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| 20090021641 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVER AND RECEIVING METHOD - An unreceivability detector ( | 01-22-2009 |
| 20120133840 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEPTION DEVICE AND DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEPTION METHOD - Disclosed is a digital broadcast reception device that includes a plurality of tuner/demodulator units; a tuning control unit; a current position detection unit for detecting a current position; a channel scan control unit that has one of the plurality of tuner/demodulator units perform tuning for program viewing or listening, and has another one of the plurality of tuner/demodulator units perform a channel scan by tuning to the physical channels sequentially and detecting receivable physical channels; a broadcast area map generation unit for generating broadcast area maps including the receivable physical channels when the channel scan is executed, broadcast service information regarding broadcast content of the physical channels, and receivable position information; and a broadcast area map storage unit for storing the generated broadcast area maps. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120176551 | DIGITAL BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS AND CHANNEL SWITCHING METHOD - An apparatus to start channel switchover processing with reliability and to shorten an image non-displaying period. The apparatus stores a second channel-selection control information for each channel, including an I-picture appearance time which is a time when a packet including an I-picture is received and an I-pictures appearance interval-time which is an interval between times when a packet including an I-picture is received; and a control unit obtains, after an input of switching of the channel-selection is received, the I-picture appearance time and the I-pictures appearance interval-time corresponding to the switched channel from the channel-selection control information, adds the obtained I-pictures appearance interval-time to the obtained I-picture appearance time, calculates an I-picture appearance estimated-time which is a time when a packet including an I-picture is obtained subsequently, and delays a channel switchover until a time earlier than the I-picture appearance estimated-time by a switchover period-of-time required for the switching of the channel-selection. | 07-12-2012 |
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| 20120017459 | HAND DRYER - A hand dryer includes a hand drying chamber that includes a hand insertion opening from which a hand is inserted, a first wall section that faces the hand inserted from the hand insertion, opening, a second wall section that faces the hand and the first wall section, and a plurality of air nozzle sections, which extends in a direction from the hand insertion opening to a far side and jets a high-speed air, on any one of the first wall section and the second wall section, wherein a distance between the first wall section or the second wall section that faces the air nozzle sections and the air nozzle sections is large in an upper portion and is small in a lower portion. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120017460 | HAND DRYER - A hand dryer includes a hand drying chamber that includes a hand insertion opening from which a hand is inserted, a first wall section that faces the hand inserted from the hand insertion opening, a second wall section that faces the hand and the first wall section, and a plurality of air nozzle sections, which extends in a direction from the hand insertion opening to a far side and jets a high-speed air, on any one of the first wall section and the second wall section, and a distance between the air nozzle sections in a horizontal direction is wide on a side of the hand insertion opening and is narrow on the far side. | 01-26-2012 |
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| 20090067188 | LIGHT SOURCE - A first optical waveguide guides a pumping light emitted from a semiconductor laser. A second optical waveguide absorbs the pumping light and emits a spontaneous emission light having a wavelength longer than that of the pumping light. A third optical waveguide guides a light output from the second optical waveguide to outside. A wavelength selecting element is provided between the second optical waveguide and the third optical waveguide, across which a resonator is formed between the semiconductor laser side and an output side to outside. A wavelength of a laser light emitted from the resonator is set by controlling length of the second optical waveguide. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20100303102 | OPTICAL FIBER COMPONENT AND OPTICAL MODULE USING THE SAME - An optical fiber component comprises an optical fiber that transmits light; and a coreless fiber that is connected to the end surface of the optical fiber and prevents foreign matter from adhering to the end surface of the optical fiber. The optical fiber and the coreless fiber are connected by fusing one end surface of the coreless fiber to the end surface of the optical fiber. The core section on the end surface of the optical fiber is no longer exposed to the air. Moreover, the power density of light that is input at the core of the optical fiber is greatly reduced more than when there is no coreless fiber, so it is possible to prevent compounds of C, H and O from adhering to the core of the optical fiber. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110243502 | OPTICAL MULTIPLEXER/DEMULTIPLEXER MODULE AND PRISM USING FOR THE SAME - An optical multiplexer/demultiplexer module comprises: a plurality of prisms, each having an inclined surface that is formed by one of the four orthogonal corners of a transparent rectangular solid glass plate being cut and removed at a 45° angle with respect to the end surface; a frame for housing said plurality of prisms; and a plurality of collimator units that convert light having a different wavelength for each prism to collimated light, and inputs the light to the respective prism. When light a having different wavelength is input to a respective prism, the input light is reflected two times, by the inclined surface and a second end surface, after which the light is output from the respective prism. The light that is output from a previous stage prism of the plurality of prisms advances along the same optical path as the light that is output from a later stage prism, so the light that is output from each respective prism is sequentially multiplexed and wavelength multiplexed light is output from the third end surface of the final stage prism. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120141065 | OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE COLLIMATOR AND OPTICAL SWITCHING DEVICE - An optical waveguide collimator includes: an optical waveguide base material which includes a light emitting face having a light emitting end face of an optical waveguide, and an adhering area face provided separated from the light emitting face; a collimator lens arranged on a light emitting end face side of the optical waveguide; and a lens holding member which holds the collimator lens and which is adhered and fixed to the adhering area face of the optical waveguide base material. | 06-07-2012 |
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| 20090026535 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - The technology of preventing lowering of the element breakdown voltage of a trench gate control type semiconductor element is offered. n | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090215239 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A trench gate type power transistor of high performance is provided. A trench gate as a gate electrode is formed in a super junction structure comprising a drain layer and an epitaxial layer. In this case, the gate electrode is formed in such a manner that an upper surface of the epitaxial layer becomes higher than that of a channel layer formed over the drain layer. Then, an insulating film is formed over each of the channel layer and the epitaxial layer and thereafter a part of the insulating film is removed to form side wall spacers over side walls of the epitaxial layer. Subsequently, with the side wall spacers as masks, a part of the channel layer and that of the drain layer are removed to form a trench for a trench gate. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090256197 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a technology, in a semiconductor device having a power MISFET and a Schottky barrier diode on one semiconductor substrate, capable of suppressing a drastic increase in the on-resistance of the power MISFET while making the avalanche breakdown voltage of the Schottky barrier diode greater than that of the power MISFET. In the present invention, two epitaxial layers, one having a high doping concentration and the other having a low doping concentration, are formed over a semiconductor substrate and the boundary between these two epitaxial layers is located in a region equal in depth to or shallower than the bottom portion of a trench. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20100171174 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A gate trench | 07-08-2010 |
| 20110068392 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A gate trench | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110086480 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A trench is formed so as to reach a p | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110233665 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A gate trench | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120021578 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A trench gate type power transistor of high performance is provided. A trench gate as a gate electrode is formed in a super junction structure comprising a drain layer and an epitaxial layer. In this case, the gate electrode is formed in such a manner that an upper surface of the epitaxial layer becomes higher than that of a channel layer formed over the drain layer. Then, an insulating film is formed over each of the channel layer and the epitaxial layer and thereafter a part of the insulating film is removed to form side wall spacers over side walls of the epitaxial layer. Subsequently, with the side wall spacers as masks, a part of the channel layer and that of the drain layer are removed to form a trench for a trench gate. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120273877 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A trench is formed so as to reach a p | 11-01-2012 |
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| 20090278984 | Communication system, transmission apparatus, receiving apparatus, communication method, and program - The present invention relates to a communication system capable of performing efficient data transmission in HDMI(R) and the like, a transmission apparatus, a receiving apparatus, a communication method, and a program. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20120274849 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING VIDEO DATA - An HDMI® source determines whether or not an HDMI® sink can receive a sub-signal based on VSDB of E-EDID. When the HDMI® sink can receive the sub-signal, the HDMI® source adds a sub-signal to pixel data of a main image composed of pixel data whose number of bits is smaller than that of transmission pixel data transmitted by a transmitter, thereby constructing transmission pixel data. This data is transmitted by the transmitter through TMDS channels #0 to #2. Furthermore, the HDMI® source transmits a general control packet containing sub-signal information indicating whether or not the sub-signal is contained in the transmission pixel data in the control period of a vertical blanking period. The present invention can be applied to, for example, HDMI®. | 11-01-2012 |
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| 20090062366 | Pyrrolidine derivative or salt thereof - [Problem] To provide a compound which may be used in treating diseases in which a calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) is concerned, particularly hyperparathyroidism. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20100216803 | ORNITHINE DERIVATIVE - Provided is a compound which is useful as a therapeutic agent for chronic renal insufficiency and a therapeutic agent for diabetic nephropathy. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110028463 | AMIDE COMPOUNDS - [Problems] To provide a compound that is useful as an agent for treating chronic renal insufficiency or an agent for treating diabetic nephropathy.
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| 20110082133 | PYRIDONE COMPOUNDS - [Problems] A useful compound which can be used as a pharmaceutical, in particular, an agent for treating peripheral arterial occlusive disease is provided. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110144153 | AMIDE COMPOUND - [Problems] A compound, which is useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition, for example, a pharmaceutical composition for treating chronic renal failure and/or diabetic nephropathy, is provided. | 06-16-2011 |
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| 20080201735 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program - In the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus for recommending contents. The information processing apparatus may include recommended content extracting means for, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, during a period within a predetermined time from a point in time at which the predetermined condition is satisfied, with one or more contents that are being distributed or whose distribution is to be started from one or more distribution sources, respectively, as processing objects, extracting a recommended content to be recommended to a user from the processing objects on a basis of content information on each of the processing objects and preference information. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080244656 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program - In the present invention, there is provided an information processing apparatus for recommending contents. The information processing apparatus may include recommendation information generating means for generating recommendation information for presenting a recommended content to be recommended to a user to the user, and when presenting the recommendation information to the user, changing a form of presentation of at least a part of the recommendation information. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080263595 | Information processing apparatus and method and program - In the present invention, there is provide an information processing apparatus configured to present, to a user, a content guide arranged with a plurality of content frames including information for guiding predetermined content, the information processing apparatus including: a presentation control unit for presenting, to the user, if a first content guide of a first range is being presented, a second content guide formed by a second range different from the first range when a first condition is satisfied, the second content guide including a focus content frame focused as processing subject when the first condition was satisfied, instead of the first content guide. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20090207183 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method, and program - A plurality of input image signals are synthesized to generate a synthesis signal on the basis of synthesis information indicating an area where input image signals which are image signals of an image composed of at least one of input moving images and still images are respectively synthesized, a motion vector of the synthesis signal is detected, a synthesis interpolation exclusion area is decided where the interpolation in the synthesis signal is not performed on the basis of the synthesis information and interpolation control information indicating an input interpolation exclusion area where the interpolation in the respective input image signals is not performed, and a synthesis signal in-between signal is interpolated and output which is an image signal at an arbitrary time between the synthesis signal and a previous synthesis signal on the basis of the motion vector in an area other than the synthesis interpolation exclusion area. | 08-20-2009 |
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| 20110257778 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIMULATING NC WORKING MACHINE - Even in an uncuttable state in which an actual rotational direction of a main spindle is not matched with an actually cuttable main spindle rotational direction of a tool, an interference check between a workpiece and the tool is performed. Accordingly, the cuttable main spindle rotational direction of the selected tool or the uncuttable main spindle rotational direction is compared with each main spindle rotational direction of a working machine during execution of a simulation, and it is determined whether an interference check between the tool blade edge and the workpiece is necessary on the basis of the comparison result. When it is determined that the interference check is not necessary in the step above, the interference check between the tool blade edge and the workpiece is not performed. When it is determined that the interference check is necessary, the interference check between the tool blade edge and the workpiece is performed. When the interference therebetween is present, abnormality is detected. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120016507 | PROCESSING SIMULATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM MAKING COMPUTER EXECUTE THE METHOD - A processing simulation method and apparatus is provided, which can appropriately detect interference between a tool processing area and a shape model of a material without being affected by the accuracy of expression of a tool movement path and the shape model. A tool shape model for processing a material, that includes a strict tool shape, and a tool shape model for checking interference, that is included in the strict tool shape, are generated by tool model setting unit according to an error range set in consideration of the tool movement path and the expression accuracy of the shape model, and the processed material shape model is generated by generating a tool processing area shape model from the tool movement path during processing feed and the tool shape model for processing the material and removing the tool processing area shape model from the material shape model. The tool processing area shape model is generated from a tool movement path during fast feed and the tool shape model for detecting the interference, and the interference between the tool processing area shape model and the material shape model is detected. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20130030781 | PROCESSING STIMULATION METHOD, DEVICE FOR THE SAME, AND PROGRAM FOR CAUSING A COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THE METHOD - When a material shape model is separated in shear through processing, a shape model of a material in a state of being suspended remains in mid-air, and thus, interference is detected excessively. In order to prevent the excessive detection of interference, in a processing simulation method for generating a shape model of a processed material from a shape model of a material and a shape model of a tool processing area which is defined from a shape model of the tool and a movement path of the tool, the shape model of the material being separated into a plurality of shapes by processing is detected; a material shape to be cut-off is extracted from the separated material shapes; and the extracted material shape to be cut-off is excluded from subject of simulation. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130066457 | METHOD OF GENERATING A NUMERICAL CONTROL PROGRAM, APPARATUS FOR THE SAME, AND PROGRAM FOR CAUSING A COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THE METHOD - In a method of generating a numerical control program in which, based on sectional shape data of a product to which a relief processing is to be performed, a numerical control program for turning-processing the product is generated in order to recognize a groove shape data existing in the vicinity of a corner as a relief sectional shape, wherein groove shape data is extracted from the sectional shape data, an intersection of a line segment parallel to a turning axis and a line segment that is not parallel to the line segment is calculated as a corner of the sectional shape data, and the groove shape data is recognized as a relief sectional shape in a case where dimensions of a frame which includes from the corner to the groove shape data are within predetermined dimensions. | 03-14-2013 |
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| 20110293961 | SILVER-CONTAINING ALLOY PLATING BATH AND METHOD FOR ELECTROLYTIC PLATING USING SAME - The present invention provides a silver-containing alloy electrolytic plating bath which can produce silver-containing alloy plated products having excellent resistance to oxidation suitable for electronic members, decoration members, and dental members, and a method for electrolytic plating using the same. Specifically the plating bath is to deposit a silver-containing alloy on the surface of the substrate. The silver-containing alloy plated products having excellent resistance to oxidation can be manufactured by using the plating bath which contains (a) a silver compound containing 99.9% to 46% by mass of silver on the basis of the total metal mass therein, (b) a gadolinium compound containing 0.1% to 54% by mass of gadolinium on the basis of the total metal mass therein, (c) at least one kind of complexing agent, and (d) a solvent, and by using the method for electrolytic plating applying the plating bath. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120208044 | TIN-CONTAINING ALLOY PLATING BATH, ELECTROPLATING METHOD USING SAME, AND SUBSTRATE WITH THE ELECTROPLATING DEPOSITED THEREON - Provided are a tin-containing alloy plating bath being capable of manufacturing a tin-containing alloy plated product suitable for electric and electronic members with excellent anti-oxidation performance, and an electroplating method using the bath. Specifically the bath is a plating bath to deposit a tin-containing alloy on the surface of a substrate, which plating bath contains: (a) a tin compound containing 99.9% by mass to 46% by mass of tin based on entire metal mass in the plating bath; (b) a gadolinium compound containing 0.1% by mass to 54% by mass of gadolinium based on entire metal mass in the plating bath; (c) at least one complexing agent; and (d) a solvent, and the electroplating method uses the tin-containing alloy bath, thus can manufacture a tin-containing alloy plated product having excellent anti-oxidation performance. | 08-16-2012 |
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| 20110115359 | LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT - A light-emitting element comprising a substrate; a light-emitting layer disposed above the substrate and emitting a primary light; and, a reflective film disposed between the substrate and the light-emitting layer and formed by at least one layer that reflects the primary light, in which the light-emitting element further comprises a light dispersing multilayered film disposed between the substrate and the reflective film and formed by two or more types of light dispersing layers, and the light dispersing multilayered film multiple-disperses a secondary light into plural wavelengths and discharges the secondary light, which is excited by the primary light passing through the reflective film. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20120175589 | NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - A nitride semiconductor device is provided, in which a superlattice strain buffer layer using AlGaN layers having a low Al content or GaN layers is formed with good flatness, and a nitride semiconductor layer with good flatness and crystallinity is formed on the superlattice strain buffer layer. A nitride semiconductor device includes a substrate; an AlN strain buffer layer made of AlN formed on the substrate; a superlattice strain buffer layer formed on the AlN strain buffer layer; and a nitride semiconductor layer formed on the superlattice strain buffer layer, and is characterized in that the superlattice strain buffer layer has a superlattice structure formed by alternately stacking first layers made of Al | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120248387 | P-ALGAN LAYER, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND GROUP III NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - The method according to the present invention includes a first step of supplying the Group V source gas at a flow rate B | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120326209 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME - To provide a semiconductor device including a functional laminate having flatness and crystallinity improved by effectively passing on the crystallinity and flatness improved in a buffer to the functional laminate, and to provide a method of producing the semiconductor device; in the semiconductor device including the buffer and the functional laminate having a plurality of nitride semiconductor layers, the functional laminate includes a first n-type or i-type Al | 12-27-2012 |
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| 20090046916 | CT SCANNER AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A CT scanner which can reconstruct high-quality tomographic images using only the projected images obtained by scanning an object without requiring any special three-dimensional phantom is provided. A two-dimensional radiation sensor placed to face a radiation source via the object acquires projected images while relatively rotating the object in the radiation emitted from the radiation source. Tomographic images are obtained at one predetermined slice position of the object by performing, for each of geometrical calibration parameter values, reconstruction of a tomographic image of the object using one of the calibration parameter values based on acquired projected images. One of the calibration parameter values is selected based on the obtained tomographic images. A tomographic image is reconstructed at each slice position by using a selected calibration parameter value based on a projected image at each acquired slice position of the object. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090135452 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - With reference to any one of a plurality of images, the other images are moved by a distance greater than or equal to one pixel width in a main scanning direction and/or a sub-scanning direction. Then, the plurality of images are combined to form a composite image. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20100008465 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING CONTROL APPARATUS USING MULTI RADIATION GENERATING APPARATUS - A control apparatus for controlling a multi radiation generating apparatus having a plurality of radiation generating devices which irradiate a two-dimensional sensor with radiation sets the intensity of radiation with which the plurality of radiation generating devices irradiate the two-dimensional sensor based on information about a part or physique of a patient, which is input by an input device. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100245378 | RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND DARK CURRENT CORRECTION METHOD THEREFOR - A radiation imaging apparatus comprises: an irradiation unit; a radiation detection unit configured to detect radiation; an instruction unit configured to issue a radiation imaging start instruction; a setting unit configured to set an irradiation delay period between the time the instruction unit issues an imaging start instruction and the time irradiation by the irradiation unit starts; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of dark current images during the set irradiation delay period; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a radiation image of the object after the end of the set irradiation delay period; a correction data generation unit configured to generate correction data, for the acquired radiation image, based on the plurality of dark current images; and a correction unit configured to execute dark current correction processing of the acquired radiation image, by using the correction data. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20130068955 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR RADIATION IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A control device that controls a sensor capable of changing a magnitude of an accumulation capacitance of an electric charge for each pixel includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an output value according to an accumulated electric charge of each pixel of the sensor, a determination unit configured to determine whether the accumulation capacitance of each pixel is saturated based on the output value, and a setting unit configured to set magnitude of the accumulation capacitance for each pixel according to the determined accumulation capacitance. | 03-21-2013 |
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| 20090016782 | Developing device and image forming apparatus - A developing device is disposed facing an image bearing body that bears a latent image. The developing device includes a developer bearing body that bears a developer for developing the latent image. The developer includes mother particles and external additives. A liberation amount T (weight parts) of the external additives liberated from the mother particles with respect to 100 weight parts of the mother particles, a surface roughness Rz (m) of the developer bearing body, and a circumferential speed Vd (mm/s) of the developer bearing body satisfy the following relationships: | 01-15-2009 |
| 20100124433 | Developer, developer storing body, developing device and image forming apparatus - A developer includes a toner containing toner mother particles and external additives added to the toner mother particles. The toner mother particles contain at least a resin and a coloring agent. 1.5 to 3.0 weight parts of the external additives are added to 100 weight parts of the toner mother particles. The toner has a mean volume diameter in a range from 6.5 to 8.0 μm, and a surface roughness Rzjis in a range from 75.3 to 236.9 nm as measured using a scanning probe microscope. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100189464 | DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer includes a toner including a toner mother particle having a resin and a colorant and an external additive to be added to a surface of the toner mother particle. The toner has a volume average particle size of greater than or equal to 3.0 μm and smaller than or equal to 7.0 μm and has a surface roughness Rzjis of greater than or equal to 75.3 nm and smaller than or equal to 236.9 nm under observation using a scanning probe microscope. The external additive is titanium oxide having a particle size of greater than or equal to 10 nm and smaller than or equal to 100 nm. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100215408 | DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer has a molecular weight distribution of its tetrahydrofuran soluble portion measured by a gel permeation chromatography. In the molecular weight distribution, the main peak is in a range from 2×10 | 08-26-2010 |
| 20120148947 | DEVELOPER, DEVELOPER CONTAINER, IMAGE FORMING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a developer including at least a toner for developing electrostatic latent images. The toner includes toner base particles each containing at least one binder resin, and external additives for adhering to the outer surfaces of the toner base particles. The toner has a first triboelectric charge obtained by blow-off charge measurement at 20% relative humidity and a temperature of 10° C., and a second triboelectric charge obtained by blow-off charge measurement at 80% relative humidity and a temperature of 28° C. An absolute value of the difference between the first and second triboelectric charges is no larger than 20 μC/g. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120251188 | DEVELOPER, IMAGE FORMATION UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A developer includes particles of developer base material containing a binder resin and external additive added to surfaces of the particles of developer base material. A loose bulk density is not smaller than 0.300 g/ml but not larger than 0.420 g/ml, and a release rate of the external additive from the particles of developer base material is not lower than 5% but not higher than 15%. | 10-04-2012 |
