Tdk Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Kabushiki Kaisha Ace Denken

Noriyuki Ito

Koichi Terunuma

Katsuya Kanakubo

Kosuke Tanaka

Kenichi Ogawa

Tetsuro Sasaki

Tetsuya Mino

Rikuo Kawakami

Masafumi Maeda

Yusuke Nakashima

Yasuhiro Hasegawa

Hiroaki Kawashima

Kenichi Tagami

Hitoshi Iwasaki

Koji Shimazawa

Hideaki Fukuzawa

Junichi Sato

Takatoshi Takemoto

Yuzo Kamiguchi

Satoshi Nishida

Masato Yoshida

Akira Kubo

Naoyuki Inoue

Yoshiaki Tanaka

Isamu Takeda

Mikio Matsuzaki

Eiji Uekawa

Hisashi Nakahara

Takahiro Uchiyama

Masahito Omata

Taro Oike

Yuzuru Iwai

Yasuhiro Nakata

Soji Koide

Yusuke Nakazono

Shingo Miyata

Niro Watanabe

Ken-ichi Takano

Satoshi Gocho

Hitoshi Kurihara

Daisuke Miyagawa

Atsushi Kijima

Hirotaka Gomi

Naoaki Shindo

Goichi Kitadai

Satoshi Tsukiyama

Mitsuharu Isobe

Fumihiro Hiromatsu

Hiroshi Fumoto

Hiroaki Funada

Takeshi Yamana

Makoto Terasawa

A fixing apparatus includes a first rotary member, a nip forming member, a second rotary member, a heating element, a temperature detection element, a holder configured to hold the temperature detection element, and an urging member configured to urge the holder toward the nip forming member to bring the holder into contact with the nip forming member. The holder includes a base member configured to receive an urging force from the urging member, and a head member to which the temperature detection element is attached, the head member being configured to be in contact with the base member and tiltable with respect to the base member. The head member is configured to be urged toward the nip forming member by the urging force and to tilt following a portion of the nip forming member opposing the head member.

Temperature detection apparatus having a base member that moves in a thickness direction of a heater, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A fixing apparatus includes a heater including a heating member, a heater holder configured to hold the heater, a detection element configured to detect a temperature of the heater and disposed at a position that faces the heater in a third direction, a first holding member configured to hold the detection element, an urging member configured to urge the first holding member, a flexible member extending in the first direction and configured to support the first holding member on a first end portion of the flexible member in the first direction, and a second holding member configured to hold a second end portion of the flexible member in the first direction. The flexible member is flexible such that the first holding member and the second holding member are movable relative to each other in the third direction.

Temperature detection device, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus

An electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell capable of improving the cycle characteristics. The electrode includes a collector and an active material layer formed on a surface of the collector and containing an active material, a binder, and a graphite material. The active material comprises SiOparticles whose surfaces are bonded with an organic material having one or more functional groups selected from the group consisting of a phenylamino group, an imidazole group and an amino group. The binder is composed of a water-soluble polymer made of acrylic acid or a salt thereof.

Electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell

In an image forming apparatus, the overall length of a heat generating resistor is set longer than the width of a recording paper, which is the greatest of widths of standard size recording papers that can be used on the image forming apparatus. An electrical resistance of an edge area of the heat generating resistor per unit length is set smaller than that of a center area of the heat generating resistor. The position of a boundary between the center area and the edge area is set so that the position of the side edge of the recording paper whose width is the greatest exists within the edge area and so that if the recording paper having the second greatest width is fed by a one edge-aligned paper feeding method, the position of the side edge of a recording paper whose width is the greatest of the widths of the standard size recording papers that can be used on the image forming apparatus except the width of the recording paper that is the greatest thereof is set at a position within the center area.

Image forming apparatus

A thin film magnetic head has a plurality of electrode terminals formed on substantially the same surface as the head formation surface on which magnetic head element is laminated. The plurality of electrode terminals is arranged in an array near and along the second side of the head formation surface that is opposite the first side on the ABS side, from which the functional end of the magnetic head is exposed. The plurality of electrode terminals is formed to include a pad and a protrusion formed along a part of the periphery of the pad.

Thin film magnetic head and magnetic disk device and electronic component

The image forming apparatus has a heat member for heating an unfixed image and is configured so that a longitudinal center of the heat member becomes a conveyance center of the recording material, the image forming apparatus including a central portion temperature detection part adjacent to the conveyance center, an end portion temperature detection part for detecting an end portion temperature of the heat member, and a width detection part for detecting a lateral width of the recording material, wherein the width detection part is disposed at a side opposite to a side at which the end portion temperature detection part is disposed with respect to the conveyance center position of the recording material. A control part controls a power supply or conveyance interval of the heat member in accordance with the presence/absence sensor, top sensor, width sensor, central portion temperature sensor, and end portion temperature sensor.

Image forming apparatus with a presence or absense sensor

A method for forming a pattern film with a narrower width than the resolution of an exposure machine and a resist used independently of etching is provided. The method comprises the steps of: forming a first frame layer having end surfaces facing each other across a space having a width W; forming a second frame layer having end surfaces facing each other across a space having a width Wthat is larger than the width W, the space having the width Wbeing located right above the space having the width W; forming a trench-forming film provided with a trench having a minimum width Wthat is smaller than the width Wso as to fill at least a part of the spaces having the width Wand the width Wrespectively; and forming a pattern film so as to fill at least a part of the trench.

Method for forming a pattern film with a narrower width

An image forming apparatus has a heat member configured so that a longitudinal center becomes a conveyance center of the recording material, the apparatus also having a central portion temperature detection part for detecting a temperature of the heat member corresponding to the conveyance center or adjacent thereto, a one side end portion temperature detection part for detecting one end portion temperature at one side in a longitudinal direction of the heat member, and an other side end portion temperature detection part for detecting an other end portion temperature on the other side in the longitudinal direction of the heat member, and a control part for controlling the image forming apparatus based on heat member temperature information detected by the central portion temperature detection part, the one side end portion temperature detection part, and the other side end portion temperature detection part.

The image forming apparatus has a heat member for heating an unfixed image and is configured so that a longitudinal center of the heat member becomes a conveyance center of the recording material, the image forming apparatus including a central portion temperature detection part adjacent to the conveyance center, an end portion temperature detection part for detecting an end portion temperature of the heat member, and a width detection part for detecting a lateral width of the recording material, wherein the width detection part is disposed at a side opposite to a side at which the end portion temperature detection part is disposed with respect to the conveyance center position of the recording material. The image forming apparatus achieves the control for error setting of the recording material based on the width detection part and the end portion temperature detection part.

Image heating apparatus capable of preventing an excessive temperature increase in a sheet non-passing area and heater for use in the image heating apparatus including: a substrate, a heat generating resistor formed on the substrate, and first and second electrodes for supplying an electric power to the heat generating resistor. Each of the first and second electrodes has a first area to contact a power supplying connector and a second area provided at an end portion electrically opposite to the first area along a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and the heat generating resistor is provided to electrically connect the second area of the first and second electrode so that when the heater is at a set temperature for an image heating operation a resistance value Rc of the second area, and a resistance value Rt between a portion within the second area of the first and second electrode and electrically closest to the first area satisfy a relation Rc/Rt&#x3c;=1/30.

Image heating apparatus and heater for use therein

A first and a second longitudinal bias-applying films are formed via a first mask at both sides of a magnetoresistive effective element film so that the difference in surface level between the magnetoresistive effective element film and the first and the second longitudinal bias-applying films is set within &#xb1;20 nm. Then, a first and a second electrode films are formed so as to cover edge portions of the magnetoresistive effective element film and the first and the second longitudinal bias-applying films.

Method for fabricating thin film magnetic head

A first magnetic film is formed in a primary pattern which is larger than its definitive pattern and of which edges are located within frames to be used in a frame-plating method for the second magnetic film after forming the first pole portion and the gap film. Then, the second magnetic film is formed by the frame-plating method, and the first magnetic film is etched into the definitive pattern through the second magnetic film as a mask.

Method for manufacturing a thin film magnetic head

According to the present invention, there is provided a laminated composite including an optical layer having a light reflectivity, and a latent image formation layer containing a liquid crystalline polymer material and provided on one of major surfaces of the optical layer, wherein the latent image formation layer includes at least one oriented portion in an orientation state and at least one non-oriented portion in a non-orientation state, and the oriented and non-oriented portions constitute a latent image which is unrecognizable by a direct visual observation and recognizable by a visual observation through a polarizing member. Also, according to the present invention, there is provided an information recording medium and a member of imparting a forgery-preventing characteristic including such a latent image formation layer.

Laminated composite, information recording medium, and member of imparting forgery-preventing characteristic

A read head comprises an MR element, two bias field applying layers, and two conductive layers. The two bias field applying layers are adjacent to both side portions of the MR element, and apply a bias magnetic field to the MR element along the longitudinal direction. The two conductive layers feed a sense current to the MR element, each of the conductive layers being disposed to be adjacent to one of surfaces of each of the bias field applying layers and to overlap one of surfaces of the MR element. The conductive layers are each made of a gold alloy having a resistivity of less than 22 &#x3bc;&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm and a hardness as high as or higher than the hardness of a material used for making the bias field applying layers.

Thin-film magnetic head and method of manufacturing same, head gimbal assembly, and hard disk drive

A first and a second longitudinal bias-applying films are formed via a first mask at both sides of a magnetoresistive effective element film so that the difference in surface level between the magnetoresistive effective element film and the first and the second longitudinal bias-applying films is set within &plusmn;20 nm. Then, a first and a second electrode films are formed so as to cover edge portions of the magnetoresistive effective element film and the first and the second longitudinal bias-applying films.

Thin film magnetic head and method for fabricating the same

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Noriyuki Ito