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20120153556 | Sheet Processing Apparatus, Image Forming System, And Sheet Processing Method - A sheet processing apparatus includes: a sheet stacking unit on which sheets are accommodated and stacked as a sheet bundle; an aligning member that is movable along a trailing end, in a conveying direction, of the sheet bundle stacked on the sheet stacking unit and that aligns the trailing end of the sheet bundle in the sheet conveying direction by abutting thereon; a binding unit that moves along the trailing end of the sheet bundle in the sheet conveying direction and binds the aligned sheet bundle; and a moving unit that moves the aligning member in the sheet conveying direction. A distance from the trailing end of the sheet bundle in the sheet conveying direction to a binding position is adjusted by moving the aligning member in the sheet conveying direction. | 06-21-2012 |
20120267846 | SKEW CORRECTION DEVICE, SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A skew correction device includes a first conveying unit arranged in a sheet conveying path; a second conveying unit arranged downstream of the first conveying unit in a conveying direction of a sheet; and a skew correction unit. When the sheet is unfolded paper, the skew correction unit performs a first skew correction that corrects for the skew of the sheet so that a leading edge of the sheet conveyed by the first conveying unit abuts on the second conveying unit that is stopped. When the sheet is fold paper, the skew correction unit performs a second skew correction that corrects for the skew of the sheet so that a leading edge of the sheet conveyed by the first conveying unit abuts the second conveying unit and the second conveying unit is driven in a reverse direction to the conveying direction at a predetermined operational timing. | 10-25-2012 |
20120282004 | SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND SHEET RECEPTION CONTROL METHOD - A sheet handling apparatus includes a sheet reception unit configured to receive a sheet; an alignment unit configured to align the sheet in a conveying direction of the sheet, a trailing edge of the sheet in the conveying direction coming into contact with the alignment unit; and a moving unit configured to move the alignment unit along the sheet reception unit in the conveying direction. A first position for aligning and binding sheets and a second position located above the first position in the sheet reception unit are set for the alignment unit as receiving positions at which the sheet is received from the sheet reception unit. | 11-08-2012 |
20130113154 | Sheet Processing Apparatus, Image Forming System, And Sheet Processing Method - A sheet processing apparatus including front and back trailing-end reference fences that are movable along a sheet trailing-end and on which the sheet trailing-end abuts to align the sheet trailing-end, a side-stitching stapler that moves along the sheet trailing-end and binds a bundle of sheets aligned, a length-direction moving mechanism that moves the trailing-end reference fences in a sheet conveying direction, and a position changing unit that drives the length-direction moving mechanism to change the position of one of the trailing-end reference fences in the sheet conveying direction relative to the position of the other one. The front and back trailing-end reference fences are moved by the position changing unit in the sheet conveying direction to change binding positions such that the distances from the sheet trailing-end to staple positions are made equal in front-side binding and in back-side binding. | 05-09-2013 |
20130134659 | SHEET DISCHARGING DEVICE, SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND SHEET DISCHARGING METHOD - A sheet discharging device includes: sheet discharging rollers that receive each of sheets conveyed thereto and discharge the sheets one by one; a shift tray on which the sheets discharged by the sheet discharging rollers are to be stacked; an air blower; and a CPU. The air blower forms an air layer between the shift tray and a sheet when the sheet is discharged onto the shift tray by the sheet discharging rollers, or between a sheet and the sheet that is already placed on the shift tray when the sheet is discharged. The CPU controls an air velocity of air to be delivered by the air blower based on sheet information, thereby causing the air layer to extend to the entire surface of the sheet. | 05-30-2013 |
20130147105 | SHEET HANDLING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet handling apparatus includes a sheet folding unit configured to perform folding on a sheet; and a sheet stacking unit configured to stack the folded sheet on a sheet stacking surface having an inclined surface and a nearly horizontal surface in order from upstream to downstream in a sheet conveying direction. A downstream end of the inclined surface is higher than an upstream end of the inclined surface with respect to a horizontal plane. The sheet handling apparatus also includes a discharging unit configured to discharge the folded sheet to the sheet stacking unit; a sheet conveying unit configured to convey the discharged sheet from the inclined surface to the nearly horizontal surface; and a conveying force applying unit configured to apply a conveying force to the sheet in contact with an upper surface of the sheet from above the inclined surface. | 06-13-2013 |
20130228965 | SHEET DISCHARGING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND SHEET DISCHARGING METHOD - A sheet discharging device includes a shift tray | 09-05-2013 |
20130236228 | RECORDING MEDIUM DISCHARGING DEVICE - A recording medium discharging device includes a discharging unit configured to discharge a recording medium from a discharge port; a tray unit on which the recording medium discharged from the discharging unit is stacked; and an air blower configured to blow air in a direction substantially parallel to a direction in which the recording medium is discharged. | 09-12-2013 |
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20140023104 | SURFACE EMITTING LASER DEVICE AND ATOMIC OSCILLATOR - A surface emitting laser device includes a substrate, a lower reflector, an active layer, an upper reflector, and surface emitting lasers configured to emit light. A second phase adjustment layer, a contact layer, a first phase adjustment layer, and a wavelength adjustment layer are successively layered from the active layer side. The total optical thickness from the active layer side of the second phase adjustment layer to the midsection of the wavelength adjustment layer is approximately (2N+1)×λ/4, where λ represents a wavelength of light, and N represents a positive integer. The optical thickness from the active layer side of the second phase adjustment layer to the midsection of the contact layer is approximately Nλ/2. At least two of the surface emitting lasers have the wavelength adjustment layer arranged at different thicknesses and are configured to emit light with different wavelengths. | 01-23-2014 |
20140354366 | SURFACE EMITTING LASER ELEMENT AND ATOMIC OSCILLATOR - A surface emitting laser element includes plural surface emitting lasers provided on a substrate. Each of the plural surface emitting lasers includes a first reflection mirror provided on the substrate; an active layer provided on the first reflection mirror; a wavelength adjustment region provided on the active layer; and a second reflection mirror provided on the wavelength adjustment region. The wavelength adjustment region includes a phase adjustment layer and a wavelength adjustment layer provided on the phase adjustment layer. A thickness of the wavelength adjustment region is approximately an odd multiple of a wavelength of emitted light divided by four. A thickness of the phase adjustment layer is approximately an even multiple of the wavelength of the emitted light divided by four. A thickness of the wavelength adjustment layer is different from a thickness of a wavelength adjustment layer of at least one of the other surface emitting lasers. | 12-04-2014 |
20140354367 | SURFACE-EMITTING LASER ELEMENT, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A SURFACE-EMITTING LASER ELEMENT, AND ATOMIC OSCILLATOR - Disclosed is a surface-emitting laser element including a semiconductor substrate and plural surface-emitting lasers configured to emit light mutually different wavelengths, each surface-emitting laser including a lower Bragg reflector provided on the semiconductor substrate, a resonator provided on the lower Bragg reflector, an upper Bragg reflector provided on the resonator, and a wavelength adjustment layer provided in the upper Bragg reflector or lower Bragg reflector, the wavelength adjustment layers included in the surface-emitting lasers having mutually different thicknesses, at least one of the wavelength adjustment layers including adjustment layers made of two kinds of materials, and numbers of the adjustment layers included in the wavelength adjustment layers being mutually different. | 12-04-2014 |
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20100085510 | ILLUMINATING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIGHT MODULATION ELEMENT - An illuminating device includes a light guide plate, a light source disposed on a side face of the light guide plate, and a light modulation element disposed on a surface or on inside of the light guide plate and joined to the light guide plate. The light modulation element has a pair of transparent substrates disposed apart from each other and opposed to each other, a pair of electrodes provided on surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates, and a light modulation layer provided in a gap between the pair of transparent substrates. The light modulation layer includes a first region and a second region both having optical anisotropy and having response speeds to an electric field different from each other. | 04-08-2010 |
20110249221 | LIGHTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A lighting device includes: a light guide plate; a light source disposed on a side face of the light guide plate; and a light modulation element disposed on a surface or in the inside of the light guide plate and adhered to the light guide plate. The light modulation element has a pair of transparent substrates disposed separately and oppositely, a pair of electrodes provided on respective surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates, and a light modulation layer provided in a gap between the pair of transparent substrates. The light modulation layer includes a first region, having optical anisotropy, responsive to an electric field, and a second region, having optical anisotropy, unresponsive to an electric field. The second region has a striped structure with average striped texture size of 0.05 μm to 10 μm both inclusive in a short axis direction. | 10-13-2011 |
20120098875 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An illumination device includes a light guide plate, a light source, and a light modulation element. The light guide plate has convex portions extending in a direction parallel to a normal to a face opposed to the light source among side faces of the light guide plate, and the light source is configured of light source blocks. The light modulation element includes a pair of transparent substrates disposed separately and oppositely to each other, a plurality of first electrodes provided on a surface of one of the transparent substrates, and extending in a direction crossing an extending direction of the convex portions, a second electrode provided on a surface of the other transparent substrate, and a light modulation layer provided in a gap between the transparent substrates, and exhibiting a scattering property or a transparent property to light from the light source depending on magnitude of an electric field. | 04-26-2012 |
20120257139 | ILLUMINATION UNIT AND DISPLAY - There are provided an illumination unit and a display which are capable of further uniformizing chromaticity of illumination light in a plane while suppressing a reduction in light extraction efficiency. A light modulation device bonded to a light guide plate includes a light modulation layer exhibiting a scattering property or transparency with respect to light propagating through the light guide plate. The light modulation layer is sandwiched between a pair of transparent substrates. While alignment films controlling alignment of the light modulation layer are disposed on surfaces of the transparent substrates, an electrode generating an electric field which changes the alignment of the light modulation layer is disposed on only the surface of the transparent substrate. | 10-11-2012 |
20130229595 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY UNIT - A display panel and a display unit are provided that allow a high-contrast and a bright image to be obtained. A display panel is composed of a light modulation device. The light modulation device includes: an electrode capable of generating a main electric field in a direction parallel to a plane intersecting with a normal line of a transparent substrate; and a light modulation layer including a bulk and a particulate each having an optical anisotropy. Optical axes AX | 09-05-2013 |
20130258711 | LIGHTING UNIT, DISPLAY, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY - In a scan system, a lighting unit, a display, and a three-dimensional display that have all of high luminance, low power consumption, and high reliability of a circuit board are provided. A light modulation device bonded to a light guide plate is provided with a light modulation layer exhibiting scattering property or transparency to light propagating through the light guide plate. The light modulation layer is interposed between a lower electrode that is configured of a plurality of partial electrodes extending in a direction parallel to a light incident surface and a sheet-like upper electrode. A drive circuit sequentially drives the plurality of partial electrodes to scan a region exhibiting the scattering property of the light modulation layer in a direction orthogonal to the light incident surface. | 10-03-2013 |