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Sony Corporation

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Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Nec Lcd Technologies, Ltd.

Seiko Epson Corporation

Nec Corporation

Fujifilm Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Toshiba Memory Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.

Kansai Paint Company, Ltd.

Hiroaki Tanaka

Shigeru Fukuda

Masayuki Seko

Masato Furukawa

Masato Ono

Daisuke Tanemura

Yosuke Kubo

Satoya Sugiura

Koichi Matsumoto

Iori Nishimura

Tomotake Inagaki

Shogo Hayashi

Ryohei Yoshikawa

Hisashi Kikuchi

Kenji Kajiwara

Hiroyuki Suhara

Makoto Shimizu

Takayuki Kambara

Toru Shimizu

Isao Hirota

Tsuyoshi Watanabe

Hiroki Hagiwara

Kenta Yamakoshi

Kazuhiko Amano

Tomoko Suzuki

Hideaki Kataoka

Seiji Suzuki

Minoru Rokutan

Takuji Yoshida

Shinsuke Miyabe

Takeshi Ogawa

Koji Masuda

Kohji Sakai

Hiroshi Horikoshi

Jun Kimura

Yoshiro Yamashita

Masahiro Itoh

Yasuhiro Nihei

Motoharu Takeuchi

Daisuke Goto

Takeshi Ueda

Toshiyasu Yukawa

Daisuke Tano

Tetsuya Murakami

Chikara Kawamura

Hirohito Ishizuka

Taiki Nagamatsu

Futoshi Takei

Keiji Sasano

Kenzo Tanaka

Noboru Kawabata

Koji Tsuchiya

Takaya Wada

Hirokazu Yoshida

Hironori Yokoyama

Tatsuo Shiino

Yuki Tuji

Ryosuke Kubota

Kyounei Yasuda

Norihiko Yoshimura

Kuniaki Maejima

Hiroaki Shinohara

Masaaki Takayama

Yoshinori Sugahara

Shogo Numaguchi

Masahiro Izumi

Tatsuo Shiina

Tomio Ishigami

Shu Takahashi

Hirokazu Morita

Takeyuki Minamimoto

Kiyohito Suzuki

Hidekazu Murata

Hiroshi Shimoyama

Yuuichi Inada

Tomoki Kurose

Kento Shiratori

Hiroyuki Wakamatsu

Kentaro Sugino

Yusuke Tanno

Shiori Ohta

Yoichi Uematsu

Ayumu Anzai

Sadamu Suidu

Yuuya Kani

Kazutoshi Nakashima

Ryo Takiguchi

Takeshi Fujioka

Yuki Tsuji

An endless belt, in which an outer peripheral surface of the endless belt has a coefficient of dynamic friction of 0.85 or less, and in a case where polyester resin particles having a volume-average particle size of 4.7 μm are caused to adhere to the outer peripheral surface under a load of 0 g/cm, and then air is sprayed on the outer peripheral surface from above the outer peripheral surface at a spray pressure that keeps increasing, all the polyester resin particles having adhered to the outer peripheral surface are spaced apart from the outer peripheral surface at the spray pressure of 6 kPa or less.

Endless belt, transfer device, and image forming apparatus

A film includes: a binder resin; and an ester-modified silicone resin, in which the film has a first surface having a static friction coefficient denoted as A and a second surface having a static friction coefficient denoted as B, and A/B is 0.85 or less.

Film, member, transfer device, and image forming apparatus

A film contains at least one macromolecular compound selected from the group consisting of resins and rubbers and an electrically conductive filler including at least a needle-shaped filler and dispersed in the macromolecular compound. The content of the electrically conductive filler is 40% by volume or more.

Film, tubular fixing member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

An intermediate transfer belt includes a resin, conductive carbon particles, and an alkyl silicone oil and a modified body thereof, in which regions different in a content of the alkyl silicone oil and the modified body thereof are formed on an outer peripheral surface, in a case where a silicon amount (Atomic %) on the outer peripheral surface is measured along an axial direction using an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the silicon amount is periodically increased and decreased along the axial direction, and a peak-to-peak distance in an increasing/decreasing period of the silicon amount is 0.1 mm or more and 5.0 mm or less.

Intermediate transfer belt, transfer device, and image forming apparatus

A film contains a resin and a siloxane compound having a structure A represented by Formula: [RSiO](provided that in the formula, R represents an organic group and n represents an integer of 2 or more), where at least one R among plural R's in the structure A is a group including an alkyl group and a difference in solubility parameter (SP value) between the resin and the structure A is 3.0 or less in terms of an absolute value, and surface free energy is 40 mJ/mor less.

Film, member, transfer device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

A compressor includes: a compressor; and a motor that is disposed in the compressor housing. The motor has a rotor provided coaxially with respect to a rotary shaft of the compression part, and a stator disposed on an outer peripheral side of the rotor. In the stator, a plurality of large-diameter parts in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the compressor housing and a plurality of small-diameter parts, each of the small-diameter parts having a distance from a rotation center of the motor to an outer peripheral surface, the distance being smaller than the distance of the large-diameter part, are formed in a circumferential direction of the stator. The stator is provided with a plurality of welded parts joining the inner peripheral surface of the compressor housing with the outer peripheral surface of the stator, and the welded parts are provided in the small-diameter part of the stator.

Compressor with stator having large diameter and small diameter parts and welding parts joining housing and stator

A compressor includes a shaft that is arranged along a rotation axis a compression unit that drives along with rotation of the shaft, a rotor core that is fixed to the shaft, a plurality of permanent magnets that are embedded inside the rotor core, and a stator that causes the rotor core to rotate about the rotation axis, wherein a plurality of eccentric holes for adjusting balance when the shaft rotates are formed in the rotor core, and the plurality of eccentric holes are formed on an inner side of the polygonal region for which midpoints of sides at a side of the rotation axis among sides formed by side surfaces of the plurality of permanent magnet in a cross section perpendicular to the rotation axis serve as vertices.

Compressor

A jacking point structure disposed to project from a bottom surface of a vehicle and structured to be jacked up by a jacking device to provided. The jacking point structure includes a bottom including a jacking point surface structured to be lifted up first by the jacking device, and a partial contact surface disposed around the jacking point surface. The bottom of the jacking point structure may further include a curved surface between the jacking point surface and the partial contact surface.

Jacking point structure

A resin belt contains a resin, a low-melting-point alloy having a melting point of 370° C. or lower, and a fibrous filler.

Resin belt, fixing belt, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

An endless belt contains a resin, a filler A having an aspect ratio of 5 or more, and two or more fillers B having an aspect ratio of less than 5, in which a volume-based particle size distribution of the fillers B has two or more peaks among which a peak existing on a largest diameter side has a particle size Dmax that is equal to or more than 5 times and equal to or less than 50 times a particle size Dmin of a peak existing on a smallest diameter side.

Endless belt, fixing belt, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

A film contains a siloxane compound having an alkyl group and a resin having a density of 1.1 g/cmor higher and a glass transition temperature of 150° C. or higher.

A transfer device includes an intermediate transfer belt having a surface to which a toner image may be transferred and solid lubricant particles are attached, a primary transfer member performing primary transfer of a toner image to the surface of the intermediate transfer belt, a secondary transfer member performing secondary transfer of the toner image to a surface of a recording medium, and a detection device detecting a density of the toner image and has a light irradiation unit irradiating the surface of the intermediate transfer belt and a light receiving unit receiving reflected light, in which a relationship between a volume-average particle size A (nm) of the solid lubricant particles attached to the surface of the intermediate transfer belt and a wavelength B (nm) of the light radiated from the light irradiation unit satisfies the following Expression:Expression 1:8.6+300.

Transfer device and image forming apparatus

A polymer film includes at least one type of polymer selected from the group consisting of a resin and rubber and fillers dispersed in the polymer; in which in a case where the polymer film is three-dimensionally analyzed with FIB-SEM, a film thickness of the polymer film is denoted by Tm, and a length of the filler in a film thickness direction of the polymer film is denoted by Lf, a proportion of the number of fillers having Lf/Tm of 0.01 or more and less than 1.0 to the number of all the fillers is more than 40% and less than 100%.

Polymer film, tubular fixing member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

An endless belt contains a resin and a surface modifier. The endless belt has, at an outer circumferential surface thereof, a sea-island structure including a sea portion containing the resin and island portions containing the surface modifier. The area of the island portions is equal to or less than 5% of the total area of the outer circumferential surface.

A fixing belt includes a substrate layer that contains polyimide and a filler containing a spherical filler and a cleavable flat plate-shaped filler, in which a total amount of the filler is less than 40% by volume with respect to the substrate layer.

Fixing belt including layer of polyimide and specific filler, fixing device including the fixing belt, and image forming apparatus including the fixing device

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