Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.

Adv Antest Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Takashi Ochi

Yasuaki Watanabe

Takashi Matsubara

Masashi Okamoto

Shota Oba

Shigeru Inaba

Jun Abe

Shinichi Kuramoto

Yoshitaka Nakajima

Tomoyuki Yoshii

Yoshifumi Ozaki

Toshihiro Kanematsu

Shinichiro Fujimori

Takashi Ohashi

Hideki Fujiwara

Shinji Okuyama

Kenta Urayama

Fumiyuki Honda

Toshimasa Toyama

Takehide Kasahara

Makoto Hirota

Akihiko Noda

Keitaro Mori

Miho Ikeda

Kenji Ogi

Akihisa Maruyama

Noboru Hirakawa

Noriaki Chiba

Dai Nagahara

Takayuki Yamashita

Sadahiro Sugimoto

Tomohiro Yoshihara

Kei Tanaka

Masahiko Kubo

Naoya Okada

Shigeru Arai

Nobukazu Takahashi

Kouichi Kimura

Masanori Kato

Yoshiki Shimodaira

Takahiko Takeda

Norihiro Tamazawa

Kiyohito Horii

Yasuhiko Yamaguchi

Yoshihito Nakagawa

Hideki Kuge

Hirokazu Morii

Mitsutoshi Hongo

Takashi Noda

Takashi Yamamuro

Masato Yamashita

Tomoshi Hara

Yuki Yokoyama

Yuta Hoshino

Shigemi Murata

Toshiya Seki

Ryota Tomishi

Taiyou Uehara

Koji Kutsuwa

Koichi Yanai

Koji Okomori

Akinobu Chatani

Hiroshi Koyamoto

Shota Igawa

Jun Miyashita

Takahiro Miyazaki

Jun Makihara

Yuji Ozawa

Hisashi Murase

Hideaki Nisogi

Katsumasa Ono

Masaya Tosaka

Kunio Takebayashi

Kazuyuki Fujita

Shiho Matsuda

Masahiko Fujita

Kazunari Soga

Toji Tokutsu

Nobutaka Suzuki

A developing device includes: a housing in which a developer is contained; a cover member configured to cover an upper opening of the housing; a developer holder that is supported by the housing and holds the developer on an outer surface and rotates; and a regulating member that faces the developer holder and is configured to regulate an amount of the developer on the outer surface. The device also includes a first exit path inclined toward an inside of the housing which is configured to exit air from the inside of the housing to an outside of the cover member. A second exit path connects the first exit path and a filter member provided on the cover member, in which the filter member prevents passage of the developer and allows for passage of air.

Developing device with filter and a plurality of air exit paths and image forming apparatus

The storage system includes a controller and a storage drive accessible from the controller. The controller includes a memory and a processing unit. The memory includes a first cache area in which the writing of data by the storage drive is permitted, and a second cache area in which the writing of data by the storage drive is prohibited. A In the first cache area, the storage of data, by staging-in-advance in response to a read request for a sequential read, by the processing unit is permitted, and the storage of cache data in a dirty state by the processing unit is prohibited. In the second cache area, the storage of the cache data in the dirty state by the processing unit is permitted.

Storage system

A liquid applying device includes a circulation member, an impregnation member, and a support member. The circulation member is configured to circulate in a predetermined direction. The impregnation member is formed in a plate shape. The impregnation member is impregnated with a liquid. The impregnation member is in contact with the circulation member at an end portion thereof in a direction intersecting with a circulating direction of the circulation member so as to apply the liquid to the circulation member. The support member supports a portion including an end portion side of the impregnation member, at an opposite side of the circulation member in a state where the end portion of the impregnation member is in contact with the circulation member.

Liquid applying device for fixing belt

A powder transport apparatus includes a first transport path disposed in the first transport path, a second transport path connected to the first transport path through a first connection port and a junction port, a third transport path connected to the second transport path through a second connection port, a second transport member that is disposed in the second transport path and includes a first shaft provided with a first spiral blade that transports powder toward the first connection port, a second spiral blade that is provided in a portion of the first shaft between the first connection port and the junction port and that has a transport force smaller than a transport force of the first spiral blade in the one direction, and a third transport member disposed in the third transport path. The third transport member transports the powder toward the second connection port.

Powder transport apparatus

A belt-type transport device includes a belt, a pressure unit, a nip forming unit, a belt stretching roller, an inclination controller, a contact unit, and a support unit. The belt is an endless belt, has an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface, and is to be rotated. The pressure unit is in contact with the outer circumferential surface of the belt. The nip forming unit presses the belt against the pressure unit so as to form a nip through which a recording medium is to be transported. The belt stretching roller is disposed inside the belt and stretches the belt. The inclination controller controls inclination of the belt stretching roller. The contact unit is provided along a width direction of the belt and is in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the belt. The support unit supports the contact unit such that the contact unit is able to follow inclination of the belt which is changed due to the inclination of the belt stretching roller.

Belt-type transport device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

A transport device includes a first belt member, a second belt member, a first roller, a second roller, a third roller, a fourth roller, a fifth roller, and a sixth roller. The second belt member is in contact with the first belt member to form a contact portion in cooperation with the first belt member. The first roller is capable of adjusting a tilt in a longitudinal direction of the first roller. The second roller is capable of adjusting a tilt in a longitudinal direction of the second roller. The third and fourth rollers are located adjacent to the first roller. The fifth and sixth rollers are located adjacent to the second roller. The third roller, the fourth roller, the fifth roller, and the sixth roller each have a uniform diameter in a longitudinal direction of the roller, and are disposed at positions other than the contact portion.

Transport device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit and a pair of measuring units. The transfer unit transfers an image onto at least one recording medium by applying a voltage between the at least one recording medium and the image along a thickness direction of the at least one recording medium. Before the transfer unit applies the voltage, the pair of measuring units measure respective electrical resistance values of a front surface and a rear surface of the at least one recording medium in a direction crossing the thickness direction.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method for measuring electrical resistance value of recording medium

A developing device includes a developing sleeve and a regulation portion. The developing sleeve includes a magnetism generating portion to which magnetic poles are attached. The developing sleeve holds a developer on an outer circumferential surface. The regulation portion includes a magnetic plate. A first segment connecting a peak position of the magnetic pole disposed at a position facing the magnetic plate and an axial center of the developing sleeve has an angle, with respect to a second segment connecting the magnetic plate and the axial center, equal to or less than 7 degrees on a downstream side in a rotation direction of the developing sleeve and equal to or less than 6 degrees on an upstream side in the rotation direction. An angle of a half value width of the magnetic pole is equal to or greater than 41 degrees to equal to or less than 52 degrees.

Developing device and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section and a controller. The image forming section transfers a toner image to a transfer target and includes plural developing units. The plural developing units include a first developing unit and at least one second developing unit. The plural developing units each include an image holding body and a developing roller. The image holding body has an outer circumferential surface and is rotated. The controller controls the image forming section so that, when a low-area-coverage portion and a high-area-coverage portion are disposed adjacent to each other and are formed by the first developing unit, a correction toner image is superposed on a boundary portion, where the low-area-coverage portion and the high-area-coverage portion are adjacent to each other, by the at least one second developing unit.

Image forming apparatus including a controller that controls superposition of a correction toner image

A transport mechanism includes: a container that stores a specific developer; a transport body that transports the developer in an axial direction of a shaft about which the transport body rotates in the container while stirring the developer; a bearing that supports the transport body such that the transport body is rotatable about the shaft; and a restricting portion that has a substantially annular shape and a maximum magnetic force of about 20 mT or greater and about 50 mT or smaller and restricts the transportation of the developer past the restricting portion by surrounding the shaft, the restricting portion being provided nearer to a side on which the transport body transports the developer than the bearing in the axial direction of the shaft.

Transport mechanism, developing device, and image forming apparatus

An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a first detection unit, a first determination unit, a second detection unit, a second determination unit, a correction unit, and a transmitting unit. The acquisition unit acquires image information having multiple pixels. The first detection unit detects sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels in accordance with the image information. The first determination unit determines whether or not a development-related defect occurs in a preset number of pixels downstream of the sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels in the sub-scanning direction. The second detection unit detects an end pixel in the main scanning direction. The second determination unit determines whether or not each of sub-scanning-direction boundary pixels arranged in the main scanning direction is close to the end pixel in the main scanning direction. The correction unit corrects the image information. The transmitting unit transmits the image information corrected by the correction unit to an image forming apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, image forming system, image forming apparatus, and image processing method for correcting density of image information

An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a developer container, a moving mechanism that moves a toner of a developer to the image carrier, a stirring and transporting member that transports the developer in the developer container to the moving mechanism, a layer thickness regulating member that regulates the layer thickness of the developer held by a developer holder of the moving mechanism, and a movement regulating unit that regulates movement of the developer. An end of the movement regulating unit at a stirring and transporting member side is located at the stirring and transporting member side with respect to a tangent line tangent to the outer circumference of the stirring and transporting member and passing through a position where the density of magnetic flux of an attraction magnetic pole of a magnet member of the moving mechanism on the surface of the developing holder is the highest.

Image forming apparatus and developing device

A two-component developer includes toner and a magnetic carrier. The two-component developer is used in a developing device including a circular cylindrical developer transporting member that is disposed so as to be separated by 125 &#x3bc;m to 250 &#x3bc;m from a latent image carrier that rotates. The two-component developer is used so as to satisfy a condition in which a width of a region where a magnetic brush contacts a surface of the latent image carrier is in a range of from 1.0 mm to 2.25 mm, and a condition in which a developer density of the region where the magnetic brush contacts the surface of the latent image carrier is in a range of from 0.75&#xd7;10to 1.50&#xd7;10g/m.

Two-component developer, developing device, and image forming apparatus

The present invention provides a prophylactic or therapeutic agent and a prophylactic or therapeutic method superior in the prophylaxis or treatment of Sjogren's syndrome. Provided are a prophylactic or therapeutic agent for Sjogren's syndrome, containing a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the Specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a method for the prophylaxis or treatment of Sjogren's syndrome, including administering an effective amount of the compound represented by the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to a subject in need thereof.

Prophylactic or therapeutic method for Sjogren's syndrome

A developing device includes: a developing member including a magnetism-generating member having plural magnetic poles polarized in a circumferential-direction thereof, and a rotating member that is rotated about the magnetism-generating member; a developer-pumping pole provided in the magnetism-generating member, and that pumps up the developer, which is supplied from a developer accommodating portion, to the rotating member surface; a developer-peeling-off pole provided in the magnetism-generating member below a rotation axis of the rotating member in a vertical direction on an upstream side of the developer-pumping pole in a rotational-direction of the rotating member, that peels off the developer from the rotating member surface; and a magnetic body provided in at least a portion between a facing position facing the developer-peeling-off pole in a circumferential-direction of the rotating member and an intermediate position between the developer-peeling-off pole and the developer-pumping pole in the circumferential direction, facing the rotating member surface.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takashi Ochi