Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Taichi Yamada

Wataru Suzuki

Daisuke Nakayama

Akira Matsumoto

Jiro Minabe

Kazutoshi Yatsuda

Yosuke Tsurumi

Satoshi Shigezaki

Fusako Kiyono

Kazunari Komatsuzaki

Nobuhiro Katsuta

Akihiro Iizuka

Kentaro Ageishi

Tokuya Sakamoto

Yoshinari Ueno

Shiro Suzuki

Satoshi Inoue

Yasuhiro Uehara

Yasuhiro Oda

Yasuo Yamamoto

Hirotaka Matsuoka

Masahiro Takagi

Fumiaki Mera

Shinichi Kuramoto

Yasuhiro Kusumoto

Shigehiko Sasaki

Yutaka Sugizaki

Takuro Hoshio

Yoshinori Nakano

Masahiro Uchida

Masaki Nakamura

Fumio Ojima

Mutsumi Kikuchi

Naoki Ohta

Makoto Sakanobe

Hideyuki Akagi

Hiroyuki Fukuda

Toshio Masubuchi

Nagahito Ichijo

Yoshihiro Maekawa

Susumu Hiranuma

Yoshinori Kubo

Masayuki Ookoshi

Tomoki Kutsuwada

Yutaka Agawa

A filament for three-dimensional modeling includes two or more kinds of resins; a fiber; and a compatibilizing agent, and has a sea-island structure including a sea part and island parts, the sea part including at least one kind of the two or more kinds of resins and the island parts including at least one kind of the two kinds of resins.

Filament for three-dimensional modeling

An impregnation device includes an impregnation unit, a first supply unit, a second supply unit, and a supply controller. The impregnation unit impregnates a bundle of transported continuous fibers with a resin mixture. The first supply unit supplies a resin of a first composition to the impregnation unit. The second supply unit supplies a resin of a second composition that is different from the resin of the first composition to the impregnation unit. The supply controller controls an amount of resin supplied from the first supply unit and the second supply unit to the impregnation unit.

Impregnation device and shaping apparatus

A manufacturing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and an elimination unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire information relating to an accumulation amount of a twisting force generated in a linear manufacturing material during applying. The elimination unit is configured to eliminate the twisting force based on the information relating to the accumulation amount.

Manufacturing apparatus

Provided is a shaping apparatus including: a stage; and a delivery unit configured to: deliver and apply a shaping material in which continuous fibers is impregnated with a resin onto the stage; and, configured to change delivery amounts between an inner side and an outer side of a path of the shaping material according to a difference in path lengths between the inner side and the outer side, the difference being generated when an applying direction of the shaping material is changed.

Shaping apparatus

A filament for three-dimensional modeling includes a first resin; a second resin; a fiber; and a compatibilizing agent, wherein a fiber coated with the second resin is dispersed in a matrix formed of the first resin, the compatibilizing agent is interposed between the first resin and the second resin, a thickness of a coating layer formed of the second resin is 0.1 &#x3bc;m or more and 5 &#x3bc;m or less, and a content rate of the second resin with respect to a total weight of the first resin, the second resin, and the compatibilizing agent is 30% by weight or more and 50% by weight or less, or 5% by weight or more and 15% by weight or less.

Filament for three-dimensional modeling, three-dimensional modeled article, three-dimensional modeling method, and three-dimensional modeling apparatus

A forming-material connecting device includes a cutter that cuts a forming material constituted by plural continuous fiber bundles being impregnated with a resin material and supplied in a supply direction corresponding to an extending direction of the plural continuous fiber bundles. The cutter cuts at least a portion of the plural continuous fiber bundles. The forming-material connecting device also includes a joining portion joining portions of the forming material, which are cut by the cutter at a cutting point in the forming material, on a downstream and upstream side with respect to the cutting point in the supply direction by heating to join the resin materials of the portions of the forming material, or the joining portion joins a preceding forming material's trailing end portion and a leading end portion of a following forming material by heating to join resin materials of the preceding forming material and following forming material.

Forming-material connecting device and forming apparatus

A liquid development device includes a storage section storing a liquid developer in which toner is dispersed, a development member to which the liquid developer stored in the storage section is applied using an application unit, a removing device that, after an electrostatic latent image in a latent image-holding member is developed, removes the liquid developer remaining on the development member, and a shearing device that is provided in a path through which the liquid developer removed using the removing device is returned to the storage section, and applies a shear force to the liquid developer removed using the removing device by making the liquid developer pass through a contact section of two members at least one of which rotates and that have different velocities from each other.

Liquid development device and image-forming apparatus

Provided is a recovery device including a recovery mechanism that recovers a liquid developer from a holding member which revolves while holding the liquid developer, the liquid developer being not delivered from the holding member to a delivery target member and remains on the holding member, a reception section that receives the liquid developer which the recovery mechanism recovers, an addition member that adds a diluent, which reduces a toner concentration of the liquid developer, to the liquid developer that the reception section receives, a porous section through which the liquid developer passes, and a transport member that moves to transport the liquid developer which the reception section receives to the porous section, and causes the liquid developer to pass through the porous section.

Recovery device and image forming apparatus for recovering liquid developer and passing the liquid developer through a porous section

Provided is a toner adjusting mechanism, including a storage section in which a liquid developer is stored, a supply section that causes the liquid developer which is stored in the storage section to flow at a predetermined flow velocity to supply the liquid developer to a developer tank, a circulating section that causes the liquid developer which is discharged from the storage section to flow and circulate at a flow velocity faster than the flow velocity of the liquid developer which flows in the supply section, a detecting section that detects a toner concentration of the liquid developer which flows in the circulating section, and an addition section that adds an adjustment agent which adjusts the toner concentration of the liquid developer to the liquid developer which is stored in the storage section.

Toner adjusting mechanism and image forming apparatus

Provided is a liquid developer supply device including plural accommodation tubs that respectively accommodate a liquid developer, a high concentration liquid developer, a dilution liquid and a standard concentration liquid developer, a first detection section that detects a solid component concentration of the liquid developer, and an amount of the liquid developer that is accommodated in the accommodation tubs, and a control section that controls the solid component concentration of the liquid developer to within the concentration range by supplying at least one of the high concentration liquid developer and the dilution liquid to an accommodation tub in which the liquid developer is accommodated based on detection results that are detected by the first detection section, and controls the amount of the liquid developer to greater than or equal to a predetermined amount by supplying the standard concentration liquid developer.

Liquid developer supply device and image forming apparatus

A liquid development device includes a storage section storing a liquid developer in which toner is dispersed, a development member to which the liquid developer stored in the storage section is applied using an application unit, a removing device that, after an electrostatic latent image in a latent image-holding member is developed, removes the liquid developer remaining in the development member, and a shearing device that is provided in a path through which the liquid developer removed using the removing device is returned to the storage section, and applies a shear force to the liquid developer by making the liquid developer pass through a contact section of two members either or both of which rotate and that have different circumferential velocities from each other.

An electrostatic charge image developer includes a toner containing an external additive and a carrier comprising a resin-coated layer formed on a surface of a core material. The average shape factor SF1 of the toner is from 125 to 135, the number of particles having shape factor SF1 of less than 125 is from 5% to 30% by number with respect to the total number of toner particles, the number of particles having shape factor SF1 of greater than 135 is from 5% to 30% by number with respect to the total number of toner particles, the scratch line width in a scratch strength test of the resin used in the resin-coated layer is from 80 &#x3bc;m to 200 &#x3bc;m, and the scratch depth is from 60 &#x3bc;m to 150 &#x3bc;m.

Electrostatic charge image developer, process cartridge and image forming apparatus

A developing unit includes: a developing roller; a first conveying member provided in a first container, having a first shaft and a spiral blade, that agitates and conveys developer; a second conveying member provided in a second container connected to the first container via a hole, having a second shaft and a spiral blade, that agitates and conveys the developer; and a supplying member having a third shaft and a paddle blade, that supplies the developer conveyed by the first or the second conveying member to a developing roller, wherein: at least one of the first and second shafts includes a first portion that faces the hole and a second portion that does not face the hole; and a diameter of the at least one of the first and second shafts in at least a part of the first portion is smaller than a diameter in the second portion.

Developing unit and image-forming apparatus

A carrier for developing an electrostatic latent image includes carrier particles, and the carrier particles include magnetic particles and a coating layer coating the surfaces of the magnetic particles. The BET specific surface area of the magnetic particles is 0.1300 m/g to 0.2500 m/g, and the difference in BET specific surface areas obtained by subtracting the BET specific surface area of the magnetic particles from the BET specific surface area of the carrier particles is 0.0300 m/g to 0.400 m/g.

Carrier for electrostatic latent image development, and developer for electrostatic latent image development, method of forming an image, developer cartridge for electrostatic latent image development, process cartridge and image forming apparatus using the same

The present invention provides an image forming apparatus comprising at least an image holding member, an charging unit, a latent image forming unit, a developing unit, an intermediate transfer belt, a primary transfer unit, a secondary transfer unit, a fixing unit, and a cleaning unit, wherein a surface hardness of a side, of the intermediate transfer belt, contacting with the image holding member being 10 to 30, a carrier in the developer having at least two resin-coated layers on a surface of a core material containing ferrite, and the core material having a surface roughness Sm of 2.0 &#x3bc;m or less, a surface roughness Ra of 0.1 &#x3bc;m or more, and an average a circularity degree of 0.975 to 1.000.

Image forming apparatus for electrophotographic imaging

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Kanagawa, Japan

Taichi Yamada