Konica Minolta, Inc.

Yoshinobu Ehara

Hajime Mori

Makoto Ooki

Hideo Uemura

Kazuki Ikeda

Tomohiko Tagawa

A seal bearing includes: a bearing part configured to bear and hold a shaft such that the shaft is rotatable; and a seal part made of elastomer and combined with the bearing part. The seal part is joined to an end surface among two end surfaces of the bearing part. The two end surfaces are adjacent to a bearing surface of the bearing part in an axial direction.

Seal bearing and image forming apparatus

A resin sliding bearing includes: a bearing surface for slidingly bearing a shaft; and a hollow that communicates with the bearing surface through to a different surface of the bearing.

Resin sliding bearing and image forming apparatus

A method is for manufacturing a structure obtained by stacking a substrate that is a first member as a base material, and lens arrays that are second members that are opposed to the substrate, are formed of a resin material different from the substrate, and have a shape on a surface. The method includes a surface activation step of performing an activation treatment to cause an activation state of at least one of a surface of the substrate or a surface of the lens arrays, and a bonding step of pressurizing the lens arrays at least at a temperature that is equal to or higher than a reference temperature obtained by subtracting 30&#xb0; C. from a load deflection temperature of a resin material of the lens arrays, and is equal to or lower than a glass transition temperature, to closely bond to the substrate.

Method for manufacturing structure

An optical writing device includes: a light emitting substrate on which light emitting device groups obtained by grouping light emitting devices is arranged; a lens array including image forming lenses condensing light emitted from the light emitting devices on an image carrier; a first base material including the lens array; and a second base material including the light emitting substrate or the lens array, wherein the first and/or second base materials, each of which includes a joint formed in a joint part with the other member, is a transparent body, the joint includes a metal layer, an intermediate layer providing a peak of total transmissivity of the joint in a first wavelength band, and a marker for alignment, the first and second base materials are joined via the metal layer, and the light emitting devices emit light of a wavelength band out of the first wavelength band.

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Hino, Japan

Yoshinobu Ehara