Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a copy condition storage section configured to store a copy condition depending on a size of an original document to be copied, with the copy condition associated with at least a width of the original document along a main scanning direction; a document width detecting section configured to detect the document width; a copy condition readout section configured to read, from the copy condition storage section, the copy condition associated with the document width detected by the document width detecting section; an image forming section configured to form an image on a recording sheet; an image reading section configured to read the original document to acquire an image; and a control section configured to allow the image forming section to form the image acquired by the image reading section on the recording sheet according to the copy condition read by the copy condition readout section.

Abstract: A sheet feeding cartridge storing a sheet conveyed orthogonally to a width direction includes a main body, a pair of side cursors and a restricting member. The main body has a bottom part including a sheet placement face and allows sheets of different sizes to be placed. The side cursors mutually slide in approaching and separating directions and restrict a position in the width direction. The restricting member comes into contact with a side edge in the width direction at a position separated from one of the side cursors to an upstream side in a conveyance direction and restricts the position in the width direction. The restricting member is attachably/detachably provided in the main body at each of plural positions along the width direction and restricts the side edge of each of the sheets of different sizes in the width direction.

Abstract: A sheet conveying device includes a first tray, a conveying portion, a second tray, and a conveyance control portion. The conveying portion has: a first conveying path that extends from the first tray; a second conveying path that makes the first conveying path and the second tray communicate with each other and is provided with an ejecting roller pair; a third conveying path that makes the second conveying path and an ejecting space communicate with each other and is provided with a reverse roller pair. After a first sheet passes through the reference position, the conveyance control portion stops rotation of the ejecting roller pair with the first sheet conveyed in the second conveying path nipped by the sheet ejecting roller pair, and after a second sheet passes through the reference position, the conveyance control portion rotates the reverse roller pair with the rotation of the ejecting roller pair stopped.

Abstract: An aftertreatment system comprises a liquid exhaust reductant tank. A heat exchanger is positioned downstream of the preheater. The heat exchanger heats the liquid exhaust reductant to a second temperature. The second temperature is sufficient to decompose the liquid exhaust reductant and produce ammonia gas. A storage tank is positioned downstream of the heat exchanger and is structured to store the ammonia gas at a predetermined pressure. The aftertreatment system also includes a selective catalytic reduction system positioned downstream of the storage tank. The aftertreatment system can also include a preheater positioned downstream of the liquid exhaust reductant tank and upstream of the heat exchanger.

Abstract: A wireless network is provided that includes a base station and subscriber stations that communicate with the base station using radio frequency (RF) time division duplex (TDD) signaling. The base station may establish medium access control (MAC) connections with each station. The base station monitors communications with the stations and, in accordance, assigns stations or MAC connections to modulation groups. The base station transmits signals on MAC connections or to stations in a modulation group in adjacent TDD slots within a TDD frame. The base station may receive access requests from the stations, evaluate traffic requirements for the stations, and determine a longest downlink portion for the stations. The base station then allocates downlink and uplink portions of a TDD frame according to the length of the longest downlink portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive bodies, a plurality of illumination units respectively opposed to the plurality of photosensitive bodies, and each configured to emit static eliminating light onto a surface of the corresponding photosensitive body, a light emitter that serves as light source, a light guide unit that guides light from the light emitter toward the plurality of illumination units, a driving mechanism that switches between allowing the illumination unit to emit light and restricting the illumination unit from emitting light, to the photosensitive body, and a control unit that causes the driving mechanism to allow the illumination unit opposed to the photosensitive body being used for image forming to emit light to the photosensitive body, and restrict the illumination unit opposed to the photosensitive body not being used for the image forming from emitting light to the photosensitive body.

Abstract: A method for cleaning bypass gases of the cement or mineral industry includes cooling down a removed bypass gas from a cement or mineral processing plant to a temperature of between 500° C. and 150° C., and coarsely dedusting the bypass gas, the dust burden being reduced by 30 to 95%. After the dedusting step, the gaseous constituents contained in the partly dedusted bypass gas are reduced in a reducing step. The partly dedusted bypass gas is further finely dedusted. The gaseous constituents reducing step includes at least a catalytic reduction of one or more of nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide.

Abstract: A system for separating contaminants from fluids provides a modular mobile continuously operable site configurable multi-phase filtering system having an oil water separator 100, a dwell tank 220, a waste tank 250, an electrocoagulator 120 having plural concentrically aligned perforated tubular sacrificial electrodes, a first and a parallel second particulate filter 300A, 300B, a first and parallel second step-down membrane filter 400A, 400B, an optional ultra filtration filter 500, an optional reverse osmosis filter 600, a mixing station 700 and a totalizer and sensor array 900 to analyze, filter and treat fluids by separating contaminants and particulates and adjusting chemical content to meet specifications desired which will allow the use and re-use of the filtered fluid and the separated contaminants.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressuring member and a heater. The fixing member is configured to be rotatable. The pressuring member is configured to be rotatable and to come into pressure contact with the fixing member so as to form a fixing nip. The heater is arranged inside the fixing member. A heat resistant coating to convert light from the heater into heat is applied to an inner face of the fixing member, and the coating is formed by using an inorganic material.

Abstract: A rack for electronic plug-in boards has board cages on the front and rear sides and at least one vertical backplane arranged between the board cages. The rack has an installation space provided underneath or above the board cages and into which fan modules can be horizontally inserted from the front side. A power supply module with an electronics unit supplies power to the backplane. The installation space continuously extends up to the region of the board cage on the rear side. The electronics unit is arranged in the region of the rear side of the rack underneath or above the board cage and defines the installation space toward the rear. The electronics unit is connected to the backplane by rigid electric conductors horizontally extending between the board cage on the rear side and the installation space parallel and at a distance from one another.

Abstract: A control system for a refrigeration system with dual evaporators is provided. In one embodiment, a control system for a dual evaporator refrigeration system is provided where the evaporators are operated simultaneously to provide for improved temperature and humidity control in a refrigerator appliance. In another embodiment, the control system can also use a linear model that is designed to minimize or remove excess enthalpy from one or more compartments and/or features of the appliance. The control system can also be configured with at least one variable speed compressor that is operated at a speed that will remove excess enthalpy within a desired time period while also operating at an optimized speed for energy efficiency.

Abstract: A touch panel includes a substrate, a flexible printed circuit board and a sensing device. The substrate includes a main plane having an active region and a non-active region surrounding the active region. The flexible printed circuit board has a bonding surface, wherein the bonding surface and the main plane are not parallel to each other. The sensing device includes a plurality of electrode patterns located in the active region and a plurality of connecting lines respectively connected between the electrode patterns and the flexible printed circuit board so as to electrically connect the electrode patterns and the flexible printed circuit board, wherein at least a part of the connecting lines is located in the non-active region, and the connecting lines are connected to the bonding surface of the flexible printed circuit board.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an exterior cover having a plurality of faces. The exterior cover is configured so that one face of the plurality of faces is divided into a plurality of cover boards. The plurality of cover boards are configured so that adjacent cover boards of the plurality of cover boards include respective overlapping parts overlapping onto each other formed in the respective adjacent cover boards and the one face is composed by overlapping the overlapping parts from the outside in predetermined order.

Abstract: A hydrazone derivative of triphenylamine is represented by general formula (1). In general formula (1), R1 and R2 each represent, independently of one another, at least one chemical group selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom, an optionally substituted alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 6, an optionally substituted alkoxy group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 6, and an optionally substituted aryl group having a carbon number of at least 6 and no greater than 12. In general formula (1), m and n each represent, independently of one another, an integer of at least 0 and no greater than 4. In general formula (1), 1 represents 0 or 1.

Abstract: A gas burner assembly for an appliance is provided. The gas burner has a gas stability chamber for providing a re-ignition source to primary burner ports positioned around the burner. A burner cap is provided with an annular groove for properly positioning the cap onto the burner.

Abstract: An acronym-management program causes a computer to extracts an acronym from a list-updating reference for updating an acronym list; extracts, from the list-updating reference, a candidate for an expanded form corresponding to the extracted acronym; and, when the likelihood of the extracted acronym being used in the list-updating reference to refer to the extracted expanded-form candidate reaches or exceeds a specific level, increase, in the acronym list, the frequency corresponding to the acronym and the expanded form.

Abstract: An electrophotographic toner includes capsule toner particles that each include an anionic toner core having a zeta potential at pH 4 of no greater than ?5 mV and a cationic shell layer disposed over a surface of the toner core. Each of the capsule toner particles has, at a surface thereof, a sodium concentration of no less than 200 ppm and no greater than 1,000 ppm as measured by an ICP spectrometer.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter that receives an aggregate circuit and outputs two or more sub-signals on outputs each of a different frequency band. The sub-signals are amplified by low noise amplifiers and, in one implementation, the amplified sub-signals can be summed. The outputs are connected via a switched passive network so that portions of the sub-signals on the outputs that are not in the selected frequency band are at least partially terminated.

Abstract: A touch-sensor structure includes a substrate having a plurality of grooves formed thereon. A plurality of first axial electrode strips are disposed in the grooves individually. A plurality of second axial electrode strips are disposed on the substrate and intersect with the first axial electrode strips. An insulating layer fills in the grooves and is disposed at the intersections of the first and second axial electrode strips. Furthermore, the manufacturing method of the touch-sensor structure is provided. The insulating layer is disposed in the grooves of the substrate without a protuberant height on the substrate. Therefore, it can overcome a breakage issue in conventional conductive bridges.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a storage controller for use in a tiered storage system. The tiered storage system includes a first storage device having the first physical volume of a first tier, and a second storage device having the second physical volume of a second tier lower than the first tier. The cache controller of the storage controller divides the storage area of the first physical volume into a set of data areas and a set of cache areas. The cache controller changes the first cache area of the first physical volume to a first data area, when first data to be transferred from the second physical volume to the first physical volume is also stored in the first cache area.