Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Renesas Technology Corp.

Kuraray Noritake Dental Inc.

Nippon Hoso' Kyokai

Naofumi Murata

Yutaka Arai

Shoichiro Ikegami

Sho Taguchi

Masashi Tanaka

Jun Miura

Tatsuya Kinukawa

Masahiro Suzuki

Yutaka Sato

Hiroshi Kawashima

Satoshi Yamaguchi

Tomoo Akizuki

Katsuhisa Matsunaka

Yoshihisa Ito

Hikaru Osada

Hidekazu Yamamoto

Yusuke Nakazono

Tomohiro Tanaka

Masao Yamawaki

Tohru Koyama

Yoshihisa Yamada

Masatoshi Taya

Kazuhisa Taketoshi

Naoki Nishigaki

Takio Ohno

Fumihiko Andoh

Ai Hinamoto

Katsuya Shiga

Katsu Tanaka

A dental treatment assistance device includes a display, an input part into which input information on at least one of a use purpose and a use product is input, a memory that stores product information and process procedure information for a purpose of each product, a product information acquiring part that acquires the product information and the process procedure information corresponding to the input information input from the input part; and a display image control part that displays a predetermined process procedure selected from the process procedure information on the display.

Dental treatment assistance device, dental treatment assistance system, dental treatment assistance method, dental treatment assistance program, and dental product sales promotion device

A fixing apparatus is used that has: a first rotation member; an elongated heater disposed in an internal space of the first rotation member, and having a heat generating member and a substrate on which the heat generating member is provided; a temperature sensing unit that detects a temperature of the heater; a heater holder that holds the heater; a second rotation member that forms a nip portion with the heater, across the first rotation member; a reservoir unit that stores grease that is supplied between the first rotation member and the heater; and an elastic member that encloses the temperature sensing unit, such that a toner image formed on a recording material is heated and fixed at the nip portion.

Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus is provided, which includes an image forming unit that forms a toner image on a recording material, a fixing unit that heats the recording material and fixes the toner image onto the recording material, and a heating-temperature control unit that controls a temperature of the fixing unit, and which performs an image forming operation of forming the toner image and fixing the toner image onto the recording material. In a case of performing the image forming operation a plurality of times, the heating-temperature control unit performs control such that the temperature of the fixing unit is a first temperature when performing the image forming operation a first number of times and that the temperature of the fixing unit is a second temperature when performing the image forming operation a second number of times.

Image forming apparatus

A workpiece unit containing a workpiece body is provided. A method for producing the workpiece unit is also provided. The workpiece body contains a plurality of sections. The sections divide the processing surface of the workpiece body. The size of each section of the workpiece body can be adjusted or selected according to the demand so that it is possible to increase utilization efficiency of the workpiece body.

Workpiece unit and method for producing same

A fixing apparatus includes a thermal conductive member that is in contact with a heater and has a thermal conductivity higher than the thermal conductivity of a base material of the heater, and a thermal-resistant member that is disposed between the thermal conductive member and a support member configured to support the heater, a thermal resistance in a thickness direction of the thermal-resistant member being higher than the thermal resistance in the thickness direction of the thermal conductive member.

Fixing apparatus providing a fixing apparatus capable of suppressing a temperature rise in a non-sheet-passing portion without degrading first print out time

A pressure roller, and the pressure roller to be used in a fixing apparatus of in an image forming apparatus, the fixing apparatus configured to heat a toner image formed on a recording material and fix the toner image on the recording material, the pressure roller including a first elastic layer, and a second elastic layer provided on an outside of the first elastic layer, wherein a thermal conductivity of the first elastic layer is higher than a thermal conductivity of the second elastic layer, and wherein the first elastic layer contains a plurality of void portions, hole pathway portions joining the plurality of void portions to each other, and a needle-shaped high thermal conductive filler.

Pressure roller for fixing apparatus, fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus

Provided is a pressure roller for an image heating device that forms a nip part together with a heating member, the pressure roller including at least a mandrel, a first elastic layer, and a second elastic layer provided between the mandrel and the first elastic layer, wherein the first elastic layer has open-cell voids, is made of rubber, and has a thickness of at least 50 &#x3bc;m and less than 500 &#x3bc;m, and the second elastic layer is made of solid rubber.

Pressure roller, image heating device, and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion that forms an image on a recording material, and a fixing portion including a cylindrical heat transfer member, and a heating member contacting an inner surface of the heat transfer member. The fixing portion fixes the image on the recording material by heating the recording material, on which the image has been formed, by heat from the heating member through the heat transfer member. A control unit controls a target temperature of the heating member, and analyzes whether or not a plurality of pixels, of image data corresponding to the image to be formed on the recording material, in each interval corresponding to a circumferential length of the heat transfer member, with respect to a recording material feeding direction, are pixels for forming an image with a predetermined density or more, and sets the target temperature depending on an analyzation result.

Image forming apparatus that controls a target temperature of a heating member based on whether pixels for forming an image are a predetermined density or more

A roller usable in an image fixing device for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a first elastic layer; a second elastic layer provided closer to a center of the roller than the first elastic layer, the second elastic layer having a thermal conductivity in a thickness direction higher than that of the first elastic layer; a third elastic layer provided between the first elastic layer and the second elastic layer, wherein an indentation elastic modulus EITof the first elastic layer, an indentation elastic modulus EITof the second elastic layer, and an indentation elastic modulus of the third elastic layer satisfy E&#x3c;E&#x3c;E.

Roller with elastic layers having different indentation elastic moduli, and fixing device having roller

The roller for use in a fixing device, includes a metal core, a first elastic layer formed on an outer side of the metal core, the first elastic layer having voids, and a second elastic layer formed on an outer side of the first elastic layer, the second elastic layer having a microhardness higher than a microhardness of the first elastic layer, in which an outer diameter of an end portion of the roller is larger than an outer diameter of a middle portion of the roller in a longitudinal direction of the roller, and in which the microhardness of the second elastic layer is 25 degrees or more and 50 degrees or less.

Roller and fixing device

The present invention provides a one-part dental adhesive composition that exhibits excellent adhesive property and bond durability to a tooth structure (particularly dentin) and has high stability to ambient light, in which respective components have been mixed uniformly. The present invention is a one-part dental adhesive composition including a polymerizable monomer (A) having an acidic group, a polymerizable monomer (B) having a fluorocarbon group represented by the general formula (1), water (C), and a polymerization initiator (D). A content of the polymerizable monomer (A) having an acidic group is 5.5 to 35 parts by weight in 100 parts by weight of the total amount of polymerizable monomers. (In the formula, Rdenotes a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and Rf denotes a fluoroalkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.) 

One-part dental adhesive composition

An image forming apparatus includes a first image bearing member (drum); a second drum; a belt; a first transfer unit; a second transfer unit; a first voltage applying unit; a second voltage applying unit; a detecting unit, connected to the first transfer unit, for detecting a value of a current passing through the first voltage applying unit; and a controller for controlling the first voltage applying unit and the second voltage applying unit. The controller controls the first voltage applying unit during image formation on the basis of a detection result of the value of the current detected by the detecting unit at timing before and after the voltage applied to the second voltage applying unit is changed plural times before the image formation.

Image forming apparatus controlling voltage applied to toner transfer units

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a first interlayer insulation film on a semiconductor substrate, depositing a first metal film on the first interlayer insulation film, depositing an antireflection film including a dielectric layer on an upper surface of the first metal film, patterning the first metal film and the antireflection film to form a lower electrode having the antireflection film on an upper surface thereof, forming a second interlayer insulation film on the antireflection film, forming first and second openings in a first region and in a second region in the second interlayer insulation film, respectively, removing a portion of the antireflection film where the second opening is formed, depositing a second metal film on the second interlayer insulation film, and removing the second metal film except in the first and second openings to form an upper electrode in the first opening, and a contact in the second opening.

Method of manufacturing semiconductor device having MIM capacitor element

Trenches for defining chip areas are formed on the surface of a semiconductor substrate so that outlines of side walls of each of the trenches have recesses or protrusions. Then, a sputtering film is so formed as to be continuous in an area bridging the surface of each of the chip areas and the inside surface of each of the trenches, and the semiconductor substrate is diced along lines outside the trenches.

Semiconductor device having improved trench structure

A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and a method of forming a capacitor allow the formation of a high-performance capacitor without increasing the number of process steps. A silicide protection film ( ) is formed to cover a lower electrode ( ) of a capacitor. The silicide protection film ( ) is formed during the process step of forming another silicide protection film ( ). An upper electrode ( ) of the capacitor is formed of metal film and opposed to the lower electrode ( ) with the silicide protection film ( ) sandwiched in between. A portion of the silicide protection film ( ) which is sandwiched between the upper electrode ( ) and the lower electrode ( ) serves as a capacitor dielectric film.

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Tokyo, Japan

Naofumi Murata