Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Masanori Tanaka

Yuji Kawaguchi

Jun Miura

Takahiro Kawamoto

Kazuhiro Okubo

Motoki Adachi

Hiromi Kobayashi

Hideo Nishida

Takashi Mukai

Shunsuke Mizukoshi

Manabu Yagi

Tetsuya Kuwano

Takanori Shibata

Nobuo Oshima

Takayuki Kanazawa

Morihisa Hirata

Hideo Kihara

Hitoshi Okamoto

Kenjiro Endoh

Nobuhiro Takeda

Yasuyuki Morishita

Takayuki Namiki

Yoshiyuki Ishizawa

Yuta Isobe

Shuhei Kawasaki

Kentaro Kawata

Toshio Itou

Koji Iwasaki

Yuki Yamamoto

Naoki Hayashi

Keigo Hoshina

Masahiro Yoshida

Hidesato Saruwatari

Dai Yamamoto

Yuki Watanabe

Satoshi Maeda

Kazuki Suzuki

Yosuke Watanabe

Kohei Matsuda

Shigemi Kamoshida

Yasuhiro Kawashima

Seiichi Shinohara

Satoru Motohashi

Shinichi Agata

Tatsuya Shinoda

Takashi Hiramatsu

Kuniaki Tamagaki

Makoto Kobayashi

Nobuyasu Negishi

Tetsuro Kano

Teruyuki Okado

Koichiro Takashima

Isamu Kubo

Masahiro Murata

Yasuaki Murashi

Tadaharu Kishibe

Kentarou Kawata

Koichi Takeshita

Yoshiaki Miyamoto

Toshitada Nakazawa

Yoshihito Uzawa

According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes a current collector and an active material-containing layer formed on the current collector. The active material-containing layer contains a lithium nickel cobalt manganese composite oxide and a lithium cobalt composite oxide. Pore size distribution obtained by mercury intrusion porosimetry for the active material-containing layer has a first peak top indicating a highest intensity Iwithin a pore size range of from 0.1 μm to 1 μm and a second peak top indicating an intensity Iwhich is a second highest intensity after the highest intensity Iwithin the pore size range of from 0.1 μm to 1 μm. A pore size at the first peak top is smaller than a pore size at the second peak top.

Electrode, electrode group, battery, and battery pack

According to one embodiment, a battery includes an external container, an electrode group, and a sealing plate. The electrode group includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode wound in a flat shape with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. Thicknesses Tof the positive and negative electrodes are each from 0.03 mm to 0.08 mm. A first direction is orthogonal to a winding axis direction of the electrode group. A second direction is parallel to the winding axis direction. The thicknesses Tof each electrode, a thickness Tof the electrode group in the third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, and an innermost circumferential height Hof the electrode group in the first direction satisfy 0.02≤(T×T)/H≤0.04.

Battery and battery pack

An image pickup element using an APD is provided. The image pickup element has a first substrate, a second substrate, and a connector. The first substrate is provided with a plurality of light receivers having the APD. The second substrate has a pixel circuit that corresponds to each of the APDs. Additionally, the connector electrically connects the APD and the pixel circuit corresponding to the APD.

Image pickup element and image pickup apparatus

An imaging apparatus includes a first photoelectric conversion unit configured to convert light into charge, a second photoelectric conversion unit configured to convert light into charge, and a comparison unit. The comparison unit includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor receives a signal that is based on the charge converted by the first photoelectric conversion unit. The second transistor receives a signal that is based on the charge converted by the second photoelectric conversion unit.

Imaging apparatus and method for controlling imaging apparatus

In a toner cartridge configured such that, by rotating a toner housing portion relative to a shutter in a state in which a first portion-to-be-engaged is engaged to a first engaging portion of a developing unit, relative positions of a cover and the shutter are displaced from first relative position, in which a closing portion opposes a second opening, to second relative position, in which the interior of the toner housing portion communicates with the developing unit through a first opening and the second opening, and a second portion-to-be-engaged is engaged to a second engaging portion of the developing unit, thereby being attached to the developing unit, a biasing member is provided in order to exert a biasing force for generating relative rotation between the cover and the shutter in a direction for displacing the relative positions thereof from the second relative position to the first relative position.

Toner cartridge, developing unit, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member. A charging member charges a surface of the photosensitive member. A developing roller carries developer. The developing roller supplies the developer in normal polarity to the surface of the photosensitive member. A regulating member regulates the developer on the developing roller. A common voltage applying unit applies charging voltage and regulating voltage. The regulating voltage is applied with the developing roller rotating such that a potential difference in a direction in which electrostatic force from the regulating member to the developing roller acts on the developer charged in the normal polarity, is formed between the regulating member and the developing roller, and in which the charging voltage to be applied in a non-image-forming period is controlled so as to be smaller in absolute value than in an image-forming period.

Image forming apparatus having a voltage applying unit that applies voltage to a regulating member

An image capturing apparatus comprises a pixel portion in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix, vertical output lines arranged in such a manner that a plurality of vertical output lines are provided for each pixel column in the pixel portion, each of the plurality of vertical output lines provided for one pixel column being connected to a pixel in different rows within the one pixel column; and a readout circuit configured to, when simultaneously reading out signals of pixels in a plurality of rows within the one pixel column using the plurality of vertical output lines provided within the one pixel column, continuously read out same signals multiple times with respect to at least a pixel in one row among the pixels in the plurality of rows.

Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charging member, an exposure unit which performs first exposure to form a non-image portion potential on the electrically charged surface of the image bearing member, and second exposure to form an image portion potential thereon, a developing member, a charging voltage application unit, a current detection unit which detects a current flowing from the image bearing member to the charging member, and a control unit which controls the exposure unit and the charging voltage application unit, wherein, in a case where a current value detected in a predetermined charging voltage application state is a second current value larger than a first current value, the control unit controls the exposure unit to perform image formation with a first exposure amount smaller than that in a case where the detected current value is the first current value.

Image forming apparatus

An image sensor with a simple configuration that generates an image to which a filter has been applied is disclosed. An image sensor comprises a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a photoelectric converter that detects incidence of single photons; and a counter that counts pulses present in an output signal from the photoelectric converter. The image sensor outputs a count value as a pixel value, wherein the count value is obtained by counting the pulses present in the output signals from a plurality of the photoelectric converters in a first period, or by counting the pulses present in the output signal from a single photoelectric converter in the first period and a second period.

Image sensor and electronic device having the same for outputting a count value as a pixel value by counting pulses present in the output signals from photoelectric converters

An image forming apparatus using a contact charging method includes a control unit capable of executing cleaning in a post-rotation step at the end of a job and in an inter-image step during execution of the job. The cleaning involves moving toner adhering to a charging member from the charging member to an image bearing member. The job is a series of operations started by a predetermined start instruction and involving forming an image on one or more recording materials and outputting the one or more recording materials. When an instruction to start the next job is input during execution of cleaning in the post-rotation step, the control unit stops the cleaning in the middle of the execution, starts the next job, and adjusts timing for executing subsequent cleaning on the basis of information relating to the amount of cleaning executed before being stopped in the middle of the execution.

A semiconductor device provided with: a first input/output circuit connected to a first pad; a second input/output circuit disposed in the direction along one side constituted by a chip edge in relation to the first input/output circuit, the second input/output circuit being connected to a second pad; and an ESD protective circuit disposed near the outer-side chip edge of the first and second input/output circuits. The ESD protection circuit is provided with a resistor, a capacitor, an inverter, and an N-channel-type transistor.

Semiconductor device

In an image forming operation of transferring one developer image to a recording material, when a plurality of image forming portions include a non-image forming portion that is an image forming portion which does not form a developer image on an image bearing member, applying means for applying a charging bias to a charging member which comes into contact with and charges the image bearing member applies a second charging bias to the charging member in the non-image forming portion, the second charging bias having a same polarity as a first charging bias for forming a developer image and being a voltage equal to or lower than a discharge start voltage.

In an image forming apparatus which includes a plurality of image forming units each including an image bearing member, a contact charging member, and a developer bearing member for forming toner of normal polarity, and which, in a printing operation, applies a charging bias having a first direction, in a cleaning operation, applies a charging bias having a second direction, and recovers residual toner remaining on the image bearing member which was not used for printing by the developer bearing member, before performing the cleaning operation, when successively performing the printing operation on a plurality of recording materials including a first recording material and a second recording material, which is used for printing following the first recording material, the charging voltage larger in absolute value in the printing operation for the second recording material than in the printing operation for the first recording material is applied.

Image forming apparatus having recovery of toner by developing member, control of charging voltage and charging member cleaning operation

An image forming apparatus includes image forming units each of which includes an image bearing member, a contact charging member, and a developer bearing member of a toner, applies a charging bias in a direction in which the toner moves from the image bearing member to the charging member in an image forming period, and applied a charging bias of an opposite polarity relative to that in the image formation in a cleaning period, and collects the toner by the developer bearing member. In consecutive image formation, a charging bias in the image forming period is applied in a first interval period and which is between first and second image forming periods and a second interval period which is between second and third image forming periods. An absolute value of a charging bias applied in the second interval period is larger than that applied in the first interval period.

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