Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090016763 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SHEET FINISHER AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, a sheet finisher and an image forming system; each of them including: a display for displaying a work item for a maintenance in the form of a guidance display; a detection section for detecting whether the work item is executed or not; an energization controller for supplying/blocking power supply to electric components to be maintained; a connection judging section for judging whether the electric components are electrically connected with the power supply or not; and a controller for controlling the display to switch displays of the work item and for controlling the energization controller, in accordance with a detection result of the detection section; wherein the controller causes the display to display an alarm and a guidance display of a corresponding work, according to a judgment of the connection judging section. | 01-15-2009 |
20090052930 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus for forming a visible image on a transfer sheet according to a job, the image forming apparatus including: a plurality of sheet feed trays adapted to load plural kinds of transfer sheets; an image forming section for forming a visible image according to image data on a transfer sheet; a conveying section for conveying a transfer sheet from each of the plurality of sheet feed trays toward the image forming section; a display section for displaying various items; a color detection section for detecting a transfer sheet color of the transfer sheet being conveyed by the conveying section; and a control section for controlling a conveyance of the transfer sheet and the image formation, wherein the control section displays a transfer sheet color designated by the job and the transfer sheet color detected by the color detection section on the display section. | 02-26-2009 |
20100129538 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING MAGNET - The invention provides a process for producing a magnet that not only allows satisfactory Br and HcJ values to be achieved but can also yield a magnet with a sufficiently large squareness ratio. The process for producing a magnet according to the invention is characterized by comprising a first step in which a heavy rare earth compound containing a heavy rare earth element is adhered onto a rare earth magnet sintered compact, and a second step in which the heavy rare earth compound-adhered sintered compact is subjected to heat treatment. The heavy rare earth compound is a hydride of the heavy rare earth element. | 05-27-2010 |
20100150581 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a unit in which a replaceable part is loaded, an image forming section to form an image on a recording medium by an operation of the unit, a malfunction detection section to detect a malfunction of the unit or the part and a control section to carry out a control of the image forming apparatus, and when an operation mode to executed an image forming by the image forming section is an image forming mode and when the operation mode which allows a maintenance/replacement of the unit is a maintenance/replacement mode, the control section changes a control of the image forming apparatus according to whether the operation mode when the malfunction was detected by the malfunction detection section is the image forming mode or the maintenance/replacement mode. | 06-17-2010 |
20100225047 | SHEET FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There are provided a plurality of sheet feed trays in which sheets are stored, a sheet feeding section which enables a continuous sheet feeding of sheets stored in the above sheet feed tray, and a control section which controls the above sheet feeding section and has an auto tray switch function, and the aforesaid control section obtains information on an amount of sheets stored in the above sheet feed tray, during a continuous sheet feeding from the above sheet feed tray, and judges whether or not the amount of the remaining sheets in the above sheet feed tray satisfies the prescribed condition. In the case where the above prescribed condition is satisfied, the control section stops motion of sheet feeding from the above sheet feed tray while leaving sheets in the above sheet feed tray. | 09-09-2010 |
20100247367 | METHOD OF PRODUCING RARE-EARTH MAGNET - A method of producing a rare-earth magnet containing a rare-earth compound having a first rare-earth element and a second rare-earth element different from the first rare-earth element includes: a mixing step of mixing rare-earth compound powder including the first rare-earth element and subjected to a process based on hydrogenation disproportionation desorption recombination with a diffusion material including the second rare-earth element; a molding step of molding the mixed powder into a compact in a magnetic field; and a heating step of heating the compact to diffuse the second rare-earth element into the rare-earth compound powder. | 09-30-2010 |
20100322642 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus provided with a sheet feeding tray to store sheets for image forming; a sheet feeding section to feed the sheets form the sheet feeding tray so as to supply the sheets for the image forming; and a control section to individually administer remaining sheets stored in the sheet feeding tray in advance and replenishment sheets replenished when the sheet feeding tray is replenished with the sheets in a state where the sheets stored in the sheet feeding tray in advance is remaining. Whereby, a JOB can be continued or aborted appropriately with reference to information and remaining amounts of remaining sheets and replenishment sheets in one sheet feeding tray, since the information and the remaining amounts are administered individually. | 12-23-2010 |
20100328633 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS AND PROJECTOR - A light source unit includes a light source group wherein light sources are arranged into rows and columns so as to form a planar configuration and a primary reflecting mirror group disposed on an optical axis of the light source group to reflect light beams emitted from the light source group as light beams whose sectional areas are reduced in a column direction by narrowing intervals between light beams emitted from the light sources making up the rows of the light source group, the primary reflecting mirror group includes different strip-like reflecting mirrors disposed on optical axes of light beams emitted from the rows of the light source group in a step-like fashion, and the reflecting mirrors are disposed to eliminate intervals between reflected light beams from the reflecting mirrors, thereby making it possible to reduce the sectional areas of the light beams. | 12-30-2010 |
20100329758 | SHEET SUPPLYING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM USING THE SAME DEVICE - A sheet supplying device, including a sheet accommodating section which accommodates recording sheets, and is removable from a main body of the sheet supplying device, a locking section which locks the sheet accommodating section within the main body, not to draw out the sheet accommodating section from the main body, a suction conveying section which vacuums the recording sheet accommodated in the sheet accommodating section and conveys the recording sheet, and a suction detecting section which detects the recording sheet vacuumed by the suction conveying section, wherein when the suction conveying section has supplied the recording sheet, if the suction detecting sensor detects the recording sheet, the locking section locks the sheet accommodating section within the main body of the sheet supplying device, and if it does not detect the recording sheet, the locking section releases the sheet accommodating section from the main body. | 12-30-2010 |
20110033217 | Image Forming System and Post-Processing Apparatus - There is described an image forming system, which confirms a finished state of an image at any time during the implementation of the image forming job as needed. The system includes: an image forming section to respectively form images on recording materials; a stacking section to stack the recording materials continuously ejected from the image forming section; an instruction inputting section from which an operator inputs instruction information; an ejecting section to stack a part of the recording materials in such a manner that the operator can pick up stacked recording materials by hand; a controlling section to conduct controlling operations in response to the instruction information, inputted from the instruction inputting section during an implementation of an image forming job including an operation for stacking the recording materials ejected from the image forming section, in order to eject the part of the recording materials onto the ejecting section. | 02-10-2011 |
20110051102 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - With a view to providing a light source unit which can emit light source light of high luminance and high intensity even in the small quantity of excitation light, there is provided a light source unit including an excitation light source for emitting light in a blue wavelength band, a fluorescent wheel, a light emitting device for emitting light in a red wavelength band and a light guiding optical system for guiding light emitted from the fluorescent wheel and the light emitting device to a light guiding device, wherein the fluorescent wheel is made up of a fluorescent area where a green fluorescent material layer for emitting fluorescent light in a green wavelength band is disposed and a diffuse area for converting light emitted from the excitation light source into diffuse light of which directivity is weak are disposed end to end in a circumferential direction, and wherein the green fluorescent material layer is such that a concentration of weight content of the green fluorescent material in the green fluorescent material layer relative to the fluorescent material layer and a thickness thereof are determined so that a luminescent intensity of fluorescent light emitted from the green fluorescent material layer is enhanced. | 03-03-2011 |
20110116813 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM EQUIPPED THEREWITH - An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet conveyance section having a sheet storing member to store sheets that have been aligned in a prescribed placing direction, which conveys a sheet stored in the sheet storing member; an image forming section having an image carrier, which forms an image on the image carrier; an image transfer section which transfers the image formed on the image carrier onto a sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyance section; a winding detection section which detects whether or not the sheet conveyed by the sheet conveyance section is wound around the image carrier; and a controller which controls to instruct an operator to conduct a change operation of the placing direction of the sheets stored in the sheet storing member based on a sheet winding detection signal outputted from the winding detection section. | 05-19-2011 |
20120075591 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - A light source unit includes an excitation light source and a luminescent wheel on which luminescent light emitting areas including, on a reflecting surface, red and green luminescent materials which respectively emit light of red and green wavelength band, when receiving excitation light, and a diffuse transmission area which diffuses and transmits excitation light, are aligned end to end in a circumferential direction. An excitation light incident surface of a luminescent material layer of the luminescent wheel has a surface with a plurality of projecting bodies. Regular quadrangular pyramids are arranged thereon in a matrix with outer boundaries of bottom portions of adjacent regular quadrangular pyramids contacting each other. The pyramids rise at a rising angle of at least 30°, and a length of one side of an outer boundary of the bottom portion of the pyramid is between 10 and 100 μm. | 03-29-2012 |
20120163834 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND MAINTENANCE METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system having a preceding stage apparatus for forming a toner image on a paper sheet, and a subsequent stage apparatus, connected downstream of the preceding stage apparatus, for forming a toner image on the paper sheet ejected from the preceding stage apparatus, includes: a first maintenance counter correlating with a part, subject to maintenance, in the preceding stage apparatus; a second maintenance counter correlating with a part, subject to maintenance, in the subsequent stage apparatus, in response to the first maintenance counter; a counter control section for increasing a count value of the first and the second maintenance counters by a first and a second designated value, respectively, in response to formation of a toner image on the paper sheet; and a setting section for setting the first and second designated values individually based on an operation mode of the image forming system. | 06-28-2012 |
20130057626 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system has a first image forming section to form an image on a sheet, wherein the first image forming section heats the sheet to fix the image on the sheet, a second image forming section to form an image to the sheet on which the image has been formed by the first image forming section, and a transporting section to transport the sheet from first image forming section to the second image forming section. The transporting section has a first transporting part to transport the sheet to a predetermined position, and a second transporting part to reverse a surface of the sheet which has been transported by the first transporting part as transporting the sheet from the predetermined position to an area below the predetermined position. | 03-07-2013 |
20130071167 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus contains a first printer forming a first image on a surface of the sheet member, a reversing section reversing a surface of the sheet member and a second printer forming a second image on a back of the sheet member. The second printer contains a correction section correcting a deflection of the sheet member. A straight sheet-member-transporting path extends from the reversing section to the second printer. A distance between a position at which the sheet member enters the sheet-member-transporting path and a position at which the correction section corrects the deflection of the sheet member is set so as to be not smaller than a length of the sheet member having the largest size among the sheet members to be handled. | 03-21-2013 |
20130142534 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes first and second. image-forming portions and an intermediate transporting portion. A control unit checks fixing units in the image-forming portions and determines whether or not the fixing unit, in the first image-forming portion is a fixing unit for an envelope. If not, the control unit controls a manipulation and display unit to display guidance for urging a user to exchange the first fixing unit. If so, the control unit determines whether or not too fixing unit in the second image-forming portion is a fixing unit for an envelope. If not, the control portion controls a manipulation and display unit to display a guidance for urging a user to exchange the second fixing unit, If both of fixing units in the first and second image-forming portions are fixing units for the envelope, the control unit allows an envelope mode control operation. | 06-06-2013 |
20130242267 | LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND PROJECTOR - A light source unit includes an excitation light source, a plurality of light sources at least one of which emits a light ray in a wavelength band different from that of the excitation light source, a plurality of collimator lenses which make light rays from the light sources into parallel ones, a luminous light emitting device which receives the light ray from the excitation light source to emit a luminous light ray, a microlens array which diffuses the light rays from the light sources to a predetermined range and distributes the luminance thereof uniformly within the predetermined range and a collective lens which collects the light rays from the light sources which are emitted from the microlens array, and the light sources are disposed so that the light rays from the plurality of light sources intersect the light ray from the excitation light source at right angles. | 09-19-2013 |
20140013562 | ELEVATOR REFURBISHMENT METHOD - Provided is an elevator renovation method, which is capable of reducing a renovation period and enabling effective use of a space when an existing hydraulic elevator is renovated to a non-hydraulic elevator. The elevator renovation method involves renovating a hydraulic elevator in which a plunger ( | 01-16-2014 |
20140151159 | ELEVATOR SAFETY DEVICE AND ELEVATOR SAFETY DEVICE MOUNTING METHOD - A safety supporting body includes: a supporting body main body that is disposed inside a vertical stanchion groove of a car frame; and an engaging portion that protrudes outward from the supporting body main body, and that is hooked onto an upper end portion of a vertical stanchion. The safety supporting body is fixed to the vertical stanchion by a supporting body fixing apparatus. The supporting body fixing apparatus includes: a first fixing bolt that applies pressure between a side surface of the vertical stanchion groove and the supporting body main body; and a second fixing bolt that applies pressure between the engaging portion and a guiding apparatus mounting base that is fixed to the car frame. A safety device main body that applies a braking force to the car by placing a braking member in contact with the guide rail is disposed on the safety supporting body. | 06-05-2014 |
20140168615 | MICROLENS ARRAY, LIGHT INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION UNIFORMIZING ELEMENT HAVING SAME, AND PROJECTION APPARATUS HAVING LIGHT INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION UNIFORMIZING ELEMENT - The present invention provides a microlens array including multiple microlenses arranged axially parallel to one another, wherein entrance surfaces of the microlenses on which light is incident are made of resin, and exit surfaces of the microlenses from which light exits are made of glass. | 06-19-2014 |
20140216857 | ELEVATOR SAFETY DEVICE AND ELEVATOR SAFETY DEVICE MOUNTING METHOD - A safety device main body that is inserted inside a lower frame of a car frame includes a braking member. A guiding apparatus includes a guide shoe that is displaceable inside the safety device main body between a guided position that is guided by a guide rail and a retracted position that is removed from the guided position. The guide shoe is disposed in the guided position when the braking member is separated from the guide rail. An actuating apparatus displaces the guide shoe toward the retracted position while displacing the braking member in a direction of contact with the guide rail. The safety device main body, the guiding apparatus, and the actuating apparatus are supported together by a supporting body. The supporting body is mounted onto the lower frame from below using a mounting aperture that is previously disposed on the lower frame. | 08-07-2014 |
20150027815 | TRACTION MACHINE BASE OF ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR DEVICE - A traction machine base includes a top member, a bottom member, a bottom member, first bolts, and second bolts. The top member is intended for supporting a traction machine. A plurality of attachment holes for fixing the top member are formed in the bottom member. A plurality of attachment holes for fixing the top member are formed in the bottom member. The first bolts pass through the attachment holes and fix the top member to the bottom member. The second bolts pass through the attachment holes and fix the top member to the bottom member. The top member is fixed to the bottom member using a smaller number of the first bolts than the number of the attachment holes. The top member is fixed to the bottom member using a smaller number of the second bolts than the number of the attachment holes. | 01-29-2015 |