Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation

Marvell International Limited

Panasonic Corporation

Sony Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Ulvac, Inc.

Fujifilm Corporation

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.v.

Marvellworld Trade Ltd.

Nabco Limited

Showa Sangyo Co., Ltd.

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Koji Takahashi

Katsuji Yoshimura

Kenichi Nagasawa

Motokazu Kashida

Susumu Kozuki

Tadayoshi Nakayama

Teruo Hieda

Kenji Kawai

Takashi Kobayashi

Masahiro Takei

Masahide Hirasawa

Hiroyuki Takimoto

Hisashi Ishikawa

Shinichi Yamashita

Hiroo Edakubo

Harunobu Ogaki

Tsutomu Nishida

Yuji Takahashi

Koji Suzuki

Shigeru Watanabe

Hideki Ogawa

Takaaki Terashita

Chikara Sato

Naoto Abe

Masayoshi Sekine

Kazuhiro Noguchi

Masamichi Toyama

Akihisa Horiuchi

Hitoshi Saito

Makoto Yamada

Hidekazu Takahashi

Makoto Hattori

Masashi Nakata

Shinya Sato

Kenji Suzuki

Tatsuya Yamazaki

Kazuo Shiota

Satoshi Yamaguchi

Nobuhiko Shinoda

David James Montgomery

Isao Harigaya

Toshiyuki Masui

Masamichi Ito

Kenji Kyuma

Yoshitake Nagashima

Yasutomo Suzuki

Taizo Akimoto

Hiroki Uematsu

Toshiaki Mabuchi

Tsutomu Fukatsu

Yoshihiro Nakatani

Atsushi Ochi

Makoto Shimokoriyama

Noriyuki Kitamura

Noboru Sasaki

Nobutoshi Takayama

Hirokazu Otake

Hideyuki Arai

Akihiro Shikakura

Hideo Kawahara

Koichi Nakata

Yoshinori Abe

Tomohisa Itagaki

Atsushi Suzuki

Akio Fujii

Atsushi Okuda

Yuka Ishiduka

Nobuhiro Nakamura

Masahiro Konishi

Yoshihiro Takada

Takeshi Hirose

Yoshiki Ishii

Jun Makino

Yosuke Saito

Kazunori Noguchi

Tatsuya Konishi

Masahide Hasegawa

Yoshiyuki Takahira

Tadashi Ogawa

Kenichi Kaku

Daisuke Miura

Akihiko Tojo

Kenji Ikeda

Eiichi Motoyama

Wataru Kitamura

Masaki Nonaka

Hideyasu Ishibashi

Yutaka Soda

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Kazunori Hasebe

Shinichi Koyama

Kenichi Kondo

Haruki Mori

Yasuo Aotsuka

Tetsuya Shimada

Hiroki Yamashita

Kiyohisa Sugishima

Toru Matama

Masami Sugimori

Yosuke Maemura

Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member including: a support; and a photosensitive layer, wherein the support has a surface formed of Al and/or an Al alloy, wherein the surface of the support comprises Al crystal grains having: (α) a plane at −15° or more and less than +15° with respect to a {001} orientation; (β) a plane at −15° or more and less than +15° with respect to a {101} orientation; and (γ) a plane at −15° or more and less than +15° with respect to a {111} orientation, and wherein the ratio of an area occupied by the Al crystal grain having the (γ) is 10% or less, and the value of the ratio of an area occupied by the Al crystal grain having the (α) to an area occupied by the Al crystal grain having the (β) is more than 4/6 and less than 6/4.

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus

Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member that suppresses an image defect resulting from its support and is reduced in long-term potential fluctuation. The electrophotographic photosensitive member is an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support having a cylindrical shape and a photosensitive layer formed on the support, wherein the support has a surface formed of Al and/or an Al alloy, and wherein the IR peak area ratio A of the surface of the support determined by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy satisfies the following condition: A≥0.50 where the IR peak area ratio A represents a ratio a/z of a peak area 'a' in the range of from 1,016 cmor more to 1,130 cmor less to a peak area “z” in the range of from 650 cmor more to 1,130 cmor less.

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, electrophotographic apparatus, and method of manufacturing electrophotographic photosensitive member

Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member that can suppress the surface direction unevenness of an output image throughout repeated image formation. The electrophotographic photosensitive member is an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support having a cylindrical shape and a photosensitive layer formed on the support, wherein the support contains at least one of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and wherein when an area at the maximum frequency calculated from the area distribution curve of the aluminum crystal grains of the surface of the support is represented by A (μm) and the half-width of the highest peak in the area distribution curve is represented by B (μm), the support satisfies the following formula (1):≤1.0  (1).

An electrophotographic photosensitive member having: a support with a cylindrical shape; and a photosensitive layer, in which the support has a surface formed of Al and/or an Al alloy, and the surface of the support includes Al crystal grains having (α) plane having {001} orientation of −15° or more and less than +15°, (β) plane having {101} orientation of −15° or more and less than +15°, and (γ) plane having {111} orientation of −15° or more and less than +15°, a ratio of an area occupied by Al crystal grains having (γ) to the total area of the surface of the support is 10% or less, and a ratio of an area occupied by any one of Al crystal grains having (α) and Al crystal grains having (β) is 60% or more.

The electrophotographic photosensitive member includes: a support; a charge-generating layer; and a charge-transporting layer, the charge-generating layer and the charge-transporting layer being arranged on the support, wherein a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains: inorganic particles having an average particle diameter (L&#x3b1;) of primary particles of 5 nm or more and 50 nm or less; and resin particles having an average particle diameter (L&#x3b2;) of primary particles of 0.1 &#x3bc;m or more and 5.0 &#x3bc;m or less, and wherein in any cross-section of the surface layer, '(Sm&#x3b1;)/(S&#x3b1;)&#x2265;0.3' is satisfied, where a region within (L&#x3b2;/2) from a surface of each of the resin particles is defined as a region (M), a sum of cross-sectional areas of the inorganic particles in the any cross-section is represented by (S&#x3b1;), and a sum of cross-sectional areas of the inorganic particles that are included in the region (M) is represented by (Sm&#x3b1;).

According to a mode of the present invention, a method of manufacturing an electronic component includes: preparing a component main-bodyincluding a first surface having an electrode-formed region having a plurality of bump electrodes, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and side peripheral surfaces connecting the first surface and the second surface; forming a mask section Mon at least a peripheral portion of the first surface, the mask section surrounding the electrode-formed region, a height of the mask section being equal to or more than a height of the plurality of bump electrodes; bonding the mask section of the first surface to an adhesive layeron a holder for holding a component; forming a protective filmon the component main-body, the protective film covering the second surface and the side peripheral surfaces; and removing the mask section Mfrom the first surface.

Method of manufacturing an electronic component and processing system

An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support and a surface layer, in which the surface layer contains a copolymer of a composition which contains at least a compound represented by the following general formula (1) and a compound represented by the following general formula (2), a content of the compound represented by the general formula (1) in the composition is 25 mass % or more and 70 mass % or less with respect to a total content of the compound represented by the general formula (1) and the compound represented by the general formula (2), and the total content of the compound represented by the general formula (1) and the compound represented by the general formula (2) is 55 mass % or more with respect to a total mass of the composition.

Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member, including: a support; a charge-generating layer on the support; a charge-transporting layer on the charge-generating layer; and a protective layer on the charge-transporting layer, wherein the protective layer contains the following components (&#x3b1;), (&#x3b2;), and (&#x3b3;): (&#x3b1;) a polymer of a hole-transportable compound; (&#x3b2;) a polycarbonate resin; and (&#x3b3;) a hole-transportable compound, wherein a content of the component (&#x3b2;) in the protective layer is 0.01 mass % or more and 4.0 mass % or less with respect to a content of the component (&#x3b1;) in the protective layer, wherein a content of the component (&#x3b3;) in the protective layer is 0.001 mass % or more and 3.0 mass % or less with respect to the content of the component (&#x3b1;) in the protective layer, and wherein the charge-transporting layer contains the component (&#x3b3;).

A thin substrate processing device include a substrate processing unit configured to process a thin substrate, and a cooling unit configured to cool the thin substrate when the substrate processing unit is processing the thin substrate.

Thin substrate processing device

There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a pixel region that includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix pattern. Some of the plurality of pixels are configured to be phase difference detection pixels that include a photoelectric conversion section disposed on a semiconductor substrate and a light blocking film disposed above a portion of the photoelectric conversion section. In particular a location of the light blocking film for the phase difference detection pixels varies according to a location of the phase difference detection pixel. For example, the location of the light blocking film for a phase difference detection pixel positioned at a periphery of the pixel region is different than a location of the light blocking film for a phase difference detection pixel positioned in a center portion of the pixel region.

Solid-state imaging device, electronic apparatus, lens control method, and imaging module

In the electrophotographic photosensitive member of the present invention, a plurality of convex portions having a longest diameter Lin the generatrix direction of the electrophotographic photosensitive member of 30 &#x3bc;m or more arid a height Hof 1 &#x3bc;m or more are formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member, a plurality of convex portions corresponding to the convex portions formed on the surface of the surface layer are formed at the interface between the surface layer and a layer immediately below the surface layer, and the rate of fitting of the convex portions formed on the surface of the surface layer to the convex portions formed at the interface between the surface layer and the layer immediately below the surface layer is 20% or more and 200% or less.

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus

In an image forming apparatus in which an electrostatic image is formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive member using at least a process of a pseudo halftone formed by dots as a method of representing gradation, the electrophotographic photosensitive member is provided on a surface thereof with a plurality of recessed portions of 0.5 &#x3bc;m more and 5 &#x3bc;m or less in depth and 20 &#x3bc;m or more and 80 &#x3bc;m or less in longest diameter of an opening, when a square region of 500 &#x3bc;m&#xd7;500 &#x3bc;m is arbitrarily extracted on the surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member, in the square region, a total area of the recessed portions is 10000 &#x3bc;mor more and 90000 &#x3bc;mor less and a total area of a flat portion contained in a portion other than the recessed portion is 80000 &#x3bc;mor more and 240000 &#x3bc;mor less, and an arrangement (A) of the plurality of recessed portions is such an arrangement that an image quality lowering index (f) calculated by specific processing is 14% or less.

Image forming apparatus and electrophotographic photosensitive member

The present invention provides an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support, and a photosensitive layer on the support. The photosensitive layer has a charge generating layer containing a charge generating material and a charge transporting layer containing a charge transporting material, in this order. The charge transporting layer contains (&#x3b1;) a specific polycarbonate resin or a specific polyester resin, (&#x3b2;) the charge transporting material, (&#x3b3;) a methoxybenzene, and (&#x3b4;) a methoxybenzene, a methoxycyclohexane or a methylhexanol having a substituent. The content W&#x3b4; of the (&#x3b4;) is 0.001% by mass or more and 1% by mass or less based on the total mass of the charge transporting layer.

A birds-eye-view image generation device includes a captured image acquisition unit, an image conversion unit, a birds-eye-view image combining unit, and a joint setting unit. The joint setting unit sets any position of a rim of a vehicle image corresponding to a vehicle included in the birds-eye-view image as an end point in an overlapping imaging range in two birds-eye-view images corresponding to two imaging devices of which imaging ranges overlap each other, and sets a line which extends in any direction on an opposite side to the vehicle image from the end point between two radial directions directed to the end point from the two imaging devices, as a joint which joins two birds-eye-view images which are combined.

Birds-eye-view image generation device, and birds-eye-view image generation method

The subject invention relates to a charge transport layer forming coating liquid containing a charge transport material, at least one selected from the group consisting of polycarbonate resins and polyester resins, at least one of xylene and toluene, and cyclopentanone. The proportion of cyclopentanone in the charge transport layer forming coating liquid is in the range of 50% by mass to 85% by mass relative to the total mass of at least one of xylene and toluene and cyclopentanone.

Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, electrophotographic apparatus, charge transport layer forming coating liquid, and method for manufacturing electrophotographic photosensitive member

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