Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Atsushi Hori

Takeshi Suzuki

Kentaro Mori

Kaoru Okamoto

Koji Sato

Yuichi Sasaki

Naoto Kameyama

Megumi Uchino

Daisuke Kisara

Toshiyuki Takahashi

Takahiro Nakase

Akeshi Asaka

Akira Okano

Hiroyasu Negishi

Keizo Takura

Toshiyuki Yoshida

Yuka Fujita

Hayato Negishi

Koichi Hiramatsu

Midai Suzuki

Koji Yamazaki

Masayuki Kimura

Hiroshi Funakubo

Akihiro Taya

Haruki Mori

Kinya Kamiguchi

Hiroto Sugimoto

Tomoya Fujita

Akihiko Imagi

Naoko Kasai

Takayoshi Takehara

Yusuke Baba

Shinya Taguchi

Noriaki Kobayashi

Takao Shimizu

Kazuhisa Shirayama

Takanori Mimura

Jun Ohira

Takanori Ueno

Ryosuke Tsuruga

Yuichi Okano

Hiroshi Tominaga

Kuniyuki Kakushima

Wei Wu

Kageyasu Miyahara

Masayuki Onuma

Goh Sato

Yoshiko Nakamura

Shigeo Kuroda

Mitsutoshi Iio

Takeo Kawaura

Ichiro Fujiwara

Shun-ichiro Ohmi

Kiyonori Soutome

Joel Molina Reyes

Kenta Kuze

Shota Inoue

An electrophotographic member comprising: a base material; an elastic layer on the base material; and a surface layer on the elastic layer, wherein the elastic layer comprises silicone rubber, the surface layer comprises fluoro rubber, a thickness of the surface layer is 3 μm or more, an elastic deformation power ηIT calculated from a load displacement curve, obtained with a nanoindentation test according to ISO 14577 by bringing a Vickers indenter into contact with an outer surface of the surface layer and setting a test load at 120 μN, is 30 to 50%, and a Martens hardness determined by the nanoindentation test at the outer surface of the surface layer is 12.0 to 18.0 N/mm.

Electrophotographic member and electrophotographic image forming apparatus

An intermediate transfer member including a base layer, wherein the base layer contains a thermoplastic resin and an electroconductive filler dispersed in the thermoplastic resin, and wherein the base layer has a volume resistivity of 1×10to 1×10Ω·cm, and the base layer has an electroconductive path index of 0.20 or less.

Intermediate transfer member, image forming apparatus, and production device for polymer mixture

The invention provides a non-volatile storage element and non-volatile storage device employing a ferroelectric material with low power consumption, excellent high reliability, and especially write/erase endurance, which can be mixed with advanced CMOS logic. The non-volatile storage element has at least a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a ferroelectric layer composed of a metal oxide between both conductive layers, with a buffer layer having oxygen ion conductivity situated between the ferroelectric layer and the first conductive layer and/or second conductive layer. An interface layer composed of a single-layer film or a multilayer film may be also provided between the first conductive layer and the ferroelectric layer, the interface layer as a whole having higher dielectric constant than silicon oxide, and when the buffer layer is present between the first conductive layer and the ferroelectric layer, the interface layer is situated between the first conductive layer and the buffer layer. The non-volatile storage device comprises at least a memory cell array comprising low-power-consumption ferroelectric memory elements formed in a two-dimensional or three-dimensional configuration, and a control circuit. The ferroelectric layer is scalable to 10 nm or smaller and is fabricated at a low temperature of ≤400° C., and is subjected to low temperature thermal annealing treatment at ≤400° C. after the buffer layer has been formed, to provide high reliability.

Non-volatile ferroelectric storage element and devices comprising them

There is provided an elevator guidance deviceincluding an identification information acquisition unitconfigured to acquire identification information for a user heading for an elevator hall, a selected elevator information acquisition unitconfigured to acquire information on a selected elevator selected from a plurality of elevators as an elevator for the user identified to take, and a guidance indication unitconfigured to indicate, in an indication mode associated with the user, a leading guidance sign on a route starting from a leading start position, at which leading of the user identified is started, to a landing entrance of the selected elevator, the leading guidance sign leading the user to the landing entrance of the selected elevator.

Vertical transportation machine guidance device and vertical transportation machine guidance method

An intermediary transfer belt having surface resistivity &#x3c1;s of 1&#xd7;10&#x3a9;/square or more and volume resistivity &#x3c1;v of 1&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm or less includes a thermoplastic resin material containing carbon black. The carbon black contained in the thermoplastic resin material has a weight ratio of 22.5-28.5 weight % and include first carbon black and second carbon black. The first carbon black of the carbon black contained in the thermoplastic resin material has a weight ratio of 50-90 weight % and dibutyl phthalate absorption of 93-127 ml/100 g, and the second carbon black of the carbon black contained in the thermoplastic resin material has a weight ratio of 10-50 weight % and dibutyl phthalate absorption of 36-79 ml/100 g.

Intermediary transfer belt, manufacturing method of the intermediary transfer belt, and image forming apparatus

The crystallinity of a thermoplastic resin is 8% or more and 25% or less, the average primary particle size of carbon black is 10 nm or more and 30 nm or less, the content of the carbon black is 15.0 parts by mass or more and 30.0 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of an intermediate transfer belt, and (Li+Lo+Lc)/3&#x2264;100 nm, where Li, Lo, and Lc are values of an L-function indicating a dispersibility of the carbon black with respect to the thermoplastic resin in an inner peripheral surface region of the intermediate transfer belt, in an outer peripheral surface region, and in a central region that is a central portion of the intermediate transfer belt in a thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, respectively.

Intermediate transfer member and image forming apparatus

An electrophotographic belt having an endless shape and including an endless-shaped base layer, an elastic layer on an outer peripheral surface of the base layer, and a surface layer on the outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer, and the surface layer contains a urethane resin as a binder, polytetrafluoroethylene particles, and a compound having a perfluoropolyether structure and an oxyalkylene structure.

Electrophotographic belt and electrophotographic image forming apparatus using the electrophotographic belt

An operation support device that is placed on a touch panel detecting a change in electrostatic capacitance or a change in a contact region, includes: a case part; a first member attached inside the case part; a first deforming member that is an elastic member provided on an end of the first member and is provided between the first member and the touch panel; and a wall part that is attached inside the case part and sets a direction of deformation of the first deforming member when the case part approaches the touch panel, to a predetermined direction. As the case part approaches the touch panel, the electrostatic capacitance in a region facing the first defaming member increases due to defamation of the first deforming member or area of the contact region of the first defaming member increases due to deformation of the first defaming member.

Operation support device, touch panel device, and touch panel input system

A processing control device controls a tool for processing a first workpiece. The processing control device includes a driving unit to drive the tool, an output unit, and a control unit to control the driving unit and the output unit. Processing information obtained by performing preliminary processing on a second workpiece before performing first processing on the first workpiece is transmitted by the control unit to the output unit and accordingly the processing information is outputted from the output unit. The control unit generates a control command for performing second processing that is performed on the first workpiece after the first processing. The control unit controls the driving unit according to the control command.

Processing control device, machine tool, and processing control method

An electrophotographic belt including: a base layer, an elastic layer formed on the base layer, and a surface layer formed on the elastic layer. The surface layer contains a binder resin and polytetrafluoroethylene particles. A content of the polytetrafluoroethylene particles is 200 parts by mass or more with respect to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin. The polytetrafluoroethylene particles have a number average particle diameter of 200 nm or less.

Electrophotographic belt and electrophotographic image forming apparatus

The operation input device determines an operation of one or a plurality of operation devices on the basis of the distance between touch points and the positional relationship of three or more touch points, and determines an operation corresponding to the touch point determined not to depend on the operation device as a touch operation.

Operation input device, information processing system, and operation determining method

An operation input device includes a knob for operations, disposed in a display region of a touch display; a plurality of conductor columns provided in the knob; a touch point detecting unit that detects a touch point corresponding to at least one of the plurality of conductor columns; a location determining unit that determines a location of at least one of the plurality of conductor columns, using a result of the detection by the touch point detecting unit; and a location estimating unit that estimates, when there is a conductor column that has not been detected as a touch point by the touch point detecting unit, a location of the conductor column that has not been detected as a touch point by the touch point detecting unit, using positional relationship information indicating a positional relationship between the plurality of conductor columns in the knob and location history information indicating a history of locations of the respective plurality of conductor columns.

Operation input device

A moving image reproduction unit () generates display object information for each of a plurality of frames, using difference information for each object associated with each frame and reproduces a moving image. An analysis unit () analyzes the difference information for each frame and determines a frame attribute that is an attribute of the frame. When a frame other than a head frame of the plurality of frames is specified as a reproduction start frame from which the reproduction of the moving image starts, the moving image reproduction unit () extracts one of the plurality of frames based on the frame attribute determined by the analysis unit (). Further, the moving image reproduction unit () generates display object information of the reproduction start frame, using the difference information of the frame extracted and the difference information of the reproduction start frame, and starts the reproduction of the moving image from the reproduction start frame.

Information processing apparatus, moving image reproduction method, and computer readable medium for generating display object information using difference information between image frames

A vector data selection unit selects, from a vector file of a past line graph, each vector data of a time period where a new line graph overlaps. An attribute value setting unit sets, of the vector data selected, a high transparency degree value to oldest vector data, sets a low transparency degree value to newest vector data, and sets an intermediate transparency degree value to intermediate vector data. A graph display unit displays a portion of a time period of the past line graph where the new line graph overlaps, with a gradation.

Graph generation apparatus, graph display apparatus, graph generation program, and graph display program

An image forming apparatus includes: a correction unit correcting image data based on a correction condition; an image forming unit forming an image based on the corrected image data; a transfer unit transferring the image onto a sheet; a measuring unit measuring a measuring image on an image bearing member; a converting unit converting a measurement result of the measuring image, based on a conversion condition; a first generating unit generating the correction condition based on the converted measurement result; an acquiring unit acquiring a measurement result of a test image formed on the image bearing member; a controller forming a test image on the sheet; a receiving unit receiving instruction from a user comparison of a sample image and the test image transferred on the sheet; and a second generating unit generating the conversion condition, based on the instruction and the acquired measurement result of the test image.

Image forming apparatus that generates conversion condition of a measuring unit, and control method of the image forming apparatus

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Atsushi Hori