Abstract: A heating cooking apparatus includes a heating cooking chamber, a housing, a lid portion, a first circulation portion, a first blow-out port, and a guide portion. The heating cooking chamber further includes an opening. The housing accommodates the heating cooking chamber. The lid portion opens and closes the opening. The first circulation portion causes first air to circulate between an upper wall of the heating cooking chamber and an upper wall of the housing. When the lid portion opens the opening, the guide portion guides the first air blown out from the first blow-out port toward the opening.

Abstract: To provide a positioning technology capable of measuring a position of a moving object moving at high speed with high reliability, high accuracy, and high speed. The positioning system 1000 can obtain accurate position data using the positioning information collected from a plurality of base stations, and deliver the obtained accurate position data to the base station. In the positioning system 1000, the base station serving as the position reference station can always hold the accurate position data based on the accurate measurement result data. In the positioning system 1000, the base station whose accurate position is known is used as a position reference station to perform RTK positioning with, for example, the mobile station, thus allowing the position of the mobile station to be measured with high accuracy.

Abstract: A heating cooking apparatus includes a housing, a lid portion, a rail member, and a slide member. The housing includes an opening opened toward a first direction, and an outer peripheral portion disposed on an outer periphery of the opening. The lid portion includes a plate-like member that opens and closes the opening. The rail member is disposed in the housing and extends in the first direction. The slide member is disposed on the lid portion and extends from the lid portion in a direction opposite to the first direction. The slide member includes a main body portion that moves relative to the rail member and a protruding portion protruding upward from an end portion of the main body portion in the first direction side. The protruding portion is in contact with a first face of the plate-like member.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing coke having a high strength and excellent extrusion capability. The method includes a preparing step of blending two or more coal brands to prepare a coal blend, a stirring and mixing step of stirring and mixing the coal blend to disintegrate at least a part of pseudo-particles that have been formed by agglomeration of coal particles in the coal blend, and a carbonizing step of charging the stirred and mixed coal blend into a coke oven to carbonize the stirred and mixed coal blend. Additionally, a mixing apparatus is used in the stirring and mixing step that has a capability of controlling a degree of mixing of the coal blend to be 0.85 or more at 60 seconds after start of a mixing operation. The degree of mixing is calculated by the following equation (1): degree of mixing=(?C0??C)/(?C0??Cf)??(1).

Abstract: A method for manufacturing coke having a high strength and excellent extrusion capability. The method includes a preparing step of blending two or more coal brands to prepare a coal blend, a stirring and mixing step of stirring and mixing the coal blend to disintegrate at least a part of pseudo-particles that have been formed by agglomeration of coal particles in the coal blend, and a carbonizing step of charging the stirred and mixed coal blend into a coke oven to carbonize the stirred and mixed coal blend. Additionally, a mixing apparatus is used in the stirring and mixing step that has a capability of controlling a degree of mixing of the coal blend to be 0.85 or more at 60 seconds after start of a mixing operation. The degree of mixing is calculated by the following equation (1): degree of mixing=(?C0??C)/(?C0??Cf)??(1).

Abstract: A coke manufacturing method includes preparing blended coal by blending coal of at least two types, stirring and mixing the blended coal so as to disintegrate at least a part of pseudo-particles in the blended coal that have been formed by agglomeration of coal particles, and charging the blended coal after stirring and mixing into a coke oven and carbonizing the blended coal so as to manufacture coke.

Abstract: A coke manufacturing method includes preparing blended coal by blending coal of at least two types, stirring and mixing the blended coal so as to disintegrate at least a part of pseudo-particles in the blended coal that have been formed by agglomeration of coal particles, and charging the blended coal after stirring and mixing into a coke oven and carbonizing the blended coal so as to manufacture coke.

Abstract: An exposure device in an image-forming machine, in which an optical lens unit is able to reciprocatingly move in the direction of the optical axis, and the image of a document is exposed to the photosensitive surface of a photosensitive material through the optical lens unit. The optical lens unit includes a lens-holding plate which is able to reciprocatingly move in the direction of the optical axis, a lens center-adjusting plate which is disposed on the lens-holding plate so as to pivot on a positioning vertical shaft and so as to be secured, a lens mounted on the lens center-adjusting plate, and a light quantity correction plate which is mounted on the lens center-adjusting plate so as to move in the radial direction relative to the center of the lens. A guide member is provided for moving the light quantity correction plate in the radial direction relative to the center of the lens with the reciprocating motion of the lens-holding plate in the direction of optical axis.

Abstract: A discharge device is usable for an image forming apparatus including a fixing portion having a heating roller in the shape of a hyperboloid for fixing a toner image formed on an envelope having a turned-up portion, and a stacking portion for stacking envelopes. The discharge device provided with a discharge roller system provided between the fixing portion and the stacking portion to discharge the envelope to the stacking portion has a upright portion provided near the discharge roller system below the transport path of the envelope to prevent the turned-up portion of the envelope from warping downward. This discharge device prevents a discharging envelope from coming into contact or colliding with the uppermost one of a stack of already discharged envelopes on the stacking portion, and enables the envelopes to be discharged suitably and to be stacked orderly on the stacking portion and increases an amount of envelopes stacked on the stacking portion.

Abstract: A copy item transport device is used in an image forming apparatus having an image bearing member and a pair of registration rollers before the image bearing member, and includes a separator for regulating multiple copy items to one copy item for each image formation. The separator is constructed by a forward roller being driven in a forward direction of transporting the copy item to the registration roller pair, a reverse roller in contact with the forward roller. The reverse roller is driven in a reverse direction of transporting the copy item backward, but rotatable in the forward direction together with the forward roller when receiving a greater transmitted forward torque from the forward roller than the reverse torque. The reverse drive to the reverse roller is stopped at the same time or after the forward drive to the forward roller is stopped to assure the nip of copy item by the registration roller pair.

Abstract: A sheet discharging device is used in an image forming apparatus including fixing means adopting heat roller fixing method of fusing a toner image transferred to a sheet so as to fix the same on the sheet while transporting the sheet by heating and pressing rollers rotated at a specified speed. This sheet discharging device is provided with a sheet discharger including first and second rollers and arranged downstream from the fixing device, a contact point of the first and second rollers being located toward the pressing roller from a tangent line on a point of a circumferential surface of the heat heating roller which intersects with a straight line connecting centers of the heating and pressing rollers, and a drive mechanism for driving the first roller and the heating roller so that a speed of the first roller at the circumferential surface thereof is greater than that of the healing roller. Accordingly, a sheet curled in the fixing device can be straightened with a simple construction.

Abstract: A cassette is attachable to an image forming apparatus including a feed roller. The cassette is provided with a push-up member for pushing up leading edges of sheets placed in the cassette so as to bring the uppermost one of the contained sheets into contact with the feed roller, and a restricting member for restricting displacement of the contained sheets from a specified position. By attaching thus constructed cassette to the image forming apparatus, sheets can be fed properly by the feed roller.

Abstract: A parallel transport apparatus for transporting sheets side by side along a plurality of transport paths is provided with a feed roller which is brought into contact with uppermost sheets of a plurality of stacks of sheet contained side by side in a cassette and is adapted for feeding the uppermost sheets side by side; a separation roller pair arranged at a specified position of each of the plurality of transport paths and adapted for separating the sheets fed side by side so that one each of sheets are transported along the respective transport paths simultaneously; a sheet detector arranged downstream from the separation roller pair with respect to a sheet transport direction and adapted for detecting the presence or absence of sheets being transported side by side; and a multifeed discriminator for discriminating whether the multiple feeding has been occurred along any of the transport paths in accordance with an output from the sheet detector.

Abstract: In a facsimile apparatus, a received image data is stored in a memory, and an image represented by the image data is enlarged according to an enlargement ratio determined by the user and is outputted onto recording paper. The image data stored in the memory is maintained until another image data is received.

Abstract: A paper feeding cassette case in an image forming apparatus according to the present invention is so adapted that an arbitrary internal unit out of a plurality of types of internal units including at least one internal unit of a universal type having a structure in which paper sheets of a plurality of sizes requiring the switching of the printing ranges can be set can be attached thereto. In the paper feeding cassette case, detecting member mounting portions are respectively formed in different positions respectively corresponding to the types of internal units, and the detecting member and each of the detecting member mounting portions are provided with mounting member for detachably mounting the detecting member on the detecting member mounting portion.