Abstract: A finisher includes an intermediate tray that collects sheets to form a sheet bundle, a sheet gripping member that grips one end of the sheet bundle in a conveying direction and a positioning member that grips the other end of the sheet bundle in a conveying direction, a moving portion that moves the sheet gripping member and the positioning member to come close to each other, a pair of folding rollers that folds the sheet bundle while conveying the sheet bundle, a projecting member that projects a part between the one end and the other end of the gripped sheet bundle toward the pair of folding rollers, and a controller that controls the moving portion, such that the sheet gripping member and the positioning member come close to each other in synchronization with an operation of projecting the projecting member toward the sheet bundle.

Abstract: A sheet stacking apparatus includes a discharge unit, a stacking tray, an acquisition unit, a shift control unit, and an alignment unit. The shift control unit controls a stacking position of a sheet in a sheet width direction in response to shift information acquired by the acquisition unit. The alignment unit aligns a sheet staked on the stacking tray and moves to a position that abuts on a side edge of the sheet in the sheet width direction to align the sheet. The shift control unit controls a stacking position of a second sheet to stack the second sheet on a second position or on a first position depending on where a first sheet is stacked and on shift information of the second sheet.

Abstract: A sheet stacking apparatus includes an alignment member to align a sheet stacked on a stacking tray in a width direction perpendicular to a direction in which the sheet is discharged. When stacking a plurality of sheets on the stacking tray, the sheet stacking apparatus lowers the stacking tray, so that a predetermined distance is maintained between the top surface sheet and a sheet discharge port. If the stacking tray is lowered to a predetermined position while the alignment unit is executing an alignment operation at a first position, the sheet stacking apparatus lowers the alignment member to a second position lower than the first position and causes the alignment member to execute the alignment operation at the second position.

Abstract: A sheet stacking apparatus includes an alignment unit configured to align a sheet stacked on a stacking tray in a width direction which is orthogonal to a direction in which the sheet is discharged. The alignment unit includes first and second alignment members configured to move in the width direction. The first and second alignment members come into contact with side ends in the width direction of the sheet stacked on the stacking tray to align the sheet. When a second sheet of a different length in the width direction from that of a first sheet is stacked while shifted in the width direction on the first sheet which is already stacked on the stacking tray, the sheet stacking apparatus prohibits an alignment operation of the alignment unit on the second sheet.

Abstract: When information about weight of a sheet indicates weight less than a predetermined weight, a sheet stacking apparatus configured to align sheets to be stacked on a stacking tray discharges the sheet onto the stacking tray while overlapping the sheet with another sheet by an overlapping unit, and, when the information about the weight of the sheet indicates weight not less than the predetermined weight, the sheet stacking apparatus discharges the sheet onto the stacking tray without overlapping the sheet with another sheet by the overlapping unit.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus capable of maintaining alignment of sheets of a sheet bundle on a processing tray even in a job uses sheets including particular sheets. In the sheet processing apparatus (finisher), a sheet conveyed along a conveying path is retained in a buffer path. The sheet and the following sheet are stacked on a processing tray in a state superposed with a shift in a conveying direction. A finisher controller determines in advance, before a conveyed sheet reaches the buffer path, whether or not the sheet is a particular sheet having a protrusion. When the sheet retained in the buffer path and the following sheet are to be superposed one upon the other, the amount of the shift between the sheets in the conveying direction is controlled according to a result of the determination by the finisher controller.

Abstract: Specified types of words are extracted from a plurality of radiology reports archived in an archive configured to archive a plurality of radiology reports. The words extracted from a single radiology report are stored in combination. In response to an input operation using an operating part of inputting the specified types of words, combinations including the specified types of words as one part are searched. A list of the specified types of words included as the other part in the searched combinations is generated. In response to an input operation using the operating part of selecting any word from the word list, a list of radiology reports including the inputted word and the selected word is generated. In response to an input operation using the operating part of selecting any report from the radiology report list, the selected radiology report is outputted from the archive to a display.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus that enables to execute a bookbinding process for sheet bundles without decreasing productivity. The image forming apparatus is connected to a bookbinding apparatus having a bookbinding unit that binds a book by attaching a ring to a punch hole and a buffer unit that performs a buffering process to convey sheets in piles so that sheets for a next sheet bundle are not ejected onto a sheet bundle that is being processed by the bookbinding unit. A determination unit determines whether a sheet is a type that is prohibited from buffering. A control unit adjusts an ejection order so that the sheet of the type that is prohibited from buffering is not ejected within the predetermined number of sheets from the first sheet of sheets that constitute the sheet bundle, when the determination unit determines that the sheet is the type that is prohibited from buffering.

Abstract: A finisher according to an aspect of the invention includes an intermediate tray that collects sheets to form a sheet bundle, a sheet gripping member that grips one end of the sheet bundle in a conveying direction and a positioning member that grips the other end of the sheet bundle in a conveying direction, a moving portion that moves the sheet gripping member and the positioning member to come close each other, a pair of folding rollers that folds the sheet bundle while conveying the sheet bundle, a projecting member that projects a part between the one end and the other end of the gripped sheet bundle toward the pair of folding rollers, a controller that controls the moving portion, such that the sheet gripping member and the positioning member come close each other in synchronization with an operation of projecting the projecting member toward the sheet bundle S.

Abstract: A sheet buffer apparatus which retains a sheet to be conveyed to a post-processing unit configured to perform post-processing for a sheet, the apparatus comprises: a buffer unit configured to perform buffer processing to retain a sheet to be conveyed to the post-processing unit and overlay the sheet to be retained and a succeeding sheet; a determination unit configured to determine whether a sheet is inhibited from the buffer processing by the buffer unit; and a control unit configured, when the determination unit determines that the sheet succeeding the sheet to be retained is a sheet for which the buffer processing is inhibited, to control the buffer unit not to perform the retaining of the sheet to be retained.

Abstract: A sheet processing apparatus capable of maintaining alignment of sheets of a sheet bundle on a processing tray even in a job uses sheets including particular sheets. In the sheet processing apparatus (finisher), a sheet conveyed along a conveying path is retained in a buffer path. The sheet and the following sheet are stacked on a processing tray in a state superposed with a shift in a conveying direction. A finisher controller determines in advance, before a conveyed sheet reaches the buffer path, whether or not the sheet is a particular sheet having a protrusion. When the sheet retained in the buffer path and the following sheet are to be superposed one upon the other, the amount of the shift between the sheets in the conveying direction is controlled according to a result of the determination by the finisher controller.

Abstract: A sheet stacking apparatus includes a stack unit which includes a first stack tray and a second stack tray which can be individually elevated and is configured to stack a sheet on at least one of the first stack tray and the second tray, and a control unit configured to control the stack unit to stack the sheet in a first stack mode in which the sheet is stacked on at least one of the first stack tray and the second stack tray without being extended over the first stack tray and the second stack tray and a second stack mode in which the sheet is stacked on across the first stack tray and the second stack tray, the control unit capable of selecting the first stack mode and the second stack mode with respect to a same size sheet.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an ink-jet head comprises the steps of: laminating with an adhesive a first plate having a nozzle hole that ejects an ink droplet and a second plate having a communication hole; and applying pressure to the first and second plates in their laminated direction. In the step of laminating, an opening of the nozzle hole is included within an opening of the communication hole on an interface between the first plate and the second plate. In the step of applying pressure, pressure is applied to only a region outside of the opening of the communication hole with respect to a plane parallel to planes of the first and second plate.

Abstract: The method of making a diamond product in accordance with the present invention comprises the steps of forming a diamond substrate (50) with a mask layer (52), and etching the diamond substrate (50) formed with the mask layer (52) with a plasma of a mixed gas composed of a gas containing an oxygen atom and a gas containing a fluorine atom, whereas the fluorine atom concentration is within the range of 0.04% to 6% with respect to the total number of atoms in the mixed gas.

Abstract: A diamond electron emission element is provided with a substrate, and a plurality of quadrangular columns (microscopic projections) composed of diamond and with side faces of flat faces, which are arranged at equal intervals on the substrate. A top end face (horizontal section) is of a quadrangular shape having a length of long sides being a [nm] and a length of short sides being ka [nm], and a thin film of SiO2 is formed on a side face on the short-edge side. The length a [nm] of long sides and the length ka [nm] of short sides satisfy relational expressions of Formulae (1) and (2) below. C1=2a?{square root over (1+k2)}??(1) n?=C1??(2) C1: a distance [nm] of a lap in a situation where light generated inside each quadrangular column goes around on a specific circuit while being reflected on the side faces of the quadrangular column, n: an arbitrary positive integer, and ?: an emission peak wavelength ? [nm] of the diamond making the quadrangular columns.

Abstract: An electron emission element of the present invention comprises a substrate, and a protrusion protruding from the substrate and including boron-doped diamond. The protrusion comprises a columnar body. And a tip portion of the protrusion comprises an acicular body sticking out therefrom. The distance r [cm] between a center axis and a side face in the columnar body and the boron concentration Nb [cm?3] in the diamond satisfy the relationship represented by the following formula (1): r > 10 4 Nb .

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an ink-jet head comprises the steps of: laminating with an adhesive a first plate having a nozzle hole that ejects an ink droplet and a second plate having a communication hole; and applying pressure to the first and second plates in their laminated direction. In the step of laminating, an opening of the nozzle hole is included within an opening of the communication hole on an interface between the first plate and the second plate. In the step of applying pressure, pressure is applied to only a region outside of the opening of the communication hole with respect to a plane parallel to planes of the first and second plate.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electron-emitting element (20) for emitting electrons from diamond includes the first step of forming a diamond columnar member (25) on a diamond substrate (21), and the second step of forming an electron-emitting portion (30) having a base portion (36) and a sharp-pointed portion (32) which is located closer to a distal end side than the base portion (36) and emits the electrons by performing etching processing with respect to the columnar member (25).

Abstract: An electron emission element according to the present invention comprises a substrate, and a plurality of protrusions composed of diamond and protruding from the substrate. Each protrusion includes a columnar portion, the side face of which forms an inclination of approximately 90° relative to the surface of the substrate, and a tip portion, which is located on the columnar portion having a spicular end. A conductive layer is formed on the upper part of each columnar portion, and a cathode electrode film, which is electrically connected to the conductive layer, is formed on the side face of the columnar portion.

Abstract: The method of making a diamond product in accordance with the present invention comprises the steps of forming a diamond substrate (50) with a mask layer (52), and etching the diamond substrate (50) formed with the mask layer (52) with a plasma of a mixed gas composed of a gas containing an oxygen atom and a gas containing a fluorine atom, whereas the fluorine atom concentration is within the range of 0.04% to 6% with respect to the total number of atoms in the mixed gas.