Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

International Business Machines Corporation

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Nitto-denko Corporation

Other

Fujitsu Corporation

Lapis Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Nippon Sheet Glass Company, Limited

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.k.

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Shinya Hasegawa

Katsuhiro Sato

Kaoru Torikoshi

Yutaka Akasaki

Lyong Sun Pu

Katsumi Nukada

Yoshihiko Terashita

Tomonori Sato

Masafumi Ono

Manabu Serizawa

Noriyuki Mizutani

Hidehiko Kanda

Seiji Suzuki

Kenji Yamada

Kenji Kuroishi

Hirotaka Matsuoka

Hideo Maehata

Yusuke Nakashima

Kazuhiko Yanagida

Yasuo Matsumura

Hideaki Horie

Nobuyoshi Tanaka

Shuji Sato

Susumu Yoshino

Atsushi Sakamoto

Yoshiro Yamashita

Yutaka Kawai

Yosuke Tsurumi

Makoto Koizumi

Hirokazu Hamano

Hiroyuki Miyoshi

Masaru Takahashi

Yoshiro Niitsu

Takeshi Nakano

Seiichi Takagi

Satoshi Yoshida

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Akira Matsumoto

Katsumi Daimon

Koichiro Nakamura

Yusuke Ikeda

Hiroaki Tsuchiya

Hiroyuki Kinoshita

Koya Iwakura

Yuki Kusachi

Naoyuki Ishida

Yuka Ishihara

Shinya Sonoda

Kota Tomioka

Yoichi Yamakawa

Kazuki Arihara

Taisuke Endo

Shinichi Ohba

Kenichi Ishikura

Ryusuke Nakata

Kazuyuki Koda

Isamu Adachi

Miho Morita

Yuya Shiokawa

Kohei Tachibana

Takahiro Iizuka

Tomomi Ishida

Daisuke Ishihara

Daisuke Kawamata

Shigeru Seitoku

Tsutomu Kubo

Soichiro Kitagawa

Kohei Takahashi

Fumiaki Tambo

Hiroyuki Momiyama

Shinichi Kinoshita

Takashi Ashida

Moegi Iguchi

Gentaro Kano

Hidekazu Yaguchi

Kazufumi Tomita

Tetsuya Mashio

Osamu Uto

Takahiro Kaito

Toshio Mukai

Masakatsu Fujimoto

Naoya Yabuuchi

Mitsutoshi Jinno

Hideo Ukuda

Yasutsugu Saijo

Atsushi Ohma

Tadakazu Ogiri

Koichi Matsutani

Shinpei Takagi

Toshifumi Shiroya

Kenjiro Minomi

Ryuichi Tadano

Makio Uehara

Takahiro Morishita

Masaaki Nakabayashi

Satoru Kusaka

Hidekazu Aonuma

Masahiro Shinohara

Sueko Sakai

A conveyance device includes: a conveyance unit that conveys a material to be conveyed; a guide unit that guides the material to be conveyed, the guide unit being movable between a first position at which a first conveyance path is formed and a second position at which a second conveyance path is formed; a driving unit that drives the conveyance unit and the guide unit; a restriction unit that comes into contact with the guide unit moving in a moving direction from the second position to the first position at the first position by a driving force of the driving unit to restrict the movement of the guide unit in the moving direction; and a blocking unit that blocks transmission of the driving force of the driving unit to the guide unit when a moving load greater than or equal to a predetermined load acts on the guide unit moving in the moving direction.

Conveyance device and image forming apparatus

A document reading device includes: an image capturing member that captures an image of a document; a placement portion that is disposed below the image capturing member and that has a boundary line between multiple surfaces at a position at which the boundary line is covered by the document when the document has a maximum size that the image capturing member is capable of imaging and the document is placed on the placement portion; and a document reading member that reads the document that is placed on the placement portion.

Document reading device and image forming apparatus

A driving device includes: a frame disposed in the driving device to support a driven unit driven by the driving device, the frame including a first portion, a distance from which to an outer wall of an accommodation device that accommodates the driving device is shorter, and a second portion, a distance from which to the outer wall is longer than the distance from the first portion to the outer wall; and a driving unit disposed between the second portion and the outer wall, at least a part of the driving unit being away from the outer wall by the distance between the first portion and the outer wall or more.

Driving device and image forming apparatus

A document reading device includes an imaging unit that images a document, a placing portion that includes a first placing portion and a second placing portion and that has a placing surface on which the document is placed, the placing surface being formed by the first placing portion and the second placing portion, and a detector that detects an edge of the document that is placed on the placing surface by using a color difference or a luminance difference between the placing surface and the document. An end portion of the first placing portion adjacent to the second placing portion extends toward the second placing portion beyond an end portion of the second placing portion adjacent to the first placing portion.

An optical memberincludes an antireflection coatingon a substrate. The antireflection coatingincludes a resin layerand a modified cross-section fiberbound to the resin layer. The modified cross-section fiber includes a core and a plurality of protrusionsextending from the core. The protrusionsof the modified cross-section fiberhave extremities protruding from a surface of the resin layer

Antireflection coating material, optical member with antireflection coating, optical device, and image capturing apparatus

A sheet containing apparatus includes a first container unit that contains a sheet having a first size and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a first end and a second end in a width direction of the apparatus are located at different heights with the first container unit installed in a sheet containing apparatus body when viewed in a first direction, and a covering portion that is movable to a covering position at which the covering portion covers at least a part of the first container unit in the first direction and an open position at which the covering portion uncovers the first container unit in the first direction. When viewed in the first direction, a tilting division line is adjacent to the first container unit and tilts with respect to the horizontal direction, and at least a whole of the tilting division line is covered by the single covering portion in the first direction with the covering portion positioned at the covering position.

Sheet containing apparatus and image forming apparatus

A low-refractive-index filmincludes a first layerand a second layer. The first layeris adjacent to a substrate. The low-refractive-index filmhas a refractive index of greater than or equal to 1.01 and less than or equal to 1.30. The first layerand the second layereach include hollow particlesand a binder. The first layersatisfies, for example, at least one selected from a group of conditions (I) and (II) described below.

Low-refractive-index film, laminate, optical element, windbreak material, and display device

A method of manufacturing an optical element includes preparing a first transparent base having a d-line refractive index of 1.80 or more and a second transparent base having a d-line refractive index of 1.80 or more, coating an adhesive on the first transparent base and/or the second transparent base, the adhesive containing a photo-curable resin and a photopolymerization initiator having an absorption edge wavelength of 410 nm or more, and bonding the first transparent base and the second transparent base by irradiating the adhesive with light with a wavelength of 400 nm or more through the second transparent base to cure the adhesive.

Optical element manufacturing method, optical element, optical apparatus, and image capturing apparatus

A container member includes a container body that contains a recording medium and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a leading edge of the contained recording medium is higher than a trailing edge, a trailing edge restriction portion that comes into contact with the trailing edge of the recording medium that is contained in the container body in a front-rear direction of the recording medium and that restricts a position of the trailing edge of the recording medium, and a restriction portion that restricts movement of the trailing edge in a thickness direction of the recording medium that is contained in the container body.

Container member and image forming apparatus

A battery device comprises a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided with an electric power generating element and a pressing member which presses the electric power generating element in the stacking direction. The electric power generating element comprises: a positive electrode with a positive electrode active material layer of a positive electrode active material on the surface of a positive electrode collector; a negative electrode with a negative electrode active material layer of a negative electrode active material on the surface of a negative electrode collector; and a separator which holds an electrolyte solution. This battery device satisfies (1) 0.1<(T1−T2)/T1×100<5, where T1 is the thickness of the thickest portion of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction, and T2 is the thickness of the thinnest portion of the of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction.

Battery device

An accommodating device includes a device body, an accommodating unit that is movable to a supply position where a user is able to supply a medium by being pulled out from the device body in a pulling direction and of which a centroid position is located on one side surface side with respect to a center in an intersecting direction with the pulling direction, a first expanding and contracting member that expands and contracts to connect the accommodating unit to the device body so as to be able to be pulled out and is fixed to one side surface of the accommodating unit in the intersecting direction, and a second expanding and contracting member that expands and contracts to connect the accommodating unit to the device body so as to be able to be pulled out and is fixed at a position higher than the first expanding and contracting member on the other side surface of the accommodating unit in the intersecting direction.

Accommodating device and image forming apparatus with accommodating unit

A rotating device includes: a first rotating body capable of forward rotation; a second rotating body capable of forward rotation and reverse rotation; a drive unit outputting drive forces in a forward rotation direction and a reverse rotation direction; and a transmission mechanism transmitting the drive force in the forward rotation direction output from the drive unit to the first rotating body and the second rotating body to rotate the first rotating body and the second rotating body in the forward direction and transmitting the drive force in the reverse rotation direction output from the drive unit to the first rotating body and the second rotating body to rotate the first rotating body in the forward direction and rotate the second rotating body in the reverse direction.

Rotating device, transporting device, and image forming apparatus

A latch mechanism includes an operation unit, a connection unit extending in one direction and having one end connected to the operation unit, a restriction unit restricting the connection unit such that the other end of the connection unit moves to one side in the one direction, in a case where the operation unit is moved to one side in an intersecting direction intersecting with the one direction, a moving unit connected to the other end of the connection unit, extending in the one direction, and moving from a first position to a second position as the other end of the connection unit moves, and a meshing unit meshing with the moving unit arranged at the first position, and releasing meshing with the moving unit arranged at the second position.

Latch mechanism, latch device, and image forming apparatus

A rotating device includes: an opening-closing portion supported so as to be openable and closable with respect to a support body; a drive unit provided on the support body; a first rotating body provided on the support body and rotated by a drive force of the drive unit; a driven portion provided in the opening-closing portion; a second rotating body provided in the opening-closing portion, rotated by a transmitted rotational force, and transmitting the rotational force to the driven portion; and an annular body formed in an annular shape, wound around the first rotating body and the second rotating body, maintaining the winding state in both an open state and a closed state of the opening-closing portion, and transmitting the rotational force of the first rotating body to the second rotating body.

A container member includes a container body that contains a recording medium and that tilts such that a leading edge of the contained recording medium is higher than a trailing edge, and a leading edge restriction portion that comes into contact with a portion of the leading edge except for at least a first end portion and that restricts a position of the leading edge.

Container member and image forming apparatus with container body containing and tilting recording medium

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