Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Mitutoyo Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited

Kenji Ueda

Yasuhito Inagaki

Takahiro Ohe

Hiroshi Kajiyama

Masayuki Ueda

Yoshikuni Ishikawa

Yasuhiro Sagawa

Kohei Shimizu

Hiroyuki Watase

Akito Kuriyama

Naoyuki Okamoto

Tatsuya Namiki

Hiroshi Nishida

Takeyoshi Sekine

Takenori Oku

Chihiro Matsuguma

Noriko Arai

Satoshi Hatanaka

Fumihiro Nagano

Yasushi Nakazato

Hiroshi Hayashi

Atsushi Yamada

Hiroshi Niina

Hisayoshi Sakai

Toshiyuki Yamada

Shinji Hanaoka

Yuichi Arisaka

Yurie Ishikawa

Tamiya Akimoto

Manabu Nonaka

Manabu Watanabe

Hiroyoshi Uejo

Jumpei Aoyama

Takashi Noda

Atsushi Sato

Ryusuke Mase

Hajime Nishida

Seiichi Otsubo

Kazuhiko Kimura

Yusuke Shibata

Satoshi Mizuno

Junichi Sugita

Sei Amagai

Takeshi Furuyama

Kazuho Satoh

Shunsuke Hayashi

Tetsutaro Oishi

Yuuji Nagamatsu

Yasushi Hasegawa

Hiroyuki Morozumi

Kentaro Seo

Yuuta Sano

Yutaka Nakano

Mitsuharu Kurashige

Sueki Itoyama

Hidemi Kaneko

To provide a resin composition having excellent resin properties. Provided is a resin composition including: at least one thermoplastic resin (A); and a hydroxyl fatty acid ester (B) that are at least blended, in which when the weight-average molecular weight of the at least one thermoplastic resin (A) in terms of polystyrene is set to MW0 and the weight-average molecular weight of at least one thermoplastic resin (C) which has been produced after the blending in terms of polystyrene is set to MW1, the MW1 is decreased by 5% or more from the MW0.

Resin composition and method of producing resin composition, and method of producing resin molding

To provide a transparent resin composition having excellent optical characteristics, particularly, excellent optical characteristics under high temperature and high humidity. There is provided a transparent resin composition, including: an aromatic polycarbonate resin; and a water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or a metal salt thereof, in which a content of the water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or the metal salt thereof is 0.01 to 3.0 pts·mass to 100 pts·mass of the aromatic polycarbonate resin, and a dissolved amount of the water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or the metal salt thereof is not more than 0.5 g to 100 g of pure water.

Transparent resin composition and transparent resin molded article

To provide a flame retardant resin composition having excellent flame retardancy and excellent resin physical properties. There is provided a flame retardant resin composition, including: an aromatic polycarbonate resin; an inorganic filler; a phosphate ester flame retardant; an organic sulfonic acid flame retardant; a drip preventing agent; and a polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer, in which a content of the aromatic polycarbonate resin is 40 to 95 pts.mass to 5 to 60 pts.mass of the inorganic filler, and a content of the phosphate ester flame retardant, a content of the organic sulfonic acid flame retardant, a content of the drip preventing agent, and a content of the polyorganosiloxane-containing graft copolymer are respectively 1 to 30 pts.mass, 0.01 to 2.5 pts.mass, 0.05 to 1.5 pts.mass, and 0 to 10 pts.mass to the total 100 pts.mass of the aromatic polycarbonate resin and the inorganic filler.

Flame retardant resin composition

To provide a transparent resin composition having excellent optical characteristics, particularly, excellent optical characteristics under high temperature and high humidity. There is provided a transparent resin composition, including: an aromatic polycarbonate resin; and a water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or a metal salt thereof, in which a content of the water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or the metal salt thereof is 0.01 to 3.0 pts&#xb7;mass to 100 pts&#xb7;mass of the aromatic polycarbonate resin, and a dissolved amount of the water-insoluble organic sulfonic acid and/or the metal salt thereof is not more than 0.5 g to 100 g of pure water.

An air bearing includes: a main body part having a bearing surface facing a guide surface; a flow path part provided in the main body part; an air film forming part that supplies compressed air flowing through the flow path part to the guide surface to form an air film; a negative pressure generating part that sucks air between the bearing surface and the guide surface, the negative pressure generating part being provided in the flow path part; a discharge path in communication with the flow path part; and a flow rate adjusting part that adjusts a flow rate of air flowing from the flow path part to the discharge path in accordance with a compressed air pressure corresponding to a load applied to the main body part.

Air bearing

A system includes a device and one or more information processing apparatuses. The device includes a device-information generator configured to generate device information on the device; and an analyzer determining unit configured to determine any one of the device and the one or more information processing apparatuses as an analyzer for the device information. The one determined as the analyzer includes an analysis unit configured to perform an analysis based on the device information; and a service determining unit configured to determine a service to the device based on a result of the analysis.

System, service determining method, and computer program product

The present invention relates to improving precision in a gate-type moving device. The gate-type moving device includes: a base, a gate-type moving body that is placed on the base via an air layer and moves on the base in a non-contact state, and an air bearing that forms the air layer, wherein the gate-type moving body is comprised of two leg parts that stand on an upper surface of the base, a beam portion that connects the leg parts, and a beam-direction moving body that moves along the beam portion, the air bearing is provided at a rear surface of at least one of the leg parts, and comprises an air blowout port that opens toward an upper surface of the base and an air suction port that opens toward the upper surface of the base, and the air suction port sucks air around the air suction port.

Gate-type moving device and three-dimensional measuring machine

A slide caliper of this disclosure includes: a fine adjustment measurement part including: a finger-press type rotation part; and a supporter, wherein the finger-press type rotation part includes: a roller part including two disks; and a roller shaft part, wherein at least a portion of inner surfaces of the two disks and the main scale come into contact with each other by frictional force, wherein the roller bearing part includes: an inclined surface along which the roller shaft part is movable when the measuring force is applied; and a stopper disposed at a position where the stopper and the roller shaft part come into contact with each other, and when the measuring force is applied, the frictional force with respect to the roller part is reduced as the roller shaft part moves along the inclined surface while contacting with the stopper to limit the measuring force.

Thumb roller constant-pressure mechanism of slide caliper

An image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit, a memory controller, and a transfer unit. The extraction unit extracts, on the basis of image information, pieces of color information having a high frequency of occurrence as color information that is necessary to perform image processing. The memory controller causes a first memory to store a color information group including the pieces of color information extracted by the extraction unit. The transfer unit transfers the color information group from the first memory to a second memory, an access time of the second memory being shorter than an access time of the first memory.

Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An information processing system includes one or more information processing apparatuses for determining lifetimes of components, to be replaced by preventive maintenance, of respective electric devices. The information processing system includes a leading variable specifying unit configured to specify, based on variables that represent use states of the electric devices and failure data of the electric devices which have been obtained from the electric devices, a plurality of leading variables relevant to the lifetimes of the components; a lifetime matrix creating unit configured to classify a plurality of values of each of the leading variables into sections to create a lifetime matrix in which the lifetimes of the components are set with respect to combinations of the sections each of which relates to a different leading variable; and a lifetime outputting unit configured to determine the lifetimes of the components with respect to the respective electric devices.

System, method, and non-transitory recording medium for determining lifetimes of components of multifunction peripherals

The air bearing includes a main body part having a bearing surface opposed to a guide face, first and second flow path parts, which are provided in the main body part, for allowing compressed air supplied from outside to flow, an air supply hole, which is provided in the flow path part, for supplying compressed air to the guide face to form an air film between the bearing surface and the guide face, and a negative pressure generating part, which is provided in the second flow path part intersecting with the first flow path part, for generating a negative pressure for sucking air between the guide face and the main body part by increasing the flow velocity of the compressed air.

An information processing system includes a storage unit that stores and associates a cause of a failure that has occurred in an electronic device, state information of the electronic device at the time the failure has occurred in the electronic device due to the cause of the failure, and a measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure. The information processing system further includes at least one processor that performs an acquisition process for acquiring the state information of the electronic device, and a failure diagnosis process for determining the cause of the failure that has occurred in the electronic device and the measure to be implemented in response to the cause of the failure based on the acquired state information of the electronic device.

Information processing system and failure diagnosis method

An image reading apparatus includes an image data obtaining unit, a foreign material position information obtaining unit, and a separation processor. The image data obtaining unit obtains image data read from a document passing over a read area. The foreign material position information obtaining unit obtains foreign material position information read from the read area in which the document is not present. The separation processor separates the image data into plural objects including a background object, detects, by using the foreign material position information, a streak image portion caused by foreign material in the read area and included in the image data, and assumes a pixel of the streak image portion to belong to the background object if the pixel is present in the background object and has a pixel value equal to or smaller than a threshold determined in accordance with a representative value of the background.

Image reading apparatus and image reading method for performing background removal processing on image data

A halogen-free type polycarbonate resin composition and a resin molded object having good flame retardant properties and physical properties that make them suitable for the use as manufactured products. The resin component includes a component A which is a polycarbonate resin, a component B including organic sulfonic acid or organic sulfonic acid metal salt, whose content is 0.05% or more and 2.0% or less by weight, a component C which is a drip inhibitor, whose content is 0.05% or more and 1.0% or less by weight, and a component D which is a silicone compound, whose content is 0.1% or more and 2.0% or less by weight. Among hydrogen atoms in the silicone compound and the proportion of hydrogen atoms in phenyl groups is 51% or more.

Resin composition and resin molded object

A sheet feeder, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes a sheet feeding unit to feed a sheet, a sheet separating unit disposed opposite the sheet feeding unit to separate the sheet together with the sheet feeding unit, a bottom plate on which the sheet is loaded, a pressing unit having a leading end and movably disposed between the bottom plate and the sheet separating unit, and a support to rotatably support the pressing unit such that the leading end of the pressing unit contacts and separates from the sheet feeding unit.

Sheet feeder and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet feeder

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Kenji Ueda