Abstract: In the case that a developer supply container is provided with a feeding portion for feeding a developer by receiving a rotational force and a pump portion for discharging the developer by reciprocation, and the rotational force and a reciprocating force are received from a main assembly side of an image forming apparatus, there is a liability that a driving connection is not properly established between a portion of the developer supply container for receiving the reciprocating force and a portion of the main assembly side for applying the reciprocating force. The developer supply container is provided with a drive converting mechanism for converting the rotational force received from the main assembly side to a force for operating a volume changing type pump.

Abstract: Provided is an optical fiber ribbon capable of concurrently ensuring mid-span access performance and cable production performance. The optical fiber ribbon 1 includes three or more optical fibers 2 arranged in parallel and connecting portions 3 connecting the adjacent optical fibers 2, the connecting portions 3 being formed intermittently in each of a ribbon longitudinal direction X and a ribbon width direction Y. The optical fiber ribbon 1 including the connecting portions 3 having split strength which is set in the range from 1.50 gf to 21.0 gf, contributes to exhibiting both the mid-span access performance and the cable production performance.

Abstract: A tablet terminal 13 has a tablet terminal controller 20 that returns a substitute address indicating the address of the tablet terminal 13 to the POS terminal 10 when a command asking for the address of the recording device 12 is received from the POS terminal 10; determines whether to send the received print control data to the recording device or the management device, or to both, as the destination device if print control data transmitted by the POS terminal 10 to the substitute address is received; and transmits the print control data to the selected destination.

Abstract: A toner supply container includes a toner container body including a cylindrical portion and an opening, and a sealing member provided at one axial end portion of the container body. The sealing member is movable relative to the container body in an axial direction and includes a sealing portion provided at a side adjacent the container body and a coupling portion provided at a side remote from the container body. The coupling portion includes a supporting portion provided on the sealing portion, an engaging portion provided at a free end of the supporting portion, and a displacing force receiving portion provided on the supporting portion at a position closer to the container body than the engaging portion. The displacing force receiving portion is displaceable with the supporting portion and has a radially outermost part that is more remote from a rotation axis of the container body than a radially outermost part of the engaging portion.

Abstract: A developer supply kit detachably mountable to a developer supplying apparatus comprising a developer supply container and a developer accommodated therein, wherein the developer supply container includes, a developer accommodating portion accommodating the developer, a discharge opening for discharging the developer accommodated in the developer accommodating portion, a drive receiving portion to which a driving force is inputted from the developer supplying apparatus, and a pump portion operable so that an internal pressure of the developer accommodating portion alternately and repetitively changes between a pressure lower than a ambient pressure and a pressure higher than the ambient pressure, by the driving force received by the drive receiving portion, wherein the developer accommodated in the developer supply container includes toner containing binder resin material and a coloring material, the developer satisfies, 10?E (mJ)?80, 0.4?Ea (mJ)?2.

Abstract: In the case that a developer supply container is provided with a feeding portion for feeding a developer by receiving a rotational force and a pump portion for discharging the developer by reciprocation, and the rotational force and a reciprocating force are received from a main assembly side of an image forming apparatus, there is a liability that a driving connection is not properly established between a portion of the developer supply container for receiving the reciprocating force and a portion of the main assembly side for applying the reciprocating force. The developer supply container is provided with a drive converting mechanism for converting the rotational force received from the main assembly side to a force for operating a volume changing type pump.

Abstract: Provided is an optical fiber ribbon capable of achieving higher density and reduction in diameter and accurately placing optical fibers in V-shape grooves in a fusion machine without failure. The optical fiber ribbon 1 includes three or more of optical fibers 2 arranged in parallel and connecting portions 3 connecting adjacent two optical fibers 2 together, the connecting portions 3 being intermittently provided in each of a ribbon longitudinal direction and a ribbon width direction. The connecting portions 3 are each formed in such a manner as to fill resin into a gap S formed between adjacent two optical fibers 2, and both surfaces of the respective connecting portions 3 are each formed into a recess having a concave shape curved toward a center of the gap S to separate from lines 4,5 each connecting contact points of the optical fibers 2 when being placed on a horizontal surface.

Abstract: To provide a developer supply container and a developer supplying system with which the discharging of the developer from the developer supply container to the developer replenishing apparatus can be carried out properly from the beginning.

Abstract: Provided is an optical fiber ribbon capable of achieving higher density and reduction in diameter and accurately placing optical fibers in V-shape grooves in a fusion machine without failure. The optical fiber ribbon 1 includes three or more of optical fibers 2 arranged in parallel and connecting portions 3 connecting adjacent two optical fibers 2 together, the connecting portions 3 being intermittently provided in each of a ribbon longitudinal direction and a ribbon width direction. The connecting portions 3 are each formed in such a manner as to fill resin into a gap S formed between adjacent two optical fibers 2, and both surfaces of the respective connecting portions 3 are each formed into a recess having a concave shape curved toward a center of the gap S to separate from lines 4,5 each connecting contact points of the optical fibers 2 when being placed on a horizontal surface.

Abstract: [Object] In an optical fiber cable including a plurality of optical fiber units each formed by tying optical fibers in a bundle, preferable water resistance is to be achieved without increasing an outer diameter of the optical fiber cable. [Solution] An optical fiber cable includes: a plurality of optical fiber units each including a plurality of optical fibers and a bundling member wound around an outer periphery of a bundle of the plurality of optical fibers, the bundling member having a surface to which a water-absorbent granular substance is detachably attached.

Abstract: A developer supply container includes a developer accommodating portion for accommodating a developer, a discharge opening for permitting discharging of the developer from the developer accommodating portion, a drive receiving portion for receiving a driving force, and a pump portion capable of being driven by the driving force received by the drive receiving portion to alternate an internal pressure of the developer accommodating portion between a pressure lower than an ambient pressure and a pressure higher than the ambient pressure by increasing and decreasing a volume of the pump portion. A position of the pump portion is set such that the pump portion starts with a stroke in which the volume increases in an initial action of the pump portion.

Abstract: A device for controlling a display apparatus includes: an image acquiring portion that acquires first image data containing a tone value of each pixel; a parameter acquiring portion that acquires a parameter for determining a tone used to display an image, from among the tones of the pixel that change in a discrete manner; and a tone reducing portion that determines, in a case of reducing the number of tones to a number of tones smaller than that of the first image data, each tone value after the reduction of the number of tones, according to the parameter acquired by the parameter acquiring portion, and generates second image data in which the number of tones in the first image data acquired by the image acquiring portion has been reduced based on the determined tone value.

Abstract: Provided is a developer replenishing container including: a developer containing part capable of containing a developer; a discharge port through which the developer contained in the developer containing part is discharged; a conveyance part conveying the developer in the developer containing part by rotating; and a displacement part displaceable in conjunction with rotation of the conveyance part in the developer in a vicinity of the discharge port, and including a moving member capable of reciprocating in conjunction with the rotation of the conveyance part and a biasing member which biases the moving member and which is expandable according to movement of the moving member.

Abstract: A developer supply container includes a developer accommodating portion capable of accommodating a developer; a storage capable of storing the developer; the storage being provided with a discharge opening configured to permit discharge of the developer from the storage; a pump portion changeable between a maximum volume state and a minimum volume state and actable to the discharge opening; and a discharge suppressing portion movable between a first position in which discharge suppressing portion is remote from the discharge opening and a second position in which discharge suppressing portion is close to the discharge opening, wherein the discharge suppressing portion is in the second position at least for a predetermined period of time when the pump portion is in the minimum volume state.

Abstract: In a semiconductor device according to an embodiment, a second semiconductor chip is mounted on a first rear surface of a first semiconductor chip. Also, the first rear surface of the first semiconductor chip includes a first region in which a plurality of first rear electrodes electrically connected to the second semiconductor chip via a protrusion electrode are formed and a second region which is located on a peripheral side relative to the first region and in which a first metal pattern is formed. In addition, a protrusion height of the first metal pattern with respect to the first rear surface is smaller than a protrusion height of each of the plurality of first rear electrodes with respect to the first rear surface.

Abstract: The size of text printed based on font data can be adjusted. A printer has: a print unit that prints an image on a recording medium; a storage unit that stores a font table containing font data for characters, and stores adjustment ratio information specifying a ratio used to scale the size of the font data stored in the font table; a first communication unit that receives print instruction data including information specifying a character; a second communication unit that receives a change instruction instructing changing a ratio specified by the adjustment ratio information; and a control unit that scales the font data of the specified character at the ratio specified by the adjustment ratio information, and controls the print unit to print the character based on the scaled font data.

Abstract: The user can configure the print layout intuitively, and prevent needlessly executing a compensation process based on the printer mode. A plug-in 22 that controls a printer 3 that prints to a target print area in each unit print area disposed in the conveyance direction of a continuous print medium has: a mode selector 51 that determines if the printer 3 prints based detecting each unit print area of the print medium; a layout acquisition unit 53b that acquires first layout information representing the location of the target print area in the unit print area; and a layout generator 54b that generates second layout information which differs from the first layout information in the conveyance direction of the print medium when the printer determines to print based on the position detection.

Abstract: An optical fiber ribbon includes a plurality of optical fiber cores arranged in parallel spaced from each other; and a tape forming member having a coating portion covering an outer circumference of the optical fiber cores, and a coupling portion, integrally formed with the coating portion, intermittently coupling adjacent optical fiber cores, wherein the coating portion has an opening portion to expose a part of surfaces of the optical fiber cores, and at least a part of the coating portion is continuous in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber cores.

Abstract: A communication system has a printer that connects for a first to a wireless network; and a terminal device that has a second wireless communication unit for communication, and registers connection settings related to connecting to the wireless network in the printer. The terminal communicates with the printer by the second wireless communication unit and configures connection settings in the printer, connects by the second wireless communication unit to the wireless network, and can request the printer to execute a specific operation through the wireless network.

Abstract: There is provided a method of controlling a display device in which a write operation for changing a display state of one pixel is performed by performing a plurality of operations of applying a driving voltage. The method includes determining whether a previous write operation is currently performed for the one pixel in a case where a new write operation is determined to be required and starting the new write operation for the one pixel in a case where the write operation for the one pixel is determined not to be currently performed in the determining of whether a previous write operation is currently performed, and continuing the write operation that is currently performed and starting the new write operation for the one pixel after completion of the previous write operation in a case where the write operation is determined to be currently performed for the one pixel.