Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Jae Electronics, Inc.

Kirin Holdings Kabushiki Kaisha

Takayuki Nishimura

Hiroaki Obikane

Toshiro Kobuchi

Toshio Miyazawa

Junichi Hara

Nekka Matsuura

Hiroyuki Sakuyama

Yasuyuki Nomizu

Taku Kodama

Takanori Yano

Yasuyuki Shinkai

Tohru Matsumoto

Kenta Ashibu

Yuichi Takenaga

Takashi Omodachi

Shingo Suzuki

Tomoyasu Hirasawa

Hiromitsu Fujiya

Masanori Saitoh

Kenichi Takehara

Hideyo Makino

Satoshi Okano

Satoshi Nakayama

Joe Motojima

Atsushi Kobayashi

Takuya Takahashi

Akihiro Matsunaga

Keisuke Yuasa

Takahiro Yagishita

Akira Kimura

Keiichi Suzuki

Hiroshi Akimoto

Yoshinori Honma

Yukifumi Kobayashi

Tetsuya Ofuchi

Yasuaki Iijima

Daisuke Machihara

Noriaki Takenaga

Yasuyuki Sekino

Yasushi Abe

Yuzo Sato

Keisuke Ikeda

Yukio Kadowaki

Katsumi Arai

Toshio Watanabe

Takashi Maki

Takashi Fukumoto

Yasufumi Yahiro

Masaru Yamagishi

Ikuko Yamashiro

Seiji Nagao

Hideaki Matsui

Akio Matsubara

Yuichi Hirose

Yuji Karikusa

Shuhei Yamaguchi

Yoshimasa Taniguchi

Daiki Sekita

Kazumitsu Watanabe

Kohsuke Yoshida

Takahiro Ogino

Hiroki Terauchi

Kohtaroh Oda

Yuusuke Kumagawa

Yutaro Mori

Naoya Kitada

Hotaka Sanda

Eriko Takeshi

Mayuka Miwa

Kazuya Sakamoto

Toru Nakatani

Connector

A connector includes a housing extending in a predetermined direction intersecting the fitting direction, a plurality of contacts held by the housing and arrayed along the predetermined direction, and a reinforcing member held at an end portion of the housing in the predetermined direction and made of a metal material, the reinforcing member having a first member and a second member, the first member including a first reinforcing portion extending in a U-shape along the end portion of the housing when viewed in the fitting direction, and a connecting portion connected to the first reinforcing portion and electrically connected to a counter reinforcing member of the counter connector, the second member being formed as a separate component from the first member and including a second reinforcing member extending in a U-shape along the first reinforcing portion when viewed in the fitting direction.

Connector with a reinforcing member

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method for determining the structure of a target substance contained in a multicomponent sample. The present invention provides a method of determining the structure of a target substance contained in a mixture of two or more substances, wherein the method includes the steps of: isolating the target substance from the mixture by means of supercritical fluid chromatography, soaking the isolated target substance into a crystalline sponge to produce a sample for crystallography, and performing a crystallographic analysis on the sample for crystallography. A volatile solvent can be used as a mobile phase in the supercritical fluid chromatography.

Method for determining structure of substance in multicomponent sample

Electrical connector

An image forming apparatus includes an information obtainer, a memory, a candidate determining unit, and an image forming device. The information obtainer obtains feature information from the target recording medium. The memory stores at least one set of recording medium information regarding the target recording medium associated with the feature information and at least one set of image forming condition information corresponding to the recording medium information. The recording medium information is identification information. The candidate determining unit determines a candidate recording medium information from the recording medium information stored in the memory based on the feature information of the target recording medium obtained by the information obtainer. The image forming device forms an image on the target recording medium based on the image forming condition information in the memory according to the candidate recording medium information determined by the candidate determining unit.

Image forming apparatus incorporating information detector

A connector is mateable with a mating connector along an upper-lower direction (Z-direction). The connector comprises a housing and a terminal. The housing has a holding portion and an upstanding portion which are apart from each other in a width direction (Y-direction). The upstanding portion has a stop portion. The terminal has a held portion held by the holding portion and a spring portion extending from the held portion. The spring portion has a base portion and an upward extending portion extending upward from the base portion. The upward extending portion has a facing portion which faces the upstanding portion in the width direction. The facing portion has a stopped portion. Under a mated state where the connector and the mating connector are mated with each other, the stop portion is located above the stopped portion and faces the stopped portion in the upper-lower direction.

Connector having a mechanism which prevents plastic deformation of a terminal

A sheet discriminator, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus and an image forming system, includes a sheet loader on which a recording medium is loaded, an information detector including a light emitter to emit light to a surface of the recording medium loaded on the sheet loader and a light receiver to receive the light emitted by the light emitter and detecting information of the recording medium, a sheet distinguisher to distinguish a type of the recording medium based on the information detected by the information detector, and a light emission controller to control activation and stop of the light emitter and activate the light emitter before the information detector starts detection of the information of the recording medium.

Sheet discriminator, image forming apparatus incorporating same, and image forming system incorporating same to distinguish sheet types

A sheet discriminator, which can be included in an image forming apparatus, includes an optical information detector, a sheet distinguisher, and a sheet thickness detector. The optical information detector includes a light emitter to emit light to a recording medium and a light receiver to receive the light and detects information of the recording medium. The sheet distinguisher distinguishes a type of the recording medium based on the information detected by the optical information detector. The sheet thickness detector includes a displacement gauge to sandwich the recording medium with an opposing member disposed facing the displacement gauge and to move from an initial position thereof and a displacement detector to detect an amount of displacement of the displacement gauge. The sheet thickness detector detects a thickness of the recording medium based on detection results obtained by the displacement detector.

Sheet discriminator and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet discriminator

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Tokyo, Japan

Takayuki Nishimura