Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes, an image forming portion configured to form a toner image on a sheet using printing toner and apply powder adhesive on the sheet, a fixing portion configured to heat the toner image formed on the sheet and the powder adhesive applied on the sheet by the image forming portion and fix the toner image and the powder adhesive to the sheet, and a bonding portion configured to bond the sheet with the powder adhesive by reheating the sheet having been heated by the fixing portion. The bonding portion is arranged above the image forming portion.

Abstract: A sheet-shaped member is provided and includes a porous carbon material including a material obtained from carbonization of a raw material including rice husk, the raw material having a silicon content of at least 5 wt %, the raw material is heat treated before carbonization, and the raw material is treated by an alkali treatment after carbonization to reduce the silicon content, the porous carbon material having a specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by the nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g as measured by the BJH method and MP method, and an R value of 1.

Abstract: A porous carbon material composite formed of a porous carbon material and a functional material and equipped with high functionality. The porous carbon material composite is formed of (A) a porous carbon material obtainable from a plant-derived material having a silicon (Si) content of 5 wt % or higher as a raw material; and (B) a functional material adhered on the porous carbon material, and has a specific surface area of 10 m2/g or greater as determined by the nitrogen BET method and a pore volume of 0.1 cm3/g or greater as determined by the BJH method and MP method.

Abstract: A sheet-shaped member is provided and includes a porous carbon material including a material obtained from carbonization of a raw material including rice husk, the raw material having a silicon content of at least 5 wt %, the raw material is heat treated before carbonization, and the raw material is treated by an alkali treatment after carbonization to reduce the silicon content, the porous carbon material having a specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by the nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g as measured by the BJH method and MP method, and an R value of 1.

Abstract: A carbon-polymer complex is provided and includes a porous carbon material and a binder, wherein the porous carbon material includes a material obtained from carbonization of a raw material including rice husk, the raw material having a silicon content of at least 5 wt %, the raw material is heat treated before carbonization, and the raw material is treated by an alkali treatment after carbonization to reduce the silicon content, the porous carbon material having a specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by the nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g as measured by the BJH method and MP method, and an R value of 1.5 or greater, wherein the porous carbon material includes mesopores having pore sizes from 2 nm to 50 nm and obtained from the alkali treatment of the raw material after carbonization, the porous carbon material further includes macropores and micropores.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a time synchronization process between a master device and a slave device, the process includes calculating a clock deviation between the master device and the slave device based on a plurality of pieces of time information in each of the master device and the slave device, dividing a difference in the clock deviation, and incorporating each of the divided differences into the time information of the slave device to correct the clock deviation.

Abstract: A porous carbon material composite formed of a porous carbon material and a functional material and equipped with high functionality. The porous carbon material composite is formed of (A) a porous carbon material obtainable from a plant-derived material having a silicon (Si) content of 5 wt % or higher as a raw material; and (B) a functional material adhered on the porous carbon material, and has a specific surface area of 10 m2/g or greater as determined by the nitrogen BET method and a pore volume of 0.1 cm3/g or greater as determined by the BJH method and MP method.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a time synchronization process between a master device and a slave device, the process includes calculating a clock deviation between the master device and the slave device based on a plurality of pieces of time information in each of the master device and the slave device, dividing a difference in the clock deviation, and incorporating each of the divided differences into the time information of the slave device to correct the clock deviation.

Abstract: A carbon-polymer complex is provided and includes a porous carbon material and a binder, wherein the porous carbon material includes a material obtained from carbonization of a raw material including rice husk, the raw material having a silicon content of at least 5 wt %, the raw material is heat treated before carbonization, and the raw material is treated by an alkali treatment after carbonization to reduce the silicon content, the porous carbon material having a specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by the nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g as measured by the BJH method and MP method, and an R value of 1.5 or greater, wherein the porous carbon material includes mesopores having pore sizes from 2 nm to 50 nm and obtained from the alkali treatment of the raw material after carbonization, the porous carbon material further includes macropores and micropores.

Abstract: A porous carbon material comprising a material obtained from carbonization of a raw material including one or both of seaweed stem and straw, the raw material having a silicon content of at least 5 wt %, the raw material is heat treated before carbonization, and the raw material is treated by an alkali treatment after carbonization to reduce the silicon content, the porous carbon material having a value of specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by the nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g as measured by the BJH method and MP method, and an R value of 1.5 or greater, wherein the porous carbon material includes mesopores having pore sizes from 2 nm to 50 nm and obtained from the alkali treatment of the raw material after carbonization, the porous carbon material further includes macropores and micropores.

Abstract: A porous carbon material is provided. The porous carbon material having a value of specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by a nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g as measured by a BJH method and a MP method, and a R value of 1.5 or greater, wherein the R value is expressed as R=B/A, wherein A is an intensity at an intersection between a baseline of a diffraction peak of a (002) plane as obtained based on powdery X-ray diffractometry of the porous carbon material and a perpendicular line downwardly drawn from the diffraction peak of the (002) plane, and wherein B is an intensity of the diffraction peak of the (002) plane.

Abstract: By a process for producing a porous carbon material from a plant-derived material as a raw material, said process including carbonizing the plant-derived material at 800° C. to 1,400° C. and then applying a treatment with an acid or alkali, a porous carbon material having a value of specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by the nitrogen BET method, a silicon content of at most 1 wt % and a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g is obtainable from a plant-derived material, which has a silicon content of at least 10 wt %, as a raw material. Also provided is a process for producing a porous carbon material equipped with excellent functionality so that the porous carbon material can be used, for example, as an anode material for batteries, an adsorbent, masks, adsorbing sheets, or carriers.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a buffer that stores data blocks of a plurality of flows and from which the data blocks are sequentially read; a processor coupled to the buffer and configured to: monitor an input rate that is a sum of data amounts of the plurality of flows input to the buffer per unit of time, and suppress flowing of a data block into the buffer for one or more of the plurality of flows based on a result of monitoring the input rate.

Abstract: There is provided a frame processing device includes a plurality of output ports; a table in which a destination address is stored in association with an output port; a buffer configured to store a learned frame, an un-learned frame, and a copy frame generated by copying the un-learned frame; a transfer unit configured to read a second frame from the buffer in an order in which the second frame is stored and transfer the second frame to a predetermined output port; a storage configured to store the destination address of the learned frame; and a controller configured to discard the second frame to be transferred by the transfer unit, when the second frame is the un-learned frame and the destination address of the second frame is stored in the storage, wherein the second frame transferred to the plurality of output ports is output as the first frame.

Abstract: A porous carbon material composite formed of a porous carbon material and a functional material and equipped with high functionality. The porous carbon material composite is formed of (A) a porous carbon material obtainable from a plant-derived material having a silicon (Si) content of 5 wt % or higher as a raw material; and (B) a functional material adhered on the porous carbon material, and has a specific surface area of 10 m2/g or greater as determined by the nitrogen BET method and a pore volume of 0.1 cm3/g or greater as determined by the BJH method and MP method.

Abstract: There is provided a transmission apparatus including: a buffer provided with a queue for each of user flows, the buffer configured to store data in the queue for the user flow to which the data belongs; a storage unit configured to store a link list indicating an output order of the user flows; an issuing unit configured to issue a predetermined output permissible amount to the queue for the user flow by referring to the link list; and an output control unit configured to output data from the queue to which the output permissible amount is issued.

Abstract: A porous carbon material is provided. The porous carbon material having a value of specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by a nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g as measured by a BJH method and a MP method, and a R value of 1.5 or greater, wherein the R value is expressed as R=B/A, wherein A is an intensity at an intersection between a baseline of a diffraction peak of a (002) plane as obtained based on powdery X-ray diffractometry of the porous carbon material and a perpendicular line downwardly drawn from the diffraction peak of the (002) plane, and wherein B is an intensity of the diffraction peak of the (002) plane.

Abstract: A packet exchanging device includes queues each configured to accumulate one or more packets, a scheduler unit configured to give a certain permissible reading amount indicating amounts of data of readable packets to each of the queues, and a reading processing unit configured to read the one or more packets from the queues by the permissible reading amount in an order in which a reading condition regarding the permissible reading amount for each queue and an amount of data in the one or more packets accumulated in each queue is satisfied.

Abstract: There is provided a frame processing device includes a plurality of output ports; a table in which a destination address is stored in association with an output port; a buffer configured to store a learned frame, an un-learned frame, and a copy frame generated by copying the un-learned frame; a transfer unit configured to read a second frame from the buffer in an order in which the second frame is stored and transfer the second frame to a predetermined output port; a storage configured to store the destination address of the learned frame; and a controller configured to discard the second frame to be transferred by the transfer unit, when the second frame is the un-learned frame and the destination address of the second frame is stored in the storage, wherein the second frame transferred to the plurality of output ports is output as the first frame.

Abstract: A porous carbon material composite formed of a porous carbon material and a functional material and equipped with high functionality. The porous carbon material composite is formed of (A) a porous carbon material obtainable from a plant-derived material having a silicon (Si) content of 5 wt % or higher as a raw material, said porous carbon material having a silicon (Si) content of 1 wt % or lower, and (B) a functional material adhered on the porous carbon material, and has a specific surface area of 10 m2/g or greater as determined by the nitrogen BET method and a pore volume of 0.1 cm3/g or greater as determined by the BJH method and MP method.