Abstract: A belt driving mechanism rotates a rotating body provided in a rotating device around a transmission shaft, and includes a driving device provided adjacent to the rotating device and a bearing structure supporting the transmission shaft extending from the rotating device to the driving device through the support frame. The driving device includes a housing, a fixed frame, a driving pulley, a driven pulley, a belt and a circumference correction part. The housing is fixed to the support frame. The fixed frame is fixed in the housing. The driven pulley is fixed to the transmission shaft. The belt is wound around the driving pulley and the driven pulley. The bearing structure includes a first bearing part provided in the fixed frame and the second bearing part provided in the housing on an opposite side to the first bearing part with respect to the driven pulley.

Abstract: A job command generation device includes a control device that acts as a job command generator that manages error correction information for correcting an error in voice recognition committed by a voice reception device that converts voice data representing a received voice into text data, through the voice recognition, corrects the error in the text data received from the voice reception device, using the error correction information, and generates a job command that an image forming apparatus can interpret, on a basis of the text data in which the error has been corrected.

Abstract: A degassing device removes air dissolved in a liquid under a pressure decreased atmosphere, and includes one or more liquid tanks, a pressure decreasing device, and an inflow pass. One or more liquid tanks store the liquid. The pressure decreasing device decreases pressure in the liquid tank. The inflow pass allows the liquid to be flowed into the liquid tank due to a negative pressure in the pressure decreased liquid tank.

Abstract: In a reservation management system, a controller of an information processing apparatus of a meeting room writes that an occupied meeting room has become vacant in a timetable, and causes a display device to display the timetable, when a communication device receives information that a manager of the meeting has logged out from the information processing apparatus, and a predetermined time has elapsed after the time of the log-out, in a state where exit from the occupied meeting room has not been inputted to the operation device.

Abstract: A two-component developer includes a carrier containing carrier particles and a toner containing toner particles. The carrier particles include carrier cores and coat layers covering the surfaces of the carrier cores. The coat layers contain silicone resin. The carrier particles have surfaces with a static friction coefficient of at least 0.10 and no greater than 0.22. The toner particles include toner mother particles and an external additive attached to the surfaces of the toner mother particles. The external additive includes resin particles. The resin particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 35 nm and no greater than 160 nm. The resin particles have a blocking rate of at least 17% by mass and no greater than 42% by mass, as measured using a mesh sieve with an opening of 75 ?m after 5-minite pressure application at a temperature of 160° C. and a pressure of 0.1 kgf/mm2.

Abstract: An ink supplying mechanism includes an ink container, an ink tank, a decompressing part and a degassing channel. The ink container contains ink. The ink tank stores the ink supplied from the ink container to a recording head. The decompressing part decompresses the inside of the ink tank. The degassing channel circulates the ink flowed out from the ink tank and flowing the ink into the ink tank. To the recording head, a plurality of the ink tanks are arranged in parallel. When one ink tank among the plurality of ink tanks is used for printing, in a state that the inside of the other ink tank is decompressed by the decompressing part, the ink inside the other ink tank is circulated by using the degassing channel to perform degassing operation of degassing the ink inside the other ink tank.

Abstract: A toner container includes a container body, a cylindrical portion and a cap. The container body has a toner filling port. The cylindrical portion is provided around the filling port. The cap is detachable and closes an opening of the cylindrical portion. The cap includes: claw parts provided deformably and insertable into the cylindrical portion to be engaged with an edge of the filling port; a link piece connecting tip ends of the claw parts; a disk part having an opening; a closing plate capable of closing the opening of the disk part; and a fixing member which fixes the closing plate to the disk part. The closing plate is fixed to the disk part with the fixing member and the claw parts are engaged with the edge of the filling opening, so that the opening of the cylindrical is closed by the closing plate.

Abstract: A wireless communication section wirelessly communicates with a communication terminal present in a target space. An information acquiring section acquires a value representing congestion of a target space. A learned model is a model that has been trained using training data including a value representing the congestion of a target space used for learning, a bandwidth, a channel, and throughput. An AI processing section inputs the value representing the congestion of the target space acquired by the information acquiring section to the learned model and acquires a bandwidth and a channel output by the learned model. A bandwidth controller causes the wireless communication section to perform wireless communication using the bandwidth acquired by the AI processing section. The channel controller causes the wireless communication section to perform wireless communication using the channel acquired by the AI processing section.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method for real-time dynamic web page display enhancement and a computing apparatus configured to implement said method. The method includes requesting at least one web page code file using a web browser, extracting the at least one style tag and the at least one variable attribute from the at least one web page code file using an extraction module, sending a request signal from the extraction module to an attribute database, returning from the attribute database to a user interface controller a response signal, sending a present user interface signal from the user interface controller to the web browser, accepting at least one selection signal from the web user through the at least one display control of the user interface to the web browser, and generating an enhanced web page.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink head unit, a precoating liquid head unit, and a control part. The ink head unit ejects ink to a printing base material conveyed along a predetermined conveying direction. The precoating liquid head unit is disposed on an upstream side of the ink head unit in the conveying direction and ejects precoating liquid to the printing base material. The control part controls the precoating liquid head unit to eject the precoating liquid. The control part controls the precoating liquid head unit to eject a predetermined amount of the precoating liquid when a glossiness of the printing base material is a predetermined value or more.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a heater, a temperature sensor, a power supply circuit, a main processor, and a sub-processor. The temperature sensor is configured to detect a temperature of the heater. The power supply circuit is configured to perform power supply to the heater. The main processor is configured to supply a heater control signal to the power supply circuit based on the temperature detected by the temperature sensor to control the power supply circuit and adjust the temperature of the heater. The sub-processor (a) monitors whether or not an output from the main processor is made regularly, and (b) supplies, to the power supply circuit, the heater control signal for cutting off the power supply to the heater when determination is made that the output is not made.

Abstract: In a paper feeding device, a paper feeding cassette and a multi-tray are disposed to be freely inserted or extracted separately, a hook is disposed in the paper feeding cassette, and an engagement part is disposed in the multi-tray. In a state in which the paper feeding cassette and the multi-tray are pushed into and housed on the inside of a device main body, when a lever is operated, and the hook is moved in an upward direction against a biasing force of a coil spring, the hook is engaged with the engagement part, and, in this state, when the paper feeding cassette is drawn out, the hook moves the engagement part, and the multi-tray is drawn out together with the paper feeding cassette.

Abstract: In a paper transport apparatus, a controller determines recording paper of a first transport path when a solenoid is deactivated, a paper detection member retreats in contact with the recording paper of the first transport path in a state in which a switching guide is switched to a first transport position, a driven rotation member rotates twice according to this retreat, and a sensor does not detect a standby position of the driven rotation member. Moreover, the controller determines a second transport position of the switching guide when the solenoid is activated, the switching guide is switched to the second transport position, the driven rotation member rotates according to this switching, and the sensor does not detect the standby position of the driven rotation member.

Abstract: A communication mediation device mediates communication between an image processing device for executing image processing and a cloud service for storing data. The communication mediation device associates cloud service login information for logging into the cloud service with a user and logs into the cloud service associated with the cloud service login information using the cloud service login information associated with the user when the user has logged into the communication mediation device via the image processing device.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink head unit, a precoating head unit, a conveying plate, and a heating part. The ink head unit ejects ink to a printing base material conveyed along a predetermined conveying direction. The precoating liquid head unit is disposed on an upstream side of the ink head unit in the conveying direction and ejects precoating liquid to the printing base material. The conveying plate is disposed below the ink head unit and the precoating liquid head unit and on which the printing base material is conveyed. The heating part heats the conveying plate. When a temperature of the conveying plate below the precoating liquid head unit is set to T1, and a temperature of the conveying plate below the ink head unit is set to T2, the heating part heats the conveying plate such that T1 is less than T2.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers, a charging device, an exposure device, a development device, and an intermediate transfer belt. The image carrier has a surface on which an amorphous silicon photosensitive layer is formed. The intermediate transfer belt is a plastic belt having a surface resistivity of 9.5 to 10.5 (log ?/square). An offset amount of the primary transfer roller from the image carrier is 0 to 2 (mm), a contact surface pressure between the image carrier and the intermediate transfer belt is 0.5 to 1.5 (gf/mm2), and a charge density of primary transfer current that flows when the primary transfer voltage is applied to the primary transfer roller is 0.016 to 0.040 (?C/cm2).

Abstract: A document transport device includes a controller that, when a document detection sensor has detected a document on a document placement tray, controls driving of an elevating mechanism that raises the document placement tray from a lower limit position to an upper limit position to temporarily raise the document placement tray to the upper limit position and then move the document placement tray to a standby position which is a predetermined distance below and stop moving the document placement tray. The standby position is set to a position that is between the upper limit position and the lower limit position and closer to the upper limit position than to the lower limit position.

Abstract: In a sheet feeding device, when the rotating member is set to a prespecified rotation angle, a first follower makes contact with a concave portion formed on a circumferential surface of a first cam, thereby retaining a first support member at a standby position, and a second follower makes contact with a concave portion formed on a circumferential surface of a second cam, thereby retaining a second support member at a standby position. When the rotating member is made to rotate, the first follower is disengaged from the concave portion of first cam, thereby making the first support member pivot about is shaft, and bringing the pickup roller into contact with a recording sheet, and the second follower is disengaged from the concave portion of the second cam, thereby making the second support member pivot about its shaft, and bringing the retard roller into contact with the feed roller.

Abstract: A transfer unit includes, as transfer rollers, a first roller and a second roller, a first bearing member, a second bearing member, a roller holder, a first urging member, a second urging member, a switching cam, a driving mechanism, a unit frame, and a secured cam. By rotating the roller holder, one of the first and second rollers is arranged opposite an image carrying member and, by rotating the switching cam, the first or second roller arranged opposite the image carrying member is arranged selectively either at a reference position or at a released position. The secured cam includes a positioning recessed portion that performs positioning of the first or second roller arranged opposite the image carrying member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a pair of registration rollers, an image formation unit, a roller movement mechanism, a detection unit and a control unit which performs a displacement correction for moving the pair of registration rollers from a home position. The control unit determines tendency information indicating the tendency of a displacement direction and a displacement amount of a sheet, the control unit displaces the home position in a direction opposite to the displacement direction indicated by the tendency information only by the displacement amount indicated by the tendency information and the control unit displaces the writing start position of an electrostatic latent image in a main scanning direction in the displacement direction indicated by the tendency information only by the displacement amount indicated by the tendency information.