Abstract: An image forming apparatus is connectable to a print server in which a print job is stored. A determination unit of the image forming apparatus deletes a print job stored in the print server and determined to be not executable by the determination unit on condition that an instruction to delete the print job is input to an input unit.

Abstract: A display screen control device comprises: a browser for acquiring a display screen from the web server and displaying on a predetermined display part; an error detection part for detecting whether or not a display error of an image contained in the display screen acquired by the browser is occurred with the display screen being displayed on the display part when instructions on execution of a job given by the user is detected; a confirmation screen creation part for creating a setting confirmation screen including a set value of each of at least one set item corresponding to the image in which the display error is detected when the display error is detected; and a screen change part for changing the display screen displayed on the display part to the setting confirmation screen created by the confirmation screen creation part prior to start of execution of the job.

Abstract: A control device controls, with regard to a regenerative current exceeding a current value set at a power migration start point, a first power storage device to be assigned with a current value set at the power migration start point and a second power storage device to be assigned with the regenerative current exceeding the current value set at the power migration start point. The control device increases a sharing ratio of the first power storage device along a curve with a lapse of time, and performs discharge from the second power storage device to the first power storage device when a charge current is equal to or smaller than the current value set at the power migration start point in a period during which the regenerative current exceeding the current value set at the power migration start point is being charged in the first power storage device.

Abstract: An electric storage device pressure regulating apparatus includes: a case in an internal portion of which is disposed a regulating chamber that communicates with a space in a vessel by an opening portion; a semipermeable membrane that seals the opening portion; a check valve that stops discharging of the gas out of the vessel from inside the regulating chamber when the internal pressure of the regulating chamber is less than or equal to a predetermined value, and that discharges the gas out of the vessel from inside the regulating chamber when the internal pressure of the regulating chamber exceeds the value; and a communicating pipe that communicates between a space inside the regulating chamber and a space inside the vessel and extends from the case to an electric storage device main body.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is connectable to a print server in which a print job is stored. A determination unit of the image forming apparatus deletes a print job stored in the print server and determined to be not executable by the determination unit on condition that an instruction to delete the print job is input to an input unit.

Abstract: A cathode terminal includes a cathode collector foil connector connected to the blank of a cathode collector foil, a cathode terminal external lead-out portion, and an intra-cell cathode terminal radiator located between the cathode collector foil connector and the cathode terminal external lead-out portion and covering approximately half of one of the wide side surfaces of a flat-wound electrode portion. An anode terminal includes an anode collector foil connector connected to the blank of an anode collector foil, an anode terminal external lead-out portion, and an in-cell anode terminal radiator located between the anode collector foil connector and the anode terminal external lead-out portion and substantially covering a remaining portion of the one of the wider side surfaces of the flat-wound electrode portion.

Abstract: An electric storage device includes an electric storage device body impregnated with an electrolyte solution, a sheath for hermetically sealing the electric storage device body, and a pressure regulator provided at the sheath. The pressure regulator includes a plurality of gas release mechanism portions. Further, the pressure regulator allows release of gases from an inside space of the sheath in which the electric storage device body exists to an outside space by causing the gases from the inside space to pass through the gas release mechanism portions in succession, and blocks entry of gases from the outside space to the inside space by the respective gas release mechanism portions. A buffer space is formed between the gas release mechanism portions by being partitioned by the gas release mechanism portions.

Abstract: A display screen control device comprises: a browser for acquiring a display screen from the web server and displaying on a predetermined display part; an error detection part for detecting whether or not a display error of an image contained in the display screen acquired by the browser is occurred with the display screen being displayed on the display part when instructions on execution of a job given by the user is detected; a confirmation screen creation part for creating a setting confirmation screen including a set value of each of at least one set item corresponding to the image in which the display error is detected when the display error is detected; and a screen change part for changing the display screen displayed on the display part to the setting confirmation screen created by the confirmation screen creation part prior to start of execution of the job.

Abstract: A humidifier and a method for producing it can reduce gas leakage through inside the surfaces of humidifying membranes or through interfaces between the humidifying membranes and separators. The humidifier includes water permeable humidifying membranes and gas separators each having one or two channels opened at least one side in a direction of lamination, through which at least one of a dry gas and a wet gas is caused to flow. A humidifying membrane, a gas separator, a humidifying membrane and a gas separator are repeatedly laminated one over another in this order, or a gas separator, a humidifying membrane and a gas separator are repeatedly laminated one over another in this order. Each gas separator has a frame-shaped portion surrounding the one or two channels, and that portion of each humidifying membrane which, when laminated, faces the frame-shaped portion of a corresponding gas separator is filled with a resin.

Abstract: A solid polymer fuel cell includes a membrane junction unit being provided an electrolyte membrane sandwiched by an oxidant electrode and a fuel electrode and two separators being sandwiched from both surfaces of the electrolyte membrane, the two separators being provided, in central portions of surfaces of the two separators, with gas flow channels, respectively, and a sealing portions being provided between surfaces of the two separators which are opposed to each other and between surfaces of the two separators which are opposed to the outer peripheral edge portion, respectively, in which the sealed surfaces of the two separators, which are opposed to the sealing portions, respectively, are provided with a plurality of depressions, which are independent of one another in a direction of the sealed surfaces, so that the plurality of depressions surround the gas flow channels.

Abstract: A reformer that includes a housing including a tubular member and an end plate member hermetically joined to the tubular member. The housing defines within it a first fluid flow path and a second fluid flow path in a heat exchanging relationship with each other. A reforming catalyst is disposed within the first fluid flow path. The tubular member has a tubular end, and the end plate member has an abutting rim that contacts with and extends along the tubular end of the tubular member and that is folded together over an entire circumference thereof to define a folded hermetic seam between the tubular member and the end plate member. The reformer can be low-priced and its manufacture is easy and efficient.

Abstract: A humidifier and a method for producing it can reduce gas leakage A humidifier and a method for producing it can reduce gas leakage through inside the surfaces of humidifying membranes or through interfaces between the humidifying membranes and separators. The humidifier includes water permeable humidifying membranes and gas separators each having one or two channels opened at least one side in a direction of lamination, through which at least one of a dry gas and a wet gas is caused to flow. A humidifying membrane, a gas separator, a humidifying membrane and a gas separator are repeatedly laminated one over another in this order, or a gas separator, a humidifying membrane and a gas separator are repeatedly laminated one over another in this order. Each gas separator has a frame-shaped portion surrounding the one or two channels, and that portion of each humidifying membrane which, when laminated, faces the frame-shaped portion of a corresponding gas separator is filled with a resin.

Abstract: A fuel cell in which gas short-cutting is prevented without reducing effective area for electrode reaction. At least one of a fuel gas flow path and an oxidizing gas flow path includes flow grooves having bends and fluid flowing between ends of the flow grooves. The effective reaction area of the flow grooves on a separator plate is rectangular, having a first side in the direction along which the bends are aligned longer than a second side in the direction along their main extents, located upstream and downstream of the bends, where the fluid flows in opposing directions.

Abstract: A fuel cell that prevents gas slippage, with minimal reduction in effective area for electrode reaction. At least one of a fuel gas flow path and an oxidizing gas flow path is configured with flow channels having bends and so that gas flows between ends of the flow channels, and, among ridges between a neighboring upstream-side portion of a flow channel and a downstream-side portion of the flow channel, a gas diffusion layer touching at least a ridge between an upstream region of the flow channel on the upstream side and a downstream region of the flow channel on the downstream side, has a lower porosity than the gas diffusion layer touching other ridges and touching the flow channels.

Abstract: A reformer that includes a housing including a tubular member and an end plate member hermetically joined to the tubular member. The housing defines within it a first fluid flow path and a second fluid flow path in a heat exchanging relationship with each other. A reforming catalyst is disposed within the first fluid flow path. The tubular member has a tubular end, and the end plate member has an abutting rim that contacts with and extends along the tubular end of the tubular member and that is folded together over an entire circumference thereof to define a folded hermetic seam between the tubular member and the end plate member. The reformer can be low-priced and it manufacture is easy and efficient.

Abstract: A bipolar plate is designed to provide a gas seal 16 around an electrode and gas seals 17a around fuel gas manifolds on the same plane and to separate the gas seal 16 and gas seals 17a around oxidant gas manifolds 4, 6 with hollowed parts on an anode electrode 25 side, and to provide the gas seal 16 and the gas seals 17b on a same plane and to separate the gas seal 16 and the gas seals 17a with hollowed parts on a cathode electrode 20 side. Also disclosed are sealing parts for the fuel side and the oxidant side of the fuel cell.

Abstract: A bipolar plate is designed to provide a gas seal 16 around an electrode and gas seals 17a around fuel gas manifolds on the same plane and to separate the gas seal 16 and gas seals 17a around oxidant gas manifolds 4, 6 with hollowed parts on an anode electrode 25 side, and to provide the gas seal 16 and the gas seals 17b on a same plane and to separate the gas seal 16 and the gas seals 17a with hollowed parts on a cathode electrode 20 side.

Abstract: A internal reforming type molten carbonate fuel cell is provided in which the process or flow direction of the reforming reaction of a raw fuel gas in the reforming reaction section is countercurrent to the flow direction of the oxidant gas in the cell reaction section. Therefore, a temperature difference in the fuel cell can be suppressed.

Abstract: A fuel cell in which the sealed portions formed at the peripheral edges of gas flow passages of a gas separating plate are turned so that they have a U-shaped cross section in the direction of the lamination so as to provide for elasticity. A filling member is filled in the interior of the sealed portions. This gas separating plate is used to respectively form gas flow passages through which different gas fluids are caused to flow so that they are electrochemically reacted in a pair of electrode reacting portions disposed with an electrolyte layer being interposed therebetween. In consequence, the sealed portions provided at the peripheral edges of the gas flow passages deform in accordance with the creep caused in the electrode reacting portions. This enables a balanced, adequate bearing pressure to be kept applied to the electrode reacting portions and the sealed portions, thereby enabling the fuel cell to be operated in an excellent gas sealed state for a long time.

Abstract: A reforming catalyst adapted for use with fuel cells is disclosed which is free from degradation in catalytic activity even if subjected to a fuel gas containing an electrolyte or substances resulting therefrom, and which has stable and high catalytic activity for an extended period of time. The reforming catalyst includes a catalytically active substance adapted to reform a fuel gas containing hydrocarbons or alcohols into a fuel gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide, and an electrolyte-removing substance adapted to remove an electrolyte and/or substances resulting therefrom in the fuel cell. The electrolyte-removing substance has a porous structure and comprises a compound containing at least one of silicon, aluminum and chromium which chemically reacts with the electrolyte and/or the substances resulting therefrom for removal thereof.