Hoya Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Hitachi, Ltd.

Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.

Prospira Corporation

Eneos Materials Corporation

Nihonkansen Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Bridgestone Corporation

Jsr Corporation

Astellas Pharma Gmbh

Kayaba Industry Company, Ltd.

Wd Media (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Casting Media Inc.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Masato Kobayashi

Osamu Nozawa

Takashi Sato

Yasuyuki Suzuki

Masato Suzuki

Hiroyuki Ozawa

Hideaki Suzuki

Nobuyuki Satoh

Kenji Tsuchiya

Mamoru Yorimoto

Ayumu Morita

Daisaku Horikawa

Yuichi Sakurada

Suguru Yokozawa

Teiichiro Umezawa

Tatsuhiko Okada

Junichi Horikawa

Masazumi Kamohara

Hiroshi Tomiyasu

Yoichi Yamaguchi

Katsuya Nose

Junichi Katagiri

Hiroyuki Shirai

Tomoaki Utsumi

Jun Takasaki

Hisao Kawai

Hiroyuki Nagasawa

Yasuhiro Kitamura

Keiichi Takahashi

Yoshiaki Sonobe

Kazushi Takei

Shigeru Kikuchi

Makoto Yano

Satoshi Iwanami

Hideo Nakanishi

Shuichi Kikukawa

Kentarou Kanae

Wataru Kato

Norikazu Taki

Daisuke Sawada

Miki Yamazaki

Daisuke Sugai

Keiji Moroishi

Tadashi Onishi

Mitsuyuki Matsumoto

Tetsu Saito

Takashi Shirone

Takashi Morikawa

Masahiro Shigemoto

Jun-ichi Horikawa

Toru Sugimoto

Genshichi Hata

Tsuyoshi Watanabe

Minoru Sugawara

Kei Yasui

Kazuhide Yamashiro

Kenichirou Iwasaki

Kazumi Kobayashi

Masashi Suzuki

Satoshi Yokota

Yukiko Abe

Yasuro Suzuki

Yuki Sato

Yuki Amano

Yohichi Yamaguchi

Ryoichi Nakashima

Shinichi Ishibashi

Osamu Kose

Takeshi Tomiuga

Nobuyuki Toyoda

Yoh-Ichi Yamaguchi

Ryoji Usui

Takafumi Hosono

Daigo Hotomi

Fumiki Hanafuji

Takahiko Sawada

Kunihiko Tomiyasu

Kodai Ozaki

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, an image forming portion, a transfer portion, a cleaning blade, and a controller configured to carry out control so as to execute a predetermined cleaning operation At least in a predetermined range of a leading end portion of the predetermined toner image with respect to a first direction which is a surface movement direction of the image bearing member, when the predetermined toner image is viewed per unit area of 1 mm in each of the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the predetermined toner image includes a plurality of print portions extending along a predetermined direction and formed at different positions with respect to the second direction, and the predetermined direction forms an angle of 30° or less between itself and the first direction.

Image forming apparatus

The present invention is related to an inspection apparatus reads a printed material; sets a setting relating to check inspection data for checking data formed on a printed material; derives data defined by a predetermined rule according to setting content set in the setting and generating check inspection data for a plurality of sections in a printed material; and detects a defect in an inspection target printed material by comparing data read in the reading from the inspection target printed material and the corresponding check inspection data generated in the generating.

Inspection apparatus, method for controlling same, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, an image bearing member, a transfer member, a voltage applying portion, a detecting portion, and a controller capable of executing an operation in an adjustment mode in which a chart on which a plurality of test images are transferred by stepwise changing a test voltage applied to the transfer member by the applying portion is formed on a recording material and then a transfer voltage applied to the transfer member by the voltage applying portion during transfer of the toner image is adjusted. The controller is capable of changing a change width per level of the test voltage applied during formation of the chart[[,]] on the basis of a detection result of the detecting portion when the voltage is applied to the transfer member when the recording material on which the chart is formed is in the transfer portion.

Image forming apparatus operable in mode for forming test chart using plural test voltages

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a transfer member, a cleaning blade, a driving portion, and a controller. The controller is capable of executing, at a time of an end of a job, a plurality of operations including a first reverse rotating operation, a first normal rotating operation executed subsequently to the first reverse rotating operation, a second reverse rotating operation executed after the first normal rotating operation, and a second normal rotating operation executed subsequently to the second reverse rotating operation. The controller controls the driving portion so that a movement amount of the image bearing member in the second normal rotating operation is smaller than a movement amount of the image bearing member in the second reverse rotating operation.

Provided is a bracket that has excellent durability while curbing an increase in weight. A bracket (A) that has an opening (A) is made of a resin and is a tubular bracket, which has a pair of column portions () and a pair of bridging portions (), in which the opening (A) is defined by the column portions () and the bridging portions (). A plate portion () is included in at least one of the column portions (), and in one of the bridging portions (), a width (W) of a bracket outer circumferential side outer surface () of the bridging portion () in an opening penetrating direction is maximum at an extending direction end () of the bridging portion () in a view in an extending direction of the column portions ().

Bracket

Provided is a thermoplastic elastomer composition obtained by melt-kneading (A) an ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin/non-conjugated polyene copolymer rubber that is a copolymer of ethylene, an &#x3b1;-olefin having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and a non-conjugated polyene, (B) a polyolefin resin and (C) a mineral oil-based softening agent in the presence of (D) a crosslinking agent, at least part of the ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin/non-conjugated polyene copolymer rubber (A) being crosslinked, the thermoplastic elastomer composition having a sea-island structure in which the ethylene/&#x3b1;-olefin/non-conjugated polyene copolymer rubber (A) is dispersed as a dispersed phase (island phase) in a continuous phase (sea phase) of the polyolefin resin (B), and when a cross-section of the composition is observed with an atomic force microscope (AFM), a ratio of (b) a local elastic modulus of the continuous phase to (a) a local elastic modulus of the dispersed phase being from 10 to 30.

Thermoplastic elastomer composition

An image forming apparatus that includes an image bearing member which can bear a toner image, a transfer member used to transfer a toner image onto a recording material from the image bearing member, and a reading device which reads density information of images on recording material disposed on a platen. The image forming apparatus forms a first chart on a first recording material and a second chart on a second recording material by sequentially transferring a plurality of test images while applying a plurality of test voltages to the transfer member. The two charts are read by the reading device and the transfer voltage is adjusted based on the reading result.

Image forming apparatus that can enhance usability by reducing the number of times a chart is placed on a reading device

Provided is a thermoplastic elastomer composition for a weather strip material which is used for obtaining a molded product which has excellent adhesiveness to both a thermoplastic elastomer adherend and a crystalline ethylene resin adherend and also has excellent heat resistance at a fused portion. The thermoplastic elastomer composition for a weather strip material according to the disclosure contains: an ethylene-&#x3b1;-olefin copolymer rubber (A); an &#x3b1;-olefin crystalline thermoplastic resin (B) having a melting point of 140&#xb0; C. or higher; an olefin block copolymer (C) obtained by hydrogenating a block copolymer which has a conjugated diene polymer block with a 1,2-vinyl bond content of 25 mol % or less at both ends and also has a conjugated diene polymer block with a 1,2-vinyl bond content of more than 25 mol % in the middle; and a crystalline ethylene resin (D).

Thermoplastic elastomer composition for weather strip material and weather strip

Provided are a bracket for an anti-vibration device, and a method for manufacturing the same, in which increase of weight and peeling of a reinforcing portion are suppressed. A bracket () has: a reinforcing portion () extending in a surrounding direction of the surrounding portion (), having ends () in both directions of the surrounding direction, and being fixed to an outer surface of the portion (); and ribs () formed on an outer circumference of the portion () so as to span the ends () of the reinforcing portion () in the surrounding direction of the portion (). The portion () and the ribs () are made of synthetic resin. A method for manufacturing the bracket () includes a step of injecting synthetic resin serving as the portion () and the ribs () into a mold cavity where a reinforcing member serving as the portion () is set.

Bracket for anti-vibration device and method for manufacturing bracket for anti-vibration device

A anti-vibration device () includes a bracket () made of a synthetic resin and cylindrical metal fittings for fastening (), where the bracket () and the metal fittings for fastening () are integrally formed. A vibration input position (P) is a position that does not coincide with a virtual line (L) passing through central axes (O) of a through holes () of two metal fittings for fastening () in a planar view; the metal fitting for fastening () has a flange portion (); and the flange portionhas a first outermost peripheral edge () and a second outermost peripheral edge (), where a length (L) to the first outermost peripheral edge () is longer than a length (L) to the second outermost peripheral edge () based on the center axis (O) of the through hole ().

Anti-vibration device

An image processing method includes correcting a show-through of a document image, and setting a document type, wherein a correction amount for the document image is changed based on the set document type.

Image reading apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for correcting show-through

An image processing apparatus comprises a reading unit configured to read an image of an original; a correction unit configured to correct, based on variance values acquired for a pixel, the pixel in a region where a show-through has occurred, in the image read by the reading unit; a designation unit configured to designate a chromatic color; and a conversion unit configured to convert a pixel included in an image including the pixel corrected by the correction unit into one of a chromatic color and an achromatic color designated by the designation unit.

Image processing with reduced influence of image show-through by conversion processing into one of an achromatic color and a designated chromatic color

Provided is a pressure pipe connection structure that reduces man-hours for machining one or more pressure pipes and does not require high machining precision. Multiple arc members form a ring shape that makes a circle by matching the end faces thereof to each other. Non-penetrating holes may be provided on the outer circumference of the arc members. The ring formed by the multiple arc members has an inner diameter that is smaller than the outer diameter and larger than the inner diameter of a pressure pipe. A cylindrical sleeve has an inner cylindrical surface inside which the entire outer circumferences of arc members are fitted into a hollow internal space, into which respective one or more pressure pipes are inserted from one or more opposing entrances; and multiple through holes, which penetrate from the outside and are provided with female thread ridges. The one or more pressure pipes are cut to a certain length that is suited to the placement site and a groove is grooves cut in the corresponding pressure pipe. The arc members are fitted into the groove, and the arc members are positioned on an inner cylindrical surface by inserting the one or more pressure pipes into a sleeve, the respective through holes and non-penetrating holes are made to communicate with each other, and the one or more pressure pipes are fixed using bolts.

Pressure pipe connection method and method for constructing pressure pipe with flange

An image processing apparatus includes a first selection unit configured to select an adjustment color, a print control unit configured to cause a printer to print a chart including a patch corresponding to the adjustment color selected and patches corresponding to respective neighboring colors of the adjustment color, a second selection unit configured to select a target color from the colors corresponding to the respective patches on the chart, a generation unit configured to generate a color conversion table to the used for converting a color to be printed by the printer, by using the adjustment color selected and the target color selected, and a determination unit configured to determine an arrangement of the patches to be included in the chart to be printed by the printer, based on a color value of the adjustment color selected.

Color patch generation for visual selection in the color adjustment of a color print apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes a first adjustment unit for adjusting a color conversion table, used for converting a color to be printed by a printer, by adjusting a selected adjustment color using the selected adjustment color and a target color, a storage unit for storing, in a storage apparatus, a first color conversion table generated by causing the first adjustment unit to adjust the color conversion table for a first adjustment color and a second color conversion table generated by the first adjustment unit to adjust a second adjustment color different from the first adjustment color after generation of the first color conversion table, a cancellation unit for deleting an adjustment result of the first adjustment color, and a second adjustment unit for adjusting the second color conversion table in response to the deletion of the adjustment result of the first adjustment color.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program therefore

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Masato Kobayashi