Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a charging device, an exposure device, a developing device, a development voltage power supply, and a control section. The developing device includes a development container which contains a non-magnetic one-component developer and a developer carrying member which includes a rotary shaft and a roller portion stacked on the outer circumferential surface of the rotary shaft, and the resistance value of the roller portion is 9 to 11 [Log ?], and when the amount of toner conveyed on the developer carrying member is Md [g/m2], the amount of toner adhered on the image carrying member in a solid image is Mp [g/m2], the peripheral speed of the developer carrying member and the image carrying member are Sd [mm/sec] and Sp [mm/sec], 0.8×Sd/Sp<Mp/Md and 0.8?Sd/Sp?1.2 are satisfied.

Abstract: A method and system for analysis of a facility may include providing an emulation host system, first generating a golden circuit model on the emulation host system, first inserting a first hardware trojan model, first emulating operation of the golden circuit model, and second emulating operation of the first hardware trojan model. A facility may include a trojan instrument facility having a trojan detection instrument comparing logic circuit output against a threshold for detecting hardware trojan activity, and outputting alert data, and in relation to opening one of a plurality of scannable access points, a scannable register is inserted into an active scan chain with an associated instrument interface.

Abstract: A system for controlling reductant spray momentum for a target spray distribution includes an exhaust system having an exhaust conduit with exhaust flowing therethrough, a reductant injection system for injecting reductant into the exhaust flowing through the exhaust system based on one or more injection parameters, a reductant supply system for supplying reductant to the reductant injection system based on one or more supply parameters, and a controller. The controller is configured to access current vehicle, engine, exhaust, or reductant condition parameters, determine one or more control parameters based on a control model and the accessed current vehicle, engine, exhaust, or reductant condition parameters, and modify a value of the one or more injection parameters or the one or more supply parameters to control the reductant spray.

Abstract: A development device includes an accommodation section that accommodates a developer and a developer bearing member that carries the developer in the accommodation section. The developer bearing member includes a magnetic member and a sleeve provided around the magnetic member rotatably around the magnetic member. The sleeve includes a metal substrate with a surface having projections and recesses and a plating layer covering the surface of the metal substrate. The plating layer contains chromium and cobalt. The developer contains a toner and the toner includes toner particles. The toner particles each include a toner mother particle and external additive particles attached to the surface of the toner mother particle. The toner mother particles contain a binder resin and a magnetic powder. The external additive particles include alumina particles with surfaces that are hydrophobized.

Abstract: A heating device includes a tube, a container, a heater, and heat medium. The tube through which liquid flows is spirally formed. The container has a cylindrical part whose axial direction is along a spiral direction of the tube and stores the tube. The heater is provided in the cylindrical part. The heat medium is in liquid form and fills the container.

Abstract: The intermediate transfer unit includes: an endless intermediate transfer belt which is turned around while carrying a toner image on its outer circumferential surface; and a plurality of rollers on which the intermediate transfer belt is turnably stretched, wherein the intermediate transfer belt has, on its inner circumferential surface, an information recording area in which belt information has been recorded, and the intermediate transfer belt has a mark at a position in the outer circumferential surface where a positional relationship between the mark and the information recording area comes to a specified relationship.

Abstract: An inkjet ink contains a pigment, a water-soluble organic solvent, water, and a surfactant. The water-soluble organic solvent includes a glycol ether compound. A difference between a dynamic surface tension ?10 of the inkjet ink at a surface age of 10 milliseconds and a dynamic surface tension ?10000 of the inkjet ink at a surface age of 10000 milliseconds is no greater than 3.4 mN/m. An inkjet recording method is an inkjet recording method for forming an image on a recording medium with the above-mentioned inkjet ink and includes forming the image by ejecting the inkjet ink toward the recording medium. The recording medium is a poorly absorbent recording medium.

Abstract: A toner includes toner particles each including a toner mother particle and external additive particles attached to the surface of the toner mother particle. The external additive particles include fluororesin particles, specific external additive particles, and silica particles. The specific external additive particles contain barium titanate or strontium titanate. The silica particles have a detachment fraction of at least 5% by mass and no greater than 22% by mass. The detachment fraction of the silica particles is a percentage of a mass M2 of silica particles of the silica particles that have separated from the toner mother particles after ultrasonication to a mass M1 of the silica particles included in the toner particles before the ultrasonication. The ultrasonication is application of ultrasonic vibration to a mixed liquid of 5 g of the toner and 105.5 g of a nonionic surfactant-containing aqueous solution containing 0.55 g of a nonionic surfactant.

Abstract: A downhole tool assembly is configured for repeated and selective hydraulic activation and deactivation. A spring member biases the indexing control section 210 towards a first axial position while drilling fluid pressure in the tool body urges the indexing control section 210 towards other axial positions. Downhole tool activation and deactivation may repeatedly be controlled from the surface by cycling the drilling fluid pressure.

Abstract: A packaging member (100) has a pair of holding portions (230) folded from opposite edges of each of a pair of first wall portions (210); the pair of holding portions (230) have an opposed portion (230a) opposed to a second wall portion (220), and an insertion piece (231); the second wall portion (220) has a wall-portion slit (221); and by inserting the insertion piece (231) in the wall-portion slit (221), the first wall portions (210) and the second wall portion (220) are held in a standing state.

Abstract: A system is provided for monitoring and predicting traffic conditions in a vicinity of a system vehicle having a stop indicator system. The system may include one or more radar modules programmed to detect the presence of target vehicles traveling within a predetermined radar detection area near the system vehicle. The radar modules may be further programmed to detect signals associated with target vehicles and generate signals indicative of vehicle characteristics, such as vehicle velocity. The radar modules may be programmed to operate in connection with an alarm module to generate alert condition signals in response to assessing the target vehicles detected in the radar detection area. The system can then communicate appropriate alert event notifications in response to the generated alert condition signals.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes two or more line recording heads and inks each accommodated in a corresponding one of the line recording heads. The line recording heads perform ink ejection onto a recording medium in a specific order at a regular ejection interval T. The ejection interval T is at least 300 milliseconds and no greater than 530 milliseconds. The line recording heads include at least a first line recording head that performs ink ejection onto the recording medium first and a second line recording medium that performs ink ejection onto the recording medium next to the first line recording head. Each of the inks contains a pigment, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water. The water-soluble organic solvent includes a glycol ether compound.

Abstract: Inkjet ink contains a pigment, a water-soluble organic solvent, water, and a surfactant. The water-soluble organic solvent contains both a glycol ether and a glycol compound. The inkjet ink has an Ohnesorge number Oh of 0.180 or more but 0.188 or less.

Abstract: An inkjet ink includes a self-dispersing pigment, specific particles and an aqueous medium. The specific particles include a pigment and a resin. In the specific particles, the mass ratio of the resin to the pigment is equal to or greater than 1.2 and equal to or less than 2.0. The resin includes a styrene-(meth)acrylic resin. The volume median diameter of the specific particles is equal to or greater than 100 nm and equal to or less than 170 nm.

Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a composition for increasing cognitive function.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a sheet feeding roller, a sheet conveying roller, a separation roller, and a cleaning member. The sheet feeding roller is rotated to feed the sheet in a predetermined sheet feeding direction. The sheet conveying roller is disposed on a downstream side of the sheet feeding roller in the sheet feeding direction. The separation roller forms a separation nip between the sheet conveying roller and the separation roller. The cleaning member is disposed on an upstream side of the separation nip in the sheet feeding direction, and cleans a surface of the separation roller. The cleaning member is configured to be deformable to be separated from the surface of the separation roller when the sheet feeding roller does not feed the sheet and to come into contact with the surface of the separation roller by the sheet fed by the sheet feeding roller.

Abstract: A document transport device includes a document tray, an actuator, a delivery roller, a rotary shaft, a sheet feeding roller, a separation member, a slider movable along the rotary shaft, between a connected position where the slider is linked with the sheet feeding roller to transmit rotational force thereto, and a separated position where the slider is spaced from the sheet feeding roller, thereby disconnecting transmission of the rotational force to the sheet feeding roller, and an operation lever rotatably supporting the slider, and configured to move parallel to an axial direction of the rotary shaft, when the actuator rotates. When no document is on the document tray and the actuator is not rotating, the operation lever moves the slider to the separated position, and when the document is placed on the document tray and the actuator rotates, the operation lever moves, thereby moving the slider to the connected position.

Abstract: A pulser protection device configured to be coupled to a fuel pump sandwiched between the pulser lines of the fuel. The pulser protection device comprises one uniform body with four substantially rectangular segments. The four substantially rectangular segments includes a first, a second, a third, and a fourth substantially rectangular segment. The second, third, and fourth substantially rectangular segments being bent orthogonally from the first substantially rectangular segment. The pulser device sized to be received between a plurality of pulsers of the fuel pump and if present a mailbox printer of the fuel pump. The method of attachment for pulser within the fuel pump is described herein.

Abstract: A method of operating a washing machine appliance in a commercial laundromat setting includes receiving a request to start a new wash cycle from a user of the washing machine appliance, determining that a self-clean condition exists, identifying an anticipated laundromat capacity, determining that the anticipated laundromat capacity falls below a predetermined capacity threshold, prompting the user to initiate a self-clean cycle in response to determining that the self-clean condition exists and that the anticipated laundromat capacity falls below the predetermined capacity threshold, receiving a command to initiate the self-clean cycle from the user, and initiating the self-clean cycle and providing the user with an incentive for initiating the self-clean cycle.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] Provided are a medical display controlling apparatus and a display controlling method capable of enhancing convenience of medical providers. [Solution] Provided is a medical display controlling apparatus including: a generating unit configured to generate a three-dimensional model of an observed object based on a right-eye medical captured image and a left-eye medical captured image taken by an imaging device configured to image the observed object; and a display controller configured to cause a display screen to display a combination of the three-dimensional model with a right-eye special light observation image and a left-eye special light observation image, or a combination of the three-dimensional model with biological information acquired from an external biological information acquiring apparatus.