Abstract: An image forming apparatus which makes it possible to prevent interruption of printing due to shift to a temperature rise control mode and interruption of printing for execution of a cartridge replacement operation due to running-out of toner from occurring separately during execution of continuous printing. A temperature sensor detects that the internal temperature of the image forming apparatus has become equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature. The image forming apparatus also detects execution of toner cartridge replacement. When the temperature sensor detects, during execution of printing, that the internal temperature has become equal to or higher than the predetermined temperature, the image forming apparatus stops the printing being executed. Further, when execution of toner cartridge replacement is detected during suspension of the printing, the image forming apparatus resumes the printing being suspended.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which makes it possible to save energy during the operation of a temperature rise control mode, and is capable of realizing energy saving without degrading performance by making the image forming apparatus ready for printing when returning from the temperature rise control mode. A temperature sensor detects internal temperature of the image forming apparatus. When the internal temperature of the image forming apparatus has reached a temperature at which the apparatus should shift to the temperature rise control mode during execution of printing, the printing operation is stopped. In stopping the printing operation, the image forming apparatus is shifted to an energy saving mode.

Abstract: If an image is shifted in increments of pixels according to scan line changing points, the printed image suffers from jaggies or boundaries at positions corresponding to the scan line changing points. The jaggies or boundaries are also produced when a 1/2 speed or a 1/3 speed obtained by varying the process speed is used. Consequently, it has been impossible to obtain high-quality output images. An image forming apparatus is offered which has a printing unit operating to print at different process speeds and a control unit for controlling the output range of output image data for each line according to the process speeds. When the process speed in use is lower than a normal process speed, a part of 1 line of image data is outputted divisionally at timings at which lines from which image is not usually outputted at this low process speed are scanned.

Abstract: A sintered soft magnetic powder molded body having a composition containing Fe, 44 to 50% by mass of Ni and 2 to 6% by mass of Si, or a composition containing Fe and 2 to 6% by mass of Si, wherein the Si is unevenly distributed among particles, is provided.

Abstract: The object is to make alignment of liquid crystals more uniform by reducing alignment disorder when a voltage is applied and to improve the display quality. A liquid crystal display element comprises a first electrode (122), a second electrode (141) opposed to the first electrode, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and having alignment of liquid crystal in the voltage-off state being vertical alignment, wherein either one of the first electrode and the second electrode is provided with a plurality of regularly disposed L-shaped slits, and the L-shaped slits (21) are formed so that at least within an area where the first electrode and the second electrode overlap each other, the electrode provided with the slits, is divided into a plurality of rectangular sub-pixel electrodes each having connection portions at three corners for connection to adjacent sub-pixel electrodes.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing bodies formed from insulated soft magnetic metal powder by forming an insulating film of an inorganic substance on the surface of particles of a soft magnetic metal powder, compacting and molding the powder, then carrying out a heat treatment to provide a body formed from insulated soft magnetic metal powder the method comprising: compacting and molding the powder; then magnetically annealing the powder at a high temperature above the Curie temperature for the soft magnetic metal powder and below the threshold temperature at which the insulating film is destroyed in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, such as a vacuum, inert gas, or the like; and then carrying out a further heat treatment at a temperature of from 400° C. to 700° C. in an oxidizing atmosphere, such as air, or the like.

Abstract: A powder for a sintered valve sheet made of an iron-based alloy is provided, which has excellent compactibility and abrasion resistance and from which a carbide that may abrade a counterpart is not precipitated. A powder is provided, wherein a molten steel, in which carbon is controlled to be less than 0.1% by mass to avoid precipitation of a carbide, 0.5 to 8.5% by mass of Si, 10 to 25% by mass of Ni, 5 to 20% by mass of Mo, and 5 to 20% by mass of Co are contained, and a remainder includes Fe and incidental impurities, is rapidly cooled by a conventional technique such as a gas atomization method, a water atomization method, or a centrifugal force atomization method, so that a supersaturated solid solution of the alloy elements consisting mainly of austenite, which is effective in softening the powder, is formed. Since the powder has low hardness, the compactibility is excellent at the time of compression molding.

Abstract: A sintered soft magnetic powder molded body having a composition containing Fe, 44 to 50% by mass of Ni and 2 to 6% by mass of Si, or a composition containing Fe and 2 to 6% by mass of Si, wherein the Si is unevenly distributed among particles, is provided.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a decompression unit (302) that is configurable by dynamic reconfigurable logic into either a first decompression circuit (302a) or a second decompression circuit (302b) that has a slower decompression speed and a lower power consumption than the first decompression circuit (302a), a buffer unit (304) that temporarily stores image data decompressed by the decompression unit (302) to be supplied to an engine unit, and a detection unit (305) that detects a data amount accumulated in the buffer unit (304). In accordance with the data amount detected by the detection unit (305), the decompression unit (302) carries out reconfiguration into the first or second decompression circuit (302a/302b).

Abstract: If an image is shifted in increments of pixels according to scan line changing points, the printed image suffers from jaggies or boundaries at positions corresponding to the scan line changing points. The jaggies or boundaries are also produced when a ½ speed or a ? speed obtained by varying the process speed is used. Consequently, it has been impossible to obtain high-quality output images. An image forming apparatus is offered which has a printing unit operating to print at different process speeds and a control unit for controlling the output range of output image data for each line according to the process speeds. When the process speed in use is lower than a normal process speed, a part of 1 line of image data is outputted divisionally at timings at which lines from which image is not usually outputted at this low process speed are scanned.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing bodies formed from insulated soft magnetic metal powder by forming an insulating film of an inorganic substance on the surface of particles of a soft magnetic metal powder, compacting and molding the powder, then carrying out a heat treatment to provide a body formed from insulated soft magnetic metal powder the method comprising: compacting and molding the powder; then magnetically annealing the powder at a high temperature above the Curie temperature for the soft magnetic metal powder and below the threshold temperature at which the insulating film is destroyed in a non-oxidizing atmosphere, such as a vacuum, inert gas, or the like; and then carrying out a further heat treatment at a temperature of from 400° C. to 700° C. in an oxidizing atmosphere, such as air, or the like.

Abstract: In a fluid abrasive machining method for abrasively machining a fine pore on a work (5) to be machined by supplying a slurry (7) which is an abrasive machining fluid from a supplying device (2) to the work to be machined comprising steps of: supplying the slurry to the work to be machined from the supplying device; measuring a first pressure (P1) upstream in a discharge side of the supplying device; measuring a second pressure (P2) downstream of a measuring point of the first pressure (P1) and at an upstream side of the work to be machined; calculating a pressure difference (dp) between the first pressure and the second pressure; and terminating a machining operation when the pressure difference dp reaches a specific value. A fluid abrasive machining apparatus (100) which can perform the above-mentioned fluid abrasive machining method is provided.

Abstract: An alloyed steel powder for metal injection molding that eliminates the problems of decreased product strength and difficulty of temperature control which exist in conventional alloys for sintering and that improves productivity of the sintering furnace is provided, together with a sintered body thereof. This alloyed steel powder for metal injection molding consists, as mass percentages, of 0.1 to 1.8% C, 0.3 to 1.2% Si, 0.1 to 0.5% Mn, 11 to 18% Cr, 2 to 5% Nb and the remainder Fe and unavoidable impurities, and which may further comprise 5.0% or less of at least one of Mo, V and W, or a sintered body (wherein C is 0.1 to 1.7%) of these powders. The alloyed steel powder for metal injection molding of the present invention results in a sintered body with a constant sintered density over a 50° C. range of sintering temperatures, thereby facilitating sintering temperature control and improving productivity.

Abstract: An alloyed steel powder for metal injection molding that eliminates the problems of decreased product strength and difficulty of temperature control which exist in conventional alloys for sintering and that improves productivity of the sintering furnace is provided, together with a sintered body thereof. This is an alloyed steel powder for metal injection molding which consists as mass percentages of 0.1 to 1.8% C, 0.3 to 1.2% Si, 0.1 to 0.5% Mn, 11 to 18% Cr, 2 to 5% Nb and the remainder Fe and unavoidable impurities, and which may further comprise 5.0% or less of at least one of Mo, V and W, or a sintered body (wherein C is 0.1 to 1.7%) of these powders. As shown in FIGS. 6 through 9, the alloyed steel powder for metal injection molding of the present invention results in a sintered body with a constant sintered density over a 50° C. range of sintering temperatures, thereby facilitating sintering temperature control and improving productivity.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a decompression unit (302) that is configurable by dynamic reconfigurable logic into either a first decompression circuit (302a) or a second decompression circuit (302b) that has a slower decompression speed and a lower power consumption than the first decompression circuit (302a), a buffer unit (304) that temporarily stores image data decompressed by the decompression unit (302) to be supplied to an engine unit, and a detection unit (305) that detects a data amount accumulated in the buffer unit (304). In accordance with the data amount detected by the detection unit (305), the decompression unit (302) carries out reconfiguration into the first or second decompression circuit (302a/302b).

Abstract: A water-atomized metal powder having a spherical particle shape, an average particle size of 25 &mgr;m or less and a tap density ratio of 50-60%. The spherical powder is produced by forming non-spherical metal particles, which have been produced from molten metal by water-atomization, into spherical particles using a high speed gas current which causes high speed collisions to occur between said particles and between said particles and a collision body. The thus obtained spherical metal powder is particularly suitable for injection molding since and, by using the powder, the blending proportion of organic binder used in injection molding can be reduced and high strength debound bodies can be obtained.

Abstract: A source powder for a wear-resistant sintered material, consisting essentially of, in weight percentages, Cr: 3.0 to 6.0%, 2 Mo+W: 10.0 to 20.0%, V: 1.0 to 8.0%, Co: 10.0% or below, C: 0.20% to {0.01(2 Mo+W)+0.24 V}%, Si: 0.1 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 1.0% and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, or one prepared by adding 0.10 to 0.8% of S to the above composition. This powder can be compacted into a green compact having a high green density, which can further give a wear-resistant sintered material having a high sintered density, hardness and strength.