Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Shiseido Company, Limited

Showa Denko K.k.

Toshiba Fuel Cell Power Systems Corporation

Showa Denko Carbon Gmbh

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Yasuhiro Arai

Kenji Koizumi

Masaki Fujise

Hayato Yoshikawa

Tetsuo Sano

Toshio Hisamura

Tetsuji Yamashita

Koichi Goto

Yoshiki Matsuzaki

Michihiro Yamaguchi

Hirokazu Tsubota

Atsushi Ugajin

Ryuji Fujiki

Satoshi Kurashima

Osamu Yasui

Yoshitake Matsubara

Kazuhiro Hama

Takaki Iwanaga

Toshiki Matsui

Kenichi Kobayashi

Kazuhiro Sakai

Tsutomu Hamada

Osamu Goto

Junji Okada

Kazuo Saito

Masao Funada

Shinobu Ozeki

Toshihiko Saito

Toshio Yanaki

Tsutomu Udaka

Hirotaka Mori

Shinya Kyozuka

Toshiyuki Kazama

Ryo Ando

Takeshi Kato

Takeshi Kamimura

Hideo Nakajima

Hidenori Yamada

Kozo Tagawa

Shun Yashima

Masaaki Miura

Yasunari Nakama

Fumiaki Matsuzaki

Osamu Takanashi

Satoshi Hamada

Hideaki Motohashi

Norihito Togashi

Kenzo Tonoki

Hiroki Ishida

Kimio Ohno

Katuyoshi Kumazawa

Morio Hirahara

Tsuyoshi Yaguchi

David Whichard

Bill Milfelt

Earl Schultz

Daniel Pascazio

Steve Shary

Mutsushi Wada

Takayuki Shinohara

Masaaki Yasuda

Yoko Takeshita

Masa'aki Yasuda

Shinichi Kameyama

Jun Udagawa

A graphitization furnace has a furnace structure including a support part within a furnace chamber, and a gate valve. The gate valve in an open state thereof after a graphitization process dumps a pack material within the furnace chamber in a state in which carbon bodies are located within the furnace chamber, and the support part catches the carbon bodies as a level of the carbon bodies lowers with a decrease in an amount of the pack material remaining within the furnace chamber.

Graphitization furnace, system, and graphitization method

According to one embodiment, a fuel-cell power generation system includes a fuel cell that generates electricity by electrochemical reaction using fuel and an oxidizer and a resin module that includes a flow path through which fuel, air, or water flows, inner walls defining the flow path being made of resin.

Fuel-cell power generation system and method of manufacturing the same

An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image forming unit forming a latent image; a transfer body on which a reference index for setting an output start time point of image data is formed; a detecting unit facing the reference index and outputting a detection signal changing in accordance with passing of the reference index; a measuring unit measuring change duration time; and a controller controlling the output start time point with the detection signal. The controller starts a first period during which change of the detection signal is ignored, according to first change of the detection signal, starts a second period after the first period, regards change of the detection signal occurring first in the second period as a reference of the output start time point if the change duration time is longer than a predetermined period, and ignores change of the detection signal after the change occurring first.

Image forming apparatus, control device, detecting method of reference index on transfer body, and computer readable medium

An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image forming unit forming a latent image; a transfer body on which a reference index for setting an output start time point of image data is formed; a detecting unit outputting a detection signal changing according to passing of an adhesion material on the transfer body; a controller that starts a first period during which change of the detection signal is ignored, according to first change of the detection signal, starts a second period after the first period, regards second change of the detection signal occurring first in the second period as a reference of the output start time point, and ignores change of the detection signal after the second change, to control outputting the image data; and a cleaning information outputting unit outputting information on cleaning the transfer body according to the number of changes of the detection signal in these periods.

An image forming apparatus is provided. An exposure component is equipped with a plurality of light emitting elements arrayed along a first direction. An output component is equipped with output ends corresponding to each of the light emitting elements and the output component, when correcting an amount of misalignment in the first direction, outputs drive signals of one line corresponding to a line on a most upstream side of drive signals of plural lines from the output ends that have been shifted by a number corresponding to the amount of misalignment in the first direction. A plurality of connecting wires interconnect each of the output ends and each of the light emitting elements. A judging component is connected to each of the connecting wires, and judges whether or not the drive signals are being normally transmitted through the connecting wire that the judging component has selected.

Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium in which abnormality judging program is stored

A set value output circuit includes a first output unit and a second output unit. The first output unit outputs a signal input to a first input when a first timing signal is input to a second input, and continues to output the signal until a next first timing signal is input. The second output unit outputs the signal input to a third input when the second timing signal is input to a fourth input, and continues to output the signal until a next second timing signal is input. A selection unit inputs a selected timing signal as the second timing signal to the fourth input. A control unit inputs the first timing signal to the second input, so that a set value for an image to be formed next is output during image formation using the signal output from the second output.

Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and image forming program storage medium

An exposing device includes a plurality of exposing units which forms a latent image, wherein exposing units includes: an exposure light source; a rotating polyhedron that reflects light from the exposure light source; a driving source that rotates the rotating polyhedron; a first detecting unit that detects the number of rotations of the driving source; a second detecting unit that detects the light from the exposure light source at a position; and a control unit that performs a first control of the driving source based on a detection signal of the first detecting unit at a start of the rotation of the rotating polyhedron and thereafter performs a second control of the driving source based on a detection signal of the second detecting unit.

Exposing device for controlling the exposure of a photoconductor

There is provided an image processing apparatus having an image segmentation unit that divides image formation into image areas in a first direction, a random number memory that stores random numbers, a reference position determination unit that determines a reference position so as to vary in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a pixel determination unit that determines a pixel as a target to be subjected to correction processing of pixel insertion into or pixel reduction from each of the image areas, for the each of the image areas, according to the stored random numbers and the determined reference position, among pixels in the each of the image areas, and an image width change unit that performs the correction processing on the determined pixel to change an image width of the image information in the first direction.

Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium for changing an image width

An image formation system includes a medium-pattern-information-read-unit that reads pattern information of a surface of a medium; a pattern-information-image-creation-unit that creates a pattern Information image based on the read pattern information; and a print unit that adds the pattern information image to a print image to be printed on the surface of the medium and prints the print image on the medium.

Image formation system adding pattern information to print image based on read pattern information from medium surface for determining if medium is original

An image forming apparatus includes a paper fiber reading unit that reads fiber properties of a paper sheet; an encryption unit that encrypts at least a part of an input image based on the fiber properties read by the paper fiber reading unit; and a printing unit that prints an encrypted image portion encrypted by the encryption unit and an image including information representing the fiber properties read by the paper fiber reading unit on the paper sheet whose fiber properties are read by the paper fiber reading unit.

Encrypting image data based on paper fiber properties, printing encrypted image, and decrypting encrypted image

An image-forming device which is equipped with an image-holding member, an exposure section provided with plural light-emitting portions arranged in a first direction, a movement section that relatively moves the exposure section and the image-holding member in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, and a light-emission control section. The light-emission control section causes the plural light-emitting portions to periodically emit light in accordance with image data representing an image that is to be formed on the image-holding member, to form the image on the image-holding member. The light-emission control section varies a light-emission period during formation of the image, so as to correct for periodic fluctuations within the image of at least one of density and magnification ratio in the second direction.

Image formation device and method for correcting periodic variations

An image forming device for implementing satisfactory color calibration includes a color calibration pattern generating unit that generates a color calibration pattern in a form according to an area where it is to be formed, and a visualizing unit that visualizes the color calibration pattern generated by the color calibration pattern generating unit.

Image forming device, pattern formation method and storage medium storing its program

A multifunction system has advanced functions and high speed capability and is excellent in expandability. The multifunction system includes a controller, an IIT, an IOT, and a light distributing device. For a print job, print data outputted from the controller is converted into optical signals, which enter a light distributing device and are transmitted to the IOT of the emission side. The IOT prints the received data onto a printer. For a copy job, copy data outputted from IIT is converted into optical signals, which enter the light distributing device, and are transmitted to the IOT of the emission side. For a scan job, scan data outputted from the scanner is converted into optical signals, which enter the light distributing device, and are transmitted to the controller of the emission side. The controller processes the received data.

Multifunction system

An air-conditioning apparatus forms a refrigerating cycle with a refrigerant heater and a compressor having two cylinders. The apparatus simultaneously carries out a refrigerant heating operation and a heat pump operation when a required heating capacity is high, and when the required heating capacity is low, only the heat pump operation. This operation technique helps reduce the size of the apparatus and expand a variable width of heating capacity. The apparatus also has a defrosting unit for defrosting an outdoor heat exchanger during the heat pump operation.

Air-conditioning apparatus

An emulsion for hair treatment is provided which is characterized by the following: the formulation (I) is composed of a W/O type emulsion, which allows the main agent to be stable, and contains preferably an oil soluble polymer compound for the emulsifier; the formulation (I), upon being mixed with formulation (II), can easily undergo demulsification and a phase inversion into an O/W type emulsion; and the emulsion has adequate viscosity to prevent dripping from the hair and a superior dyeing capability. Also, 2-formulation type oxidation hair dye with an excellent hair dyeing effect is provided by adding isostearyl alcohol.

Emulsion for hair treatment

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Ebina, Japan

Yasuhiro Arai