Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Sony Corporation

Thk Co., Ltd.

Ebara Corporation

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Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Intematix Corporation

Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute

Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

The Japan Iron and Steel Federation

Shin Nippon Seitetsu Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinji Aoki

Haruo Iimura

Keigo Nakamura

Yasuhiko Ogino

Shinya Tanaka

Masashi Takahashi

Takeshi Watanabe

Naomi Sugimoto

Takao Izumi

Yoshihiro Norikane

Masashi Hiroki

Yasutada Shitara

Toshihiro Kanematsu

Yi-Qun Li

Satoshi Takahashi

Ryoji Suzuki

Tsuyoshi Kobayashi

Yoshihiko Nakano

Minoru Masuda

Wu Mei

Kazuchika Saeki

Taishi Fukazawa

Masahiro Izutsu

Yuichi Sato

Junichi Hara

Tadashi Kasai

Keisuke Uchida

Yohichiroh Watanabe

Fumihito Masubuchi

Shintaro Yamada

Masahide Nakaya

Tomokazu Takeuchi

Yasunobu Shimizu

Shinya Morita

Hiroshi Yoshida

Satoshi Takano

Fumihiro Hasegawa

Akio Kosuge

Noboru Murayama

Hiromi Ogiyama

Hideo Kawamoto

Masashi Nagayama

Masahiro Masuzawa

Masaru Ohgaki

Satoshi Kawasaki

Yasuo Ohashi

Michitaka Fukuda

Shin Kusakari

Andrew Mwaniki Mulwa

Takaaki Hiroi

Yusuke Matsushita

Seiji Miyawaki

Kunihiro Miyauchi

Hisayoshi Ohshima

Shinya Seno

Hideto Suzuki

Kiyotada Katoh

Yoshikazu Kurose

Itsuko Mizutani

Akihiko Maezawa

Hitoshi Itoh

Takuya Horie

Akimasa Yoshida

Takeshi Shimamura

Shigeyuki Ishii

Ryuji Furusawa

Tatsuru Moritani

Keita Kawamura

Tetsuya Sonoda

Tatsuroh Sugioka

Tadahiko Morinaga

Tatsuya Nagafuchi

Takahiro Honda

Takahiro Seki

Jun Yura

Yuji Nagatomo

Hiroyuki Takizawa

Tetsuhiro Nishide

Hiroyuki Kishi

Ken Yoshida

Kyoichi Okamoto

Shozo Murata

Tatsuki Yamaguchi

Yusuke Asano

Naoki Shiraishi

Yoshio Hirayama

Yoshio Nakajima

Naoyuki Ozaki

Tsutomu Higo

Mitsumasa Wada

Jun Hitosugi

Satoshi Shinohara

Satoshi Kashiwagura

Ayako Miyajima

Kyoko Abe

Emiko Ishikawa

Masako Yoshii

Hiroaki Oishi

A particulate poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) is provided. The particulate PLGA comprises a poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA), and has an average volume-based panicle diameter of 80 nm or less and a relative span factor (R.S.F.) satisfying the following formula (1):0<.≤1.20  Formula (1)

Particulate poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid, method for manufacturing particulate poly (lactic-co-glycolic) acid, and particulate poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid manufacturing apparatus

The present invention includes a reference parallel line creation step of creating a pair of parallel lines that are respectively in contact with outer edges of a workpiece cross-section without traversing the workpiece cross-section and that are located on an extension plane of the workpiece cross-section, a first determination step of comparing a width between the pair of parallel lines that have been created in the reference parallel line creation step with a maximum separation threshold of the welding electrodes, and determining whether the maximum separation threshold is larger than the width between the parallel lines, and a pull-out direction determination step of determining a direction of the parallel lines as a pull-out direction, in a case where the maximum separation threshold is larger than the width between the parallel lines in the first determination step.

Method for avoiding interference of welding equipment, and device for controlling welding equipment

A discharge device is provided. The discharge device includes a liquid feed-discharger, and the liquid feed-discharger includes a feed unit configured to feed a liquid and a discharge unit having discharge holes configured to discharge the liquid fed by the feed unit. A ratio (X/Y) of a maximum cross-sectional area X (mm) to a minimum cross-sectional area Y (mm) of the liquid feed-discharger in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the liquid feed-discharger is from 1 to 5.

Discharge device, particle manufacturing apparatus, and particle

A motion guide device includes: a track member including a rolling member rolling surface; a movable member including a loaded rolling member rolling surface, and a rolling member return passage; a pair of cap members including a direction change passage connecting the loaded rolling member rolling surface and the rolling member return passage; and a plurality of rolling members arrayed in a rollable manner on a loaded rolling member rolling passage, the rolling member return passage, and a pair of the direction change passages, the loaded rolling member rolling passage being made up of the rolling member rolling surface and the loaded rolling member rolling surface. A gap between the rolling member and the direction change passage at a boundary portion X is formed so as to become smaller than a gap between the rolling member and the rolling member rolling surface at the boundary portion.

Motion guide device

In a motion guiding device including a track body, and a moving body provided to be movable along the track body, the track body includes a groove formed along a longitudinal direction of the track body and a plurality of rolling surfaces formed inside and outside the groove. The moving body includes a plurality of rotating bodies that roll on the plurality of rolling surfaces, and adopts a configuration in which respective contacts in which the plurality of rotating bodies are in contact with the plurality of rolling surfaces are disposed on the same straight-line in a cross-section orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the track body.

Motion guiding device and transport device

Provided is a motion guide device load measuring system that can accurately measure loads acting on a motion guide device in use. The load measuring system includes a position detecting unit () for detecting the position of a sliding member () relative to a track member () in a direction of relative movement, and at least one sensor (--) for detecting the relative displacement of the sliding member () relative to the track member () in a radial direction and/or a horizontal direction. A calculating unit () calculates loads acting on the motion guide device (), in association with the position of the sliding member (), on the basis of position information detected by the position detecting unit () and displacement information detected by one or more of the sensors (--).

Motion guide device load measuring system and load measuring method, and motion guide device service life calculating method

Slider block for moving an article along a rail

An image forming apparatus includes a nip forming member and a transfer bias output device that outputs a transfer bias to form a transfer electric field in a transfer nip between the nip forming member and an intermediate transfer member. Upon transfer of a composite toner image including a particular toner image onto a recording medium in the transfer nip, the transfer bias output device outputs the transfer bias including a first superimposed bias in which a direct current (DC) component is superimposed on an alternating current (AC) component. Upon transfer of the composite toner image without the particular toner image onto the recording medium in the transfer nip, the transfer bias output device outputs one of the transfer bias including a second superimposed bias having a peak-to-peak value of the AC component smaller than that of the first superimposed bias and the transfer bias including only the DC component.

Image forming apparatus

A communication apparatus includes a receiver and circuitry. The receiver receives image data from a transmission apparatus. The circuitry identifies an image data type of the image data received by the receiver, and determines a transmission data capacity to be used for transmission of the image data at the transmission apparatus based on the identified image data type. The circuitry further sends a notification to the transmission apparatus, the notification requesting the transmission apparatus to transmit the image data based on the determined transmission data capacity, and outputs the image data that the transmission apparatus transmits based on the notified transmission data capacity.

Communication apparatus, communication system, and method for controlling data communication

Provided is a motion guide device, which includes: a track rail; rolling elements; a moving block, which has an endless circulation path; and a holding belt having pockets, wherein the holding belt has a pair of end portions opposed to each other through intermediation of a free rolling element in the endless circulation path, and wherein a condition of (X&#x2212;Y)&#xd7;Z&#x3e;(B+C)&#x2212;A&#x3e;0 is satisfied, where: A represents a path length of the endless circulation path; B represents a total length of the holding belt; C represents a diameter of the free rolling element; X represents a diameter of each of the pockets; Y represents a diameter of each of the rolling elements; and Z represents the number of the rolling elements arrayed in the holding belt.

Provided is a rolling guide device which is capable of preventing uneven wear of a holding belt by alleviating a tensile force that acts on the holding belt when the holding belt circulates in an endless circulation path together with rolling elements. The endless circulation path has a guide groove configured to guide movement of the holding belt in the endless circulation path. A condition of t&#x3c;&#x3b4; is satisfied, where: trepresents a maximum clearance between both end portions of the holding belt which are opposed to each other in the endless circulation path; &#x3b4; is expressed by 2c represents an interval between the holding belt in a load path and the holding belt in a return path; A represents a depth to an arc top point of an outer peripheral surface of the guide groove in a direction change path; B represents a depth to an arc top point of an inner peripheral surface of the guide groove in the direction change path; 'd' represents a thickness of the holding belt; and a=(A&#x2212;d/2) and b=(B+d/2) are satisfied.

Rolling guide device

An image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearer to bear a plurality of halftone images having a same image density and a high-density image located one cycle downstream of the latent image bearer from at least one of the plurality of halftone images, a transferor to apply a predetermined transfer voltage to transfer the plurality of halftone images and the high-density image, a transfer electric field forming target to bear the plurality of halftone images and the high-density image transferred from the latent image bearer, a detector to detect image densities of the plurality of halftone images on the transfer electric field forming target, and a controller to determine a primary transfer voltage applied at a time of image formation, based on image density variations of the plurality of halftone images detected by the detector.

Image forming apparatus including an image density detector of halftone images

A cleaner, such as provided in a particulate material production apparatus, for cleaning a droplet ejector, which includes nozzles to eject a particulate material composition liquid as droplets, and a nozzle plate bearing the nozzles. A substantially closed cleaning space is formed outside the nozzles and the nozzle plate, and a first cleaning liquid supplying device supplies a first cleaning liquid to the cleaning space so that the nozzles and the nozzle plate are contacted with the first cleaning liquid. In addition, a vibrator vibrates the first cleaning liquid when the nozzles and the nozzle plate are contacted with the first cleaning liquid to clean the nozzles and the nozzle plate.

Cleaner for cleaning droplet ejector, and particulate material production apparatus using the cleaner

The present invention relates to a teaching data preparation device and a teaching data preparation method for an articulated robot. Pre-existing position data that approximates new position data is retrieved from a database that, from among data related to working points for a pre-existing workpiece, stores for each working point pre-existing position data that indicates the position of the working point and pre-existing orientation data that indicates the orientation of an end effector at the working point. Next, pre-existing orientation data that is associated with the retrieved pre-existing position data is extracted. Next, incomplete new orientation data is completed using the extracted pre-existing orientation data. As a result of this series of processes, the precision of teaching data can be improved.

Teaching data preparation device and teaching data preparation method for articulated robot

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer member configured to abut against an image carrier for carrying a toner image to form a transfer nip; and a power supply configured to output a bias voltage for transferring the toner image on the image carrier onto a recording medium nipped in the transfer nip. The bias voltage includes a first voltage for transferring the toner image from the image carrier onto the recording medium in a transfer direction and a second voltage having an opposite polarity of the first voltage, the first and the second voltages being alternately output. A time-averaged value of the bias voltage is set to a polarity in the transfer direction and is set in the transfer direction side with respect to a median between a maximum and a minimum of the bias voltage.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shinji Aoki