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| 20090158667 | SHUTTER MECHANISM - A shutter mechanism is provided in a supply port through which powder is supplied to a second device from a first device. The shutter mechanism includes a shutter that opens and closes the supply port in conjunction with attaching and detaching operation of the second device with respect to the first device and a guide groove that is provided in a recess manner so as not to be exposed from the supply port as viewed from the second device and guides the opening and closing operation of the shutter. A space is formed between the guide groove and an end portion of the supply port making contact with the shutter when the shutter closes the supply port. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20100189470 | TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container includes a container body that contains toner therein, and a cap portion that is held by a toner-container holding unit and includes a toner discharge opening to discharge the toner contained in the container body. A gear portion is detachably attached to the container body so that a rotational force is transmitted to the container body. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20110002713 | TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container includes a longitudinal container body and a held portion. The longitudinal container body has a first end and a second end distal to the first end in a length direction of the container body. The container body includes a gear configured to engage with a drive gear provided in the main body. The held portion is attached to the first end of the container body and configured to be detachably attached to the toner-container holder. The held portion includes a toner outlet, is configured to be held by the toner-container holder in non-rotating manner, and is biased downwardly by a force applied from the drive gear to the gear when the drive gear rotates. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110008075 | TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container detachably attached to a toner-container holder of a main body of an image forming apparatus includes a container body that includes an opening, and discharges toner contained in the container body, from the opening; and a held portion that is held by the toner-container holder in a non-rotating manner. The held portion includes an open/close member for opening/closing the toner outlet in synchronization with an attachment/detachment operation of the held portion to/from the toner-container holder. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110286771 | TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container includes a longitudinal container body and a held portion. The longitudinal container body has a first end and a second end distal to the first end in a length direction of the container body. The container body includes a gear configured to engage with a drive gear provided in the main body. The held portion is attached to the first end of the container body and configured to be detachably attached to the toner-container holder. The held portion includes a toner outlet, is configured to be held by the toner-container holder in non-rotating manner, and is biased downwardly by a force applied from the drive gear to the gear when the drive gear rotates. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120230738 | DRIVING FORCE TRANSMISSION MECHANISM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A driving force transmission mechanism includes a connection for integrally rotating a driving shaft on the driving source side and a driven shaft of a rotary member. The connection includes a tubular boss portion; and a fitting shaft portion fitted into the tubular boss portion. An inner shaft portion is provided in a projecting manner from bottom center of the tubular boss portion toward inside the tubular boss portion. An inner recessed portion into which the inner shaft portion fits is provided in center of a leading edge plane for fitting of the fitting shaft portion. Micro gaps are provided between an inner surface of the tubular boss portion and an outer surface of the fitting shaft portion and between an inner surface of the inner recessed portion and an outer surface of the inner shaft portion. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120237249 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An imaging device provided with a latent image carrying body rotatably disposed to carry a latent image, a developing unit that develops the latent image carried on the carrying body by using a developer containing toner at least, and a duct disposed downstream of the developing unit and having a wall with an upstream suction port and a downstream suction port formed. An air flow path is formed by a surface of the latent image carrying body and a surface of the duct wall, between the upstream suction port and the downstream suction port. A gap of the air flow path is wider at the downstream side than at the upstream side with respect to the rotational direction of the latent image carrying body. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120269544 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A development device includes a development casing, a developer bearer disposed facing a latent image bearer through an opening formed in the development casing, a magnetic field generator, a developer regulator disposed facing the developer bearer, a first seal member to cover a clearance between the latent image bearer and a rim of the development casing upstream from the opening, and a second seal member. The first seal member includes a first end portion fixed to the rim of the development casing and a second end portion in contact with the latent image bearer, and the second seal member includes a first end portion fixed to an inner face of the development casing farther from the latent image bearer than the first seal member, and a second end portion hanging to contact the developer carried on the developer bearer downstream from the developer regulator. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120269553 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A development device includes a development casing, a developer bearer disposed facing a latent image bearer through an opening in the development casing to carry developer, a magnetic field generator disposed inside the developer bearer, a developer regulator extending in an axial direction of the developer bearer to adjust an amount of developer carried on the developer bearer, and a first axial end seal provided in an axial end portion of the development device outside an image range, in contact with an upstream face of the developer regulator to reduce a size of a clearance between the developer regulator and the development casing. | 10-25-2012 |
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| 20080199782 | Hologram recording material, hologram recording medium and hologram recording method - A hologram recording material contains a molecule having intrinsic birefringence and a photoresponsive macromolecule represented by the following formula (1). | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080267038 | OPTICAL DEVICE FOR HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING OR READING AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An optical device for holographic recording or reading is provided and includes: a light emission unit that emits light to be irradiated on an optical recording medium, the light being recording or reading light; a first prism unit that moves in accordance with a moving speed of the optical recording medium and refracts the light to move the light irradiated on the optical recording medium over a distance in a moving direction of the optical recording medium so that the light is irradiated on substantially the same position on the optical recording medium for a period of time; and a second prism unit that moves in accordance with the moving speed of the first prism unit to compensate for an optical path length of the light. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090059330 | OPTICAL APPARATUS - An optical apparatus includes: a focusing lens that focuses light which is one of recording light being irradiated to an optical recording medium with reference light for recording a hologram and reference light being irradiated to an optical recording medium for reading out a hologram; and a focal position-shifting unit that refracts the light while moving in accordance with a moving speed of the optical recording medium, so as to shift a focal position of the light in the optical recording medium a distance in a thickness direction of the optical recording medium. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090059759 | TRANSMISSIVE OPTICAL RECORDING MEDIUM, HOLOGRAM RECORDING DEVICE AND HOLOGRAM RECORDING METHOD - A transmissive optical recording medium includes: a first recording layer including a recording material capable of fixing record of information; a second recording layer including a recording material capable of fixing record of information; and a polarizing plate between the first recording layer and the second recording layer. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090168631 | OPTICAL RECORDING DEVICE AND OPTICAL RECORDING METHOD - An optical recording device includes a light source, a light-converging optical system, a moving unit, detection unit, and an acquisition unit. In the optical recording device, interference fringes from a recording light are shift multi-recorded as a plurality of pages of holograms within each of a plurality of planes corresponding to a plurality of convergence positions based on light exposure amount of each page, acquired by the acquisition unit, for each of the convergence positions. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20110200837 | RESIN MATERIAL, ENDLESS BELT FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, ROLLER FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A resin material used for a member for an image forming apparatus includes a polymer formed by polymerization of at least one acrylic resin in which a content ratio (molar ratio) of hydroxyl groups of side chains each containing 10 or more carbon atoms to hydroxyl groups of side chains each containing less than 10 carbon atoms is less than 1/3; at least one polyol that contains plural hydroxyl groups in which all the hydroxyl groups are connected together through a chain containing 6 or more carbon atoms; and an isocyanate, with a polymerization ratio of about 0.1 or more and about 10 or less, the polymerization ratio being a ratio (B/A) of a total molar amount (B) of hydroxyl groups contained in all the polyols used for the polymerization to a total molar amount (A) of hydroxyl groups contained in all the acrylic resins used for the polymerization. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20120022215 | URETHANE RESIN, FIXING MEMBER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A urethane resin that is formed by polymerizing an acrylic resin including a hydroxyl group and an isocyanate is provided. The urethane resin has a Martens hardness of 1 N/mm | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120195656 | RESIN MATERIAL, ENDLESS BELT, ROLL, IMAGE FIXING UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a resin material including at least one of a reaction product and a mixture of a polyimide and a polyurethane that is a polymer of an isocyanate with an acrylic resin containing a side chain having a hydroxyl group. | 08-02-2012 |
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| 20080241434 | THERMAL TRANSFER INK SHEET, INK CARTRIDGE, COATING COMPOSITION FOR DYE LAYER OF THERMAL TRANSFER INK SHEET, AND THERMAL TRANSFER RECORDING METHOD - A thermal transfer ink sheet comprising, as formed on a support, a dye layer containing a thermal transferable dye in a resin binder, wherein the dye layer contains a polyvinyl acetal modified with at least one compound of the following formula [1]: | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080242540 | THERMAL TRANSFER INK SHEET, INK CARTRIDGE, COATING COMPOSITION FOR DYE LAYER OF THERMAL TRANSFER INK SHEET, AND THERMAL TRANSFER RECORDING METHOD - A thermal transfer ink sheet comprising, as formed on a support, a dye layer containing a thermal transferable dye in a resin binder, wherein the dye layer contains a polyvinyl acetal modified with at least one compound of the following formula [1]: | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090061350 | THERMAL TRANSFER INK SHEET, INK CARTRIDGE, COATING COMPOSITION FOR DYE LAYER OF THERMAL TRANSFER INK SHEET, AND THERMAL TRANSFER RECORDING METHOD - A thermal transfer ink sheet having a dye layer containing a polyvinyl acetal modified with a compound of the formula [1] and a polyvinyl acetal modified with a compound of the formula [2]: | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090087687 | SULFONIC ACID POLYOL COMPOUND, POLYURETHANE RESIN, POLYURETHANE RESIN FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - A compound represented by the Formula below is provided. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090258254 | SULFONIC ACID POLYOL COMPOUND, POLYURETHANE RESIN, POLYURETHANE RESIN FOR MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - A compound represented by the Formula below is provided. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090273740 | OPTICAL COMPENSATORY FILM, POLARIZING PLATE, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An optical compensatory film comprising an optically anisotropic layer composed of a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound, wherein the liquid crystal composition contains a copolymer including a repeating unit derived from a monomer of formula [1] and a repeating unit derived from a monomer of formula [2]: | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100078592 | LIQUID CRYSTAL COMPOSITION, RETARDATION PLATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING RETARDATION PLATE - A composition comprising at least one liquid crystal compound, and at least one polymer is disclosed. The polymer comprises a constitutional unit represented by a following formula (A) and a constitutional unit derived from a monomer having a fluoroaliphatic group(s): | 04-01-2010 |
