Abstract: There is provided an yttrium oxide-containing material with excellent mechanical characteristics. The yttrium oxide-containing material becomes strong by adding silicon carbide (SiC) and yttrium fluoride (YF3) to yttrium oxide (Y2O3), and yield, handling, reliability can be improved accordingly when this strengthened yttrium oxide-containing material is applied to components of semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

Abstract: The image fixing apparatus includes a heater having a heat generating resistor on a substrate, a heater holder for holding said heater, and a backup roller for forming a nip portion in cooperation with said heater, wherein said heater holder has, in a direction along a short side of said heater, a contact area facing said resistor forming area and coming into contact with said heater, and non-contact areas provided on both sides of the contact area and not coming into contact with said heater, and the contact area has a width equal to or larger than the resistor forming area. With this configuration, it is possible to provide the image fixing apparatus capable of restraining a stress applied to the heater and an image heating apparatus capable of restraining a rise in temperature of a sheet non-feeding portion.

Abstract: A directory management program, an object display program, a directory management method, and a directory management apparatus organize and catalogue information using a time line as an important factor by imparting a concept of temporal width to the current concept of folders and arranging objects inside a folder along the time line. A computer sets a directory management parameter and a time line parameter for each specific object in the directory. Based on the values of the directory management parameter and time line parameter for a given object, the object is linked to and displayed in a particular cell of a directory matrix defined by the directory management parameter and time line parameter.

Abstract: An image processor for a printer that forms an image on a medium by discharging N types (N is a natural number of 2 or more) of ink having different densities for at least one color system from respective nozzles includes a printing image data generator for generating printing image data based on image data, a printing image data output unit for outputting the printing image data, a nozzle information acquisition unit for acquiring information on the nozzles, and a substitute unit that, when a bad nozzle is found in the nozzle information, substitutes a nozzle, which discharges another type of ink among the N types of ink, for the bad nozzle.

Abstract: The portable image recording apparatus comprises a coding unit which codes an input sound and image data relating to an image, a parameter setting unit which variably sets a frame rate and a bit rate of coding to be executed by the coding unit according to a type of contents of the image; and a recording unit which records the coded data obtained by the coding unit into a small-sized recording medium.

Abstract: A logic circuit for board power-supply evaluation to be incorporated into a logic device loaded on a product board includes a circuit that simulates an operation of the logic device so that utilization rate is variable at an arbitrary frequency by use of a predetermined circuit in all available logic elements of the logic device; a circuit that judges normality/abnormality of an operation of the operation simulation circuit; a utilization control circuit that varies and controls utilization rate of the logic device by controlling execution of an operation of the operation simulation circuit based on a judgement result of the operation judgement circuit and sets a utilization rate when the operation simulation circuit is instructed to stop the operation; and a utilization output circuit that outputs the judgement result of the operation judgement circuit and the utilization rate set by the utilization control circuit to the outside.

Abstract: An internet communication system, which is provided with session managing servers 210 and 220. In the system, each session managing server manages wireless communication apparatuses 110 and 120 and call relay servers 310 and 320. For that reason, the processing load of each session managing server is allowed to be equalized. As a result, the operational efficiency of the system may be enhanced, and quality of services offered to the user of the system may be improved.

Abstract: In an image forming method employing an inkjet technique, when a dot is formed by the use of a normal nozzle and an abnormal nozzle neighboring to the abnormal nozzle, binary data are corrected so as not to form the dot by the use of the abnormal nozzle and the binary data are also corrected so as to form a compensation dot, which has a color different from a color used by the abnormal nozzle, in the vicinity of a dot forming position by the abnormal nozzle. Thereby, the white stripe and the deep-colored stripe generated due to the flight bending phenomenon are almost invisible.

Abstract: The n image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material, includes a heater including a substrate, and plural heat generating resistors formed on the substrate along a longitudinal direction thereof, and plural switching elements connected electrically between a power source and the plural heat generating resistors, wherein the plural heat generating resistors include at least two first heat generating resistors driven by a first switching element and at least a second heat generating resistor driven by a second switching element, and the second heat generating resistor is provided between the at least two first heat generating resistors in a direction of a shorter side of the substrate. In this manner there can be provided an image heating apparatus with a heater of an excellent durability, and a heater adapted for use in such apparatus.

Abstract: An internet protocol (IP) telephone device includes a plurality of IP modules and an IP-module selecting unit that selects an IP module based on a call command received from an opponent telephone terminal device.

Abstract: A dense cordierite based sintered body is provided, containing at least 93% by mass of cordierite among crystal components present in the sintered body. The average particle diameter of the particles constituting the sintered body is 2 ?m or less.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided that prints on a printing medium while a head having nozzles that discharge ink moves relative to the printing medium. The apparatus includes a unit capturing image data to be a target of N-valued processing (N is a natural number of N?2), a unit capturing input/output characteristics information showing the correspondence between input image data (before N-valued processing for every line), and output image data (image data after each piece of the input image data is subjected to N-valued processing), a unit correcting the image data before N-valued processing based on the acquired input/output characteristics information, a unit performing N-valued processing on the corrected image data, a unit converting the N-valued processed image data into printing data, and a unit executing printing based on the printing data.

Abstract: A logic circuit for board power-supply evaluation to be incorporated into a logic device loaded on a product board includes a circuit that simulates an operation of the logic device so that utilization rate is variable at an arbitrary frequency by use of a predetermined circuit in all available logic elements of the logic device; a circuit that judges normality/abnormality of an operation of the operation simulation circuit; a utilization control circuit that varies and controls utilization rate of the logic device by controlling execution of an operation of the operation simulation circuit based on a judgement result of the operation judgement circuit and sets a utilization rate when the operation simulation circuit is instructed to stop the operation; and a utilization output circuit that outputs the judgement result of the operation judgement circuit and the utilization rate set by the utilization control circuit to the outside.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus operating in a double-sided print mode, includes a charger for charging an image carrier, a charge voltage loader for applying a charge voltage to the charger, an image forming device for forming an image on a recording material, and a controller for controlling the charge voltage applied by the charge voltage loader to the charger. When an image is formed on both sides of a plurality of recording materials, the controller changes the charge voltage applied by the charge voltage loader from a first to a second voltage when an image is formed on first and second sides of the recording material in a period in which an image is formed on the recording sheet, and does not change the charge voltage during an interval between a first recording material and a second recording material to the second charge voltage.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus includes an image formation unit for forming a toner image on a recording material to be carried by the recording material; a fixing apparatus having a heat-fixing rotation member and a pressure member with an elastic layer which rotate while pressed against each other, the heat-fixing rotor providing heat for heat-fixing treatment of the toner image formed on the recording material as the recording material is introduced into a press-fit nip portion of the rotors and held and transported between the rotors; and temperature adjusting means for adjusting a temperature of the pressure rotor by heating the pressure rotor at least during non-printing time. Thus, the image forming apparatus can achieve, even when the pressure rotor is heated, the best balance between the fixing performance and service life of the pressure rotor under actual use conditions.

Abstract: The image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material includes a heater having a substrate and first and second heat generating resistors, most of the region of said first heat generating resistor having smaller resistance value per unit length toward an end in the longitudinal direction of said substrate, and most of the region of said second heat generating resistor having larger resistance value per unit length toward the end part; wherein a safety element can control electrical power supply to said first heat generating resistor and electrical power supply to said second heat generating resistor individually, and operates in response to the heat of said heater to cut off electrical power supply to said first and second heat generating resistors; and wherein only said second heat generating resistor in said first and second heat generating resistors has a high resistance part high resistance part corresponding to said safety element in a part in the longitudinal direction thereof;

Abstract: A printing device includes a printing head having nozzles for printing different size dots, a unit storing information representing a printing state of two nozzles printing two adjacent lines, a unit acquiring M value image data (M?3), a unit correcting a pixel value of at least one pixel corresponding to two nozzles directly corresponding to a banding phenomenon caused in the M value image data (M?3) and neighboring pixels based on the printing state information, a unit creating N-value conversion data by converting the pixel value corrected image data into an N value (M>N?2), a unit creating printing data to which dots having sizes corresponding to the pixels are allocated based on the N-value conversion data, and a unit printing by the printing head based on the printing data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a control voltage generation circuit which inputs a primary AC voltage to the primary side of a voltage transformer, generates a control voltage corresponding to a current generated on the secondary side of the voltage transformer in accordance with the primary AC voltage, and controls the primary AC voltage on the basis of the control voltage and a control signal, a current detection circuit which is connected, through a capacitor, to a path which supplies the current generated on the secondary side of the voltage transformer to a charge roller and detects a charge current to charge an image carrier, and a control circuit which determines the control signal on the basis of the relationship between a predetermined control signal (PRICNT) and a current value (Icap) detected by the current detection circuit in accordance with the predetermined control signal and controls the primary AC voltage to be generated by the voltage generation circuit.

Abstract: A printing device includes: a print head having nozzles for printing different size dots; an acquirer acquiring discharge deviation characteristic information of the nozzles; an acquirer acquiring M-level image data (M?3); an identifier identifying pixels relating to discharge deviation based on the discharge deviation characteristic information from the discharge deviation characteristic information acquirer out of respective pixels in the M-level image data; an adjuster adjusting pixel values of the pixels relating to the discharge deviation from the deviated pixel identifier; a generator generating N-level data (M>N?2) for image data in which the pixel value is adjusted; a generator generating the print data to which the dots having sizes corresponding to the respective pixels are allocated based on the N-level data, and a printer using the print head to print based on the print data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a fixing apparatus for nipping a recording material bearing an unfixed toner image on the surface thereof by a nip portion between a fixing member and a pressure member and fixing the unfixed toner image on the surface of the recording material has a first temperature detecting element and a second temperature detecting element for detecting the temperatures of the fixing member and the pressure member, respectively, and electric power supplied to a heating portion for heating the fixing member is controlled in conformity with the detected temperature by the first temperature detecting element. When image forming on a plurality of recording materials is to be continuously effected, the conveyance interval of the recording materials is controlled so as to become short when the detected temperature of the pressure member is high, and to become long when the detected temperature of the pressure member is low.