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Akira Arai

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Katsuya Suzuki

Kuniharu Suzuki

Kota Onishi

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Hisashi Machida

Takahiro Kamijo

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Shinichi Kamoshida

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Naoki Koike

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Eiju Hirai

Hiromu Miyazawa

Mitsuhiro Nakamura

Hiroshi Ito

Eiji Inoue

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Masanao Kunugi

Yasuhide Hosoda

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Miharu Kanaya

Norihisa Kobayashi

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Masashi Matsumoto

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Teruhiro Kubo

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Susumu Nishigaki

Junichi Fujita

Hirotoshi Aramaki

Masayoshi Shimizuya

Kiyoshi Okubo

Takuya Makita

Tatsuo Nishimura

Hiroshi Fukushima

Noboru Sakurai

Hideaki Ozawa

Akira Torisawa

Masahiro Kikuchi

Junichi Terai

Mikimoto Jin

Jusuke Shimura

Tsutomu Asakawa

Mikio Takenaka

Masaru Sato

Akio Ohkoshi

Tsuyoshi Kaneko

Nobuhiro Miyakawa

Keizo Ikai

Daisuke Kaneko

Ichiro Asaoka

Shigeru Okamura

Masahiko Ishikawa

Masaru Aoki

Yutaka Nobe

Yoshiaki Inoue

Osamu Kobayashi

Tomoyuki Iwakoshi

Kiyoshi Kato

Shinichi Natsumeda

Shinya Taguchi

Kinji Yukawa

Masaki Fujii

Tsutomu Nakamura

Kanji Murano

Junichi Kubo

Masaaki Kakizaki

Hideaki Nakagawa

A post-processing apparatus includes: a processing unit configured to pull in a recording medium transported from an upstream apparatus and perform processing on the recording medium; a discharge unit to which the recording medium processed by the processing unit is discharged; and a lifting drive device configured to, in a case where a folded recording medium is pulled into the processing unit, move the discharge unit downward such that a height of the discharge unit is lower than a height of the discharge unit in a case where an unfolded recording medium is pulled into the processing unit.

Post-processing apparatus

A piezoelectric element including a piezoelectric layer having a perovskite structure including lead, zirconium, and titanium, and an electrode provided on the piezoelectric layer is provided. In the piezoelectric layer, in a range of 50 nm or smaller from an interface between the piezoelectric layer and the electrode in a thickness direction, a ratio c/a of a lattice spacing a in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction and a lattice spacing c in the thickness direction satisfies 0.986&#x2264;c/a&#x2264;1.014.

Piezoelectric element and liquid ejecting head including piezoelectric layer having improved lattice ratio

A recording material processing apparatus includes first teeth that are used for binding processing of a recording material bundle; second teeth that move along a linear route toward the first teeth and presses the recording material bundle located between the first teeth and the second teeth; and a guide portion that is disposed along the linear route and guides the second teeth moving toward the first teeth.

Recording material processing apparatus and image forming system

A liquid discharge head includes a pressure chamber that accommodates a liquid, a diaphragm that forms a wall surface of the pressure chamber, and a piezoelectric element that is provided on an opposite side of the pressure chamber with the diaphragm interposed between the piezoelectric element and the pressure chamber and vibrates the diaphragm. The diaphragm includes a silicon oxynitride layer formed with including silicon oxynitride.

Liquid discharge head, liquid discharge apparatus, piezoelectric device, and ultrasonic sensor

Provided is a liquid ejecting head including a pressure chamber to accommodate a liquid, a vibration plate, a nozzle to eject the liquid, and a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric body layer, a first electrode disposed on one surface of the piezoelectric body layer, and a second electrode disposed on the other surface of the piezoelectric body layer. The liquid ejecting head further includes wiring connected to the second electrode and extended along a surface direction of the piezoelectric body layer, and does not include a metal layer having the same potential as the first electrode in a first area which is an area positioned between the wiring and the vibration plate and in which the wiring overlaps with none of the second electrode and the piezoelectric body layer in a direction perpendicular to a surface direction of the second electrode.

Liquid ejecting head, liquid ejecting apparatus, and piezoelectric device

A polarization coupling device includes a polarization combining element. The polarization combining element includes a polarization rotating unit that rotates a polarization direction of a first polarized wave incident on the polarization combining element, and a polarization combining unit that combines the first polarized wave with the polarization direction rotated by the polarization rotating unit and a second polarized wave incident on the polarization combining element with each other, and the polarization rotating unit and the polarization combining unit are integrated with each other. Due to this configuration, the polarization coupling device has an effect where downscaling of the device can be advanced.

Polarization coupling device and optical modulation device

An optical module includes a substrate with a plurality of pairs, which are parallel to each other, spaced in a width direction of the substrate, of optical waveguides formed thereon, each pair being made up of a first optical waveguide that guides a first beam and a second optical waveguide that guides a second beam that monitors the first beam, and a lens that has an incident surface facing at least one pair of the plurality of pairs, collimates, for each of the at least one pair, the first and second beams that emerge from the pair and that differ from each other in at least any one of their incident positions and incident directions on the incident surface, and directs the first and second beams having been collimated and leaving the lens in different directions that depend on the incident positions or the incident directions.

Optical module

A portable terminal obtains a first code used to obtain provision information and a second code, different from the first code, from a communication device. The portable terminal transmits the first and second codes to an information processing device, receives the provision information from the information processing device as a response to the transmission, and outputs the received provision information. The information processing device includes a first storage unit storing the first code and a second storage unit storing, by associating, the second code and the provision information. The information processing device receives the first and second codes from the portable terminal, obtains provision information associated with the received second code from the second storage unit when the received first code is stored in the first storage unit, and transmits the obtained provision information to the portable terminal. The first code is deleted in exiting from a specific area.

Information providing system and information providing method

An optical modulator module includes: a semiconductor modulator that includes a plurality of output waveguides; a first cylindrical lens that has a longitudinal direction in a direction in which the plurality of output waveguides are aligned, and through which lights output from the plurality of output waveguides penetrate; and a plurality of second cylindrical lenses each having a longitudinal direction that intersects with the longitudinal direction of the first cylindrical lens and allowing a corresponding light of the lights output from the plurality of output waveguides to penetrate therethrough.

Optical modulator module

A first lens transmits a beam of light having a vertical cross-sectional diameter made closer to a horizontal cross-sectional diameter. The beam of light is emitted from an optical waveguide on a substrate and configured such that the vertical cross-sectional diameter which is the diameter of a vertical cross section along the direction of the thickness of the substrate is greater than the horizontal cross-sectional diameter which is the diameter of a horizontal cross section along the direction of the width of the substrate. A second lens is disposed at a position, at which the vertical cross-sectional diameter and the horizontal cross-sectional diameter coincide with each other, so as to focus the beam of light on the optical fiber. The position is closer to the optical fiber than the first lens along the direction of travel of the beam of light transmitted by the first lens.

Optical transmitter

A polarization combiner includes: a base member that includes a body portion, an arm portion extending from the body portion, and a notch portion surrounded with the body portion and the arm portion; a polarization rotating element that is fixed to the arm portion of the base member and that rotates a polarization direction of a first polarized wave; and a polarization combining element that is fixed to the base member so as to face the notch portion of the base member and the polarization rotating element, the polarization combining element combining two polarized waves entering from a surface facing the notch portion and the polarization rotating element, the two polarized waves including the first polarized wave whose polarization direction is rotated by the polarization rotating element and a second polarized wave passing the notch portion.

Polarization combiner and optical modulation device

An optical module connected to an optical fiber for transmitting light includes: a substrate; a ferrule that is formed from a material capable of transmitting therethrough light having a predetermined wavelength, accommodates an end of the optical fiber, and is fixed on the substrate with a fixing agent cured by being irradiated with the light capable of passing through the material; and a semiconductor chip that is disposed on the substrate and modulates light emitted from the end of the optical fiber accommodated in the ferrule.

Optical module and optical modulation device

An optical transmitting apparatus includes: a substrate; optical modulators that are arranged in parallel to one another on the substrate and modulate light; waveguides that are formed on the substrate and guide signal light represented by at least one of modulated light beams obtained by the light being modulated by the plurality of optical modulators and monitor light represented by at least another one of the modulated light beams other than the signal light; lenses that collimate the signal light and the monitor light emitted from the waveguides; and a holding member that causes the signal light and the monitor light to be emitted from the lenses in mutually-different directions, by holding the lenses in such a manner that the optical axis of at least one of the lenses is out of alignment in a predetermined direction with the optical axis of at least one of the waveguides.

Optical transmitting apparatus

An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material includes a drum cartridge including an image bearing member, a developing cartridge including a developing unit for developing the image formed on the image bearing member, and a cartridge mounting member to which the drum cartridge and the developing cartridge are detachably mountable. In addition, a transferring unit transfers a visualized image on the image bearing member onto the recording material fed along a feeding path, and an opening and closing cover is provided across the feeding path from the image bearing member. A path of removing the detachable developing cartridge is accessed by opening the opening and closing cover and extends across the feeding path so as to permit the developing cartridge to pass through the feeding path without removing the drum cartridge.

Image forming apparatus with detachable components

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroshi Kato