Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nec Corporation

Pentax Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Subaru Corporation

Jfe Steel Corporation

Nhk Spring Co., Ltd.

Nec Energy Devices, Ltd.

Takuya Hasegawa

Daisuke Kawasaki

Takehiro Noguchi

Ikiko Shimanuki

Tatsuo Yasui

Koji Takematsu

Tetsuo Hosokawa

Tomoaki Tanto

Keiichi Mizukami

Kazuki Tada

Masahiro Takahashi

Tomoyuki Ichikawa

Masayuki Miyazaki

Hiroshi Okano

Nobuyuki Ishikawa

Kenichi Tanaka

Shigeru Iwamoto

Rikiya Takemasa

Yutaka Ohsawa

Makoto Tanaka

Shutaro Saito

Shin Serizawa

Shusaku Takagi

Tadahisa Ohkura

Takashi Ohtsuka

Akihide Nagao

Nozomu Munemura

Nobuhiro Kondo

Toshio Takano

Naoki Endo

Kazuki Matsubara

Tetsu Tanaka

Tomoyuki Kuriyama

Kenji Kawazura

Satoshi Ishikawa

Syohei Uchida

Kotaro Kadota

Shoichiro Shiraishi

Naoki Itou

Mikio Ogi

Tatsuhiro Takakusaki

Masayuki Miyazawa

Daiki Kondo

Norikazu Yamaguchi

Hiroki Kuno

A lens barrel includes a lens drive unit that moves a lens holder holding a lens in an optical axis direction, a locking mechanism that regulates movement of the lens holder at a movable end of the lens holder, and a control unit that performs, as a shift process for shifting the lens holder to a movement regulated state produced by the locking mechanism, control for moving the lens holder by using the lens drive unit to a position where movement regulation is achieved by the locking mechanism in a state where movement regulating force generated by the locking mechanism is reduced.

Lens barrel, control method, and imaging device

A fixing device includes an endless belt member, a rotary member, a nip portion forming member and a steering roller. The steering roller is disposed inside the belt member and configured to be swung to control a position of the belt member in a width direction of the belt member. The steering roller includes a lubricant impregnated portion impregnated with a lubricant and contacting an inner peripheral surface of the belt member.

Fixing device including an endless belt member and a steering roller providing lubrication to the endless belt member

A hydrogen supply system is configured to supply hydrogen to a fuel-cell vehicle by using a receptacle for hydrogen transport, and includes: a filling unit provided at a hydrogen filling facility and configured to fill the receptacle with hydrogen; a management unit configured to calculate a transport timing at which the hydrogen-filled receptacle is transported to a business facility that operates the fuel-cell vehicle; a transport unit configured to transport the hydrogen-filled receptacle to the business facility in accordance with the transport timing; and a disposition unit configured to dispose the hydrogen-filled receptacle transported to the business facility at a place to which the fuel-cell vehicle is capable of accessing to have a refill of the hydrogen in the business facility.

Hydrogen supply system

A drive transmission device disclosed. The device has an input gear configured to rotate by a driving force from a driving source; a swing gear configured to rotate by a driving force from the input gear, the swing gear being located at a first position when the input gear is rotated in a forward direction and located at a second position that is different from the first position when the input gear is rotated in a backward direction that is a direction opposite to the forward direction; an output gear configured to separate from the swing gear when the swing gear is located at the first position, and that is in contact with the swing gear to be rotated by rotation of the swing gear when the swing gear is located at the second position; and a shaft portion configured to support the swing gear such that the swing gear is movable between the first position and the second position. The swing gear has a guide hole into which the shaft portion is inserted.

Drive transmission device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus

A fixing device includes a first rotatable member with a heater, a second rotatable member contacting the first rotatable member and forming a fixing nip, a pressing unit pressing the first rotatable member to the second rotatable member in a pressing direction, a pair of side boards disposed with a space in the widthwise direction, and first, second and third stays supporting the pair of side boards. The first stay is provided upstream of a center of the fixing nip in the pressing direction and upstream of the center in a feeding direction of a recording material. The second stay is provided upstream of the center in the pressing direction and downstream of the center in the feeding direction. The third stay is provided downstream of the center in the pressing direction and at least one of upstream and downstream of the center in the feeding direction.

Fixing apparatus having stay members for maintaining alignment of rotatable members thereof

A fusing apparatus having a heating rotary member, a pressing rotary member, a flange, a fusing frame, a pressing member, and a plate. The heating rotary member heats a recording medium and includes a heater and a film that rotates. The pressing rotary member rotates to press an outer circumferential surface of the film and performs fusing of a toner image on the recording medium. The flange supports the heater. The fusing frame supports the pressing rotary member and has a positioning hole. The pressing member presses the flange. The plate includes a pressure receiving portion and an insertion portion. The pressure receiving portion is pressed by the pressing member and the insertion portion is inserted into a positioning hole and positioned in a first state. The insertion portion is removed from the positioning hole in a second state where the pressing member further contracts from the first state.

Fusing apparatus

A purpose of the present invention is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery which has further improved life characteristics. The lithium ion secondary battery of the present invention is characterized by comprising a positive electrode comprising a positive electrode active material that operates at 4.5 V or more with respect to lithium, and an electrolyte solution comprising an electrolyte solvent comprising a fluorinated ether, a cyclic sulfonic acid ester and LiN(FSO).

Lithium ion secondary battery

A purpose of the present invention is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery having improved battery characteristics. The lithium ion secondary battery according to the present invention comprises a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode active material comprising a silicon material and an electrolyte solution comprising an electrolyte solvent comprising an open chain sulfone compound, a fluorinated cyclic carbonate and an open chain carbonate and a supporting salt comprising LiN(FSO).

An electrolyte solution capable of constituting a secondary battery in which a volume change due to charge and discharge is small and cycle characteristics are excellent is provided. The present example embodiment relates to an electrolyte solution for a lithium ion secondary battery comprising a fluorinated ether and a cyclic dicarboxylic acid ester.

Electrolyte solution for lithium ion secondary battery and lithium ion secondary battery using same

A mechanism for shutting off drive so that drive of pressing release is not rotated even when a pressing roller is rotated as a driving source is provided, and a torque when drive of a shutting-off portion is connected is set at a torque value to which a one-way idling torque is added. Therefore, during jam clearance, connection of pressing release drive by pressing roller rotation can be carried out.

Fixing device and image forming apparatus, with shut off of drive transmission with opening operation of cover

Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery having high energy density and excellent cycle characteristics. The present invention relates to a negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery comprising: (i) a negative electrode mixture layer comprising a negative electrode active material and a negative electrode binder and (ii) a negative electrode current collector, wherein the negative electrode active material comprises an alloy comprising silicon (Si alloy), the Si alloy is crystalline and has a median diameter (D50 particle size) of 1.2 &#x3bc;m or less, and an amount of the negative electrode binder based on the weight of the negative electrode mixture layer is 12% by weight or more and 50% by weight or less.

Negative electrode for lithium ion secondary battery and lithium ion secondary battery comprising the same

A lithium ion secondary battery having high energy density and being excellent in cycle characteristics is provided. The present invention relates to a lithium ion secondary battery comprising: a negative electrode active material comprising a material comprising silicon as a constituent element; and an electrolyte solution comprising: a non-aqueous solvent comprising a fluorinated ether compound, an open-chain sulfone compound, and a cyclic carbonate compound, and a supporting salt comprising LiPF, lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide, and lithium bis(oxalato)borate (LiBOB); wherein the content of LiBOB in the electrolyte solution is 0.2 mass % or more.

A purpose of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a lithium ion secondary battery that has improved life-span characteristics. The first lithium ion secondary battery of the present invention comprises an electrolyte solution comprising a sulfone compound, a fluorinated ether compound and LiN(FSO), and a negative electrode comprising a silicon material, wherein a content of LiN(FSO)in the electrolyte solution is more than 5 weight % and 20 weight % or less.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a lithium secondary battery which has improved service life characteristics by suppressing a decomposition reaction of the electrolyte solution in the field of batteries that operate at high voltages or are assumed to be used at high temperatures for a long period of time. The present invention relates to an electrolyte solution for a secondary, which is characterized by containing a sulfone compound, a fluorine-containing cyclic acetal compound and a cyclic carbonate in a specific composition; and a secondary battery which uses this electrolyte solution for a secondary battery.

Electrolyte solution for secondary battery and secondary battery

An image heating apparatus including an image heating member, an air blowing portion, a duct, a shutter, a detecting sensor, and a controller. The image heating apparatus also includes a plurality of projections having a smallest projection or a plurality of recessed portions having a smallest recessed portion. The controller is configured to control an operation of the shutter so that the controller stops the shutter on the basis of detection of the smallest projection or smallest recessed portion by said detecting sensor during closing of said shutter.

Image heating apparatus

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Takuya Hasegawa