Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to switch, in accordance with an instruction of a person in charge, between a first creation mode allowing the person in charge to create a workflow for a newly-ordered make-to-order product using a template of a pre-registered workflow among workflows representing manufacturing processes of make-to-order products with specifications that are different by customer, and a second creation mode allowing the person in charge to create the workflow for the newly-ordered make-to-order product without using the template.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive information on plural parts that configure a product, display process candidates for manufacturing the parts on a display unit, receive selection of a process from among the process candidates, for each of the parts, and create a workflow related to manufacturing of the product, including the selected process.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus include a processor configured to: acquire inspection results on a print product that has been printed in response to multiple print jobs; and generate on each of page groups a reprint job used to print a page indicated as being disqualified by the inspection results, the page group sequentially printed and having an attribute common to the print jobs.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive, from a first user, product information that is input and related to a finished product produced in accordance with a workflow and excludes workflow information that is related to the workflow; present, to a second user, information indicated by the received product information; and receive from the second user the workflow information responsive to production of the finished product.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer belt has metal oxide particles as a solid lubricant on a surface of the intermediate transfer belt, in which an average spacing between the metal oxide particles on the surface is 1,000 nm or less, and an average height of the metal oxide particles from the surface is 15 nm or more and 320 nm or less.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to make a character input into an input field invisible, the input field being displayed on a display, and to display a character image on the display so that the character image is superimposed on the character input into the input field, the character image being drawn with an external font installed in an external apparatus based on the character input into the input field.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a detector that detects unauthorized access; and a reconfiguration unit that, in response to detection of the unauthorized access by the detector, reconfigures a reconfiguration area where a circuit that defines an operation was present to a state in which the circuit does not execute an operation based on the circuit.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a transport unit, a load section, and a sheet accommodation section. The transport unit has a transport path along which a sheet read at a read position is transported to an output unit. The sheet output by the output unit is loaded onto the load section. The sheet accommodation section is disposed downstream in an output direction of the sheet from an inner wall surface extending upward adjacent to the load section and has a recess capable of accommodating a sheet of a predetermined minimum size. A retrieval space through which the sheet accommodated in the sheet accommodation section is retrievable is provided by exposing the transport path in a direction opposite to a loading direction of the sheet.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and multiple printers, the printers including a first printer and a printer group including at least one printer, the information processing apparatus including a processor configured to: acquire as a first measurement value a measurement value of color of a first print product that the first printer has printed in response to a first print instruction; acquire as a second measurement value a measurement value of color of the first print product that a second printer included in the printer group has printed in response to the first print instruction; and transmit to the second printer a first difference between the first measurement value and the second measurement value. Using a set value calculated in accordance with the first difference, the second printer prints a second print product in response to a second print instruction that applies settings calculated based on the first difference.

Abstract: A heat pipe includes a tubular member that is a hollow member in which liquid is encapsulated and of which an inner surface is subjected to an oxidation treatment in advance and a movement section that moves the liquid encapsulated and liquefied in the tubular member along a longitudinal direction of the tubular member by means of a capillary phenomenon and of which a surface is subjected to an oxidation treatment in advance.

Abstract: A light emitting device includes a wiring substrate, a light emitting element array that includes a first side surface and a second side surface facing each other, and a third side surface and a fourth side surface connecting the first side surface and the second side surface to each other and facing each other, the light emitting element array being provided on the wiring substrate, a driving element that is provided on the wiring substrate on the first side surface side and drives the light emitting element array, a first circuit element and a second circuit element that are provided on the wiring substrate on the second side surface side to be arranged in a direction along the second side surface, and a wiring member that is provided on the third side surface side and the fourth side surface side and extends from a top electrode of the light emitting element array toward an outside of the light emitting element array.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor configured to, in a case where information on surroundings is acquired and transmitted to a terminal apparatus of a user at a remote place, perform control for disabling at least part of a function of transmitting information to the terminal apparatus of the user in a case where a current time is not included in a time window for which the user is scheduled to converse with another user in schedule of the user.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a belt member that cyclically moves, a pressing unit that comes into contact with the belt member and presses a recording medium moving between the belt member and the pressing unit, and a heat source that includes a base material, a resistance heating element disposed on a surface of the base material along a longitudinal direction of the base material, and an insulator covering the resistance heating element and that comes into contact with the pressing unit via the belt member to heat an inner surface of the belt member, in which the insulator is formed to cover a corner portion of the base material in a direction of movement of the belt member.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developer includes: a toner A incorporating toner particles and silica particles (A) as an external additive, the toner particles containing a binder resin and resin particles, and the silica particles (A) containing a nitrogen-containing compound containing the element molybdenum; and a carrier B incorporating a core and a coating resin layer, the coating resin layer covering the core and containing inorganic particles, and the ratio NMo/NSi is 0.035 or greater and 0.45 or less, where NMo and NSi are measured net intensities for the element molybdenum and the element silicon, respectively, in the silica particles (A) in x-ray fluorescence analysis.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transport section that transports a recording material, a grasping section that grasps a remaining situation of a recording material remaining in a transport path through which the recording material is transported by the transport section, a reception section that receives, from a user, an input of the number of removed sheets of recording material removed from the transport path by the user in a case where the transport of the recording material by the transport section is stopped, and a start section that starts the stopped transport by the transport section based on the number of removed sheets input by the user.

Abstract: A locking mechanism includes a first member that is provided on one side to lock and is rotated about a rotating shaft, a second member that is provided on the other side to lock and comes into contact with the first member to rotate the first member, a rotation applying member that further applies a rotational force to the first member rotated by the second member, a restriction portion that restricts movement of the first member to be rotated in a direction in which the first member is released from a locked state, and an elastic portion that allows the first member and the restriction portion to be in elastic contact with each other and allows the first member and the restriction portion to start to be in elastic contact with each other before the first member rotated by the second member is further rotated by the rotation applying member in a release direction which is the direction in which the first member is released from the locked state.

Abstract: An electrostatic image developer includes: a toner A to which silica particles (A) containing an elemental nitrogen-containing compound containing elemental molybdenum are externally added; and a carrier B including a core material and a coating resin layer that covers the core material and contains inorganic particles. In the silica particles (A), the ratio NMo/NSi of a Net intensity NMo of elemental molybdenum that is measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis to a Net intensity NSi of elemental silicon that is measured by the X-ray fluorescence analysis is from 0.035 to 0.45 inclusive.

Abstract: A caster protection structure protects a caster provided at a base of a housing and used for transporting the housing in a movable manner, and includes a frame member that is provided at the base of the housing, serves as a part of a frame constituting the base of the housing, and extends in a predetermined direction. A longitudinal end position of the frame member is disposed in an outer region located beyond an outer lateral edge position of the caster.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes plural rotating members that are rotatable; an annular circulating member that is wound around the plural rotating members and circulates when the rotating members rotate; a retaining member attached to an attaching portion of the circulating member and that circulates together with the circulating member, the retaining member being configured to retain a recording medium in an area where the attaching portion comes into contact with one of the rotating members; an image forming section that forms an image on the recording medium at an image forming position defined on a circulation path along which the circulating member circulates; a delivering unit that delivers the recording medium to a retaining position where the recording medium is to be retained by the retaining member; a detector that detects rotation of the one rotating member; and a controller that controls delivery of the recording medium from the delivering unit to the retaining position, the delivery being con

Abstract: A light emitting device includes plural transfer elements to be sequentially turned on, plural setting elements that are respectively connected to the plural transfer elements and are capable of shifting to an on-state by the transfer element being turned on, plural driving elements that are respectively connected to the plural setting elements and are capable of shifting to the on-state by the setting element being turned on; and plural light emitting elements that are respectively connected to the plural driving elements and have increased light-emission or an increased light-emission intensity by the driving element being turned on, in which plural pairs of the driving element and the light emitting element are connected to at least one of the plural setting elements and the plural light emitting elements are arranged in a two-dimensional shape.