Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Dowa Mining Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Aizawa

Kohki Asada

Hiroki Ishihara

Kazuyuki Matsumoto

Kenji Murata

Genichiroh Kawamichi

Kazushi Sano

Seiichi Hisano

Kazuhisa Saito

Kenji Ishii

Tomoyasu Hirasawa

Yasufumi Takahashi

Hidehiko Fujiwara

Susumu Tateyama

Kenji Nozawa

Yasuo Niikura

Takeshi Akai

Toshihiro Shimada

Yasushi Hashimoto

Hiroaki Miyagawa

Tadashi Matsuoka

Hiroshi Suzuki

Yuuki Kikushima

Masaru Yamagishi

Satoru Takano

Hikaru Fukasawa

Yasuhisa Katoh

Yousuke Edo

Atsunori Yoshida

Ryo Kanno

Yasunori Hino

Mamoru Takayama

Hidehisa Shibasaki

Hiroshi Komuro

Kohichi Uchida

Kohei Funada

A cooling device includes a cooling member to absorb heat from a conveyed sheet and a plurality of cooling units to cool the cooling member. Each of the cooling units includes a coolant channel through which a coolant flows and a liquid-cooling device configured to cool the coolant that flows in the coolant channel. The coolant channels are disposed on or inside the cooling member and arranged side by side in a sheet conveyance direction. The coolant channels includes a downstream coolant channel being downstream from at least one of the plurality of coolant channels in the sheet conveyance direction, and an upstream coolant channel being upstream from the downstream coolant channel in the sheet conveyance direction. One of the liquid-cooling devices coupled to the downstream coolant channel has a cooling capacity higher than a cooling capacity of another of the liquid-cooling devices coupled to the upstream coolant channel.

Cooling device and image forming apparatus

A sheet correcting device includes a plurality of curved surface members including curved surfaces, respectively, to deform a sheet along the curved surfaces, the plurality of curved surface members disposed along a conveyance direction of the sheet, a plurality of pressing members disposed facing the curved surfaces of the plurality of curved surface members, respectively, to press the sheet against the curved surfaces of the plurality of curved surface members, respectively, a sheet tensioner to apply tension to the sheet, and a heater to heat the sheet that is bent by the curved surfaces of the plurality of curved surface members.

Sheet correcting device and printer

A sheet correcting device includes a belt pair to sandwich a sheet with an upper belt and a lower belt to convey the sheet in a sheet conveyance direction, a plurality of curved surface members disposed along the sheet conveyance direction, each of the plurality of curved surface members comprising a curved surface to contact the belt pair where the belt pair sandwiches the sheet, a plurality of pressing members facing the curved surface of each of the plurality of curved surface members, respectively, to press the belt pair against the curved surface of each of the plurality of curved surface members, and a heater to heat the sheet via at least one of the upper belt and the lower belt of the belt pair.

A stacking apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a stacking unit, and a separation member supply unit. The conveyance unit conveys sheets for circuit board. The stacking unit stacks the sheets. The separation member supply unit supplies a separation member to separate the stacked sheets at any position. The separation member supply unit places the separation member on the sheet in being conveyed.

Stacking apparatus

A liquid type cooling device, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus, includes a heat releasing unit to release heat of a coolant that passes therethrough, and multiple air blowing fans disposed facing the heat releasing unit to blow air to the heat releasing unit. A cooling capacity of the liquid type cooling device varies according to a type of a recording medium on which an image is formed.

Cooling device and image forming apparatus incorporating same

A disclosed cooling structure includes a casing including a bottom plate arranged in a bottom portion of the casing and having a through hole formed in the bottom plate; a heat source to be cooled accommodated in the casing; a suctioning unit configured to suction outer air from an outside of the casing to an inside of the casing via the through hole in the bottom plate; an open and close member including an outer air path for carrying the suctioned outer air and being capable of opening and closing relative to the casing; and an outer air applying unit configured to cool the heat source by the carried outer air received from the open and close member.

Cooling structure, image forming apparatus having cooling structure, and electronic apparatus having cooling structure

There is provided an accicular ferromagnetic metal powder with which one can produce magnetic media for high-density recording that are improved in storage stability and magnetic characteristics. The improved ferromagnetic metal powder essentially consists of iron and 50 atm % based on the amount of iron of cobalt and at least one of aluminum and yttrium or any other rare earth element and contains no more than 0.05 wt % of an element of Group Ia of the periodic table (Li, Na, K). The amount of aluminum is in the range of 0.1-30 atm %, the amount of yttrium or any other rare earth element is in the range of and 0.1-10 atm %, each being based on the total quantity of the metal elements present. In either of these cases, the residue of an element of Group IIa of the periodic table (Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) is preferably 0.1 wt % or less.

Ferromagnetic metal powder

There is provided a metallic magnetic powder with which one can produce magnetic media for high-density recording that are improved in storage stability and magnetic characteristics. The improved ferromagnetic metal powder contains no more than 0.05 wt % of an element of Group Ia of the periodic table. The powder may optionally contain 0.1-30 atm % of aluminum and/or 0.1-10 atm % of Y or any other rare earth element based on the total quantity of the metal elements present. In either of these cases, the residue of an element of Group IIa of the periodic table is preferably 0.1 wt % or less.

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Ibaraki, Japan

Satoshi Aizawa