Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Sony Corporation

Fujitsu Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation

Yamashita Rubber Kabushiki Kaisha

F-tech Inc.

Casting Media Inc.

Masato Kobayashi

Nobuyuki Satoh

Yuichi Sakurada

Daisaku Horikawa

Kenji Tsuchiya

Tatsuhiko Okada

Ayumu Morita

Mamoru Yorimoto

Suguru Yokozawa

Yasuyuki Suzuki

Hiroshi Matsumoto

Shigeru Kikuchi

Arata Suzuki

Satoru Kajiwara

Takashi Sato

Yasuo Sakurai

Norikazu Taki

Tomonori Kimura

Noboru Baba

Toru Tanimizu

Yoshimi Hakamata

Shuichi Kikukawa

Hiroshi Takahashi

Minehiro Tonosaki

Tomoaki Utsumi

Kazushi Takei

Masayuki Fujii

Daisuke Sawada

Daisuke Sugai

Tomokazu Kanzawa

Hideaki Suzuki

Seiichi Watanabe

Kenji Shinozaki

Minoru Kohno

Takeshi Tsuyuki

Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi

Katsuhiro Komuro

Satoshi Iwanami

Miki Yamazaki

Kenji Morita

Hiroyuki Ozawa

Katsuhiko Kawamura

Shigeaki Kakizaki

Tooru Tanimizu

Makoto Yano

Ryo Honda

Satoshi Hirata

Noboru Kuroda

Kazuhiro Satou

Akito Yoshimaru

Masaya Takahashi

Fumio Shibata

Yozo Shibata

Minoru Suzuki

Takane Hayashi

Kazumaro Takaiwa

Takashi Shirone

Naoki Nakatsugawa

Masahiro Shigemoto

Katsunori Kojima

Hitoshi Okabe

Masato Suzuki

Kohei Terada

Jun Yamane

Naohisa Kinoshita

Hiroyuki Abe

Osamu Matsuno

Hideaki Kobayashi

Junichi Katagiri

Hideto Nebuya

Mitsunori Ueda

Masaya Kawarada

Keiichi Takahashi

Tohru Suganuma

Tomohiro Sasa

Atsuo Tokunaga

Masahiro Kawamoto

Makoto Moriwaki

Yasuaki Suzuki

Hiroshi Nishida

Hiroyuki Okita

Maki Hiraizumi

Takashi Aramaki

Makoto Shoji

Kenichi Uehara

Hideaki Tazawa

Hirohito Murate

Youichi Kishimoto

Akira Wada

Shuuichi Kikukawa

Hidekazu Nogami

Daisuke Ishii

Hiroya Ishii

Nobuhito Komoda

Takuya Kurogi

Yoshiki Sakamoto

Yoshio Koguchi

Hiroaki Sugiyama

Takahiro Kadota

Hideaki Onozuka

A power supply device includes a power supply line, control circuitry, and a first switch. The power supply line supplies voltage from a first power supply unit to a load. The control circuitry controls voltage supply from the first power supply unit. The first switch is connected between a second power supply unit and the control circuitry. The control circuitry causes the first power supply unit to start the voltage supply on condition that the first switch is in a closed state and a voltage of the power supply line is not greater than a first threshold voltage, and causes the first power supply unit to start the voltage supply on condition that the voltage of the power supply line is not greater than a second threshold voltage higher than the first threshold voltage when the first switch changes from an open state to the closed state.

Power supply device, conveyance apparatus, and image forming apparatus

First and second arms have first and second retaining members, respectively. A switching mechanism switches a retained state of a first position of a tying medium between first and second states. In the first and second states, the first position is retained by the first and second retaining members at first and second retaining positions, respectively. A loop retaining member retains a loop around the second arm in a path extending from the first retaining position through second and third positions to a fourth position of the tying medium. The second position intersects the third position as a result of the loop such that the third position is closer to the first retaining position than the second position in the path. A moving portion moves the loop relative to the second arm to change a relative positional relationship between the loop and the first position on the path.

Knot forming device forming knot by transferring end of tying medium through mechanical operations

An image capturing unit includes a sensor unit that image-captures a predetermined area including a subject; and a reference chart unit that is arranged in the predetermined area and captured with the subject by the sensor unit.

Image capturing unit, color measuring device, image forming apparatus, color measuring system and color measurement method for capturing a reference chart and a subject

Image capturing device and color measurement method for capturing a reference chart and a subject

In a hose having a bent portion, a poor appearance part is prevented from being created in an inner round portion of the bent portion. A bent pipe has a bent portion located in an intermediate part in a longitudinal direction in which a cross section in a radial direction of a round of the bent portion is formed in a flat shape, and non-bent portions being continuous with the bent portion. The flat shape of the bent portion is a vertically long flat shape. With this configuration, when an unvulcanized hose is put on a mandrel and vulcanized, an inner round portion of the unvulcanized hose comes into tight contact with a bent portion of the mandrel and is not separated from the bent portion, so that the poor appearance part is hardly created in an inner round portion of the bent portion.

Bent pipe and manufacturing method thereof

Image capturing apparatus, color measuring device, image forming apparatus, and color measuring system for capturing a reference chart and a subject

An apparatus includes: a light source; a two-dimensional image sensor that receives reflected light from a subject including specular light of the source and outputs an image of the subject; and an optical member arranged in an optical path of light emitted from the source to the subject. When a specular position of the source in the subject arranged apart from the two-dimensional image sensor by a certain distance is defined as a first specular position, whereas a specular position of the source in the optical member is defined as a second specular position, a relative positional relation of the optical member and the source with respect to the two-dimensional image sensor is determined so that a difference between an incident angle from the source toward the first specular position and an incident angle from the source toward the second specular position is a reference value or more.

Image capturing apparatus, medium type determining apparatus, and image forming apparatus

An apparatus for updating a device, includes: a card configured to include a first device; a controller configured to acquire first circuit data from the card and to update a second device by using the first circuit data; and a storage unit configured to store, from the card, second circuit data for updating the first device, wherein the controller acquires the second circuit data stored in the storage unit and updates the first device by using the second circuit data.

Apparatus and method for updating a device

An oscillation sieve, including a screen; an oscillator oscillating the screen to sieve a material; a feeder feeding the material onto the screen; a collector collecting the material having passed the screen; a remover removing the material not having passed the screen therefrom; a guide member fixed on the screen, guiding the material fed from the feeder and not having passed the screen to the remover, wherein the guide member is spiral member formed of an elastic material capable of following the oscillating screen.

Oscillating sieve

An imaging device comprises: a two-dimensional image sensor that includes a plurality of light receiving units capable of reading an output value individually according to a volume of received light thereof; a receiving unit that receives a control signal that specifies an operation mode of the two-dimensional image sensor that is predetermined according to a purpose of using the output value; and a sensor controller that sets, on the basis of the control signal received by the receiving unit, an imaging area representing an area of a light receiving unit that reads the output value from among the light receiving units of the two-dimensional image sensor and controls reading of the output value.

Imaging device, image forming apparatus, and method of controlling driving of two-dimensional image sensor

Image capturing unit, color measuring device, image forming apparatus, color measuring system and color measurement method capturing a subject outside of the image capturing unit

An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit that prints at least one object image using a color material; a color information acquiring unit that acquires color information of the object image; and a control unit that starts one of colorimetry of the object image using the color information acquired by the color information acquiring unit and color adjustment of the printing unit after a variation amount of color information of the object image measured at different points of time is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold.

Image forming apparatus, calibration method, and drying determination method

A transmission apparatus includes a detector to receive a multiplexed signal including a plurality of signals having different frame periods and detect switching information included in the multiplexed signal; a sorter to sort a plurality of pieces of detected switching information into one or more groups according to types of corresponding signals; an adjuster to adjust an order of transferring the switching information sorted, according to a period with which the switching information is received; a transfer unit to transfer the plurality of pieces of switching information sorted, based on a result of the adjustment performed by the adjuster; a controller to generate path setting information to set transmission paths of the signals based on the plurality of pieces of switching information transferred from the transfer unit; and a switch unit to set the transmission paths based on the path setting information generated by the controller.

Transmission apparatus and transmission method

A glossiness determining device includes: a light source; a two-dimensional sensor that receives reflected light containing a specular reflection component of a subject illuminated by the light source, and outputs an image of the subject; and a determining unit that determines glossiness of the subject by using a saturated image, which is the image of the subject output by the two-dimensional sensor and in which pixel values of a partial area are saturated.

Glossiness determining device, color measuring device, image forming apparatus, and glossiness determination method

An image capturing unit includes a sensor section that images a predetermined range including a subject; a reference chart section that is imaged by the sensor section with the subject; and an illumination light source that illuminates the subject and the reference chart section. The illumination light source is arranged at a position where a mirror reflection region that mirror reflects light entering from the illumination light source to the sensor section is outside a region of the subject and the reference chart section.

Image capturing device that images a region including a reference chart and a subject

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masato Kobayashi