Abstract: A developer supply device according to an embodiment may include: a developer container; and a developer container holder to which the developer container is to be attached in a first direction. The developer container includes: a shutter movable between a closing position to close a supply port of a housing thereof and an opening position to open the supply port; and a sealing member provided between the housing and the shutter. The shutter includes: a cover portion including a cover surface configured to close the supply port; and a protruding portion projected in the first direction from the cover portion and provided at a position spaced apart from the cover surface to a side of the developer container holder. The developer container holder includes an engagement portion to be engaged with the protruding portion in a state where the developer container is attached to the developer container holder.

Abstract: An electronic structure includes: a substrate having a first surface; a functional element unit including a functional element having an electronic function, and a protector covering the functional element, the functional element unit having a second surface facing the first surface; a support disposed between the first surface and the second surface, the support supporting the second surface; and a projection disposed on a first surface side of the substrate, the projection projecting toward the functional element unit. The support has a third surface in contact with the second surface of the functional element unit, the third surface having an area smaller than an area of the second surface. The projection has a fourth surface in contact with or close to the functional element unit, the fourth surface having an area smaller than the area of the second surface, the projection being formed by a different material from the support.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming portion configured to form a brilliant developer image with a brilliant developer; a second image forming portion including at least one image forming portion configured to form a developer image with at least one non-brilliant developer; and a controller configured to control operation of the first image forming portion and the second image forming portion in accordance with received print data. When the controller causes the brilliant developer image to be formed on a medium in accordance with the print data by the first image forming portion, the controller causes a black developer image to be formed between the brilliant developer image and the medium by the second image forming portion.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include: an image carrier; a transfer part facing the image carrier; a transfer belt that passes between the image carrier and the transfer part, includes a conveyance surface, and configured to convey a medium on the conveyance surface; plural rollers to which the transfer belt is stretched, the plural rollers including a downstream roller provided on a downstream side in the medium conveyance direction among the plural rollers; and a separating member facing the downstream roller and configured to separate the medium from the transfer belt. The separating member includes a guide surface to guide the medium, wherein the guide surface is arranged at an angle such that a distance from the guide surface to a conveyance reference plane becomes shorter as proceeding in the medium conveyance direction, the conveyance reference plane being a virtual plane extending the conveyance surface.

Abstract: There are provided a display operation section and a device that can suppress a risk from a viewpoint of hygiene. A display operation section includes: a display section including an operation screen; and an optical operation section arranged above the display section and configured to sense an operation on the operation screen, and the display section and the operation section are arranged apart from each other to form a non-sensing space between a sensing area configured to be able to sense the operation, and the operation screen. The display operation section further includes a plate-like or sheet-like protection member configured to protect the operation screen. The non-sensing space is formed between the sensing area and the protection member.

Abstract: The present invention, a communication device configured to receive supply of electrical power from a battery unit and transmit and receive a data signal, the device includes a first wireless communication means configured to intermittently receive a data signal, a second wireless communication means configured to transmit a data signal; and a communication control means configured to temporarily hold the data signal received by the first wireless communication means, power off the second wireless communication means until a predetermined condition is satisfied, power on the second wireless communication means after a predetermined condition is satisfied, and transmit the held data signal.

Abstract: A lustrous developer according to an embodiment may include: a metallic pigment; and a binder resin. The lustrous developer includes small diameter particles smaller than a volume median diameter of the metallic pigment. A ratio of a volume of particles other than the small diameter particles in the lustrous developer to a volume of the entire lustrous developer is 90.297% or more and 99.314% or less. The volume median diameter of the metallic pigment is 5.91 ?m or less.

Abstract: A humidity detection device includes a humidity sensor, a resistor connected to one-side of the humidity sensor, a first switching part connected to the resistor; a diode connected to the first switching part; a second switching part connected to the other-side of the humidity sensor, a potential difference generating part connected to the second switching part, a power supply supplying a voltage, and a control part applying the voltage as an alternating voltage to the humidity sensor by controlling the first switching part and the second switching part. The control part applies a current to the diode, the resistor and the humidity sensor in a first direction by connecting the second switching part to the ground, and applies the current to the resistor and the humidity sensor in a second direction, which is an opposite direction from the first direction, by connecting the first switching part to the ground.

Abstract: A development device may include: a development device body; a developer cartridge detachably attached to the development device body; first and second lavers provided to the development device body, the first lever including an operation part and a first engagement portion and a second lever including a second engagement portion; first and second engaged portions provided to the developer cartridge, the first engaged portion being configured to form a first engagement with the first engagement portion and the second engaged portion being configured to form a second engagement with the second engagement portion; and a first biasing member biasing the first engagement portion to the first engaged portion. When the operation part is operated with a first pressing force, the first engagement is released, and when the operation part is operated with a second pressing force greater than the first pressing force, the first and second engagements are released.

Abstract: A medium processing device includes a depositing/dispensing unit that has a feeding unit into which media are fed and a shutter opening/closing the feeding unit and a foreign material storage unit that is disposed on a side opposite to the feeding unit with a gap formed in the depositing/dispensing unit interposed therebetween and stores foreign materials that have entered from the gap.

Abstract: An information processing method to be performed by an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment may include: causing an authentication processor to perform a login authentication based on an operation performed on an operation section; and causing an exclusive control executor that gives a usage right to use a function to the operation section after the operation section is authenticated by the login authentication and releases the usage right given to the operation section in a case where no response is received from the operation section for a predetermined time after the usage right is given to determine, based on a detection result by a status detector that detects a status of the information processing apparatus, whether or not to release the usage right given to the operation section after the predetermined time passes.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include: a discharge unit configured to transport printed media from a discharge port to an outside; and a controller configured to cause the discharge unit (i) to perform a holding operation to hold a part of a first group of printed media corresponding to a first print pause sheet number set in a setting unit at the discharge port by the discharge unit, and (ii) when the part of the first group of printed media is removed from the discharge port, to transport a second group of printed media corresponding to a second print pause sheet number set in the setting unit from the discharge port toward the outside and to perform the holding operation to hold a part of the second group of the printed media with being exposed to the outside from the discharge port.

Abstract: An electronic structure includes a substrate having a first surface; a functional unit including a functional section that has an electronic function and a protective member that protects the functional section and having a second surface formed on the first surface’s side; and a support layer provided at a position to contact the first surface and having a third surface in contact with the second surface of the functional unit, area of the third surface being smaller than area of the second surface, wherein one of part of the functional unit forming the second surface of the protective member and part of the support layer forming the third surface contains organic material as its principal component and the other contains inorganic material as its principal component.

Abstract: A development unit according to an embodiment may include a developer carrier configured to carry developer on a surface thereof; a layer regulation member being elongate in a direction and provided facing the developer carrier; and a frame supporting the developer carrier and the layer regulation member. The layer regulation member comprises a metal blade that contacts the developer carrier and a support member attached to the frame and supporting the blade. A free length of the blade at an end portion in a longitudinal direction of the layer regulation member is shorter than a free length of the blade at a center portion in the longitudinal direction of the layer regulation member.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include: a first image formation section configured to form a first image of a developer containing a lustrous pigment; a second image formation section configured to form a second image of a dyeing developer; and a transfer section configured to transfer the first image and the second image on a medium such that the first image and the second image are stacked to each other on the medium.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a first layer including a first optical semiconductor element; a second layer including a second optical semiconductor element having a lower conversion efficiency than the first optical semiconductor element; and a lens member. The first optical semiconductor element and the second optical semiconductor element are disposed between the lens member and a focal point of the lens member in an optical axis direction of the lens member, at least partially overlap as viewed in the optical axis direction, and are disposed so that the second optical semiconductor element is closer to the focal point than the first optical semiconductor element.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include: a fixation unit detachable from a main body of the image formation apparatus; a movable guide member holding a first connector and movably provided to the main body; a second connector provided to the fixation unit; and an engagement portion provided around the second connector. Upon mounting the detachable unit to the main body, the engagement portion contacts the movable guide member to move the movable guide member to position the first connector held by the movable guide member to a fittable range where the first and second connectors can be fitted to each other. Upon fitting the first and second connectors to each other, the first connector contacts the second connector to move the movable guide member holding the first connector to align the first connector to the second connector.