Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Subaru Corporation

Tomoya Yoshida

Tetsuo Kimoto

Kei Yamada

Kunio Shijo

Kazuhiro Takemoto

Takashi Iizuka

Kazuo Izumi

Ikuya Hotta

Yugo Tomita

Kosuke Kawai

Kunio Shijyo

An adhesion interface observation method is adapted to observe a region in vicinity of an adhesion interface following adhesion and curing of an adhesive that is coated on adhered members and adheres the adhered members to each other. The adhesion interface observation method includes: exposing the cured adhesive by removing one of the adhered members; forming an observation region by cutting a predetermined part of the adhesive by a predetermined thickness; obliquely cutting the observation region in an oblique direction that is inclined with respect to a thickness direction of the observation region; and observing, by a surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, Raman scattering light generated by applying excitation light to an observation possible region that is positioned on a side, of a part of the observation region having been subjected to the oblique cutting, on which a thickness of the part of the observation region is small.

Adhesion interface observation method

A printing system, provided with a first administrating section for administrating the number of sheets remaining until the number of printed sheets reaches to a predetermined upper limit of the number of sheets, a second administrating subsection for administrating the number of reserved sheets being under a waiting condition for being printed and outputted in the printing section, and a judging section for comparing the total number of sheets of the number of reserved sheets and the number of scheduled sheets indicated in a printing permission request with the number of remaining sheets when receiving the printing permission request. The judging section judges from the comparison whether or not the printing requested by the printing permission request is to be permitted, and transmits the judgment result as the response to the printing permission request.

Printing system, printer, administrating device for the number of sheets, and program

An administration system, including an administrated machine, such as a copying machine, for being administrated; and an administration machine, connected with the administrated machine through communication lines, for administrating the administrated machine. The administrated machine further includes: a) a trouble type judging section for detecting a trouble caused on the administrated machine and for judging a type of the trouble. In the administration system, the administrated machine makes the administration machine, connected to the communication lines, obtain trouble type information corresponding to the trouble type judged by the trouble type judging section; and the administration machine makes the administrated machine to obtain, based on the trouble type information, restoration work information stored in advance to be in connection with the trouble type information.

Administration system, administration apparatus, relay server, administrated apparatus and administration method

An image forming apparatus administration system is provided which includes an image forming apparatus, which is located in a first local network and connected to the Internet through a first firewall server, an administration computer, which is located in a second local network and connected to the Internet through a second firewall server, and a relaying server, which is located outside the first local network and the second local network and is connected to the Internet. The administration computer transmits information for administrating the image forming apparatus to the relaying server, and accesses the relaying server to obtain information corresponding to a state of the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus accesses the relaying server at a predetermined timing to obtain the information from the administrating computer, and transmits the information corresponding to the state of the image forming apparatus to the relaying server.

Apparatus administration system

The image forming apparatus, for printing print data, and a printing control apparatus, for controlling a printing operation of the image forming apparatus, are connected through a network. In the printing control apparatus, there are provided an authentication means that authenticates a user of the image forming apparatus, a discriminating means that discriminates whether print data for which the printing is instructed by the authenticated user is for public business or for private business, a recording means that records information relating to printing of print data as private business information corresponding to the user when the print data are discriminated by the discriminating means to be for private business and a charging means that charges for private business printing of the user based on the private business information recorded on the recording means.

Printing control apparatus and a method of charging for printing

An image processing apparatus management method wherein an external management apparatus manages an image processing apparatus via an information communications terminal, having the steps of transmitting to the external management apparatus inputted first identification information inherent to the image processing apparatus and second identification information stored in the information communications terminal in advance; authenticating the transmitted second identification information based on second identification information previously stored in the management apparatus; acquiring operation information of the image processing apparatus previously stored being associated with the first identification information; transmitting to the information communications terminal the operation information of the image processing apparatus; accepting the input of the operation information of the image processing apparatus sent through the information communications terminal; and performing the specified operation corresponding to the operation information of the image processing apparatus.

Image processing apparatus management method and image processing apparatus

An image forming apparatus administration system is provided which includes an image forming apparatus, which is located in a first local network and connected to the Internet through a first firewall server, an administration computer, which is located in a second local network and connected to the Internet through a second firewall server, and a relaying server, which is located outside the first local network and the second local network and is connected to the Internet. The administration computer transmits information for administrating the image forming apparatus to the relaying server, and accesses the relaying server to obtain information corresponding to a state of the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus accesses the relaying server at a predetermined timing to obtain the information from the administrating computer, and transmits information corresponding to the state of the image forming apparatus to the relaying server.

Image forming apparatus administration system

An image forming system, comprises an image forming apparatus including a first memory section to store a program to conduct a predetermined operation, and an image forming apparatus connecting section to connect the image forming apparatus with a network; and an administrating apparatus including an administrating memory section to store a rewrite program for the image forming apparatus, and an administrating apparatus connecting section to connect the administrating apparatus with the network. The image forming apparatus accesses the administrating apparatus through the network, obtains the rewrite program stored in the administrating memory section, and rewrites the program stored in the first memory section with the obtained rewrite program.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomoya Yoshida