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20090003902 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND PRESSURE ROLLER USED FOR IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - A pressure roller forming a nip portion for contacting to a heating member to pinch and convey and heat recording material includes: a core metal and an elastic layer containing filler, the elastic layer containing the filler including thermal conductive filler with length of not less than 0.05 mm and not more than 1 mm and with thermal conductivity λ | 01-01-2009 |
20090116886 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND PRESSURE ROLLER THEREIN - A pressure member contacts with a heating member | 05-07-2009 |
20110062140 | HEATER AND IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - To provide a heater that can reduce fixing failure in a paper passing area while suppressing a temperature rise in a sheet non-passing area, and a fixing apparatus including the heater. | 03-17-2011 |
20110091252 | PRESSING MEMBER AND IMAGE HEATING MEMBER USING THE PRESSING MEMBER - A pressing member for creating a nip in which the pressing member contacts a heating member and a recording material is heated while being nip-conveyed, includes an elastic layer and a high thermal conductive elastic layer which is provided on the elastic layer and has a thermal conductivity which is higher than that of the elastic layer. In the high thermal conductive elastic layer, a needle-like thermal conductivity-anisotropic filler and carbon nanofibers are dispersed in a heat-resistant elastic material. | 04-21-2011 |
20110217092 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS, PRESSURE ROLLER TO BE USED IN THE IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR THE PRESSURE ROLLER - The image heating apparatus includes a rubber layer and a resin tube layer on a metal core. The rubber layer includes a solid rubber layer having a thermal conductivity in a thickness direction of 0.16 W/(m·K) or more and 0.40 W/(m·K) or less, and a self-bonded silicone rubber layer that contains a filler of 5 vol % or more and 40 vol % or less, and has a thermal conductivity in an axial direction of 2.5 W/(m·K) or more and a thickness of 0.5 mm or more and 5.0 mm or less, the filler having a length of 0.05 mm or more and 1 mm or less and a thermal conductivity in a length direction of 500 W/(m·K) or more, so that a pressure roller to moderate temperature rise in a non-sheet feeding area when a small sized recording material has undergone sheet feeding can be easily manufactured. | 09-08-2011 |
20110237413 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND PRESSURE ROLLER USED FOR IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - A pressure roller forming a nip portion for contacting to a heating member to pinch and convey and heat recording material includes: a core metal and an elastic layer containing filler, the elastic layer containing the filler including thermal conductive filler with length of not less than 0.05 mm and not more than 1 mm and with thermal conductivity λ | 09-29-2011 |
20120014726 | PRESSING ROLLER AND IMAGE HEATING DEVICE USING THE PRESSING ROLLER - A pressing roller includes a core metal and an elastic layer containing a needle-like filler which has an average length of 0.05 mm or more and 1 mm or less and a thermal conductivity of 500 W/(m.k) or more. In the elastic layer, pore portions are dispersed. | 01-19-2012 |
20120121285 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit, and a power control unit. The image forming unit forms an unfixed image on a recording material. The fixing unit includes an endless belt, a heater held in contact with the endless belt, a pressurization roller to form a fixing nip portion for pinching and conveying the recording material together with the heater via the endless belt, and a pressure changing mechanism to effect switching between a pressurization state and a pressure release state. The power control unit controls power to the heater. In response to transitioning from the pressure release state to the pressurization state, the power control unit starts power to the heater during a transition period before the pressurization state is attained and controls power to the heater such that a heater temperature does not exceed a predetermined upper limit temperature during the transition period. | 05-17-2012 |
20120195654 | FIXING ROTATING MEMBER AND FIXING DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A fixing rotating member configured to, together with a pressure member, pinch and transport a recording material carrying an image includes a base material and a releasing layer, wherein the releasing layer is made of at least one fluorine resin selected from among tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, and tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene copolymer, the fluorine resin containing at least one type of polymer selected from among polyvinylidene fluoride, polyacrylonitrile, and polymethyl methacrylate, and monomer electrolyte. | 08-02-2012 |
20120195657 | PRESSURE ROLLER AND FIXING DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A pressure roller for use in a fixing device includes a core metal, an elastic layer, and a releasing layer. The releasing layer is made of at least one fluorine resin selected from among tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, and tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene copolymer. The fluorine resin contains at least one polymer selected from among polyvinylidene fluoride, polyacrylonitrile, and polymethyl methacrylate, and monomer electrolyte. | 08-02-2012 |
20120195658 | PRESSURE ROLLER AND FIXING DEVICE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A pressure roller for use in a fixing device includes a core metal, an elastic layer, a releasing layer, and an adhesive layer configured to cause the elastic layer and the releasing layer to adhere to each other, wherein the adhesive layer contains monomer electrolyte. | 08-02-2012 |
20120257913 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND PRESSURE ROLLER USED FOR IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - A pressure roller forms a nip for contacting a heating member to pinch and convey a heat recording material. The roller includes a core metal and an elastic layer containing filler. The elastic layer containing the filler includes thermal conductive filler with a length of not less than 0.05 mm and not more than 1 mm with a thermal conductivity λ | 10-11-2012 |
20120269560 | ROLLER FOR FIXING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS HAVING ROLLER FOR IMAGE FIXING APPARATUS - A roller for a fixing device includes a foam layer; an elastic layer containing a thermo-conductive filler and provided outside of the foam layer; a middle layer provided between the foam layer and elastic layer; wherein a content of all filler in the middle layer is smaller than a content of all filler in the elastic layer. | 10-25-2012 |
20120308280 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND HEATER USED IN THE APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes: an endless belt; a heater, contacted to a surface of the endless belt, provided so that a longitudinal direction thereof is parallel to a generating line direction of the endless belt; and a pressing member for forming a nip together with the endless belt. The heater includes: an elongated substrate; a first heat generating line, provided on the substrate along a longitudinal direction of the substrate, including first heat generating resistors having a negative temperature coefficient of resistance and being electrically connected in series; and a second heat generating line, provided on the substrate along the longitudinal direction of the substrate, electrically connected to the first heat generating line in parallel. The second heat generating line includes a plurality of second heat generating resistors having the negative temperature coefficient of resistance and being electrically connected in series. | 12-06-2012 |
20130108306 | HEATER AND IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE HEATER | 05-02-2013 |
20140003848 | HEATER AND IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME | 01-02-2014 |
20140037348 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND HEATER USED IN THE APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes: an endless belt; a heater, contacted to a surface of the endless belt, provided so that a longitudinal direction thereof is parallel to a generating line direction of the endless belt; and a pressing member for forming a nip together with the endless belt. The heater includes: an elongated substrate; a first heat generating line, provided on the substrate along a longitudinal direction of the substrate, including first heat-generating resistors having a negative temperature coefficient of resistance and being electrically connected in series; and a second heat generating line, provided on the substrate along the longitudinal direction of the substrate, electrically connected to the first heat generating line in parallel. The second heat generating line includes a plurality of second heat-generating resistors having the negative temperature coefficient of resistance and being electrically connected in series. | 02-06-2014 |
20140169845 | FIXING DEVICE AND HEATER USED IN FIXING DEVICE - A heater used for a fixing device includes a substrate, first and second conductor patterns formed at either end of the substrate in the short direction of the substrate, a third conductor pattern formed between the first and second conductor patterns and separated from the two conductor patterns, a first heating member disposed between the first and third conductor patterns and electrically connected to the two conductor patterns, and a second heating member disposed between the second and third conductor patterns and electrically connected to the conductor patterns. The heater has both end regions in which the widths of the third conductor pattern in the short direction is smaller than that of a middle portion of the third conductor pattern. The widths of the first and second heating members in the end regions are smaller than the widths of the first and second heating members in the other region, respectively. | 06-19-2014 |
20140356040 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC MEMBER AND HEAT FIXING ASSEMBLY - The present invention is directed to providing an electrophotographic member including a conductive elastic layer having high thermal insulation properties and excellent dimensional stability. The electrophotographic member having an elastic layer which includes a plurality of voids derived from resin microballoons connected to and made open to each other and contains an ion conducting agent. | 12-04-2014 |
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20100103801 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME, OPTICAL RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS USING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CORRECTING ABERRATION USING THE SAME - Provided is an objective lens for which expressions 0.83<(p | 04-29-2010 |
20100113859 | METHOD OF ASBESTOS DETOXIFICATION AND AQUEOUS SOLUTION FOR ASBESTOS DETOXIFICATION - A method of asbestos detoxification in which an asbestos-containing waste material in any form is made harmless while preventing asbestos particles or dust from flying or scattering. The asbestos content can be easily reduced in a short time to 0.1 wt. % or lower, which is prescribed by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. The waste can be perfectly made harmless. Also provided is an aqueous solution for asbestos detoxification which is for use in the method. The method of asbestos detoxification comprises: bringing an asbestos-containing waste material into contact with an aqueous treating solution containing at least one fluoride ion source selected from the group consisting of the fluorides of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, and ammonia and hydrofluoric acid and further containing at least one mineral acid selected from the group consisting of hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, and nitric acid so that the aqueous treating solution has a pH of 1 or lower; and allowing the resultant mixture to stand or stirring it while adding the mineral acid so as to keep the pH of the aqueous treating solution at 1 or lower. Thus, the asbestos in the asbestos-containing waste material is made harmless. | 05-06-2010 |
20100130806 | Method of treating asbestos-containing waste material - A method of asbestos treatment in which an asbestos-containing waste material of arbitrary configuration can be detoxified completely and safely. The method of asbestos treatment comprises impregnating an asbestos-containing waste material with an acid so as to cause at least the asbestos at the surface of the waste material to be nonasbestous and further treating the treatment product in a cement production plant. In particular, the treatment in a cement production plant is a fusion treatment by means of a cement kiln. Therefore, not only can the asbestos-containing waste material be detoxified completely and safely but also a cement reusing the waste material can be produced. | 05-27-2010 |
20130094339 | OBJECTIVE LENS, OPTICAL PICKUP DEVICE, AND OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - Provided is an objective lens including a diffraction portion provided on a laser beam incident plane or output plane. The diffraction portion includes first second, and third diffraction regions, wherein first laser beams corresponding to a first optical disc having a first transmissive layer are condensed on a data recording portion of the first optical disc, second laser beams corresponding to a second optical disc having a second transmissive layer thicker than the first transmissive layer are condensed on a data recording portion of the second optical disc, and third laser beams corresponding to a third optical disc having a third transmissive layer thicker than the second transmissive layer are condensed on a data recording portion of the third optical disc. An evaluation parameter calculated on the basis of an in-plane efficiency distribution function has a value corresponding to a symbol error rate that is less than a predetermined value. | 04-18-2013 |
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20100008113 | SEMICONDUCTOR POWER CONVERSION DEVICE - A surge voltage target setting unit ( | 01-14-2010 |
20120032521 | NON-CONTACT ELECTRIC POWER FEEDING EQUIPMENT AND NON-CONTACT ELECTRIC POWER FEEDING SYSTEM - Electric power feeding equipment and an electric power receiving device include a primary self resonant coil and a secondary self resonant coil coil, respectively, resonating through an electromagnetic field to allow the electric power feeding equipment to feed the electric power receiving device with electric power in a non-contact manner. A control device sets a frequency range for a spread spectrum, as based on an S-parameter S | 02-09-2012 |
20120098348 | NON-CONTACT ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLYING EQUIPMENT, NON-CONTACT ELECTRIC POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, AND NON-CONTACT ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLYING SYSTEM - Electric power supplying equipment and an electric power receiving device include a primary self resonant coil and a secondary self resonant coil, respectively, resonating through an electromagnetic field to allow the electric power supplying equipment to supply the electric power receiving device with electric power in a non-contact manner. A control device controls a high frequency electric power supply device to control supplying electric power from the primary self resonant coil to the secondary self resonant coil. The control device estimates a distance between the primary self resonant coil and the secondary self resonant coil from an S-parameter S | 04-26-2012 |
20130009650 | VOLTAGE DETECTOR, MALFUNCTION DETECTING DEVICE, CONTACTLESS POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, CONTACTLESS POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, AND VEHICLE - A voltage detector for detecting a voltage generated in a second resonant coil that is disposed to face a first resonant coil and that performs at least one of electric power transmission and electric power reception to and from the first resonant coil in a contactless manner by means of electromagnetic resonance includes: a first high-impedance element having one end connected to one end of the second resonant coil; a second high-impedance element having one end connected to the other end of the second resonant coil; a low-impedance element connected between the other end of the first high-impedance element and the other end of the second high-impedance element and having an impedance smaller than each of those of the first and second high-impedance elements; and an output terminal for outputting a signal associated with a voltage applied across the low-impedance element. | 01-10-2013 |
20130038281 | COIL UNIT, NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMISSION DEVICE, NON-CONTACT POWER RECEPTION DEVICE, NON-CONTACT POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE - A coil unit performs at least one of transmission and reception of electric power using electromagnetic resonance between the coil unit and a primary resonance coil disposed to face the coil unit. The coil unit includes a secondary resonance coil that includes a plurality of coils, and that electromagnetically resonates with the primary resonance coil. A first coil among the plurality of coils is disposed in a manner such that a magnetic field generated by the first coil has a phase opposite to a phase of a magnetic field generated by at least one coil other than the first coil among the plurality of coils, with respect to a plane that faces the primary resonance coil. | 02-14-2013 |
20130063983 | POWER CONVERTER ENABLING SUPPRESSION OF MAGNETIC FLUX BIAS IN A TRANSFORMER OF THE CONVERTER - In an electrical power converter, an input circuit performs switching for converting a supply voltage of a power source to alternating-polarity voltage pulses which are applied to the primary winding of a transformer. Each voltage pulse is controlled (e.g., pulse width or amplitude is adjusted) based on a detected value of current flow in the primary winding, where the value has been detected an even-numbered plurality of voltage pulses previously. Any DC component of current flow in the primary winding, caused by manufacturing deviations between switching elements in the input circuit, can thereby be suppressed, and DC flux bias in the transformer thereby suppressed. | 03-14-2013 |
20140103711 | CONTACTLESS POWER RECEIVING DEVICE, VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME, CONTACTLESS POWER TRANSMITTING DEVICE, AND CONTACTLESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM - A resonance coil of a vehicle resonates with a resonance coil of a power transmitting device via an electromagnetic field to thereby receive alternating-current power output from the resonance coil in a noncontact manner. An inverter receives the alternating-current power, received by the resonance coil, from an electromagnetic induction coil, converts the alternating-current power to direct-current power and outputs the direct-current power to a power line. In addition, the inverter converts direct-current power, received from the power line, to alternating-current power and outputs the alternating-current power to the electromagnetic induction coil in order to output electric power from the resonance coil to the resonance coil of the power transmitting device, and electric power is supplied to the resonance coil by the electromagnetic induction coil. | 04-17-2014 |
20140175868 | ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY APPARATUS, CONTACTLESS ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, VEHICLE, AND CONTACTLESS ELECTRIC POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM - An electric power supply apparatus includes a choke coil, a switching element, a resonance circuit and a compensation circuit. The parasitic capacitance of the switching element is larger than a predetermined capacitance needed for realizing class E zero-voltage switching. The compensation circuit is connected in parallel with the switching element. The compensation circuit includes a coil and a capacitor, and has inductive impedance. | 06-26-2014 |