Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus, including: a conveyance device including an endless belt which conveys a recording medium placed on an exterior surface of the endless belt; a recording device which jets ink onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance device; and a cleaning device to clean the surface, including, a flexible sheet member mounted more downstream in a conveyance direction of the belt than a position where the recording device is mounted, and a top of the flexible sheet member comes into slidably contact with the surface, and an elastic supporting member mounted at a side of the flexible sheet member; wherein when the flexible sheet member bends due to running of the belt, the elastic supporting member comes into contact with the flexible sheet member, and the elastic supporting member pushes the flexible sheet member so that the flexible sheet member presses against the surface of the belt.

Abstract: A belt conveying device includes: at least three rollers, about which an endless belt to convey an object, is entrained, including an oscillation roller having a rotation shaft, whose one end is fixed and another end is oscillatably supported; a belt detection sensor provided adjacent to a side edge of the belt, which detects presence of the belt; and a belt skew controller which controls the oscillator to oscillate the oscillation roller according to a preset control value in a predetermined range to correct skew. The oscillator moves a rotation center of a movable edge of the oscillation roller along a tangential line of an ellipse having elliptical focuses corresponding to rotation centers of rotation shafts of the two rollers, other than the oscillation roller, positioned respectively in upstream and downstream of and adjacent to the oscillation roller in a belt conveyance direction.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus, including: a conveyance device including an endless belt which conveys a recording medium placed on an exterior surface of the endless belt; a recording device which jets ink onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance device; and a cleaning device to clean the surface, including, a flexible sheet member mounted more downstream in a conveyance direction of the belt than a position where the recording device is mounted, and a top of the flexible sheet member comes into slidably contact with the surface, and an elastic supporting member mounted at a side of the flexible sheet member; wherein when the flexible sheet member bends due to running of the belt, the elastic supporting member comes into contact with the flexible sheet member, and the elastic supporting member pushes the flexible sheet member so that the flexible sheet member presses against the surface of the belt.

Abstract: A belt conveying device includes: at least three rollers, about which an endless belt to convey an object, is entrained, including an oscillation roller having a rotation shaft, whose one end is fixed and another end is oscillatably supported; a belt detection sensor provided adjacent to a side edge of the belt, which detects presence of the belt; and a belt skew controller which controls the oscillator to oscillate the oscillation roller according to a preset control value in a predetermined range to correct skew. The oscillator moves a rotation center of a movable edge of the oscillation roller along a tangential line of an ellipse having elliptical focuses corresponding to rotation centers of rotation shafts of the two rollers, other than the oscillation roller, positioned respectively in upstream and downstream of and adjacent to the oscillation roller in a belt conveyance direction.

Abstract: The invention concerns an image-capturing apparatus and an imager. The image-capturing apparatus includes the imager in which a plurality of circuit cells are two-dimensionally aligned, and an electronic charge, photo-electronically converted from a received light and stored in each circuit cell, can be discharged from an arbitral circuit cell. The imager includes first group circuit cells to generate electronic charges corresponding to the pixels of the image including a subject, and second group circuit cells to generate electronic charges corresponding to an amount of light coming from the subject, the electronic charges further being converted to a detected value. In the imager, at least one of two operations of halting a generating-action of the electronic charges in the first group circuit cells and discharging the electronic charges from the first group circuit cells is performed, when the detected value exceeds a threshold value.

Abstract: An image order receipt system including a client terminal for sending digital image signals; and an image order receipt apparatus having a receiving device for receiving said digital image signals, and a processor for applying an image processing unique to a photographing apparatus that has formed said digital image signals to said digital image signals so as to form digital image data.

Abstract: The invention concerns an image-capturing apparatus and an imager. The image-capturing apparatus includes the imager in which a plurality of circuit cells are two-dimensionally aligned, and an electronic charge, photo-electronically converted from a received light and stored in each circuit cell, can be discharged from an arbitral circuit cell. The imager includes first group circuit cells to generate electronic charges corresponding to the pixels of the image including a subject, and second group circuit cells to generate electronic charges corresponding to an amount of light coming from the subject, the electronic charges further being converted to a detected value. In the imager, at least one of two operations of halting a generating-action of the electronic charges in the first group circuit cells and discharging the electronic charges from the first group circuit cells is performed, when the detected value exceeds a threshold value.