Abstract: A sheet waste processing device includes: a sheet processing tool that generates piece-like sheet wastes by processing for sheets; a waste receiver that is provided freely movably under the sheet processing tool between a setting position where the sheet wastes generated by the sheet processing tool are housed and a non-setting position where the sheet wastes housed are disposed of; and a transporting/guarding member that is provided between the sheet processing tool and the waste receiver, transports the sheet wastes into the waste receiver located at the setting position, and blocks direct touching the sheet processing tool from a waste receiver space generated by movement of the waste receiver under the condition that the waste receiver is moved to the non-setting position.

Abstract: A sheet processing device includes: a sheet processing tool that generates piece-like sheet wastes by processing for sheets; and a sheet waste housing device that houses sheet wastes generated by the sheet processing tool, the sheet waste housing device including: a waste receiver that is provided freely movably between a setting position where the sheet wastes are received and a non-setting position where the sheet wastes received at the setting position are disposed of; and an auxiliary waste receiver that is temporarily located at an auxiliary setting position where the sheet wastes is received in place of the waste receiver under the condition that the waste receiver has been moved from the setting position, and that retreats from the auxiliary setting position under the condition that the waste receiver is located at the setting position.

Abstract: This invention is to safely and surely distribute authentication information to users or user terminals. This method includes: requesting authentication using predetermined authentication information for an access destination via a network; receiving a notification indicating an authentication failure from the access destination; acquiring currently valid authentication information from an authentication information manager by transmitting data to indicate own legitimacy, and storing the acquired currently valid authentication information into a storage device; and requesting the authentication using the acquired currently valid authentication information for the access destination via the network. Thus, by supposing that a failure in the authentication occurs, and by causing the user side to present the data to indicate own legitimacy for the authentication information manager, the currently valid authentication information is distributed, for example, after the encryption.

Abstract: When a new paper sheet is supplied onto a compiling tray, a sub-paddle holds down paper sheets having already been stacked on the compiling tray until a leading edge of the new paper sheet S touches the stacked paper sheets. Thereafter, the sub-paddle gets apart from the sheets stacked on the compiling tray with timing, with which the rear edge of the new paper sheet falls on the compiling tray.

Abstract: When a new paper sheet is supplied onto a compiling tray, a sub-paddle holds down paper sheets having already been stacked on the compiling tray until a leading edge of the new paper sheet S touches the stacked paper sheets. Thereafter, the sub-paddle gets apart from the sheets stacked on the compiling tray with timing, with which the rear edge of the new paper sheet falls on the compiling tray.

Abstract: When a new paper sheet is supplied onto a compiling tray, a sub-paddle holds down paper sheets having already been stacked on the compiling tray until a leading edge of the new paper sheet S touches the stacked paper sheets. Thereafter, the sub-paddle gets apart from the sheets stacked on the compiling tray with timing, with which the rear edge of the new paper sheet falls on the compiling tray.

Abstract: A color matching method characterized by comprising the steps of executing, in a batch process, by applying a preset correction condition, color matching that is offered to a color separating job done in a printing preparation step by B who has received from A an order for printing documents including color images and that substantially matches the color of a digital image (on a computer monitor display in an image processing system) with the color of a corresponding original image, classifying the result into a normal digital image correctable to a color proximate to the color of the corresponding original image and a non-correctable digital image according to the preset condition, and sequentially correcting the image color of the former correction digital image as required by a known technique and individually correcting the image color of the latter image by a known technique.

Abstract: A method and a wireless communication control apparatus for handing off a mobile station in a mobile communication system including at least two wireless base stations. A handoff threshold which is set in the mobile station is varied according to quality of a wireless link between the mobile station and a first wireless base station which currently controls the mobile station. Then, the processing for handing off the mobile station from the first wireless base station to a second wireless base station is performed based on the handoff threshold.

Abstract: An image forming unit performs an image forming process of forming images in sheets whose paper qualities are different from one another and a stapling process of stacking the plural sheets on which the images are formed and stapling them. The image forming unit includes a paper-quality obtaining section which obtains the paper quality of the sheet on which the image is formed in each sheet before the image forming process is performed; an accumulation section which accumulates a value based on the paper quality obtained by the paper-quality obtaining section in each of the plural sheets to be stapled before the stapling process is performed; and a stapling decision section which prohibits the stapling process when the value accumulated by the accumulation section exceeds a predetermined threshold.

Abstract: A wavefront splitting element includes a diffraction grating for splitting light into multiple beams including transmitting light and reflected light.

Abstract: A stapler unit has a staple section, a cutter section, and a receiving section. A stapling device further includes a staple recovery box which is disposed at a staple discarding position and which recovers the tip ends to be discarded from the receiving section; and a staple discarding mechanism which delivers the tip ends received in the receiving section of the stapler unit to the staple recovery box. One of the plural stapling positions is identical with the staple discarding position.

Abstract: A wavefront splitting element includes a diffraction grating for splitting light into multiple beams including transmitting light and reflected light.

Abstract: The invention provides a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus having magnetic field applying unit applying a magnetic field to a magnetoresistive element to correct a misaligned magnetization direction of the magnetoresistive element. The magnetic field applying unit can be used to correct a misaligned magnetization direction of a free layer of a giant magnetoresistive element. A magnetic field applying unit controller controls the magnetic field applying unit to adjust a magnetization direction and intensity of a magnetic field of the giant magnetoresistive element. The magnetic field applying unit controller can control the magnetic field applying unit to apply a magnetic field only during a data reading time, and to increase the intensity of the application magnetic field during a data re-reading time. The magnetic field applying unit is mounted, corresponding to a head on a suspension that supports a head slider, on a surface of the suspension opposite to the surface on which the head is mounted.

Abstract: A method and a wireless communication control apparatus for handing off a mobile station in a mobile communication system including at least two wireless base stations. A handoff threshold which is set in the mobile station is varied according to quality of a wireless link between the mobile station and a first wireless base station which currently controls the mobile station. Then, the processing for handing off the mobile station from the first wireless base station to a second wireless base station is performed based on the handoff threshold.

Abstract: A projection exposure apparatus includes a projection optical system arranged to project a pattern onto a substrate, a holding portion arranged to hold an optical element which propagates light toward the projection optical system, a mask having a transmission portion and being disposed on or near an image plane or object plane of the projection optical system or a plane conjugate to the image plane and the object plane, an actuator arranged to drive the mask along a plane of an image of the optical element formed by the projection optical system, and a measurement device arranged to measure an intensity of light while the mask is driven. The light emerges from the optical element, and passes through the projection optical system and the transmission portion of the mask.

Abstract: When a new paper sheet is supplied onto a compiling tray, a sub-paddle holds down paper sheets having already been stacked on the compiling tray until a leading edge of the new paper sheet S touches the stacked paper sheets. Thereafter, the sub-paddle gets apart from the sheets stacked on the compiling tray with timing, with which the rear edge of the new paper sheet falls on the compiling tray.

Abstract: A measurement method of measuring wavefront aberration of a projection optical system in a projection exposure apparatus for projecting a reticle pattern onto a substrate via the projection optical system. The method includes a measurement step of measuring intensity of a light beam having passed through the projection optical system and a phase shift pattern at a plane conjugate to a pupil plane of the projection optical system or a plane spaced apart from the phase shift pattern enough to separately detect respective rays emerging from plural points of the pupil plane, when the phase shift pattern set near an image plane or object plane of the projection optical system for forming an image of a pattern is scanned in one or a plurality of directions perpendicular to an optical axis of the projection optical system. The method also includes a signal processing step of calculating the wavefront aberration of the projection optical system on the basis of a measurement result of the measurement step.

Abstract: A wavefront splitting element includes a diffraction grating for splitting light into multiple beams including transmitting light and reflected light.

Abstract: The vicinity of an imaging position where the image of a pattern is formed via a projection optical system has another pattern. A projection exposure apparatus uses a light intensity distribution measurement unit for measuring the light intensity distribution of an image formed by a beam having passed through a phase shift pattern different from the pattern. The wavefront aberration of the projection optical system is calculated from changes in light intensity distribution obtained by the light intensity distribution measurement unit in synchronism with scan when the phase shift pattern is scanned in one or a plurality of directions perpendicular to the optical axis of the projection optical system.

Abstract: A projection exposure apparatus includes an illumination system, a projection optical system for projecting a pattern on a substrate, a holding portion for holding a first mask having a first transmission portion between the illumination system and the projection optical system, a second mask which is arranged near the image-side focal position of the projection optical system and has a second transmission portion, and an actuator for driving the second mask in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the projection optical system.