Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Junji Okada

Masao Funada

Tsutomu Hamada

Hidenori Yamada

Kazuhiro Sakai

Shinobu Ozeki

Shinya Kyozuka

Takehiro Niitsu

Takashi Ozawa

Masaki Hirota

Takeshi Kamimura

Kenichi Kobayashi

Masahiro Taguchi

Tomo Baba

Masaaki Miura

Kenji Kawano

Osamu Takanashi

Osamu Ueno

Hiroshi Fujimagari

Masaru Kijima

Yasuhiro Uehara

Mitsuhiro Matsumoto

Hiroki Murakami

Hideaki Ohara

Yoshihide Sato

Mikio Saiki

Tadashi Suto

Kazuyoshi Ito

Masashi Hisada

Kimiyuki Kawakami

Kazuhiro Suzuki

Seiji Suzuki

Chikaho Ikeda

Hiroshi Oikawa

Takekazu Shiotani

Akira Toshima

Koichi Matsumoto

Tomotake Inagaki

Yasuhiro Arai

Hirotaka Mori

Nobuyoshi Komatsu

Manabu Akamatsu

Shogo Tomari

Kenji Omori

Tomoaki Kojima

Ryoji Ishii

Hiromi Nagai

Hisayoshi Mori

Kazuhiro Hama

Osamu Ohtani

Norihiko Kuroishi

Jun Kitamura

Kunihiro Seno

Hiroki Ishida

Toshiki Matsui

Nobuo Mori

Tsuyoshi Yaguchi

Mitsuo Shiraishi

A roller member includes a core member; a substantially round-cylindrical elastic member through which the core member extends and having chamfered portions, the chamfered portions each provided at two respective ends of the elastic member and having a surface roughness of about 50 &#x3bc;m or less; and a coating film provided over an outer peripheral surface of the elastic member and at least a part of each of the chamfered portions.

Roller member, image carrier device, and image forming apparatus

Provided is a fixing device including a heating unit that includes a circularly moving heating belt, and a pressurizing roller that presses an external face of the heating belt, the fixing device fixing a toner image on a sheet onto the sheet by nipping the sheet between the heating belt and the pressurizing roller and by heating and pressurizing the sheet transported with the toner image being held.

Fixing device having heating portion with rigidity adjusting portions and image forming apparatus

A fixing device includes a rotatable endless fixing member that fixes a toner image onto a recording medium, and a heating member. The heating member includes a heat-generating layer that generates heat when supplied with electricity; an insulation layer that encloses the heat-generating layer therein to electrically insulate the heat-generating layer; a metallic layer that is laminated on a first surface of the insulation layer, has higher rigidity than the insulation layer, and generates an elastic restoring force; and a thermally conductive layer that is laminated on a second surface of the insulation layer, has lower rigidity than the metallic layer, and has higher thermal conductivity than the insulation layer and the metallic layer. The heating member is supported by one edge of the fixing member in a circumferential direction thereof, elastically deforms by being pressed against an inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, and heats the fixing member.

Fixing device, heating member, and image forming apparatus

Provided is a heating device that heats a belt which transports a medium on which a non-fixed image to be fixed onto the medium through heating is formed, the heating device including a heating element, a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer that are arranged to nip the heating element, a first supporting layer that comes into contact with the first insulating layer and a second supporting layer that comes into contact with the second insulating layer, both of which are arranged to nip the first insulating layer, the heating element, and the second insulating layer, and a connection member that connects the first supporting layer and the second supporting layer in a normal direction of the first supporting layer and the second supporting layer.

Heating device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

A data control device includes: a switch portion that has a plurality of first terminals on an upstream side, a plurality of second terminals on a downstream side, and a circuit portion that optionally switches a connection between the first terminals and the second terminals based on an external switching signal; and at least one control portion that has a first input/output portion on the upstream side and a second input/output portion on the downstream side, wherein the second input/output portion is connected to the first terminal of the switch portion and the first input/output portion is connected to the second terminal of the switch portion, and wherein the at least one control portion controls an input/output of data between the first input/output portion and the second input/output portion.

Data control device, storage device and method of connecting data control device

A storage device includes a data storage section, a first control section, a communication section, a second control section and a wireless transmission/reception section. The data storage section stores data. The first control section controls reading and writing the data from and into the data storage section. The communication section transmits and receives the data through a transmission line to and from a host device. The second control section transmits and receives the data to and from the first control section and the communication section. The wireless transmission/reception section is connected to the first and second control sections, is directed toward a predetermined direction, and wirelessly transmits and receives data to and from another storage device provided in the predetermined direction.

Storage device, storage device array and data processing system

An optical transmission apparatus includes an optical element that has at least one of a light emitting part and a light receiving part on a surface opposed to a mounting surface of the optical element, an optical waveguide that is made of a polymer material, and has an optical path deflecting part in a through hole or an opening, wherein the optical path deflecting part deflects an optical path of the optical with respect to the at least one of the light emitting part and the light receiving part of the optical element, and a substrate that has a mounting region on which the mounting surface of the optical element is mounted, and a plurality of waveguide holding parts, each holding the optical waveguide so that the optical path deflecting part of the optical waveguide is arranged opposite to the at least one of the light emitting part and the light receiving part of the optical element.

Optical transmission apparatus

A signal communication apparatus includes a transmission component, a reception component and an identification information storage component. The transmission component is connectable to an information processing device and a signal propagation medium, and transmits an inputted image signal through the connected signal propagation medium. The reception component is connectable with an image display device and the signal propagation medium, receives the image signal transmitted from the transmission component through the connected signal propagation medium, and outputs the image signal to the connected image display device. The identification information storage component is removably attached to the transmission component, and stores identification information for identifying the image display device. The information processing device acquires the identification information from the identification information storage component connected to the connected transmission component, and outputs the image signal to the connected transmission component in accordance with at least a portion of the acquired identification information.

Signal communication apparatus and signal communication system

A semiconductor storage device includes an external input/output port. A system bus of a server, which is extended to outside of the server, is connected to the external input/output port directly as a serial interface.

Semiconductor storage device and storage system

An optical module includes: a plurality of leads arranged in at least two lines, at least portions of the plurality of the leads being mounted on a circuit board; an optical semiconductor for emitting or receiving an optical signal; and a circuit portion connected to the optical semiconductor, for transmitting a pair of differential signals to or receiving a pair of differential signals from the circuit board through a pair of differential signal leads among the plurality of the leads. The pair of the differential signal leads are provided adjacent and in parallel to each other in one of the at least two lines.

Optical module and optical transmission device

An electronic apparatus includes: a first frame and a second frame that are relatively movable; a frame boundary portion that is provided between the first frame and the second frame; a light emitting portion that is provided on the first frame and transmits an optical signal; a light receiving portion that is provided on the second frame and receives the optical signal; and an optical transmission medium that transmits the optical signal between the frame boundary portion and at least one of the light emitting portion and the light receiving portion, wherein an optical transmission between the light emitting portion and the light receiving portion via the optical transmission medium is effected at the frame boundary portion by a spatial optical transmission.

Electronic apparatus

A multifunction system has advanced functions and high speed capability and is excellent in expandability. The multifunction system includes a controller, an IIT, an IOT, and a light distributing device. For a print job, print data outputted from the controller is converted into optical signals, which enter a light distributing device and are transmitted to the IOT of the emission side. The IOT prints the received data onto a printer. For a copy job, copy data outputted from IIT is converted into optical signals, which enter the light distributing device, and are transmitted to the IOT of the emission side. For a scan job, scan data outputted from the scanner is converted into optical signals, which enter the light distributing device, and are transmitted to the controller of the emission side. The controller processes the received data.

Multifunction system

In an optical transmission apparatus in which a plurality of nodes are optically connected to one another via an optical transmission path, a light signal which is coded so that a mixture ratio of 1 and 0 constituting data is made close to 50% is transmitted through the optical transmission path. When a light signal is not emitted from all of the nodes, a dummy signal which is an AC-like signal is emitted to the optical transmission path. Therefore, an optoelectric conversion section can be always set to an active state, and the signal recognizability can be prevented from being lowered.

An optical busoptically connects each board of a signal processing sectionand each board of a transmission/reception sectionfor transmitting an optical signal output to the optical busby each board of the signal processing sectionto each board of the transmission/reception sectionin a non-block state. In contrast, the optical bustransmits an optical signal output to the optical busby each board of the transmission/reception sectionto each board of the signal processing sectionin a non-block state.

Radio communication apparatus

In an optical wiring board, an optical components including a planar optical waveguide, a plurality of first optical fibers optically connected via a transmissive diffusion plate to a light incident face of the waveguide, and a plurality of second optical fibers optically connected to a light emitting face of the waveguide is placed on a support board. The optical component is sealed by a sealing member made of a resin.

Optical wiring board, optical bus system, and method of manufacturing optical wiring board

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Junji Okada