Abstract: A vehicle body front structure includes a main body section (21) extending forward from a substantially central portion of a front pillar in an upward/downward direction, and an upper member (5) including an extension section (22) extending forward and downward from the main body section (21). The main body section (21) includes a first L-shaped member (31). The extension section (22) includes a second L-shaped member (33). Either one of the first L-shaped member (31) and the second L-shaped member (33) has an extension portion (51) overlapping a wall surface of the other one of the first L-shaped member and the second L-shaped member different from a flange (41) and a flange (42) of the other one of the first L-shaped member (31) and the second L-shaped member (33).

Abstract: An inner space having a rectangular cross section with the long-side-to-short-side ratio greater than one is formed in a housing (20A, 20B) made of an insulator. The inner space forms a desolvation region (4) and a drift region (5). A shutter gate (22) located within the inner space also has a long-side-to-short-side ratio greater than one. A number of conductive wires are stretched over the opening of the gate to form grid electrodes. This configuration allows the shutter gate (22) to have a large opening area while using short conductive wires to decrease the amount of deflection of the wires due to the potential difference between the wires and thereby prevent the adjacent wires from coming in contact with each other as well as prevent the electric field from being disordered due to an operation for allowing ions to pass through or blocking ions. Since the desolvation region (4) and drift region (5) have a rectangular cross section, the Reynolds number is low, and a diffusion gas forms a laminar flow.

Abstract: A control device includes a storage and a controller and controls a system having an image forming apparatus to form an image onto a sheet based on an image forming job, and a sheet stacking apparatus having a stacking tray. The storage stores stacking state information indicating a state of sheets stacked and/or to he stacked on the stacking tray. The controller controls to generate a system configuration image that visualizes a configuration of the system, to generate a sheet bundle image that visualizes a sheet bundle stacked on the tray, and to display a screen in which the sheet bundle image is combined at a position of the stacking tray in the system configuration image. The controller controls to display the sheet bundle image such that sheets of a processed job, sheets of a job being processed, and sheets of a processing waiting job are distinguished from each other.

Abstract: A control device, to control a system having an image forming apparatus to form an image on a sheet based on an image forming job and a sheet discharge apparatus having stacking trays for the sheet, includes a storage storing stacking state information for each stacking tray, a generator, a display controller, and an input portion. The generator generates a system configuration image, and a sheet bundle image representing a sheet bundle stacked on each stacking tray based on the stored stacking state information. The display controller displays a screen in which the sheet bundle image is combined at a position of each stacking tray in the system configuration image. The input portion inputs designation of an image forming job corresponding to sheets to be taken out. The display controller displays an order of taking out the sheets corresponding to the image forming job designated through the input portion.

Abstract: A control device to control an image forming system having an image forming apparatus and a sheet discharge apparatus and includes a storage, a generator, and a controller. The storage stores sheet stacking information and taking out completion information. The generator generates a sheet bundle image representing a sheet bundle stacked on each of plural stacking trays based on the stored sheet stacking information. The controller combines the sheet bundle image with a system configuration image to display a combination on a display. The controller filters, from a list of processed image forming jobs, an image forming job for which sheets are not taken out to display the filtered image forming job on the display, and updates the sheet stacking information and the taking out completion information where the controller controls to determine that the sheet bundle stacked on any one of the plural stacking trays is taken out.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a processor and a memory to control a system having an image forming apparatus and a sheet discharge apparatus. Executing a memory store program causes the control apparatus to receive configuration information of the system and generate a system configuration image, receive stacking state information and generate a sheet bundle image, display a screen, receive job identification information of an image forming job of sheets to be picked up, and display a thumbnail image. The stacking state information includes a stacking amount of sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray. The sheet bundle image represents the sheets stacked on a sheet stacking tray based on the stacking state information. The system configuration image and the sheet bundle image are combined in the screen. The thumbnail image is based on receiving the job identification information.

Abstract: A vehicle body front structure includes a main body section (21) extending forward from a substantially central portion of a front pillar in an upward/downward direction, and an upper member (5) including an extension section (22) extending forward and downward from the main body section (21). The main body section (21) includes a first L-shaped member (31). The extension section (22) includes a second L-shaped member (33). Either one of the first L-shaped member (31) and the second L-shaped member (33) has an extension portion (51) overlapping a wall surface of the other one of the first L-shaped member and the second L-shaped member different from a flange (41) and a flange (42) of the other one of the first L-shaped member (31) and the second L-shaped member (33).

Abstract: A drift voltage generator applies voltages to a plurality of annular electrodes, respectively, so that a potential distribution ? on an ion beam axis of an accelerating electric field created within a drift region satisfies ?2?/?Z2>0. Trailing ions undergo a higher rate of acceleration than preceding ions, so that a compressing force acts on an ion packet in the direction of the ion beam axis. Consequently, the ion packet is constantly confined to a smaller space in the direction of the ion beam axis, and ions having the same ion mobility form a narrower peak in a spectrum with the horizontal axis representing the drift time, so that the resolving power improves. A control unit switches the applied voltages so that a uniform accelerating electric field is created.

Abstract: A spray area in which a large number of droplets of a liquid sample sprayed from a spray nozzle is separated from the tip of a needle electrode for corona discharge by a sufficiently large distance, with a grid electrode facing the needle electrode placed in between. Ring electrodes for creating an electric field which drives primary ions that should react with the sample and generate sample-derived ions are provided within an ion chamber between the grid electrode and the spray area. Primary ions generated by corona discharge within the space between the needle electrode and the grid electrode pass through the opening of the grid electrode, reach the spray area under the effect of the electric field, and ionize sample components. Since the droplets are prevented from adhering to the needle electrode, the corona discharge is maintained in a stable state.

Abstract: A print control device that facilitates management of print job. The print control device performs a processing on a print job to generate image data capable of being printed by an image forming device, transmits the generated image data to the image forming device, determines whether or not the data amount of image data that has not yet been printed by the image forming device, among the transmitted image data, exceeds a threshold value, and, in a case where the data amount of the image data that has not yet been printed exceeds the threshold value, holds transmission of image data of a subsequent print job and transmits job information that indicates an attribute of the subsequent print job and does not include image data, to the image forming device.

Abstract: According to a print control apparatus and a method of controlling the same of the present invention, when the printing apparatus is in a power saving state, when an instruction for registering in the printing apparatus sheet information stored in a storage unit in association with a sheet feeder of the printing apparatus is received, the sheet information is registered in a list, and when the printing apparatus returns from the power saving state, control is performed so that sheet information registered in the list is transmitted to the printing apparatus.

Abstract: A drift voltage generator applies voltages to a plurality of annular electrodes, respectively, so that a potential distribution ? on an ion beam axis of an accelerating electric field created within a drift region satisfies ?2?/?Z2>0. Trailing ions undergo a higher rate of acceleration than preceding ions, so that a compressing force acts on an ion packet in the direction of the ion beam axis. Consequently, the ion packet is constantly confined to a smaller space in the direction of the ion beam axis, and ions having the same ion mobility form a narrower peak in a spectrum with the horizontal axis representing the drift time, so that the resolving power improves. A control unit switches the applied voltages so that a uniform accelerating electric field is created.

Abstract: According to a print control apparatus and a method of controlling the same of the present invention, when the printing apparatus is in a power saving state, when an instruction for registering in the printing apparatus sheet information stored in a storage unit in association with a sheet feeder of the printing apparatus is received, the sheet information is registered in a list, and when the printing apparatus returns from the power saving state, control is performed so that sheet information registered in the list is transmitted to the printing apparatus.

Abstract: A method for controlling a printing apparatus, including a printing unit for performing printing on a transparent sheet, includes analyzing print data, and extracting a first object to be printed on a front side of the transparent sheet and a second object to be printed on a back side of the transparent sheet, and controlling the printing unit to print image data generated from the extracted first object on the front side of the transparent sheet, convert image data generated from the extracted second object into a mirror image, and print the mirror image on the back side of the transparent sheet.

Abstract: According to a print control apparatus and a method of controlling the same of the present invention, when the printing apparatus is in a power saving state, when an instruction for registering in the printing apparatus sheet information stored in a storage unit in association with a sheet feeder of the printing apparatus is received, the sheet information is registered in a list, and when the printing apparatus returns from the power saving state, control is performed so that sheet information registered in the list is transmitted to the printing apparatus.

Abstract: Shutter gate grid is a structure wherein first and second disc-shaped members made of metal with an insulation sheet member sandwiched therebetween are integrally joined by means of insulative screws. Gate grids with conductive wires secured to the central openings thereof are fused onto the disc-shaped members; screw insertion holes formed in the second disc-shaped member are fan-shaped and have play in the direction of rotation, making it possible to adjust the parallelism of the conductive wires of the two members by finely adjusting the rotational position when tightening the screws. Moreover, diffusion gas can be made to flow through ventilation holes provided at common locations on each member, thus making it possible to provide uniformity of diffusion gas flow in the drift region.

Abstract: A network transfer unit of a print control apparatus that is connected to an image forming apparatus to form a print system determines a power state of the print system based on an operating state of the print control apparatus and an operating state of the image forming apparatus, and then sends a notification of the determined power state over a network. In a case where there is a change in the operating state of the print control apparatus, the network transfer unit determines the operating state of the image forming apparatus without changing the operating state of the image forming apparatus, determines the power state of the print system based on the change in the operating state of the print control apparatus and the determined operating state of the image forming apparatus, and then sends a notification of the determined power state over the network.

Abstract: A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory, a volatile memory, and a memory controller. The volatile memory includes a free block management table, and a worn block management table. If the number of free blocks is equal to or larger than a threshold value 1, and errors of the number of equal to or larger than a threshold value 2 but smaller than a threshold value 3 are included in the data read from the nonvolatile memory, the memory controller registers the block in the worn block management table as a worn block. If the number of free blocks becomes smaller than the threshold value 1, the memory controller registers the worn block registered in the worn block management table in the free block management table as the free block.

Abstract: Shutter gate grid is a structure wherein first and second disc-shaped members made of metal with an insulation sheet member sandwiched therebetween are integrally joined by means of insulative screws. Gate grids with conductive wires secured to the central openings thereof are fused onto the disc-shaped members; screw insertion holes formed in the second disc-shaped member are fan-shaped and have play in the direction of rotation, making it possible to adjust the parallelism of the conductive wires of the two members by finely adjusting the rotational position when tightening the screws. Moreover, diffusion gas can be made to flow through ventilation holes provided at common locations on each member, thus making it possible to provide uniformity of diffusion gas flow in the drift region.

Abstract: In some cases, it is difficult to carry out ultrasonic joining of high quality with a conventional bonding tool. A bonding tool includes: a horn that transmits an ultrasonic vibration; an ultrasonic vibrator that is provided at one end of the horn, and generates the ultrasonic vibration; and an electronic component holding part that holds an electronic component, wherein the electronic component holding part has a male fitting part in a shape of a tapering-off, and an electronic component holding face that holds the electronic component on an opposite side to the male fitting part, a female fitting part in a shape according to a shape of the male fitting part is formed in a predetermined face of the horn, and the male fitting part is fitted into the female fitting part via an adhesion layer.