Abstract: In a definition file, a convention including a definition regulated with respect to a configuration of nodes which are information elements of protocol messages in communication with a communication terminal to be evaluated is described. An interface library is configured so as to include an application program interface which can provide and receive operational information with respect to the nodes of the protocol messages to and from an exterior section. A memory managing section manages various data relating to the nodes of the protocol messages. A decode processing section specifies a data region and a value of data allocated to each node in the protocol messages by processing to decode the protocol messages along the definition regulated in the definition file and in accordance with the operational information from the exterior section to the interface library, and delivers data for each node corresponding to the protocol messages to the memory managing section.

Abstract: An acquisition section acquires trace information including a plurality of log information having information on contents and types of log information based on message information of test signals transmitted to a communication terminal and a series of reply signals from the communication terminals, and provides clock time information at which the respective message information have been acquired. The trace information including the plurality of log information, is displayed in predetermined formats. An indication bar display section displays an indication bar on which the plurality of log information are arranged in a time series based on the clock time at which the respective message information have been acquired. A log sequence display section displays a predetermined number of log information as log sequences having time stamps based on the clock time information at which the respective log information have been acquired, so as to be associated with the indication bar.

Abstract: There is described an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to realize a high productivity in the booklet outputting operation. The apparatus comprises: an image data acquiring section to acquire consecutive image data, which include main content image data and at least a part of cover sheet image data succeeding the main-content sheet image data; an image forming section to conduct an image forming operation based on the main content image data and the cover sheet image data, acquired by the image data acquiring section; an image data presence-or-absence detecting section to detect a presence or absence of (i+1)th image data acquired by the image data acquiring section, wherein “i” represents a page number of image data sets necessary for forming cover sheet images on a cover sheet; and a control section to control the image forming section so as to commence the image forming operation.

Abstract: Based on the image size and folding setting, a recording medium storing device is selected among a plurality of the recording medium storing devices, an image is formed on a recording medium in the selected recording medium storing device based on image information, and the recording medium on which the images is formed is folded by a folding device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a storage section which stores a file including an image data and a predetermined post-processing condition; a reading section which read out a plurality of files to be combined from the storage section; a combination section which combines the plurality of files to produce a combined file; and a control section which controls the post-processing section to conduct a first mode in which the control section invalidates the predetermined post-processing condition set to each of the plurality of files and a post-processing is conducted based on a post-processing condition set to the whole of the plurality of files, or a second mode in which a post-processing is conducted based on the predetermined post-processing condition set to each of the plurality of files.

Abstract: There is described an image forming apparatus combined with a finisher for applying finish processing such as stapling. The image-forming apparatus includes: a reading section to read an original image so as to generate image data of the original image; a designating section to designate a first direction of the original image to be read by the reading section and a second direction of an output image to be ejected; an image-processing section to apply image-processing, which includes an image-rotation processing, to the image data so as to generate processed image data; a controlling section to control a rotation angle to be employed for rotating the image data by the image-rotation processing, referring to the first direction and the second direction, so that a direction of the output image coincides with the second direction; and an image-forming section to form the output image based on the processed image data.

Abstract: In the image forming system, there is provided an image processing section which determines a rotation standard for rotating image information so that an orientation of an image which is to be formed on an output medium on which prescribed post processing is not to be conducted agrees with an orientation of an image formed on an output medium on which prescribed post processing is to be conducted, if a booklet division mode is set by the setting section, and which conducts rotation processing on the image information based on the rotation standard.

Abstract: A trace information acquisition section acquires trace information including a plurality of log information which have information on contents and types of log information based on predetermined message information of each of a series of test signals transmitted to a communication terminal for being evaluated by a communication terminal test measuring instrument and a series of reply signals from the communication terminal for being evaluated received by the communication terminal test measuring instrument, and provides clock time information at which the respective message information have been acquired. A trace information display processing control section displays the trace information including the plurality of log information in predetermined formats.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with an image forming section to form an image on a sheet and to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed; a stacking section to stack the sheet discharged from the image forming section; a setting section to set a condition whether or not to allow a mixed stack mode on which plural sheets related to at least two different jobs are mixed and stacked in the stacking section; and a discharge control section to control the image forming section to discharge the sheet to the stacking section in accordance with the setting condition whether or not to allow the mixed stack mode.

Abstract: In a definition file, a convention including a definition regulated with respect to a configuration of nodes which are information elements of protocol messages in communication with a communication terminal to be evaluated is described. An interface library is configured so as to include an application program interface which can provide and receive operational information with respect to the nodes of the protocol messages to and from an exterior section. A memory managing section manages various data relating to the nodes of the protocol messages. A decode processing section specifies a data region and a value of data allocated to each node in the protocol messages by processing to decode the protocol messages along the definition regulated in the definition file and in accordance with the operational information from the exterior section to the interface library, and delivers data for each node corresponding to the protocol messages to the memory managing section.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an input unit for input of setting information, an image forming unit, a conveying unit, a control unit, and a jam detecting unit, wherein a set of a plurality of different kinds of special sheets disposed in a predetermined order is used. When occurrence of a jam is detected by the jam detecting unit, the control unit recognizes whether a special sheet having been fed is present in the image forming system, and if it is recognized that a special sheet is present in the image forming system, the control unit controls the conveying unit, after the jam being released, to eject a special sheet or sheets as unnecessary up to one that is disposed preceding a special sheet that is of the same kind as a most front one that was present in the image forming system at the time of the occurrence of the jam.

Abstract: The present invention provides an open/close valve which contributes the stabilization of the operation responsibility. A housing has a water-in port and a water-out port. Furthermore, a piston which is slidably mounted in the housing in an axial direction by means of an external operation of a shaft, and a pressure offset means for offsetting the pressure which the piston receives from water in the water-out port to the other side are provided. The piston is attached to a seat face of the housing by being slided on one side in an axial direction to close the communication between the water-in port and the water-out port, and the piston is detached to the seat face of the housing by being slided on the other side in an axial direction to open the communication between the water-in port and the water-out port. The pressure offset means comprises a pressure offset room which is formed at the other side of the piston, and a passage for communicating one side of the piston with the pressure offset room.

Abstract: There is described an image forming system, which comprises an image forming apparatus to produce a printing material as one group of recording mediums or plural printing materials as plural groups of recording mediums from a single document set, and a finisher to apply a finish processing to said recording mediums, wherein the image forming system includes a controlling section to control so that, if a mixture mode is set, a non-finished recording medium and a finished recording medium within the single group are stacked at a same recording-medium stacking position on a stacking tray.

Abstract: To provide a stripping wire/catheter which enables to connect a plurality of wires or catheters to constitute a stripping wire/catheter having a fixed length, an insert head, a rear end portion or a connected portion being a vein ligating portion.

Abstract: The present provides a sanitary western-style flush toilet in which stains are hardly adhered to a rim, and as a result, a nasty smell and the like are hardly generated. A western-style toilet body comprises a bowl portion and an open rim. The open rim has a rim channel in the inside thereof. At the rear of the western-style toilet body, a washing device which is capable of spouting water is formed. The bowl portion is washed by the water which is spouted from the washing device. An inward surface of an inner wall portion of the open rim is an identical surface to a bowl face of the bowl portion.

Abstract: There is described an image forming apparatus combined with a finisher for applying finish processing such as stapling. The image-forming apparatus includes: a reading section to read an original image so as to generate image data of the original image; a designating section to designate a first direction of the original image to be read by the reading section and a second direction of an output image to be ejected; an image-processing section to apply image-processing, which includes an image-rotation processing, to the image data so as to generate processed image data; a controlling section to control a rotation angle to be employed for rotating the image data by the image-rotation processing, referring to the first direction and the second direction, so that a direction of the output image coincides with the second direction; and an image-forming section to form the output image based on the processed image data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided with an image forming section to form an image on a sheet and to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed; a stacking section to stack the sheet discharged from the image forming section; a setting section to set a condition whether or not to allow a mixed stack mode on which plural sheets related to at least two different jobs are mixed and stacked in the stacking section; and a discharge control section to control the image forming section to discharge the sheet to the stacking section in accordance with the setting condition whether or not to allow the mixed stack mode.

Abstract: The present invention provides an open/close valve which contributes the stabilization of the operation responsibility. A housing has a water-in port and a water-out port. Furthermore, a piston which is slidably mounted in the housing in an axial direction by means of an external operation of a shaft, and a pressure offset means for offsetting the pressure which the piston receives from water in the water-out port to the other side are provided. The piston is attached to a seat face of the housing by being slided on one side in an axial direction to close the communication between the water-in port and the water-out port, and the piston is detached to the seat face of the housing by being slided on the other side in an axial direction to open the communication between the water-in port and the water-out port. The pressure offset means comprises a pressure offset room which is formed at the other side of the piston, and a passage for communicating one side of the piston with the pressure offset room.

Abstract: A tankless western-style flush toilet having a western-style toilet body and a toilet washing device configured to wash the western-style toilet body with water, the toilet washing device including an open/close valve configured to be directly connected to a city water service pipe to supply water from outside and configured to spout water by being opened and closed electrically. The toilet washing device includes a control portion configured to ensure at least two periods of releasing times of the open/close valve, and a mechanism for switching the control portion in accordance with a pressure of city water in the city water service pipe.