Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha

Shizuoka University

Ryota Inoue

Naohiro Watanabe

Yoshihiro Moriya

Masahide Yamada

Shingo Sakashita

Chiaki Tanaka

Shigeru Emoto

Akihiro Kotsugai

Tsunemi Sugiyama

Akiyoshi Sabu

Junichi Awamura

Satoshi Takahashi

Hiroshi Yamashita

Yohichiroh Watanabe

Hiroshi Yamada

Masayuki Ishii

Shinya Nakayama

Daisuke Inoue

Minoru Masuda

Yoshitaka Sekiguchi

Osamu Uchinokura

Toshiki Nanya

Naohito Shimota

Yoshitaka Yamauchi

Tomomi Suzuki

Atsushi Yamamoto

Takuya Seshita

Hidetoshi Kami

Toyoshi Sawada

Satoshi Kojima

Shun Saito

Kazuoki Fuwa

Yasutada Shitara

Yasuo Katano

Tsuyoshi Sugimoto

Yoshihiro Mikuriya

Yoshihiro Norikane

Hiroshi Inoue

Masaki Watanabe

Fumihiro Sasaki

Satoshi Mochizuki

Yoshimasa Kinoshita

Shinichi Kuramoto

Takayuki Nakamura

Akinori Saitoh

Masahiro Ohki

Yukiko Nakajima

Shinichi Wakamatsu

Keiko Osaka

Sonoh Matsuoka

Tatsuki Yamaguchi

Masahiko Ishikawa

Tomoharu Asano

Masana Shiba

Rintaro Takahashi

Yuka Mizoguchi

Tomoki Murayama

Yoshitsugu Kimura

Taichi Nemoto

Hiroaki Katoh

Daiki Yamashita

Tatsuru Moritani

Eiji Sawamura

Masahiro Seki

Daichi Hisakuni

Satoshi Ogawa

Satoyuki Sekiguchi

Tomohiro Fukao

Shinji Ohtani

Teruki Kusahara

Hyo Shu

Shogo Suzuki

Takayuki Yoshii

Kazuyuki Hirai

Tomomi Harashima

Kazushige Yasumatsu

Kiyotada Katoh

Takeshi Sako

Akio Takei

Toshihiko Ono

Shizuka Hashida

Akinori Saito

Idzumi Okajima

Hidehiko Harada

Takahiro Yamashita

Jumpei Yasuda

Akira Takeuchi

Haruhiko Hashimoto

Yasuhiro Kitazawa

Kazushige Sanyo Chemical Ind Ltd Yasumatsu

Kazuyuki Sanyo Chemical Industries Ltd Hirai

A crew support system includes a communication terminal to collect information about a device on a watercraft and transmit the information, a server to receive the information from the communication terminal, and a client terminal to communicate with the server. The communication terminal includes a periodic transmission mode to transmit the information to the server in a periodic transmission cycle, and a high-speed transmission mode to transmit the information in a cycle shorter than the periodic transmission cycle. The server determines a status of the watercraft, and transmits information about measures to address the status, to the client terminal, based on the result of the determination. The client terminal provides the information received from the server to a user. The server determines whether or not a recovery operation by the crew is possible, and transmits information about the result of the determination regarding the recovery operation to the client terminal.

Crew support system, and server, communication terminal, and client terminal for the crew support system

A system for a watercraft includes an engine sensor, a status sensor, and a watercraft operating controller. The engine sensor is operable to detect a rotational speed of the engine. The status sensor is operable to detect status data indicating a status of the watercraft. The watercraft operating controller is configured or programmed to determine that an actual operation of the marine propulsion device has been started after shipment of the marine propulsion device, obtain the status data when the rotational speed of the engine reaches a first rotational speed range for the first time after a start of the actual operation of the marine propulsion device, and record the status data when the rotational speed of the engine reaches the first rotational speed range for the first time after the start of the actual operation of the marine propulsion device as initial status data.

System for and method of controlling watercraft

An electronic device includes a support, a charge-transporting layer, a silicone-containing layer, and a metal oxide film. The charge-transporting layer includes a charge-transporting material or a dye-sensitizing electrode layer including a sensitizing dye. The charge-transporting layer or the sensitizing-dye electrode layer is disposed on or above the support. The silicone-containing layer is disposed on or above the charge-transporting layer or the sensitizing-dye electrode layer. The metal oxide film is disposed on or above the silicone-containing layer. A ratio [Q(ACL)/Q(CTL)] is 10% or greater, where Q(ACL) is a time integral of a transient photocurrent waveform of an electronic device (ACL) measured by a time-of-flight method, and Q(CTL) is a time integral of a transient photocurrent waveform of an electronic device (CTL) measured by a time-of-flight method.

Electronic device and method for producing the same, image forming method, and image forming apparatus

An electronic device includes: a support; a charge-transporting layer including a charge-transporting material, or a sensitizing-dye electrode layer including a sensitizing dye, where the charge-transporting layer or the sensitizing-dye electrode layer is disposed on or above the support; and a metal oxide layer disposed on or above the charge-transporting layer or the sensitizing-dye electrode layer. The metal oxide layer includes p-type semiconductor metal oxide and silica or metal oxide particles, and an amount of the silica or metal oxide particles included in the metal oxide layer is 0.5% by mass or greater but 1.5% by mass or less, relative to the metal oxide layer.

Metal oxide particles have p-type semiconductivity. The metal oxide particles have a volume-based particle size distribution having a first local maximum value and a second local maximum value. The first local maximum value is in a range of 0.1 μm or more and less than 5 μm, and the second local maximum value is in a range of 5 μm or more and less than 50 μm. A ratio of the second local maximum value to the first local maximum value is 0.5 or more and less than 2.0. 99% by volume or more of the metal oxide particles have a particle diameter in a range of from 0.1 to 50 μm.

Metal oxide particles having p-type semiconductivity, electronic device using the same, method for manufacturing electronic device, and image forming apparatus

A system includes a data communication module, a position sensor, and a controller. The position sensor is operable to detect a position of a watercraft. The controller is configured or programmed to send at least one of functional information, trouble information, or operational information to an external computer through a data communication module. In the functional information, an automatic control function of a marine propulsion device and the position of the watercraft when the automatic control function is used are associated with each other. In the trouble information, a trouble in the marine propulsion device and the position of the watercraft when the trouble occurred are associated with each other. In the operational information, an operational pattern performed by a user for the marine propulsion device and the position of the watercraft when the operational pattern is performed are associated with each other.

A rigging equipment diagnostic device includes a processor and a storage to store a program to be executed by the processor. The processor executes an equipment information collection process in which information on equipment fitted to a hull is collected, an attribute information acquisition process in which an attribute database to store attribute information including information on functions to be realized is searched and attribute information on equipment fitted to the hull is acquired, a requirement information acquisition process in which requirement information is acquired by searching a requirement database that stores requirement information necessary to realize functions corresponding to respective attribute information, a function determination process in which a realizable function and an unrealizable function are determined by comparing equipment information and requirement information, and a function information provision process in which the determination result is provided.

Rigging equipment diagnostic device

A toner including: a plate-shaped pigment containing a metal as a main component; and a binder resin containing polyester resin (A) that is insoluble in THF, wherein: a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of a tetrahydrofuran (THF)-soluble component of the toner as determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) is 5,000 or higher but 14,000 or lower; and a glass transition temperature (Tg) of a THF-insoluble component of the toner as determined from a differential scanning colorimetry (DSC) curve at first heating in DSC is &#x2212;60&#xb0; C. or higher but 10&#xb0; C. or lower.

Toner, toner stored unit, and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus is provided that includes: first and second electrostatic latent image bearers; first and second electrostatic latent image forming devices; first and second developing devices configured to develop first and second electrostatic latent images with a colored toner and a special-color toner to form a colored toner image and a special-color toner image, respectively; a primary transfer device configured to transfer the colored toner image and the special-color toner image onto an intermediate image bearer in an overlapping manner to form a composite toner image; a secondary transfer device configured to transfer the composite toner image onto a recording medium; and a fixing device configured to fix the composite toner image thereon. The special-color toner comprises plate-like and/or film-like pigments. An absolute difference in volume resistivity between the special-color toner and the colored toner is 0.30 log &#x3a9; cm or less.

Image forming apparatus and toner set

Provided is a toner including at least: a non-crystalline polyester resin; and a crystalline polyester resin, wherein when a cross-section of the toner is observed, the crystalline polyester resin has a maximum length of 100 nm or greater but less than 500 nm, and a ratio Dv/Dn of a volume average diameter Dv of the crystalline polyester resin to a number average diameter Dn of the crystalline polyester resin is less than 1.20.

Toner, toner stored unit, image forming apparatus, and method for producing toner

A toner including a binder resin, wherein a toner extract obtained by drying an extraction liquid obtained through Soxhlet extraction of the toner with tetrahydrofuran (THF) has glass transition temperature Tg in a range of from 35&#xb0; C. through 55&#xb0; C., and a moisture-content change rate of the toner extract before and after leaving the toner extract to stand for 3 days in an environment of 40&#xb0; C. and 70% RH is 0.5% or less, and wherein a specific-surface-area change rate of the toner before and after leaving the toner to stand for 3 days in an environment of 40&#xb0; C. and 70% RH is in a range of from 15% through 50%.

A toner comprising a binder resin and a release agent, wherein the toner has a difference of 30 or less between a maximum value and a minimum value among peak intensities in a range of Molecular weight M&#xb1;300 where Molecular weight M is a molecular weight selected from a range of from 300 through 5,000 in a molecular weight distribution of tetrahydrofuran (THF)-soluble components in the toner as measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), and wherein the peak intensities are defined as relative values assuming a maximum peak value in molecular weights of 20,000 or less is 100, in a molecular weight distribution curve taking an intensity as a vertical axis and a molecular weight as a horizontal axis as measured by GPC.

An electrostatic-image developing toner including at least a binder resin; a colorant; and a release agent, wherein an average circularity of particles having a particle diameter in a range of 0.79 times or more but less than 1.15 times as large as a most frequent diameter in a number particle size distribution of the toner is within a range of 1.010 times or more but less than 1.020 times as high as an average circularity of particles having a particle diameter of 1.15 times or more as large as the most frequent diameter.

Toner

A toner including: binder resin; and release agent, wherein the release agent is 1% to 8% by mass to the toner, as equivalent mass of endothermic amount of the release agent determined by DSC, wherein the release agent present in region from surface of the toner to 0.3 &#x3bc;m depth is 0.1% to 4% by mass, as determined by FTIR-ATR, and wherein, in TEM image of torn surface of the toner, WDa&#x3c;WDb&#x3c;WDc is satisfied, WDa denoting number-average-particle-diameter of the release agent in region Aa that is from surface of the toner to depth that is one-sixth of diameter d of the toner (&#x2159;d), WDc denoting number-average-particle-diameter of the release agent in central region Ac that is circular region having center located at center of the toner and radius of &#x2159;d, WDb denoting number-average-particle-diameter of the release agent in region Ab that is other than region Aa or Ac.

Toner, and method for manufacturing toner

A toner including a binder resin and a release agent, wherein the toner has a component soluble in a 50% by mass aqueous methanol solution in an amount of 0.10% by mass to 0.60% by mass, and wherein the toner has a flowing-out beginning temperature (Tfb) of 55.0&#xb0; C. to 100.0&#xb0; C. as determined by a flowtester method.

Toner, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge

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