Sony Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Azbil Corporation

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

Jsr Corporation

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Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Oki Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Jatco Corporation

Nihon Kohden Corporation

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Masato Tanaka

Koichi Suzuki

Yoichiro Sako

Takeshi Murakami

Akira Yoshida

Shinichi Kuroda

Yasuo Hosaka

Atsushi Fujii

Hiroji Akahori

Masataka Kawahara

Makoto Kojima

Ryuji Higashi

Tsutomu Shimokawa

Takashi Mori

Kazumi Suzuki

Akihiro Senoo

Satoru Shimizu

Junichi Takahashi

Tomoki Nagai

Hideki Anayama

Tomohiro Kimura

Kazuo Yoshinaga

Young-Sik Kim

Nozomu Tamoto

Shunsuke Furukawa

Tetsu Watanabe

Masamoto Nakazawa

Hiroshi Murata

Yuuji Tanaka

Yuichi Hashimoto

Masanori Kawasumi

Tsutomu Nishida

Yuka Ishiduka

Masaru Tanaka

Kazuo Watanabe

Masahiro Itoh

Yukio Nishimura

Teigo Sakakibara

Yukio Nagase

Kaname Watariguchi

Kenichi Kaku

Daisuke Miura

Shuji Doi

Kazumichi Sugiyama

Hiroyuki Tomono

Hajime Miyazaki

Takashi Anezaki

Yuichi Kojima

Tomoyuki Suzuki

Masaki Nonaka

Akihiro Maruyama

Hikaru Sugita

Hideaki Nagasaka

Yota Ito

Kiyotaka Yanaka

Nobuhiko Watanabe

Kazuo Asanuma

Mayumi Miura

Hidetoshi Hirano

Kan Tanabe

Takenori Sonoda

Yoshio Kashizaki

Keiji Kunimi

Takuji Himeno

Mamoru Sakamoto

Toshihiro Ohnishi

Kissei Matsumoto

Hideyuki Takai

Shigeru Ishimoto

Seiji Kato

Masaki Yoshino

Naomichi Kanei

Kouichi Nakata

Keiji Konno

Takashi Katoku

Mamoru Tanaka

Shintetsu Go

Ryota Arai

Kazuhiko Seki

Itaru Yamazaki

Akihiro Hayashi

Jumpei Kuno

Tetsuro Kanemaru

Akio Tanaka

Masaki Satoh

Tatsuya Yamaai

Kazunori Takanashi

Yoshikazu Yamaguchi

Tsuneo Takayanagi

Shinya Mayama

Hiroki Matsuura

Ikuo Hirose

Tadaaki Oyama

Shoma Hinata

Hirotoshi Uesugi

Haruo Iwasawa

Fumitaka Kikutani

Tomoya Hirano

Takashi Ohira

A valve maintenance assistance device includes: a valve ID storing portion configured to store IDs of an ON-OFF valve which may be a candidate for maintenance; an opening acquiring portion configured to acquire opening measurement data from an opening sensor provided on the ON-OFF valve; a pressure acquiring portion configured to acquire pressure measurement data on operating device air supplied to an operating device of the ON-OFF valve; a storing portion configured to store the opening measurement data and the pressure measurement data; and a diagnosis index calculating portion configured to calculate a dead zone time from when an operating device air pressure is changed until an opening degree of the ON-OFF valve is changed as a diagnosis index based on the pressure measurement data and the opening measurement data; and a diagnosis index presenting portion configured to present a numerical value of the diagnosis index calculated by the diagnosis index calculating portion.

Valve maintenance assistance device and assisting method

A valve abnormality detecting device includes an opening acquiring portion to acquire a valve opening value; a pressure acquiring portion to acquire a pressure value of operating device air of an operating device for a valve; a stability-time detecting portion configured to detect a stable-opening state in which the valve opening value acquired by the opening acquiring portionis substantially constant; a frictional force detecting portion configured to detect a difference between a maximum pressure value and a minimum pressure value of the operating device air in the stable-opening state as an index value indicating a frictional force at a sliding portion of the valve; and an abnormality determining portion configured to determine that an abnormality may have occurred in the valve in a case where a frequency of occurrence of reduction in which the index value falls below a specified value is an abnormal frequency.

Valve abnormality detecting device and method

A machine-readable, non-transitory recording medium, an image forming apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. The machine-readable, non-transitory recording medium stores instructions that, when executed, cause the information processing apparatus to display a special color settings screen for setting an RGB value of drawing data to be printed in a special color included in print data to be transmitted to an image forming apparatus, generate the print data instructing printing of the RGB value set on the special color settings screen in the special color, and transmit the generated print data to the image forming apparatus.

Image forming apparatus for printing a designated part of print data in a special color

An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit, a fixing device, and circuitry is provided. The image forming unit is configured to perform a special image forming operation that forms a color toner image and a special toner image with a color toner and a special toner, respectively, on a recording medium and a normal image forming operation that forms the color toner image without forming the special toner image on the recording medium. The fixing device is configured to fix the color toner image and the special toner image on the recording medium. The circuitry is configured to perform, in the special image forming operation, a toner amount suppression control that makes an amount of the color toner on the recording medium per unit area smaller than that in the normal image forming operation.

Image forming apparatus using special toner and performing fixing condition change control

An optical member having a concentric diffraction surface facing the outside, wherein the projection having a inclined surface concentric to the diffraction surface having an angle of inclination &#x3b8; smaller than the angle of inclination &#x3d5; is provided outside the diffraction surface having the largest &#x3d5;, so that an interference of a cutting tool is avoided, and simultaneously, deterioration of a surface roughness may be restrained.

Method of manufacturing a member, optical member and optical element

This motor driving control apparatus has (A) an inverter unit configured to drive a motor; (B) a separation switch configured to separate a power source from the inverter unit; and (C) a controller configured to instruct the separation switch to separate the power source from the inverter unit and control the inverter unit to perform switching according to a speed and a braking target torque, upon detecting an event that braking should be performed without passing a regenerative current to the power source from the inverter unit. By introducing the separation switch that operates as described above, it becomes possible to perform control so as to consume the power by the motor itself without passing the regenerative current to the power source such as a battery.

Motor driving control apparatus and electric apparatus

A reading device includes an imaging element and correcting circuitry. The imaging element is configured to receive light from an object selectively irradiated with visible light or invisible light. The correcting circuitry is configured to apply correction processing based on a difference in an optical characteristic between an invisible light region and a visible light region to an image signal in the invisible light region output from the imaging element and output the image signal corrected.

Reading device, image forming apparatus including same, and reading method

An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit containing a special recording material and circuitry configured to control the image forming unit to form a hardly visible image on a recording medium with the special recording material. The hardly visible image is formed of a halftone dot image comprising isolated dots in a number smaller than that of isolated dots forming a visible image having the same image area ratio as the hardly visible image.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit, a unit holder, and circuitry is provided. The image forming unit includes a color toner unit, a replaceable black toner unit, and a replaceable special toner unit that form a color toner image, a black toner image, and a special toner image, respectively. The unit holder selectively and detachably holds the replaceable black toner unit or the replaceable special toner unit. The circuitry controls the image forming unit to perform: a normal operation, when the unit holder holds the replaceable black toner unit, that forms a color-black image; a special operation, when the unit holder holds the replaceable special toner unit, that forms a color-special image; and a toner amount increase control that increases an amount of the color toner per unit area in the color toner image in the special operation than that in the normal operation.

Image forming apparatus for increase of color toner in a color toner image in a special operation

Image forming apparatus having toner amount suppression control

A motor driving control apparatus in embodiments includes: a first signal generator to generate a first signal representing any one rotation angle section of plural rotation angle sections according to a sensor signal that changes every predetermined rotation angle of a rotor; a measurement unit to measure a period of each of the rotation angle sections; a prediction unit to predict a period of a next rotation section based on one or plural measured rotation angle sections; a second signal generator to generate a second signal representing a relative rotation angle of the rotor in the next rotation angle section for each period obtained by dividing the predicted period by a predetermined number; and a third signal generator to generate a third signal corresponding to a rotation angle of the rotor based on the first and second signals.

Motor driving control apparatus

A time synchronization signal for time series data collected from multiple controlling devices of a PID process is provided. An assistance device concurrently transmits a time confirmation signal to respective controlling devices in a predetermined time confirmation cycle, and the controlling devices forcibly output time confirmation data for synchronizing control data related to the respective controlling devices with each other as a manipulation variable in one control cycle immediately after receiving the time confirmation signal. The time confirmation data is an irregular value that is not outputted as a value of the manipulation variable in a control cycle during a steady control state.

Controlling system, assistance device, controlling device, and control method for adding time confirmation between sequences of data points collected from multiple controlling devices

An air-conditioning control system includes a grouping target apparatus storage unit that stores information about a plurality of air-conditioning apparatuses which are rotation group setting targets; an attribute storage unit that stores an attribute of each of the air-conditioning apparatuses; a group setting rule storage unit that stores a group setting rule for reducing, between the rotation groups, a difference in total power consumption of air-conditioning apparatuses having an identical attribute; a power consumption obtaining unit that obtains information about power consumption values of the air-conditioning apparatuses; a group determination unit that determines rotation groups to which the air-conditioning apparatuses belong in accordance with the power consumption values of the air-conditioning apparatuses and the group setting rule; and a group storage unit that stores grouping information indicating the rotation groups to which the air-conditioning apparatuses belong.

Air-conditioning control system and method

A motor driving apparatus includes a driving unit configured to drive a motor according to a torque inputted by a rotation input from a human being; and a controller configured to control driving of the driving unit according to a relationship between an accumulated value of first amounts that correspond to the rotation input from the human being and an accumulated value of second amounts that correspond to rotation of a rotating object driven by the motor. The controller may be further configured to cause the driving unit to suppress driving of the motor when an accumulated difference that is calculated by subtracting the accumulated value of the second amounts from the accumulated value of the first amounts is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold.

Motor driving apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Masato Tanaka