Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi-dow Limited

Kabushiki Kaisha Sega Enterprises

Kabushiki Kaisha Sega

Sandoz Gmbh

Suzuki Motor Corporation

Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha

Sega Enterprises, Ltd.

Hiroshi Kataoka

Eiji Uekawa

Satoru Izawa

Shinji Hashiguchi

Keisuke Mochizuki

Naoto Tsuchihashi

Akio Yasuike

Shuji Saito

Akihito Kanamori

Hiroshi Yamaki

Yoshimasa Matsuura

Noriaki Sato

Yusuke Shimizu

Masaharu Ohkubo

Yasutaka Yagi

Takayuki Mizuta

Takeshi Maruyama

Koki Koiwa

Hiroshi Masui

Masayuki Ao

Yuo Umei

Masanori Mawatachi

Atsushi Iwasaki

Tomoyuki Makihira

Takashi Narahara

Mahito Yoshioka

Munehito Kurata

Hiroaki Sakai

Koji Nihonyanagi

Shun-ichi Ebihara

Masahide Hirai

Fumiki Inui

Hideki Ohta

Takayasu Yuminamochi

Kuniaki Kasuga

Masao Amano

Yasunari Kobaru

Jiro Moriya

Masayuki Sukigara

Hiroji Oda

Hirokazu Okugawa

Kaoru Toyouchi

Norito Takao

Yoshiharu Kawamata

Syuji Takahashi

Hideya Shibazaki

Taro Fukuhara

David A Schooley

Steven J Kramer

Tutomu Fujikawa

Naoto Suzuki

Tadashi Nagumo

Yasushi Kaneko

Kinya Matsuzawa

A diagnostic system may comprise an image forming apparatus that forms a diagnostic image on a sheet and an image capturing apparatus that captures an image of the sheet on which the diagnostic image is formed and which has been discharged from the image forming apparatus, and outputs the image captured as a sheet image. The image capturing apparatus may make a diagnosis for a component of the image forming apparatus based on a position of an image deficiency in the sheet image, and output a diagnosis result for the component of the image forming apparatus.

Diagnostic system for diagnosing image forming apparatus using image formed by image forming apparatus

An image heating apparatus includes an image heating portion including a heater, a tubular film having an inner surface in contact with the heater, and a pressure member that is in contact with the outer surface of the film and forms a nip portion for conveying a recording material between the outer surface and the pressure member. The image heating portion heats an unfixed toner image on the recording material by the heater. A temperature detection portion detects the temperature of the heater. A control portion controls electric power to the heater such that the temperature detected by the temperature detection portion is maintained at a predetermined control target temperature. An obtainment portion obtains image information for forming the unfixed toner image. The control target temperature is set, based on the image information, for each of a plurality of regions defined by dividing the recording material in the conveying direction.

Image heating apparatus and image formation apparatus with power supply control that sets a target temperature for each of a plurality of regions of recording material

In a fixing apparatushaving a heatercapable of selectively causing a plurality of heat generating blocks divided in a longitudinal direction of a substrateto generate heat, an energization control portionacquires, when performing a fixing operation, a cumulative amount of heat generation in each of a plurality of heating areas, a cumulative rotation time of a pressure roller, and information on a recording material that passes through a fixing nip portion, and controls energization of heat generating elementsandon the basis of the acquired information.

Image heating apparatus and image forming apparatus

A fixing apparatus fixes a toner image on a recording material by conveying and heating the recording material at a nip portion, and includes a first rotating member, a second rotating member configured to form the nip portion with the first rotating member, the first and second rotating members being arranged such that rotation of the second rotating member causes rotation of the first rotating member, a frame configured to support the second rotating member, so as to be rotatable and an opening and closing part arranged to open and close relative to the frame on the downstream side of the nip portion in the conveyance direction of the recoding material, the opening and closing part having a duct through which air flows.

Fixing apparatus

A fixing device includes first and second members, a frame supporting the second member, and two pressure mechanisms provided on either end of the first member. The mechanism includes a lever having one end supported by the frame in a rotatable manner in a pressure direction, and a helical compression spring disposed between a first spring support provided on the other end of the lever and a second spring support on the frame. At least one of the first and second spring supports includes a first area and a second area closer to the spring in the axial direction than the first area, the first area is in contact with an area of the spring close to a winding end of the spring, and the second area is in contact with an area of the spring farther away from the winding end in a winding direction than the first area.

Fixing device

An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording material has an image forming unit configured to form the toner image on the recording material; a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image on the recording material while heating and conveying the recording material bearing the toner image at a nip portion, the fixing unit including a heating rotation member and a roller forming the nip portion with the heating rotation member; and a voltage applying unit configured to apply a potential difference between a surface of the heating rotation member and a surface of the roller, wherein a plurality of print modes different in conveyance speed of the recording material at the nip portion are carried out, and wherein the voltage applying unit applies the potential difference smaller in a first print mode than the potential difference in a second print mode.

Image forming apparatus

A fixing device includes: a cylindrical film; a nip forming member; and a back-up member for forming a nip. The nip forming member includes a projected portion. The projection amount of the projected portion is smaller in an end portion region positioned at an end portion of the projected portion with respect to a generatrix direction of the film than in a central region positioned at a central portion of the projected portion with respect to the generatrix direction, at least a part of the end portion region being inside a feeding region of a maximum-sized recording material usable in the fixing device. With respect to the recording material feeding direction, the width of the part of the projected portion inside the nip is broader in the end portion region than in the central region.

Fixing device with back-up member and nip forming member including a projecting portion projecting toward the back-up member

An acquisition portion acquires a rate of a size of a toner image being formed in a predetermined area on a recording material to a size of the predetermined area, in a consecutive print job, a control portion sets a longer conveyance interval between a preceding recording material and a subsequent recording material when the rate of the subsequent recording material exceeds a threshold than when the rate of the subsequent recording material does not exceed the threshold, and the predetermined area on a trailing end side of the recording material with respect to a center of the recording material in a recording material conveying direction is larger than the predetermined area on a leading end side of the recording material with respect to the center of the recording material, or the predetermined area is only on the trailing end side of the recording material.

An object of the present invention is to provide a game server that can simulate the sensation of competing in a game against an actually existing specific person. The game server of the present invention offers a plurality of options for the actions that gamer A can select in game scenes that change along with the progress of a soccer game. The options include dribble (long), dribble (short), pass in front of the player, pass to the foot of the player, wait, and shoot. The action patterns of gamer A are stored for each game scene by counting the number of times each option is selected. The game server refers to the stored action patterns when playing against another gamer B. This configuration makes it possible for the gamer B to have a virtual experience as if he were competing with the gamer A.

Game apparatus, server apparatus, program, and recording medium

In a storage structure in a vehicle compartment, in which a drawer-type tray () is provided in an instrument panel (), a storage section () is provided on the lower surface of the tray (). The tray () is preferably provided slidably in a ceiling portion () of a glove box () so as to be drawn out, whereby the article storage section () is housed in the storage space () of the glove box () when the drawer-type tray () is stored in the ceiling portion ().

Storage structure in vehicle compartment

An image forming apparatus is provided with an image heating apparatus for holding and conveying a recording material bearing an image in a nip between a heating member and a pressurizing member to heat the image on the recording material. The image forming apparatus has a bias applying portion for applying a bias to at least one of the heating member and the pressurizing member and a bias setting portion for setting an amount of the applied bias. In the case that a recording material(s) having a first width is fed and thereafter a recording material is to be fed, the bias setting portion sets the amount of the applied bias based on the number of the recording material(s) having the first width that have been fed and the time from the feeding of the recording material(s) having the first width to the feeding of the recording material having the second width.

Image forming apparatus with heater having bias applying portion setting bias based on sheet width

An image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material, including a metallic sleeve, a heater contacting with the inner surface of the sleeve, the heater being controlled so as to maintain a set temperature, a backup member cooperating with the heater through the sleeve to form a nip for nipping and transporting the recording material, and a metallic reinforcing member disposed in the interior of the sleeve, wherein during a heating operation of heating the recording material by the heater, the surface temperature of the reinforcing member is 80% or less of the surface temperature of the sleeve.

Image heating apparatus having flexible metallic sleeve and reinforcing member disposed in an interior of said sleeve

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Hiroshi Kataoka