Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Sekisui Medical Co., Ltd.

Shinya Nakayama

Atsushi Yamamoto

Hideki Sugiura

Satoshi Mochizuki

Yasuaki Iwamoto

Akihiro Kotsugai

Yasuo Asahina

Tomoyuki Ichikawa

Tsuyoshi Sugimoto

Masahide Yamada

Hisashi Nakajima

Hiroshi Yamada

Koichi Sakata

Akiyoshi Sabu

Hiroshi Yamashita

Osamu Uchinokura

Kazuhiko Umemura

Masayuki Ishii

Fumihiro Sasaki

Masami Tomita

Minoru Masuda

Hiroto Higuchi

Toyoshi Sawada

Mitsuo Aoki

Junichi Awamura

Ryota Inoue

Takamasa Hase

Shin Hasegawa

Yuki Takahashi

Hitoshi Iwatsuki

Hiroyuki Kishida

Naohito Shimota

Shigeru Emoto

Yohichiroh Watanabe

Shinichiro Yagi

Toshiki Nanya

Tomomi Suzuki

Kazumi Suzuki

Daisuke Inoue

Hideyuki Santo

Suzuka Amemori

Yukiko Nakajima

Tomoko Utsumi

Kohsuke Nagata

Shingo Sakashita

Susumu Chiba

Daiki Yamashita

Shinsuke Nagai

Daisuke Asahina

Yoshihiro Moriya

Keiji Makabe

Yasutada Shitara

Ryuta Chiba

Satoyuki Sekiguchi

Tsuneyasu Nagatomo

Akinori Saitoh

Saori Yamada

Tatsuya Morita

Takahiro Honda

Takuya Saito

Maiko Kondo

Keiichiro Juri

Harumi Takedomi

Bing Shu

Hyo Shu

Motofumi Tanaka

Yuka Mizoguchi

Rintaro Takahashi

Toshiki Osako

Yuka Aoyama

Sonoh Matsuoka

Tomo Shimizu

Yasuo Katano

Tadashi Kasai

Yutaka Takahashi

Yukiko Iwasaki

Koji Suzuki

Hiroshi Takahashi

Daijiro Takizawa

Takaaki Tawada

Yoshitaka Yamauchi

Yuuji Sawai

Yasushi Koichi

Taichi Nemoto

Hideyuki Nakamura

Hisashi Matsuda

Kumi Hasegawa

Masana Shiba

Ryoji Ando

Tatsuru Moritani

Azumi Miyaake

Naohiko Shimura

Tetsuya Sugizaki

Hirotaka Hayakawa

Kenji Komito

An electrically driven vehicle includes a floor panel, a tunnel section, an electrical storage device, and an electric power line. The tunnel section is formed in a vehicle forward/rearward direction in a central portion of the floor panel in a vehicle width direction. The electrical storage device is disposed behind the tunnel section of the vehicle above the floor panel. The electric power line is disposed below the tunnel section and connected to the electrical storage device. The tunnel section has an opening portion formed in a rear end portion of the tunnel section located in front of the electrical storage device of the vehicle and through which the electric power line is inserted.

Electrically driven vehicle

An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image bearer and a cleaning blade configured to remove toner particles remaining on the image bearer. The cleaning blade includes an elastic member in contact with a surface of the image bearer to remove the toner particles. The elastic member has a Martens hardness of from 3 to 8 N/mmwhen measured by a nanoindentation method with a load of 1 &#x3bc;N. The toner particles comprise toner base particles and an external additive, and the external additive comprise silica particles. A liberation ratio (Xs) of the silica particles liberated from the toner particles is from 40% to 75% when measured by an ultrasonic vibration method. A proportion (R70) of the silica particles having a volume-based particle diameter of 70 nm or more in the silica particles liberated from the toner particles is from 70% to 90% by number.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

A toner including toner base particles each including a binder resin and a colorant, and external additive, wherein the toner satisfies conditions (a), (b), and (c) below:

Toner, image forming apparatus, image forming method, and process cartridge

An electric storage device includes a storage module and a mounting plate. The storage module includes a plurality of storage cells stacked in a stacking direction and has an end surface in the stacking direction. The storage module is mounted on the mounting plate. The mounting plate includes a fastening part and a displacement absorbing part. The storage module is connected to the mounting plate at the fastening part. The displacement absorbing part absorbs displacement of the storage module in the stacking direction. The fastening part is provided between the displacement absorbing part and the end surface of the storage module in the stacking direction.

Electric storage device

An image forming apparatus including an image bearer and a cleaning blade is provided. The cleaning blade comprises an elastic member configured to contact a surface of the image bearer to remove toner particles remaining thereon. The elastic member comprises a substrate and a surface layer comprising a cured product of a curable composition and a siloxane compound. The surface layer is disposed on at least a part of a lower surface of the substrate. The surface layer has a hardness gradient in which a Martens hardness HM measured using a nanoindenter decreases from a surface of the surface layer toward the lower surface of the substrate in a thickness direction, and the Martens hardness HM measured in a region extending from a vicinity of the surface (with a load of 1 &#x3bc;N) to a deepest part in the thickness direction (with a load of 1,000 &#x3bc;N) ranges from 2.5 to 32.5 N/mm. The toner has a tensile breaking force F of from 200 to 450 gf (from 1.96 to 4.41 N), measured using a powder layer compression/tensile strength measurement device under a load of 32 kgf (313.81 N).

Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and process cartridge

A toner, including: a polyester resin, wherein the polyester resin has a structure represented by any one of formulas 1) to 3) below: 1) R1-(NHCONH-R2)n-, 2) R1-(NHCOO-R2)n-, and 3) R1-(OCONH-R2)n-, where n is 3 or more, R1 represents an aromatic organic group or an aliphatic organic group, and R2 represents a group derived from a resin that is polyester formed of polycarboxylic acid, polyol, or both thereof; or that is a modified polyester obtained by modifying polyester with isocyanate. 

Toner, toner accommodating unit, and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus including developing unit to develop electrostatic latent image with toner to form visible image, and cleaning unit including elastic member including surface layer and configured to remove the toner, wherein Martens hardness A and Martens hardness B of the surface layer measured by applying load of 1 &#x3bc;N and load of 1,000 &#x3bc;N, respectively, to position of the surface layer in thickness direction thereof using nanoindenter are both 2.5 N/mmor greater but 32.5 N/mmor less, and Martens hardness A and Martens hardness B satisfy inequality,Martens hardness A&#x3e;Martens hardness Bwherein coefficient of dynamic friction of the surface layer against polycarbonate is 0.5 or less, and the toner includes polyester resin insoluble to THF and Tg of THF-insoluble component of the toner determined from DSC curve of first heating of DSC is &#x2212;60&#xb0; C. or higher but 20&#xb0; C. or lower.

Provided is a toner including a crystalline polyester resin including a constitutional unit derived from saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid and a constitutional unit derived from saturated aliphatic diol, an amorphous hybrid resin, an amorphous polyester resin, a release agent, and a colorant, wherein the crystalline polyester resin includes a constitutional unit derived from sebacic acid as the constitutional unit derived from the saturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, and the amorphous hybrid resin is a composite resin including a polyester-based resin unit and a styrene-based resin unit.

Toner, developer, and image forming apparatus

In a battery unitin which plural high-voltage batteriestoare accommodated in a battery case, the battery caseincludes: a bottom plateA on which the batteriestoare mounted; and a covercovering the batteriestofrom above. The bottom plateA includes a trayhaving a plate shape, lengthwise reinforcing members, and brackets. The lengthwise reinforcing membersare disposed so as to connect at least adjacent brackets. The lengthwise reinforcing membersand the bracketsare disposed in a lattice shape with the trayinterposed therebetween. The batteriestoare fixed to the lengthwise reinforcing memberssuch that a longitudinal direction thereof faces the vehicle width direction. The battery caseis fixed under a floor of a vehicle V by the brackets

Vehicle battery unit

An electric storage device includes first storage modules, a second storage module, an attachment part, and a holding frame. The first storage modules include one first storage module and another first storage module. The attachment part has an attachment surface on which the first storage modules are mounted. The holding frame is disposed between the one first storage module and the second storage module to hold the second storage module. The holding frame includes a first frame member and a second frame member. The first frame member has a first bottom portion connected to the attachment surface. The second frame member has a second bottom portion connected to the attachment surface such that the second bottom portion is disposed between the attachment surface and a lower part of the another first storage module.

A vehicle includes: a first battery unit including a front module group which has a plurality of battery modules and which is arranged under a front seat of the vehicle, a middle module group which has a plurality of battery modules and which is arranged under a rear seat of the vehicle, and a front casing accommodating the front module group and the middle module; and a second battery unit including a rear module group which has a plurality of battery modules and which is arranged in a rear portion of the vehicle, and a rear casing accommodating the rear module group. The front casing and the rear casing are independently fixed to a skeletal structure of the vehicle, and a space is provided between the front casing and the rear casing.

Vehicle capable of suppressing an impact to battery units at a time of collision

A toner, including: a colorant; a binder resin; and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin includes a polyester resin, and the toner satisfies requirements (1) and (2) below: (1): G'(50)&#x2265;3.0&#xd7;10Pa and 1.0&#xd7;10Pa&#x2264;G&#x2032;(60)&#x2264;1.0&#xd7;10Pa, where G&#x2032;(50) is a storage modulus at 50&#xb0; C. of the toner and G&#x2032;(60) is a storage modulus at 60&#xb0; C. of the toner; and (2): a spin-spin relaxation time of the toner at 50&#xb0; C. measured by solid echo method of pulse NMR is 1.0 ms or shorter.

Toner

Provided is a method for the simple and highly accurate assay of PSA by a one-step reaction that does not use carriers having different average grain sizes. Also provided is a reagent therefor. The PSA assay method comprises sensitizing insoluble carriers having the same average grain size within a range of greater than 0.20 &#x3bc;m but 0.40 &#x3bc;m or less using two types of anti-PSA monoclonal antibodies having different epitopes that are anti-PSA monoclonal antibodies that will react with both free PSA and PSA-ACT, which is a complex of free PSA and &#x3b1;1-antichymotrypsin, and bringing the carriers into contact with a sample in the presence of an aggregation promoter.

PSA assay and reagent therefor

A layered inorganic mineral including a surface treated with a fluorine-containing compound, where the layered inoganic mineral that can be favorably used for a toner that is excellent in high charging ability, charging stability, and low temperature fixing ability, and that can exhibits high reliability during cleaning.

Layered inorganic mineral, toner, and image forming apparatus

A toner is provided. The toner includes an amorphous resin, a crystalline resin dispersed in the amorphous resin, and a release agent. The toner satisfies the following inequality:&#x3c;0.8where A represents a perimeter of the crystalline resin and B represents a length of a part of the perimeter A of the crystalline resin at which the crystalline resin is in contact with the amorphous resin, A and B being measured from a cross-sectional image of the toner observed with transmission electron microscope.

Toner, toner storage unit, image forming apparatus, and method for manufacturing toner

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