Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.

Toshiba Kikai Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Tec

Shibaura Machine Co., Ltd.

Calpis Co., Ltd.

Shigeru Fujiwara

Rintaro Nakane

Minoru Yoshida

Yuki Sugiura

Takeshi Watanabe

Satoshi Kinouchi

Toshihiro Sone

Tsuyoshi Itou

Ryota Saeki

Masahiro Ikuta

Takafumi Hara

Shoko Shimmura

Takafumi Amano

Mitsunori Kokubo

Kazuhisa Takeda

Kazutoshi Takahashi

Hideaki Fukaya

Hisanobu Ajima

Hiromichi Mitamura

Kazuhiko Kikuchi

Koji Tanimoto

Tadayoshi Ohno

Shuji Yokoyama

Jiro Egawa

Masahiro Doi

Tadashi Noguchi

Mamoru Mizuguchi

Satoshi Hachimura

Yuki Hashimoto

Futoshi Nakamura

Yu Ishida

Hiroki Kanzato

Daisuke Maeda

Masahiro Hosoya

Mitsutoshi Watanabe

Masato Ogasawara

Toshihiro Kasai

Haruhiko Ishida

Kikuji Itoh

Toshiro Sato

Isao Matsuzuki

Takato Baba

Tsutomu Uehara

Hidetoshi Kitahara

Hiroto Wada

Yu Murofushi

Toru Suzuki

Takeshi Yoshida

Tatsuya Tsujii

Nobuhisa Ashida

Daisuke Sawada

Hajime Hori

Satoshi Fukuyama

Minoru Tezuka

Toshirou Honda

Sanshiro Saito

Nobuhiko Tsunehara

Masaru Yamashita

Masato Sasakura

Kaoru Momiyama

Makiko Nakagawa

Hiromi Suzuki

A transfer apparatus of an embodiment includes a substrate installation part on which a substrate provided with an uncured material is installed, a mold presser roller for pressing the mold against the substrate by a movement of the mold presser roller to the substrate installed on the substrate installation part, and a material recovery unit capable of recovering the uncured material protruding from between the substrate and the mold by the movement of the mold pressure.

Transfer apparatus and transfer method

According to one embodiment, under a condition that a substrate is installed on a substrate installation unit, a mold is installed on a mold installation unit, and a mask unit is installed in a mask-unit installation unit, a transfer apparatus controls an operation of a mold presser unit so as to press the mold against the substrate, the operation of a first positioning unit so as to position the mask unit with respect to the mold and the operation of an irradiation unit so as to irradiate an uncured material provided on the surface of the substrate with electromagnetic waves of a predetermined wavelength.

Transfer method, transfer apparatus, and mold

According to one embodiment, there is provided a toner cartridge used in an image forming apparatus including a processor which forms a toner pattern image on a photoconductive member, transfers the toner pattern image on a medium, and changes an image forming condition based on a detection result obtained by optically detecting the toner pattern image transferred onto the medium, the toner cartridge including: a toner accommodating container accommodating a toner, and a memory. The memory stores reference data which is determined according to toner characteristics in the toner accommodating container, and is used for applying a reference value for an optical detection result of a toner pattern formed by the toner on the medium.

Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus

According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, an exposure unit, a development unit, a toner supply motor, and a processor. The exposure unit exposes the photosensitive drum based on image data. The development unit forms a toner image on the photosensitive drum with toner supplied from a toner cartridge. The toner supply motor supplies the toner to the development unit from the toner cartridge. The processor detects toner emptiness when a toner supply ratio calculated based on an integrated value of a pixel count value of the image data and an integrated value of a driving time of the toner supply motor is less than a preset threshold.

Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus

According to one embodiment, there is provided a toner cartridge used in an image forming apparatus including a processor which forms a toner pattern image on a photoconductive member, transfers the toner pattern image on a medium, and changes an image forming condition based on a detection result obtained by optically detecting the toner pattern transferred onto the medium, the toner cartridge including: a toner accommodating container accommodating a toner, and a memory. The memory stores a plurality of reference data which are determined according to toner characteristics in the toner accommodating container and a value indicating an image forming execution amount, and are used for applying reference values for an optical detection result of a toner pattern formed by the toner on the medium.

Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus using toner characteristics for improving image quality

A developing device includes a housing, a developing roller, and a blade. The housing includes a developer chamber and an opening. The developing roller is disposed in the developer chamber, such that a part of the developing roller in a rotational direction thereof is exposed to an outside of the opening. The developer roller includes a sleeve rotatable around a shaft and a magnetic element. The magnetic element has a magnetic polarity opposite to that of a developer and is disposed at an entrance rotational position of the developer roller at which a sleeve region of the sleeve goes into the developer chamber from the outside of the opening. The blade is positioned near a surface of the sleeve to regulate a thickness of the developer on the surface of the sleeve. The thickness of the developer regulated on the sleeve region at the entrance rotational position by the blade is equal to or greater than 0.6 mm and equal to or less than 1.4 mm.

Image forming apparatus

This invention provides the use of a microorganism capable of improving both lipid metabolism and sugar metabolism. Specifically, the invention relates to: a lipid metabolism and/or sugar metabolism improver comprising, as an active ingredient, a bacterial cell selected from bacteria belonging to the genusand the genus, a treated product of the bacterial cell, or a mixture thereof, having dual-agonistic activities to peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)&#x3b1; and peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)&#x3b3;; to a food or a beverage comprising the improver; and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the improver.

Lipid metabolism and/or sugar metabolism improver containing lactic acid bacterium or treatment product thereof

A transfer device that transfers a fine transfer pattern formed on a master mold to a molded material, includes a first transfer unit that transfers the fine transfer pattern formed on the master mold to a replica mold made from a material that transmits light; and a second transfer unit that transfers a fine transfer pattern formed on the replica mold by the first transfer unit to the molded material.

Transfer device, molded material and transfer method

This application provides a substance containing disrupted cells of an anti-inflammatory lactic acid bacterium and having an effect of preventing or improving arthritis in a subject, a composition containing the substance and the preparation method thereof, and a method for enhancing the effect of preventing and improving arthritis with the use of the substance.

Substance for preventing and improving arthritis

This invention provides an effective means or method for improving lipid metabolism, and a means or method for treatment or prevention of diseases or disorders associated with the lipid metabolism disorder. Specifically, this invention relates to an agent for improving the lipid metabolism comprising, as active ingredients, broken cells of a lactic acid bacterium, and to a method for enhancing an effect of a lactic acid bacterium for improving the lipid metabolism comprising a step of breaking the lactic acid bacterium.

Lactic acid bacterium agent for improving lipid metabolism

A sheet processing apparatus includes a rotating unit, a pressing unit, a nip being formed therebetween, a first heating unit configured to heat the rotating unit, a second heating unit configured to heat the pressing unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the first and second heating units according to a mode of operation, such that, in a first mode, the rotating unit at the nip is at a first temperature and the pressing unit at the nip is at a second temperature, and in a second mode, the rotating unit at the nip is at a third temperature that is equal to or higher than the first temperature and the pressing unit at the nip is at a fourth temperature that is higher than the second temperature. A difference between the second and fourth temperatures is smaller than between the first and third temperatures.

Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same

An inducer of T cell apoptosis and a health food for inducing T cell apoptosis comprising as an active ingredient of a lactic acid bacterium belonging to the genusor the genusare disclosed. Particularly preferred lactic acid bacteria belonging to the genusor the genusareL-92 (FERM BP-4981),CP1750 (FERM BP-10532),CP2829 (FERM BP-10533) andCP760 (FERM BP-10531). The inducer of T cell apoptosis of the invention is useful in the prevention and cure of a disease such as an organ-specific autoimmune disease or type I allergy.

T cell apoptosis inducer and method therefore

According to one embodiment, a fuser includes a fixing belt including a conductive layer, an induction-current generating section to electromagnetically induction-heat the conductive layer, an opposed section to form a nip in cooperation with the fixing belt, an auxiliary heat generating section electromagnetically induction-heated by the induction-current generating section, and a moving section to move the auxiliary heat generating section with respect to the fixing belt.

Fuser for equalizing temperature of heat generating section

In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming section () configured to form a toner image on an image receiving medium; a fixing apparatus () configured to heat, using a heating component (), the image receiving medium formed with the toner image to fix the toner image; a fan () configured to cool the heating component at least; and a control section () configured to enable, after the image forming section finishes an image forming operation, the fan to operate for a given time when the elapsed time for image forming operation is shorter than a first formation time, and enable the heating component to idle without generating heat while operating the fan, when the elapsed time for image forming operation is equal to or longer than the first time.

Image forming apparatus and method which controls the temperature of a fixing apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shigeru Fujiwara