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| 20090052939 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CHARGING DEVICE AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USED IN THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The invention provides a charging device used in an image forming apparatus such as a copier, a fax machine, a printer or the like, the charging device including: a gold-plated discharge wire for charging an image carrier such as a photoconductive member or the like; and a cleaning member, having an abrasive, for cleaning the discharge wire, with the gold plating being maintained over time satisfactorily, and provides a process cartridge having this charging device. The cleaning member has an abrasive containing alumina and/or silicon, the grain size of which ranges from #6000 to #8000. The discharge wire is a tungsten wire on which a plating film is formed by gold plating, such that the thickness of the plating film is not smaller than 1.5 μm, and the diameter of the tungsten wire is not smaller than 30 μm. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20100278549 | IMAGE FOMRING APARATUS AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING CHARGE BIAS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier configured to carry an image and a charger to which a direct current voltage overlapped with an AC voltage is applied as a charging bias to charge the image carrier. The charger is positioned in contact or contactlessly with the image carrier. The AC voltage applied to the charger in an adjustment of the AC voltage is not less than twice a charging start voltage Vth at which the image carrier starts to be charged. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110026992 | Image forming apparatus - In an image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming devices, a first image forming device in which a leveling blade that functions as a lubricant leveling blade is easily worn away over time uses an obtuse-angle blade as a first leveling blade, and a second image forming device being other image forming device among the plurality of image forming devices uses a right-angle blade as a second leveling blade. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20120134725 | CLEANING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning device to remove untransferred toner from a surface of an image carrier rotatable in a predetermined direction. The cleaning device includes a lubricant supply roller contacting the surface of the image carrier to supply a lubricant carried thereon to the surface of the image carrier, a first blade provided upstream from the lubricant supply roller in the direction of rotation of the image carrier, and a second blade provided downstream from the lubricant supply roller. The first blade contacts the surface of the image carrier to level the untransferred toner attaching to the surface of the image carrier to a thin layer. The second blade contacts the surface of the image carrier to level the lubricant supplied to the surface of the image carrier by the lubricant supply roller to a thin layer and to remove the untransferred toner from the surface of the image carrier. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120163837 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a cleaning device that collects a waste toner attached to the surface of the image carrier using a cleaning member, a waste container that is removable from an image forming apparatus body, a temporary storage unit that is provided in the image forming apparatus body to temporarily store a waste including the waste toner collected in the cleaning device before the waste is transported to the waste container, and a waste transport unit that transports the waste to the temporary storage unit, wherein a discharge speed of the waste from the temporary storage unit by the waste discharge unit is lower than a transport speed of the waste to the temporary storage unit by the waste transport unit. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120195664 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When the acute angle between a normal line, oriented outward from a blade abutting portion of a photosensitive member over which a cleaning blade remains abutted before separation of the surface of the photosensitive member from the cleaning blade, and a horizontal plane, passing through the origin of the normal line, is expressed as a positive value when the normal line lies above the horizontal plane and expressed as a negative value when the normal line lies below the horizontal plane; an imaging unit frame so supports a photosensitive module that the photosensitive member can rotate to a specific rotational position having a greater angle than the angle at the time of separation of the surface of the photosensitive member from the cleaning blade. Until the photosensitive member rotates from a normal rotational position to the specific rotational position, the photosensitive module cannot be removed from the imaging unit frame. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120315053 | LUBRICANT SUPPLY DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A lubricant supply device including a solid lubricant, a lubricant supply roller, a detector, and a varying device is provided. The lubricant supply roller is adapted to supply the lubricant to a toner image bearing member and is rotatable in a predetermined direction while slidably contacting both the solid lubricant and the toner image bearing member. The detector is adapted to detect an absolute humidity around the lubricant supply device. The varying device is adapted to vary an amount of the lubricant to be supplied to the toner image bearing member based on the absolute humidity detected by the detector. | 12-13-2012 |
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| 20090274997 | System And Method For Comparing Dental X-Ray Images - A system for comparing dental X-ray images includes a positional displacement calculator calculating a positional displacement between dental X-ray test and reference images by using phase-only correlation, a positional displacement corrector correcting the positional displacement, a base point extractor defining, as a base image, any one of the dental X-ray test and reference images, and defining, as a corresponding image, the other one of the two dental images, and extracting base points from the base image, a corresponding point extractor extracting corresponding points, which correspond to the base points, from the corresponding image, a correspondence calculator calculating correspondence between the base points and the corresponding points, a nonlinear distortion corrector correcting a nonlinear distortion between the base image and the corresponding image, based on the correspondence, and a similarity calculator finding, by using phase-only correlation, a similarity between the base image and the corresponding image. | 11-05-2009 |
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| 20080289896 | Four wheeled utility vehicle - The invention provides a four wheeled utility vehicle which can efficiently introduce a cooling air into an engine room from a front side of the vehicle. The vehicle is provided with a cabin arranged between front wheels and rear wheels and accommodating a seat of the vehicle and an operating portion in front of the seat to steer the vehicle; an engine room arranged within the cabin or at a position rearward of the cabin to accommodate an engine of the vehicle therein, and configured to be covered by a wall surface at least in a front side and an upper side of the engine; an air duct extending forward from the engine room, and introducing an engine room cooling air into the engine room. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20110148144 | PICK-UP STYLE UTILITY VEHICLE WITH EXPANDABLE CARGO BED - A pick-up style utility vehicle according to the present invention has a front seat, a rear seat, a cargo bed expandable in a front direction, and a screen shield arranged at a front end of the cargo bed. The cargo bed has at least a stationary bottom plate, right and left stationary side panels, a front panel, expandable side panels, and an expandable bottom plate and can be changed between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded in a front direction to a rear portion riding space and a non-expanded state not occupying the space. Each of the expandable side panels and the screen shield are supported by a vehicle body configuring portion so as to be integrally shifted between an expanded position and a non-expanded position. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110156441 | PICK-UP STYLE UTILITY VEHICLE WITH EXPANDABLE CARGO BED - A pick-up style utility vehicle according to the present invention has a front seat, a rear seat, and a cargo bed in this order from front, a cabin frame surrounding a riding space, and a screen shield partitioning the cargo bed and a rear riding space in front of the cargo bed. The cargo bed is changeable between an expanded state in which the cargo bed is expanded forward to the rear riding space and a non-expanded state not occupying the rear riding space. All or part of the screen shield is angle shiftable between the expanded state and the non-expanded state. | 06-30-2011 |
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| 20120065779 | ROBOT - A robot includes a gripping section adapted to grip an object by open and close a pair of finger sections, a moving device adapted to relatively move the object and the gripping section, and a control device adapted to control the moving device to move the gripping section relatively toward the object, and dispose the pair of finger sections in a periphery of the object, and then control the gripping section to open and close the pair of finger sections in a plane parallel to a mounting surface on which the object is mounted, pinch the object between the pair of finger sections from a lateral side of the object, and grip the object with the gripping section at least three contact points. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120065780 | ROBOT - A robot includes a gripping section and a main body section to which the pair of finger sections are attached, having one end sections of the pair of finger sections rotatably connected to each other around a first rotating shaft disposed at a position separate from the main body section, and adapted to open and close the pair of finger sections by swinging the other side of the pair of finger sections on a plane parallel to a mounting surface on which an object is mounted centered on the first rotating shaft to thereby grip the object, a moving device adapted to relatively move the object and the gripping section, and a control device adapted to control the moving device to move the gripping section relatively toward the object, and grip the object with the gripping section at at least three contact points. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120153652 | ROBOT AND ROBOT HAND - A recess has a proximal-end-side surface and a distal-end-side surface. When an intersection between a straight line included in the proximal-end-side surface and a straight line included in the distal-end-side surface is a base point, a line passing through the base point is a base line, a line between two claw portions, passing through an end point of the recess and orthogonal to the base line is an orthogonal line, the angle α made between the base line, and the straight line included in the distal-end-side surface is greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees, the angle β made between the orthogonal line, and the straight line included in the proximal-end-side surface is greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees, and the length d from the base point to the orthogonal line is greater than 0. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120205932 | ROBOT HAND AND ROBOT APPARATUS - A robot hand includes a first finger unit and a second finger unit, a driving unit that causes the finger units to perform an opening and closing action, and a finger-unit moving mechanism that changes a direction in which the opening and closing action of the first finger unit and the second finger unit is performed. The finger-unit moving mechanism includes a worm wheel, a motor, and a worm. A first gear that rotates in a direction different from the rotating direction of the worm in association with the rotation of the worm is provided in the first finger unit. A second gear that rotates in a direction opposite to the rotating direction of the first gear in association with the rotation of the worm is provided in the second finger unit. | 08-16-2012 |
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| 20110139065 | Cutting Device and Tape Printer Including Cutting Device - A cutting device which cuts a tape-shaped material in a width direction of the tape-shaped material, includes: a tape pressing mechanism which presses the tape-shaped material at the time of cutting the tape-shaped material, the tape pressing mechanism, a tape guiding unit which has a guiding surface for guiding the tape-shaped material and a receiving surface as a concaved portion with respect to the guiding surface, and a tape pressing unit which has a pressing surface for pressing the receiving surface of the tape guiding unit with the tape-shaped material sandwiched between the pressing surface and the receiving surface. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110158732 | Cutting Device And Tape Printing Apparatus Equipped Therewith - A cutting device which carries out cutting operations in a width direction of a tape-like member, includes: a cutter unit having a cutter blade; and a cutter operation mechanism having a power transmission mechanism which transmits power for causing the cutter unit to operate and carry out a circulatory movement including the cutting operations, a full cutting and a half cutting, with one mechanism, wherein the power transmission mechanism has a rotating circular plate which rotates by means of power input from a drive portion, and the rotating circular plate has on each surface an engagement portion which branches and transmits power caused by the rotation. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158733 | Cutting Device And Tape Printing Apparatus Equipped Therewith - A cutting device which carries out cutting operations in a width direction of a tape-like member, includes: a cutter operation mechanism which causes the cutting operations, a full cutting and a half cutting, to be carried out with one mechanism; and a tape discharge mechanism having a tape discharge roller which, by rotating, causes the tape-like member to move to a discharge side, wherein the tape discharge mechanism comes in conjunction with the cutter operation mechanism, and the tape discharge roller rotates only after the cutting operation at a time of the full cutting finishes. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158734 | Cutting Device And Tape Printing Apparatus Equipped Therewith - A cutting device which carries out a cutting operation on a tape-like member in a width direction thereof, includes: a cutter operation mechanism, as well as making a cutting start position different between a full cutting and a half cutting in the cutting preparation operation, causes a cutter unit to carry out a first cutting operation, which causes the cutter unit to move in the width direction from the cutting start position to a predetermined position, and a second cutting operation, which causes the cutter unit to advance from the predetermined position to the cutting completion position in a direction approximately perpendicular to a tape surface of the tape-like member, on the tape-like member in the cutting operation. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158735 | Cutting Device And Tape Printing Apparatus Equipped Therewith - A cutting device includes: a cutter unit having a cutter blade; and a cutter operation mechanism which causes the cutter unit to carry out a circulatory movement including a cutting preparation operation which causes the cutter unit to advance toward a tape-like member from a cutting start position, a cutting operation which causes the cutter unit to move to a cutting completion position, a withdrawal operation which causes the cutter unit to retreat from the cutting completion position to a withdrawal position, and a return operation which causes the cutter unit to return to a cutting stand-by position, wherein the cutter operation mechanism, in the return operation, makes the cutting start position and withdrawal position of the cutter unit different between a full cutting which cuts all of the tape-like member and a half cutting which cuts one portion of the tape-like member. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110158736 | Cutting Device And Tape Printing Apparatus Equipped Therewith - A cutting device includes: a cutter unit having a cutter blade; and a cutter operation mechanism which causes the cutter unit to carry out a circulatory movement including a cutting preparation operation which causes the cutter unit to advance toward a tape-like member from a cutting stand-by position to a cutting start position, the cutting operation which causes the cutter unit to move from the cutting start position to a cutting completion position, a withdrawal operation which causes the cutter unit to retreat from the cutting completion position to a withdrawal position, and a return operation which causes the cutter unit to return from the withdrawal position to the cutting stand-by position, wherein the cutter operation mechanism, in the cutting preparation operation, makes the cutting start operation different between a full cutting and a half cutting. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20120012255 | Tape Placement Apparatus And Tape Printer Provided Therewith - A tape placement apparatus in which a small roll of wound tape with an adhesive is placed in such a way that a tape can be unreeled freely from the small roll of tape, includes: a rotating table with which a tape end face of the small roll of tape makes contact after being positioned; and a table supporting section rotatably supporting the rotating table. | 01-19-2012 |
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| 20080246880 | VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A video signal processing apparatus includes a video signal synthesis section for, when positions after and before a border position by a predetermined length are respectively set as first and second positions, taking out a first main area part corresponding to a part before the border position and a first border area part corresponding to a part from the border position to the first position from a first video signal and also a second border area part corresponding to a part from the second position to the border position and a second main area part corresponding to a part after the border position from a second video signal for synthesis, an image processing section for performing an image processing on the synthesized video signal, and a video signal output section for removing the first and second border area parts from the synthesized video signal to obtain an output video signal. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20120249565 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A signal processing circuit includes: a memory storing an image signal; a write control unit generating a write control signal in synchronization with the input image signal and frame identification information, and storing the input image signal in the memory so that the input image signal corresponds to the frame identification information on the basis of the write control signal; and a read control unit generating a read control signal through obtaining a vertical synchronization signal supplied from outside based on a timing signal of an output horizontal frequency, and reading an image signal that corresponds to the frame identification information from the memory on the basis of the read control signal and the frame identification information supplied from outside. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120287743 | CLOCK HANDOFF CIRCUIT AND CLOCK HANDOFF METHOD - A clock handoff circuit outputting data in synchronism with a first clock input thereto as output data in synchronism with a second clock, includes: a dual port RAM capable of performing writing and reading independently of each other; a write address control section controlling write addresses of the dual port RAM in which the input data is written; a blank address detecting section detecting blank addresses among the write addresses in which the input data is not written; and a read address conversion section converting the write addresses of the dual port RAM excluding the blank address into read addresses from which the output data are read out. | 11-15-2012 |
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| 20110175072 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - Provided is an organic light-emitting device that shows high luminous efficiency even when driven at a high luminance. More specifically, provided is an organic light-emitting device, including: an anode (transparent electrode layer) and a cathode (metal electrode layer); and an organic compound layer being interposed between the anode and the cathode, and including an emission layer, in which: the emission layer has a host, a first dopant, and a second dopant; the host includes an aromatic hydrocarbon compound; the first dopant includes a phosphorescent iridium complex; and the second dopant includes a compound having two triarylamine structures. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110198582 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - An organic light-emitting device includes an organic compound layer containing an organic compound in which the 3-position of a benzo[k]fluoranthene ring is bonded to the 8-position of a fluoranthene ring, and an organic compound having a pyrene ring. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110227057 | PERYLENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE USING THE COMPOUND - Provided is an organic light emitting device having high light emitting efficiency and good emission color purity. The organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic compound layer which is sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, in which one of the anode and the cathode is transparent or semi-transparent and the organic compound layer contains at least one kind of perylene compound represented by the following general formula (1): | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110240974 | NOVEL BENZO[b]CHRYSENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention provides a benzo[b]chrysene compound represented by general formula [1] below and an organic light-emitting element including the compound. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110272683 | NOVEL BICHRYSENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE HAVING THE COMPOUND - Provided are a novel bichrysene compound and an organic light emitting device having high light emitting efficiency and excellent driving durability. The organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and a layer formed of an organic compound interposed between the anode and the cathode. The layer formed of an organic compound has a bichrysene compound represented by the following general formula (1). | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110279025 | NOVEL CHRYSENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE HAVING THE COMPOUND - To provide a novel chrysene compound and an organic light-emitting device having high emission efficiency and excellent driving durability, provided is a novel triaryl-substituted chrysene compound represented by the general formula [1]: | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120013700 | NOVEL FUSED POLYCYCLIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a fused polycyclic compound represented by general formula 1: | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120235888 | NEW BENZO[c]PHENANTHRENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE CONTAINING SAME - There is provided a benzo[c]phenanthrene compound represented by formula [1]: | 09-20-2012 |
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| 20080200736 | MATERIAL FOR ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT INCLUDING THE SAME - A fluorene compound and an organic light-emitting element including the fluorene compound are provided. The fluorene compound is represented by the following general formula [1], and the fluorene compound is a material for an organic light-emitting element. A steric hindrance group is introduced directly on a fluorene ring in the fluorene compound. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090091252 | BINAPHTHYL COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a novel binaphthyl compound and an organic light emitting element having a good light emitting efficiency and a high durability at a low driving voltage. An organic light emitting element including an anode and a cathode, and a layer including an organic compound sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, wherein one of the anode and the cathode is transparent or semi-transparent, and the layer including an organic compound includes at least one binaphthyl compound represented by the following general formula [I]: | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090115323 | OLIGOFLUORENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC EL ELEMENT USING SAME - An oligofluorene compound is represented by the General Formula (1) below | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090278118 | BENZOFLUORANTHENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE USING THE COMPOUND - There are provided a novel benzofluoranthene compound and an organic light-emitting device which uses the benzofluoranthene compound, gives a blue emission hue with extremely good purity, and has an optical output with a high efficiency, a high luminance, and a long life. Specifically, there are provided a benzofluoranthene compound represented by the general formula shown below and an organic light-emitting device including a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode one of which is a transparent or translucent electrode material, and an organic compound layer disposed between the pair of electrodes and including a material for an organic light-emitting device containing the benzofluoranthene compound. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100327274 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - An organic blue-light-emitting device having a high emission efficiency and a long continuous driving lifetime is provided. An organic light-emitting device | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110024737 | FUSED POLYCYCLIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE HAVING THE COMPOUND - Provided are a fused polycyclic compound obtained by expanding the conjugated system of a chrysene skeleton, and an organic light emitting device using the compound. The organic light emitting device has an optical output with high efficiency and high luminance, and is extremely durable. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110282063 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A DIAZAFLUORENE COMPOUND - The present invention provides a novel diazafluorene compound for manufacturing a 4,5-diazafluorene derivative. The diazafluorene compound is represented by the general formula (1): | 11-17-2011 |
| 20120061657 | BINAPHTHYL COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT USING THE SAME - The present invention provides a novel binaphthyl compound and an organic light emitting element having a good light emitting efficiency and a high durability at a low driving voltage. An organic light emitting element including an anode and a cathode, and a layer including an organic compound sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, wherein one of the anode and the cathode is transparent or semi-transparent, and the layer including an organic compound includes at least one binaphthyl compound represented by the following general formula [I]: | 03-15-2012 |