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Nippon Shokubai Kagaku, Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Ito

Kunihiko Ishii

Hiroshi Iwakiri

Hideyuki Tahara

Hidetoshi Odaka

Hideharu Jyono

Fumio Kawakubo

Chisato Hatakeyama

Tsuyoshi Hirata

Tsuneo Tsubakimoto

Hiroshi Ando

Yasuhiro Mori

Toshihiko Okamoto

Katsuyu Wakabayashi

Hiroya Kobayashi

Haruo Koyama

Toshimitsu Takeuchi

Nobuyuki Kashiwagi

Tadashi Ohba

Takao Besshi

Makoto Mizushima

Junko Ito

Takashi Tamura

Satoru Inoue

Yoshio Irie

Yoshinori Sano

Shigeru Yamaguchi

Masuo Kawamoto

Hideki Kono

Tetsuro Tomoe

Sakae Saito

Masaji Komori

Nobuyoshi Nambu

Yuji Nakazawa

Atsushi Nakamura

Tomoya Shimura

Shinichi Arita

Masahito Takagi

Kenichi Tanabe

Shunichi Sato

Keishi Tsuboi

Yuka Kanamori

Makoto Kitagawa

Shouhei Yamasuso

Hirokazu Katakame

Hirofumi Mukae

Noriyuki Ohguro

A resin composition and a molded article. The resin composition contains a fluororesin and boron nitride particles, the fluororesin being present in an amount of 35 to 70% by mass and the boron nitride particles being present in an amount of 30 to 65% by mass, each relative to the resin composition, the resin composition having a melt flow rate of 5.0 g/10 min or more.

Resin composition and molded article

A thrust magnetic bearing includes a stator having a coil that produces a magnetic flux, and a rotor. The magnetic flux supports the rotor in a non-contact manner. The stator has main and auxiliary stator magnetic pole surfaces. The rotor has main and auxiliary rotor magnetic pole surfaces. The main and auxiliary rotor magnetic pole surfaces face the main and auxiliary stator magnetic pole surfaces. The auxiliary stator magnetic pole surface includes at least one first stator surface and at least one second stator surface, alternately arranged. The auxiliary rotor magnetic pole surface includes at least one first rotor surface, and at least one second rotor surface, alternately arranged. Nr&#x2265;1 and Nt&#x2265;2, with Nr representing a number of pairs of the first stator and rotor surfaces facing each other, and Nt representing a number of pairs of the second stator and rotor surfaces facing each other.

Thrust magnetic bearing and turbo compressor equipped with same

In order to perform adjustment of relative positions between an optical system and imaging devices, a plurality of the imaging devices, a plurality of solid lenses that form images of the imaging devices, and a plurality of optical-axis control units that control the direction of optical axes of light incident to the imaging devices are included.

Image pickup apparatus and optical-axis control method

Disclosed are a curable composition characterized by using a curable composition including an organic polymer (A1) having one or more silicon-containing functional groups capable of cross-linking by forming siloxane bonds in which the one or more silicon-containing functional groups capable of cross-linking by forming siloxane bonds are silicon-containing functional groups each having three or more hydrolyzable groups on one or more silicon atoms thereof; and a method for controlling the recovery properties, durability and creep resistance of the cured article. Herewith, the present invention provides a curable composition capable of giving a cured article excellent in recovery properties, durability and creep resistance, and a method for controlling the recovery properties, durability and creep resistance of the cured article.

Curable composition and method for improving recovery properties and creep properties

An image forming apparatus has a wide first main body, a narrow second main body below the first main body, and a cover on at least on one side of the second main body. The cover includes first and second walls. The first wall connects a side edge of the first main body and a lower side edge of the second main body. The second wall is a substantially inverted triangle that extends obliquely from the front edge of the first wall.

Image forming apparatus provided with image reading unit

Disclosed are a curable composition characterized by using a curable composition including an organic polymer (A) having one or more silicon-containing functional groups capable of cross-linking by forming siloxane bonds in which the one or more silicon-containing functional groups capable of cross-linking by forming siloxane bonds are silicon-containing functional groups each having three or more hydrolyzable groups on one or more silicon atoms thereof; and a method for controlling the recovery properties, durability and creep resistance of the cured article. Herewith, the present invention provides a curable composition capable of giving a cured article excellent in recovery properties, durability and creep resistance, and a method for controlling the recovery properties, durability and creep resistance of the cured article.

Curable composition and methods for improving recovery properties and creep properties

A fixing device comprises a thermally fixing roller, a belt, and pushing means which pushes the belt toward the thermally fixing roller. A nipping region is formed between the belt and the thermally fixing roller. A maximum pressure is produced in an upstream end region of the thermally fixing roller in the direction of rotation in the nipping region, another maximum pressure is produced in a downstream end region thereof in the direction of rotation in the nipping region, and a pressure is produced in an intermediate region, which pressure being not higher than the maximum pressure in the upstream end region and not higher than the another maximum pressure in the downstream end region.

Image-forming machine fixing device with a nipping region having a pressure distribution

A belt fixing unit has a fixing roller and a pressing roller that are provided in a pair midway along a transport passage through which paper having a toner image formed thereon is transported from bottom to top approximately in a vertical direction and that fix the toner image on the paper, a heating roller that is provided parallel to and in a position approximately horizontal to the fixing roller and that incorporates a heater for heating the fixing roller, and a fixing belt that is formed as an endless belt and that is wound around and between the fixing roller and the heating roller. A non-contact temperature sensor for controlling the fixing temperature is provided on a non-contact basis in the paper passage region on the surface of the upper one of the parts of the fixing belt facing each other up and down between the fixing roller and the heating roller.

Belt fixing unit

A belt driving apparatus for driving a belt has the belt hung around and between rollers, and has a meandering prevention member provided in each end part of each roller to restrict the meandering of the belt in the roller axial direction. A cut is formed to be open toward the roller end face and to extend in the roller axial direction, and a boss that fits into the cut is formed on the inner circumference of the meandering prevention member.

Belt driving apparatus

An image forming device is disclosed that can control image blurring, image contraction, and the like when resilient transfer media such as cardboard is to be transported upward from a pair of resist rollers and guided to a transfer position, and obtain a suitable transfer image. Transfer media is transported upward by resist rollers, and guided toward a transfer position by a pair of guide plates. Because tip of a resilient transfer medium such as cardboard may spring back to its original shape after it separates from the resist rollers, one guide plate is urged toward the transfer position by spring members, and can absorb the springing of the transfer media back to its original shape by pivoting away from the transfer position, and thus can reduce the occurrences of image blurring or the like.

Transfer media transport guide mechanism for image forming device

An image-forming apparatus including an image-forming member for forming a toner image and for transferring it onto a recording medium by an electrophotographic system, a fixing member for heat-fixing the toner image onto the recording medium, and a discharge conveying passage for conveying the recording medium onto which the toner image has been heat-fixed to a discharge portion, which are arranged in an apparatus body. The discharge conveying passage extends in the up-and-down direction along one side wall of the apparatus body. A cooling fan is arranged between the image-forming member and the discharge conveying passage on the inside facing the discharge conveying passage for forming an air stream heading from the side of the image-forming member toward the discharge conveying passage. Exhaust ports are formed in the discharge conveying passage facing the cooling fan and in the one side wall.

Structure for cooling the interior of an image-forming apparatus

A fixing unit includes: a casing; a heat roller that is rotatably supported and that supplies heat for fixing; and a tubular heater disposed in parallel in the heat roller along an axis thereof. The tubular heater includes a lead wire having a protruding end portion protruding outwardly from an axial end portion thereof. In addition, the tubular heater includes a flat terminal having one face thereof connected and fixed to the protruding end portion. Moreover, a fitting surface for fixing the flat terminal is formed in the casing. The fitting surface is arranged to be flat in an area excluding an area in which the protruding end portion is disposed and is provided with a clearance for storing the protruding end portion. Further, the flat terminal is fixed to the fitting surface with the one face of the flat terminal facing the fitting surface.

Fixing unit including heat roller with tubular heater and fitting surface

A pair of fixing section discharge rollersis arranged on the downstream side, with respect to the paper conveying direction, of a fixing sectionincluding a fixing rollerand a pressing roller. Near the fixing section, a openable sectionis provided that makes externally accessible the paper conveying passage on the downstream side of the fixing section. The openable sectionhas the axis of its pivot portionaligned with the axis of the pressing roller, and is rotatable about the pivot portion. The fixing section discharge rollersare mounted on the openable section. If a paper jam occurs on the downstream side of the fixing section, when the openable sectionis opened, a wide space is secured on the downstream side of the fixing section, and the paper P stuck in the conveying nip between the fixing section discharge rollersis automatically brought outward.

Image forming apparatus including an openable section and separating mechanism with cam

To handle a paper jam, an opening/closing coveris swiveled a predetermined angle around a pivoting shaft, with the opening/closing coverand a paper transport guide memberin an unlocked state, to open the opening/closing cover. The paper transport guide memberopens thereupon by swiveling around a pivoting shaftin response to the opening movement of the opening/closing cover, thereby opening simultaneously a paper transport pathand a reverse transport path

Image device having an opening/closing cover

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Osaka, Japan

Hiroshi Ito