Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Tdk Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Calpis Co., Ltd.

Asahi Biocycle Co., Ltd.

Hiroaki Murakami

Tetsuji Nishikawa

Kazuhiro Kobayashi

Toshiyuki Uchida

Noriaki Funamoto

Yasuhisa Ehara

Yasuhiro Maehata

Jun Yasuda

Akihiko Tosaka

Yoshiyuki Tanaka

Hiroshi Ishii

Yoshio Hattori

Toshihiro Iguchi

Yoshihide Ohta

Masaharu Furuya

Yuji Nakano

Takayuki Nishi

Kohta Takenaka

Yusuke Kikuchi

Mikio Ishibashi

Seiji Nakashima

Akira Takiba

Yukio Michishita

Manabu Izumikawa

Gaku Hosono

Hiroki Ishimitsu

Ruki Midorikawa

Yasuhiro Sagawa

Tomotaka Saito

Yasuaki Kato

Yuichiro Sueda

Osamu Matsumoto

So Ohta

Ryo Takenaka

Ryota Namiki

Kazuyuki Ito

Yuichi Mikuni

Akihiro Sueda

Wahei Shingu

Naoka Yano

Katsuhiro Hoshi

Hidehiko Maeda

Mami Akiyama

Kazuhiko Kakizoe

Nobuhiro Shima

Satoshi Araaki

Yongho Choi

Hitoshi Kondoh

Taisuke Uesugi

Yoshiaki Yamamoto

Yukinori Muroya

Gentaro Yasuda

Shogo Terakawa

Masanori Takase

Shinji Yamasaki

Toki Nishiyama

Koji Saitoh

Masami Konishi

Yuhji Fukushima

Bo Ma

Yutaka Tsukano

A dielectric composition includes dielectric particles and first segregations. The dielectric particles each include a perovskite compound represented by ABOas a main component. The first segregations each include Ba, Ti, Si, Ni, and O.

Dielectric composition and multilayer ceramic electronic device

The present technology relates to an imaging element and an electronic apparatus capable of expanding a saturation signal electric charge amount. A first P-type impurity region, a capacitance expanding portion that forms a PN junction surface with a second P-type impurity region and a first N-type impurity region, and the first N-type impurity region are sequentially provided in a depth direction from a surface side where a wiring layer of a semiconductor substrate is laminated. The second P-type impurity region is formed in a stripe on a plane of the capacitance expanding portion that perpendicularly intersects with the depth direction. The stripe is formed, on the plane of the capacitance expanding portion that perpendicularly intersects with the depth direction, in a direction perpendicular to a side where an electrode that reads accumulated electric charge is formed. The present technology can be applied to an imaging element.

Imaging element and electronic apparatus

A propeller fan includes a boss and a blade. The boss rotates about an axis. The blade is provided at an outer periphery of the boss. The blade has a first region in a radial direction. In the first region, a blade chord center line shifts downstream toward an outer peripheral side. In a cylindrical cross section about an axis, a cross-sectional shape of the blade at least in the first region is an airfoil shape. When a cross section taken along the blade chord center line and projected onto a plane including the axis is viewed, the blade chord center line is a curve having a convex on a downstream side in an entire region in the radial direction.

Propeller fan and refrigeration cycle device

The present application provides: a microbial material for agricultural use characterized by containing, as an active ingredient,C-3102 strain (FERM BP-1096) that is capable of promoting the growth of crops and/or increasing the yield of crops, or a variant thereof that has an ability equivalent thereto; and a method for cultivating crops characterized by comprising cultivating the crops using a soil or medium that contains the microbial material.

Method for cultivating crops using bacterium belonging to genus

An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body accommodating an image forming device, a foreign object detector that detects a foreign object beside the apparatus body, and a detector holding unit that holds the foreign object detector. The foreign object detector and the detector holding unit are movable together into the apparatus body.

Image forming apparatus, foreign object detecting system, and method for producing foreign object detecting system

An image forming apparatus includes an outer cover, an interior device spaced apart from the outer cover, and an accommodating recess interposed between the outer cover and the interior device. The accommodating recess accommodates an arbitrary part of the image forming apparatus.

Image forming apparatus including an electronics container designed to permit an overall efficient structure

An image forming apparatus includes a multi-color misalignment calculator that calculates an amount of multi-color misalignment of multiple color misalignment detection test pattern images based on position readings outputted by multiple test pattern image detectors, an image formation condition adjusting unit that adjusts an image formation condition of the image forming apparatus in accordance with the amount of multi-color misalignment of the multiple color misalignment detection test pattern images calculated by the multi-color misalignment calculator, and a process control unit that initiates a first multi-color misalignment correction control mode including a skew misalignment correction process and a second multi-color misalignment correction control mode excluding the skew misalignment correction process to correct multi-color misalignment of the multiple color misalignment detection test pattern images. A memory stores the amount of skew misalignment calculated by the multi-color misalignment calculator when the process control unit initiates the second multi-color misalignment correction control mode.

Apparatus and method for forming image

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a plurality of developing devices, a transfer device, a moving device, a color drift detector, a test pattern forming device, and a color drift correction device. The test pattern forming device forms a test pattern on the image bearing member. The color drift correction device corrects the color drift in a separating state in which the image bearing member and the transfer device are separated from each other. The test pattern forming device forms the test pattern again in an area on the image bearing member contacting the transfer device but not pressed by the transfer device after the color drift correction device corrects the color drift in the separating state, and the color drift correction device corrects the color drift in the contact state in which the image bearing member and the transfer device are in contact with each other.

Image forming apparatus

An operator guidance system includes a detection unit, a control unit, and an operation indicator. The detection unit is disposed in an image forming apparatus to output a combination of detection signals, and includes one or more media sensors, and one or more opening sensors. The one or more media sensors are disposed along a media conveyance path to output a media detection signal. The one or more opening sensors are disposed adjacent to an openable structure to output an opening detection signal. The control unit is connected to the detection unit to determine guidance to be provided to an operator based on the combination of detection signals, and includes a memory and a controller. The operation indicator is connected to the control unit to indicate the identified operation to the operator.

Operator guidance system and image forming apparatus incorporating same

A sheet conveyance device for conveying a recording medium includes a fixed roller, a movable roller, an urging member, and a shock absorber, and an image forming apparatus including the sheet conveyance device. The position of the fixed roller is fixed. The movable roller is disposed opposite the fixed roller to contact the fixed roller, thereby defining a nip. The urging member urges the movable member to contact the fixed roller in the absence of the recording medium in the nip and allows the movable member to separate from the fixed roller by an amount corresponding to a thickness of a recording medium when the recording medium enters the nip. The shock absorber absorbs displacement energy generated when the urging member urges the movable roller to contact the fixed roller again after the recording medium passes through the nip.

Sheet conveyance device and image forming apparatus including same

Disclosed is a method for detecting guaiacol-producing bacteria in a specimen comprising culturing the specimen or a dilution thereof on a plate of a solid medium for acidophilic bacteria comprising a compound represented by the following formula, wherein R is &#x2014;H, &#x2014;OH, &#x2014;C(O)H, &#x2014;C(O)CH, &#x2014;COOH, C-Calkyl or C-Calkenyl, wherein alkyl and alkenyl may optionally be substituted by &#x2014;OH, &#x2014;C(O)H or &#x2014;COOH); and detecting a colony formed on the solid medium. According to preferred embodiments, the solid medium for acidophilic bacteria comprises 50 ppm or more of vanillic acid and the plate culture is carried out at 20&#xb0; C. to 55&#xb0; C. The present invention also provides a solid medium for acidophilic bacteria and a kit for detection of guaiacol-producing bacteria in a specimen. According to the present invention, guaiacol-producing bacteria present in a specimen such as fruit juice raw materials can be detected rapidly in a simple manner.

Method and kit for detection of guaiacol-producing bacterium

A drive unit for rotating a first rotary member and a second rotary member disposed around the first rotary member includes a drive source, an output gear driven by the drive source, a first gear greater in diameter than the output gear and configured to engage the output gear, a first joint member projecting from the first gear coaxially and coupled to the first rotary member, a second gear smaller in diameter than the first gear and connected between the first gear and the first joint member, a driven gear smaller in diameter than the first gear and disposed within an area of the first gear in a radial direction thereof to engage the second gear to be driven thereby, and a second joint member projecting from the driven gear coaxially and connected to the second rotary member.

Drive unit, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge incorporating same

An image reader includes a cabinet and an optical system. The cabinet has four plate members fixed to each other by laser welding from a side direction of the image reader and has a bottom wall fixed to the four plate members by laser welding from a side direction or a lower direction of the image reader. The cabinet has a first opening for a document read window opening toward an upper direction of the image reader. Each of the plate members is bended in letter L shape to form an upper end part and a side wall. The optical system is housed in the cabinet for reading an image of a document through the opening.

Image reader and image forming apparatus

A main controlling part is configured to choose and execute either a constant belt speed control which controls a driving motor (a driving source for an intermediate transfer belt) to move the intermediate transfer belt at a predetermined target belt speed or a constant motor speed control which rotates the driving motor at a predetermined target rotational speed according to a print command, and then, prior to a first-time print job, after executing a writing position correcting process while moving the intermediate transfer belt under the constant belt speed control, forms a color shift detecting image by switching from the constant belt speed control to the constant motor speed control, measures a difference between amounts of color shift, and executes a speed correcting process for correcting the target rotational speed of the driving motor in the constant motor speed control based on the measurement result.

Image forming device

A multicolor imaging system includes a controller which adjusts a phase difference in rotations of photoreceptors based on information detected by a rotary position detector, and drive elements for photoreceptors which generate a velocity fluctuation in the same cycle as that of a transfer unit. The controller is configured to concurrently adjust the phases of the photoreceptors and those of the drive elements so that a registration error in four color toner image on an intermediate transfer belt is reduced to a minimum.

Multicolor imaging system

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroaki Murakami