Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Citizen Watch Company, Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Accuthera Inc.

Hiroshi Koide

Hiromichi Matsuda

Makoto Komatsu

Akihiko Shimizu

Junichi Watanabe

Masahiko Nakayama

Toshiyuki Andoh

Motokazu Yasui

Shigemoto Tenmyo

Tadashi Ogawa

Satoshi Imai

Hiroshi Seo

Hideaki Hirai

Hiroshi Akiyama

Masahiko Waki

Tadao Enomoto

Kazuhiro Fujita

Takashi Fujita

Hitoshi Hattori

Yoshitaka Takahashi

Kazuhiko Kobayashi

Hiroyoshi Funato

Hiroshi Gotoh

Joh Ebara

Takashi Hashimoto

Yasuhisa Ehara

Yuji Matsuda

Hirokazu Ikenoue

Sadayuki Iwai

Masashi Yamamoto

Kenya Yokoi

Goichi Akanuma

Minoru Takahashi

Hiromi Juso

Masami Emoto

Tetsuo Kanno

Eiki Yoshimizu

Fumihiro Shimizu

Nobuo Ito

Tsuneji Takasugi

Takao Kasai

Syuichi Honda

Tsutomu Noguchi

Osamu Matsumura

Yasuo Maekawa

Hisao Yamagata

Tsunetoshi Sekiguchi

Hidefumi Kasai

Seiji Umezawa

Masaaki Ito

Hisanori Ataka

Kisuke Watanabe

Makoto Iwasawa

Katsuhiko Iida

Taisaburo Homae

Shigemoto Temmyo

Toshiaki Sawada

Yasunari Kawashima

To manufacture a permanent magnetic motor having saliency at a low cost, a permanent magnet motor includes a stator provided with an armature winding configured to form a plurality of phases, a rotor having a surface facing the stator, the rotor including a permanent magnet disposed to face the stator, the permanent magnet having a plurality of magnetic poles arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and a conductive member made of a conductive material and disposed on the surface of the rotor facing the stator.

Permanent magnet motor, position estimating device, and motor driving controlling device

There is provided a collimator apparatus including a first collimator configured to prevent a leakage of radiation, wherein a target for converting electron beam emitted from an electron beam source into the radiation is disposed in the first collimator, and a second collimator, wherein the radiation passes through the second collimator along a central axis of the second collimator, the second collimator being disposed in an inner space formed in the first collimator, a gap between a surface of the inner space and the second collimator being provided, wherein the second collimator swings within the inner space of the first collimator.

Collimator apparatus, radiation system, and method for controlling collimators

A belt drive controller for controlling each belt stopping position with high accuracy during intermittent movement of a belt. This belt drive controller controls driving of a belt to intermittently move a belt wrapped around a plurality of supporting rollers including a driven roller and a drive roller. This controller detects a rotation angular displacement or a rotation angular velocity of two supporting rollers having mutually different diameters, and controls driving of the drive roller based on the detected rotation data so that the position of the belt in the direction of movement becomes a predetermined target position.

Belt drive controller and image forming apparatus provided with same

A device of a motor with a rotation control means that decreases the fluctuation of its rotation period. The control is carried out based on the amplitude and the phase generated by amplitude-and-phase generating devices, detecting passage time of detected portions () in different zones. And a color image forming apparatus of tandem type with such motors.

Rotor driving control device and image forming apparatus

An imprinting unit is disclosed where a driving current provided to a driving motor is temporarily increased from normal operations in sync with a shock generated when a recording medium enters and leaves a nip.

Imprinting apparatus and an image formation apparatus

A belt drive controlling device for controlling drive of an endless belt supported and driven by plural support rollers including a driving roller configured to drive the endless belt to rotate; and a driven roller which is rotated by the endless belt. The device performs arithmetic processing to extract one of two pieces of rotation variation information on two rollers of the support rollers, and perform controlling drive of the belt on the basis of the rotation variation information. A belt device including a belt, plural support rollers, a driving source, the belt drive controlling device, and a detector configured to detect rotation angular displacement or rotation angular velocity of two of the support rollers. An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a developing device and a transfer device, wherein the image bearing member and/or the transfer device includes the belt device.

Belt drive controlling device, belt device using the belt drive controlling device, and image forming apparatus using the belt device

An image fixing apparatus controls temperature of a rotating member for fixing with compensation for delay by using a Smith predictor with a controlled object model to reduce temperature ripple effectively. In one example, the image fixing apparatus includes a pair of rotating members to form a nip portion, a heater to heat the rotating member, a temperature sensor to detect temperature of the rotating member, a calculator to calculate a heat value to attain a target temperature of the rotating member, a controller to control the heater based on a calculation result of the heat value with compensation for delay using a model according to the calculation result, and a selector to select a control in which an output of the compensation is input into the calculator or a control in which the output of the compensation is not input into the calculator.

Image fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus capable of effectively controlling an image fixing temperature

A fixing device includes a pair of rotating members, a heater, a detector, a calculator, a pulse width modulation circuit, and a controller. In at least one embodiment, the pair of rotating members is configured to fix a toner image on a recording medium. The heater is configured to heat at least one of the pair of rotating members to a process temperature when driven with an alternating current. The detector is configured to detect the process temperature. The calculator is configured to calculate an amount of heat to adjust the process temperature to a reference temperature. The pulse width modulation circuit is configured to generate a drive signal having a pulse width modulation cycle divided into first and second off times and an on time inserted therebetween. The controller is configured to control operation of the heater according to the drive signal.

Fixing device, and method and device for heating control used in the same

A belt driving controller is disclosed. The belt driving controller executes driving control of a belt that is wound around plural sustaining rollers by controlling a driving sustaining roller that transmits driving force to the belt. The belt driving controller executes the driving control of the belt by controlling the driving sustaining roller so that a moving velocity fluctuation of the belt caused by a PLD (pitch line distance) fluctuation in the belt circumference direction becomes small, based on rotation information of rotation angle displacement or rotation angle velocities of two sustaining rollers in the plural sustaining rollers, in which two sustaining rollers, the diameters thereof are different from each other and/or the degrees to which the PLDs of parts of the belt which wind around the two sustaining rollers influence the belt moving velocity and the rotation angle velocities of the two sustaining rollers are different from each other.

Belt driving controller, belt rotating device, and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier having a moving surface on which a latent image is formed, a drive control mechanism to control a drive of the latent image carrier so as to match a rotation angular speed of the latent image carrier with a target rotation angular speed thereof, a surface moving member having a moving surface on which an adjustment pattern for use in controlling the drive of the latent image carrier is formed, an image forming mechanism to develop the latent image with toner and transfer a resultant toner image on the surface moving member so as to form the adjustment pattern along a surface moving direction thereof, a pattern sensor to detect the adjustment pattern, a correction mechanism to correct the target rotation angular speed of the latent image carrier based on an amplitude and a phase of a variable component in a pattern interval of the adjustment pattern detected with the pattern sensor.

Image forming apparatus capable of correcting a rotation speed of an image carrier

A drive control device for a brushless motor having a rotor and a plurality of coils with different phases can be included in an image reading apparatus or an image forming apparatus. The drive control device may include a detection target configured to rotate in synchronization with rotation of the rotor and having formed thereon a pattern representing modulation information, a detector configured to read the pattern and to output modulated output signals, a demodulator configured to demodulate the modulated output signals and to obtain demodulated information, and a controller configured to control rotation of the rotor on the basis of at least the demodulated information obtained by the demodulator.

Brushless-motor driving control device, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A fixing apparatus and an image formation apparatus are disclosed. The fixing apparatus includes two or more heaters with temperature detecting function that generate heat with electric current and detect temperature; a heating unit that includes the heater with the temperature detecting function; a film, a surface of which slides on the heating unit; a thermal fixing unit that is heated by the heating unit through the film for fusing a toner image that is yet-to-be fixed on a recording paper at a predetermined fixing temperature; a pressurization roller for pressing the recording paper to the thermal fixing unit; and a temperature control unit for controlling the temperature of the heater to be a predetermined temperature based on the temperature of the heater detected by the heater with the temperature detecting function.

Fixing apparatus and an image formation apparatus

A rotational speed of a first roller and a time required for a second roller to make one rotation are measured. A controller calculates an amplitude and a phase of fluctuation in a rotational speed in one rotation period of the first roller while the first roller is rotated by a predefined angle based on the speed and the time. The controller corrects measured speed of the first roller based on the amplitude and the phase, and controls a driving roller based on corrected speed.

Belt drive control method, belt-drive control device, and image forming apparatus

A belt driving control apparatus which realizes high-precision belt driving by specifying with high precision the pitch line distance (PLD) that affects the belt movement speed. This belt driving control apparatus controls the driving of the belt by controlling the rotation of driving supporting rotating bodies via which the rotational driving force is transmitted, among the plurality of supporting rotating bodies on which the belt is installed.

Belt driving control apparatus, belt apparatus and image forming apparatus

The optical disk is a data-writable optical disk and it has a defect processing selection area. Data indicating whether a defect processing is to be executed or not, or data indicating whether the defect processing is to be executed using a disk drive or using a computer is stored in the defect processing selection area. The address of this defect processing selection area is recorded by making the use of a wobbled guide groove.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroshi Koide