Abstract: An object is to provide a multifiber optical connector and an optical cable connection method capable of reducing a connection time and reducing an installation space of a connection portion. The multifiber optical connector according to the present invention includes three position adjustment units, and performs rough alignment to fine alignment of optical fiber end faces by using sequentially these position adjustment units when optical cables are connected. The multifiber optical connector simultaneously connects the end faces of the plurality of optical fibers included in the optical cables, and thus, an extra optical fiber tape is not present, and a closure needed in the related art is not necessary.

Abstract: A vehicle hydraulic brake system, including: a brake operating member; a master cylinder including (i) an output piston for generating a hydraulic pressure in a pressurizing chamber, (ii) an input piston, and (iii) a rear chamber provided rearward of the output piston; a hydraulic brake provided for a wheel and actuated by the hydraulic pressure to reduce rotation of the wheel; a rear-hydraulic-pressure control mechanism connected to the rear chamber; and a controller including a master cylinder pressure estimator that estimates the hydraulic pressure in the pressurizing chamber and that includes a contact-state estimator that estimates whether the input piston and the output piston are in a contact state; and a contact-state master cylinder pressure estimator that estimates the hydraulic pressure in the pressurizing chamber based on a movement amount of the input piston when the input piston and the output piston are estimated to be in the contact state.

Abstract: A display method for displaying a plurality of images on a display includes: generating the image with a texture having a resolution corresponding to a size of the image displayed on the display, the texture being selected from a texture memory storing a plurality of textures having different resolutions for the same image; and when storing a plurality of new textures having different resolutions into the texture memory and generating and displaying the image with the new texture but when the texture memory does not have a sufficient free space to store the new textures, deleting the texture stored in the texture memory, from the texture memory, in a lexicographic order from the texture having an old history of use and the texture having a high resolution, and storing the new textures into the free space secured in the texture memory.

Abstract: Conventionally, when a developer is supplied into a developer receiving apparatus from a developer supply container using the air, a filter is provided in the developer receiving apparatus side, but the pressure feeding type wherein a mixture of the air and the developer is continuously fed from the developer supply container into the developer receiving apparatus side involves a problem of filter clogging. The developer supply container side is provided with a pump portion which effects a suction operation for moving the air from inside of the developer receiving portion to the developer accommodating portion side and a discharging operation for moving the air from the inside of the developer accommodating portion to the developer receiving portion side. By this, a back washing effect of dusting the developer from the filter is applied to the filter portion during the suction operation, so that the clogging of the filter is suppressed.

Abstract: A bellow-like pump is provided on the side of a developer supply container, and the pump alternately repeats the suction operation and the discharging operation through the discharge opening by a driving force inputted from an image forming apparatus side. By this, the developer can be sufficiently loosened, thus properly discharging the developer.

Abstract: An intermittent tape core wire (140) of an optical fiber cable is assembled into a cable core so that in a k core wire, an l core wire, and an m core wire composed of a multi-core optical fibers continuously adjacent in the width direction of the intermittent tape core wire (140), a difference ? between a core wire twisting direction D2km of the k core wire at a bonding portion (142) connecting the k core wire and the l core wire and a core wire twisting direction D2kl of the k core wire at a bonding portion (142) connecting the k core wire and the m core wire is different from when manufactured.

Abstract: An optical fiber cable 100 includes at least one optical fiber core 140 and a sheath containing the optical fiber core. The optical fiber core 140 includes optical fibers 130. A total length of the optical fiber core 140 is longer than that of the sheath 160. The optical fiber core 140 is contained in the sheath 160 so that bending occurs in the optical fibers 130.

Abstract: Conventionally, when a developer is supplied into a developer receiving apparatus from a developer supply container using the air, a filter is provided in the developer receiving apparatus side, but the pressure feeding type wherein a mixture of the air and the developer is continuously fed from the developer supply container into the developer receiving apparatus side involves a problem of filter clogging. The developer supply container side is provided with a pump portion which effects a suction operation for moving the air from inside of the developer receiving portion to the developer accommodating portion side and a discharging operation for moving the air from the inside of the developer accommodating portion to the developer receiving portion side. By this, a back washing effect of dusting the developer from the filter is applied to the filter portion during the suction operation, so that the clogging of the filter is suppressed.

Abstract: A work planning system includes an event-data acquisition unit that acquires event data indicating an event of a facility, a storage unit that stores therein a plurality of pieces of work data indicating contents of works that can be performed with respect to the facility, and a decision unit that decides each importance degree of a plurality of pieces of work data based on the event data.

Abstract: Conventionally, the developer in the developer supply container is discharged by an air-supply pump and a suction pump which are provided in the main assembly side of the image forming apparatus, and therefore, the developer is compacted by the increase of the internal pressure of the developer supply container resulting from the air-supply. Therefore, the proper suction of the developer from the developer supply container becomes difficult with the result of shortage of the developer amount to be supplied. A bellow-like pump is provided on the side of the developer supply container, and the pump alternately repeats the suction operation and the discharging operation through the discharge opening by a driving force inputted from the image forming apparatus side. By this, the developer can be sufficiently loosened, thus properly discharging the developer.

Abstract: An air-blowing system having discharge device includes an air supply passage, and a discharge device provided for generating active ingredients and is disposed outside the air supply passage. Further, the air-blowing system having discharge device includes an introducing pipe having an one end connected to a discharge device and an other end disposed in the air supply passage, and provided for introducing the active ingredients into the air supply passage. The introducing pipe has an opening face on the other end. In the introducing pipe, the opening face and a main stream direction of an air flow, which flows through the air supply passage at a predetermined point of the opening face, are disposed substantially parallel to each other. Thus, an air-blowing system having discharge device with a simplified configuration is provided.

Abstract: A display method according to the present disclosure includes a specifying step of, in an image group including a standard image having size of a standard size and a nonstandard image having size different from the standard size, reducing, for the nonstandard image, an enlargement/reduction magnification with respect to the standard size and specifying display sizes of the standard image and the nonstandard image and a display step of displaying, based on the specified display sizes, images including the standard image and the nonstandard image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display method in which an image display unit 2 displays an thumbnail image bundle G in which a plurality of thumbnail images T are arranged in a first direction, the thumbnail image bundle G has a static portion 52 in which the thumbnail images T are arranged at equal intervals in a state where a part of the thumbnail image T is displayed by being overlapped with an adjacent thumbnail image T, and a dynamic portion 50 in which an interval between the thumbnail images T adjacent to each other is arranged wider than an interval between the thumbnail images T in the static portion 52, the method including: enlarging a length of an occupied rectangle D, in which the thumbnail image bundle G is occupied, in a second direction intersecting the first direction according to an enlargement instruction of the thumbnail image bundle G when receiving the enlargement instruction; and moving the thumbnail image T of the dynamic portion 50 to the static portion 52 to reduce the number of thumbnail images T o

Abstract: In a display method, a plurality of thumbnail images arranged on a first imaginary rotation axis are displayed at a display, each thumbnail image rotating about its second imaginary rotation axis intersecting the first imaginary axis, each thumbnail image also rotating about the first imaginary rotation axis. An image bundle formed of the plurality of thumbnail images includes a static part where the thumbnail images next to each other are arranged with an equal space from each other, and a dynamic part where the thumbnail images next to each other are arranged with a broader space from each other than the thumbnail images in the static part. The method includes displaying an image to be printed, in a first area of the image bundle, and displaying a printed image in a second area of the image bundle.

Abstract: A thumbnail bundle in which a plurality of thumbnail images are juxtaposed in a first direction is displayed in a first display region of a display section, and a main image selected from the plurality of thumbnail images is displayed in a second display region disposed with respect to the first display region in a second direction that intersects the first direction. The displayed image bundle includes a static section in which the thumbnail images are juxtaposed at equal intervals with adjacent ones of the thumbnail images partially overlapping with each other and a dynamic section in which the thumbnail images are so disposed that the distance between adjacent ones of the thumbnail images is greater than the distance between the thumbnail images in the static section. When any of the thumbnail images located in the static section is selected, the selected thumbnail image is moved into the dynamic section.

Abstract: An article-arrangement planning system includes a display controller configured to instruct a display device to display article data indicating a plurality of articles to be arranged in case of emergency; and an arrangement-status-data acquisition unit configured to acquire arrangement status data indicating each arrangement status of each article of the plurality of articles. The arrangement status data includes target amount data indicating a target amount of each of the plurality of articles and expected arrival time data indicating an expected time of arrival of each of the plurality of articles. The display controller is configured to instruct the display device to display the article data in association with the arrangement status data.

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: A connector that includes a wire; a housing having a wire draw-out surface, the wire being drawn out from the wire draw-out surface; a shield disposed outside the housing; a first water stop sandwiched between and held in contact with the housing and the shield; and a second water stop sandwiched between and held in contact with the wire drawn out from the wire draw-out surface and the shield, the shield including a water stop holder that holds the second water stop between the wire draw-out surface and the water stop holder.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an image capturing device, a display, a storage, and a controller. In the storage, for an alarm window having plural lit portions that indicate alarms for plural items by lighting, position information and procedure information are stored beforehand, the position information associating a layout of the lit portions, with the respective items, the procedure information being handling procedures for the respective items corresponding to the respective lit portions. The controller displays the alarm window image-captured by the image capturing device on the display, causes an on-display position of any of the lit portions that has been lit to be selectable, and if the on-display position of the lit portion that has been lit is selected, reads out procedure information of the item corresponding to the lit portion from the storage and displays the procedure information on the display.

Abstract: A display method is so designed that in an image bundle formed of a plurality of images, the area of each of the images disposed in a central section or a spread section of the image bundle and overlapping with each other is greater than the area of each of the images disposed in positions outside the central section or the spread section and overlapping with each other, and the images disposed in the central section or the spread section of the image bundle preferentially hold and regenerate textures having resolutions higher than the resolutions of the textures used to generate the images disposed in the positions outside the central section or the spread section and are generated by using the textures having the resolutions higher than the resolutions of the textures used to generate the images disposed in the positions outside the central section or the spread section.