Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Nitto Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.

Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.

Japan Immunoresearch Laboratories Co., Ltd.

Yamaguchi Kikai Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Nihon Sogo-bosui Co., Ltd.

Nihon Soil Engineering Co., Ltd.

Kenji Takeuchi

Shuhei Fukue

Tomonori Watanabe

Hiroshi Handa

Kazuna Taguchi

Tatsuo Ogasawara

Tokifumi Tanaka

Masahito Kajita

Mingguang Zhang

Kei Ishida

Hirotaka Imaeda

Takuji Matsuno

Takeshi Ide

Yuki Fukusada

Kaoru Suzuki

Norimitsu Abe

Shinji Kobayashi

Akihiko Shirota

Tomokazu Fukuzaki

Toshimitsu Tsuruga

Koichi Washisu

Kenichi Nagayama

Takahiro Soma

Shunsuke Tazawa

Noboru Suzuki

Yasumasa Fujii

Yoshihiro Miyauchi

Kazuhiro Shimoda

Tomio Yamakawa

Go Naito

Hirokazu Okada

Yasuyoshi Hidaka

Kotaro Haruta

Atsushi Ozawa

Sumio Iida

Kazutaka Asabe

Hirofumi Kuriki

Seiichi Murayama

Kie Kubo

Ryosuke Kamitani

Naoya Hirase

Manabu Motegi

Hisashi Tsukawaki

Kentaro Kan

Ryota Aoki

Nagahisa Sato

Ryoichi Arimura

Shuichi Akiyama

Susumu Ikehara

Katsuhiko Kurihara

Mineo Murata

Nobuyuki Ueda

Mitsuji Ishida

Ryo Iwamuro

Tsuruga Toshimitsu

Zhang Mingguang

Taketoshi Kushida

Muneo Inaba

Akiyoshi Horiba

Syouichi Kashima

Mitsuaki Abe

A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a nip forming member surrounded by the belt, a holder holding the nip forming member, a first stay supporting the holder, an urging member urging the first stay toward the rotator, a second stay, and a connector. The nip forming member is configured to, with the rotator, pinch the belt to form a nip. The first stay extends in a width direction parallel to the rotation axis. The second stay is positioned upstream of the first stay in a moving direction of the belt at the nip. The moving direction is perpendicular to the width direction. The connector extends through at least one of the first stay and the second stay to connect the first stay to the second stay.

Device including rotator and belt, such as a fixing device for an image forming apparatus

A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a nip forming member surrounded by the belt and configured to, with the rotator, pinch the belt to form a nip, an urging member configured to urge one of the rotator and the nip forming member towards the other in a particular direction perpendicular to the rotation axis, an upstream guide and a downstream guide. The upstream guide includes an upstream guide surface configured to guide an inner peripheral surface of the belt. The nip forming member includes a facing surface which faces the rotator. An upstream edge of the facing surface in the moving direction is located at a position farther from the rotation axis, in the particular direction, than a downstream edge of the upstream guide surface.

A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a nip forming member surrounded by the belt, a first stay surrounded by the belt and extending in a width direction parallel to the rotation axis, a holder holding the nip forming member, and an urging member urging the first stay toward the rotator. The nip forming member is configured to, with the rotator, pinch the belt to form a nip. The first stay includes a first end and a second end. The holder includes a first engaging portion positioned at a first end of the holder, and a second engaging portion positioned at a second end of the holder. The first engaging portion engages the first end of the first stay. The second engaging portion engages the second end of the first stay.

Device including rotator and belt, such as a fixing unit for an image forming apparatus

A lens unit comprises a shake detector; a shake correction mechanism for correcting image blur; a setting unit for setting a ratio of shake to be corrected by the shake correction mechanism; a control unit for, based on the shake detected by the shake detector and the ratio of shake, calculating a first shake correction amount and control an image shake correction operation by the shake correction mechanism; and a target-value correction unit for correcting the first shake correction amount, based on a difference between a result of detecting shake by the shake detector, and a result of detecting shake by a shake detector provided in the imaging device, wherein the control unit controls the shake correction mechanism based on an image stabilization amount corrected in accordance with the target-value correction unit.

Lens unit, imaging device, control methods thereof, and storage medium

A refrigeratorcomprises at least one box-shaped storage compartmentand a heat radiating member. The storage compartmentis formed in such a way that one side of a frame formed by a wall member is closed and the other thereof is provided with an opening surface configured to be opened or closed by a door. The wall member includes a hollow structure composed of a plurality of plate membersandand a foam insulationfilled in the hollow structure. The heat radiating memberis arranged in the wall member. In the wall member, a pressure memberconfigured to press the heat radiating member against the plate member is provided. The pressure memberis a material configured to press the heat radiating memberunder predetermined conditions.

Refrigerator

A signal processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first shake detection signal indicating a detection result of a lens shake detection unit included in an interchangeable lens and a second shake detection signal indicating a detection result of a camera shake detection unit included in a body unit and a determination unit configured to determine a correction amount which is used to correct the first shake detection signal based on the first shake detection signal and the second shake detection signal. The determination unit changes a process parameter for determining the correction amount in accordance with information regarding the camera shake detection unit or information regarding the second shake detection signal. The process parameter includes at least one of a restriction frequency and a gain for the correction amount.

Processing device for processing shake detection signal and control method therefor

A device includes a rotator, a belt facing the rotator and having an outer peripheral surface which contacts the rotator to form a nip therebetween, a first pad configured to press the belt toward the rotator to form one part of the nip, a second pad configured to press the belt toward the rotator, to form another part of the nip, a holder holding the first pad and the second pad, a stay supporting the holder, and an urging member urging the stay toward the rotator in an urging direction. The second pad is located upstream of the first pad in a conveyance direction in the nip orthogonal to the urging direction. At least a portion of a contact area between the stay and the holder is located downstream of a center of the nip and upstream of a front edge of the first pad in the conveyance direction.

Fixing device including plural nip pads

A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a belt support surrounded by the belt, and a sliding sheet configured to be pinched at the nip between an inner peripheral surface of the belt and the belt support. The belt support is configured to form a nip with the rotator. One of the belt support and the sliding sheet includes a hook engaging portion. The hook engaging portion includes an aperture. The other of the belt support and the sliding sheet includes a hook engaged to the aperture.

A fixing device includes a roller having a rotation axis, and a belt unit that conveys a sheet in combination with the roller. The belt unit includes an endless belt, a nip forming member that forms a nip in combination with the roller, and an upstream belt guide. The fixing device further includes a chute having a guide surface configured to guide the sheet toward the nip. In a section orthogonal to the rotation axis, a line segment connecting a downstream end of the guide surface and an upstream end of the nip does not intersect the upstream belt guide, and an extended line extended from the downstream end of the guide surface along the guide surface toward the roller intersects a surface of the roller at a position upstream of an upstream end of the nip.

Fixing device and image forming apparatus

In a fixing device, a pressure unit is pressed toward a roller by an arm, to form a nip region. The pressure unit includes a belt configured to contact the roller in a nip region, a pressure pad configured to press the belt in combination with the roller, and a side guide including an end guide surface configured to guide a side end of the belt, and a stay configured to support the pressure pad. A supporting member is located on an outer side of the side guide that is opposite to an inner side on which the end guide surface faces. The supporting member is held between the stay and the arm, the supporting member comprising a contact surface which contacts the side guide and on which the side guide is swayably supported.

Fixing device with supported side guide

A control apparatus includes a calculating filter configured to perform a calculation process based on a signal from a shake detector used for an image stabilization, and a correcting filter to which an output signal from the calculating filter is input. The correcting filter includes a boost filter configured to change a gain based on a first frequency and a second frequency, and a notch filter having a center frequency between the first frequency and the second frequency.

Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and lens apparatus

Described is an adsorbent, a vacuum heat insulating material having the same and a refrigerator, which are capable of adsorbing a target material in a reduced pressure environment. A refrigerator includes an outer casing forming an exterior, an inner casing provided inside the outer casing and forming a storage chamber and a vacuum heat insulating material positioned between the outer casing and the inner casing, and including an adsorbent that adsorbs a heat transfer medium. The adsorbent includes a first adsorption component provided to adsorb oxygen, and including a transition metal oxide having an oxygen deficiency structure, and a second adsorption component provided to adsorb moisture.

Adsorbent, vacuum heat insulating material having the same and refrigerator

A fuser is described including a heater, a belt, a rotating member, and a pad. A nip portion is formed between the belt and the rotating member as the pad presses the belt toward the rotating member. The pad is biased toward a restricting member. The biasing may be performed by one or more springs. The spring may be a compression spring, a tension spring, and/or a plate spring among other types of springs.

Fuser including rotatable member and endless belt

An image stabilizing apparatus includes at least one processor or circuit configured to execute a plurality of tasks including a first calculation task configured to make a calculation using an output signal from a shake detector configured to detect a shake, a second calculation task configured to estimate an estimated value corresponding to an offset variation value included in the output signal from the shake detector by using a signal processed by a low-pass filter having a high-frequency attenuation characteristic steeper than a high-frequency attenuation characteristic of the first calculation task, and a correction task configured to drive a corrector configured to correct an image blur caused by the shake using a calculation result of the first calculation task and the estimated value.

Image stabilizing apparatus, optical apparatus having the same, and image stabilizing method

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Kenji Takeuchi