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20090289108 | FITTING ROOM TERMINAL, JOB SUPPORTING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION ACQUIRING METHOD - A display unit displays information in a fitting room. An operation input unit receives operation input of information in the fitting room. An RFID reader writer performs radio communication with an RFID tag, which is attached to a commodity and stores data of a commodity ID for identifying the commodity, and sets a radio communication range in the inside of the fitting room. A control unit that (i) acquires data of a commodity ID from an RFID tag attached to a commodity in the fitting room via the RFID reader writer, (ii) acquires, according to the acquisition of the data of the commodity ID, data of questionnaire information including a question and plural answers to the question from a questionnaire information file that stores the data of the questionnaire information, and (iii) causes the display unit to display the acquired questionnaire information, waits for selection of one or two or more answers, which are included in the questionnaire information displayed by the display unit, by operation input in the operation input unit, and causes a storage area to store the answers selected by the operation input in the operation input unit. | 11-26-2009 |
20090289775 | FITTING ROOM TERMINAL, JOB SUPPORTING SYSTEM, AND NOTIFYING METHOD - A notifying unit performs notifying operation on the outside of a fitting room. A display unit displays information in the fitting room. An operation input unit receives operation input of the information in the fitting room. An RFID reader writer performs radio communication with an RFID tag, which is attached to a commodity and stores data of a commodity ID for identifying the commodity, and sets a radio communication range in the inside of the fitting room. A control unit (i) acquires, from a stock file that stores data of stock information of commodities identified by commodity IDs in association with the commodity IDs, data of the stock information corresponding to a commodity ID output by the RFID reader writer and (ii) causes the display unit to display the stock information, the data of which is acquired from the stock file, and causes the notifying unit to perform the notifying operation when it is selected by operation input in the operation input unit to cause the display unit to display the stock information of a commodity identified by the commodity ID output by the RFID reader writer. | 11-26-2009 |
20090313142 | INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND STORE SYSTEM - An information terminal displays a coordinate screen acquired from a coordinate database on a liquid crystal display, acquires data of an article code of clothes coordinated in the coordinate image from the coordinate database, acquires data of inventory status and display status associated with the acquired article code from an inventory database which stores and saves an article code of an individual article in association with inventory status of the article in a warehouse and display status of the article in a sales floor, and displays an inventory screen which reports a place where the article exists as an article inventory list on the liquid crystal display. | 12-17-2009 |
20100259496 | ORDER RECEIVING APPARATUS AND ORDER RECEIVING METHOD - An order receiving apparatus includes: a display control unit configured to display an order input screen on which a menu area and a details area are arranged, the menu area being an area in which operation images for receiving orders for menu items are displayed for each section of menu items and the details area being an area in which details of the menu item for which an order is received are displayed; a receiving unit configured to receive selection of a detail out of the details displayed in the details area; and a switching unit configured to switch the operation images displayed in the menu area to the operation images for receiving menu items of the section related to the menu item, whose selection of the detail is received. | 10-14-2010 |
20100262936 | ORDER RECEIVING APPARATUS AND ORDER RECEIVING METHOD - An order receiving apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display an order input screen including a menu item space in which operation images for receiving orders of menu items are allocated according to definition information for defining the operation images and a menu allocation screen including the menu item space and a list of menu items for which the operation images can be allocated to the menu item space; a first selecting unit configured to select a menu item for which the operation image is allocated to the menu item space among the menu items included in the list; a second selecting unit configured to select an allocation position to which the operation image of the menu item selected by the first selecting unit is allocated among allocation positions to which the operation images can be allocated in the menu item space; and an updating unit configured to update the definition information according to the menu item selected by the first selecting unit and the allocation position selected by the second selecting unit. | 10-14-2010 |
20110065575 | THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MATERIAL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - To provide a thermosensitive recording material, containing a base, a thermosensitive recording layer disposed on the base and containing a leuco dye and a color developer, an intermediate layer disposed on the thermosensitive recording layer, and a protective layer disposed on the intermediate layer, wherein the intermediate layer contains a resin, and an aziridine compound. | 03-17-2011 |
20110131229 | QUERY GENERATING APPARATUS,QUERY GENERATING METHOD AND DATABASE SEARCH SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a query generating apparatus includes a query storing unit, a detecting unit, and a query generating unit. The query storing unit stores, in association with query identification information for identifying a database query, a query character string in which a portion of a parameter as a data retrieval condition for the database query specified by the query identification information is described as an arbitrary variable identifier. When the query identification information specifying the database query and a parameter necessary for retrieval of data are received from a client, the detecting unit detects the query character string associated with the received query identification information from the query storing unit. The query generating unit replaces the variable identifier described in the query character string detected from the query storing unit with the parameter received from the client and generates a database query. | 06-02-2011 |
20110192898 | FITTING ROOM TERMINAL, JOB SUPPORTING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION ACQUIRING METHOD - A display unit displays information in a fitting room. An operation input unit receives operation input of information in the fitting room. An RFID reader writer performs radio communication with an RFID tag, which is attached to a commodity and stores data of a commodity ID for identifying the commodity, and sets a radio communication range in the inside of the fitting room. A control unit that (i) acquires data of a commodity ID from an RFID tag attached to a commodity in the fitting room via the RFID reader writer, (ii) acquires, according to the acquisition of the data of the commodity ID, data of questionnaire information including a question and plural answers to the question from a questionnaire information file that stores the data of the questionnaire information, and (iii) causes the display unit to display the acquired questionnaire information, waits for selection of one or two or more answers, which are included in the questionnaire information displayed by the display unit, by operation input in the operation input unit, and causes a storage area to store the answers selected by the operation input in the operation input unit. | 08-11-2011 |
20110224074 | THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MEDIUM - To provide a thermosensitive recording medium, containing: a support; a thermosensitive recording layer; and a surface layer, where the thermosensitive recording layer and the surface layer are provided over the support, wherein the thermosensitive recording layer contains a binding agent, a coloring agent, and a color developer, and wherein the surface layer contains polyester (meth)acrylate having at least three (meth)acryloyl groups, and an α-hydroxyketone-based polymerization initiator having a melting point of 80° C. or higher. | 09-15-2011 |
20120047354 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes: a first verification section configured to perform true-false determination for a predetermined verification target using a verification item obtained by combining specified one of plural verification libraries respectively defining plural verification matters and an affirmative operator or a negative operator; a second verification section configured to subject, concerning the verification target, a true-false determination result of each of a plurality of the verification items verified by the first verification section to an arithmetic operation using a predetermined logical operator and obtain one arithmetic operation result; and an output section configured to output the arithmetic operation result of the second verification section. | 02-23-2012 |
20140148334 | THERMOSENSITIVE RECORDING MATERIAL - To provide a thermosensitive recording material, which contains: a support; a thermosensitive recording layer provided on one surface of the support; and a back layer provided on the other surface of the support, wherein the support has a surface formed of a resin, and wherein the back layer contains a combination of a core-shell acrylic resin and an oxazoline resin, or a reaction product thereof, or both thereof. | 05-29-2014 |
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20090253729 | Analgesic Agent - A pharmaceutical preparation useful for alleviating or treating a pain, e.g., a chronic pain (particularly, a neuropathic pain) is provided. The pharmaceutical preparation contains (a) a propionic acid-derived nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent (e.g., ibuprofen), (b) a non-pyrazolone antipyretic analgesic agent (e.g., acetaminophen), and (c) an opioid analgesic agent (e.g., codeine phosphate, dihydrocodeine phosphate). The pharmaceutical preparation may contain 5 to 100 parts by weight of the antipyretic analgesic agent (b) or 0.5 to 500 parts by weight of the analgesic agent (c) relative to 100 parts by weight of the anti-inflammatory agent (a). The pharmaceutical preparation may be substantially free from a nontoxic N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist and may contain 20 to 80 parts by weight of the antipyretic analgesic agent (b) and 1 to 100 parts by weight of the analgesic agent (c) relative to 100 parts by weight of the anti-inflammatory agent (a). | 10-08-2009 |
20100156602 | COMMODITY DISPLAY POSITION ALERT SYSTEM AND COMMODITY DISPLAY POSITION ALERT METHOD - A commodity display position alert system includes commodity display shelves set in a selling floor space of a store, an RFID reader provided in each of the commodity display shelves, and a server as a system control unit. The RFID reader reads a commodity code from an RFID tag attached to a commodity. A server compares the commodity code of the commodity and display permission information stored in a database functioning as a shelf-rule storing unit and determines whether the read commodity code is a commodity code of a commodity that should be displayed on the commodity display shelf. When the server determines that a commodity other than the commodity that should be displayed on the commodity display shelf is displayed on the commodity display shelf, the server performs control for outputting a reporting signal for causing the PDA terminal to perform reporting operation. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161435 | COMMODITY DISPLAY QUANTITY MANAGING SYSTEM AND COMMODITY DISPLAY QUANTITY MANAGING METHOD - RFID tags are attached to commodities sold in a selling floor of a store. The RFID tags have stored therein identification codes for enabling identification of the RFID tags. An RFID reader configured to read the identification codes stored in the RFID tags is attached to a commodity display shelf on which the commodities are displayed. When a display quantity of stock of the commodities displayed on the commodity display shelf changes and the display quantity of stock decreases to be equal to or smaller than a predetermined alert value, a server causes a radio access point to output a reporting signal for causing a PDA terminal to perform reporting operation. A store clerk can learn, by checking a message displayed by the PDA terminal, that the display quantity of stock of the commodities decreases and can take timing for display work for commodities. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161452 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING LIMIT NUMBER OF DISPLAYED COMMODITIES - In order to easily calculate a maximum number of commodities that can be displayed in a display space on a display shelf, a computer system executes: processing for dividing space width of a display space specified by a space code by commodity width of a commodity specified by a commodity code to calculate a width direction number of commodities that can be displayed in a width direction of the display space; processing for dividing space depth of the display space specified by the space code by commodity depth of the commodity specified by the commodity code to calculate a depth direction number of commodities that can be displayed in a depth direction of the display space; and processing for multiplying together the width direction number of commodities and the depth direction number of commodities to calculate a limit number of displayed commodities. | 06-24-2010 |
20130014370 | VEHICLE BODY ASSEMBLY LINE AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING VEHICLE BODYAANM Shimizu; KenjiAACI TokyoAACO JPAAGP Shimizu; Kenji Tokyo JP - Doors D (collectively representing doors D | 01-17-2013 |
20130341318 | HEATER CONTROL DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A heater control device having at least two PTC heaters having PTC elements includes switching units which are provided so as to correspond to the PTC heaters and which switch an energized state and a non-energized state of the PTC elements by being turned ON and OFF, pattern information which defines state combination patterns of the energized state and the non-energized state of the PTC elements with respect to a required power value for the heater unit, and a ratio controlling unit which when the required power for the heater unit is at an intermediate value of the required power values defined in the pattern information, controls a ratio of the energized state to the non-energized state of the PTC elements based on a ratio of ON time to OFF time for which an average power within a certain period matches the required power. | 12-26-2013 |
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20110137938 | DATABASE SYSTEM, SERVER DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND DATA PRESENTATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a database system includes a first and second storage unit, a reading unit, and a generating unit. The first storage unit stores a first data table in which first data records, each including information about information fields, are described. The second storage unit stores a second data table in which second data records including pieces of attribute information, each representing a display attribute about the information field included in the first data record, are described. The reading unit reads out the first and second data records from the first and second storage units in accordance with the fact that displaying the information included in the first data table is requested. The generating unit generates an image for displaying the information included in the read first data record in accordance with the display attribute represented by the attribute information included in the read second data. | 06-09-2011 |
20110145300 | DATABASE SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND DATABASE UPDATING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a database system includes first and second storing units, a detecting unit, an acquiring unit, a generating unit, and an updating unit. The first storing unit stores a first data table that describes plural first data records respectively including information concerning plural information fields. The second storing unit stores a second data table that describes second data records each including plural kinds of attribute information respectively representing attributes concerning the information fields. The detecting unit detects an information field not in use among the information fields. The acquiring unit acquires, according to an instruction of a user, attribute information concerning the detected information field. The generating unit generates a data record including the acquired attribute information and identification information of the detected information field. The updating unit updates the second data table to include the data record generated by the generating unit. | 06-16-2011 |
20110173170 | DATABASE SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF GENERATING DISPLAY IMAGE - According to one embodiment, a database system includes first, second and third storing units, and an image generating unit. The first storing unit stores a first data table that describes plural first data records respectively including information concerning plural information fields. The second storing unit stores a second data table that describes second data records each including plural kinds of attribute information respectively representing display attributes concerning the information fields. The third storing unit stores, concerning the information, display definition data that describes plural kinds of attribute information respectively representing display attributes set independently of the display attributes represented by the attribute information. The image generating unit generates a display image simultaneously representing a first image for displaying the information according to the display attributes represented by the attribute information and a second image for displaying the information according to the display attributes represented by the attribute information. | 07-14-2011 |
20130141441 | DIGITAL SIGNAGE APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS COMMUNICATING WITH DIGITAL SIGNAGE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT BY DIGITAL SIGNAGE APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a digital signage apparatus comprises a position information reception unit, a content inquiry unit, a content reception unit and a replay unit. The position information reception unit receives position information capable of specifying the installation position of the own apparatus from an external apparatus. The content inquiry unit notifies the position information received by the position information reception unit to an external information processing apparatus, so as to inquire the distribution of a content corresponding to the installation position. The content reception unit receives the content distributed in response to the inquiry of the content inquiry unit. The replay unit replays the content received by the content reception unit. | 06-06-2013 |
20140067519 | INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SERVER AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION METHOD - An information distribution server includes a content sending unit, a measurement data reception unit, an advertisement effect processing unit, an effect measurement database, a data input unit, a template selection unit and a content generation unit. The measurement data reception unit receives measurement information for measuring the advertisement effect of the content data during a content distribution period. The advertisement effect processing unit determines whether or not advertisement effect is good based on the received measurement information. The effect measurement database stores the determined advertisement effect together with measurement information for each screen template. The template selection unit preferentially selects a screen template having a good advertisement effect with reference to the effect measurement database based on the input project information. The content generation unit generates content data using the selected screen template and registers the generated content data in a schedule. | 03-06-2014 |
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20110308171 | VEHICLE DOOR FRAME AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A vehicle door frame includes first and second door frame members which are positioned end-to-end to be butt-welded to each other, wherein each of the first and second door frame members includes a design part, an enclosed section provided on a vehicle interior side, a connecting part which connects an inner surface of the design part with the enclosed section; and first and second dam protrusions which project from the inner surface of the design part and are positioned on opposite sides of the connecting part, respectively. Molten metal is present in the first and second spaces after the molten metal has melted and passed through the inner surface of the design part from the outer surface thereof upon butted ends of the first and second door frame members being butt-welded to each other from the outer surface of the design part. | 12-22-2011 |
20120056936 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING CARRIAGE THAT MOUNTS IMAGE FORMING UNIT - An image forming apparatus includes a carriage movably supported to move reciprocally in a main scanning direction, an image forming unit mounted on the carriage to form an image, a driving pulley disposed at a first end in the main scanning direction, a driven pulley disposed at a second end opposite the first end in the main scanning direction, a driving source operatively connected to the driving pulley to rotate the driving pulley, a carriage drawing member extended between the driving pulley and the driven pulley and partially mounted to the carriage to draw the carriage, a mount disposed on the carriage to mount the carriage drawing member, a holder disposed on the carriage to hook the carriage drawing member extended from the mount during assembly, and a guide member to guide the carriage drawing member extended from the mount and the holder. | 03-08-2012 |
20120062649 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING CARRIAGE THAT MOUNTS IMAGE FORMING UNIT - An image forming apparatus includes a carriage, an image forming unit, a driving pulley, a driven pulley, a driving source, an open-ended carriage drawing member, and a mount. The drawing member is extended between the pulleys and having end portions mounted to the carriage. Each end portion has a surface including an indented area. The mount is disposed on the carriage and having first engagement portions and second engagement portions. Each first engagement portion has at least one indented area to engage the indented area of the drawing member. Each second engagement portion is connected to a corresponding first engagement portion in an orientation to be folded back relative to the corresponding first engagement portion. The end portions are mounted to the mount in a state in which the surface having the indented area is directed to a portion folded back along a corresponding second engagement portion. | 03-15-2012 |
20120306960 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a head holder, a carriage, a guide member, a reference member, and a pressing unit. The recording head has a plurality of nozzles to eject liquid droplets. The head holder holds the recording head. The carriage is reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction and holds the head holder. The guide member is disposed along the main scanning direction to guide the carriage along the main scanning direction. The reference member is disposed parallel to the guide member in the carriage to rotatably hold the head holder. The pressing unit presses the head holder toward the carriage. The head holder is pressed against the reference member and the carriage by the pressing unit. | 12-06-2012 |
20120306967 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a head holder, a carriage, a guide member, a reference member, an intermediate member, and an adjuster. The recording head has a plurality of nozzles to eject liquid droplets. The head holder holds the recording head. The carriage is reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction and holds the head holder. The guide member is disposed along the main scanning direction to guide the carriage along the main scanning direction. The reference member is disposed parallel to the guide member in the carriage to hold the head holder. The intermediate member is displaceably disposed between the head holder and the carriage and held by the carriage. The adjuster adjusts a position of the head holder by displacing the intermediate member. | 12-06-2012 |
20120306970 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head including plural nozzles discharging liquid droplets, a head holder holding the recording head, a carriage holding the head holder, a guide member extending in a main scanning direction of the image forming apparatus, and a reference member extending in the direction substantially parallel to the direction of the guide member. Further, the carriage moves along the guide member, a part of the reference member is disposed in the carriage, and the head holder is attachably and detachably hooked on and held by the reference member. | 12-06-2012 |
20130070022 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING RECORDING HEAD FOR EJECTING LIQUID DROPLETS - An image forming apparatus includes recording heads, head holders, a carriage, a guide member, a reference member, and a pressing member. The recording heads have nozzles to eject liquid droplets. The holders hold the recording heads. The carriage is reciprocally movable in a main scanning direction and holding the holders. The guide member is disposed along the main scanning direction to guide the carriage along the main scanning direction. The reference member is disposed parallel to the guide member in the carriage to hold the holders. The pressing member presses at least one of the holders toward at least another of the holders. The holders have reference faces to contact each other in the main scanning direction to determine relative positions of the holders. With the recording heads positioned based on the reference faces of the holders, the recording heads are held by the holders. | 03-21-2013 |
20130147843 | IMAGE CODING DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT THEREOF, AND IMAGE CODING METHOD - To aim to achieve addition of blur to an image based on distance information of a subject and to appropriate determination of a block size that is a unit for coding. Blur is added to the image with use of one of disparity information for each pixel unit and distance information for each pixel unit and arbitrary blur conditions. A block size of each region of the image that are to be divided into blocks for coding is determined based on a blur value of the region. The image is divided into blocks based on the determined block sizes and coded in units of blocks. By increasing a block size with respect to a region included in an image having a high blur value, it is possible to reduce processing amount of reference block searching, thereby achieving speed-up of processing and reduction in processing amount. | 06-13-2013 |
20130271527 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a recording head to form an image on a recording medium, a carriage mounting the recording head and movable in a main scanning direction, a guide member extending in the main scanning direction to movably hold and guide the carriage, a stay member extending in the main scanning direction to hold the guide member, a frame member attached to the stay member to support the stay member, and an adjustment unit provided between and attached to a first end of the stay member and to the frame member to adjust an angle of the stay member with respect to the recording medium. | 10-17-2013 |
20140021739 | VEHICLE DOOR FRAME STRUCTURE - A door frame structure of a vehicle door which includes an upright pillar sash and an upper sash, wherein joining end surfaces of the upright pillar sash and the upper sash are welded together along a periphery thereof, at least one of the upright pillar sash and the upper sash includes a frame body portion and a cantilever protrusion, the joining end surface of the one of the upright pillar sash and the upper sash partly including the frame body portion and the cantilever protrusion. The upright pillar sash and the upper sash are welded to each other along the frame body portion and a base portion of the cantilever protrusion which is connected to the frame body portion. A leading end portion of the cantilever protrusion which is positioned on the leading end side is not welded. | 01-23-2014 |
20140063123 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of recording heads, a plurality of head holders to hold the recording heads, a guide member extending in a main scanning direction, a carriage movable in the main scanning direction along the guide member to hold the head holders, a reference member provided to the carriage and extending in the same direction as the guide member extends, an intermediate holder disposed between the carriage and the head holders and supported by the carriage with the reference member and at least two sub-reference portions, an adjustment member provided to at least one of the two sub-reference portions to displace the one of the two sub-reference portions relative to the carriage, and a contact portion provided to each of the head holders to contact against the intermediate holder in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the reference member extends. | 03-06-2014 |
20140152606 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - Provided are an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing program, which simply switch to a display method which a user desires. When an information processing device ( | 06-05-2014 |
20140192163 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT THEREFOR, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD, IMAGE PICKUP PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM - An imaging device generates distance information for each object in a plurality of images having the same viewpoint. During the generation, the imaging device detects distances from the viewpoint to some of the objects intermittently, and estimates the distances from the viewpoint to the other objects using the detected distances. The imaging device extracts object areas from the images, estimates the correspondence between the object areas of a target image targeted for distance estimation and the object areas of a reference image having been subjected to distance detection by a comparison therebetween, and allocates, for each of the object areas of the target image, the distance information of the corresponding object area of the reference image. | 07-10-2014 |
20150039100 | CONTROL METHOD - A control method includes: displaying candidate information on a user interface region of a display unit in an information terminal; obtaining, via a network, an operation history of each of apparatuses which indicates an operation performed on the corresponding apparatus; displaying, on the user interface region, a dialog for prompting a user to confirm whether or not to perform predetermined control on a target apparatus which is extracted according to at least one of (a) selected apparatus information (b) selected place information and (c) selected operator information, and has an operation history that satisfies a predetermined condition; generating a control signal for performing the predetermined control on the target apparatus, when the user confirms in the dialog that the predetermined control is to be performed on the target apparatus; and transmitting the control signal to the target apparatus via the network. | 02-05-2015 |
20150055980 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus including plural image holding members that have toner images formed on respective surfaces thereof, image forming sections that form the toner images on the plural image holding members, respectively, a belt member that has an endless belt shape, plural transfer members each of which nips the belt member between the transfer member and a corresponding image holding member, a moving mechanism that individually moves the plural transfer members between a first place and a second place, plural rod-shaped rotating members around which the belt member is stretched and rotated, an adjusting member that adjusts a position of the belt member, an initializing mechanism that performs an initialization processing of returning the inclination of the adjusting member to an initial state, and a controller that starts the initialization processing by the initializing mechanism. | 02-26-2015 |
20150067528 | CONTROL METHOD - A control method according to the present disclosure is used in a remote control system including apparatuses and an information terminal that controls at least one of the apparatuses via a network. The control method includes: a step (S | 03-05-2015 |
20150095790 | CONTROL METHOD - A control method used in a remote control system according to the present disclosure includes: a step of displaying candidates for a target apparatus to be controlled among apparatuses on a user interface region of a display unit of an information terminal; a step of obtaining, via a network, control indexes used to determine a display mode for the user interface region; a step of displaying, on the user interface region, one or more control menus in a display mode determined based on a selected target apparatus and the control indexes; a step of generating a control signal for causing the target apparatus to perform an operation according to control corresponding to a control menu, when the control menu is selected from the one or more displayed control menus; and a step of transmitting the control signal to the target apparatus via the network. | 04-02-2015 |
20150197072 | JOINED BODY OF DISSIMILAR ALUMINUM ALLOY MATERIALS, AND VEHICLE DOOR - A joined body of dissimilar aluminum alloy materials includes a first Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material, a second Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material, and a single Al—Mg aluminum alloy material. The joined body of dissimilar aluminum alloy materials is formed by welding the first Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material and the second Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material to the single Al—Mg aluminum alloy material. The Al—Mg aluminum alloy material and the first Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material are joined by arc welding. The Al—Mg aluminum alloy material and the second Al—Mg—Si aluminum alloy material are joined by friction-stir welding. | 07-16-2015 |
20160121634 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes at least one recording head, at least one head holder, a carriage, a reference member, a sub-reference member, and an adjuster. The at least one recording head includes a plurality of nozzles to discharge droplets. The at least one head holder holds the at least one recording head. The carriage holds the at least one head holder and movable in a main scanning direction. The reference member is provided at the carriage and arranged along the main scanning direction. The sub-reference member is provided at the carriage in separation from the reference member. The adjuster adjusts parallelism of the sub-reference member to the reference member. The at least one head holder is supported by and detachable from the reference member, positioned in contact with the sub-reference member, and held in the carriage. | 05-05-2016 |