Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller to control a driving device such that a rotational speed of a supplying and feeding screw when it is rotated a predetermined number of times to supply developer to a developing device in a predetermined amount during execution of a continuous image forming job on a plurality of first recording materials is a first rotational speed, and a rotational speed of the supplying and feeding screw when it is rotated the predetermined number of times to supply the developer in the predetermined amount during execution of a continuous image forming job on a plurality of second recording materials is a second rotational speed slower than the first rotational speed. The second recording materials have a length longer than the first recording materials with respect to a sub-scan direction.

Abstract: A plasma source is provided. The plasma source includes a chamber body inside which plasma is generated, a first mirror magnet, a second mirror magnet, and a cusp magnet provided around the chamber body and spaced apart in a axial direction thereof, each comprising permanent magnets radially spaced apart from each other to form spaces between adjacent permanent magnets thereof; and a cooling medium flow passage provided in the spaces that passes a cooling medium for cooling the chamber body.

Abstract: A plasma source is provided. The plasma source includes a chamber body, a supply passage, a vacuum connector, an antenna, a first insulator, a second insulator, and a conductor. The chamber body has an opening for emitting ions or electrons. The supply passage penetrates through a first peripheral wall of the chamber body. The vacuum connector is provided in a second peripheral wall of the chamber body at a position opposed to the opening. The antenna has a base end connected to the vacuum connector, and extends inside the chamber body toward the opening. The first insulator covers a first region of the antenna at a distal end of the antenna inside the chamber body. The second insulator covers a second region of the antenna at the base end of the antenna inside the chamber body. The conductor covers the second insulator.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a developing device including a developer container, a feeding member, and a developer carrying member; a toner supplying portion including a feeding screw, and a controller; and a supply rotation number determining portion. The controller controls the driving portion so that the feeding screw is rotated at a first rotational speed when the supply rotation number determining portion determines a number of times of the rotation at a first integer of times of rotation and so that the feeding screw is rotated at a second rotational speed slower than the first rotational speed when the supply rotation number determining portion determines the number of times of the rotation at a second integer of times of rotation smaller than the first integer of times of rotation.

Abstract: A plasma source is provided. The plasma source includes a chamber body, a supply passage, a vacuum connector, an antenna, a first insulator, a second insulator, and a conductor. The chamber body has an opening for emitting ions or electrons. The supply passage penetrates through a first peripheral wall of the chamber body. The vacuum connector is provided in a second peripheral wall of the chamber body at a position opposed to the opening. The antenna has a base end connected to the vacuum connector, and extends inside the chamber body toward the opening. The first insulator covers a first region of the antenna at a distal end of the antenna inside the chamber body. The second insulator covers a second region of the antenna at the base end of the antenna inside the chamber body. The conductor covers the second insulator.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that storing a game program configured to provide a user with a puzzle game, the game program causing a computer to execute: displaying the puzzle so that each partial image is movable in a predetermined direction according to a touch operation detected by a predetermined input surface; arranging the partial images according to the touch operation at predetermined positions to recognizably reconstruct a complete image; and retrieving, when the reconstructing is achieved, a game content that is usable in a different game or change information to change information set in a predetermined game content in the different game, as a reward that is given to the user for progress of the different game and is associated with the complete image; wherein the game content retrieved is usable only in another puzzle game different from the puzzle game.

Abstract: A plasma source is provided. The plasma source includes a chamber body inside which plasma is generated, a first mirror magnet, a second mirror magnet, and a cusp magnet provided around the chamber body and spaced apart in a axial direction thereof, each comprising permanent magnets radially spaced apart from each other to form spaces between adjacent permanent magnets thereof; and a cooling medium flow passage provided in the spaces that passes a cooling medium for cooling the chamber body.

Abstract: A game program causes a mobile terminal or a server to execute displaying a slide puzzle so that a partial image is movable in a predetermined direction according to a touch operation detected by a predetermined input surface, and retrieving, when a purpose of a game is achieved, a character or an item that is usable in a different game or change information to change information set in a predetermined character or item in the different game, as a reward that is given to a user for progress of the different game and is associated with the image.

Abstract: A continuous body folding device includes a conveying part having a moving surface that moves while suctioning and holding a first region of a continuous body, the conveying part conveying the continuous body in the longitudinal direction thereof; a first folding reference part in which a first endless belt, which moves in a first circulatory pathway along a first virtual plane including the moving surface, moves along a first reference segment adjacent to a virtual line of the continuous body in the same direction at the same speed as the moving surface; and first guiding members that are disposed along the first reference segment, contact a second region of the continuous body, and fold the continuous body along the virtual line and move the second region toward the first region so that the angle formed by the first and second regions becomes smaller as the continuous body is conveyed downstream.

Abstract: An ion beam irradiation apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an ion source, a mass separator, and an energy filter. The mass separator sorts dopant ions having a specific mass number and valence from an ion beam extracted from the ion source, and outputs the dopant ions. The energy filter is formed to define a beam passing region for allowing the ion beam to pass therethrough, and configured to have a given filter potential in response to application of a voltage thereto to separate passable ions capable of passing through the beam passing region and non-passable ions incapable of passing through the beam passing region, from each other by a difference in ion energy. The given filter potential is set such that the dopant ions are included in the passable ions, and a portion of unwanted ions which cannot be separated from the dopant ions by the mass separator are included in the non-passable ions.

Abstract: Provided is an exposure-preventing cap of a novel and simple structure that, by being mounted on a vial, can more reliably inhibit leaking of drug solution to an outside when pulling out and collecting drug solution in a syringe from the vial. An exposure-preventing cap, which is mounted on a mouth of a vial sealed with a rubber stopper, wherein a puncturing hole is formed in a center part of a cap-shaped housing that is attached to a mouth of the vial, and a rubber membrane is arranged at the puncturing hole so as to form an internal space between facing surfaces of the rubber membrane and the rubber stopper. The rubber membrane has a dome shape that is convex facing the rubber stopper.

Abstract: An ion beam irradiation apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an ion source, a mass separator, and an energy filter. The mass separator sorts dopant ions having a specific mass number and valence from an ion beam extracted from the ion source, and outputs the dopant ions. The energy filter is formed to define a beam passing region for allowing the ion beam to pass therethrough, and configured to have a given filter potential in response to application of a voltage thereto to separate passable ions capable of passing through the beam passing region and non-passable ions incapable of passing through the beam passing region, from each other by a difference in ion energy. The given filter potential is set such that the dopant ions are included in the passable ions, and a portion of unwanted ions which cannot be separated from the dopant ions by the mass separator are included in the non-passable ions.

Abstract: An illuminating device includes a connecting portion supplied with power, a conversion circuit that converts power supplied from the connecting portion, a case having a tubular shape, a support body that divides the case in the radial direction, and a plurality of light emitting diodes provided on one surface of the support body. The illuminating device further includes a drive circuit that drives the light emitting diodes, a secondary battery provided on the other surface of the support body, a charge/discharge control circuit for the secondary battery, and a control section that lights the light emitting diodes by supplied power and charges the secondary battery. The control section permits lighting of the light emitting diodes by a discharge of the secondary battery in a state in which power supply is stopped.

Abstract: A particle adhesion preventing member used for an image forming apparatus that forms an image using charged toner, and configured to prevent adhesion of the charged toner, includes a conductive member, and an insulating member that is attached to the conductive member, including a porous member made of an ethylene propylene diene ternary copolymer having a density of 0.01 g/cm3 or more and 0.2 g/cm3 or less or silicon having a density of 0.01 g/cm3 or more and 0.3 g/cm3 or less, and being negatively charged with negatively charged particles adhering onto a surface thereof.

Abstract: A toner image for measurement of an area coverage modulation of 90% or more is formed on a photosensitive drum in a non-image formation, and a setting condition for defining a developability of a toner image in an image formation is set so that a detection result of an optical sensor detecting the toner image for measurement becomes a preset target value. The target value is set to be lower as a value of the setting condition increases from a lower side to a higher side of the developability. The target value is set so that a color difference ?E of an image having half the maximum image density obtained after the setting condition is set with respect to an image having half the maximum image density obtained after the setting condition is set in a setting mode with use of unused developer is 6.5 or less.

Abstract: A recording medium storing a game program processing progress of a game using a game content, the game program executes instructions including receiving, displaying, and determining. During determining, an action of the game content for the progress of the game is determined according to a combination of predetermined symbols displayed during displaying.

Abstract: A game program causes a mobile terminal or a server to execute displaying a slide puzzle so that a partial image is movable in a predetermined direction according to a touch operation detected by a predetermined input surface, and retrieving, when a purpose of a game is achieved, a character or an item that is usable in a different game or change information to change information set in a predetermined character or item in the different game, as a reward that is given to a user for progress of the different game and is associated with the image.

Abstract: Provided is an exposure-preventing cap of a novel and simple structure that, by being mounted on a vial, can more reliably inhibit leaking of drug solution to an outside when pulling out and collecting drug solution in a syringe from the vial. An exposure-preventing cap, which is mounted on a mouth of a vial sealed with a rubber stopper, wherein a puncturing hole is formed in a center part of a cap-shaped housing that is attached to a mouth of the vial, and a rubber membrane is arranged at the puncturing hole so as to form an internal space between facing surfaces of the rubber membrane and the rubber stopper. The rubber membrane has a dome shape that is convex facing the rubber stopper.

Abstract: A plug for a container capable of improving air-tightness and liquid-tightness is provided. A plug includes a first split piece having a cylindrical first fitting portion to be mounted on an opening portion of a container body and fitted to an opening portion space of the opening portion, an end wall which blocks one end of the first fitting portion, and a first flange portion extending outwardly in a radial direction of the first fitting portion from the other end thereof; and a second split piece having a second fitting portion which is fitted to the first fitting portion of the first split piece and forms a closed space between the end wall and the second fitting portion and a second flange portion extending outwardly in a radial direction of the second fitting portion therefrom.