered reference image and on the determination criterion value. The inspection apparatus controls updating of the registered reference image based on a result of the determination.

Inspection apparatus, control method thereof, inspection system, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes at least one memory that stores instructions, and at least one processor that causes, by performing the instructions, the information processing apparatus to receive, via a network from an order-receiving system, received-order data including quality request data, interpret the received quality request data, generate a job including information used in quality adjustment to be performed by a production system, based on the interpretation result, and enter the job into the production system. The job including quality request data of a data format is generated, where the data format is different from a data format of the received quality request data and is according to the production system.

Information processing apparatus, controlling method for information processing apparatus, and computer program for transmiting quality request data and quality reports to produce print data that satisfy quality requirements of user

A print control apparatus that improves operability in readjusting a secondary transfer voltage that has been adjusted. The print control apparatus that communicates with an image forming apparatus. The print control apparatus includes an instruction unit that instructs the image forming apparatus to execute a process that prints a predetermined chart, reads the predetermined chart by the reading device, and sets a secondary transfer voltage, a reception unit that receives an adjustment value obtained by the process from the image forming apparatus, and a display control unit that controls a display unit to display an object that prompts a user to adjust at least the secondary transfer voltage based on reception of the adjustment value obtained by the process by the reception unit.

Print control apparatus, control method therefor, storage medium storing control program therefor, and print system

An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive print data containing quality request data, a generation unit configured to generate a job based on the quality request data received by the reception unit, a transmission unit configured to transmit the job generated by the generation unit to a job processing apparatus, and another generation unit configured to generate product quality data indicating a quality of a product generated by processing the job by the job processing apparatus, wherein, in a case where the quality of the product does not satisfy a quality requested by the quality request data, the another generation unit generates the product quality data indicating that the quality requested by the quality request data is not satisfied.

Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor that causes the information processing apparatus to receive image data and quality request data from an order system, transmit the image data to a production system, and receive a measurement result obtained by the production system about a measurement item specified by the quality request data from among items that are able to be notified by quality data. In addition, the quality data including the measurement result about the measurement item specified by the quality request data based on the measurement result is generated, and the quality data is transmitted to the order system.

Information processing apparatus, controlling method for information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable memory that stores a computer-executable program for the controlling method

A production system includes a memory containing instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions to execute a quality verification process corresponding to identification information assigned to a print job, determine whether or not a condition corresponding to the identification information assigned to the print job is met, in a case it is determined that the condition is not met, execute an adjustment process for meeting the condition, and execute the print job in a case the adjustment process has been completed or in a case it is determined that the condition is met.

Printing system, production system, and method of controlling production system

According to one embodiment, a cleaning head for cleaning a plurality of hoisting belts and/or at least one sheave of an elevator system is provided. The at least one sheave includes a plurality of grooves for receiving each of the hoisting belts. The cleaning head comprises a base plate and a plurality of wipers fixed to an upper end of the base plate to project outwards from the base plate. The cleaning head may be used to clean the plurality of hoisting belts at once and/or the plurality of grooves of the at least one sheave at once.

Cleaning device for an elevator system

During a maintenance inspection, an optical rope diameter measuring device is provided at a predetermined position along a path of a wire rope, rope diameter is measured at multiple measuring points while the elevator is driven in test mode, and diameter reduction at each measuring point is determined and stored as a first diameter reduction (S_S). During a subsequent maintenance inspection, rope diameter is similarly measured at each measuring point to determine diameter reduction constituting a second diameter reduction (S_S). Based on these two diameter reductions, the time at which diameter reduction will reach a predetermined threshold value is predicted for each measuring point, and the earliest time is displayed as a rope replacement time (S_S).

Elevator rope maintenance method

An information processing apparatus that transmits print data and a print quality requirement to a control system that controls a printing apparatus to output a printed product satisfying required print quality, includes a reception unit configured to receive print data, a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, a user interface that prompts a user to select a setting of print quality of the print data from among predetermined options, a generation unit configured to generate quality requirement data suitable for an option selected via the user interface, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the control system, the print data received by the reception unit and the quality requirement data generated by the generation unit, wherein the quality requirement data includes at least information indicating an acceptable range of a color difference between a standard color value and a colorimetric value of the printed product.

Information processing apparatus that generates quality requirement data based on an acceptable difference between a standard color value and color value to be obtained

According to one embodiment, a rope cleaning device comprises a scraper ring which engages grooves between strands of a wire rope to scrape out foreign material from the grooves as the wire rope passes through the scraper ring, a wiper ring positioned in series with the scraper ring for wiping the surface of the wire rope as the wire rope passes through the wiper ring and a rotational mechanism which allows the scraper ring to rotate about the axis of the wire rope.

Rope cleaning device

A wired-rope measuring device, provided with two camerasthat shoot one or no less than two wired ropesfrom different directions and an analyzing devicethat analyzes image data that is an image shot by the two cameras, wherein the analyzing deviceapplies the principle of triangulation by a stereo method to the image data to seek a center coordinate Pof the wired roperelative to the camerasand volumetric anamorphosis is corrected when calculating a diameter D of the wired ropebased on the center coordinate Pof the wired rope

Wire rope measuring device and wire rope measuring method

An image forming apparatus includes a container in which a sheet is contained, an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet, a reading unit configured to read a test image formed on the sheet, and a controller. The image forming apparatus forms the test image on the sheet, reads the test image by the reading unit, and generates, based on a reading result of the reading unit, an image forming condition for correcting a shift between a position of an image to be formed on a first surface of the sheet and a position of an image to be formed on a second surface different from the first surface of the sheet, and determines a timing for the image forming unit to subsequently form the test image based on a time period during which the sheet is contained in the container.

Image forming apparatus and control method for adjusting print position

An image forming apparatus with a detachable fixing device that is capable of printing with high quality without printing wastefully. A storage unit stores identification information about a fixing device in association with an attribute of a sheet that is printable with the fixing device concerned. A control unit executes printing when the storage unit does not store an attribute of a sheet corresponding to a fixing device that is currently attached to the image forming apparatus. The control unit determines whether to execute printing according to an attribute of a sheet used in printing and an attribute of a sheet stored in the storage unit when the storage unit stores the attribute of the sheet corresponding to the fixing device that is currently attached to the image forming apparatus.

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Hirotomo Tanaka