摘要:
A thermal printer in which a sheet of recording paper is held by and between a thermal print head includes a plurality of heat generating elements and a platen drum, the amounts of heat of the heat generating elements are selectively changed, and an image is printed onto the recording paper. In the thermal printer, a printing position is set just behind a clamp position at which a clamp clamps the leading end of the recording paper onto the platen drum. Therefore, the image printing can be started immediately after the clamp position passes through the thermal head, with the recording paper being in part wound around the platen drum by the thermal printer. As a result, the time taken from paper feeding to printing starting can be reduced.
摘要:
A motion compensated prediction interframe coding system which includes a first checking portion for judging whether a motion compensation of a coding block is effective and outputting a motion compensation control signal representing the result of the judgement, a storage portion for storing motion vectors of the coding block and adjacent blocks and the motion compensation control signal, a second checking portion for comparing the motion vector of the coding block, of which the motion compensation should be effected, with each of the motion vectors of the adjacent blocks, of which the motion compensation should be effected, and judging that the intra-loop filtering processing to be performed after the motion compensation is ineffective if the number of the adjacent blocks, of which the motion vectors are identical with that of the coding block, is equal to or more than a predetermined number and that the filtering processing performed after the motion compensation is effective in another case, a motion-compensated brightness calculating portion for calculating motion-compensated brightness of pixels of the blocks, of which the motion compensation is effected, and a predictive brightness calculating portion for calculating predictive brightness of the pixels of the blocks by performing the filtering processing of the motion-compensated brightness of the pixels only if the filtering processing is effective. Thereby, the amount of the generated prediction error signals are reduced, and the picture quality is improved.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a nip former, a transfer bias supply, and processing circuitry. The nip former to form a transfer nip between the image bearer and the nip former. The transfer bias supply applies a transfer bias in which an alternating current component is superimposed on a direct current component to the transfer nip, to transfer a toner image onto a transfer target object at the transfer nip. The processing circuitry is to execute a processing mode of determining the DC component and the AC component to be used in a print job, based on a plurality of test toner images transferred to the transfer target object under transfer conditions different from each other in combination of the DC component and the AC component while changing the DC component and the AC component.
摘要:
An image forming apparatus including an image bearer, a transfer-bias power source, an environment sensor, and a controller. The controller controls the transfer-bias power source to change the DC component and the AC component, according to the at least one of temperature and humidity detected by the environment sensor and a duty of the transfer bias. The duty is A/(A+B)×100[%] where A denotes an area on a return-directional side to move toner from the recording sheet back to the image bearer, relative to a center value (Voff) of a maximum value and a minimum value of the transfer bias in one cycle of a waveform of the transfer bias, and B denotes an area on a transfer-directional side to move the toner from the image bearer to the recording sheet, relative to the center value (Voff) in the one cycle.
摘要:
An airbag apparatus includes an airbag. The airbag includes a gas releasing valve having first and second valve body portions each have a flexible portion. The flexible portions are flexible toward a released gas downstream side of inflation gas. An auxiliary joint portion joins the first and second valve body portions to each other and extending, from a position in the vicinity of and on a released gas upstream side of the flexible portion, further toward the released gas upstream side. A flex-resistant portion that extends in the gas releasing direction and is less flexible than the flexible portion is arranged on the auxiliary joint portion of the gas releasing valve or in the vicinity of the auxiliary joint portion.
摘要:
A transfer fixing member containing a base, and an outermost surface layer composed of an elastic material in which a conductive material is dispersed, wherein when a pressure applied to a surface of the transfer fixing member by making a toner image bearing member in contact with the transfer fixing member upon transferring of a toner image on the toner image bearing member onto the transfer fixing member is 0.2 kg/cm2 to 2.0 kg/cm2, the transfer fixing member has a volume resistance of 106 Ω·cm or more to less than 1012 Ω·cm, and when a pressure applied to the surface of the transfer fixing member by making the transfer fixing member in contact with the recording medium located between the transfer fixing member and a pressurizing member upon transfer-fixing of the toner image onto the recording medium is 3.0 kg/cm2 to 20 kg/cm2, the transfer fixing is member has a volume resistance of less than 106 Ω·cm.
摘要翻译:一种包含基底的转印固定构件和由其中分散有导电材料的弹性材料构成的最外表面层,其中当通过使调色剂图像承载构件与所述转印固定构件接触时施加到转印固定构件的表面上的压力 转印固定构件在将调色剂图像承载构件上的调色剂图像转印到转印固定构件上时为0.2kg / cm 2至2.0kg / cm 2,转印固定构件的体积电阻为106Ω·cm·cm以上至小于 1012和OHgr·cm,并且当通过使转印固定构件与位于转印固定构件和加压构件之间的记录介质接触而施加到转印固定构件的表面上的压力将调色剂图像转印到 记录介质为3.0kg / cm 2至20kg / cm 2,传送固定件的体积电阻小于106Ω·cm·cm。
摘要:
A check valve 60 is formed by a pair of the valve body portions 61. Ends of the valve body portions 61 that are close to an upper inflation portion EU are joined to a communication passage wall 51 by an outflow-side joint portion 41. Each valve body portion 61 includes a flexible portion 64 that is located in the vicinity of the outflow-side joint portion 41 and between the outflow-side joint portion 41 and a lower inflation portion EL. The front edges of the valve body portions 61 are joined to the communication passage wall 51 by a first edge joint portion 67. The first edge joint portion 67 also functions as a wall joint portion 63 that joins the communication passage walls 51 to each other. The rear ends of the valve body portions 61 are joined to each other by a second edge joint portion 68, which extends along the flowing direction of inflation gas. An auxiliary joint portion 69 is located between the first edge joint portion 67 and the second edge joint portion 68, and in the vicinity of the second edge joint portion 68. The auxiliary joint portion 69 joins the valve body portions 61 to each other. The auxiliary joint portion 69 also functions as a rigid portion 65, which is harder to flex than the flexible portion 64. The rigid portion 65 extends along the flowing direction of the inflation gas.
摘要:
A transfer fixation apparatus includes: a fixing member that carries the toner image; a pressurizing member that becomes in contact with the fixing member with pressure to form a nip through which the recording target medium is transported; and a plurality of heating members that are provided at relatively upstream positions when viewed from the relatively downstream nip and apply heat to the surface of the recording target medium that is transported toward the nip, wherein the number of heating members that apply heat to the surface of the recording target medium is changed depending on whether the transfer of the toner image is performed only on the front side of the recording target medium or the transfer of the toner image is performed also on the reverse side of the recording target medium after the transfer of the toner image on the front side of the recording target medium.
摘要:
A cleaning device including a cleaning member that moves in a predetermined direction and is in contact with a cleaning target that moves in a predetermined direction and which is directly or indirectly heated by a heater, to remove toner particles on a surface of the cleaning target. A contact surface of the cleaning member with the cleaning target includes a plurality of regions of different toner-releasing ability.
摘要:
The airbag apparatus includes an airbag having an exhaust hole for discharging part of inflation gas, an open/close controller for controlling opening and closing operations of the exhaust hole, and a flap element releasably joined to the open/close controller and being joined to a periphery of the exhaust hole in an outer side of the airbag which periphery is in a side facing away from the open/close controller, for opening and closing the exhaust hole. The apparatus further includes an open/close means arranged in the periphery of the exhaust hole. Upon airbag inflation, if the flap element is retained by the open/close controller, the open/close means is held down at its outer side by the flap element and keeps the exhaust hole closed. If the flap element is released from the open/close controller, the open/close means opens by the pressure of inflation gas to expand an opening area of the exhaust hole.