Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yushiro Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yasuhiro Hattori

Norio Michiie

Takao Okamura

Hiromitsu Shimizu

Kiyotaka Moteki

Yuriko Obata

Hiroshi Mori

Yukinori Ishii

Satoru Sugishita

Yoshiko Aono

Hiroomi Motohashi

Hiroyasu Sumida

Toshiya Tagawa

Takahiko Uno

Moriyuki Koike

Hisashi Ishiguro

Kouichi Kanaya

Masahiro Suzuki

Takahiro Yamazaki

Makoto Ueda

Tsuyoshi Endoh

Tomofumi Harada

Tsuyoshi Endo

Hidenori Shindoh

Mamoru Nagano

Yoshiharu Tojo

Koichi Sakurada

Ken Satoh

Koji Soga

Koji Hiraiwa

Toru Mitsutake

Hironori Echigoya

Mikinori Suzuki

Tamotsu Matsuki

Yasunori Numata

Midori Nakazato

Shinsuke Morimoto

Yasunari Oshimoto

Tomohumi Harada

Provided is a mold release agent composition containing a polymer ester, the composition exerting a good mold releasability even when the temperature of mold increases, and a die casting method using the composition.

Mold release agent composition and die casting method

The present invention provides a novel mold release agent composition which can cope with a higher temperature range than that of the conventional mold release agent composition. That is, a mold release agent composition for use in casting of the present invention contains a silicone oil and a solvent, wherein the silicone oil contains 30% by mass or more of a first silicone oil represented by the formula (1) and 70% by mass or less of a second silicone oil represented by the formula (2), with respect to the total amount of the silicone oil. In the formula (1), Ris an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and Ris an aralkyl group, a phenyl group, or a mercaptoalkyl group. In the formula (2), Ris an alkyl group having 8 or more carbon atoms; and Ris an aralkyl group, a phenyl group, or a mercaptoalkyl group.

Mold release agent composition for use in casting

A disclosed image processing apparatus includes process components configured to input, process, or output image data; and a registration unit configured to obtain a list of the process components available in the image processing apparatus, to display on a display unit a screen for selecting a plurality of the process components from the list and thereby defining a combination of the process components which combination implements an application program for performing an image processing task, and to register the combination with an identifier in the image processing apparatus.

Image processing apparatus and information processing system

In an information processing device, a screen display control part displays an operation screen, and a firmware update part updates a firmware of the screen display control part. An operating state holding part stores an operating state of the information processing device at a time of displaying the operation screen after the firmware is updated by the firmware update part. A high-speed starting part starts the information processing device and displays the operation screen based on the stored operating state.

Information processing device, and method of starting information processing device

A disclosed image processing apparatus includes process components configured to input, process, or output image data; and a registration unit configured to obtain a list of the process components available in the image processing apparatus, to display on a display unit a screen for selecting one or more of the process components from the list and thereby defining a combination of the process components which combination implements an application program for performing an image processing task, and to register the combination with an identifier in the image processing apparatus.

An image forming apparatus that is connected to a terminal apparatus via a network is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a request for a plug-in list from the terminal apparatus, wherein the terminal apparatus sends the request in order to check consistency of a driver; and a transfer unit configured to transfer the plug-in list in the image forming apparatus to the terminal apparatus when receiving the request for the plug-in list.

Image forming apparatus, terminal apparatus and management apparatus

An image reading unit reads an image as a first image represented in a first color space. A color converting unit converts the first image into a second image represented in a second color space. A storing unit stores therein the first image and the second image. A printing unit prints the second image stored in the storing unit.

Apparatus, method, and computer program product for forming image

An information processing device includes a controller unit that controls overall operations of the information processing device. The information processing device also includes an operational unit that serves as a user interface. The controller unit includes a memory that stores one or more is image files to be transmitted to the operational unit. The controller unit also includes a first calculation and processing unit that controls the overall operations of the information processing device. An output image of the image files after a processing is produced in the operational unit. In addition, the output image is displayed on a display device of the operational unit.

Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing system

An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of erase information each showing whether or not to erase data for each of a plurality of divided areas into which the hard disk is divided, group erase information showing groups grouping the erase information, and erase count information determined based on the group erase information. Based on the erase count information whether or not there is a divided area to erase, the divided area is erased.

Image forming apparatus, erasing method, and hard disk management method

A first storage stores input image data. A second storage stores image data read from the first storage. A control part determines, with respect to a timing at which data transfer of image data into the first storage, a data transfer of the said image data from the first storage to the second storage, based on a rate of data transfer and writing of the image data into the first storage and rate of data transfer and writing of the image data into the second storage from the first storage.

Image processing apparatus, and, control method and control device therefor

A data processing device is disclosed. The device is provided with a plurality of data processing units; a first memory shared for storing data, to which each of the data processing units makes an access so as to perform an operation; a transfer completion time designation unit for designating a transfer completion time according to need, within which transferring the data in response to the accesses made by the data processing units should be completed; an expected transfer completion time calculation unit for calculating an expected transfer completion time needed for completing the data transfer in response to the accesses made by the data processing units, taking current access status of the first memory into consideration; and an access management unit for managing the access to the first memory based on the transfer completion time and the expected transfer completion time.

Data processing device characterized in its data transfer method, program for executing on a computer to perform functions of the device, and computer readable recording medium storing such a program

An image processing apparatus including an image storage for storing image data is disclosed. A first managing section generates first management information for managing the image data, which are to be stored in the image storage, on a single unit image basis. A second managing section generates second management data for managing one or more unit images as a single image file. An image data managing method for the image processing apparatus is also disclosed.

Image processing apparatus

An image processing apparatus is provided that includes a primary memory unit to buffer image data, a secondary memory unit to store the image data transferred from the primary memory unit, and a memory control unit that controls both memory units. The memory control unit transfers, if a plurality of items of image data are to be transferred, at least one of the items of image data divisionally from the primary memory unit to the secondary memory unit. When image data are transferred from the primary memory unit to the secondary memory unit, the memory control unit transfers a unit image either in a block or divisionally in multiple parts, and the memory control unit simultaneously transfers a plurality of images divisionally, the images being divided into varying numbers of parts so that each input and output of an image can evenly share the time of the secondary memory unit and a plurality of images can be efficiently transferred in parallel in a short time.

Information processing apparatus

In a data processing apparatus, an image memory has a descriptor region and an image region, the image region storing a plurality of blocks of image data, the descriptor region storing a corresponding number of descriptor information blocks for the plurality of image data blocks. A DMA controller controls DMA data transfer of the image data blocks from the image region according to each descriptor information block in the descriptor region. The DMA controller comprises a register which stores one of the descriptor information blocks from the descriptor region of the image memory, and a control unit which determines, at a time of occurrence of a CPU interrupt, a start timing of a DMA data output operation of the DMA controller during a DMA data input operation of the DMA controller when an image editing request contained in input image data is received, the CPU interrupt being caused to occur by an interrupt request bit of the descriptor information block read from the register.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yasuhiro Hattori