Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a roller including a rotational shaft supported by a bearing; a support unit that movably supports the bearing and an attached component of the bearing between a use position of the roller and a retraction position away from the use position; and a contact portion that is provided in one or both of the bearing and attached component, and the support unit, and when the roller is moved to the retraction position, comes into contact with part of the support unit or the attached component opposed to the bearing and the attached component.

Abstract: A document management support apparatus includes a processor. The processor acquires attribute information regarding a person who actually scans a paper document on behalf of a person who is to scan the paper document. The person who is to scan the paper document is a first person. The person who actually scans the paper document is a second person. The processor extracts at least one candidate for the first person from multiple candidates for the first person who each have attribute information. The at least one candidate has attribute information in a predetermined relationship with the acquired attribute information regarding the second person.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image development toner that is negatively chargeable contains toner particles and layered-structure compound particles. The layered-structure compound particles have a volume-average particle diameter Da of 0.4 ?m or more and less than 3.0 ?m. The ratio Da/Db of the volume-average particle diameter Da of the layered-structure compound particles to the volume-average particle diameter Db of the toner particles is 0.044 or more and 0.625 or less.

Abstract: An electrostatic charge image development toner contains toner particles and layered-structure compound particles. The layered-structure compound particles have a crystallite diameter of 150 ? or more and 250 ? or less as calculated from a maximum peak width in a Cu K? X-ray diffraction chart and have a number-average particle diameter Dn of 0.3 ?m or more and 2.0 ?m or less. The ratio Dn/Dv of a number-average particle diameter Dn of the layered-structure compound particles to a volume-average particle diameter Dv of the toner particles is 0.03 or more and 0.7 or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a belt, an inner surface supporter, a transfer unit, a guide unit, and a guide controller. The belt holds and transports a toner image on an outer surface thereof. The inner surface supporter presses an inner surface of the belt, rotates about a first rotation shaft, and swells the belt toward the outer surface. The transfer unit rotates about a second rotation shaft while holding the belt between the transfer unit and the inner surface supporter, and presses a sheet transported thereto against the belt to transfer a toner image on the belt to the sheet. The guide unit guides the sheet transported thereto to an area interposed between the belt and the transfer unit.

Abstract: A recording material transport system includes a first transport apparatus including a transport unit that transports a recording material and a notification unit that notifies a user about how to deal with a recording material whose transport has been stopped; and a second transport apparatus including a transport unit that transports a recording material transported from the first transport apparatus and a notification unit that notifies the user about how to deal with a recording material whose transport has been stopped, wherein in a case where a recording material has stopped in both of the first and second transport apparatus, the notification unit of the first transport apparatus notifies the user about how to deal with the recording material in the first transport apparatus, and the notification unit of the second transport apparatus notifies the user about how to deal with the recording material in the second transport apparatus.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a reading unit and a controller. The reading unit radiates light to a target from two directions with different angles and reads images of the target. The controller performs, when controlling the reading unit to acquire the two images of the target, control such that a resolution of the image read by radiating the light to the target from one of the two directions is lower than a resolution of the image read by radiating the light to the target from the other one of the two directions.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first apparatus, a second apparatus providing a service for fee, and a server. The first apparatus transmits, to the server, identification information and settlement destination information in an associated form, the identification information identifying use of the service, the settlement destination information stored on the first apparatus and identifying a settlement destination of a usage fee for the use of the service. The second apparatus transmits to the server the identification information and fee information in an associated form, the fee information indicating the usage fee for the use identified by the identification information. The server settles the usage fee indicated by the fee information at the settlement destination identified the settlement destination information associated with the identification information.

Abstract: An information processing system includes a first information processing apparatus including a first processor configured to receive a creation instruction of representation information representing a storage area used for transferring data, from a first user, and create the representation information in accordance with the received creation instruction, and a second information processing apparatus including a second processor, in which the created representation information includes designation information indicating whether or not to allow another user other than the first user to designate a location of the storage area, the second processor is configured to receive the representation information which represents the storage area used for transferring data and include the designation information indicating whether or not to allow a user to designate the location of the storage area, and, in a case where the designation information included in the representation information indicates that the user is allow

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to display boundaries each of which encloses a respective one of multiple candidate regions that correspond to foreground objects in an image, detect a single selecting operation, and extract a target region corresponding to one of the foreground objects from one or more candidate regions of the multiple candidate regions. The one or more candidate regions are selected by the single selecting operation.

Abstract: A polyimide precursor solution includes: a polyimide precursor; an aqueous solvent containing a water-soluble organic solvent and water; and particles, in which the particles have a volume average particle diameter within a range of 2.5 ?m to 30 ?m, an average circularity within a range of 0.900 to 0.990, and a standard deviation of circularity distribution of less than or equal to 0.1.

Abstract: A powder storage height detection device includes: a main body that includes a transport path along which powder is transported; a powder transport unit that is disposed to rotate in the transport path and includes a transporter provided spirally around a rotational shaft; a swinging unit that comes into contact with a surface of the powder transported in the transport path, and swings by following at least a storage height of the surface; a detection unit that detects a state of swinging of the swinging unit; and a determination unit that determines presence or absence of the powder based on a detection signal outputted from the detection unit.

Abstract: A carrier for electrostatic image development includes: a core material; and a coating resin layer that contains inorganic particles and covers the core material. The content of the inorganic particles is 10% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less based on the total mass of the coating resin layer. The volume average diameter D (?m) of the inorganic particles and the thickness T (?m) of the coating resin layer satisfy the following relational expression (1): 0.007?D/T?0.24.

Abstract: An output apparatus includes a processor configured to receive an input word expressing a feature of a matter; and, by inputting the input word to a generation model trained on relation between a feature term extracted based on a descriptive text describing the matter and an associative text associated with the matter, the associative text being generated from the descriptive text describing the matter, output an associative text corresponding to the input word.

Abstract: A fixing member includes a substrate layer including a resin; a first metal layer that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the substrate layer and including Cu; a second metal layer that is provided on the outer peripheral surface of the first metal layer so as to be in contact with the first metal layer, includes Ni, and has crystal orientation indexes of 0.80 to 1.30 for a (111) plane, 0.80 to 1.50 for a (200) plane, and 0.70 to 1.30 for a (311) plane; and an elastic layer that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the second metal layer.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: associate, with an edited part of a first document displayed on a display, information indicative of a second document different from the first document in a case where the second document is open on a document display application when the first document is edited; and display the information indicative of the second document on the display when the edited part is selected.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting unit. The light-emitting unit includes an array of multiple light-emitting element groups, each including multiple light-emitting elements. In the light-emitting unit, the multiple light-emitting element groups are sequentially driven along the array such that, for each of the multiple light-emitting element groups, the multiple light-emitting elements included in the light-emitting element group are concurrently set to a state of emitting light or a state of not emitting light.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor programmed to: determine whether a character string indicating a reference to target information is recorded in a range within a document, the target information corresponding to a keyword in the document, the range being determined based on a position of the keyword in the document; and extract the target information upon a determination that the character string is recorded in the range.

Abstract: A network system includes: a hub base that includes a first network device with a hub function, the first network device being connected to an information communication network; and a spoke base that includes a second network device without the hub function, the second network device being connected to the information communication network. Communication between a computer provided in the spoke base and an external device connected with the computer via Internet is performed such that intra-network loopback communication is performed between the first network device and the second network device in the information communication network without an internet service provider, and communication is performed between the first network device and the external device via the internet service provider.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member; a charging unit; an electrostatic image forming unit; a developing unit that includes an electrostatic image developer including a toner and develops the electrostatic image formed on the surface of the image holding member with the electrostatic image developer to form a toner image; a transfer unit; and a cleaning unit that removes toner particles present on the surface of the image holding member. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning blade arranged to contact with the surface of the image holding member. The cleaning unit includes a cleaning blade A containing a contacting portion having a JIS-A hardness of 90° or more, or the cleaning unit includes a control unit B that controls a load with which the cleaning blade contacts with the image holding member, the control unit B controlling the load in a constant load mode.