Abstract: A printing apparatus according to an embodiment may include: a printing device; a cooling device; an environmental value detector configured to detect an environmental value in or around the printing apparatus; an environmental value storage storing the environmental value detected by the environmental value detector before a current printing operation starts; and a print controller configured, in response to starting the current printing operation, to select one of the environmental value stored in the environmental value storage before the start of the current printing operation and an environmental value detected by the environmental value detector after a start of cooling the printing device by the cooling device in the current printing operation, calculate, based on the selected environmental value, a parameter for the printing device to perform the current printing operation, and cause the printing device to perform the current printing operation based on the calculated parameter.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming section capable of forming a brilliant developer image, a second image forming section including at least one image forming section capable of forming a black developer image, a transfer section capable of transferring the brilliant developer image and the black developer image onto a medium, and a controller that controls operation of the first image forming section and the second image forming section according to received print data. When forming a brilliant image based on the print data, the controller performs control to form the brilliant image in which relative position between the brilliant developer image and the black developer image is changed depending on a medium type.

Abstract: A transfer unit that transfers a developing agent image formed with a developing agent, includes a belt; and a rotational body that stretches the belt. The rotational body includes a shaft body, and a surface layer provided on an outer side of the shaft body in radial directions. Surface roughness of an outer peripheral surface of the surface layer is greater than a volume mean particle diameter of the developing agent.

Abstract: A fixation device according to an embodiment may include: an annular belt including an elastic layer with a thickness of more than 300 ?m; and a counter member opposed to an outer peripheral surface of the annular belt to form a nip region with the annular belt. A ratio (A/B) of a first hardness value (A) to a second hardness value (B) of the outer peripheral surface of the annular belt is 0.566 or more, where the first hardness value is measured, in hardness measurement using a hardness meter, at a time when a passage time, which is a time it takes for a certain point of the outer peripheral surface to pass through the nip region, has just passed from the start of the hardness measurement, and the second hardness value is measured at a time when the measured value of the hardness meter has just been saturated.

Abstract: A developer supply device according to an embodiment may include: a developer container; and a developer container holder to which the developer container is to be attached in a first direction. The developer container includes: a shutter movable between a closing position to close a supply port of a housing thereof and an opening position to open the supply port; and a sealing member provided between the housing and the shutter. The shutter includes: a cover portion including a cover surface configured to close the supply port; and a protruding portion projected in the first direction from the cover portion and provided at a position spaced apart from the cover surface to a side of the developer container holder. The developer container holder includes an engagement portion to be engaged with the protruding portion in a state where the developer container is attached to the developer container holder.

Abstract: A fixing device includes an annular belt, a heating member disposed to face an inner circumferential surface of the annular belt; and a heat storage member disposed to face a surface of the heating member on a side opposite to the annular belt. A thermal diffusivity of the heat storage member is lower than a thermal diffusivity of the annular belt.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming part that forms a first image on a print medium using a photoluminescent developer containing a photoluminescent pigment; a second image forming part that forms a second image on the print medium using a coloring developer containing a coloring material; and a lamination part that laminates the first image and the second image on the print medium, wherein a viscoelastic phase angle (A) of the coloring developer and a viscoelastic phase angle (B) of the photoluminescent developer when measured at 125[° C.] using a viscoelasticity measuring device satisfy follow: 21.1[°]?(A·B)?31.6[°]. where A means a viscoelastic phase angle of the coloring developer, B means a viscoelastic phase angle of the photoluminescent developer.

Abstract: An information processing device including: an operation display; a storage section configured to store transaction content information including a transaction content that has been previously executed and date/time information of the executed transaction content; a processor configured to, based on an operation date/time information of a user operating the operation display, search in the storage section as to whether there is a recursive transaction that has been repeatedly executed with a same transaction content in a same time band as a time band of the operation date/time information; and in a case in which there is the recursive transaction, display a first screen including a selection button for selecting the recursive transaction on the operation display, and, after the selection button is selected, automatically switch displays of plural screens showing a transaction content of the recursive transaction.

Abstract: To reduce costs by adopting a direct modulation system in which a semiconductor laser is directly modulated. An optical fiber sensor includes a light source configured to generate an optical pulse as probe light by a direct modulation system, an optical bandpass filter configured to extract anti-Stokes light that is a component on an anti-Stokes side of Brillouin scattered light from backscattered light generated by the probe light in an optical fiber to be measured, an interference signal acquisition unit configured to generate an interference signal by self-delayed heterodyne interference from the anti-Stokes light extracted at the optical bandpass filter and input to the interference signal acquisition unit and a Brillouin frequency shift acquisition unit configured to acquire a Brillouin frequency shift amount from the interference signal.

Abstract: A medium processing device includes a casing that has an opening through which an interior of the casing communicates with an exterior thereof, a first unit that is storable in the casing, with a first end thereof at a side of the opening, a second unit that is storable in the casing, with a second end thereof at the side of the opening, a conveyance section, including a roller, provided in the first unit, the conveyance section conveying a medium by rotating the roller, and a roller manual drive section that is provided in the first unit, and the is configured to allow the roller to be manually rotated. The roller manual drive section is provided in a vicinity of the first end of the first unit when the first unit is stored in the casing.

Abstract: A charging device according to one or more embodiments may include: a charging member that is rotatable and provided to be in contact with a contact member. The charging member includes: a shaft; a surface layer to be in contact with the contact member and containing porous particles; and an elastic layer provided between the shaft and the surface layer. A ratio of convex portions formed by the porous particles on the surface layer to a surface area of the surface layer is 68.4% or more.

Abstract: An integrated circuit according to one or more embodiments may include a terminal to which an impedance element and a power supply having a predetermined potential can be connected. The integrated circuit may be configured to change a potential of one of electrodes of the impedance element connected to the terminal, detect a change in electrical characteristics of the terminal based on characteristics of the impedance element when the potential of the one electrode of the impedance element is changed, to determine a setting condition among a plurality of setting conditions that are used for an operation of the integrated circuit, store the setting condition in a storage, and use the setting condition stored in the storage for the operation of the integrated circuit.

Abstract: A media handling apparatus includes: an accumulation unit that accumulates plural sheets of media in a bundle; a strapping unit that straps a media bundle which is the plural sheets of media accumulated by the accumulation unit; and a storage compartment that is provided under the strapping unit and to which can be attached a storage bag that stores the media bundle strapped by the strapping unit.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a planarized layer having insulating properties, the planarized layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a plurality of semiconductor elements formed on the first surface of the planarized layer; and a groove provided in the second surface of the planarized layer. The groove is formed in a region outside the plurality of semiconductor elements as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first surface.

Abstract: A development device may include: a development device body; a developer cartridge detachably attached to the development device body; first and second levers provided to the development device body, the first lever including an operation part and a first engagement portion and the second lever including a second engagement portion; first and second engaged portions provided to the developer cartridge, the first engaged portion being configured to form a first engagement with the first engagement portion and the second engaged portion being configured to form a second engagement with the second engagement portion; and a first biasing member biasing the first engagement portion to the first engaged portion. When the operation part is operated with a first pressing force, the first engagement is released, and when the operation part is operated with a second pressing force greater than the first pressing force, the first and second engagements are released.

Abstract: An information processing method to be performed by an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment may include: causing an authentication processor to perform a login authentication based on an operation performed on an operation section; and causing an exclusive control executor that gives a usage right to use a function to the operation section after the operation section is authenticated by the login authentication and releases the usage right given to the operation section in a case where no response is received from the operation section for a predetermined time after the usage right is given to determine, based on a detection result by a status detector that detects a status of the information processing apparatus, whether or not to release the usage right given to the operation section after the predetermined time passes.

Abstract: A medium processing device includes a first, second and third conveyance path, a classification section, a first, second and third switching unit, a first, second and third storage box and a controller. Each of the first, second and third conveyance paths has two ends. One end of the first conveyance path is connected to one end of the third conveyance path. One end of the second conveyance path is connected to the other end of the third conveyance path at a second side of the classification section opposite to the first side. The other end of the first conveyance path is connected to the other end of the second conveyance path. The controller controls the first conveyance path and the second conveyance path so that the first and second conveyance paths are driven independently from each other.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include: an image formation section to form an image with a developer; an entire area printing rate calculator configured to calculate an entire area printing rate, which is, a printing rate of an entirety of an image formation area; a divided area printing rate calculator configured to calculate each divided area printing rate, which is, a printing rate of each of plural divided areas, divided in a main scanning direction, of the image formation area; and a deteriorated developer discarding operation execution section configured, when the entire area printing rate is equal to or lower than an entire area printing rate threshold, to perform a deteriorated developer discarding operation to discard the developer in any one of the divided areas in which the divided area printing rate is equal to or lower than a divided area printing rate threshold thereof.

Abstract: To perform an efficient and stable area sound pick-up process. The present invention relates to a sound pick-up apparatus.