Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion including a photosensitive member and a developing portion, a sheet accommodating portion, a sheet feeding portion, and a first frame. The first frame includes an upper space supporting the image forming portion, and a lower space under the upper space. A second frame is mountable to a lower portion of said first frame. The accommodating portion and the feeding portion are replaceable with a supply container containing toner to be supplied to a developing portion of the image forming portion, in which the second frame supports the accommodating portion and the feeding portion.

Abstract: A surface modifying method of modifying a bonding surface of a substrate to be bonded to another substrate by plasma of a processing gas includes an adjusting process and a modifying process. In the adjusting process, an amount of moisture in a processing vessel is adjusted by supplying a humidified gas into the processing vessel allowed to accommodate the substrate therein. In the modifying process, the bonding surface of the substrate is modified by forming the plasma of the processing gas in the processing vessel in a state that the amount of moisture in the processing vessel is adjusted.

Abstract: A non-outage power supply system comprises three-phase ac input terminals and three-phase ac output terminals, between which there are sequentially connected a three-phase ac-to-dc converter circuit, a capacitor, and a three-phase dc-to-ac converter circuit. A bypass switch is connected between a preselected one of the three-phase ac input terminals and a preselected one of the three-phase ac output terminals. A bypass switch control circuit holds the bypass switch closed when the three-phase ac inputs are in phase with the three-phase ac outputs, and open when they are not. Part or all of the effective current demanded by the load bypasses the three-phase dc-to-ac converter circuit when the bypass switch is closed, with a consequent reduction of power loss.