Abstract: A connection mechanism includes a connection member including a coil spring part and made by a conductor, a holding member that is configured to hold the coil spring part in a compressed state, and a relay member that is electrically connectable to the connection member. Wherein, the relay member is sandwiched between adjacent winding wires of the coil spring part to establish electrical connection.

Abstract: A document search apparatus for searching stored document data based on a specified search word is provided with a search word input unit for inputting the search word, a search processing unit for counting the number of times the search word appears in the document data, and a display control unit for changing, based on the number of times the search word appears in the document data counted by the search processing unit, an amount of the document data displayed. The document search apparatus is capable of lightening the burden placed on the user in finding the document of interest and in search refinement by displaying the search result in an easy-to-see graphical layout.

Abstract: A development device includes a developer carrier configured to supply developer on a latent image formed on a latent image carrier to visualize the latent image. Wherein the developer carrier includes: an elastic layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of a conductive support body, the elastic layer including urethane rubber; and a top layer formed by treating a surface of the elastic layer with treatment solution that includes urethane polymer, silicone-based additive and conductive agent. The top layer includes convex parts that include the urethane rubber and concave parts in which the silicone-based additive and the conductive agent are laminated.

Abstract: A medium feeding apparatus includes an apparatus main body, and a medium cassette removably inserted into the apparatus main body. The medium cassette is configured to store a medium. The medium cassette includes a medium positioning unit for determining a position of the medium, and a locking unit that locks a movement of the medium positioning unit when the medium cassette is inserted into the apparatus main body and before the medium cassette reaches a predetermined position in the apparatus main body.

Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a substrate; a light-emitting element formed on the substrate; a seal member sealing the light-emitting element, the seal member formed of a transparent dry film resist laminated on the substrate with the light-emitting element interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A light-emitting panel includes semiconductor light-emitting devices each having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being placed on a surface of a substrate; lenses each provided in close contact with at least a center portion of the second surface of a corresponding semiconductor light-emitting device. The light-emitting panel further includes a connection wiring being in contact with a region around the center portions while having openings corresponding to the respective center portions.

Abstract: A belt unit includes an endless belt member, a first roller provided on an inner circumferential surface side of the belt member, and a stretching member provided on the inner circumferential surface side of the belt member. The stretching member is configured to stretch the belt member. A circumferential length of the belt member at a center portion in a widthwise direction of the belt member is shorter than a circumferential length of the belt member at an end portion in the widthwise direction of the belt member.

Abstract: A medium loader device includes a first medium loader member configured to load a medium, a second medium loader member usable as an extension of the first medium loader member, and a support member configured to support the first medium loader member and the second medium loader member and to form a storage area capable of storing the second medium loader member between the support member and the first medium loader member. The support member includes a holder configured to hold the first medium loader member such that the first medium loader member moves relative to the support member when the second medium loader member is moved from a usage position where the second medium loader member is used as the extension of the first medium loader member to a storage position where the second medium loader member is stored in the storage area.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an internal memory section installed within an apparatus housing, a communication section for performing data communications with an external memory medium detachably attached to the apparatus housing, and a data writing section for writing data to the external memory medium and the internal memory section. In a case where the external memory medium detached from the apparatus housing during writing the data is attached again to the apparatus housing, the data writing section reads out the data written to the internal memory section, and writes the data to the external memory medium.

Abstract: A lens array includes a first lens row including first lenses arranged in a first direction, a second lens row including second lenses arranged in a direction substantially parallel with the first direction, a first boundary being a boundary between the first lenses adjacent to each other, a second boundary being a boundary between each of the first lenses and the second lens adjacent to the first lens, and a first join portion where the first boundary and the second boundary join each other. At the first joint portion, the first boundary and the second boundary contact each other with no step as seen in a plane that is substantially orthogonal to the first direction.

Abstract: A semiconductor light emission device includes a substrate, and semiconductor light emission elements mounted on the substrate and each including an anode connection pad and a cathode connection pad. At least one of the anode connection pad and the cathode connection pad has a fine shaped portion. An image formation apparatus and an image display apparatus are described using the semiconductor light emission device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet-medium conveying device, which has a first sheet-medium stacker part provided on a casing so as to be capable of being opened from and closed to the casing; a second sheet-medium stacker part provided on the first sheet-medium stacker part so as to be capable of being drawn from and inserted into the first sheet-medium stacker part; and an auxiliary member provided on the first sheet-medium stacker part so as to be capable of being moved, the auxiliary member being engaged with the second sheet-medium stacker part so as to be moved together with the drawing of the second sheet-medium stacker part so that the auxiliary member covers a gap portion between the main sheet-medium stacker surface and the expanded sheet-medium stacker surface when the second sheet-medium stacker part is in a drawn state.

Abstract: An electric device is capable of operating in a normal operation mode and a power save operation mode. The electric device includes a first processor for processing information input externally in the normal operation mode, and a second processor for processing an internal operation of the electric device in the normal operation mode. The second processor consumes power smaller than that of the first processor. In the electric device, power of the first processor is restricted through a restriction process in the power save operation mode. Further, in the power save operation mode, the second processor restricts the internal operation and processes the information input externally. When the second processor detects the information input externally, power of the first processor is released through a restriction releasing process.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion for forming an image on a medium; a main body portion; a medium storage portion; a state detection portion for detecting a movement of the medium storage portion from the main body portion; a medium characteristic identifying portion for identifying a characteristic feature of the medium; a medium characteristic recording portion for recording information of the characteristic feature of the medium; and a control portion for controlling an operation of each portion according to the information of the characteristic feature. The control portion controls the medium characteristic identifying portion to identify the characteristic feature of the medium and update the information of the characteristic feature when a power source is changed from an off state to an on state and the state detection portion detects the movement of the medium storage portion from the main body portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller, an image bearing device with a first memory and one of a first developer material holding device, and a second developer material holding device that are detachably attached to the image bearing device. The first developer material holding device includes a second memory and the second developer material holding device does not includes the second memory. The controller makes a decision to determine whether a developer material holding device attached to the image bearing device has the second memory attached thereto. The controller manages one of the first developer material holding device and the second developer material holding device in accordance with the decision.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus includes: a consumable housing unit configured to detachably house one of multiple types of consumables used for image formation; an image formation unit configured to execute printing of print data received from a host apparatus on a record medium in accordance with a print condition specified by the host apparatus; a printable mode determination unit configured to determine a currently executable print mode based on a type of a consumable installed in the consumable housing unit; and a print controller configured to determine whether or not the printing of the print data received from the host apparatus is possible based on the print conditions specified by the host apparatus and the executable print mode determined by the printable mode determination unit.

Abstract: A semiconductor device is manufactured using dicing of a semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a base insulating layer formed on the substrate, a semiconductor element formed on the base insulating layer, and a separate pattern portion formed on an end portion of the substrate separately from the base insulating layer. The separate pattern portion prevents the base insulating layer from being peeled off from the substrate when the dicing is performed.

Abstract: A fixation device includes a first roller, a second roller facing the first roller, a stretch member configured to travel to pass between the first roller and the second roller, a press member configured to press the stretch member against the first roller, a heater member configured to heat the stretch member, a movement mechanism configured to move at least one of the first roller and the second roller in such directions that the first roller and the second roller come close to each other and are spaced away from each other, and a controller configured, depending on a type of a medium, to change a contact state between the first roller and the second roller by driving the movement mechanism.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer supporting member having an elastic layer and a surface layer covering the elastic layer for supporting developer; and a developer layer regulating member arranged to abut against the surface layer for regulating a layer thickness of the developer on the surface layer. The surface layer contains at least carbon black. The developer supporting member is configured so that the following equation (1) is satisfied when the surface layer has a dynamic friction coefficient ? between 0.4 and 0.9 (0.4???0.9) and a ten-point average roughness Rz (?m) between 2 ?m and 6 ?m (2?Rz?6): 2?C?0.5×Rz+3 ??(1) where C is a content of the carbon black (weight parts relative to the surface layer of 100).

Abstract: The present invention provides an information printing method and a printing device, which assure a higher level of security when outputting printed matter. The present invention provides a printing device comprising a document storage means for storing electronic document data generated at a printing instruction issuing terminal operated by a printing instruction issuer and transmitted from the printing instruction issuing terminal, an ID setting means for setting a print retriever ID of a print retriever who is to execute processing for outputting the electronic document data stored at the document storage means onto paper, a watermark information superimposing means for superimposing the print retriever ID having been set at the ID setting means as watermark information onto the electronic document data and a printing means for outputting the electronic document data having the watermark information superimposed thereupon by the watermark information superimposing means onto paper.