A surface-emitting laser array includes a substrate (101), a sub-arrays disposed on the substrate (101), the sub-arrays including a surface-emitting laser devices electrically connected to each other in parallel to emit light through the substrate (101), each of the surface-emitting laser devices having a light-emitting point and including a first semi-conducting layer (102) of first conductivity, a second semi-conducting layer (107) of second conductivity, and a resonator (104) disposed between the first semi-conducting layer (102) and the second semi-conducting layer (107). The sub-arrays adjacent to each other include an electrode to electrically connect the first semi-conducting layer (102) in the surface-emitting laser devices included in one of the sub-arrays and the second semi-conducting layer (107).
H01S 5/183 - Lasers à émission de surface [lasers SE], p. ex. comportant à la fois des cavités horizontales et verticales comportant uniquement des cavités verticales, p. ex. lasers à émission de surface à cavité verticale [VCSEL]
H01S 5/40 - Agencement de plusieurs lasers à semi-conducteurs, non prévu dans les groupes
H01S 5/42 - Réseaux de lasers à émission de surface
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LIQUID DROPLET-FORMING DEVICE AND FINE PARTICLE-MANUFACTURING DEVICE
Provided is a liquid droplet forming device comprising: a liquid chamber; a discharge hole for discharging a raw material liquid which is in the liquid chamber, in the form of droplets; a sealed space forming means; and at least two flow passages. The sealed space forming means is capable of forming a sealed space which can communicate with the liquid chamber via the discharge hole, on the side of the discharge hole opposite the liquid chamber. The at least two flow passages communicate with one another through the sealed space.
B01J 2/04 - Procédés ou dispositifs pour la granulation de substances, en généralTraitement de matériaux particulaires leur permettant de s'écouler librement, en général, p. ex. en les rendant hydrophobes par division du produit liquide en gouttelettes, p. ex. par pulvérisation, et solidification des gouttelettes en milieu gazeux
B41J 2/165 - Prévention du colmatage des ajutages, p. ex. nettoyage, obturation par un capuchon ou humidification des ajutages
B41J 2/17 - Machines à écrire ou mécanismes d'impression sélective caractérisés par le procédé d'impression ou de marquage pour lequel ils sont conçus caractérisés par la mise en contact sélective d'un liquide ou de particules avec un matériau d'impression à jet d'encre caractérisés par la manipulation de l'encre
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INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING INFORMATION
An information processing apparatus (1) for outputting three-dimensional information that is determined based on received light includes an image capture unit (11) configured to capture two-dimensional image information; and an output unit (170, 180) configured to output the two-dimensional image information for displaying, and the three-dimensional information associated with coordinates of the two-dimensional image information.
A distance-measuring apparatus includes a light emitter to emit light with modulated frequency to an object, a light receiver to receive the light that is emitted from the light emitter and returns as reflected by the object, and a controller to measure, based on radiation intensity of received light by the light receiver, a length of time between a time at which the light is emitted by the light emitter and a time at which the light is received by the light receiver to obtain a distance to the object. The controller performs a first measurement in which the light emitter is made emit the light at a first modulation frequency for a first irradiation time and a second time, the second irradiation time being longer than the first irradiation time, to measure the length of time by the time at which the light is received by the light receiver a first plurality of times. The controller performs a second measurement in which the light emitter is made emit the light at a second modulation frequency for a third irradiation time to measure the length of time by the time at which the light is received by the light receiver a second plurality of times fewer than the first plurality of times. The third irradiation time is longer than the first irradiation time and is shorter than the second irradiation time. Both reduction in aliasing and increase in dynamic range can be achieved.
G01S 17/08 - Systèmes déterminant les données relatives à la position d'une cible pour mesurer la distance uniquement
G01S 17/36 - Systèmes déterminant les données relatives à la position d'une cible pour mesurer la distance uniquement utilisant la transmission d'ondes continues, soit modulées en amplitude, en fréquence ou en phase, soit non modulées avec comparaison en phase entre le signal reçu et le signal transmis au même moment
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PARTICLES INCLUDING A PHYSIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCE AND BASE MATERIAL, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH PARTICLES
Particles are provided, including: at least one base material; and a physiologically active substance having physiological activity, in which the physiologically active substance is contained and dispersed in the at least one base material, and the physiologically active substance has a property such that the physiological activity is changed by heating, cooling, or external stress.
A61K 47/34 - Composés macromoléculaires obtenus par des réactions autres que celles faisant intervenir uniquement des liaisons non saturées carbone-carbone, p. ex. polyesters, acides polyaminés, polysiloxanes, polyphosphazines, copolymères de polyalkylène glycol ou de poloxamères
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SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS EVALUATION METHOD, SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS EVALUATION APPARATUS, AND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS EVALUATION PROGRAM
A surface characteristics evaluation method for evaluating a surface characteristic of a painted surface including a glittering material, including: a multi-angle condition image acquisition step S101 for acquiring a multi-angle condition image including multi-angle conditions in a continuous manner by performing an image-capturing process to capture how a reflection condition of the painted surface changes when rotating an illumination device 2 emitting light onto the painted surface, the image-capturing process being performed by the line scan camera 4 while a sample P having the painted surface is moved in a certain direction; an in-plane chromaticity distribution acquisition step S102 for acquiring an in-plane chromaticity distribution of the painted surface from the multi-angle condition image acquired; and a surface characteristics evaluation step S107 for calculating particle characteristics S as surface characteristics evaluation values of the multi-angle conditions, on the basis of the in-plane chromaticity distribution acquired.
An instantly soluble particle including: a water-soluble base material; and a poorly water-soluble compound, wherein the water-soluble base material contains a rapidly water-soluble compound, and the poorly water-soluble compound exists in the water-soluble base material in an amorphous state.
A61K 9/14 - Préparations médicinales caractérisées par un aspect particulier à l'état particulaire, p. ex. poudres
A61K 47/26 - Hydrates de carbone, p. ex. polyols ou sucres alcoolisés, sucres aminés, acides nucléiques, mono-, di- ou oligosaccharidesLeurs dérivés, p. ex. polysorbates, esters d’acide gras de sorbitan ou glycyrrhizine
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PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION INCLUDING PARTICLES CONTAINING A WATER-SOLUBLE BASE MATERIAL AND A POORLY WATER-SOLUBLE COMPOUND
A pharmaceutical composition including particles each containing a water-soluble base material and a poorly water-soluble compound, the water-soluble base material containing a rapidly water-soluble compound, wherein the poorly water-soluble compound is a kinase inhibitor and exists in an amorphous state in the water-soluble base material.
A61K 9/14 - Préparations médicinales caractérisées par un aspect particulier à l'état particulaire, p. ex. poudres
A61K 45/00 - Préparations médicinales contenant des ingrédients actifs non prévus dans les groupes
A61K 47/26 - Hydrates de carbone, p. ex. polyols ou sucres alcoolisés, sucres aminés, acides nucléiques, mono-, di- ou oligosaccharidesLeurs dérivés, p. ex. polysorbates, esters d’acide gras de sorbitan ou glycyrrhizine
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NANOPARTICLE, METHOD FOR PRODUCING NANOPARTICLE, AND PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOSITION
Provided is a nanoparticle including a poorly-water-soluble physiologically active compound, and an additive substance, wherein a relative span factor (R.S.F) of the nanoparticle satisfies formula: 0 < (R.S.F) ? 1.0, a volume average particle diameter of the nanoparticle is 200 nm or less, and the poorly-water-soluble physiologically active compound is covered with the additive substance.
A61K 31/00 - Préparations médicinales contenant des ingrédients actifs organiques
A61K 38/00 - Préparations médicinales contenant des peptides
B01J 2/18 - Procédés ou dispositifs pour la granulation de substances, en généralTraitement de matériaux particulaires leur permettant de s'écouler librement, en général, p. ex. en les rendant hydrophobes par utilisation d'un vibrateur
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IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE CAPTURING OPTICAL SYSTEM, AND MOVABLE APPARATUS
An imaging device includes an imaging element, and an image capturing optical system configured to generate an image of an object on the imaging element. The image capturing optical system has a gradient decreasing region in which a change of a gradient of an image magnification rate with respect to an angle of view of the image generated on the imaging element decreases as a concerned position deviates farther away from an optical axis of the image capturing optical system, and a gradient increasing region in which the change of the gradient of the image magnification rate with respect to the angle of view of the image generated on the imaging element increases as the concerned position deviates farther away from the optical axis of the image capturing optical system.
G01C 3/14 - Mesure des distances dans la ligne de viséeTélémètres optiques en utilisant un triangle parallactique ayant des angles variables et une base de longueur fixe, dans la station d'observation, p. ex. dans l'instrument avec observation binoculaire en un simple point, p. ex. du type stéréoscopique
G02B 13/18 - Objectifs optiques spécialement conçus pour les emplois spécifiés ci-dessous avec des lentilles ayant une ou plusieurs surfaces non sphériques, p. ex. pour réduire l'aberration géométrique
G02B 27/00 - Systèmes ou appareils optiques non prévus dans aucun des groupes ,
A movable device includes a movable portion including a reflecting surface; a pair of drive beams configured to support the movable portion rotatably around a predetermined rotation axis with the movable portion disposed between the pair of drive beams; and a support portion configured to support the pair of drive beams. The support portion has a light passing portion on each of both sides of the movable portion in a direction intersecting with the rotation axis in a plane along the reflecting surface in a state in which the movable portion is not rotated, the light passing portion being configured to allow light reflected by the reflecting surface to pass through the light passing portion.
B81B 3/00 - Dispositifs comportant des éléments flexibles ou déformables, p. ex. comportant des membranes ou des lamelles élastiques
G02B 26/08 - Dispositifs ou dispositions optiques pour la commande de la lumière utilisant des éléments optiques mobiles ou déformables pour commander la direction de la lumière
A measurement apparatus (100) mountable on a movable apparatus (700) includes a first imaging device (130-1) configured to capture an image in a first image capture direction, the first image capture direction having a first angle with respect to a direction of travel of the movable apparatus (700), and a second imaging device (130-2) disposed next to the first imaging device (130-1) configured to capture an image in a second image capture direction, the second image capture direction having a second angle with respect to the direction of travel of the movable apparatus (700). The first imaging device (130-1) and the second imaging device (130-2) are disposed to overlap at least partially a first imaging range of the first imaging device (130-1) and a second imaging range of the second imaging device (130-2). At least one of the first image capture direction of the first imaging device (130-1) and the second image capture direction of the second imaging device (130-2) is set at a given angle with respect to a width dimension of the movable apparatus (700).
E01C 23/01 - Dispositifs ou moyens auxiliaires préalables à la mise en place d'un nouveau revêtement ou pour en vérifier la configuration, p. ex. gabarits, supports de guide d'arasementApplications des appareils de mesure, d'indication d'enregistrement de la configuration de surface d'un revêtement existant, p. ex. profilographes
G01C 7/04 - Tracé de profils des surfaces du terrain mettant en jeu un véhicule qui se déplace le long du profil à tracer
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METHOD FOR PRODUCING PARTICLE, AND PARTICLE PRODUCED BY THE METHOD AND MEDICAMENT
SHIZUOKA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION (Japon)
Inventeur(s)
Onoue, Satomi
Sato, Hideyuki
Morinaga, Tadahiko
Moritani, Tatsuru
Abrégé
Provided is a method for producing a particle including forming a particle composition liquid into droplets where the particle composition liquid includes a physiologically active substance and at least two dispersants, and solidifying the droplets of the particle composition liquid in a manner that at least one of the at least two dispersants is locally present at the surface side of the particle.
A61K 47/32 - Composés macromoléculaires obtenus par des réactions faisant intervenir uniquement des liaisons non saturées carbone-carbone, p. ex. carbomères
A surface-emitting laser array includes a plurality of surface-emitting laser elements, a plurality of optical elements, and a light shielding member. The plurality of surface-emitting laser elements are arranged on a first surface of a substrate and configured to emit light in a direction crossing the first surface. The plurality of optical elements are arranged on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the substrate to correspond to the surface-emitting laser elements and configured to change a radiation angle of the light. The light shielding member is arranged in a region between the optical elements on the second surface of the substrate.
H01S 5/183 - Lasers à émission de surface [lasers SE], p. ex. comportant à la fois des cavités horizontales et verticales comportant uniquement des cavités verticales, p. ex. lasers à émission de surface à cavité verticale [VCSEL]
H01S 5/42 - Réseaux de lasers à émission de surface
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OPTICAL DEVICE, RANGE SENSOR USING OPTICAL DEVICE, AND MOBILE OBJECT
An optical device includes a light source provided with a plurality of surface-emitting laser elements to emit a laser beam, a scanner to scan the laser beam emitted from the light source, and an optical system disposed in an optical path between the light source and the scanner and to guide the laser beam to the scanner. The optical system includes a first optical element to control a divergence angle of the laser beam emitted from the light source and a second optical element to concentrate the laser beam that has passed through the first optical element onto a to-be-scanned surface of the scanner.
An imaging device (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, 1f) includes at least one imager (Cam0, Cam1, Cam2, Cam3, Cam4, Cam5, Cam6, Cam7) including an imaging element (210, 212) configured to receive light incident through a lens (240); and a casing (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e, 10f) at which at least four of the imagers are arranged, the casing being configured such that each one of the imagers and another one of the imagers have optical axes substantially parallel to each other and have opposite incident directions of light on the optical axes, and each one of the imagers is arranged outside imageable ranges of the other imagers.
G01C 11/02 - Dispositions de prises de vues spécialement adaptées pour la photogrammétrie ou les levers photographiques, p. ex. pour commander le recouvrement des photos
G01C 15/00 - Instruments de géodésie ou accessoires non prévus dans les groupes
G06T 7/55 - Récupération de la profondeur ou de la forme à partir de plusieurs images
H04N 13/243 - Générateurs de signaux d’images utilisant des caméras à images stéréoscopiques utilisant au moins trois capteurs d’images 2D
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METHOD OF PRODUCING EXTRACT AND EXTRACTION RESIDUE OF BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL, EXTRACT, AND EXTRACTION RESIDUE
A method of producing an extract of an animal-derived or plant-derived biological material includes: extracting a component in the biological material using liquefied dimethyl ether for the biological material to obtain a liquefied dimethyl ether solution including the component; separating the solution from the biological material; and volatilizing or separating the liquefied dimethyl ether from the solution.
A disclosed three-dimensional modeling composition set includes a first composition, and a second composition, where at least one of a cured product of the first composition and a cured product of the second composition has water disintegratability, and when STl represents surface tension of the first composition and ST2 represents surface tension of the second composition, the following formula (1) is satisfied: IST1 - ST2I=2 (1) where in the formula (1), the unit of the surface tension is mN/m. A method and an apparatus using the three-diemsional modeling composition set are also disclosed.
B29C 64/40 - Structures de support des objets en 3D pendant la fabrication, lesdites structures devant être sacrifiées après réalisation de la fabrication
B33Y 30/00 - Appareils pour la fabrication additiveLeurs parties constitutives ou accessoires à cet effet
C08F 2/50 - Polymérisation amorcée par énergie ondulatoire ou par rayonnement corpusculaire par la lumière ultraviolette ou visible avec des agents sensibilisants
(Object) To enable to provide a small-scale and low-cost spectrometer (Means of Achieving the Object) A spectrometer includes: a light incidence unit configured to allow incidence of light from outside; a diffraction grating configured to disperse, according to wavelength, the light that is incident through the light incidence unit; and a reflection unit including a reflection surface for reflecting the light that has been dispersed according to wavelength by the diffraction grating. Tilt of the reflection surface is changeable.
Provided is a container (10) including a base material (1) including a plurality of concave portions (2); a recognition unit (3) disposed on the base material and configured to recognize the base material; and a storage unit (4) disposed in a position other than a measurement region of the base material and configured to store information on biomaterials contained in the plurality of concave portions, wherein the recognition unit and the storage unit are allowed to correspond to each other.
B01L 3/00 - Récipients ou ustensiles pour laboratoires, p. ex. verrerie de laboratoireCompte-gouttes
C40B 40/06 - Bibliothèques comprenant des nucléotides ou des polynucléotides ou leurs dérivés
G01N 35/00 - Analyse automatique non limitée à des procédés ou à des matériaux spécifiés dans un seul des groupes Manipulation de matériaux à cet effet
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POWDER CONTAINER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
A powder container includes a collection port to receive and collect powder from outside; a driven unit that is disposed on one end side in a width direction of the powder container and to which drive is transmitted from outside; a first rotary shaft that rotates by the drive transmitted to the driven unit; a first gear disposed on other end side of the powder container and rotating with the first rotary shaft; a second rotary shaft that is disposed on the other end side, that includes a second gear to which drive is transmitted from the first gear, and that rotates with the second gear; and a driving gear that is disposed on the second rotary shaft in a position between the second gear and a central portion in the width direction of the powder container, and that rotates with the second rotary shaft to transmit drive to outside.
A coefficient to transform a three-dimensional mesh approximating at least a part of a three-dimensional model including at least a part of a target object and generated from a plurality of two-dimensional images, into two-dimensional panoramic coordinates is determined. A first position on a first image determined from a plurality of two-dimensional images corresponding to a portion of the two-dimensional panoramic coordinates, and an annotation to be projected onto the two-dimensional panoramic coordinates are specified according to the first image. A second position corresponding to projection of the annotation onto the two-dimensional panoramic coordinates is determined. The annotation is superimposed on a second image obtained by projecting the first image onto the two-dimensional panoramic coordinates. A third position corresponding to projection of the first position onto a third image is determined, and the annotation is projected and superimposed at the third position on the third image.
SHIZUOKA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION (Japon)
RICOH COMPANY, LTD. (Japon)
Inventeur(s)
Onoue, Satomi
Sato, Hideyuki
Seto, Yoshiki
Moritani, Tatsuru
Morinaga, Tadahiko
Abrégé
A method for producing particles, the method including: applying vibration to a liquid including a physiologically active substance and included in a liquid-column resonance liquid-chamber to form a standing wave based on liquid column resonance, to thereby discharge the liquid from at least one discharging port, which is formed in an amplitude direction of the standing wave, to at least one region corresponding to at least one anti-node of the standing wave; and drying the liquid discharged, to thereby form particles.
Provided is an inkjet recording device for which the following criteria (1)-(4) hold: (1) An ink discharge means is provided (2) The nozzle diameter of the inkjet head of the ink discharge means is 17-19 µm. (3) An ink-repelling layer is provided on the nozzle plate surface in the inkjet head. (4) The ink is a water-based dye ink that contains a water-soluble dye and has a viscosity at 25°C of 5-12 mPa·s.
B41J 2/01 - Machines à écrire ou mécanismes d'impression sélective caractérisés par le procédé d'impression ou de marquage pour lequel ils sont conçus caractérisés par la mise en contact sélective d'un liquide ou de particules avec un matériau d'impression à jet d'encre
B41J 2/045 - Machines à écrire ou mécanismes d'impression sélective caractérisés par le procédé d'impression ou de marquage pour lequel ils sont conçus caractérisés par la mise en contact sélective d'un liquide ou de particules avec un matériau d'impression à jet d'encre caractérisés par le procédé de formation du jet en produisant à la demande des gouttelettes ou des particules séparées les unes des autres par pression, p. ex. à l'aide de transducteurs électromécaniques
B41J 2/21 - Machines à écrire ou mécanismes d'impression sélective caractérisés par le procédé d'impression ou de marquage pour lequel ils sont conçus caractérisés par la mise en contact sélective d'un liquide ou de particules avec un matériau d'impression à jet d'encre pour l'impression à plusieurs couleurs
Provided is an electrochromic apparatus having: an electrochromic element having a projected part on a peripheral edge; and a frame on which the electrochromic element is held, wherein the projected part has an electrode pad, and the frame has a connection member electrically corrected to the electrode pad.
An electrochromic element including: a first electrode; a second electrode that is opposed to and apart from the first electrode; and an electrolyte that is between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first electrode includes a polymerized product of an electrochromic composition that includes a radical-polymerizable compound including a triarylamine backbone, and wherein the second electrode includes a compound represented by General Formula (I) where R1 and R2 each denote a hydrogen atom, an aryl group including 14 or less carbon atoms, a heteroaryl group including 14 or less carbon atoms, a branched alkyl group including 10 or less carbon atoms, an alkenyl group including 10 or less carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group including 10 or less carbon atoms, or a functional group that is capable of binding to a hydroxyl group; n and m each denote 0 or an integer of from 1 through 10; and X- denotes a charge-neutralizing ion.
G02F 1/1503 - Dispositifs ou dispositions pour la commande de l'intensité, de la couleur, de la phase, de la polarisation ou de la direction de la lumière arrivant d'une source lumineuse indépendante, p. ex. commutation, ouverture de porte ou modulationOptique non linéaire pour la commande de l'intensité, de la phase, de la polarisation ou de la couleur basés sur un effet électrochromique provoqués par des réactions d’oxydation-réduction dans des solutions de liquide organique, p. ex. des solutions viologènes
A liquid discharging head includes: a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles from which liquid is discharged; a channel member including individual liquid chambers that lead to the nozzles, respectively, and including circulation channels that lead to the individual liquid chambers, respectively; and a common liquid chamber member for forming a common liquid chamber that supplies liquid to the individual liquid chambers and for forming a circulation common liquidchamber that leads to the circulation channels.
A powder container includes a discharge port, and a container identifier shape portion that is provided on a front end surface of the powder container in an insertion direction and that has a function to identify a type of the powder container, where the insertion direction is a direction in which the container body is inserted and set in a main body of an image forming apparatus and which is parallel to a center line of the powder container. The powder container further includes a driven portion that interlocks with a first main-body interlocking portion of the image forming apparatus at the time of setting in the main body of the image forming apparatus, and an identifier opening group that starts to interlock with a second main-body interlocking portion of the image forming apparatus after the driven portion starts to interlock with the first main-body interlocking portion. A position of the identifier opening group relative to the driven portion in the circumferential direction varies depending on a type of the powder container to be identified.
G03G 15/08 - Appareils pour procédés électrographiques utilisant un dessin de charge pour développer en utilisant un développateur solide, p. ex. développateur en poudre
G03G 21/16 - Moyens mécaniques facilitant la maintenance de l'appareil, p. ex. structures modulaires
Provided is an ink containing a compound represented by general formula (1) below where R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, n represents an integer of 2 or greater, a plurality of R1 may be the same as or different from each other, X represents a hydrocarbon group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, Y represents a tertiary hydroxyl group, or a group having an ester structure, and m represents an integer of 1 or greater. [Chem. 1]
B29C 64/112 - Procédés de fabrication additive n’utilisant que des matériaux liquides ou visqueux, p. ex. dépôt d’un cordon continu de matériau visqueux utilisant des gouttelettes individuelles, p. ex. de buses de jet
B41J 2/01 - Machines à écrire ou mécanismes d'impression sélective caractérisés par le procédé d'impression ou de marquage pour lequel ils sont conçus caractérisés par la mise en contact sélective d'un liquide ou de particules avec un matériau d'impression à jet d'encre
B41M 5/00 - Procédés de reproduction ou méthodes de reproduction ou de marquageMatériaux en feuilles utilisés à cet effet
C08F 20/28 - Esters contenant de l'oxygène en plus de l'oxygène de la fonction carboxyle ne contenant pas de cycles aromatiques dans la partie alcool
C09D 11/101 - Encres spécialement adaptées aux procédés d’imprimerie mettant en œuvre la réticulation par énergie ondulatoire ou par radiation de particules, p. ex. réticulation par UV qui suit l’impression
C09D 11/30 - Encres pour l'impression à jet d'encre
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PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION, PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE INK, COMPOSITION CONTAINER, IMAGE OR CURED PRODUCT FORMING METHOD, IMAGE OR CURED PRODUCT FORMING DEVICE, AND IMAGE OR CURED PRODUCT
A photopolymerizable composition, which contains: a monofunctional monomer having a viscosity of 5 mPa·s or less at 25?; one or more polyfunctional monomers including glycerol dimethacrylate; and a polymer free from a hydrophilic functional group, wherein a mass ratio (A/B) of an amount (A) of the polymer free from a hydrophilic functional group to an amount (B) of the polyfunctional monomer is greater than 0.80 but 3 or less.
B41J 2/01 - Machines à écrire ou mécanismes d'impression sélective caractérisés par le procédé d'impression ou de marquage pour lequel ils sont conçus caractérisés par la mise en contact sélective d'un liquide ou de particules avec un matériau d'impression à jet d'encre
B41M 5/00 - Procédés de reproduction ou méthodes de reproduction ou de marquageMatériaux en feuilles utilisés à cet effet
B41M 5/50 - Feuilles d'enregistrement caractérisées par les revêtements utilisés pour améliorer la réceptivité aux encres, aux colorants ou aux pigments, p. ex. pour jet d'encre ou pour l'enregistrement par transfert thermique de colorants
Provided is a liquid jet head, including a flow path including a first member, a resin layer, and a second member, wherein the resin layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing an epoxy compound represented by General Formula (1), a polythiol compound having 2 or more thiol groups in a molecule thereof, and a specific imidazole compound, where in General Formula (1), L is an integer of 0 or greater but less than 3, m is a positive number of 0.1 or greater but less than 50, R1 represents any one of a hydrogen atom, and an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R2 represents a substituent represented by a formula below where R3 and R4 each represent any one of hydrogen atom, and a non-substituted or fluorine-substituted methyl group, and n is an integer of 4 to 12.
A processing apparatus includes a distance image acquirer, a moving-object detector, a background recognizer. The distance image acquirer acquires a distance image containing distance information of each pixel. The moving-object detector detects a moving object from the distance image. The background recognizer generates a background model in which a stationary object recognized as background of the moving object is modeled, from the distance image acquired by the distance image acquirer. The moving-objectdetector changes a method for detecting the moving object, based on a relative positional relation between the moving object and the back-groundmodel.
A sound absorbing device includes: a plurality of sound absorbing units. A frequency of sound absorbed by at least one of the sound absorbing units overlaps, at least partially, with a frequency of sound with a volume increased by installation of another sound absorbing unit.
A nozzle receiver is to be arranged in a powder container used in an image forming apparatus. The nozzle receiver includes a nozzle receiving opening, in which a conveying nozzle for conveying powder supplied from the powder container is inserted in the image forming apparatus; an opening/closing member to open and to close the nozzle receiving opening; and a supporter to support the opening/closing member. The opening/closing member includes a sealing portion to seal the nozzle insertion opening. The supporter includes an end surface portion perpendicular to a moving direction of the opening/closing member. The projection area of the end surface portion in the moving direction of the opening/closing member is smaller than a projection area of the sealing portion in the moving direction of the opening/closing member.
G03G 15/08 - Appareils pour procédés électrographiques utilisant un dessin de charge pour développer en utilisant un développateur solide, p. ex. développateur en poudre
A powder container used in an image forming apparatus. The powder container includes a rotatable powder storage that stores therein the powder for image formation, the rotatable powder storage to rotate about a rotation axis; an opening on one end of the powder storage, through which a nozzle of the image forming apparatus is to be inserted; and a scooping portion to scoop up powder on an opening side, and to supply the powder to a powder receiving hole of the nozzle when the powder storage rotates. The scooping portion includes a scooping surface that extends inwardly from an inner wall surface of the powder storage. The inner end portion of the scooping surface extends in a rotation axis direction of the powder storage. The edge of the inner end portion is approximately parallel to the rotation axis. In a cross-section perpendicular to the rotation axis, the scooping surface is inclined toward an upstream side in a rotation direction of the powder storage with respect to a virtual line that passes through the rotation axis and is tangent to the edge of the inner end portion.
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TONER, IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE
A toner including a binder resin and a release agent, wherein the toner has a second peak particle diameter in a range of from 1.21 times through 1.31 times as large as a most frequent diameter in a volume basis particle size distribution, and wherein the toner has a particle size distribution (volume average particle diameter/number average particle diameter) in a range of from 1.08 through 1.15.
A toner container includes a container body that is used to house a toner and that is detachably attachable to a mounting portion in a developing device; and an operating member that is used to open and close a shutter. The shutter as well as the operating member includes an engaging portion that can engage with a linking member which is disposed in the mounting portion and which can perform a reciprocating linear movement. In the state in which the container body is not mounted in the mounting portion, the shutter and the operating member are in a non-linked state with each other. In contrast, in the state in which the container body is mounted in the mounting portion, the shutter and the operating member become able to be linked to each other via the linking member.
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TONER CONTAINER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
A toner container includes a container body that is used to house a toner and that is detachably attachable to a mounting portion in a developing device; and an operating member that is used to open and close a shutter. The shutter as well as the operating member includes an engaging portion that can engage with a linking member which is disposed in the mounting portion and which can perform a reciprocating linear movement. In the state in which the container body is not mounted in the mounting portion, the shutter and the operating member are in a non-linked state with each other. In contrast, in the state in which the container body is mounted in the mounting portion, the shutter and the operating member become able to be linked to each other via the linking member.
Provided is [i] a toner including at least a colorant, a resin, and a releasing agent, wherein a spin-spin relaxation time (t2) of the toner at 90°C obtained by Hahn Echo method of pulse NMR analysis is from 1.80 msec to 7.00 msec. Also provided is [ii] a toner according to [i], wherein the spin-spin relaxation time (t2) of the toner at 90°C obtained by Hahn Echo method of pulse NMR analysis is from 3.80 msec to 5.90 msec.
88134783 ABSTRACT A powder container contains powder used for forming an image and is to be attached to an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes: a conveying nozzle to convey the powder; a powder receiving hole that is provided on the conveying nozzle and receives the powder from the powder container; an apparatus main-body gear to transmit a driving force to the powder container; and a container receiving section that is arranged around the conveying nozzle and receives the powder container. The powder container includes: an opening that is provided on one end of the powder container in a longitudinal direction; a nozzle receiver that is arranged in the opening and receives the conveying nozzle; a rotary conveyor that rotates to convey the powder to the powder receiving hole; and a container gear that is provided near the opening and drives the conveyor by meshing with the apparatus main-body gear. The container gear is arranged so as to mesh with the apparatus main-body gear at a position closer to the opening than the powder receiving hole in the longitudinal direction. The opening is to mate with the container receiving section. Date Recue/Date Received 2021-04-13
A powder container contains powder used for forming an image and is to be attached to an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes: a conveying nozzle to convey the powder; a powder receiving hole that is provided on the conveying nozzle and receives the powder from the powder container; an apparatus main-body gear to transmit a driving force to the powder container; and a container receiving section that is arranged around the conveying nozzle and receives the powder container. The powder container includes: an opening that is provided on one end of the powder container in a longitudinal direction; a nozzle receiver that is arranged in the opening and receives the conveying nozzle; a rotary conveyor that rotates to convey the powder to the powder receiving hole; and a container gear that is provided near the opening and drives the conveyor by meshing with the apparatus main-body gear. The container gear is arranged so as to mesh with the apparatus main-body gear at a position closer to the opening than the powder receiving hole in the longitudinal direction. The opening is to mate with the container receiving section.
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A light source device comprising: a light source section (1) which generates any one of blue light, red light, and green light; a phosphor (5) which generates a fluorescence including the two colors other than the color of the light emitted from the light source section (1); a color-changing section (10) which changes one of the two colors of the fluorescence emitted from the phosphor (5) to another color regularly and irradiates it to the image-forming element (13); and a light path-switching section (3) which switches a light path in which a fluorescence excited by the color light emitted from the light source section (1) passes towards the color-changing section (10) and a light path in which the color light emitted from the light source section (1) passes towards the image-forming element (13) regularly.
To provide a non-aqueous photopolymerizable composition, which contains: a polymerizable monomer; a polymerization initiator; and a polyether-modified polysiloxane compound represented by the following general formula (1): (CH3)3Si-O-[Si(CH3)2-O]a-[Si(CH3)(X)-O]b-Si(CH3)3 where X represents R(C2H4O)c(C3H6O)d-R', R is a single bond or an alkylene group, R' is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and a to d each denote an average polymerization degree including a case where either c or d is 0.
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PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE COMPOSITION, PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE INKJET INK, AND INK CARTRIDGE
To provide a non-aqueous photopolymerizable composition, which contains: a (meth)acrylic acid ester compound containing at least diethylene glycol dimethacrylate; a photoradical polymerization initiator, which is at least one selected from the group consisting of 1-hydroxy-cyclohexyl-phenyl-ketone, 2-hydroxy-2-methyl-1-phenyl-propan-1-one, and 2-hydroxy-1-{4-[4-(2-hydroxy-2-methyl-propionyl)benzyl]phenyl}-2-methyl-1-propan-1-one; and a triazine compound, wherein an amount of the photoradical polymerization initiator is 10 parts by mass or greater relative to 100 parts by mass of the (meth)acrylic acid ester compound.
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An illumination device(4) includes an excitation light source(10) which emits excitation light, a wavelength converter(14) which generates fluorescent light having a wavelength different from that of the excitation light through the excitation of the excitation light and a light path-splitting member(15) including a first filter and a second filter arranged to alternately come across a light path of the excitation light, wherein the first filter reflects one of the excitation light and the fluorescent light and transmits the other of the excitation light and the fluorescent light, the second filter transmits light reflected by the first filter and reflects light transmitted through the first filter, and the wavelength converter(14) is disposed in a reflection light path or a transmission light path of the excitation light.
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IMAGE INSPECTION APPARATUS, IMAGE INSPECTION SYSTEM AND IMAGE INSPECTION METHOD
An image inspection apparatus for checking an image printed on a recording medium comprising: a reference pixel obtaining unit configured to generate a reference image and obtain a first pixel value from the reference image; a print pixel obtaining unit configured to extract an image printed area and obtain a second pixel value from the image; an offset processing unit configured to add a non-image-printed area; and an image checking unit configured to compute a difference between the first image pixel value and the second image pixel value and detect an error when the difference is higher than a predetermined threshold value, wherein the non-image-printed area contains a third pixel value that is different from the first pixel value or the second pixel value, and the image checking unit suspends a determination whether or not there is an error in the image printed area associated with the non-image-printed area.
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The powder container includes a container body containing a powder for image formation, the powder being to be supplied to a powder replenishing device; a conveyor configured to convey the powder from one end in a longitudinal direction to the other end at which a cylindrical container opening is formed, the conveyor being provided inside the container body; a gear configured to rotate the conveyor with an external driving force; a container cover configured to cover the gear, the container cover having a gear exposing hole for partially exposing a gear tooth; and a nozzle receiver configured to guide the conveying nozzle inside of the container body, the nozzle receiver being provided on the container opening. The container cover includes a container engaged portion provided outer than the tooth of the gear in a radial direction.
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The powder container includes a container body containing a powder for image formation, the powder being to be supplied to a powder replenishing device; a conveyor configured to convey the powder from one end in a longitudinal direction to the other end at which a cylindrical container opening is formed, the conveyor being provided inside the container body; a gear configured to rotate the conveyor with an external driving force; a container cover configured to cover the gear, the container cover having a gear exposing hole for partially exposing a gear tooth; and a nozzle receiver configured to guide the conveying nozzle inside of the container body, the nozzle receiver being provided on the container opening. The container cover includes a container engaged portion provided outer than the tooth of the gear in a radial direction.
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The powder container includes a container body containing a powder for image formation, the powder being to be supplied to a powder replenishing device; a conveyor configured to convey the powder from one end in a longitudinal direction to the other end at which a cylindrical container opening is formed, the conveyor being provided inside the container body; a gear configured to rotate the conveyor with an external driving force; a container cover configured to cover the gear, the container cover having a gear exposing hole for partially exposing a gear tooth; and a nozzle receiver configured to guide the conveying nozzle inside of the container body, the nozzle receiver being provided on the container opening. The container cover includes a container engaged portion provided outer than the tooth of the gear in a radial direction.
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A toner, including: a binder resin; and a colorant, wherein the toner has a storage modulus of 1.0 x 107 Pa or more at 50°C, a loss modulus of 8.0 x 104 Pa to 2.0 x 105 Pa at 80°C, and a loss modulus of 2.0 x 102 Pa to 1.0 x 103 Pa at 160°C.
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IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DIVIDING IMAGE DATA INTO A FOREGROUND AREA AND A BACKGROUND AREA
An image processing apparatus is disclosed, including a modification part, a model creation part, and a division part. The modification part instructs modification of a portion of a foreground area or a background area which is erroneously divided as a result of dividing predetermined image data into the foreground area being an extraction target and the background area being an out-of-extraction target. The model creation part creates a foreground model of the foreground area and a background model of the background area which are modified, based on first pixel values of a predetermined line segment where the modification is instructed and second pixel values of the foreground area and the background area which are divided. The division part divides the image data into the foreground area and the background area by using the foreground model and the background model which are created by the model creation part.
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A toner, containing: toner base particles; and an external additive, the toner base particles each including a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the external additive includes non-spherical coalesced particles in each of which primary particles are coalesced together, and wherein the coalesced particles satisfy the following formula (1): Nx / 1,000 x 100 = 30% where Nx is a number of the primary particles present alone relative to 1,000 of the coalesced particles, as observed under a scanning electron microscope after stirring 0.5 g of the coalesced particles and 49.5 g of a carrier placed in a 50 mL bottle for 10 minutes by means of a mixing and stirring device at 67 Hz.
A non-aqueous photopolymerizable inkjet ink, including as a photopolymerizable monomer: (a) ethylene glycol dimethacrylate; and (b) caprolactone-modified dipentaerythritol hexaacrylate or ethylene oxide-modified trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate, or both thereof, wherein the ink includes the (a) component by 10% by mass to 95% by mass with respect to the entire photopolymerizable monomer, and the ink includes the (b) component by 5% by mass to 90% by mass with respect to the entire photopolymerizable monomer, and wherein the ink does not include a diluting solvent.
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A communication management system includes a storage unit configured to store therein destination information of a first communication terminal that establishes a first session with a relay device that relays communication data, destination information of a conversion system that performs mutual conversion between communication schemes of communication data transmitted from the first communication terminal and a second communication terminal and establishes a second session with the relay device, and destination information of the second communication terminal that establishes a third session with the conversion system; a receiving unit configured to receive start request information to start communication between the communication terminals from the first communication terminal; an extracting unit configured to extract destination information of each communication terminal and the conversion system stored in the storage unit, based on the received start request information; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the extracted destination information to the relay device.
A powder container is to be attached to a powder conveying device with a longitudinal direction of the powder container parallel to a horizontal direction. The powder conveying device includes a conveying nozzle, provided with a powder receiving opening to receive powder from the powder container, to convey the powder; an open/close member to open and close the powder receiving opening; a flange provided to the open/close member; a biasing member to bias the open/close member to close the powder receiving opening; and a container setting section to which a part of the powder container is to be fit. The powder container includes a conveyor, arranged inside the powder container, to convey the powder from a second end of the powder container to a first end along the longitudinal direction of the powder container; a container opening protruding from the first end of the power container; a nozzle receiving opening, provided in the container opening, into which the conveying nozzle provided to the powder conveying device is to be inserted; and a butting portion provided in the container opening, to butt against the flange so as to move the open/close member to open the powder receiving opening. When the powder container is attached to the powder conveying device, the container opening is fitted to the container setting section, and the flange and the biasing member are housed in an inner space of the container opening.
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A powder container is to be attached to a powder conveying device with a longitudinal direction of the powder container parallel to a horizontal direction. The powder conveying device includes a conveying nozzle, provided with a powder receiving opening to receive powder from the powder container., to convey the powder; an open/close member to open and close the powder receiving opening; a flange provided to the open/close member; a biasing member to bias the open/close member to close the powder receiving opening; and a container setting section to which a part of the powder container is to be fit. The powder container includes a conveyor, arranged inside the powder container, to convey the powder from a second end of the powder container to a first end along the longitudinal direction of the powder container; a container opening protruding from the first end of the power container; a nozzle receiving opening, provided in the container opening, into which the conveying nozzle provided to the powder conveying device is to be inserted; and a butting portion provided in.the container opening, to butt against the flange so as to move the open/close member to open the powder receiving opening. When the powder container is attached to the powder conveying device, the container opening is fitted to the container setting section, and the flange and the biasing member are housed in an inner space of the container opening.
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A toner including a non-crystalline polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin, wherein a tetrahydrofuran soluble component of the non-crystalline polyester resin has a weight-average molecular weight of 3,000 to 8,000 measured by gel permeation chromatography, and wherein the toner has a glass transition temperature A before an extraction process of the toner with methanol and a glass transition temperature B after the extraction process of the toner with methanol, and a difference between A and B (B - A) is 2.0°C or less.
A powder container is to be attached to a powder conveying device with a longitudinal direction of the powder container parallel to a horizontal direction. The powder conveying device includes a conveying nozzle, provided with a powder receiving opening to receive powder from the powder container, to convey the powder; an open/close member to open and close the powder receiving opening; a flange provided to the open/close member; a biasing member to bias the open/close member to close the powder receiving opening; and a container setting section to which a part of the powder container is to be fit. The powder container includes a conveyor, arranged inside the powder container, to convey the powder from a second end of the powder container to a first end along the longitudinal direction of the powder container; a container opening protruding from the first end of the power container; a nozzle receiving opening, provided in the container opening, into which the conveying nozzle provided to the powder conveying device is to be inserted; and a butting portion provided in the container opening, to butt against the flange so as to move the open/close member to open the powder receiving opening. When the powder container is attached to the powder conveying device, the container opening is fitted to the container setting section, and the flange and the biasing member are housed in an inner space of the container opening.
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A toner including: a core particle containing at least a binder resin, a colorant and a releasing agent; and a shell on a surface of the core particle, wherein the toner gives a supernatant having a transmittance of 50% to 95% with respect to light having a wavelength of 800 nm, where the supernatant is formed after 3 g of the toner is added to 40 g of ion-exchange water containing 0.5% by mass of sodium dodecyl sulfate, followed by stirring for 90 min and by irradiating with ultrasonic waves of 20 kHz and 80 W for 5 min, and a liquid containing the toner dispersed therein is centrifugated at 3,000 rpm for 5 min.
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DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
The developer container includes a rotator that is rotated in the container body, a sequence of gears disposed outside the developer container that transmits a torque to the rotator, and a container guiding portion that fits with a main body side guiding portion and guides the developer container in a direction in which the developer container is attached to a mounting portion of an image forming device main body. A first gear included in the sequence of the gears is movable between an operating position where the first gear engages with a second gear and a retracted position where the first gear is retracted. On a surface on which the container guiding portion is disposed, a part of the container guiding portion is disposed within a projected area of the first gear being disposed at the operating position.
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DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
The developer container includes a rotator that is rotated in the container body, a sequence of gears disposed outside the developer container that transmits a torque to the rotator, and a container guiding portion that fits with a main body side guiding portion and guides the developer container in a direction in which the developer container is attached to a mounting portion of an image forming device main body. A first gear included in the sequence of the gears is movable between an operating position where the first gear engages with a second gear and a retracted position where the first gear is retracted. On a surface on which the container guiding portion is disposed, a part of the container guiding portion is disposed within a projected area of the first gear being disposed at the operating position.
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DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
The developer container includes a rotator that is rotated in the container body, a sequence of gears disposed outside the developer container that transmits a torque to the rotator, and a container guiding portion that fits with a main body side guiding portion and guides the developer container in a direction in which the developer container is attached to a mounting portion of an image forming device main body. A first gear included in the sequence of the gears is movable between an operating position where the first gear engages with a second gear and a retracted position where the first gear is retracted. On a surface on which the container guiding portion is disposed, a part of the container guiding portion is disposed within a projected area of the first gear being disposed at the operating position.
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A removable device is detachably attached to an apparatus main body. The removable device comprises a container body to store developer; a discharge opening to discharge the developer inside the container body; a shutter to open and close the discharge opening, wherein the shutter is rotatably attached to the container body; a rotator to be rotationally driven in the container body; a gear to transmit a driving torque to the rotator; and a torque transmission gear that is movable between a first position in which the torque transmission gear is engaged with the gear and a second position in which the torque transmission gear is disengaged with the gear. The shutter is to be linked to movement of the torque transmission gear.
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DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
The developer container includes a rotator that is rotated in the container body, a sequence of gears disposed outside the developer container that transmits a torque to the rotator, and a container guiding portion that fits with a main body side guiding portion and guides the developer container in a direction in which the developer container is attached to a mounting portion of an image forming device main body. A first gear included in the sequence of the gears is movable between an operating position where the first gear engages with a second gear and a retracted position where the first gear is retracted. On a surface on which the container guiding portion is disposed, a part of the container guiding portion is disposed within a projected area of the first gear being disposed at the operating position.
A toner including: a binder resin; a releasing agent; and a colorant, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin and a non-crystalline polyester resin, wherein the releasing agent has an endothermic peak temperature of 60 °C to 80 °C at the second temperature rising in differential scanning calorimetry, and wherein the releasing agent is an ester wax which satisfies the following expressions (1) and (2): 1.1 Pas =?*a =2.0 PasExpression (1) 0.001=?*b/ ?*a=1.00 Expression (2) where in Expressions (1) and (2), ?*a denotes a complex viscosity (Pas) determined by measuring a dynamic viscoelasticity of the releasing agent at a measurement frequency of 6.28 rad/s, and ?*b denotes a complex viscosity (Pas) determined by measuring a dynamic viscoelasticity of the releasing agent at a measurement frequency of 62.8 rad/s.
An electrostatic image developing toner including: toner base particles each including a binder resin and a colorant; and an external additive, wherein the toner base particles each have protrusions on a surface thereof, an average of lengths of long sides of the protrusions is 0.1 µm or more but less than 0.5 µm, a standard deviation of the lengths of the long sides of the protrusions is 0.2 or less, a coverage rate of the protrusions on the surface of each toner base particle is 10% to 90%, and the external additive includes an external additive (A) which is fine inorganic particles each containing silicone oil.
Provided is a powder storage container capable of preventing erroneous opening of a powder loading port. The powder storage container includes a powder storage part (32Y2) configured to store a developer used for image forming, a powder discharge part (32Y1d) provided on one end part of the powder storage part to discharge the developer stored in the powder storage part, a gripping part (32Y1c) protruding through an end face of the one end part (32Y1) side of the powder storage part, a powder loading port (42) causing an inner space of the powder storage part and an outer portion of the powder storage part to communicate with each other, and a sealing member capable of sealing the powder loading port. The powder loading port is enclosed by the gripping part (32Y1c).
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A transmission management apparatus manages transmission states of a plurality of transmission terminals including a first transmission terminal and a second transmission terminal. The apparatus includes a terminal management table storage unit configured to store therein a terminal management table in which terminal information including an identifier and an identification name of each transmission terminal is managed; a receiving unit configured to receive a terminal information request signal from the first transmission terminal, the terminal information request signal indicating a request for information for identifying the second transmission terminal, the first and second transmission terminals being in transmission therebetween; a terminal state acquisition unit configured to acquire the information for identifying the second transmission terminal from the terminal management table in response to the terminal information request signal; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the information acquired by the terminal state acquisition unit to the first transmission terminal.
ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USING THE ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR
An electrophotographic photoconductor including: a conductive substrate; and at least a photoconductive layer on the conductive substrate, wherein an uppermost surface layer of the photoconductive layer includes a three-dimensionally crosslinked film formed through polymerization among compounds each containing a charge transporting compound and three or more [(tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yl)oxy]methyl groups where the charge transporting compound has one or more aromatic rings and the [(tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yl)oxy]methyl groups are bound to the aromatic rings of the charge transporting compound, wherein the polymerization starts after some of the [(tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-yl)oxy]methyl groups have been partially cleaved and eliminated, and wherein the three-dimensionally crosslinked film has an ionization potential of 5.4 or higher.
AbstractProvided is a powder container having a new structure capable of stable discharge and transport of a powder contained in a container by enabling the powder to be reliably discharged to the outside of the package while preventing the powder from spilling and flying out of the container. The powder container has a container body for transporting powder contained therein from a first end side to a second end side thereof by self-rotating; a nozzle receiver having a nozzle receiving hole (insertion section) arranged inside the second end side of the container body and configured to allow a transport nozzle having a powder receiving inlet to be inserted therein, and a supply port arranged in at least a part of the nozzle receiver and configured to supply the powder in the container body to the powder receiving inlet: and a shutter supported by the nozzle receiver and configured to open and close the nozzle receiving hole (insertion section) by sliding in response to insertion of the transport nozzle into the nozzle receiver.Date Recue/Date Received 2021-03-10
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POWDER CONTAINER, POWDER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
Provided is a powder container having a new structure capable of stable discharge and transport of a powder contained in a container by enabling the powder to be reliably discharged to the outside of the package while preventing the powder from spilling and flying out of the container. The powder container has a container body (138) for transporting powder contained therein from a first end side (138a) to a second end side (138b) thereof by self-rotating; a nozzle receiver (139) having a nozzle receiving hole (insertion section) (139a) arranged inside the second end side of the container body and configured to allow a transport nozzle (162) having a powder receiving inlet (170) to be inserted therein, and a supply port 139b arranged in at least a part of the nozzle receiver (139) and configured to supply the powder in the container body (138) to the powder receiving inlet (170): and a shutter (140) supported by the nozzle receiver 139 and configured to open and close the nozzle receiving hole (insertion section) 139a by sliding in response to insertion of the transport nozzle 162 into the nozzle receiver (139).
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POWDER CONTAINER, POWDER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
Provided is a powder container having a new structure capable of stable discharge and transport of a powder contained in a container by enabling the powder to be reliably discharged to the outside of the package while preventing the powder from spilling and flying out of the container. The powder container has a container body for transporting powder contained therein from a first end side to a second end side thereof by self-rotating; a nozzle receiver having a nozzle receiving hole (insertion section) arranged inside the second end side of the container body and configured to allow a transport nozzle having a powder receiving inlet to be inserted therein, and a supply port arranged in at least a part of the nozzle receiver and configured to supply the powder in the container body to the powder receiving inlet: and a shutter supported by the nozzle receiver and configured to open and close the nozzle receiving hole (insertion section) by sliding in response to insertion of the transport nozzle into the nozzle receiver.
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In an optical sensor, a light emission system emits an irradiated light of a linear polarization in a first polarization direction toward a surface of a target object having a sheet shape from an incident direction which is inclined with respect to a normal direction of the surface. A first light detection system includes a first light detector arranged on a first light path of a specular reflected light, which is emitted from the light emission system and is specularly reflected from the target object. A second light detection system includes a second light detector arranged on a second light path of a diffuse reflected light which is diffusely reflected from an incident plane on the target object. The second light detector receives second light passed by an optical element which passes a linear polarization component of a second polarization direction perpendicular to the first polarization direction.
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A toner including a binder resin containing an ester bond, and a releasing agent, wherein the releasing agent includes first C30-C50 alkyl monoester compound and second C30-C50 alkyl monoester compound, wherein the number of carbon atoms of the first C30-C50 alkyl monoester compound is different from that of the second C30-C50 alkyl monoester compound, wherein the amount of the first C30-C50 alkyl monoester compound is largest and the amount of the second C30-C50 alkyl monoester compound is second largest or same as the amount of the first C3OC50 alkyl monoester compound, wherein the amount of the first C30-C50 alkyl monoester compound is 30% by mass or more but less than 50% by mass to the releasing agent, and wherein the amount of the second C30-C50 alkyl monoester compound is 10% by mass or more but less than 50% by mass to the releasing agent.
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An electrophotographic photoconductor including a conductive support, a charge generating layer, a hole transporting layer, and a hole transporting-protective layer, these layers being laminated in this order on the conductive support, wherein the hole transporting-protective layer contains a three-dimensionally crosslinked product which is obtained through chain polymerization of at least a radical polymerizable hole-transporting compound by irradiating the radical polymerizable hole-transporting compound with an active energy beam, and wherein the hole transporting-protective layer contains an oxazole compound represented by General Formula (1) or (2) below:
Provided is a substrate in which a terminal that comes in contact with a body side terminal installed in an image forming apparatus to communicate information and a hole engaged with a protruding section installed in the image forming apparatus body are formed. An earth terminal engaged with a body side earth terminal formed in a protruding section of the image forming apparatus body is formed in the hole formed in the substrate.
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INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, REMOVABLE DEVICE, DEVELOPER CONTAINER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
Provided is a substrate in which a terminal that comes in contact with a body side terminal installed in an image forming apparatus to communicate information and a hole engaged with a protruding section installed in the image forming apparatus body are formed. An earth terminal engaged with a body side earth terminal formed in a protruding section of the image forming apparatus body is formed in the hole formed in the substrate.
Provided is a substrate in which a terminal that comes in contact with a body side terminal installed in an image forming apparatus to communicate information and a hole engaged with a protruding section installed in the image forming apparatus body are formed. An earth terminal engaged with a body side earth terminal formed in a protruding section of the image forming apparatus body is formed in the hole formed in the substrate.
Provided is a substrate in which a terminal that comes in contact with a body side terminal installed in an image forming apparatus to communicate information and a hole engaged with a protruding section installed in the image forming apparatus body are formed. An earth terminal engaged with a body side earth terminal formed in a protruding section of the image forming apparatus body is formed in the hole formed in the substrate.
A surface-emitting laser device includes a transparent dielectric layer provided in an emitting region and configured to cause a reflectance at a peripheral part to be different from a reflectance at a central part in the emitting region. In the surface-emitting laser device, the thickness of a contact layer is different between a region having a relatively high reflectance and a region having a relatively low reflectance in the emitting region. The contact layer is provided on the high refractive index layer of an upper multilayer film reflecting mirror, and the total optical thickness of the high refractive index layer and the contact layer in the region having the relatively low reflectance is deviated from an odd number multiple of a one quarter oscillation wavelength of laser light emitted from the emitting region.
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PROJECTION OPTICAL SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROJECTION DEVICE
A disclosed projection optical system projects images on a surface to be projected on. The projection optical system includes a first optical system including at least one refraction optical system and having positive power as a whole, a folding mirror, and a second optical system including at least one reflection surface having power and having positive power as a whole. Further the folding mirror folds a light path from the first optical system to the second optical system, and in a plane including an optical axis of the first optical system and a normal line of the surface to be projected on, the following conditional expressions (1) through (3) are satisfied (1) 0.43=d1, (2) 0.43=d2, and (3) 0.7=d2/d1=2.0.
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A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
A toner container includes a cap part that accommodates an opening of a main part and includes a bottom formed into a toner outlet for discharging toner from the opening of the main part downward in a vertical direction to a part outside the toner container, and a shutter member that is arranged to open or close the toner outlet by movement of the shutter member along an outer circumferential surface of the cap part. The cap part includes a non- compatible shape part disposed at a position on the outer circumferential surface of the cap part, the position being specific to a kind of the toner container to uniquely identify the kind of the toner container, the non-compatible shape part having a convex or concave shape, extending along the longitudinal direction and being arranged to confront from a position of a head end of the cap part in the longitudinal direction toward the main part.
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A toner container includes a cap part that accommodates an opening of a main part and includes a bottom formed into a toner outlet for discharging toner from the opening of the main part downward in a vertical direction to a part outside the toner container, and a shutter member that is arranged to open or close the toner outlet by movement of the shutter member along an outer circumferential surface of the cap part. The cap part includes a non-compatible shape part disposed at a position on the outer circumferential surface of the cap part, the position being specific to a kind of the toner container to uniquely identify the kind of the toner container, the non-compatible shape part having a convex or concave shape, extending along the longitudinal direction and being arranged to confront from a position of a head end of the cap part in the longitudinal direction toward the main part.
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A toner container includes a cap part that accommodates an opening of a main part and includes a bottom formed into a toner outlet for discharging toner from the opening of the main part downward in a vertical direction to a part outside the toner container, and a shutter member that is arranged to open or close the toner outlet by movement of the shutter member along an outer circumferential surface of the cap part. The cap part includes a non-compatible shape part disposed at a position on the outer circumferential surface of the cap part, the position being specific to a kind of the toner container to uniquely identify the kind of the toner container, the non-compatible shape part having a convex or concave shape, extending along the longitudinal direction and being arranged to confront from a position of a head end of the cap part in the longitudinal direction toward the main part.
86617515 ABSTRACT A toner container includes a cap part that accommodates an opening of a main part and includes a bottom formed into a toner outlet for discharging toner from the opening of the main part downward in a vertical direction to a part outside the toner container, and a shutter member that is arranged to open or close the toner outlet by movement of the shutter member along an outer circumferential surface of the cap part. The cap part includes a non-compatible shape part disposed at a position on the outer circumferential surface of the cap part, the position being specific to a kind of the toner container to uniquely identify the kind of the toner container, the non-compatible shape part having a convex or concave shape, extending along the longitudinal direction and being arranged to confront from a position of a head end of the cap part in the longitudinal direction toward the main part. Date recu/Date Received 2020-07-07
A toner container that is detachably attached to a main body of an image forming apparatus such that a longitudinal direction of the toner container is parallel to a horizontal direction includes: a cylindrical container body that has an opening on one end thereof in the longitudinal direction, and is configured to convey toner contained therein toward the opening; a cap portion into which the opening of the container body is inserted, and which includes a toner outlet at a bottom portion thereof for discharging toner discharged from the opening of the container body to the outside of the toner container in a vertically downward direction; and a shutter member that is held on the bottom portion of the cap portion, and moves along an outer periphery of the cap portion to thereby open and close the toner outlet, wherein the cap portion is formed by integral molding.
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TONER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE
A toner including a binder resin, a colorant and protruding portions on a surface of the toner, wherein the average length of long sides of the protruding portions is 0.1 µm or greater, but less than 0.5 µm, wherein the standard deviation of the lengths of the long sides of the protruding portions is 0.2 or less, and wherein the protruding portions have a coverage of 30% to 90%.
A cap section is provided with shutter rails for guiding a shutter member so that the shutter member opens and closes a toner discharge opening, and the shutter rails are provided on two vertical surfaces which respectively rise upward from both side edges of the bottom surface in which the toner discharge opening is formed. The two vertical surfaces are formed continuously to a position at which the shutter member protrudes in the longitudinal direction from the end in the closing direction of the shutter member which is located at a position at which the shutter member closes the toner discharge opening. The configuration provides a toner container and an image forming device which are configured in such a manner that the toner container can be mounted in the image forming device body effectively using the mounting space, can be easily operated and set in the image forming device body, and, even if the toner container is configured so that the toner contained in the toner container is discharged from the discharge opening by the own weight of the toner, the contained toner is not scattered to the outside when the toner container is mounted to or removed from the device body.
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ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTOCONDUCTOR, PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE
An electrophotographic photoconductor having a photosensitive layer and a crosslinked resin surface layer over a support, wherein shapes of concaves and convexes in a surface of the electrophotographic photoconductor are measured by a surface roughness/profile measuring device to obtain one-dimensional data arrays, the arrays are subjected to multiresolutionanalysis (MRA-1) through wavelet transformationto be separated into six frequency components including HHH, HHL, HMH, HML, HLH and HLL to obtain one-dimensional data arrays, the arrays of the HHL are thinned out to be reduced 1/10 to 1/100, thereby producing one-dimensional data arrays, which are then subjected to multiresolution analysis (MRA-2) through wavelet transformation to be separated into six frequency components including LHH, LHL, LMH, LML, LLH and LLL to thereby obtain 12 frequency components in total; and a center-line average roughness (WRa) of the 12 frequency components satisfies relationship (i) below. 1 - 597 X WRa (HML) + 238 X WRa (HLH) - 95 X WR a (LHL) + 84 X WRa (LMH) - 79 X WRa(LML) + 55 X WRa(LLH) - 17 X WRa(LLL) > O---(i)
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METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARRIER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPER, CARRIER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPER, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD
A method for producing a carrier, includinga step of periodically forming and discharging liquid dropletsof a carrier core composition liquid from a plurality of nozzlesformed in a thin film, using a liquid droplet forming unithaving the thin film and a ring-shaped vibration generating unitdisposed in a deformable area of the thin film so as to be alonga circumference of the area and to vibrate the thin film, a stepof forming carrier core particles by solidifying the dischargedliquid droplets, and a step of coating the carrier core particleswith a resin layer.
A black developer is conveyed in a first conveyance chamber in a rotation axis direction while agitating with rotation of a first screw member. A black-toner-concentration detecting sensor detects a toner concentration of the black developer by having contact with the black developer conveyed inside the first conveyance chamber. An average of peak amounts of a pressing force on the black developer, which is conveyed inside the first conveyance chamber by the first screw member, with respect to the black toner-concentration detecting sensor is set within a range of 9.8 15 [N/m2] to 9.8 100 [N/m2].
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DEVELOPER CARRYING DEVICE, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
A pressing wall is provided in a part of the entire area of the first carrying chamber in which a first screw member is housed. The area is opposed to a bottom wall of the first carrying chamber on the lower side in the gravity direction of the first screw member and opposed to the side walls of the first carrying chamber on both lateral sides orthogonal to a rotation axis direction of the first screw member. In the area, a toner concentration of a K developer being carried is detected by a K toner concentration sensor. The pressing wall comes into contact with, from above in the gravity direction, the K developer, which moves from a lower side to an upper side in the gravity direction according to the rotation of the first screw member, and presses the K developer downward in the gravity direction.
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ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE
To provide a toner including: toner particles which comprise: a colorant, a releasing agent, and a binder resin, wherein the number average particle diameter of the toner particles is in the range of from 3.5 .mu.m to 6.5 .mu.m where the number average particle diameter (D1) is determined by the Coulter method, the variation coefficient of the number distribution of the toner particles is in the range of 22.0 to 35.0 where the variation coefficient is found by dividing the standard deviation of the number distribution by the number average particle diameter (D1), and 40% by number to 59% by number of the toner particles are in 4.0 .mu.m to 8.0 .mu.m in diameter.
To provide an image forming apparatus including: a latent electrostatic image bearing member; a charging unit configured to charge the surface of the latent electrostatic image bearing member; an exposing unit configured to expose the charged surface of the latent electrostatic image to form a latent electrostatic image thereon; a developing unit configured to develop the latent electrostatic image with a toner to form a visualized image; a transferring unit configured to transfer the visualized image onto a recording medium; and a fixing unit configured to fix the visualized image transferred onto the recording medium, wherein the toner includes a binder resin and a coloring agent, and the binder resin includes a polyester resin obtained by condensation polymerization of an alcohol component and a carboxylic acid component containing a (meth)acrylic acid modified rosin.
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TONER, VESSEL WITH THE TONER, DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD
Toner and a developer which are excellent in cleaning property and fixing property at low temperature, and capable of forming images with high quality are provided. A toner prepared by dispersing and/or emulsifying an oil phase or a monomer phase comprising a toner composition and/or a toner composition precursor in a water- based medium to granulate, wherein the toner has an average circularity of 0.925 to 0.970, and the toner composition and/or the toner composition precursor has a layered inorganic material in which at least a part of interlayer ions in the layered inorganic material has been exchanged with organic ions.
An insertion passage 104Y for inserting a suction nozzle 73Y fixed to an image forming apparatus is provided on a holder 102Y, and a connecting passage 114Y that connects the insertion passage 104Y and a toner storage section 106Y of the holder 102Y is provided. After the toner sent from bottle 101Y to the holder 102Y falls towards the connecting passage 104Y, the toner flows into the suction nozzle 73Y through the connecting passage 114Y and is then discharged out of the holder 102Y. An airtightness between the insertion passage 114Y and the suction nozzle 73Y inserted into the insertion passage 114 Y is superior than an airtightness between the bottle 101Y and the holder 102Y engaged with the bottle 101Y.
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