Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus for shortening time to printout at time of receiving a print job in a sleep state when an image forming apparatus has an unmounting state of a storage device, such as HDD. A control part notifies printing preparation and a printing process to print engine based on a processing result of an analyzing part. At time of suppressing temperature of fixing device, if received data are analyzed and print data are generated, analyzing part sends a notice of first drawing object being generated to the control part. The control part confirms a connecting state of HDD in response to the notice. If HDD is in an unmounting state, the control part notifies the printing preparation to the print engine.

Abstract: Provided is a touch panel apparatus that matches a flicked icon with an icon that a user meant, even if a flick direction of the flicked icon is ambiguous. The touch panel apparatus has a touch panel and an operation processing part. On the touch panel, a movement source icon and a plurality of movement destination icons are displayed. The movement source icon is movable to a flick direction by flick operation. The plurality of movement destination icons serve as a movement destination of the movement source icon. In each of the plurality of movement destination icons, a decision range for determining as the movement destination icon to the flick direction is provided. An operation processing part acquires the movement destination icon having the decision range to the flick direction of the movement source icon as a movement destination candidate.

Abstract: A packaging box where a body part has a bottom plate, first side plates erecting from one opposed edges of the bottom plate and second side plates erecting from other opposed edges and is provided with an opened upper surface. A pair of inner flaps are connected to upper edges of the first side plates through fold lines and folded inside. A pair of outer flaps are connected to upper edges of the second side plates through fold lines, and folded inside and overlapped with the pair of inner flaps to close the opened upper surface. Each of the pair of inner flaps is provided with a first engaging part. Each of the first side plates is provided with a first engaged part, which may engage with the corresponding first engaging part when the pair of inner flaps are folded and overlapped with the outsides of the first side plates.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for mitigating multiband self-interference using multipath cancellation. A dual-band transceiver receives an incoming radio-frequency signal that includes a multipath self-interference component generated by the transmission of an outgoing radio-frequency signal. The transceiver creates a plurality of reference signals from the outgoing radio-frequency signal by introducing delay values with respect to the outgoing signal. The transceiver adjusts the amplitude and phase of each of the delayed reference signals and combines the resulting signals with the incoming radio-frequency signal to cancel the self-interference component. The delay values may be determined adaptively. The systems and methods described herein are particularly useful for dual-band transceivers capable of communicating simultaneously using Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wideband signals and Public-Safety Narrowband (PSNB) signals.

Abstract: A document management apparatus includes a reading circuit, a storage circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit has: a character string registration mode that causes the reading circuit to read the document, detects a character string to be annotated based on a position of the read marking, searches the note of the detected character string in a dictionary, and causes the storage circuit to store the detected character string and the searched note to register the character string, and a sentence output mode that accepts a sentence, collates the accepted sentence with the character string stored in the storage circuit, obtains the note of the character string found to be matched by the collation, and makes the obtained note correspond to the matched character string to output the obtained note together with the sentence, so as to output the sentence.

Abstract: A sheet feeder includes a casing, a sheet stacking portion, a sheet conveyance path, a feed roller, a separation pad, a holder, a mounting portion and a guiding member. The sheets are placed on the sheet stacking portion and fed in a predetermined direction in the sheet conveyance path. A nip portion, through which the sheet passes, is formed between the feed roller and the separation pad. The holder fixedly supports the separation pad and is mountable into and removable from the mounting portion of the casing. The guiding member guides the holder. The posture of the holder is changeable between a first posture in which a predetermined clearance is formable between the guiding member and the holder when the holder is mounted into the mounting portion and a second posture in which the holder is pressed against the guiding member when the sheet passes through the nip portion.

Abstract: Systems and related methods providing for touch sensors having segmented reflective arrays including waveguide cores are discussed herein. A touch sensor may include a substrate configured to propagate surface acoustic waves. The substrate may include two or more segmented reflective arrays. A segmented reflective array may include a major reflective array configured to propagate surface acoustic waves and a waveguide core configured to concentrate acoustic energy of the surface acoustic waves. Two segmented reflective arrays may further include adjacent portions that define an overlap region of the substrate. In some embodiments, the segmented reflective array may further include a beam dump configured to decrease intensity of surface acoustic wave propagation past the end of the segmented reflective array.

Abstract: A system comprising one or more interior antenna(s) positioned within an at least partially enclosed operator area of a human operated machine and one or more exterior antenna(s) positioned on an external portion of the human operated machine, with a radio frequency shield positioned between the interior antenna(s) and the exterior antenna(s), is usable with a processing module electrically connected with the antennas for analyzing signals received from the antennas to determine whether a radio frequency generating device is active within the at least partially enclosed operator area.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a first discharge opening and a second discharge opening, a sheet discharge portion, a restricting member and a sheet discharge tray. The sheet discharge portion is connected at a position below the first discharge opening, and the sheet discharged through the first discharge opening is to be placed thereon. The restricting member stands up on a downstream side of the sheet discharge portion in a discharging direction of the sheet and can come into contact with a downstream end edge of the sheet discharged to the sheet discharge portion in the discharging direction. The sheet discharge tray includes a first fixing portion and a second fixing portion to be fixed to an upper end part of the restricting member and is attachable above the sheet discharge portion, and a sheet discharged through the second discharge opening is to be placed thereon.

Abstract: A centralized quality of service (QoS) entity having a processing device performs a method for managing QoS settings for group communications. The method includes: determining a plurality of active participants of a group communication session; and determining, for each active participant, an individual QoS setting, including a first individual QoS setting for a first active participant. The method further includes modifying the first individual QoS setting based on the individual QoS setting for at least one other active participant, wherein the modified first individual QoS setting is applied to a session leg used by the first active participant during the group communication session. The active participants of the group communication session can be on the same or heterogeneous wireless networks.

Abstract: A sheet feeding device includes a housing, a conveyor roller, a first shaft, a second shaft, and drive units. The conveyor roller includes a first side portion and a second side portion. The first shaft has a first engaging portion. The second shaft has a second engaging portion. The drive units drive and rotate the first and second shafts. The first side portion has an engaged portion to be engaged with the first or second engaging portion. The second side portion is formed with a bearing portion configured to be supported by the first or second engaging portion in relatively rotatable manner. The conveyor roller is mountable in the housing in a first mounted state, in which the conveyor roller is integrally rotated with the first shaft, and in a second mounted state, in which the conveyor roller is integrally rotated with the second shaft.

Abstract: A toner container according to one aspect of the present disclosure is a toner container to be detachably mounted on an image forming apparatus. The toner container includes a container body, a pair of guide portions, and a storage portion. The container body contains toner. The pair of guide portions are provided on a bottom surface of the container body and allow the container body to be guided in a mounting direction toward a mounting position that allows toner to be supplied from the container body to the image forming apparatus. The storage portion is attached at a predetermined position between the pair of guide portions on the bottom surface of the container body. The storage portion stores information about toner contained in the container body.

Abstract: A first decoder performs decoding on each data set in a first plurality of data sets using a first code; each data set in the first plurality is stored on a different chip. It is determined if the first decoding is successful; if not, a second decoder performs a second decoding on each data set in a second plurality of data sets using a second code; each data set in the second plurality includes at least some data, after the first decoding using the first code, from each data set in the first plurality. The first decoder performs a third decoding on each data set in the first plurality using the first code, where each data set in the first plurality includes at least some data, after the second decoding using the second code, from each data set in the second plurality.

Abstract: A sheet discharge device includes a sheet discharge path, a discharge portion for discharging the sheet, and a pressing member. The pressing member is shiftable between a hanging posture, in which the pressing member hangs from an axis of pivotal movement thereof above the discharge path in such a manner as to block the discharge path, and a retracted posture, in which the pressing member is pivotally moved about the axis of pivotal movement in the sheet discharge direction for opening the discharge path. The pressing member has a side portion protruding into the discharge path in the hanging posture thereof, and a bottom portion continuing to a lower end of the side portion and extending toward downstream in the sheet discharge direction. The bottom portion includes an inclined surface inclined upwardly toward a middle part of the sheet in the sheet width direction in the hanging posture.

Abstract: Embodiments disclose an apparatus and system for enclosing and insulating an opening in a structure such as for an air conditioning unit or a sleeve. The apparatus includes one or more layers required depending on the distance which any equipment installed in the opening extends beyond the wall surface. An embodiment for rectangular insulating cover apparatus includes for corner pieces, for horizontal wall pieces, and for vertical wall pieces. Corner of pieces are configured to allow the horizontal wall pieces and vertical wall pieces to be slid into the corner pieces. The depth of the insertion into a corner pieces can be varied depending on the desired dimensions for the insulating cover apparatus. After cutting the top cover required dimensions for the opening in the insulating cover apparatus top cover corner boots and C-channels are installed on the top cover which is then pressed into place. A system for assembling and installing the same is provided, as are other aspects.

Abstract: The wiring board according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a core substrate including a through-hole for a grounding and a through-hole for a power supply disposed adjacent to each other, and a build-up layer formed on one surface of the core substrate. The through-hole for a grounding and the through-hole for a power supply have a cross-sectional shape perpendicular to a thickness direction of the core substrate, being any one of a triangular shape, a quadrangular shape and a hexagonal shape, containing a corner portion and a side portion connecting between the corner portions. The side portions of the through-hole for a grounding and the through-hole for a power supply being mutually adjacent are disposed so as to face each other.

Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a fixing device includes a heating member, a rotatable pressure roller, and a metal pattern. The heating member includes a heating rotary body configured to be heated by a heating device. The pressure roller is pressed against an outer circumferential surface of the heating rotary body. The metal pattern is disposed facing the heating member so as to extend in a sheet width direction which is equal to an axial direction of the pressure roller, and the metal pattern is formed of a metal wire of which a resistance varies according to variations in temperature of the heating member.

Abstract: A system for desalting a crude oil stream includes an elongated, vertically oriented vessel that has an interior piping structure arranged concentric to the vessel. The piping structure, which may have more than one level, has a plurality of spray nozzles oriented at a downward angle for atomizing wash water into a downward flowing crude oil stream. The spray nozzles may be located on a same side or opposite sides of the piping structure. Where multiple levels are used, the number of spray nozzles on each level may be the same as or different than the number of spray nozzles on other levels. The pressure drop through each spray nozzle is preferably no greater than 300 psi and the nozzles preferably deliver a dilution water droplet preferably no larger than 300 microns in diameter. A mixing valve, static mixer, or both can be placed downstream of the vessel.

Abstract: A coaxial guide catheter to be passed through guide catheter having a first lumen, for use with interventional cardiology devices that are insertable into a branch artery that branches off from a main artery. The coaxial guide catheter is extended through the lumen of the guide catheter and beyond the distal end of the guide catheter and inserted into the branch artery. The device assists in resisting axial and shear forces exerted by an interventional cardiology device passed through the second lumen and beyond the flexible distal tip portion that would otherwise tend to dislodge the guide catheter from the branch artery.