Abstract: A cutting tool is rotatable about an axis line, and includes a main body portion, a cutting insert, and a plurality of anti-vibration members. The main body portion has an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface opposite to the inner circumferential surface. The cutting insert is attached to at least one of the inner circumferential surface and the outer circumferential surface. Each of the plurality of anti-vibration members is provided at the main body portion. Each of the plurality of anti-vibration members includes a weight member composed of a material having a specific gravity larger than a specific gravity of a material of the main body portion.

Abstract: The sheet postprocessing device includes a sheet conveyance path, a sheet tray, a carry-in guide, a processing part, a discharge member, a blower device, and an intermediate conveyance part. The sheet tray includes an upstream-side stacking part. The intermediate conveyance part is provided at a position within a range from the upstream-side stacking part to the downstream-side stacking part in a conveyance direction, and allows a sheet to pass therethrough below the processing part. The intermediate conveyance part is made up by including an upstream part including a first clearance through which the sheet passes, and a downstream part placed on a downstream side of the upstream part and including a second clearance through which the sheet passes. A size of the second clearance in a planar direction perpendicular to a surface of the sheet is wider than a size of the first clearance in the planar direction.

Abstract: A sheet post-processing apparatus successively performs: a control in a first mode to move a pair of side end cursors to respective first positions where edges of the side end cursors facing a tray come into contact with an ejected sheet above and away from the tray and move the side end cursors to respective holding positions located inwardly of the sheet in a width direction; and a control in a second mode to move the side end cursors to respective lateral positions located outwardly of the sheet in the width direction, move the side end cursors to respective second positions where the edges of the side end cursors facing the tray come close to or into contact with the tray, and move the side end cursors from the lateral positions to respective abutment positions where the side end cursors abut against ends of the sheet in the width direction.

Abstract: The present technique relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium that easily acquire an image suitable for a use case of AI. The information processing device according to the present technique includes a selection unit that selects a learning image used for learning of a learning model, according to a use case of the learning model using an image as an input, from among an image group held in advance. The present technique is applicable, for example, to a data set generation device that generates a data set including a large number of learning images.

Abstract: When performing an alignment process on a sheet loaded on the processing tray in a state where a front end of the sheet is protruded from a discharge outlet above a discharge tray, the control unit performs a front end alignment process in which a pair of discharge tray cursors sandwich the front end of the sheet protruded above the discharge tray in the width direction, and a rear end alignment process in which the pair of processing tray cursors sandwich a rear end of the sheet on the processing tray in the width direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, a motor, and a controller. The fixing device includes a heating unit and a first temperature sensor. The controller is configured to perform driving the fixing device. The driving includes a heating process. The controller is further configured to perform, during the heating process: a first control operation in which the controller rotates the motor at a first rotational speed and adjusts a duty cycle of electric power suppled to a heater of the heating unit to a higher value as a deviation between a target temperature and a temperature detected by the first temperature sensor becomes greater; and a second control operation in which the controller rotates the motor at a second rotational speed lower than the first rotational speed and restricts the duty cycle within a range lower than or equal to a restricted value.

Abstract: The sheet discharge device includes a sheet discharge port, a discharge member, a sheet discharge tray, a support member, a drive mechanism, and a controller. The discharge member conveys sheets in a discharge direction. On the sheet discharge tray, the sheets discharged from the sheet discharge port are to be stacked. The support member is movable by the drive mechanism between a projective position in which the support member is projected to above the sheet discharge tray so as to support the sheets, and a retractive position in which the support member has retracted from the projective position to an upstream side of the sheet discharge port. The controller is enabled to adjust at least one of a projective length of the support member in its projective position and a shift timing from the projective position to the retractive position in response to characteristics of the sheets.

Abstract: When discharging a sheet onto a discharge tray, a control unit sets position of the discharge tray in an up and down direction to a predetermined discharge position. When loading the sheet onto a processing tray, the control unit sets the position of the discharge tray in the up and down direction to a loading position lower than the discharge position.

Abstract: A sheet post-processing device includes: a loading assist mechanism including a flapping member, a pressing member, a first power transmission mechanism that pivots the flapping member from a first ready-to-pivot position, a second power transmission mechanism that pivots the pressing member from a second ready-to-pivot position, a rotary member that transmits, during rotation in a first direction, power to the first power transmission mechanism, and transmits, during rotation in a second direction, power to the second power transmission mechanism, and a drive source that rotates the rotary member; and a control device that controls the drive source to control an angle of rotation of the rotary member in the first direction, thus controlling an angle of pivoting of the flapping member, and controls the drive source to control an angle of rotation of the rotary member in the second direction, thus controlling an angle of pivoting of the pressing member.

Abstract: A sealing device includes an inner peripheral surface that is a surface facing an outer peripheral surface of a shaft, and an outer peripheral surface that is a surface facing an inner peripheral surface of a shaft hole. The inner peripheral surface has an inner peripheral recessed surface that is an annular surface recessed to an outer periphery side. The outer peripheral surface has an outer peripheral recessed surface that is an annular surface recessed to an inner periphery side. The inner peripheral recessed surface of the inner peripheral surface contacts the outer peripheral surface of the shaft. The outer peripheral recessed surface of the outer peripheral surface contacts the inner peripheral surface of the shaft hole.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a processor configured to: cause a history of an executed image quality maintenance process to be stored in a memory as history information; register a plurality of image quality maintenance processes selected from the stored history information in connection with one operation element; and when an operation element connected with a plurality of image quality maintenance processes is operated, execute the plurality of image quality maintenance processes connected with the operation element.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a manufacturing method for an electrolyte sheet, the manufacturing method including a step of molding a composition containing a polymer, Li[TFSI], oxide particles, and a dispersion medium into a sheet shape and volatilizing the dispersion medium at 100° C. or higher.

Abstract: A sheet transport device includes a delivery roller and a transport route. The transport route includes an upper guide member and a lower guide member. The lower guide member includes a first guide rib, a first corrugation member, and a first elastic member. The first elastic member supports an end portion of the first corrugation member on a side of the delivery roller, such that the end portion protrudes ahead of the first guide rib toward the upper guide member, with respect to the other end portion. The upper guide member includes a second guide rib, a second corrugation member, and a second elastic member. The second elastic member supports an end portion of the second corrugation member on the side of the delivery roller, such that the end portion protrudes ahead of the second guide rib toward the lower guide member, with respect to the other end portion.

Abstract: A sheet post-processing device includes a conveying member, a processing tray, a processing section, a reference plate, an alignment member, a holder drive unit, and a control unit. The alignment member includes a paddle holder, and an alignment paddle having a paddle main body supported in a rotatable manner at the paddle holder, and a paddle part protruding from the paddle main body. The holder drive unit moves the alignment paddle in a reciprocating manner, between a reference position to separate the paddle part above a top sheet and an acting position to allow the paddle part to contact with the top sheet. The control unit sets a second acting position when the paddle part contacts with the sheet at n1-th time, to be higher than a first acting position when the paddle part contacts with the sheet at m1-th time, where 1?m1<n1 holds.

Abstract: A protruding member is supported so as to be reciprocatable between a protrusion position and a retraction position. The protrusion position is where the protruding member protrudes from a discharge port to above a stacking tray and brings, into contact with its top surface, the leading edge of a sheet discharged by a pair of discharging rollers to guide it in the discharging direction. The retraction position is where the protruding member is retracted from above the stacking tray. A moving mechanism has a supporting holder movably holding the protruding member and makes the held protruding member move between the protrusion position and the retraction position. A sensing portion sensing whether the protruding member is in the retraction position is disposed in the supporting holder.

Abstract: Provided is an electrolyte composition, comprising one or two or more polymers, oxide particles, at least one electrolyte salt selected from the group consisting of a lithium salt, a sodium salt, a calcium salt, and a magnesium salt, and a solvent, wherein structural units constituting the one or two or more polymers comprises a first structural unit selected from the group consisting of tetrafluoroethylene and vinylidene fluoride, and a second structural unit selected from the group consisting of hexafluoropropylene, acrylic acid, maleic acid, ethyl methacrylate, and methyl methacrylate, a content of the one or two or more polymers is more than 90% by mass based on a total amount of polymers in the electrolyte composition, and a mass ratio of a content of the first structural unit to a content of the second structural unit in the one or two or more polymers is 50/50 or more.

Abstract: A sheet discharger includes a sheet discharge outlet, a discharge member, a sheet discharge tray, a sheet hold-down member, a drive portion, and a control portion. The sheet discharge tray is disposed downstream from the sheet discharge outlet with respect to a discharge direction and is a tray on which a sheet discharged through the sheet discharge outlet is loaded. The sheet hold-down member is swingable between a hold-down position at which the sheet loaded on the sheet discharge tray is held down at an upstream part thereof in the discharge direction and a retracted position retracted upward from the hold-down position. The drive portion drives the sheet hold-down member. The control portion determines, in accordance with characteristics of the sheet, whether or not to execute a sheet hold-down operation in which the sheet hold-down member is moved to the retracted position and to the hold-down position.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance apparatus (26) includes: a first conveyance unit (70a), a second conveyance unit (70b) disposed below the first conveyance unit (70a) and including a second upper conveyance guide (75) and a second lower conveyance guide (77), and an apparatus main body, wherein the second conveyance unit (70b) can be drawn out to a front side of the apparatus main body along a front-and-rear direction perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction, the second upper conveyance guide (75) includes: a guide main body part (75b) turnable upward and downward with respect to the apparatus main body with a rear end edge as a turning support shaft and a front end edge as a turning end; and a movable guide part (75c) coupled to the turning end of the guide main body part (75b) via a hinge part (75d) in a turnable manner.

Abstract: A sheet post-processing device includes a conveying member, a processing tray, a processing section, a reference plate, an alignment member, a holder drive unit, and a control unit. The alignment member includes a paddle holder supported in a swingable manner along a carry-in direction, and an alignment paddle supported in a rotatable manner at a swinging end of the paddle holder. The holder drive unit moves the alignment paddle in a reciprocating manner, between a reference position to retreat the paddle part above a top sheet placed on the processing tray and an acting position to allow the paddle part to contact with a top surface of the sheet. When the number of the sheets carried in onto the processing tray is increasing, the control unit continuously moves the acting position of the alignment paddle in a direction separating from the processing tray.