Abstract: A drive transmission device includes a transmission to transmit a driving force from a drive source to a rotator via a transmission path. The transmission path includes a first drive transmission path and a second drive transmission path. The first drive transmission path includes a single-rotation clutch to rotate a rotator at a first speed. The second drive transmission path rotates the rotator at a second speed lower than the first speed. The single-rotation clutch of the first drive transmission path selectively switches the transmission path between the first drive transmission path and the second drive transmission path.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a medium manufacturing method of manufacturing a medium with a plurality of RFID tags comprises deciding a pasting pitch with which the plurality of RFID tags are pasted at equal intervals to a medium base material cut out in a designated size, supplying, to a pasting position, each RFID tag conveyed from an RFID tag supply roll obtained by holding, in a form of a roll, a base material with a plurality of RFID tags arranged thereon, and conveying the medium base material so that the RFID tag supplied to the pasting position is pasted with the pasting pitch.

Abstract: An image forming device includes an image former configured to form an image on a sheet, a tag communicator configured to write to a radio tag of the sheet, a storage configured to store unit data that is a combination of write data to be written to the radio tag and image generating data, and a controller configured to perform a process for writing the data to the sheet. When no error occurs in a first write process for a first radio tag sheet, the controller performs image formation according to the unit data on the first radio tag sheet. When an error occurs, the controller performs a second write process for writing data of the first write process to a second radio tag sheet and performs image formation according to the unit data on the second radio tag sheet.

Abstract: A sheet feeding system includes an apparatus body; a first sheet feeder to selectively perform sheet feeding with power from the apparatus body in response to a print instruction from the apparatus body; a second sheet feeder to selectively perform sheet feeding with power from the first sheet feeder in response to the print instruction; a conveyance motor in the first sheet feeder; a first drive path in which the power is supplied to the conveyance motor without passing through the second sheet feeder; a second drive path in which the power is supplied to the conveyance motor via the second sheet feeder; a cutoff circuit to cut off the power supply through the first drive path when an overcurrent occurs in the first sheet feeder; and a switch to switch from the first drive path to the second drive path when the cutoff circuit cuts off the power supply.

Abstract: An image forming device includes an image former configured to form an image on a sheet having a plurality of radio tags, a tag communicator configured to perform a write process of data to the radio tags, and a controller configured to perform image formation on the sheet when no error has occurred in the write process. The controller performs a write process related to data in which the error has occurred to another sheet. When a plurality of data items are sequentially processed, if there is a space in a radio tag on a target sheet of a final write process and there is write data erroneous in the write process on a sheet before the target sheet, the controller executes the write process for the target sheet by including a part or all of the erroneous data in a processing target.

Abstract: An image forming device includes an image former configured to form an image on a sheet having a plurality of radio tags, a tag communicator, a storage configured to store unit data obtained by combining first data for writing and second data for generating an image formed in an area on a sheet according to a radio tag to which the first data is written, and a controller configured to execute a write process in accordance with a plurality of unit data items included in execution data. A first write process for a first sheet is performed on all unit data of a processing target. When no error occurs, image formation is performed on the first sheet. When an error occurs, a second write process for writing the first data to the second sheet is performed and image formation is performed on the second sheet.

Abstract: A distance measuring device includes: an output unit that outputs laser light with a variable wavelength; a light receiving unit that receives laser light; and a control unit that causes the output unit to output identification information of the distance measuring device by laser light, and determines a wavelength of laser light to be output from the output unit based on a light reception state of identification information for each distance measuring device by the light receiving unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes a developing roller, an image forming unit, a case, a doctor blade, and an adjustment screw. The case rotatably houses the developing roller. The doctor blade includes an opposing edge that faces the outer circumferential surface of the developing roller, and both longitudinal ends are fixed to the case. The adjustment screw extends between the ends of the doctor blade along a first direction in which the developing roller and doctor blade are aligned, and is threadably engaged with a nut fixed to the case. The adjustment screw includes a first pressing portion that presses the first pressed surface of the doctor blade in the first direction when rotated forward, and a second pressing portion that presses the second pressed surface of the doctor blade in a second direction opposite to the first direction when rotated backward.

Abstract: An image processor includes circuitry configured to obtain a difference image from a difference between a first image of an object and a background member read by a scanner at a first wavelength and a second image of the object and the background member read by the scanner at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength; and detect a boundary between the object and the background member based on the difference image obtained.

Abstract: A medication support apparatus includes a container to store a plurality of medicine packs, a pickup device to pick up at least one of the medicine packs stored in the container from an opening of the container, a conveyor to convey the at least one of the medicine packs picked up by the pickup device, a medicine tray in which the at least one of the medicine packs conveyed by the conveyor is to be laid out, a cover detachably attached to at least one of the container and the medicine tray, a cover-information holder to hold cover information, the cover-information holder attached to the cover, and a cover-information reader to read the cover information held by the cover-information holder.

Abstract: A filter unit includes: a filter having a plate shape elongated in a longitudinal direction; a pair of outer frames sandwiching the filter between the pair of outer frames, wherein the pair of outer frames has an opening covered by the filter sandwiched by the pair of outer frames; and the pair of outer frames includes: a pair of conversion portions each having a pleated face along a longitudinal direction of the pair of outer frames, the pair of conversion portions to deform, into a pleated shape, both ends of the filter in a transverse direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction; and a pair of flat portions each having a flat face along the transverse direction, and the pair of outer frames is detachably engageable with each other to change the pleated shape of the filter by the pair of conversion portions.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes circuitry to: detect an installation status indicating whether installation of a unit to be used for forming an image is completed; form a pattern image to be used for calculating a remaining life of the unit when the detected installation status indicates that the installation is not completed; receive a determination result based on the formed pattern image; calculate the remaining life of the unit based on the received determination result when the unit is a used unit; and provide a notification of the calculated remaining life of the unit.

Abstract: According to the embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. In a case where the application program in the memory communicates with another application program in the same apparatus, the processor activates the internal communication server process by the management program. In a case where the application program in the memory communicates with another application program in an external apparatus connected by the communication interface, the processor activates the external communication server process by the management program.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores setting information that sets the number of continuous print dots in the main scanning direction and the number of continuous print dots in the sub scanning direction, which are thinning conditions to execute thinning of print dots. The processor generates second image data by thinning, in accordance with the setting information, print dots from a print dot group for which the number of continuous print dots in the main scanning direction and the number of continuous print dots in the sub scanning direction in first image data match the thinning conditions.

Abstract: In a conveying device, the conveyor conveys the sheet rolled around a first curvature center through a conveyance path in a conveyance direction. The conveyor includes a first roller pair downstream of the sheet feeder and a second roller pair downstream of the first roller pair in the conveyance direction. The second roller pair includes a first roller and a second roller disposed to nip the sheet and having a second curvature center opposite to the first curvature center. The circuitry feeds the sheet from the first roller pair to the second roller pair until the sheet passes the second roller pair, and reversely feeds the sheet from the second roller pair toward the first roller pair, to slack a leading end of the sheet toward the second roller of the second roller pair to form a slack portion in the leading end to correct a curl of the sheet.

Abstract: A printer includes a hopper, a print head, a platen roller, an inner casing, a rotating frame, an outer casing and a cover. The hopper has an input port which receives a roll wound with a long medium. The print head prints an image on the medium drawn from the roll. The platen roller presses the medium on the print head and provides the medium with a conveying force. The inner casing includes the hopper and the print head. The rotating frame is provided rotatably around a first rotating shaft provided at an edge of the input port and is provided with the platen roller at a distal end thereof. The outer casing houses the inner casing and has an opening overlapping the input port. The cover is provided rotatably around a second rotating shaft provided at an edge of the opening with respect to the outer casing.

Abstract: A printer includes a setter, a searcher, and a receiver. The setter is configured to set attribute information to a parent when the printer is a parent device configured to transmit update data to a different printer, and set the attribute information to a child when the printer is a child device configured to receive the update data from a different printer. The searcher is configured to search for a different printer serving as the parent device in a case where the setter sets the attribute information to the child. The receiver is configured to receive the update data from a different printer serving as the parent device searched by the searcher. The setter is configured to set the attribute information to the parent in a case where the receiver completes reception of the update data and update.

Abstract: An automatic document feeder includes a document stacker to stack a document; a sheet feeder; a conveyor; a detector; and circuitry. The sheet feeder feeds the document from the document stacker includes a pickup roller; and a pressure member to apply a pressure to press the pickup roller against the document on the document stacker. The conveyor conveys the document fed by the sheet feeder in a conveyance direction. The detector detects document information including at least a type of the document on the document stacker. The circuitry is configured to determine whether the type of the document on the document stacker is a thermally-developable document based on the document information detected by the detector, and control the pressure member to change the pressure applied to the pickup roller based on a determination of the type of the document on the document stacker.

Abstract: A printer includes a platen, a print head, a first antenna, a second antenna, an identification information transmitter, and a writing information transmitter. The platen conveys a paper sheet in which a radio tag is embedded. The print head prints information on the paper sheet. The first antenna is arranged upstream of the print head in a sheet conveyance direction and writes information in the radio tag. The second antenna is arranged upstream of the first antenna and writes information in the radio tag. The identification information transmitter transmits a signal to the radio tag using the second antenna, the signal containing tag identification information for discriminating the radio tag from another radio tag. The writing information transmitter transmits a signal to the radio tag using the first antenna, the signal containing the tag identification information and writing information.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image former, a sheet stacker, a lateral projection, a blower, and a pressing member. The sheet stacker is disposed above the image former in a vertical direction. The lateral projection projects upward from the image former in the vertical direction, and is disposed at a side portion of the image former in a lateral direction perpendicular to the vertical direction. The blower includes multiple exhaust ports arranged side by side at intervals in a width direction perpendicular to the vertical direction and the lateral direction. The pressing member contacts and presses, an upper surface of the sheet ejected from the sheet ejection port to the sheet stacker, from above in the vertical direction. The pressing member is disposed within an operating region between two adjacent exhaust ports among the multiple exhaust ports in the width direction.