Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a circulating member to be made to circulate while carrying a toner image on a peripheral surface; a transfer member configured to nip at a nip part a recording medium that is transported and the circulating member and to transfer the toner image on the circulating member to the recording medium with a voltage being applied to the transfer member; and a controller configured to control a transfer scheme in accordance with which a voltage is to be applied to the transfer member, the controller being capable of switching the transfer scheme between constant-voltage control and constant-current control, the controller causing an image forming section configured to form an image on the circulating member to start an image forming operation under constant-voltage control selected as the transfer scheme if a length ratio defined as a ratio of a length of the recording medium in an axial direction to a length of the nip part in the axial direction is smaller than a predetermined r

Abstract: An information processing system includes one or more processors configured to: acquire a document table video that is a video of a document table on which a document is placed and is obtained by an imaging device after the imaging device images the document table; and in a case in which the document table video includes an imaged document that is a document having been imaged by the imaging device, detect the imaged document.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing, a cover that is opened and closed on the housing, a detection part that detects opening and closing of the cover using ON and OFF, a rotating part that is rotatably supported and turns on and off the detection part, a pushing portion that comes into contact with the rotating part to rotate the rotating part in a case where the cover is closed, and a rotation applying part that applies a rotational force to the rotating part rotated by the pushing portion in a direction in which the detection part is turned on in a case where the cover is closed.

Abstract: A belt driving device includes: a belt; and a drive roll and driven rolls that rotate the belt wound around the rolls. As part of the driven rolls, a first driven roll and a second driven roll with a same roll diameter, each having a greatest exceeding eccentricity section or insufficient eccentricity section in a mutual common area are disposed in a non-displaced state in that order at positions with an interval in a rotational direction of the belt, and are driven to rotate so that greatest exceeding eccentricity sections or insufficient eccentricity sections each being the greatest exceeding eccentricity section or insufficient eccentricity section are in opposite phase at central positions in the rotational direction of contact portions of the belt with the first driven roll and the second driven roll.

Abstract: A silica particle contains a nitrogen-containing compound, ?/? is 0.30 or greater and 0.80 or less, where ? and ? are the BET specific surface areas of the silica particle before and after baking at 350° C., respectively, and the absolute ratio of the triboelectric series of the silica particle before baking at 350° C. to that of the silica particle after baking at 350° C. is 0.10 1or greater and 0.85 or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body that includes an image formation unit forming an image on a recording material, a fixation unit that includes a fixing unit fixing the image formed by the image formation unit onto the recording material and that is attachable to and detachable from the apparatus main body, a first duct that is attached to the fixation unit to face the fixing unit and through which a gas that cools the fixing unit flows, and a second duct that is attached to the apparatus main body to be adjacent to the first duct and through which a gas that cools the fixing unit flows.

Abstract: An electrostatic image developer includes a toner including toner particles that include a binder resin and a release agent and have an exposure ratio of the release agent of 15% or more and 30% or less, and a carrier including magnetic particles and resin cover layers covering the magnetic particles and including inorganic particles, wherein the inorganic particles have an arithmetic average particle size of 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, the resin cover layers have an average thickness of 0.6 ?m or more and 1.4 ?m or less, and a fine-irregularity-structure surface roughness of surfaces of the carrier three-dimensionally analyzed has, in an analysis region, a ratio B/A of an irregularity-surface area B to a plan-view area A of 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less.

Abstract: A power transmission member includes: a male member formed from a resin material and including a plurality of engagement teeth arranged at regular intervals in a circumferential direction when viewed in an axial direction, the engagement teeth having a uniform thickness in a radial direction; a female member including a to-be-engaged portion to which the engagement teeth are fitted as a result of the female member moving in the axial direction relative to the male member; and a fitting member disposed at the male member and the female member, the fitting member fitting the engagement teeth to the to-be-engaged portion while the male member and the female member are located in predetermined opposing positions in the circumferential direction to engage the male member and the female member with each other.

Abstract: An autonomous moving apparatus includes a moving unit that moves the autonomous moving apparatus, a detector that detects distances from surrounding objects and shapes of the surrounding objects, a notifying unit that notifies surrounding persons, and a controller that controls the moving unit so that the autonomous moving apparatus moves so as to follow movement of a person recognized as a follow target by the detector and, when the person recognized as the follow target performs a specific action, controls the notifying unit to give a notification by a preset notification method in response to the specific action.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to acquire a document image illustrating a document, acquire a related character string associated with a target character string included in the document image, and extract target information corresponding to the target character string from a region set with reference to a position of the related character string in the document image.

Abstract: A light emitting component includes: a first light emitting element row including light emitting elements arranged in a main scanning direction; and a second light emitting element row including light emitting elements arranged in the main scanning direction such that the second light emitting element row is deviated from the first light emitting element row in a sub scanning direction and each of the light emitting elements in the second light emitting element row is positioned between light emitting elements adjacent to each other in the first light emitting element row, and a light emitting point area that is an area where each light emitting element of the first light emitting element row emits light, and a light emitting point area that is an area where each light emitting element of the second light emitting element row emits light are overlapped with each other in the main scanning direction.

Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution contains: an aqueous solvent containing water; particles; and a polyimide precursor, wherein the polyimide precursor has a high molecular weight region A containing a high molecular weight side maximum value and a low molecular weight region B containing a low molecular weight side maximum value in an elution curve obtained by gel permeation chromatography, a weight average molecular weight in the high molecular weight region A is 50,000 or more, a weight average molecular weight in the low molecular weight region B is 10,000 or more and 30,000 or less, and a value of a/(a+b) is 0.60 or more and 0.98 or less in which a represents an area of the high molecular weight region A and b represents an area of the low molecular weight region B.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a mounting surface provided on a main body and on which paper is placed; a person detection section provided in the main body; a processor configured to control return from a sleep state of the main body, based on the detection of a person by the person detection section, and perform control such that in a case where there is no paper on the mounting surface when transition to the sleep state, a nearby person approaching the main body is included in a detection target of the person detection section, and a passerby passing near the main body is not included in the detection target, in the sleep state, and in a case where there is a paper on the mounting surface when the transition, the nearby person and the passerby are included in the detection target, in the sleep state; and a notification section that notifies of paper remaining in a case where there is a paper on the mounting surface after the return.

Abstract: A transfer device includes an intermediate transfer member that has an outer peripheral surface to which a toner image is to be transferred, a primary transfer device that has a primary transfer member performing primary transfer of a toner image formed on a surface of an image holder to the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer member, a secondary transfer device that has a secondary transfer member which is arranged in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer member and performs secondary transfer of the toner image transferred to the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer member to a surface of a recording medium, and a cleaning device that has a cleaning blade cleaning the outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer member, in which a coefficient D of dynamic friction between the intermediate transfer member and the cleaning blade is 0.2 or more and 1.

Abstract: A reading device includes a body having a base on which a read target object is placed, a reader that reads the read target object placed on the base, a first attachment frame to which the reader is attached such that the reader is disposed above the base, an operation unit that is used for operating the device by touching, a second attachment frame to which the operation unit is attached such that the operation unit is disposed above the base and below the reader, and a body frame to which at least the first attachment frame is attached. The first attachment frame includes multiple frame portions extending upward at positions located away from each other.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer unit that transfers an image onto an object by making contact with the object; a holding unit that holds the object having a circumferential surface so that the circumferential surface rotates along a transfer direction of the transfer unit; and a transport unit that transports the holding unit holding the object along a transport path, and the transfer unit transfers an image onto the circumferential surface of the object in a circumferential direction as the object rotates, by making contact with the circumferential surface of the object maintained at a transfer position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor that includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer disposed on the conductive substrate, the electrophotographic photoreceptor having an outermost surface layer that contains a binder resin, a charge-transporting material, and a fluorine-containing resin particle, the fluorine-containing resin particle containing 0 or more and 30 or less carboxy groups per 106 carbon atoms, a charging device that charges the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an electrostatic latent image forming device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the electrophotographic photoreceptor that is charged, a developing device that houses a developer containing a toner and that develops, with the developer, the electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photoreceptor into a toner image, a transfer device that transfers the toner image onto a transfer-receiving medium, and an optical discharging device that, after the toner image i

Abstract: Silica particles having silica base particles, a coating structure that coats the silica base particles and is composed of a reaction product of a trifunctional silane compound, and a nitrogen element-containing compound that has adhered to the coating structure and contains a molybdenum element, in which in a molybdenum element map created by SEM-EDX, a ratio of a total area of a region forming a lump having a long diameter of 500 nm or more is 5% or less to a total area of the molybdenum element.

Abstract: An endless belt, in which an outer peripheral surface of the endless belt has a coefficient of dynamic friction of 0.85 or less, and in a case where polyester resin particles having a volume-average particle size of 4.7 ?m are caused to adhere to the outer peripheral surface under a load of 0 g/cm2, and then air is sprayed on the outer peripheral surface from above the outer peripheral surface at a spray pressure that keeps increasing, all the polyester resin particles having adhered to the outer peripheral surface are spaced apart from the outer peripheral surface at the spray pressure of 6 kPa or less.

Abstract: A toner for electrostatic image development includes: toner particles; perovskite compound particles externally added to the toner particles; and silica particles (S) that are externally added to the toner particles and include an elemental nitrogen-containing compound containing elemental molybdenum and in which 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.