Hitachi Metals, Ltd.

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi, Ltd.

Tohoku University

Teijin Limited

Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.

Nippon Valqua Industries, Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Koji Sato

Rikizo Watanabe

Takehiro Ohno

Atsushi Morihara

Akira Okano

Atsushi Hori

Toshiyuki Yoshida

Megumi Uchino

Takeshi Kuboi

Midai Suzuki

Tadahiro Ohmi

Yutaka Ito

Masahide Harada

Shuji Eguchi

Kaoru Uchiyama

Yasuyuki Shirai

Akeshi Asaka

Takayuki Nakakawaji

Hiroto Sugimoto

Shiro Yamashita

Koji Tsuduki

Masahiko Asano

Mitsuyoshi Shoji

Ryuichi Kaji

Takehide Yokozuka

Satoshi Nozu

Yoshio Naganuma

Hiroshi Go

Katsunori Ouchi

Sadato Igarashi

Yu Aoki

Hirotaka Sekiguchi

Hideomi Nakagami

Tsutomu Iwasaki

Shigeo Higuchi

Naoya Kaneda

Shuichi Tamura

Daisuke Shiraishi

Yutaka Arai

Atsushi Okamoto

Katsuhisa Matsunaka

Jun Miura

Toshihiro Uehara

Isamu Yoshida

Jiro Ishizuka

Yasuhiro Miyahara

Naoki Akiyama

Akihiro Taya

Kunio Nishimura

Kenji Hashimoto

Shizuo Zushi

Tomonori Ueno

Hiroshi Yokoyama

Akira Yoshinari

Tsutomu Yoshida

Hiroki Muramatsu

Kaoru Okamoto

Tsutomu Saka

Masatoshi Watanabe

Makoto Hayakawa

Shigeki Komatsuzaki

Shiro Kumakawa

Takehiko Sato

Akihiko Chiba

Masayuki Noguchi

Junichi Matsuda

Naoko Kasai

Katsuaki Sato

Kota Asano

Gang Han

Yukio Hirama

Hidekazu Nakamura

Noriaki Kobayashi

Kazuhisa Shirayama

Yasuhiro Hatakeyama

Jun Ohira

Naoto Kameyama

Ryo Yashiro

Takanori Ueno

Katsuhiko Sato

Ryosuke Tsuruga

Hideki Tamaki

Akira Muramatsu

Hideo Nakagawa

Takao Uematsu

Kaori Tomura

Hiroshi Tominaga

Yasuyuki Wachi

Ken Yasuda

Tsuyoshi Fukui

Shuichi Nakamura

Noboru Hanai

Masamichi Iwaki

Eiji Shimohira

Shigeo Kuroda

Yasuhiro Yasaka

Yoshiki Masugata

Isamu Saika

Hiroshi Aoyagi

Masayoshi Date

An intermediate transfer member including a base layer, wherein the base layer contains a thermoplastic resin and an electroconductive filler dispersed in the thermoplastic resin, and wherein the base layer has a volume resistivity of 1×10to 1×10Ω·cm, and the base layer has an electroconductive path index of 0.20 or less.

Intermediate transfer member, image forming apparatus, and production device for polymer mixture

A unit includes a wiring board having a first face having a mounting portion on which an electronic device is mounted, a second face opposite to the first face, and end faces continuous with the first face and the second face, a resin member provided to cover the end faces and to have protrusions protruding upward from the end faces to face each other across a space above the mounting portion, and an insulating film covering the second face, wherein at least a part of an edge of the insulating film is provided away from an end of the second face on the end face side.

Unit with wiring board, module, and equipment

Provided is an intermediate transfer member containing a thermoplastic resin and carbon black. The carbon black has a structure volume of 50 or more and 250 or less, and a content of the carbon black is from 15.0 mass % to 30.0 mass % with respect to the intermediate transfer member. When a region ranging from an inner peripheral surface on a back side with respect to an outer peripheral surface on which a toner image is borne to 10 &#x3bc;m in a thickness direction is defined as an inner peripheral surface region, a value of an L-function indicating dispersibility of the carbon black with respect to the thermoplastic resin in the inner peripheral surface region is 150 nm or less.

Intermediate transfer member and image forming apparatus

An intermediary transfer belt having surface resistivity &#x3c1;s of 1&#xd7;10&#x3a9;/square or more and volume resistivity &#x3c1;v of 1&#xd7;10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm or less includes a thermoplastic resin material containing carbon black. The carbon black contained in the thermoplastic resin material has a weight ratio of 22.5-28.5 weight % and include first carbon black and second carbon black. The first carbon black of the carbon black contained in the thermoplastic resin material has a weight ratio of 50-90 weight % and dibutyl phthalate absorption of 93-127 ml/100 g, and the second carbon black of the carbon black contained in the thermoplastic resin material has a weight ratio of 10-50 weight % and dibutyl phthalate absorption of 36-79 ml/100 g.

Intermediary transfer belt, manufacturing method of the intermediary transfer belt, and image forming apparatus

The crystallinity of a thermoplastic resin is 8% or more and 25% or less, the average primary particle size of carbon black is 10 nm or more and 30 nm or less, the content of the carbon black is 15.0 parts by mass or more and 30.0 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of an intermediate transfer belt, and (Li+Lo+Lc)/3&#x2264;100 nm, where Li, Lo, and Lc are values of an L-function indicating a dispersibility of the carbon black with respect to the thermoplastic resin in an inner peripheral surface region of the intermediate transfer belt, in an outer peripheral surface region, and in a central region that is a central portion of the intermediate transfer belt in a thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, respectively.

The vibration-type-motor driving apparatus includes a vibration-type motor including a vibrator on which vibration is excited by an electro-mechanical energy conversion element, a shaft that supports the vibrator, and a rotor that contacts the vibrator to be rotated thereby. A first end portion of the shaft is moved with the vibration of the vibrator. The apparatus further includes a housing that houses therein the motor, and a first elastic member that contacts the first end portion of the shaft and is deformable in a direction in which the first end portion vibrates. The first elastic member transfers heat of the shaft to the housing or another member provided inside the housing.

Vibration-type-motor driving apparatus

Provided are a novel electrode device capable of simultaneously solving a problem of sludge coat covering an anode surface, and a problem of increase in the inter-electrode distance between the anode and cathode, and a method for manufacturing a metal foil using the same. Disclosed is an electrode device, used while being immersed in an electroconductive liquid, the electrode device comprising: a barrel which has an outer wall having plural through holes and can store a metal soluble in the liquid during current application; a shaft passing through the inside of the barrel and having a peripheral surface to which current can be applied; and a metal introducing portion for introducing the metal into the barrel, wherein the barrel rotates on its axis. The barrel is preferably provided with plural partition walls each extending inward from the outer wall and having a gap with respect to the peripheral surface of the shaft, and plural chambers separated in the peripheral direction of the shaft by the plural partition walls.

Electrode device and metal foil manufacturing method using same

A cycle is repeated a plurality of times, which includes a forging process for placing a material to be forged in a lower die and pressing the material to be forged in this state and then separating an upper die from the material to be forged; an elevation process for lifting the material to be forged by using an elevation device to separate the material to be forged from the lower die; a rotation process for rotating the material to be forged around its center by using a rotation device; and a lowering process for placing the material to be forged rotated by the elevation device in the lower die.

Method and apparatus for producing forging by rotary forging

An optical apparatus includes an optical unit driven by an actuator, a holder configured to hold the optical unit, and an elastic member that contacts the holder via a first contacting portion and a second contacting portion, and contacts the optical unit via a connecting portion provided between the first contacting portion and the second contacting portion. The elastic member is spaced from the holder between the first contacting portion and the second contacting portion, and spaced from the optical unit between the first contacting portion and the connecting portion and between the connecting portion and the second contacting portion. Part of the elastic member opposite to the connecting portion that contacts the optical unit is spaced from the holder.

Optical apparatus including elastic damping member

An optical driving apparatus attached to an optical apparatus having a ring member that is rotatable on an outer circumference of a barrel includes a driver configured to rotate the ring member, a detector configured to detect an object that has entered a space between the optical apparatus and the optical driving apparatus, and a controller configured to control the driver in accordance with a detection of the object by the detector when the driver is rotating the ring member. The detector has a contacted portion configured to contact the object, and detects the object when the object is pressed against the contacted portion.

Optical driving apparatus, optical apparatus, and optical driving program

A method for manufacturing a Ni-based super-heat-resistant alloy includes: a first cold working step for cold working a Ni-based super-heat-resistant alloy ingot, which has a composition in which the &#x3b3;' mole ratio is at least 40%, at a working ratio of 5% to less than 30%; and a first heat treatment step for heat-treating the cold worked material, on which the first cold working was performed, at a temperature exceeding the &#x3b3;&#x2032; solid solution temperature. It is preferable that the manufacturing method also includes a second cold working step for performing, after the first heat treatment step, a second cold working on the heat-treated material at a working ratio of at least 20%, and a second heat treatment step for heat-treating the second cold worked material, on which the second cold working has been performed, at less than the &#x3b3;&#x2032; solvus temperature.

Method for manufacturing Ni-based super-heat-resistant alloy

The lens driving apparatus includes a lens holding member that holds lens; a rack provided in the lens holding member transmits a motor driving force to the lens holding member; a first guide part that supports the lens holding member to be movable back and forth in an optical axis direction of the optical lens; a second guide part that supports the lens holding part to be movable as a first guide part, farther separated from the rack than the first guide part in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis direction; both contact parts in the lens holding part, with which both guide parts respectively are in contact; and an energizing part that energizes the second contact part at a position separated in the longitudinal direction of the second guide part so as to be in contact with the second guide part.

Lens driving apparatus, lens barrel and optical apparatus

A drive controller includes a stepping motor capable of performing micro-step drive of a predetermined number of divisions by using an excitation current having a sine waveform, and a control unit configured to calculate a first drive pulse of the stepping motor to perform the micro-step drive, and the control unit is configured to change the first drive pulse to a second drive pulse depending on a ratio of a step phase of a predetermined phase region included in a range of the micro-step drive when performing the micro-step drive with the first drive pulse in a wobbling operation.

Drive controller, image pickup apparatus, drive control method, and storage medium

Provided is a fixing device, the heat generation amount of which can be obtained with a smaller amount of a microwave absorbing material. As a result, the start-up (warm-up) time for achieving a fixing temperature can be shortened without impairing characteristics such as flexibility, releasing property, and durability. The fixing device includes a heating member; a pressurizing member; and a microwave generating unit. It is configured to fix an unfixed toner on a recording material by passing the recording material through a nip formed between the heating member and the pressurizing member. The heating member includes a heat generating layer for generating heat with microwaves generated by the microwave generating unit. The heat generating layer contains a high molecular compound and a carbon fiber having an average fiber diameter of 80-150 nm, an average fiber length of 6-10 &#x3bc;m, and an absorption peak in a Raman spectrum resulting from a graphite structure.

Fixing device with a heat generating layer containing a high molecular compound and a carbon fiber, and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus containing the fixing device

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Koji Sato