Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an ink for ink-jet printers, the ink being able to be reduced in the content of an electroconductive agent and having low resistance. The ink for ink-jet printers of a charge control type according to the present invention, which is provided in order to overcome the problem, is characterized by comprising a resin, a pigment, an electroconductive agent, and a nonaqueous solvent, the electroconductive agent having a salt structure which generates an anion and a cation in the nonaqueous solvent, the anion having a trifluoromethylsulfonyl group and the cation being a quaternary ammonium cation or having an unsaturated heterocyclic structure.

Abstract: A signal processing device includes detection circuitry and correction circuitry. The detection circuitry includes a first detection unit and a second detection unit. The first detection unit generates at least one detection signal based on an associated one of output signals corresponding to each of at least two directions. The second detection unit has a broader detection range than the first detection unit and generates at least one correction signal based on the associated one of the output signals corresponding to each of the at least two directions. The correction circuitry corrects an associated one of the detection signals corresponding to each of the at least two directions with at least an associated one of the correction signals corresponding to at least one direction, other than one direction subjected to correction, out of the at least two directions.

Abstract: This pulse wave measuring device is attachable to a subject to be measured, and comprises: a pulse wave sensor having a strain gauge; a sensor placement member in which the pulse wave sensor is arranged; a first curved member having one end connected to the sensor placement member; a second curved member having one end connected to the sensor placement member; and a band member connected to another end of the first curved member and another end of the second curved member, wherein the first curved member and the second curved member are connected to opposite sides across the sensor placement member in a plan view, and wherein a curvature of the first curved member is different from a curvature of the second curved member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus to which a cartridge including a cartridge substrate is attachable includes a main body electrical substrate, a main body ground terminal connected to the main body electrical substrate and configured to take a ground voltage, a first main body terminal connected to the main body electrical substrate and configured to transmit one of a power supply voltage, a data signal that indicates information, and a synchronization signal, a second main body terminal connected to the main body electrical substrate and configured to transmit remaining two of the power supply voltage, the data signal, and the synchronization signal. The cartridge substrate includes a cartridge ground terminal connected to the main body ground terminal, a first cartridge terminal connected to the first main body terminal, and a second cartridge terminal connected to the second main body terminal.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image forming device provided in a housing; a fan to cool an interior of the housing; an AC/DC board; a first temperature detecting element configured to output a signal corresponding to a temperature in the housing; a second temperature detecting element configured to output a signal corresponding to a temperature of an element mounted on the AC/DC board; and a controller configured to control the fan when at least one of a first condition and a second condition is satisfied, the first condition being a condition in which a first detection temperature detected based on the signal received from the first temperature detecting element is not less than a first temperature threshold, the second condition being a condition in which a second detection temperature detected based on the signal received from the second temperature detecting element is not less than a second temperature threshold.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus to which a cartridge including a cartridge substrate is attachable includes a main body electrical substrate, a main body ground terminal connected to the main body electrical substrate and configured to take a ground voltage, a first main body terminal connected to the main body electrical substrate and configured to transmit one of a power supply voltage, a data signal that indicates information, and a synchronization signal, a second main body terminal connected to the main body electrical substrate and configured to transmit remaining two of the power supply voltage, the data signal, and the synchronization signal. The cartridge substrate includes a cartridge ground terminal connected to the main body ground terminal, a first cartridge terminal connected to the first main body terminal, and a second cartridge terminal connected to the second main body terminal.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to amino acid-containing granules containing an amino acid as a main component, the amino acid-containing granules having an average particle diameter of 150 ?m to 500 ?m and a homogeneity U of 0.70 or less, in which the average particle diameter and the homogeneity U are determined by the following measurement method.

Abstract: To mount a concave mirror to a structure with a simple configuration. The concave mirror includes a concave mirror body made of glass, at least one bracket formed of material with light-impermeable properties, and an adhesive having ultraviolet-curing properties to bond the bracket to an underside reflective surface of the concave mirror body, wherein the bracket includes a bonded surface portion to be bonded to an underside reflective surface through the adhesive, the underside reflective surface being a surface of the concave mirror body opposite to a reflective surface thereof, and a plurality of through holes, each of the through holes having one end facing the bonded surface portion and another end facing an outside surface that is a surface opposite to the bonded surface portion, each of the through holes passing through between the bonded surface portion and the outside surface.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: an image forming device provided in a housing; a fan to cool an interior of the housing; an AC/DC board; a first temperature detecting element configured to output a signal corresponding to a temperature in the housing; a second temperature detecting element configured to output a signal corresponding to a temperature of an element mounted on the AC/DC board; and a controller configured to control the fan when at least one of a first condition and a second condition is satisfied, the first condition being a condition in which a first detection temperature detected based on the signal received from the first temperature detecting element is not less than a first temperature threshold, the second condition being a condition in which a second detection temperature detected based on the signal received from the second temperature detecting element is not less than a second temperature threshold.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a light source unit having a light source portion configured to mount a light source thereon, and a light distribution angle adjusting means coupled to the light source portion and configured to change an irradiation range of the light source. The light distribution angle adjusting means includes a reflector provided with a spiral guide portion in a peripheral surface thereof and configured to reflect a light emitted from the light source, a movable body having an engaging portion configured to slidably engage the guide portion and a control portion configured to limit a direction of a movement to a rotation axis direction of the reflector, a support configured to support a movement of the movable body in the rotation axis direction of the reflector, and an optical component secured to the movable body and configured to change a light path of the light.

Abstract: A lighting apparatus includes a light source unit having a light source portion configured to mount a light source thereon, and a light distribution angle adjusting means coupled to the light source portion and configured to change an irradiation range of the light source. The light distribution angle adjusting means includes a reflector provided with a spiral guide portion in a peripheral surface thereof and configured to reflect a light emitted from the light source, a movable body having an engaging portion configured to slidably engage the guide portion and a control portion configured to limit a direction of a movement to a rotation axis direction of the reflector, a support configured to support a movement of the movable body in the rotation axis direction of the reflector, and an optical component secured to the movable body and configured to change a light path of the light.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a wireless communication unit, an image processing unit, and a controller configured to establish a wireless connection to perform wireless signal communication between the wireless communication unit and an external device, acquire a reception intensity of a wireless signal received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, determine whether the reception intensity is more than a threshold value, when determining that the reception intensity is more than the threshold value, control the image processing unit to execute an image processing instruction received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, and when determining that the reception intensity is not more than the threshold value, transmit an instruction to display a warning on the external device, to the external device via the wireless communication unit, without controlling the image processing unit to execute the image processing instruction.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including a wireless communication unit, an image processing unit, and a controller configured to establish a wireless connection to perform wireless signal communication between the wireless communication unit and an external device, acquire a reception intensity of a wireless signal received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, determine whether the reception intensity is more than a threshold value, when determining that the reception intensity is more than the threshold value, control the image processing unit to execute an image processing instruction received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, and when determining that the reception intensity is not more than the threshold value, transmit an instruction to display a warning on the external device, to the external device via the wireless communication unit, without controlling the image processing unit to execute the image processing instruction.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a sheet setting portion, a reading unit, a detecting unit, and a controller. The conveying unit is configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction at a first velocity. The reading unit is configured to read the sheet at a reading position. The detecting unit is configured to detect the sheet at a detection position upstream of the reading position in the conveying direction. The controller is configured to control the conveying unit to initiate conveyance of sheet, and configured to control the reading unit to start reading the sheet when the sheet is detected. The controller controls the conveying unit to convey the sheet at a second velocity slower than the first velocity when the sheet is not detected after a prescribed period of time has elapsed since the conveying unit initiates the conveyance of sheet.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus including an acquisition unit, an extraction unit, a determination unit and an addition unit is provided. The acquisition unit acquires an image of one page from images of a plurality of pages included in one file. The extraction unit extracts color information, which is information about a color of the image of the one page acquired by the acquisition unit. The determination unit determines whether the color information extracted by the extraction unit satisfies a predetermined condition for specifying a page partition. The addition unit adds additional information, by which the page partition can be searched, to at least one of the images of the plurality of pages, when the determination unit determines that the color information satisfies the predetermined condition.

Abstract: The RFID circuit element cartridge stores multiple RFID circuit elements for producing RFID labels. Each of the elements includes an IC circuit part configured to store information and an antenna connected to the IC circuit part. The RFID circuit element cartridge is detachably mounted to an apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag. The apparatus includes an antenna configured to carry out wireless communication with each RFID circuit element for producing a RFID label. The RFID circuit element cartridge includes a RFID circuit element Tc for cartridge identifying configured to store identification information for identifying the cartridge. The identification information serves as a communication factor that determines a performance of communication between the antenna and each RFID circuit element for producing a RFID label.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for communicating with an RFID tag: including a radio communication device; a tag number estimation portion configured to estimate the number of RFID tag circuit elements in a peripheral area of the apparatus; a storage device configured to store a list of identification information of each of a plurality of RFID tag circuit elements; and a mode switching portion configured to switch a mode into a plural tag detection mode in which identification information is sequentially specified in the list stored in the storage device before the RFID tag circuit element corresponding to the specified identification information is detected through the radio communication device, or a response determination mode in which identification information is obtained from each of all the RFID tag circuit elements in the peripheral area through the radio communication device.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses an apparatus for reading radio frequency identification (RFID) tag information configured to perform information transmission and reception with a plurality of RFID tag circuit elements having an IC circuit part storing information and a tag antenna connected to the IC circuit part, comprising: a first movement detecting portion configured to detect a moving state of the apparatus for reading RFID tag information; a transmitting portion configured to generate a reading command to acquire the information stored in the IC circuit part and to transmit the command to the RFID tag circuit element; and a first reading control portion configured to control the number of reading trial times per unit time using the reading command by the transmitting portion according to a detection result of the first movement detecting portion.

Abstract: An image reading device includes a sheet setting portion, reading unit, detecting unit, and controller. The conveying unit is configured to convey a sheet in a conveying direction at a first velocity. The reading unit is configured to read the sheet at a reading position. The detecting unit is configured to detect the sheet at a detection position upstream of the reading position in the conveying direction. The controller is configured to control the conveying unit to initiate conveyance of sheet, and configured to control the reading unit to start reading the sheet when the sheet is detected. The controller controls the conveying unit to convey the sheet at a second velocity slower than the first velocity when the sheet is not detected after a prescribed period of time has elapsed since the conveying unit initiates the conveyance of sheet.