Abstract: Provided is a crank sprocket that allows suppressing a transmission of vibration. The crank sprocket of the present disclosure is mounted to one end side in an axial direction of a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, and a timing chain is wound around the crank sprocket. The crank sprocket includes a sprocket base body, and a vibration-damping resin layer formed on an inner peripheral surface or a tooth surface of the sprocket base body. The vibration-damping resin layer includes a heat-resistant resin and a vibration damping filler that converts vibration energy into thermal energy.

Abstract: An adjustable valve device includes: a first cam portion penetrated by a camshaft, rotating with the camshaft, and including an elongated hole formed therein; a U or L shaped second cam portion supported by the first cam portion so as to swing to move between a first state and a second state; a stopper pin fixed to the second cam portion and penetrating through the elongated hole; a biasing member biasing the stopper pin so that the second cam portion becomes in the first state; a lock mechanism locking the second cam portion only when the second cam portion is in the first state; and a cam follower exerting a reactive force so that the second cam portion becomes in the second state in a state where a lock of the second cam portion is released, wherein the reactive force is greater than a biasing force of the biasing member.

Abstract: An adjustable valve device includes: a first cam portion penetrated by a camshaft, rotating with the camshaft, and including an elongated hole formed therein; a U or L shaped second cam portion supported by the first cam portion so as to swing to move between a first state and a second state; a stopper pin fixed to the second cam portion and penetrating through the elongated hole; a biasing member biasing the stopper pin so that the second cam portion becomes in the first state; a lock mechanism locking the second cam portion only when the second cam portion is in the first state; and a cam follower exerting a reactive force so that the second cam portion becomes in the second state in a state where a lock of the second cam portion is released, wherein the reactive force is greater than a biasing force of the biasing member.

Abstract: A conveyance control apparatus includes a stacking base that stacks ejected paper sheets, a sensor that detects a paper sheet after the paper sheet is ejected according to job data before the paper sheet is stacked on the stacking base, a detection time measuring unit that measures sensor-on time during which the sensor detects the paper sheet, a storage unit that stores near-full-stack time for judging whether stacked volume on the stacking base enters into a near-full-stack state, a judging unit that judges stack state on the stacking base based on paper sheet information of the job data and a measured result by the detection time measuring unit, and a conveyance control unit that performs control to temporarily stop paper sheet feeding and then to feed predetermined number of paper sheets, when the judging unit judges that the sensor-on time is equal to or greater than the near-full-stack time.

Abstract: A printer which is connected to a post-processing apparatus, the post-processing apparatus performing a wrapped binding in which a paper sheet bundle including a plurality of inner paper sheets is wrapped by outer paper sheets, and which prints the outer paper sheets and inner paper sheets to be sent out to the post-processing apparatus, wherein the printer includes a control unit configured to control printing of the inner paper sheets and the outer paper sheets in cooperation with the post-processing apparatus, and the control unit is configured to set printing restart information of inner paper sheets and printing restart information of outer paper sheets, and controls a restarting of printing in accordance with the setting, when printing is restarted after an abnormal conveyance that occurred inside of the post-processing apparatus has been resolved.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a plurality of paper ejection devices includes a control unit which performs control to allow before a paper ejection device, which is continuously ejecting paper in the plurality of paper ejection devices, ejects paper over the maximum loading a paper ejection device which is not ejecting paper to prepare for starting an operation based on the time taken for the paper ejection device which is not ejecting paper to become operable and the number of ejectable sheets before a loading of the paper ejection device which is continuously ejecting paper reaches the maximum loading.

Abstract: A printer which is connected to a post-processing apparatus, the post-processing apparatus performing a wrapped binding in which a paper sheet bundle including a plurality of inner paper sheets is wrapped by outer paper sheets, and which prints the outer paper sheets and inner paper sheets to be sent out to the post-processing apparatus, wherein the printer includes a control unit configured to control printing of the inner paper sheets and the outer paper sheets in cooperation with the post-processing apparatus, and the control unit is configured to set printing restart information of inner paper sheets and printing restart information of outer paper sheets, and controls a restarting of printing in accordance with the setting, when printing is restarted after an abnormal conveyance that occurred inside of the post-processing apparatus has been resolved.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having a plurality of paper ejection devices includes a control unit which performs control to allow before a paper ejection device, which is continuously ejecting paper in the plurality of paper ejection devices, ejects paper over the maximum loading a paper ejection device which is not ejecting paper to prepare for starting an operation based on the time taken for the paper ejection device which is not ejecting paper to become operable and the number of ejectable sheets before a loading of the paper ejection device which is continuously ejecting paper reaches the maximum loading.

Abstract: A conveyance control apparatus includes a stacking base that stacks ejected paper sheets, a sensor that detects a paper sheet after the paper sheet is ejected according to job data before the paper sheet is stacked on the stacking base, a detection time measuring unit that measures sensor-on time during which the sensor detects the paper sheet, a storage unit that stores near-full-stack time for judging whether stacked volume on the stacking base enters into a near-full-stack state, a judging unit that judges stack state on the stacking base based on paper sheet information of the job data and a measured result by the detection time measuring unit, and a conveyance control unit that performs control to temporarily stop paper sheet feeding and then to feed predetermined number of paper sheets, when the judging unit judges that the sensor-on time is equal to or greater than the near-full-stack time.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a protein which excretes cancer chemotherapeutic drugs from a cell and which confers drug-resistance on the cell, a DNA encoding the protein, a method for detecting a cell type resistant to cancer chemotherapeutic drugs, a method for screening an inhibitor to overcome the resistance to cancer chemotherapeutic drugs as well as utilizing this knowledge to improve the therapeutic treatment of cancer patients.

Abstract: A stencil printing machine (10) having plural printing drums and a control method thereof can perform correctly a stencil printing process so that even if one or more errors occur in a printing drum (1 or 2) which is not used in the current printing process, another printing drum (1 or 2) is used.

Abstract: A sheet carrier apparatus for conveying a sheet includes a roller having a cylindrical circumferential surface that is made of an elastic material. The apparatus also includes a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of the roller, and processing device for setting a rotational speed of the roller based on a detection signal from the temperature sensor.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a protein which excretes cancer chemotherapeutic drugs from a cell and which confers drug-resistance on the cell, a DNA encoding the protein, a method for detecting a cell type resistant to cancer chemotherapeutic drugs, a method for screening an inhibitor to overcome the resistance to cancer chemotherapeutic drugs as well as utilizing this knowledge to improve the therapeutic treatment of cancer patients.

Abstract: A stencil printing machine is provided as including first and second printing drums 25 and 26 carrying thereon respective screens30, a press drum 27 located in close proximity to the printing drums and a stencil making unit 9. In a control method, the stencil making unit 9 supplies a perforated stencil sheet 11a onto a selected printing drum 25 and a non-perforated stencil sheet 11b onto a non-selected printing drum 26, wherein a print sheet 41 clamped to the press drum 27 is transferred along an outer periphery of the press drum 27 to allow the perforated stencil sheet of the first printing drum 25 to transfer printing ink with a first color to the print sheet 41 while the non-perforated stencil sheet mounted onto the second printing drum prevents printing ink to be transferred to the print sheet 41.

Abstract: On each of plural printing drums (25, 26) in a stencil printing machine (1), a stencil sheet (11) made corresponding to printing data is rolled. The machine (1) for a stencil printing process, in which a printing paper is pressed on each printing drum and the used stencil sheet is disposed, has a mode designation section (101) and a controller (102). The section (101) designates whether or not a stencil printing process is performed for plural printing information including common printing data. The control section (102) controls the stencil making process, the stencil disposing process, and the stencil printing process for the printing information. When the printing information includes common printing data, the controller (102) controls the printing drum on which the stencil sheet for the common printing data is rolled so that the stencil making and disposal processes are not performed.

Abstract: A stencil printer includes a printing drum which has an ink-permeable peripheral wall and is rotated about a predetermined axis of rotation with a stencil master wound around the peripheral wall, a back press roll which associates with the printing drum to nip and convey a printing paper, and an internal press roll which is provided in the printing drum to be movable back and forth toward and away from the back press roll and pushes the peripheral wall of the printing drum toward the back press roll. An internal press roll drive mechanism moves back and forth the internal press roll between a first position where the internal press roll is held away from the back press roll and a second position at a distance from the first position toward the back press roll and is able to freely change the distance between the axis of rotation of the printing drum and the second position.

Abstract: Black inverted noises in a white background due to resolution correction are reduced by an image processing apparatus which carries out image modification processing to invert at least a portion of a binary converted signal obtained from binary conversion of an image signal. An image signal S1 is respectively input to resolution correction means 201 and 202 using different correction amounts. The signal is then input to selecting means 310 from the both resolution correction means. The signal output from the selecting means is input to binary conversion means 400 and a signal S2 output therefrom is input to image modification processing means 500. when image modification processing has been instructed, a control signal CNT1 is input to the selecting means 310 and the selecting means output a signal with weak resolution correction from the resolution correction means 202 using a small correction amount.

Abstract: A stencil printing machine in which a stencil is sheared off of a continuous roll of stencil sheet to a length determined by a selected size of printing paper, mounted onto a printing drum, removed from said printing drum, and transported to and inserted into a used stencil container by a transport means, which comprises a stencil length specifying means which specifies the length of the stencil according to a selected size of printing paper when the stencil is prepared for printing, and a control means which controls an operation amount of the transport means, at the time the stencil is removed from the printing drum, in relation to the length of the stencil as specified by the stencil length specifying means. The control means may comprise a random access memory to record the data from the stencil length specifying mechanism.

Abstract: A stencil printing machine (10) having plural printing drums and a control method thereof can perform correctly a stencil printing process so that even if one or more errors occur in a printing drum (1 or 2) which is not used in the current printing process, another printing drum (1 or 2) is used.

Abstract: A stencil printing machine is provided as including first and second printing drums 25 and 26 carrying thereon respective screens30, a press drum 27 located in close proximity to the printing drums and a stencil making unit 9. In a control method, the stencil making unit 9 supplies a perforated stencil sheet 11a onto a selected printing drum 25 and a non-perforated stencil sheet 11b onto a non-selected printing drum 26, wherein a print sheet 41 clamped to the press drum 27 is transferred along an outer periphery of the press drum 27 to allow the perforated stencil sheet of the first printing drum 25 to transfer printing ink with a first color to the print sheet 41 while the non-perforated stencil sheet mounted onto the second printing drum prevents printing ink to be transferred to the print sheet 41.