Ngk Spark Plug Company, Limited

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.

Sumitomo Riko Company Limited

Rinnai Corporation

Niterra Co., Ltd.

Kentaro Mori

Ryosuke Sakai

Nobuhiro Hayakawa

Yoshinori Hibino

Daisuke Uematsu

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Takaya Yoshikawa

Tomoya Yamamoto

Ryosuke Ichida

Hiroshi Inagaki

Takayoshi Yasuda

Shigeki Mori

Takeshi Kawai

Seiji Hiramatsu

Ayaka Ohira

Soichi Kawaguchi

Hiroyuki Ichikawa

Noboru Ishida

Tomoya Ichikawa

Shinya Kusuda

Satoshi Teramoto

Seiji Oya

Nobuya Yoshida

Ryuji Noda

Tetsuya Ito

Akio Saiki

Nobuo Furuta

Tomohiro Tajima

Naoki Furumachi

Koji Shiono

Satoru Hibi

Kyoko Sugiyama

Yuji Matsubara

Masahiro Ohnishi

Hiroshi Miya

Ryohei Aoki

Yoshinori Watanabe

Hideyuki Jinno

Yuji Shimazaki

Shin Yoshida

Isami Fujisawa

Hironari Furuta

Keishi Hatanaka

Tsuyoshi Kato

An image forming apparatus includes a process unit, a heating unit, and a controller unit. The process unit is configured to transfer an image onto a sheet. The heating unit is configured to fix the image transferred at the process unit onto the sheet, and to transfer a transfer layer onto an image formed on a sheet overlaid on a multilayer film. The controller unit is capable of operating in a first printing mode in which processes of transferring an image at the process unit, fixing the image at the heating unit, and transferring the transfer layer at the heating unit are executed, and a second printing mode in which processes of transferring an image at the process unit and fixing the image at the heating unit are not executed, and a process of transferring the transfer layer at the heating unit is executed.

Image forming apparatus

A memory holder cover holds a memory holder so as to be movable with respect to the memory holder cover. An electrical contact contacts an electrical contact surface of a memory from above in a state where a cartridge is located at an attached position at which the cartridge is attached to a main housing. The main housing includes a guide groove having upper and lower guide surfaces. The upper guide surface guides movement of a memory holder from above when the cartridge is attached and detached. The lower guide surface guides movement of the memory holder from below when the cartridge is attached and detached. In a state where the cartridge is located at the attached position, the electrical contact surface is parallel to at least part of the upper guide surface or at least part of the lower guide surface.

A foil transfer apparatus that transfers foil of a foil film to a sheet, including: a heating member and a pressurizing member that nip the foil film and the sheet; a movable frame supporting one of the heating member and the pressurizing member and movable between a first position at which the one of the heating member and the pressurizing member is located at a contact position so as to contact the foil film in a mounted state in which the foil film is mounted on a housing body and a second position at which the one of the heating member and the pressurizing member is located at a spaced position so as to be spaced from the foil film in the mounted state; a cam that moves the movable frame between the first position and the second position; and a sensor that detects a position of the movable frame.

Foil transfer apparatus

A layer transfer device includes: a cover; a heat roller; a controller; temperature sensors including first and second sensors; and a locking member movable between a locking position to lock the cover to a closed position and an unlocking position to permit movement of the cover from the closed position to an open position. The first sensor measures temperature of a first member heated by a multilayer film or a sheet having been heated by the heat roller. The second sensor measures temperature of a second member heated by the heat roller. The controller determines evaluated temperatures based on temperatures measured by the temperature sensors, places the locking member in the locking position when at least one of the evaluated temperatures is not lower than a first threshold value, and places the locking member in the unlocking position when the evaluated temperatures are all lower than the first threshold value.

Layer transfer device controlling locking and unlocking of cover based on evaluated temperatures determined based on temperatures measured by temperature sensors

In a foil transfer device for transferring a transfer layer from a foil film onto a sheet laid on the foil film, the foil film is wound on a supply reel, and taken up on a take-up reel. A heating member heats the foil film, and a pressure member is provided to press the foil film and the sheet between the pressure member and the heating member. A separator changes a traveling direction of the foil film having passed through between the heating member and the pressure member into a direction different from a direction of conveyance of the sheet, to thereby separate the foil film from the sheet. A first fan blows air toward the foil film positioned between the heating member and the separator.

Foil transfer device

A foil transfer apparatus configured to transfer foil of a foil film to a sheet includes a cover movable between a closed position and an open position, a lock mechanism capable of locking the cover at the closed position, a heating member, a pressurizing member, a temperature sensor, and a controller configured to: calculate a first lock determination temperature and a second lock determination temperature that are values obtained by respectively adding a first correction value and a second correction value that are determined based on a condition for performing a foil transfer operation to a detection temperature detected by the temperature; control the lock mechanism to lock the cover when the first lock determination temperature is not lower than a first threshold; and control the lock mechanism to unlock the cover when the second lock determination temperature is lower than a second threshold.

A layer transfer device configured to transfer at least one layer of a multilayer film onto a toner image includes: a sheet conveying unit; a supply reel; a wind-up reel; a film transfer unit; and a peeling roller disposed between the film transfer unit and the wind-up reel in a conveyance path and configured to peel off the multilayer film from a sheet, and the film transfer unit includes: a first roller provided to contact the sheet; and a second roller provided to contact the multilayer film, and a tangent line of the second roller at a downstream end of a nip part passes between a center of the second roller and a center of the peeling roller, and an angle formed by the tangent line and a film tension portion of the multilayer film tensed between the nip part and the peeling roller is 15 to 37 degrees.

Layer transfer device

A vibration-damping device including: a first mounting member configured to be mounted to one of components of a vibration transmission system; a second mounting member configured to be mounted to an other of the components of the vibration transmission system; a main rubber elastic body connecting the first mounting member and the second mounting member elastically to each other; a bracket attached to the second mounting member, the bracket having a mounting part configured to be mounted to the other of the components of the vibration transmission system; a tubular outer member secured press-fit to the second mounting member; a mass member disposed within the tubular outer member; and a support rubber fixed at an outer peripheral part of the mass member, the support rubber elastically connecting the tubular outer member and the mass member to constitute a dynamic damper.

Vibration-damping device

A hot-water supply apparatus capable of restraining the occurrence of noises from a building wall surface side includes a hot-water supply apparatus main body having a burner and a heat exchanger that generates hot water by combustion exhaust of the burner, and a rectangular parallelepiped main body case that houses the hot-water supply apparatus main body. A back plate (), which closes the back side of the main body case, is installed to a building wall surface (W) such that the back plate () opposes the building wall surface (W) with a predetermined void space (S) provided therebetween. A soundproof member (), which closes at least a part of an open end of the void space (S), is provided on the main body case ().

Hot-water supply apparatus

A gas sensor includes a sensing element, a metal shell that is tubular and that surrounds the sensing element, and a protector made of a metal and fixed to the metal shell. A back end portion of the protector is joined to an outer surface of the metal shell to form a joined portion. A coefficient of thermal expansion of a material of the protector at 800 degrees Celsius is higher than a coefficient of thermal expansion of a material of the metal shell at 800 degrees Celsius. In a cross section of a portion of the gas sensor including the joined portion, a minimum distance tbetween the outer surface of the metal shell and an outer surface of the protector and a minimum distance tbetween the outer surface of the metal shell and an inner surface of the metal shell satisfy 0.6&#x2264;(t/t)&#x2264;2.0.

Gas sensor

A purification control device () controls a urea water injector () for supplying urea as a reducing agent to an SCR catalyst (). The purification control device () sets a pre-deterioration maximum occlusion amount based on the SCR catalyst temperature, and estimates the concentration of ammonia discharged from the SCR catalyst (), as an estimated ammonia concentration, based on upstream NOx concentration information, downstream NOx concentration information, urea injection amount information, the pre-deterioration maximum occlusion amount, and ammonia occlusion amount information. The purification control device () acquires downstream ammonia concentration information. When the downstream ammonia concentration is greater than the estimated ammonia concentration, the purification control device () decreases the supply amount of urea from the urea water injector ().

Purification control device

An ammonia generation apparatus is disposed in a stage after a urea water injection unit. The ammonia generation apparatus includes a main body which has an introduction opening for introducing exhaust gas, a discharge opening for discharging the exhaust gas, a first flow passage and a second flow passage which communicate with the introduction opening and the discharge opening and which are separated from each other. The ammonia generation apparatus includes a heating unit disposed in the first flow passage, and a first changeover section which is disposed on one side of the main body where the introduction opening is provided and which can switch the exhaust gas flow passage between the first flow passage and the second flow passage.

Ammonia generation apparatus and ammonia generation control apparatus

A sheet tray includes a first tray, a second tray, and a third tray. The second tray is configured to move between a stored position and an extended position, relative to the first tray. The third tray is pivotable about the pivot shaft between a first stowed position and a first extended position, relative to the second tray. One of the first tray and the third tray includes a columnar portion. The columnar portion protrudes toward the other of the first tray and the third tray in an area where, when the second tray is at the stored position and the third tray is at the first stowed position, the first tray overlaps the third tray in an orthogonal direction. The other includes a cutout shaped along a path where the columnar portion moves when the third tray moves from the first stowed position to the first extended position.

Sheet tray and image forming apparatus

A purification controlleris configured to estimate the amount of ammonia occluded (i.e. ammonia occlusion amount) in an SCR catalyst, which is arranged in an exhaust pipeof a diesel engineso as to purify NOx in an exhaust gas of the diesel engine. More specifically, the purification controlleracquires upstream NO concentration data, upstream NOconcentration data, downstream NOx concentration data, downstream NOconcentration data and downstream ammonia concentration data. The purification controllerfurther acquires an urea injection amount. Then, the purification controllerestimates the ammonia occlusion amount based on the acquired upstream NO concentration data, upstream NOconcentration data, downstream NOx concentration data, downstream NOconcentration data and downstream ammonia concentration data, the acquired urea injection amount and reaction formulas for reduction of NOx with the SCR catalyst

Ammonia occlusion amount estimation device and method, and purification control apparatus and method

An exhaust gas temperature control apparatus adjusts the temperature of exhaust gas in a stage before an exhaust gas purification unit disposed in an exhaust pipe passage of an internal combustion engine. The exhaust gas temperature control apparatus includes a heat reservoir which can store and radiate heat, a heating member which causes the heat reservoir to store heat, and a temperature control section which controls the temperature of the exhaust gas discharged from the exhaust gas temperature control apparatus by causing the heat reservoir to store heat or radiate heat in accordance with operation state of a vehicle on which the internal combustion engine is mounted.

Exhaust gas temperature control apparatus and exhaust gas temperature adjustment apparatus

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