Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Hitachi Via Mechanics Ltd.

Kenji Suzuki

Seiji Hata

Tomohiro Ono

Toshio Watanabe

Kenji Takeda

Kiyotoshi Kaneyama

Takanori Masui

Kunio Arai

Tomohisa Suzuki

Atsumi Kurita

Kiyohito Horii

Yoshihiro Enomoto

Kouichi Azuma

Yoshihisa Nakao

Takeshi Furuya

Kazuyuki Yagata

Yuta Hoshino

Katsunori Kikuchihara

Mitsuo Shimizu

Masatoshi Yamada

Katsuyuki Kouno

Hiroyuki Koide

Seiji Honda

Yoshiya Mashimo

Katsuya Takenouchi

Shunji Mohri

Kichie Matsuzaki

Masao Tsuji

Masahiko Miyata

Kenjiro Fujii

Izumi Takahashi

Hiroyuki Yamauchi

Nobuyuki Kodera

Yasunori Shimura

Kyoichi Kawasaki

Yoshien Nishida

Shigenori Takeyoshi

Jun Kamei

Fumiya Shiseki

An image forming apparatus includes: a first guide that is provided in an apparatus housing and configured to suspend and hold a first unit including an image holder so that the first unit is movable in an insertion and removal direction; a second guide that is provided in the apparatus housing and configured to suspend and hold a second unit including a developer holder so that the second unit is movable in an insertion and removal direction; and a pedestal that is disposed on a front side in the insertion and removal direction with respect to the first guide and the second guide, supports, from below in a gravity direction, the first unit and the second unit while the first unit and the second unit are inserted into the apparatus housing, and does not contact with the first unit and the second unit located in the apparatus housing.

Image forming apparatus having guide members for detachably inserting cartridges

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer member onto a front side of which an image is transferred, a rotary member around which the transfer member is wrapped, a guide member provided at an end portion of an axial direction of the rotary member, a regulating member, a first reference mark, a second reference mark, a first detector, a second detector, and a controller. The regulating member is located on a reverse side of the transfer member, and restricts skew of the transfer member by contacting the guide member. The first and second reference marks are on edge sides of the transfer member in the axial direction of the rotary member. The first and second detectors detect the first and second reference marks, respectively. The controller controls alignment of the image on the transfer member in accordance with a detection result of the first and second detectors.

Image forming apparatus and computer readable medium storing program

An image forming apparatus has a replacement part equipped with a storage device installed therein. The apparatus has a code adding part adding an error detecting code to target data to be written in the storage device, and an encrypting part encrypting the data having the error detecting code added thereto in the code adding part, to generate encrypted data. In addition, the apparatus has a writing part writing the encrypted data to the storage device.

Image forming apparatus, method for controlling writing data from the same to storage device, method for controlling reading data from storage device to the same, and replacement part therefor

In an RFID system including an RFID tag and an RFID reader for performing wireless communications with the RFID tag, an RFID relay antenna has a first loop antenna for electromagnetic induction coupling with an antenna at the RFID tag, a second loop antenna that is provided apart from the first loop antenna and for electromagnetic induction coupling with an antenna at the RFID reader, and wires for connecting the first loop antenna and the second loop antenna so as to form one closed loop and for conveying an induced current generated at the first and second loop antennas to the second and first loop antennas, respectively.

RFID relay antenna, RFID system, container, disposition method, communication confirmation method, and package construction

Provided is a multi-beam laser drilling apparatus for drilling a workpiece, simultaneously at two positions while telecentric errors are suppressed, in which a conventional optical system in which galvanometer mirrors are used for a first laser beam, and a galvanometer-mirror system is located close to an f&#x3b8; lens in order to prevent occurrence of telecentric error. A second laser beam which has been deflected by a second galvanometer-mirror system, transmits through a polarized beam mixers and is incident upon the first galvanometer-mirror system and the f&#x3b8; lens, and accordingly, the workpiece is drilled simultaneously at two positions with the use of both first and second laser beams.

Multibeam laser drilling apparatus

An image processing system integral with an image output unit having a power saving mode comprises a temperature detection section for monitoring a fuser temperature in a power saving mode or a rotation detector for a polygonal motor, a control section for outputting a control signal at a predetermined timing, and an energization control section capable of turning on/off output in response to the control signal from the control section. The timing of a power saving mode off signal output by the control section is when the fuser temperature lowers to a temperature or the polygonal motor take longer to ramp up than the time until the image output unit, after the power saving mode is released, is placed in a reprintable state becomes longer than the time required for setting up the data required when image processing is performed. Thus, the transition time to the copyable state as a whole is used efficiently, and power consumption can be reduced. The user saves power effectively by the operation in the power saving mode. When the power saving mode is released, setting up an image processing section does not cause the user to wait for copy start.

Image formation system

A method and an apparatus for grasping surface mounted devices such as an IC or the like by the hand of the robot and automatically and accurately loading them onto the contact pattern of a printed circuit board by means of an image processor are disclosed. According to this method, a measurement line is provided onto each image pattern of the pin array of the surface mounted device and the array of the contact pattern of the board, so that it may intersect at right angles with the direction of the pattern, and each position of the pin array and the array of the contact pattern is sought from the variation of the brightness on that line. In accordance with the result thus obtained, displacement of the position and that of the rotation over the entire surfaced part and the contact pattern are sought and the operation of the robot is controlled in accordance with that information.

Method of loading surface mounted device and an apparatus therefor

A method for controlling an image processing device wherein the contour of a certain segment of an image, or pattern is polygonal-approximated so that it is represented by a row of vertex data and the row of vertex data is processed to recognize the shape of the segment. This method comprises the steps of describing an image processing procedure as a program by a programming language incorporating a group of image processing instructions, and executing this program by the image processing whereby several different image procedures can be performed for image processing according to different uses. This method also controls the image processing procedure using a program written by a programming language incorporating variables representing the structure inherent in the image data.

Method for controlling image processing device

A system for carrying out a cooperative control operation for a plurality of automated devices connected together in which the individual operations of the automated device can be controlled individually in accordance with a program. In the control method in this system, the controlling of various automated devices is practiced by inputting a program described in a language which has a unified system, and translating this program in accordance with the combination of the automated devices.

Method of and apparatus for controlling automated devices

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Ebina, Japan

Kenji Suzuki