Abstract: A cartridge includes a frame, a drive input member, a toner feeding member driven based on a driving force received by a coupling and a discharge member having a discharge opening for discharging toner fed by the toner feeding member, to outside of the cartridge. The discharge opening is capable of orienting opposite from a side where the drive input member is provided, in a longitudinal direction of the cartridge.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a controller configured to provide a mobile input function that enables the image forming apparatus to accept input operations from a mobile terminal via a network interface. After starting to provide the mobile input function, the controller sends display data to the mobile terminal via the network interface, thereby causing the mobile terminal to display an operation screen for operating the image forming apparatus from the mobile terminal. The controller displays a standby screen including a particular operable object on a touch panel when the mobile input function is not provided. When the particular operable object is operated, the controller switches the standby screen to a local operation screen. In response to accepting an operation on the local operation screen, the controller performs a process according to what kind of operation has been accepted on the local operation screen.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a network interface, an operation panel including a touch panel, and a controller configured to provide a mobile input function to a mobile terminal via the network interface. The mobile input function enables the image forming apparatus to accept input operations from the mobile terminal via the network interface. The controller displays access information on the touch panel when the mobile input function is not provided, and starts providing the mobile input function in response to receiving access from the mobile terminal using the access information via the network interface. After starting to provide the mobile input function, the controller sends display data to the mobile terminal via the network interface, thereby causing the mobile terminal to display an operation screen for operating the image forming apparatus from the mobile terminal.

Abstract: A method for producing a printed material includes forming a color image having an image area ratio of 20% or less on a peripheral edge portion of a recording medium by using a coloring material; providing pressure-induced phase transition particles to a region of the recording medium, the region including the peripheral edge portion; bonding the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles onto the recording medium; and folding the recording medium having the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles bonded thereon and pressure-bonding the folded recording medium, or pressure-bonding the recording medium having the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles bonded thereon and another recording medium placed on top of each other.

Abstract: A method of inkjet printing includes applying a driving signal to a head through a controller, the head including nozzles, driving the head in response to the driving signal, and applying a first control signal that changes a driving waveform of the driving signal to the head through the controller.

Abstract: A train equipment management system includes an information collection apparatus that collects individual identification numbers for identifying devices from identification tags attached to the devices installed in a train, collects device operation information indicating an operating condition of each device, and transmits, for each device, the individual identification number, the device operation information, a car number for identifying a car in which each device is installed, and a formation number for identifying the train, to a ground system; and the ground system that manages the formation number, the car number, and the device operation information in association with the individual identification number of each device.

Abstract: A structure for preventing intrusion of rainwater into an engine room includes: an air intake cover that is fixed to an engine cover having an inclined portion where a height gradually lowers from a cabin side to a rear door side; a first rainwater gutter that is disposed below an air intake opening portion of the air intake cover and extends horizontally in a vehicle width direction; a second rainwater gutter that is disposed below the first rainwater gutter, and receives rainwater that flows out from an end portion of the first rainwater gutter in the vehicle width direction and allows the rainwater to flow toward a rear door side; and a third rainwater gutter that is disposed on an inner side of an upper edge of the rear door, receives rainwater that flows out from the second rainwater gutter and discharges rainwater to the outside of an engine room.

Abstract: An optical amplification system includes: an optical mixer which combined first light, second light, third light, and fourth light, then branches the combined lights, and outputs first combined light, second combined light, third combined light, and fourth combined light; a first brancher that branches the first combined light and outputs first excitation light and second excitation light; a second brancher that branches the second combined light and outputs third excitation light and fourth excitation light; a third brancher that branches the third combined light and outputs fifth excitation light and sixth excitation light; and a fourth brancher that branches the fourth combined light and outputs seventh excitation light and eighth excitation light.

Abstract: A compressor module includes: an evaporator configured to evaporate a refrigerant of a vapor compression refrigeration cycle; a liquid storage configured to store the refrigerant in a liquid phase; a compressor configured to suction and compress the refrigerant; and a flow passage forming member to which the evaporator, the liquid storage and the compressor are installed. The flow passage forming member forms at least a portion of a flow passage of the refrigerant. The compressor is positioned on a lower side of the flow passage forming member, and the flow passage of the refrigerant includes a suction-side refrigerant flow passage, through which the refrigerant in a gas-phase to be suctioned into the compressor flows. The suction-side refrigerant flow passage has a rising portion that rises upward as the rising portion approaches the compressor.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus including a line section through which working dialysate to be introduced into a blood purifier or drain liquid discharged from the blood purifier is caused to flow; a delivery unit that delivers liquid in the line section; an introduction port connected to a supply route through which undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate is supplied, the introduction port allowing the undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate in the supply route to be introduced into the apparatus; an introduction route connected to the introduction port and through which the undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate introduced from the introduction port flows into the line section; a valve unit provided to the introduction route and being capable of opening or closing the introduction route by being opened or closed; and a control unit that controls an operation of opening or closing the valve unit.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus that is capable of, with no preparatory operations, performing substitution by supplying dialysate in a dialysate introduction line to a blood circuit during ultrafiltration treatment, or performing blood return by immediately supplying the dialysate in the dialysate introduction line to the blood circuit after the ultrafiltration treatment. A blood purification apparatus includes a dialyzer, a dialysate introduction line, a dialysate drain line L2 through which drain liquid from the dialyzer is drained, and an ultrafiltration pump capable of removing water from the blood in the blood circuit. The blood purification apparatus is capable of performing substitution or blood return by supplying the dialysate in the dialysate introduction line L1 to the blood circuit.

Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric element having a longitudinal direction, a case including a lid portion, a bottom portion, and a tubular portion and housing the piezoelectric element inside, and a strain gauge positioned at the tubular portion. The tubular portion includes a plurality of bent portions in the longitudinal direction, each of the plurality of bent portions bending in response to extension and contraction of the piezoelectric element. The strain gauge is positioned at the bent portion.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus including a line section through which working dialysate to be introduced into a blood purifier or drain liquid discharged from the blood purifier is caused to flow; a delivery unit that delivers liquid in the line section; an introduction port connected to a supply route through which undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate is supplied, the introduction port allowing the undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate in the supply route to be introduced into the apparatus; an introduction route connected to the introduction port and through which the undiluted dialysate or the working dialysate introduced from the introduction port flows into the line section; a valve unit provided to the introduction route and being capable of opening or closing the introduction route by being opened or closed; and a control unit that controls an operation of opening or closing the valve unit.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus employing a single-needle double-pump method and being capable of automatically discharging a priming solution that has undergone substitution from a blood circuit during blood removal. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit to which an only puncture needle is connectable, a dialyzer that purifies blood flowing in the blood circuit, a first blood pump, a second blood pump, and a control device that allows the blood of a patient to be extracorporeally circulated through the blood circuit by causing the first blood pump and the second blood pump to alternately undergo normal rotation. During blood removal, the control device operates to substitute a priming solution in the blood circuit with the blood of the patient and to discharge the priming solution having undergone the substitution from the blood circuit by causing the first blood pump to undergo normal rotation and the second blood pump to undergo reverse rotation.

Abstract: The present teachings relate to a blood purification apparatus in which the connection of a substitution line to a collecting port can be checked accurately and instantly and even during blood purification treatment. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood circuit, a dialyzer, a dialysate introduction line, a dialysate drain line, a substitution line one end of which is connected to a collecting port provided at a predetermined position of the dialysate introduction line and an other end of which is connected to the blood circuit, a substitution pump configured to form a pressure-increasing portion that includes the collecting port, and a pressure-measuring device capable of measuring a pressure in the pressure-increasing portion. The blood purification apparatus performs a testing process by increasing a liquid pressure in the pressure-increasing portion by utilizing a liquid-feeding pressure applied from a liquid-feeding device and measuring the pressure with the pressure-measuring device.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus and a blood purification system that is operable with increased ease even if a blood purifier requires special treatment conditions and operational settings is used. A blood purification apparatus includes a blood purifier for giving blood purification treatment by purifying blood of a patient; and a control device that executes, in accordance with preset treatment conditions and/or operational settings, an operation for performing the blood purification treatment or an operation associated with the blood purification treatment.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus is provided in which parameters related to ultrafiltration can be changed assuredly and smoothly at the restart of blood purification treatment suspended with the release of the patient from a blood circuit during the blood purification treatment. A blood purification apparatus in which the blood purification treatment that is suspended with the release of the patient from a blood circuit during the blood purification treatment is restartable includes a touch panel (M) capable of displaying, simultaneously on one particular screen, a plurality of variable amounts related to the patients body weight that changes with the suspension and restart of the blood purification treatment.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus is provided in which parameters related to ultrafiltration can be changed assuredly and smoothly at the restart of blood purification treatment suspended with the release of the patient from a blood circuit during the blood purification treatment. A blood purification apparatus in which the blood purification treatment that is suspended with a release of the patient from a blood circuit during the blood purification treatment is restartable includes a calculating device capable of calculating a variable amount related to a patients body weight that changes with the suspension and restart of the blood purification treatment; and a changing device capable of changing, in accordance with the variable amount calculated by the calculating device, a parameter related to ultrafiltration that is set by a setting device.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus that is capable of, with no preparatory operations, performing substitution by supplying dialysate in a dialysate introduction line to a blood circuit during ultrafiltration treatment, or performing blood return by immediately supplying the dialysate in the dialysate introduction line to the blood circuit after the ultrafiltration treatment. A blood purification apparatus includes a dialyzer, a dialysate introduction line, a dialysate drain line L2 through which drain liquid from the dialyzer is drained, and an ultrafiltration pump capable of removing water from the blood in the blood circuit. The blood purification apparatus is capable of performing substitution or blood return by supplying the dialysate in the dialysate introduction line L1 to the blood circuit.

Abstract: A blood purification apparatus is provided that can easily and accurately determine before treatment whether or not blocking of liquid by a check valve is appropriate.