Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Other

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokyo Kikai Seisakusho

Kenji Maeda

Yoshiyuki Kimura

Tomoji Ishikawa

Kazuyuki Sugihara

Makoto Kobayashi

Kotaro Yamaguchi

Jin Sunata

Fumio Ogata

Yoshihide Kawamura

Yoko Murase

Masahiko Kubota

Shinichi Kato

Takeshi Yazawa

Kenji Inoue

Shinjiro Hori

Satoshi Hatori

Hideo Saikawa

Yoichi Takada

Junichi Yamazaki

Tsuyoshi Santo

Tsutomu Shimada

Jun Saito

Yukari Isoe

Toshiki Yokoyama

Toshimitsu Sato

Kimio Kitamura

Tetsuro Miura

Yoshifumi Fujita

Hisashi Kawamoto

Hirochika Ohnishi

Kenji Taguchi

Shigemitsu Nakatsugawa

Takaaki Fukai

Tomohiro Hoshino

A separator includes a base and a sheet. The base includes a first face to face a medium, a second face being opposite to the first face, and a third face being an end face in a longitudinal direction of the base. The sheet is disposed on a portion of each of the first and second faces that contacts or is adjacent to a rotator. The sheet has a length in a longitudinal direction thereof substantially equal to a length of the base in the longitudinal direction thereof. The sheet includes a projecting portion outboard from the length of the sheet in the longitudinal direction thereof. A combined length of the sheet and the projecting portion in the longitudinal direction of the sheet is greater than the length of the base in the longitudinal direction thereof. The projecting portion is attached to the second and third faces of the base.

Separator, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

This folding devicecomprises: a folding blade mechanism operation control mechanismfor operating a folding blade mechanismC provided in a folding cylinder; and a paper edge holding mechanism operation control mechanismfor operating a paper edge holding mechanismB provided in the folding cylinder, the folding blade mechanism operation control mechanismand the paper edge holding mechanism operation control mechanismbeing provided capable of activation based on a predetermined activating signal.

Folding device

A fuser includes a cylindrical heating rotating body including a heat generator and a pressure rotating body including a circumferential face which has contact with the heating rotating body to form a nip portion for fusing, wherein a disk-like outside plate, which is exposed outside, is provided in one end or both ends of the heating rotating body in a rotation axis direction, a disk-like inside plate is provided in an inner circumferential face of the heating rotating body on an inside of the outside plate to have an interval relative to the outside plate, a center vent is provided near a center of the outside plate, an outer edge vent is provided in an outer edge or the neighborhood thereof of the outside plate, and a flow path, which connects the center vent and the outer edge vent, is provided between the outside vent and the inside vent.

Fuser and image-forming apparatus

An eccentricity measurement method of measuring the eccentricity of a rotary disk of a rotary encoder includes forming, on the rotary disk, at least one first straight-line pattern group in a different radial direction including a plurality of straight-line patterns that are equally spaced in the radial direction and extend in a normal line direction from a base point a predetermined distance away from a center of a radial scale of the rotary disk; placing the rotary disk on a table including at least one second straight-line pattern group including straight-line patterns; and measuring the amount and the direction of the eccentricity of the rotary disk in accordance with the position of the straight-line pattern of the first straight-line pattern group that coincides with the position of the straight line pattern of the second straight-line pattern group in the radial direction.

Rotary disk eccentricity measurement method, rotary encoder, and image forming apparatus including the rotary encoder

A method for evaluating an electrophotographic photoconductor in terms of filming occurrence is provided that comprises irradiating UV rays having a wavelength of 200 nm to 420 nm onto the electrophotographic photoconductor and measuring fluorescence emitted from the electrophotographic photoconductor.

Method for evaluating electrophotographic photoconductor and the evaluation device, and method for reusing electrophotographic photoconductor

An information processing apparatus on a network stores data in the form of albums in each of which a plurality of data are archived, and the information processing apparatus provides stored albums to communication terminals via the network in an efficient manner. The information processing apparatus detects the device type of a communication terminal and determines whether a part or all of data included in an album should be provided at a time to the communication terminal, depending on the detected type of the communication terminal. This makes it possible even for a communication terminal having low communication performance to receive data via the network without encountering an error.

Providing an album to a communication terminal via a network

This invention relates to a service which manages data using an information processing server on a network and allows another user to browse the managed data in accordance with an instruction from a data owner. Also, this invention particularly relates to a case wherein a terminal that the other user uses to browse the managed data is a compact information processing apparatus such as a mobile phone or the like. Upon providing the managed data and appended data associated with the managed data to a terminal of the other user, the information processing server changes the appended data and a method of providing the appended data in correspondence with the performance of the terminal of the other user. For example, upon displaying image data on a mobile phone of the other user, if message information associated with that image data has a large information size and cannot be fully displayed on the mobile phone of the other user, the information processing server changes the message information to shorter information, and provides the changed information to the mobile phone of the other user. The server causes the mobile phone of the other user to display a link to full message information, and allows it to receive the message information by accessing that link.

Information processing system, information processing apparatus, information processing method, storage medium that stores program for implementing that method to be readable by information processing apparatus, and program

Upon receiving a request from a communications terminal, a server apparatus performs some processes and returns processing results to the communications terminal. Before returning the processing results, the server apparatus sends the communications terminal a response containing an address needed to acquire the processing results to prevent communications from being cut off due to a communications timeout which occurs, for example, if the processing on the server takes time.

Server apparatus, communications method, program for making computer execute the communications method, and computer-readable storage medium containing the program

As an apparatus which provides a high-quality service that reduces the service usage load of users, there is disclosed an information processing apparatus accessed from a communication terminal to browse images, which includes an issuing unit that assigns a session identification to a communication terminal, a storage unit that stores the session identification and the communication terminal user's personal information, a receiving unit that receives a session identification and a printing request of images, a determination unit that determines if the session identification is stored in the storage unit, a transmission unit that transmits the personal information to the communication terminal if the determination unit determines that the session identification is stored with the personal information in the storage unit, and an obtaining unit that obtains the user's personal information if the determination unit determines that the session identification is not stored in the storage unit.

Information processing apparatus for providing image to communication terminal and control method therefor

There is provided a plate-shaped member positioning apparatus comprising a conveyor for conveying a plate-shaped member, a positioner for contact with a front end of a conveyed plate-shaped member, a moving unit for moving the positioner along a conveyance direction of the plate-shaped member, and a controller for controlling operations of the conveyor and the moving unit; wherein the controller moves the plate-shaped member in the conveyance direction with the positioner kept in contact with the front end of the plate-shaped member, decelerates an advancing speed of the plate-shaped member and positions the plate-shaped member at a certain standby position.

Plate-shaped member positioning apparatus and glass sheet bending apparatus

An air-cooling temperature device for a glass plate including a plurality of upper blowing heads for blowing air to an upper face of a bend-shaped glass plate heated to a high temperature and a plurality of lower blowing heads for blowing air to a lower face of the glass plate, wherein a first link mechanism including a plurality of four-bar linkages and being formed by connected a plurality of units each having a common link a first connecting link mechanism and a second link mechanism.

Air-cooling/tempering device for a glass plate

Disclosed is a portable, hand-held printing apparatus capable of maintaining high printing quality even when the movement of the apparatus becomes unstable due to looseness or wrinkles of a printing medium or even when the moving velocity of the apparatus changes. When a user moves the housing of this apparatus on a printing medium to print on the printing medium by using a printhead, the apparatus itself detects the moving velocity of the housing. On the basis of this detection result, the apparatus adjusts the supply timing of a driving signal for driving the printhead.

Printing apparatus

A heater supporting structure includes heaters comprising plate-shaped electrical resistance heating elements and power applying portions for energizing the electrical resistance heating elements, mounts for mounting the electrical resistance heating elements, and first insulative supporters and second insulative supporters, the supporters being provided on the mounts with a certain distance and supporting edges of the electrical resistance heating elements, and the electrical resistance heating elements are formed in a shape so as to project toward the mounts and are provided apart from the mounts.

Heater supporting structure and heating furnace for bending a glass sheet

A developer container for use in an image forming apparatus including a supporting member rotating around a rotation shaft thereof. A plurality of developing devices are arranged on the supporting member, each developing device including a developer supplying device. A plurality of cylindrically-shaped developer containers containing developer are provided, each developer container having an opening and a guide, and each developer container being detachably mounted on the developer supplying device. A container rotating device rotates the developer container, in which the guide is arranged that when one of the developing devices needs to be filled with the developer, the container rotating device rotates the developer container to transfer the developer in the developer container to the opening in accordance with a rotating movement of the developer container.

Image forming apparatus having an improved developer-supplying mechanism and method thereof

An image forming apparatus including a development unit rotatably supported by a body of the apparatus and including a plurality of developing subunits and a plurality of replaceable developer containers each storing a developer to be replenished to a particular one of the developing subunits. Also included is a stepping motor configured to cause the developing unit to rotate in order to bring any one of the developing subunits to a developing position, a preventing mechanism configured to prevent the developing unit from rotating at a time of replacement of any one of the developer containers due to an unexpected change in a voltage or a current driving the stepping motor, and a locking portion included in either one of the developing unit and the body and an engaging portion included in the other of the developing unit and the body, in which the locking portion and the engaging portion selectively engaging with each other for preventing the developing unit from rotating. Further included is a door member opened when any one of the developer containers is to be removed from the apparatus or closed when development is under way. The locking portion and the engaging portion engaging with each other in mechanically interlocked relation to an opening movement of the door member. Also included is a moving device configured to cause the locking portion to engage with the engaging portion by mechanically interlocking the opening movement of the door member to a movement of the locking portion.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kenji Maeda