Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Nec Casio Mobile Communications, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.

Yamada Atomizer Company Limited

Tkr Corporation Co., Ltd.

Masaaki Yamada

Yoshinori Nakagawa

Hideki Kosugi

Tomoko Takahashi

Yasuyuki Ishii

Ichiro Kadota

Mutsunori Igarashi

Atsushi Kurokawa

Masanori Horike

Masami Murakata

Yoshiko Ogawa

Yasushi Nakazato

Shuji Hirai

Nobuaki Kondoh

Katsuaki Miyawaki

Nekka Matsuura

Osamu Satoh

Tetsuro Hirota

Takashi Mitsuhashi

Fumihiro Minami

Takashi Ishioka

Satoshi Ouchi

Takashi Seto

Hisashi Shoji

Hideyasu Seki

Hideki Takeuchi

Akira Azami

Yuuji Ishikura

Yuji Ishikura

Koji Hashimoto

Takeo Tsukamoto

Yasunobu Shimizu

Yoshiyuki Fukuda

Yusaku Katsube

Kei Saito

Takahiro Aoki

Yoshiharu Kishi

Atsuhiko Ikeuchi

Junichi Takahashi

Reiko Nojima

Makoto Takashima

Toshihiro Akiyama

Junichi Matsumoto

Toshio Koike

Katsuhiro Aoki

Yuki Oshikawa

Yoshihiro Fujiwara

Seiji Hoshino

Toshihito Habuka

Fumihito Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Takahashi

Kazumi Suzuki

Toshiya Suzuki

Noriyuki Kimura

Mitsuhiro Kitani

Masayuki Yamane

Yutaka Takahashi

Kakuji Murakami

Shin Kayahara

Masanori Saitoh

Hideki Zemba

Tomoya Ohmura

Yuuki Satoh

Toshihiro Kanematsu

Eiichi Ohta

Hideto Iwamoto

Hiroaki Okamoto

Toshiyuki Furusawa

Takeo Yamaguchi

Keinosuke Kondoh

Kenichi Shibata

Masahiro Kanazawa

Takeshi Kitahara

Kazutaka Otsuki

Mutsuki Morinaga

Akio Kutsuwada

Naoyuki Kawabe

Takashi Nakahira

Yoshikazu Sugiyama

Takeshi Iijima

Kentaro Mikuniya

Taku Takaki

Katsuhiro Seta

Sotohiro Tsujihara

Osamu Makino

Yohichiroh Miyaguchi

Mototaka Kuribayashi

Shin Kawabe

Naohito Kojima

Taiji Sawaki

Masayuki Minami

Youichiroh Miyaguchi

Shiro Ikeda

Takeharu Kondo

Masafumi Oguri

Yuhei Niwa

Ichiroh Kadota

Kengo Yoshida

Koichi Nanno

Shinya Itagaki

A stringed musical instrument stringof the present invention has a configuration in which a wire rod W including a synthetic resin as a constituent material is wound in a coil shape at a normal time, and is stretched over a target stringed musical instrument in a state of being unwound from the coil shape when used. With such a configuration, the stringed musical instrument stringcan reproduce an excellent timbre close to the timbre of a natural gut string at low cost by the wire rod W including a synthetic resin as a constituent material and has various characteristics (for example, no negative aspect even when the tension is weak, high volume, stable string even immediately after stretched, and accurate pitch) as the stringed musical instrument string

Stringed musical instrument string and method for manufacturing stringed musical instrument string

The developing device includes a developer bearer, a conveyor, a casing including a ceiling, and a seal. The developer bearer is configured to bear a developer and develop a latent image. The conveyor is configured to convey and stir the developer. The casing is configured to contain the developer, the developer bearer, and the conveyor. The seal is configured to seal the inside of the casing to form a closed space that encloses the developer in the developing device. The conveyor is configured to be partially or entirely buried in the developer enclosed in the closed space in both of a normal posture and an upside-down posture of the developing device. A cross-sectional area of the closed space in a horizontal plane gradually increases from a top of the ceiling of the casing toward a bottom of the developing device in the normal posture of the developing device.

Developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus incorporating same

A developing device includes a developer bearer to carry, by rotation, developer including toner and magnetic carrier to a developing range facing a latent image bearer; a casing including a developer container and an opening to expose a part of the developer bearer disposed in the casing; an opposing face of the casing including a conductive material and opposing to a surface of the developer bearer downstream from the developing range in a direction of rotation of the developer bearer; a developing bias source to apply a developing bias to the developer bearer; and an insulation layer disposed on the opposing face of the casing. The opposing face is disposed across, from the developer bearer, a casing gap sized to allow the developer borne on the developer bearer to contact the opposing face.

Developing device, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge incorporating same

A developing device includes a developer bearer disposed facing a latent image bearer in a developing range to transport developer by rotation, a support to support the developer bearer and including a holder mount, a rod-shaped developer regulator disposed facing a surface of the developer bearer across a gap, and a holder secured to the holder mount of the support to hold the rod-shaped developer regulator. The rod-shaped developer regulator extends in an axial direction of the developer bearer.

Developing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same

A developing device to develop with two-component developer an electrostatic latent image includes a developer bearer to carry thereon developer supplied to the latent image bearer, a first conveyance channel disposed adjacent to the developer bearer, a second conveyance channel disposed adjacent to the first conveyance channel and farther from the developer bearer than the first conveyance channel, a first conveying member disposed in the first conveyance channel to agitate and transport developer supplied to the developer bearer, a second conveying member including a spiral blade winding around a shaft to transport developer in the second conveyance channel in a predetermined developer conveyance direction, and a collected-developer guide to guide a part of developer that leaves the developer bearer to the second conveyance channel beyond the first conveyance channel.

Development device and image forming apparatus incorporating same

A development device includes a developer bearer to carry developer thereon and receive a development bias and a developer regulator to adjust an amount of developer carried on the developer bearer. Multiple recesses recessed from a reference surface area are formed in a surface of the developer bearer, the developer bearer includes a conductive base in which the recesses are formed, and the conductive base in the reference surface area is coated with an insulative surface layer.

Development device and image forming apparatus and process unit incorporating same

An information processing apparatus includes a touch panel which displays pieces of identification information including letters, figures, and symbols and detects a contact of the panel with a finger of a user or other object. When the touch panel detects the contact of the panel, a detection unit specifies identification information of one or more of the multiple pieces of identification information displayed on the touch panel, indicated by a position at which the contact in question occurred. The detection unit also detects an area of part of the panel where the contact occurred. A storage unit stores reference identification information and a reference area range. A control unit performs particular processing upon matching of the detected identification information with the stored reference identification information and the area of the contact detected by the detection unit falling within the stored reference area range.

Information processing apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier; a latent image writer to write a latent image on the latent image carrier; a developing unit including a toner carrier having first and second electrodes insulated via an insulator member and a voltage applying unit to apply voltages to the first and second electrodes having a potential difference to generate first electric fields to cause the toner to hop from the toner carrier to the latent image carrier to develop a toner image; and a transfer unit to transfer the developed toner image to a transferring member. When alternating voltages having a same phase and same amplitude are applied to the first and second electrodes to form second electric fields between the latent image carrier and the toner carrier, the toner is discharged from the toner carrier to the latent image carrier in a toner discharge mode.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier to carry a latent image, a developing device having a toner carrier with first and second electrodes to develop the latent image by transferring the toner to a developing region between the toner carrier and the latent image carrier while causing the toner to hop between the first and second electrodes and attaching the hopping toner to the latent image, a pulsed power supply to output a first periodic pulse voltage having a mean potential the same as a normal toner charge and a second periodic pulse voltage, a smoothing circuit to make the first periodic pulse voltage smooth to generate a direct voltage, and a toner layer thickness regulator member to regulate, on receiving the direct voltage, a thickness of the toner layer in a region between a toner supply position at which toner is supplied and the developing region.

Developing device, image forming apparatus, and image forming method

Provided is an LTE-system mobile communication terminal in which a reduction in terminal size and a reduction in the number of components is desired when a terrestrial digital television broadcast is to be received. Two antennas from among terrestrial digital television broadcast receiving antennas are switched and controlled so as to also be used as transmitting/receiving antennas from LTE communication, and the reception diversity is switched to either a 2-system combination or 4-system combination in accordance with whether the television broadcast is in the VHF band or UHF band. As a result, the number of antennas for example can be reduced and the terminal costs and size can be reduced.

Tuner module, and mobile communication terminal

A combination of antennas to be used is selected based on a distance between a plurality of antennas or the polarization direction of a radio signal to be transmitted/received.

Radio communication apparatus, radio communication method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing radio communication control program

A development device includes a developer container; a rotary cylindrical developer carrier including an outer electrode including multiple electrode portions arranged in a circumferential direction of the developer carrier, an inner electrode provided on an inner circumferential side of the developer carrier from the outer electrode, an insulation layer disposed between the outer electrode and the inner electrode, and a surface layer; and a bias power source to apply a first bias voltage and a second bias voltage to the inner electrode and the outer electrode, respectively. The first bias power source causes an electrical potential difference that changes with time between the inner electrode and the outer electrode to cause the developer to hop on a circumferential surface of the developer carrier. At least one of the first bias voltage and the second bias voltage has a cyclic waveform in which pulse-on time is reduced.

Development device, process cartridge incorporating same, and image forming apparatus incorporating same

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