Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nifco Inc.

Nihon Kohden Corporation

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Oki Data Corporation

Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.

Other

Fujitsu Corporation

Inter-university Research Institute Corporation National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Nec Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc.

Inter-university Research Institute Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Takeshi Kojima

Yuichiro Yamashita

Yoshinobu Ono

Masahiro Kobayashi

Ginjiro Toyoguchi

Takeshi Ichikawa

Hiroshi Kita

Yasutomo Kobayashi

Shinji Yamamori

Takanori Watanabe

Mineo Shimotsusa

Masanori Kawasumi

Yasuhiro Sekine

Hajime Ikeda

Jun Iba

Taro Kato

Kenji Goto

Takashi Nozaki

Shin Kayahara

Hiroyuki Sugiyama

Shuji Tanaka

Noriaki Todokoro

Kentarou Nakamura

Kazunari Kawabata

Masato Sakai

Kazumasa Kurihara

Rie Katakura

Tadashi Sawayama

Yoshio Sakai

Takeru Suzuki

Hiroji Sato

Tatsuo Ohta

Toshihide Kimisawa

Tadashi Nakayama

Takuya Suganuma

Itsutaku Sano

Jun Motogi

Koji Inui

Yasuyuki Takeshima

Ryosuke Ushijima

Katsumi Nakaichi

Kazuwa Shibuya

Makoto Kataoka

Shin Yamada

Toshiro Yamamoto

Daming Wei

Shogo Yamamoto

Akira Ohtani

Toshio Hattori

Taiki Aoyama

Masaharu Shiraishi

Yayoi Eguro

Jinichi Kasuya

Yuji Ishikura

Kenichi Ishii

Kei Shibuya

Kiyotoshi Hariu

Hayato Sasaki

Akinori Kimura

Taiga Ooyoshi

Yoshitaka Yanai

Kazuki Seko

Ryousuke Ushijima

Rikiya Maeda

Masahiko Konno

Ken Sato

Tomoki Iwabuchi

Wataru Nakanii

An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming portion configured to form a brilliant developer image with a brilliant developer; a second image forming portion including at least one image forming portion configured to form a developer image with at least one non-brilliant developer; and a controller configured to control operation of the first image forming portion and the second image forming portion in accordance with received print data. When the controller causes the brilliant developer image to be formed on a medium in accordance with the print data by the first image forming portion, the controller causes a black developer image to be formed between the brilliant developer image and the medium by the second image forming portion.

Image forming apparatus

An image formation apparatus may include: a first image formation unit including a storage part and configured to form a glitter developer image; and a controller. The controller may be configured to control the first image formation unit, (i) upon forming a glitter image on a medium based on predetermined print data when a remaining amount of a glitter developer in the storage part is a first remaining amount, to form the glitter developer image with a ratio of the glitter image per unit area being a first area ratio, and (ii) upon forming the glitter image on the medium based on the predetermined print data when the remaining amount is a second remaining amount less than the first remaining amount, to form the glitter developer image with the ratio of the glitter image per unit area being a second area ratio greater than the first area ratio.

Image formation apparatus including image formation unit that forms glitter developer image

In order to provide a technique capable of presenting information that is different from the image of a surveillance camera and is effective for searching for a person, this search information providing device includes, as functional units, a collation unit and an output unit. The collation unit collates a fingerprint image obtained by a fingerprint photographing device with a fingerprint image, of a search target person, given in advance. When the fingerprint image on the handrail member matches the fingerprint image of the search target person, the output unit outputs information indicating that the search target person has been detected to a predetermined reporting destination.

Search information providing device, search information providing system, search information providing method, and program recording medium

Provided is a resin composition from which a three-dimensional molding can be produced at an appropriate speed and with high dimensional accuracy, wherein the obtained three-dimensional molding has high strength. This resin composition is used in a method for producing a three-dimensional molding composed of a cured product of a liquid resin composition by selectively irradiating the liquid resin composition with active energy rays. The resin composition includes at least: a first polymerizable compound, in a liquid state at room temperature, having radical polymerizability; a second polymerizable compound, in a liquid state at room temperature, having no radical polymerizability; and a filler, wherein the surface of the filler is covered with the second polymerizable compound.

Resin composition, method for producing three-dimensional molding using same, and three-dimensional molding

An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include: a first image formation section configured to form a first image of a developer containing a lustrous pigment; a second image formation section configured to form a second image of a dyeing developer; and a transfer section configured to transfer the first image and the second image on a medium such that the first image and the second image are stacked to each other on the medium.

Image formation apparatus for forming image using metallic developer and sublimation dyeing developer and method of producing coloring medium using same

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a liquid resin composition which includes polysaccharide nanofibres, and which is used in a three-dimensional moulding production method in which a moulding obtained by curing the resin composition by irradiating the resin composition with active energy rays is three-dimensionally formed, wherein unevenness in strength in the height direction is not readily produced in the formed three-dimensional moulding. The present invention relates to a liquid resin composition which is used to produce a three-dimensional moulding, and which three-dimensionally forms a moulding as a result of being cured by being selectively irradiated with active energy rays. The resin composition includes an active energy ray-curable compound and polysaccharide nanofibres. The ratio of the number of polysaccharide nanofibres having a branched structure to the total number of polysaccharide nanofibres is less than 20%.

Resin composition, and three-dimensional moulding production method

An imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels, a signal holding unit, first and second control electrodes. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a photoelectric conversion unit, and an amplification element to amplify signals based on signal charges generated by the photoelectric conversion unit, in which the plurality of pixels output signals for performing a phase contrast detection type of focal point detection. The signal holding unit is in an electrical pathway between an output node of the photoelectric conversion unit and an input node of the amplification element, in which signals for performing the phase contrast detection type of focal point detection are held. The first control electrode is configured to transfer a signal of the photoelectric conversion unit to the signal holding unit. The second control electrode is configured to transfer a signal for performing the phase difference detection type of focal point detection.

Imaging apparatus with phase contrast detection type of focal point detection

A toner includes binder resinand a coloring agent. The coloring agentis configured so that hue of a hue measurement print image printed on a print medium with the toner satisfies &#x2212;8.6&#x2264;a*(Y)&#x2264;&#x2212;7.9 and 93.4&#x2264;b*(Y)&#x2264;95.4, where a*(Y) and b*(Y) represent an a* value and a b* value of the hue measurement print image and light resistance F of a light resistance measurement print image printed on a print medium with the toner, after an irradiation test in which the light resistance measurement print image is irradiated with light having 0.36 W/mspectral irradiance at a wavelength of 340 nm for 663 hours, is higher than or equal to 70%. The toner is configured so that its melt viscosity at 120&#xb0; C. is higher than or equal to 1400 Pa&#xb7;s and lower than or equal to 1600 Pa&#xb7;s.

Toner, toner cartridge, development device, and image forming apparatus

A pain sensory nerve stimulation apparatus includes: an electrode portion including: a first electrode, a tip end of which is adapted to be inserted into a skin; and at lease one second electrode which is disposed in a circumference of the first electrode without being electrically conductive with the first electrode, and which is adapted to be in contact with a skin; and a stimulation signal supplying unit, supplying a bipolar stimulation signal between the first electrode and the second electrode, the bipolar stimulation signal including a first waveform signal and a second waveform, the first waveform which is convex in a negative direction in the first electrode, the second waveform signal which is convex in a positive direction in the first electrode.

Pain sensory nerve stimulation apparatus

A developer including a colored resin particle and an external additive added to a surface of the colored resin particle and having a diameter smaller than or equal to 200 nm is provided. The external additive includes a nitrogen-containing resin particle. In elemental analysis of the nitrogen-containing resin particle, a peak appearing in a range of 0.38-0.42 keV is expressed as an N-peak, and a peak appearing in a range of 0.48-0.52 keV is expressed as an O-peak. Maximum count numbers in the N-peak and the O-peak of the external additive on a surface of the colored resin particle are respectively expressed as Nand O. Maximum count numbers in the N-peak and the O-peak of the surface of the colored resin particle where no external additive is observed are respectively expressed as Nand O. The count numbers N, O, Nand Osatisfy 1.7&#xd7;(N/O)&#x3c;(N/O).

Developer, developer cartridge, developing device and image forming apparatus

A pain sensory nerve stimulation apparatus includes: an electrode portion including: a first electrode, a tip end of which is adapted to be inserted into a skin; and at lease one second electrode which is disposed in a circumference of the first electrode without being electrically conductive with the first electrode, and which is adapted to be in contact with a skin; and a pulse signal supplier, supplying a pulse signal in which an electrical polarity of the first electrode is set as a anode and an electrical polarity of the second electrode is set as a cathode.

An image pickup device includes a pixel region having a plurality of pixels that are two-dimensionally arranged, the plurality of pixels including a plurality of image pickup pixels and a plurality of focus detection pixels capable of phase difference detection; a plurality of microlenses arranged to correspond to respective photoelectric conversion units of respective image pickup pixels; and a plurality of microlenses arranged to correspond to respective photoelectric conversion units of the respective focus detection pixels. When at least one of the plurality of microlenses is orthogonally projected onto the corresponding photoelectric conversion unit, a vertex position of the at least one microlens is off a center position of the at least one microlens.

Image pickup device and image pickup system

A fixation device according to one of embodiments includes a first and second fixation units. The first fixation unit includes: a first belt; a first pad with a first elastic layer; and a first roller provided downstream of the first pad in a conveyance direction of a medium. The second fixation unit includes: a second belt; a second pad including a second elastic layer and pressed against the first pad with the first and second belts interposed in between; and a second roller provided downstream of the second pad in the conveyance direction and pressed against the first roller with the first second belts interposed in between. A thickness of at least one of the first and second elastic layers is smaller on a downstream side in the conveyance direction than on an upstream side in the conveyance direction.

Fixation device and image formation apparatus

Imaging apparatus having same exposure period for signals held in signal holding units in first and second pixel rows

The present invention provides: an LED device from which light can be efficiently extracted for a long period of time because of less degradation of a reflective layer for reflecting light emitted from an LED element or the like; and a coating liquid that is used for the production of the LED device. The LED device includes a substrate, an LED element disposed on the substrate, a reflective layer disposed at least around the LED element on the substrate, wherein the reflective layer contains a white pigment and a polysiloxane, the rate of decrease in reflectance of light with a wavelength of 500 nm of the reflective layer after storage of the reflective layer at 180&#xb0; C. for 1,000 hours is 10% or less of the reflectance before storage at 180&#xb0; C., and the reflective layer has no glass transition point in the range of from &#x2212;70&#xb0; C. to 150&#xb0; C.

LED device and coating liquid used for production of same

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Takeshi Kojima