Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Yokosawa Electric Corporation

Tsuyoshi Tsuchiya

Toshio Shida

Mikihiro Yamakawa

Toshitaka Matsumoto

Masahiro Kaneko

Hiroyuki Wakabayashi

Hitoshi Tamura

Katsunori Takahashi

Masaru Ohtsuka

Minoru Kawano

Hirohiko Okabe

Masato Hattori

Akimasa Yuuki

Takenobu Kimura

Teruhiko Toyoizumi

Toshiaki Fujino

Yasunori Niwano

Makoto Tamura

Miyuki Kuwabara

Tadahiro Takahashi

Shinichi Miyazono

Yoshinori Suzuki

A data acquisition system according to an embodiment includes an input device, a data acquisition apparatus, and a data combining apparatus. The input device includes a data measurer configured to acquire measurement data by performing measurement, generate sequence information representing a sequence of the acquired measurement data, and transmit the measurement data and the sequence information to the data acquisition apparatus. The data acquisition apparatus includes a data collector configured to, when receiving the measurement data and the sequence information, generate time information, and when failing to receive the measurement data and the sequence information, generate data loss information. The data combining apparatus includes a data combiner configured to acquire data from the input device and the data acquisition apparatus, collate the sequence information therein, and replace the data loss information with the measurement data in the data obtained from the input device, thereby generating combined data.

Data acquisition system, input device, data acquisition apparatus, and data combining apparatus

A paper stacking device includes: a stacker on which paper is stacked; a paper ejector that ejects the paper toward the stacker; an aligning plate that is provided on a side of the paper stacked on the stacker, and aligns a side end of the paper; and a paper floating member that is provided in the aligning plate, and supports, from below, the side end of the paper ejected from the paper ejector, wherein the paper floating member is switched, in conjunction with a movement in upward and downward directions of the aligning plate, between: a paper floating position that advances from a side of the side end of the paper to an ejection route of the paper, and causes the paper ejected from the paper ejector to float from uppermost paper stacked on the stacker; and a retreat position that retreats from the ejection route.

Paper stacking device and image forming system

A paper stacking device includes: a stacker on which paper is stacked; a paper ejector that ejects the paper; an aligning plate that is provided on a side of the paper, and aligns a side end of the paper; a paper floating member that is provided in the aligning plate, and supports, from below, the side end of the paper; and a blower that is provided on the side of the paper across the aligning plate, and blows air, wherein the aligning plate includes a blowing opening through which air from the blower is blown, the paper floating member is switched between: a paper floating position; and a retreat position, when the paper floating member is located in the paper floating position, the blowing opening is opened, and when the paper floating member is located in the retreat position, the blowing opening is shielded.

A paper humidifier includes a humidifying roller, a water supply roller, a suction roller and an intermediate roller. The humidifying roller comes in contact with a sheet and humidifies the sheet. The water supply roller is in contact with the humidifying roller and transfers water to the humidifying roller. The suction roller is partially dipped into water stored in a water reservoir. The intermediate roller is provided between the water supply roller and the suction roller, and is in contact with the water supply roller and the suction roller respectively. The intermediate roller is located above a liquid level of the water stored in the water reservoir. An outer peripheral surface of the suction roller, which rises out of the water stored in the water reservoir after being dipped in the water, rotates in a direction away from the water supply roller.

Paper humidifier and image forming system

A display panel has a first viewing-angle characteristic for a first yellow-shift direction that is an oblique visual-field direction in which an image shifts to yellow in white display and for a first blue-shift direction that is a visual field direction in which an image shifts to blue in white display. A parallax barrier panel has a second viewing-angle characteristic for a second yellow-shift direction that is an oblique visual-field direction in which an image shifts to yellow in white display and for a second blue-shift direction that is a visual field direction in which an image shifts to blue in white display. The display panel and the parallax barrier panel are laminated such that the first yellow-shift direction and the second blue-shift direction agree with each other and that the first blue-shift direction and the second yellow-shift direction agree with each other.

Liquid crystal display

In a sheet finisher including an adhesive coating section, a movement mechanism, a control section that controls actions of the adhesive coating section and of the movement mechanism, is capable of multiple coating on a spine of a sheet bundle by causing the movement mechanism to move the adhesive coating section reciprocally and relatively with respect to the spine, and is capable of conducting a preparation process to cause the rotary adhesive supplying section to rotate for a prescribed period of time in a rotation direction corresponding to a movement direction of the adhesive coating section under a condition of no coating of the adhesive on the spine of the sheet bundle, after the movement direction of the adhesive coating section and the rotation direction of the rotary adhesive supplying section are switched, following the reciprocating movement in the case of the multiple coating.

Sheet finisher and image forming system provided therewith

A bookbinding apparatus for bookbinding a sheet by applying adhesive including,

Bookbinding apparatus and image forming system

In a bookbinding apparatus provided with a coating device having a coating roller to coat an adhesive onto a spine of a sheet bundle by moving relatively the coating roller and the spine in both forward and backward movement while making the coating roller and the sheet bundle to face each other, the coating device includes: a first regulating member provided downstream of the coating roller in the forward movement, which regulates a thickness of a layer of the adhesive coated on the spine of the sheet bundle; and a second regulating member provided downstream of the coating roller in the backward movement, which regulates a thickness of a layer of the adhesive coated on the spine of the sheet bundle.

Bookbinding apparatus and image forming system provided therewith

A bookbinding system that pastes a cover sheet on a sheet bundle, the bookbinding system includes: an image forming section which forms a toner image based on image data; a sheet storing section which stacks recording sheets on which toner images have been recorded by the image forming section, aligns the recording sheets thereby forming a sheet bundle; a heating member which applies heat to an adhesive to melt; a cover sheet pasting section which pastes a spine of the sheet bundle and a cover sheet with the adhesive melted by the heating member; and a controller which controls the image forming section. The controller controls the image forming section not to record the toner image based on the image data in the vicinity of an edge portion on a side of the spine of each of the recording sheets that constitute the sheet bundle.

Bookbinding system and bookbinding method

A bookbinding apparatus including an adhesive coating section which coats an adhesive onto a spine of a sheet bundle that a plurality of sheets are bundled, by relatively moving the adhesive coating section and the sheet bundle, adheres a cover sheet onto the spine of the sheet bundle onto which the adhesive has been coated by the adhesive coating section. The adhesive coating section includes: a coating member which coats the adhesive storing in ah adhesive tank onto the spine of the sheet bundle; a scraping member which scrapes the adhesive coated onto the spine of the sheet bundle; and a reservoir which stores the adhesive scraped by the scraping member.

A bookbinding apparatus includes a coating device for moving relatively to a sheet bundle in the longitudinal direction thereof and for coating an adhesive on the spine of the sheet bundle, a driving device for the relative movement of the coating device, and a control device for controlling the driving device, and according to the thickness of a booklet, changes the number of times of coating of the coating device for one booklet, thereby controls the amount of coating of adhesive.

It is determined whether a power tool is suitable for a work description for which the power tool is used or not, and when it is not suitable for the work description, a suitable power tool is selected and presented to a user. The power tool has a memory, and data concerning a work record is stored in the memory. When the power tool is connected to an assist apparatus installed in a shop or the like, the data concerning the work record is read out from the memory, and the work description is estimated according to a program run in the assist apparatus. Then, it is judged whether the power tool is suitable for the estimated work description or not. When the power tool is not suitable for the work description, a power tool suitable for the work is selected from a previously stored database and presented to the user.

System for assisting selection of power tool

A sheet folding method has the first introduction process to introduce a sheet between the first rotary folding body and the first rotary pressure-contact body, and between the second rotary folding body and the second rotary pressure-contact body, respectively; the first folding process in which, under the condition that the first and second rotary folding bodies are in contact with the first and second rotary pressure-contact bodies, respectively, and rotated in the reversal direction to each other, thereby the conveying force of reversal directions to each other is acted and the sheet is bent and a fold is formed, and the fold of the sheet is conveyed between the first and second rotary folding bodies thereby the sheet is folded; the second introduction process to introduce the sheet folded by the first folding process using the similar structure to the first introduction process; and the second folding process using the similar steps to the first folding process.

Sheet folding method, sheet folding apparatus, sheet finisher equipped therewith and image forming apparatus for used with the sheet finisher

A sheet puncher includes; a reversal conveying section having a displaceable stopping member by which a sheet is stopped at a predetermined position, and punching device; a conveying-in and conveying-out section having a conveying-in device and conveying-out device by which the sheet is conveyed from a main conveying path into the reversal conveying section, and the sheet is conveyed out from reversal conveying section to the main conveying path, wherein the sheet is conveyed into the reversal conveying section by the conveying-in device, and after the sheet is stopped at a predetermined position by the stopping member, the sheet is punched by the punch device, and the conveying direction is reversed by the stopping member and the sheet is carried from the reversal conveying section by the conveying-out device.

Sheet puncher, sheet finisher equipped with the sheet puncher and image forming apparatus using the sheet finisher

A pasting and bookbinding method in which a leading edge of a sheet conveyed in a first conveying path having a sheet conveyor is brought into contact with a hitting member and the sheet skew is corrected, a linear paste coating portion is formed by a paste jetting device in the vicinity of a side edge portion of the sheet conveyed in a second conveying path in a direction perpendicular to the first conveying path, and plural sheets after the paste coating processing are stacked on a sheet stacking table provided below the second conveying path, and aligned by an aligner, and the linear pasted portion is pressed by a pressing device, and after a pasted booklet is produced, the booklet is delivered onto the delivery tray provided in the conveying direction downstream of the first conveying path and on an outside side surface of the apparatus.

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Tsuyoshi Tsuchiya