Abstract: Provided is a mechanism for setting whether to enable a shift function for shifting the sheet on which the image is printed in accordance with detection of the original.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, a method of controlling it and a storage medium are described. The apparatus detects an error, reproduces moving images corresponding to operations of an operation procedure for cancelling the error, and detects user operations. When the apparatus detects an operation during reproduction of a corresponding moving image, and the operation is not a last operation, the apparatus reproduces a next operation moving image. When the operation is not detected during reproduction of the corresponding moving image, the apparatus ends reproduction of the moving image. In a case that the operation is detected during reproduction of the corresponding moving image, and the operation is the last operation, the apparatus executes error recovery processing.

Abstract: A roller support mechanism supports a rotary shaft of a second roller disposed in parallel with a first roller. The roller support mechanism includes a support frame, a cover member, a bearing member, and an urging member. The support frame is made of sheet metal and has a support groove extending in a direction away from the first roller and receiving the rotary shaft. The cover member is made of sheet metal and is attached to the support groove to cover a pair of side edge sections facing each other across the support groove. The bearing member is made of resin and has a bearing groove that rotatably supports the rotary shaft. The bearing member is disposed in the support groove, with the cover member interposed therebetween, so as to be movable in a direction toward/away from a bottom of the support groove. The urging member urges the bearing member in a direction away from the bottom of the support groove.

Abstract: A cuff-equipped tube formed by providing a cuff to the outer periphery of a flexible tube, the cuff being expanded by introducing an operation fluid thereinto or being contracted by discharging the operation fluid therefrom. The cuff is provided with a cuff affixing portion expanded outward by the introduction of the operation fluid thereinto, and also with one mounting portion and the other mounting portion that are mounted to the outer peripheral surface of the tube. The connecting portions of the cuff affixing portion and the one mounting portion is affixed in a constricted shape to the outer peripheral surface of the tube, and the connecting portions of the cuff affixing portion and the other mounting portion is affixed in a constricted shape to the outer peripheral surface of the tube.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a liquid supply device and biological cleaning device that, by supplying a sterile liquid including low-flow, low-pressure microbubbles, can dramatically increase cleaning effects and clean quickly and neatly without damaging a biological tissue. A liquid supply device 3, having a supply flow path 2 for supplying a liquid containing microbubbles to a cleaning instrument 1 for cleaning an organism and to a cleaning target such as a medical instrument, is characterized by being provided with a tube pump 5 for delivering the liquid to the supply flow path 2 and a microbubble generator B that is provided midway on the supply flow path 2 and is for causing microbubbles to be generated in the liquid.

Abstract: A powder conveying device includes a first conveying unit, a second conveying unit, a conveying member, a powder pulverizing member, and a protective member. The first conveying unit has a lower end. The second conveying unit has one end connected to the lower end. The conveying member is disposed in the second conveying unit and includes a shaft member and a protruding portion formed around the shaft member, and conveys the powder. The powder pulverizing member is disposed in the first conveying unit so as to be able to oscillate. The protective member is attached to the powder pulverizing member and makes contact with the protruding portion of the conveying member. A contact state between the protective member and the protruding portion changes according to a rotation angle of the conveying member, and the protective member and the powder pulverizing member oscillate due to changes in the contact state.

Abstract: A lithium secondary battery positive electrode according to the present invention is a lithium secondary battery positive electrode including a positive electrode material mixture layer containing a positive electrode active material and a conductivity enhancing agent on one or both sides of a current collector, wherein the positive electrode active material contains a lithium-containing composite oxide, the conductivity enhancing agent contains carbon fibers having an average fiber length of 10 nm or more and less than 1000 nm and an average fiber diameter of 1 nm or more and 100 nm or less, and the content of the carbon fibers in the positive electrode material mixture layer is 0.25 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less.

Abstract: A low alloy steel ingot contains from 0.15 to 0.30% of C, from 0.03 to 0.2% of Si, from 0.5 to 2.0% of Mn, from 0.1 to 1.3% of Ni, from 1.5 to 3.5% of Cr, from 0.1 to 1.0% of Mo, and more than 0.15 to 0.35% of V, and optionally Ni, with a balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities. Performing quality heat treatment including a quenching step and a tempering step to the low alloy steel ingot to obtain a material, which has a grain size number of from 3 to 7 and is free from pro-eutectoid ferrite in a metallographic structure thereof, and which has a tensile strength of from 760 to 860 MPa and a fracture appearance transition temperature of not higher than 40° C.

Abstract: An information input apparatus includes a display unit, a detection unit, a user interface providing unit, and a user interface element display unit. The display unit has a screen on which information is displayed. The detection unit is configured to detect a distance and a position of a target object with respect to the screen. The user interface providing unit is configured to provide a user interface depending on the distance of the target object. The user interface element display unit is configured to display a user interface element on the screen depending on the distance and the position of the target object.

Abstract: Provided is an information processing device including a retrieval unit configured to retrieve a data record in which a marker detected in an image acquired by a terminal device is associated with a function of the terminal device, and a calling function determination unit configured to determine the function to be called in the terminal device based on the data record found through the retrieval. The data record includes information generated based on a calling history of the function in which the marker in the terminal device is used.

Abstract: An image forming device includes: a secondary transfer roller configured to secondarily transfer a toner image transferred to an intermediate transfer belt, to a transfer paper; separating plates; and a power supply circuit configured to apply bias voltages to the separating plates. The separating plates are configured to separate the transfer paper from the intermediate transfer belt when the bias voltages are applied to the separating plates. The separating plates include two or more separating plates installed along a direction perpendicular to the transfer paper conveying direction. The bias voltages are applied to the separating plates independently of each other depending on a toner amount distribution of the toner image transferred to the transfer paper, in the direction perpendicular to the transfer paper conveying direction.

Abstract: There is provided a lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a nonaqueous electrolyte liquid and a separator, that is subjected to a constant-current constant-voltage charge with a stop voltage of more than 4.25V before its use. The lithium secondary battery uses the nonaqueous electrolyte liquid having contained 0.1 to 5 mass % of a phosphonoacetate compound represented by the following general formula (1), and having contained 0.1 to 5 mass % of 1,3-dioxane. In General Formula (1), each of R1, R2 and R3 is independently hydrocarbon groups having a carbon number of 1 to 12 with or without substituent of a halogen atom, and n is 0 to 6 integers.

Abstract: An optical member includes an oxide layer that has a stable fine textured structure that is excellent in durability. The optical member includes a base material and an antireflection coating on a surface of the base material. The antireflection coating includes at least an oxide layer having a fine textured structure on the surface, and the oxide layer contains a phosphate compound. Furthermore, a method of manufacturing the optical member is provided.

Abstract: A forging heat resistant steel of an embodiment contains in percent by mass C: 0.05-0.2, Si: 0.01-0.1, Mn: 0.01-0.15, Ni: 0.05-1, Cr: 8 or more and less than 10, Mo: 0.05-1, V: 0.05-0.3, Co: 1-5, W: 1-2.2, N: 0.01 or more and less than 0.015, Nb: 0.01-0.15, B: 0.003-0.03, and a remainder comprising Fe and unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: A printing apparatus according to one aspect of this invention includes a sheet holding unit configured to hold an envelope, and a detection unit configured to detect an opening width between guides for guiding an envelope held by the sheet holding unit. The printing apparatus further includes an identifying unit configured to identify a flap size of the envelope based on the opening width detected by the detection unit and a size set for the envelope held by the sheet holding unit, and a printing unit configured to print an image on the envelope by shifting image data based on the flap size identified by the identifying unit.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an engine device in which a support structure of an exhaust throttle device can be made as a high rigidity structure, and it is possible to prevent the exhaust throttle device from being heated by radiation heat from peripheries of the exhaust throttle device. The engine device of the invention includes an engine (1) having an exhaust manifold (7), and the exhaust throttle device (65) adjusts exhaust gas pressure of the exhaust manifold (7). An exhaust gas intake side of a throttle valve case (68) of the exhaust throttle device (65) is fastened to an exhaust gas outlet, of the exhaust manifold (7), and an exhaust gas pipe (72) is connected to the exhaust manifold (7) through the throttle valve case (68). An intermediate portion of a cooling pipe of an EGR cooler (29) is provided with a cooling water pipe of the exhaust throttle device (65).

Abstract: An optical element includes an optically effective area and an optically ineffective area partly or entirely coated with a coating opaque at wavelengths used. The opaque coating contains a cured product prepared from an epoxy resin and a curing agent containing an alicyclic acid anhydride. The alicyclic acid anhydride is preferably methylhexahydrophthalic anhydride or hexahydrophthalic anhydride.

Abstract: There is provided a communication apparatus for preventing re-transmission to the address associated with a predetermined communication system. The communication apparatus deletes the stored address information after the transmission instruction is received and a transmission process according to the transmission instruction is ended if the stored address information is associated with a predetermined communication system, and the communication apparatus keeps storing the stored address information even after the transmission instruction is received and the transmission process according to the transmission instruction is ended if the stored address information is associated with another communication system.

Abstract: The non-aqueous secondary battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a non-aqueous electrolyte, and a separator, the negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material containing a graphitic carbon material and a composite in which a carbon coating layer is formed on a surface of a core material containing Si and O as constituent elements, the composite has a carbon content of 10 to 30 mass %, the composite has an intensity ratio I510/I1343 of a peak intensity I510 at 510 cm?1 derived from Si to a peak intensity I1343 at 1343 cm?1 derived from carbon of 0.25 or less when a Raman spectrum of the composite is measured at a laser wavelength of 532 nm, and the half-width of the (111) diffraction peak of Si is less than 3.0° when the crystallite size of an Si phase contained in the core material is measured by X-ray diffractometry using CuK? radiation.

Abstract: A printing apparatus according to one aspect of this invention includes a sheet holding unit configured to hold an envelope, and a detection unit configured to detect an opening width between guides for guiding an envelope held by the sheet holding unit. The printing apparatus further includes an identifying unit configured to identify a flap size of the envelope based on the opening width detected by the detection unit and a size set for the envelope held by the sheet holding unit, and a printing unit configured to print an image on the envelope by shifting image data based on the flap size identified by the identifying unit.