Abstract: A sheet-stapling apparatus mounts a center-fold booklet and staples the booklet at a fold of the booklet by a staple. The sheet-stapling apparatus has a supporting member that mounts the center-fold booklet, pushing members that push the booklet to the supporting member, a stapler that penetrates the staple through the booklet and a clincher that clinches legs of the staple to bind the booklet. Each pushing member has a pushing recess portion for pushing the fold of the booklet. The pushing recess portion spreads from a booklet-positioning angle to a booklet-pushing angle to prevent the booklet from shifting.

Abstract: An aspect of a capacitor comprises an exterior package case housing an electrolyte along with a capacitor element, a sealing plate where an external terminal is disposed, the sealing plate sealing the exterior package case, a current collecting plate disposed between an electrode protruding portion formed on an element end surface of the capacitor element and the external terminal, a gas releasing mechanism disposed in the sealing plate to release a gas in the exterior package case, and a blocking mechanism disposed on at least one of the sealing plate and the current collecting plate to block the electrolyte from the gas releasing mechanism.

Abstract: To prevent a crack from being transferred to the side surface of a housing by concentrating stress in a notch when an impact is applied to a control apparatus so that the crack develops in the coupling position of the first bracket. This protects the housing and protects the circuit board from a fire hazard, thereby ensuring the control of an air bag during a collision and the reading of an air bag operation record after a collision.

Abstract: A sheet-stapling apparatus mounts a center-fold booklet and staples the booklet at a fold of the booklet by a staple. The sheet-stapling apparatus has a supporting member that mounts the center-fold booklet, pushing members that push the booklet to the supporting member, a stapler that penetrates the staple through the booklet and a clincher that clinches legs of the staple to bind the booklet. Each pushing member has a pushing recess portion for pushing the fold of the booklet. The pushing recess portion spreads from a booklet-positioning angle to a booklet-pushing angle to prevent the booklet from shifting.

Abstract: An antimicrobial activity enhancing agent for lactoferrin or a lactoferrin hydrolysate, which contains ribonuclease-4 as an active ingredient, and a method for producing an antimicrobial activity enhancing agent for lactoferrin or a lactoferrin hydrolysate, which comprises (a) the step of contacting raw milk with a cation exchange resin to adsorb proteins in the raw milk to the cation exchange resin, (b) the step of washing the cation exchange resin having undergone the adsorption treatment, and flowing an elution solvent to elute a protein fraction having an isoelectric point of 8.0 to 10.0, and (c) the step of subjecting the eluted protein fraction to gel filtration using a gel filtration carrier to collect a fraction of a molecular weight of 30 kDa or less.

Abstract: In a sheet-processing apparatus, a controller controls a conveying guide to change over a sheet-conveying path of sheets that are ejected without stapling them to a sheet-processing conveying path based on predetermined sheet-conveying path selection information when judging that a non-stapling mode in which the sheet stapling processing is not performed on a first type of sheets follows a stapling mode in which the sheet-stapling processing is performed on a second type of sheets. The first type of sheets, which are not to be stapled, conveyed on the sheet-processing conveying path waits on a waiting portion in the non-processing mode while in the processing mode, a sheet-processing portion performs the sheet processing on the second type of sheets.

Abstract: An antimicrobial activity enhancing agent for lactoferrin or a lactoferrin hydrolysate, which contains ribonuclease-4 as an active ingredient, and a method for producing an antimicrobial activity enhancing agent for lactoferrin or a lactoferrin hydrolysate, which comprises (a) the step of contacting raw milk with a cation exchange resin to adsorb proteins in the raw milk to the cation exchange resin, (b) the step of washing the cation exchange resin having undergone the adsorption treatment, and flowing an elution solvent to elute a protein fraction having an isoelectric point of 8.0 to 10.0, and (c) the step of subjecting the eluted protein fraction to gel filtration using a gel filtration carrier to collect a fraction of a molecular weight of 30 kDa or less.

Abstract: A paper discharge apparatus including, a paper loading portion for loading a paper which is discharged; a paper rear-end abutting portion which a rear end of paper in a paper conveying direction abuts; a pair of paper holding members for holding the paper at the paper holding position when the paper is discharged; a paper holding member moving device which is connected to at least one of the pair of the paper holding members and moves the pair of the paper holding members from a paper holding position to a paper loading position; when the pair of the paper holding members reach the paper loading position, the paper holding member moving device moves at least one of the pair of the paper holding members in the opposite direction of the paper conveying direction and makes the rear end of the holding paper abut the paper rear-end abutting portion.

Abstract: An antimicrobial activity enhancing agent for lactoferrin or a lactoferrin hydrolysate, which contains a milk protein as an active ingredient and has the following properties, and a method for producing the antimicrobial activity enhancing agent, which comprises (a) the step of contacting raw milk with a cation exchange resin to adsorb proteins in the raw milk to the cation exchange resin, (b) the step of washing the cation exchange resin having undergone the adsorption treatment, and flowing an elution solvent to elute a protein fraction having an isoelectric point of 9.0 to 11.0, and (c) the step of subjecting the eluted protein fraction to membrane filtration using an ultrafiltration membrane having a molecular weight cutoff of 30 kDa to prepare the milk protein having the following properties: (A) an action of enhancing the antimicrobial activity of lactoferrin or a lactoferrin hydrolysate, (B) a molecular weight of 30 kDa or less, (C) an isoelectric point of 9.0 to 11.0.

Abstract: In a post-processing apparatus in which sheets are stacked in a stacker section and arranged to be subject to post-processing, the stacker section is provided with a sheet ejection section which subsequently ejects the sheets one by one or two or more sheets overlapped with each other, wherein the sheet ejection section is provided with a corrugation application member to apply corrugation onto the sheet to be ejected and to change extent of the corrugation to be applied.

Abstract: A sheet ejection device including: a sheet stacking section; a sheet trailing edge hitting section; a pair of sheet holding members for holding a sheet or plural sheets placed one on top of another at a sheet holding position, and moving the same to the sheet stacking position; and a friction member that is provided on one of the sheet holding members and that comes in contact with the topmost sheet of the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking section; wherein, when the sheet holding members reach the sheet stacking position, one of the sheet holding members is moved upstream in the sheet ejecting direction, whereby the trailing edge of the held sheet is made to hit against the sheet trailing edge hitting section, and the friction member comes in contact with the topmost sheet, and then the topmost sheet is biased toward the sheet trailing edge hitting section.

Abstract: A sheet cutting device includes: an interposing section that interposes a sheet bundle in which a plurality of sheets are bundled; a cutting blade section having a cutting blade that cuts a sheet bundle interposed by the interposing section; a blade receiving member that receives a cutting edge of the cutting blade in the case of cutting; and a controller that controls a stop position of the cutting blade in the case of cutting. The controller controls the cutting blade section so that an amount of movement from a standby position of the cutting blade to the stop position becomes great when the number of times of cutting operations is increased.

Abstract: A sheet ejection device capable of applying shift processing to the sheets on an ejection tray, using the alignment member contacting the sheets at a plurality of points in the direction in which the sheets are ejected.

Abstract: In a sheet aligning apparatus, a pair of sheet aligning members stops at three positions such that when a sheet aligning operation is not conducted, the pair of sheet aligning members is stopped at the first position of an upper level so as not to come in contact with sheets discharged from a discharging section, when the sorting section shifts for sorting, the pair of sheet aligning members is stopped at the second position of a middle level lower than the first position so as not to come in contact with sheets stacked on the tray, and when a sheet aligning operation is conducted, the pair of sheet aligning members is stopped at the third position of a lower level so as to come in contact with the top surface of the tray or the upper surface of the sheets stacked on the tray.

Abstract: A sheet cutting device, including a cutting blade for cutting a bundle of sheets, while moving in a slanted direction compounded by a direction perpendicular to the surface of sheet and a direction parallel to the sheet surface; a supporting member for supporting the bundle of sheets in the vicinity of a cutting position; a pressing section to press the bundle of sheets against the supporting member in a direction reverse to a moving direction of the cutting blade and perpendicular to the sheet surface, and the pressing section to receive the cutting blade at the time when the cutting blade cuts the bundle of sheets; a cutting blade driving section to drive the cutting blade; a pressing section driving section to drive the pressing section; and a control section to release pressing of the bundle of sheets and retract the cutting blade, after the bundle of sheets is cut.

Abstract: A sheet finisher includes: a stacking section having a stacking surface arranged to be tilted, and a stopper located below the stacking surface; a sheet finishing section which post-processes for a sheet bundle that hits the stopper and is stacked on the stacking section; a conveying section which sends two sheets to the stacking section under the condition that the two sheets are shifted each other in a conveyance direction and are superimposed; an input section in which sheet type information is inputted; and a controller which adjusts a shift amount between the two sheets so that the sheet on a lower side precedes toward the stopper by a prescribed amount, when a conveyance condition of the conveyance section is changed based on the inputted sheet type information inputted, and the two sheets are conveyed to the stacking section with the two sheets superimposed.

Abstract: A sheet ejection device includes: a sheet ejection tray adapted to stack a sheet ejected thereon; an alignment member which aligns a position in a width direction and a direction perpendicular to a sheet ejection direction of the sheet on the sheet ejection tray; and a supporting unit which supports the alignment member so that the alignment member is displaced in a direction intersecting the sheet ejection direction when outer force is applied to the alignment member.

Abstract: A sheet ejection device including: a sheet stacking section; a sheet trailing edge hitting section; a pair of sheet holding members for holding a sheet or plural sheets placed one on top of another at a sheet holding position, and moving the same to the sheet stacking position; and a friction member that is provided on one of the sheet holding members and that comes in contact with the topmost sheet of the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking section; wherein, when the sheet holding members reach the sheet stacking position, one of the sheet holding members is moved upstream in the sheet ejecting direction, whereby the trailing edge of the held sheet is made to hit against the sheet trailing edge hitting section, and the friction member comes in contact with the topmost sheet, and then the topmost sheet is biased toward the sheet trailing edge hitting section.

Abstract: A sheet trimming apparatus including: a trimming section provided with a trimming cutter blade for trimming a sheet bundle; a paper scrap container for storing paper scraps separated from the sheet bundle by the trimming cutter blade; and a paper scrap guide member, which is provided to create a falling space where the paper scraps are made to fall from the trimming section to the paper scrap container, wherein the paper scrap guide member assumes a first state for expanding a gap in the falling space, and a second state for creating an inclined surface for guiding the paper scraps to fall.

Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus including, a sheet receiving section to receive sheets, a punching device to punch sheets; an accumulating section to accumulate sheets; a stitching device to stitch the sheets accumulated in the accumulating section; a sheet discharging section to which the sheets stitched by the stitching device are discharged; and a conveyance path to connect the sheet receiving section, the punching device, the accumulating section, and the sheet discharging section, wherein the conveyance path comprises an upper loop and a lower loop and has an S-shaped conveyance path to convey a sheet from the sheet receiving section to the accumulating section; and the punching device is arranged in the upper loop.