Sony Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Nsk Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho

Tohoku University

Shanghai Tianma Micro-electronics Co., Ltd.

Nlt Technologies, Ltd.

Rion Company Ltd.

Sony Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.

Sony Corportion

Komatsu Miyagi Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Akira Suzuki

Hiroomi Matsuzaki

Yoshihiko Hotta

Nobuharu Hoshi

Kazuo Chadani

Fumisada Maeda

Kunichika Morohoshi

Shigeo Miyabe

Hiroyuki Uemura

Naofumi Goto

Toshio Watanabe

Isao Ichimura

Makoto Hayashida

Hiroshi Takarada

Takeshi Kubo

Junichi Matsumura

Takeharu Takasawa

Kenji Yamamoto

Masaru Shimada

Kiyoshi Ohsato

Hidehiro Mochizuki

Makoto Kawaguchi

Tadayuki Tsuda

Fumihito Masubuchi

Yuichi Fukui

Takatsugu Funawatari

Naoki Matsumaru

Atsushi Toda

Kazuhiko Kanno

Osamu Anan

Tadashi Horikawa

Hiroyuki Ito

Hirotoshi Fujisawa

Emiko Shiraishi

Michiharu Naka

Kuniaki Hirukawa

Masaki Yoshino

Masahito Kato

Daiki Kobayashi

Go Shindo

Motonari Ito

Takahiko Oki

Masahiro Takahashi

Kenichi Kobayashi

Atsushi Fukumoto

Kazumi Suzuki

Kayoko Tanaka

Mitsuru Hashimoto

Mamoru Suzuki

Shinichi Sasaki

Hiroyuki Honma

Tetsuo Uesugi

Naoya Morohoshi

Makoto Mori

Katsuhiro Seo

Satoru Higashino

Yoshiki Okamoto

Toshihiro Horigome

Takahito Ueno

Kazushi Watanabe

Yoshiaki Kato

Chiaki Tanaka

Minoru Ishida

Kazuo Kobayashi

Hiroshi Mukawa

Toru Oguma

Shinjiro Toba

Daisuke Abe

Kenji Shimizu

Tsutomu Takahashi

Tadao Yoshida

Kenji Aoki

Akira Kouchiyama

Masahiko Ito

Hitoshi Yoshida

Hiroshi Sugawara

Makoto Obu

Kazuhiko Fujiie

Nobuo Sasaki

Yusuke Takeda

Hideo Watanabe

Keishi Kubo

Nobuyuki Nagai

Fumito Nonaka

Akiyoshi Yokoi

Jun Miyamoto

Akira Yoshikawa

Toshiyuki Kawanishi

Setsu Kunitake

Kiyoshi Ohmori

Kazunori Suzuki

Kiyoshi Osato

Susumu Tatsumi

Shigehisa Kawabe

Atsushi Kutami

Katsuaki Tsurushima

Kouji Hashimoto

Ariyoshi Nakaoki

Masahiko Tatsumi

Kazuya Ogawa

A mold includes a rotatable portion, a frame portion, a first and second portion, and a production unit. The rotatable portion has a plurality of surfaces and a plurality of forming portions. The plurality of surfaces is each provided with one of the plurality of forming portions, each having the same shape. The frame portion rotatably supports the rotatable portion. The first portion defines a cavity by coming into contact with one surface of the plurality of surfaces by clamping the mold. The second portion comes into contact with another surface of the plurality of surfaces different from the one surface by clamping the mold. The production unit attached to the frame portion.

Mold, method of producing product, method of producing image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

A manufacturing apparatus includes a defining portion, a plunger, and a valve member. The defining portion defines a supply port, a discharge port, and a resin channel. The resin channel includes a reserving portion, a first partial channel connecting the supply port and the reserving portion, a second partial channel connecting the reserving portion and the discharge port, a relay channel connecting the first partial channel, the reserving portion and the second partial channel, and a connecting channel connecting the first partial channel and the second partial channel. The plunger discharges the molten resin reserved in the reserving portion. The valve member is provided in the connecting channel and the second partial channel. The first partial channel and the relay channel are connected to the connecting channel so as to intersect with the connecting channel. The valve member includes a first valve portion and a second valve portion.

Manufacturing apparatus, manufacturing system, and manufacturing method

A touch panel includes a first substrate, a cover that is formed from glass and that is overlaid on the first substrate, and a first adhesive layer that adheres the first substrate to the cover. The first substrate includes a base that is formed from glass and that includes a detection region and a surrounding region surrounding the detection region, a plurality of first electrodes that is disposed in the detection region of a first main surface of the base, and that extends in a first direction, and an organic thin film that is formed on the first main surface of the base, and that covers the plurality of first electrodes. The first adhesive layer directly adheres the organic thin film to the cover, and the surrounding region of the first main surface of the base to the cover.

Touch panel and display device

A thermosensitive recording medium includes a base material; a thermosensitive recording layer; and an under layer disposed between the base material and the thermosensitive recording layer and containing a non-thermally-expandable hollow filler. The thermosensitive recording medium includes a hydrocarbon, where an amount of the hydrocarbon having from 3 through 16 carbon atoms is 0.2 mg/mor more, relative to an area of the thermosensitive recording medium.

Thermosensitive recording medium

An assembling apparatus that has a mold in which a second unit opposes a first unit and that is configured to assemble an assembled product from a plurality of parts. The first unit includes first, second, and third movable portions, which comprise, respectively, a plurality of first forming portions, a plurality of second forming portions, and a plurality of third forming. The second unit comprises a fourth movable portion, a fourth forming portion, a fifth forming portion, a sixth forming portion, and a plurality of assembling portions. The fourth movable portion is configured to move so as to switch at least one assembling portion opposed to at least one first forming portion, at least one other assembling portion opposed to the at least one second forming portion, and at least one remaining assembling portion opposed to at least one third forming portion.

Method of producing assembled product and assembling apparatus

A cartridge detachably attachable to an apparatus body of an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording medium in which a memory unit is fixed by an inexpensive adhesive member that can control adhesion force. The cartridge includes: a memory; and a memory support member that supports the memory. The memory has a semiconductor device storing information related to a cartridge, a sealing material that protects the semiconductor device, and a cartridge electrical contact configured to be electrically connectable to a body electrical contact of the image forming apparatus body for transferring information on the semiconductor device to the image forming apparatus body. The sealing material and the memory support member contain the same type of a thermoplastic resin, the sealing material and the memory support member have bonding faces, and at least parts of the bonding faces are welded and fixed by a solvent.

Cartridge and manufacturing method of cartridge

A method of manufacturing a developer container including a frame configured to define a developer containing portion, a first electrode, and a second electrode arranged on a surface of the frame and having a surface opposed to the first electrode, a developer amount in the developer containing portion being detected based on a capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode, the method including: holding a conductive resin member constituting the second electrode on a mold configured to mold the frame, a surface of the conductive resin member being in contact with a surface of the mold configured to mold a surface of the frame on a side of the developer containing portion; injecting a resin to be formed into the frame, into the mold on which the conductive resin member is held; and curing the resin to form the frame to which the second electrode is fixed.

Method of manufacturing developer container, developer container, developing apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

A traffic light recognition device includes: a camera that captures an image around a vehicle; a map information acquisition unit configured to acquire map information around the vehicle; a self-position detector configured to detect the position of a self-position on a map; a traffic light position estimator configured to estimate the position on an image of a traffic light on the basis of the self-position and the map information; a vehicle behavior estimator configured to estimate a vehicle behavior; a traffic light detection area calculator configured to set a detection area of the traffic light onto the image based on the estimated position on the image of the traffic light and an amount of displacement of the position on the image of the traffic light due to a behavior of the vehicle; and a traffic light recognition unit configured to detect a traffic light from the detection area.

Traffic light recognition device and traffic light recognition method

A molded resin product for use with an image forming apparatus includes: a base portion formed of a resin material; a positioning portion provided on the base portion; and a movable member formed by injection molding so as to be movable relative to the base portion. When the molded resin product is connected to a connection part, the positioning portion positions the molded resin product and the connection part relative to each other, and the movable member is contactable to a contact portion of the connection part.

Image forming apparatus, molded resin product for use with the image forming apparatus, and cartridge

A cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus includes a cartridge frame formed of a resin material; a plurality of resin members molded on the cartridge frame by injection molding of a resin material different from that of the cartridge frame; a plurality of contact surfaces, provided on the cartridge frame, to which metal molds corresponding to the resin members are to be contacted from the same side when the resin members are molded; and a plurality of resin material inlet ports, provided in an opposite side of said cartridge frame from a side where the contact surfaces are provided. The resin material has been flowed into the cartridge frame when the resin members are molded.

Cartridge and unit

A traffic light recognition device includes: an imaging attitude setting unit configured to set an imaging direction of the camera on the basis of a position on the image of the traffic light and of a moving direction in the future on the image of the traffic light; a camera attitude controller configured to change the imaging direction of the camera to an imaging direction set by an imaging direction setting unit; and a traffic light recognition unit configured to recognize the traffic light from an image captured in the imaging direction by the camera. The traffic light recognition device is capable of accurately detecting the lighting state of a traffic light without being affected by the attitude of a camera.

A traffic signal detection device includes a narrow-angle camera, a wide-angle camera having an angle of view wider than the narrow-angle camera, and a traffic signal detector configured to detect a traffic signal from at least any of a narrow-angle image captured by the narrow-angle camera and a wide-angle image captured by the wide-angle camera. The traffic signal detector selects, as a detection result, any of a traffic signal detected from the narrow-angle image and a traffic signal detected from the wide-angle image, on the basis of a deceleration start region in which a vehicle should start deceleration, the deceleration start region calculated from a position of a traffic signal with respect to the vehicle and a speed of the vehicle in order to stop the vehicle at a stop position with respect to the traffic signal.

Traffic signal detection device and traffic signal detection method

A structure includes a rotatable rotating member, a blade, a support member, and a frame body. The blade extends in an axial direction of the rotating member and is in contact with or disposed close to a surface of the rotating member. The support member supports the blade such that one end side of the blade projects toward the rotating member in a lateral direction that intersects the axial direction. The frame body is formed by insert molding in which resin is injected while the support member is secured to a mold. The frame body clamps part of the support member so as to support the support member.

Image forming apparatus with frame body and detachable cartridge with integrated photosensitive drum

Method of manufacturing developer container

To provide a display device of high quality and high reliability by securely sealing the gap between the bezel and the display panel even when variation is generated in the gap. The display device includes: a display panel including a display face; a bezel which includes a frame part and an aperture end that is on the inner side of the frame part, and covers the fringe of the display panel on the display face side by the frame part; a frontal panel provided by sandwiching the bezel on the display face side of the display panel; and a resin member provided along the whole circumference of the aperture end of the bezel. The resin member has a first resin member formed on the display face and a second resin member formed to cover over the first resin member and a surface of the bezel opposing to the frontal panel.

Display device and manufacturing method thereof

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Kanagawa, Japan

Akira Suzuki