Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixed contact point and a movable contact point. The fixed contact point is provided in a unit side opposing part. A movable contact point is provided in a rail side opposing part. The rail side opposing part is formed with an opening. The movable contact point is a contact spring formed of an electrical conductive wire. The movable contact point has a fixing part, a contact part and a pull-out prevention part. The fixing part is fixed to the rail on an opposite side to the rail side opposing part. The contact part is biased with respect to the fixing part to protrude toward the fixed contact point through the opening. The pull-out prevention part restricts a protruding position of the contact part toward the fixed contact point. The pull-out prevention part is formed into a spiral shape.

Abstract: A communication device includes: a communication control section; a variable resistor; a voltage detecting section; and a resistance value adjusting section. The communication control section performs control necessary for facsimile communication. The variable resistor is arranged between two line-connecting terminals, each of the line-connecting terminals is for connecting a telephone line. The voltage detecting section detects a line voltage of the telephone line to which the variable resistor is connected under closed state of the telephone line. The resistance value adjusting section changes a resistance value of the variable resistor. When the changed resistance value of the variable resistor becomes a standard resistance value to be a voltage value where the line voltage detected by the voltage detecting section is capable of the facsimile communication, the resistance value adjusting section sets the resistance value of the variable resistor to a resistance value for the facsimile communication.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a plurality of processes, an interrupt waiting unit for each of the processes, and an interrupt handler. The interrupt handler processes the interrupt. The interrupt waiting unit sets an interrupt waiting flag to wait for an occurrence of the interrupt. The interrupt handler, when the interrupt occurred, sets an interrupt style of the occurred interrupt and releases the interrupt waiting flag from the set state. The interrupt waiting unit, when the interrupt waiting flag was released from the set state, sets the interrupt waiting flag if the interrupt style set by the interrupt handler is not an interrupt style matched with the process, and operates the process if the interrupt style set by the interrupt hander is the interrupt style matched with the one of the processes. The interrupt waiting flag is located to each of the processes.

Abstract: A vehicle including a chassis, a drive system carrying the chassis, and a vision system carried by the chassis. The vision system having a stereo visible light camera producing a colorized 3D point cloud and a stereo long wave infrared camera producing 3D data. The vision system being configured to fuse the 3D data with the 3D point cloud thereby producing an enhanced 3D point cloud.

Abstract: Provided is a network equipment that improves convenience of access from a portable terminal and security via a P2P connection. The network equipment includes a network control part, a user authentication part and a system control part. The network control part controls direct communication with the portable terminal. The user authentication part manages user identification information and user information by associating with each other. The system control part manages the administrator user with an automatic connection turned on and the guest user with the automatic connection turned off. IF an automatic connection is turned on, the system control part allows the direct communication. The system control part receives the user information from the portable terminal and causes the user authentication part to perform user authentication if the automatic connection is turned off, and allows the direct communication if the user authentication succeeded.

Abstract: A fastener for fastening parts together. The fastener has a shaft, a head and movable members that spring outwardly from the shaft to firmly capture the parts between the members and the head upon insertion of the fastener into aligned holes in the parts. No threading step is necessary. The movable members may be retractable into the shaft to facilitate insertion into holes corresponding in size to the shaft. The members may have a contact surface sloping away from the head and forming a tapered space between the members and the head so that the outward spring bias tends to reduce the space and maintain tightness of the joint. The fastener may be operatively deployed by a single insertion step.

Abstract: A display input device includes a display panel, a touch panel and a control portion. The display panel displays a software keyboard screen including a plurality of symbol keys, a switching key between a normal input mode and a simple selection mode and an input display field where an input signal is displayed. The control portion recognizes, as a correction candidate symbol, a symbol corresponding to the symbol key in which an outer peripheral region in the region of the symbol key is operated, brings, when the mode is transferred to the simple selection mode, into a selected state, any one of the correction candidate symbols among the symbols displayed in the input display field and replaces, when a correction is made, the symbol with a symbol after being corrected.

Abstract: An upright reinforcing rod connected to the ground with a mechanical anchor and to the monopole tower with a bracket at a top elevation. The rod is stabilized laterally by being disposed through vertically oriented openings in lateral supports at intermediate elevations. There may be a clearance fit between the rod and lateral supports. The rod may be inserted sideways into the supports. The connection between rod and support may be boltless and simple. The support may comprise spring loaded latch fingers for capturing the rod. The mechanical anchor and intermediate supports provide improved installation methods.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a toner container, a reader and writer, and a knock mechanism. To the toner container, an RFID tag is attached. The reader and writer opposes the RFID tag. The knock mechanism has a knock member and a rotor reciprocally moving in an attachment and detachment direction of the toner container. When the knock member has been pressed in conjunction with insertion of the toner container and the rotor in conjunction therewith has moved to the first tip position, the RFID tag is brought to approach the reader and writer to a range in which communication with the reader and writer is enabled, and when the rotor has separated from the first tip position and has moved to a locking position, the RFID tag is out of the range in which the communication with the reader and writer is enabled.

Abstract: According to examples, intelligent data munging may include ascertaining data that is to be transformed, and determining, based on an analysis of the ascertained data, a sample of the ascertained data. Intelligent data munging may further include enriching the sample of the ascertained data, determining features of the enriched sample of the ascertained data, and determining, based on the features, a transformation to be applied to the enriched sample of the ascertained data to transform the enriched sample of the ascertained data from a first format to a second format. Further, intelligent data munging may include validating the determined transformation, and generating, based on the validation of the determined transformation, a script that is to be applied to the ascertained data to transform the ascertained data from the first format to the second format.

Abstract: A lattice point group generating method generates a group of pre-color conversion lattice points to be contained in a color conversion table for conversion of colors in a color space having three channels to colors in another color space. The method includes generating sequences and generating lattice points. The generating sequences generates three van der Corput sequences in which the number of terms is equal to a quotient obtained by subtracting a specified number from a maximum number of lattice points allocatable to the color conversion table and dividing the difference by 12 or 6, and whose basis is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2. The generating lattice points generates lattice points each located at coordinates including terms in the same ordinal number out of the three respective van der Corput sequences for six possible associations of the three van der Corput sequences with the three channels.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressuring member, a fixing device main body, a guide member and a detecting mechanism. The guide member is rotatable between a closing position where the guide member covers a sheet conveying path and an opening position where the guide member exposes the sheet conveying path. The detecting mechanism includes a sensor and an actuator. The sensor includes a light emitting part and a light receiving part. The actuator is swingable between a non-blocking position where the actuator does not block a light and a blocking position where the actuator blocks the light. When the actuator rotates integrally with the guide member according to a rotation of the guide member between the closing position and the opening position, the actuator passes between the light emitting part and the light receiving part.

Abstract: Subsea power supply assembly (10, 20) supplying electric power to a motor (11) at a second location (90) from a first location (80), comprising a variable speed drive (13) (VSD) and a step-up transformer (15) connected to it. At a subsea location the assembly comprises a first step-down transformer (17) with input (17a) and output (17b) and an uninterruptable power supply (25) having an input (25a). A step-out cable (19) supplies power from the step-up transformer (15) to the motor (11). The cable (19) connects to the first step-down transformer (17). The speed of the electric motor (11) is proportional to the output frequency of the VSD (13). The power receiving input (25a) of the uninterruptable power supply (25) connects to the output (17b) of the first step-down transformer (17), thereby receiving electrical power with frequency equal to the output frequency of the VSD (13).

Abstract: A cosmetic composition is disclosed for applying to skin. The composition includes a liquid and dispersed in the liquid: any amount or form of fucoidan, any amount or form of beta glucan; and any amount of a marine extract. When the cosmetic composition is applied to the skin, the appearance of the skin is improved.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, an outer cover, a conveyance unit, a movable roller, and an interlock mechanism. The outer cover is provided turnably between an outer closing position forming one surface of the apparatus body and an outer opening position in which the one surface of the apparatus body is set openable. The conveyance unit is provided turnably between an inner closing position in which an inside of the apparatus body is set closable and an inner opening position in which the inside of the apparatus body is set openable. The movable roller is pressed by a fixed roller pivotally supported inside of the apparatus body when the conveyance unit is displaced to the inner closing position. The interlock mechanism interlocks an operation of opening the outer cover with an operation of opening the conveyance unit.

Abstract: A multi-layer electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer includes a charge generating layer and a charge transport layer. The charge generating layer contains a charge generating material. The charge transport layer contains a hole transport material and a binder resin. The charge generating material contains a titanyl phthalocyanine that exhibits a main peak at a Bragg angle (2?±0.2°) of 27.2° in a CuK? characteristic X-ray diffraction spectrum. The hole transport material contains a triarylamine derivative represented by generic formula (1). The hole transport material has a mass ratio of at least 0.30 and no greater than 0.55 relative to the binder resin in the charge transport layer. In general formula (1), R1, R2, l, and m are the same as those defined in the specification.

Abstract: Provided is a network equipment that improves security via a P2P connection. The network equipment includes a network control part and a system control part. The network control part controls a first communication mode performing communication with a user terminal via a wired LAN network, a second communication mode performing communication with a portable terminal via a wireless LAN network and a third communication mode performing communication not via the wired LAN network and the wireless LAN network. When connection is established via the third communication mode, if the wired LAN network and/or the wireless LAN network are/is not in connection, the system control part causes the network control part to perform direct communication after the communication via the wired LAN network and the wireless LAN network are sopped, and to further restrict a request via the direct communication.

Abstract: A steel piston for an internal combustion engine may include a piston crown and a protective layer disposed on the piston crown. The protective layer may include an adhesion layer of Cr or CrN, which is present on a surface of the piston crown. The protective layer may include a functional layer, which is present on the adhesion layer. The functional layer may have at least one of (i) at least one layer (A) of CrN and (ii) at least one layer (B) of CrOn in the form of [(A)/(B)]a, and a may represent 1 to 100.

Abstract: The projector comprises: at least one light source; a light separation unit separating light emitted from the light source into a first and second lights in different wavelength bands; a TIR prism through which the first and second lights pass; an optical modulating element irradiated with and modulating the first and second lights to emit the modulated first and second lights toward the TIR prism; a projection lens expanding and projecting the light which is modulated by the optical modulating element and passes the TIR prism; a rotating prism which is rotatably arranged in the light path between the light separation unit and the TIR prism and emits, from different positions in accordance with rotation, the first and second lights emitted from the light separation unit; and a control unit which, when the image signals representing a first and second images are supplied, causes the optical modulating element to perform modulation according to the image signal of the first image with regard to the area irradia

Abstract: A protective case for receiving and retaining a portable electronic device is provided. The case comprises dampening features disposed in at least two corners of the case to protect the electronic device from inadvertent impact and the resultant forces. Various embodiments of the case comprise multi-materials designs and features that allow utilize of various controls and features of the electronic device.