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20130279960 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance roller configured to convey recording sheets; a brush motor configured to drive the conveyance roller to rotate; and a control unit configured to control a rotational speed of the brush motor, wherein while the conveyance roller conveys a recording sheet, (i) the control unit applies voltage to an outer circumferential surface of a commutator of the brush motor to drive the brush motor to rotate by a predetermined rotation amount, so as to perform a cleaning operation to remove a film deposited on the outer circumferential surface, and (ii) the control unit reduces the rotational speed of the brush motor while not performing the cleaning operation, so as to correct a conveyance distance of the recording sheet. | 10-24-2013 |
20140205340 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ROTATION CONTROL METHOD FOR MOTOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: a transport roller for transporting a sheet subjected to image processing; a motor that drives the transport roller to rotate; and a speed reduction unit that performs a speed reduction control on the motor to temporarily stop the sheet, the speed reduction control being performed in a manner that a stopping time and a stopping distance each satisfy a corresponding target range, wherein the speed reduction control includes: a first control that is a control of reducing a rotation speed of the motor to a reference speed through at least two operations from among a braking operation, a powering operation, and a free running operation; and a second control that is a control of, after a rotation amount of the motor from the start of the speed reduction control reaches a reference value, continuously performing the braking operation until the stop of the motor. | 07-24-2014 |
20150028533 | SHEET FEEDER, DOCUMENT READER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet feeder picking up and transporting sheets includes a transport unit transporting sheets along a sheet transport path one by one, a gap occurrence detection unit detecting, within a predetermined section of the sheet transport path, occurrence of a gap between sheets, and a controller controlling a timing of the transport of sheets according to a result of the detection. The gap occurrence detection unit includes a first detection unit and a second detection unit. The first detection unit is configured to detect light that is emitted toward the predetermined section, reaches a converging surface thereof across the predetermined section, and converged on a receiving element thereof. The second detection unit is configured to detect light reflected by a sheet passing through the predetermined section. The occurrence of the gap is detected based on outputs from the first detection unit and the second detection unit. | 01-29-2015 |
20150301491 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance sensor disposed near a pair of conveyance rollers so as to accurately detect an amount of movement of the recording paper, a conveyance delay determination unit to determine a conveyance delay of the recording paper, and a conveyance control unit to control drive for rollers. The conveyance delay determination unit obtains conveyance delay information from among information detected with the conveyance sensor, or the like, and accelerates a rotational velocity of the pair of paper feed rollers when the conveyance delay quantity exceeds a threshold. | 10-22-2015 |
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20110094616 | BEVERAGE FILLING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Only a bottle properly preliminarily heated is sterilized by hydrogen peroxide. Temperature inspection to the bottle is performed while travelling the bottle. During the inspection, a bottle of which temperature does not reach a predetermined temperature is removed and a bottle of which temperature reaches the predetermined temperature is continuously travelled, hydrogen peroxide condensed mist α is blown toward a mouth portion | 04-28-2011 |
20140102588 | BEVERAGE FILLING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Only a bottle properly preliminarily heated is sterilized by hydrogen peroxide. Temperature inspection to the bottle is performed while travelling the bottle. During the inspection, a bottle of which temperature does not reach a predetermined temperature is removed and a bottle of which temperature reaches the predetermined temperature is continuously travelled, hydrogen peroxide condensed mist α is blown toward a mouth portion | 04-17-2014 |
20140109519 | BEVERAGE FILLING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Only a bottle properly preliminarily heated is sterilized by hydrogen peroxide. Temperature inspection to the bottle is performed while travelling the bottle. During the inspection, a bottle of which temperature does not reach a predetermined temperature is removed and a bottle of which temperature reaches the predetermined temperature is continuously travelled, hydrogen peroxide condensed mist α is blown toward a mouth portion | 04-24-2014 |
20140109520 | BEVERAGE FILLING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Only a bottle properly preliminarily heated is sterilized by hydrogen peroxide. Temperature inspection to the bottle is performed while travelling the bottle. During the inspection, a bottle of which temperature does not reach a predetermined temperature is removed and a bottle of which temperature reaches the predetermined temperature is continuously traveled, hydrogen peroxide condensed mist α is blown toward a mouth portion | 04-24-2014 |
20140109521 | BEVERAGE FILLING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Only a bottle properly preliminarily heated is sterilized by hydrogen peroxide. Temperature inspection to the bottle is performed while travelling the bottle. During the inspection, a bottle of which temperature does not reach a predetermined temperature is removed and a bottle of which temperature reaches the predetermined temperature is continuously traveled, hydrogen peroxide condensed mist α is blown toward a mouth portion | 04-24-2014 |
20140109529 | BEVERAGE FILLING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Only a bottle properly preliminarily heated is sterilized by hydrogen peroxide. Temperature inspection to the bottle is performed while travelling the bottle. During the inspection, a bottle of which temperature does not reach a predetermined temperature is removed and a bottle of which temperature reaches the predetermined temperature is continuously travelled, hydrogen peroxide condensed mist α is blown toward a mouth portion | 04-24-2014 |
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20160029807 | BOTTOM FOR BED APPARATUS - To provide a bottom for a bed apparatus that can make the user feel comfortable when lying on the bed apparatus. The bottom for a bed apparatus, which is height adjustable and is mounted on the top of a bed apparatus, comprising a plurality of parts each formed of a resin plate having a thickness, including a back bottom, a hip bottom, a knee bottom and a foot bottom. Of the parts, essential parts are joined by connecting parts, and the connecting parts are formed of the same material with, to be thinner than, and integrally with, the essential parts, and, depressed portions are formed on the top surface of the bottom around the center in the width direction of the bottom, and a plurality of passage holes are perforated in the depressed portions from the top surface to the undersurface of the bottom. | 02-04-2016 |
20160037936 | BOTTOM FOR BED APPARATUS - To provide a bottom for a bed apparatus that can relieve the sensation of being pressed and that at the same time is lightweight, easy to transport and can be cleaned easily. A bottom for a bed apparatus having a back-raising mechanism, includes a flexing bottom that is arranged between a back bottom and a hip bottom and can be flexed. In a back-raising operation, the flexing bottom flexes between the back bottom and the hip bottom whilst sliding downward over the surface of the uprising back bottom. | 02-11-2016 |
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20090081509 | FUEL CELL - A first seal member is provided integrally on a surface of a first metal separator. The first seal member includes a base portion provided integrally on the first metal separator, a columnar portion protruding from the base portion, and a curved edge portion provided on the columnar portion. The curved edge portion has a predetermined radius of curvature. | 03-26-2009 |
20100003564 | FUEL CELL - Flow guides forming an inlet channel are formed on a surface of a metal separator of a fuel cell. The flow guides overlap a section of an outer seal provided on the other surface of the metal separator. When a load is applied to the flow guides and the overlapping section in a stacking direction of the fuel cell, the flow guides and the overlapping section are deformed substantially equally in the stacking direction to the same extent. The line pressure of the flow guides and the line pressure of the overlapping section are substantially the same. The seal length L | 01-07-2010 |
20110269049 | FUEL CELL - Flow guides forming an inlet channel are formed on a surface of a metal separator of a fuel cell. The flow guides overlap a section of an outer seal provided on the other surface of the metal separator. When a load is applied to the flow guides and the overlapping section in a stacking direction of the fuel cell, the flow guides and the overlapping section are deformed substantially equally in the stacking direction to the same extent. The line pressure of the flow guides and the line pressure of the overlapping section are substantially the same. The seal length L | 11-03-2011 |
20120183881 | FUEL CELL WITH PROTRUDED GAS DIFFUSION LAYER - An assembling operation of a fuel cell is effectively simplified. With the simple and economical structure, the desired sealing function is achieved. The fuel cell ( | 07-19-2012 |
20130183605 | FUEL CELL MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY - A resin frame equipped membrane electrode assembly includes a membrane electrode assembly and a resin frame member. The membrane electrode assembly includes a solid polymer electrolyte membrane and an anode, and a cathode sandwiching the solid polymer electrolyte membrane. The resin frame member is formed around the solid polymer electrolyte membrane. The outer end of an electrode catalyst layer of the cathode protrudes beyond the outer end of a gas diffusion layer, and the resin frame member includes an inner extension protruding toward the outer periphery of the cathode to contact the outer end of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane. The inner extension of the resin frame member has an overlapped portion overlapped with the outer end of the electrode catalyst layer. | 07-18-2013 |
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20090063793 | STORAGE SYSTEM, DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT ALLOCATION METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a storage system, a data management apparatus, and a data management method capable of facilitating the add-on procedures of data management apparatuses for managing data groups such as directory groups. In a storage system comprising a plurality of data management apparatuses for managing storage destination management information of a data group stored in a storage extent of a prescribed storage controller, at least one of the data management apparatuses decides the respective data management apparatuses to newly manage the data group for each of the data groups based on the importance of each of the data groups or the loaded condition of each of the data management apparatuses, and migrates storage destination management information containing information regarding the storage destination of the data group to the data management apparatus to newly manage the data group based on the decision as necessary. | 03-05-2009 |
20130066930 | METHOD FOR CREATING CLONE FILE, AND FILE SYSTEM ADOPTING THE SAME - In the prior art clone creating technique of a file, a management table of a snapshot and the file was created when creating the clone file, so that a considerable amount of creation time for creating the clone file and storage capacity was required. In order to solve the problems of the prior art, the present invention provides a system wherein if a request to create a clone of a file is received, a differential file is created while inhibiting update of the file, and update data is written to the differential file. Further, when a first update request is received to the differential file after creating the differential file, a management table is created. According to the invention, a large amount of clone files can be created speedily. | 03-14-2013 |
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20130289897 | ELECTROMAGNETIC FLOWMETER AND SELF-DIAGNOSING METHOD OF EXCITING CIRCUIT UNIT THEREOF - An electromagnetic flowmeter using a square wave excitation method includes a differential amplifier which outputs a detection signal; an analog-digital converter which converts the detection signal into a digital detection signal; a timing control circuit which generates a sampling signal for sampling the digital detection signal; an calculation unit which executes a flow rate calculation process and a abnormality judging process at a same time. The flow rate calculation process acquires a flow velocity output signal by sampling the digital detection signal in a flat portion in a positive/negative excitation section. The abnormality judging process acquires a differential output signal by sampling the digital detection signal in a rising/falling portion in the positive/negative excitation section, and obtains a differential noise from the flow velocity output signal and a differential output signal, and judges abnormality of the exciting current by comparing a differential noise with a detection threshold level. | 10-31-2013 |
20140081919 | DISTRIBUTED BACKUP SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING ACCESS DESTINATION BASED ON MULTIPLE PERFORMANCE INDEXES - A backup system having duplicated file system data and composed of a plurality of storage systems having different performances is provided, wherein a processing time required for backup of a small-sized file or an on-demand restoration of a file is reduced. A distributed backup system composed of a storage system and a plurality of backup units is equipped with a function for selecting a backup unit based on a plurality of performance indexes, and a requested data transfer size for performing backup or restoration is considered when performing the selection. | 03-20-2014 |
20150220563 | METHOD FOR CREATING CLONE FILE, AND FILE SYSTEM ADOPTING THE SAME - In the prior art clone creating technique of a file, a management table of a snapshot and the file was created when creating the clone file, so that a considerable amount of creation time for creating the clone file and storage capacity was required. In order to solve the problems of the prior art, the present invention provides a system wherein if a request to create a clone of a file is received, a differential file is created while inhibiting update of the file, and update data is written to the differential file. Further, when a first update request is received to the differential file after creating the differential file, a management table is created. According to the invention, a large amount of clone files can be created speedily. | 08-06-2015 |
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20140129524 | RESTORING METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A NAS device providing a snapshot function for executing CoW processing in multiple successive block units is provided, wherein upon restoring a file saved in a file system sharing from a snapshot, the speed for restoring files is enhanced by restoring only data blocks that have been changed within the data blocks constituting a file, to thereby reduce the amount of data being restored and cut down CoW processing. Upon restoring a file stored in file system sharing from a snapshot file, data blocks storing different data between the restore source file and the restore destination file are specified based on a differential map table and a differential block table, and only the specified data blocks are restored. Further, upon restoring data from a file other than the snapshot, the data blocks constituting the restore source file and the restore destination file are compared, and only the data blocks storing different data are restored. | 05-08-2014 |
20140310556 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - Management apparatus and method to prevent a drop in the service quality of data. In a computer system which replicates and holds data which is stored in a storage apparatus by a communication terminal in other storage apparatuses, physical position information of the storage apparatuses and the communication terminal is collected and, at the time of the disaster recovery processing, a storage apparatus for which the data of the secondary system is to be switched to the primary system is selected from among the storage apparatuses which hold the data of the secondary system on the basis of physical position information in a first predetermined period among the collected physical position information of the communication terminal, and a policy preconfigured for the data, and an instruction is issued to the selected storage apparatus to switch the data of the secondary system held by the storage apparatus to the primary system. | 10-16-2014 |
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20140006457 | CODE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE | 01-02-2014 |
20150188565 | COMPRESSION DEVICE, COMPRESSION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a compression program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes: reading a plurality of character strings from a compression target file; examining order information whether there are any concatenated character strings that contain a certain character string in the plurality of character strings with an order of the certain character string, in a compression dictionary, the compression dictionary correlating a plurality of concatenated character strings with a plurality of compression codes respectively, each of the plurality of concatenated character strings include a plurality of character strings, the order information indicating whether there is a specific character string in the compression dictionary with an order of the specific character string; and searching the compression dictionary utilizing the plurality of character strings when the order information indicates that one or more concatenated character strings include the certain character string. | 07-02-2015 |
20150193462 | CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes: when obtaining a character string including one unit of character information at one position in the character string, referring to presence/absence information indicating whether or not at least one character string, in a character string group including a plurality of character strings to which compression codes have been assigned, includes the one unit of character information at the one position; and searching the character string group for the obtained character string except for a case that the presence/absence information indicates that none of the character strings included in the character string group include the one unit of character information at the one position. | 07-09-2015 |
20160056839 | COMPRESSION DEVICE, COMPRESSION METHOD, DECOMPRESSION DEVICE, DECOMPRESSION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a compression program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes: extracting a numeric character string from input data, the numeric character string indicating a numerical value and including therein at least one numeral; and converting the numeric character string to a compressed code utilizing a dictionary that associates numeric character strings and compressed codes. | 02-25-2016 |
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20150239258 | OPTICAL PRINT HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical print head performs optical writing onto target, and includes: current-driven light-emitting elements arranged in rows in a predetermined direction; driving transistors that are each electrically series-connected with the light-emitting elements in one-to-one correspondence, and each supply a driving current to a corresponding light-emitting element; a current control unit that controls, for each light-emitting element, a driving current amount in accordance with variation in light-emitting properties of the light-emitting element that indicate relation between the driving current amount and a light amount emitted by the light-emitting element; an application unit that, upon receiving electrical power supplied from an external power source, applies application voltage to circuits each consisting of a light-emitting element and a corresponding driving transistor; and a voltage control unit that suppresses variation in divided voltage applied to each driving transistor by controlling the application unit to apply increased application voltage of the driving current amount increases. | 08-27-2015 |
20150266310 | OPTICAL PRINT HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Optical print head includes: light-emitting elements connected one-to-one to current supply lines branching from first power line at different positions in longitudinal direction; holding elements; signal writing unit writing luminance signal into each holding element, the luminance signal being represented by voltage indicating light emission amount of corresponding light-emitting element; second power line supplying reference voltage to each holding element, the reference voltage being reference when signal writing unit writes luminance signal into holding element; and driving drivers corresponding one-to-one with current supply lines and controlling current supplied to corresponding current supply line from first power line, in accordance with voltage held in corresponding holding element when signal writing unit has written luminance signal into corresponding holding element, wherein power source supplying the reference voltage to second power line is common with power source supplying voltage to signal output subunit outputting luminance signal. | 09-24-2015 |
20150317953 | OPTICAL WRITING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical writing device includes a plurality of current driven light emitting elements, first and second power source lines, a designation circuit that outputs a designation potential, first driving circuits provided for each of the light emitting elements to supply driving current to the corresponding light emitting element, second driving circuits provided for each of the light emitting elements to supply driving current to the corresponding light emitting element, and a switching control unit that alternately switches respective states of the first and second driving circuits between a state where one of the first and second driving circuits receives the designation potential while the other driving circuit supplies the driving current, and a state where the other driving circuit receives the designation potential while the one driving circuit supplies the driving current. | 11-05-2015 |