Abstract: An image forming system includes an image former configured to form an image on a sheet, an inspector configured to inspect the sheet on which the image has been formed by the image former and determine whether or not the image of the sheet has an abnormality, and a controller configured to, in a case where the inspector determines that the image of the sheet has the abnormality of positional deviation, perform an adjustment operation in which an image formation position by the image former is adjusted.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a controller to discharge to a first discharger a sheet determined not to have a product defect and discharge to a second discharger a sheet determined to have a product defect. The controller is configured to, in a case where it is determined that a first sheet on which an image has been formed has the product defect, execute an adjustment operation of adjusting image forming conditions for an image former, and execute a recovery process in which the image formed on the first sheet is formed on a second sheet by the image former with the product defect removed based on completion of the adjustment operation.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: an inspection unit configured to inspect a sheet and determine whether or not the sheet has a product defect; and a control unit configured to discharge to a first discharge unit the sheet not having the product defect and discharge to a second discharge unit the sheet having the product defect, wherein the control unit is configured to, in a case where the inspection unit determines that a first sheet has the product defect, execute a recovery process in which the image formed on the first sheet is formed on a second sheet, and the control unit is configured to, in a case where the inspection unit determines that the first sheet has the product defect, execute an operation of adjusting an image forming condition for the image forming unit prior to executing the recovery process.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a mechanism configured to bring an intermediate transfer member into a first state contacting first and second drums and a second state separating from the first drum and contacting the second drum. The image forming apparatus is operable in a first mode of using the first and second drums in the first state, a second mode of using only the second drum in the second state, and a third mode of using only the second drum in the first state. If an image forming retry involving cleaning a transfer portion due to a recording medium conveyance delay in the third mode is to be performed, a controller changes over the third mode to the second mode without stopping rotation of the second drum to perform image formation on a recording medium fed by restart of a feeding operation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet fed from a container; a trailing edge regulating plate, which is movable in a feeding direction inside the container, and is configured to regulate a trailing edge position of the sheet; a detector configured to automatically detect a sheet size based on the position of the trailing edge regulating plate; and a receiver configured to receive a size of the sheet to be set for the container as a user set size.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a trailing edge regulation guide configured to regulate a trailing edge position of a sheet stored in a sheet storage unit, a detection unit configured to detect a position of the trailing edge regulation guide, an input unit configured to input a sheet size to be set for the sheet storage unit, and a control unit. In the sheet storage unit, an attachment is attachable to the trailing edge regulation guide. The control unit controls display a warning screen in a case where a length in a feeding direction in the sheet size input by the input unit is longer than a predetermined length, whereas the control unit does not to display the warning screen according to the position of the trailing edge regulation guide in a case where the length in the feeding direction is shorter than the predetermined length.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain information related to a resolution of an image to be formed, an image processing unit configured to execute image processing corresponding to the information on image data, an image forming unit configured to form an image based on the image data on which the image processing is executed by the image processing unit, an intermediate transfer member to which a measuring image formed by the image forming unit is transferred, a measurement unit configured to measure the measuring image transferred to the intermediate transfer member, a storage unit configured to store measuring image data, and a controller configured to control the image processing unit to execute first image processing on the measuring image data, control the image forming unit to form the measuring image, control the measurement unit to measure the measuring image, and control an image forming condition.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a mechanism configured to bring an intermediate transfer member into a first state contacting first and second drums and a second state separating from the first drum and contacting the second drum, wherein image forming apparatus is operable in: a first mode of using the first and second drums in the first state; a second mode of using only the second drum in the second state; and a third mode of using only the second drum in the first state, and wherein if an image forming retry involving a cleaning a transfer portion due to a recording medium conveyance delay in the third mode is to be performed, a controller changes over the third mode to the second mode without stopping rotation of the second drum to perform image formation on a recording medium fed by restart of feeding operation.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet fed from a container; a trailing edge regulating plate, which is movable in a feeding direction inside the container, and is configured to regulate a trailing edge position of the sheet; a detector configured to automatically detect a sheet size based on the position of the trailing edge regulating plate; and a receiver configured to receive a size of the sheet to be set for the container as a user set size.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a trailing edge regulation guide configured to regulate a trailing edge position of a sheet stored in a sheet storage unit, a detection unit configured to detect a position of the trailing edge regulation guide, an input unit configured to input a sheet size to be set for the sheet storage unit, and a control unit. In the sheet storage unit, an attachment is attachable to the trailing edge regulation guide. The control unit controls display a warning screen in a case where a length in a feeding direction in the sheet size input by the input unit is longer than a predetermined length, whereas the control unit does not to display the warning screen according to the position of the trailing edge regulation guide in a case where the length in the feeding direction is shorter than the predetermined length.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain information related to a resolution of an image to be formed, an image processing unit configured to execute image processing corresponding to the information on image data, an image forming unit configured to form an image based on the image data on which the image processing is executed by the image processing unit, an intermediate transfer member to which a measuring image formed by the image forming unit is transferred, a measurement unit configured to measure the measuring image transferred to the intermediate transfer member, a storage unit configured to store measuring image data, and a controller configured to control the image processing unit to execute first image processing on the measuring image data, control the image forming unit to form the measuring image, control the measurement unit to measure the measuring image, and control an image forming condition.

Abstract: It is an objection of the present invention to provide a fluorescence reading apparatus in view of the influence of fluorescence derived from a fluorescence substance that is not involved with an interaction between a probe substance and a target substance.

Abstract: A microscope for introducing light from a light source via an objective lens to a sample so that a user observes the sample via the objective lens includes: a minute opening arranged in an optical path between the light source and the objective lens and on a focal plane of the image side of the objective lens or at a position conjugate with its conjugate plane; position adjusting means for adjusting the position of the minute opening so that the light from the light source via the minute opening is incident to the sample at the Brewster's angle; an polarizing element arranged in the optical path between the light source and the objective lens for extracting rectilinear polarized light from the light from the light source and applying the rectilinear polarized light to the sample.

Abstract: A microscope for introducing light from a light source via an objective lens to a sample so that a user observes the sample via the objective lens includes: a minute opening arranged in an optical path between the light source and the objective lens and on a focal plane of the image side of the objective lens or at a position conjugate with its conjugate plane; position adjusting means for adjusting the position of the minute opening so that the light from the light source via the minute opening is incident to the sample at the Brewster's angle; an polarizing element arranged in the optical path between the light source and the objective lens for extracting rectilinear polarized light from the light from the light source and applying the rectilinear polarized light to the sample.

Abstract: It is an objection of the present invention to provide a fluorescence reading apparatus in view of the influence of fluorescence derived from a fluorescence substance that is not involved with an interaction between a probe substance and a target substance.

Abstract: A microarray disc characterized in that a substrate is provided with a pregroove and a thin film with an excellent adherence to a probe DNA or protein is disposed at least on the pregroove, and that a liquid drop containing the probe DNA or protein is arranged on a convex part or concave part of the pregroove so that the liquid drop expands in the tangential direction of the pregroove due to the surface tension of the liquid drop and/or in the instance of concave part, due to the restriction by the concave groove wall with any expansion in the direction perpendicular to the groove, and that in the above condition, the probe DNA or protein is immobilized on the substrate.

Abstract: An ultrasonic angioscope system which uses an imaging technique of sending ultrasonic waves to a portion ahead of a stricture of a blood vessel and visualizing a portion in the forward direction of the angioscope, and which uses a laser breakdown is provided.

Abstract: An ultrasonic angioscope system which uses an imaging technique of sending ultrasonic waves to a portion ahead of a stricture of a blood vessel and visualizing a portion in the forward direction of the angioscope, and which uses a laser breakdown is provided.