Kabushiki Kaisha Nippon Conlux

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Hitachi High-tech Corporation

Nec Corporation

Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippon Conlux Co., Ltd.

Teijin Dupont Films Japan Limited

Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Teijin Limited

Kabushiki Kaisha Daini Seikosha

Fujitsu Corporation

Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC

Roche Diagnostics Gmbh

F. Hoffmann-la Roche Ag

Takeshi Ishida

Seisuke Maeda

Toshiyuki Fujita

Masahiko Kurachi

Seijiro Takahashi

Jun Yamada

Kenji Koyama

Genzo Yoshizawa

Hirofumi Hayata

Kenji Nakajima

Tatsuya Eguchi

Kenji Nishiumi

Tsunehiro Aso

Sakuichiro Adachi

Yoshihiro Yamashita

Taku Kimura

Ieyasu Kobayashi

Shigeru Yasuda

Isao Watanabe

Hiroaki Takatsu

Masato Yagi

Shinji Muro

Hisashi Yabutani

Isao Yamazaki

Tomoo Sakimura

Takahiro Tsujimoto

Tetsuo Yoshida

Shin Imamura

Yuichi Sakamoto

Noriko Norimatsu

Hokuto Hatano

Kazuhiro Kuramochi

Takashi Watanabe

Katsuyuki Hashimoto

Michaela Windfuhr

Bernhard Hauptmann

Atomu Nakashima

Hiroshi Kasama

Seiji Yoshitake

Iwao Kanasashi

Tooru Yamashita

Hideki Nakamura

Yukio Ito

Taku Sakazume

Masayuki Watanabe

Tomoto Kawamura

Junichi Masuda

Takahiro Hayashi

Osamu Kobayashi

Mitsugu Mikami

Shinichi Yabuki

Toshikazu Higashi

Fumitaka Mochizuki

Masaaki Komatsu

Hirofumi Murooka

Terence Eugene Wei

Minoru Yamamoto

Makoto Handa

Yasuyuki Kodama

Masahiro Nonoyama

Yuya Matsuoka

Yonezo Furuya

Mitsuo Tojo

Keiichi Inagaki

Osamu Sugimoto

Hiroshi Eguchi

Hans R Dorfi

Akimasa Ishikawa

Masahiko Kosuge

Ryoji Yamagishi

Yasuyuki Kimura

Koshin Hamasaki

Shigeaki Tokutake

Shinichi Kosugi

Masanori Tanaka

Takahiro Yokoya

Naoto Sugaya

Takahiro Ando

Kazuya Yamane

Kazunori Kurimoto

Yoshinori Maruyama

Eiji Kinoshita

Ichiro Fukuda

Jun Ishii

Andreas Finke

Takashi Kamibayashi

Kunio Iwakawa

Yonezou Furuya

Shunichirou Nobuki

Akihiro Terauchi

Kimiyuki Itou

Simon Kuester

Morio Osada

Jinghai Yin

Finke Andreas

Windfuhr Michaela

Hauptmann Bernhard

The object of the invention is to provide an automatic analysis apparatus which is capable of both sterilizing a reagent and suppressing property variations in the reagent. Provided is an automatic analysis apparatus including a reagent vessel which holds a reagent; a suction nozzle which sucks the reagent; an analysis unit which executes an analysis operation by adding a reagent sucked from the reagent vessel to a specimen via the suction nozzle; an ultraviolet ray source which sterilizes a reagent by ultraviolet irradiation; and an electrode or a substrate which supplies electric power to the ultraviolet ray source, in which a heat insulation portion is arranged between a reagent in the suction nozzle and the ultraviolet ray source and the electrode or the substrate, or, it is isolated between a reagent in the suction nozzle and the ultraviolet ray source and the electrode or the substrate.

Automatic analysis apparatus

A broadband light source device in a biochemical analyzing device, and facilitates maintenance thereof, including an LED substrate that is provided with an LED chip generating a light beam having a first wavelength band and including a fluorescent substance in the light beam having a first wavelength band and that is provided with an LED chip generating a light beam having a second wavelength band, in which the fluorescent substance includes at least alumina and at least one of Fe, Cr, Bi, Tl, Ce, Tb, Eu, and Mn and is produced by calcining a raw material that contains sodium at 6.1 to 15.9 wt. % in the whole raw material. The broadband light source device further includes an optical system including a light pipe that color-mixes the light beam passing through the fluorescent substance of the LED chip and the light beam emitted from the LED chip, and a flat dichroic prism.

Broadband light source device and biochemical analyzing device

An analyzer that has a simple configuration, that is inexpensive, that can improve safety, and that can inhibit proliferation of microorganisms using ultraviolet light is realized. A first electric power switch, a second electric power switch, and a third electric power switch are connected in series between an ultraviolet LED that irradiates an interior of a shared reagent storage container with ultraviolet light and a power supply that supplies electric power to the ultraviolet LED. The first electric power switch, the second electric power switch, and the third electric power switch are configured with two contact points and a connection section that connects and disconnects the two contact points. The first electric power switch is opened when a reagent storage door is opened, and the second electric power switch is opened in response to an action of extracting an ultraviolet irradiation section from a shared reagent storage container. The third electric power switch is opened when an amount of the reagent within the shared reagent storage container is equal to or smaller than a constant value. When one of the first electric power switch, the second electric power switch, and the third electric power switch is opened, supply of the electric power to the ultraviolet LED is intercepted.

Analyzer

An automatic analysis apparatus comprises: a light source generating light having a center wavelength equal to or shorter than 340 nm; a fluorescent substance excited by the light source light, and generates light together with transmitted light from the light source, having a wavelength of 340 nm to 800 nm; a condenser lens; at least one slit; a reaction cell holding a reaction solution where a specimen and reagent are mixed, and that the light source light and the light from the fluorescent substance enter; and a detector that detects light transmitted through the reaction cell. The light source, fluorescent substance, condenser lens, and slit are provided along a straight light corresponding to the optical axis. The width of the slit's opening is equal to or narrower than the width of a ray forming an image of the light source at the position of the slit.

Automated analysis device

An image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor that forms a toner image; a light emission element that exposes the photoreceptor; at least one light emission controller that controls light emission of the light emission element; and a hardware processor that transmits a signal including a control parameter for controlling the light emission element with respect to the light emission controller, wherein the light emission controller stops light emission control over the light emission element according to communication that receives the signal including the control parameter from the hardware processor.

Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same

An automatic analyzer is equipped with a sterilization mechanism removably attached to an opening of a container that holds a reagent and having an ultraviolet light generation section that radiates ultraviolet light; a suction nozzle removably attached, together with the sterilization mechanism, to the opening of the container; an analysis section adding the reagent drawn in by suction from the container via the suction nozzle to the reagent, and executing an analysis operation; and a control section exercising variable control over an irradiation light intensity of the ultraviolet light generated by the ultraviolet light generation section.

Automatic analyzer

An image forming apparatus includes: a transferer that transfers a toner image formed on a surface of a photo-conductor onto an image carrier; and an irradiator that irradiates the surface of the photo-conductor before transfer with light such that a potential of an image area where the toner image has been formed and a potential of a non-image area where the toner image has not been formed in the photo-conductor before transfer satisfy formula (1):0&#x2264;||&#x2264;200 [V]&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)

Image forming apparatus having an irradiator irradiating a photoconductor

A method of modeling a tire includes providing a tire having a first tire design, rotating the tire under a vertical load, and measuring a plurality of forces at a plurality of selected conditions. The method further includes using a computer to plot the plurality of forces against the plurality of conditions, using the computer to plot a plurality of moments against the plurality of conditions, and using the computer to fit a first force curve to the plurality of plotted forces at the plurality of conditions, such that the first force curve is asymmetric. The method also includes using the computer to fit a first moment curve to the plurality of plotted moments at the plurality of conditions, evaluating the first force curve and the first moment curve, and making a second tire design based on the evaluation of the first force curve and the first moment curve.

Method of modeling tire performance

Provided is an electrophotographic photoreceptor obtained by laminating a photosensitive layer and a surface protective layer in this order on a conductive support, wherein the surface protective layer contains conductive fine particles and crosslinkable organic fine particles, and either the conductive fine particles or the crosslinkable organic fine particles have been subjected to surface modification with a fluoroalkyl (meth)acrylate/(meth)acrylic acid copolymer.

Electrophotographic photoreceptor and electrophotographic image forming device

A post-processing apparatus includes: a moving mechanism configured to move a punching apparatus in a width direction orthogonal to a transportation direction of a sheet; and a sensor configured to optically detect a mark formed on the sheet and indicating a position to be punched. The mark is configured such that an interval in the transportation direction between a plurality of feature portions extending in the width direction is configured to be changed depending on the width direction. The moving mechanism is configured to determine a position of the punching apparatus in the width direction based on a difference between respective timings of detection of the plurality of feature portions.

Post-processing apparatus and image forming apparatus for correcting deviation of punching position

An image reading apparatus includes: a movable body configured to illuminate a document with light; and an apparatus body configured to wirelessly transmit power to the movable body, wherein the movable body includes receiver coils, and a feed circuit in which the receiver coils uses receiving power to supply power to a load, the apparatus body includes transmitter coils placed along a track of the receiver coils, the transmitter coils and the receiver coils are placed such that power supply efficiency of any receiver coil with the transmitter coil placed along the track of the receiver coil fluctuates, and power supply efficiency related to one receiver coil increases at a position where power supply efficiency related to the other receiver coil drops, and the feed circuit supplies power sequentially using the receiving power of the receiver coil whose power supply efficiency is increased to highest among the receiver coils.

Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire atmosphere pressure in the installation place of the image forming apparatus, photoconductors, light sources configured to radiate laser light, and a polygon mirror configured to be rotatable. The polygon mirror exposes the photoconductors by reflecting the laser light toward the photoconductors while rotating. The image forming apparatus further includes a control device configured to control rotation of the polygon mirror. The control device outputs an enable signal for allowing the image forming apparatus to perform printing, if rotation of the polygon mirror is stabilized after start of the rotation, and advances the timing of outputting the enable signal as the atmosphere pressure increases.

Image forming apparatus, control method, and non-transitory recording medium which adjusts timing of print enable signal according to atmospheric pressure

An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a charging unit, an exposing unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, a lubricant supply unit, a cleaning unit and a lubricant removal unit. The lubricant supply unit supplies a lubricant to a surface of the photoreceptor and is disposed at a point which is an upstream side of the cleaning unit and a downstream side of the developing unit in a rotation direction of the photoreceptor. The lubricant removal unit removes the lubricant from the surface of the photoreceptor and is disposed at a point which is the downstream side of the cleaning unit and the upstream side of the developing unit in the rotation direction of the photoreceptor.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus drives and rotates at least one of a photosensitive drum and a transport roller with use of a stepping motor in a multi-phase excitation mode. The image forming apparatus includes: a constant-voltage control unit controlling the stepping motor by applying a constant voltage for each phase; a constant-current control unit controlling the stepping motor by regulating an amount of current for each phase by a chopping control; a measuring unit measuring a chopping count of each phase on a per-step basis; a chopping count determination unit determining whether the chopping count of each phase is less than or equal to a predetermined count; and a control switching unit causing the constant-voltage control unit to control the stepping motor when the chopping count determination unit determines affirmatively, and causing the constant-current control unit to control the stepping motor when the chopping count determination unit determines negatively.

Airbag housings that each house an airbag are respectively provided beneath the lateral face of the driver's seat backrest and the lateral face of a front passenger seat backrest inward in a vehicle width direction. The airbags are inflatable and deployable inwardly in the vehicle width direction as well as in a fore-and-aft direction and a vertical direction of the vehicle.

Airbag device

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Tokyo, Japan

Takeshi Ishida