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| 20080300783 | Navigation devices, methods, and programs - Navigation devices, methods, and programs obtain information indicating a route of a host vehicle, obtain information indicating a position of the host vehicle, and obtain information indicating a form of a number (N) of successive curves (where N is an integer of 2 or more) in front of the host vehicle position on the route. The devices, methods, and programs excite a vibrator provided at a position where contact with a driver of the host vehicle is possible in a vibration mode corresponding to the form of the N successive curves when the host vehicle reaches a position at a predetermined distance from the closest curve among the N successive curves. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090143974 | Navigation device, navigation method, and navigation program - Information is acquired that indicates a current road on which a vehicle is traveling. Information is acquired that relates to a plurality of branching roads that branch off from the current road at a branching point that lies ahead in the direction of movement of the vehicle. In a situation where route guidance is not being used, a determination is made as to whether or not there is a possibility that the vehicle will proceed on one of the branching roads that is of a different type from the current road, instead of on one of the branching roads that is of the same type as the current road and has an attribute that is of the same type as an attribute of the current road. If it is determined that there is a possibility that the vehicle will proceed on one of the branching roads that is of a different type, guidance is performed that informs the driver that the possibility exists. | 06-04-2009 |
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| 20090259737 | ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM AND ADMINISTRATION METHOD FOR COMPUTERS - Reconfiguration plans that cope with various events are produced for a computer system. An administration system for computers and an administration method for computers in accordance with the present invention have a constitution described below. A server system includes plural servers, and a management server that administers the server system is connected to the server system. The management server monitors an event occurring in the server system, produces reconfiguration plans for the server system on the basis of priorities assigned to the plural servers and/or application programs according to the monitored event, selects a reconfiguration plan from the reconfiguration plans under predetermined criteria for selection, and reconfigures the server system according to the selected reconfiguration plan. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100115077 | METHOD OF BUILDING SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - Devices unnecessary for deployment are invalidated during the deployment. A method of building a system and a management server for establishing a system according to the present invention have the following configuration. The management server obtains server information from a server connected through a network, refers to the obtained server information to select devices unnecessary for deployment among devices connected to the server, and invalidates the selected devices. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110270962 | METHOD OF BUILDING SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - Devices unnecessary for deployment are invalidated during the deployment. A method of building a system and a management server for establishing a system according to the present invention have the following configuration. The management server obtains server information from a server connected through a network, refers to the obtained server information to select devices unnecessary for deployment among devices connected to the server, and invalidates the selected devices. | 11-03-2011 |
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| 20080243296 | Substrate processing system and group management system - It is intended to provide a substrate processing system and a group management system enabling a more flexible and simplified structure of substrate processing apparatuses. The substrate processing system according to this invention has a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses for processing substrates and the group management system connected to the substrate processing apparatuses, and the group management system includes a structure information memory device (structure management device) for memorizing structure information, a plurality of communication devices (connection management devices) for communicating with at least one of the plural substrate processing apparatuses based on the structure information memorized in the structure information memory device, and an apparatus information storage device (data management device) connected to any of the plural communication devices based on the structure information memorized in the structure information memory device and which stores information relating to the substrate processing apparatus performing communication with the communication device. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090265322 | INFORMATION MANAGING METHOD, INFORMATION MANAGING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information managing method for managing information, based upon an electronic message containing apparatus information or event information transmitted from a substrate processing apparatus, comprises: storing the apparatus information of the substrate processing apparatus at the transmission time of the electronic message containing the apparatus information in a first apparatus information storage unit; when the electronic message containing the event information is transmitted, comparing conditions for accumulating the event information and the apparatus information; and when the conditions coincide with each other, storing the apparatus information in a second apparatus information storage unit in association with time when the event information has been generated. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100324718 | Substrate processing system and group management system - It is intended to provide a substrate processing system and a group management system enabling a more flexible and simplified structure of substrate processing apparatuses. The substrate processing system according to this invention has a plurality of substrate processing apparatuses for processing substrates and the group management system connected to the substrate processing apparatuses, and the group management system includes a structure information memory device (structure management device) for memorizing structure information, a plurality of communication devices (connection management devices) for communicating with at least one of the plural substrate processing apparatuses based on the structure information memorized in the structure information memory device, and an apparatus information storage device (data management device) connected to any of the plural communication devices based on the structure information memorized in the structure information memory device and which stores information relating to the substrate processing apparatus performing communication with the communication device. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110071661 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM - Provided is a substrate processing system, which comprises a substrate processing apparatus and a group management apparatus. The group management apparatus includes a communication part configured to communicate with the substrate processing apparatus, a first storage part configured to store data transmitted through the communication part from the substrate processing apparatus, a second storage part configured to store, when a predetermined abnormality is detected from at least the data, a file that prescribes an abnormality detection condition for detecting the abnormality, a display part including a manipulation screen configured to input a condition for detecting an abnormality by using the file or the data stored in the first storage part and/or the second storage part, and a screen control part configured to change, when an abnormality item for detecting an abnormality is selected from a plurality of abnormality items in the manipulation screen, the manipulation screen to a registration screen. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110079177 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM, GROUP MANAGING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF ANALYZING ABNORMAL STATE - A maintenance engineer can analyze an abnormal state with less difficulty in a rapid and correct manner independent of his/her skill. A substrate processing system comprises: a substrate processing apparatus configured to operate according to a recipe defining a process sequence and process conditions, and a group managing apparatus connected to the substrate processing apparatus. The group managing apparatus comprises an analysis support unit. The analysis support unit is configured to extract check item information relating to both abnormal state information for identifying an abnormal state occurring when the recipe is executed and apparatus type information for identifying the type of the substrate processing apparatus at which the abnormal state occurs, and to prepare a check item table comprising the extracted check item information. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20120065763 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING SYSTEM, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD OF SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided are a substrate processing apparatus, a display method thereof, and a substrate processing system capable of detecting any change in the condition of each component of a substrate processing apparatus. In the substrate processing system including the substrate processing apparatus for processing a substrate and a group management apparatus connected thereto, the substrate processing apparatus is configured to acquire monitor data representing at least the condition of each component of the substrate processing apparatus, aggregate a plurality of the monitor data to generate package data including at least one of a maximum value, an average value, and a minimum value of the monitor data, and transmit the package data to the group management apparatus. The group management apparatus is configured to receive the package data from the substrate processing apparatus and readably store the same therein. | 03-15-2012 |
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| 20100219669 | VEHICLE SEAT RECLINING DEVICE - In a vehicle seat reclining device, within a predetermined angle range, the movement of every pawl in a direction towards engagement with an internal toothed portion is surely restricted to avoid any undesired contact between the pawls and the internal toothed portion. A transmitting structure for transmitting and converting the rotational action of the cam to the movement actions of the main pawl and the sub pawl as provided. Further provided are first and second restricting structures holding the main pawl under disengagement state between the external toothed portion and the internal toothed portion within the predetermined angle range. Within a predetermined frontward tilting angle range, the sub pawl is retained to be in disengagement state between the external toothed portion of the sub pawl and the internal toothed portion by the transmitting structure and the second restricting structure. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110115271 | SEAT RECLINING APPARATUS - A seat reclining apparatus includes a lower arm, an upper arm, plural pawls being movable in a radial direction along guide walls of the lower arm therewithin and including external teeth being engageable with and disengageable from internal teeth of the upper arm, a cam contacting and pressing the pawls in a direction of meshing the external teeth with the internal teeth when the cam is rotated in a locking direction, a biasing member, whose first and second end portions are engaged with an accommodating portion and the cam, respectively, biasing the cam in the locking direction, a restricting protrusion portion formed on a surface of the cam facing the lower arm and slidably contacting an inner surface of the accommodating portion in order to avoid an eccentricity of the cam, and an engagement protruding portion provided on the surface at a position radially inwardly of the restricting protrusion portion. | 05-19-2011 |
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| 20090125141 | WORKING APPARATUS AND WORKING METHOD FOR CIRCUIT BOARD - In estimating a curved surface model by approximating the shape of the board surface of a circuit board, auxiliary measurement spots are set other than measurement spots on the board surface, eligibility as a sampling displacement magnitude in estimating a curved surface model is determined according to a difference in a displacement magnitude from a work reference surface. When the sampling displacement magnitude is determined to be ineligible, a new measurement spot is reset. By this operation, a local increase and decrease in the displacement magnitude due to a discontinuity of the board surface exerts no influence on the estimation of the curved surface model, and the curved surface model approximated more closely to the shape of the actual board surface is estimated, leading to an improvement in the work quality with the working height adjusted to the proper height. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20100175246 | COMPONENT MOUNTING SYSTEM AND COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD - In a component mounting line | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100242755 | SCREEN PRINTING APPARATUS - The screen printing apparatus includes two screen printers | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100321487 | COMPONENT PLACEMENT APPARATUS - To provide a component placement apparatus capable of preventing free operation of a mounting head within the movable region from being restricted as well as improving the mounting takt time. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20120085253 | SCREEN PRINTING APPARATUS - A screen printing apparatus including two screen printers, each including a substrate introduction portion by which a substrate is introduced from an upstream side of a component mounting line, a printing portion which performs a screen printing to the introduced substrate, a substrate discharge portion by which the substrate is discharged to a downstream side, and a substrate moving stage which receives the substrate to position the substrate with respect to the printing portion and to move the substrate to the substrate discharge portion. The two substrate introduction portions, the two printing portions, and the two substrate discharge portions are arranged symmetrically to each other with respect to a perpendicular symmetrical plane extending in a transportation direction of the substrate in the component mounting line, respectively. Each printing portion is provided at a position further from the perpendicular symmetrical plane than the substrate discharge portion. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120085254 | SCREEN PRINTING APPARATUS - A screen printing apparatus including two screen printers, each including a substrate introduction portion by which a substrate is introduced from an upstream side of a component mounting line, a printing portion which performs a screen printing to the introduced substrate, a substrate discharge portion by which the substrate is discharged to a downstream side, and a substrate moving stage which receives the substrate to position the substrate with respect to the printing portion and to move the substrate to the substrate discharge portion. The two substrate introduction portions, the two printing portions, and the two substrate discharge portions are arranged symmetrically to each other with respect to a perpendicular symmetrical plane extending in a transportation direction of the substrate in the component mounting line, respectively. Each printing portion is provided at a position further from the perpendicular symmetrical plane than the substrate discharge portion. | 04-12-2012 |
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| 20110007146 | SUBSTRATE INSPECTION DEVICE AND SUBSTRATE INSPECTION METHOD - An inspection process before component mounting for all component mounting positions on which components are to be mounted is performed when a reenter mode is not set by operation of a reenter switch, a recognition camera is first caused to recognize the component mounting position and then a component presence inspection process which inspects whether or not the component is mounted on the component mounting position is performed when the reenter mode is set by the reenter switch, and, the inspection process before component mounting is performed for the component mounting position on which the component is not mounted. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110017080 | SCREEN PRINTER - There is provided a screen printer capable of concurrently, efficiently subjecting a plurality of substrates, including different types of substrates, to printing operation. In a screen printer | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110115899 | COMPONENT MOUNT SYSTEM - A component mount system includes: a component placing unit; an inspection unit; a repair station; an image display device; a defective portion image display unit configured to display an image of a defective portion of a board on the image display device; an input device; and a repair required portion display unit configured to display a defective portion detected by the inspection unit, which is indicated as a true defective portion in a determination result input through the input device and selected from the defective portion detected by the inspection unit, as a repair required portion on the image display device. The image display device is provided at a location where an operator who performs a repair work can watch the image displayed on the image display device, and the input device is provided at a location where the operator can operate the input device. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110179638 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD - An object of the invention is to provide an electronic component mounting system and an electronic component mounting method which can execute component mounting work on a plurality of boards simultaneously, concurrently and efficiently so that high productivity and responsiveness to production of many items can be achieved consistently. Provided is an electronic component mounting line ( | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110180588 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING SYSTEM - An object of the invention is to provide an electronic component mounting system which can execute component mounting work on a plurality of boards simultaneously, concurrently and efficiently so that high productivity and responsiveness to production of many items can be achieved consistently. Provided is an electronic component mounting system formed so that a screen printing module M | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110197437 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING SYSTEM - It is an object to provide an electronic component mounting system capable of concurrently, efficiently subjecting a plurality of substrates to component mounting operation and accomplishing both high productivity and a capability of addressing production of multiple products. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110197775 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD - An object of the invention is to provide an electronic component mounting system and an electronic component mounting method which can execute component mounting work on a plurality of boards simultaneously, concurrently and efficiently so that high productivity and responsiveness to production of many items can be achieved consistently. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20120085252 | SCREEN PRINTER - A screen printer capable of concurrently, efficiently subjecting a plurality of different types of substrates, to a printing operation. The screen printer makes up an electronic component mounting line and prints electronic component bonding paste on a substrate. A substrate conveyance section that conveys a substrate forwardly or backwardly in a direction of conveyance of a substrate is disposed at an intermediate position between a first screen printing section and a second screen printing section arranged symmetrically with respect to a center line CL. It thereby becomes possible to adopt a variety of substrate conveyance forms, as required, such as return conveyance for returning the substrate from a downstream machine to an upstream side of the screen printer and bypass conveyance for letting the substrate sent from an upstream side pass through the screen printer, to thus be conveyed to a downstream machine. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120090484 | SCREEN PRINTER - A screen printer capable of concurrently, efficiently subjecting a plurality of different types of substrates, to a printing operation. The screen printer makes up an electronic component mounting line and prints electronic component bonding paste on a substrate. A substrate conveyance section that conveys a substrate forwardly or backwardly in a direction of conveyance of a substrate is disposed at an intermediate position between a first screen printing section and a second screen printing section arranged symmetrically with respect to a center line CL. It thereby becomes possible to adopt a variety of substrate conveyance forms, as required, such as return conveyance for returning the substrate from a downstream machine to an upstream side of the screen printer and bypass conveyance for letting the substrate sent from an upstream side pass through the screen printer, to thus be conveyed to a downstream machine. | 04-19-2012 |
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| 20100326139 | OPTICAL FIBER PREFORM MANUFACTURING METHOD - An optical fiber preform manufacturing method includes: supporting a drilling jig in a radial direction of a preform that is cylinder-shaped; moving the drilling jig in a longitudinal direction of the preform; and forming a plurality of slits each extending in the longitudinal direction and each directed from an outer side of the preform toward a center the preform, and a plurality of holes each extending in the longitudinal direction and each connecting with an end of one of the plurality of slits in a depth direction of the one of the plurality of slits. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20120033923 | HOLEY SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM USING SAME - Provided is a holey single-mode optical fiber including a core not having holes, and a clad having holes extending in a longitudinal direction, in which a refraction index of the core is larger than that of a portion of the clad other than the holes, a radius r | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120042696 | MEASURING METHOD OF LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION OF BENDING LOSS OF OPTICAL FIBER, MEASURING METHOD OF LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION OF ACTUAL BENDING LOSS VALUE OF OPTICAL FIBER, TEST METHOD OF OPTICAL LINE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER CABLE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER CORD, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF OPTICAL FIBER - A measuring method of a longitudinal distribution of bending loss of an optical fiber includes calculating an arithmetical mean value I(x) from two backscattering light intensities of two backscattering light at a position x obtained by bidirectional OTDR measurement of the optical fiber; and obtaining a bending loss value at the position x from a mode field diameter 2W(x) and a relative refractive index difference Δ(x) at the position x calculated from the arithmetical mean value. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120044482 | MEASURING METHOD OF HOLE DIAMETER, HOLE POSITION, HOLE SURFACE ROUGHNESS, OR BENDING LOSS OF HOLEY OPTICAL FIBER, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF HOLEY OPTICAL FIBER, AND TEST METHOD OF OPTICAL LINE OF HOLEY OPTICAL FIBER - A measuring method of a hole diameter of a holey optical fiber includes calculating an arithmetical mean value I(x) from two backscattering light intensities at a position x of two backscattering light waveforms of the holey optical fiber, in which the two backscattering light waveforms are obtained by OTDR measurement; and obtaining the hole diameter at the position x, based on a correlation between an arithmetical mean value I(x) and an hole diameter of the holey optical fiber that is obtained in advance. | 02-23-2012 |
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| 20100077613 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A method for manufacturing a liquid ejecting head is provided. The liquid ejecting head has nozzle openings and ejects liquid supplied through a liquid supply passage from the nozzle openings. The manufacturing method includes: disposing a filtering member between a first supply member and a second supply member, the first supply member having one part of the liquid supply passage formed therein, the second supply member having the other part or another part of the liquid supply passage formed therein, the second supply member being disposed over one surface of the first supply member; and injecting a resin material over the one surface of the first supply member to cover a part of the second supply member for molding a fixation member and fixing the first supply member and the second supply member into a single-piece member as a result of the molding, wherein a convex is formed on a surface of the fixation member in the mold fixation of the first supply member and the second supply member, and a concave is formed in the surface of the fixation member in the mold fixation of the first supply member and the second supply member. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100214379 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A manufacturing method produces a liquid ejecting head including first and second flow path members having liquid flow paths that communicate with each other. An integrally-molded member is surrounds the second flow path member on the second flow path member side of the first flow path member to join the first and second flow path members together. A holding process defines a space portion for forming the integrally-molded member in a frame section. The frame section is brought into contact with a contact surface of a recessed portion in the face of the second flow path member opposite the first flow path member, with the first and second flow path members contacting each other such that the liquid flow paths communicate with each other. A molding process fills the space portion with resin, thereby molding the integrally-molded member, and joins the first and second flow path members together. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110030216 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - There is provided a method of manufacturing a liquid ejecting head which includes a head main body having nozzles ejecting a liquid supplied via a liquid supply passage, a first supply member having a first liquid supply passage forming a part of the liquid supply passage, a second supply member disposed on a downstream side of the first supply member and having a second liquid supply passage communicating with the first liquid supply passage and forming a part of the liquid supply passage, a filter disposed between the first and second supply members so as to cross the liquid supply passage, and an integrally molded member fixing the first and second supply members by a resin in a state where the filter is nipped between the first and second supply members. The method includes: disposing the filter in one of the first and second supply members; nipping the filter by the first and second supply members in a state where the filter is sucked, adsorbed, and positioned via a suction hole of the first or second supply member; and forming the integrally molded member in the state where the filter is nipped between the first and second supply members. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110031641 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - There is provided a method of manufacturing a liquid ejecting head which includes a head main body having nozzles ejecting a liquid supplied via a liquid supply passage, a first supply member having a first liquid supply passage forming a part of the liquid supply passage, a second supply member disposed on a downstream side of the first supply member and having a second liquid supply passage communicating with the first liquid supply passage and forming a part of the liquid supply passage, a filter disposed between the first and second supply members so as to cross the liquid supply passage, and an integrally molded member fixing the first and second supply members by a resin in a state where the filter is nipped between the first and second supply members. The method includes: forming a supporting protrusion protruding toward the filter and supporting the filter on an inner wall surface of at least one of the first and second supply members; and forming the integrally molded member in the state where the filter is nipped between the first and second supply members and a pressure difference is caused between the first and second supply members on both sides of the filter so that a pressure is lower on the side of the supporting protrusion. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110228021 | LIQUID EJECTING HEAD AND LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting head includes: a head body which ejects a liquid supplied from a liquid storing member via a liquid supply path; a first supply member which is provided with a first liquid supply path forming a part of the liquid supply path; a second supply member which is provided with a second liquid supply path communicating with the first liquid supply path and forming a part of the liquid supply path, and which supplies the liquid to the head body; and a filter which is sandwiched between the first and second liquid supply paths, wherein a sandwiching portion including the first and second supply members and sandwiching the filter includes an inclination portion that is inclined to the downstream side so as to face the outside of the liquid supply path. A liquid ejecting apparatus includes the liquid ejecting head. | 09-22-2011 |
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| 20100011179 | REMOTE COPY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A remote copy system includes a first storage device performing data transmission/reception with a host computer, a second storage device receiving data from the first storage device, and a third storage device receiving data from the second storage device. The first storage device includes a logical volume, the second storage device includes a logical volume being a virtual volume, and the third storage device includes a logical volume. The first storage system changes the state of a first pair of the logical volumes based on the state of a second pair of the logical volumes. With such a remote copy system and a method for use therein, any data backup failure can be prevented. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100106924 | COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING REMOTE COPY USING JOURNAL - An object of the invention is to maintain conformability of data stored in a secondary storage system although a time stamp is not granted to write data received by a primary storage system. At least one of one or more computers includes a storage managing unit. The storage managing unit issues an ID next to an immediately previously issued ID to one or more primary storage systems (PDKCs) at regular or irregular intervals. Upon receiving a write command from one of the one or more computers, each PDKC prepares a journal (JNL) including a replica (journal data) of write data and the newest ID from the storage managing unit, and transmits the journal to a secondary storage system (SDKC). The SDKC stores a received JNL and reflects up to a particular JNL of non-reflected JNLs in a secondary volume. The particular JNL has an ID older by one than the oldest ID of the newest arrival completion IDs in one or more SDKCs. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110167233 | COMPUTING SYSTEM AND BACKUP METHOD - This invention proposes a computing system and a backup method capable of improving the backup efficiency. In accordance with copy requests from the host, the data written to the first logical volume in the first storage system is copied to the second logical volume in the relevant first storage system, the data copied to the second logical volume is transferred to the second storage system asynchronously from writing of data from the host to the first logical volume and, in the second storage system, the data transferred from the first storage system is written to the third logical volume in the relevant second storage system. | 07-07-2011 |
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| 20080237962 | Bookbinding Apparatus and Image-Forming System Equipped with the Same - Imaging-system bookbinding apparatus avoids cutting any folded sheets mixed into booklets it trims. Furnished with: an imaging unit; a sheet-folding unit that folds imaging-unit sheets; a stacking unit that stacks sheets from the sheet-folding or image-forming units; a cover-sheet binding unit that encases stacking-unit sheet bundles with, and binds them into, cover sheets; a trimming unit that trims true the bundle fore-edge; and a fold-position computing unit that determines where a sheet is pleated by the sheet-folding unit. The sheet-folding unit has a sheet conveyance path along which folded sheets are transported elsewhere than the stacking unit, while the fold-position computing unit in a first control mode transports to the stacking unit sheets folded over by the sheet-folding unit, and in a second control mode transports them from the sheet conveyance path elsewhere than the stacking unit. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090081003 | Bookbinding Unit - Faulty bookbinding due to sheet-size, etc. setting errors when bundle-collated inner-leaf sheets and coversheets they are bound with are placed in respective trays is stopped before it occurs. In an inner-leaf tray and a coversheet tray: (1) sheet sensors are disposed, and when both detect sheet presence, the inner-leaf sheets are transported to an adhesive-application location, and (2) sheet-side detection sensors or (3) sheet length and width detection sensors are disposed, and in either case when from the detection information predetermined encased booklet formation is impossible, device startup is halted. Width detectors are disposed in the inner-leaf and coversheet trays for detecting opposing sides of sheets stacked therein, and a controller is configured to convey into the device interior inner-leaf sheets from the inner-leaf tray when predetermined encased booklet formation is possible with the inner-leaf sheets and coversheets. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20100278617 | Trimming apparatus and bookbinding apparatus provided with the same - To provide a trimming apparatus that does not stain a fore edge end by an adhesive adhering to a blade receiving surface in trimming a bunch of sheets subjected to bookbinding using the adhesive, the trimming apparatus has a transport path | 11-04-2010 |
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| 20090033966 | COLOR CONVERSION APPARATUS AND COLOR CONVERSION METHOD - A color conversion apparatus is for converting an input point defined in a three-dimensional first color space into an output point defined in a three-dimensional second color space. The color conversion apparatus includes: a position identifying unit; a first conversion unit; a second conversion unit; and an output point identifying unit. The position identifying unit identifies a two-dimensional position for the input point, the two-dimensional position being defined on a specific plane passing through a first white point, a first black point and the input point, the first white point and the first black point being defined in the first color space. The first conversion unit converts the input point into an intermediate point that is defined in a device-independent color space. The second conversion unit converts the intermediate point into a temporary output point that is defined in the three-dimensional second color space. The output point identifying unit identifies, in the second color space, an output point, whose position defined on a plane that passes through a second white point, a second black point and the temporary output point corresponds to the two-dimensional position identified by the position identifying unit, the second white point and the second black point being defined in the second color space. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090237757 | IMAGE-PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image-processing system for printing an image based on original image data. The storing unit stores at least one look-up table in association with at least one printing condition. The at least one look-up table is used to convert a color value in original image data into a limited color value that limits a total quantity of ink to be used in printing. The detecting unit detects, as a printing condition, at least one of a type of color material and a type of recording medium which are used for printing operation. The converting unit converts the color value data into the limited color value by using a look-up table that is assigned with a printing condition corresponding to the detected printing condition. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20100195127 | IMAGE PROCESSOR FOR CORRECTING IMAGE DATA - An image-processor includes an acquiring unit and a correcting unit. The acquiring unit acquires image data and ambient light data indicating a degree of a first color temperature with respect to a second color temperature. The first color temperature represents a color temperature for a first ambient light. The second color temperature represents a color temperature for a second ambient light. A first image, which corresponds to the image data, is perceived in the first ambient light as an image having one color appearance. The first image is perceived in the second ambient light as an image having another color appearance. The correcting unit corrects the image data such that a color appearance of the first image under the first ambient light are reproduced under the second ambient light. The correcting unit corrects the image data based on the ambient light data such that an image based the corrected image data is brighter as the second color temperature is higher than the first color temperature and such that the image corresponding to the corrected image data is darker as the second color temperature is lower than the first color temperature. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100195172 | IMAGE PROCESSOR FOR CORRECTING IMAGE DATA - An image processor includes an identifying unit, a first correcting unit, and a second correcting unit. The identifying unit identifies a white point value of an image represented by first image data. The white point value indicates a first color temperature. The first correcting unit performs a white balance correction on the first image data such that the white point value approaches a target white point value. The target white point value indicates a second color temperature. The second correcting unit performs a brightness correction for correcting the first image data corrected by the first correcting unit into second image data such that an image corresponding to the second image data is brighter as the second color temperature is higher than the first color temperature and such that the image corresponding to the second image data is darker as the second color temperature is lower than the first color temperature. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100195907 | IMAGE PROCESSOR FOR CORRECTING IMAGE DATA - An acquiring unit acquires image data and ambient light data indicating a first color for a first ambient light and a second color for a second ambient light. A third color of a first pixel data is closer to the first color than the second color. A fourth color of a second pixel data is closer to the second color than the first color. A correcting unit corrects the first pixel data such that a third color-appearance of a pixel according to the corrected first pixel data under the second ambient light is perceived as a color-appearance that is the same as a fourth color-appearance of a pixel according to the first pixel data under the first ambient light. The correcting unit corrects the second pixel data such that a fifth color-appearance of a pixel according to the corrected second pixel data under the second ambient light is perceived as a color-appearance that is different from a sixth color-appearance of a pixel according to the second pixel data under the first ambient light and a correction degree by which the correcting unit corrects the second pixel data is less than a correction degree by which the correcting unit corrects the first pixel data. | 08-05-2010 |
