Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Ebara Corporation

Disco Corporation

Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems, Ltd.

Kohei Matsumoto

Kazuaki Kamihara

Masayoshi Nakayama

Masaki Sukesako

Takuma Higa

Yuichi Aizawa

Hideo Kobayashi

Masahiro Katoh

Daisuke Yoshida

Katsuhito Sakurai

Hirofumi Totsuka

Kohichi Nakamura

Hiroyuki Kunii

Masakazu Terao

Masaru Nakamura

Akira Yoshida

Keiji Nomaru

Hitoshi Yamamoto

Tadashi Kasai

Kazunari Fujii

Makoto Yasuda

Emiko Shiraishi

Toshihiro Sugiyama

Kohei Hasegawa

Yosuke Watanabe

Kazumi Kobayashi

Kunio Hasegawa

Satoshi Kato

Takamasa Ozeki

Toshihiro Ogawa

Hiroto Komiyama

Toru Ishimasa

Yuuichiroh Uematsu

Natsumi Matsue

Tomohide Takenaka

Keita Sone

Mutsuki Morinaga

Takanori Inada

Kazutomo Miyazaki

Jun Hitosugi

Ayumu Nemoto

Wakana Itoh

Yuto Suzuki

Yuugo Matsuura

Takatsugu Komori

Masashi Tachi

Dai Naito

Katsuhiro Doshin

Kenta Okeya

Taku Kumiya

Kazumasa Hosotani

Fumio Saito

Nobumori Ogoshi

Masashi Ashino

Mitsuru Morohashi

Hiroyuki Kunil

Koichi Mitani

Taizo Kise

Tatsuya Inaoka

Hideki Ozawa

Mikako Yoda

Yugo Sasaya

Taisuke Iwaguchi

An optical apparatus includes first and second lens groups, a guide barrel having a straight-guiding groove, a cam barrel, and an interlocking member having a first coupling portion. The cam barrel includes a first cam groove that moves the first lens group and a second cam groove that is different from the first cam groove and moves the interlocking member. When the second lens group changes a focal length range of an optical system from a second focal length range to a first focal length range, the first lens group is moved in a direction of an optical axis by the straight-guiding groove and the first cam groove, the interlocking member is moved in the direction of the optical axis by the straight-guiding groove and the second cam groove, and the first coupling portion withdraws the second lens group to outside of an optical path of the first lens group.

Optical apparatus and image-capturing apparatus

A semiconductor apparatus according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor component including a cell array and a plurality of wirings; and a semiconductor component including a plurality of pads connected to the semiconductor component including the cell array. A first row pad connected to a row wiring connected to a first cell and a second cell, a second row pad connected to a row wiring connected to a third cell and a fourth cell, and a column pad connected to a column wiring connected to the first cell and the third cell are arranged such that a straight line connecting the first row pad and the column pad crosses a straight line connecting the second row pad and the column pad.

Semiconductor apparatus and equipment

Provided is a distance detection device attached to a position at which it surrounds a camera lens device. The distance detection device has a light emitting element configured to irradiate a target region with irradiation light and a light receiving element configured to receive reflected light of the irradiation light from a target in the target region. The distance detection device acquires distance information indicating a distance to the target on the basis of a time until the light receiving element receives the reflected light after the light emitting element performs irradiation with the irradiation light and communicates the distance information.

Distance detection device and imaging apparatus

An imaging device includes a first chip on which a plurality of first blocks is arranged in a matrix, and a second chip which includes a first block scanning circuit and a second block scanning circuit. The second chip includes a selection circuit configured to select driving timing given to a plurality of pixels, based on a signal output from the first block scanning circuit and a signal output from the second block scanning circuit. A second block includes a circuit other than the selection circuit.

Imaging device, imaging system, and moving body

A wet abatement system which can suppress the accumulation of foreign matters in a treatment gas line is proposed. There is provided a wet abatement system for detoxifying treatment gas by bringing the treatment gas into contact with liquid. The wet abatement system includes an inlet casing having an inlet port from which the treatment gas is let in and an outlet port provided below the inlet port and through which the treatment gas flows, and a liquid film forming device provided between the inlet port and the outlet port and configured to form a liquid film on an inner wall surface of the inlet casing. A heater configured to heat the inlet casing is embedded in an interior of a wall portion of the inlet casing, the wall portion constituting a portion situated above the liquid film forming device.

Wet abatement system

A photoelectric conversion apparatus, comprising: a pixel array; a first and a second signal line groups; a first and a second readout circuit groups; a first multiplexer group that selects one of at least two first signal lines, and connects the selected first signal line to one first readout circuit; and a second multiplexer group that selects one of at least two second signal lines, and connects the selected second signal line to one second readout circuit, a number of the first readout circuits is more than a number of the first signal lines, a number of the second readout circuits is more than a number of the second signal lines, the selection operations by the first and second multiplexer groups are executable independently from each other, the selection operation of the first multiplexer group is controlled collectively, and the selection operation of the second multiplexer group is controlled collectively.

Photoelectric conversion apparatus, imaging system, mobile body and signal processing apparatus

A heat exchange ventilator includes: a partition wall that has a bypass opening allowing an exhaust air duct upstream of a total heat exchanger to communicate with the exhaust air duct between the total heat exchanger and a humidifier, and separates the exhaust air duct upstream of the total heat exchanger and a supply air duct downstream of the total heat exchanger; a bypass damper that opens and closes the bypass opening; and a controller that performs control to open the bypass opening by the bypass damper at a first time, and close the bypass opening by the bypass damper at a second time.

Heat exchange ventilator

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device, an image density detector, and a processor. The processor controls the image forming device to form a first test toner image, and controls the image density detector to detect an image density at the plurality of positions of the first test toner image. The processor adjusts an image forming condition so that the image density detected at each of the plurality of positions becomes a target image density, controls the image forming device to form a second test toner image based on the adjusted image forming condition, controls the image density detector to detect an image density at the plurality of positions of the second test toner image, determines whether a streak exists in the second test toner image based on the detected image densities, and executes a countermeasure to prevent an occurrence of the streak.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearer to rotate and bear a latent image, a charging device to charge the a latent image bearer, a developing device to develop the latent image with developer including toner and use a developing voltage including an AC component, and a lubricant applicator to apply lubricant onto a surface of the latent image bearer. An amount of the lubricant applied by the lubricant applicator onto the latent image bearer per centimeter in an axial direction of the latent image bearer is equal to or greater than 0.845 mg for a running distance of 1.0 kilometer of the latent image bearer, and a difference between a largest value and a smallest value of the developing voltage is in a range of 200 V to 400 V.

Image forming apparatus

A heat-exchange ventilation device includes: a heater connection terminal to which an external connection heater is connected; a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of a supply air flow passing through an air supply passage; and a control unit that controls operations of an air supply fan and an air exhaust fan and turning-on and turning-off of the external connection heater based on a measurement result of the temperature sensor. The external connection heater is installed in an outdoor air-supply duct and heats a supply air flow flowing through the air supply passage into a heat exchanger. The air supply fan is operable at a plurality of intensities, and the control unit prohibits a state in which the air supply fan is operated at an intensity lower than an intensity set in advance and the external connection heater is turned on.

Heat-exchange ventilation device

An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a light source, an optical scanning device, an image bearer, an image density sensor, an image processing circuit, and a light source driver. The plurality of images are formed with a plurality of light intensities and a plurality of image area rates on the image bearer. The image density sensor detects a plurality of image densities of the plurality of images at a plurality of positions in a main scanning direction. The image processing circuit determines a light intensity correction value to correct an image density of a target image in the main scanning direction based on the plurality of light intensities, image area rates, image densities, and positions, and the image area rate of the target image, and outputs a control signal to adjust a light intensity. The light source driver adjusts the light intensity based on the control signal.

A semiconductor device is provided. The device comprises: a first transistor that includes a first primary terminal, a second primary terminal and a first control terminal; a second transistor that includes a third primary terminal, a fourth primary terminal and a second control terminal; and a resistive element. The first and third primary terminal are connected to a first voltage line. The second primary terminal and one terminal of the resistive element are connected to a second voltage line. The first and second control terminal, the fourth primary terminal and the other terminal of the resistive element are connected to a node. A potential change in the third primary terminal is transmitted to the first control terminal by capacitive coupling between the third primary terminal and the node, turning on the first transistor.

Semiconductor device and liquid discharge head substrate

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, an image forming device, a toner concentration detector, a toner supply device, an image density detector, and a controller including a memory device. At a predetermined timing before image formation is started, the controller adjusts a developing potential to adjust an image density of a detection toner image on the image bearer and drives the toner supply device or the developing device to adjust a toner concentration in the developing device. After the image formation is started, the controller drives the toner supply device to adjust the toner concentration, and, in a predetermined sheet interval, adjusts the target concentration based on the image density of the detection toner image formed in a non-image area of the image bearer. When the toner concentration is higher than the target concentration plus a threshold, the controller suspends image formation and readjusts the developing potential.

Image forming apparatus comprising image density detector and toner concentration detector

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Kohei Matsumoto