Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Nec Electronics Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hitachi, Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Renesas Technology Corp.

Pioneer Corporation

Toshiba Battery Co., Ltd.

Miyata Industry Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Hitachi Vlsi Engineering Corp.

Melexis Technologies Sa

Metawater Co., Ltd.

Hiroyuki Takahashi

Mitsuru Kurita

Toshiyuki Hata

Yasuyuki Takiguchi

Junichi Ikeda

Yukihiro Satou

Ichio Shimizu

Tatsuhito Kataoka

Tetsuya Satoh

Takeshi Otani

Koji Takeo

Satoru Numakura

Mitsuru Suzuki

Masahiro Yoshida

Hideaki Yamamoto

Shigenobu Hirano

Noriyuki Terao

Takeshi Shibuya

Toshiyuki Kitamura

Ikue Kawashima

Akihiko Kanemoto

Motoaki Tahara

Yuji Sato

Kenji Kameyama

Naoto Tokuma

Hiroyuki Hasebe

Kazuhiko Ushiyama

Yoshikazu Kawauchi

Hirotaka Hayashida

Takuji Kato

Kiyoshi Yamamori

Takuhiro Ono

Takuya Matsumura

Genya Matsuoka

Shigeru Takeyama

Kazuta Takeno

Kiyoshi Mitsuyasu

Kohki Sasaki

Hiroyoshi Ando

Hidenori Yamaguchi

Yasushi Usui

Mitsugu Tsuyuki

Teruo Iwasaki

Takuro Koyama

Chiharu Kageyama

Masanori Sato

Koji Nagata

Yasushi Nakazato

Masahiro Funada

Kazuhiro Yoshida

Tomohisa Itagaki

Nekka Matsuura

Yoshitada Oshida

Takashi Watanabe

Hitoshi Nishitani

Takao Ogata

Tetsuo Yamanaka

Atsushi Nakagawa

Takeshi Yamakawa

Haruo Iimura

Yasuyuki Horii

Masayuki Hayashi

Masahide Okumura

Tomohiro Hamada

Makoto Anno

Masakazu Kitora

Michio Kawase

Rie Ishii

Norio Nakazato

Hiroyuki Minaguchi

Koji Kajita

Kazuya Miyagaki

Kimiaki Ando

Takumi Yoshiya

Susumu Takano

Fuyuhiko Matsumoto

Naoto Kojima

Hidemi Itakura

Kenji Hibino

Akio Mishima

Toshio Kaneko

Michio Hori

Masatoshi Sonoda

Chiyoshi Kamada

Wataru Nara

Hiroyasu Yoshizawa

Masakatsu Shimoda

Katsuhiro Kawasaki

Noriyasu Kawamura

Yasushi Kamo

Fuminao Matsumoto

Kunihiko Sasaki

Wataru Hasegawa

Toshio Ooe

Katuyuki Hata

Kazuo Ogawa

Seiya Yamano

Masahiko Nishiuma

Masaharu Iida

Hiroyuki Matsubara

A sensor assembly includes a magnetic source for generating a magnetic field; a lever or stick, which can be manually tilted about a reference orientation; a magnetic sensor device for measuring the magnetic field. The magnetic source forms a central opening. The stick includes a ferromagnetic object mounted such that a potential energy of the magnetic field is minimal when the stick is oriented in the reference orientation.

Sensor assembly with a joystick or a thumbstick

A measuring device a measurement unit configured to measure an image on a sheet, the measurement unit including a light emitting portion configured to illuminate the sheet with light, and a detecting portion configured to detect light reflected by the sheet; a supporting unit supporting the measurement unit; and a driving unit configured to move the measurement unit supported by the supporting unit in a scanning direction. A size, in the scanning direction, of a detectable range of the detecting portion in which the detecting portion is capable of detecting the reflected light from the sheet is larger than a size, in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the scanning direction and a normal direction of a surface of the sheet, of the detectable range of the detecting portion.

Measuring device and image forming apparatus

An information processing system comprises: an acquisition means configured to acquire vibration of a device that vibrates during operation, as time-series data of a physical quantity A indicated by a plurality of axis components in a three-dimensional coordinate system; a calculation means configured to calculate a first evaluation value E indicating a degree of bias of the vibration of the device between axes, based on the time-series data of the physical quantity A; and an estimation means configured to estimate a degradation level G of the device based on the first evaluation value E.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, program, and information processing method

An image forming apparatus includes: a first conveying member that nips and conveys a sheet; a guide member rotatable between a first guiding position where the guide member guides a sheet that is conveyed by the first conveying member toward a first direction and a second guiding position where the guide member guides the sheet toward a second direction that is different from the first direction; a second conveying member that conveys a sheet that has been guided toward the first direction; a third conveying member that conveys a sheet that has been guided toward the second direction; a driver that drives the guide member; an acquiring portion configured to acquiring a basis weight of a sheet; and a controller that controls the driver such as to change torque for driving the guide member based on a basis weight of a sheet acquired by the acquiring portion.

Image forming apparatus with rotating guide member that guides sheet

An actuator controlling device controls an actuator based on signals acquired from a photodetector. The actuator includes a drive unit that causes a reflecting part to move. The actuator controlling device includes a waveform generating unit, a driving amplifier, a power supply unit, and a controller. The waveform generating unit generates a voltage waveform for driving the drive unit. The driving amplifier amplifies the voltage waveform generated by the waveform generating unit. The power supply unit supplies power to the driving amplifier. The controller acquires detection signals from the photodetector and controls, based on the acquired detection signals, voltage to be supplied from the power supply unit to the driving amplifier.

Actuator controlling device, drive system, video device, image projection device, and actuator controlling method

An exhaust duct provided on a back surface side of an image forming apparatus, and including a plurality of air ducts through which air inside the apparatus is exhausted toward outside the apparatus, a plurality of filters provided in the plurality of air ducts, respectively, and which removes a fine particle included in the air exhausted through the air ducts, and a filter case that houses the plurality of filters in a manner that the filters are able to be taken out from the filter case are included, and the filter case is provided in a drawable manner to one of side surface sides in a right and left direction or to an upper surface side in an up and down direction of the image forming apparatus, from a front surface side to a back surface side of the image forming apparatus, with respect to the image forming apparatus.

Image forming apparatus

An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, a conveyance unit configured to convey the sheet, a support portion configured to support the conveyance unit openably and movably with respect to the reading unit in a vertical direction between an upper position and a lower position, a bundled wire transmitting a signal or electric power to the conveyance unit, and a cover portion configured to cover the bundled wire. The cover portion includes a first cover member provided on the conveyance unit and a second cover member provided movably in the vertical direction with respect to the reading unit. A whole length of the cover portion in the vertical direction in a case where the conveyance unit is located at the upper position is longer than a whole length of the cover portion in a case where the conveyance unit is located at the lower position.

Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus

A drive system includes an actuator, a waveform generating unit, a driving amplifier, and a bias amplifier. The actuator includes a drive unit. The waveform generating unit generates a voltage waveform for driving the drive unit. The driving amplifier amplifies the voltage waveform so as to apply a voltage to the drive unit. The bias amplifier applies a bias voltage to the drive unit. The driving amplifier and the bias amplifier are coupled to a shared power supply and the ground. The output voltage of the bias amplifier is higher than the minimum output voltage of the driving amplifier.

Drive system, video device, image projection device, and drive control method

A container for accommodating a developer collected from an image forming apparatus includes a container body for accommodating the collected developer; a closing member, dividingly separable from the container body, for closing the container body; a rotatable feeding member for feeding the developer accommodated in the container body; and a holding portion, provided on the closing member, for holding the feeding member so that when the closing member and the container body are dividingly separated, the closing member and the feeding member are integrally separable from the container body.

Container for waste developer and image forming apparatus

Provided is a data bus driving circuit including: a data processing unit that processes input data and outputs processed data; a first logic inversion unit that selects, based on a determination result signal, one of the processed data and inverted data obtained by logically inverting each value of a plurality of bits constituting the processed data, and outputs the selected data to a data bus; and an inversion determination unit that compares the data output from the first logic inversion unit with the input data that has not been processed by the data processing unit, and outputs the determination result signal based on a comparison result.

Data bus driving circuit, and semiconductor device and semiconductor memory device including the same

Provided is a semiconductor device including: a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells disposed in a matrix; and a peripheral circuit adjacent to the memory cell array. Each of the memory cells includes: a capacitive element including a lower electrode having a cylinder shape extending in a direction perpendicular to a principal surface of a substrate; and a switch transistor provided between the capacitive element and a bit line, turning on/off of the switch transistor being controlled based on a potential of a word line. The peripheral circuit includes a signal line that is adjacent to the lower electrode in a horizontal direction parallel to the principal surface and is supplied with a fixed potential, or a pair of signal lines respectively supplied with complementary potentials.

Semiconductor device

A communication apparatus for carrying out communications to and from an external apparatus that includes a first interconnecting unit and a first non-transparent port and effects an interconnection for communications via the first non-transparent port is provided. The communication apparatus includes a second interconnecting unit that includes a second non-transparent port communicably connected to the first non-transparent port. The second interconnecting unit effects an interconnection for communications via the second non-transparent port. The second interconnecting unit performs, when the communication apparatus carries out communications to and from the external apparatus, address translation between an address for use by the communication apparatus and an address for use by the second non-transparent port.

Communication apparatus, communication system and adapter

A semiconductor storage circuit includes a memory core which includes multiple memory cells; an error checking and correction (ECC) encoder; and an ECC decoder. The memory core is activated in response to input of a command for each operation cycle. The ECC encoder performs ECC encoding of input data which is input together with a write command and thus generates ECC data, and generates write data including the input data and the ECC data. The ECC decoder performs ECC decoding of read data which has been read from the memory core according to a read command, using ECC data included in the read data, and thus generates output data. An adjustment is made to equalize a delay from input of a write command until activation of the memory core and a delay from input of a read command until activation of the memory core.

Semiconductor storage circuit and operation method thereof

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