Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Bridgestone Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon

Tomy Company, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

3M Innovative Properties Company

Nuflare Technology, Inc.

Anritsu Corporation

Sony Corporation

Adv Antest Corporation

Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Ntt Electronics Corporation

Yuasa Corporation

Toshiyuki Watanabe

Hideo Tsuchiya

Toru Tojo

Ikunao Isomura

Hiroshi Kawabe

Naotaka Tomita

Riki Ogawa

Shinji Sugihara

Akihiko Sekine

Hiroshi Shima

Kyoji Yamashita

Kazuhiro Hosohara

Yuichiro Inaba

Mitsuo Tabata

Takahiro Azeta

Yasushi Sanada

Kazuya Sato

Shunsuke Hijikata

Hiromi Sakurai

Kazuhiro Nakashima

Tomohide Watanabe

Toshikazu Osafune

Koich Matsumoto

Masafumi Matsushita

Toshitaka Sakurai

Yoko Matsushita

Takashi Imai

Eiichi Kobayashi

Hisao Terajima

Satoru Maeda

Toshihiro Kasai

Ryosuke Takahashi

Masafumi Maeda

Atsushi Nakayama

Takashi Yoshida

Naoya Watanabe

Yasuhide Ueno

Yasuhiro Iwata

Minoru Yamamoto

Eiji Yamanaka

Yasuhiro Fukase

Takeshi Toyama

Katsutoshi Sakao

Eiichiro Kimizuka

Syuichi Izuchi

Masayuki Hideshima

Hiroe Nakagawa

Kiminobu Akeno

Shin Iimura

Tooru Arai

Kouji Miyauchi

Nobuo Machinaga

Jun Chiba

Seijiro Ochiai

Hidetoshi Yokota

Yasunori Matsui

Takaaki Kamisawa

Makoto Taya

Yoshiyuki Yoneda

Akio Kusano

Yoshiyuki Waki

Masayuki Ogawa

Keiji Kameda

Yuichi Sugimoto

Hirokatsu Kimata

Seiji Ishikawa

Seiichi Kobayashi

Noboru Yamada

Kengo Kikuchi

Koji Fukazawa

Yoshihiko Kaneko

Hisanobu Tanigawa

Haruhiko Kinashi

Taiga Ishihara

Chikara Itoh

Kouki Shimizu

Shigeharu Arai

Nobumitsu Umezawa

Olivier Genound

Takuma Aizawa

Takayuki Kawai

Takashi Kitajima

Kazuo Iiduka

Noriyuki Ikuta

Takatsuga Yuasa

Takeshi Nishizaka

Takaaki Kishi

Kunio Nakasaki

Masao Takanashi

Katsuyoshi Ohshima

Setsuko Shindo

Shigeaki Kohnosu

Takayoshi Misaki

Ayumi Shindo

Teruo Nakazawa

Yumiko Kubota

Akiko Matsushita

Kento Hirohata

Kunio Saito

Takumi Shitara

The tire has, in a tread surface, at least one circumferential groove continuously extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a shoulder land portion partitioned with the circumferential groove and a tread ground contact edge, the shoulder land portion has a first width direction groove that extends in a tire width direction and via which the circumferential groove communicates with the tread ground contact edge, the first width direction groove has, in the first width direction groove, a second width direction groove that communicates with the first width direction groove, and respective groove widths of the circumferential groove, the first width direction groove and the second width direction groove satisfy a relational expression of 'the groove width of the circumferential groove&#x3e;the groove width of the first width direction groove&#x3e;the groove width of the second width direction groove'.

Tire

A fixing device includes a cylindrical film, a support member disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the film, a heating member supported by the support member and provided slidably with the film, and a pressing member that forms a pressure contact portion together with the heating member through the film. The fixing device heats a recording medium while pressing the recording medium at the pressure contact portion. A first thermally conductive member and a second thermally conductive member are provided between the heating member and the support member. The first and second thermally conductive members having thermal conductivity higher than that of the support member are configured to engage with each other.

Fixing device

An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly and a cartridge including at least an image bearing member. The apparatus further includes a tray drawable from the main assembly, wherein the cartridge is mountable to and dismountable from the tray in one direction and an opposite direction, respectively; and a light emission unit provided in the tray and including a plurality of light emission elements arranged in an axial direction of the image bearing member to form a latent image on the image bearing member. The cartridge is capable of being inserted into the tray by moving it in the one direction, in response to which the light emission unit is moved in a direction crossing with the one direction to outside of a movement range of insertion of the cartridge.

Image forming apparatus with removable cartridges mounted on tray

An image forming apparatus is provided, in which a light emission unit is disposed upstream from a belt in the insertion direction. In a state where the insertion of a cartridge into the apparatus main body is completed, in the normal direction to the surface of the belt, a distance from the surface of the transfer member to the rotational shaft of a photosensitive drum is longer than a distance from the surface of the belt to an image forming position where light emitted by the light emission unit forms an image on the surface of the photosensitive drum.

Image forming apparatus

Disclosed is a pneumatic tire that includes a tread having a pattern asymmetrical about the tire equatorial plane, and that may reduce cavity resonance and has good steering stability. A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion having a pair of tread halves, the tread halves extending between the tire equatorial plane and respective outer ends in the tire width direction of the tread portion, respectively, and having different negative ratios. The tread portion has short fibers fixed to at least a portion of a tire inner peripheral surface of the tread portion, and one of the tread halves with a higher negative ratio has a higher short-fiber fixation area ratio than that of the other tread half.

Pneumatic tire and method of producing the same

Disclosed are a pneumatic tire that includes a tread having a pattern asymmetrical about the tire equatorial plane, and that is easy to produce and may surely reduce cavity resonance without lowering repair efficiency, and a method of producing the same. A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion having a pair of tread halves, the tread halves extending between the tire equatorial plane and respective outer ends in the tire width direction of the tread portion, respectively, and having different negative ratios. The tread portion has short fibers fixed to at least a portion of a tire inner peripheral surface of the tread portion, and one of the tread halves with a higher negative ratio has a lower short-fiber fixation area ratio than that of the other tread half.

An image forming apparatus includes a cartridge including a photosensitive drum; an endless belt configured to transfer the toner image formed on the drum; an endless belt supporting member movable between a contacting position for contacting the belt to the drum and a non-contacting position retracted from the contacting position away from the drum; and a cartridge supporting member movable between an image forming position in which the drum contacts the belt taking the contacting position and a non-image-forming position in which the cartridge is movable from a inside to a outside of the main assembly. By movement of the belt from the contacting position to the non-contacting position, a space capable of accommodating at least a part of the cartridge supporting member taking the non-image-forming position and/or the cartridge supported by the cartridge supporting member taking the non-image-forming position is provided.

Image forming apparatus including a movable belt

Provided is a side-reinforced run-flat tire including a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions extending on both sides of the tread portion, and reinforcing rubber provided in the sidewall portions, the side-reinforced run-flat tire further including: short fibers bonded, via an adhesive layer, to at least a portion of a region of a tire inner surface that is located in each of side portions, wherein the adhesive layer has a heatproof temperature of from 50 to 100&#xb0; C.

Side-reinforced run-flat tire

The apparatus includes a first clutch and a second clutch. The first clutch transmits rotation of the driving unit in a first rotation direction to the first feeding device without transmitting rotation of the driving unit in a second rotation direction that is reverse to the first rotation direction to the first feeding device. The second clutch transmits the rotation of the driving unit in the second rotation direction to the conveyance device and the double-side printing conveyance device and without transmitting the rotation of the driving unit in the first rotation direction to the conveyance device and the double-side printing conveyance device. The third transmission path is configured to transmit the rotation of the driving unit to a conveyance device. The fourth transmission path is configured to transmit the rotation of the driving unit to a double-side printing conveyance device.

Recording medium conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus

A mask inspection apparatus including, a driving unit configured to drive a stage holding an inspection target mask, in which a pattern is formed, or a calibration mask, a light irradiation device configured to irradiate light on the inspection target mask or the calibration mask, an image sensor configured to detect a light quantity signal of transmitted light or reflected light of the inspection target mask or the calibration mask at a plurality of pixels. A sensor amplifier configured to amplify an output of the image sensor with respect to each pixel, generates an optical image, and normalizes a gain and an offset of signal amplitude, wherein at a first setting the sensor amplifier sets the gain and the offset using the calibration mask, and at a second setting the sensor amplifier sets the gain and offset of the inspection target mask based on the first setting.

Mask inspection apparatus and mask inspection method

The image forming apparatus configured such that a primarily-transferred toner image is secondarily transferred onto a recording material at a secondary transfer portion formed between a transfer belt and a secondary transfer roller, includes a belt unit configured to support the transfer belt in a rotatable manner; and a sheet feeding unit configured to feed the recording material toward the secondary transfer portion. Both the belt unit and the sheet feeding unit are positioned and fixed on the same main stay, so that higher printing accuracy is achieved in consideration of a mutual positional relationship between the sheet feeding portion and the image forming portion.

A pneumatic tire in which a cavity resonance sound is reduced while punctures are easily repaired with a puncture sealant. The pneumatic tire has a fibrous region where short fibers are bonded onto an inner surface of the tire. A circumferential fiberless region where short fibers are not bonded onto the inner surface of the tire extends circumferentially between both ends of a tread ground contact area.

Pneumatic tire

A frequency variation provider gives a predetermined frequency variation when a situation in which a mobile terminal approaches or is separated from a base station is simulated to a downlink (DL) signal which is transmitted to a mobile terminal by a transmitting unit. A receiving unit receives an uplink (UL) signal output from the mobile terminal which has received the DL signal and converts the UL signal into a baseband signal. A frequency variation detector detects a frequency variation of the UL signal from the baseband signal. A frequency corrector corrects the frequency of a local signal which is used by the receiving unit to obtain the baseband signal, on the basis of the detected frequency variation. A variation characteristic display displays the characteristics of the frequency variation of the UL signal transmitted from the mobile terminal on a display unit.

Mobile terminal test device and mobile terminal test method

A belt unit used for an image forming apparatus is provided. The belt unit includes a rotatable endless belt, a plurality of stretching members configured to stretch the belt, an urging member, and a contact and separation unit configured to be able to switch a position of the stretching member urged by the urging member. In moving the stretching member urged by the urging member from the separation position to the contact position, the contact and separation unit makes one end side of the stretching member urged by the urging member in a longitudinal direction coming into contact with the inner surface of the belt faster than the other end side, and temporarily decreases the movement speeds of the both ends of the stretching member in the longitudinal direction respectively before arriving at the contact position.

Belt unit and image forming apparatus having the belt unit

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Yokohama, Japan

Toshiyuki Watanabe