Abstract: A recording medium stores therein a program for causing a computer to execute processing includes: acquiring images of N or less each including teeth adjacent to each other; arranging and displaying, in N image display areas capable of displaying the images in association with an arrangement of teeth, each of the images, in association with each of the N image display areas, a selection area for selecting presence or absence of an image and input areas for inputting information indicating a condition of each tooth included in an image displayed in each of the N image display areas; receiving a selection content in the selection area or input contents in the input areas or combination of the selection content and the input contents; and generating learning information in which a condition of each of the teeth and an image of each of the teeth are associated with each other.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a front loading paper feeding member is described which has an improved jam removing mechanism. The apparatus includes a sheet holding section having sheet trays arranged in a vertical direction for holding copy sheets. A conveying section is included for conveying a sheet sent from one sheet tray of the sheet holding section to an image forming section. A connecting member is included in the conveying section to allow the sheet trays to be drawn out from the body of the image forming apparatus conjointly with the conveying section. Other connecting members may be included to connect the sheet trays together. Further, a door member including a sheet tray may be included in the apparatus.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which facilitates the input and output of copy paper. One embodiment includes an image forming apparatus with paper supply trays, a development area, a console and a sorter. By pressing a transparent paper mode key on the console, normal and projector paper are sequentially fed from the trays to the development area and then to the sorter. The sorter is set in one of three modes by a sorter instructor. A manual key on the console allows an operator to set the instructor to position the sorter in any one of the three modes. The pressing of the transparent paper mode key or the detection by a detector of transparent paper in the feeding tray results in the instructor setting the sorter in a non-sort mode despite the sort instructor having been previously set in a different mode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which has a contact glass, an original transporting part for transporting a sheet of original onto the contact glass, an optical exposure system for scanning the sheet of original placed on the contact glass by reciprocating movement below the contact glass, an image forming part for forming an image of the original obtained by the optical exposure system on a recording sheet, and a part for supplying the recording sheet to the image forming part.

Abstract: An apparatus for sorting and transferring sheets comprises storing means for storing a stack of sheets, first transferring means for transferring a sheet located at an end of the stack of the sheets from the storing means in a first direction, and second transferring means for transferring the next sheet located at the end of the stack of the sheets from the storing means in a second direction. The first and second directions are different from each other. The apparatus for sorting and transferring the sheets is applied; for example, to an automatic original transferring apparatus and a temporary storing tray of a copying machine.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of efficiently and stably manufacturing a high-purity metal powder of a desired particle size, which is used for powder metallurgy or the like, by generating arc 18 between electrodes 12 and 13 to melt the distal end portions of the electrodes, causing droplets 19 of the molten metal to drop onto rotating disk 14, scattering the dropped droplets by a centrifugal force, thereby cooling the droplets, and an apparatus for the same.

Abstract: An electrostatic copying apparatus capable of both-surface copying includes a main copying system and a document sending device for conveying a document to be copied through an exposure area. The main copying system includes a copying paper conveying device defining a copying paper conveying passage, an image forming device for forming an image on copying paper conveyed through the paper conveying passage, a copying paper returning device defining a copying paper returning passage for returning copying paper having the image formed on one surface and a paper re-feed device for receiving the copying paper returned through the paper returning passage and feeding it again to the paper conveying passage. According to a first aspect, improvement is made in the paper re-feed device, and according to a second aspect, a document feed device in the document sending device is improved.

Abstract: An electrostatic copying apparatus which can form an image on both surfaces of a copying paper as required. The apparatus includes a copying paper conveying passage, a copying paper feeding means for feeding a copying paper sheet to the paper conveying passage, a conveyance controlling means disposed adjacent to the downstream end of the paper conveying passage, a copying paper discharging passage extending from its upstream end adjacent to the downstream end of the conveyance controlling means, a copying paper reversing passage extending from its upstream end adjacent to the downstream end of the conveyance controlling means, a copying paper returning passage extending from its upstream end adjacent to the upstream end of the conveyance controlling means, a copying paper re-feeding passage, and a copying paper re-sending means for re-sending a copying paper returned through the paper returning passage to the paper conveying passage through the paper re-feeding passage.

Abstract: An electrostatic copying apparatus which can form an image on both surfaces of a copying paper as required. The apparatus includes a copying paper conveying passage, a copying paper feeding means for feeding a copying paper sheet to the paper conveying passage, a conveyance controlling means disposed adjacent to the downstream end of the paper conveying passage, a copying paper discharging passage extending from its upstream end adjacent to the downstream end of the conveyance controlling means, a copying paper reversing passage extending from its upstream end adjacent to the downstream end of the conveyance controlling means, a copying paper returning passage extending from its upstream end adjacent to the upstream end of the conveyance controlling means, a copying paper re-feedingpassage, and a copying paper re-sending means for re-sending a copying paper returned through the paper returning passage to the paper conveying passage through the paper re-feeding passage.

Abstract: An electrostatic copying apparatus which can form an image on both surfaces of a copying paper as required. The apparatus includes a copying paper conveying passage, a copying paper feeding means for feeding a copying paper sheet to the paper conveying passage, a conveyance controlling means disposed adjacent to the downstream end of the paper conveying passage, a copying paper discharging passage extending from its upstream end adjacent to the downstream end of the conveyance controlling means, a copying paper reversing passage extending from its upstream end adjacent to the downstream end of the conveyance controlling means, a copying paper returning passage extending from its upstream end adjacent to the upstream end of the conveyance controlling means, a copying paper re-feeding passage, and a copying paper re-sending means for re-sending a copying paper returned through the paper returning passage to the paper conveying passage through the paper re-feeding passage.

Abstract: In an automatic arc welding method for welding metallic materials having a vertically curved weld line, a change in the arc voltage is compared with a arc length setting voltage and the resulting difference signal is used to control the vertical position of a welding torch and hold the same at a predetermined distance from the materials to be welded, while on the other hand in response to a signal generated from an obliquity detector made integral with the torch, the torch is controlled at an angle corresponding to the oblique angle of the materials to be welded and at the same time the welding speed is controlled at a constant value in response to a signal corresponding to the torch angle.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically welding corrugated membranes of a type in which a welding torch is mounted on a head attached to the welding apparatus proper by way of an arc gear segment and the arc gear segment is driven through a pinion gear, whereby the head is moved along the arc gear segment to control the position of the torch. The arc gear segment is driven for angular movement by a drive motor mounted in the welding apparatus proper, and the arc gear segment includes a pair of rotatable small wheels provided at the ends of the arc gear segment and a cord such as a chain or rope extended around the small wheels and along the arcuate teeth of the arc gear segment, the middle portion of the cord being securely attached to the head adapted to be movable along the arc gear segment, whereby when the arc gear segment is rotated, the head attached to the cord is simultaneously moved through an angle which is two times that of the arc gear segment.