Abstract: In an ink drying portion, a conveying roller and a rigid roller are rotated by driving force of a driving roller which is transmitted through a driving belt. Air in a housing is discharged by means of a fan and air is sucked into the housing through a clearance between the conveying rollers. A paper conveyed into the ink drying portion is continuously held along a paper drying passageway by the air sucking effect of the discharge of the fan and is consecutively conveyed along the paper drying passageway through the conveying roller. An ink on the paper is dried by direct irradiation with infrared rays from an infrared heat source or by indirect irradiation with infrared rays reflected by a reflecting plate.

Abstract: A memory card stores programs and constant data for both a master CPU and a slave CPU. The master CPU identifies a header portion of the memory card attached to a card adapter to identify the storage locations of the data for the master CPU and the slave CPU, the size thereof and the addresses in RAMs at which the data for the master CPU and that for the slave CPU are stored. The master CPU writes the data for the master CPU in the RAM while it serially transfers the data for the slave CPU to the slave CPU and writes it in the RAM for the slave CPU. The individual CPUs perform control of loads according to the data in the RAMs.

Abstract: The thermistor element of the present invention is composed of a mixed sintered body aM1M2O3.bY2O3 of a composition M1M2O3 (wherein M1 is Y, and M2 is at least one element selected from the elements such as Cr, Mn, Ti, etc.) as a perovskite compound and Y2O3, wherein molar fractions a and b satisfy the relations 0.05≦a<1.0, 0<b≦0.95 and a+b=1. Another wide-range type thermistor element of the present invention is composed of a perovskite compound M1(M2M3)O3, wherein M1 is at least one element selected from the elements of the groups II and IIIA excluding La in the Periodic Table, and each of M2 and M3 is at least one element selected from the elements of the groups IIB, IIIB, IVA, VA, VIA, VIIA and VIII. a and b satisfy the relations a+b=1 and 0<b<0.1, where a is a molar fraction of M2 and b is a molar fraction of M3 in M1(M2M3)O3.

Abstract: The present invention provides a ceramic honeycomb structural body, and method for preparing the same, which can satisfactorily support a catalyst and can demonstrate superior mechanical strength, even if far thinner walls are used. Said structural body comprises lattice walls formed by a large number of cells 10 which are channels for a fluid and a peripheral wall 12 which covers at least the circumference of said lattice walls 11.

Abstract: A gas concentration detecting device for detecting the concentration of a component, such as an oxygen in an exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine. The device has a concentration detecting body 2 for detecting the oxygen and a cover 3 of a double wall structure which is for encircling the portion of the detecting body opened to the flow of the exhaust gas to be detected. The cover 3 has, at its axial tip end wall, a plurality of holes 33 and 34 arranged in such a manner that one of the holes functions as a gas inlet hole and the other hole functions as a gas outlet hole in order to cause the gas to be smoothly ventilated. The cover has, at its side, a wall of a closed structure with no hole for the passage of the gas, which is effective for preventing the cover 3 and the detecting body 2 from being cooled by the exhaust gas, thereby enhancing a heat retaining capacity, thereby preventing particulates from being deposited.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent an electrical breakdown of a toner layer and an occurrence of overcurrent, thereby preventing quality of image from being degraded at the time of development, when development with one-component toner is conducted using a developing roller of low resistance. The resistance value Rd of a developing roller which carries and conveys one-component toner in a manner of coming into contact with a photoconductor which bears an electrostatic latent image, is defined as Rd=.rho.d.multidot.(Dd1/S1), wherein S1 (cm.sup.2) is an area in which the developing roller comes into contact with the static image bearing member via a toner layer, Dd1 (cm) is a layer thickness of a semiconductive layer which composes the developing roller, and .rho.d (.OMEGA..multidot.cm) is a volume resistivity thereof. The range of the resistance Rd is set as 10.sup.4 <Rd<10.sup.5 and the resistance Rt (.OMEGA.) of the toner layer is set as Rt>5.times.10.sup.7.

Abstract: The objective of this invention is to provide an image synthesis method, sound synthesis method, games machine and information storage medium for making it easy to learn a complicated operating sequence from a game controller. This system determines whether an input sequence by which operating buttons are pressed in sequence matches a standard sequence that is specified by standard operations (41) to (51). If the input sequence matches, a matching identification symbol lights up. When an operating button is pressed, an identification sound that identifies the press operating button is output. The player can perceive the operations to be input and the operations that the player has input from these identification symbols and sounds. This makes it easy to acquire special techniques used in a fighting game. Outputting identification symbols and sounds in this manner is particularly effective in a training mode.

Abstract: An electronic flash device in which a voltage of a power supply battery is boosted to be supplied to a load, includes a first oscillation portion of self-excited type, a second oscillation portion of separately-excited type, and a changeover portion which performs a changeover between causing the first oscillation portion to operate and causing the second oscillation portion to operate, according to a condition of the load.

Abstract: A blade is pressed against a developing roller for regulating the amount of toner which is deposited on a surface of the developing roller. The blade is formed with a slant face at its tip end, to which the toner is transported along a direction of rotation of the developing roller. An angle of aperture .theta. at a toner inlet portion defined by the developing roller and the slant face is set at 12.5.degree. or more, the angle of aperture counting in an angle .psi. of the slant face, elastic deformation and radius (R) of the developing roller, and an angle .alpha. related to a nip width w on which the blade contacts with the developing roller. Such an angle of aperture .theta. provides a great allowance for a free length l of the blade, thereby permitting the blade to maintain a constant toner mass for forming a uniform toner layer.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to certainly remove and certainly recover the charged toner remaining on a developing roller after development. A single component toner which is delivered to the developing roller via a toner-supplying roller is made into a relatively thin layer of a predetermined thickness with a charging plate and is frictionally charged with a given quantity of electric charge. Subsequently, the toner is adhered on a photoreceptor drum along by the electrostatic latent image to develop an image at the developing region at which the developing roller comes into contact with the photoreceptor drum. After development, the electric charge of the toner layer on the developing roller is removed with an electric-charge-removing sheet. The toner after development is recovered into a toner hopper via the toner-supplying roller.

Abstract: In a method for supporting the design of a plurality of programs distributed on a network and operated through the communication between the programs, each program is defined, a relation between programs is defined, interface information of each program is defined, and the interface defined for each program is converted into an interface definition language (IDL) format to generate an IDL file. The definition of each program and the definition of the relation between programs are performed by providing a graphic display screen to which a program represented by a symbol and a relation between programs represented by an arrow are inputted as definition information by a user. The definition of interface information is performed by inputting information defined by the user in an interactive manner.

Abstract: An image processing system comprises a printer and a reader which are mechanically and functionally separated in such a manner that they can be used independently of each other and the transmission of image information is possible therebetween. Said reader includes an operating unit which cooperates with the printer to perform many functions such as the image operating function, the image transfer function, the presetting function and the image quality processing function, in addition to a function of a conventional copier.

Abstract: An elastic member for pressing is provided in a prescribed location in an area where the developer carrier comes in contact with the discharging member, in order to bring the discharging member into contact with the developer carrier so that mechanical peeling of the residual developer on the developer carrier is not caused, and the discharging member is provided with a bias power supply for setting bias in a direction imparting to the discharging member a force for electrically drawing the residual developer on the developer carrier away from the developer carrier, and after thus reducing the electric adhesion of the residual developer to the developer carrier, the developer feed member removes the residual developer on the developer carrier in the vicinity of disjunction area or in the contact area of the developer carrier and the developer feed member, thereafter applies new developer in a developer container to the developer carrier in the vicinity of approaching area or in the contact-starting area of th

Abstract: A color image processing apparatus which processes an original image data line-by-line. The color image processing apparatus includes a detector for detecting a portion in a line where an original image exists. In accordance with an output of the detector, a line-by-line determination is made as to whether the original image is a color image or a monochromatic image. The apparatus further includes a processor for processing the image of the original image in accordance with the result of the determination.

Abstract: Since an image processing apparatus of this invention can record images input from a plurality of image sources on a plurality of recording media simultaneously held on a recording medium holding member, the images input from the plurality of image sources can be efficiently output, and the productivity of the image processing apparatus can be improved.

Abstract: A color forming image apparatus for forming a multicolor image by forming an image of each color including a transfer member holder for retaining a plurality of transfer members. The image former forms the image on the transfer member based on an image signal from an external source. A detector detects information relating to a status of the transfer member held in the transfer member holder and sends the information to the external source.

Abstract: A color image processing apparatus that prevents counterfeiting by detecting specific originals with high precision. Although general banknotes have graphic patterns drawn on uniform density portions, the tonality percepted by human eye is the mixture of the tonality of a graphic portion and the tonality of a uniform density portion. In consideration of the mixed tonality sensed by human eye, the apparatus smoothes a read image signal to generate mixed tonality for judgment, thus improves judgment precision. The total judgment of existence/absence of specific original is made by performing m judgments on m (m>n) judging conditions using the tonality data of pre-registered n (n: positive integer) specific originals.

Abstract: A developer layer forming device includes a photoreceptor drum, a developing roller arranged opposite to the photoreceptor drum such that the developing roller is in contact with or adjacent to the photoreceptor drum, and supporting a non-magnetic developer, and a blade arranged opposite to the developing roller and also arranged such that an edge of the blade is pressed against and thus in contact with the developing roller at a nip portion.

Abstract: An image reading apparatus comprises a reader for photo-electrically reading an image, a first reference member to be used for the measurement of irregularity of an output signal from the reader, a second reference member having density data indicating a density thereof recorded thereon, a correction unit for correcting irregularity of an image signal derived by reading an image of a document sheet by the reader based on a first reference signal derived by reading the first reference member by the reader, and a compensation unit for compensating the irregular correction operation by the correction unit based on a second reference signal derived by reading the second reference member by the reader and the density of the second reference member derived by reading the density data.

Abstract: A memory card stores programs and constant data for both a master CPU and a slave CPU. The master CPU identifies a header portion of the memory card attached to a card adapter to identify the storage locations of the data for the master CPU and the slave CPU, the size thereof and the addresses in RAMs at which the data for the master CPU and that for the slave CPU are stored. The master CPU writes the data for the master CPU In the RAM while it serially transfers the data for the slave CPU to the slave CPU and writes it in the RAM for the slave CPU. The individual CPUs perform control of loads according to the data in the RAMs.