Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Agc Inc.

Sony Corporation

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Katoh Electrical Machinery Company, Ltd.

Aichikikai Technosystem Co., Ltd.

Nihon Kohden Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Maruyama Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Takayuki Kaneko

Yasushi Yamaki

Takuo Nishio

Hiromitsu Kusano

Reiko Miyazaki

Naoki Saito

Osamu Shigeta

Tamaki Chinsoga

Ryuji Adachi

Seiji Suzuki

Kenta Sudo

Yoshimoto Suzuki

Yukihito Ono

Yuji Saito

Ryoji Kanno

Yuichiro Imanari

Kenji Nakane

Hirokazu Tajima

Kazuo Umemura

Masaaki Hirayama

Zhi Lin

Yuji Nagata

Harutoshi Yoshimura

Shigeru Saegusa

Yoshiaki Nakao

Motohiro Takahashi

Hideya Tajima

Masako Sudo

Akiomi Suzuki

Takayuki Endo

Nobuhiro Yuhashi

Hideto Ueda

Hisashi Yoshizaki

Yoshihisa Sanagi

Naoki Kanie

Masahiro Ogawa

An image forming apparatus manages whether or not job information is displayed for each stored print job, displays notification information for notifying a user that the print job is stored if there is a print job of which the job information has not been displayed, and does not display the notification information if there is no print job of which the job information has not been displayed.

Image forming apparatus, method of controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium

A printing apparatus configured to store a first setting relating to print jobs designated for reserved printing, the first setting indicating an acceptance condition for accepting a print job designated for reserved printing, receive information of a print job and store the received information of the print job in a storage device. In a case where the received information of the print job indicates that the print job is a print job designated for reserved printing and the print job for which information has been received satisfies the acceptance condition indicated by the first setting, the information of the print job is stored in the storage device in a manner such that the print job is to be executed at the job execution time designated for the print job, and a print job corresponding to the stored information is executed at the job execution time designated in the stored information.

Printing apparatus that saves and executes a print job received from an information processing terminal, and printing system, control method, and computer-readable storage medium thereof

An image forming apparatus includes an operation device, one or more memories, and one or more processors that execute a set of instructions to receive a print job from an information processing apparatus, store the received print job in the one or more memories, control the operation device to display a list of print jobs stored in the one or more memories, register a print job included in the list in the image forming apparatus, based on a user instruction received by the operation device, and display an execution button for executing the registered print job in a function selection screen.

Image forming apparatus, control method, and storage medium

To provide an ion exchange membrane for alkali chloride electrolysis for which membrane strength is increased while membrane resistance is reduced to reduce electrolysis voltage during alkali chloride electrolysis and which prevents peeling between layers (S) and a layer (C). The ion exchange membrane for alkali chloride electrolysis comprises a layer (C) which comprises a fluorinated polymer having carboxylic acid functional groups, at least two layers (S) which comprise a fluorinated polymer having sulfonic acid functional groups, and a reinforcing material, wherein the layers (S) include a layer (Sa) and a layer (Sb), the layer (Sa) is a layer which is adjacent to the layer (C), the layer (Sb) is a layer which is not adjacent to the layer (C), the reinforcing material is disposed in the layer (Sb) substantially in parallel to the layer (Sb) in a state not in contact with the layer (Sa), and the ion exchange capacity of the layer (Sa) is lower than the ion exchange capacity of the layer (Sb).

Ion exchange membrane for alkali chloride electrolysis and alkali chloride electrolysis apparatus

To provide an ion exchange membrane for alkali chloride electrolysis which has a low membrane resistance and which is capable of reducing the electrolysis voltage during the alkali chloride electrolysis, while increasing the membrane strength. An ion exchange membranefor alkali chloride electrolysis wherein a reinforcing materialobtained by weaving with reinforcing yarnsand sacrificial yarnsis embedded in a fluoropolymer having ion exchange groups, the ion exchange membranecomprises elution holes () formed by eluting at least a portion of a material of the sacrificial yarns, and in a cross section perpendicular to the length direction of the yarns, the total area (S) obtained by adding the cross-sectional area of an elution holeand the cross-sectional area of a sacrificial yarnremaining in the elution holeis from 500 to 1,200 &#x3bc;m, and the number (n) of elution holesbetween adjacent reinforcing yarnsis at least 10.

Ion exchange membrane for alkali chloride electrolysis, and alkali chloride electrolysis apparatus

To provide a method for producing a fluorinated cation exchange membrane, by which a fluorinated cation exchange membrane having a high effect to suppress attachment of the gas to the surface on the cathode side and having an excellent resistance to dropping of inorganic particles from a gas-releasing layer provided on the cathode side can be obtained. A method for producing a fluorinated cation exchange membranefor electrolysis comprising, on at least the cathode side, a layer (&#x3b1;1)containing a perfluorocarbon polymer (A) having carboxylic acid groups or precursor groups of carboxylic acid groups, and a gas-releasing layer (&#x3b1;2)provided on the cathode side of the layer (&#x3b1;1), which comprises applying to the surface of the layer (&#x3b1;1)a coating liquid containing inorganic particles having an average secondary particle size of from 0.5 to 1.5 &#x3bc;m, a binder and a dispersion medium in a mass ratio of the binder to the total mass of the inorganic particles and the binder of from 0.15 to 0.3, to form the gas-releasing layer (&#x3b1;2)

Production method for fluorinated cation exchange membrane

A biological signal acquirer is attached to a subject and acquires a biological signal of the subject. A transmitter carried by the subject transmits the biological signal. A first communication port and a first camera are installed in a first location and connectable to a network. A second communication port and a second camera are installed in a second location and connectable to the network. A biological information acquiring device is connectable to the network and provided with a switcher. The switcher acquires, when communication establishment between the transmitter and the first communication port is detected, the biological signal through the first communication port as well as a first image taken by the first camera, and acquires, when communication establishment between the transmitter and the second communication port is detected, the biological signal through the second communication port as well as a second image taken by the second camera.

Biological information acquiring system

There is provided a display control device including a user information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on presence of one or more users who are using same content as output content, a user position decision unit configured to decide display positions of the presence of the users with the information on the presence of the users acquired by the user information acquisition unit, and a display control unit configured to exert control to display the information on the presence of the users on the basis of the display positions decided by the user position decision unit in a manner that the users appear to be using the content together.

Display control device and display control method

To provide an ion exchange membrane for alkali chloride electrolysis which is a membrane having a high water permeability and being capable of maintaining a low electrolysis voltage while suppressing the amount of water supplied to a cathode chamber to be minimum, and which is capable of forming an aqueous alkali hydroxide solution having a high caustic alkali quality. The ion exchange membrane for alkali chloride electrolysis comprises a layermade of a fluorinated polymer having carboxylic acid functional groups, and a layerA and a layerB made of a fluorinated polymer having sulfonic acid functional groups, wherein a reinforcing materialcontaining reinforcing threadsis disposed between the layerA and the layerB, the thickness when dried, of the layeris from 9 to 28 &#x3bc;m, the layerB includes a layer having an ion exchange capacity of from 1.3 to 2.5 meq/g, the thickness when dried, of the layerB is from 6 to 100 &#x3bc;m, the layerA includes a layer having an ion exchange capacity of from 0.9 to 1.25 meq/g, and the thickness when dried, of the layerA is from 40 to 110 &#x3bc;m.

Ion exchange membrane for alkali chloride electrolysis, method for its production and alkali chloride electrolysis apparatus

An image forming apparatus which prevents a user from being confused when print data comprised of a plurality of sections is printed by the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus is able to perform test printing of print data for which a plurality of copies are to be printed. Whether or not a plurality of sections are included in selected print data is determined, and when it is determined that a plurality of sections are included in the selected print data, execution of the test printing is restricted.

Image forming apparatus having test printing function, control method for the image forming apparatus, storage medium, and image forming system

To provide an ion exchange membrane for alkali chloride electrolysis which has high membrane strength and low membrane resistance, thereby capable of reducing the electrolysis voltage during alkali chloride electrolysis. In this ion exchange membrane () for alkali chloride electrolysis, a reinforcing materialformed by weaving reinforcing yarnsand sacrificial yarnsis disposed in a layer (S), and layer (S)has elution portionsformed by elution of at least portions of the sacrificial yarns. In a cross section perpendicular to reinforcing yarns of the warp, the average distance (d1) from the center of a reinforcing yarnto the center of the adjacent reinforcing yarn, the total area (P) obtained by adding the cross-sectional area of an elution portionand the cross-sectional area of a sacrificial yarnremaining in the elution portion, the number (n) of elution portions between adjacent reinforcing yarns, and the ion exchange capacity of a layer (Sa) located on the most anode side in the layer (S)during alkali chloride electrolysis, are controlled to be within specific ranges, respectively.

Ion exchange membrane for alkali chloride electrolysis, production method, and alkali chloride electrolysis apparatus

A towing device for connecting an automatic guided vehicle to a carriage is disclosed. When connecting an automatic guided vehicle to a carriage, a swing arm is moved toward a connecting member by a moving device, whereby the swing arm is engaged with the connecting member to thereby regulate the swiveling (swinging) of the connecting member with respect to the automatic guided vehicle. Furthermore, after the automatic guided vehicle is connected to the carriage, the swing arm is moved in a direction away from the connecting member by the moving device, whereby the engagement between the swing arm and the connecting member is released, thereby allowing the connecting member to swivel (swing) with respect to the automatic guided vehicle.

Towing device for automatic guided vehicle, and automatic guided vehicle provided with the same

A towing device of an automatic guided vehicle is mounted on the automatic guided vehicle for towing a cart. The towing device includes a hook member and a driving device. The hook member is engageable with a cart and is to be engaged with the cart in an elastically biased state at least when towing the cart. The driving device is for driving the hook member.

Towing device of automatic guided vehicle and automatic guided vehicle having the same

To provide a process for producing an ion exchange membrane for electrolysis which has a low membrane resistance and which is capable of reducing the electrolysis voltage during the electrolysis, even if the membrane strength is increased, an ion exchange membrane for electrolysis, a precursor membrane of an ion exchange membrane for electrolysis, and an electrolysis apparatus. In a fluorinated polymer having groups convertible to ion exchange groups, a reinforcing fabricA formed by weaving covered yarnseach comprising a reinforcing fabricand a sacrificial material covering at least a portion of the outer peripheral surface of the reinforcing yarn, to produce a precursor membrane of an ion exchange membrane, and from the precursor membrane, at least a portion of the sacrificial material in the reinforcing fabric is eluted to form a reinforcing material and at the same time, the groups convertible to ion exchange groups are converted to ion exchange groups, to produce an ion exchange membrane for electrolysis.

Process for producing ion exchange membrane for electrolysis, and ion exchange membrane for electrolysis

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