Hitachi, Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nippon Petrochemicals Company, Limited

Polymer Processing Research Inst., Ltd.

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Qualcomm Incorporated

Kabushiki Kaisha Hitachi Seisakusho

Nihon Victor Kabushiki-kaisha

Jun Yamada

Ikuhisa Okamoto

Akitsuna Yuhara

Takahiro Watanabe

Takeshi Akai

Takashi Shiba

Yuji Fujita

Masaki Terashima

Satoshi Saito

Sadayuki Ishiyama

Takehisa Shimazu

Norio Hosaka

Hiroshi Kubo

Keisuke Sugiyama

Yuusuke Shibasaki

Takuya Morinaga

Yuji Suzuki

Kazuhiko Kurihara

Shingo Matsushita

Yoshito Suzuki

Hiroshi Yazawa

Wataru Nozaki

Shinya Kitaoka

Toshimitsu Takahashi

Shingo Yoshizawa

Satoshi Hirata

Katashi Hazama

Atsushi Shinoda

Fumiyuki Heishi

Hiroaki Utagawa

Suzuka Fujita

Yusuke Hirono

Kanako Fujisaki

Ryota Takayama

Shuuto Tohkaishi

Jun Nagamatsu

Naofumi Yoshida

Hitoshi Watanabe

Akira Kunieda

Takeshi Sasaki

Kenichiro Morita

Kiyoshi Hata

Akihiro Musha

Kenji Hayasaka

Kenichi Ooyama

Takuma Ariga

Norio Kimura

Takashi Saito

Shuichi Murakami

Takeshi Mori

Michitaka Suzuki

Takashi Fujii

Takafumi Betsui

Takao Watanabe

Kintaro Aihara

Tsutomu Kusaki

Yuki Kuroiwa

Yoichi Mazawa

Fumitaka Itoh

Toshikazu Ohishi

Yoshihiko Noro

Tetsuya Hirashima

Yukio Sugita

Kevin Callahan

Charles A Jacobs

Jun Sasaki

Eiji Ohmori

Takeshi Murakami

Stephen Alton Sprigg

Hideo Watanabe

Akira Ikegami

Akira Shibata

Takuya Sano

Brian E Minear

Junichi Tokita

Hidehiko Fujiwara

Ravinder Paul Chandhok

Migaku Takahashi

Joh Ebara

Kyosuke Nakada

Kuniaki Miura

Kazuo Nate

Shigeyuki Sudo

Yasuaki Takahara

Richard Wayne Gardner, Iii

Kiyoharu Kishimoto

Takaya Ochiai

Katsumi Takeda

Motoya Sano

Masakatsu Saitoh

Hiromi Tosaki

Hitoshi Yanagihara

Hideo Ohnuki

Masato Kimura

Teruo Mozume

Tetsuo Shimizu

Tatsuro Toyama

Michiyori Miura

Hiromi Isomae

Ichiro Tsubokawa

A sheet folding apparatus includes a conveyor, a first folding roller, a second folding roller, a third folding roller, a guide, a motor, and a driving force transmission mechanism. The motor causes the second folding roller to perform either forward rotation in which the second folding roller rotates to convey a sheet on a main conveying path in a conveying direction and to convey the sheet on a reflux conveying path from a joining position toward a branching position or backward rotation in a direction opposite to the forward rotation. The driving force transmission mechanism rotates the guide toward a first posture from a second posture in conjunction with the forward rotation of the second folding roller and rotates the guide from the first posture toward the second posture in conjunction with the backward rotation of the second folding roller.

Sheet folding apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system

A liquid application device for applying liquid to a plurality of media to be crimped by a crimping device includes a liquid applier and a liquid-applier moving mechanism. The liquid applier applies liquid to the plurality of media. The liquid-applier moving mechanism moves the liquid applier to a first position at which the liquid applier applies liquid to a medium on a conveyance path in the liquid application device and a second position at which the liquid applier applies liquid to the plurality of media inserted through a liquid application slit of the liquid application device.

Liquid application device, image forming apparatus, and image forming system

A sheet folder includes a conveyor conveying a sheet, a first folding roller and a second folding roller that form a first nip, a third folding roller forming a second nip with the second folding roller, a first guide movable between a first guide posture and a first retracted posture, a second guide movable between a second guide posture and a second retracted posture, and a motor. The motor rotates the second folding roller forward to convey the sheet toward the first nip, reverse to convey the sheet toward the second nip, moves the first guide to arrange in the first guide in the first guide posture or the first retracted posture, and moves the second guide to arrange the second guide in the second guide posture or the second retracted posture.

Sheet folder, image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet folder, and image forming system incorporating the sheet folder

A medium processing apparatus for processing a medium ejected from an image forming apparatus includes a conveyor, a slit, a medium processing device, a stopper, and detectors. The conveyor conveys the medium ejected from the image forming apparatus. The slit communicates with an opening of a housing into which a medium is manually inserted from outside and includes a placement face on which the inserted medium is placed. The placement face has a first side and a second side orthogonal to the first side. The first and second sides are not parallel to a direction in which a side face of the housing extends. The medium processing device processes the medium conveyed by the conveyor or the medium placed on the slit. The stopper regulates edges of the medium along the first and second sides of the placement face. The detectors are disposed on the stopper to detect the medium.

Medium processing apparatus and image forming system

A drive control device is configured to control a plurality of drive sources configured to drive a single output shaft. The drive control device includes a control unit configured to generate a single drive control signal and transmit the drive control signal to the plurality of drive sources. The drive control device has, as operation modes, a first mode for driving the plurality of drive sources and a second mode for driving a part of the plurality of drive sources.

Drive control device, driving device, sheet conveying device, and image forming apparatus

A semiconductor integrated circuit chip, in which multi-core processors are integrated, is usually mounted over an organic wiring board by FC bonding to form a BGA package by being integrated with the substrate. In such a structure, power consumption is increased, and hence the power supplied only from a peripheral portion of the chip is insufficient, so that a power supply pad is also provided in the chip central portion. However, because of an increase in the wiring associated with the integration of a plurality of CPU cores, etc., there occurs a portion between the peripheral portion and the central portion of the chip, where a power supply pad cannot be arranged. According to the outline of the present application, in a semiconductor integrated circuit device such as a BGA, etc., in which a semiconductor chip is mounted over an interposer, such as a multilayer organic wiring board, in a face-up manner, a first group of metal through electrodes, which are provided in the semiconductor chip to supply a power supply potential to a core circuit, etc., and a first metal land over the interposer are interconnected by a first conductive adhesive member film.

Semiconductor integrated circuit device

A sheet processing device includes a sheet processing unit that is moved to perform sheet processing on a sheet; a sheet-processing moving unit that moves the sheet processing unit; a drive-mode determining unit that determines a drive mode of the sheet-processing moving unit; and a drive control unit that drives the sheet-processing moving unit in accordance with the drive mode. The drive-mode determining unit determines the drive mode such that the sheet processing unit is moved at combination acceleration that is a combination of first acceleration and second acceleration with a shift of time that is determined based on the cycle of the natural vibration that occurs during acceleration of the sheet processing unit.

Sheet processing device, image forming system, and computer-readable storage medium

A sheet processing device comprising: a pressing unit that presses a fold line part of a folded sheet bundle; and a moving unit that moves a pressing position of the pressing unit in a fold direction of the folded sheet bundle, wherein the pressing unit includes a pair of pressing rollers that holds the folded sheet bundle therebetween, and the pair of pressing rollers changes an angle &#x3b8; between a thickness direction of the folded sheet bundle and a line connecting the rotational centers of the pressing rollers in the middle of movement.

Sheet processing device, image forming system, and method of additionally folding sheet bundle

The present invention is concerning a sheet processing device comprising: a pressing unit that includes a first pressing roller arranged on one side of a thickness direction of a folded sheet bundle, and a second pressing roller and a third pressing roller arranged on the other side across a fold line part of the folded sheet bundle, and a moving unit that moves the pressing unit in a state in which each of a first line and a second line is not parallel to the thickness direction of the folded sheet bundle, the first line connecting the rotational center of the first pressing roller and the rotational center of the second pressing roller, and the second line connecting the rotational center of the first pressing roller and the rotational center of the third pressing roller.

According to an embodiment, an ADF includes: a sheet-feed cover unit; a switch unit to be switched on or off depending on whether the sheet-feed cover unit is open or closed and including a first terminal, to which a first voltage, by which a driving motor is driven, is input, and a second terminal connected to the driving motor; and an open/close-detection circuit unit that includes a first switch circuit and a second switch circuit. The first switch circuit is switched on or off based on a threshold voltage that is larger than a second voltage to be generated in the driving motor by a jammed-document removing motion and smaller than the first voltage. The open/close-detection circuit unit detects that the sheet-feed cover unit is closed when the second switch circuit is energized, but detects that the sheet-feed cover unit is open when the second switch circuit is de-energized.

Automatic document feeder and image forming apparatus including the same

An insertion system includes an enclosure supply device, an envelope supply device, an insertion device to insert an enclosure supplied from the enclosure supply device into the envelope supplied from the envelope supply device, a first input unit to input identification data of the enclosure inserted into the envelope in each of multiple insertion setting records, a second input unit to input identification data of the enclosure set in the enclosure container of the enclosure supply device, and a controller to determine whether the identification data of the enclosure to be inserted, input by the first input unit, matches the identification data of the enclosure set in the enclosure container, input by the second input unit, and to control supply of the envelope by the envelope supply device as well as supply of the enclosure by the enclosure supply device based on a result of the determination.

Insertion system and insertion method

A sheet conveying device such as a feed mechanism includes a pick-up roller and a cover member. The pick-up roller feeds, into an apparatus, a sheet such as a document on a placing table such as a document placing table on which the sheet is placed. The cover member such as a pick-up cover covers the pick-up roller. The cover member is supported at both ends thereof on a shaft of the pick-up roller or on shaft bearings that receive the shaft of the pick-up roller.

Sheet conveying device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus

A document conveying device includes a document table on which a stack of document sheets is placed; a rotating shaft member detachably provided on a main body of the document conveying device; a feeding member configured to contact and feed a topmost sheet of the stack of document sheets, the feeding member being attached to the rotating shaft member via a driving force transmitting member; a separating unit configured to separate the topmost sheet from one or more sheets that are fed together with the topmost sheet, rotating members rotatably attached to the rotating shaft member; a holding member configured to hold the feeding member and the driving force transmitting member; and a rotating member position restricting unit configured to restrict a position of the rotating members other than the holding member to a given predetermined position with reference to a position of the holding member.

Document conveying device, image reading device, and image forming apparatus

An image forming system includes an enclosure supply device including an enclosure container, a first image forming unit to form an image on the sheet, an envelope supply device including an envelope container, an input device to input an insertion job, an insertion device to insert into the envelope at least one sheet on which the first image forming unit has formed the image and including a temporary storage tray to temporarily store the sheets inserted into the envelope as well as an envelope retainer to hold the envelope at an insertion position where the sheets are inserted into the envelope, and a controller to cause the second image forming unit to complete image formation on the envelope and conveyance of the envelope to the insertion position before a last sheet of the multiple sheets inserted into the single envelope reaches the temporary storage tray.

Image forming system and insertion method

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