Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Hitachi Cable, Inc.

Nec Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Ntt Communications Corporation

Showa Shell Sekiyu K.k.

Lifull Co., Ltd.

Max Co., Ltd.

Ntt Security (japan) Kk

Ntt Docomo Business, Inc.

Satoshi Ueno

Tadashi Ogawa

Takamasa Hase

Hiroshi Seo

Masanao Ehara

Shuutaroh Yuasa

Kenji Ishii

Kazuya Saito

Kensuke Yamaji

Teppei Kawata

Takeshi Uchitani

Takahiro Imada

Naoto Suzuki

Tetsuo Tokuda

Fumihiro Hirose

Takashi Sakamaki

Motoyoshi Yamano

Ken Omura

Kenichi Hasegawa

Jun Okamoto

Akiko Ito

Hiroo Tanaka

Hiroshi Yokoyama

Akiyasu Amita

Kazuyoshi Matsumoto

Kohichi Utsunomiya

Yuuki Yamamoto

Takeshi Fujita

Kazuyoshi Kondo

Yasutada Tsukioka

Shuntaroh Tamaki

Yasunobu Chiba

Yoshinori Uchino

Tsuguyori Kemma

Hakaru Matsui

Muneyuki Okeguchi

Yasuhiro Kohira

Hiroki Ishiguro

Tsuyoshi Miyata

Yukari Tadokoro

Keizo Yasuda

Akiko Miyahara

Yuzo Obata

Yoji Kiyota

Atsushi Wakasugi

Haruki Oda

Shuutaro Yuasa

Go Akiyama

Yota Ishida

Takeshi Ohmura

Masaya Shitami

Aldyasu Amita

Kenji Ishi

Kensuke Nakata

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a holder, a pre-treatment head, a smoother, and a print head. The holder reciprocally moves while holding a recording medium. The pre-treatment head discharges a pre-treatment liquid onto a surface of the recording medium held by the holder. The smoother smooths the pre-treatment liquid, which is discharged onto the surface of the recording medium, along the surface of the recording medium by a movement of the holder. The print head discharges a printing liquid onto the surface of the recording medium with the pre-treatment liquid smoothed.

Liquid discharge apparatus

A vehicle security monitoring apparatus is capable of communicating with an in-vehicle network having a function of transmitting log data related to an operation state of an in-vehicle apparatus, and the vehicle security monitoring apparatus is configured to acquire the log data, and to detect an abnormal state in the in-vehicle network based on the acquired log data. The vehicle security monitoring apparatus is configured to estimate an influence range affected by the detected abnormal state, and to manage information indicating the estimated influence range.

Vehicle security monitoring apparatus, method and non-transitory computer readable medium

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a body and a carriage disposed inside the body. A head is mounted on the carriage. The head discharges ink onto a recording medium and generates ink mist. An ink mist collector includes a fan that generates an air current that circulates in an air flow direction inside the body. A filter collects the ink mist generated by the head. At least one duct adjusts the air flow direction. An encoder is mounted on the carriage. The encoder is disposed downstream from the fan and disposed upstream from the head in the air flow direction.

To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to suitably provide three-dimensional property information. A floor-plan identifying unit that generates floor plan information on the basis of a floor plan image and a model generating unit that generates a three-dimensional model using the floor plan information are included. The floor-plan identifying unit includes: a line-segment detecting unit that detects a line segment corresponding to a wall on a floor plan, a segmentation processing unit that identifies a room region corresponding to a room on the floor plan, a character recognizing unit that recognizes a character string included in the floor plan image, a fixture detecting unit that detects a fixture sign included in the floor plan image, and an integration unit that identifies a type of room of the room region and complements a room structure. The model generating unit includes an estimating unit that estimates a scale of the floor plan and a generating unit that generates a three-dimensional model of the real-estate property on the basis of the floor plan identified from the floor plan information, the scale, and an estimated ceiling height.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

A printing device includes a medium holding portion a medium holding portion on which a medium is placed, a discharge unit, a holding portion, a first displacement mechanism, a second displacement mechanism, and a contacting portion of the medium holding portion. The discharge unit is configured to discharge an object to the medium placed on the medium holding portion. The holding portion is configured to hold the discharge unit. The first displacement mechanism is configured to displace a relative position of the medium and the discharge unit along a placement surface of the medium. The second displacement mechanism is configured to displace the medium holding portion along a height direction. The contacting portion configured to come in contact with a contacted portion located at a surface of the medium holding portion, the medium placed on the surface.

Printing device

A recording medium holder includes a base, a platen configured to hold a printing target portion of a recording medium, and a plurality of platen supports to support the platen. The plurality of platen supports is disposed side by side on the base. The plurality of platen supports includes a first platen support at one end and a second platen support respectively at one end and the other end of the plurality of platen supports. The first platen support the second platen support are separable from the platen.

Recording medium holder and image forming system

A cloth holder stacker includes a first cloth holder and a second cloth holder. The first cloth holder includes a first base including a first bottom, a first platen to hold a first cloth, and a first clearance former mounted on the first bottom of the first base. The second cloth holder includes a second base including a second bottom, a second platen to hold a second cloth, and a second clearance former mounted on the second bottom of the second base. The second clearance former defines a clearance between the second bottom of the second base and the first cloth held by the first cloth holder when the second cloth holder is stacked on the first cloth holder.

Cloth holder stacker, fabric printing apparatus, and heating device

A sheet supplying device is provided. The sheet supplying device includes a separator to separate sheets one by one. The separator includes a separation pad, a spring, and a separation pressure adjuster. The separation pad contacts each of the sheets. The spring applies a separation pressure to the separation pad. The separation pressure adjuster adjusts the separation pressure to one of separation pressure values variable in multiple steps.

Sheet supplying device, sheet storing device, sheet using apparatus, and liquid discharging apparatus

A control device () calculates, on the basis of the transition of the expected amount of power generation of a power generation unit (), the transition of the expected amount of power supply of a power supply unit (), and the current amount of stored electrical power of a storage battery (), a transition of the expected amount of the stored electrical power of the storage battery () in a case where electrical power continues to be supplied from a power distribution network () to the storage battery (). In addition, the control device () sets a power reduction time zone, which is a time zone in which no electrical power is supplied from the power distribution network () to the storage battery (), when the presence of a first time, which is a time when the expected amount of the stored electrical power starts to exceed the first reference capacity, is shown in the transition of the expected amount of the stored electrical power of the storage battery (), and sets the end time of the power reduction time zone as the first time.

Quick charging system, control device, method of controlling amount of the stored electrical power, and program

A fixing device includes a fixing rotary body to come into contact with a toner image on a recording medium and a pressing rotary body separably pressed against the fixing rotary body to press the recording medium against the fixing rotary body. A cooler, disposed opposite the pressing rotary body to cool the pressing rotary body, includes a fan to move air to the pressing rotary body and at least one inlet duct interposed between the fan and the pressing rotary body to supply air from the fan to the pressing rotary body. The at least one inlet duct selectively cools the pressing rotary body in a variable axial span in an axial direction thereof.

Fixing device and image forming apparatus

A fixing device includes an exciting coil to generate a magnetic flux and a heat generation layer disposed opposite the exciting coil to generate heat by the magnetic flux from the exciting coil. A temperature sensitive magnetic body, disposed opposite the exciting coil via the heat generation layer, obtains and loses magnetism at a temperature defined by a Curie temperature by composition adjustment to selectively create a heating region and a non-heating region of the heat generation layer. A degausser is made of a non-magnetic material having an electrical resistivity smaller than an electrical resistivity of the temperature sensitive magnetic body. The degausser is disposed opposite the exciting coil with an interval in a range of from about 4.2 mm to about 8.2 mm.

A method for forming a toner image on a recording medium includes receiving a job, rotating a pressing rotary body in a predetermined direction of rotation, rotating a flexible endless belt disposed opposite the pressing rotary body to form a nip therebetween, turning on a belt heater disposed opposite to an inner circumferential surface of the flexible endless belt, conveying the recording medium bearing the toner image through the nip, turning off the belt heater for a predetermined first time period after the recording medium is discharged from the nip while the flexible endless belt and the pressing rotary body rotate, stopping the flexible endless belt and the pressing rotary body, turning on the belt heater when a predetermined second time period elapses after stopping the flexible endless belt and the pressing rotary body, and turning off the belt heater.

Image forming method for forming toner image on recording medium

A fixing device includes a pressing rotary body to press against a fixing rotary body. A pivotable pressure lever rotatably mounts the pressing rotary body. A pressurization cam assembly pivots the pressure lever to press the pressing rotary body against the fixing rotary body and release pressure between the pressing rotary body and the fixing rotary body. A pivotable cleaning unit includes a cleaning web separably contacting the pressing rotary body to clean the pressing rotary body, a pressure adjuster contacting the cleaning web to separably press the cleaning web against the pressing rotary body, a take-up reel to reel up the cleaning web, and a supply reel to reel out the cleaning web. A cleaning unit cam assembly contacts the cleaning unit to pivot the cleaning unit to press against and separate from the pressing rotary body.

Fixing device, image forming apparatus, and fixing method

A fixing device includes a heat roller, a fuser member, an endless belt, a pressure member, a first rotation transmitter, a second rotation transmitter, a rotation sensor, a controller, a first biasing member, and a second biasing member. The heat roller is rotatable around a rotational axis thereof while subjected to induction heating. The fuser member is disposed parallel to the heat roller. The endless belt is looped for rotation around the heat roller and the fuser member. The pressure member is disposed opposite the fuser member via the endless belt. The first rotation transmitter is connected to the rotational axis of the heat roller to rotate around a rotational axis thereof upon rotation of the heat roller. The second rotation transmitter engages the first rotation transmitter to rotate around a rotational axis thereof upon rotation of the first rotation transmitter.

Fixing device having a rotation sensor driven by a heat roller and image forming apparatus incorporating same

A fixing device fixes a toner image on a recording medium by heating the recording medium, with a heating area and a non-heating area selected in accordance with a magnetic flux and a repulsive magnetic flux. The fixing device includes a heat generating layer, an exciting coil, and a demagnetizing member. The heat generating layer generates heat. The exciting coil generates the magnetic flux, and thereby inductively heats the heat generating layer. The demagnetizing member faces the heat generating layer in the non-heating area. The demagnetizing member generates the repulsive magnetic flux against the magnetic flux generated by the exciting coil, and thereby demagnetizes the magnetic flux and suppresses the heating. Further, the demagnetizing member has a demagnetization effect different between at least a portion of the non-heating area adjacent to the heating area and the remaining portion of the non-heating area.

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Satoshi Ueno