Hitachi, Ltd.

Sankyo Company, Limited

Tdk Corporation

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Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.

Konica Corporation

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Seiko Instruments Inc

Idemitsu Kosan Company, Limited

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Ciba-geigy Corporation

Harris Corporation

Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.

Clarion Co

Kazuo Sato

Shinji Tanaka

Yoshio Kawamura

Anthony Cornelius O'Sullivan

Akira Koide

Satoshi Kikuchi

Haruo Koharagi

Takayuki Ito

Atsushi Abe

Akira Sato

Tsuneo Terasawa

Hiroshi Kanda

Shuji Machida

Isao Ishikawa

Kazuya Sakamoto

Seiko Suzuki

Tetsuya Hidaka

Akio Saito

Norio Ichikawa

Hiroshi Yasuda

Masahiro Matsumoto

Hideaki Koizumi

Iwao Takemoto

Takashi Niwa

Kenji Kato

Nobuyuki Kasama

Norio Chiba

Takahiro Fujii

Toshiaki Yanai

Bruno Frei

Hiroyuki Kohida

Miyoshi Takahashi

Kouki Yamamoto

Takashi Yabutani

Yuji Yamamoto

Tetsuo Fujigaki

Satoshi Watanabe

Masashi Sato

Masakazu Takasumi

Shigeo Kato

Hideo Takeshiba

Masaharu Senoh

Hironori Sato

Kuninori Imai

Takeji Shiokawa

Shinji Yokoi

Morio Tamura

Hideki Miura

Toshio Shida

Masahiro Kaneko

Yukio Honda

Sadayasu Ueno

Shigeo Ohashi

Naoyuki Tamura

Takeshi Harada

Masataka Shinogi

Masahide Hayashi

Masayuki Miki

Toshio Hatada

Kenko Uchida

Shusaku Nagahara

Yutaka Harada

Kazuhiro Hirota

Kunio Nakajima

Satoshi Sakata

Susumu Ichihara

Katsukuni Hisano

Sumio Okuno

Seikou Suzuki

Akira Masaki

Yuji Kikuchi

Noriyuki Ashiwake

Shigeki Tsuchitani

Atsushi Nakamura

Minoru Yamada

Norio Shimizu

Katsuaki Kikuchi

Ryoichi Kaneko

Ryoichi Shimoi

Fumihiko Uchida

Osami Matsushita

Yasuhiro Kiyofuji

Toshiyuki Konosu

Hidehito Obayashi

Hiroshi Ohki

Noritoshi Kitano

Tadashi Fukushima

Isao Fujiwara

Hideo Yamane

Sadao Oida

Koji Mitake

Mitsuo Azumai

Toshio Kaneko

Kazuhide Ohe

Tsutomu Fujita

Tomio Tatsumi

Muneo Mizumoto

Kazuo Moriya

Eiji Sugimoto

Hideo Kawaguchi

A sintered rare earth magnet rotating machine and method improve temperature properties and strength having an excellent corrosion resistance. The sintered rare earth magnet includes at least a main phase composed of RTB (R represents at least one rare earth element of Nd, Pr or both and T represents at least one transition metal element including Fe or Fe and Co) compound and a grain boundary phase containing a higher proportion of R than the main phase, wherein the main phase includes a heavy rare earth element (one of Dy, Tb or both), at least part of main phase grains of the main phase included in the sintered rare earth magnet includes at least the following regions, low, high and intermediate concentration regions. These regions exist in order of low, high, and intermediate concentration regions, from low concentration region towards the grain boundary phase in the main phase grains.

Sintered rare earth magnet, method of producing the same, and rotating machine

A rotation mechanism for mounting and rotatably supporting a laser emitter thereon includes a casing including a bottom wall and a side wall connected to the bottom wall, said casing defining therein a receiving space. A plurality of rotation rings are arranged as being layered with each other in the receiving space of the casing. The rotation rings include an uppermost rotation ring in the form of a manual coarse rotation ring that is directly connected to the laser emitter so as to support the laser emitter, for manually rotating the laser emitter to achieve a coarse angular positioning thereof, an automatic coarse rotation ring for rotating the laser emitter at a relatively high speed together with the rotation ring thereon, a manual fine rotation ring for slightly rotating the laser emitter manually together with the rotation ring thereon, and an automatic fine rotation ring for rotating the laser emitter at a relatively low speed, together with the rotation ring thereon. The automatic rotation rings are each provided with a driving means that is arranged on the rotation ring immediately below the relevant rotation ring.

Rotation mechanism for laser emitter

A coil apparatus having a divided winding conformation and a manufacturing method of the coil apparatus which can prevent a winding from collapsing while achieving a reduction in size of a core and simplification of a structure. A coil apparatus includes a ferrite core and a coil provided around the core. The coil includes at least a first coil portion and a second coil portion, and a boundary end surface of the first coil portion on the second coil portion side is inclined in such a manner that its inner peripheral side is closer to the second coil portion than its outer peripheral side. Further, a boundary end surface of the second coil portion on the first coil portion side is inclined in such a manner that its outer peripheral side is closer to the first coil portion than its inner peripheral side.

Coil device

An image forming system including an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet and for ejecting the sheet, a plurality of post-processing apparatuses for receiving the ejected sheet on which an image has been formed and for applying post-processing to the sheet, and a transfer device for transferring the plurality of post-processing apparatuses relative to the image forming apparatus and for connecting one of the plurality of post-processing apparatuses to the image forming apparatus.

Image forming system

A thermistor device includes a thermistor element unit with a lead conductor and a terminal plate welded outside a plate portion thereof to a distal end of the lead conductor.

Thermistor device and method for manufacturing the same

An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming section which forms an image on a sheet material; a curl correcting mechanism which interposes and conveys the sheet material on which the image has been formed by the image forming section. Pressure applied to one surface of the sheet material during an interposing operation and a conveying speed of the sheet material can be changed, the curl correcting mechanism changes the conveying speed from an initial speed vs to a target speed vo higher than the initial speed (vo&#x3e;vs) while the sheet material is pressed, and the curl correcting mechanism changes the pressure to a high pressure in response to a change of the conveying speed, whereby a curl of the sheet material is reduced.

Image forming apparatus and sheet material conveyance device used therein

A coil apparatus that can increase mechanical strength of terminal portions and assure sufficient impact resistant properties and vibration resistant properties even in an application in a severe use environment such as an in-vehicle coil apparatus. Terminals are formed of one metal sheet, and include an attachment portion, an intermediate portion, and a bottom portion. One end of the attachment portion is fixed at each terminal attachment portion of a core. One end of the intermediate portion is continuous with the other end of the attachment portion at a first bent portion. The bottom portion has a first end continuous with the other end of the intermediate portion at a second bent portion, facing the attachment portion, and a second free end. The intermediate portion has a hole in a plane thereof. In each hole, both inner edges that are opposed to each other in at least one direction have an arc shape.

An image forming system enabling a cost reduction by decreasing the number of components and having enough performance levels of individual postprocessing functions, comprising: an image forming apparatus body and at least one postprocessing unit, the postprocessing unit selectable from a plurality of types of postprocessing units, wherein a single-sheet processing machine is provided as one of the plurality of types of postprocessing units and wherein the single-sheet processing machine has a plurality of types of single-sheet processing functions for postprocessing in units of a sheet and a sheet attachment function of attaching a cover sheet or an insert sheet to an output sheet bulk.

Image forming system and single-sheet processing machine

An R-T-B system rare earth permanent is provided, which comprises a sintered body comprising: an RTB phase (wherein R represents one or more rare earth elements (providing that the rare earth elements include Y) and T represents one or more transition metal elements essentially containing Fe, or Fe and Co) as a main phase; and a grain boundary phase containing a higher amount of R than the above main phase, wherein, when Pc (permeance coefficient) is 2, if a total flux is defined as funder the application of an effective magnetic field of 240 kA/m (providing that an effective magnetic field=an applied magnetic field&#x2212;a demagnetizing field, and each value of them is absolute value), if a total flux is defined as funder the application of an effective magnetic field of 800 kA/m, and if a total flux is defined as funder the application of an effective magnetic field of 2,000 kA/m, a magnetization rate a (=f/f&#xd7;100) is 40% or more, and a magnetization rate b (=f/f&#xd7;100) is 90% or more.

R-T-B system rare earth permanent magnet

The present invention provides a polyolefin-based resin composition, comprising (A) a polyolefin I produced from at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of &#x3b1;-olefins, cyclic olefins and styrenes; (B) a polyolefin II produced from said at least one monomer, which differs in composition or properties from said polyolefin I; and (C) a graft copolymer produced by bonding said polyolefins I and II to each other through a polyene, wherein (a) a ratio [(1/R)/(1/R)] of a relaxation velocity (1/R) of a long-term relaxation component measured by a solidH-NMR method about the composition to a relaxation velocity (1/R)of a long-term relaxation component measured by a solidH-NMR method about a resin mixture of only the components (A) and (B) is 1.01 or higher; and (b) an intrinsic viscosity [&#x3b7;] of the composition is in the range of 0.1 to 10 deciliter/g as measured in decalin at 135&#xb0; C. The resin composition is readily controlled in property-determining factors such as morphology and interfacial strength, and is capable of providing a composite material composed of polyolefin-based resins according to properties as required.

Polyolefin resin composition

An energy saving support service offering method introducing energy saving equipment at least in a load facility with an expense of an energy saving support service provider and/or its cooperatives and performing an electric power saving operation by an energy saving equipment control operation.

Energy-saving service offering method and apparatus therefor

An air conditioner comprising a compressor including a compression unit and a permanent magnet rotating electric machine, wherein the permanent magnet rotating electric machine includes a stator, into which concentratively wound armature windings are inserted in such a way as to surround a plurality of teeth formed in a stator core, and a rotor having permanent magnets accommodated into a plurality of permanent magnet inserting holes formed in a rotor core. Each pair of adjacent ones of said permanent magnets is arranged generally in one of a convex V-shaped configuration and a convex U-shaped configuration with respect to a rotor axis, and a substantially V-shaped recess portion is formed between adjacent poles in outer circumferential surface portions of the rotor core.

Air conditioner having permanent magnet rotating electric machine

The invention relates to olefin branched macromonomers, olefin graft copolymers and olefin resin compositions having the advantage of good compatibility with polyolefin resins and good moldability and workability. The olefin branched macromonomer satisfies the following (a) and (b):

Branched olefinic macromonomer, olefin graft copolymer, and olefin resin composition

The operation-state data of the uninterruptible power supply unit for the operation time of the uninterruptible power supply unit (UPS) deployed between the load facility and the commercial power source and used for the uninterruptible operation is provided, the guarantee charge dependent on the time during which the operation of the uninterruptible power supply unit is guaranteed is stored, the stored guarantee charge is displayed as the amount billed when the provided operation-state data satisfies the stored guaranteed time. The provided operation-state data is input into the remote supervisory unit through the communication apparatus as well as an the identical operation-state data is displayed at the data display unit at the uninterruptible power supply unit.

Guarantee charge processing method and apparatus

An energy saving service offering method and apparatus are provided, in which a present electric power consumption of a supervised load facility of a user, who owns the supervised load facility, including a motor, and who desires to save energy, and inverter control operation data produced when an inverter has been installed in the supervised load facility and performing a motor speed control operation are determined. Further, a merit refund corresponding to saved electric power consumption determined by referring to a difference between said present electric power consumption data and the inverter control operation data is calculated. Finally, a charge and billing operation based on the merit refund under contract conditions established between a energy saving service provider and its contractor is performed.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kazuo Sato