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20090029442 | ESTROGENIC SUBSTANCE DEGRADABLE MICROORGANISM AND USE THEREOF - A microorganism capable of degrading an estrogenic substance contained in wastewater and the like; a method for the simple and effective degradation of an estrogenic substance contained in domestic wastewater, wastewater discharged from a livestock farm, or the like by using the microorganism; and an apparatus for achieving the degradation are provided. An estrogenic substance-degrading microorganism which belongs to the genus | 01-29-2009 |
20090313064 | DELIVERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An item delivery service capable of distributing items while maintaining anonymity between an exhibitor (vendor) and a successful bidder (purchaser) is provided. | 12-17-2009 |
20120170433 | RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS THEREFOR - The present invention provides a recording medium and a recording/reproducing apparatus which enable the number of data units of recording pulse information to be reduced by dividing the recording pulse information into | 07-05-2012 |
20140204388 | OPTICAL MEASURING APPARATUS - Provided is a compact, low-cost optical measuring apparatus capable of acquiring an image of a target to be measured without moving a mirror or using a wavelength-scanning light source or beam splitter. A laser beam emitted from a light source is split into first and second beams, and the first beam is focused as a signal beam onto the target by a lens for irradiation purposes, while the second beam is reflected as a reference beam by a mirror without irradiating the target. Then, a signal beam reflected by or scattered by the target is multiplexed with the reference beam and then enters interference optics, whereby three or more interference beams with different phases are generated and detected by photodetectors. Then, the detection signals are operated by a signal processing unit. During the measurement, the focus position of the first beam is moved at least in the optical axis direction. | 07-24-2014 |
20140211601 | QUALITY EVALUATION METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, OPTICAL DISC DEVICE AND RECORDING/REPRODUCING SYSTEM - When data is recorded on an optical disc, and stored for a long period of time, there is a need to periodically evaluate whether a quality of the recorded data is determined with time, or not. If the signal quality is lower than a given level as an evaluation result, a work for moving the data to a brand-new optical disc is required. However, in periodical inspection, if the number of optical discs is enormous, a large amount of time is required to evaluate all data recorded on the optical disc. In recording user data on the optical disc, a signal of a particular pattern having a lifetime shorter than a reference lifetime of the user data is recorded in a given area of the optical disc in advance, the particular pattern signal is reading at given time intervals, and processing on the user data is determined on the basis of the evaluation result of the signal quality. | 07-31-2014 |
20150034723 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIA, INFORMATION REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD - A motion picture is captured while a focal position is changed in a predetermined reproduction layer of a recording medium, the resolutions of a plurality of still images acquired by the capturing of the motion picture are checked using check patterns, which are recorded at a predetermined frequency, of the medium, it is determined whether the still images are usable for the reproduction of data, and a plurality of the still images determined to be usable are composed. | 02-05-2015 |
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20090169262 | Developing device, image forming apparatus and developer cartridge - A developing device includes: a developer carrying member that supplies developer to an image carrying member; plural developer supply members,.containing different color developers, that supply the developers to the developer carrying member in a developer supply position; a conveyance member that sequentially conveys the plural developer supply members to the developer supply position; and a peeling member that peels off developer, remained after supply of the developer by the developer carrying member to the image carrying member, from the developer carrying member. | 07-02-2009 |
20090169269 | Developing unit, developing device and image forming apparatus - A developing unit includes: a developer carrying member that visualizes an electrostatic latent image held on an image carrying member using magnetic developer; a peeling member that peels off the magnetic developer held on the developer carrying member by a magnetic force; and a movement controller that controls movement of the peeling member, when the peeling member peels off the magnetic developer, the movement controller moving the peeling member to a position close to the developer carrying member, and when the peeling member has peeled off the magnetic developer, the movement controller moving the peeling member to a position away from the developer carrying member. | 07-02-2009 |
20090244571 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image output unit that outputs an image; and an image processing unit that converts an input image signal to an output image signal and outputs the image signal to the image output unit, the image output unit having: an image carrier that carries at least a latent image; plural developer containers containing mutually different color developers used for developing the latent image carried on the image carrier; and a transport member for repeated operations of attachment of the developer contained in one of the plural developer containers, transport of the attached developer to the image carrier, and removal of remaining developer, and the image processing unit having a change unit that changes a color conversion characteristic of an image signal in correspondence with color mixture of the mutually different color developers. | 10-01-2009 |
20090269115 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a developing device that supplies one of plural color developers to the image carrier and forms a developer image; a transfer unit that transfers the developer image to a recording medium; a fixing unit that fixes the developer image; a transport path for transporting the recording medium from a supply position to an exit port; a return path for transporting the recording medium subjected to the fixing process to a position upstream of the transfer unit for performing subsequent processes on a developer image of another color developer; and a plane, including a junction of the transport path and the return path and a center of rotation of the developing device, being provided at a 90°—or wider angle with respect to a plane including a transfer position and the center of rotation of the developing device, on an upstream side of the another plane in a transport direction of the recording medium. | 10-29-2009 |
20110194878 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a transfer member transfers the image carried on the outer circumferential surface of the image carrier onto a recording medium; a holding member that holds, on an outer circumferential surface of the transfer member, the recording medium fed to the transfer member; and a control unit that performs control so that in first image formation operation in which images of plural colors carried by the image carrier are sequentially transferred onto a single recording medium one color at a time, the holding member holds the recording medium on the transfer member, and in second image formation operation in which an image of a single color carried by the image carrier is transferred onto a single recording medium, the holding member does not hold, the recording medium on the transfer member. | 08-11-2011 |
20110236081 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a transfer member that transfers an image onto a recording medium; a leading-end holding member that holds a leading-end side of the recording medium, which is fed to the transfer member, between the leading-end holding member and an outer circumferential surface of the transfer member, in such a way to restrict displacement of the recording medium and to restrict movement of the recording medium in a direction away from the transfer member; and a rear-end holding member that holds a rear-end side of the recording medium, in the transporting direction thereof, between the rear-end holding member and the outer circumferential surface of the transfer member, in such a way to allow displacement of the recording medium in the transporting direction and to restrict movement of the recording medium in the direction away from the transfer member. | 09-29-2011 |
20120230739 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TRANSFER DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that is rotatably arranged and carries an image on an outer circumferential surface thereof; a transfer member that is rotatably arranged to face the image carrier and transfers the image carried on the image carrier onto a sheet held between the transfer member and the image carrier; a leading edge gripping member that is secured to the transfer member and grips a leading edge side of the sheet in a transport direction thereof on an outer circumferential surface of the transfer member; and a trailing edge holding member that is arranged to be rotatable around the transfer member, holds a trailing edge side of the sheet in the transport direction thereof between the trailing edge holding member and the outer circumferential surface of the transfer member, and bends to release the trailing edge side of the sheet in the transport direction thereof. | 09-13-2012 |
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20110318067 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF IMAGE FORMING - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that is rotatable; a transfer member that is rotatably disposed so as to face the image carrier, the transfer member transferring an image carried by the image carrier to a sheet; a leading end gripping member that is attached to the transfer member, the leading end gripping member gripping a leading end of the sheet in the transport direction on an outer peripheral surface of the transfer member; a trailing end holding member that holds a trailing end of the sheet in the transport direction between the trailing end holding member and the outer peripheral surface of the transfer member; and a controller that changes a distance between the leading end gripping member and the trailing end holding member when holding the sheet on the basis of a length of the sheet in the transport direction. | 12-29-2011 |
20120251149 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TRANSFER DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes a main body portion including an image carrier, an image-carrier driving unit, a latent-image forming unit, a developing-unit attachment section, and a transfer-unit attachment section. The developing-unit attachment section receives a first developing unit having plural developing members or a second developing unit having a single developing member. The transfer-unit attachment section receives a first transfer unit, which includes a first transfer member capable of retaining a recording medium and a first transfer driving unit that rotates the first transfer member, and a second transfer unit, which includes a second transfer member that cannot retain the recording medium. When the first developing unit and the first transfer unit are attached to the developing-unit attachment section and the transfer-unit attachment section, respectively, the first transfer driving unit is mechanically connected to the first developing unit. | 10-04-2012 |
20130071151 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a transfer member, a leading-end holding member, and a trailing-end holding member. The leading-end holding member is mounted on the transfer member and holds, on an outer peripheral surface of the transfer member, a leading-end portion of a recording medium fed to a sheet feeding position that is further upstream than a transfer position in a rotation direction of the transfer member. The trailing-end holding member rotates along the outer peripheral surface. The trailing-end holding member presses the recording medium against the outer peripheral surface while waiting at a waiting position that is further upstream than the transfer position and downstream than the sheet feeding position, and holds a trailing end portion on the outer peripheral surface while rotating together with the transfer member when the trailing end portion of the recording medium arrives at the waiting position. | 03-21-2013 |
20130078012 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer member, a gripper that grips a leading end portion of a recording medium, and a restraining portion that is disposed so as to face an outer peripheral surface of the transfer member and that is movable relative to the transfer member. The restraining member restrains a trailing end portion of the recording medium that is gripped by the gripper from rising. The restraining portion has widths in a rotational axis direction of the transfer member and in a transport direction of the recording medium and is capable of facing the recording medium in a faceable region, and a part of the faceable region over which the restraining portion faces the trailing end portion of the recording medium is larger than a part of the faceable region over which the restraining member does not face the trailing end portion. | 03-28-2013 |
20130223863 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier; a transfer body; a leading-end gripping member that grips a leading-end portion of the recording medium when the recording medium is transported and that releases the leading-end portion when the recording medium to which a final toner image starts being transferred is separated from the transfer body; and a controller that controls a peripheral velocity of the transfer body and a peripheral velocity of the image carrier to change a ratio between the peripheral velocity of the transfer body and the peripheral velocity of the image carrier from a first ratio for transferring a toner image that precedes the final toner image to the recording medium to a second ratio for transferring the final toner image to the recording medium by making the peripheral velocity of the transfer body higher than the peripheral velocity of the image carrier. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223895 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus, the following inequalities (1) and (2) are satisfied: | 08-29-2013 |
20130223896 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer body, an elastic layer, a gripper, and a pressing member. The gripper is located in a cutout region in which a cutout is formed. The gripper grips a leading end portion of the recording medium wrapped around the transfer body and releases the leading end portion that is to be separated from the transfer body. At least part of the pressing member is located closer to a trailing-end side of the recording medium than the gripper. The pressing member presses a leading end side of the recording medium, whose leading end portion is gripped by the leading-end gripper, against the elastic layer. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223897 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer body transporting a recording medium to a transfer position multiple times in order to sequentially transfer toner images formed on a surface of the image carrier to the recording medium, a trailing-end restricting member that is movable relative to the transfer body in a circumferential direction of the transfer body, the trailing-end restricting member rotating together with the transfer body when restricting a position of a trailing end portion of the recording medium wrapped around the transfer body, a driving member that rotates the transfer body, and a transmitting device that transmits a rotary force, with which the driving member rotates the transfer body, to the trailing-end restricting member when the trailing-end restricting member is rotated together with the transfer body. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223898 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries a developer image, a recording-medium transporting member that includes a holding portion that holds a leading end of a recording medium wrapped around the recording-medium transporting member, a retaining portion that switches between a state in which the retaining portion retains a trailing end portion of the recording medium and a state in which the retaining portion does not retain the trailing end portion, a position adjusting unit that adjusts the position at which the retaining portion retains the trailing end portion, a transfer unit that transfers the developer image onto the recording medium, a determination unit that determines a thickness of the recording medium, and a control unit that causes the retaining portion to retain the trailing end portion at a position adjusted by the position adjusting unit in accordance with the thickness of the recording medium. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223899 | RECORDING-MEDIUM TRANSPORTING BODY, TRANSFER DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A recording-medium transporting body includes a cylindrical portion, a contact unit, and a holding portion. The cylindrical portion has a cut portion in an outer peripheral surface thereof and allows a recording medium to be wrapped around the outer peripheral surface. The contact unit is provided in the cut portion and includes first and second contact portions having first and second coefficients of friction with respect to the recording medium, the second coefficient of friction being higher than the first coefficient of friction. A leading end of the recording medium comes into contact with the first contact portion before coming into contact with the second contact portion. The holding portion holds the recording medium between the contact unit and the holding portion. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223900 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer member, a leading end holding member, a trailing end holding member, a detection unit, and a stopping unit. The trailing end holding member is disposed so as to be rotatable around the transfer member such that a gap is formed between the trailing end holding member and the transfer member. The trailing end holding member holds a trailing end of the recording medium after a leading end of the recording medium held by the leading end holding member has passed through the gap. The detection unit detects whether the leading end of the recording medium passes through the gap after the leading end holding member performed a holding operation on the leading end. The stopping unit stops rotation of the transfer member when the detection unit detects that the leading end does not pass through the gap. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223907 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries a developer image, a recording-medium transporting member that is movable between an opposing position at which the transporting member opposes the image carrier and a retracted position that is farther from the image carrier than the opposing position and includes a holding portion that holds a leading end of a recording medium, a retaining portion that is movable between a retaining position at which the retaining portion retains a trailing end of the recording medium and a separate position that is farther from the transporting member than the retaining position, a transfer unit that transfers the developer image onto the recording medium, and an allowing unit that allows the transporting member to be separated from the retaining portion when the transporting member is moved from the opposing position to the retracted position. | 08-29-2013 |
20130230343 | TRANSFER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A transfer device includes a transfer body that transports a recording medium to a transfer position to transfer toner images to the recording medium; a leading-end gripping member that grips a leading-end portion of the recording medium when causing the recording medium to be wrapped around the transfer body and releases the leading-end portion when causing the recording medium that has been wrapped around the transfer body to become separated from the transfer body; and a moving member that moves, after a final toner image starts being transferred to the recording medium but before the leading-end gripping member releases the leading-end portion, the leading-end gripping member while the leading-end gripping member grips the leading-end portion in order to cause a leading-end side of the recording medium to become separated from the transfer body. | 09-05-2013 |
20130308989 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes a toner transporting member that transports a toner layer while carrying the toner layer on a first surface of the toner transporting member, the toner transporting member including the first surface and a second surface; a heating unit including heating elements that contact the second surface that is opposite to the first surface of the toner transporting member, and that generate heat in accordance with image information, the first surface contacting a recording medium and carrying the toner layer; and a transferring unit that selectively transfers toner at an image portion to the recording medium as a result of causing each heating element of the heating unit to generate the heat with a temperature of the heating elements at the image portion and a temperature of the heating elements at a non-image portion being different from each other. | 11-21-2013 |
20130308991 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium, a glossiness imparting unit that imparts glossiness to the image formed on the recording medium, and a glossiness reducing unit that reduces the glossiness of at least a part of the image to which the glossiness has been imparted by the glossiness imparting unit. | 11-21-2013 |
20130315641 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording medium; a transfer unit that carries a layer of the UV-curable resin thereon and transfers a UV-curable resin to the recording medium, on which the image forming unit has formed the unfixed toner image, by making the UV-curable resin contact the recording medium; and an irradiation unit that irradiates the UV-curable resin transferred to the recording medium with UV rays. | 11-28-2013 |
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20120038050 | SPUTTERING TARGET - A sputtering target consists of high purity Nb of which Ta content is 3000 ppm or less and oxygen content is 200 ppm or less. Dispersion of the Ta content in all the sputtering target is within ±30% as a whole target. Dispersion of the oxygen content is within ±80% as a whole target. According to such sputtering target, an interconnection film of low resistivity can be realized. In addition, each grain of Nb in the sputtering target has a grain diameter in the range of 0.1 to 10 times an average grain diameter and ratios of grain sizes of adjacent grains are in the range of 0.1 to 10. According to such sputtering target, giant dust can be largely suppressed from occurring. The sputtering target is suitable for forming a Nb film as liner material of an Al interconnection. | 02-16-2012 |
20130209144 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer member, a leading end holding member, a trailing end holding member, and a movement mechanism. The trailing end holding member is disposed at a standby position such that there is a space between the trailing end holding member and the transfer member. The trailing end holding member is rotatable around the transfer member along a rotation path on which the standby position is located. In a multiple transfer operation, the trailing end holding member holds a trailing end of the recording medium after a leading end of the recording medium held by the leading end holding member has passed through the space. In a single transfer operation, the movement mechanism moves the trailing end holding member from the standby position to a position that is not on a transport path of the recording medium. | 08-15-2013 |
20130216256 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier; a transfer body; a leading-end holding member that holds a leading-end portion of the recording medium so that the recording medium is wrapped around an outer circumferential surface of the transfer body; a trailing-end holding member that is movable in a circumferential direction of the transfer body, the trailing-end holding member holding a trailing-end portion of the recording medium wrapped around the transfer body such that the trailing-end portion lies along the outer circumferential surface of the transfer body by bringing a holding surface of the trailing-end holding member into contact with the trailing-end portion; and a cleaning portion that contacts the holding surface of the trailing-end holding member, which moves relative to the transfer body, in order to clean the holding surface. | 08-22-2013 |
20130234386 | TRANSPORT DEVICE, TRANSFER DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A transport device includes a transporting member that transports an object that is wound around an outer peripheral surface thereof by rotating; a holding unit that is rotatably supported by the transporting member at a first end thereof, the holding unit holding a leading end of the object in a transport direction by gripping the leading end between a second end thereof and the outer peripheral surface when the object enters a space between the second end and the outer peripheral surface; and a positioning unit disposed on the transporting member or the holding unit so as to be movable downstream in a direction in which the object enters the space. The positioning unit contacts the leading end of the object that has entered the space and positions the object in the transport direction when the holding unit moves to hold the object. | 09-12-2013 |
20140268234 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing apparatus has a sheet holding unit having a detection unit for detecting a size of a sheet which is held and a storage unit configured to store sheet information including at least a size of a sheet as information representing a sheet. The apparatus sets first sheet information selected by a user in association with the sheet holding unit from a plurality of items of sheet information stored in the storage unit and notifies the user of a mismatch in a case where a size of a sheet that the first sheet information set in the setting indicates, and a size of a sheet detected by the detection unit are mismatched. | 09-18-2014 |
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20140255061 | DEVELOPING DEVICE - A developing device includes: a developer carrying member (sleeve); a regulating portion including an edge portion at a closest position to a surface of the sleeve or a flat portion tilted, at the closest position, by an angle of 2 degrees or less relative to a contact flat plane contacting the surface of the sleeve; and a rectifying portion connected with the edge or flat portion. The rectifying portion has a concavely curved surface such that a rate of a decrease in gap between the rectifying portion and the contact flat plane increases toward a downstream side of the developer feeding direction and is formed by smoothly connecting rectilinear or curved lines each of 0.2 mm or less except for the edge portion so that the gap between the rectifying portion and the contact flat plane is monotonically decreases toward the downstream side of the developer feeding direction. | 09-11-2014 |
20150043948 | LAYER THICKNESS REGULATING MEMBER, DEVELOPING DEVICE AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A layer thickness regulating member includes: an opposing portion opposing a peripheral surface of a developer carrying member; a layer thickness regulating portion, projecting from the opposing portion toward the developer carrying member, for regulating a layer thickness of a developer carried on the developer carrying member; and a rib portion provided in a side, of the opposing portion, opposite from the layer thickness regulating portion. The opposing portion, the layer thickness regulating portion and the rib portion are integrally molded. The rib portion is disposed at a non-overlapping position with a region, at least in an image forming region, corresponding to a region where the layer thickness regulating portion is formed at the opposing portion. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043950 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND LAYER THICKNESS REGULATING MEMBER - A developing device includes: a developer carrying member and a layer thickness regulating member. The layer thickness regulating member includes: an opposing portion, a regulating portion, side wall portions, and a plurality of rib portions each extending from the side wall portion in one end side to the side wall portion in the other end side with respect to the rotational axis direction of the developer carrying member. A space is formed by being defined by the side wall portions and the rib portions. Substantial no rib portion dividing the space with respect to a longitudinal direction of said layer thickness regulating member is provided. | 02-12-2015 |
20150078778 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A developing device includes: a developer carrying member; a developing container; a pair of first seal members provided at end portions of the developer carrying member along a circumferential direction of the developer carrying member so as to contact the developer carrying member in a side opposite from a side where the developer carrying member opposes the image bearing member; and a pair of second seal members provided at the end portions of the developer carrying member adjacent to the first seal members in a side downstream of the developing position and which is upstream of the first seal members with respect to a rotational direction of the developer carrying member, wherein the second seal members contact a surface of the developer carrying member. | 03-19-2015 |