Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Jtekt Corporation

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Other

Nakata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

J.s.t.mfg. Co.,ltd.

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kasiha

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Takeshi Watanabe

Hiroatsu Tamai

Kenichi Satake

Naoto Miyakoshi

Yasuhiro Michishita

Shunsuke Yamasaki

Shinobu Ohata

Masato Usui

Hiroki Sakane

Yuzuru Yuasa

Yusuke Tamekuni

Hidenori Takenaka

Tomohisa Soda

Jumpei Hobo

Hiroyuki Ueda

Noriaki Ozawa

Toyotsune Inoue

Takatoshi Nishimura

Susumu Hiroshima

Kenji Sato

Kikunosuke Tsuji

Norihiro Ochi

Akira Matayoshi

Yasunari Yoshida

Masaki Kondo

Arata Nakamura

Masashi Ueda

Koshi Hatakeyama

Shuichi Tamaki

Yoshihisa Kayanaka

Shota Morikawa

Koji Saiki

Hiroshi Yamazaki

Kazuma Yoshida

Akira Shinoda

Ryouhei Hayama

Masatoshi Izuchi

Jun Nakai

Kenichi Miyasako

Yasuyuki Nozawa

Masami Fujihara

Shinji Yoshinaga

Satoshi Tsunemi

Setsuo Hori

Kei Kitahara

Yusuke Takano

Yousuke Nishimura

Kohichi Baba

Atsushi Ishihara

Ryoichi Tokioka

Kodai Mizuno

Katsuya Ota

Tomoyasu Nakano

Akihiro Sakata

Masayuki Ishii

Seiji Kado

Yoshiko Uriu

Hiroaki Yabuta

Chisato Inoue

Hiromi Nakatsu

Shigeo Koyama

Hiroshi Inui

Tomohide Hozono

Akiko Niimi

Tomoyasu Kada

Kunihiro Oka

Hironori Daigo

Shinji Yamane

Masami Takimoto

Masayasu Higashi

Koichi Baba

Mitsuhiro Hashimoto

Yasuhisa Ichikawa

Masaharu Tagami

Takeyuki Sato

Keisuke Ohba

Miki Hasegawa

Hiroshi Yoshimoto

Aris Maroonian

Yoshiyuki Uehara

Satoshi Kuroyanagi

Masahiko Sakae

Hitomi Miwa

So Saito

Manabu Ninomiya

Syouma Edamoto

Toshihisa Miyaoka

Yoshiko Kawachi

Yoko Ohba

Masashi Okamoto

Hirofumi Fuji

A conveyance control device of the present disclosure is provided with a CPU that controls a platen conveyance mechanism that conveys a platen from a preparation position of the platen to one of a plurality of printers via a pretreatment device that performs pretreatment on a cloth placed on the platen. The CPU performs determination processing of determining which of the plurality of printers the platen is to be conveyed to. Thus, conveyance destinations of the platens are allocated to the plurality of printers. Thus, the conveyance of the platens to a specific printer only is avoided, and a print processing volume in a certain period is increased.

Conveyance control device, conveyance control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer readable instructions

A conveyance control device includes a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to control a conveyor. The conveyor is configured to convey a platen from a conveyance start position of the platen to one of a plurality of printers via a pretreatment device. The pretreatment device is configured to perform pretreatment on a recording medium placed on the platen. The conveyor is configured to convey the platen to one of a first lane including a first printer group formed of a plurality of the printers or a second lane including a second printer group formed of a plurality of the printers. The memory stores computer-readable instructions that instruct the processor to perform determination processing of determining whether to convey the platen to the first lane or to convey the platen to the second lane, based on the recording medium placed on the platen.

Conveyance control device, conveyance control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions

An acquisition portion of a pretreatment control apparatus acquires identification information capable of identifying a treatment medium (step S). A first transmission portion transmits a pretreatment instruction based on the identification information to a pretreatment device which performs a pretreatment with respect to the treatment medium (step S). A second transmission portion transmits a transmission instruction for identified print data based on the identification information, to a storage device which stores print data (step S). As a result, the pretreatment control apparatus can transmit the pretreatment instruction and the identified print data by acquiring a single piece of identification information. Therefore, the number of processing steps by the pretreatment control apparatus is fewer than when the pretreatment instruction and the identified print data are transmitted by acquiring different information.

Pretreatment control apparatus

A control portion sets, as a control period, a period after arrival, at a position opposite a recording head, of a first recording medium until passage, at the position opposite the recording head, of a last recording medium. The control portion sets nozzles that do not face the recording medium during the control period as first nozzles, and nozzles that face the recording medium during the control period as second nozzles, to make the total amount of ink ejected by each of the first nozzles in flashing processing during the control period smaller than the total amount of ink ejected by each of the second nozzles.

Ink-jet recording apparatus

When printing is performed on a recording medium of a second size larger than a first size, a control portion, after passage of the recording medium of the first size at a position opposite a recording head before arrival of the recording medium of the second size at the position opposite the recording head, makes the recording head perform preparatory flushing processing in which ink is ejected toward openings from first nozzles that have not been set as target nozzles during printing on the recording medium of the first size but will be newly set as the target nozzles during printing on the recording medium of the second size.

A control portion makes a recording head perform flushing processing every time a flushing area that does not overlap a recording medium faces the recording head but makes the recording head perform no flushing processing when a flushing area that at least in a part of it overlaps a recording medium faces the recording head. The longer a non-flashing period between the previous and present sessions of flushing processing, the larger the control portion makes the amount of ink ejected by each of nozzles in the present session of flushing processing.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions are executed by a processor of a pretreatment information generation device that generates pretreatment information to be used in pretreatment on a recording medium by a pretreatment device. The computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform processes including receiving image data to be printed on the recording medium, and identifying the pretreatment information to perform the pretreatment with respect to the received image data.

Non-transitory computer-readable medium storing pretreatment information generation program for generating pretreatment information with respect to image data

A steering system configured to steer a vehicle includes a rotary shaft to which an operation member is coupled; a moving unit configured to move the operation member between a normal position that is a position where the operation member is operated by a driver, and a storage area located ahead of the normal position; an external force detection unit configured to detect an external force externally applied to the operation member while the operation member is moving; a determination unit configured to determine whether a direction of the external force detected by the external force detection unit is the same as a moving direction of the operation member; and a control unit configured to control operation of the steering system based on a determination result from the determination unit.

Steering system

Pretreatment control apparatus for pretreatment device, pretreatment control method for pretreatment device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions for pretreatment control apparatus

When a print data creation program is executed by a computer, the computer performs the following processing. The computer acquires image data representing a print image from a storage. The computer divides the print image represented by the acquired image data into a plurality of divided images of a desired resolution. The computer creates print data to be printed by a print device, from at least one of the plurality of divided images.

Non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions, print device, and print data creation method

A steering system includes a rotary shaft to which an operation member is coupled; a first actuator; a second actuator; a control unit; and a moving unit configured to move the operation member between a normal position and a storage area. The control unit is configured to switch between a manual drive mode and an autonomous drive mode. The control unit is configured to, when moving the operation member from the storage area to the normal position, start synchronous control when the operation member satisfies a predetermined condition before the operation member reaches the normal position, the synchronous control being control in which the control unit controls the first actuator to change a rotation angle of the rotary shaft to an angle corresponding to a steered angle of steered wheels driven by the second actuator.

A processing device capable of performing appropriate processing on a set platen, and a platen are provided. A platen that is used in a printer and at least one of a pretreatment device and a post-treatment device is provided with a platen identification information portion that identifies the platen. A code reader receives platen identification information that identifies the platen, from the platen identification information portion. The printer and at least one of the pretreatment device and the post-treatment device perform processing on the basis of the platen identification information received by the code reader.

Processing device and platen

A cleaning device includes a cleaning unit, a movement mechanism, and a unit mounting portion. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning part having a contact surface brought into contact with a surface of a conveyance roller. The movement mechanism moves the cleaning unit between a cleaning position at which the cleaning part comes in contact with the conveyance roller, and a mounting and removing position at which the cleaning part is located below the conveyance roller in a separated manner and the cleaning unit is allowed to be mounted and removed on and from the apparatus body. The unit mounting portion houses the cleaning unit disposed at the mounting and removing position. The cleaning unit is configured such that the cleaning unit in a state of being housed in the unit mounting portion is mounted and removed, together with the processing unit, on and from the apparatus body.

Cleaning device and image forming apparatus

An inkjet recording apparatus includes memory, a processor, an image forming section, and a bending mechanism. The memory stores therein bending information in which a plurality of bending amounts corresponding to respective ejection amounts of an ink ejected from the image forming section are defined. The processor sets a bending amount of a sheet to be conveyed. The bending mechanism includes a roller and a belt that hold the sheet therebetween, and bends the sheet by moving a position of a center of the roller toward the belt based on the set bending amount. The processor calculates for each of areas of the sheet an amount of the ink ejected to the area, and sets the bending amount of the sheet based on the bending amounts corresponding to the calculated amounts of the ink ejected to the respective areas in the bending information.

Inkjet recording apparatus

A cleaning device includes a separation and contact mechanism that separates a web from a conveyance roller and brings the web into contact with the conveyance roller, and a controller. The controller includes a conveyed sheet number determination unit and a separation and contact control unit. The conveyed sheet number determination unit monitors a conveyed sheet number of both-surface image forming sheets where image forming processing is applied to both a first surface and a second surface with respect to the sheets conveyed by the conveyance roller, and determines whether or not a cumulative value of the conveyed sheet number has reached a predetermined threshold value. The separation and contact control unit controls the separation and contact mechanism so as to allow the web to be pressed to the conveyance roller by a pressing roller when the cumulative value of the conveyed sheet number has reached the threshold value.

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Osaka, Japan

Takeshi Watanabe