Abstract: A bookbinding apparatus including an adhesive coating section which coats an adhesive onto a spine of a sheet bundle that a plurality of sheets are bundeled, by relatively moving the adhesive coating section and the sheet bundle, adheres a cover sheet onto the spine of the sheet bundle onto which the adhesive has been coated by the adhesive coating section. The adhesive coating section includes: a coating member which coats the adhesive storing in ah adhesive tank onto the spine of the sheet bundle; a scraping member which scrapes the adhesive coated onto the spine of the sheet bundle; and a reservoir which stores the adhesive scraped by the scraping member.

Abstract: In a bookbinding apparatus provided with a coating device having a coating roller to coat an adhesive onto a spine of a sheet bundle by moving relatively the coating roller and the spine in both forward and backward movement while making the coating roller and the sheet bundle to face each other, the coating device includes: a first regulating member provided downstream of the coating roller in the forward movement, which regulates a thickness of a layer of the adhesive coated on the spine of the sheet bundle; and a second regulating member provided downstream of the coating roller in the backward movement, which regulates a thickness of a layer of the adhesive coated on the spine of the sheet bundle.

Abstract: A bookbinding apparatus includes a coating device for moving relatively to a sheet bundle in the longitudinal direction thereof and for coating an adhesive on the spine of the sheet bundle, a driving device for the relative movement of the coating device, and a control device for controlling the driving device, and according to the thickness of a booklet, changes the number of times of coating of the coating device for one booklet, thereby controls the amount of coating of adhesive.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for punching a hole in a paper with a punching unit in a paper post-processing apparatus. The paper is nipped and transported with a transporting roller system arranged downstream of the punching unit in a paper transport direction to make at least a leading edge of the paper pass through an aligning unit. An actuator is activated to end the nipping of the paper by the transporting roller system, and the aligning unit aligns the paper in a width direction thereof that is perpendicular to the paper transport direction. The activation of the actuator is ended to resume the nipping of the paper, and a stopper member is inserted into a paper transport path upstream of a punch of the punching unit. A trailing edge of the paper is then caused to hit the stopper member, and the paper is punched by the punching unit.

Abstract: A UWB flat antenna apparatus is disclosed. The UWB flat antenna apparatus includes an antenna element pattern, a ground pattern, and a multiple-stage filter including plural filter elements. Therein, the filter elements are electrically connected in series and are stacked, and the multiple-stage filter and the ground pattern are stacked.

Abstract: A distributed constant type filter includes a substrate including a part made of a first dielectric material having a first relative dielectric constant and a different-material part made of a second dielectric material having a second relative dielectric constant different from the first relative dielectric constant. A filter pattern is formed on a top surface and a ground pattern is formed on a bottom surface of the substrate. Part of the filter pattern is formed on the different-material part.

Abstract: A portable apparatus including a flat antenna apparatus is disclosed. The portable apparatus operates with a battery. The flat antenna apparatus includes an antenna element and a ground element, where the ground element is a surface of the battery.

Abstract: A disclosed antenna apparatus includes: a punched out antenna element made of a sheet metal; a punched out ground element made of a sheet metal, the ground element facing the antenna element; and a surface mount type coaxial connector mounted across the antenna element and the ground element.

Abstract: An antenna device includes an antenna part and a dielectric formed on the antenna part. The dielectric is formed to be thicker in a direction of directivity that the antenna part is to be made to have, than in another direction.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of manufacturing an electronic apparatus for wireless communications in that the method includes the steps of arranging an antenna apparatus adjacent to the electronic apparatus formed on a substrate and testing the electronic apparatus by conducting the wireless communications between the electronic apparatus and the antenna apparatus.

Abstract: An antenna apparatus is disclosed that includes a dielectric substrate, an antenna element pattern that is formed on an upper face of the dielectric substrate, a strip line that is formed on the upper face of the dielectric substrate and extends from the antenna element pattern, and a ground pattern that is formed on the upper face of the dielectric substrate and is arranged on either side of the strip line. The strip line, the ground pattern, and the substrate form a coplanar microwave transmission line.

Abstract: An antenna which can be used in different communication standards with a simple structure is disclosed. The antenna includes an antenna section which receives/transmits radio waves, input/output ports to which a signal to be input to the antenna section is input and from which a signal output from the antenna section is output, and transmission lines each of which connects the antenna section to a corresponding input/output port.

Abstract: A disclosed keyboard includes a housing with a base member, a top plane member, and a membrane switch installed inside the housing. The membrane switch has a first resin sheet, a second resin sheet, and a spacer resin sheet arranged between the first and second resin sheets. The membrane switch includes a UWB flat antenna that has an antenna element pattern formed on the first resin sheet, a microwave transmission line extending from the antenna element pattern, and a ground pattern arranged in a position facing the antenna element pattern.

Abstract: The present invention relates to decoration techniques for providing smoothly changing iridescent color effects or glittering luster effects to resin casings. A thermoplastic resin casing having a protruding shape is fabricated by hot forming with a laminated plate made up of a thermoplastic resin plate and a polarizing film using a vacuum forming, an air-pressure forming, or a press forming technique. Alternatively, after forming a polarizing film in a mold having a prescribed shape, a thermoplastic resin is injected for molding, to produce a thermoplastic resin casing to which the polarizing film is firmly adhered. According to these fabrication methods, the polarizing film can be attached, without creases, over the entire surface of the casing.

Abstract: An image forming system enabling a cost reduction by decreasing the number of components and having enough performance levels of individual postprocessing functions, comprising: an image forming apparatus body and at least one postprocessing unit, the postprocessing unit selectable from a plurality of types of postprocessing units, wherein a single-sheet processing machine is provided as one of the plurality of types of postprocessing units and wherein the single-sheet processing machine has a plurality of types of single-sheet processing functions for postprocessing in units of a sheet and a sheet attachment function of attaching a cover sheet or an insert sheet to an output sheet bulk.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus includes a stacker to stack plural sheets thereon, and an adhesive-applying device that applies adheasive to a portion of a side of the plural sheets stacked on the stacker to bind the plural sheets in such a way that the adhesive-applied portion of the side is smaller than the adhesive-non-applied portion of the side.

Abstract: A bookbinding system wherein additional printing is conducted on a cover sheet which has been printed thereon outside an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus is provided with an ejection-outlet through which the image forming apparatus accepts the cover sheet coming from a bookbinding apparatus and the cover sheet printed by a printing device of the image forming apparatus is fed out to the bookbinding apparatus for bookbinding.

Abstract: A bookbinding apparatus for providing wrapping-binding of a booklet by bonding a cover sheet on the spine portion of a sheet bundle to wrap the sheet bundle with the cover sheet, wherein the sheet conveyance path of the bookbinding apparatus includes a notch forming device to form notches on the end to be coated with adhesive when the sheet is subjected to bookbinding process.

Abstract: A booklet binding apparatus including a clamp mechanism for clamping a sheet bundle, a coating member for applying adhesive to the spine surface of the sheet bundle clamped by the clamp mechanism, and an attaching and detaching mechanism for moving the coating member to and from the spine surface of the sheet bundle, wherein the attaching and detaching mechanism includes a separation mechanism which makes the coating member to be detached from the spine surface of the sheet bundle when an abnormal incident has occurred during application of the adhesive.