Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Agama-x Co., Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Masayoshi Nakao

Motofumi Baba

Kengo Tokuchi

Masahiro Sato

Hideaki Ohhara

Kazunori Numao

Monta Ido

Masafumi Ono

Noriaki Saito

Kenji Kuroishi

Yasunori Fujimoto

Kunihiko Sato

Kazuhiko Arai

Tsuyoshi Abe

Keiko Shiraishi

Yasuhiro Kusumoto

Kazuhiko Narushima

Yutaka Kiuchi

Hidenori Horie

Atsumi Kurita

Masayo Higashimura

Katsumi Takahashi

Jun Miyake

Yukio Tsuruoka

Shingo Kinoshita

Koichi Azuma

Masahisa Kawashima

Fumitaka Hoshino

Akiko Fujimura

Shigeyoshi Kuroyanagi

Jisun Choi

A biological information measuring apparatus includes a first electrode provided in contact with a user's external auditory canal and a second electrode provided in contact with the user's concha cavum.

Biological information measuring apparatus and biological information measuring system

A biometric information measurement system includes a first measurement apparatus, a second measurement apparatus, and a control apparatus. The first measurement apparatus measures first biometric information of a subject. The second measurement apparatus measures second biometric information which is biometric information of the subject and which is different from the first biometric information. The control apparatus changes a condition of measurement performed by the second measurement apparatus on the basis of the first biometric information.

Biometric information measurement system and biometric information measurement apparatus

A powder processing apparatus includes: a fixing unit that is provided in an apparatus housing and heats powder containing ultrafine particles to fix the powder on a processed medium; an exhaust unit including an exhaust path through which air near the fixing unit can be exhausted, a capturing part capable of capturing the ultrafine particles, and an airflow generating part that generates exhaust airflow, the exhaust unit exhausting the air near the fixing unit to the outside of the apparatus housing through the exhaust path; and an intake unit including an intake path through which air outside the apparatus housing can be taken in, a capturing part capable of capturing the ultrafine particles, and an airflow generating part that generates intake airflow, the intake unit taking the air outside the apparatus housing into the apparatus housing through the intake path. An intake port is provided below an exhaust port.

Powder processing apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a continuous medium; an image forming unit that forms an image on a surface of the medium; a pasting unit that pastes a protection member to the surface of the medium on which the image has been formed; an inspection unit disposed downstream of the image forming unit in a direction in which the medium is transported, the inspection unit inspecting whether the image is defective; a cutting unit disposed downstream of the inspection unit in the direction, the cutting unit being capable of performing an operation of forming a cut in the protection member and the medium so as to surround the image; and a controller that controls the cutting unit so that the cutting unit does not perform the operation of forming a cut in the protection member and the medium if the image is defective.

Image forming apparatus with rotational cutter and cut forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a transport module that is capable of being pulled out from an apparatus body of the image forming apparatus and in which a transport path along which a recording material, to which a toner image has been transferred, is to be transported is formed and a fixing unit that is provided in the transport module and that includes a fixing member, which fixes the toner image onto the recording material, and a pressure member, which forms a pressing part to which the recording material is to be transported between the fixing member and the pressure member. When the recording material whose length in a transport direction is longer than that of the transport module is present in the transport path, the transport module is pulled out from the apparatus body while the recording material is being nipped by the fixing member and the pressure member.

Image forming apparatus and image forming system

A cooling device cools a continuous resin film, which is transported and onto which a toner image is transferred, after the toner image is heated so that the toner image is fixed to the resin film. The resin film to which the toner image is fixed is cooled in such a manner that an image surface side of the resin film is convexly curved.

Cooling device, image forming apparatus, and cooling method

A cleaning device includes a cleaning member and a collecting member. The cleaning member rotates while being in contact with a member to be cleaned that rotates or circulates, so that an object attached to the member to be cleaned is transferred to the cleaning member. The collecting member is made of a porous material having plural pores that are connected to each other, the collecting member rotating while being in contact with a surface of the cleaning member so that the object that has been transferred to the cleaning member is collected in the pores.

Cleaning device, collecting member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes: a fixing device that has a fast heating mode and a heat storage mode; and a selection section that selects any one of a case where execution of a job indicating an image forming process of a predetermined batch throughput is instructed, and when the fixing device returns to a normal power state from a power saving state, the fixing mode in which an image forming process is early completed is selected on the basis of a total throughput of the job to perform the image forming process, and a case where during the total throughput of the job is not determined or in a case where the job corresponds to a plurality of sets, the fast heating mode is selected as an initial operation for at least the first set to perform the image forming process.

Image processing apparatus, processing time simulation apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

A fixing device includes a magnetic-field-producing member producing an alternating-current magnetic field, a fixing belt that is heated by electromagnetic induction caused by the alternating-current magnetic field and fixes toner on a recording material, and a pressure applying member pressed against the fixing belt and forming a press-fixing part therebetween through which the recording material having an unfixed image is transported. The fixing belt includes a metal body that is a stack of at least three layers including a base layer and a protective layer both made of metal, and a conductive layer provided between the base layer and the protective layer and to be heated by electromagnetic induction. In a section of the fixing belt taken in a thickness direction, the metal body has its neutral axis on a side of the protective layer with respect to a thickness center line thereof and in the protective layer.

Fixing device, image forming apparatus, and endless fixing belt

A fixing device includes a fixing member that has a conductive layer capable of being heated by electromagnetic induction and fixes an image to the recording material; a magnetic-field generator that generates an alternating magnetic field intersecting with the conductive layer of the fixing member; a heating member that is at least partly separated from the fixing member and is heated; and a deformable member that is deformed when receiving heat and moves the heating member toward the fixing member.

Fixing device, heating device, and image forming apparatus

A recipient identifier and communication condition information stored in a recipient-identifier storing unit are encrypted by an identifier-for-disclosure creating unit of a recipient terminal to create an identifier-for-disclosure. An identifier-for-disclosure notifying unit notifies a sender terminal of the identifier-for-disclosure. When a communication request using the identifier-for-disclosure is sent from the recipient terminal, a restoring unit of a relay system extracts the communication condition information from the identifier-for-disclosure. Only when communication conditions included in the communication condition information are satisfied, communication between the recipient terminal and the sender terminal is established.

Email system restoring recipient identifier based on identifier-for-disclosure for establishing communication between sender and recipient

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Masayoshi Nakao