| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090317154 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - Fixing belt is brought into pressure-contact with the surface of fixing roller such that fixing belt rotates according to rotation of fixing roller, thereby forming, between fixing belt and fixing roller, fixing nip portion through which recording sheets pass. A pressing area of an opposing surface of pressing member contacting the surface of fixing roller via fixing belt is smaller in each end portion of the opposing surface in the axis direction of fixing roller than in a central portion of the opposing surface in the axis direction of fixing roller. This makes speed of conveying recording sheets faster in each edge portion in the width direction perpendicular to a recording sheet conveyance direction than in a central portion in the width direction. Thus, creases of recording sheets can be prevented while a recording sheet passes through fixing nip portion between fixing roller and fixing belt mutually brought into pressure-contact. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100209151 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device has a heating roller and a pressure belt. Surface hardness of the pressure belt is higher than surface hardness of the heating roller. An overall length of the pressure belt is longer than an overall length of a rubber layer of the heating roller. Both ends of the pressure belt are positioned outside both ends of the rubber layer of the heating roller. Thereby, the heating roller is improved in service life, so that the fixing device as a whole is improved in service life. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100209152 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device has a presser member, a heating roller and a pressure belt. An overall length of the presser member is longer than an overall length of a rubber layer of the heating roller. Both ends of the presser member are positioned outside both ends of the rubber layer of the heating roller. An overall length of the presser member is longer than an overall length of the pressure belt. Both ends of the presser member are positioned outside both ends of the pressure belt. Thereby, the heating roller and the pressure belt are improved in service life, so that the fixing device as a whole is improved in service life. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100209153 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device has a presser member, a slide member and a pressure belt. Both ends of the presser member are positioned outside both ends of the slide member. Both ends of the slide member are positioned outside both ends of the pressure belt. Thereby, the slide member and the pressure belt are improved in service life, so that the fixing device as a whole is improved in service life. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100215416 | PRESSER MEMBER, FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A first pad has a first nip forming surface which extends in a direction X. An angle formed between an end portion of the first nip forming surface and an XZ plane is smaller than an angle formed between a central portion of the first nip forming surface and the XZ plane, where the XZ plane is formed on a downstream side of the first nip forming surface. Thereby, a fixing device is provided which suppresses generation of wrinkles on a recording material when the fixing device fixes toner on the recording material and conveys it. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100290823 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device for fixing an unfixed image on a recording sheet passing through a fixing nip formed by pressing a pressing member against an inside surface of a pressure belt via a low friction sheet, so that an outside surface of the pressure belt presses against a fixing member, wherein the pressing member includes a first pressing part having an elastic front face, and (ii) a second pressing part whose front face presses against a rear face of the first pressing part, the low friction sheet extends from a portion thereof pressed by the front face against the pressure belt, to an upstream end thereof, along a lateral side of the first pressing part, the upstream end being upstream from the other end with respect to a rotation direction of the pressure belt and sandwiched between the rear face and the front face by pressure. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100296849 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device for fixing an unfixed image on a recording sheet passing through a fixing nip formed by pressing a pressing member against an inside surface of a pressure belt via a low friction sheet, so that an outside surface of the pressure belt presses against a fixing member, wherein the pressing member includes a first pressing part whose front-side portion is an elastic pressing part, and a second pressing part whose front face presses against a rear face of the first pressing part, the second pressing part has a side wall near an upstream portion of the first pressing part that is upstream from the front-side portion with respect to a rotation direction of the pressure belt, and an upstream end of the low friction sheet, upstream from the other end with respect to the rotation direction, is sandwiched between the side wall and the upstream portion. | 11-25-2010 |
| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090242887 | Display Substrate Having a Transparent Conductive Layer Made of Zinc Oxide and Manufacturing Method Thereof - A display substrate is disclosed comprising: a supporting substrate; an organic resin layer formed on the supporting substrate; and a transparent electrode formed on the organic resin layer, wherein the transparent electrode includes: a first layer containing a zinc oxide and formed in close contact with the organic resin layer; and a second layer containing a zinc oxide and which has a thickness thicker than a thickness of the first layer and is formed on the first layer, wherein the first layer is deposited by either one of a DC sputtering and a DC magnetron sputtering, and the second layer is deposited by any one of a radio frequency sputtering, a radio frequency magnetron sputtering, a radio frequency superimposing a DC sputtering, and a radio frequency superimposing a DC magnetron sputtering, and the display substrate is available, for example, as the substrate having a transparent electrode for counter electrode of liquid crystal display device. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100044672 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY - Manufacturing processes for phase change memory have suffered from the problem of chalcogenide material being susceptible to delamination, since this material exhibits low adhesion to high melting point metals and silicon oxide films. Furthermore, chalcogenide material has low thermal stability and hence tends to sublime during the manufacturing process of phase change memory. According to the present invention, conductive or insulative adhesive layers are formed over and under the chalcogenide material layer to enhance its delamination strength. Further, a protective film made up of a nitride film is formed on the sidewalls of the chalcogenide material layer to prevent sublimation of the chalcogenide material layer. | 02-25-2010 |
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| 20080272610 | Tractor - An object is to provide an assist grip for an operator to easily ride on/off an operation section. An assist grip for supporting a weight of an operator riding on/off an operation section is disposed in front of a steering wheel so as to overlap steering wheel when viewed in front. | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080285959 | Portable reception device - A portable reception device that is portably designed, and that receives television broadcast and feeds the received video information to a monitor so that video is viewed from outside, the portable reception device includes: a reception section receiving television broadcast; a video display section feeding the video information received through the reception section to the monitor; a video storage section storing the video information received through the reception section; a reception check section checking whether or not television broadcast can be received through the reception section; a reception process check section checking whether or not television broadcast is being received through the reception section; and a video recording section receiving television broadcast on a channel preset through the reception section and writing the received video information in the video storage section if television broadcast is found to be receivable by the reception check section and television broadcast is found not to be being received by the reception process check section. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090007719 | Tractor - [Object] An object is to provide an assist grip for an operator to easily ride on/off an operation section. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090055874 | Digital broadcasting receiving apparatus - A broadcasting recording apparatus for making a recording reservation with good usability includes a batch recording accepting unit for accepting a batch recording reservation based on an operational input accepted via a remote controller, the batch recording reservation being an operational input for making a set of recording reservations of TV programs corresponding to a TV program recorded in a predetermined period of time that is set in advance, a name extracting unit for extracting recorded program name information from a video storage unit when the batch recording reservation is accepted, the recorded program name information being program name information of the TV program recorded in the predetermined period of time among video information stored in the video storage unit, a TV program decision unit for deciding whether or not the electronic program guide includes program name information matching with the recorded program name information, and a recording reservation unit for making a recording reservation of a TV program corresponding to the program name information if it is decided that the program name information matching with the recorded program name information is included. | 02-26-2009 |