Fujitsu Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

Ulvac, Inc.

Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.

Toyo Communication Equipment Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Asahi Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kenji Sato

Iwao Okamoto

Yuki Yoshida

Chiaki Okuyama

Hirokazu Ikenoue

Satoshi Kitaoka

Hideaki Nishimura

Yoshiaki Hoshino

Masayoshi Shinohara

Yoko Ishii

Tsutomu Tanaka

Takuya Uzumaki

Kiyoshi Yamaguchi

Kenichi Aoshima

Ichiro Komuro

Shuuichi Endoh

Hiroaki Wakamatsu

Hideyuki Akimoto

Noboru Takada

Toru Ohmine

Junichi Mizawa

Yasuko Yoshikawa

Chie Takeda

Masato Mukai

Tadashi Morita

Seiji Suga

Yasuji Ikeda

Akira Kikuchi

Yoshiro Tomikawa

Kentaro Tokuyama

Tsutomu Nishihashi

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Kenichiro Kuroki

Masaya Suzuki

Tohru Horie

Tadashi Mizoguchi

Kuninaga Hatsugai

Akiko Honda

Naoya Saito

Yohsuke Saitoh

Yoshita Kitamoto

Yoshihiko Uchikawa

Toshio Hagihara

Akio Emoto

Tomoyasu Kato

Atsushi Ono

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form an image on a recording medium by discharging liquid droplets onto the medium; and a media heater to heat the medium by contacting a rear surface of the medium opposite a surface of the medium on which the image is formed, in which the media heater includes a contact member with a contact surface having a predetermined curvature that the medium contacts, the contact member is a roller member, and the medium closely contacts the contact surface of the contact member across an entire width of the medium in a direction perpendicular to the media conveyance direction.

Image forming apparatus and drying device for image forming apparatus

In a combustion cylinder, an outer-side region of a cooling part on an outer side with regard to a reference line orthogonal to a radial direction and an axial direction of a gas turbine and passing through a center of a combustor basket, and an inner-side region of the cooling part on an inner side with regard to the reference line are set. A connection angle at an intersection between an extension line of an outer surface of the combustor basket along the axial direction and an inner surface of a combustor transition piece is set. First regions are set at positions near the reference line, and second regions, with a larger connection angle than the first regions, are set at positions farther from the reference line than the first regions. The second regions are set to have a higher flow rate of a cooling medium than the first regions.

Combustion cylinder, gas turbine combustor, and gas turbine

Provided is a valve timing control apparatus, for an internal combustion engine, capable of sufficiently draining hydraulic oil from between a pulley and a housing body. The pulley includes a through-hole extending axially therethrough at a position radially outward with respect to the outer peripheral surface of the housing body. The through-hole is formed so as to extend over a bottom portion and cylindrical portion of the pulley.

Internal-combustion engine valve timing control apparatus

In a hydraulically-operated vane rotor equipped variable valve timing control device for an internal combustion engine, a fluid-communication control mechanism is configured to switch, after having started the engine, a communication hole from a communicated state to a fluid-communication restricted state prior to switching operation of a lock mechanism from a lock state in which rotary motion of a vane rotor relative to a housing is restricted to an unlock state in which rotary motion of the vane rotor relative to the housing is enabled. As a result of this configuration, it becomes possible to apply, after having started the engine, an appropriately controlled hydraulic pressure to all of vanes, with hydraulic pressure supplied to either all phase-retard chambers or all phase-advance chambers, thereby ensuring a good control responsiveness of the vane rotor.

Valve timing control device for internal combustion engine

A positional deviation correction pattern includes a first and second pattern image portions adjacent in a sub-scanning direction at the same position in a main-scanning direction, with the same width in the main-scanning direction. Each image portion includes a first side extending in the sub-scanning direction, a second side continuing from one end of the first side and extending in a direction intersecting the sub-scanning direction, and a third side continuing from the other end and extending in a direction intersecting both the sub-scanning direction and the second side. The second sides have the same inclination angle to a virtual line parallel to the main-scanning direction. The third sides have the same inclination angle to the virtual line. A length of one image portion in the sub-scanning direction gradually increases from one end to the other end in the main-scanning direction, a length of the other image portion gradually decreases.

Positional deviation correction pattern, method of forming positional deviation correction pattern, and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer to bear a latent electrostatic image thereon, a developing device to supply a development agent to the latent electrostatic image to obtain a visible image, a transfer roller to contact the image bearer to transfer the visible image to a recording medium, a replenishing device to replenish the developing device with the development agent when a density value read from a density detection pattern formed on the image bearer by the developing device is equal to or less than a threshold, a processing device to conduct a predetermined processing to reduce attachment of the development agent to the transfer roller, and a control device to control the number of times the predetermined processing is performed or processing time in performing the predetermined processing for the processing device, based on whether there is replenishment of the development agent to the developing device.

Image forming apparatus with controller to reduce attachment of development agent to transfer roller

In a hydraulically-operated multi-vane equipped valve timing control apparatus of an internal combustion engine, at least one of a plurality of vanes is equipped with a fluid-communication control mechanism FCCM, whereas the other vanes are configured as non-FCCM equipped vanes. At least one of the non-FCCM equipped vanes is configured such that a summed pressure-receiving surface area of the non-FCCM equipped at least one vane, facing a phase-retard chamber, and a summed pressure-receiving surface area of the non-FCCM equipped at least one vane, facing a phase-advance chamber, are set to differ from each other, thereby permitting a vane rotor to be biased in a specified rotation direction by the unbalanced pressure-receiving surface area configuration as well as establishment of fluid-communication between the two adjacent chambers through the fluid-communication control mechanism, when starting the engine from its stopped state where there is no hydraulic-pressure supply from an oil pump.

Valve timing control apparatus of internal combustion engine

An ion implanting apparatus is provided, which can accurately measure a quantity of atoms that are implanted. The ion implanting apparatus according to the present invention has an object to be measured, and the object to be measured is arranged in an irradiating range in which ions are irradiated. When atoms are implanted into an object to be processed by irradiating ions of a processing gas and neutralized particles thereof, the object to be measured is heated through the irradiation with the processing gas ions and the neutralized particles. A control unit determines a quantity of the atoms that are implanted into the object to be processed from the temperature of the object to be measured.

Ion implanting apparatus

A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate; and a recording film formed on the substrate and including a main magnetic film, the main magnetic film where a recording area and a guard area are formed by local ion doping, the guard area having saturation magnetization smaller than saturation magnetization of the recording area. A primary layer is provided at a substrate side of the main magnetic film. A main ingredient of the primary layer is at least one kind of atom selected from a group consisting of Cr, B, Mo, Al, Si, and C.

Manufacturing method of magnetic recording medium, the magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus

A DMA transfer system includes a DMA controller having at least one channel coupled to a system bus, the DMA controller configured to perform a DMA transfer via the system bus according to a DMA transfer setting of the at least one channel, and a DMAC control unit coupled to the DMA controller, wherein the DMAC control unit includes a plurality of virtual channels configured to have respective DMA transfer settings made thereto, a virtual channel arbiter configured to select one of the plurality of virtual channels, and a DMA setting circuit configured to read a DMA transfer setting of the selected virtual channel to write the read DMA transfer setting to the at least one channel of the DMA controller.

DMA transfer system using virtual channels

A polycrystalline structure film has a seed layer extending over the surface of an object. The seed layer includes crystal grains growing in the orthogonal direction perpendicular to the surface of the object. A crystalline layer extends on the surface of the seed layer. The crystal grains have normals perpendicular to lattice surfaces preferentially oriented in a predetermined direction. The normals are inclined relative to the orthogonal direction. The polycrystalline structure film allows the growth of the crystal grains in the orthogonal direction perpendicular in the seed layer. The lattice surfaces are inclined relative to the orthogonal direction in the crystal grains in the seed layer. The characteristic of the crystalline layer can be controlled under the influence of the crystal grains in the seed layer.

Polycrystalline structure film having inclined lattice surfaces

A valve timing control system for an internal combustion engine includes a driving member to which a rotational force is transmitted from a crankshaft. A driven member is rotatable with a cam shaft as a single member. A phase changing mechanism is disposed between the driving member and the driven member to vary a relative rotational phase between the driving member and the driven member within an angular range. A projecting member is disposed to one of side of the driving member and side of the driven member and movable forward and rearward. A contacting section is formed at the other of the side of the driving member and the side of the driven member and contactable with the projecting member when the projecting member is moved forward so as to restrict relative rotational positions of the driving member and the driven member. A releasing mechanism is provided for moving the projecting member rearward in accordance with an engine operating condition so as to release the restriction for the relative rotational positions upon contacting between the projecting member and the contacting section. A position adjusting device is provided for adjusting and fixing relative positions of the projecting member and the contacting section.

Valve timing control system for internal combustion engine and method for assembling same

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Kawasaki, Japan

Kenji Sato