Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha

Pharmalogicals Research Pte. Ltd.

Ciea International Inc.

Miho Watanabe

Chikara Manabe

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Kazunori Anazawa

Taishi Shigematsu

Makoto Furuki

Takashi Matsubara

Masaki Hirakata

Shinji Hasegawa

Kentaro Kishi

Shigeki Ooma

Shinsuke Okada

Takashi Isozaki

Minquan Tian

Yuka Ito

Kazuhiko Hirokawa

Tetsuro Kodera

Naoyuki Egusa

Tomoko Miyahara

Suguru Nakaso

Masayuki Tsuchiya

Masami Suzuki

Masaaki Shimizu

Yu Jau Chen

Kenji Yoshida

Koichi Matsubara

Etsuko Fujii

Juliana Sim

Hisae Yoshizawa

Kazunaga Horiuchi

Kentarou Kishi

Hirokazu Yamada

Tomoco Miyahara

Chicara Manabe

Kishi Kentaro

According to an aspect of the invention, a fixing device includes a laser beam irradiation unit and a conveying unit. The laser beam irradiation unit includes a plurality of laser beam sources and emits a plurality of laser beams to a surface of a recording medium. The conveying unit conveys the recording medium and/or the laser beam irradiation unit so that irradiated regions irradiated with the laser beams are moved in a given direction. When the plurality of laser beams is emitted to a toner image to fix the toner image, the plurality of laser beams satisfies conditions (A) and (B). The condition (A) is that the plurality of laser beams has substantially the same beam power and substantially the same width. The condition (B) is that the plurality of laser beams is independently emitted to the toner image.

Fixing device, image forming apparatus, and toner image fixing method

According to an aspect of the invention, a laser fixing device includes a laser beam generating device and an airflow generating unit. The laser beam generating device generates laser beams and irradiates a recording medium transported with the laser beams. The airflow generating unit generates airflow flowing between the laser beam generating device and the recording medium. A flow speed of the airflow in a transport direction of the recording medium in an irradiation position of the laser beams is higher than a transport speed of the recording medium.

Laser fixing device and image forming apparatus

According to an aspect of the invention, a fixing device includes a first laser unit and a second laser unit. The first laser unit outputs a first laser beam to irradiate a visible image formed of image forming material on a recording medium with the first laser beam. The second laser unit outputs a second laser beam to irradiate the visible image with the second laser beam after being irradiated with the first laser beam. The first laser beam and the second laser beam is configured to satisfy relations: W&#x3c;Wand t&#x3e;t, Wis an optical output per unit area of the first laser beam, Wis an optical output per unit area of the second laser beam, tis an irradiation time per unit area of the first laser beam, and tis an irradiation time per unit area of the second laser beam.

Fixing device, fixing method, and image forming apparatus for fixing a toner image using a first laser unit and a second laser unit

An image forming material includes a perimidine-substituted squarylium dye that has a structure represented by the following formula (I) and shows diffraction peaks at least at Bragg angles (2&#x3b8;&#xb1;0.2&#xb0;) of 17.7&#xb0;, 19.9&#xb0;, 22.1&#xb0;, 23.2&#xb0; and 24.9&#xb0; in its X-ray powder diffraction spectrum measured by irradiation with X rays generated from a Cu target with a wavelength of 1.5405 angstroms: 

Image forming material

An objective of the present invention is to facilitate the acquisition of antibody-producing cells that are infiltrating virus-infected cells, cancer cells, abnormal cells forming a benign hyperplasia, and the like, and to improve the efficiency of the production of antibodies as well as nucleic acids encoding them from the antibody-producing cells. The present inventors discovered that, when cancer tissues comprising infiltrating lymphocytes are transplanted into highly immunodeficient animals that do not have T cells, B cells, and NK cells and further exhibit a low IFN production ability, the differentiation and proliferation of infiltrating lymphocytes are unexpectedly promoted, and the number of plasma cells that produce antibodies recognizing cancer tissues increases dramatically, plasma cells can be separated easily, and antibodies or nucleic acids encoding them can be easily prepared from the plasma cells.

Methods of generating and using antibody-producing cells

An image forming method includes forming at least one electrostatic charge image on at least one image holding member, developing the at least one electrostatic charge image using a black toner and a color toner to form toner images, transferring toner images to a receiving body, and fixing the toner images by light-irradiation fusing, the black toner being melted in the light-irradiation fusing, the color toner containing an infrared absorber, a light absorptance of the color toner at a peak wavelength of the light irradiated in the light-irradiation fusing being from about 79% to about 98% of a light absorptance of the black toner at the peak wavelength, and the color difference &#x394;E of the color toner due to the presence or absence of the infrared absorber is in a specific range.

Image forming method, image forming device, and light-irradiation-fusible toner set

A laser fixing apparatus includes: a laser light generator that generates laser light to be projected onto a recording medium. A first condenser reflects and condenses the light generated by reflection of the laser light at an irradiation position of the recording medium, such that the reflected and condensed light is re-projected at the irradiation position and/or near the irradiation position.

Laser fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus

A laser fixing apparatus includes a laser light generator that generates laser light to be projected onto a recording medium; and a first condenser that reflects and condenses light reflected at an irradiation position of the laser light, such that the reflected light reenters at the irradiation position or near the irradiation position. The first condenser has a concave cylindrical surface and is arranged such that a center axis position of the cylindrical surface is located at the irradiation position of the laser light or near the irradiation position, and a reflecting surface of the first condenser is covered by a light transmitting body.

Laser fixing apparatus including a condenser for increasing light usage efficiency

An image processing device provided with an acquiring unit and a generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires invisible image data of an invisible image subject to forming on a recording medium with invisible coloring material and acquires source image data of a source image subject to forming on the recording medium with visible coloring material. The generating unit generates corrected-image-data of the source image data corrected according to the absorption wavelength characteristics of the invisible coloring material, such that the color of overlapping regions where both the invisible image and the source image are superimposed when formed on the recording medium approximates to the color of regions corresponding to the overlapping regions in the source image.

Image processing device and image forming device for generating corrected image data for a source image according to absorption wavelength characteristics of invisible coloring material

Provided is a nanotube-polymer composite which can effectively utilize characteristics of a carbon nanotube structure. The composite includes a carbon nanotube structure and a polymer, in which: the carbon nanotube structure has a network structure constructed by mutually cross-linking functional groups bonded to multiple carbon nanotubes through chemical bonding of the functional groups together; and the polymer is filled in the network structure. Also provided is a method of manufacturing a composite which includes the steps of: supplying a base body surface with a solution containing multiple carbon nanotubes to which multiple functional groups are bonded; mutually cross-linking the multiple carbon nanotubes through chemical bonding of the multiple functional groups together to construct a network structure constituting a carbon nanotube structure; impregnating the network structure with a polymer liquid forming a polymer; and combining the carbon nanotube structure and the polymer by curing the polymer liquid.

Composite and method of manufacturing the same

Provided are a carbon nanotube structure more excellent in electric conductivity, thermal conductivity, and mechanical strength, and a method of manufacturing the carbon nanotube structure. A carbon nanotube composite structure is characterized by including: a first carbon nanotube structure in which functional groups bonded to plural carbon nanotubes are chemically bonded and mutually cross-linked to construct a network structure; and a second carbon nanotube structure in which functional groups bonded to plural carbon nanotubes are chemically bonded and mutually cross-linked to construct a network structure, the second carbon nanotube structure being combined with the network structure of the first carbon nanotube structure.

Carbon nanotube composite structure and method of manufacturing the same

An image-forming material includes a perimidine-based squarylium dye represented by the following Formula (I): 

Image-forming material

A colorant comprising an aggregate of a molecule having a squarylium skeleton and having a maximum absorption wavelength at about 500 nm to about 600 nm in a molecular dispersion state.

Colorant and toner

A fixing device includes: a fixing unit that irradiates light to a color material transferred to a medium at a position specified by image data, to fix the color material on the medium; and a control unit that controls irradiation of light of the fixing unit so that an energy of light irradiated to an image-forming area on the medium including an area in which the color material has been transferred at the position specified by the image data is lower than an energy of light irradiated to a non image-forming area on the medium other than the image-forming area.

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Nakai-machi, Japan

Miho Watanabe