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| 20080232834 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having a short warm-up time desired by a user, wherein a quick output section is provided, and when a quick output mode is set by the quick output section, warm-up completion temperature is set to be low, and thereby, warm-up time is made to be short. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20090010686 | Fixing device, fixing belt, and image forming apparatus - A fixing device including: a fixing roller; an endless fixing belt which rotates with the fixing roller; a pressure member; a sliding sheet placed between the fixing belt and the pressure member; and a lubricating agent supplying section, a toner image being fixed onto a recording media at a nip portion formed between the fixing roller and the fixing belt, wherein the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt and a surface of the sliding sheet are formed of polytetrafluoroethylene, wherein the following relation is satisfied: H | 01-08-2009 |
| 20100150623 | FIXING BELT, FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a fixing belt wherein the surface roughness of the inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt is designed with consideration given not only to the height of the protruding section and the depth of the recessed section but also to the expansion of the protruding section and recessed section in the lateral direction so that the contact resistance, hence, the sliding resistance can be reduced, and stable holding of the lubricant can be ensured. A fixing belt used in an image forming apparatus to fix a toner image on a recording material; wherein a wavy pattern which has a height of 3 to 5 μm at a pitch of 4 to 5 mm is formed on an inner peripheral surface, and a roughened structure which has a height of 3 to 4 μm at a pitch 0.1 mm is formed. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110062458 | LIGHT EMITTING PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF LIGHT EMITTING PANEL - Disclosed is a light emitting panel including: a light blocking section formed above a substrate, the light blocking section including an opening; a first electrode formed above the opening of the light blocking section; a dividing wall including an opening so that at least a portion of the first electrode is exposed, the opening corresponding to a shape of the opening of the light blocking section; a second electrode formed above the first electrode; and a carrier transport layer composed of at least one layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110066049 | PULSE ABNORMALITY DETECTING DEVICE - A pulse abnormality detecting device comprises a band attached to a wrist, a first sliding member with which the band is armored and which slides in the circumference direction of the band along the band, a second sliding member which is slidably provided on the first sliding member and which slides in the axis direction of the band, a pulse sensor which is provided on the second sliding member and which is provided in such a manner that the position of the sensor can be adjusted to the inner side or the side of the band, and a pulse abnormality detecting unit for detecting the abnormality of the pulse from the output data of the pulse sensor. The device can accurately detect the pulse of a user with high precision, adapting to a personal difference. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110085833 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a fixing device including: a heating section; a pressure contact section to form a nip section with the heating device and to pressure a sheet so that the sheet contacts with the heating section; and a pressurizing section to add a pressurizing force to the sheet through the pressure contact section and to make the nip section be formed between the heating section and the pressure contact section; wherein the pressurizing section adds the higher pressurizing force to an upstream portion and a downstream portion of the nip section than the pressurizing force added to a central portion of the nip section in a sheet conveying direction, and adds the higher pressurizing force to the downstream portion than the pressurizing force added to the upstream portion. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110129243 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus, comprises an image forming section, a transfer section to transfer the toner image onto a recording material; and a fixing device to fix the toner image onto the recording material; wherein the image forming section includes a plurality of color image forming sections and a transparent image forming section, and the plurality of color image forming sections and the transparent image forming section are arranged such that the transparent image is transferred so as to form a transparent image layer on an outer surface of the color image on the recording material at a fixing time by the fixing device, and wherein an amount of wax contained in the transparent toner is larger than an amount of wax contained in each color toner of the plurality of color toners and smaller than an amount of base resin contained in the transparent toner. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110227081 | PIXEL CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE, DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PIXEL CIRCUIT SUBSTRATE - A pixel circuit substrate includes: a pixel electrode; a first drive element connected to one side of the pixel electrode; a second drive element that is connected to the first drive element in parallel and also is connected to the other side opposite to the one side of the pixel electrode. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110241002 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, LIGHT EMITTING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed in a semiconductor device including a substrate, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a first source electrode and a first drain electrode of the first transistor are arranged along a first direction and a second source electrode and a second drain electrode of the second transistor are arranged in a reverse order of the first source electrode and the first drain electrode along the first direction, the first source electrode and the second source electrode are connected by a source connecting wiring, the first drain electrode and the second drain electrode are connected by a drain connecting wiring, a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode are connected by a gate connecting wiring and the source connecting wiring and the drain connecting wiring are provided at positions except a region overlapped with the first gate electrode, the second gate electrode and the gate connecting wiring. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120074409 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element including a first electrode, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, and a light emitting layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; a capacitor having a third electrode formed in a position overlapping the light emitting element and an insulating layer provided between the first and third electrodes; a first drive transistor disposed on a first side of the first electrode and having a gate electrode; and a second drive transistor disposed on a second side of the first electrode and having a gate electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first drive transistor via the third electrode. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120275813 | FUSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fusing apparatus includes a fusing section, a supplying section and a control section. The supplying section supplies airflow between a recording medium and the fusing section. The supplying section includes a supplying opening of the airflow divided in a plurality of blocks along a width direction of the recording medium. The control section controls at least any one of speed of the airflow and supply amount of the airflow individually for each of the plurality of blocks based on information regarding the recording medium. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120294638 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming device includes an image forming section, a fixing unit, an oscillation mechanism and a controller. The image forming section forms an image on a sheet. The fixing unit thermally fix the image on the sheet by using a fixing rotating member to pinch and convey the sheet on which the image has been formed by the image forming section. The oscillation mechanism oscillates at least the fixing rotating members of the fixing unit in an axial direction thereof. The controller controls the oscillation mechanism to cause the fixing rotating members not to oscillate while the sheet is being pinched and conveyed simultaneously by the fixing rotating members and other rotating members. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120294639 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming device includes: an image forming section, a fixing unit, an oscillation mechanism and a controller. The image forming section forms an image on paper. The fixing unit thermally fixes the image on the paper by using a fixing rotating member to pinch and convey the paper. The oscillation mechanism oscillates at least the entire fixing rotating member of the fixing unit in an axis direction thereof. The controller determines an oscillation quantity of the fixing rotating member based on rigidity of the paper in a state where the paper is pinched and conveyed by the fixing rotating member and another rotating member at the same time, and oscillates the fixing rotating member using the oscillation mechanism with the determined oscillation quantity. The controller determines the oscillation quantity of the fixing rotating member to be reduced as rigidity of the paper becomes lower. | 11-22-2012 |
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| 20090065358 | OXYGEN SENSOR, AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND TRANSPORT APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE OXYGEN SENSOR - An oxygen sensor which is highly waterproof in a high-temperature environment and yet allows for downsizing includes a sensor element having a detection section arranged to detect oxygen, a housing, the sensor element being inserted at one end thereof in such a manner that the detection section is exposed, a cylindrical member provided at another end of the housing, a sealing member arranged to seal the cylindrical member, and a terminal portion connected to the sensor element. The sealing member has a throughhole, and is made of a heat-resistant resin. The terminal portion is press-fitted in the throughhole of the sealing member. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090143960 | CONTROL DEVICE OF OXYGEN SENSOR FOR AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE, AND AIR-FUEL RATIO CONTROLLER AND AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE INCORPORATING THE SAME - A control device is arranged to control an oxygen sensor for an automotive vehicle wherein the oxygen sensor has a sensor element and a heater for elevating a temperature of the sensor element. The control device includes a tilt detection section arranged to detect tilting of a vehicle body; a storage section arranged to store tilt information in accordance with a result of detection by the tilt detection section; and a control section arranged to control, at a start of an engine of the vehicle, the heater in one of a plurality of modes including a normal mode and a delay mode in which temperature elevation of the sensor element is delayed relative to the normal mode, based on the tilt information stored in the storage section. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20100173235 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WRITING - A writing method includes calculating a proximity effect-corrected dose for correcting a proximity effect in charged particle beam writing, for each first mesh region made by virtually dividing a writing region of a target object into a plurality of first mesh regions of a first mesh size, calculating a fogging effect-corrected dose by using the proximity effect-corrected dose calculated and an area density in the first mesh size with respect to a part of a calculation region for calculating the fogging effect-corrected dose for correcting a fogging effect in the charged particle beam writing, and by using an area density in a second mesh size larger than the first mesh size with respect to a remaining part of the calculation region, synthesizing the fogging effect-corrected dose and the proximity effect-corrected dose for the each first mesh region, and writing a pattern on the target object by using a charged particle beam based on a synthesized correction dose. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20110253911 | Charged Particle Beam Writing Apparatus and Charged Particle Beam Writing Method - A charged particle beam writing apparatus according to an embodiment, includes a first dose calculating unit configured to calculate a first dose map for each set of a proximity effect correction coefficient map and a base dose map of a beam; a dimension map creation unit configured to create a dimension map of a pattern by using the first dose map calculated for each set; an adder configured to add dimensions of all sets for each position of the dimension map by using the dimension map of each set; a set map creation unit configured to create a set of a proximity effect correction coefficient map and a base dose map by using an added dimension map after addition; and a second dose calculating unit configured to calculate a second dose map by using a created set of the proximity effect correction coefficient map and the base dose map. | 10-20-2011 |
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| 20080253785 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus capable of reducing damage in a fixing section and printing a high-quality image on a sheet at low cost without reducing productivity. A sheet shifting mechanism is arranged upstream of a transfer roller and moves the sheet in a sheet lateral direction orthogonal to the sheet conveying direction. In order to change a position at which a sheet passes through a fixing roller, the sheet shifting mechanism is controlled for every conveyance of a predetermined number of sheets, whereby sheet movement in the sheet lateral direction is controlled. A correction amount for an error due to sheet shifting by the sheet shifting mechanism is stored for each of sheet shift positions. An image forming position in the sheet lateral direction of a photosensitive drum is shifted on the basis of the sheet shift position and the stored correction amount. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080253818 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus that can satisfy productivity at the time of double-sided image formation without jamming due to a collision of a succeeding sheet with a preceding sheet, and without upsizing of the apparatus. The image forming apparatus performs a sheet circulation transport for circulating and transporting a sheet to an image forming unit to perform image formation on both a first side and a second side of the sheet. The sheet is fed to the image forming unit at a predetermined image formation start timing for the first side image formation. The first side image-formed sheet is reversed, and re-fed to the image forming unit for the second side image formation while causing the first side image-formed sheet to wait at least one of sheet waiting positions. A full state where all the sheet waiting positions are full of the first side image-formed sheets is detected. The sheet feeding unit is controlled so that the number of sheets on which the sheet circulation transport is performed is greater than the number of the sheet waiting positions. When the full state detecting unit detects the full state, the sheet re-feeding unit is controlled so that a head sheet among the first side image-formed sheets waiting at the sheet waiting positions is fed in advance of the predetermined image formation start timing. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20100117289 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system having: a sheet feeding unit which cuts a roll sheet and feeds cut sheets; a stack unit which stacks and stores the sheets fed by the sheet feeding unit and feeds the stored sheets; an image forming portion which forms an image on the sheets fed from the stack unit; and a controlling unit configured to control the feeding unit and the stack unit so that the stack unit feeds a sheet stored in the stack unit to the image forming portion when the sheet feeding unit feeds a sheet to the stack unit so as to stack the sheet from the sheet feeding unit into the stack unit. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20110280643 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS IMPROVED IN OPERABILITY FOR PRINT JOB INVOLVING SINGLE-SIDED PRINTING AND DOUBLE-SIDED PRINTING - An image forming apparatus capable of improving productivity in a print job mixedly involving single-sided printing and double-sided printing. Sheets are fed one by one to an image forming section. When double-sided printing is to be performed, a sheet having an image formed on the first side thereof by the image forming section is re-fed thereto so as to have an image formed on the second side thereof. When a sheet for double-sided printing exists, which is posterior in page order to a sheet for single-sided printing, an image forming order is changed such that the first side of the sheet for double-sided printing is subjected to image formation prior to the sheet for single-sided printing. When it is predicted that a state will occur in which the sheet for single-sided printing cannot be fed, the image forming order is not changed. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110286756 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, which forms an image on a recording medium, including: an image bearing member; a toner image forming portion configured to form a toner image on the image bearing member; a transfer device configured to transfer the toner image formed on the image bearing member to the recording medium; a fixing device configured to pressurize and heat the recording medium to which the toner image is transferred, to fix the toner image on the recording medium; and a control circuit portion configured to control a temperature of the fixing device, wherein the control circuit portion controls a temperature of the fixing device for a first recording medium considering a temperature of the fixing device for a second recording medium to be fixed after the first recording medium. | 11-24-2011 |
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| 20090160993 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND CAMERA - An objective of the present invention is to provide the solid-state imaging device and the driving method thereof which can control: a poor picture quality, such as blooming, to maximize a dynamic range of the photodiode; and a poor picture quality resulted from an incomplete read-out operation. A solid-state imaging device in the present invention includes: a solid-state imaging element; and a driving pulse controlling unit applying a driving pulse to each of read-out gates of a column CCD. The driving pulse controlling unit transfers in a column direction signal charge within a charge transfer region of the column CCD by applying a column transfer clock having a LOW level voltage and a MIDDLE level voltage, and the LOW level voltage and the MIDDLE level voltage are minus voltages. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20120168608 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD OF SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE - A solid-state imaging device of the present invention is capable of thinning signals for each column. The solid-state imaging device includes: photo diodes, a drain into which charges transferred by first column CCDs are swept-off, and transfer control units each of which is provided to the corresponding first column CCDs, and transfers, to a row CCD and to the drain, the charges transferred by the corresponding first column CCDs. Each of the transfer control units includes: a second column CCD which transfers, in a column direction, the charges transferred by the first column CCDs corresponding to the transfer control unit, and a column CCD terminal gate which is provided between the second column CCD and the row CCD, and forms a potential barrier between the second column CCD and the row CCD. | 07-05-2012 |