Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conversion unit configured to convert image data based on a conversion condition, an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet based on the converted image data, a detection unit configured to detect a pattern image on a transfer member, a reading unit configured to read a test image formed on a sheet, a controller configured to perform calibration based on a reading result of the reading unit, and a reception unit. In a case where the calibration is performed, the controller determines an image forming condition based on a result of detection by the detection unit before the test image is formed. In a case where the reception unit receives the discontinuation instruction, the controller changes the image forming condition to an image forming condition before the pattern image is formed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a feeding unit, an image forming unit, a reading unit, a conveyance unit, a first discharge unit and a second discharge unit, a determination unit, and a control unit. When an (n)th sheet in a first copy is an abnormal sheet, remaining sheets include sheets fed by the feeding unit after the abnormal sheet is fed by the feeding unit until the image on the abnormal sheet is read by the reading unit, and the remaining sheets include a first group of remaining sheets and a second group of remaining sheets. The control unit is configured to execute an abnormal discharge mode in which the sheets of the first group of the remaining sheets are discharged to the second discharge unit and each of the sheets of the second group of the remaining sheets is discharged selectively to the first or the second discharge unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conversion unit configured to convert image data based on a conversion condition, an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet based on the converted image data, a detection unit configured to detect a pattern image on a transfer member, a reading unit configured to read a test image formed on a sheet, a controller configured to perform calibration based on a reading result of the reading unit, and a reception unit. In a case where the calibration is performed, the controller determines an image forming condition based on a result of detection by the detection unit before the test image is formed. In a case where the reception unit receives the discontinuation instruction, the controller changes the image forming condition to an image forming condition before the pattern image is formed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a feeding unit, an image forming unit, a reading unit, a conveyance unit, a first discharge unit and a second discharge unit, a determination unit, and a control unit. When an (n)th sheet in a first copy is an abnormal sheet, remaining sheets include sheets fed by the feeding unit after the abnormal sheet is fed by the feeding unit until the image on the abnormal sheet is read by the reading unit, and the remaining sheets include a first group of remaining sheets and a second group of remaining sheets. The control unit is configured to execute an abnormal discharge mode in which the sheets of the first group of the remaining sheets are discharged to the second discharge unit and each of the sheets of the second group of the remaining sheets is discharged selectively to the first or the second discharge unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conversion unit configured to convert image data based on a conversion condition, an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet based on the converted image data, a detection unit configured to detect a pattern image on a transfer member, a reading unit configured to read a test image formed on a sheet, a controller configured to perform calibration based on a reading result of the reading unit, and a reception unit. In a case where the calibration is performed, the controller determines an image forming condition based on a result of detection by the detection unit before the test image is formed. In a case where the reception unit receives the discontinuation instruction, the controller changes the image forming condition to an image forming condition before the pattern image is formed.

Abstract: A pouch container generating hydrogen water is provided. A beverage containing at least water and a hydrogen generating substance that reacts with water to generate hydrogen gas are contained in a pouch container that is sealed. Even when hydrogen in a gas form leaks from a sealed part or the like of the pouch container to the outside, new hydrogen gas is generated by the reaction of the water and the hydrogen generating substance in the pouch container. Hydrogen water having sufficient hydrogen gas dissolved therein can be provided even after the long-term preservation. For example, the hydrogen generating substance may be contained in a straw or may be kneaded into an exterior sheet material.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conversion unit configured to convert image data based on a conversion condition, an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet based on the converted image data, a detection unit configured to detect a pattern image on a transfer member, a reading unit configured to read a test image formed on a sheet, a controller configured to perform calibration based on a reading result of the reading unit, and a reception unit. In a case where the calibration is performed, the controller determines an image forming condition based on a result of detection by the detection unit before the test image is formed. In a case where the reception unit receives the discontinuation instruction, the controller changes the image forming condition to an image forming condition before the pattern image is formed.

Abstract: A hydrogen-generating substance that reacts with moisture (liquid water or water vapor) in a medical substance or moisture in air introduced into a medical container is kneaded into an exterior sheet 40 of the medical container that encloses the medical substance therein. The medical container can be a bag-shaped medical container, a tube-shaped medical container, a medical container with a sealing fastener or the like. The medical substance containing moisture can be blood, an injection solution, a drug solution, a nutrient solution, a replenishment solution (an infusion solution), an instillation solution or the like. A solid preparation is preferably enclosed within the medical container with the sealing fastener. For example, the hydrogen-generating substance to be kneaded can be metal magnesium and is preferably fine-powdered ceramics obtained by firing the mixture of a hydrogen-generating substance and a mineral substance such as calcium.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor magnet of a rotor of a permanent magnet motor, the rotor magnet including plural main magnets and plural auxiliary magnets, the main magnets being magnetically oriented in a first direction, the auxiliary magnets being magnetically oriented in a second direction, the auxiliary magnets being disposed respectively between the main magnets. The method includes: in the rotor, forming a divided resin molded part by resin-molding the main magnets and the auxiliary magnets, the main magnets and the auxiliary magnets being arrayed in an arc-like shape whose circumference is divided into plural parts, the main magnets being not yet magnetized, the auxiliary magnets being magnetized in the second direction; magnetizing the main magnets of the divided resin molded part in the first direction; and connecting a plurality of divided resin molded parts in a circular shape.

Abstract: A hydrogen-generating substance that reacts with moisture (liquid water or water vapor) in a medical substance or moisture in air introduced into a medical container is kneaded into an exterior sheet 40 of the medical container that encloses the medical substance therein. The medical container can be a bag-shaped medical container, a tube-shaped medical container, a medical container with a sealing fastener or the like. The medical substance containing moisture can be blood, an injection solution, a drug solution, a nutrient solution, a replenishment solution (an infusion solution), an instillation solution or the like. A solid preparation is preferably enclosed within the medical container with the sealing fastener. For example, the hydrogen-generating substance to be kneaded can be metal magnesium and is preferably fine-powdered ceramics obtained by firing the mixture of a hydrogen-generating substance and a mineral substance such as calcium.

Abstract: A pouch container generating hydrogen water is provided. A beverage containing at least water and a hydrogen generating substance that reacts with water to generate hydrogen gas are contained in a pouch container that is sealed. Even when hydrogen in a gas form leaks from a sealed part or the like of the pouch container to the outside, new hydrogen gas is generated by the reaction of the water and the hydrogen generating substance in the pouch container. Hydrogen water having sufficient hydrogen gas dissolved therein can be provided even after the long-term preservation. For example, the hydrogen generating substance may be contained in a straw or may be kneaded into an exterior sheet material.

Abstract: A permanent magnet motor includes a rotor including a rotor core formed with magnet insertion holes and permanent magnets inserted into the insertion holes. The rotor core includes a plurality of pairs of divided cores. The divided cores of each pair are adjacent to each other, and one divided core of each pair has two ends formed with respective engagement convexities and the other divided core has two ends formed with respective engagement concavities. The permanent magnets included permanent magnets having a lower coercive force and permanent magnets having a higher coercive force. A number of the permanent magnets having the lower coercive force and a number of the permanent magnets having the higher coercive force for each of the divided cores are the same as the other divided cores such that the divided cores have an equal total flux such that the divided cores have an equal total flux.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which makes it possible to perform an image forming operation even during update of a control program. The image forming apparatus is provided with distributed module controllers each including a sub CPU and a flash ROM storing a control program for controlling the sub CPU. The main CPU of the image forming apparatus updates the control programs stored in the respective flash ROMs. The main CPU displays a screen that enables selection of functions to be used in an image forming job executed by the image forming apparatus. During execution of update of a control program targeted for update, out of the selectable functions, the main CPU disables a function which uses a sub CPU associated with the control program.

Abstract: A damper includes a bobbin which is housed in a cylinder and on which a coil is wound and yokes housed in the cylinder. At least one of the yokes is disposed at a first axial side of the bobbin, and at least one other of the yokes is disposed at a second axial side of the bobbin. A magnetic viscous fluid is retained on inner surfaces of the yokes and an inner surface of the bobbin. Sealing members are configured to prevent leakage of the magnetic viscous fluid. A shaft extends through the yokes, the bobbin and the sealing members and is configured to be axially reciprocable relative to the yokes, the bobbin and the sealing members such that reciprocation of the shaft does not substantially displace the magnetic viscous fluid. The coil, the bobbin and the yokes are fixed together by a resin.

Abstract: If any of a plurality of conditions is satisfied, an image forming apparatus having a plurality of image forming units that form images on an intermediate transfer member in a superimposed manner detects, using a pattern detection sensor, the amount of color misregistration of the images formed by the plurality of image forming units on the intermediate transfer member and corrects the color misregistration of the images formed by the plurality of image forming units in accordance with the amount of color misregistration that is smaller than a color misregistration correction tolerance, which varies depending on the plurality of conditions, and that has been detected by the pattern detection sensor.

Abstract: A washing machine includes a water tub, an electric motor, and a control device. The motor comprises a stator including a stator coil, a rotor magnet arranged circumferentially with respect to the rotor, and a control device. The rotor magnet includes a permanent magnet. When the control device applies a first voltage to the stator coil in a wash step of the washing operation, the rotor magnet is magnetized so that a magnetic flux of the rotor magnet acting on the stator is increased without reversal of a direction of magnetization. When the control device applies a second voltage to the stator soil in a dehydration step of the washing operation, the rotor magnet is magnetized so that a magnetic flux of the rotor magnet acting on the stator is reduced without reversal of a direction of magnetization as compared with the magnetic flux in the wash step.

Abstract: If any of a plurality of conditions is satisfied, an image forming apparatus having a plurality of image forming units that form images on an intermediate transfer member in a superimposed manner detects, using a pattern detection sensor, the amount of color misregistration of the images formed by the plurality of image forming units on the intermediate transfer member and corrects the color misregistration of the images formed by the plurality of image forming units in accordance with the amount of color misregistration that is smaller than a color misregistration correction tolerance, which varies depending on the plurality of conditions, and that has been detected by the pattern detection sensor.

Abstract: Disclosed is a washing machine comprising a permanent magnet motor that includes a rotor and that drives rotation for execution of a wash operation; a permanent magnet that is provided on the rotor side and that has a level of coercivity allowing variation in an amount of magnetism with ease, and a magnetism controller that produces an excitation current to vary the amount of magnetism of the permanent magnet; wherein the magnetism controller, when interrupting or stopping an ongoing operation, interrupts or stops the ongoing operation after magnetizing the permanent magnet.

Abstract: A rotor core of a rotating electrical machine formed by stacking a plurality of blanks blanked from a steel sheet, the blank having a yoke, a magnetic pole portion confronting the yoke, and a magnet insertion hole positioned between the yoke and the magnetic pole portion, the magnetic pole portion having a projection projecting circumferentially at two circumferential sides thereof.

Abstract: A permanent magnet motor includes a rotor including a rotor core formed with circumferentially arranged magnet insertion holes and permanent magnets inserted into the respective magnet insertion holes, the magnets establishing in the magnet insertion holes magnetic poles corresponding to magnetic pole teeth of a stator. The magnets include a plurality of types of permanent magnets having different coercive forces and are inserted into the insertion holes respectively so that each pole corresponds to one of the types of magnets. The rotor core has a part located between the magnets adjacent to each other and having different coercive forces. The rotor core has a magnetic flux path defined in the part so as to protrude to the stator side. The magnetic sensor is configured to be relatively moved along a trajectory corresponding to the magnets and the flux path with rotation of the rotor.