Abstract: The aligning device receives a sheet conveyed in a sheet conveyance direction in a stackable manner and aligns a position of the sheet in the sheet conveyance direction. The moving mechanism moves the sheet aligned by the aligning device in the sheet conveyance direction together with the aligning device. The controller selectively executes a first mode in which first post-processing is performed on the sheet and then second post-processing is performed on the sheet and a second mode in which the second post-processing is performed on the sheet without performing the first post-processing on the sheet. The controller, in response to a selection of the first mode or the second mode, causes the moving mechanism to adjust a position of the aligning device in the sheet conveyance direction before the aligning device receives the sheet as a target of the first post-processing or the second post-processing, respectively.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes multiple input interfaces each capable of receiving a user instruction to perform a management function provided by the information processing apparatus and circuitry that accepts, independently for each one of the multiple input interfaces, a selection that selects an option among multiple options regarding the access to the management function, the multiple options including an option that limits access to the management function and an option that allows access to the management function without authentication and controls access to the management function independently via each of the multiple input interfaces based on the option independently selected for each of the multiple input interfaces.

Abstract: A recording device discharge position adjustor includes a recording device to discharge liquid droplets onto a recording medium; an edge detector unit to detect a lateral edge position of the recording medium in a direction perpendicular to a recording medium conveyance direction; a discharge position adjustor to adjust a discharge position of the liquid droplets from the recording device relative to the recording medium; a controller to adjust the discharge position using the discharge position adjustor; and an edge position converter to convert the edge position of the recording medium detected by the edge detector unit to an edge position at a position of the recording device, in which the controller adjusts the discharge position of the recording device by an adjustment amount corresponding to the edge position of the recording medium at the position of the recording device converted by the edge position converter.

Abstract: A non-magnetic toner is provided. The non-magnetic toner comprises a polyester resin, a release agent, and a colorant. A storage elastic modulus at 100° C. (G?(100° C.)) of the toner is from 1.0×103 to 1.0×106 Pa, and a storage elastic modulus at 160° C. (G?(160° C.)) of the toner is from 1.0×102 to 1.0×104 Pa. A ratio of loss elastic modulus to storage elastic modulus at 100° C. (tan ?(100° C.)) of the toner is greater than that at 130° C. (tan ?(130° C.)), and the tan ?(100° C.) and the tan ?(130° C.) are each within the range of from 1 to 2.

Abstract: A conveyor line system, including: an image processing device configured to irradiate a recording part with laser light to record or erase, or record and erase an image, wherein the conveyor line system is configured to manage a conveying container containing the recording part, and wherein the following formula is satisfied at a wavelength of the laser light emitted from the image processing device when recording the image: A+50>B where A is an absorbance of the recording part, and B is an absorbance of the conveying container.

Abstract: An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, capable of applying edge enhancement to an image based on characteristics of the image.

Abstract: A power supply circuit includes a charge pump circuit configured to raise a voltage inputted from an input terminal and supply the raised voltage from an output terminal to a given load and a control circuit unit. The charge pump circuit includes a fly-back capacitor configured to store a charge of the voltage inputted from the input terminal and an output transistor connected between one terminal of the fly-back capacitor and the output terminal of the charge pump circuit. The control circuit unit receives a reference voltage and the voltage outputted from the charge pump circuit and is configured to generate a proportional voltage proportional to the voltage outputted from the charge pump circuit and output a voltage to control the output transistor depending on a difference between the proportional voltage and the reference voltage so that the proportional voltage has the same voltage level as the reference voltage.

Abstract: A back-gate voltage generator circuit generating a back-gate voltage of a four-terminal back gate switching MOSFET for charge and discharge control is disclosed. The back-gate voltage generator circuit includes first and second n-type MOSFETs connected in series through a common source electrode. A voltage at the common source electrode of the first and second n-type MOSFETS connected in series serves as the back-gate voltage of the four-terminal back gate switching MOSFET, and the back-gate voltage is used as a reference voltage for generating signals for controlling the first and second n-type MOSFETS.

Abstract: A disclosed image processing apparatus enables input of various documents, addition of various types of embedded information, and implementation of various behaviors associated with embedded information detection results. Information embedded in input document data is detected, and an image processing associated with a detection result is carried out. The image processing apparatus includes a document input mechanism, an embedded information analysis mechanism, a behavior determination mechanism, a document output mechanism, and an image management mechanism. In one embodiment, an interface via which the document input mechanism and the embedded information analysis mechanism are connected, and another interface via which the document input mechanism and the image management mechanism are connected are fixed, so that the document input mechanism can be replaced with a new document input mechanism that inherits from those fixed interfaces, without affecting the other mechanisms.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium by ejecting a recording liquid to the recording medium at a recording part is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a conveyor belt for conveying the recording medium to the recording part, the conveyor belt satisfying a relation of ?>?c, wherein ? (mN/m) is a static surface tension of the recording liquid at 25° C., and ?c (mN/m) is a critical surface tension of the conveyor belt, wherein the recording liquid contains a color material in a disperse state.

Abstract: A system and method for disassembling and assembling a product. The system includes a production facility for assembling a product, a processing facility for disassembling a used product and offering the unit or parts of the used product for assembling the product after the unit and parts are processed, and a commonly-used processing facility for practicing mutually reversible steps between the process of assembling the product and the process of disassembling the used product and offering the unit and parts for assembling the product and/or for practicing steps which are identical for the assembling and disassembling processes. The method includes the steps of performing an assembling process, performing a disassembling process, and performing in a commonly-used processing facility mutually reversible steps between the assembling and disassembling process and/or performing steps which are identical for the assembling and disassembling processes.

Abstract: The present invention provides a disk drive unit which includes a body case having an opening portion for inserting a disk cartridge and for facilitating removal of the cartridge from the body case. A shutter mechanism having a shutter which is rotatably supported in the body case and is movable between an open position for inserting the cartridge and a closed position for preventing airborne debris from entering the interior of the body case. The shutter is normally in the closed position and is opened when a cartridge is inserted or ejected. A loading device is positioned within the body case and is configured to vertically move the cartridge so as to load the inserted cartridge onto a driving device. The loading device also selectively ejects the cartridge in an ejection movement. A driving device is provided to rotate a disk stored in the cartridge and is preferably fixed to the body case.

Abstract: In a fixing system used to an electrophotographic recording apparatus, when a fixing roller is heated to a temperature above a preset fixing temperature by a heater and then a thermistor senses that the surface temperature of the fixing roller falls below the fixing temperature, a heater controller energizes the heater for a predetermined driving time and then deenergizes of the heater for a predetermined heater interrupting time to thereby control the surface temperature of the fixing roller. The heater driving time and the heater interrupting time may be stored in a memory region in accordance with respective sizes of recording papers. The duty ratio of the heater may be changed when a predetermined number of images have been recorded or when the fixing system is continuously operated for longer than a predetermined time.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoconductor includes an electroconductive support and a photoconductive layer formed thereon containing a diamine compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 each is independently a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or aryl group; R.sup.4 is hydrogen, an alkyl group or an alkoxyl group; n is an integer of 1 to 3; and ##STR2## is a substituted or unsubstituted bivalent arylene group or a bivalent heterocyclic group. This diamine compound is useful as a photoconductive material for electrophotographic photoconductors.