Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

The University of Tokyo

Kabushiki Kaisha Yakult Honsha

Waseda University

Sony Mobile Communications Inc.

Daisuke Arai

Etsuo Ogino

Masahiro Ieda

Toshiaki Anzaki

Toyoaki Kitano

Fujio Hayakawa

Yutaka Yamagishi

Yutaka Kotani

Tetsuo Tokuda

Akiyasu Amita

Fumihiro Hirose

Terufusa Kunisada

Toru Yamamoto

Kenjiro Hamanaka

Satoshi Taniguchi

Takahiko Matsumoto

Takashi Kishimoto

Keiji Hirabayashi

Takeshi Akai

Takehiro Fujita

Akira Fujisawa

Susumu Fujiwara

Hidekazu Yaginuma

Masateru Ujiie

Hirokazu Tanaka

Kazuhiro Doushita

Tsuyoshi Otani

Shintaro Yagi

Yukio Sueyoshi

Atsunori Matsuda

Naoto Hirayama

Yoshifumi Kijima

Yusuke Nonoyama

Yu Yamaya

Kiyotaka Ichiki

Kunio Shiota

Nobuaki Toyoshima

Takayuki Toyoshima

Koji Hayakawa

Yoichi Nakao

Takashi Ikuno

Mitsuko Hirosawa-Takamori

Shigetaka Asano

Yukari Kase

Teppei Shimomoto

A droplet discharge device for discharging a droplet into recess parts of a storage vessel includes a storage vessel, a discharge head configured to insert a discharge surface into a recess part and discharge droplets while moving in two horizontal directions, a mounting table, a vertical position adjusting part configured to change a relative vertical position between the head and table, a vertical position adjustment control part configured to control the adjusting part, a horizontal position detecting part configured to detect a horizontal position of the storage vessel, and a target position detecting part configured to detect, before starting discharge, a distance from a vertical reference height to a discharge target surface, wherein the control part controls, based on the detected distance, the vertical position of the head or table during the discharge such that a discharge height of the discharge surface relative to the discharge target surface stays constant.

Droplet discharge device and droplet discharge method

A conveying device includes a first pair of nipping rollers, a second pair of nipping rollers, a position corrector configured to correct a position of a recording medium in a width direction of the recording medium, an end position detector configured to detect an end position of the recording medium in the width direction, and circuitry configured to, in adjustment of the end position detector, stop conveying the recording medium in response to arrival of a leading end of the recording medium at the end position detector, cause the position corrector to move the recording medium toward an outside of the conveyance passage in the width direction to a position at which the end position detector is covered by the recording medium, adjust the output of the end position detector, and cause the end position detector to detect the recording medium.

Conveying device and image forming apparatus incorporating the conveying device

A fixing device includes a heater, a fixing rotator, a first temperature sensor, a second temperature sensor, a contact rotator, and circuitry. The fixing rotator has an outer circumferential surface having a first area and a second area. The first area contacts both a first sheet and a second sheet having a width narrower than the width of the first sheet. The second area contacts the first sheet but does not contact the second sheet. The first temperature sensor detects a first temperature of the first area. The second temperature sensor detects a second temperature of the second area. The contact rotator contacts both the first area and the second area and rotates at the one of at least two relative velocities with respect to the fixing rotator. The circuitry sets one of the at least two relative velocities based on the first temperature and the second temperature.

Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same

An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device and circuitry. The fixing device includes a fixing rotator, an electromagnetic induction heater configured to heat the fixing rotator, and a magnetic flux control member. The circuitry is configured to control the electromagnetic induction heater to lead a temperature of the fixing rotator to a target temperature and change an upper limit of power supplied to the electromagnetic induction heater based on the target temperature.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, a detector and a holding body. The image forming device is configured to perform an image formation to a sheet. The detector is configured to detect a position of a first image formed on a first surface of the sheet through the image formation of the image forming device. The holding body is configured to move while holding the sheet, by performing one of a rotation in a radial direction about a support shaft attached thereto in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction thereof and a lateral shift in a width direction of the sheet, operable to correct the position of the sheet based on a detection result obtained by the detector.

Image forming apparatus incorporating position detector and position corrector

A sheet conveying device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a pair of rotary bodies configured to convey a sheet and correct a positional deviation of the sheet, a pair of downstream side sheet conveying bodies disposed downstream from the pair of rotary bodies in a sheet conveying direction and configured to convey the sheet, and a detector configured to detect separation of the pair of rotary bodies. The pair of rotary bodies moves the sheet by moving from a home position on a sheet conveyance passage through which the sheet passes. The pair of rotary bodies moves to the home position while the pair of downstream side sheet conveying bodies is conveying the sheet, in response to detection of the separation of the pair of rotary bodies by the detector.

Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet conveying device

A fixing device includes a fixing belt stretched taut around a plurality of supports, a pressure rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the pressure rotator, a belt polishing mechanism to polish the fixing belt. The belt polishing mechanism includes a polishing roller to separably contact the fixing belt and slide over the surface of the fixing belt when the polishing roller is pressed against the fixing belt, a contact and separation driver to press and separate the polishing roller to and from the fixing belt, an opposed member disposed opposite the polishing roller via the fixing belt and configured to form a polishing nip with the fixing belt, and a polishing roller rotation mechanism to rotate the polishing roller. The polishing roller rotation mechanism includes a first rotator disposed coaxially with the polishing roller and a second rotator disposed coaxially with the opposed member.

Using the cobblestone area (CA) formation inhibitory activity of human leukemic stem cell-like cells as an indicator, a fraction having the activity has been extracted from the fat-soluble fraction of Porifera, then, a compound having the activity has been isolated and purified from the aforementioned fraction, and then, the structure thereof has been determined, so that a Stelliferin compound comprising a novel compound has been identified. Moreover, it has been found that the isolated and purified Stelliferin compound significantly suppresses the niche formation of leukemic stem cell-like cells derived from human chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) having resistance to existing antitumor agents and enhances the effects of antitumor agents on the cells. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition having inhibitory or suppressive activity against the niche formation of leukemic stem cells, a prophylactic agent against the recurrence of malignant tumor, which involves the combined use of other antitumor drugs, and the like.

Marine organism-derived extract, compound, and medical composition having niche formation suppressing activity of leukemic stem cells

The invention provides a method for producing an orexin neuron by culturing a pluripotent stem cell or a neural progenitor cell in the presence of N-acetyl-D-mannosamine and optionally in the presence of at least one inhibitor selected from the group consisting of a Sirtuin 1 inhibitor and an O-linked &#x3b2;-N-acetylglucosamine transferase inhibitor. The invention also provides a therapeutic agent for narcolepsy or eating disorders, such as anorexia, containing N-acetyl-D-mannosamine, which is based on the induction of orexin neuron in vivo.

Methods for inducing orexin neurons and agent for treating narcolepsy or eating disorder

In correspondence with the left and right external ears of a listener occupying a seat, a three dimensional sound field reproducing unit includes at least more than two speakers disposed on a headrest on the top of a backrest of the seat, and three dimensional signal processing means which converts an output signal from a sound source into a three dimensional sound field signal for supplying it to each of the speakers. Three dimensional sound field with high accuracy and fidelity is reproduced near the external ears of the listener.

Vehicle-mounted stereophonic sound field reproducer

A vehicle-mounted three dimensional sound signal reproducing&#x2022;silencing unit includes at least two speakers disposed for each of seats to be occupied by listeners so as to generate a three dimensional sound field space in a region inclusive of left and right external ears of each of the listeners, and three dimensional signal processing means for converting an output signal from a sound source into a three dimensional sound field signal for supplying it to each of the speakers, thereby reproducing a three dimensional sound field with rich presence for each of the seats. The unit also includes antiphase signal generating means for supplying a silencing signal to the three dimensional signal processing means, thereby silencing sounds for each of the seats without giving an effect on the other seats.

Vehicle-mounted three dimensional sound field reproducing silencing unit

There is provided a method for evaluating the contamination by quantifying the surface contamination of an object such as a window glass plate, a wall, or the like in such a manner that the quantified value is close to the visual sensation of human being. The method comprises the steps of taking a color image of the surface of the object, converting a color image data denoting the color image into a monochromatic image data, dividing a monochromatic image denoted by the monochromatic image data into a dot matrix to obtain lightness per dot, selecting an area to be evaluated on the dot matrix, calculating a standard deviation of lightness from the distribution of lightness of the selected area.

Method for evaluating contamination on surface of object and imaging box used for the method

The present invention provides a method of forming a thin film containing a metal oxide as the main component, the film thickness of which is relatively uniform, at a high film deposition rate over a wide area and over a long time. The present invention is a method for forming a thin film containing a metal oxide as the main component on a substrate using a mixed gas stream containing a metal chloride, an oxidizing material, and hydrogen chloride, by a thermal decomposition method at a film deposition rate of 4500 nm/min. or greater, performing at least one selected from: 1) prior to mixing the metal chloride and the oxidizing material in the mixed gas stream, contacting hydrogen chloride with at least one selected from the metal chloride and the oxidizing material, and 2) forming a buffer layer in advance on a surface of the substrate on which the thin film containing a metal oxide as the main component is to be formed.

Method for forming thin film, substrate having thin film formed by the method, and photoelectric conversion device using the substrate

A pole pieceof a speaker main unithas a poleengaged with a bobbinfrom the back side of a diaphragm, and a flangehorizontally expanding from the base of the pole. In the poleis formed a through holepassing therethrough in an axial direction thereof, and in the bottom end of the through holeis provided with a taperwhich widens with it goes downward. A thin film piezoelectric elementis provided such that the element covers an external openingof the through hole, and one endof a thin film piezoelectric elementis adhered to the bottom surface of the flange

Speaker

In response to a voice request from a facility judgment means which judges the location of such a facility from the current position selected in advance based on the current position and map data, the voice guidance generated by guidance synchronizing means is converted by stereophonic or three dimensional signal processing means into a stereophonic or three dimensional sound field signal, and outputted to at least two or more speakers which generate a stereophonic or three dimensional sound field reproducing space corresponding to the left and right external ears of a listener. The distance to, and the direction of, the facility that has been selected in advance are informed by the movement of an image of a stereophonic or three dimensional sound with rich presence.

Operation supporting apparatus

Growing community of inventors

Tokyo, Japan

Daisuke Arai