Hoya Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Clover Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Oki Data Corporation

Olympus Optical

Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Xuelu Zou

Takeshi Yamashita

Shuhei Mikami

Tomoya Adachi

Naoki Nakatake

Takafumi Miyazaki

Yasuhide Matsuno

Kyoko Abe

Takahiro Sanada

Yuji Nagatomo

Kazutaka Hayashi

Tomoaki Negishi

Rumi Miyazaki

Yui Teramoto

Zou Xuelu

Yoshie Iwakura

Yoshiko Kasuga

Joan Hawley

Hiroki Takazawa

Rie Shirai

Yoshio Nojima

Hiroyuki Sakai

Tomohiro Kubota

Hitoshi Fujiwara

Shoh Tsuritani

Atsushi Takehara

Yutaka Naitoh

Shinichiro Hirota

Yuuji Meguro

Yoshiyuki Fukuya

Minoru Toyoda

Shohei Kobayashi

Tomohiko Fujii

Hiroaki Katoh

Yasuhiro Miyazaki

Keiji Kunimi

Yasuharu Kawarasaki

Akihiko Yoshizawa

Mayumi Matsumoto

Ryouhei Ohi

Toshimasa Miura

Shungo Kuwatani

Hiroshi Kohno

Kohichiro Shiraishi

Naoyuki Sato

Yuichi Tsuchimochi

Yoshihisa Miyazaki

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium and circuitry that controls the image forming device. The image forming device forms an invisible image with an invisible material on the recording medium and forms a visible image with a visible material on the invisible image. Each of first and second adhesion amounts includes respective adhesion amounts of the visible material and the invisible material per unit area in a portion, in which the visible image is formed on the invisible image, of the composite image. The second adhesion amount is smaller than the first adhesion amount. The controller adjusts the amount of the invisible material included in the second adhesion amount to be smaller than that included in the first adhesion amount, to cause the image forming device to form the image according to the second adhesion amount.

Image forming apparatus and method to form an invisible image and a visible image in a multi-pass simplex manner

An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, an image former, a transferor, and circuitry. The image bearer bears an image and an identification pattern. The image former forms the image and the identification pattern on the image bearer. The transferor transfers the image and the identification pattern on the image bearer directly or indirectly to a recording medium. The circuitry determines whether the identification pattern is an image portion pattern arranged at a position superimposed on the image or a position adjacent to the image, or a non-image portion pattern arranged at neither a position superimposed on the image nor a position adjacent to the image. The circuitry further causes the image former to form the non-image portion pattern larger than the image portion pattern.

Image forming apparatus

A conveying device includes a plurality of rotating bodies and a plurality of projecting rotators. The rotating bodies are spaced apart in a sheet conveyance direction in which a sheet is conveyed. The projecting rotators are spaced apart in the sheet conveyance direction on a side of an opposite face opposite a liquid applied face of the sheet. Each of the projecting rotator has a plurality of projections projecting radially outward. The rotating bodies are arranged to contact the projecting rotators. A contact pressure of the rotating bodies with the projecting rotators is smaller on an upstream side than on a downstream side in the sheet conveyance direction. One of an interval between the rotating bodies in the sheet conveyance direction and an interval between the projecting rotators in the sheet conveyance direction is smaller on the upstream side than on the downstream side in the sheet conveyance direction.

Conveying device, liquid discharge apparatus, image forming apparatus, and post-processing apparatus

A drying device for drying a recording medium includes a medium guide part that guides the recording medium; a heating body that heats the medium guide part; a cover that is arranged opposing the medium guide part such that the medium carrying path intervenes between the cover and the medium guide part and an air flow path is formed with the medium guide part and the cover; a fan that generates an air flow; and (e) a duct that is configured to discharge the air in the air flow path together with a vapor generated as the recording medium is heated, wherein an air intake port that takes the air in the air flow path into the duct is formed on the downstream side of the flow direction with resect to the heating body.

Drying device and inkjet printer therewith

A handicraft roller, used for pressing a piece of cloth to put a sharp crease or fold in the fabric, includes an elongated grip with first and second ends spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction of the grip. A rolling member is attached to the first end of the grip so as to be rotatable about a predetermined axis. The rolling member is made up of a constant diameter portion and two decreasing diameter portions flanking the constant diameter portion. The constant diameter portion has an outer diameter that remains constant over a predetermined length of the axis. Each of the decreasing diameter portions has an outer diameter that decreases with increasing distance from the constant diameter portion along the axis.

Handheld roller device for sewing

Bobbin holder

A discharging method used in an image forming apparatus includes discharging, with an exposure device, an exposure range of the latent image bearer, and discharging, with a discharger, an area of the latent image bearer outside the exposure range and inside a developing range in a main scanning direction. The exposure range is inside the developing range in the main scanning direction. The discharging with the exposure device and the discharging with the discharger are performed when a rotation of the latent image bearer is stopped after a toner image is transferred from the latent image bearer.

Discharging method for latent image bearer and image forming apparatus

A glass including at least one type of oxide selected from TiO, NbO, WO, and BiOas a glass component therefor, having a total TiO, NbO, WO, and BiOcontent of at least 20 mol %, and having a &#x3b2;OH value indicated in formula (1) that fulfills the relationship indicated in formula (2).&#x3b2;OH=&#x2212;[ln()]/&#x2003;&#x2003;(1);&#x3b2;OH&#x2267;0.4891&#xd7;ln(1/)+2.48&#x2003;&#x2003;(2).

Glass, optical glass, glass raw material for press molding, and optical element

Packaging container for small articles

[Problem] The transmittance of glass can be dramatically improved as a result of this glass production method. In addition, the amount of rare metal, such as platinum, that melts into glass can be greatly reduced. [Solution] A glass production method whereby the water content in molten glass is increased, in a melting step (i) in which a glass raw material including at least one type of component among TiO, NbO, WO, and BiOis heated inside a melting container and melted, and a molten glass is obtained.

Glass and optical element production method

An aspect of the present invention relates to optical glass, wherein, in a glass composition based on oxides, a content of POis in the range of 20&#x2dc;34 weight %; a content of BOis over 0 weight % but 10 weight % or less; a weight ratio (BO/PO) is over 0 but less than 0.39; a weight ratio [TiO/(TiO+NbO+WO+BiO+TaO)] is in the range of 0.059&#x2dc;0.180; and a weight ratio [(PO+BO+SiO)/(NaO+KO+LiO)] is in the range of 1.39&#x2dc;1.80, the optical glass having a refractive index nd of 1.78&#x2dc;1.83, and an Abbe's number vd of 20&#x2dc;25.

Optical glass, optical glass blank, glass material for press molding, optical element, and methods for producing them

An aspect of the present invention relates to optical glass, which is oxide glass including cation components in the form of 10 to 40 cation % of P, equal to or more than 50 cation % of a combined quantity of Ti, Nb, W, Bi, and Te, with a cation ratio of a combined content of Tiand Nbto a combined content of Wand Bibeing equal to or less than 1.3, a combined quantity of B, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, and Znwhich amounts to equal to or less than &#x2153; of a combined content of Ti, Nb, W, Bi, and Te, and more than 0 % of Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cscombined, and which has a refractive index of equal to or higher than 2.02.

Optical glass and use thereof

An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that holds a developer image on a surface of the image carrier, a cleaning member that removes a remaining developer that remains on the surface of the image carrier after the developer image is transferred to a transfer target by contacting the surface of the image carrier, an accumulation part that accumulates the remaining developer removed by the cleaning member, a supply member that supplies the remaining developer accumulated in the accumulation part to the surface of the image carrier, a carrying mechanism that carries an excess developer toward an outside, the excess developer being defined as developer overflowing from the accumulation part.

Image forming apparatus and image carrier unit

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Tokyo, Japan

Yasuhiro Fujiwara