Abstract: A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body; a page-width inkjet head unit capable of ejecting fluid droplets without substantially moving the page-width inkjet head unit while forming an image on a medium to be recorded on; a maintaining and recovering unit maintaining and recovering a function of a nozzle of the page-width inkjet head unit; and an engaging unit for engaging the page-width inkjet head unit and the maintaining and recovering unit together as a single unit when the page-width inkjet head unit and the maintaining and recovering unit are removed from the apparatus main body as a single unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including an image carrying member, a detecting section, and a linear-speed deriving section. The image carrying member carries a toner image. The detecting section detects passages of a mark, provided on the image carrying member, at a plurality of predetermined detection positions. The linear-speed deriving section determines a linear speed of the image carrying member from times at which the detecting section detects the passage of the mark.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus using an electrophotographic process includes an image forming unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit performs monochrome printing and color printing. The storage unit stores print ratio data that relates to printing in the image forming unit is measured over time. The control unit separately performs correction of monochrome toner density and color toner density based on a predetermined first condition. If the first condition in the monochrome printing is met, the control unit performs correction of the monochrome toner density if a predetermined second condition concerning an amount of variation in the print ratio identified from the print ratio data is also met.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel compounds. These compounds can be useful in inhibiting the activity of protein prenyltransferases including GGTase I and/or RabGGTase. The compounds can also be used as anti-cancer therapeutics including as part of methods for treating cancer, in assays, and in kits.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a temperature detection unit that detects a current interior temperature based on a detection signal from a temperature sensor. A temperature change detection unit calculates a difference between the current interior temperature and an interior temperature detected in a last color misregistration correction processing as a temperature change amount. When the temperature change amount is equal to or higher than a threshold, a determination unit determines that a color misregistration correction operation needs to be executed. A mode setting unit determines whether a monochrome printing processing is currently carried out.

Abstract: A disclosed image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium includes an inkjet head having a nozzle surface and inkjet nozzles on the nozzle surface and configured to jet ink droplets from the inkjet nozzles; a recording medium conveying mechanism including a recording medium conveyor and configured to convey the recording medium by the recording medium conveyor into an image forming area facing the inkjet head; a test pattern forming part provided separately from the recording medium conveyor; a control unit configured to perform an image forming test where a test pattern is formed on the test pattern forming part by jetting ink droplets from the inkjet head; and a test pattern detection unit configured to detect the test pattern formed on the test pattern forming part.

Abstract: A building boards loading structure which loads plural building boards, being similar sheets, on a pallet. The building boards loading structure has plural packages, and the packages have plural building boards and plural bands. The plural building boards are banded at plural locations by the plural bands, and the plural packages are stacked vertically, to provide an upper and lower package in regard to two packages, and loaded on a pallet. The locations of bands in each upper and lower package which is loaded on the pallet are different from each other in relation to the lateral direction. The location of bands in a lowest package which is loaded on the pallet is different, in relation to the lateral direction, from the location of the stringers and an entry in the pallet for inserting a fork of a fork lift truck.

Abstract: A reciprocating seal used, for example, for a shock absorber. A main seal lip has a two-step lip structure including a first lip and a second lip and a plurality of protrusions extending in the direction of the shaft are formed on a sliding contact surface of the second lip, thereby improving frictional force characteristics and, at the same time, improving sealing performance.

Abstract: The die as provided is a die in which an upper block is placed on an upper surface of a lower block with a lower surface of the upper block in contact with the upper surface, wherein the lower block includes a manifold and a slit serving as a path for discharging paint from the manifold to the outside, constituted respectively from between the lower block and the lower surface of the upper block by forming a cavity and a space which communicates with the outside from this cavity along a columnar direction, respectively, from one end face of a columnar body with a trapezoidal shape of cross section to the other end face, a paint supply path which communicates with the manifold is formed from an outer side located between the one end face and the other end face of the lower block, a slit space dimension of the slit between front end portions in a paint discharge direction of the lower block and the upper block in a discharge port serving as an open end to the outside is smallest on the one end face side and inc

Abstract: In an image density correction method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an image density correction is carried out by obtaining an actual toner amount through obtaining a density of a between-sheet patch image having been formed during continuous printing, reconstructing relational characteristics in which the actual toner amount is associated with each variation in developing biases, by considering that the actual toner amount and a reference toner amount are to be made in agreement, when a determination that the actual toner amount disagrees with the reference toner amount is made, and resetting a developing bias for realizing the reference toner amount based on the reconstructed relational characteristics and the reference toner amount. By this means, a high quality image can be obtained by suppressing color fluctuations with printing efficiency maintained at a high level even if large color fluctuations occur during continuous printing.

Abstract: There are included an electric light emission continuous control unit and a power absorbing unit, and the electric light emission continuous control unit is provided with one or a plurality of large power elements to be used as a control impedance, and the large power element is continuously controlled to light a flash lamp to a determined light emission quantity. The power absorbing unit is provided with one or a plurality of power absorbing elements, and an operation of the power absorbing element is selected in a switching unit, and thereby power consumption of the large power element is controlled within a determined range.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel compounds. These compounds can be useful in inhibiting the activity of GGTase I. The compounds can also be used as anti-cancer therapeutics including as part of methods for treating cancer, in assays, and in kits.

Abstract: A structuring unit generates a combination pattern of the attribute values by combining an attribute value of the assessment target data with an attribute value indicating a unspecified value. A reconstructing unit searches data matching the combination pattern from the accumulation data, and generates subset data. An index setting unit sets an index indicating significance of relationship between the generated subset data with assessment data. An assessing unit selects subset data that becomes a basis of assessment, based on the set index, and performs an assessment on a prediction result based on the selected subset data.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a reciprocating seal used, for example, for a shock absorber. A main seal lip 32 has a two-step lip structure including a first lip 32a and a second lip 32b and a plurality of protrusions 34 extending in the direction of the shaft are formed on a sliding contact surface of the second lip 32b, thereby improving frictional force characteristics and, at the same time, improving sealing performance.

Abstract: A method for adjusting a developing device including a magnetic roll for holding a two-component developer composed of a carrier and toner filled in a developing tank in a brush state, and a developing roll for developing an electrostatic latent image formed in an image carrier by holding toner conveyed from the magnetic roll, includes a bias voltage adjustment step for adjusting a conveyance amount of toner from the magnetic roll to the developing roll by adjusting bias voltages applied to the magnetic roll and the developing roll respectively, and a mixing ratio adjustment step for adjusting a conveyance amount of the toner by adjusting a mixing ratio of the two-component developer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an industrial synthetic method of an optically active cyclohexane ether compound (IIIa) or a salt thereof, which is useful as a pharmaceutical agent, and an intermediate useful for the production method of the present invention. The production method of the present invention is as shown below: wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification. According to the production method of the present invention, efficient and stable supply of an optically active cyclohexane ether compound (IIIa) in a high yield at a lower cost can be afforded. Therefore, an optically active cyclohexane ether compound (IIIa) extremely useful as a pharmaceutical agent can be provided by an industrially highly advantageous method.

Abstract: In an image density correction method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an image density correction is carried out by obtaining an actual toner amount through obtaining a density of a between-sheet patch image having been formed during continuous printing, reconstructing relational characteristics in which the actual toner amount is associated with each variation in developing biases, by considering that the actual toner amount and a reference toner amount are to be made in agreement, when a determination that the actual toner amount disagrees with the reference toner amount is made, and resetting a developing bias for realizing the reference toner amount based on the reconstructed relational characteristics and the reference toner amount. By this means, a high quality image can be obtained by suppressing color fluctuations with printing efficiency maintained at a high level even if large color fluctuations occur during continuous printing.

Abstract: A sealing device in which a main seal lip used for a shock absorber is formed in a one-stage structure, wherein a satin finishing portion is formed on a sliding surface of the main lip at a position apart a specified distance from a lip edge.

Abstract: A sealing device in which a main seal lip used for a shock absorber is formed in a one-stage structure, wherein lattice-shaped projections that include a plurality of projections extending along a sliding direction and a plurality of projections extending along a direction perpendicular to the sliding direction are formed on a sliding surface of the main lip at a position apart a specified distance from a lip edge.