Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Eisai Company, Limited

Eisai R&d Management Co., Ltd.

Mercian Corporation

Kiyoshi Okamoto

Norifumi Miyake

Tsuyoshi Moriyama

Mitsushige Murata

Takayuki Fujii

Masatoshi Yaginuma

Yasuo Fukazu

Kiyoshi Watanabe

Chikara Sato

Hitoshi Kato

Tomokazu Nakamura

Yuichiro Maeda

Shinichi Nakamura

Manabu Yamauchi

Shinichi Takata

Noriaki Matsui

Naoyuki Ohki

Mitsuo Nimura

Katsuyuki Yamazaki

Yoshihito Osari

Takashi Soya

Michio Kawase

Shigemichi Hamano

Shigeo Hata

Junichi Noguchi

Noriyoshi Chizawa

Masashi Oyumi

Tomoichiro Ohta

Takashi Kanno

Yuichi Yamamoto

Yuji Yamanaka

Mitsuhiko Sato

Hidenori Sunada

Mitsuo Nagai

Akihiko Sakai

Yoshihiko Kotake

Jun Niijima

Toru Ono

Takashi Nakashima

Satoshi Yamamoto

Kiyoharu Kakomura

Shigeru Sugita

Toshio Tsuchida

Masashi Yoshida

Kazuyuki Dobashi

Yoshiharu Mizui

Toshimitsu Uenaka

Naoto Kawamura

Tomohiro Sameshima

Yoshiyuki Nakajima

Susumu Takeda

Masanori Fujita

Takao Yamori

Hiroyuki Sekine

Takashi Sakai

Naoki Asai

Motoko Matsufuji

Akifumi Okuda

Tomonari Yamada

Koji Norihisa

Keisuke Komeda

Kumiko Kishi

Masao Iwata

Naoto Watanabe

Tadashi Takahashi

Akinobu Nishikata

Hiroyuki Yaguchi

Hiroyoshi Yoshida

Shokyo Koh

Nobuo Sekiguchi

Ryosuke Miyamoto

Daisuke Ishizuka

Hideyuki Ikegami

Hideaki Shimizu

Masao Watanabe

Yasuhiro Takiyama

Katsunari Suzuki

Takuya Hayakawa

Yuji Morishige

An image forming system capable of shortening the time required to process configuration information on an image forming system and shortening communication time. When any of sheet processing apparatuses is activated before activation of an image forming apparatus, a controller of a sheet processing apparatus acting as a sub-manager configures a sub-system consisting of sheet processing apparatuses connected to a communication network and creates configuration data on the sub-system. When recognizing that the image forming apparatus is newly connected to the network, the sub-manager apparatus notifies the image forming apparatus of the already created configuration data based on which a controller of the image forming apparatus creates configuration data on the system and stores it into a RAM.

Image forming system and a sheet processing apparatus thereof that communicates configuration information to an image forming apparatus thereof

There is provided an image forming system that are capable of preventing a user or operator from forgetting to carry out a maintenance operation based on required sub-maintenance items after execution of a maintenance operation based on an associated maintenance item, such as component replacement, cleaning, or adjustment. A table of maintenance items and sub-maintenance items associated with respective ones of the maintenance items is stored in a ROM. When a CPU determines that a maintenance operation based on a selected one of the maintenance items has been completed, the CPU determines whether or not there is any sub-maintenance item associated with the selected maintenance item, by referring to the table. When it is determined that there is one or more sub-maintenance items associated with the selected maintenance item, a CPU provides control to display the sub-maintenance item or items in an operating/display unit.

Image forming system and maintenance execution program

After the start of an image formation operation, feeding of a sheet on which an image is to be formed is started, and an image formed on an image carrier is transferred onto the fed sheet. On the other hand, after the start of the image formation operation, in a case that the sheet has not been detected within a predetermined time period in a predetermined position on the upstream side of a transfer position, transfer is stopped, and after the stoppage of the transfer, re-feeding of the sheet is performed. By the re-feeding, in a case that the sheet has been detected in the predetermined position, formation of an image to be transferred onto the sheet is started, then the timing of start of the feeding of the sheet is delayed from the timing of start of the feeding in normal times.

Image forming apparatus with sheet feeding retry function

An image forming apparatus capable of efficiently performing an image forming processing even in a case where a post-processing apparatus performs a post-processing during a both-sides printing. A first time period needed by a first both-sides image forming processing and a second time period needed by a second both-sides image forming processing are computed in a case where a post-processing unit performs a post-processing on a recording sheet formed images on both sides thereof. The first time period and the second time period is compared, and any one of the first both-sides image forming processing and the second both-sides image forming processing is selected based on the comparison.

Image forming apparatus, method therefor, and program

An image forming apparatus in which surplus tabbed sheets produced in one set of output can be utilized for the next set of output, without requiring a user to perform a laborious task. In the image forming apparatus, a CPU calculates the number of tabbed sheet groups which will be used for one set of image formation and the number of tabbed sheets which will be used from among the last tabbed sheet group. Among the last tabbed sheet group, surplus tabbed sheets which will be left unused in the one set of image formation are determined. If the number of tabbed sheets is equal to or less than the number of the surplus tabbed sheets, at least one of the surplus tabbed sheets is used to carry out two sets of image formation.

Image forming apparatus and control method therefor

A sheet conveying system in which when a sheet is passed from a sheet conveying apparatus to another, each including a sheet conveyance controller, the receiving apparatus can smoothly control acceleration, deceleration, or stop of conveyance of the sheet. A first sheet conveying device includes a first conveying roller pair to nip and convey a sheet, a releasing mechanism to release nipping of the sheet by the first conveying roller pair, and a first controller to control the first conveying roller pair and the releasing mechanism. A second sheet conveying device includes a second conveying roller pair to nip and convey the sheet conveyed by the first sheet conveying device, a second controller to control the second conveying roller pair, and a detecting device to detect position of a sheet. In response to the detection by the detecting device, the second controller causes the releasing mechanism to release the nipping of the sheet by the first conveying roller pair.

Sheet conveying system, as well as image forming apparatus and sheet conveying apparatus thereof

A plurality of subsystems having diverse individual functions can be connected to an image forming apparatus. Each of the subsystems is made up of, for example, plural kinds of units which are different in performance from each other. Each of the units has inherent information related to the performance, and decides the operation specification of the entire image forming apparatus according to the combination of those units.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming system that makes it possible to open or remove an external cover of an apparatus to perform maintenance on the apparatus even while the system is operating. Out of a plurality of conveying paths, at least one conveying path for which at least one part related to the conveying path can be subjected to maintenance is determined, in accordance with a type of the image forming process being executed. The conveying path for which it has been determined that the part related to the conveying path can be subjected to maintenance is displayed on a display device.

Image forming system, maintenance method applied thereto, and program for causing a computer to implement the maintenance method

An image forming apparatus to which a developer storage container can be detachably mounted, includes: a reception unit arranged to receive information from the developer storage container; a first temperature detection unit provided in an inside of the image forming apparatus and arranged to detect a temperature of the inside of the image forming apparatus; a cooling unit arranged to cool the inside of the image forming apparatus; and a control unit arranged to determine on the basis of the received information whether second temperature detection unit is provided to the developer storage container, control the cooling unit on the basis of the detection result of the first temperature detection unit when the second temperature detection unit is not provided, and control the cooling unit on the basis of the detection results of the first and second temperature detection units when the second temperature detection unit is provided.

Image forming apparatus having accurate internal temperature control

An image forming apparatus to which a developer container is detachably mountable includes a receiving unit configured to receive, via wireless communication, temperature information detected by a temperature detecting unit, which is disposed in a developer container, from the developer container in a state not mounted to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus further includes a determining unit configured to determine, based on the temperature information received by the receiving unit, whether an oscillating unit disposed in the developer container is to be oscillated, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit a signal for oscillating the oscillating unit to the developer container via wireless communication based on a determination result of the determining unit indicating that the oscillating unit is to be oscillated.

Image forming apparatus and detachable developer container with wireless communication therebetween

This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of shortening the user's print waiting time as much as possible when it is determined that image adjustment is necessary during the image forming operation, and a control method therefor. To accomplish this, in a color image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming stations which form toner images with a plurality of toners on the basis of a job, it is discriminated whether adjustment processing is necessary during a continuous image forming operation based on the job. If it is discriminated that adjustment processing is necessary, it is determined whether each of the image forming stations has a non-operating time enough to execute the discriminated adjustment processing during the image forming operation. The image forming station determined to have a non-operating time enough to execute adjustment processing executes the discriminated adjustment processing during the non-operating time.

A technique for reducing downtime that accompanies the execution independently of adjustment processing for maintaining image quality and the execution of finishing processing relating to a printing medium. In order to apply the finishing processing to the printing medium in a finishing processing unit, an image forming apparatus to which this technique is applied sets a time between sheets that extends from end of image formation regarding a first sheet of the printing medium to start of image formation regarding a second sheet of the printing medium transported following the first sheet of the printing medium in the image forming unit, and executes adjustment processing, which is for maintaining image quality in the image forming unit, within the set time between sheets.

Image forming apparatus for executing adjustment processing and finishing processing

The present invention provides a novel bioactive substance having an antitumor activity and a process for producing it, and a medical use thereof. Namely, it provides a 12-membered ring macrolide compound represented by the following formula obtained from the incubation solution ofsp. Mer. 11107 or a variant thereof, a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof or a hydrate of them, and a process for producing it. 

Bioactive substance

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Kiyoshi Okamoto