Abstract: A printing device includes a housing, a head arranged inside the housing and configured to eject a liquid, a fan arranged inside the housing, a humidifier configured to supply humidified air to a supply port arranged at an exhaust port side of the fan, and a filter arranged at a fan side of the supply port.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet accommodating portion, an image forming portion, an accommodating portion opening portion, a lifter plate, a lifter plate lifting and lowering mechanism, a lower-limit detecting portion, a control unit lowering the lifter plate and opening the accommodating portion in accordance with an operation in a set mode of a plurality of modes when the control unit receives an instruction to open the accommodating portion, wherein the modes includes a first mode in which the accommodating portion is opened irrespective of whether or not the lifter plate lowers to the lower-limit position and a second mode in which the accommodating portion is opened after the lifter plate lowers to the lower-limit position; and an operating portion operable by an operator for changing setting of the mode, between the modes, executed when the control unit receives the instruction to open the accommodating portion.

Abstract: A printer includes a container configured to store a liquid, a transducer configured to humidify air by causing the liquid stored in the container to vibrate, a first change mechanism including at least one of a first valve or a first pump, and configured to change a liquid level of the liquid stored in the container, a first sensor configured to output a first detection signal indicating that the liquid level reaches a first height, a processor, and a memory storing computer-readable instructions that instruct the processor to perform processes. The processes include change processing of controlling the first change mechanism and changing the liquid level, and first maintaining processing of, after the change processing is performed, controlling the first change mechanism and maintaining the liquid level at a maintained position lower than the first height and higher than the bottom surface of the container.

Abstract: A printing device includes an inkjet head, a filter accommodating portion, a filter configured to be accommodated in the filter accommodating portion and extending in a given direction from one end to the other end of the filter to collect mist, and a grip portion provided at least one of the one end or the other end of the filter. The grip portion includes a handle protruding from the filter, a recessed portion recessed inside the filter, or a hole.

Abstract: A liquid supply system includes one or a plurality tubes, a supply mechanism, a first sensor and a processor. The one or plurality tubes is connected to a tank. The tank is provided further upstream than a printer. The one or plurality of supply tubes configured to supply the liquid from the tank toward the printer. The supply mechanism is provided in the one or plurality of tubes, and switches between a supply state and a supply stopped state. The processor determines, based on a signal from the first sensor, whether the server remaining amount is equal to or less than a predetermined remaining amount. When the server remaining amount is equal to or less than the predetermined remaining amount, the processor supplies the liquid from the tank toward the printer via the one or plurality of supply tubes.

Abstract: A liquid supply system includes one or a plurality tubes, a liquid delivery mechanism and a processor. The one or plurality tubes is connected to a tank. The tank is provided further upstream than a printer. Liquid flows through the one or plurality tubes between the tank and the printer. The liquid delivery mechanism is provided in the one or plurality of tubes, and switches between a liquid delivery state and a stopped state. The processor performs supply processing of supplying the liquid from the tank toward the printer via the one or plurality of tubes, by controlling the liquid delivery mechanism to be in the liquid delivery state, and return processing of returning the liquid from the printer toward the tank via the one or plurality of tubes, by controlling the liquid delivery mechanism to be in the liquid delivery state.

Abstract: A liquid supply device supplying a liquid to a printer includes a supply tube and an agitator. The supply tube configures a supply flow path of the liquid to the printer. The supply tube is connected to a tank configured to store the liquid. The tank is provided further upstream than the printer in the supply flow path. The supply tube is configured to supply the liquid from the tank toward the printer. The agitator includes a stirrer and is configured to perform an agitation operation of driving the stirrer and agitating the liquid inside the tank.

Abstract: A liquid supply system includes one or a plurality of tubes, a liquid delivery mechanism, and a processor. The one or plurality of tubes is connected to a tank. The tank is configured to store the liquid and is provided further upstream than the printer. The liquid delivery mechanism is provided in the one or plurality of tubes and configured to switch between a liquid delivery state and a stopped state. The processor performs liquid delivery processing of controlling the liquid delivery mechanism to be in the liquid delivery state and the stopped state based on a remaining amount indicated by a signal from a sensor. The sensor is configured to detect the remaining amount of the liquid inside the tank or inside the printer.

Abstract: This positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries contains: a lithium transition metal composite oxide having secondary particles, each of which is formed of aggregated primary particles; and a surface modification compound which is present on at least the surfaces of the secondary particles, while containing at least one of Ca and Sr. The lithium transition metal composite oxide contains 70% by mole or more of Ni relative to the total number of moles of the metal elements excluding Li; and the total amount of Ca and Sr in the surface modification compound is 0.5% by mole or less relative to the total number of moles of the metal elements excluding Li in the lithium transition metal composite oxide.

Abstract: An apparatus including: a forming unit configured to form a measurement image on a sheet; a fixing unit configured to fix the measurement image; a measurement unit provided downstream of the fixing unit in a sheet conveyance direction and configured to measure a color of the fixed measurement image; a detector configured to detect whether a cooling device having a cooling function valid is connected between the fixing unit and the measurement unit; and a controller configured to determine, in a case in which the color of the measurement image is measured, a time to be taken after the sheet has passed through the fixing unit until the measurement unit starts measuring the color of the measurement image based on a result of the detector, and to control sheet conveyance based on the determined time.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a first feeding portion configured to feed a recording sheet, an image forming portion, a sheet conveyance path, a second feeding portion configured to feed an inserting sheet from any of a plurality of supporting portions including a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion, a detection portion, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute, during execution of a process of feeding a first inserting sheet from the first supporting portion to the sheet conveyance path, a movement processing of moving a second inserting sheet supported on the second supporting portion to a position where a trailing edge of the second inserting sheet is placed downstream in a sheet conveyance direction of a detection position of the detection portion and thereafter stopping the second inserting sheet.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is configured to execute a print job for printing on a sheet supplied from a sheet supplying mechanism formed of a first sheet feeding apparatus configured to temporarily stop conveyance of the sheet within a conveyance path thereof or a second sheet feeding apparatus configured not to temporarily stop conveyance of the sheet within a conveyance path thereof. The image forming apparatus includes an image former configured to form an image on the sheet; an obtaining device configured to obtain apparatus information representing a type of an apparatus forming the sheet supplying mechanism; and a controller configured to determine, based on the apparatus information and the sheet supplying mechanism instructed to feed the sheet by the print job, timings to send, to the sheet supplying mechanism, a feed request for starting to feed the sheet and a delivery request for instructing to deliver the sheet.

Abstract: This positive electrode active substance for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery contains: a lithium-containing transition metal oxide having secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles; and at least a tungsten compound and a boron compound that are present between primary particles. The present invention is characterized in that: the amount of tungsten element eluted when the positive electrode active substance is washed for 5 minutes with a 0.01 mol/L aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide is 60% or less of the amount of tungsten element detected when the positive electrode active substance is dissolved in a mixed acid containing hydrofluoric acid, nitric acid and hydrochloric acid; and the amount of boron element eluted when the positive electrode active substance is washed for 1 minute with ion exchanged water is 80% or more of the amount of boron element detected when the positive electrode active substance is dissolved in hydrochloric acid.

Abstract: A tire has a tread surface, the tread surface including a circumferential groove extending in a tire circumferential direction, a lug groove extending in a direction intersecting the circumferential groove, and a plurality of land parts partitioned by the circumferential groove and the lug groove. A width-direction groove extending in a tire widthwise direction is formed on a land part of the plurality of land parts. An in-groove sipe is arranged along one side edge of a groove bottom of the width-direction groove.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet being conveyed on a horizontal path and a double feed sensor configured to execute double feed detection processing of detecting a state in which a plurality of sheets being conveyed on the horizontal path are conveyed in a duplicate manner. The image forming apparatus includes a double feed detection function table, in which whether to enable or disable the double feed detection processing is set according to a type of a sheet. The image forming apparatus determines whether to execute the double feed detection processing at a time of image formation in accordance with sheet setting information including information on a characteristic of a sheet to be used for the image formation and setting information on whether to execute the double feed detection processing, and the double feed detection function table.

Abstract: A printing device includes a housing, a head arranged inside the housing and configured to eject a liquid, a fan arranged inside the housing, a humidifier configured to supply humidified air to a supply port arranged at an exhaust port side of the fan, and a filter arranged at a fan side of the supply port.

Abstract: A printing device includes an inkjet head, a filter accommodating portion, a filter configured to be accommodated in the filter accommodating portion and extending in a given direction from one end to the other end of the filter to collect mist, and a grip portion provided at least one of the one end or the other end of the filter. The grip portion includes a handle protruding from the filter, a recessed portion recessed inside the filter, or a hole.

Abstract: A positive electrode active material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries includes: secondary particles composed of aggregated primary particles of a lithium composite oxide containing Ni: a rare earth compound attached to the surfaces of the secondary particles; a tungsten compound attached to the surfaces of the secondary particles: and lithium carbonate attached to the surfaces of the primary particles inside the secondary particles. The rate of Ni in the lithium composite oxide containing Ni with respect to the total number of moles of metal elements other than lithium in the lithium composite oxide containing Ni is 80 percent by mole or more, and the content of the lithium carbonate with respect to the total mass of the lithium composite oxide containing Ni is 0.3 percent by mass or more.

Abstract: Positive electrode active material contains: a lithium transition metal oxide that has a layered structure and contains Ni, Nb and a metal element other than Nb having a valence of at least four, also Co as an optional element; and external additive particles that contain at least one element selected from among W, B and Al and are adhered to the particle surface of the lithium transition metal oxide. The percentage of Ni, Nb and Co with respect to the total quantity of metal elements excluding Li in the lithium transition metal oxide satisfy the following ranges: 90 mol. %?Ni<100 mol. %, 0 mol. %<Nb?3 mol. %, and Co?2 mol. %. The percentages of W, B and Al in the external additive particles with respect to the total quantity of the lithium transition metal oxide fall within the range of 0.01 mol. % to 0.3 mol. %.

Abstract: A method for producing a positive electrode active substance for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is characterized by including: a washing step for washing a lithium-containing transition metal oxide with water and then dehydrating the same so as to obtain a cake-like composition; a tungsten addition step for adding at least a tungsten compound or a tungsten-containing solution to the cake-like composition so as to obtain a tungsten-added product; a first heat treatment step for heat treating the tungsten-added product at a temperature of 180° C. or lower; and a second heat treatment step for heat treating the tungsten-added product in an atmosphere other than a reducing atmosphere at a temperature of higher than 180° C. to 330° C. This method is further characterized by including a boron addition step for adding a boron compound or a boron-containing solution to the cake-like composition.