Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Sony Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Alpha Corporation

Naoki Watanabe

Hirokazu Okutsu

Kenji Inoue

Yuichi Yagawa

Shigeru Kishiro

Makoto Yamagishi

Satoshi Kubota

Masakazu Isozaki

Akihiro Akiyama

Katunori Hakuta

Masakatsu Ohashi

An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section configured to form an image on a sheet; conveyance guides disposed on an image forming surface side and a rear surface side of the sheet at a position on a downstream side of the image forming section in a sheet conveyance direction, and configured to form a sheet feeding path for conveying the sheet; a conveyance rolling part disposed to protrude from the conveyance guide into the sheet feeding path at a curving part of the sheet feeding path; and a rolling member moving section configured to move the conveyance rolling part along the sheet feeding path until a state where an image forming surface of a sheet being conveyed does not make contact with the conveyance guide is ensured.

Image forming apparatus

A method for copying data to multiple remote sites includes transmitting data from a first volume in a primary storage system to a back-up volume provided in a secondary storage system. The primary storage system is located at a primary site, and the secondary storage system is located at a first remote site from the primary site. The data from the first volume in the primary storage system is copied to a second volume in the primary storage system using a point in time (PiT) as a reference point of time for the copying. The second volume is provided with a first time consistent image of the first volume with respect to the reference point of time. The data from the second volume in the primary storage system is transferred to a third volume in a ternary storage system at a second remote site. The third volume is provided with a second time consistent image of the second volume with respect to the reference point of time, where the second time consistent image is a mirror image of the first time consistent image. The data from the third volume is transferred to a fourth volume in the ternary storage system. The fourth volume is provided with a third time consistent image. In the ternary storage, either of the third volume or fourth volume can always keep time consistent image of the first volume.

Point in time remote copy for multiple sites

A door handle apparatus comprising a grip member whose one end is rotatably supported by a door panel, and an escutcheon which is disposed closer to the other end surface of the grip member and which is fixed to the door panel, wherein the door handle apparatus further comprises a water force reducing structure which reduces force of water which enters from a gap between the grip member and the escutcheon.

Grip handle type door handle apparatus

A miniaturized speaker apparatus including a cabinet to which a first speaker unit for reproducing a low frequency range is installed; second speaker units for reproducing a medium frequency range and/or a high frequency range; and supporting members for supporting the second speaker units on their tip end sides, the supporting members being supported by the cabinet so as to rotatably move between a first position, where the second speaker units are spaced apart from the cabinet, and a second position, where the second speaker units are positioned on the cabinet side making the speaker apparatus convenient for carrying.

Speaker apparatus

A heat development processor includes a heat roller whose peripheral surface is heated to a predetermined temperature, the heat roller being adapted to transport in close contact therewith a heat-developable light-sensitive material with a latent image formed thereon, so as to heat develop the heat-developable light-sensitive material; and a backup roller disposed in face-to-face relation with the heat roller and having a gap between the same and the heat roller, the gap corresponding to or greater than the thickness of the heat-developable light-sensitive material. Since a gap is provided between the heat roller and the backup roller, a nipping force does not act between them, making it possible to squeeze out steam from between the heat-developable light-sensitive material and the peripheral surface of the heat roller.

Heat development processor wherein steam is discharged from a heat

A photosensitive lithographic printing plate supplying apparatus includes a first suction device, which sucks an upper surface of an uppermost photosensitive lithographic printing plate of photosensitive lithographic printing plates stacked such that respective photosensitive surfaces thereof face downward and which raises the uppermost photosensitive lithographic printing plate, a second suction device, which sucks the upper surface of the raised uppermost photosensitive lithographic printing plate so as to support the photosensitive lithographic printing plate at one end thereof, and a rotating device which rotates the photosensitive lithographic printing plate supported on one end by the second suction device so that a photosensitive surface of the photosensitive lithographic printing plate faces upward. Accordingly, the photosensitive lithographic printing plates are supplied to an exposure device without the photosensitive surfaces thereof being contacted.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Naoki Watanabe