Abstract: At a step S2, a defect period monitoring unit of a defect processing control unit stands by until the defect period monitoring unit detects the start of a defect period. When the defect period monitoring unit detects the start of a defect period, the processing proceeds to a step S3. At the step S3, defect period processing is performed. When the defect period monitoring unit detects the end of the defect period at a step S4, the processing proceeds to a step S5. At the step S5, post-defect period processing is performed.

Abstract: The motion reduction apparatus improves the safety of operation of a floating body floating on water by reliably reducing motion of the floating body, and has an orthorhombic shaped floating main body (11), a plumb plate supported vertically on one side section of the floating main body by means of stay members (13), and flow sections (15) for flooding with incoming water are provided between the floating main body and the plumb plate in such a way that an upper end section of the plumb plate is at about the same height as the bottom surface of the floating main body.

Abstract: The motion reducing apparatus has an orthorhombic shaped floating main body, a horizontal plumb plate supported horizontally on one side section of the floating main body by stay members, and flow sections for flooding with incoming water are provided between the floating main body and the horizontal plate in such a way that the horizontal plate is at about the same height as the bottom surface of the floating main body.

Abstract: The motion reduction apparatus improves the safety of operation of a floating body floating on water by reliably reducing motion of the floating body, and has an orthorhombic shaped floating main body (11), a plumb plate supported vertically on one side section of the floating main body by means of stay members (13), and flow sections (15) for flooding with incoming water are provided between the floating main body and the plumb plate in such a way that an upper end section of the plumb plate is at about the same height as the bottom surface of the floating main body.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus is disclosed in which, using a photosensitive member and a toner, an unfixed image of the toner is formed on a transfer medium and the unfixed image on the transfer medium is fixed by a heat-and-pressure fixing means. In the image-forming apparatus, a delivery guide member, which guides the delivery of the transfer medium and is placed close to the heat and pressure fixing means, has a value of triboelectric voltage not greater than 500 V as measured by the triboelectric voltage measuring method according to JIS L1094B.

Abstract: At a step S2, a defect period monitoring unit of a defect processing control unit stands by until the defect period monitoring unit detects the start of a defect period. When the defect period monitoring unit detects the start of a defect period, the processing proceeds to a step S3. At the step S3, defect period processing is performed. When the defect period monitoring unit detects the end of the defect period at a step S4, the processing proceeds to a step S5. At the step S5, post-defect period processing is performed.

Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide a fixing apparatus which is configured to easily facilitate to prevent a semi-melted developer on a recording medium from adhering to surfaces of upper rotary bodies and an image forming apparatus which is equipped with the fixing apparatus. This object is accomplished by configuring the fixing apparatus so that a sheet which has been subjected to a fixing treatment receives conveying forces from pinch rollers having rotating axial directions which are on a plane in parallel with a surface of the sheet and inclined at a predetermined angle &thgr; relative to rotating axial directions of a fixing roller and a press roller.

Abstract: This invention relates to a resupplying apparatus detachably attached to an image forming apparatus body which comprise a resupplying passage connecting a sheet material passage on a downstream side of an image forming means in the image forming apparatus body with another sheet material passage on an upstream side of the image forming means. Also, the resupplying apparatus comprises switchback conveying means placed in the resupplying passage for reversing the conveyance direction of the sheet material upon reception of the sheet material from a conveyer in the image forming apparatus body, said switchback conveying means at least partially assembled in the image forming apparatus body; and resupplying means for returning the sheet material to the upstream side of the image forming means through the resupplying passage.