Abstract: A wireless sensor system is provided with: a wireless terminal device which is driven by electric power stored in a power storage unit and transmits measurement information indicating a result of measurement by a sensor; and a management device which receives the measurement information transmitted from the wireless terminal device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing device configured to supply toner onto the photosensitive drum, a transfer device configured to transfer the toner supplied onto the photosensitive drum onto a sheet, a spraying device configured to spray a fixing liquid toward the sheet onto which the toner has been transferred, the spraying device including a housing configured to accommodate the fixing liquid and nozzles configured to spray the fixing liquid inside the housing, and a collecting device configured to collect the fixing liquid sprayed from the nozzles and did not adhere to the sheet. The collecting device includes a collection tray configured to accommodate the fixing liquid, a collection pipe connected to the collection tray and configured to allow the fixing liquid in the collection tray to pass therethrough, and a collection pump configured to send the fixing liquid in the collection pipe toward the housing.

Abstract: With a virtual plane defined as a plane that passes through end points of abutting ends of first brim portions of a back yoke portion and is perpendicular to side surfaces on both sides in a circumferential direction of a tooth portion, first inner circumferential surfaces on an inner side in a radial direction of the first brim portions are formed on an outer side in the radial direction with respect to the virtual plane, except for the end points. Insulation sheets are mounted to the side surfaces of the tooth portion. An insulation resin portion covers both end surfaces in an axial direction of the tooth portion, the first inner circumferential surfaces of the first brim portions, and second outer circumferential surfaces of second brim portions, and is molded integrally with the tooth portion, the back yoke portion, and the insulation sheets.

Abstract: An electrophotographic image-receiving sheet which includes a support, a toner-receiving layer which contains thermoplastic resin. The fixing belt electrophotographic sheet has an optimized separation force at a surface of the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet from the toner-receiving layer. Having a highly improved long-run properties, the fixing belt electrophotographic sheet realizes a stable paper feed without offset, and provides a good quality image with rich photographic features.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an image-receiving material, such as an image-receiving sheet, for electrophotography, which is excellent in smoothness (gloss), touch and sheet passing property and usable for the photography and which is free from adhesion or blocking to each other during the storage. The present electrophotographic image-receiving material comprises a support, and a toner image-receiving layer containing a thermoplastic resin formed on the support. Organic particles having a glass transition temperature or melting point not higher than a fixing temperature at which an image is fixed on said toner image-receiving layer are incorporated into the toner image-receiving layer or a second layer forming the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet other than the toner image-receiving layer on the toner image-receiving layer side of said support. In addition, the center line average height on the surface of the support is 0.

Abstract: An electrophotographic image-receiving sheet which includes a support, a toner-receiving layer which contains thermoplastic resin. The fixing belt electrophotographic sheet has an optimized separation force at a surface of the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet from the toner-receiving layer. Having a highly improved long-run properties, the fixing belt electrophotographic sheet realizes a stable paper feed without offset, and provides a good quality image with rich photographic features.

Abstract: To produce images at high speed, to conserve energy, and to be satisfactorily operated over the long run, a method fixes a toner onto an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet with the use of a belt fixing and smoothing apparatus and thereby forms an electrophotographic image. The belt fixing and smoothing apparatus includes a hot-pressing member, a belt member, a cooling device, and a cooling-releasing section. In the method, the total heat capacity per unit area in portions where the belt member, the toner, and the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet are in contact with one another is 840 J/K/m2 or less.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming process which can effectively suppress the occurrence of separation electrification between a belt surface layer and an image-receiving layer of an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet at a cooling and separation unit, prevent dust from adsorbing to charges at each surface thereof, and print high quality images having near-photographic quality, in which a belt-fixing smoothing device having a heating and pressuring member, a belt member, a cooling device, and a cooling and separating unit is used to conduct fixing treatment to an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet. In this case, a surface resistivity (SR1) of one side of the image-receiving sheet on which an image is formed satisfies the formula 1.0×109 ?/cm2?SR1?1.0×1014 ?/cm2, and a surface resistivity (SR2) of one side of the belt member which becomes in contact with the image satisfies the formula SR2?1.0×1014 ?/cm2.

Abstract: An image receiving material for electrophotography having, on a support, one or more structural layers including a toner image receiving layer, wherein at least one layer of said structural layers comprises plasticizer, and wherein a flow starting temperature of said toner image receiving layer is at 30° C. or higher that is, as well, lower than a temperature of a flow starting temperature of toner resin+10° C., is disclosed. Using the image receiving material can provide formation of toner reflected images similar to photographs with respect to smoothness (glossiness) and also provide no image degradation by image roughness or removal.

Abstract: The image forming process according to the present invention comprises forming a toner image on an electrophotographic image receiving sheet, wherein the electrophotographic image receiving sheet comprises a support and a toner image receiving layer, the toner image receiving layer comprises a thermoplastic resin, and the toner image receiving layer is formed on at least one surface of the support, and wherein in the electrophotographic image receiving sheet, a peripheral margin exists on which the toner image is not formed, and the width of the peripheral margin is 1.2 mm to 13 mm.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming process which can effectively suppress the occurrence of separation electrification between a belt surface layer and an image-receiving layer of an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet at a cooling and separation unit, prevent dust from adsorbing to charges at each surface thereof, and print high quality images having near-photographic quality, in which a belt-fixing smoothing device having a heating and pressuring member, a belt member, a cooling device, and a cooling and separating unit is used to conduct fixing treatment to an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet. In this case, a surface resistivity (SR1) of one side of the image-receiving sheet on which an image is formed satisfies the formula 1.0×109 &OHgr;/cm2≦SR1≦1.0×1014 &OHgr;/cm2, and a surface resistivity (SR2) of one side of the belt member which becomes in contact with the image satisfies the formula SR2≦1.0×1014 &OHgr;/cm2.

Abstract: To produce images at high speed, to conserve energy, and to be satisfactorily operated over the long run, a method fixes a toner onto an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet with the use of a belt fixing and smoothing apparatus and thereby forms an electrophotographic image. The belt fixing and smoothing apparatus includes a hot-pressing member, a belt member, a cooling device, and a cooling-releasing section. In the method, the total heat capacity per unit area in portions where the belt member, the toner, and the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet are in contact with one another is 840 J/K/m2 or less.

Abstract: An electrophotographic image-receiving sheet which includes a support, a toner-receiving layer which contains thermoplastic resin. The fixing belt electrophotographic sheet has an optimized separation force at a surface of the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet from the toner-receiving layer. Having a highly improved long-run properties, the fixing belt electrophotographic sheet realizes a stable paper feed without offset, and provides a good quality image with rich photographic features.

Abstract: In connection with a semiconductor device which adopts the face down mounting method, it is intended to provide a technique which can check the state of continuity between electrode pads formed on a semiconductor chip and electrode pads formed on a wiring substrate.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an image-receiving material, such as an image-receiving sheet, for electrophotography, which is excellent in smoothness (gloss), touch and sheet passing property and usable for the photography and which is free from adhesion or blocking to each other during the storage. The present electrophotographic image-receiving material comprises a support, and a toner image-receiving layer containing a thermoplastic resin formed on the support. Organic particles having a glass transition temperature or melting point not higher than a fixing temperature at which an image is fixed on said toner image-receiving layer are incorporated into the toner image-receiving layer or a second layer forming the electrophotographic image-receiving sheet other than the toner image-receiving layer on the toner image-receiving layer side of said support. In addition, the center line average height on the surface of the support is 0.

Abstract: A self-photography apparatus has an imaging device for picking up an image signal representing a facial image of a human object, a determination device for determining the size of face of the human object. In accordance with the determined face size, the magnification of the image is adjusted so as to make the facial image have a predetermined size in a photograph. The determination device is comprised of a monitor display displaying a video facial image of the human object and indices as the scale of the face size. The magnification of image is changed by manually or automatically changing the object distance or mechanically changing the focal length of a taking lens device. When making a photograph by video printing, the determination device may be a controller determining the face size on the basis of the image signal, an image magnification conversion circuit converts the magnification of image in accordance with the face size determined by the controller.

Abstract: An image forming solvent applying device for applying an image forming solvent, for example, water, to a recording material whereby the recording material is immersed in the image forming solvent and bubbles or dust are wiped from the surface of the recording material. The solvent is supplied into a lower guide member which cooperates with an upper guide member to guide the recording material through the solvent. The two guide members each have a plurality of ribs extending obliquely with respect to a direction of movement of the recording material such that the ribs wipe the entire area of the recording material at least once as viewed in a widthwise direction of the recording material perpendicular to its direction of movement as it is conveyed along the ribs.

Abstract: An image-forming process using a long rolled transparent light-sensitive recording material is disclosed. The process comprises applying at least two image-forming steps each including at least an image exposure and a development to a long rolled transparent light-sensitive recording material comprising a support having thereon a light-sensitive layer and a surface protective layer containing a hardenable compound and fine particles. The recording material preferably has a backing layer containing fine particles.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for preparation of a charge-regulatory agent characterized by reacting an amino acid with a titanium compound in an organic solvent to form a reaction mixture and further reacting the resultant reaction mixture with water which is equimolar or more to said titanium compound, and a liquid developer for development of an electrostatic image comprising a dispersion of resin-containing toner particles dispersion in a carrier solution having an electric resistance of 10.sup.9 .OMEGA..multidot.cm or more and a dielectric constant of 3.5 or less and containing said charge-regulatory agent prepared as mentioned above.When an electrostatic latent image is developed with the present liquid developer containing the special charge-regulatory agent, an image of excellent resolving power, good half-tone reproduction and excellent gradation may be obtained without the occurence of any image flow.

Abstract: A liquid developer for electrostatic images which comprises at least one charge controlling agent selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formula (I) or (II) and complex salts containing a molecular structure shown by the formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl and substituted alkyl group, an aryl and a substituted aryl group, an aralkyl group, an aliphatic acyl group, an aromatic acyl group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 represent identical group or different groups, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together form a heterocyclic ring with the nitrogen atom in the formulae, and when one of R.sup.1 and R.sup.