Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

The University of Tokyo

Showa Denko K.k.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Japan Polyethylene Corporation

Fujifilm Corporation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Japan Polychem Corporation

Resonac Corporation

Shingo Ito

Kyoko Nozaki

Yoshikuni Okumura

Junichi Kuroda

Masashi Tanaka

Toshihiko Takayama

Ayumu Horiba

Kohei Okayasu

Minoru Kobayashi

Daichi Kato

Tadahiko Kanoh

Keisuke Ishizumi

Haruhiko Nishiguchi

Shohei Ishio

Yuichiro Yasukawa

Shinya Hayashi

Seiji Saito

Shuichi Tetsuno

Kenichi Iida

Masaya Kawada

Masahiro Watabe

Yoshifumi Nakamura

Masaru Ohno

Yusuke Ota

Kenji Karashima

Hiroko Katagiri

Yuichi Komori

Tomohiro Tanoue

Junichi Kobayashi

Hiroyuki Shimizu

Masami Fujimoto

Katsuya Yashiro

Yojiro Hotta

Tsuneyoshi Tominaga

Akane Masumoto

Yasuhiro Okuno

Takashi Kishimoto

Tetsuya Atsumi

Ryo Matsumura

Chihiro Oguro

Kazuo Terauchi

Tatsuya Sakai

Motohide Shiozawa

Hiroshi Oguro

Makoto Kishi

Masumi Nomura

Toshihide Yoshitani

Koki Tateishi

Takafumi Hosokawa

Masatsugu Toyonori

Takeshi Naka

Yasukazu Ikami

Takao Tayano

Takuma Kobayashi

Keisuke Samejima

Takuya Mizuguchi

Keizo Kojima

Masato Araki

Akio Tanna

Yuma Yoshida

Ryo Nakano

Noriyuki Imaeda

Daiki Higuchi

Hisashi Ohtaki

Keita Fujii

Kousuke Yamamoto

Yohei Konishi

Junya Yoda

Kohei Seino

Yasuo Oishi

Keisuke Hata

Tomofumi Koishi

Yumiko Minami

Wen-Jie Tao

Masafumi Koyano

Naoki Sakagami

Kwin Malhotra

Provided is an image forming apparatus, including: an accommodation chamber for developer; a photosensitive drum; notification unit for making a notification to a user, and a control unit for controlling the notification unit. A replenishment container for developer is detachably attached to the accommodation chamber. The notification unit makes a first notification indicating that a developer amount in the accommodation chamber is a first state, a second notification indicating that the developer amount is a second state smaller than in the first state, and a third notification indicating that the developer amount is a third state smaller than in the second state. The image forming apparatus is capable of operating in a first mode and a second mode. The notification unit makes the notifications in an order of the first, second, and third notifications as consumption of the developer progresses.

Image forming apparatus

A control device controlling a vehicle, includes a control unit configured to execute lane change assist control of the vehicle, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire highly accurate map information that contains location information within a lane. When the acquisition unit acquires the highly accurate map information that contains information regarding a road on which the vehicle is running, the control unit is configured to be capable of executing the lane change assist control, and when the acquisition unit does not acquire the highly accurate map information that contains the information regarding a road on which the vehicle is running, the control unit does not execute the lane change assist control.

Control device and control method

A control device for a vehicle controls notification using a notification unit included in a steering input unit of the vehicle operates in an operation state selected from a plurality of states. The plurality of states include a first state and a second state that each provide drive assist. Map information including information that is not used in the first state is used in the second state. The second state is based on a condition that a driver of the vehicle grips the steering input unit. The notification control unit does not perform notification using the notification unit while the travel control unit is operating in the first state, and performs notification using the notification unit while the travel control unit is operating in the second state.

Vehicle, control device and control method therefor, and storage medium

A heating apparatus includes a heater, a holding member, and a heat equalization member. In a case where a direction of a long side of a first surface of the heater is defined as a longitudinal direction, a direction of the first surface perpendicular to the longitudinal direction is defined as a transverse direction, and a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction is defined as a thickness direction, the heat equalization member is between the heater and the holding member in the thickness direction and includes, in the longitudinal direction, first and second abutment regions that abut against the heater and a first non-abutment region that does not abut against the heater. The first abutment region, the first non-abutment region, and the second abutment region are arranged in this order as viewed from one end toward another end of the heater in the longitudinal direction.

Heating apparatus and image forming apparatus

The present invention provides a driving support device that performs driving support of a vehicle, comprising: a detector configured to detect a state of a driver of the vehicle; and a controller configured to control the driving support with a setting validated by the driver among a plurality of settings including a first setting and a second setting each of which requests the driver to perform a predetermined operation obligation, wherein the controller is configured to invalidate the second setting, in a case of determining that the driver does not fulfill the operation obligation from a detection result of the detector in a state where the second setting is validated.

Driving support device, vehicle, driving support method, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing member to develop an electrostatic latent image at a developing portion, a transfer member to transfer a developer image to a recording member at a transfer portion; and a brush provided with a plurality of base materials contacting the image bearing member at downstream of the transfer portion and upstream of the developing portion in a rotational direction of the image bearing member. The developer remaining on the surface of the image bearing member is collected in the developing portion. An average distance between base materials of the brush with respect to a rotational axis direction of the image bearing member is larger than an average particle diameter of the developer, and is equal to or less than a length corresponding to a special frequency visually recognizable by a user when the image formed by the image forming apparatus is observed by the user.

A vehicle control device of the embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding situation of a host vehicle; and a driving controller that controls one or both of steering or acceleration/deceleration of the host vehicle to cause the host vehicle to travel, wherein the driving controller causes the host vehicle to travel in any of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode in which the host vehicle travels so that the speed of the host vehicle reaches a target speed, and the driving controller restricts the execution of at least the first driving mode when a specific object is recognized in a traveling direction of the host vehicle based on map information or a recognition result from the recognizer during the execution of the first driving mode.

Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium

An image forming apparatus includes an exposure unit that reflects a laser beam emitted from a light source by a polygon mirror having a plurality of reflection surfaces to form a latent image on a photosensitive member, and a control unit that controls the image forming apparatus in a plurality of operation modes including a normal mode and a low speed mode having a slower process speed than the normal mode. The control unit controls the polygon mirror to use all of the plurality of reflection surfaces to reflect the laser beam when in the normal mode. When in the low speed mode, the control unit makes the process speed faster than 0.5 times that of the normal mode, rotates the polygon mirror faster than in the normal mode, and controls the polygon mirror to use only some of the plurality of reflection surfaces to reflect the laser beam.

A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize surrounding circumstances of a vehicle; a driving controller configured to control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle; and a mode determinator configured to determine any of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle, in which tasks imposed on a driver in the second driving mode are less significant than in the first driving mode, the driving controller controls the vehicle in the second driving mode, and the driving mode is changed to the first driving mode when an abnormality including predetermined conditions has occurred regarding one or more cameras capturing an image of an area around the vehicle or an image captured by the one or more cameras.

Vehicle control device, vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and program

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing member to develop an electrostatic latent image at a developing portion, a transfer member to transfer a developer image to a recording member at a transfer portion; and a brush provided with a plurality of base materials contacting the image bearing member at downstream of the transfer portion and upstream of the developing portion in a rotational direction of the image bearing member. The developer remaining on the surface of the image bearing member is collected in the developing portion. An average distance between base materials of the brush with respect to a rotational axis direction of the image bearing member is larger than an average particle diameter of the developer, and is equal to or less than a length corresponding to a spatial frequency visually recognizable by a user when the image formed by the image forming apparatus is observed by the user.

A vehicle control device includes a driving controller controls one of or both steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle, and a mode determinator determines any of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle, in which tasks imposed on a driver in the second driving mode are less significant than in the first driving mode and one of or both steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle are controlled by the driving controller, the driving controller controls the vehicle in the second driving mode, and the driving mode is changed to the first driving mode when an abnormality occurs in a combination switch, combination switch related equipment which is connected between the driving controller and the combination switch via a communication line, or communication which is performed by the combination switch and the driving controller.

Vehicle control device, vehicle system, vehicle control method, and program

An image forming apparatus is used, which includes: a scanning unit that scans a surface of a photosensitive member with light and forms a latent image according to image data; a developing unit that supplies toner to the latent image to develop the latent image; a fixing unit that heats and fixes the toner image on a recording material; and a control unit that controls a fixing temperature based on the image data, wherein the control unit analyzes a printing ratio by dividing the image data into a plurality of regions in a main scanning direction when the scanning unit scans the surface of the photosensitive member with light, and determines the fixing temperature on the basis of the position in the main scanning direction and the printing ratio for each of the plurality of regions.

The present invention pertains to a method for producing a copolymer of ethylene and an allyl monomer having a polar group represented by general formula (1), or a copolymer of ethylene, an allyl monomer having a polar group represented by general formula (1), and other monomers, wherein the copolymer is produced in the presence of a boron compound having a boron-hydrogen bond or a boron-carbon bond (for example, a compound represented by general formula (2)) by using a metal complex represented by general formula (C1) as a polymerization catalyst (the symbols in the formulas are as described in the description). According to the present invention, a copolymer of ethylene and an allyl monomer can be efficiently produced with high catalytic activity, wherein the copolymer has a polar group and can be used in various applications.

Method for producing copolymer of allyl monomer having polar group

An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording material includes a fixing unit and a blower unit to blow air around a roller. The fixing unit includes a tubular shape film, a heating member disposed in a space surrounded by the film, and the roller forming a nip portion with the heating member. The fixing unit heats and fixes the toner image onto the recording material at the nip portion. For printing that forms toner images on continuously conveyed recording materials where a roller surface temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature, fan stop and operation periods are set. During the fan stop period, the blower unit is stopped and an interval between preceding and subsequent recording materials is widened. During the fan operation period, the blower unit is in operation and the interval is narrower than the interval during the fan stop period.

Image forming apparatus including blower unit

A control system includes a management unit configured to control a power supply device toward a target value for an output performance value of the power supply device that supplies power to a predetermined device, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire information related to a post-shutdown task scheduled to be executed after a shutdown condition of the predetermined device is satisfied, in which the management unit refers to the information acquired by the acquisition unit, and, when the post-shutdown task is scheduled to be executed, sets the target value to a second target value which is higher than a first target value set when the post-shutdown task is scheduled to be executed, before the shutdown condition is satisfied.

Control system, control method, and program

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