Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Nihon Kohden Corporation

Hitachi Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Tdk Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Agc Inc.

Nippon Hoso' Kyokai

Nara Machinery Co., Ltd.

Jmtc Enzyme Corporation

Sony Corporation

Takayuki Tanaka

Shinji Katagiri

Shohei Ishio

Naoki Katagiyama

Wataru Takahashi

Osamu Hashiguchi

Osamu Iwasaki

Yuji Takahashi

Shuichi Tetsuno

Tsuguhiro Yoshida

Keisuke Ishizumi

Yoshikuni Ito

Takahiro Ikeda

Satoshi Tsuruya

Takeshi Fujino

Shinichi Nishida

Takahiro Kawamoto

Masaru Shimura

Hideto Shimazu

Kazunari Hagiwara

Hirokazu Kobayashi

Tetsuro Goto

Masaki Ishiguro

Tomonori Matsunaga

Koji An

Junichi Suyama

Yuichi Koreeda

Shinya Takahashi

Masahiko Shimizu

Hideyuki Tanaka

Hideo Tanaka

Tsutomu Wakabayashi

Ken Nakagawa

Hideo Sugimoto

Masaya Endo

Shogo Shinkai

Hiroto Kawaguchi

Takumi Furukawa

Yoshizumi Eto

Tomoko Katsuhara

Fumihiko Iida

Kei Tsukamoto

Yuki Hashimoto

Satoru Motohashi

Taizo Nishimura

Yasuyoshi Hori

Masashige Tamura

Atsushi Miyashita

Takashi Itaya

Hiroshi Mizuno

Hayato Hasegawa

Yasuhiro Horiguchi

Kenji Karashima

Hiroko Yokoyama

Ryu Watanabe

Norio Takahashi

Yasuyuki Abe

Michihiro Ogata

Yuuichi Oonami

Taiki Kumi

Seiichi Sano

Junji Yasuda

Toshio Kano

Eiichi Hamana

Yuko Ishinabe

Hiroomi Kojima

Yasushi Itoshiro

Futoshi Hara

Yoshimasa Sekino

Kazuaki Takahata

Hiroshi Kawai

Takeru Yonaga

Atsuhiro Yabuta

Yasuhiro Tokunaga

Takahiro Urabe

Koujirou Izumidate

Satoru Nitobe

Shuichiro Kimura

Yorioki Nara

Yoshihiro Murashima

Kazukiyo Fukudome

Yukiyasu Akemi

Yoshinori Hanada

Shingo Nakajima

Tomoaki Suzuki

Eiji Akasaka

Akihiro Tosaki

Shuji Usui

Fumiaki Tanabe

Katsuhiro Hirose

Tetsuya Kotani

Kouhei Mori

Masayoshi Kagawa

Toshiharu Watanabe

Joji Ueno

Tomohide Ota

Naohiro Takahashi

Yuichiro Hagiya

Ko Kamada

Hideyuki Nakajima

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member and a rotatable developing member to carry developer made up of toner particles and carrier particles adhered to surfaces of the toner particles. Where a pressing force pressing the developing member against the image bearing member is F1, a total number of the carrier particles interposed between the toner particles and the image bearing member is N1, and an adhesion Ft between a carrier particle and a toner particle, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the toner particle with F1/N1 that is a pressing force per unit carrier particle, and an adhesion Fdr1 between the carrier particle and the image bearing member, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the image bearing member with F1/N1, satisfy Ft≤Fdr1.

Image forming apparatus

There has been a problem that because in a section where a road forks from a main lane or merges the main lane, the number of lanes increases or decreases, breakage of a lane line and existence of other vehicles hinder the lane line from being read and hence generation of a target course becomes unstable. A course generation apparatus according to the present disclosure is provided with a prohibition-section determination unit that determines, in the case of forking from a main lane or merging with the main lane, that a present section is an environmental-information-course usage prohibition section, until a time when a vehicle position passes through a forking completion point or a merging completion point, and with a course selection unit that selects an environmental information course or a route-information course in a normal time and selects the route-information course in the environmental-information-course usage prohibition section.

Course generation apparatus and vehicle control apparatus

Plug for optical connector

A device includes an elastic base, a device body provided on the base, a wiring line provided on the base, a coupling member coupled to the wiring line, and an electrically conductive adhesive layer provided between the wiring line and the coupling member. The wiring line extends from the electrically conductive adhesive layer to the device body. The wiring line has a wiring portion overlapping with the electrically conductive adhesive layer. The degree of polymerization of the electrically conductive adhesive layer decreases in the extending direction of the wiring portion.

Device, electronic apparatus, and wiring connection method

An information processing apparatus that generates an image to be displayed, based on shape data indicating a shape of an object and surface characteristics data indicating surface characteristics of the object includes an acquisition unit configured to obtain a plurality of pieces of the shape data with different resolutions and the surface characteristics data, a setting unit configured to set a display area including at least part of the object, and a generation unit configured to generate the image to be displayed, based on one of the plurality of pieces of shape data according to the display area and the surface characteristics data.

Achieving high-definition expression of a surface of an object and reduction of image-generation time

An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member and a rotatable developing member to carry developer made up of toner particles and carrier particles adhered to surfaces of the toner particles. Where a pressing force pressing the developing member against the image bearing member is F, a total number of the carrier particles interposed between the toner particles and the image bearing member is N, and an adhesion Ft between a carrier particle and a toner particle, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the toner particle with F/Nthat is a pressing force per unit carrier particle, and an adhesion Fdrbetween the carrier particle and the image bearing member, measured when the carrier particle is pressed against the image bearing member with F/N, satisfy Ft≤Fdr

An intermediate transfer belt has a first region and a second region in an outer circumferential surface thereof that is in contact with a blade. The first region has a first dynamic friction coefficient in a belt conveyance direction, and the second region has a second dynamic friction coefficient. The distance of the second region in the belt conveyance direction is less than the distance of the first region and is greater than the distance of a contact portion in which the blade is in contact with the intermediate transfer belt.

A detection unit executes correction control of an image formation condition on a basis of a detection result of reflected light when infrared light is radiated to a test patch, which is transferred from a photosensitive drum to an intermediate transfer belt, and the intermediate transfer belt, wherein the intermediate transfer belt has a base layer which is thickest among a plurality of layers forming the intermediate transfer belt in a thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt and to which an ion conductive agent is added, and an inner surface layer which has a light transmittance lower than that of the base layer.

An intermediate transfer belt includes a base layer that has ionic conductivity and is a thickest layer out of multiple layers making up the intermediate transfer belt with respect to the thickness direction of the intermediate transfer belt, and an inner layer having electronic conductivity and a lower electrical resistance than the base layer.

Imaging forming apparatus with enhanced primary transferability where primary transfer is performed with electric current flowing in circumferential direction of intermediate transfer belt

An endless-shaped electrophotographic belt with a cleaning blade provides improvement in transfer remaining toner wiping properties. The electrophotographic belt has an endless shape including, on an outer circumferential surface thereof, grooves and lands. The grooves extend in a circumferential direction of the belt and the lands are positioned between the grooves. The belt further has on the outer circumferential surface, one or more convex portion(s) between at least one of the grooves and one of the lands adjacent to the one of the grooves, and in a cross section of the belt in a direction orthogonal to a direction of which the grooves extend, the convex portion(s) projects more than the lands.

Electrophotographic belt and electrophotographic image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a gradation correction unit configured to perform a correction process on first image data expressing first gradation values, and output second image data expressing second gradation values. The gradation correction unit is configured to determine the second gradation values based on the first gradation values of a plurality of colors of a plurality of pixels in an area including a process target pixel and having a size corresponding to a first color misregistration amount. The gradation correction unit is further configured to determine the second gradation values such that there is no pixel in which a sum of the second gradation values of the plurality of colors exceeds a first threshold value, even when color misregistration within the first color misregistration amount occurs.

Image forming apparatus configured to perform gradation correction process

A receptacle comprises a shell made of metal and a cage formed of one or more metal plates. The shell is attachable to a case made of metal. The cage is mountable on a board arranged in the case. The cage receives an internal module under a mated state where the receptacle is mated with a plug. The cage has a cage rear plate and is provided with a terminal made of metal and a contact portion made of metal. The terminal extends downward from the cage rear plate. The contact portion is nearer to the cage rear plate than to the front end of the cage in a front-rear direction. When the cage is mounted on the board and the shell is attached to the case, the shell covers the cage, the terminal is fixed to the board, and the contact portion is pressed against the shell.

Receptacle

An image forming apparatus includes first and second image bearing members; first and second charging members; first and second developing members; a transfer member configured to sequentially transfer toner images from the first and second image bearing members to a transfer-receiving member; and a control portion configured to, at a timing determined based on information relating to the toner image formed on the first image bearing member, perform a cleaning operation of decreasing toner that adheres to the second charging member at a time of non-image formation.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takayuki Tanaka