Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujitsu Corporation

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki

Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Nippon Steel Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Fujitsu Vlsi Limited

Mazda Motor Corporation

Tokimec Inc.

Kenji Yamada

Satoshi Igawa

Shinjiro Okada

Wataru Kubo

Jun Yamamoto

Shigeru Ogawa

Toshiya Matsubara

Hiromi Kita

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Tsutomu Kimura

Shinya Hasegawa

Tomonori Sato

Shintaro Adachi

Masaharu Tanaka

Katsutoshi Yamanaka

Hachiro Hirano

Yoichi Yamakawa

Isao Kawata

Taisuke Endo

Yuto Ito

Shinichi Ohba

Kenichi Ishikura

Isamu Adachi

Ryusuke Nakata

Kazuyuki Koda

Kohei Tachibana

Yuya Shiokawa

Miho Morita

Tomomi Ishida

Takahiro Iizuka

Kota Tomioka

Syunsuke Koga

Daisuke Ishihara

Yuichi Inao

Kazuhiro Yamauchi

Hiroshi Hayashi

Atsushi Ishii

Naohiro Kikkawa

Junichi Tokita

Shingo Matsushita

Kosuke Shimizu

Kazuhiko Yamada

Hajime Katayama

Shinji Hanaoka

Toshiyuki Shiraishi

Koji Higashikawa

Tadaomi Suzuki

Masahiro Tamura

Yukio Hanyu

Hiroshi Kubo

Junichi Iida

Takayuki Teshima

Hiroki Okada

Shinji Asami

Atsushi Kaneko

Shin Tatematsu

Kentaro Ito

Hidenori Hara

Yoshihisa Imori

Shoji Ihara

Norishige Kakegawa

Nobutoshi Hamasaki

Yuji Takahashi

Nobuyoshi Suzuki

Tomohiro Furuhashi

Hiroshi Maeda

Shuuya Nagasako

Akira Kunieda

Toshiki Ito

Makoto Hidaka

Hitoshi Hattori

Kazuhiro Kobayashi

Kazuya Miyazaki

Hirokatsu Miyata

Masami Tanaka

Hideaki Watanabe

Tadashige Iwao

Hiromoto Saitoh

Shinya Morimoto

Ichiro Ichihashi

Akihito Andoh

Tomoichi Nomura

Masaru Sawada

Toru Shikayama

Kei Yonemori

Nobuhide Seo

Kousuke Kiyamura

Satoshi Ota

Eiji Yamamoto

Tatsuya Soneda

Akihiko Maemura

Akihiro Furukawa

Kazuo Watanabe

Kiyotaka Arai

Hirofumi Ebisumoto

Tsuneo Joe Kume

Kiichiro Iga

Mamoru Takaki

Katsuhiko Yamatsu

Toshihiro Sawa

A document reading device includes: an image capturing member that captures an image of a document; a placement portion that is disposed below the image capturing member and that has a boundary line between multiple surfaces at a position at which the boundary line is covered by the document when the document has a maximum size that the image capturing member is capable of imaging and the document is placed on the placement portion; and a document reading member that reads the document that is placed on the placement portion.

Document reading device and image forming apparatus

A driving device includes: a frame disposed in the driving device to support a driven unit driven by the driving device, the frame including a first portion, a distance from which to an outer wall of an accommodation device that accommodates the driving device is shorter, and a second portion, a distance from which to the outer wall is longer than the distance from the first portion to the outer wall; and a driving unit disposed between the second portion and the outer wall, at least a part of the driving unit being away from the outer wall by the distance between the first portion and the outer wall or more.

Driving device and image forming apparatus

A document reading device includes an imaging unit that images a document, a placing portion that includes a first placing portion and a second placing portion and that has a placing surface on which the document is placed, the placing surface being formed by the first placing portion and the second placing portion, and a detector that detects an edge of the document that is placed on the placing surface by using a color difference or a luminance difference between the placing surface and the document. An end portion of the first placing portion adjacent to the second placing portion extends toward the second placing portion beyond an end portion of the second placing portion adjacent to the first placing portion.

A sheet containing apparatus includes a first container unit that contains a sheet having a first size and that tilts with respect to a horizontal direction such that a first end and a second end in a width direction of the apparatus are located at different heights with the first container unit installed in a sheet containing apparatus body when viewed in a first direction, and a covering portion that is movable to a covering position at which the covering portion covers at least a part of the first container unit in the first direction and an open position at which the covering portion uncovers the first container unit in the first direction. When viewed in the first direction, a tilting division line is adjacent to the first container unit and tilts with respect to the horizontal direction, and at least a whole of the tilting division line is covered by the single covering portion in the first direction with the covering portion positioned at the covering position.

Sheet containing apparatus and image forming apparatus

As an example of an EC element in which vertical color separation is suppressed, the present disclosure provides an EC element including a pair of electrodes, a solvent, an anodic EC compound, and a cathodic EC compound. In the EC element, the difference between a solvation free energy of an oxidized form of the anodic EC compound in water and a solvation free energy of the oxidized form in octanol is 35 kcal/mol or more, and the cathodic EC compound has a substituent containing any one element selected from halogens, sulfur, boron, phosphorus, and silicon.

Electrochromic element, optical filter, lens unit, image pickup apparatus, and window member

The present disclosure provides an organic compound represented by the following general formula [1]:

Organic compound, and electrochromic element, optical filter, image pickup apparatus, window, and electrochromic mirror containing the same

An organic compound that absorbs light of a wavelength range from 450 nm to 580 nm in a reduction state and is colored and that is superior in high-temperature drive durability and that is expressed by the following formula [1]. Zand Zeach represent a substituent. Rto Reach represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent. Rand Rare optionally bound to each other to form a ring. Rand Reach represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent. Xrepresents an anion, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 1. When n is 2 or greater, two or more Xs are the same or different from each other.

Organic compound and electrochromic element

As an example of an EC element in which vertical color separation is suppressed, the present disclosure provides an EC element including a pair of electrodes, a solvent, an anodic EC compound, and a cathodic EC compound. In the EC element, the difference between a solvation free energy of an oxidized form of the anodic EC compound in water and a solvation free energy of the oxidized form in octanol is 35 kcal/mol or more, and the difference between a solvation free energy of a reduced form of the cathodic EC compound in propylene carbonate and a solvation free energy of the reduced form in octanol is &#x2212;35 kcal/mol or less.

An organic compound is represented by general formula (1) below: 

Organic compound, electrochromic device, electrochromic apparatus, optical filter, image pickup apparatus, lens unit, and window member

An organic compound represented by the following general formula is provided.  In the above formula (1), Rto Reach independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyl group, an acyl group, or a halogen atom provided that at least one of R, R, and Rrepresents the alkoxy group or the aryloxy group; and Rto Rmay form a ring structure therebetween. Rand Reach independently represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group. In addition, Rto Reach independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, an aralkyl group, an acyl group, or a halogen atom and may form a ring structure therebetween. The above groups except the acyl group may be substituted when necessary.

Organic compound, electrochromic element containing the same, optical filter, lens unit, imaging device, and window material

An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit that reads a document transported in a second scan direction, a detector unit that detect a position of an edge of the document in a first scan direction crossing the second scan direction, a setting unit that sets a search range of the edge of the document in the first scan direction, the search range including the position of the edge detected by the detector unit, and a search unit that, on image data that the reading unit has read from the document, searches for the position of the edge within the search range of the edge set by the setting unit.

Image reading apparatus and control apparatus for the same

An electrochromic device according to the present disclosure includes an electrochromic element that includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electrochromic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electrochromic layer contains an anodic electrochromic compound and an oxidizable substance. The oxidizable substance is a substance which substantially does not undergo a color change due to oxidation and whose oxidant is not reduced. An oxidation reaction of the oxidizable substance is less likely to occur than an oxidation reaction of the anodic electrochromic compound. A controller is configured to control oxidation of the oxidizable substance based on a charge balance of the electrochromic element.

Electrochromic device, optical filter, lens unit, imaging apparatus, window member, and driving method

An organic compound denoted by formula [1], where each of Xand Xis independently selected from an alkyl group optionally having a substituent, an aryl group optionally having a substituent, and an aralkyl group optionally having a substituent, each of Rto Ris independently selected from a hydrogen atom and a substituent, Y represents an alkyl group optionally having a substituent or an aryl group optionally having a substituent, and each of Aand Aindependently represents a monovalent anion.

Organic compound, electrochromic device, optical filter, image pickup apparatus, window, and electrochromic mirror

An organic compound according to one embodiment of the present invention is an organic compound represented by general formula (1). Each of Xand Xis an alkyl group or the like that may have a substituent. Each of Rto Ris a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group that may have a substituent, or the like. Each of Rand Ris a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group that may have a substituent, or the like. Aand Aindependently represent a monovalent anion, respectively.

According to one embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a die pad, a semiconductor chip, a lead frame, and an insulating part. The semiconductor chip is provided on the die pad. The lead frame is separated from the die pad. The lead frame is electrically connected to a terminal of the semiconductor chip. The lead frame includes a first part and a second part disposed between the first part and the die pad. An upper surface of the first part is located below an upper surface of the second part. The insulating part is provided on the die pad, the semiconductor chip, and the second part. The insulating part seals the semiconductor chip.

Semiconductor package and method of manufacturing the same

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