Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus to be provided in a vehicle includes an airflow ejector. The vehicle includes a wheel and a wheel housing including a cavity. The cavity is opened downward and laterally outward of a vehicle body of the vehicle, and houses a portion of the wheel. The airflow ejector is provided, in the cavity, on a front side of the vehicle relative to the wheel. The airflow ejector is configured to eject an airflow that forms a turbulence boundary layer adjacent to a surface of the wheel on a vehicle-widthwise inner side.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus to be provided in a vehicle includes a first airflow generator and a second airflow generator. The vehicle includes a front wheel and a rear wheel that are disposed in a vehicle longitudinal direction to be partly protruded from a bottom surface of a vehicle body of the vehicle downward in a vertical direction of the vehicle body. The first airflow generator is provided on the bottom surface of the vehicle body and behind the front wheel, and configured to generate a first airflow moving backward of the vehicle. The second airflow generator is provided on the bottom surface of the vehicle body and behind the first airflow generator, and configured to generate a second airflow that deflects, vehicle-widthwise inward, an airflow flowing in from a side on which the first airflow generator is disposed.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus to be provided in a vehicle includes airflow generators. The vehicle includes a front wheel and a rear wheel that are disposed in a vehicle longitudinal direction to be partly protruded from a bottom surface of a vehicle body of the vehicle downward in a vertical direction of the vehicle body. The airflow generators are provided on the bottom surface of the vehicle body and behind the front wheel. Each of the airflow generators is configured to generate an airflow along an underside of the vehicle body. The airflow has a speed component moving vehicle-widthwise inward. The airflow generators are disposed in a distributed arrangement in the vehicle longitudinal direction.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus to be provided in a vehicle includes a flap and an airflow generator. The vehicle includes a wheel disposed to be partly protruded downward from a vehicle body of the vehicle. The flap is protruded, in front of the wheel, downward from the vehicle body. The airflow generator is configured to generate an airflow, and provided in an underneath of the vehicle body. The airflow generator is configured to generate an airflow. The airflow moves backward and downward of the vehicle and the airflow moves obliquely relative to a horizontal plane.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus to be provided in a vehicle includes a road clearance detector, an airflow generator, and a processor. The vehicle includes a vehicle body, a wheel attached to the vehicle body to be partly protruded downward from the vehicle body, and a suspension that holds the wheel to permit the wheel to make a vertical stroke relative to the vehicle body. The road clearance detector is configured to detect a road clearance. The road clearance is a vertical distance from a road surface to an underside of the vehicle body. The airflow generator is provided in an underneath of the vehicle body, and configured to generate an airflow. The processor is configured to allow the airflow generator to generate a downward airflow having a downward speed component, on the condition that the road clearance has been on the increase.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus to be provided in a vehicle includes a flap and an airflow generator. The vehicle includes a wheel disposed to be partly protruded downward from a vehicle body of the vehicle. The flap is protruded, in front of the wheel, downward from the vehicle body. The airflow generator is provided in an underneath of the vehicle body and vehicle-widthwise inwardly from the wheel. The airflow generator is configured to generate an airflow vehicle-widthwise inward, and backward of the vehicle. The airflow moves obliquely relative to a vehicle longitudinal direction when the vehicle travels forward.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus includes a duct, a duct opening-closing unit for the duct, first and second airflow generators, and an airflow adjustment processor. The duct has an inlet open toward a front of a movable body and an outlet that guides an airflow to an air-blowing target inside the movable body. The first and second airflow generators are provided respectively on first and second faces, opposed to each other, of an inner surface of the duct. The airflow adjustment processor performs, if the duct opening-closing unit is closed, vortex flow formation control of causing the first airflow generator to generate a first airflow that directs to the outlet side with respect to the duct and causing the second airflow generator to generate a second airflow that directs to the inlet side with respect to the duct.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus includes a downward airflow generator, a rearward airflow generator, and a controller. The downward airflow generator is configured to generate an airflow, and is disposed at a front edge of a movable body to generate the airflow traveling in downward direction. The rearward airflow generator is configured to generate an airflow, and is disposed at a lower surface of the movable body to generate the airflow traveling in a rearward direction. The controller is configured to perform switching between a lifting-force increase control and a lifting-force suppression control in accordance with a state of the movable body to execute one of the controls. The lifting-force increase control is a control of activating the downward airflow generator and deactivating the rearward airflow generator. The lifting-force suppression control is a control of deactivating the downward airflow generator and activating the rearward airflow generator.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes sensors for detecting a plurality of types of errors. The information processing apparatus identifies a type of an error detected by one of the sensors, acquires a result of diagnostic processing corresponding to the identified type of the error, and outputs error information indicating the identified type of the error, and diagnostic information about a component corresponding to the result of the diagnostic processing.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that is capable of specifying a failed portion while preventing delay of an image forming operation appropriately. An image forming unit forms an image on a recording material. A detection unit detects an abnormality. A controller determines a type of an abnormality detected by the detection unit. The controller controls, in a case where the abnormality is detected by the detection unit, a start timing of failure diagnosis that specifies a failed portion that causes the abnormality according to the determined type of the abnormality.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller, a conveyance unit, and an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit along a conveyance path. The controller controls to stop conveyance by the conveyance unit where a first abnormality is detected in the image forming apparatus, and controls to execute first determining processing for determining a failure portion that is a cause of the first abnormality. The controller controls to stop conveyance by the conveyance unit where a second abnormality is detected in the image forming apparatus, and controls to execute second determining processing for determining a failure portion that is a cause of the second abnormality. The first determining processing is executed without outputting announce information for prompting removal of a sheet remaining in the conveyance path. The controller outputs the announce information and executes the second determining processing.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus includes two or more airflow generators and a controller. The airflow generators are arranged in first and second directions along a surface of an object. The airflow generators are configured to generate respective airflows in parallel directions parallel along the surface of the object. The second direction intersects with the first direction. The controller is configured to control outputs from the respective airflow generators independently of each other. The controller is configured to cause a total output from the airflow generators in a first group to be greater than a total output of the airflow generators in a second group. The airflow generators in the first and the second groups are arranged side by side in an airflow generation direction. The airflow generators in the second group are adjacent to those in the first group.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus to be installed in a vehicle includes an airflow generator and a controller. The airflow generator is provided on an inner surface of a wheel house or on a wheel. The wheel house provides a wheel containing section of a vehicle body. The wheel is contained in the wheel containing section. The airflow generator is configured to generate an airflow that flows from the wheel containing section toward outer side in a vehicle widthwise direction. The controller is configured to control the airflow generator.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus to be installed in a vehicle includes two or more outward airflow generators and a controller. The outward airflow generators are disposed side by side in a vehicle front-rear direction in vicinity of an outer edge in a vehicle widthwise direction on an upper surface of a vehicle body on a front side of a windshield. The outward airflow generators are each configured to form an outward airflow with respect to the vehicle body. The outward airflow flows in a direction that is toward an outer side in the vehicle widthwise direction and toward a rear side of the vehicle. The controller is configured to control the outward airflow generators.

Abstract: An airflow adjusting apparatus includes an airflow generator, a state detector, and a controller. The airflow generator is configured to generate a control airflow to cause the control airflow to join an around-vehicle airflow formed around a vehicle body of a traveling vehicle. The airflow generator is configured to vary a flow direction of the control airflow with respect to a surface of the vehicle body. The state detector is configured to detect a state of the around-vehicle airflow. The controller is configured to vary the flow direction of the control airflow on the basis of the state of the around-vehicle airflow detected by the state detector.

Abstract: There is provided a substrate storage container 1 capable of suppressing deformation of a functional member insert-molded and a method of manufacturing the container 1, and an device positioning member 4 as the functional member including: an attachment part 41 having a thick section 413 formed in thickness equal to a wall member of a container body 10 or a lid 20 and a thin section 410 decreasing in thickness as it approaches toward an outer edge from the thick section 413; and a body part 42 coupled to the attachment part 41, the device positioning member 4 being disposed on the container body 10 or the lid 20 so that a first surface 420 of the thick section 413 is flush with an inner surface of the wall member.

Abstract: In an image processing apparatus gradation is represented by binary or multiple values. There is a memory to store correction information including a correction value corresponding to a position of image data. Correction circuitry corrects the image data according to the correction value. The number of bits representing the correction value for gradation is larger than the number of bits used to represent the image data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that forms an image on an intermediate transfer member, and that transfers the image onto a sheet conveyed along a conveyance path, the image forming apparatus includes a display configured to display a screen for prompting removal of a remaining sheet, and a controller configured to detect an abnormality, determine whether a failure has occurred based on a detection result, and execute, in a case where the failure has occurred, a failure diagnosis operation after an interruption processing is executed. In a case where the failure diagnosis operation of a first type is selected, the display does not display the screen. In a case where the failure diagnosis operation of a second type is selected, (a) the display displays the screen, and (b) the controller executes the failure diagnosis operation of the second type after the remaining sheet is removed.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a storage unit to store therein, for each of a plurality of colors, correction information in which a correction value for obtaining a target output value is associated with each of combinations of one of a plurality of density values of image data corresponding to the color and one of a plurality of positions in a main scanning direction of image data; and a corrector to correct, when a pixel in input image data indicating image data received from a host device includes two or more colors, for each of the two or more colors, a density value of the color using a value smaller than a correction value corresponding to a combination of the density value of the color and a position of the pixel in the main scanning direction.

Abstract: Consumption of toner can be minimized in a method of performing dew condensation elimination through toner application to a photosensitive drum. To this end, an image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive drums; an intermediate transfer belt to which toner images are transferred from the plurality of photosensitive drums; a controller configured to determine whether or not a dew condensation occurrence condition is met; and a dew condensation elimination unit configured to perform a dew condensation elimination operation by applying toner to at least one of the plurality of photosensitive drums in a case in which the controller determines that the dew condensation occurrence condition is met and when a start instruction for image formation is received. When the image formation is started in a color image formation mode, the dew condensation elimination unit executes a first dew condensation elimination mode of applying toner to all of the plurality of photosensitive drums.