Konica Corporation

Other

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.

Nisca Corporation

Kazuhiro Hirota

Hisao Hosoya

Yuji Kanazawa

Mamoru Tomotsune

Takanori Yoshida

Masanobu Kawano

Satoru Endo

Kazuyoshi Omi

Yukihiko Nishimoto

Izumi Hamanaka

Kohji Yoshie

Hiroshi Nakagomi

Yasuhito Watanabe

Akihiko Nishiki

Kazunori Yoshioka

Hiroshi Maeshima

Yasushi Yamada

Hiroto Ito

Junichi Fujita

Naoki Otomo

Shogo Kato

Hideyo Ohashi

Michihisa Watanabe

Osamu Kato

Kazuo Sato

Kenji Matsumoto

Masato Hattori

Toshio Shida

Masahiro Kaneko

Hitoshi Tamura

Yoshikazu Maekawa

Teruhiko Toyoizumi

Minoru Kawano

Norishige Kato

Kazunobu Miura

Eiichi Kubo

Masaki Kakutani

Osamu Murata

Kazuhiro Miura

Hirohiko Yamazaki

Nobutaka Kato

Kazuaki Fukuda

Tomoki Nagaoka

Koichi Kitamoto

Akihiko Oda

Takashi Okafuji

Keisuke Tanaka

Kazuaki Ito

Junzi Sato

Norio Jouichi

Ryusuke Takada

The present invention provides a control device that includes a first temperature detection unit that detects a partition wall temperature of a tank main body in which liquefied gas is contained, and a second temperature detection unit that detects a temperature of a skirt that supports the tank main body. The control device further includes a temperature difference acquisition unit that acquires a temperature difference between the partition wall temperature detected by the first temperature detection unit and the temperature of the skirt which is detected by the second temperature detection unit, and a determination unit that determines whether or not a joint between the tank main body and the skirt is rapidly cooled by the liquefied gas on the basis of the partition wall temperature and the temperature difference.

Liquefied gas-based rapid cooling possibility determination device, liquefied gas storage tank, liquefied gas carrying vessel, and liquefied gas-based rapid cooling possibility determination method

To provide a non-spherical tank which includes: a circular cylindrical portion; a top portion disposed continuously with an upper side of the circular cylindrical portion; and a bottom portion disposed continuously with a lower side of the circular cylindrical portion, wherein the top portion includes: a spherical shell portion which is formed of a portion of a spherical body having a radius R, and is disposed at an upper end of the top portion; and a toroidal portion which is disposed continuously with the upper side of the circular cylindrical portion and with a lower side of the spherical shell portion respectively, and is formed of a portion of a spherical body having a radius Rsmaller than the radius R, and an expression 1.0&#x3c;R/H&#x3c;1.5 is satisfied. Here, 'R' denotes a radius of the circular cylindrical portion, and 'H' denotes a height of the top portion in a vertical direction.

Non-spherical tank and liquefied gas carrier ship equipped with the non-spherical tanks

A postprocessing apparatus stops and positions an image recording sheet delivered from an image forming apparatus at a predetermined position, punches the sheet with a punching unit, and thereafter folds the sheet with a folding unit.

Postprocessing apparatus with two or more finishing devices

An image forming system enabling a cost reduction by decreasing the number of components and having enough performance levels of individual postprocessing functions, comprising: an image forming apparatus body and at least one postprocessing unit, the postprocessing unit selectable from a plurality of types of postprocessing units, wherein a single-sheet processing machine is provided as one of the plurality of types of postprocessing units and wherein the single-sheet processing machine has a plurality of types of single-sheet processing functions for postprocessing in units of a sheet and a sheet attachment function of attaching a cover sheet or an insert sheet to an output sheet bulk.

Image forming system and single-sheet processing machine

An image forming apparatus, having a sheet ejection section, provided in an upper portion of the image forming apparatus, for ejecting a recording sheet onto an upper surface portion of the image forming apparatus; a sheet post-processing apparatus for receiving the recording sheet, ejected from the sheet ejection section, so as to perform a post-processing operation upon the recording sheet; and a coupler for coupling the sheet post-processing apparatus with the image forming apparatus so that at least a part of the post-processing apparatus is located on the upper surface portion of the image forming apparatus.

Image forming apparatus in use with a sheet post-processing apparatus

In an automatic document feeder for use in an image forming device such as copy machine and facsimile machine: a document shunting path for temporarily shunting a document is provided at an upstream side of a document reading portion; in a different-size mixed mode where different sizes of documents are placed in a mixed manner, the leading edge and rear edge of the document are detected by a sensor during conveyance of the document in the direction toward the document reading portion, so that the length of the document is detected; thereafter the document is conveyed in the reverse direction so that the rear edge of the document is shunted into the document shunting path; and thereafter the document is again conveyed in the forward direction to conduct reading. Thus, it becomes unnecessary to provide a longer conveyance path for detecting the length of the documents, so that the size of the feeder itself can be reduced.

Automatic document feeder having a document shunting path

In an automatic document feeder for use in an image forming device such as copy machine and facsimile machine: a document shunting path for temporarily shunting a document is provided at an upstream side of a document reading portion; in a different-size mixed mode where different sizes of documents are placed in a mixed manner, the leading edge and rear edge of the document are detected by a sensor during conveyance of the document in the direction toward the document reading portion, so that the length of the document is detected; thereafter the document is conveyed in the reverse direction so that the rear edge of the document is shunted into the document shunting path; and thereafter the document is again conveyed in the forward direction to conduct reading. Thus, it becomes unnecessary to provide, a longer conveyance path for detecting the length of the documents, so that the size of the feeder itself can be reduced.

A sheet finishing apparatus is provided with a sheet passage; a conveyor to covey a sheet along the sheet passage; an intermediate stacker on which the sheet conveyed along the sheet passage is placed so that a bundle of sheets is formed on the intermediate stacker; a finisher to conduct a finishing process for the bundle of sheets formed on the intermediate stacker; a sheet delivering section to which the bundle of sheets is delivered; and a sheet delivering device to true up edges of the bundle of sheets on the intermediate stacker before the finisher conducts the finishing process and to deliver the bundle of sheets from the intermediate stacker to the sheet delivering section after the finisher has conducted the finishing process.

Sheet stacker with aligning/conveying rollers and image forming apparatus using the same

An apparatus for feeding a both-sided document having images on both sides thereof is provided with a document stand; a reading section; a feeder having a feeding passage and to feed the both-sided document from the document stand to the reading section along the feeding passage; a pair of reversing rollers provided on a reversing passage to reverse the both-sided document after an image of the both-sided document is read at the reading section and to reefed the reversed both-sided document from the reversing passage to the feeding passage so that an image on another side of the both-sided document is read at the reading section; a pair of ejecting rollers provided on an ejecting passage and to eject the both-sided document to a delivery section after the images on both sides of the both-sided document are read at the reading section; and a switching mechanism to connect an outlet passage of the reading section to one of the reversing passage and the ejecting passage; wherein one of the pair of reversing rollers and one of the ejecting rollers are mounted coaxially on a shaft.

Document feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus

A sheet processing apparatus has a function of stapling sheets together, wherein the sheets are fed from an image forming apparatus one by one after images are formed on the sheets. The sheet processing apparatus includes a stapler to staple the sheets together, a sheet guide which guides the sheets along a sheet transporting path from the image forming apparatus to a position at which the sheets are stapled by the stapler, and a reference surface against which edges of the sheets are butted to stop movement of the sheets. The sheets are guided along the sheet transporting path by the sheet guide and the edges of the sheets are butted against the reference surface at a same position relative to a sheet conveying direction, irrespective of whether the sheet processing apparatus is in a stapling mode in which the stapler staples the sheets or a non-stapling mode in which the stapler does not staple the sheets, and irrespective of sizes of the sheets.

Sheet processing apparatus

An automatic document feeder includes a feed tray,on which documents are placed, a feeder,for feeding documents on the feed tray,to a conveyor path, conveying,for conveying the fed documents to an image reading position, a discharging,for discharging the read documents onto a discharging tray,, and a controller by which the discharging speed of the documents after being read so that the discharging speed varies with respect to the conveying speed, wherein, if the conveying speed when reading a document is within a predetermined range, the discharging speed after reading the document is controlled to be equal to the conveying speed when reading the document, and if the conveying speed when reading the document is out of the predetermined range, the discharging speed after reading the document is controlled to be within the predetermined range.

Auto document feeder

Electronic copier

A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a guide for the recording sheet formed by a discharging layer. The layer includes an electrically grounded conductive substrate and an organic conductive fiber thereon. The surface of the guide is in close proximity to the surface of the recording sheet.

Sheet conveying apparatus and method wherein the sheet is fed without

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Kazuhiro Hirota