Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming portions and a belt. The first and second image forming portions include first and second image bearing members, and first and second transferring members, respectively. The belt nips and feeds a recording material. The first image forming portion is disposed upstream of the second image forming portion in a moving direction of the recording material, and a plurality of members including the first and second image bearing members are integrally assembled and are mountable on or dismountable from a main assembly of the image forming apparatus. A film thickness of a surface of the first image bearing member is larger than a film thickness of a surface of the second image bearing member, circumferential speed ratios or contact pressures of rotating components differ, and/or mass ratios of components of respective developers differ.

Abstract: A communication device includes a first communication circuit configured to receive, from a user terminal, a notification signal including at least identification information and request information representing a transmission request to provide transmission data including at least biomedical information, a second communication circuit configured to receive the transmission data from the user terminal, and a controller.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming portions and a belt. The first and second image forming portions include first and second image bearing members, and first and second transferring members, respectively. The belt nips and feeds a recording material between itself and the first image bearing member and between itself and the second image bearing member in a first transferring portion and a second transferring portion, respectively. The first image forming portion is disposed upstream of the second image forming portion in a moving direction of the recording material, and a plurality of members including the first and second image bearing members are integrally assembled and are mountable on or dismountable from a main assembly of the image forming apparatus. A film thickness of a surface of the first image bearing member is larger than a film thickness of a surface of the second image bearing member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus to which a cartridge including a developer accommodating portion for accommodating a developer is detachably mountable includes an image bearing member, an exposure unit for exposing the image bearing member to light to form an electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member, a light receiving portion provided in the cartridge and for receiving the light emitted from the exposure unit, and a detecting portion for detecting vibration of the cartridge from a light reception value of the light received by the light receiving portion.

Abstract: A communication device includes a first communication circuit configured to receive, from a user terminal, a notification signal including at least identification information and request information representing a transmission request to provide transmission data including at least biomedical information, a second communication circuit configured to receive the transmission data from the user terminal, and a controller.

Abstract: A process cartridge includes a seal member contacting an image bearing member upstream in the rotation direction of the image bearing member from a cleaning member and allowing the developer to move from upstream in the rotation direction from the contact part between the seal member and the image bearing to downstream from the contact part while regulating movement from downstream to upstream from the contact part. The developer has surface protrusions containing an organic silicon polymer, wherein either (i) the work function of the seal member is greater than the work function of the developer when the developer has a negative charging polarity and is smaller than the work function of the developer when the developer has a positive charging polarity, or (ii) the absolute value of the difference between the work function of the seal member and the work function of the developer is within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted gateway apparatus according to an embodiment includes a communication device including an external communication interface for connection to the network outside the mobile body with each of a plurality of different external communication schemes and an internal communication interface for connection to each of the plurality of data sources within the mobile body; and a control device configured to transmit data collected from each of the data sources through the internal communication interface to the network outside the mobile body. The control device includes a communication channel selection section configured to select a communication channel from the plurality of external communication schemes for each of the data sources, and a monitoring control section configured to monitor data output from each of the data sources and to transmit the data to the network outside the mobile body over a selected one of the communication channels associated with the data source.

Abstract: A process cartridge includes a seal member contacting an image bearing member upstream in the rotation direction of the image bearing member from a cleaning member and allowing the developer to move from upstream in the rotation direction from the contact part between the seal member and the image bearing to downstream from the contact part while regulating movement from downstream to upstream from the contact part. The developer has surface protrusions containing an organic silicon polymer, wherein either (i) the work function of the seal member is greater than the work function of the developer when the developer has a negative charging polarity and is smaller than the work function of the developer when the developer has a positive charging polarity, or (ii) the absolute value of the difference between the work function of the seal member and the work function of the developer is within a predetermined range.

Abstract: A cleaning unit includes a housing having an opening portion, a cleaning member configured to remove developer from the image bearing member, a conveying member configured such that the developer removed by the cleaning member is conveyed from the opening portion side to a deep side of the housing, and a driving unit connected to the conveying member and configured to cause the conveying member to reciprocate such that maximum acceleration of movement of the conveying member in a direction from the opening portion side to the deep side is smaller than that in a direction from the deep side to the opening portion side. The conveying member includes a separation portion that separates the developer and a foreign substance from each other.

Abstract: A vehicle-mounted gateway apparatus according to an embodiment includes a communication device including an external communication interface for connection to the network outside the mobile body with each of a plurality of different external communication schemes and an internal communication interface for connection to each of the plurality of data sources within the mobile body; and a control device configured to transmit data collected from each of the data sources through the internal communication interface to the network outside the mobile body. The control device includes a communication channel selection section configured to select a communication channel from the plurality of external communication schemes for each of the data sources, and a monitoring control section configured to monitor data output from each of the data sources and to transmit the data to the network outside the mobile body over a selected one of the communication channels associated with the data source.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an activity tracker includes an acceleration sensor capable of detecting accelerations in directions of two or more axes orthogonal to each other, an arm motion determination unit configured to determine on the basis of an output from the acceleration sensor whether there is a predetermined motion within a predetermined time period, when operation of an operation button is detected, and a transmission processing unit configured to cause a lamp to glow and wirelessly transmit a piece of corresponding information corresponding to the predetermined motion and a piece of time information at a time of detecting that there is the predetermined motion, when it is determined by the arm motion determination unit that there is the predetermined motion.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a communication system includes a terminal apparatus and a gateway device. The terminal apparatus intermittently transmits an advertising packet through short-range wireless communication in a broadcast manner, and holds untransmitted data. The gateway device, upon receiving the advertising packet, determines whether the terminal apparatus includes the untransmitted data or not, and when the untransmitted data is included, acquires the untransmitted data from the terminal apparatus for transfer to a server, and transmits to the terminal apparatus a transfer completion record indicating receipt of the untransmitted data by the server.

Abstract: A location information transmission apparatus includes a location information measuring unit configured to receive a radio wave from outside to acquire location data, a storage unit configured to store the location data, a location information transmitting unit configured to transmit the location data stored in the storage unit to the outside, a movement detecting unit configured to detect an amount of movement, and a transmission control unit configured to, in a case where the movement detecting unit detects an amount of movement equal to or greater than a predetermined amount, cause the location data to be transmitted from the location information transmitting unit to the outside.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a pedometer includes an acceleration detecting circuit configured to detect acceleration from an output of an acceleration sensor and output an acceleration signal, a band-pass filter configured to remove, from the acceleration signal, a frequency component generated by arm swinging during walking and included in the acceleration signal, and a step counter configured to count a number of steps based on the acceleration signal outputted from the band-pass filter.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a server detects temperature increase in basal body temperature measured later relative to basal body temperature measured earlier between chronologically adjacent pieces of basal body temperature data, among basal body temperature data between a menstruation starting day and a next menstruation starting day; and estimates an ovulation day on the basis of the detected temperature increase.

Abstract: A location information transmission apparatus includes a location information measuring unit configured to receive a radio wave from outside to acquire location data, a storage unit configured to store the location data, a location information transmitting unit configured to transmit the location data stored in the storage unit to the outside, a movement detecting unit configured to detect an amount of movement, and a transmission control unit configured to, in a case where the movement detecting unit detects an amount of movement equal to or greater than a predetermined amount, cause the location data to be transmitted from the location information transmitting unit to the outside.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic thermometer includes a temperature sensing unit, a conversion unit, an FSK modulation unit, and a transmission unit. The temperature sensing unit detects the temperature of a subject. The conversion unit converts a result detected by the temperature sensing unit to a digital signal. The FSK modulation unit converts the digital signal from the conversion unit to an FSK modulation signal. The transmission unit outputs a transmission signal including a pilot signal having a frequency assigned to the FSK (frequency shift keying) modulation signal and the FSK modulation signal subsequent to the pilot signal.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer bearing member that bears a developer on its surface to supply the developer to an image bearing member having a first dielectric portion and a second dielectric portion in its surface, a regulating member that regulates a thickness of a layer of the developer carried by the developer bearing member, and a flexible sheet-like charging auxiliary member disposed so as to be in contact with the developer bearing member at a position downstream of a contact portion between the developer bearing member and the image bearing member and upstream of a contact portion between the developer bearing member and the regulating member in a rotational direction of the developer bearing member, where the charging auxiliary member charges the developer carried by the developer bearing member. In a triboelectric series, the charging auxiliary member is positioned between the first and second dielectric portions.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, a server detects temperature increase in basal body temperature measured later relative to basal body temperature measured earlier between chronologically adjacent pieces of basal body temperature data, among basal body temperature data between a menstruation starting day and a next menstruation starting day; and estimates an ovulation day on the basis of the detected temperature increase.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an activity tracker includes an acceleration sensor capable of detecting accelerations in directions of two or more axes orthogonal to each other, an arm motion determination unit configured to determine on the basis of an output from the acceleration sensor whether there is a predetermined motion within a predetermined time period, when operation of an operation button is detected, and a transmission processing unit configured to cause a lamp to glow and wirelessly transmit a piece of corresponding information corresponding to the predetermined motion and a piece of time information at a time of detecting that there is the predetermined motion, when it is determined by the arm motion determination unit that there is the predetermined motion.