Hitachi, Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ikuo Takeuchi

Keizo Isemura

Tomoyuki Hamada

Ichiro Sasaki

Shinsuke Ubayashi

Kenji Fukushi

Takayuki Kato

Akihiro Shimizu

Tetsuya Morita

Masaaki Saito

Atsushi Nakagawa

Kunio Tsuruno

Kohji Kamejima

Masahiro Kurahashi

Satoru Kanno

Yasuyoshi Yamamoto

Masahiro Funakoshi

Hideaki Miyazawa

Masao Okayama

Naoya Kikkawa

Manabu Yamauchi

Hiroto Nishihara

Kazuo Honma

Shunichi Oohara

Tomoyasu Yoshikawa

Toru Katsumi

Yoshio Mizuno

Ryoko Ichinose

Junichi Oizumi

Mitsunari Kano

Yasuhiro Nemoto

Mitsuru Amimoto

Koki Kuroda

Takashi Nakanishi

Norihisa Miyake

Motoo Uno

Kousuke Noda

Toshiaki Yoshinaga

Taiji Tajima

Ryohei Miyahara

Akihiko Sakai

Takashi Teramoto

Atsushi Koseki

Shigeru Ohcoshi

Yukio Akimoto

Ryoko Sato

Noriaki Hagiwara

Yutaka Arai

Yuriko Watanabe

Yutaka Nagasawa

Kohzi Kamezima

An elevator system which an autonomous mobile robot and human user can utilize safely and efficiently. The system has an available area detection unit to detect an available area in a cage, and a riding possibility/impossibility determination unit to determine whether or not the autonomous mobile robot can get on the cage based on information on size and position of the available area detected by the available area detection unit. The autonomous mobile robot gets on the cage only when the riding possibility/impossibility determination unit determines that riding is possible.

Elevator system that autonomous mobile robot takes together with person

A recycling method of an apparatus having a part includes a collecting step of collecting a part from the apparatus; a processing step of processing the collected part to adapt it to an apparatus having different specifications; and a mounting step of mounting the part processed in the processing step on the apparatus.

Recycling method and image forming apparatus manufactured using recycling method

A recycling method in an apparatus having a part includes a part removal step of removing a part from the apparatus, and a mounting step of mounting to the apparatus a part having a specification different from that of the removed part.

Recycling method using a modified part and image forming apparatus manufactured using the recycling method

A self-running vacuum cleaner comprises a homing mode of following a back of a user with receiving a signal from a light emitting means or a transmitting means of a position indicator means held by the user, an instruction operation mode, in which the user instructs a cleaning area to the self-running vacuum cleaner, and an execution mode for cleaning up the cleaning area instructed. When the self-running vacuum cleaner operates under the homing mode or the instruction mode, a signal from the light-emitting means or the transmitting means is received by a receiver means attached on a periphery portion of a measuring means, which is provided in an upper portion of the vacuum cleaner. Comparing the signals from the two (2) receiver means in strength thereof determines the distance and the direction from the position indicated by the light-emitting means or the transmitting means up to the vacuum cleaner.

Self-running vacuum cleaner

An image forming apparatus is provided which includes a sheet containing section for containing sheets, a conveying member and a conveying path for conveying the sheets, at least one optical sensor that is arranged in the conveying path and has a light emitting element and a light receiving element for detecting presence or absence of a sheet on the conveying path, a driver for changing an amount of emitted light of the optical sensor, a sheet supply operation detecting section for detecting a supply operation of the sheets contained in the sheet containing section, and a control section for adjusting an amount of emitted light of the optical sensor according to an output of the sheet supply operation detecting section.

Image forming apparatus

The quantity of light of an optical sensor including a light emission portion and a light reception portion is adjusted through calculation before sheet detection is performed. In order to perform the light quantity adjustment, a voltage to be applied to the light emission portion of the optical sensor is obtained by performing calculation based on a relation between a voltage applied to the light emission portion before the adjustment and an output from the light reception portion before the adjustment. Then, it is judged whether the obtained voltage exists within a predetermined range and, if a positive result is obtained, the light quantity adjustment is ended. Further, a signal requesting the cleaning of the optical sensor is outputted in accordance with a value of the obtained voltage.

Sheet detecting apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with sheet detecting apparatus

A sheet conveying apparatus permits keeping predetermined sheet intervals, even when sheet conveyance is temporarily discontinued and then resumed, after resumption of conveyance. The sheet conveying apparatus has a first roller which feeds sheets at predetermined sheet intervals, and a second roller which conveys a plurality of sheet fed from the first roller. After temporarily discontinuing conveyance of the plurality of sheets, conveyance of the plurality of sheets is resumed by use of the first roller and the second roller. The variation in the sheet interval caused when temporarily discontinuing sheet conveyance is corrected upon resumption of sheet conveyance.

Sheet conveying apparatus with correction device to compensate for sheet interval variation

An automatic cash transaction apparatus includes a deposit/payment port for depositing/paying bills; a circulatable bill storage unit for storing therein circulatable bills used to be paid among the deposited bills: an uncirculatable bill storage unit for storing therein uncirculatable bills not used to be paid; a convey path for conveying bills among the deposit/payment port, the circulatable bill storage unit, and the uncirculatable bill storage unit; a feature extracting means provided on the convey path, for extracting a pictorial pattern for the respective bills deposited via the deposit/payment port; and a memory means for storing therein the features extracted by the feature extracting means with respect to each of the deposited bills.

Automatic cash transaction apparatus

An automatic code recognizing apparatus includes an arithmetic operation unit for calculating the distance from a barcode scanner to the upper surface center of an article to be detected and the distances from barcode scanners to the side surface centers of the article to be detected based on detection signals from a height sensor and a TV camera. A mirror is controlled to focus the focal positions of the barcode scanners on the upper surface center and side surface centers of the article based on the result of calculation of the arithmetic operation unit. With this arrangement, there can be provided the automatic barcode recognizing apparatus capable of recognizing a barcode with a pinpoint accuracy and excellent responsiveness.

Apparatus and method for treating a commodity by automatically

An original illuminating apparatus for use in a copying apparatus, an image reader, or a facsimile is provided with a fluorescent lamp having a long tube wall to illuminate an original; a heat radiating member provided at a position opposite to the original illuminating side of the fluorescent lamp; and a thermal coupling member which is close to the tube wall of the fluorescent lamp and the heat radiating member and is thermally coupled thereto. The thermal coupling member is provided within an effective light emission length in the longitudinal direction of the fluorescent lamp at a position different from the original illuminating side of the fluorescent lamp or on the side that is almost opposite to the original illuminating side of the fluorescent lamp.

Original illuminating apparatus

The present invention has a detection device for detecting the thickness of a recording material by using an air capacitor, and an image forming device for forming an image on the recording material on the basis of the output from the detection device. The present invention can thus prevent omission in transfer and fixing failure, thereby forming a good image.

Image forming apparatus with paper thickness detector

A data transfer apparatus, in which when significant length data having a data length longer than the capacity of a communication bus is inputted/outputted through the communication bus into/from a data storage means, a part or the whole of the data transferred through the communiction bus is temporarily stored in a transfer processor so as to combine the data to be in the form of the significant length data so that the significant length data formed by the transfer processor supplied to the data storage means.

Data transfer method, data transfer apparatus and information processing

Information with respect to the shapes and attaching positions of component parts which are necessary for a construction work is stored into a design information memory device by use of a keyboard, an image of a construction location is picked up by a TV camera before the component parts are actually processed, the image is processed to obtain observation information, and the shapes and attaching positions of the component parts are corrected using the observation information and the design information which has already been stored. The corrected information obtained by the correction is stored into a corrected information memory device. A processing device processes the component parts by preferentially using the corrected information. An attaching device attaches the processed component parts to the construction locations while using the corrected information.

Method and apparatus for constructing structures

A manual operating system for manually operating a pattern displayed on a screen of a graphics display device, which is included in the manual operating system so as to display generated patterns comprises perspective projection means for displaying the cursor, object and mark in perspective projection on the basis of information supplied from cursor information storage means and object information storage means.

Perspective display device for displaying and manipulating 2-D or 3-D

Parallel, pulse-width-modulation controlled three-way valves each both supply and exhaust a pressure chamber of a fluid actuator. The phase difference of the oscillator carrier waves of the pulse width modulation input circuit effectively increases the frequency of a net actuator carrier wave so as to quicken the response of the actuator.

Pulse-width-modulation control of parallel three-way valves to supply

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Ibaraki, Japan

Ikuo Takeuchi