Abstract: A bus bar module includes a circuit body, a bus bar, a holder, and a cover configured to be assembled to the holder to protect the circuit body and the holder. The circuit body includes a belt-like main line that extends in a first direction, a belt-like branch line that extends from the main line so as to branch from the main line, and a connection portion provided in a position closer to a distal end of the branch line than a folded portion the branch line. The cover is structured so as to be stretchable and shrinkable in the first direction in accordance with a stretching and a shrinking of the holder in the first direction.

Abstract: Provided are an information processing system and an information processing method which can easily grasp a state of a person in a predetermined area. The information processing system includes a first imaging unit that images a performer, a second imaging unit that images a person in a predetermined area, a first recognition unit that recognizes a scene based on an image captured by the first imaging unit, a second recognition unit that recognizes expression of the person based on an image captured by the second imaging unit, a calculation unit that calculates a state index of the person according to the scene based on a recognition result of the scene and a recognition result of the expression of the person, a heat map creation unit that creates a heat map representing the state index of the person in association with a position of the person in the predetermined area, and an output unit that outputs the heat map.

Abstract: An image data processing device and an image data processing system are provided. An image data processing device performs a process of inputting a plurality of image data items in which imaging ranges at least partially overlap, detecting a face of a person in an image indicated by the image data, and recognizing a personal attribute of the person on the basis of the detected face for each of the image data items, a process of generating map data, in which the recognized personal attribute has been recorded in association with a position of the person in the image indicated by the image data, for each of the image data items, a process of interpolating the personal attribute of the person who overlaps between a plurality of the map data items, and a process of combining the plurality of map data items after the interpolation to generate composite map data.

Abstract: Conventionally, useful processing cannot be performed using operation information on two or more sites. With an information processing device that includes: an operation information reception unit that receives one or more pieces of first operation information regarding a user on a first site, and one or more pieces of second operation information regarding the user on a second site; an attribute value acquisition unit that acquires a first attribute value of the user, using the one or more pieces of first operation information, and acquires a second attribute value of the user, using the one or more pieces of second operation information; and a site processing unit that performs predetermined processing on the first site or the second site, using the first attribute value and the second attribute value, it is possible to perform useful processing using operation information on two or more sites.

Abstract: A compound represented by Formula (I) or a salt thereof. In Formula (I), Ar represents a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C10 aryl group or the like, L1 represents a single bond or the like, L2 represents a single bond or the like, X1 represents a cyano group or the like, X2 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, X3 represents a halogeno group or the like, A represents a nitrogen atom or the like, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, R2a represents a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C6 alkyl group and R2b represents a hydrogen atom or the like, where R2a and R2b may be combined with each other to form a substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C5 alkylene group, and Y represents a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C6 alkyl group or the like.

Abstract: Provided is a labyrinth seal including a first structure; and a second structure opposing the first structure. The first structure includes seal fins located at intervals in an axial direction and extending toward the second structure; a downstream wall surface located most downstream one of the seal fins and extending toward the second structure. A tip of the downstream wall surface located at a side of a tip of the most downstream seal fin, the side being close to the second structure in a radial direction and having a first outlet surface extending from the tip of the downstream wall surface toward a downstream side. The second structure includes a second outlet surface opposing the first outlet surface, a radial gap between the first outlet surface and the second outlet surface; and a cavity surface located upstream of the second outlet surface recessed away from the first structure.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a cassette to store a recording medium, an image forming unit to form an image on an image bearing member based on an image forming condition, a transfer unit to transfer the image onto the recording medium conveyed from the cassette, and a reading unit to read a test image formed on the recording medium by the image forming unit. A controller controls the image forming unit to form the test image while the image forming unit is forming a plurality of images, controls the image forming condition based on a reading result of the test image by the reading unit, and obtains information related to basis weight of the recording medium in the cassette. In a case where the information does not satisfy a forming condition for forming the test image, the test image is not formed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium based on an image forming condition, a detection unit configured to detect a test image on the recording medium, a controller configured to: obtain information related to the recording medium on which the test image is formed; determine whether or not to adjust the image forming condition based on the information; control the image forming unit to form the test image on the recording medium; control, in a case where a type of the recording medium on which the test image is formed is a first type, the image forming condition based on a detection result of the test image by the detection unit.

Abstract: A printing apparatus has a conveyance roller configured to convey a sheet in a first direction, an encoder provided at the conveyance roller, a head having a plurality of nozzles aligned in a second direction intersecting with the first direction and being configured to jet liquid to the sheet which is conveyed in the first direction by the conveyance roller and a controller having a power circuit configured to apply voltage to the head for jetting the liquid. The controller is configured to: determine a jetting frequency for the head based on a signal outputted from the encoder; and change an output voltage of the power circuit depending on the determined jetting frequency.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on an image carrier, a transfer unit configured to transfer the image from the image carrier to a recording medium, a fixing unit configured to fix the image on the recording medium, a reader configured to read the image on the recording medium downstream of the fixing unit in a conveyance direction, and a controller configured to control the image forming unit to form the image and a pattern image, control the transfer unit to transfer the image and the pattern image to a recording medium, control the fixing unit to fix the image and the pattern image on the recording medium, control the reader to read the pattern image on the recording medium, and generate a image forming condition based on a result of the patter image read by the reader.

Abstract: A printing apparatus has a conveyance roller configured to convey a sheet in a first direction, an encoder provided at the conveyance roller, a head having a plurality of nozzles aligned in a second direction intersecting with the first direction and being configured to jet liquid to the sheet which is conveyed in the first direction by the conveyance roller and a controller having a power circuit configured to apply voltage to the head for jetting the liquid. The controller is configured to: determine a jetting frequency for the head based on a signal outputted from the encoder; and change an output voltage of the power circuit depending on the determined jetting frequency.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member and a charge roller. The photosensitive member comprises a base body, and a photosensitive layer which is a monolayer formed on the base body and comprises a charge generating agent, a charge transport agent and a binder resin. The charge roller configured to contact the photosensitive member and charge the photosensitive member by application of only a DC voltage. The charge roller comprises a conductive rubber layer, and a ten-point average roughness of a surface of the charge roller is 0.9 ?m or more and 8.5 ?m or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging roller, an image forming portion. The charging roller includes an electroconductive rubber layer and is 20 ?m or more and 35 ?m or less in ten point average roughness of a surface thereof and 130 ?m or more and 250 ?m or less in average interval of surface unevenness.

Abstract: An electronic control unit includes a first controller, a second controller, and a determination portion. The first controller includes a first control portion that determines whether or not supply of power from a battery to the first controller is interruptible. The second controller includes a regulator that regulates power supplied from the battery to the first controller and a second control portion that controls the regulator. The determination portion determines whether or not the supply of power is forcibly interruptible even when the first control portion does not determine that the supply of power is interruptible. When the determination portion determines that the supply of power is forcibly interruptible, the second control portion controls the regulator to interrupt the supply of power from the battery to the first controller.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging roller, an exposure device, a developing device, a transfer member, a fixing device, a voltage source for output the charging voltage, an executing portion for forming a test chart including a plurality of adjusting images in setting of peak-to-peak voltage values of AC voltages at a plurality of different values, a first inputting portion through which an instruction of execution of forming the test chart is inputted, and a second inputting portion through which an instruction of setting a value of peak-to-peak voltage values of the AC voltage during image formation is inputted.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; a charging member configured to electrically charge the photosensitive member; a developing device configured to form a toner image by supplying toner to the photosensitive member; a transfer member configured to transfer the toner image from the photosensitive member onto a toner image receiving member; a cleaning member provided in contact with the photosensitive member and configured to remove the toner remaining on a surface of the photosensitive member after transfer; and a controller configured to carry out a process for notifying information on a lifetime of the charging member, on the basis of use amount information on a use amount of the charging member and contact pressure information on contact pressure applied by the cleaning member to the photosensitive member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediary transfer member; a first image forming portion including a first developing device and a detecting portion; a second image forming portion including a second developing device; a contact-and-separation mechanism capable of setting a first state and a second state; and an executing portion capable of executing an operation in a first monochromatic mode in the first state and capable of executing an operation in a second monochromatic mode in the second state. When a toner amount in the first developing device is below a predetermined amount on the basis of the detecting portion during an image forming operation for continuously forming the black image in the operation in the first monochromatic mode, the executing portion continuously executes the image forming operation in the second state.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a toner image forming portion, a transfer member, a cleaning member, and a controller configured to carry out a process for notifying information on a lifetime of the image bearing member on the basis of information on contact pressure of the cleaning member to the image bearing member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer member, a cleaning blade, an information storing member configured to store information on contact pressures of the cleaning blade to the image bearing member, an information input portion, and an executing portion configured to execute a toner supplying operation for supplying toner to the cleaning portion using a toner image formed on the image bearing member, in a period other than a period in which the toner image is formed on the image bearing member, for each predetermined number of image forming operations. On the basis of the information inputted to the input portion, the executing portion sets amounts of the toner supplied to the respective regions in the toner supplying operation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; a charging member configured to electrically charge the photosensitive member; a developing device configured to form a toner image by supplying toner to the photosensitive member; a transfer member configured to transfer the toner image from the photosensitive member onto a toner image receiving member; a cleaning member provided in contact with the photosensitive member and configured to remove the toner remaining on a surface of the photosensitive member after transfer; and a controller configured to carry out a process for notifying information on a lifetime of the charging member, on the basis of use amount information on a use amount of the charging member and contact pressure information on contact pressure applied by the cleaning member to the photosensitive member.