Ricoh Company, Ltd.

The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kansai Paint Company, Ltd.

Medical Therapies Limited

Takanori Ito

Takashi Matsui

Hiroyuki Kawamoto

Masato Ishii

Takeharu Tone

Satoshi Ohkawa

Hiroaki Honda

Yasunobu Shirata

Takashi Muramatsu

Atsushi Togami

Akira Murakata

Shuji Kimura

Kosuke Iwase

Sadatoshi Sakuma

Tomoyuki Yoshida

Hideki Hagiwara

Toshiya Hikita

Sachio Takeda

Machiko Abe

Toshimi Yamamura

Atsuya Kato

Kazuyuki Kuwano

Takumi Nozawa

Feng Gao

Koji Endo

Yukihiko Tamura

Junji Akahane

Masatoshi Hayashibara

Yuchao Jiao

Niancun Wang

Yulong Li

Tsukasa Uno

Jiang Wu

Jingwei Huang

Xiquan Jia

You Kato

Mari Shimizu

Mingquan Wang

In a pneumatic tire, a bead core has end portions in a tire width direction formed as vertical lines along a tire radial direction. A length of the vertical lines is from 20% to 30% of a core height. In two adjacent bead core layers of first, second and third layers, the radial outer layer tire includes two or more bead cores more than the radially inner layer tire, and a misalignment amount between the bead wires each at an end portion on one side in the tire width direction is one-half of a bead wire thickness. A side on which the misalignment amount between the first and second layer bead wires is one-half of the thickness of the bead wire is opposite in the tire width direction to a side on which the misalignment amount between the second and third layer bead wires is one-half of the thickness of the bead wire.

Pneumatic tire and method for manufacturing pneumatic tire

This invention relates to a conductive paste for lithium-ion battery positive electrodes and a mixture paste for a lithium ion battery positive electrode that have an easy-to-apply viscosity, even when a relatively small amount of a dispersion resin is incorporated. More specifically, the invention provides a conductive paste for lithium-ion battery positive electrodes, the conductive paste comprising a dispersion resin (A), conductive carbon (B), and a solvent (C), the dispersion resin (A) containing a resin (A1), the resin (A1) containing, as one constituent component, a polymerizable unsaturated group-containing monomer (A1-1) represented by a specific formula.

Conductive paste for lithium-ion battery positive electrodes and mixture paste for lithium-ion battery positive electrodes

The pneumatic tire includes at least three circumferential main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction and a plurality of land portions partitioned and formed by the circumferential main grooves. Also, the belt layer is formed by laminating a pair of cross belts having a belt angle, as an absolute value, of not less than 10&#xb0; and not more than 45&#xb0; and of mutually opposite signs, and a circumferential reinforcing layer having a belt angle within a range of &#xb1;5&#xb0; with respect to the tire circumferential direction. Also, when viewed as a cross-section from the tire meridian direction, the distance Dcc on the tire equatorial plane from the circumferential reinforcing layer to the wear end surface and the distance De from the end portion of the circumferential reinforcing layer to the wear end surface have a relationship such that 1.06&#x2264;De/Dcc.

Pneumatic tire

It is intended to provide an antibody which inhibits the function of midkine. An antibody which recognizes an epitope consisting of amino acid residues 62 to 104 of midkine or a fragment thereof; DNA encoding the antibody or a fragment thereof; a recombinant vector which contains the DNA; a transformant which has the vector or a hybridoma which produces the antibody; a method for producing the antibody by allowing the transformant or hybridoma to produce the antibody or a fragment thereof and collecting the resulting antibody or fragment thereof; a pharmaceutical composition containing the antibody or a fragment thereof as an active ingredient; and a diagnostic agent containing the antibody or a fragment thereof as an active ingredient.

Antibody recognizing C-domain of midkine

An image recording device records an image on a recording sheet based on input image information. The image recording device includes: an illumination-light-information inputting unit that inputs information of illumination light when the recorded image is observed; a whiteness setting unit that sets a whiteness of the recording sheet when the recorded image is observed; an addition amount determining unit that determines an amount of fluorescent-whitening-agent to be added to the recording sheet based on the input information of the illumination light and the whiteness that is set; and a fluorescent-whitening-agent adding unit that adds an amount of fluorescent-whitening-agent onto the recording sheet according to the determined amount of fluorescent-whitening-agent.

Image recording device, image recording method, and computer program product that adds a fluorescent-whitening-agent onto a recording sheet

An image processing apparatus is disclosed. In the image processing apparatus, a vector converting section converts image data output from a color scanner into vector coefficients, and a color mapping section converts the image data, which are converted into the vector coefficients, into L kinds of record image data corresponding to color materials which are used by a color printer, by referring to an M-dimensional LUT (lookup table). In the M-dimensional LUT, record image data optimal under plural observing light sources have been stored corresponding to the image data converted into the vector coefficients.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium storing image processing program

A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an image scanning unit configured to generate image data by converting light reflected from an optically scanned printed page into electrical signals; an interface configured to receive image data from an external apparatus; an expansion bus to which the image scanning unit and the interface are connected; a bus control unit configured to control the expansion bus; an image data storage unit configured to store the image data; at least one image processing unit connected to the expansion bus and configured to perform an image processing operation on the image data; a task management unit configured to send an image processing request to the image processing unit; and an image writing unit connected to the expansion bus and configured to print the image data on which the image processing operation has been performed by the image processing unit.

Image forming apparatus, image processing unit, image processing method, and recording medium having image processing control program with task management

A color image forming apparatus having a function for duplicating an image in two desired colors. A color of an image of an original document is read into color elements of a red (R), a green (G), and a blue (B) color, represented by corresponding image signals R, G, and B, respectively. The image processing unit distinguishes between a first case that the read color is a chromatic color and a second case that the read color is an achromatic color. When the color is distinguished as a chromatic color, the image processing unit converts the color into one of two predetermined colors, each defined by color elements C, M, Y, and K corresponding to image signals C, M, Y, and K, respectively. When the color is distinguished as an achromatic color, the image processing unit converts the color into the other one of the two predetermined colors. In accordance with such conversion of colors, the image processing units outputs image processing signals C, M, Y, and K representing corresponding color elements C, M, Y, and K, respectively, defining each of the two predetermined colors to reproduce an image in the two predetermined colors.

Color image forming apparatus having function for duplicating image in

A color correction device used for a color electrophotographic machine or color printing machine. The device includes a hue area judgement unit for judging to which hue area among at least three predetermined hue areas the hue represented by input color image signals belongs. With respect to the judged hue area according to this judgement, color correction parameters are set, and in accordance with the set color correction parameters, the input image signals are converted to output color image signals used for printing.

Color correction device and method having a hue area judgement unit

A color correction device used for a color electrophotographic machine or color printing machine. The device includes a hue area judgement unit for judging to which hue area among at least three predetermined hue areas the hut represented by input color image signals belongs by comparing the input color image signals with each other. With respect to the judged hue area according to this judgment, color correction parameters are set, and in accordance with the set color correction parameters, the input image signals are converted to output color image signals used for printing.

Color correction device with a hue area judgment unit to determine

A black color component extracting apparatus used for a color image reproducing machine. The apparatus includes a hue area judgement unit for judging to which hue area among at least three predetermined hue areas the hue represented by input color image signals belongs. With respect to the judged hue area according to this judgement, the black color extraction parameters are set, and in accordance with the set black color extraction parameters, black color component is extracted. The black color extraction parameters are determined from two chromatic colors P and Q positioned in respective boundary planes which defines the judge hue area, and from an achromatic color N.

Method and apparatus for extracting black color component

A digital color copying machine including a color-decomposing circuit for decomposing an incident color image into three fundamental colors and generating respective corresponding digital color signals; a color conversion circuit connected to the color-decomposing circuit for extracting a black component and one signal with the greatest density level from the three digital color signals and generating a plurality of fundamental color signals corresponding to the three digital color signals, and a first signal corresponding to the black component and a second signal corresponding to the one signal with the greatest density level; an image recorder connected to the color conversion circuit for recording on a predetermined medium images in the color corresponding to at least one of the fundamental color signals, the first signal and the second signal supplied thereto from the color conversion circuit; and a control circuit for controlling the color conversion circuit to deliver to the image recorder either the fundamental color signals and the first signal when recording in a plurality of colors in said first signal, the second signal when recording in the color corresponding to the second signal, or the first signal when recording in the color corresponding to the first signal.

Digital color copying machine

An image information processing method comprises a step of generating electrical color image signals representative of the quantities of light of separated colors from an object, and a step of converting the generated color image signals to signals with values substantially proportional to the cubic root of the quantities of light from the object with respect to the respective separated colors. The method comprises a step of adjusting recording gradation characteristics of respective colors to be recorded such that the values of color image signals to be recorded are substantially proportional to the cubic root of recorded reflectivities, respectively, and a step of determining recording gradations of the respective colors in accordance with the color image signals by using the adjusted recording gradation characteristics.

Method of processing image information

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takanori Ito