Konica Minolta, Inc.

Subaru Corporation

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

Shogo Watanabe

Yusuke Takaku

Kosuke Yoshida

Yuka Yazaki

Hiromichi Nishiyama

Yuki Sugie

Yuuma Suzuki

Naonori Hagiwara

Kenu Takahashi

Yuuki Ito

Tsuyoshi Arata

Genki Takeuchi

An oil dilution inhibiting apparatus is configured to inhibit oil dilution caused by mixture of fuel into engine oil. The oil dilution inhibiting apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to estimate friction of an engine and determine that the oil dilution occurs when the friction of the engine is decreased to a value lower than or equal to a predetermined threshold value to perform control so that the engine is operated at a higher speed.

Oil dilution inhibiting apparatus

The present invention provides an image forming method capable of suppressing glossiness unevenness in one image with curability of an ink droplet having been caused to land on a recording medium increased. The image forming method includes: preparing an actinic radiation-curable inkjet ink containing a radical polymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, a gelling agent, and a nucleating agent; discharging a droplet of the actinic radiation-curable inkjet ink to cause the droplet to land on a surface of a recording medium; and curing the droplet by irradiating the droplet having been caused to land on the recording medium with actinic radiation. The gelling agent contains, in a molecular structure thereof, a polar group, and a Calkyl group, the nucleating agent is a (poly)glycerin fatty acid ester, and an oxygen concentration in an atmosphere where irradiation with the actinic radiation is conducted is less than 20 vol %.

Image forming method

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Tokyo, Japan

Shogo Watanabe