Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyo Seikan Co., Ltd.

Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Ltd.

Hiroki Tanaka

Akihisa Matsukawa

Yasunari Harada

Jun Watanabe

Toshiaki Hosokawa

Reika Ichihara

Takeshi Shikama

Tetsuyoshi Nakata

Takayuki Ishikawa

Masato Koyama

Yoshinori Tsuchiya

Naoko Kihara

Ryosuke Yamamoto

Motonari Ito

Shunsuke Shitaoka

Ryosuke Takeuchi

Takeshi Yamamoto

Shosuke Fujii

Takayuki Namiki

Nobuo Oshima

Satoru Motohashi

Makoto Fukatsu

Katsuichi Abe

Masahiko Yoshiki

Masanori Tanaka

Ryuuichi Satoh

Tomoko Fukasawa

Keiji Miyazaki

Motohide Hata

Masumi Saitoh

Daisuke Matsushita

Toshiro Hiraoka

Jun Miura

Satoshi Sunahara

Hidenori Miyagawa

Kazuhisa Shida

Takayuki Kanazawa

Masanori Seki

Hideo Kihara

Kuniaki Tamagaki

Hideaki Iijima

Ryosuke Kanai

Takashi Koyanagi

Atsushi Kominami

Takahiro Kurosawa

Mitsuhiro Tomita

Souji Araki

Keigo Mizusawa

Takahiro Yasuumi

Toshiki Okamura

Masahiro Takenaka

Shinichi Miyose

Kouji Wakisaka

Yuta Isobe

Naoya Sawamura

Provided is a microchannel device, which has high hydrophobicity, high mechanical strength, and safety and also has high solvent resistance, and thus has wider applicability. The microchannel device includes a porous substrate having formed therein channel walls each containing a cyclic olefin copolymer that is a copolymer of an alkene and a cyclic olefin.

Microchannel device

Provided is a closure device for closing a soft packaging container, the closure device including a holding section configured to hold a soft packaging container, a dispense section configured to dispense contents of the soft packaging container, a closure section configured to close the soft packaging container, and a control section configured to control timing for closing the soft packaging container by the closure section. The control section may include an acquisition section configured to acquire time information related to timing for closing the soft packaging container. Provided is a soft packaging container for accommodating contents, the soft packaging container including a main region for accommodating the contents, and an extension region provided by being extended from the main region.

Closure device and soft packaging container

An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, first and second charging members, a development member, and first and second charging voltage applying units. The photosensitive drum includes a surface layer constituting a surface of the photosensitive drum. The second charging voltage applying unit applies a second charging voltage to the second charging member. The surface layer of the photosensitive drum has a volume resistivity of 1.0×109 ohm centimeters (Ω·cm) or more and 1.0×1014 Ω·cm or less. The second charging voltage applying unit applies the second charging voltage such that a second potential difference formed between the second charging member and the surface of the photosensitive drum charged by the first charging member is equal to or higher than a discharge starting voltage.

Image forming apparatus

To provide a spouted pouch with a simple structure and improved self-standing ability of the pouch body. The spouted pouchis configured to dispense a liquid content from a spoutattached to a side face of a pouch bodyin a state placed with a pouch bottomdown. The pouch bodyfurther includes a first shape-controlling seal portionformed by heat sealing a first filmand a side filmtogether at a location on an inner side of a first side sealin the left-right direction. The first shape-controlling seal portionhas an area located in a region between an upper half of a spout fixture portionand the first side seals, and does not have an area located below the center in the up-down direction of the spout fixture portion

Spouted pouch

An image forming apparatus includes a developer carrying member that bears and conveys developer. The developer carrying member has at least a base and a surface layer, with the surface layer having an electron donating portion that mainly donates charge to the developer when the developer and the surface layer make frictional contact to exchange charge and an electron accepting portion that mainly accepts charge from the developer when the developer and the surface layer makes frictional contact to exchange charge. A controller applies an AC voltage to the developer carrying member during a period in which an image forming operation is not performed and the developer carrying member is driven, with the AC voltage being different from that applied during an image forming period, and a rotating speed of the developer carrying member during a non-image forming period is slower than that during an image forming period.

Image forming apparatus having toner charging

To provide a pouch that allows a displacement of the formation position of a film through portion to be detected. A pouch includes an inner film () disposed in a pouch body (), the inner film () including a first fixing portion () fixed to a pouch body (), a second fixing portion () fixed to the pouch body (), an inner placement portion () that is disposed in the pouch body () without being fixed to the pouch body (), and a plurality of film through portions () penetrating in a film thickness direction, the plurality of film through portions () including a first film-through portion () at least partially formed on the first fixing portion () and an inner film-through portion () formed on the inner placement portion (), the first film-through portion () being overlapped on the body film in a bag-making sealing portion ().

Pouch and filling method

The present disclosure provides a method for producing a microchannel device, which can form a channel that has high hydrophobicity, high solvent resistance as well, and also resistance to heat and damage, on demand with high accuracy, and produces the microchannel device at a low cost, while having high productivity. The method for producing a microchannel device includes: forming a channel pattern from a hydrophobic resin on a porous substrate by an electrophotographic method; melting the channel pattern by heat to allow the channel pattern to permeate into the porous substrate, thereby forming a channel in the inside of the porous substrate.

Method for producing microchannel device

An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming portion, a second image forming portion, a belt, a charging voltage applying portion, and a transfer voltage applying portion. With respect to a movement direction of a recording material, the first image forming portion is provided upstream of the second image forming portion. In an image forming operation, a potential difference between a first transfer voltage and a potential at a first transfer portion, which is formed on a first image bearing member and does not form the image, is greater than a potential difference between a second transfer voltage and a potential at a second transfer portion, which is formed on a second image bearing member and does not form an image.

Image forming apparatus with image bearing members having different surface layer thicknesses

To provide a pouch for achieving a reduced storage space with a simple configuration and a method for manufacturing the pouch. A pouch () including a gusset portion () includes a pouch main body () and an inner supporting member () disposed inside the pouch main body (). The pouch main body () includes a content containing portion () and a first fixture portion () and a second fixture portion () that face each other across the content containing portion (). The inner supporting member () includes a first fixing portion () fixed to the first fixture portion () and a second fixing portion () fixed to the second fixture portion ().

Pouch and pouch manufacturing method

Image forming apparatus capable of suppressing image defect due to foreign matter

A position detection apparatus configured to detect a position on a movement surface of a mounted object having the position detection apparatus mounted thereon, includes a moved amount detector configured to detect an amount of movement on the movement surface; a posture detector configured to detect at least a posture of the mounted object on the movement surface; and a position calculator configured to calculate the position of the mounted object, based on the amount of movement and the posture.

Position detection apparatus, droplet discharging apparatus, method for detecting position, and medium

A communication apparatus for data communication with a plurality of external devices includes a communication interface and processing circuitry. The communication interface is configured to perform wired communication and wireless communication with the plurality of external devices. The processing circuitry is configured to determine whether the plurality of external devices is connected via the wired communication or the wireless communication, and switch a connection destination from one external device to another external device of the plurality of external devices when the one external device is connected via one of the wired communication and the wireless communication and the processing circuitry receives a connection request from said another external device via the other of the wired communication and the wireless communication.

Apparatus and method for switching connection destination between external devices

A data generation system includes circuitry configured to generate data of sub-images constructing an image. Each of the sub-images includes at least one of image elements of the image. The image elements are aligned in a direction perpendicular to a given direction in which an image forming apparatus moves to form the image. The circuitry is configured to, when, in an attempt to add another one of the image elements adjacent to the at least one of the image elements in one of the sub-images, the other one of the image elements does not fit within the one of the sub-images, generate data of the one of the sub-images without the other one of the image elements.

Data generation system, communication terminal, image forming apparatus, data generation method, and non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium

A handheld printing apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry. The memory is configured to store a plurality of pieces of image data. The processing circuitry is configured to print the plurality of pieces of image data one by one in an order. The processing circuitry is configured to print one piece of image data by one scan and switch a piece of image data to be printed, in the order among the plurality of pieces of image data, each time one scan ends.

Printing apparatus, printing system, and printing method

A communication terminal communicates with an image forming apparatus to be moved on a medium to perform image formation. The communication terminal includes a display and circuitry configured to receive a notification from the image forming apparatus and to display a preview of an image to be formed by the image forming apparatus. The circuitry is further configured to distinguish, on the preview, one of a plurality of lines included in the image to be formed from a rest of the plurality of lines in accordance with a content of the notification and display operation aiding information for aiding an operation of the image forming apparatus in accordance with the content of the notification.

Communication terminal displays a position of hand-held image forming apparatus representing a line-feed distance with respect to recording medium

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroki Tanaka