Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Kyocera Corporation

Olympus Corporation

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Idemitsu Kosan Company, Limited

Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd.

Susumu Kikuchi

Nagaaki Ohyama

Toshio Honda

Junpei Tsujiuchi

Yasuo Nishiguchi

Hisashi Mukataka

Yoshio Ozawa

Shigeto Ikeda

Eric Badique

Tatsuo Nagasaki

Yasuhiro Komiya

Takashi Arakane

Shigeo Matsuzaki

Kazuo Murakata

Shinji Yamane

Takeshi Mori

Kensuke Ishii

Toshihiro Kitahara

Yoshihiro Kawano

Hiroya Fukuyama

Hidetoshi Yamada

Masahiro Oba

Nobumasa Nakajima

Humio Inaba

Yuji Kamiyama

Kazuo Sonobe

Tohru Wada

Ryushi Imoo

Shigeki Tsukahara

Shunichi Sato

Kazuo Idei

Yasushi Hibi

Sigeki Tsukahara

Provided is a method for providing a recommended operating condition with which an oil refinery device can be operated more efficiently. A server: acquires past operational data for a device, a scheduled operating condition which is an operation condition for the device scheduled by a user, and plant information including at least a usage expiry time of the device; creates a user-specific catalyst deterioration function from the past operational data; calculates, on the basis of the catalyst deterioration function, the plant information, and the schedule operating condition, a recommended operating condition that achieves a catalyst lifetime which is later than the usage expiry time of the device and is earlier than the catalyst lifetime when the device is operated under a scheduled operating condition calculated on the basis of the scheduled operating condition and the catalyst deterioration function; and transmits the recommended operating condition to a user terminal.

Method, server, computer-readable command, and recording medium for providing recommended operation condition for plant

The invention provides an examination apparatus including an objective optical system for positioning a focal point inside a specimen mounted on a stage; an image-acquisition apparatus for detecting light emitted in different optical-axis directions from the vicinity of the focal point inside the specimen and collected by the objective optical system to acquire a plurality of pieces of image information; and a three-dimensional image forming unit for forming a three-dimensional image of a light-emitting site in the vicinity of the focal point based on the plurality of pieces of image information acquired by the image-acquiring apparatus.

Examination apparatus

An image acquisition apparatus has an imaging optical system. An imaging section has a plurality of imaging pixels arranged at non-uniform intervals within an imaging surface. The imaging section picks up an object image imaged by the imaging optical system, and converts the object image into image signals. An image restoration processing section has a coefficient memory in which a predetermined coefficient sequence is recorded, and an image restoration processing circuit which carries out computation processing between the coefficient sequence recorded in the coefficient memory and the image signals from the imaging section. The image restoration processing section generates an image in a desired display pixel arrangement.

Arranging a plurality of imaging pixels in an imaging acquisition apparatus

An exposure apparatus is arranged to project one unit of a circuit pattern onto the surface of a resist on a substrate to be manufactured and to expose it over the surface of this resist. The exposure apparatus includes a processing unit that enables forming a high-resolution circuit pattern image on the substrate by the use of an image display which is able to ensure a wide display region without deteriorating the resolution, and that when dividing the one unit of circuit pattern into a plurality of regions in order to ensure an inexpensive, reliable exposure operation, divides it so that adjacent ones of the divided regions may partly overlap each other. An exposure device includes a plurality of optical systems each of that projects one of a plurality of the divided regions onto the surface of the resist on the substrate. A control unit causes a plurality of the divided regions to be simultaneously projected on the surface of the resist in such a way as to cause duplex regions between the adjacent regions to overlap each other on the surface of the resist on the substrate to thereby cause the one unit of circuit pattern image to be formed on the surface of the resist on the substrate.

Exposure apparatus

A carrier for electrophotography includes a carrier core material provided with magnetism and a coating layer which coats the surface of the carrier core material and includes a high molecular weight polyethylene resin having a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 or more. An outermost layer containing a magnetic powder having a three-dimensional form of a convex polyhedron is formed on the outermost surface of the coating layer.

Carrier for electrophotography and developer for electrophotography using the carrier

A magnetic carrier for use in a developer for developing latent electrostatic images is composed of magnetic carrier particles with a particle size of 35 .mu.m or less in an amount of 15 wt. % or more, and a developer is composed of the above carrier and a toner. An image formation method is composed of the steps of (a) uniformly charging the surface of a photoconductor to a predetermined polarity, (b) forming latent electrostatic images including low potential portions and high potential portions on the photoconductor by subjecting the charged surface of the photoconductor to selective light radiation corresponding to light images, thereby selectively reducing the potential of the surface of the photoconductor, and (c) developing the thus formed latent electrostatic images to visible toner images by bringing the developer into contact with the latent-electrostatic-images-bearing photoconductor.

Magnetic carrier developer comprising the carrier for developing latent

An electrophotographic developing apparatus uses a two-component developer comprising a carrier and a toner for development. The apparatus includes an intermediate roller with a non-magnetic sleeve accommodating a magnetic roller disposed between a developing roller and an agitating device for tribo-frictionally charging the carrier and the toner. After forming a magnetic brush consisting of the carrier and the toner, the toner is transferred to the developing roller by applying a first bias to the intermediate roller and the developing roller. A second bias is applied to the developing roller and an image carrier included in the apparatus to cause the toner to selectively attach to the image carrier. A third bias is applied to the developing roller and the intermediate roller to cause the toner to transfer back to the intermediate roller. The intermediate roller has two like polarity poles facing the agitating device and has a peripheral speed which is greater than the developing roller and photosensitive drum.

Developing apparatus having developing roller which is loaded via an

Magnetic carrier and developer comprising the carrier for developing

Disclosed is an electrophotographic carrier comprising a magnetic carrier core and a coating layer composed of a high molecular weight polyethylene resin with which the carrier core is coated, wherein the coating layer composed of a high molecular weight polyethylene resin includes a layer containing hydrophobic silica, a magnetic powder, and/or a micropowdered resin at least as the outermost layer.

Electrophotographic carrier and electrophotographic developer using same

A granular charging agent capable of injecting the electric charge into a material to charge the surface of the material when coming in contact with the material with the application of a voltage to the charging agent, comprising magnetic particles which comprise electroconductive magnetic particles and high-resistivity magnetic particles of which resistivity is higher than that of the electroconductive magnetic particles. A granular charging agent may comprise magnetic particles, each magnetic particle comprising an electroconductive surface portion capable of forming a flow path of electric current and a surface portion with a resistivity higher than that of the electroconductive surface portion. In addition, a method of charging a material such as a photoconductor using the above-mentioned granular charging agent is disclosed.

Granular charging agent and charging method and image forming method

The present invention provides a simple, low-cost color classification apparatus having a high resistance to mechanical vibrations and capable of properly performing color classification even if a light source is not specified and its spectrum changes. A color classification apparatus of the present invention is further including an image pickup means for picking up a spectrum of light reflected by a target object, a plurality of bandpass filters having different bands and arranged between the target object and the image pickup means, and a classifying means for calculating a classification spectrum for classification using a statistic technique from a spectrum of light reflected by the target object and picked up by the image pickup means, and classifying the target object using the classification spectrum.

Color classification apparatus

An optical image reconstructing apparatus includes an optical image forming system. A focused surface controller moves the position of an object surface focused by the optical image forming system. An image pickup converts an image of an object formed by the optical image forming system into an electrical signal and outputs the electrical signal as an image signal. An adder adds a plurality of image signals output from the image pickup while the position of the object surface is moved by the focused surface controller. A frequency filtering device performs a frequency filtering operation on an image signal outputted from the adder to produce a filtered image signal. A rotation controller rotates the object or the optical image forming system at a predetermined angular interval around one point on an optical axis of the optical image forming system. An image synthesizing device performs interpolation on a plurality of filtered image signals output from the frequency filtering device while the object or the optical image forming system is rotated at the predetermined angular interval by the rotation controller, to synthesize images in a surface direction parallel to a rotation control surface of the rotation controller, thereby preparing a reconstructed three-dimensional image.

Optical image reconstructing apparatus capable of reconstructing optical

A particle charging apparatus for charging a photo-sensitive drum by magnetically holding magnetic particles in a charging zone and impressing a charging bias on the magnetic particles. Adjacent to an opposed pole which is disposed on the back side of the photo-sensitive drum on the charging zone upstream side for forming a vertical magnetic field, an opposite polarity magnet or magnetic member is disposed such that a mainly horizontal magnetic field is formed on the drum by the opposed and adjacent poles. A vertical magnetic field is formed on the charging zone downstream side by a main pole and the opposed pole. A non-magnetic sleeve with the main pole therein is rotated in the direction opposite that of the drum, thus causing magnetic particles in the vertical magnetic field to be circulated toward the charging zone upstream side. Leakage and spattering of magnetic particles out of the charging zone is effectively prevented by simple construction, and stable charging is permitted even with a reduced photo-sensitive drum size or with assembling errors of a charging sleeve or the like.

Charging apparatus for charging a photo-sensitive member by magnetically

A microscopic specimen such as a cell organelle or a tissue cell generally has a non-rotational symmetrical refractive index distribution. Converging onto the microscopic specimen a laser beam with a non-rotational symmetrical intensity distribution (an elliptical pattern) traps the specimen, with the direction of the major axis of the specimen aligned with the direction of the major axis of the elliptical pattern of the laser beam. This is because the laser beam with the non-rotational symmetrical refractive index distribution has a non-rotational symmetrical trapping force, and hence can trap the specimen with non-rotational symmetrical refractive index distribution in a dynamically reliable manner. Thus, rotation of the major axis of the intensity distribution of the laser beam causes rotation of the trapped specimen.

Method and apparatus for optical micro manipulation

A color discrimination data input apparatus includes a light source for generating illumination light for illuminating a target object, a spectroscope for producing a spectrum having a plurality of spectral components, a color classification filter set to have a light-transmitting characteristic to pass only a light component having a wavelength range suitable for classification from the spectral components generated by the spectroscope in order to classify the spectral components reflected by the target object into predetermined classes, a photoelectric converting circuit for converting a reflected spectral component, upon radiation of the spectral component passing through the color classification filter on the target object, into an electrical signal, classifying circuit for classifying the reflected spectral components in accordance with the electrical signal output from the photoelectric converting circuit, the color estimating circuit of estimating a color of the target object from the reflected spectral component classified into any one of the classes by the classifying circuit on the basis of a preset absolute color estimation matrix, and an output unit for outputting a classification result obtained from the classifying circuit and an object color measurement result output from the color estimating circuit.

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Hachioji, Japan

Susumu Kikuchi