baber/WOPTO huggingface dataset:
Patent JP-2007508504-A (JP)
Title: 切換弁
IPC: F16K3/10
Filed: 2004-10-08
Abstract: 流体の流れを流体源から別々の流体出口（１３２、１３６）の１つへ選択的に制御する切換弁（１０）は、ハウジング（１２）に固定された固定セラミック円盤（１４）と、保持器（２４）によりハウジング内に固定円盤（１４）に対して保持される回転セラミック円盤（１６）とを含む。回転セラミック円盤に付属品マウント（２０）を接着させて付属品への結合を容易にし、流体を弁から給送する。円盤の流路（８８、９０、１０４、１０６、１０８、１１０、１１２）はハウジングの流路（５４、６４、６６、６８）と、付属品マウントの流路（１１６、１１８、１２２）と協働し、円盤に対する弁内の流体の流れの圧力を均衡させて漏れを最小化しかつ耐用年数を延長させる。
Patent JP-2007508031-A (JP)
Title: 曲面からなる金魚鉢
IPC: A01K63/00
Filed: 2004-07-09
Abstract: 本発明は曲面からなる金魚鉢に関するものであり、特に金魚鉢を形成する水槽が外部枠のような他の支持部材なしに透明素材だけで形成され、金魚鉢を形成するガラスが曲面を形成するように製造され、多数の水槽が通路パネルによって連通するように設けられることにより、金魚鉢製作に使用される時間及び費用を節減することができ、外観を美しくする曲面からなる金魚鉢に関するものである。
Patent JP-2007510893-A (JP)
Title: 細胞試料の自動分析
IPC: G01N33/569
Filed: 2004-11-05
Abstract: 【課題】細胞試料の核の定量的および／または定性的分析を、時間および手段について簡単かつ経済的に行うことができる自動分析方法の提供。 【解決手段】この課題は、（ａ）試料の細胞核を染色すること、（ｂ）試料の少なくとも１つのデジタル画像を取得すること、および（ｃ）前記画像をデジタル的に分析することからなり、細胞核の染色ステップ（２）では、ＤＮＡに非特異的な染色が行われることを特徴とする、細胞試料の自動的分析の方法によって解決される。また、本発明は、培地を選択するための方法、物質の毒性を測定するための方法、およびウイルスの細胞病理学的特性を測定するための方法に関する。さらに、本発明は、過体重症および肥満症を治療するための薬理物質を選択するための方法、および骨粗鬆症を治療するための物質を選択する方法も開示する。 【選択図】図１
Patent JP-2007510418-A (JP)
Title: バキュロウイルスを生産する方法
IPC: C12N7/02
Filed: 2004-11-10
Abstract: 毛虫幼虫内の感染性バキュロウイルスによる封入体の生成を伴う方法と細胞培養の継代による多数のウイルス粒子の生成を伴う方法との組み合わせを用いてバキュロウイルスを生産する方法に関する。二段階方法は、最初に、毛虫幼虫内で感染性ウイルスを生産し、次に、大量の感染性バキュロウイルスを生産するために細胞培養で継代を限られた回数おこなうための接種材料として用いることによって、開発された。 【選択図】  図１
Patent JP-2007511061-A (JP)
Title: 発光機器アレイの電力効率最適化の方法と装置
IPC: H05B44/00
Filed: 2004-11-08
Abstract: 開示された実施例は、液晶ディスプレイの電力効率を最適化するための方法と装置を提供する。回路制御に付随するマイクロプロセッサ又は内蔵されたマイクロコントローラは、単一インバータに複数ＣＣＦＬのアレイの照度を均一にさせることによって、重複を除去する。マイクロコントローラは、全てのランプの動作電流を継続的に検知し、各ランプに等しい電流が加えられることを確実にするキャパシタンスを並列スイッチし個別のランプの照度ばらつきを調整することにより、電力管理を最適化する。マイクロコントローラは適切な制御信号を生成し、輝度調整を行うために電流を修正するデジタルサーボ制御アルゴリズムを実行する。
Patent JP-2007511801-A (JP)
Title: 現像ユニット
IPC: G03G15/08
Filed: 2004-11-17
Abstract: 本発明は、現像ユニットであって、トナー貯蔵部およびトナー供給装置（２３）が設けられており、トナー供給装置によって、トナーが、現像ローラに供給されるようになっており、現像装置（３０）が、ＯＰＣ（感光ドラム）（１０）と面接触されるようになっている形式のものに関する。ＯＰＣ（１０）と現像装置（３０）との間の接触領域におけるトナー転写を改善するために、現像装置（３０）が、現像ベルト（３４）を備えており、現像ベルトが、接触領域で、ＯＰＣの表面に部分的に当接している。
Patent JP-2007514823-A (JP)
Title: 原油生成物を製造するシステム及び方法
IPC: C10G45/00
Filed: 2004-12-16
Abstract: 原油原料１ｇ当たり残留物を０．２ｇ以上含有する原油原料と１種以上の触媒とを接触させて、２５℃、０．１０１ＭＰａで液体混合物である原油生成物を含む全生成物を製造する。原油生成物の１種以上の特性は、原油原料のそれぞれの特性と比べて１０％以上変化できる。幾つかの実施態様では前記接触中、ガスが製造される。 【選択図】図１
Patent JP-2007521515-A (JP)
Title: オニウム塩を含有する液晶層
IPC: C09K19/58
Filed: 2004-12-02
Abstract: 以下の式（Ｉ）：                   (Ｒ) b Ｍ + Ｘ -                    （Ｉ）       式中、それぞれのＲは、独立して、直鎖、分枝鎖もしくは環状のアルキル基又は      芳香族基であり、そして、ｂは、２，３、または４であり；       Ｍ + は、元素の周期律表のＶａ、ＶＩａ、及びＶＩＩａ族から選ばれるカチオンで      あり；そしてＸ - は、対イオンである； で表されるオニウム塩（但し、当該塩は、その塩のオリゴマー又はポリマー形態として存在してもよい）を含有する配向した液晶層を支承する基板を含む多層フィルム。
Patent JP-2007517983-A (JP)
Title: マイクロアーク酸化によるバルブ金属部品の高接着性の厚い保護コーティングを生産する方法
IPC: C25D11/04
Filed: 2004-01-12
Abstract: 本発明は電気化学、特にアルミニウム、チタン、タンタル等のようなバルブ金属やその合金を原料とする陽極酸化部品に関するものであり、かつ強固で耐熱性がありかつ耐摩耗性をもつ機械工学向けのコーティングを生産するために使用することができる。方法は部品を、絶縁材料でコートされた導電性ホルダーに接した状態で電解質中に置くこと、前記部品と電解質の間に作用電圧をかけること、マイクロアーク放電が該部品の表面に発生するまで該電圧を上昇することに存する。該部品のホルダーは、空気と電解質の界面において外面的に電気絶縁材料でコートされている。この発明の技術的結果として、マイクロアーク酸化により、バルブ金属またはその合金を原料とする該部品に、高硬度を示し、低摩擦係数とベース材料への高い接着性を有する、厚い保護コーティングを生産することが可能である。
Patent JP-2007520990-A (JP)
IPC: H02G15/013
Filed: 2005-01-04
Abstract: A re-enterable enclosure for a splice between cables, comprises two cover members with internal walls that are configured to form a cavity for enclosing the cable splice when the cover members are engaged with each other in a closed position. At least one of the cover members also has internal walls that are configured to define containment spaces which at least partly surround the cavity. In use, those containment spaces may contain sealant material. At least one internal wall in one cover member can telescope into a containment space in the other cover member so that, if sealant material is contained therein, it will be compressed when the cover members are engaged with each other in the closed position. By changing the containment spaces that are used to contain sealant material, different levels of protection against humidity can be provided for the cable splice in the cavity.
Patent JP-2007522163-A (JP)
IPC: C07C215/18
Filed: 2005-02-08
Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing optically active hydroxy-, alkoxy-, amino-, alkyl-, aryl- or chlorine-substituted alcohols or hydroxy carboxylic acids having from 3 to 25 carbon atoms or their acid derivatives or cyclization products by hydrogenating the correspondingly substituted optically active mono- or dicarboxylic acids or their acid derivatives in the presence of a catalyst whose active component consists of rhenium or of rhenium and comprises at least one further element having an atomic number of from 22 to 83, with the provisos that a. the at least one further element having an atomic number of from 22 to 83 is not ruthenium and b. in the case of the preparation of optically active 2-amino-, 2-chloro-, 2-hydroxy- and 2-alkoxy-1-alkanols by catalytically hydrogenating corresponding optically active 2-aminocarboxylic acids, 2-chlorocarboxylic acids, 2-hydroxycarboxylic acids and 2-alkoxycarboxylic acids or their acid derivatives, the at least one further element having an atomic number of from 22 to 83 is not palladium or platinum.
Patent JP-2008167800-A (JP)
Title: Fire extinguishing equipment, storage tank and fire extinguishing method
Inventor: FUKUOKA SATORU
IPC: A62C35/58
Filed: 2007-01-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To swiftly and smoothly extinguish an overall fire on a floating roof.  <P>SOLUTION: The fire extinguishing equipment 12 for the overall fire is mounted on a storage tank 1 comprising a storage tub 6 for storing a flammable liquid and the floating roof 7 movably disposed inside the storage tub 6. The fire extinguishing equipment 12 comprises a drain pipe 8 disposed from the floating roof 7 to the ground inside the storage tub 6 for feeding a fire extinguishing agent, a foam maker 21 for foaming the fire extinguishing agent fed to the drain pipe 8, and a spout 23 communicating with the drain pipe 8 and disposed on the floating roof 7 for spouting the foamed fire extinguishing agent onto the floating roof 7.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2007091755-A (JP)
Title: Amine compound and use thereof
Inventor: SAITO ATSUYUKI
IPC: A61P31/18
Filed: 2007-01-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide new amine compounds which are efficacious against diseases such as a viral infectious disease with HIV, rheumatism, and cancer metastasis.  <P>SOLUTION: The invention relates to the amine compounds which are represented by the general formula (1) or pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof. [A<SB>1</SB>and A<SB>2</SB>are each independently (substituted) imidazole group, at least one is N-(carboxylmethyl)imidazole or N-(ethoxycarbonylmethyl)imidazole. W is a (substituted)benzene ring. X is CH<SB>2</SB>. D is a group represented by formula (6).]. [Q is CH<SB>2</SB>, NR<SB>12</SB>, R<SB>12</SB>is H or methyl group in the formula (6). Y is a group represented by formula (7)]. [m<SB>3</SB>is an integer of 0-6. R<SB>18</SB>, R<SB>19</SB>are each H in the formula (7). B is a group represented by formula (8)]. [R<SB>25</SB>, R<SB>26</SB>are each a (substituted) 1-15C alkyl group in the formula (8)].  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008172326-A (JP)
Title: Information processor, information gathering equipment, information gathering system, and program
Inventor: HARADA MASAHIKO
IPC: G06F3/048
Filed: 2007-01-09
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processor for grasping a function desired by a user.  <P>SOLUTION: A storage part of an image forming device 20 stores names of functions assigned to functions mounted to its own device and names of functions assigned to functions not mounted to its own device. Its control unit displays the names of functions stored in the storage part to a display operation part and receives designation of any of the displayed names of functions. Then, the control unit transmits the name of function to information gathering equipment 10 when the name of function designated by the user is one assigned to the functions which are not mounted. A control unit of the information gathering equipment 10 receives the name of function transmitted by the image forming device 20 and has a storage part store it together with the number of its reception times. The control unit reports the name of function assigned to a function which is frequently requested by the user by displaying to a display part the names of functions whose number of reception times has exceeded a threshold out of the names of functions stored in the storage part.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008172541-A (JP)
Title: Base station device, communication terminal device, communicating system, and communication method
Inventor: KANO SHINGO
IPC: H04J11/00
Filed: 2007-01-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To select a BS (Broadcasting Satellite) in which a transmission amount of a data part can be large, there is resistivity for frequency selective fading, and transmission loss is small.  <P>SOLUTION: An OFDM transmission device 100 transmits a pilot for electric power measurement by frame timing which is common for respective base station devices, while the pilot for the electric power measurement is set so as to be one OFDM symbol for one frame, and subcarrier numbers of the pilot for the electric power measurement are assigned to respective base station devices. A communication terminal device 200 is provided with an autocorrelator 210 which outputs a symbol synchronization signal, an autocorrelator 220 which takes an autocorrelation characteristic of a repeating waveform part which is repeated in the same waveform with 1/2 effective symbol length period from the received pilot for the electric power measurement, and a same phase summing average unit 230 which calculates a same phase summing average of the correlation characteristic of the repeating waveform part in a frame unit, and detects position frame timing of the pilot for the electric power measurement on a time axis.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2007149699-A (JP)
Title: Manufacturing method of light-emitting device
Inventor: FUJII TERUYUKI
IPC: H05B33/10
Filed: 2007-01-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light-emitting device emitting light at a low voltage, independently controlling the luminance of both sides and independently displaying images of both the sides, and to provide a method of forming the membrane of an ITO electrode, without exposing an EL layer to air and a sealing method, without having to use a sealing can or a drying agent.  <P>SOLUTION: A translucent electrode and a non-translucent electrode are formed on an insulation surface, and an organic resin membrane is formed to cover one end part of the translucent electrode and one end part of the non-translucent electrode. A layer, containing an electroluminescent material, is formed on the organic resin membrane, the translucent electrode and the non-translucent electrode, a transparent electrode is formed on the layer containing the electroluminescent material, and a reflecting electrode is formed above the translucent electrode so as to be brought into contact with the transparent electrode.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008168578-A (JP)
Title: Offset printer
Inventor: SAKAMOTO SUSUMU
IPC: B41M1/10
Filed: 2007-01-15
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus which can provide a large amount of an article to be printed at a low cost by enabling a pattern for printing which is extremely fine and has a thick line to be speedily and continuously printed, and to provide a printing method and a printed matter.  <P>SOLUTION: This offset printer is equipped with an intaglio 1 for printing which has a recessed strip corresponding to a printing pattern, and a blanket 2 for printing to which a printing ink being filled in the recessed strip is transferred as an ink pattern. The offset printer is equipped with a printing unit A which forms a specified printing pattern by transferring the ink pattern to the article 3 to be printed and drying it. The quantity of the printing units A is made the same as a printing number of times n for a multi-layer printing. The printing units A of n pieces are continuously arranged, and each intaglio 1 for printing of each printing unit A and each blanket 2 for printing are made a rotary type. Also, on each intaglio 1 for printing of each printing unit A, respectively the same recessed strip corresponding to the printing pattern is formed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008174394-A (JP)
Title: Diamond substrate and manufacturing method thereof
Inventor: MEGURO KIICHI
IPC: C23C16/511
Filed: 2007-01-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a large-scale diamond substrate and its manufacturing method suitable for semiconductor lithography processing and large-scale optical parts, semiconductor materials, heat-releasing substrates and the like.  <P>SOLUTION: The diamond substrate comprises a silicon substrate on which a single crystal diamond seed substrate 1 is disposed, wherein the silicon substrate has a concave part and a single crystal diamond seed substrate 1 with a principal plane in a plane direction (111) is disposed on the concave part; a gas phase-synthesized diamond layer 8 in an orientation (100) or an orientation (110) is provided on a surface excluding the concave part of the silicon substrate; the single crystal diamond seed substrate 1 is jointed to the silicon substrate interposing the gas phase-synthesized diamond layer 8 in the orientation (100) or the orientation (110); the diamond layer 8 and the single crystal seed substrate 1 are tightly attached to each other near the surface and the surfaces of both are substantially smoothed and integrated.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008176489-A (JP)
Title: Text discrimination device and text discrimination method
Inventor: SAKURAI SHIGEAKI
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 2007-01-17
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To highly precisely and quickly discriminate the class of a text by quickly learning a discrimination model, and using the discrimination model.  <P>SOLUTION: This text discrimination device is provided with a text storage part 1; a text class storage part 2; a text analyzing part 3 for creating the structure information and meaning information of the text; a featured word extraction part 4 for extracting a featured word based on the structure information and frequency information with respect to each word included in the text; a word vector generation part 5 for generating a featured word vector corresponding to the featured word based on the meaning information of the featured word; a text vector generation part 6 for generating a text vector featuring the text based on the featured word vector; a discrimination model learning part 7 for learning a discrimination model by inputting the text vector and a text class as a set; a discrimination model storage part 8 for storing a discrimination model; and a text class discrimination part 9 for deciding the text class corresponding to the text by applying the text vector to the discrimination model.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008176668-A (JP)
Title: Difference acquiring device
Inventor: KAWAKITA YASUHIRO
IPC: G06F17/24
Filed: 2007-01-19
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a difference acquiring device capable of adequately acquiring the difference of a document after updating in response to a tag included in the document.  <P>SOLUTION: The difference acquiring device 100 includes: an document input part 101 for inputting an input document 200 composed of the tags and a text and updated at a prescribed timing; a tag removing part 102 for removing the tags other than the previously designated designation tag from the input document 200; a tag name changing part 103 for changing the tag name of the designation tag, included in the document from which the tags are removed by the tag removing part 102, so as to perform discrimination from the designation tag of the precedingly inputted input document; a document storage part 104 for storing the tag change document where the tag name of the designation tag is changed by the tag name changing part 103; a difference extracting part 105 for extracting the difference by comparing the tag change document with the tag change document of the precedingly inputted input document stored in the document storage part 104; and a difference document generating part 106 for generating a difference document 210, based on the extracted difference.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008181179-A (JP)
Title: Processor and arithmetic unit
Inventor: OKABE MOTOHIKO
IPC: G06F9/34
Filed: 2007-01-23
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve high speed arithmetic execution for preventing a bottleneck from being caused by a low-speed memory access.  <P>SOLUTION: A processor 1 for performing arithmetic processing based on an instruction and an operand stored in a main memory 2 is provided with: a register 5; an internal memory 6; a fetch unit 4 to be operated by a first operation clock for transferring an instruction and an operand from the main memory 2 to the internal memory 6 for storage; and an arithmetic execution unit 3 to be operated by a second operation clock different from the first operation clock for performing an arithmetic operation by using the register 5 based on the instruction and the operand stored in the internal memory 6.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2010111516-A (JP)
Title: Stress reducing glass
Inventor: KONDO YASUMASA
IPC: C03C17/34
Filed: 2007-01-24
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide stress reducing glass which reduces stress and tiredness felt under sunlight and suppresses the lowering of immune strength.  <P>SOLUTION: A glass laminate (1) having glass plates (10, 40) and multilayered films (20) formed on the glass plates has an average value T<SB>1</SB>of visible light ray transmittance in the range of wavelength 380 nm or more and 450 nm or less of 35% or less and an average value T<SB>2</SB>of visible light ray transmittance in the range of wavelength 525 nm or more and 625 nm or less of 80% or more.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008180922-A (JP)
Title: Optical low pass filter and digital camera
Inventor: SHIMIZU YASUO
IPC: G03B11/00
Filed: 2007-01-25
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical low pass filter and a digital camera which prevent light reflected by the side surface of the optical low pass filter from entering the effective range of the imaging surface of an imaging device.  <P>SOLUTION: The optical low pass filter arranged in front of the imaging element is characterized in that the side surface of the optical low pass filter has such a shape that the light which enters the optical low pass filter and is reflected by the side surface goes to the outside of the effective range of the imaging surface of the imaging element.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008007396-A (JP)
Title: Mold release device for glass molding, glass molding apparatus and manufacturing method of glass molding
Inventor: IKENAGA NOBUYUKI
IPC: G02B3/00
Filed: 2007-01-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mold release device for a glass molding, which can effectively and definitely take out a press molded glass molding from a mold while a temperature decrease of the mold is kept minimum, and a glass molding apparatus comprising the mold release device.  <P>SOLUTION: (1) A mold release device equipped with a cooling means for cooling an adsorption member is used to set the cooled adsorption member attached to the glass molding. (2) Alternatively, a mold release device equipped with an adsorption member having a suction hole and a discharge hole for cooled gas is used to perform the process of sucking the cooled gas from the suction hole while discharging the cooled gas to a glass molding and then the process of adsorbing the glass molding in the state where the discharge of the cooled gas is stopped.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008186366-A (JP)
Title: Wireless tag information communication device
Inventor: NAGAI TAKUYA
IPC: H04B5/02
Filed: 2007-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the flexibility of layout in a wireless tag information communication device by simplifying a wiring structure in the device.  <P>SOLUTION: The wireless tag information communication device has an antenna LC-L for label preparation and an antenna LC-R for information acquisition for respectively transmitting and receiving information to/from a radio tag circuit element To provided with an IC circuit 151 for storing information and a loop antenna 152 for transmitting and receiving information through magnetic induction, a relay antenna LC-T connected to the antenna LC-R for information acquisition in series, provided near the antenna LC-L for label preparation to be able to magnetically coupled with the antenna LC-L for label preparation, and a control circuit 110 for generating access information for accessing the radio tag circuit element To and outputting the access information to the antenna LC-L for label preparation.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008185021-A (JP)
Title: Cooling system for vehicle
Inventor: EGAWA YUKIO
IPC: F01P7/16
Filed: 2007-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooling system for a vehicle enabling appropriate cooling of engine coolant while saving power.  <P>SOLUTION: An engine ECU sets rotation speed Rh of an electric pump when engine coolant of a flow rate required for cooling engine coolant is circulated based on the temperature of the engine coolant and the ambient temperature To. When the ambient temperature is high, rotation speed is set higher as compared with the time when the ambient temperature is low. The engine ECU drives the electric pump to secure set rotation speed. Consequently, engine coolant can be appropriately cooled when the ambient temperature is high while rotation speed is prevented from unnecessarily getting high when the ambient temperature is low.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008184327-A (JP)
Title: Post-processing device and image forming system with the same
Inventor: KUBOTA ICHITARO
IPC: B65H37/04
Filed: 2007-01-31
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a post-processing device capable of continuously receiving sheets from a sheet carry-in opening when performing post-processing to the sheets in a first and a second post-processing sections different from each other.  <P>SOLUTION: This post-processing device comprises a first post-processing section for subjecting sheets from a sheet delivering opening to post-processing, a switch-back conveyance path for reversing the conveying direction of the sheets to transfer the sheets to a position different from the sheet carry-in route, a second post-processing section arranged on a downstream side of the switch-back conveyance path to subject the sheets to post-processing, a sheet delivery roller means arranged in the sheet delivering opening, a carry-in roller means arranged in a route inlet of the switch-back conveyance path, and a conveyance control means for controlling the sheet delivery roller means and the carry-in roller means. The conveyance control means controls a following sheet supplied to the carry-in opening during the post-processing operation in the first post-processing section so as to temporarily wait in the switch-back conveyance path, and after the post-processing operation in the first post-processing section is completed, the conveyance control means controls to transfer the following sheet waiting in the switch-back conveyance path to the first post-processing section.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT