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| 20110058855 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER CONTAINER - An image forming apparatus includes: a feed portion that is fed with toner from above; a transport path that includes an inlet through which the toner fed to the feed portion enters, that allows the toner to be transported therethrough, and that is in a cylindrical shape; and a transporting member provided to continuously extend from the feed portion to the transport path, the transporting member transporting along the transport path the toner fed to the feed portion, wherein an amount of transportation of the toner per unit of time at a part of the transporting member located in the transport path is larger than an amount of transportation of the toner per unit of time at a part of the transporting member located in the feed portion. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110058856 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER CONTAINER - An image forming apparatus includes: a feed portion that is fed with toner from above; a transport path that includes an inlet through which the toner fed to the feed portion enters, that allows the toner to be transported therethrough, and that is in a cylindrical shape; and a transporting member including: a rotary shaft provided to extend in the feed portion and the transport path; and a moving portion pressing toner with rotation of the rotary shaft to move the toner, and that transports along the transport path the toner fed to the feed portion, a part of the rotary shaft of the transporting member located in the transport path having a larger diameter than a part of the rotary shaft located in the feed portion. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110081167 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER CONTAINER - An image forming apparatus includes: a cylindrically-shaped feed portion that is fed with toner from above; a transport path including an inlet through which the toner transported from the feed portion enters and transporting the toner therethrough; and a transporting member including a rotary shaft provided to extend from the feed portion to the transport path, the rotary shaft being provided with a small-diameter portion on an upstream side thereof and a large-diameter portion on a downstream side thereof in the toner transport direction, and transports the toner along the transport path, the large-diameter portion being provided inside the transport path, the large-diameter portion having an end portion on the upstream side thereof in the toner transport direction to be connected to the small-diameter portion, the end portion being provided on a side of the feed portion of the inlet of the transport path in the toner transport direction. | 04-07-2011 |
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| 20080292330 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In the recovery sequence after detecting recording medium conveyance jam or after detecting empty of recording medium in the sheet feeding tray, by applying a bias having the same polarity as that of the bias of the secondary transfer, remaining toner on the intermediate transfer member is transferred onto the secondary transfer roller side and a part of remaining toner not transferred by slipping through is cleaned by an intermediate member cleaning device disposed between the secondary transfer device and a bending roller being in contact with an outer surface of the intermediate transfer member. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090214834 | Microencapsulated Material, Microencapsulated Color Material, Process for Production of the Material, Ink Composition, Ink-Jet Recording Method, and Recorded Material - Problem: To provide a microencapsulated color material for an ink composition which is excellent in dispersion stability, ejection stability and color developability, excellent in fastness and rubbing resistance of images, and hard to cause blurs of images, and can provide recorded matter having high print density; an ink composition using the color material; a production process thereof; an ink jet recording process; recorded matter; and microencapsulated matter. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100146456 | PORTABLE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, BROWSING METHOD, AND BROWSING PROGRAM - A browsing method by which within-site browsing and within-screen browsing can be switched over to each other without making the user conscious of it is provided. A control means superposes and superposingly displays a Web page and a pointer moving in response to the operation applied to a pointing device ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 20110035698 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AN INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND AN INFORMATION PROCESSING CONTROL PROGRAM - In an information processing apparatus having a plurality of functions, an information processing apparatus which is capable of executing an appropriate process to an operation by user according to the function under execution is provided. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110044718 | CLEANING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a cleaning apparatus including: a blade and a roller to remove the residual toner on the image carrier, the blade and the roller provided on a downstream side of a rotating direction of the image carrier than a transfer position of the toner image; a scraper to remove toner attached to the roller; and a first controlling section to control movement of the residual toner removed by the blade and the roller, the first controlling section is provided on an upstream side of the rotating direction of the image carrier than the blade and on a downstream side of the rotating direction of the image carrier than the roller and the scraper, and the first controlling section is provided facing the image carrier with a certain area provided in between to form an accumulating section to accumulate residual toner in the certain area. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110280607 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED THEREWITH - A fixing device by fixing an image on a recording material at a nip portion, includes: an air blower which blows air sent by a fan on the neighborhood of an exit of the nip portion; a pressure contact and separation switching section which switches from a separated state in which a pressure member is separated from a fixing member to a pressure contact state in which the pressure member is in contact with the heating member at a moment that is earlier by a predetermined period of time than a time when a leading edge of the recording material arrives at the nip portion; and a controller which controls the fan to start its rotation within a first time period between a time when a changeover from the separated state to the pressure contact state is started and a time when the leading edge of the recording material arrives at the nip portion. | 11-17-2011 |
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| 20090175453 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND ENCRYPTED DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A storage apparatus has an encryption key updater for configuring an updated encryption key and identification information thereof, an encryptor for encrypting data by a specific unit according to the encryption key, a storage for adding the identification information to the encrypted data and storing the data and the identification information onto a recording medium, a reader for reading the encrypted data and the identification information, a judge for judging whether the identification information read by the reader matches the identification information configured by the encryption key updater, and a decryptor for decrypting the encrypted data and outputting the decrypted data where the judge judges that the identification information matches the identification information configured by the encryption key updater. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090237825 | STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A storage device includes an access counter that counts the number of track changes or the number of accessed sectors in accessing the recording medium, an access judgment unit that judges whether the recording medium is accessed successively by a host,
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| 20100138670 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND DATA WRITING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a storage apparatus includes: a controller encrypting user data with a key, and writing the encrypted user data in a storage medium; and a key changing module changing the key. The storage medium includes a user data region and a key changing region. When the key is changed, the controller divides the user data written in the storage medium into a plurality of pieces, encrypts a piece of the user data adjacent to the key changing region with the changed key, writes the encrypted piece into the key changing region, sequentially shifts each of the pieces other than the piece of the user data adjacent to the key changing region by one logical block size in a direction toward the key changing region, and writes the shifted pieces. | 06-03-2010 |
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| 20100026328 | INSPECTING METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR OBJECT TO BE INSPECTED - An inspecting method for an object to be inspected is provided to bring probes of a probe card into electrical contact with a predetermined number of devices of target devices of the object at a time to inspect electrical characteristics of the target devices by moving a mounting table for mounting thereon the object under the control of a control unit. Upon completion of the inspection of the target devices, if inspection errors have occurred in specific devices of the target devices in a regular pattern, the target devices are re-examined, and when the re-examination is carried out, a contact position between the probe card and the object is displaced from a contact position in a previous inspection by a distance of at least one device to inspect electrical characteristics of the number of devices of the target devices at a time. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100033200 | PROBING METHOD AND PROBING PROGRAM - Disclosed is a probing method including, when the probes are configured to make contact with a chip row including four chips continuously arranged in an oblique direction so that the probe card test four chips at a time, finding a first reference oblique chip row extending in the oblique direction and containing a center chip positioned at the center of the wafer and a plurality of first additional oblique chip rows arranged in parallel with the first reference oblique chip row at an upper side of the first reference oblique chip row, and setting contact positions between the probes and the first oblique chip rows wherein the contact positions are positions of the probes obtained by shifting the probes; setting contact positions between the probes and the second oblique chip rows in an opposite direction to a first step; and setting a plurality of index group and test order. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100048099 | PROBE POLISHING METHOD, PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND PROBE APPARATUS - A probe polishing method is provided for polishing probes by brining a polishing member into slide-contact with probes through a mounting table having thereon the polishing member transferred from a first receiving part. The probe polishing method includes transferring the polishing member from the first receiving part to the mounting table; detecting a presence of foreign materials on a top surface of the polishing member mounted on the mounting table; transferring the polishing member from the mounting table to a second receiving part when the foreign materials are detected on the top surface of the polishing member; removing the foreign materials from the polishing member in the second receiving part; and transferring the polishing member from which the foreign materials are removed from the second receiving part to the first receiving part. | 02-25-2010 |
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| 20080273262 | Magnetic disk drive, preamplifier for magnetic disk drive, flexible printed cable assembly for magnetic disk drive - Embodiments of the present invention help to improve the cost, mountability, and reliability of a magnetic disk drive that regulates a fly height of a magnetic head slider correspondingly to the operating altitude of the drive by using an air pressure sensor and a heater. According to one embodiment, a preamplifier is a semiconductor chip formed by three-dimensionally laminating thin film circuits on a bulk silicon wafer. An air pressure sensor is integrally formed on the semiconductor chip through a semiconductor process. The air pressure sensor is configured to include an isolating cavity, a diaphragm that deflecting in response to a change in a pressure difference between the isolating cavity and the outside, and lower and upper electrodes and for detecting variation in electrostatic capacitance. The preamplifier including the air pressure sensor integrally formed therein is attached to a flexible printed cable (FPC) to oppose the FPC. A through-hole is provided in a portion opposite the air pressure sensor of the FPC to introduce air pressure in an operating environment into a diaphragm of the air pressure sensor. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080316656 | Magnetic head and method of manufacturing the magnetic head - Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic head suitable for high density recording at a high yield by reducing the thickness of an air-bearing surface protection layer of a magnetic head and suppressing reduction in the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio of a read element. According to one embodiment, a read element of a magnetic head has a magnetoresistive effect film (TMR film) between a lower magnetic shield layer and an upper magnetic shield layer, and has a refill film and a magnetic domain control film in both sides of the TMR film. The TMR film is configured by a lower metal layer, an antiferromagnetic layer, a ferromagnetic pinned layer, an intermediate layer, a ferromagnetic free layer, and an upper metal layer. An air-bearing surface protection layer, including a silicon nitride film about 2.0 nm in thickness, is formed on a recording medium facing surface of the TMR film. Since silicon in the silicon nitride film is inactivated by nitrogen, the silicon does not damage the TMR film. Therefore, noise of the read element can be controlled to be at a low level. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20110116192 | HEAD-SLIDER INCLUDING THIN-FILM MAGNETIC-RECORDING HEAD HAVING REDUCED THERMAL PROTRUSION - A head-slider. The head-slider includes a slider, and a thin-film magnetic-recording head. The thin-film magnetic-recording head includes: a read element; a write element; a non-magnetic insulating protective layer disposed around both read and write elements; a resist disposed at a position further away from an air-bearing surface than the read element; and, a hard-material member including a material selected from the group consisting of silicon carbide and tungsten, which is disposed at a position further away from the air-bearing surface than the read element and the write element. Both an end of the resist and an end of the hard-material member overlap the write element when viewed in a stacking direction. A ratio of a distance from the air-bearing surface to a deepest end of the hard-material member to a distance from the air-bearing surface to a deepest end of the resist is at least 0.9. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110292538 | RECORDING MEDIUM CONTROLLER AND METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, a recording medium controller includes a recording medium, an input module, a reading module, and a writing module. The recording medium includes a write area and an escape area. The write area includes track groups. Each of the track groups is a unit for writing data and includes tracks. The input module receives a write command for data. The reading module reads data stored in the escape area and data from a first track group of the track groups. The writing module writes data received for the write command to the escape area, and writes merged data obtained by merging the data read from the escape area and the data read from the first track group to each track of a second track group of the track groups by using a shingle recording technique in which adjacent tracks are partly overlapped with each other. | 12-01-2011 |
