Abstract: A sheet treating apparatus is mountable in a space portion of an image forming apparatus including an image-forming portion for forming an image on a sheet and an image-reading portion for reading an image of an original. The image-reading portion is disposed above the image-forming portion. The sheet is delivered in the space portion formed between the image-forming portion and the image-reading portion. The sheet treating apparatus includes a connection path unit to be connected with a sheet delivery path for delivering the sheet from the image-forming portion, which connection path unit is mounted in the space portion from the outside of a side surface of the main body of the image forming apparatus, and a sheet-treating unit for performing a treatment of the sheet transported from the connection path unit, which sheet-treating unit is mounted in the space portion from the front side of the main body of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A recess formed in close contact with a thin-walled portion 3a of a workpiece to store molten metal at a surfaced portion, a jig 4 manufactured from a material with a higher heat-resisting temperature than that of the molten metal and a satisfactorily large heat capacity, a step (A) wherein the jig is installed on the workpiece, a preheating step (B) in which the workpiece and the jig are preheated to a predetermined temperature under the condition that jig 4 is installed, a build up welding step (C) for build up welding the thin-walled portion of the workpiece and forming weld beads at surfaced portion, and a jig-removing step (D) for removing the jig after weld beads solidify completely.

Abstract: A magnetic head includes core blocks having a medium sliding surface formed on one surface of the core blocks, the medium sliding surface having a slender convex curved shape formed along a sliding direction of a recording medium from the upstream side of the sliding direction to the downstream side, and the medium sliding surface having a magnetic gap formed thereon, wherein the medium sliding surface is shaped along a longitudinal direction thereof like a circular arc with a radius of curvature R while being shaped along a width direction like a circular arc with a radius of curvature r, which is smaller than the radius of curvature R, so that the radius of curvature r is continuously reduced with closer distance to the downstream end of the recording medium sliding direction from a vicinity of the magnetic gap, so that by employing the above magnetic head, a long life magnetic head with small damage due to foreign material adhesion as well as small abrasion can be provided.

Abstract: A recess formed in close contact with a thin-walled portion 3a of a workpiece to store molten metal at a surfaced portion, a jig 4 manufactured from a material with a higher heat-resisting temperature than that of the molten metal and a satisfactorily large heat capacity, a step (A) wherein the jig is installed on the workpiece, a preheating step (B) in which the workpiece and the jig are preheated to a predetermined temperature under the condition that jig 4 is installed, a build up welding step (C) for build up welding the thin-walled portion of the workpiece and forming weld beads at surfaced portion, and a jig-removing step (D) for removing the jig after weld beads solidify completely.

Abstract: A sheet processing system comprises a plurality of sheet processing devices, a primary sheet conveyance path, a secondary sheet conveyance path, and a controller which controls the sheet processing devices. The controller uses the primary sheet conveyance path to execute one job, and uses the secondary sheet conveyance path to execute another job in parallel with that one job.

Abstract: In a sheet processing system capable of executing plural jobs in parallel, each job being actuated by one of the sheet processing units or by a combination of plural sheet processing units (printer and a sheet stacking unit, an inserter and a finisher), when a detection sensor detects that a cover is open, a CPU circuit section executes stop control for a job using a horizontal conveying path and pairs of conveying rollers accessible through an opening in the cover and other job not using a portion accessible through the opening in the cover.

Abstract: To provide a sheet processing system having a high productivity that can execute plural jobs in parallel, one job of loading a sheet on which an image is formed in the printer to the sheet stacking device and another job served as bookbinding job of bundling and binding a plurality of special sheets stored in the inserter in the finisher to output are executed in parallel.

Abstract: A sheet-processing system can perform a plurality of jobs in parallel. While process 1 and process 2 are being processed simultaneously, a job display screen is segmented into two such that segmented job display screens for process 1 and process 2 are simultaneously displayed in a touch panel display frame of an operation display. Accordingly, the operation display in the sheet-processing system exhibits good visibility.

Abstract: A magnetic head device includes a slider including a thin-film element for writing and/or reading and a support for supporting the slider, the slider being bonded to a joint surface of the support at least partially with a conductive resin. A method for making the magnetic head device includes the steps of (a) applying the conductive resin at least onto a portion of an insulating layer formed on the joint surface of the support, (b) bonding the slider to the joint surface of the support with the conductive resin, and (c) causing dielectric breakdown in the insulating layer lying under the conductive resin before step (b) at the latest.

Abstract: A data multiplexing apparatus (1) includes: a packet number obtainment unit (109) for obtaining the total number of packets included in one block on a private data packet stream inputted into a channel buffer (101); an address obtainment unit (110) for obtaining the address of the starting packet in each private data block; a null packet detection unit (111) for detecting null packets when a multiplexed packet stream of data other than the private data is outputted from the channel buffer (101); and a packet replacement unit (112) for replacing the multiplexed null packets detected by the null packet detection unit (111) with the private data packets and outputting the multiplexed packet stream.

Abstract: A sheet treating apparatus is mountable in a space portion of an image forming apparatus including an image-forming portion for forming an image on a sheet and an image-reading portion for reading an image of an original. The image-reading portion is disposed above the image-forming portion. The sheet is delivered in the space portion formed between the image-forming portion and the image-reading portion. The sheet treating apparatus includes a connection path unit to be connected with a sheet delivery path for delivering the sheet from the image-forming portion, which connection path unit is mounted in the space portion from the outside of a side surface of the main body of the image forming apparatus, and a sheet-treating unit for performing a treatment of the sheet transported from the connection path unit, which sheet-treating unit is mounted in the space portion from the front side of the main body of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: A magnetic head includes core blocks having a medium sliding surface formed on one surface of the core blocks, the medium sliding surface having a slender convex curved shape formed along a sliding direction of a recording medium from the upstream side of the sliding direction to the downstream side, and the medium sliding surface having a magnetic gap formed thereon, wherein the medium sliding surface is shaped along a longitudinal direction thereof like a circular arc with a radius of curvature R while being shaped along a width direction like a circular arc with a radius of curvature r, which is smaller than the radius of curvature R, so that the radius of curvature r is continuously reduced with closer distance to the downstream end of the recording medium sliding direction from a vicinity of the magnetic gap, so that by employing the above magnetic head, a long life magnetic head with small damage due to foreign material adhesion as well as small abrasion can be provided.

Abstract: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of discharging sheets without involving any change in page order without having to provide a sheet reversing path anew.

Abstract: An auger type ice-making machine of the present invention comprises a tubular freezer casing which has an ice-making cylinder that rotatably accommodates an auger inside, an ice compression head which rotatably supports the upper end of the auger, a housing which rotatably supports the lower end of the auger, and a geared motor which is connected to the lower part of the housing. The geared motor drives the auger rotationally. And the auger type ice-making machine of the present invention further comprises a flange which constitutes an attachment base for the ice discharge tube attached to the upper part of the freezer casing. The flange is fastened to the ice-making cylinder by means of bolts that also fasten the ice compression head to the inside of the ice-making cylinder.

Abstract: A sense of unity is maintained among a plurality of Web sites provided by a plurality of timeout management servers respectively. A timeout management system 10 includes a plurality of timeout management servers 100 and 200 for providing a service to an access side in response to an access via a communication network 400 based on a temporary access right, and also managing a so-called timeout process, and a client 300 holding the access right in parallel with respect to the plurality of timeout management servers 100 and 200, in which the timeout management server 100 is provided with an access occurrence section for, in response to the access with respect to the timeout management server 100 by the client 300, based on the access right of the client 300, causing the access to occur with respect to the other timeout management server 200.

Abstract: A sheet treating apparatus is mountable in a space portion of an image forming apparatus including an image-forming portion for forming an image on a sheet and an image-reading portion for reading an image of an original. The image-reading portion is disposed above the image-forming portion. The sheet is delivered in the space portion formed between the image-forming portion and the image-reading portion. The sheet treating apparatus includes a connection path unit to be connected with a sheet delivery path for delivering the sheet from the image-forming portion, which connection path unit is mounted in the space portion from the outside of a side surface of the main body of the image forming apparatus, and a sheet-treating unit for performing a treatment of the sheet transported from the connection path unit, which sheet-treating unit is mounted in the space portion from the front side of the main body of the image forming apparatus.

Abstract: In a circuit board having lands 2 each of which has a through hole 4 through which a lead of an electrical part is inserted, the lead 3 and the land 2 being mounted in the circuit board by using lead-free solder 6, the width of the land 2 corresponding to the difference in radius between the land 2 and the through hole 4 is set to about 0.40 mm or more. The width of the land 2 is set to such a value that the land exfoliation due to the solidification/shrinkage of the lead-free solder 6 and the shrinkage of the circuit board in the thickness direction can be prevented. The circuit board 1 has circuit wires at least on both the surface and the back surface.

Abstract: Hair can be dyed by applying an oxidizing-agent-free, air-oxidative, one-pack hair dye composition to the hair without mixing the hair dye composition with an oxidizing agent and, after the hair is left over for 5 minutes to 1 hour, rinsing off the hair dye composition with water.

Abstract: The invention intends to reduce a frequency at which defects occur in a welding region during friction stir welding, and to improve the reliability of the welding region. The invention resides in a friction stir welding apparatus wherein a distance to the surfaces of the workpieces is detected by a detector, a change of the detected distance is found by a signal processing device, and a tool is rotated by a rotation driving device in a state where a vertical driving device is controlled by a control device so as to suppress the found change, whereby a plastic fluidity of the workpieces is caused to accomplish joining of the workpieces.

Abstract: A communication device implementing a function of retransmitting to a destination includes an operation unit detecting an input operation, a communication module starting a transmission to a destination specified by the input operation, a storage unit storing one or more pieces of destination specifying information on every destination, a judging module judging whether the communication can be attained upon the transmission, a searching module searching for, if judged to be impossible of the communication, one or more pieces of destination specifying information stored corresponding to the destination from the storage unit, a display unit displaying a list of the searched destination specifying information, a selection module accepting a selection of a desired piece of destination specifying information from the list of the destination specifying information displayed, and a retransmitting module retransmitting based on the selected destination specifying information.