Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080226363 | FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing apparatus is provided with a fixing roller that fixes a toner image that has been transferred onto a paper, a cleaning member that cleans a circumferential surface of the fixing roller using a metal roller that is idly rotated by contacting the circumferential surface of the fixing roller, a drive control means that, at a predetermined timing, sets a rotation velocity of the fixing roller to high-speed rotation that is faster by a predetermined velocity than a rotation velocity during print processing, a load torque detection means that detects a load torque of a drive source of the fixing roller, and a determination means that determines an extent of smearing of the cleaning member based on a load torque detected by the load torque detection means during high-speed rotation by the drive control means. | 09-18-2008 |
20080237978 | FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A feeding device according to the present invention holds a pile of sheets of paper in it. Feed force so acts selectively on a specified region of the upper side of the held top sheet as to feed the held sheets one after one in a feed direction. The feeding device includes a flat press plate and a support. The press plate is not smaller in the feed direction and the cross directions perpendicular to the feed direction than the maximum size of the sheets which can be held in the main body. The press plate is not larger in the feed and cross directions than the inner size of the main body. The press plate has a first opening formed over the specified region. The press plate is supported vertically movably above the held sheets by the support. | 10-02-2008 |
20100019446 | PAPER DISCHARGE APPARATUS, POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A paper discharge apparatus that sequentially discharges paper through a discharge outlet, stacks and stores the paper is provided, the apparatus includes: a discharge tray including a fixed tray that is fixedly disposed spaced apart from the discharge outlet, and a swing tray that is disposed between the fixed tray and the discharge outlet and that is axially supported so as to be capable of swinging at or near an end portion of the fixed tray; and a drive control unit that controls an angle of inclination of a surface of the swing tray with respect to a surface of the fixed tray by swinging the swing tray. In this paper discharge apparatus, paper discharged from the discharge outlet is received on the fixed tray and the swing tray of the discharge tray. | 01-28-2010 |
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20090062011 | REMOTE GAME SYSTEM AND REMOTE GAME MACHINE - A remote game system has a game machine, which has a manual operation unit receiving a manual operation instruction, and a remote controller. The remote controller communicates with the game machine through a communication network, and controls operation of the game machine through the communication network. The game machine has an exclusion unit, and when one of a remote operation instruction for playing a game from the remote controller and a manual operation instruction for directly playing the game from the manual operation unit has been received, inhibits one of the remote operation instruction or the manual operation instruction. | 03-05-2009 |
20090089397 | MULTICAST CONTROL APPARATUS, MULTICAST CONTROL SYSTEM, AND MULTICAST CONTROL METHOD - A multicast control apparatus includes: a delivery instructing unit, responsive to a first one of received viewing requests, to instruct delivery to a first external apparatus of the content data; a delivery determining unit to determine whether a corresponding number of deliveries of the content data exceeds a delivery limit; calculating units to calculate (1) a time necessary to create a cache of a copy of the content data and (2) a remaining time before viewing of the content data delivered from the first external apparatus is finished; a control unit to set a second and subsequent ones of the received viewing requests to a wait state if the delivery limit is exceeded by the first received viewing request, and to instruct creation of the cache to a second external apparatus if the necessary time is shorter than the remaining time. | 04-02-2009 |
20100087170 | MESSAGE TRANSMISSION METHOD AND MESSAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A message transmission method includes storing message data whose message contents change depending on a value of a parameter in a storage unit, acquiring the value of the parameter based on an operation of a called party when a second terminal device receives a call from a first terminal device, determining the contents of the message based on the acquired parameter value and the message data, and transmitting the message whose contents are determined to the first terminal device. | 04-08-2010 |