Abstract: A distortion of a table which causes generation of a pseudo contour is removed. For this, there is disclosed a table creation method of creating a table for performing color separation into coloring material colors in an image forming apparatus, comprising the steps of creating a color separation table of a line in which a color reproduction area of the image forming apparatus is maximized, creating a color separation table in an inner line of the color reproduction area of the image forming apparatus, performing an interpolation process based on the created color separation tables, and smoothing the table obtained by the interpolation process to create the table.

Abstract: A housing of a developing apparatus is provided with a conveying member in a developer supplying and recovering portion, and two agitating members rotating in the same direction respectively as viewing rotating shafts from a near side in an axial direction, in a developer agitating portion. A guide is provided in an inner bottom surface of the housing between two agitating members. A braking portion suppressing a discharge of a developer is provided in a downstream side of the developer agitating portion in a developer conveying direction of the first agitating member, and a discharge portion is provided in a downstream side of a disc of the braking portion.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a magnetic head of a disk apparatus includes a recording element, a reproduction element, and a heater configured to thermally expand the elements toward the recording medium side. The recording element and reproduction element are configured in such a manner that when a recording current of an amplitude less than or equal to a predetermined amplitude is applied to the recording element, a distance between the recording element and the recording medium surface becomes greater than a distance between the reproduction element and recording medium surface, and when a recording current of an amplitude exceeding the predetermined amplitude is applied to the recording element, the distance between the recording element and the recording medium surface becomes less than the distance between a surface of the reproduction element and the recording medium surface.

Abstract: A developer storing vessel includes a supplied developer storing portion including: a first supply storing portion which is stored a developer to be supplied to a developer unit; a second supply storing portion which is provided under the first supply storing portion and formed with a horizontal width narrower than that of the first supply storing portion; and a supply outlet from which the developer stored in the second supply storing portion flows out; and a recovered developer storing portion including: a recovery inlet which is disposed above the supply outlet in a direction of gravity, in a position displaced therefrom horizontally and within the horizontal width of the first supply storing portion, and from which recovered developer flows in, and a recovery storing portion which is provided under the recovery inlet and in which the developer flowing from the recovery inlet is stored.

Abstract: A toner cartridge includes: a cartridge main body having an opening; a toner chamber that is provided inside the cartridge main body and contains toner; an open-close member that opens/closes the opening by moving; and a regulation part that regulates movement of the open-close member in an opening/closing direction when the cartridge main body is moved in a direction where it is removed/attached to/from an image forming apparatus, wherein the opening enables movement of the toner between a position inside the toner chamber and a position outside the cartridge main body.

Abstract: A developer storage container includes a container main body, an outflow port, an open/closed member and a turn stop part. The outflow port from which a developer flows out is formed in the container main body storing the developer. The open/closed member is supported to the container main body and, moves relative to the container main body based on a rotation of the container main body. The open/closed member opens and closes the outflow port. The turn stop part is formed on a wall face of the container main body, and has a circular arc shape being concentric with a rotation direction of the container main body. The turn stop part engages with a convex part which is provided in the attachment section and is formed at a different position in response to the image forming apparatus body.

Abstract: A color separation table capable of performing both limitation of a color material applied in printing, and suppression of a false contour by smoothing processing satisfactorily is generated. Specifically, after generating the color separation table, smoothing processing is performed in order to obtain conformability between areas constituting the table. So as not to damage smoothness of lattice point data achieved by this smoothing processing, due to landing amount correction processing, landing amount correction is performed for an object lattice point and lattice points in a 3×3×3 range around it.

Abstract: PMR spacing is measured by writing a pattern on a magnetic storage layer in non-return-to-zero notation, reading the pattern from the magnetic storage layer, analyzing a first harmonic component of the pattern that has a first amplitude, analyzing a second harmonic component of the pattern that has a second amplitude, measuring a ratio between the first and the second amplitudes of the first and second harmonic components, and determining a first spacing based on the ratio. In another embodiment, spacing is measured by analyzing a third harmonic component on the magnetic storage layer that has a third amplitude, measuring a difference in the amplitudes of the second and the third harmonic components while varying the first spacing and taking the ratio of the difference of the two each harmonic components.

Abstract: A powder delivery member includes: a flexible axial core portion; and a powder delivering flexible vane portion formed on an outer periphery of the axial core portion.

Abstract: For each combination of color material signals corresponding to an input image signal, a total color material use amount is calculated. On the other hand, on the basis of a predetermined target color, total color material use amounts are set which vary smoothly in accordance with a variation in the target color. Then, a determination is made as to which one of all the combinations of color material signals determined as described above corresponds to one of the set total color material use amounts which is the same as the total color material use amount corresponding to the input image signal. This combination is outputted to a printer as the optimum combination of color material signals corresponding to the input image signal.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a developing device, a developer container and a hole connection member. The developing device is provided so as to be movable in a direction in which it comes close to and goes away from the image carrier. And, the developing device develops a latent image formed on the surface of the image carrier into a visible image. The hole connection member is supported so as to be movable relative to an inlet of the developing device in the movable direction of the developing device and connects the inlet and an outlet of the developer container.

Abstract: A toner cartridge mounting structure includes a toner cartridge and a developing member. The toner cartridge having a toner accommodating portion for accommodating toner, a toner supplying opening through which the toner in the toner accommodating portion is supplied, and a supplying opening shutter for opening and closing the toner supplying opening. The developing member has a toner receiving opening and a receiving opening shutter for opening and closing the toner receiving opening. The toner supplying opening being higher than the toner receiving opening, and the supplying opening shutter being opened after the receiving opening shutter is opened, by the operation of mounting the toner cartridge in an apparatus body.

Abstract: A dark and light color separation of four fundamental colors into color materials containing light ink is realized at high speeds. A cross patch where a discrete color material amount with regard to two kinds of color materials having a different density is distributed in a cross pattern is printed by an image output device. In addition, there are produced a density characteristics map and a color material amount characteristics map. Accordingly, the cell of the equal color material amount is searched within a range not exceeding a target color material use amount from the color material characteristics map and the cell of the equal density is searched within a range not exceeding a target density from the density characteristics map. As a result, it is possible to determine a combination of a color material amount of each of a dark color material and a light color material.

Abstract: Provided in the present invention is an alkaline protease wherein an amino acid residue at (a) position 65, (b) position 101, (c) position 163, (d) position 170, (e) position 171, (f) position 273, (g) position 320, (h) position 359 or (i) position 387 of SEQ. ID NO:1 or at a position corresponding thereto has been selected from the following amino acid residues: position (a): proline, position (b): asparagine, position (c): histidine, aspartic acid, phenylalanine, lysine, asparagine, serine, isoleucine, leucine, glutamine, threonine and valine, position (d): valine and leucine, position (e): alanine, glutamic acid, glycine and threonine, position (f): isoleucine, glycine and threonine, position (g): phenylalanine, valine, threonine, leucine, isoleucine and glycine, position (h): serine, leucine, valine, isoleucine and glutamine, position (i): alanine, lysine, glutamine, glutamic acid, arginine and histidine.

Abstract: A steam turbine includes a casing, a rotor arranged inside the casing so as to extend in an axial direction of the casing, a rotor disk integrally formed with the rotor, a rotor-side implanting portion formed in the rotor disk, a plurality of moving blades arranged on the rotor disk in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and a moving blade-side implanting portion formed in the moving blade, in which the moving blade-side implanting portions of the moving blades are engaged with the rotor-side implanting portions, respectively. A cooling medium flows through a gap formed at least on a blade portion side of the moving blade among gaps formed between the moving blade-side implanting portions and the rotor-side implanting portions.

Abstract: A magnetoresistance effect element, comprising a nonmagnetic spacer layer, first and second ferromagnetic layers separated by the nonmagnetic spacer layer, the first ferromagnetic layer having a magnetization direction at an angle relative to a magnetization direction of the second ferromagnetic layer at zero applied magnetic field, the magnetization of the first ferromagnetic layer freely rotating in a magnetic field signal, a magnetoresistance effect-improving layer comprising a plurality of metal films and disposed in contact with the first ferromagnetic layer so that the first ferromagnetic layer is disposed between the nonmagnetic spacer layer and the magnetoresistance effect-improving layer, one of the plurality of metal films disposed in contact with the first ferromagnetic layer contains metal element of not solid solution with metal element of the first ferromagnetic layer and a nonmagnetic underlayer or a nonmagnetic protecting layer disposed in contact with the magnetoresistance effect-improving la

Abstract: A developing device has a developer material bearing member, a toner bearing member, and an electric field generator adapted to generate an alternate first and second electric fields between the members. The members are driven to move in directions opposite to each other in the opposing region. The first electric field is an oscillating electric field which as a whole biases the toner particles from the developer material bearing member to the toner bearing member. The amount (M/A1) of the toner particles carried per unit area on the toner bearing member is 4 g/m2 or less. A product (Rd×M/A1) of a ratio Rd (Sd/Sp) of the circumferential velocity Sd of the toner bearing member to the circumferential velocity Sp of the electrostatic latent image bearing member and the amount (M/A1) of the toner particles carried per unit area is 4 g/m2 or more.

Abstract: A developer storing container includes: a first storing member including a first storing portion for storing a supplied developer; a second storing member including a second storing portion for storing a collected developer; and a partition member that connects the first storing portion and the second storing member so as to sandwich the partition member therebetween, and that separates the first and second storing portions from each other.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to control crack propagation, either by predicting shaft dovetail crack propagation with high accuracy, or by determining operation conditions under which the crack does not extend. The crack propagation prediction system includes an operation processing unit, an interface unit, and a memory unit. The operation processing unit includes a stress calculation unit that calculates the mean stress generated in the shaft dovetail, a factor range calculation unit that calculates the stress intensity factor range for the crack in the shaft dovetail, and a crack propagation amount calculation unit that calculates an amount of the shaft dovetail crack propagation for an arbitrary time period, from the obtained mean stress and the stress intensity factor range, an operation pattern, an operation time, and data on the crack.

Abstract: A core, a flexible pad covering the core and a synthetic resinous skin covering the pad are layered each other. A thread is arranged on a surface side of the skin and has portions inserted in grooves of the pad through through-holes of the skin. Stoppers engage a rear side of the skin for stopping the portions of the thread from coming off from the skin. A sewing line is formed along the though-holes.