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20140148680 | Laser source unit, control method thereof, photoacoustic image generation apparatus and photoacoustic image generation method - A pulse laser beam is emitted in a desired wavelength sequence using a laser light source unit. A Q switch and a birefringent filter are inserted into an optical resonator including a pair of mirrors and facing each other with a laser rod interposed therebetween. The birefringent filter changes an oscillation wavelength of the optical resonator in association with rotational displacement. The rotation control unit rotates the birefringent filter at a predetermined rotation speed depending on the number of wavelengths included in the wavelength sequence of the pulse laser beam to be emitted. An emission control unit irradiates the laser rod with excitation light, and then turns on the Q switch at a timing when a rotational-displacement-position of the birefringent filter is set to a position corresponding to the wavelength of the pulse laser beam to be emitted, to cause the pulse laser beam to be emitted. | 05-29-2014 |
20140148681 | Photoacoustic image generation apparatus and acoustic wave unit - A pulse laser beam is emitted in a desired wavelength sequence using a laser source unit. A Q switch and a birefringent filter are inserted into an optical resonator including a pair of mirrors and facing each other with a laser rod interposed therebetween. The birefringent filter changes an oscillation wavelength of the optical resonator in association with rotational displacement. A trigger control circuit rotates the birefringent filter at a predetermined rotation speed depending on the number of wavelengths included in the wavelength sequence of the pulse laser beam to be emitted. In addition, the trigger control circuit irradiates the laser rod with excitation light, and turns on the Q switch at a timing when a rotational displacement position of the birefringent filter is set to a position corresponding to the wavelength of the pulse laser beam to be emitted, to cause the pulse laser beam to be emitted. | 05-29-2014 |
20140148682 | Photoacoustic image generation apparatus and acoustic wave unit - Using a laser source unit, pulse laser beams having a plurality of wavelengths is switched and emitted. A Q switch is inserted into an optical resonator including a pair of mirrors which face each other with a laser rod interposed therebetween. A wavelength selection unit includes a plurality of band pass filters having different transmission wavelengths, and selectively inserts the plurality of band pass filters into a light path of the optical resonator. A trigger control circuit controls driving unit that drives the wavelength selection unit so that the band pass filters inserted into the light path of the optical resonator are switched at a predetermined switching speed. In addition, the trigger control circuit causes the laser rod to be irradiated with excitation light from a flash lamp, and then turns on the Q switch at a timing when the wavelength selection unit inserts the band pass filter. | 05-29-2014 |
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20080199210 | Developing device - A developing device comprises: a housing that stores developer; a developing roll that is rotatably supported in the housing and has a developing region with a roughened surface that supplies developer to an image region of an image holding member; a step portion that is formed at both sides of the developing region of the developing roll and whose diameter is smaller than that of the developing region; and a seal member that contacts a region of the step portion that is opposite to the image holding member. | 08-21-2008 |
20110222918 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, ASSEMBLY BODY, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes: a first-developer-holding-member facing a surface of a rotating latent image carrier, it rotating such that a moving direction thereof is opposite to that of the carrier at a portion where they face; a second-developer-holding-member provided at a downstream-side of the first-developer-holding-member in a direction in which the carrier rotates, and facing the surface of the carrier, it rotating such that a moving direction thereof is the same as that of the carrier at a portion where they face; a ratio of circumferential speeds of the first-developer-holding-member and the second-developer-holding-member being variable; a splitting member that splits a developer for the first-developer-holding-member and the second-developer-holding-member by hitting against the developer located between the first-developer-holding-member and the second-developer-holding-member; a moving unit that moves the splitting member; and a control unit that controls the moving unit to move the splitting member to vary split ratio of the developer. | 09-15-2011 |
20110229215 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, ASSEMBLY, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a first developing member that rotates in a manner such that a moving direction of a portion opposing the image carrier is opposite a moving direction of the image carrier, a second developing member provided on a downstream side of the first developing member in a rotating direction of the image carrier and rotates in a manner such that a moving direction of a portion opposing the image carrier is the same as the moving direction of the image carrier, a distributing member supported movably relative to a proximal portion where the first developing member is closest to the second developing member so as to distribute developer to the first and second developing members by contact with the developer, and an a biasing member that biases the distributing member upstream in the rotating direction of the first developing member. | 09-22-2011 |
20110242714 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - A semiconductor integrated circuit device of the invention can reduce a manufacturing cost and achieve size reduction without degrading performances. The semiconductor integrated circuit device includes an internal circuit and at least one input/output circuit. Each input/output circuit is adapted to feed an input signal from outside to the internal circuit and to output an output signal from the internal circuit to the outside. The semiconductor integrated circuit device also includes at least one first power source terminal. Each first power source terminal is associated with each input/output circuit for supplying a drive voltage to the internal circuit. The semiconductor integrated circuit device also includes at lease one second power source terminal. Each second power source terminal is associated with each input/output circuit for supplying a drive voltage to the associated input/output circuit. The semiconductor integrated circuit device also includes at least one common ground terminal. Each common ground terminal is associated with each input/output circuit for supplying a common ground voltage to the internal circuit and the associated input/output circuit. The first power source terminal, second power source terminal and common ground terminal for each input/output circuit are arranged next to each other to define a unit terminal group. | 10-06-2011 |
20130164042 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A developing device includes first and second developer carriers facing each other in a facing region, a regulating member that regulates a layer thickness of developer, and a separation member. The first and second developer carriers respectively include first and second magnetic members that are respectively magnetized with first and second facing magnetic poles having opposite polarities. The separation member separates the developer so that the developer is supplied toward the first and second developer carriers. The separation member is disposed such that distances between the separation member and the first and second developer carriers are the smallest in a region in which a magnitude of a combined magnetic field of the first and second magnetic poles locally decreases as compared with a case where at least one of the first and second developer carriers is independently disposed due to interaction between the first and second facing magnetic poles. | 06-27-2013 |
20130195501 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A developing device includes : a first developing body that develops a developing agent image on a development surface using a developing agent; a second developing body that develops a developing agent image on the development surface using the developing agent; and a sealing member that is disposed between a region where a first delivery pole and a second delivery pole are opposed to each other and the development surface, and adjacently to the first developing body and the second developing body at distances so small that developing agents formed as magnetic brushes on a first conveyance pole and a second conveyance pole respectively can touch the sealing member to secure sealing to prevent the developing agent from leaking to the outside of a device body. | 08-01-2013 |
20140193176 | DEVELOPER-AGITATING TRANSPORTER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer-agitating transporter includes helical blades that helically extend around a rotation shaft, the helical blades being arranged at different positions in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the rotation shaft; and a gap portion that divides each helical blade into a first blade portion and a second blade portion, which oppose each other across the gap portion, so that the helical blade is discontinuous in a direction in which the helical blade extends. The gap portion causes the first blade portion and the second blade portion to be arranged at a certain angular interval in a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft, and at least one surface of adjacent ones of the helical blades that are adjacent in the circumferential direction of the rotation shaft has a sloped area that is sloped at an angle that changes with respect to an axial direction of the rotation shaft. | 07-10-2014 |
20140235415 | TRANSPORTING MEMBER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A transporting member includes multiple helical blades that helically extend around a rotation shaft and that have an upstream-side blade and a downstream-side blade, an end portion of the upstream-side blade and an end portion of the downstream-side blade overlapping in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the rotation shaft, the multiple helical blades transporting an object in the axial direction via rotation of the rotation shaft; a gap portion that divides the upstream-side blade and the downstream-side blade, the upstream-side blade and the downstream-side blade being arranged at a certain angular interval in a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft; and a regulating portion that regulates an amount of the object that passes through a space between the upstream-side blade and the downstream-side blade in a direction in which the object is transported. | 08-21-2014 |
20140286681 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a sleeve and a magnet roller having first and second magnetic poles, the second magnetic pole being disposed downstream of the first magnetic pole. A magnetic attraction distribution on the sleeve in a region from the first magnetic pole to the second magnetic pole is such that the magnetic attraction decreases from a position of the first magnetic pole toward the downstream side, a gradient of change in the magnetic attraction decreases in a region downstream of a region in which a gradient of reduction in the magnetic attraction temporarily increases, thereby forming an attraction reduction region in which the magnetic attraction is reduced so that developer cannot be held on the sleeve, and the gradient of change in the magnetic attraction increases in a region downstream of the attraction reduction region so that the magnetic attraction increases to a position of the second magnetic pole. | 09-25-2014 |
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20090014915 | METHOD FOR FEEDING MOLTEN RESIN MASS AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method of feeding a molten resin mass, which is capable of causing a molten resin mass to fall down into a female mold for compression molding without delay in the timing from a cylindrical transfer guide that cuts a portion of a molten resin extruded from a die head of an extruder and transfers it to a female mold for compression forming, and an apparatus therefor. The apparatus for feeding the molten resin mass has a cylindrical transfer guide which transfers a molten resin mass obtained by cutting a predetermined amount of a molten resin extruded from a die head of an extruder to a female mold for compression molding, wherein the transfer guide is provided with vibration-generating means for imparting vibration to the transfer guide. In the method of feeding the molten resin mass, the pressure in the cylindrical transfer guide is set to be higher than the pressure in the female mold for compression molding. | 01-15-2009 |
20090020903 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FEEDING MOLTEN RESIN, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MOLDED ARTICLE BY USING THE FED MOLTEN RESIN - A method and a device for feeding a molten resin capable of accurately feeding the molten resin without the delay of feed timing by preventing the molten resin from adhering to route members before it seats on a mold to increase the positioning accuracy of the molten metal in the mold, and a method of manufacturing a molded part by using the fed molten resin. Vibration is provided to the route members such as molten resin guide pins ( | 01-22-2009 |
20090078669 | Wide-Mouth Plastic Container and Method for Crystallization of Mouth Portion of Plastics Container - In a wide-mouth plastic container including a container body | 03-26-2009 |
20090096129 | METHOD OF FEEDING COMPOSITE MOLTEN RESIN AND APPARATUS FOR FEEDING THE SAME - A method of feeding a composite molten resin capable of easily forming a multi-kind-multi-layer preform. An apparatus for feeding the composite molten resin has a nozzle portion which includes an outer discharge port in which an outermost annular flow path through which a main layer-forming molten resin flows, meets an outer annular flow path through which a sub-layer-forming molten resin flows inside of the outermost annular flow path; and an inner discharge port in which a shell layer-forming molten resin annularly flowing inside of the outer conflux path, meets the core layer-forming molten resin flowing inside the shell layer; the outer discharge port and the inner discharge port being arranged in this order from the downstream toward the upstream in a direction in which the molten resins flow; wherein provision is made of a shaft-like opening/closing valve for opening and closing the inner discharge port, and a gear pump for intermittently discharging the sub-layer-forming molten resin. | 04-16-2009 |
20100201032 | COMPRESSION-MOLDING APPARATUS AND COMPRESSION-MOLDING METHOD - [Problem] To suppress the deviation of a synthetic resin to be fed to a metal mold and to enable the to-be-compression-molded synthetic resin to be easily molded into a shape of a pre-molded article that is to be molded. | 08-12-2010 |
20100264565 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FEEDING MOLTEN RESIN, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING MOLDED ARTICLE BY USING THE FED MOLTEN RESIN - A method and a device for feeding a molten resin capable of accurately feeding the molten resin without the delay of feed timing by preventing the molten resin from adhering to route members before it seats on a mold to increase the positioning accuracy of the molten metal in the mold, and a method of manufacturing a molded part by using the fed molten resin. Vibration is provided to the route members such as molten resin guide pins ( | 10-21-2010 |
20130334728 | SYSTEM FOR FEEDING MOLTEN RESIN AND METHOD OF FEEDING MOLTEN RESIN - To efficiently feed a molten resin to the resin holders. An intermittently feeding device works to intermittently feed a transfer unit equipped with resin holders, and has a cam supported by a motor via a support. The cam is rotated by the motor. A cam follower of a moving block meshes with the screw of the cam, and the moving block moves along a support rail accompanying the turn of the cam. The motor rotates at a constant speed, and the transfer unit | 12-19-2013 |
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20120182567 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes the following elements. An apparatus body implements plural functions including an image reading function, an image forming function, and a display function in accordance with operations requested by a user. A controller controls first, second, and third power states. An obtaining unit obtains information concerning paper. A first control unit controls the plural functions so that, when the plural functions are returned from the third to the second power state, the display function is returned to the second power state without being synchronized with the other functions and an operation requested by the user is received before the other functions are returned to the second power state. A second control unit controls the other functions so that, if the image forming function is required for executing an operation requested by the user, the operation is executed after the obtaining unit obtains the information concerning paper. | 07-19-2012 |
20130164012 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an image forming section, a fixing section, a mode switching section that selectively switches a fixing mode between a fast heating mode and a heat accumulation mode, a selecting section that selects the fast heating mode or heat accumulation mode based on the relationship between operation expressions F | 06-27-2013 |
20130216252 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING CONTROL DRIVER, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing apparatus including a mode switching unit that selectively switches a mode between a rapid heating mode and a heat accumulating mode in a fixing unit, a receiving unit that receives an image formation request received from the outside, an extracting unit that extracts mode switching determination information at the earliest from the image formation request received by the receiving unit, a selecting unit that selects the mode based on the mode switching determination information extracted by the extracting unit, specifications of the fixing device, and a current temperature, and a switching control unit that controls the mode switching unit based on the mode selected by the selecting unit to switch the mode to the rapid heating mode or the heat accumulating mode. | 08-22-2013 |
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20100330794 | METHOD FOR CLEANING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - There is provided a method for cleaning a semiconductor device capable of making compatible the inhibition of dissolution of a gate metal material and the acquisition of a favorable contact resistance. A method for cleaning a semiconductor device includes steps: a semiconductor substrate including silicon, and having a main surface is prepared; a multilayer gate including a metal layer and a silicon layer stacked sequentially from the bottom is formed over the main surface; a silicide layer is formed over the main surface and the silicon layer surface; an insulation layer is formed over the silicide layer in each of the main surface and the multilayer gate surface; a shared contact hole is formed in the insulation layer in such a manner that the silicide layer in the main surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surface of the multilayer gate is exposed from the insulation layer; and the shared contact hole is subjected to sulfuric acid cleaning, aqueous hydrogen peroxide cleaning, and APM cleaning separately, respectively, thereby to remove an altered layer formed in the shared contact hole. | 12-30-2010 |
20110081753 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device is provided for improving the reliability of a semiconductor device including a MISFET with a high dielectric constant gate insulator and a metal gate electrode. A first Hf-containing insulating film containing Hf, La, and O as a principal component is formed as a high dielectric constant gate insulator for an n-channel MISFET. A second Hf-containing insulating film containing Hf, Al, and O as a principal component is formed as a high dielectric constant gate insulator for a p-channel MISFET. Then, a metal film and a silicon film are formed and patterned by dry etching to thereby form first and second gate electrodes. Thereafter, parts of the first and second Hf-containing insulating films not covered with the first and second gate electrodes are removed by wet etching. At this time, a wet process with an acid solution not containing hydrofluoric acid, and another wet process with an alkaline solution are performed, and then a further wet process with an acid solution containing hydrofluoric acid is performed. | 04-07-2011 |
20130189835 | METHOD FOR CLEANING A SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method of cleaning a semiconductor device that both inhibits dissolution of gate metal material and acquires favorable contact resistance. The gate of the device is multilayered, with stacked layers of metal and silicide beneath an insulation layer and atop a silicon substrate. A shared contact hole formed in the insulation layer exposes the silicide layer and multilayer gate from the insulation layer. The shared contact hole is subjected to sulfuric acid, aqueous hydrogen peroxide and APM cleaning processes, separately, to remove an altered layer that tends to form in the shared contact hole. | 07-25-2013 |