| MURATA MACHINERY, LTD. Patent applications |
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| 20120136516 | Traveling Vehicle System - A traveling vehicle system ( | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120133963 | IMAGE READING DEVICE - An image reader includes a path switching part, located at a branch point that switches between a double-sided path and a single-sided path. The double-sided path defines a conveyance route that passes through a reading position from the branch point to enter a conveyance path that causes a document to make a U-turn, and then again passes through the reading position to be discharged to a paper discharge tray. The single-sided path defines a conveyance route that, without passing through the reading position, merges into the conveyance path from the branch point. Along the double-sided path, document detecting sensors provide detection results so that a collision determination part determines a possibility of a collision between documents, and if such a possibility is determined, the path switching part switches the double-sided path to the single-sided path to prevent the documents from colliding head-on with each other in the vicinity of the reading position | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120114384 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive drum; a toner cartridge; and a developing unit that forms a toner image by visualizing a latent image formed on the photosensitive drum. The developing unit includes a feed opening through which toner is supplied from the toner cartridge, and a paddle that agitates toner supplied through the feed opening and feeds the toner in a direction of the photosensitive drum. The feed opening has an opening length shorter than a length in a direction of a rotary axis of the paddle, and the paddle includes a toner guide that diffuses the toner in the direction of the rotary axis of the paddle. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120099952 | TRANSFER APPARATUS - A transfer device which transfers a clamped load, by sliding the load, between a rack and an elevating table that are adjacent to each other, includes a contact body which comes into contact with the load; an arm which generates, through the contact body, a force in a clamping direction that is a horizontal direction with respect to the load; and a joint which connects the contact body and the arm movably in a vertical direction, without moving the contact body in the clamping direction with respect to the arm. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120078411 | CONVEYANCE VEHICLE SYSTEM - A conveyance vehicle system that achieves an increased efficiency of loading an article from a conveyance vehicle into a loading opening of an automated warehouse, includes a stocker, a conveyance vehicle, and a conveyance vehicle controller. The stocker, includes racks, a loading port, and a stocker controller. The conveyance vehicle loads an article into the loading port of the stocker. The conveyance vehicle controller assigns the conveyance vehicle with an article conveyance command to convey the article to the stocker. The stocker controller receives a predicted conveyance command before the article is loaded from the conveyance vehicle into the stocker. The predicted conveyance command includes ID information of the article and information indicating whether or not the article is to be loaded into a rack. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120070260 | CONVEYING SYSTEM HAVING ENDLESS DRIVE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING/RECEIVING ARTICLE THEREIN - In a transport system, carriers are attached to an endless belt configured to rotate in a circulating manner. At a station, a hand, a driver configured to move the hand in a rotation direction and a vertical direction, a moving distance sensor configured to measure a moving distance of the endless belt, a carrier sensor configured to detect one of the carriers at a position upstream of the hand along the rotation direction, and a signal processor configured to operate the hand are provided. To load an article, when the moving distance from a time point of detection of the carrier by the carrier sensor reaches a first moving distance, the hand is activated at a first acceleration, and to unload an article, when the moving distance from the time point of detection of the carrier by the carrier sensor reaches a second moving distance which is larger than the first moving distance, the hand is activated at a second acceleration which is larger than the first acceleration. The delay in signal processing after detection of the carrier does not affect control, and both of loading and unloading can be performed in substantially the same area. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120067698 | CONVEYING SYSTEM HAVING ENDLESS DRIVE MEDIUM AND CONVEYING METHOD - In a transport system, a plurality of carriers are attached to an endless belt configured to rotate in a circulating manner. At a station, a hand, a driver configured to move the hand in a rotation direction and a vertical direction, a first carrier sensor configured to detect the carriers at a predetermined position upstream of the hand along the rotation direction of the endless driving medium, and a second carrier sensor configured to detect the carriers at a position downstream of the first carrier sensor are provided. When the carriers pass through the second carrier sensor, it is checked whether the moving distance of the belt matches the distance between the two carrier sensors. In this manner, before starting loading or unloading, for example, whether the encoder is operated normally or not can be confirmed. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120067695 | CONVEYING SYSTEM HAVING ENDLESS DRIVE MEDIUM, METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING CARRIER THEREOF, AND CARRIER - In a transport system, a plurality of carriers are attached to an endless belt configured to rotate in a circulating manner. The carriers hold articles for transportation. Each of the carriers includes an identification target for carrier identification. A plurality of stations are provided, and each of the stations includes a hand configured to load articles to or unload articles from the carriers and a sensor configured to detect the identification target at a predetermined position upstream of the hand along a rotation direction of the belt. The carrier is identified, and an appearance of the carrier is recognized based on a signal from the sensor to operate the hand for a desired carrier. The carrier can be identified using the sensor to detect the position of the carrier. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120057602 | RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND FIRST RELAY SERVER - A relay communication system includes a first client terminal which creates routing group information including network addresses of first and second LANs, and identification information of the first client terminal and a second client terminal which execute routing processing, and which shares the routing group information with the second client terminal. Based on the routing group information, a routing session is established between the first and second client terminals. A communication terminal connected to the first LAN sends out a communication packet in which an IP address of a communication terminal connected to the second LAN is designated. The communication packet is encapsulated by the first client terminal, and is routed by using the routing session. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120042988 | PURGIGN APPARATUS AND PURGING METHOD - A pod opener is an apparatus for purging the inside of a reticle pod having a pod cover and an openable bottom lid by supplying and discharging a clean gas to and from the inside of the reticle pod. The pod opener includes a stage, an elevator driving mechanism, a latch mechanism, and a supplying-discharging section. The stage can attach and remove the bottom lid to and from the pod cover. The elevator driving mechanism can move the stage. The latch mechanism serves to move a latch member that locks the bottom lid to the pod cover such that it cannot be detached and to release the locked state of the bottom lid. The supplying-discharging section starts purging before the latch member has completed an operation of locking the bottom lid to the pod cover. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120032668 | Transportation Vehicle System and Charging Method for the Transportation Vehicle System - A magnetic sensor array including a plurality of magnetic sensors detects a phase regarding a magnetic pole of a magnetic pole array including magnetic poles of N and S arranged alternately. A pitch identification unit detects a pitch number of the magnetic pole currently being detected by the magnetic sensor array, in the magnetic pole array. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120024663 | CONVEYOR DEVICE - In a conveyor device including a branch path, the number of articles sorted to the branch path is counted accurately. The conveyor device conveys a plurality of articles and includes a main conveyor, a first branch path, a first detector, a second detector, a detection information processing section, and a charging conveyor. The first branch path branches from the main conveyor at a first branch point. The first detector and the second detector are arranged upstream and downstream, respectively, of the branch point along a conveyance direction and are arranged to detect articles on the main conveyor. The detection information processing section is configured to calculate the number of articles sorted to the first branch path based on a difference between the number of articles detected by the first detector and the number of articles detected by the second detector. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120014705 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus that prevents transfer defects such as the occurrence of white spots. includes a photoreceptor drum, a transfer roller, a transfer bias application circuit that applies a transfer bias to the transfer roller a static elimination needle that eliminates static of a recording paper, a static elimination bias application circuit that applies a static elimination bias to the static elimination needle, and a printer controller. The printer controller controls the static elimination bias application circuit so that a potential difference between the static elimination needle and the recording paper during the period from when a front end region of the recording paper passes by the static elimination needle until when a front end of the recording paper comes into contact with a conveyance guide becomes smaller than the potential difference during the period that the front end region of the recording paper passes by the static elimination needle. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013942 | Network Printer - A network printer includes a communication unit for carrying out transmission/reception of data via a network and a recording unit for printing out received print data. The communication unit includes a priority level determination unit, when second print data is accepted during reception of first print data, for determining priority between the first and second print data, and a first persistent connection control unit for executing a persistent connection control that prohibits a transmission source of print data determined as lower priority data from transmitting the print data while a session is being connected with the transmission source, and for permitting a transmission source of print data determined as higher priority data to transmit the print data. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120009047 | AUTOMATIC WAREHOUSE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An automatic warehouse includes a rack including vertically arranged shelves and traveling vehicles each of which is provided to a corresponding one of the shelves. The automatic warehouse includes stations receiving an article to be stored on and an article unloaded from the rack, elevators each mediating traffic of articles between the corresponding station and at least one of the traveling vehicles, and a shelf assigning unit assigning, to each of the stations, one or more of the shelves to which the station has priority of use over the rest of the stations. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008874 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an image processing apparatus that determines tilt angles of an image, coordinates of points in the image are each transformed into a distance ρ and an angle θ, and votes are cast to a vote table having the distance ρ and the angle θ as headers. A predetermined number of points having numbers of votes ranked high are extracted from the vote table, and an extraction angle θx is determined to achieve maximum consistency with angles θ at the predetermined number of points, and the tilt angles of the image are determined based on the determined extraction angle θx. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008634 | FIRST RELAY SERVER AND SECOND RELAY SERVER - A communication system achieves excellent flexibility and expandability and includes communication terminals that communicate with each other through a WAN. A first relay server and a second relay server share relay group information and relay server information. In the relay group information, a network address of a first LAN that performs routing control via the first relay server and a network address of a second LAN that performs routing control via the second relay server are registered. The first and second relay servers establish a routing session via a WAN. When a communication terminal connected to the first LAN sends out a communication packet in which an IP address of a communication terminal connected to the second LAN is designated, the communication packet is routed through the routing session between the first and second relay servers while being encapsulated. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006641 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM AND TRAVELING CONTROL METHOD - A traveling vehicle system includes traveling vehicles; a controller which controls operations of the traveling vehicles; and a power line which electrically connects the traveling vehicles with each other, and supplies electric power to each of the traveling vehicles. Each of the traveling vehicles includes a motor which runs on the electric power supplied via the power line and drives the traveling vehicle, and when decelerating, generates regenerative electric power to be supplied to another one of the traveling vehicles via the power line, and the controller controls the operations of the traveling vehicles so that a time of one or more first traveling vehicles decelerating overlaps a time of one or more second traveling vehicles accelerating, the first traveling vehicles being decelerating traveling vehicles, the second traveling vehicles being accelerating traveling vehicles, and the first traveling vehicles and the second traveling vehicles being included in the traveling vehicles. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006163 | TWO-AXIS MACHINE TOOL - A two axis machine tool suppresses vibrations between two processing machines and provides a self vibration suppressing effect resulting from increased rigidity and increased mass. The two axis machine tool includes first and second separate and independent machine beds and processing machines mounted respectively on the first and second machine beds, and the first and second machine beds are connected together through vibration suppressing units. Each of the vibration suppressing units includes a viscoelastic body sandwiched between first and second plate members secured respectively to the first and second machine beds. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120004767 | TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM - Upon receiving first data, a stop control unit ( | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110316467 | PARALLEL MECHANISM - A parallel mechanism includes a base portion, a bracket to which an end effecter is attached, a plurality of actuators attached to the base portion, a plurality of arms through which the plurality of actuators and the bracket are coupled together in parallel, and a control device arranged to control the actuators. When the end effecter in a stopped state is moved to a target position, the control device is arranged to control the actuators so that a level of acceleration at which the end effecter is accelerated is higher than a level of deceleration at which the end effecter is decelerated. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110292975 | Network Device - A network multifunction peripheral includes an NIC that conducts communication with a LAN and a recording unit that can be put in a normal power state and a low-power consumption state. The recording unit processes received data when the recording unit is in the normal power state. The NIC includes a transmit-receive unit that transmits and receives data, a power state determining unit that determines the power state of the recording unit, a start-up signal output unit that outputs a start-up signal when a session establishment request signal is received from a PC and when determined that the recording unit is in the low-power consumption state, and a persistent connection control unit that performs persistent connection control to prohibit the PC from transmitting the data while a session is maintained with the PC until the recording unit is started up. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110278792 | PAPER TRANSPORTING APPARATUS, PAPER FEEDING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A paper transporting apparatus includes a pair of transport rollers including a first transport roller, a second transport roller, a first roller shaft inserted through the first transport roller, a second roller shaft inserted through the second roller, an urging member which urges the second roller shaft towards the first roller shaft, and a cover member arranged to be opened and closed. The urging member is attached to an inner surface of the cover member to support the second roller shaft, and urge the second roller shaft when the cover member is closed. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110273735 | Document Reading Apparatus And Document Reading Method - A print mode selecting unit configured to select a print mode based on user input to be either a normal print mode or a saving print mode including print settings associated with less paper consumption than the normal print mode, a document reading unit configured to read documents in a document containing unit and to generate read images, a document detecting unit configured to detect documents in the document containing unit, a confirmation window displaying unit configured to display a confirmation window having a mode change button based on a detection result from the document detecting unit, and an image forming unit configured to form output images from the read images based on the print mode. The confirmation window displaying unit determines whether the confirmation window is to be displayed based on the print mode, and the print mode selecting unit selects the normal print mode in response to an input through the mode change button. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110270438 | AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE SYSTEM - An automated warehouse system having an improved cycle efficiency of storing and retrieving articles to and from the automated warehouse system includes a storage station, a retrieval station, a plurality of article storage shelves, a stacker crane, and a system controller. An article is brought to the storage station to be stored and retrieved from the retrieval station. The article storage shelves store articles. The stacker crane can move an article between the storage station, the retrieval station, and the article storage shelves. The system controller keeps track of the amount of storage time articles have been stored and, when it determines that an article has been stored on an article storage shelf in a buffer area for a first predetermined amount of time or longer, the system controller controls the stacker crane such that the stacker crane carries the article from an article storage shelf in the buffer area to an article storage shelf in the first storage area. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110261382 | Terminal Device and Image Printing Method - An image printing method to transmit a signal to an image printing device. The image printing device can be in either a normal print mode or a saving print mode, and maintains the selected print mode as standard mode information. The image printing method includes a step to obtain the standard mode information from the image printing device, a step to display a confirmation window including a print setting change button based on a user operation through a print start button while a print setting window including the print start button is displayed, a step to determine print settings for a print signal based on the standard mode information and a user operation through the print setting change button, and a step to generate the print signal including the determined print settings. The step to display the confirmation window determines whether the confirmation window is to be displayed or not based on the standard mode information. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110254216 | AUTO DOCUMENT FEEDER AND A DOCUMENT READER WITH THE AUTO DOCUMENT FEEDER - An auto document feeder includes a lead path, a first reverse path, a second reverse path, and a both surfaces eject path. The lead path guides a document from a left side to a right side of a read position. The first reverse path and the second reverse path are connected to the lead path, and reverse the document to guide the document from the right side to the left side of the read position. A both surfaces eject path is connected to the first reverse path and the second reverse path and guides the document whose image information of a second surface has been read so as to eject further to the right side than the read position. Further, the lead path includes a lead curve path which protrudes to the left side and is arranged more to the left side than the read position. A shared curve path shared by the lead path and the both surfaces eject path includes a portion between the read position and a portion in which the lead curve path protrudes the most. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110248709 | Magnetic Pole Detection System and Magnetic Pole Detection Method - A magnetic sensor array including a plurality of magnetic sensors detects a phase regarding a magnetic pole of a magnetic pole array including magnetic poles of N and S arranged alternately. A pitch identification unit detects a pitch number of the magnetic pole currently being detected by the magnetic sensor array, in the magnetic pole array. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110248439 | IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE AND DOCUMENT TRANSPORTING METHOD - An image scanning device includes a scanning specifying unit, at least two document detecting units, a supply timing adjusting unit, and a document supplying unit. The scanning specifying unit specifies one of at least two scanning methods each having a different transportation interval between documents. The document detecting units are at least two in number and arranged to detect a document at different positions on a transportation route. The supply timing adjusting unit is arranged to measure a transportation distance of the document after detection by the document detecting units and to generate a supply signal. The document supplying unit is arranged to supply a document from a paper feed tray based on the supply signal. The supply timing adjusting unit is arranged to generate the supply signal based on a result of detection by the document detecting unit that corresponds to the specified scanning method. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110238835 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ARRANGED TO SHARE RESOURCES BETWEEN NETWORKS - A relay server which is connected to a LAN and which can communicate with a relay server in a different LAN, includes: an account information registering unit that stores information on client terminals connected to the LAN; a relay group information registering unit that stores relay group information; a shared resource information registering unit that stores shared resource information; a check unit that checks whether the client terminals stored in the account information registering unit can be accessed; a relay group information notifying unit that updates the relay group information and transmits a change notification of the relay group information to the relevant relay server; and a shared resource information notifying unit that updates the relevant shared resource information and transmits a change notification of the shared resource information to the relevant client terminal which is stored in the account information registering unit. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235087 | Multifunctional Peripheral - A multi functional peripheral device could change between a logout state in which a predetermined process could not be performed and a login state which the predetermined process could be performed. The multi functional peripheral comprises a display unit provided with a screen arranged to display the state of the multi functional peripheral, an accepting unit arranged to accept an entry of an identification information to be used to log into the multi functional peripheral, an controlling unit for control of actions of the multi functional peripheral arranged to cause the multi functional peripheral to change from the logout state to the login state when the controlling unit authenticates the identification information accepted by the accepting unit, a light-emitting unit, which is arranged separately from the display unit, arranged to start a light-emitting action when the multi functional peripheral changes from the logout state to the login state and terminate the light-emitting action when the multi functional peripheral changes from the logout state to the login state. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110219249 | Network Interface Apparatus - A network interface controller includes a first NIC connected to a LAN and a second NIC, which can proceed to a low power consumption status, connected to the first NIC via a bus. The first NIC includes a storing unit arranged to store response history information transmitted from the second NIC, a registration determining unit arranged to determine whether the received data has been registered in the response history information when network data is received and the status of the second NIC is the low power consumption status, a transmitting unit arranged to transmit response data registered in association with the received data when the received data has been registered, and an activation signal transmitting unit arranged to transmit an activation signal to the second NIC when the received data has not been registered. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110204559 | PAPER FEEDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A paper feeding apparatus transports paper one by one through a transportation mechanism to an image forming unit of an image forming apparatus. The paper feeding apparatus includes a paper feed cassette to contain paper, a paper side guide arranged in the paper feed cassette to position the paper in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a transport direction of the paper, and a dust removing roller arranged in the paper side guide and in contact with the paper contained in the paper feed cassette. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110202247 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AVOIDING INTERFERENCE WITH TRAVELING VEHICLE - A traveling vehicle is equipped with an obstacle sensor to detect a distance to an obstacle and an orientation relative to the obstacle. A map of a travel route of the traveling vehicle is stored. A detection area where deceleration of the traveling vehicle is required if there is any obstacle in the detection area is repeatedly generated based on the position of the traveling vehicle from the map. Among obstacles detected by the obstacle sensor, an obstacle in the detection area is detected. Deceleration control of the traveling vehicle is implemented to prevent interference with the detected obstacle. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110202202 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD IN THE TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM - A system server and access points are connected through a LAN preferably on the ground. A control cycle is divided into an instruction time zone to provide instructions from the access points to traveling vehicles, and a report time zone to provide reports from the traveling vehicles to the access points. The access points transmit target positions in the instruction time zone, and the traveling vehicles report positions in the report time zone. The system server determines target positions based on the reported positions. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110184634 | Traveling Vehicle System - A controller ( | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110182595 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - In an image forming device, toner in a developing unit is efficiently utilized. A printing unit includes a developing unit, a toner cartridge, a photo-electronic sensor, a CPU and a counter. The toner cartridge replenishes toner to the developing unit at one time. The photo-electronic sensor detects toner in the developing unit. The CPU processes an output signal from the photo-electronic sensor to create comparison data, then compares comparison data with a predetermined threshold and issues an alarm when the comparison data exceeds the predetermined threshold. The counter counts the number of times that toner is replenished to the developing unit. The CPU changes the threshold to a level at which an alarm is hardly issued as the number of counts in the counter increases. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110179167 | RELAY SERVER, RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - In a relay communication system in which remote LANs communicate with one another beyond a WAN, a method and apparatus prevent crossover among a plurality of call controls in each of a plurality of sections and crossover among a plurality of communication routes in each of the plurality of sections. Relay servers relay communication between client terminals. A relay server creates information described below, and allows a whole of a relay communication system to share the information: relay group information indicating that the relay servers constitute a relay group; and relay server information indicating a client terminal capable of communicating with the relay server. The relay servers and the client terminals collate identification information of call control, which is transmitted when the call control is executed for a destination for communication in each section, and identification information of call control, which is received from the destination for communication in each section when a communication route is established, with each other, and allows the call controls and the communication routes to correspond to each other. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110178669 | AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE - An electronic controller defining an autonomous mobile device a self-location estimation unit to estimate a self-location based on a local map that is created according to distance/angle information relative to an object in the vicinity and the travel distance of an omni wheel, an environmental map creation unit to create an environmental map of a mobile area based on the self-location and the local map during the guided travel with using a joystick, a registration switch to register the self-location of the autonomous mobile device as the position coordinate of the setting point when the autonomous mobile device reaches a predetermined setting point during the guided travel, a storage unit to store the environmental map and the setting point, a route planning unit to plan the travel route by using the setting point on the environmental map stored in the storage unit, and a travel control unit to control the autonomous mobile device to autonomously travel along the travel route. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110178668 | ENVIRONMENTAL MAP CORRECTION DEVICE AND AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE - An environmental map correction device that acquires an environmental map that matches an actual ambient environment includes a conversion unit arranged to convert object existence probability information of respective grids configuring a global map into image information (shading information of a black and white image, a display unit arranged to display a global map image based on the converted image information, an operation input unit arranged to receive a correcting operation from a user, a correction unit arranged to correct the global map image displayed by the display unit according to the correcting operation by the user, and an inversion unit arranged to acquire a corrected global map by inverting the corrected global map image (shading information) into the object existence probability information. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110178657 | GUIDED VEHICLE SYSTEM - A guided vehicle system that achieves a higher conveyance efficiency by manipulating an exclusion control executed with respect to a junction section includes a traveling path, a plurality of guided vehicles, and a guided vehicle controller. The traveling path includes a linear section, an exit-side connecting path, and a second junction section where the linear section and the exit-side connecting path converge. The guided vehicles travel along the traveling path. The exit-side connecting path includes a standby section. The guided vehicle controller controls the movement of the guided vehicles. During a period until a prescribed number of guided vehicles has stopped in the standby section of the exit-side connecting path, the guided vehicle controller allows guided vehicles to pass from the linear section to the second junction section continuously while making guided vehicles wait at the standby section of the exit-side connecting path. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110176182 | IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE - An image scanning device includes a housing, a scanning carriage, and a first guide groove and a second guide groove. The housing includes a bottom chassis and a side wall member, and defines a document tray. A scanning carriage is movably arranged in the housing. The first guide groove and the second guide groove are arranged at the side wall members of the housing, and guide the scanning carriage in a scanning direction. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110166737 | ROUTE PLANNING METHOD, ROUTE PLANNING DEVICE AND AUTONOMOUS MOBILE DEVICE - A route planning device that is capable of comprehending, in advance, a route clearance at a pass-through point on a planned travel route, includes a global map acquisition unit arranged to generate a global map showing an obstacle area in which an obstacle exists, an extended area generation unit arranged to generate an extended obstacle area and three extended area by extending stepwise an outline of the obstacle area contained in the global map, an integrated map generation unit arranged to generate an integrated map by superposing for integration of the extended obstacle area with the three extended areas; a movable area extraction unit arranged to extract a movable area from the integrated map and thinning the same, and a route planning unit arranged to acquire a route clearance at a sub goal according to the extended areas on the integrated map to which the sub goal on the travel route belongs, upon planning the travel route from the thinned movable area. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110161525 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a relay communication system in which remote LANs communicate with one another beyond a WAN, respective apparatuses confirm a virtual network environment of the relay communication system in real time. Relay servers relay mutual communication between client terminals. The relay server creates information shown below, and allows the whole of the relay communication system to share the information: a relay group information indicating virtual private IP addresses of the relay servers and a connection establishment state therebetween; and a relay server information indicating a virtual private IP address and connection establishment state of a client terminal capable of communicating with the relay server. The respective apparatuses in the relay communication system can share the information regarding the virtual private IP addresses and connection establishment states of all the apparatuses, and can flexibly execute communication in which the virtual private IP addresses are designated as destinations for communication. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110156332 | TRANSFER APPARATUS AND TRANSFER METHOD - The present invention provides a clamp transfer device which keeps a load from incurring damage and transfers the load at a high-speed. The transfer device includes: a first member which is attached so as to rotate about an axis of rotation perpendicular to a horizontal direction in which the load is clamped, and makes contact with the load, the first member having a profile with (i) a first radius stretching from the axis of rotation to a periphery of the first member, and (ii) a second radius being shorter than the first radius; a second member which clamps the load by working together with the first member; and a first clamping mechanism which (i) rotates the first member about the axis of rotation so that a distance between an end portion of the first radius and the second member diminishes, and (ii) produces a clamping force for clamping the load. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110153065 | PICKING SYSTEM AND PICKING METHOD - A picking system enables a user to easily know when an article that has been placed is different from an article originally scheduled to be placed in a particular position. The picking system includes a picking robot, an ID reader, an encoder, a comparing unit, and a terminal screen. The picking robot picks a workpiece from a first predetermined position and places the article in a second predetermined position. The ID reader acquires identification information of the workpiece picked by the picking robot. The comparing unit compares the identification information acquired by the ID reader with identification information of a workpiece scheduled to be picked. The terminal screen indicates, based on a result of the comparison executed by the comparing unit, a placement position of a workpiece whose identification information does not match the identification information of the workpiece scheduled to be picked. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110149324 | Image Forming Device - An image forming device for printing print data received from a terminal device through a communication network; the image forming device including an acquiring unit, a storing unit, a determining unit, and a print control unit. The acquiring unit acquires terminal identification information of the terminal device from the terminal device to install a printer driver. The acquired terminal identification information is stored in the storing unit. When the print data is received and determination is made by the determining unit that the terminal identification information contained in the received print data does not match the terminal identification information stored in the storing unit, the print control unit accepts a print instruction from a user and executes printing of the received print data according to the print instruction. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110148034 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT TRANSPORTATION DEVICE AND DOCUMENT SCANNING DEVICE - An automatic document transportation device includes an ADF main body, a first lock pin and a second lock pin, a cover, a first lock lever and a second lock lever, and an unlock portion. The first lock pin and the second lock pin are arranged in the ADF main body. The cover is supported in an openable/closable manner at the ADF main body. The first lock lever and the second lock lever lock the cover so as not to open by being hooked at the first lock pin and the second lock pin when the cover is closed. The unlock portion is arranged on the surface on the ADF main body side of the cover and in the vicinity of the end of the distal end side of the cover, and can unlock the lock of the first lock lever and the second lock lever. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110146435 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT TRANSPORTATION DEVICE AND DOCUMENT SCANNING DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - An ADF includes an ADF main body portion, a scanner frame, a gear portion, a resistance gear, a torque limiter, and an outer cover. The scanner frame is arranged to be supported at the ADF main body portion such that it is rotatable. The gear portion is arranged on a rotation axis line of the scanner frame to integrally rotate with the scanner frame. The torque limiter is arranged to apply a resistance to the resistance gear that meshes with the gear portion when the scanner frame rotates from an exposed position to a usage position. The outer cover is attached to the ADF main body portion to cover one portion of the gear portion. The outer cover includes a contacting portion arranged to regulate the movement of the gear portion. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110141531 | Image Processing Device - An image processing unit has a main body unit including scanner, facsimile and display sections, and a first control section for controlling the scanner, facsimile and display sections. A network unit includes a second control section for controlling exchange of information through an interface section. A bus connects the main body and network units. An image processing unit, connected to the bus, processes image data generated by the scanner or facsimile section according to a request of the first or second control section. The display section displays an image indicated in the processed image data acquired by the main body unit, and the interface section transmits the processed image data acquired by the network unit to an external network. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110106341 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRAVELING BY TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM - In a traveling vehicle system, traveling vehicles travel along a travel route under the control of at least one controller. Each of the traveling vehicles includes a first traveling vehicle position determining section arranged to determine a position of the respective traveling vehicle, and a second traveling vehicle position determining section arranged to determine a position of at least one other of the traveling vehicles by communication, and a distance sensor arranged to detect a distance between the respective traveling vehicle and the at least one other of the traveling vehicles. The at least one controller and the traveling vehicles are configured to control velocities of the traveling vehicles in an inter-vehicle control area by determining inter-vehicle distances between the traveling vehicles based on the position of the at least one other of the traveling vehicles obtained by the communication in the second traveling vehicle position determining section, and the position of the respective traveling vehicle determined by the first traveling vehicle position determining section, and to control the velocities of the traveling vehicles in areas of the traveling route other than in the inter-vehicle control area based on distances detected by the distance sensor. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110101792 | TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM - A contactless power feed type traveling vehicle system prevents and minimizes leakage of the magnetic field from a power feed cable and includes an AC power source, a power feed cable, a power reception pickup, and a magnetic field reducing section. The power feed cable is connected to the AC power source. The power reception pickup is provided on a traveling vehicle and arranged to receive electric power through the power feed cable in a contactless fashion. The magnetic field reducing section includes a coil antenna and a capacitor. An induced electric current flows in the coil antenna due to a magnetic field generated by an electric current flowing in the power feed cable. A resonance relationship is established between the coil antenna and the capacitor such that the induced electric current in the coil antenna is out of phase or in opposite phase with the electric current flowing in the power feed cable. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110075232 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Four mounting units are linearly disposed in a machine body of an image forming apparatus. First and second platen covers that differ from each other in weight also differ from each other in interval between support units. The first platen cover can be mounted on the machine body using the mounting units, and the second platen cover can be mounted on the machine body using the mounting units. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110062103 | OVERHEAD CONVEYING VEHICLE - An overhead conveying vehicle is arranged to contain and convey a suspended FOUP including a lid that is removably provided on a side surface thereof. The overhead conveying vehicle includes a conveying vehicle body, a hoist mechanism, a lid drop preventing member, and a power transmitting mechanism. The hoist mechanism is provided at the conveying vehicle body and is arranged to raise and lower the FOUP. The lid drop preventing member is arranged in close proximity to a front surface of the lid. The power transmitting mechanism retracts the lid drop preventing member away from the front surface of the lid when the FOUP is being raised or lowered. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110060490 | MOVING VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING MOVING VEHICLES - A plurality of moving vehicles each including a secondary element of a linear motor, and a plurality of primary elements of a linear motor arranged at a pitch not more than the length of the secondary element along the travel route of the moving vehicles are provided. Sensors arranged to detect positions of the moving vehicles are provided at the pitch not more than the secondary element. Further, a controller arranged to control the primary elements based on position signals from the sensors is provided. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110058744 | Image Discrimination Device and Image Attribute Discrimination Method - An image discrimination device discriminates among image attributes indicating image types. An edge calculating section calculates an edge direction in each processing unit including a predetermined number of pixels of an image. A local connectivity calculating section calculates local connectivity intensity indicating a degree of alignment with the edge direction of the surrounding processing unit in each of the processing units based on the calculated edge direction. An image attribute discrimination section discriminates among the image attributes in each attribute discrimination region including a predetermined number of processing units of the image using the local connectivity intensity of the processing unit in the attribute discrimination region. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110058233 | IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE AND DOCUMENT TRANSPORTATION METHOD - An image scanning device includes a scanning specifying unit, a first transportation path, a second transportation path, a path switching unit, and a document detection unit. The scanning specifying unit specifies as a scanning method of a document either a double sided scanning or a single sided scanning. The first transportation path is a transportation path for double sided scanning to scan a first surface and a second surface of the document in order. The second transportation path is a transportation path for single sided scanning, which is shorter than the first transportation path, to scan the second surface of the document. The path switching unit selects either the first transportation path or the second transportation path based on the specified scanning method. The document detection unit detects the document with the first surface scanned and the second surface not scanned when the double sided scanning is interrupted. The path switching unit selects the second transportation path for the transportation path of the first document in the resumed double sided scanning based on a detection result of the document detection unit. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110058231 | Image Scanning Device, Image Scanning Method, Image Display Controlling Device, Image Display Controlling Method, Image Processing System, and Computer Program - An image scanning device accepts an instruction to scan a double-sided document and scans a plurality of double-sided documents with respect to each page to produce image data. Image data is eliminated when a page is determined as being solid colored from the image data produced by the scanning section. Image data other than the eliminated image data is transmitted to the outside. When an instruction to scan a double-sided document is received from the outside and accepted, elimination of image data is prohibited. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110056901 | TRANSFER APPARATUS AND TRANSFER METHOD - In a transfer apparatus, a SCARA arm is provided on an elevation platform. Further, a sensor arranged to detect inclination at a tip end of the arm and a sensor arranged to measure a position of an article on the arm are provided. A base is tilted to eliminate inclination of the detected inclination, and a stretching amount of the arm is corrected in correspondence with the measured position of the article on the arm. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110050007 | MOVING BODY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETERMINING INITIAL POSITION OF MOVING BODY - In a moving body system, a movable element of a linear motor is provided on a moving body, and stationary elements of the linear motor and position sensors are provided on the ground. The stationary elements are arranged between the position sensors to enable determination of a rough position of the movable element based on a change of inductance resulting from interaction with a magnet array. An initial position of the moving body when a power supply for the moving body system is turned on is determined based on the rough position of the movable element relative to the stationary element and a signal from the position sensor. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110046839 | MOVING VEHICLE SYSTEM AND IN-POSITION DETERMINATION METHOD FOR MOVING VEHICLE - A moving vehicle system for making an in-position determination when a moving vehicle enters an in-position range, includes a sensor arranged to determine a position, a velocity, and an acceleration of the moving vehicle, and computation unit arranged to determine whether a stop position of the moving vehicle is within an in-position range or not. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110024377 | OVERHEAD TRAVELLING VEHICLE - An overhead travelling vehicle stores and transports, through a suspended flange, a FOUP having a body, the flange provided on top of the body, and a pair of side flanges projecting laterally from side positions of the body above the bottom of the body. The overhead travelling vehicle is provided with a vehicle body, a pair of article drop preventing members, and a drive mechanism. The pair of article drop preventing members is provided at the vehicle body and is moveable between a drop preventing position under the side flanges and a receding position receding from the drop preventing position. The drive mechanism drives the article drop preventing members. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110019218 | NETWORK DEVICE - In a network device, a first response unit responds to a check request using state information saved in a storage unit in a case where a save time of the state information does not exceed a first predetermined time when the check request of the operation state of the network device is received in the normal mode, and causes an updating unit to update the state information and responds to the check request using the updated state information in a case where the save time exceeds the first predetermined time. A second response unit responds to the check request using the state information saved in the storage unit when the check request is received in the power saving mode. The updating unit updates the state information when transitioning from the normal mode to the power saving mode. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110019216 | NETWORK MULTIFUNCTIONAL PERIPHERAL - A network multifunctional peripheral enables a desired access target to be more rapidly specified when a user specifies an access target or a storage destination of the data, and includes a control unit arranged to search a storage destination accessible with a plurality of protocols at a predetermined timing, a backup RAM arranged to store a list of searched and acquired accessible storage destinations (browse list), an operation unit arranged to accept an operation from the user, and a display unit arranged to display the browse list stored in the backup when an operation requesting a process involving a specification of the storage destination, for example, an operation such as “scan to CIFS” is accepted. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110005885 | COUPLING DEVICE - A coupling device includes axially opposed first and second members that are axially moved relative to each other to couple or decouple the first and second members with or from each other. First and second circular rows of teeth arranged to position the first and second members in a circumferential direction upon their engagement are coaxially provided on respective mating surfaces of the first and second members. Also, contact areas are arranged on the mating surfaces of the first and second members, respectively, to position the first and second members in an axial direction when axially opposed, respective contact surfaces are brought into contact with each other while the first and second circular rows of the teeth are engaged with each other. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110001284 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A multifunction peripheral includes a main body, a jam access cover, and a manual paper feeding tray. The jam access cover can expose the interior of the main body by being rotated. The manual paper feeding tray is attached to the jam access cover so as to be rotatable with a tray rotation shaft at a position that is different from a jam access cover rotation shaft as a center. A projection is arranged on the manual paper feeding tray so as to contact with a recess on the main body side to regulate the rotation of the manual paper feeding tray when the jam access cover is opened. The manual paper feeding tray includes a distal end that is located a higher position than the jam access cover rotation shaft when the projection contacts with the recess. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100274513 | MEASUREMENT UNIT, TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD - An environment sensor is mounted in a measurement unit. The measurement unit is adapted to be transported by a transportation apparatus. Measurement data from the environmental sensor is stored in a data format suitable for associating the measurement data with a state of the measurement unit. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100271011 | MOVING VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DETECTING POSITION OF MOVING VEHICLE - A detection head is provided for a moving vehicle. The detection head includes a coil array defined by a plurality of coils arranged along a moving direction of the moving vehicle. Dummy coils are provided on both sides of the coil array. Based on a difference between outputs of the dummy coils, whether the moving vehicle is in a continuous segment where the magnetic marks are provided at a constant first pitch or a discrete segment where the magnetic marks are arranged at a pitch wider than the first pitch is identified. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100242107 | Image Processing Device - A low-cost Multi Function Peripheral (MFP) prevents a user from forgetting to cancel an authenticated state. The MFP includes a scanner unit, a printer unit, a touch screen, and a reset key for initializing various settings. When the user is authenticated, the MFP accepts various operations. Under a state in which the user is authenticated, when the reset key is operated, a control unit executes a logout process. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100239400 | OVERHEAD TRANSPORATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRANSFERRING ARTICLE - An overhead shuttle is controlled to support a bottom of an article while traveling. A transfer apparatus is controlled to hold the article from above the article, move the article between a position above the overhead shuttle and a position above stations provided on a side of a travel rail, and elevate and lower the article to transfer the article between the transfer apparatus and the station. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100237913 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a first reset signal generator arranged to output a first reset signal when a power supply voltage becomes lower than or equal to a first threshold, a second reset signal generator arranged to output a second reset signal when the power supply voltage becomes lower than or equal to a second threshold lower than the first threshold, a return reset signal generator arranged to output a return reset signal based on a termination of the output of the first reset signal, a first resetting device arranged to be reset based on the first reset signal, a second resetting device arranged to be reset based on the second reset signal and the return reset signal, and a pre-processor arranged in the second resetting device to start a preliminary process of resetting based on the first reset signal. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100232711 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETERMINING SIZE OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENT - An image scanning apparatus arranged to press an original document placed on a glass plate by a platen cover and to scan the original document by a line sensor includes a light source used when scanning image information, a first detection sensor arranged to detect as a first timing a state in which the cover is opened at, for example, an angle of 20 degrees, a second detection sensor arranged to detect as a second timing a state, for example, that is immediately before the cover closes the glass plate, and an original document size determining unit arranged to determine the size of the original document based on the differential data, which is calculated from first image information scanned at the first timing and second image information scanned at the second timing. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100228389 | TRAVEL CONTROL SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR TRAVELING VEHICLES - A ground controller and traveling vehicles are connected to a communication system on the ground. Position instructions are given to the traveling vehicles in each position control cycle. The traveling vehicles generate a plurality of velocity instructions and torque instructions by themselves to carry out the position instructions. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100209141 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER BOTTLE - In an image forming apparatus, a driving force transmitting member includes a protruding portion that can be removably attached to a concave portion of a toner bottle in a shaft line direction of a rotation shaft. The concave portion and the protruding portion can transmit a rotation driving force of the rotation shaft to the toner bottle by being connected with each other such that the concave portion and the protruding portion cannot be rotated relative to each other. A phase detection member includes a pin inserting hole that can select an attachment phase relative to the rotation shaft and can be fixed such that the phase detection member cannot be rotated relative to the rotation shaft. When attaching the protruding portion to the concave portion and removing the protruding portion from the concave portion, a control unit controls a motor to stop a rotation phase of the phase detection member at a prescribed phase. When attaching the protruding portion to the concave portion and removing the protruding portion from the concave portion, a bottle upper surface cover regulates the toner bottle such that a rotation phase of the toner bottle is located at a prescribed phase. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100176964 | INSPECTION SYSTEM AND INSPECTION METHOD - The article IDs of a mixture mounting pallet being shipped are read out collectively by means of an ID reader and collated with the ID list on a shipment table. IDs and their positions are stored on the shipment table and the positions of IDs not read out by means of the ID reader are displayed on a handy ID reader and confirmed by a worker using the ID reader. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100138082 | TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING TRAVEL PATH TO TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE - From among a plurality of interconnected segments of a travel route of a transportation vehicle, an operator manually assigns a plurality of segments that form a path for the transportation vehicle to actually travel, such assignment is received, a travel instruction is generated in accordance with the plurality of assigned segments, and the transportation vehicle is instructed to travel in accordance with the travel instruction. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100134858 | IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE AND CALIBRATION METHOD THEREOF - Ina calibration method of an image scanning device, an original for use calibration including a plurality of patches each having a different tone is scanned, scanned tone values of the patches of the original are acquired with respect to each of a plurality of color components, a curve function is acquired with respect to each of the plurality of color components based on the scanned tone values and target tone values of the patches predetermined with respect to each of the plurality of color components, each curve function approximating a relationship between an input defined as the scanned tone value and an output defined as the target tone value, and the curve function is acquired with respect to each of the plurality of color components such that input value intercepts, each being defined as an upper limit of a range of the input value in which range the output value is maintained at zero, are equal among the plurality of color components. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100128326 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - When a maintenance agreement has been made based on a contract printing rate and the contract number of printed sheets, an image forming apparatus can determine before an image is actually formed, whether or not terms and conditions will be exceeded. When a user instructs to copy, after all images of original documents are scanned, it can be determined whether or not the number of remaining printable sheets exceeds a certain number, e.g., 100. When the number of remaining printable sheets is not more than 100, after calculating an average per/page printing rate of the scanned image data, the converted number of sheets, which is converted using the contract printing rate, is calculated from the average printing rate, the contract printing rate, and the number of printed sheets for one copy job, and a screen used in inquiring whether or not to print is displayed. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100126361 | PRESS MACHINE - A press machine is provided that can accurately detect load acted on a frame. A frame | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100098472 | COPIER, AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER FOR USE THEREIN, IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE, AND METHOD OF COPYING - A copier includes an image scanning device having an ADF, and an image forming device having a duplex printing function that forms an image first on a back side surface of recording medium. The ADF includes an original tray, a separation unit, a first double-surface path, a second double-surface path, a discharge path, and a discharge tray. Originals with their front side surfaces facing upward can be placed on the original tray. The first double-surface path guides the original separated by the separation unit in such a manner that aback side surface of the original passes through a scanning position of a scanner unit. The second double-surface path reverses the original, which has passed through the first double-surface path and has had the back side surface scanned, and guides the original to the scanning position of the scanning unit so that the front side surface of the original can be scanned. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100049391 | AUTONOMOUS MOVING APPARATUS - An autonomous moving apparatus arranged to travel autonomously in a surrounding environment preferably includes: a distance measuring sensor arranged to output detection waves, detect a distance between the apparatus and an object which has reflected the detection wave based on a reflection state of the detection wave, and acquire information about the distance between the apparatus and the object which exists in the surroundings of the apparatus; an inclination sensor arranged to detect an inclination of the distance measuring sensor; and a control unit arranged to estimate the self-position in the surrounding environment and generate the global map of the surrounding environment based on the distance information. When the distance measuring sensor is determined to be inclined based on a detection result of the inclination sensor, the control unit stops estimating the self-position based on the distance information and stops generating the global map based on the distance information. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100049388 | AUTONOMOUS MOVING APPARATUS - An autonomous moving apparatus includes a vehicle provided with a drive unit; a cover that is attached to the vehicle such that the cover either entirely or partially covers side, upper, and lower surfaces of the vehicle, and the cover is arranged to be displaced with respect to the vehicle; a detection unit arranged to output detection signals in accordance with relative displacement generated between at least one of the upper and lower surfaces of the vehicle and the cover facing at least one of the upper and lower surfaces; and a control unit arranged to control the drive unit in accordance with the detection signals output from the detection unit. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100032510 | Filament Winding Apparatus - A filament winding apparatus reduces fluctuations in a winding operation by bringing a plurality of guide portions that guide fiber bundles to a liner close to the liner in a winding unit. Each of the guide portions is a tubular member having a guide hole penetrated from a base end to a leading end portion. The leading end portion has a smaller thickness width. Each of the guide portions guides a second fiber bundle to the liner by passing the second fiber bundle from a side of the base end portion to a side of the leading end portion of the guide hole. By rotating each of the guide portions about an axis of the guide portion, and by sliding the guide portions in the radius direction of the liner, the guide portions can be brought close to the liner. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20090317146 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units arranged to form toner images of different colors on surfaces of photoconductive drums, an intermediate transfer unit that has an intermediate transfer belt arranged in the vicinity of the photoconductive drums and a plurality of intermediate transfer rollers opposed to the respective photoconductive drums through the intermediate transfer belt, and that transfers the toner images formed on the photoconductive drums to the intermediate transfer belt, and a transfer unit arranged to transfer, to a piece of paper, the toner images of different colors transferred to the intermediate transfer belt. The intermediate transfer unit includes a position setting mechanism arranged to move the intermediate transfer rollers individually to an operation position in which the roller makes contact with the intermediate transfer belt to be close to the photoconductive drum or to a stand-by position in which the roller is separated away from the intermediate transfer belt to be retreated from the photoconductive drum. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090314872 | Tension Control System For Fiber Bundles in Filament Winding Apparatus - A filament winding apparatus detects that a fiber bundle is likely to break and prevents generation of defective products. The filament winding apparatus applies a prescribed winding tension to the fiber bundle unwound from a fiber bundle feeding package and winds the tension-applied fiber bundle around a mandrel. A tension applying portion applies the winding tension to the fiber bundle at a position that is immediately before a side of the mandrel between the fiber bundle package and the mandrel. A tension sensor detects the tension of the fiber bundle between the fiber bundle feeding package and the tension applying portion. A determination means determines a tension abnormality of the fiber bundle by comparing pre-set reference information with the tension measured value measured by the tension sensor. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090314418 | Filament Winding Apparatus and Method Thereof - A filament winding apparatus includes a control unit, a rotation mechanism that rotates a mandrel, a hoop winding head that performs hoop-winding, and a helical winding head that performs helical-winding. The hoop winding head includes bobbins that feed fiber bundles to the mandrel and a circulation mechanism that circulates the bobbins around the mandrel. The control unit controls the rotation and circulation mechanisms such that the mandrel is rotated and the bobbins are circulated in the same direction during helical-winding. It is not necessary to cut fiber bundles after hoop-winding, and wasted fiber is not fed during helical-winding, thereby increasing economy and productivity. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090301253 | PARALLEL MECHANISM - A parallel mechanism includes a base portion, a bracket to which an end effecter is attached, a plurality of actuators attached to the base portion, a plurality of arms through which the plurality of actuators and the bracket are coupled together in parallel, and a control device arranged to control the actuators. When the end effecter in a stopped state is moved to a target position, the control device is arranged to control the actuators so that a level of acceleration at which the end effecter is accelerated is higher than a level of deceleration at which the end effecter is decelerated. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090299525 | AUTONOMOUS MOVING BODY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOVEMENT THEREOF - An autonomous moving body includes: an omnidirectional moving mechanism for moving the moving body; a detecting unit for detecting an obstacle; and a movement control unit for generating a movement instruction signal for avoiding the obstacle detected by the detecting unit while maintaining a frontal direction of the moving body to be substantially constant and transmitting the generated signal to the omnidirectional moving mechanism. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090296163 | Image Processing Apparatus and Energy-Saving Control Method Thereof - An image processing apparatus includes a facsimile communication unit that transmits/receives data by being connected with a PSTN, a network communication unit that transmits/receives data by being connected with an area network, a memory that stores the data, a power supply that supplies power to components, and a determination unit that determines whether or not to release an energy-saving mode in which the power is supplied only to a portion of the components. When operating in the energy-saving mode, at least the facsimile communication unit, the network communication unit, the memory, and the determination unit are supplied with power. When the facsimile communication unit receives data when operating in the energy-saving mode, the received data is stored in the memory. When the network communication unit receives a request from a terminal device provided on the area network when operating in the energy-saving mode, the determination unit determines whether or not to release the energy-saving mode in accordance with a content of the received request. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090287795 | Method, System, and Service Server for Providing Firmware Through Communication Network - A firmware providing method in which firmware for an electronic device is downloaded from a service server provided on a communication network to a communication terminal. Display information to be displayed on a display of the electronic device is stored in the service server as language standard data that responds to a plurality of languages in accordance with a model of the electronic device. The communication terminal downloads, from among the language standard data, data in which a model of the electronic device and a language are specified, edits at least a portion of the language standard data, and then transmits the edited display information to the service server. In response thereto, the service server generates firmware for the electronic device of the same model based on the edited display information and returns the firmware to a return target terminal. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090285604 | TONER CONTAINER - A toner cartridge includes a cylindrical supplying pipe having a toner opening port arranged on a side surface thereof; a cylindrical cover that is attached to the supplying pipe and has a cover opening port arranged on a side surface thereof, and a cam mechanism that is provided to the supplying pipe and the cover, and that reciprocates the cover between an opening position where the toner opening port and the cover opening port align with each other and a closing position where the toner opening port is closed by the cover, which closing position is in a skewed position with respect to the opening position. This arrangement provides a toner container that reduces toner leakage when being removed from a toner hopper. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090285600 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus in which a drum unit or a developing unit can be individually replaced, and the efficiency of an operation of providing the developing unit with developer or of an operation of removing the developer from the developing unit can be improved includes a supplying roller including a magnetic roller and a developing sleeve arranged on an outer circumference of the magnetic roller. A fixing member is attached to an axial portion of the magnetic roller. The supplying roller can be removably attached to a side of a photoconductive drum by the fixing member, and at the same time, a pole position of the magnetic roller relative to the photoconductive drum can be fixed. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090278710 | Moving Vehicle System and Method of Detecting Position of Moving Vehicle - A detection head has an array including a plurality of coils. Magnetic marks are arranged in a travel route at a pitch equal to the array length. By interaction between the magnetic marks and the coils, a position of a moving vehicle is determined based on the magnetic marks. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090275452 | MACHINE TOOL WITH SPINDLE CHUCK REPLACING MECHANISM - The present invention provides a machine tool with a spindle chuck replacing mechanism which is simply configured to enable a reduction in time for work replacement without the need to sense the rotation speed of a spindle chuck or the like. The machine tool includes a pre-rotation-transmission mechanism | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090268264 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image scanner apparatus includes an automatic image acquiring unit having a feature point detecting unit, an inclination calculating unit, a feature point rotation calculating unit, and a rectangular area calculating unit. The feature point detecting unit is arranged to detect a plurality of feature points of an original document outline from image data acquired by scanning an original document. The inclination calculating unit is arranged to calculate values regarding an original document inclination. The feature point rotation calculating unit is arranged to calculate positions of rotated feature points acquired by rotating the plurality of feature points detected through the feature point detecting unit around a prescribed center point by an inclination angle in a direction in which the original document inclination is corrected. The rectangular area calculating unit is arranged to calculate a non-inclined rectangular area having an outline that is disposed in the vicinity of the rotated feature points based on the positions of the rotated feature points. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090263218 | PLATE MATERIAL CONVEYING DEVICE - The present invention provides a plate material conveying device including a compact traveling member to enable an increase in plate material conveyance speed and a reduction in time required for acceleration and deceleration and to allow small plate materials to be more efficiently conveyed, the plate material conveying device further enabling one of a gripper and a suction type plate material holder to be selected for conveyance of a plate material. Traveling members | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090257851 | PLATE MATERIAL STOCKER FACILITY - The present invention provides a plate material stocker facility with a simplified pallet loading and unloading mechanism. The plate material stocker facility includes a plate material stocker | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090255364 | PARALLEL MECHANISM - A parallel mechanism has a plurality of arms. Each of the arms has a ball joint. The ball joint includes a ball stud with a shaft portion and ball-shaped head, and a socket swingably and pivotally movably holding the ball-shaped head of the ball stud. The socket includes a semispherical recess portion holding the ball-shaped head from a top portion to an equator thereof, and an extending portion which is smoothly continuous with the semispherical recess portion and which extends from the equator of the ball-shaped head to the shaft portion side. The inner diameter of an opening in the extending portion is equal to or larger than the diameter of the ball-shaped head. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090255363 | PARALLEL MECHANISM - A parallel mechanism includes a base, actuators attached to the base, a plurality of arms coupled together in parallel, and a sensing device. Each of the arms has a first link, one end of which is coupled to the actuator, a second link through which the other end of the first link and a bracket are coupled together, a ball joint through which one end of the second link and the other end of the first link are swingably coupled together, and a ball joint through which the other end of the second link and the bracket are swingably coupled together. Each of the ball joints includes a ball stud including a ball-shaped head, a socket swingably holding the ball-shaped head of the ball stud, and a conductive member interposed between the ball-shaped head and the socket. The sensing device senses when at least one of the plurality of ball joints is loose, based on whether or not the ball stud and the socket are electrically continuous with one another. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090254748 | ELECTRONIC MAIL GATEWAY APPARATUS - An e-mail gateway apparatus is configured to delete unnecessary e-mails that are on an e-mail server apparatus. When the S/MIME gateway apparatus fails to receive an e-mail from the e-mail server apparatus, a main control unit of the S/MIME gateway apparatus distributes to a client PC an error notification mail indicating the failure. When a deletion request signal requesting deletion of the reception-failed e-mail is received from the client PC, the main control unit of the S/MIME gateway apparatus requests the e-mail server apparatus to delete the e-mail. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090254622 | ELECTRONIC MAIL RECEIVING APPARATUS - In an e-mail receiving apparatus, a user management table arranged to include each combination of a user ID that is used for identifying a plurality of users and a unique ID that is newly set each time a new user is registered in an S/MIME gateway apparatus. A received e-mail management table is arranged to include a plurality of records each indicating an association relation between each e-mail received from an e-mail server apparatus, and the user ID and the unique ID of a destination user of the corresponding e-mail. A main control unit is arranged to read out each record of the received e-mail management table, determine whether or not the unique ID related to the read-out record is in the user management table, and delete the read-out record from the received e-mail management table when the unique ID is not in the user management table. Accordingly, a system is provided in which, when a registration of a user of a distribution destination is deleted, received e-mails are properly processed. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090251725 | PRINTING CONTROL APPARATUS AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - In a printing control method arranged to control a printer via a network by using a computer, stored print setting data is referred to when direct printing is specified, either one of original document data and print data in which the original document data is described in a page description language is selected as data to be transmitted to the printer, the original document data is transmitted to the printer when the original document data is selected, and the original document data is converted into the page description language and then transmitted to the printer when the print data is selected. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090245985 | AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CLEAN ENVIRONMENT IN THE AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE - A measuring unit arranged to measure a clean environment is placed on a cell by a retrieval and storage apparatus to measure clean environment of the cell. Based on a measurement result, a fan filter unit or an exhaust vent is controlled to maintain the clean environment of the cell at a predetermined level or more. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090241684 | MEASURING UNIT FOR AIR FLOW - A casing is capable of being transported by a transportation apparatus in an automated warehouse and being placed in a cell of the automated warehouse. A plurality of strings are suspended in the casing, and displacement of the strings caused by the air flow in the casing is measured to determine the state of the air flow based on the measured displacement. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090220312 | MACHINE TOOL WITH CHIP PROCESSING FUNCTION - The present invention provides a machine tool which allows a chip to be guided in a desired direction and which enables consecutive chip processing, the machine tool further enabling a reduction in cutting resistance, required power, resulting heat, friction of a tool, and the like. The machine tool includes a chip processing means | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090220311 | CUTTING TOOL WITH CHIP GUIDING FUNCTION AND CUTTING METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention provides a cutting tool and a cutting method for the cutting tool which enable curl of a chip to be corrected without causing the chip to be jammed and which also allow the chip to be guided by correcting the direction of the chip to a desired one. A cutting tool | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090198394 | Movable Body System Having Linear Motor - Primary coils of a linear motor are arranged along a travel route. A movable body has a secondary side of the linear motor. The travel route is divided into a plurality of zones, and a zone controller is provided for each zone or controlling the coils of the linear motor in the zone. A coordinate of the movable body outputted from a linear scale of the coil is converted into a coordinate based on the travel route. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090197520 | Automated Warehouse and Method of Supplying Clean Air to the Automated Warehouse - A position and a speed of a stacker crane, and a position and a speed of an elevation frame are inputted to a clean room controller to correct an amount of supplied clean air, and an amount of discharged air around the stacker crane. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090195824 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device connected to a network includes a data administration unit, a creation source information generation unit, a raster data generation unit and a printer unit. The data administration unit stores printing data in a memory unit and generate identification data that identifies the printing data stored in the memory unit. The creation source information generation unit generates creation source information that specifies the own device as a creation source. The raster data generation unit rasterizes the printing data and generates raster data with the creation source information. The raster data with the creation source information includes the rasterized printing data, the identification data and the creation source information. The printer unit prints the raster data with the creation source information on a printing paper. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090195807 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a scanner and a printer, transmits an image data and a metadata in which an attribute of the image data is described to a document management server, and further includes an output control unit arranged to control whether to output both the image data and the metadata or to output only the metadata. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090182765 | FOLDER STORAGE DEVICE - A folder storage device includes a folder storage unit which stores folders with hierarchy structures, a first folder hierarchy information generation unit arranged to generate first folder hierarchy information which indicates a related path and a hierarchical location of each folder based on the folders stored in the folder storage unit, a second folder hierarchy information generation unit arranged to generate second hierarchy information which indicates the hierarchical location of each folder based on the first folder hierarchy information, a display unit which displays the second hierarchy information, and a folder update unit in which contents to be updated of the folders stored in the folder storage unit are specified and the updates of the folders stored in the folder storage unit are executed based on the first folder hierarchy information in response to a receipt of update instructions at a prescribed hierarchical location of the second folder hierarchy information. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090172166 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A relay server can collectively copy a plurality of shared resources separately held by client terminals to a terminal that belongs to the relay server by performing a simple operation. The relay server includes a shared resource information registration unit. The shared resource information registration unit stores shared resource information when a resource is shared among a plurality of client terminals. The shared resource information includes resource information, hierarchical structure information regarding a hierarchical structure of the resources, and account information of a resource sharing terminal that is a client terminal that shares the resource. When the shared resource information is specified by the resource sharing terminal such that the resource included in the prescribed shared resource information may be output to an output destination in accordance with the hierarchical structure information, the relay server transfers the resource that is included in the specified shared resource information and that can be handled by another resource sharing terminal to the resource sharing terminal. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090172075 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A process of automatically transferring a file can be performed via an external network without using a VPN. A plurality of client terminals is separately connected with a relay server and can share a resource. The client terminal monitors the addition of a resource to a specified transfer source folder. When the resource is added, the client terminal adds information regarding the resource to the shared resource information. The updated shared resource information is shared with other client terminals via the relay server. When the client terminal detects the update, the client terminal transmits a resource transfer request to the client terminal via the relay server. When data of the resource is received via the relay server, the client terminal stores the resource in a specified transfer destination folder. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090166961 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SCANNING METHOD - An image scanning apparatus includes a paper thickness detection unit arranged to detect a paper thickness of an original document based on a reception signal, and a multiple-feeding detection unit arranged to detect, based on the reception signal, whether or not the original document that is being transported has been multiply fed. Based on a detection result obtained by the paper thickness detection unit and the multiple-feeding detection unit, the transportation speed is adjusted. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090166159 | Conveyor - A belt conveyor includes right and left detection rollers outside ends in a width direction of a belt. Right and left correction rollers are disposed on right and left sides on a rear face of the belt. When one of the detection rollers is pressed by the belt, the corresponding correction roller is inclined from the pressed detection roller down to a center of the belt, thereby correcting the meandering belt. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090164637 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A relay server that implements a virtual file sharing system includes shared resource and message information that can be managed in an integrated manner, and a user of a client terminal can be appropriately notified of changes of the shared resource, or the like. The relay server includes a shared resource information registration unit, which stores shared resource information when a resource is shared by a plurality of client terminals. The shared resource information includes, for example, resource information, account information of the client terminal that shares the resource, and message information regarding a message exchanged among the client terminals. The relay server includes a control unit, which adds, when the resource becomes sharable or is shared by the client terminal, message information regarding a message notifying of such resource sharability or resource sharing to the shared resource information. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090164636 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A relay server and a relay communication system can easily synchronize resource information with a resource when terminals share the resource. When an instruction to synchronize shared resource information is given, the relay server transmits the synchronization instruction to each resource sharing terminal based on the shared resource information. Having received the synchronization instruction, when the shared resource information includes the resource that is owned by the terminal, the resource sharing terminal compares the resource information and the resource. If the resource information and the resource do not match, the resource sharing terminal updates the resource information to the latest information, and transmits, to the relay server, an instruction to update the shared resource information including the resource information. Thus, the resource information of an entire network can be synchronized by one synchronization instruction. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090141320 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus reads out image data stored in an image memory unit, performs size reduction, when the read out image data is color image data, on a plurality of pieces of color component data of the color image data by using different pixel number reducing circuits and different filter circuits, performs size reduction, when the read out image data is monochrome image data, on a plurality of pieces of monochrome image data by using the different pixel number reducing circuits and different filter circuits, and generates reduced-size images for a thumbnail display from the reduced-size image data. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090132597 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - A destination information management unit manages filtering permission information that indicates whether or not to perform filter settings with respect to each index recorded in index data, in association with destination information or distribution destination information in which a distribution destination of a printed document on which document image data is printed. A filter setting unit creates filter setting data based on the filtering permission information and the index data. The filter setting data is information in which the filter-settings-permitted index is associated with a filter pattern. By using a setting interface displayed on a monitor, a user performs the filter settings of the document image data with respect to each transmission destination or distribution destination. After being edited, the document image data is transmitted via facsimile to each transmission destination, or is printed. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090127373 | Filament Winding Apparatus - A filament winding apparatus that efficiently and orderly winds a fiber bundle with respect to a mandrel in a short period of time. A supporting board supports the mandrel, and a helical winding head supplies and guides the fiber bundle towards the mandrel. The helical winding head includes a group of guide tubes radially arranged on a circumferential surface of a guide ring, and a tube operation mechanism that reciprocates the guide tube along a tube axis center direction. The guide tube is moved closer to a circumferential surface of the dome part when the guide tube is facing a dome part of the mandrel such that the distance between the winding position of the fiber bundle and the guide tube at the dome part can be reduced, and the fiber bundle is orderly wound according to an appropriate winding trajectory. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090127237 | DROSS COLLECTING APPARATUS FOR LASER MACHINING DEVICE - The dross collecting apparatus is used in a laser machining device equipped with a laser head provided at a fixed position in the horizontal direction, a sheet material feed mechanism for feeding a sheet material in at least one direction with respect to the laser head, a sheet material table for supporting the sheet material fed by the sheet material feed mechanism, and a frame. The dross collecting apparatus has a dross conveyor for receiving dross generated by laser machining with the laser head and for conveying this dross from the position of the laser head in plan view to a position on the outer periphery of the frame or the outside. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090126875 | Filament Winding Apparatus - A filament winding apparatus efficiently performs a helical winding process in which the winding angle of the fiber bundle differs. A helical winding head includes two guide rings, adjacently arranged along an axis center of the mandrel, and guide tubes arranged at equal intervals along a circumferential direction of the guide rings. The guide rings are switchable between a first state in which phase positions of the guide tubes are matched and a second state in which the phase positions of the guide tubes are evenly shifted in the circumferential direction by a phase switching structure. Tube exits of the guide tubes are arranged close in the first state. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090126434 | PRESS MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRESS MACHINE - A press machine in which the service life of a ball thread mechanism is extended. The press machine includes a die | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090122373 | Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus includes a first image reduction unit that creates reduced-image data from image data, a coding unit that creates a reduced-image file from the reduced-image data, a memory unit that stores the reduced-image file in association with an original-image file created from the original image, a display unit that displays the content of the reduced-image file, a display controller that controls the display unit, a transfer unit that transfers the reduced-image file read out from the memory unit to the display controller, and a conversion unit that converts the content of the reduced-image file transferred to the display controller into signals to display on the display unit. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090122369 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing method and apparatus includes a color space conversion unit arranged to convert pixel data scanned by a line sensor of each color component into first chromaticity data and second chromaticity data, and an achromatic color determining unit arranged to determine whether or not the pixel data is achromatic. The achromatic color determining unit includes a comparison unit arranged to compare an achromatic color determination area with the pixel data in a color space defined by orthogonal coordinates having each chromaticity data as a coordinate axis. The achromatic color determination area is an elongated area that includes a coordinate origin of the color space, that is set based on a coordinate position of a false color acquired by using a size and position of displacement of the scanning position of each color component generated in accordance with the scanning speed, and that extends in an opposite direction from the coordinate origin. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090122335 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS - An image editing apparatus includes a storage unit arranged to store, along with image data, index data as an index of the image data. In the index data, a character string extracted from the image data and area information indicating an area that includes the character string are recorded in association with each other. The image editing apparatus also includes a filter setting unit arranged to set filter setting information including information regarding a filter pattern that is applied to the area, and an image editing unit arranged to edit the image data based on the area information and the filter setting information. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090122334 | PRINTING SYSTEM - A printing system includes a printing machine and a terminal device that are mutually connected via a network. When an instruction for new authentication data registration is given by the terminal device at a time of receiving an instruction for security printing, the printing machine receives the instruction for the registration. When newly received authentication data is input from an operation unit, the printing machine permits printing of print data in accordance with the instruction for the security printing. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090121968 | Electronic Device - An electronic device includes first display means that displays an image in monochrome, first control means that controls the display of the monochrome image, and interface means that is used to communicate with the first control means. When second control means that controls second display means is connected to the interface means, the first control means communicates with the second control means via the interface means. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090121728 | Resin Impregnated Amount Measuring Method and Resin Impregnated Amount Measuring Device in Filament Winding Molding - A resin impregnated amount measuring method and device for accurately and successively measuring an amount of resin impregnated in a fiber in a filament winding molding. An electrostatic capacitance of a fiber impregnated with resin is measured, and an amount of resin impregnated in the fiber is measured based on the measurement result. The fiber impregnated with resin is traveled in a non-contacting manner between two parallel flat plates of an electrostatic capacitance sensor and a change in electrostatic capacitance is measured. The amount of resin impregnated in the fiber may also be measured by irradiating light on the impregnated fiber to determine the image area of, reflectivity of, or distance of the light source from, the fiber. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090120320 | OVERHEAD TRAVELING VEHICLE SYSTEM AND CONSTRUCTION METHOD OF BUFFER IN THE SYSTEM - An overhead traveling vehicle system includes traveling rails that are hung parallel or substantially parallel to each other from a ceiling while being spaced from each other. A side buffer is disposed between the traveling rails and supported by the opposing traveling rails. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090116941 | VERTICAL CAROUSEL AND VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION METHOD USING THE VERTICAL CAROUSEL - An inner wall surrounding an inner space for vertically circulating a rack, and an outer wall surrounding the inner wall are provided. Then, a rack is disposed in the inner space. A pair of extensions are provided at diagonal positions of the rack. The extensions are attached to an endless drive member in a manner that the extensions protrude toward an outer space between the inner wall and the outer wall through slits of the inner wall, and, a drive mechanism for a drive member is provided in the outer space. Further, a tunnel passing through the outer space to connect the inner space and an area outside of the vertical carousel is provided for transportation of an article into, and out of the tunnel. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090116056 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an image scanner unit arranged to generate image data by scanning an original document, at least two output units arranged to output the image data scanned by the image scanner unit, a data table arranged to store a destination with respect to each output unit for at least two recipients, an output specifying unit arranged to specify, in advance with respect to each recipient, the valid output unit for the recipient to receive the image data, a recipient specifying unit arranged for the operator to specify the recipient at the time of output of the image data, and an output control unit arranged to determine a destination based on the data table, the valid output unit specified by the output specifying unit, and the recipient specified by the operator by using the recipient specifying unit, and to output the image data via the output unit that corresponds to the destination. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090110328 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A method and system for correcting the inclination of a scanned document in which two integers “a” and “b” are input to perform a rotation process. Each time an x-coordinate of a target pixel of a rotated image is changed by one pixel, “a” is added to a factor “kwy”. When “kwy” becomes more than or equal to “b”, “b” is subtracted from “kwy”, and a y-coordinate of a corresponding target pixel of an original image is changed by one pixel. Each time a y-coordinate of the target pixel is changed by one pixel, “a” is added to a factor “kwx”. When “kwx” becomes more than or equal to “b”, “b” is subtracted from “kwx”, and an x-coordinate of the corresponding target pixel of the original image is changed by one pixel. Four pixels including the corresponding target pixel are used to acquire a pixel value of the target pixel by two-dimensional interpolation by ratios acquired by dividing “kwx” and “kwy” respectively by “b”. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090109502 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - In an image processing apparatus, an inclination detecting unit acquires, with respect to each line of image data, positions of a left edge pixel and a right edge pixel that are positioned at a boundary between an original document and a background. A feature point position is acquired based on features of the positions of the edge pixels of a plurality of lines. Based on a feature of the position of at least one of the left edge pixel and the right edge pixel of the line that includes the feature point position or of the line that is near the former line, a status regarding a direction of the document is acquired. Furthermore, the acquired statuses are counted, the most counted status is determined, two feature points are selected from the feature points having a status that matches the most counted status, and the document inclination is calculated from the two feature point positions. Thereafter, the inclination of the document can be compensated for. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090107628 | Resin Adhesion Method and Resin Adhesion Apparatus in Filament Winding Molding - A resin adhesion method and apparatus in an FW molding achieves high speed and facilitates maintenance. A resin is adhered to a fiber by injecting the resin towards a surface of the fiber through a droplet injection device including a plurality of base resin injection nozzles and curing agent injection nozzles. A traveling device travels the fiber with a predetermined opposing spacing with the nozzles. A first path includes a base resin tank that supplies the base resin to the droplet injection device. A second path includes a curing agent tank that supplies the curing agent to the droplet injection device. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090106554 | E-MAIL RELAY APPARATUS AND E-MAIL RELAY METHOD - An e-mail relay apparatus notifies a user of which e-mail could not be transmitted if a transmission error has occurred, without consuming a memory capacity. When an e-mail transmission instruction is received and after header information of the received e-mail is stored, a digital signature is added to the e-mail, and the e-mail text is encrypted. Then, after the digital signature is added, the encrypted e-mail is stored, and after the original e-mail is deleted, the transmission of the e-mail is started. If an error has occurred during the e-mail transmission and the transmission has failed, an error-notifying mail addressed to a transmission source is generated. After a header file of the e-mail is attached to the error-notifying mail, the error-notifying mail to which the header file is attached is stored in a mail box for the user of the transmission source. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090065625 | Filament Winding Apparatus - A filament winding apparatus equipped with a transfer mechanism of a terminating end of a fiber bundle using a transfer ring that can be switched from a mandrel after the winding process to a mandrel before the winding process. A cutter cuts a fiber bundle wound around a first transfer ring integral with a mandrel after the winding process and a second transfer ring is moved to the mandrel before the winding process between the first and second transfer rings; and a friction roller positions and holds the second transfer ring when cutting the fiber bundle. The friction roller is pressed and biased against the second transfer ring by a compression spring. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090065622 | Filament Winding Apparatus - A filament winding apparatus includes a hoop winding device and a helical winding device. The hoop winding device includes a disc-shaped wrapping table, a drive mechanism that rotatably drives the wrapping table, four bobbins supported along a peripheral edge of the wrapping table, and a guide member that moves and guides a fiber bundle fed from the bobbin to a mandrel arranged in an insertion hole of the wrapping table. The bobbin is axially supported in a freely rotatable manner with a chuck of a holder fixed to the wrapping table. A ratchet mechanism, which prevents over-rotation in a fiber bundle feeding direction of the bobbin, is arranged between the holder and the chuck. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090059296 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, FACSIMILE MACHINE, AND COPIER - An image processing apparatus includes an attaching portion to which a portable external storage medium can be removably attached, an output unit arranged to output image information, a writing unit arranged to store set output conditions and an image storage file in which the image information is stored in the external storage medium when the output unit outputs the image information, and a reading unit arranged to read data from the external storage medium. The output conditions and the image storage file stored in the external storage medium attached to the attaching portion can be read by the reading unit, and the image information extracted from the image storage file can be output by the output unit in accordance with the output conditions. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090059277 | FACSIMILE MACHINE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A method for controlling a facsimile machine having a two-sided communication function includes the steps of transporting an original document to a standby position after supplying a front side of the original document to a scanning unit; transporting the original document to the standby position after reversing the original document and supplying a back side of the original document again to the scanning unit; further reversing the original document and transporting the original document to a discharge position; and sending an EOM signal to a communication destination after having the back side of the original document scanned by the scanning unit and transmitting back side image data to the communication destination. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090057066 | STACKER CRANE AND WEIGHT REDUCTION METHOD FOR MAST OF THE STACKER CRANE - A mast includes two support columns each having nonuniform strength in a height direction. Both of upper and lower end portions of the mast have the highest strength, intermediate portions of the mast have the intermediate strength, and shoulder portions of the mast, between the central portion and both of the upper and the lower end portions, have the lowest strength. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090055493 | GATEWAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for controlling a gateway device arranged between a client terminal and a server, and arranged to relay transmission and reception of e-mails, includes the steps of receiving a first e-mail stored in the server, converting the first e-mail into a second e-mail for temporary storage, transmitting the second e-mail to the client terminal, and managing information on the first e-mail and second e-mail. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090046313 | Image Processing Apparatus and Image Processing Method - An image processing apparatus acquires an image by optically scanning an original document and determines whether or not the document is of standard size. A histogram is created indicating the number of pixels with respect to each luminance value of the acquired image. A background color peak is specified that corresponds to a background color of the original document in the created histogram. A background color portion of the original document is specified that corresponds to a luminance area including the background color peak. The background color portion is replaced with a white color that will not be a target for printing. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090038759 | Filament Winding Automated System - The present invention makes it possible to increase production efficiency while reducing costs. A filament winding automated system according to the present invention includes a winding device winding a fiber bundle R paid out from a head portion | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090001920 | MICRO-STEP DRIVING METHOD OF STEPPING MOTOR AND ELECTRICALLY-DRIVEN DEVICE USING STEPPING MOTOR - In a micro-step drive and driving method of a stepping motor, the stepping motor generates a drive force for movement on a prescribed path of a moving unit provided in an electrically driven device, a standard point and a target point of an operation are set on the path, the stepping motor is rotated such that the moving unit passes through the standard point, a count value of a stable stop point of the stepping motor that is closest to a count value at the point of time when the moving unit passed through the standard point is specified, the specified count value is set as a start point for controlling a rotation angle of the stepping motor, and the stepping motor is rotated, and stopped at the count value of the selected stable stop point. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090000505 | Transportation Vehicle System - A plurality of intra-bay routes and an inter-bay route between the intra-bay routes are defined as a logic bay, and the minimum number of allocated transportation vehicles is determined based on the unit of each logic bay. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20080297844 | Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus that determines, when performing color calibration, whether or not a calibration chart is usable. A scanning unit acquires image data by optically scanning an original document. A usability determining unit determines, in accordance with conditions for colors indicated by standard image data acquired by scanning the original document, whether or not the original document is usable as the calibration chart. A calibration unit performs, only when the determination is made that the original document is usable as the calibration chart, color calibration by using an image value at a predetermined position indicated by the standard image data. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080288803 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a power supply unit that generates plural output voltages from an input voltage and outputs the various output voltages from respective plural power supply channels, a voltage detecting unit that monitors voltages of two power supply channels among plural power supply channels which are different in decreases of the output voltage in the case that the input voltage is cut off, outputs a first detecting signal upon detecting a decrease in voltage of a first power supply channel having a fast decrease to a first threshold and outputs a second detecting signal upon detecting a decrease in voltage of a second power supply channel having a slow decrease to a second threshold, and a control unit that saves data upon receiving the first detecting signal and stops an operation of the electronic device upon receiving the second detecting signal. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080288591 | RELAY SERVER, RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A relay server that is connected to a LAN and that can communicate with a relay server of a different LAN, includes: an account information registering unit that stores account information including information on client terminals connected to the LAN; a relay group information registering unit that stores relay group information including information on a group of relay servers permitting access to each other; and a shared resource information registering unit that stores shared resource information including information on resources and information on the client terminals sharing the resources, wherein when an operation command for a resource, which can be operated by a client terminal connected to the different terminal, is received from the client terminal stored in the account information registering unit based on the shared resource information, the operation of the resource is relayed on the basis of the relay group information. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080284094 | Work Sheet Conveying and Housing System and Work Sheet Conveying and Housing Method - The present invention provides a work sheet conveying and housing system which can efficiently convey and house work sheets and which, in a housed condition, prevents formed parts of the work sheets from being crushed. The work sheet conveying and holding system includes a work sheet stocker | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080282078 | GATEWAY DEVICE, CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND PROGRAM RECORD MEDIUM STORING CONTROLLING METHOD - A method of controlling a gateway device includes the steps of converting a plain text mail received from a client device to an encrypted mail; transmitting the encrypted mail to a mail transmission server; and notifying a transmission error to the client device when the transmission error occurs between the gateway device and the mail transmission server is provided. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080281981 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A relay server is capable of communicating with other relay servers through an external server arranged on a Wide Area Network. The relay server stores information about a registered terminal, information about the relay servers forming a relay group by permitting connection among each other, and information about a resource and a client terminal sharing the resource. When an operation instruction regarding the resource in another terminal is received, the relay server relays the operation instruction from the registered terminal to another relay server. However, when key information is stored in association with the resource, the relay server relays the operation instruction to the other relay server only when a correct key has been entered. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080275953 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A relay server stores registered terminal information and information about the relay servers that form a relay group permitting connection among each other, about a shared resource, about terminals sharing the resource, and about a message to be transmitted in association with the resource. When an operation instruction regarding the resource held by another terminal is received from the registered terminal to which the relay server is connected, the relay server relays the operation instruction to another relay server. When the message is transmitted to the other terminal by the terminal, message information is relayed. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080275945 | RELAY SERVER AND RELAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a relay communication system, when receiving an operation instruction of a resource from a client terminal stored in an account information registration unit, a relay server relays the operation instruction to a client terminal capable of operating the resource based on relay group information if the resource is operable by another client terminal. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080273948 | Plate Material Carry-Out Device and Plate Material Carry-Out Method - The present invention provides a plate material carry-out device that can efficiently carry out a plurality of product plate materials cut from a raw plate material by a plate material processing machine, to a plate material carry-out section located outside the plate material processing machine. The plate material carry-out device includes tracks | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080273746 | Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus which is able to make a copy whose character information is clearly readable for a predetermined document registered as a special document is provided. A fixed-format document including the character information written in a predetermined format is determined as the special document and the special document identification information for identifying the special document is stored. An original document determining unit compares document color distribution information (color distribution information relating to a sample area of a special document) retained as the special document identification information with original document color distribution information (color distribution information of an area corresponding to the sample area of the special document) and, when the both of them match, the original document is determined to be a special original document. When the original document corresponds to the special document, image data acquired by reading out the original document is converted into monochrome image data and is recorded on a recording sheet. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080266615 | IMAGE COPYING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CORRECTING IMAGE DATA - An image copying apparatus includes a target data acquiring unit, a target data saving unit, an adding unit, a sampling data saving unit, a specifying unit, a sampling data saving unit, and a correcting unit. The target data acquiring unit acquires target data from a test chart document. The adding unit adds data displaying a specification image specifying the scanning unit having scanned a test chart recorded side to the recorded side image data. The sampling data acquiring unit acquires sampling data from a copy of the test chart document. The specifying unit specifies the scanning unit having scanned the test chart recorded side from the specification image. The sampling data saving unit saves the sampling data when the scanning unit having scanned the test chart copied side matches the specified scanning unit. The correcting unit corrects the image data based on a correcting feature generated from the saved data. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080266613 | Image Processing Device and Image Processing Method - An original document is scanned, an arbitrary color area in a chromaticity plane is extracted with respect to the scanned original document, coordinate conversion is performed on the extracted color area in the chromaticity plane, and a mask area is determined to be masked, in accordance with the converted color area on which the coordinate conversion has been performed. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080266612 | Image Processing Device and Image Processing Method - An image processing device detects a candidate area of a background color in a chromaticity plane with respect to an original scanned document. A background color area is determined based on the candidate area of the detected background color. Boundary lines extending from the determined background color area to an achromatic-color area are generated. The background color area and an area surrounded by the background color area and the boundary lines are set as a mask, and the background color of the original document is deleted. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080266611 | Image Processing Device and Image Processing Method - An image processing device scans a document and judges a background color of the scanned document based on a stored threshold. The threshold necessary for background color judgment is reset when the judgment result is not determinable, and the background color is re-judged based on the reset threshold. Image processing is performed according to the judgment result. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080265500 | WORK SHEET CONVEYING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a work sheet conveying system which enables a work sheet cabinet to be simplified and which allows palettes to be efficiently moved into and out from the work sheet cabinet. The work sheet conveying system according to the present invention includes a work sheet cabinet | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080265498 | WORK SHEET CONVEYING DEVICE - The present invention provides a work sheet conveying device having a traveling member with a compact work sheet holder, making it possible to improve work sheet conveying speed and to reduce the time required for acceleration and deceleration, the work sheet conveying device further making it possible to improve the efficiency with which small work sheet's are conveyed. The work sheet conveying device includes a plurality of traveling members | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080264758 | WORK SHEET PROCESSING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a work sheet processing system that enables the effective utilization, without adverse effects on the operation of a work sheet processing machine or other peripheral devices, of a redundant work sheet corresponding to a material work sheet from which product work sheets have been cut, a part of the redundant work sheet being still capable of being processed into other product work sheets. The work sheet processing system includes a work sheet processing machine | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080264221 | WORK SHEET PROCESSING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a work sheet processing system that can compactly collect a plurality of product work sheets cut by a work sheet processing machine, allowing the product work sheets to be easily transported to a next process. A work sheet processing system includes a work sheet processing machine | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080259409 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A method of controlling an image processing apparatus comprising the steps of: generating color reduced image data from the color image data; generating monochrome reduced image data from the monochrome image data; and determining the order of generation of the color or monochrome reduced image data when generating both the color reduced image data and the monochrome reduced image data for display. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080256273 | SERIAL COMMUNICATION METHOD AND SERIAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A host device continuously transmits a same command or a same piece of data to a remote device in serial format. The remote device receives the command or the data, and then determines whether the command or the data has an error. When the command or the data has no error, the remote device transmits a response to the host device. Upon reception of the response, the host device stops the continuous transmission of the command or the data. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080256043 | ACCUMULATION CONTROL DEVICE - An accumulation control device arranged to accumulate data in an accumulation device accepts a data classification when the data is acquired, and stores the accepted classification in accordance with the data to be accumulated in the accumulation device. When the data accumulated in the accumulation device is selected, determination is made as to whether or not a current time is a timing at which an accumulation form of the accumulated data should be changed, and when determination is made that the timing has come, the selected data is reaccumulated in the accumulation device, in the accumulation form stored in an accumulation-form storage unit in association with the accepted classification and the determined timing. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080252947 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NETWORK MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL - An image processing apparatus includes a CPU arranged to select one of a plurality of pixel rates including a normal pixel rate and high pixel rates which are higher than the normal pixel rate when processing at a low resolution. The image processing apparatus also includes a timing generator arranged to control a CCD line sensor so that the pixel data is outputted at the selected pixel rate, a switch arranged to select the pixel data of pixels at different positions in a line, from line to line, from among the pixel data acquired by scanning the plurality of consecutive lines according to a control signal from the timing generator, and an ASIC arranged to import the selected pixel data and apply different filters to the imported pixel data depending on the line where the target data to be acquired is positioned. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080252926 | Image Scanning Device - A method for determining whether or not a specific image is contained in a scanned image. An image on a first side of a document is scanned and first image information indicating the scanned image is outputted. Specific component information is extracted indicating a specific component of each pixel out of information indicating a pixel value contained in the first image information. Whether or not the specific image is contained in the image on the first side is determined based on the extracted specific component information and stored specific image information. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080247006 | IMAGE READER AND IMAGE READING METHOD - An image reader includes a first read unit, a second read unit independent of the first read unit, a determination unit, a storage unit, and a correction unit. The first read unit reads a first face of a fed document to create image data. The second read unit reads a second face of the fed document to create the image data. The determination unit determines the read unit that has read a recording face of a test chart when a test chart document, with a test chart recorded on one face, is read. The storage unit stores the read unit that has read the recording face of the test chart and sampling data extracted from image data created by the read unit that has read the recording face of the test chart in association with each other. The correction unit corrects read characteristics of the read unit associated with the sampling data, based on the sampling data. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080240766 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A method of controlling a job interruptible image forming device in which job interrupting is enabled, includes a step of storing contents of respective job settings of an interrupted first job and an interrupting second job respectively, a step of causing a display to indicate that the respective job settings of the first job and the second job coexist, and a step of activating job setting windows for respective job settings selectively on the display in response to a selection entry of a user. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080240554 | Image Color Discriminating Apparatus, Image Color Discriminating Method and Program - A method for discriminating a color of an object image. Whether unit data showing a color of a part of the object image corresponds to any position on a two-dimensional color plane is discriminated. A distribution value showing a width of a distribution range of the unit data in the color plane is acquired based on the discrimination result. Whether the object image corresponds to a full color image having mixed color expression, a specific color image not having mixed color expression or an achromatic color image is discriminated based on the distribution value. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080239347 | Image Processing Apparatus and Method for Detecting a Background Color - A background color of a document is detected based on image data of a colormetric system in which brightness and color components are separated. A color plane is divided into a plurality of color areas, and the number of elements of image data belonging to each color area is counted. The number of elements of image data belonging to each area of a multiple area constituted of mutually adjacent color areas is then counted. A color area in which the number of elements of image data exceeds a first threshold is extracted and given a positive evaluation. A multiple area in which the number of elements of image data exceeds a second threshold is extracted and a positive evaluation is given to each color area in the multiple area. A color area receiving a positive evaluation both individually and as part of a multiple area is specified as a color area of background color. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080231921 | Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus that reduces a color of a document image to be printed. An image generation unit scans a document to generate image data. A hue determination unit determines a specific hue included in the image data and a hue becoming a complementary color of the specific hue. A color reduction unit reduces a color of the image data based on the specific hue and the hue becoming the complementary color of the specific hue. An output unit outputs the image data whose color is reduced on a recording medium. Image data that is of a hue in a predetermined range from the hue becoming the complementary color is replaced with the hue becoming the complementary color, and image data that is outside of the predetermined range is replaced with the specific hue. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080231914 | Document Scanning Apparatus - Scanned images are tiled in a list display area of a display of a touch panel. A model icon and other icons for editing are displayed in an edit icon display area. A scanned image is accepted as an object to be processed by a touch operation to the scanned image. By moving the touched position to the model icon and releasing the touch, an editing process by the model icon is accepted. The model icon is displayed with the scanned image overlapped thereon as the result of the editing process. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080226371 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SCANNER - In an image scanning apparatus, documents on a document tray are transferred one by one, and an upper surface height of the documents is lowered to turn off a height detection sensor. Different kinds of control modes are performed according to a document scanning mode. In an image-quality-priority scanning mode, a transfer unit suspends transfer of the document, the document tray is elevated until the upper surface height reaches a target height that is higher by a predetermined distance after the height detection sensor is turned on, and the transfer unit resumes the transfer of the document. In a speed-priority scanning mode, while the transfer of the document is continued by the transfer unit, the document tray is elevated until the document tray reaches the target height. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080224392 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SCANNER - In an image scanning apparatus, when documents on a document tray are sequentially transferred, different control steps are performed according to a scanning speed when an upper surface height of the documents is lowered thereby turning off a height detection sensor. In a low scanning speed, the document tray is elevated one time until the upper surface height becomes a target height which is higher by a predetermined distance since a height detection sensor is turned on at an inter-transfer time between completion of document transfer and start of a subsequent document transfer. In an intermediate scanning speed, the document tray is elevated little by little in each transfer of one document at the inter-transfer time until the upper surface height reaches the target height. In a fast scanning speed, the transfer of the document is tentatively interrupted, the document tray is elevated one time until the upper surface height reaches the target height, and the transfer of the document is resumed. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080224391 | IMAGE SCANNING APPARATUS AND IMAGE SCANNER - In an image scanning apparatus, when documents on a document tray are sequentially transferred, different control steps are performed according to a scanning speed when an upper surface height of the documents is lowered thereby turning off a height detection sensor. In a first control mode, which is not a high speed scanning, the document tray is elevated little by little during an inter-transfer time between each time one document is transferred until the upper surface height reaches a target height that is higher by a predetermined distance since the height detection sensor is turned on. In a second control mode, in which high speed scanning is performed, the document tray is elevated little by little during the inter-transfer time each time the one document is transferred until the upper surface height reaches a height that is higher by a predetermined distance than a height at a time when the height detection sensor is turned off. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080218805 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus prevents reproduction and display of an image file in a viewer of a client PC, etc., by encrypting “fileType” and “version” contained in an Image File Header (IFH), which is file format information, and “tagCount”, “sig_tag | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080199227 | TONER CARTRIDGE - In a toner cartridge, a cover member is attached to an outer surface of a case main body so as to cover a filling hole through which a toner is filled in a toner chamber. The cover member is detachably attached to the case main body by a lock mechanism disposed between the case main body and the cover member. The lock mechanism includes two or more lock structures which lock the cover member to the case main body and a release tool which carries out a release operation of the lock structures. Each of the lock structures includes an elastic engagement claw and an engagement recess which are provided on opposite surfaces of the case main body and the cover member, respectively. The release tool is configured to allow all of the elastic engagement claws to be simultaneously displaced in a lock release direction. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080198410 | Print Management Device and Print Management Method - A print management device receives printing data and judges whether a digital signature is attached to the printing data. When a digital signature is attached, the device judges whether a public key of the digital signature is stored and permits printing when the public key of the digital signature is stored and information permitting printing is stored. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080197229 | Filament winding method and apparatus - Helical winding is reliably carried out in a plurality of patterns at different angles in a short period of time. A filament winding apparatus for winding fiber bundles onto the surface of a mandrel includes a helical winding head for use in helical winding of the fiber bundles onto the mandrel. The helical winding head includes at least two guide arrays, each including a plurality of guide portions disposed along a circumferential direction of the mandrel, and a repositioning mechanism capable of repositioning the guide portions by rotating each guide array relative to another. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080196660 | Resin Impregnating Apparatus - The present invention provides a resin impregnating apparatus which enables a fiber feeding speed to be increased without increasing the size, complicatedness, or costs of the apparatus. A resin impregnating apparatus | 08-21-2008 |
