Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Tohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd.

Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Kel Corporation

Other

Sony Corporation

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

Canon Anelva Corporation

International Superconductivity Technology Center

Chugai Ro Co., Ltd.

Seimi Chemical Co., Ltd.

Sanki Engineering Co., Ltd.

Mitsuo Suzuki

Yukio Itami

Seizo Suzuki

Satoru Itoh

Yoshio Hashimoto

Naoki Miyatake

Yoshihiro Takahashi

Taku Amada

Kazuyuki Shimada

Akihiro Yano

Yusaku Hata

Masakuni Taguchi

Haruyuki Suzuki

Shigeaki Imai

Akihisa Itabashi

Tomoyuki Kobayashi

Syuichi Oka

Satoshi Nakazato

Takao Abe

Mitsutaka Uzumaki

Aizo Yamauchi

Tetsuro Suehiro

Koji Tsukahara

Hiroshi Yamashita

Tomohiro Nakajima

Kohji Sakai

Atsufumi Omori

Satoshi Tsuchiya

Yusuke Kimura

Hiroyuki Suhara

Yuh Shiohara

Masashi Yagi

Masaki Satoh

Shinichi Mukoyama

Masaru Deguchi

Masahiko Katoh

Eiji Yamada

Shoei Fujishige

Kazushi Matsuura

Tetsuya Saito

Eiri Sagae

Masashi Uchino

Hirao Hirata

Hidetaka Ito

Yasuhiro Kawano

Akinori Tsuruda

Masahiko Takashio

Kazuo Wada

Hisao Ichijo

Hiroki Tajima

Toshio Ito

Hisaaki Kawaguchi

Shigeo Ogawa

Yoshitaka Takeda

Kenji Kohya

Tsuyoshi Fukui

Toshita Chihara

Katsunori Horachi

Kensuke Kawabata

Tadao Asami

Akihiko Iwama

Yoshihiro Ozawa

Katsunori Shinoda

Hajime Kato

Kiyoshi Ehara

Teruo Ohne

Kenichi Hoshi

Mutsumi Yamamoto

Kyousuke Ono

Shunsuke Yamamoto

Akira Takase

Yoichi Shiraki

Takeshi Oohashi

Masao Anzai

Provide is an annealing furnace, a method of constructing the annealing furnace, and a structure for prefabrication which make it possible to use a prefabricated construction method for the annealing furnace even in a long length. The annealing furnace includes a case, and plural rows of rolls at the top and the bottom of the inside of the case, the rolls being configured to convey a steel strip. The annealing furnace includes: horizontally parting faces where a body of the furnace can be horizontally divided, wherein each of horizontally parted sections parted by the horizontally parting faces further has vertically parting faces where the horizontally parted sections can be divided in a direction vertical to a longitudinal direction of the body.

Annealing furnace, method of constructing annealing furnace, and structure for prefabrication

Provided is a method of installing a heat insulating block on a furnace shell which enables a heat insulating block to be firmly fixed to a furnace wall but does not require much time and costs for making the heat insulating block, and which further offers good workability at a site. The method of installing a heat insulating block on a furnace shell includes: inserting a beam of a fixture into a fold of an inorganic fiber aggregate mat that is folded up to form a heat insulating block; and fixing the fixture and a furnace shell to each other.

Method of installing heat insulating block on furnace shell, method of manufacturing heat insulating wall, heat insulating wall, industrial furnace, and set for installing heat insulating block

Provided is a roller shaft insulation member for reducing the heat which is conducted to the bearings by passing through the space between the roller insertion hole of a continuous annealing furnace and the roller, wherein the roller shaft insulation member of the continuous annealing furnace comprises an inorganic fiber blanket, which contacts or is near the outer circumferential surface of the roller and in which the content of 45 &#x3bc;m or larger shot is 3% or less. A continuous annealing furnace provided with said roller shaft insulation member is also provided.

Roller shaft portion thermal insulation member for continuous annealing furnace and continuous annealing furnace

A heat-insulating protective member for skid posts contains a needled blanket of inorganic fibers. At least some of the needled blanket has, disposed therein, an impregnation part where an oxide-precursor-containing liquid is adherent in an undried state. The impregnation part has a water content of 50-400 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the inorganic fibers of the impregnation part. The water content of the heat-insulating protective member is 50-400 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the inorganic fibers of the heat-insulating protective member. The oxide-precursor-containing liquid contains ingredients that, upon burning, yield a composition containing AlOand CaO. The oxide-precursor-containing liquid is adherent in an amount of 2-50 parts by mass in terms of oxide amount per 100 parts by mass of the inorganic fibers of the impregnation part. A molar ratio of Al/Ca, in the whole impregnation part is 10-330.

Heat-insulating protective member for skid post and method for applying the heat-insulating protective member for skid post

Provided is a burner tile that has good fire resistance, good heat resistance, good erosion resistance, and good thermal shock resistance. A burner tileE includes a molded inorganic fiber product and has a burner main holeE. The burner tileE includes an inner layerincluding a combination of inorganic fiber rodsandsuch that the inner layerdefines an inner circumferential surface of the main holeE, and an outer layerformed by surrounding an outer circumferential surface of the inner layerwith the molded inorganic fiber product. Part of the burner tileE extending along the inner circumferential surface of the main holeE has a high bulk density achieved by highly concentrating an inorganic binder in the inorganic fiber in part including the inner circumferential surface.

Burner tile, burner, and furnace

A substrate processing method comprises: an execution step of executing the first processing for the plurality of substrates, and executing the second processing for the substrates having undergone the first processing; a recovery step of recovering the plurality of substrates having undergone the first processing and the second processing to the retraction chamber; a conditioning step of, after completion of the first processing for the last substrate among the plurality of substrates, loading a dummy substrate into the first processing chamber, executing the third processing for the dummy substrate, and unloading the dummy substrate from the first processing chamber; and a second execution step of, after the dummy substrate is unloaded from the first processing chamber in the conditioning step, loading the substrates recovered in the recovery step into the first processing chamber, and executing the third processing for the substrates loaded into the first processing chamber.

Substrate processing method and substrate processing apparatus

An optical scanning device includes: a light source that emits a laser beam modulated and driven according to an image forming signal; a scanning optical system that includes a polygon mirror to scan a surface of a photoconductor with the laser beam from the light source; a surface identifying unit that associates a sub-scanning position by the polygon mirror with each surface of the polygon mirror; and a light-amount adjusting unit that adjusts a light amount of the light source according to the sub-scanning position, for each surface of the polygon mirror.

Optical scanning device, method of adjusting optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus

A light scanning device includes a semiconductor laser which emits a laser beam in response to an image forming signal, an optical deflector which scans the laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser in a main scanning direction, and a liquid crystal deflecting element which changes the scanning position of the laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser while desynchronized with output of the image forming signal, thereby to correct the scanning position of the laser beam in a sub-scanning direction.

Light scanning device, light scanning device production method, and color image forming apparatus

A disclosed optical scanning device includes a light source unit configured to emit a laser beam; an oscillating mirror configured to deflect the laser beam from the light source unit; a scanning/imaging optical system configured to focus the deflected laser beam on a target surface; and plural light-receiving elements configured to receive the laser beam in a scanning area of the laser beam, the position of the oscillating mirror being adjusted such that time intervals between output pulses in output signals of the respective light-receiving elements become substantially the same between the light-receiving elements and/or widths of the output pulses become substantially the same between the light-receiving elements.

Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an optical scanning unit, a measurement unit, a first adjustment unit and a second adjustment unit. The optical scanning unit includes a plurality of light sources to emit laser beams, a single oscillating mirror deflector to deflect the laser beams used for scan processing in a main scanning direction, and a scan-focusing member to focus the deflected laser beams onto a plurality of photoconductors. The measurement unit measures a resonance frequency of the oscillating mirror deflector. The first adjustment unit adjusts a speed of the photoconductors in a sub-scanning direction. The second adjustment unit adjusts a magnification ratio of image data in the sub-scanning direction. The first adjustment unit and the second adjustment unit adjust the image magnification ratio of image data in the sub-scanning direction depending on the resonance frequency as measured by the measurement unit.

Image forming apparatus

It is intended to provide a novel oligopeptide which can be relatively easily produced, has not only a hair growth-stimulating effect but also an effect of promoting the growth of epithelial cells (for example, skin regeneration) and can easily pass through the horny layer to thereby reach the desired target cells in which its effects are to be exerted. Namely, water-soluble oligopeptides containing a proryl isoleucyl glycyl unit or an isoleucyl glycyl serine unit and having from 3 to 7 amino acids and water-soluble salts thereof.

Epithelial cell growth promoter

A current terminal structure of a superconductor has a former, and a superconducting wire wound around the former in one or more layers and including a substrate and a superconducting layer formed on the substrate. A first layer superconducting wire wound around immediately above the former is arranged so that a substrate side thereof becomes outside and a superconducting layer side thereof becomes inside. A surface of the superconducting layer at an end of the first layer superconducting wire, which is directed toward the inside, and part of a surface of the superconducting layer of a connection superconducting wire, which is directed toward the outside, are faced and connected to each other.

Current terminal structure of superconducting wire and superconducting cable having the current terminal structure

An optical scanner is disclosed that has an optical source unit that emits a laser beam; a vibration mirror by which the laser beam from the optical source unit is deflected to scan; a driving circuit that vibrates the vibration mirror based on a driving signal generated from a reference clock; a light-receiving element that receives the laser beam within the scanning area of the laser beam; and a controlling unit that corrects the driving signal so as to make a phase deviation between the reference phase clock and the output signal of the light-receiving element constant.

Optical scanner and color image forming apparatus

An optical scanning device deflects a light beam emitted from a light source device by a vibrating mirror, scans a scanning surface with deflected light beam, and focuses the light beam onto the scanning surface by a scanning imaging optical system. The optical scanning device includes an offset detecting unit that detects an offset that is a deviation between a center of vibration amplitude of the vibrating mirror and a center of an optical scanning area and an adjusting unit that adjusts the center of the vibration amplitude when the offset detected by the offset detecting unit is larger than a predetermined value.

Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus with a center adjusting mechanism

An optical scanning device includes a deflecting unit that deflects a laser beam from a light source in a main-scanning direction; a scanning imaging unit that focuses the laser beam deflected by the deflecting unit on a scanning surface and scans the scanning surface with focused laser beam; and a light receiving unit that detects optical intensity of the laser beam and a synchronous timing in the main-scanning direction and that includes a plurality of photodetecting elements arranged on a substrate in the main-scanning direction.

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Tokyo, Japan

Mitsuo Suzuki