Abstract: A belt unit of an electrophotographic printing apparatus, includes: two rollers for supporting a belt so as to be substantially in parallel with each other; two frames for supporting the rollers and attached to opposite ends of one of the rollers respectively so as to be perpendicular to the rollers; two support members attached to opposite ends of the other roller so as to be perpendicular to the rollers; two elastic members interposed between the two support members and the two frames respectively; and a belt mounting guide provided between the two frames. The belt mounting guide includes a rotating shaft disposed in parallel with the rollers, and an edge portion inclined relative to an axial direction of the rotating shaft.

Abstract: A chromatic dispersion compensating apparatus, including a chromatic dispersion compensating module having a spectral unit receiving an input light and generating an output light having a predetermined wavelength, a light returning unit designed for the predetermined wavelength to return the output light to the spectral unit, and a position changing unit changing a relative position between the spectral unit and the light returning unit; a storing unit storing predetermined position controlling amounts of the position changing unit, the position controlling amounts being used to generate a chromatic dispersion value for a certain wavelength; and a position controlling unit operating the position changing unit based on one of the position controlling amounts in the storing unit corresponding to the predetermined wavelength of the output light and the chromatic dispersion value.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus employs a dimethylsilicone oil as a base oil. Two kinds of the oils including amino group as a functional group are mixed to use as a lubricant, thereby enabling the surface of a heating roller to exhibit the most excellent releasing property with respect to a toner as well as realize low running cost.

Abstract: A light source generates a continuous wave light. A data signal source generates a data signal. A pilot signal is multiplexed on the data signal. The frequency of the pilot signal is much lower than that of the data signal. An LN modulator modulates the continuous wave light using the data signal on which the pilot signal is multiplexed. A data detection unit monitors whether a frequency component two times as high as the frequency of the pilot signal is contained in the output light from the LN modulator. Unless the frequency component two times as high as the frequency of the pilot signal is contained, it is determined that the data signal has stopped or disappeared, and outputs an alarm.

Abstract: A film loader for the image forming apparatus has a film formed endlessly and a film frame for holding the film, wherein a guide member for attaching or detaching the film with respect to the film loading portion of the film frame is formed by a packaging member for use in transporting and storing the film.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus characterized by the minimum image deterioration. The surface of a feed roller immediately after a fixing unit is covered with a mold release member to improve the mold release property of molten toner, and cooling means for forcible cooling of a web and a feed roller to improve the coagulation of molten toner, whereby high temperature offset is avoided. Further, a heat insulating member is arranged inside the mold release member of the feed roller, thereby increasing the thermal time constant, ensuring a quick cooling cycle and reducing the thermal expansion of the feed roller.

Abstract: There is provided a PLO device which performs high-accuracy, high-quality clock recovery. A shifted data generation part generates shifted data, and a first phase comparison part outputs first difference data. A first filter removes an alternating-current component from the first difference data and outputs a first detection voltage. A delay part delays input data for a time corresponding to half of one time slot with the use of an analog delay element and outputs delayed data. A second phase comparison part compares the phases of the input data and delayed data with each other and outputs second difference data. A second filter removes an alternating-current component from the second difference data and outputs a second detection voltage. An arithmetic section divides the first detection voltage by the second detection voltage to obtain a control voltage. A clock oscillation section outputs recovered clock based on the control voltage.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polarized wave scrambler and an optical signal transmission apparatus in which polarization mode dispersion, which causes degradation of a transmitted waveform, is suppressed, and which can be easily manufactured and are low-cost and stable.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an endless belt which serves as an image carrier is characterized by reduced image misregistration and reduced machining cost. When the endless belt feed path is divided into a path from a drive roller to a tension roller, and a path from the tension roller to the drive roller, the eccentricity of an idle roller located on the path on the side including a latent image forming point is set to a value smaller than that of an idle roller located on the path not including the image forming point.

Abstract: A printer has a web handling unit that includes a web conditioning device for providing fixed control of the moisture within the web being fed, a skew correction device for adjusting the traveling position of the web which has passed through the web conditioning device, and a tension assigning device for assigning fixed tension to the web. The printer also includes an image forming device that forms an image on the web transported from the web handling unit.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device including a plurality of optical senders for generating a plurality of optical signals to which forward error correction is applied, a scrambler for polarization scrambling each of the optical signals output from the optical senders, and an optical multiplexer for wavelength division multiplexing the optical signals to obtain WDM signal light. A scrambling frequency in the scrambler is set higher than a natural frequency in the forward error correction. Accordingly, high-quality transmission is allowed without interchannel crosstalk in WDM transmission.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising an endless belt as an image carrier characterized by reduced image misregistration and reduced machining cost. When the above stated endless belt feed path is divided into a path from a drive roller to a tension roller, and a path from the tension roller to the drive roller, the eccentricity of the idle roller located on the path on the side including a latent image forming point is set to a value smaller than that of the idle roller located on the path not including the image forming point.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprising imaging units arranged alternately on both sides of continuous paper characterized by minimized image misregistration and reduced processing cost. In order to prevent possible color misregistration caused by changes in paper feed path length resulting from the eccentricity of each drive roller, the difference of eccentric phases of rollers on the front and back surfaces is controlled, thereby minimizing the difference of changes in paper feed path length.

Abstract: An image production apparatus includes at least one image production unit having a latent image forming device for forming a latent image on an image carrying member and a developing device for attaching toner to the latent image formed by the latent image forming device. A toner image formed by the image production unit is transferred to a transfer medium to produce an image. The image production apparatus further includes a periodicity giving device for giving periodicity to movement in a main scanning direction of the image carrying member or transfer medium. According to this periodicity, the movement time from an image forming position to a transfer position, or the movement time of a transfer medium between adjacent transfer positions is set equal to an integral multiple of the period.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, attachment/detachment guide pins (10 and 11) are disposed on a side face of a belt cartridge (12). Attachment/detachment guide grooves (30, 31, and 32) which guide the attachment/detachment guide pins (10 and 11) are disposed in a frame (29) of a main unit of an image forming apparatus. A belt tension applying mechanism including a tension link (13) and a spring (15) is disposed on the side of the apparatus main unit. When the belt cartridge (12) is to be attached to the apparatus main unit, the cartridge is attached along the attachment/detachment guide grooves (30, 31, and 32), so that the rotation shaft of a tension roller (4) is easily and surely engaged with the belt tension applying mechanism (13 and 15).

Abstract: An image production apparatus includes at least one image production unit having a latent image forming device for forming a latent image on an image carrying member and a developing device for attaching toner to the latent image formed by the latent image forming device. A toner image formed by the image production unit is transferred to a transfer medium to produce an image. The image production apparatus further includes a periodicity giving device for giving periodicity to movement in a main scanning direction of the image carrying member. An amplitude of the period given by the periodicity giving device is larger than a variation amount in the main scanning direction for determining reversal of the movement in the main scanning direction of the image carrying member.

Abstract: A printer characterized in that it has a web handling unit comprising a web conditioning means (4) for providing fixed control of the moisture within the web being fed, a skew correction means (10) for adjusting the traveling position of the web which has been passed through the web conditioning means, and a tension assigning means (8) for assigning fixed tension to the web, and an image forming means (12) that forms an image on the web sent from the web handling unit.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, attachment/detachment guide pins 10 and 11 are disposed on a side face of a belt cartridge 12. Attachment/detachment guide grooves 30, 31, and 32 which guide the attachment/detachment guide pins 10 and 11 are disposed in a frame 29 of a main unit of an image forming apparatus. A belt tension applying mechanism including a tension link 13 and a spring 15 is disposed on the side of the apparatus main unit. When the belt cartridge 12 is to be attached to the apparatus main unit, the cartridge is attached along the attachment/detachment guide grooves 30, 31, and 32, so that the rotation shaft of a tension roller 4 is easily and surely engaged with the belt tension applying mechanism 13 and 15.

Abstract: In a printing system including first image forming means (A) for forming a first image on a recording medium (7) based on first image information, fixing means (13, 14 and 15) for subjecting the recording medium bearing the first image thereon to at least heating operation so as to fix the first image onto the recording medium, and second image forming means (B) for forming a second image on the recording medium, which has passed through the fixing means, based on second image information, there is provided correcting means for correcting the second image information based on a quantity of heat shrinkage of the recording medium generated by the heating operation in the fixing means.

Abstract: In a WDM optical communication system, at least one optical tunable filter is placed along an optical fiber provided as an optical transmission path between a transmitting station and a receiving station. The optical tunable filter has a controllable transmission factor versus wavelength characteristic. In the receiving station, the transmission characteristics (for example, optical signal to noise ratios and Q factors) for optical signals of different wavelengths propagated over the optical fiber are measured. The measurements are sent to the transmitting station. The transmitting station then properly controls both the amounts of pre-emphasis in the transmitting station and the wavelength characteristic of the optical filter on the basis of the measurements to thereby equalize the transmission characteristics for the optical signals.