Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

The Japan Steel Works, Ltd.

Yachiyo Industry Co., Ltd.

Yukio Fujiwara

Hidetoshi Kami

Hiroshi Tamura

Tetsuro Suzuki

Kazuhiro Egawa

Hiroshi Ikuno

Hidenori Tomono

Takafumi Iwamoto

Yuuma Usui

Hideaki Aratani

Masahiro Kobayashi

Takeo Tsukamoto

Kazukiyo Nagai

Kenji Kameyama

Tomoaki Kato

Tetsuya Toshine

Shinji Nohsho

Kohsuke Yamamoto

Kohichi Ohshima

Mihoko Matsumoto

Osamu Wada

Mayumi Yoshihara

Takanori Inadome

Yoshio Takada

Yoshinori Inaba

Kei-Ichiro Kobayashi

Naomi Furuse

Shinji Ishibe

Shoichi Shichimiya

Hiroto Higuchi

Kazunari Suzuki

Junichi Yamazaki

Yoshiaki Kawasaki

Fumio Yoshizawa

Yuji Ito

Mikiko Takada

Mitsumasa Imataki

Kazuhiro Ohtaki

Yoshikazu Shibuya

Satoru Araya

Wataru Iwase

Naoya Tabuchi

Naoto Saito

Toshiki Suzuki

Masahiro Niihori

Ryuichi Kawachi

Yukiko Oshima

Tohei Nitta

Takatoshi Watanabe

Masanosuke Ikegaya

Shigeru Yamaji

Toshimitsu Okuoka

Keisuke Konishi

Juuta Kon

Hirotaka Nitta

Seiji Sonoyama

A printed matter producing method includes forming an intermediate layer over a base material; applying an ink receiving layer forming liquid to the intermediate layer to form an ink receiving layer; and applying an ink to the ink receiving layer by an inkjet method to form an image. The viscosity of the ink receiving layer forming liquid at 25 degrees C. is 40 mPa·s or higher.

Printed matter producing method and printed matter producing apparatus, and printed matter

A method for producing a foamed body includes: forming a foamed layer precursor including applying a coating liquid onto a base to form a liquid film and applying an ink onto the liquid film by an inkjet method, where the coating liquid contains a foaming agent and an active energy ray curable material having a radical-polymerizable functional group, the active energy ray curable material contains a multifunctional active energy ray curable material having two or more radical-polymerizable functional groups, and the ink contains a foaming accelerator having a radical-polymerizable functional group; and foaming a desired position of the foamed layer precursor by heating to form a foamed layer. A functional group equivalent of the radical-polymerizable functional group in the foaming accelerator is greater than a functional group equivalent of the radical-polymerizable functional group in the active energy ray curable material.

Method and device for producing foamed body

A printing method includes applying a foaming agent composition containing a foaming agent to form a foaming agent layer, applying a foaming inhibitor composition containing a foaming inhibitor onto the foaming agent layer, curing the foaming agent layer with irradiation of active energy, and heating the foaming agent layer to foam the foaming agent layer, wherein the foaming agent composition has a viscosity of from 50 to 1,500 mPa&#xb7;s at 25 degrees C. and the absolute difference between the static surface tension of the foaming agent composition and the static surface tension of the foaming inhibitor composition is 5 mN/m or less.

Printing method and printing device

Moving servo motors of molds in synchronization with the operations of platens which enables fine patterns or shapes to be formed even on a large molded article. A mold clamping device forms patterns or the like on a molded article by detecting a mold position of a second platen among first, second, third platens with digital mold opening/closing position detector, and driving servo motors for molds of the molds in synchronization with a digital mold opening/closing position signal from the digital mold opening/closing position detector.

Mold clamping device and method

A device registration apparatus includes: a transmitting unit that transmits, to an electric device, a state shift command for shifting the electric device to a specific state; a receiving unit that receives, from a power feed tap, tap identification information, electric-power information that indicates an electric power measured at each outlet, and outlet identification information for identifying an outlet that corresponds to each piece of the electric-power information; a determining unit that, when, in the electric-power information that is received during a predetermined time period after the state shift command is transmitted, electric power information of only one outlet indicates a change in an electric power when the electric device shifts to the specific state, determines that the electric device is connected to the outlet; and an associating unit that stores device identification information in association with outlet identification information on the outlet and the tap identification information.

Device registration apparatus and device registration method

An arbitration device comprises a determining unit that determines priority of each of a plurality of electrical devices according to at least either a position or an action status of a person present in a target area for control; and a calculating unit that calculates electrical power to be allotted to each of the electrical devices in such a way that a total of electrical power allotted to a plurality of the electrical devices is within a limit value and the electrical devices having the priority at high levels are allotted with electrical power on a priority basis.

Arbitration device, arbitration method, and computer program product

A type determination apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to chronologically acquire power consumption consumed by an electrical device; and a determination unit configured to determine that a type of the electrical device is a type to be determined in accordance with a reference pattern representing a predetermined pattern of a power fluctuation when a fluctuation pattern of the power consumption acquired for a duration equal to or more than a reference period of time is matched with the reference pattern.

Type determination apparatus, type determination method, and computer-readable storage medium

In a crosshead, a pair of sheets () are formed by bisecting a parison () suspended from a resin flow passage () formed between a core () and a die () by causing a first dividing body () of a separator () provided on the core () or the die () to contact a second dividing body () provided on the core () or the die ().

Crosshead

An electrophotographic photoconductor having a photosensitive layer and a crosslinked resin surface layer over a support, wherein shapes of concaves and convexes in a surface of the electrophotographic photoconductor are measured by a surface roughness/profile measuring device to obtain one-dimensional data arrays, the arrays are subjected to multiresolution analysis (MRA-1) through wavelet transformation to be separated into six frequency components including HHH, HHL, HMH, HML, HLH and HLL to obtain one-dimensional data arrays, the arrays of the HHL are thinned out to be reduced 1/10 to 1/100, thereby producing one-dimensional data arrays, which are then subjected to multiresolution analysis (MRA-2) through wavelet transformation to be separated into six frequency components including LHH, LHL, LMH, LML, LLH and LLL to thereby obtain 12 frequency components in total; and a center-line average roughness (WRa) of the 12 frequency components satisfies relationship (i) below.1&#x2212;597&#xd7;WRa(HML)+238&#xd7;WRa(HLH)&#x2212;95&#xd7;WRa(LHL)+84&#xd7;WRa(LMH)&#x2212;79&#xd7;WRa(LML)+55&#xd7;WRa(LLH)&#x2212;17&#xd7;WRa(LLL)&#x3e;0&#x2003;&#x2003;(i)

Electrophotographic photoconductor, production method of the same, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge

A photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate; a photosensitive layer which is located overlying the electroconductive substrate and which is not radically crosslinked; and an outermost layer which is located overlying the photosensitive layer and which includes a radically crosslinked material, wherein the radically crosslinked material includes a unit having a specific formula. An image forming method, an image forming apparatus, and a process cartridge, which use the photoreceptor.

Electrophotographic photoreceptor, and image forming method and apparatus using the same

An electrophotographic photoreceptor including a conductive substrate, a photosensitive layer, and a cross-linked resin surface layer comprising a cross-linked resin having a charge transport structure, which satisfies the following inequations:0.01&#x3c;()&#x3c;0.04&#x2003;&#x2003;(1-1)0.01&#x3c;()&#x3c;0.04&#x2003;&#x2003;(1-2)0.01&#x3c;()&#x3c;0.04&#x2003;&#x2003;(1-3)0.01&#x3c;()&#x3c;0.04&#x2003;&#x2003;(1-4)()&#x3e;()&#x2003;&#x2003;(2-1)()&#x3e;()&#x2003;&#x2003;(2-2)()&#x3e;()&#x2003;&#x2003;(2-3)()&#x3e;()&#x2003;&#x2003;(2-4)()&#x3e;()&#x2003;&#x2003;(2-5)()&#x3e;()&#x2003;&#x2003;(2-6)wherein WRa (&#x3bc;m) represents an arithmetic average roughness according to JIS-B0601:2001 of frequency components that are obtained by subjecting a one-dimensional data array of a surface profile of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a wavelet transformation multiresolution analysis.

Electrophotographic photoreceptor, method of manufacturing electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

The image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor bearing an electrostatic image; a developing device developing the electrostatic image with a developer including a toner to form a toner image on the photoreceptor; a transferring device transferring the toner image onto a receiving material; and a cleaning device having a cleaning blade cleaning the surface of the photoreceptor. The photoreceptor includes an electroconductive substrate, a photosensitive layer and an outermost layer having projected portions thereon. The outermost layer and projected portions include the same crosslinked charge transport material. The outermost layer has a surface roughness property such that the number of projected portions having height greater than Rz/2 is from 40 to 90 in a length of 12 mm, wherein Rz represents ten-point mean roughness of the outermost layer. The tip of the cleaning blade is contacted with the photoreceptor at a linear pressure of from 80 g/cm to 150 g/cm.

Image forming apparatus

An electrophotographic photoreceptor, including an electroconductive substrate; a photosensitive layer; a crosslinked surface layer comprising &#x3b1;-alumina and tin oxide, wherein a first one-dimensional data array obtained from measuring a concavo-convex shape of the surface of the photoreceptor is subjected to a wavelet conversion to be separated into 6 frequency components, the one-dimensional data array of the lowest frequency component is further thinned so as to have 1/40 data arrays to obtain a second one-dimensional data array, the second one-dimensional data array is further subjected to the wavelet conversion to be separated into additional 6 frequency components, and wherein when relationships between respective arithmetic average roughness (WRa) (y-axis) of the 12 frequency components and the frequency components (x-axis) are graphed, at least WRa (214 to 551 &#x3bc;m) and WRa (26 to 106 &#x3bc;m) have a folding point or a maximum point.

Electrophotographic photoreceptor, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge using the photoreceptor

An electrophotographic photoreceptor, including an electroconductive substrate; a photosensitive layer, located overlying the electroconductive substrate; and an outermost layer comprising a convexity, wherein each of the outermost layer and the convexity includes a crosslinked body including a structural unit having a same charge transportable structure, and wherein the number of convexity having a height not less than &#xbd;&#xd7;RzJIS is from 30 to 300 in a measurement length of 12 mm, wherein RzJIS is an average of ten-point mean roughness specified in JIS B0601 of 2001 and measured at least 4 random positions in an area the outermost layer is formed on, and wherein the height of the convexity is a distance from the deepest valley to a top of the convexity in the measurement length of 12 mm.

Electrophotographic photoreceptor, image forming apparatus and process cartridge therefor using the electrophotographic photoreceptor

An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member having a photosensitive layer and the surface including concave portions having a concave diameter of from 5 to 200 &#x3bc;m, an irradiation device that irradiates the surface of the image bearing member with light to form a latent electrostatic image thereon, a development device that develops the latent electrostatic image with a development agent containing toner to obtain a visualized image, a transfer device that transfers the visualized image to a transfer medium, a first cleaning brush to which a bias is applied with a polarity reverse to that of the toner remaining on the surface of the image bearing member after the visualized image is transferred, and a second cleaning brush to which a bias is applied with the same polarity as that of the toner remaining on the surface of the image bearing member.

Image forming apparatus, image bearing member, and method of manufacturing image bearing member

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