Abstract: Upon a misfeeding of any of second and subsequent sheets in paper feeding by a paper feeding unit during duplex printing, a controller drives the paper feeding unit to perform a paper feeding retry at one or more of paper feeding timings in a paper feeding schedule for duplex printing. The paper feeding schedule for duplex printing specifies the paper feeding timings by the paper feeding unit and paper refeeding timings by a paper refeeding unit for a case other than the misfeeding of any of the second and subsequent sheets in the paper feeding by the paper feeding unit such that the sheet refed from the paper refeeding unit and the sheet fed from the paper feeding unit are alternately conveyed to a printing unit.

Abstract: A dust core includes soft magnetic particles, a first coating layer, a second coating layer, and a third coating layer. The first coating layer is made of aluminum oxide with which at least a part of surfaces of the soft magnetic particles are coated. The second coating layer is made of aluminum nitride with which at least a part of a surface of the first coating layer is coated. The third coating layer is made of low-melting-point glass with which at least a part of a surface of the second coating layer is coated. The low-melting-point glass has a softening point lower than an annealing temperature of the soft magnetic particles.

Abstract: Disclosed is a chemical thermal energy storage material structure, including a granular chemical thermal energy storage material, a clay mineral having a layered ribbon structure, and a complex metal silicate that is generated by a reaction between the above-mentioned chemical thermal energy storage material and the above-mentioned clay mineral and that includes at least one type of alkaline earth metal.

Abstract: A speaker diaphragm contains a material obtained by adding a cycloolefin polymer resin to a carbon fiber-reinforced liquid crystal polymer. The speaker diaphragm having high sound velocity, a speaker, and a production method of the speaker diaphragm can thereby be obtained.

Abstract: A controller temporarily opens a pair of side fence plates under a prescribed condition to move the side fence plates away from both side ends of sheets in a sheet width direction, after each time stacking of sheets at a first or second sheet stacking position is completed, but before a sheet receiving tray is temporarily lifted down to offset an offset guide plate and an end fence plate. Else, the controller sets an amount of lifting up and down of the sheet receiving tray such that the amount at the second sheet stacking position is smaller than that at the first sheet stacking position when offsetting the offset guide plate and the end fence plate after each time the stacking of sheets at the first or second sheet stacking position on the sheet receiving tray is completed.

Abstract: A printer includes a printing unit configured to print on a print medium while transferring the print medium by a first transfer section, a transfer unit located downstream the printing unit in a transfer route and configured to transfer the print medium by a second transfer section, and a controller configured to control the printing unit and the transfer unit. The controller is configured to stop the first transfer section prior to the second transfer section upon detection of a jam of the print medium.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first paper feed unit configured to feed a primary recording medium for double-sided printing; a second paper feed unit configured to feed a secondary recording medium for single-sided printing; a printing unit configured to perform sets of printing based on received job information, each of the sets of printing including double-sided printing on a first predetermined number of primary recording media and single-sided printing on a second predetermined number of secondary recording media; a print timing setting unit configured to set a print timing of each of the first print media and the second print media based on the first predetermined number and the second predetermined number; and a controller configured to perform control to transfer the primary recording media and the secondary recording media to the printing unit based on the print timing.

Abstract: There are provided a plurality of paper feed units 20 drawing and feeding, one by one, print media stacked on a paper feed table, a printing unit 30 printing a print medium, a secondary paper feed unit 14 feeding a print medium fed from the plurality of the paper feed units 20 to the printing unit 30, a circulating path CR on which a print medium printed by the printing unit 30 is transferred at a transfer speed of the print medium determined for each sheet size, a reversal unit 50 reversing a print medium transferred on the circulating path CR to feed the reversed print medium to the secondary paper feed unit 14, a transfer schedule setting unit 70c setting, when a double-sided printing request of a set of print media of two kinds of sheet sizes is included in a print job, a transfer schedule of the print media of two kinds of sheet sizes so that the waiting time for transfer in the print job is reduced, and an equipment control unit 70d causing the plurality of the paper feed units 20 or the reversal unit 5

Abstract: A printer includes a pair of registration rollers for feeding a print sheet to a print unit, a first sheet supply unit including a first feed roller that operates, by rotating in synchronization with the pair of registration rollers, an assistant operation to assist sheet-feeding by the pair of registration rollers, a second sheet supply unit including a second feed roller, a drive unit that selectively drives the first and second feed rollers, and a controller that controls the drive unit. When changing over a sheet supply source from the first sheet supply unit to the second sheet supply unit in the assistant operation, the controller finishes the assistant operation before a trailing edge of a print sheet currently fed has passed through the first feed roller by stopping the drive unit. According to the printer, reduction of print productivity can be restricted while reducing noises and feed failures.

Abstract: A controller temporarily opens a pair of side fence plates under a prescribed condition to move the side fence plates away from both side ends of sheets in a sheet width direction, after each time stacking of sheets at a first or second sheet stacking position is completed, but before a sheet receiving tray is temporarily lifted down to offset an offset guide plate and an end fence plate. Else, the controller sets an amount of lifting up and down of the sheet receiving tray such that the amount at the second sheet stacking position is smaller than that at the first sheet stacking position when offsetting the offset guide plate and the end fence plate after each time the stacking of sheets at the first or second sheet stacking position on the sheet receiving tray is completed.

Abstract: A piston for in-cylinder fuel-injection type internal combustion engine includes a piston body, a low thermal conductor, and a piston head. The low thermal conductor is disposed on the top of the piston body. The low thermal conductor includes a low thermally-conductive substrate, and a coating layer. The low thermally-conductive substrate has opposite surfaces. The coating layer includes alumina fine particles (Al2O3). The coating layer is adhered on at least a part one of the opposite surfaces of the low thermally-conductive substrate that makes a cast-buried or enveloped surface to be cast buried or enveloped in the piston head.

Abstract: A printing device includes: a registration roller that once stops a transferred sheet and then feeds the transferred sheet toward an inkjet head unit; a sheet feed system that transfers and feeds a sheet to the registration roller; a sheet refeed system that, during both-side printing, reverses a one-side printed sheet and transfers the one-side printed sheet to the registration roller; and a controller that, during both-side printing, controls the registration roller so as to feed a sheet, which is fed by the sheet feed system and the sheet refeed system, toward the inkjet head unit in accordance with a predetermined print schedule. The controller controls the sheet feed system in accordance with the print schedule so that a speed when a sheet fed from the sheet feed system is abutted against the inkjet head unit becomes lower during both-side printing than during one-side printing.

Abstract: A printer includes a pair of registration rollers for feeding a print sheet to a print unit, a first sheet supply unit including a first feed roller that operates, by rotating in synchronization with the pair of registration rollers, an assistant operation to assist sheet-feeding by the pair of registration rollers, a second sheet supply unit including a second feed roller, a drive unit that selectively drives the first and second feed rollers, and a controller that controls the drive unit. When changing over a sheet supply source from the first sheet supply unit to the second sheet supply unit in the assistant operation, the controller finishes the assistant operation before a trailing edge of a print sheet currently fed has passed through the first feed roller by stopping the drive unit. According to the printer, reduction of print productivity can be restricted while reducing noises and feed failures.

Abstract: A printer is operable for image formation onto a sheet of a sheet width Lp, with a sheet spacing Lg and a printing transfer speed Vg, a constant speed transferrer makes sheet transfer at the printing transfer speed Vg from a register via the printer to a speed change position, a variable speed transferrer makes sheet transfer from the speed change position to the register, and a transfer controller controls sheet transfer speeds, the variable speed transferrer having sections for sheet transfer, including deceleration and acceleration sections for sheet reversal at the sheet reversing path, and a constant speed section for transfer at a constant transfer speed Vr, the transfer controller determining a circulating sheet number N, executing a calculation of transfer speed Vr employing sheet width Lp, sheet spacing Lg, printing transfer speed Vg, and accelerations, to enable sheet transfer for circulation within a time interval of N×(Lp+Lg)/Vg.

Abstract: Disclosed is a printing machine comprising: encoders (311 and 312) configured to detect respective angular velocities of a drive roller and a driven roller as a travel speed of core members inside a transfer belt (160); a DSP (321) configured to extract from a temporal variation in a ratio of the measured speed at each roller speed ratio data (profile data) having a frequency corresponding to the speed ratio of a core portion; profile data memory (332) configured to store the profile data; and a head controller (334) configured to control the timing at which each image is formed by a head unit (110) on the basis of the profile data so that positional deviation among multiple images on the transfer belt (160) may be reduced. The head unit (110) forms multiple images on a record medium under the control of the head controller (334).

Abstract: Disclosed is a chemical thermal energy storage material structure, including a granular chemical thermal energy storage material, a clay mineral having a layered ribbon structure, and a complex metal silicate that is generated by a reaction between the above-mentioned chemical thermal energy storage material and the above-mentioned clay mineral and that includes at least one type of alkaline earth metal.

Abstract: A conveyance control mechanism for a printer including an image forming unit forming an image on a sheet being conveyed on a conveyance route, includes a curl detector configured to detect a curl of the sheet conveyed on the conveyance route, in an upstream of the image forming unit on the conveyance route. The conveyance route controller may drive and stop the conveyance route differently depending on whether the curl detector detects a curl at either a front end or at a position other than the front end. When the curl detector detects a curl of the sheet, an image forming route where the image forming unit performs an image formation may be separated and retreated from the conveyance route and the sheet being conveyed may be discharged onto the retreated image forming route.

Abstract: Problem To provide a polyurethane elastic yarn with excellent elongation, recoverability, and light resistance that is suitable for use in stretchable fabrics and clothing, and to provide a method for manufacture thereof. Resolution Means Include a benzotriazole ultraviolet absorber containing one or more unsaturated bond in the molecule when manufacturing elastic yarn made of polyurethane with a polymeric diol and diisocyanate as starting material.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a first paper feed unit configured to feed a primary recording medium for double-sided printing; a second paper feed unit configured to feed a secondary recording medium for single-sided printing; a printing unit configured to perform sets of printing based on received job information, each of the sets of printing including double-sided printing on a first predetermined number of primary recording media and single-sided printing on a second predetermined number of secondary recording media; a print timing setting unit configured to set a print timing of each of the first print media and the second print media based on the first predetermined number and the second predetermined number; and a controller configured to perform control to transfer the primary recording media and the secondary recording media to the printing unit based on the print timing.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a polyurethane elastic yarn which has the high strength and ductility sought in polyurethane elastic yarn, and also has excellent durability and heat resistance, as well as little fatigue at low temperature; and a production method thereof. [Means of Resolution] A polyurethane elastic yarn made from polyurethane which has polymer diol and diisocyanate as starting substances, wherein said polyurethane comprises a polyurethane A containing a polybutadiene structure in which the proportion of 1,2-bonded butadiene structure to 1,4-bonded butadiene structure in the molecule is in the range from 91:9 to 20:80.