Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Japan Display Inc.

Kao Corporation

The University of Tokyo

Sumitomo Light Metal Industries, Ltd.

Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha

Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited

Denso Corporation

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Omron Corporation

Yuji Suzuki

Hideki Kimura

Nobuo Takami

Eisuke Hori

Noriyuki Kimura

Kenji Kikuchi

Hayato Kurasawa

Hiroshi Mizuhashi

Toshinori Uehara

Shoji Hinata

Akira Kawamata

Hiroyuki Uenishi

Yasuhiro Kanaya

Yoshio Hattori

Daichi Suzuki

Shigenori Yamauchi

Yukihiro Ohashi

Katsumi Masuda

Koji Yoshino

Ken Takeuchi

Yoshitoshi Kida

Toshiyuki Suzuki

Masato Suzuki

Hiroshi Saitoh

Junji Yamabe

Motohito Hori

Takamasa Ozeki

Akio Toba

Yasushi Shioya

Yoshiki Akatani

Takeo Uno

Ikuya Sato

Yasuhito Tanaka

Masamichi Iwasaki

Mituo Suda

Toshiya Yamazaki

Nobuaki Ohguri

Masaaki Ajima

Nobuhide Kasagi

Yoko Kikuchi

Tsutomu Harada

Tomohiro Furuhashi

Hirokazu Ishii

Satoshi Takano

Hiroshi Ota

Kenji Kato

Tatsuya Kubo

Naotake Takaishi

Yoshitaka Ozeki

Susumu Tateyama

Kyohta Koetsuka

Shinnosuke Koshizuka

Yoshihisa Minakawa

Akira Azami

Masayuki Ohsawa

Yoshiyuki Takano

Itaru Matsuda

Kenichi Morimoto

Hiroshi Ikeda

Masaki Shimizu

Tsutomu Fujimura

Kenzo Koike

Koji Hikawa

Yoshiharu Hasegawa

Junichi Fukasawa

Akihiro Takayama

Yoshifusa Shoji

Shinya Iuchi

Ryoh Tanoue

Eiji Shimojo

Masahiro Togashi

Satoshi Fujisawa

Kazue Tsukahara

Yasuhiro Arakawa

Noboru Onodera

Tadahiko Tabe

Kikuchi Kenji

Hidenori Nihei

Koichi Urata

Wataru Takahashi

Hiroshi Ishii

Hirokazu Tanaka

Takahiro Watanabe

Hideo Yoshizawa

Shuuya Nagasako

Goro Katsuyama

Akira Kunieda

Daisuke Ito

Daisuke Takahashi

Yuusuke Shibasaki

Takuya Morinaga

Tomomichi Hoshino

Yoshiaki Inamoto

Michitaka Suzuki

Akio Kosuge

Yohsuke Haraguchi

Nobuyuki Taguchi

Koji Suzuki

Shunji Katoh

Yasuhiro Suzuki

Provided is a heat exchange promotion member and a heat exchanger that can improve heat transfer performance while holding down an increase in pressure drag of a fluid that exchanges heat with the heat exchange promotion member. A heat dissipation finof the present invention is a heat exchange promotion member that exchanges heat with a flowing fluid. The heat dissipation finincludes a planar partwhich is a surface substantially parallel to the fluid flowing direction and a raised partthat protrudes from the planar parttoward the fluid. The raised parthas a portion slanted relative to the direction in which the fluid flows, and there are a plurality of the raised partsformed spaced apart from one another in the fluid flowing direction.

Heat exchange promotion member and heat exchanger

A power converter includes a capacitor and a substrate on which a plurality of switching elements for power conversion are mounted. The power converter includes a cooler for cooling the plurality of switching elements and a housing that accommodates the capacitor, the substrate, and the cooler. The power converter includes a power connector exposed from the housing and an output connector exposed from the housing. The power converter includes a plurality of lines that include a plurality of power lines each electrically connected to the capacitor, given switching elements, and the power connector. The plurality of lines include a plurality of output lines each electrically connected to given switching elements and the output connector. At least one among the plurality of lines is a line that includes a conductive pattern formed on the substrate.

Power converter

A sheet processing device sandwiches a sheet-shaped medium in a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlaid and partially bonded. The sheet processing device includes a separator, a conveyor, and a switching member. The separator separates the two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The conveyor is disposed downstream from the separator in a sheet conveyance direction and conveys the two-ply sheet. The switching member is disposed downstream from the conveyor in the sheet conveyance direction. The switching member switches a conveyance path of the two-ply sheet to convey the two-ply sheet to a fixing path on which fixing processing is performed on the two-ply sheet or a non-fixing path on which no fixing processing is performed on the two-ply sheet.

Sheet processing device, sheet laminator, image forming apparatus, and image forming system

A power converter includes a positive busbar electrically connected to a positive terminal and the first capacitor electrode, and includes a negative busbar electrically connected to a negative terminal and the second capacitor electrode. The power converter includes output busbars each electrically connected to a given output terminal among multiple output terminals, a given high-side switching element among a plurality of high-side switching elements, and a given low-side switching element among a plurality of low-side switching elements. The power converter includes a cooler that cools the high-side switching elements and the low-side switching elements. The power converter includes a housing that accommodates a supply tube and a discharge tube. The positive terminal, the negative terminal, the output terminals, the inlet port, and the outlet port are exposed on the housing. The inlet port, the outlet port, the supply tube, and the discharge tube are separate members from the housing.

Included are a first cover base including an alkali glass layer, a first alkali-free glass layer provided on one face of the alkali glass layer, and a second alkali-free glass layer provided on another face of the alkali glass layer and a sensor that is provided on the first alkali-free glass layer of the first cover base and includes a plurality of first electrodes configured to detect the unevenness of a surface of an object to be detected that comes into contact with or close to the first cover base and a switching element. At least the first electrodes are formed above the first alkali-free glass layer and in a transmissive area that passes an image.

Cover member and display apparatus

A display panel including a display function layer displaying an image in a display area, a cover member including a first face and a second face disposed on an opposite side of the first face and faces the display panel, and a fingerprint sensor including a plurality of first detection electrodes disposed in a sensor base and configured to detect unevenness of an object brought into contact with or approaching the first face of the cover member, a shield electrode disposed to face the plurality of first detection electrodes and configured to suppress a change in capacitance between the first detection electrodes and the shield electrode, and switching elements disposed in correspondence with the first detection electrodes, the fingerprint sensor being arranged between the cover member and the display panel and arranged to overlap with the display area when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first face are included.

Display device

A system with a container including a protrusion, and a receiver to receive the container. The receiver includes a slide block that is movable relative to a body of the receiver, the slide block including two surfaces, a first surface, initially contacted by the protrusion of the container during insertion of the container into the receiver, having a first slope to resist movement of the container towards the receiver, and a second surface, subsequently contacted by the protrusion of the container during the insertion of the container into the receiver, having a second slope to interact with the protrusion of the container to assist movement of the container towards the receiver. This construction provides the user with a changing insertion force to indicate proper mounting of the container.

Toner container having protrusions projecting from opposite sides of the toner container

An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a charger, a charge remover, and control circuitry. The charger is configured to charge the photoconductor. The charge remover is configured to remove charge from a surface of the photoconductor by light and electric discharge. The control circuitry is configured to: estimate a surface potential that the photoconductor has after the photoconductor is charged by the charger, based on a characteristic value of the photoconductor and a value of a current flowing through the charger after the charge remover removes charge from the photoconductor; and control a charging bias applied to the charger, based on the surface potential estimated.

Image forming apparatus that controls a charging bias based on an estimated surface potential

According to an aspect, a fingerprint detection device includes: a substrate; a plurality of drive electrodes provided on one surface side of the substrate and arranged in a first direction; and a plurality of detection electrodes provided on the one surface side and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The detection electrodes intersect the drive electrodes in a normal direction of the substrate. Each of the detection electrodes includes: a plurality of first line portions; a plurality of second line portions extending in a direction intersecting the first line portions; and a plurality of bent portions each connecting one of the first line portions and one of the second line portions adjacent to the one of the first line portions to each other.

Fingerprint detection device and display device

According to an aspect, a fingerprint detection device includes: a substrate; a plurality of drive electrodes provided on one surface side of the substrate and arranged in a first direction; a plurality of detection electrodes provided on the one surface side and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and an insulating layer provided in a normal direction of the substrate between each of the drive electrodes and the corresponding detection electrodes. The detection electrodes intersect the drive electrodes in the normal direction of the substrate. The detection electrodes include: a first metallic layer; and a second metallic layer positioned closer to the one surface than the first metallic layer to the one surface. The first metallic layer has a reflectance of visible light lower than that of the second metallic layer.

A display apparatus includes a plurality of display panels arranged in a matrix, each of the image display panel includes a plurality of drive electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of detection electrodes extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein an AC voltage is sequentially applied to the plurality of drive electrodes of a first display panel, and the plurality of detection electrodes of a second display panel adjacent to the first display panel detect a signal output from the plurality of drive electrodes of the first display panel.

Display apparatus and control device

According to an aspect, a detection device includes: an insulating substrate including a plurality of detection electrodes; a transmission conductor disposed adjacent to the detection electrodes; a drive signal generator coupled to the transmission conductor; and a detector coupled to the detection electrodes. The drive signal generator generates a detection drive signal and supplies the detection drive signal to the transmission conductor. The detector detects a detection signal corresponding to a change in capacitance in the detection electrodes.

Detection device

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