Nec Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Other

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Nippon Carbide Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute

Yukio Yokoyama

Naoto Watanabe

Hiroto Nishihara

Kuniyasu Kimura

Takako Hanada

Takayasu Nagahara

Naoaki Kanaya

Kazue Inamura

Tatsuya Kobayashi

Tomobumi Nakayama

Takao Ono

Takeo Koyama

Katsuji Kimura

Hiroyuki Iwasaki

Yasuhiro Sasaki

Yasuharu Onishi

Katsuhide Koga

Takayuki Kawakami

Masatake Takahashi

Tatsuhito Kataoka

Yasuhiro Hayashi

Nozomi Toki

Isamu Sato

Ukyo Mori

Ryoh Itoh

Toshifumi Sato

Yukio Murata

Akio Ito

Toshio Ito

Koji Yamasaki

Eiji Hankui

Jun Kuroda

Hisatsugu Tahara

Kazuo Sekiya

Shinya Nakamura

Naohisa Goto

Toru Makino

Osamu Tanaka

Kenji Takamoro

Michiharu Masuda

Yoshihiko Kasai

Takuya Kojima

Takehiro Ishihara

Hiroki Nakazawa

Yoshio Ebine

The present invention provides a stringed instrument capable of corresponding to a preference of a player of the stringed instrument, a purpose of performance, and so on as much as possible. A resonance box portion fabricated by an additive fabrication method and a neck portion protruding from the resonance box portion are included, and material constants at a desired area of the resonance box portion is made different from material constants at an adjacent area adjacent to the desired area step by step or continuously. Vibrational characteristics of the instrument are changed by the partial difference of the material constants, and thereby, the stringed instrument capable of corresponding to the preference of the player, the purpose of the performance, and so on is provided.

Stringed instrument, manufacturing method and apparatus thereof

A piezoelectric acoustic device comprises: at least two piezoelectric actuators; a support body that supports the at least two piezoelectric actuators; and a signal input unit that drives the at least two piezoelectric actuators at respective arbitrary times. At least one pair of piezoelectric actuators among the at least two piezoelectric actuators is arranged in such a manner that their sound radiation surfaces face each other with a predetermined gap.

Piezoelectric acoustic device and electronic apparatus

A cellular phone includes upper casinghaving a front surface with LCD paneldisposed thereon, lower casinghaving a front surface with key paddisposed thereon, and an antenna, upper and lower casingsbeing openably and closably coupled to each other. First control platefor reflecting electromagnetic waves is disposed in upper casing, and second control panelfor reflecting electromagnetic waves is disposed in lower casing. First control plateand second control platecomprise separate members which are independent of each other. When the cellular phone is in an unfolded state in which the angle formed between the front surface of upper casingand the front surface of the lower casingis maximum, first control plateand second control platehave a maximum projected area on the surfaces of upper and lower casings

Cellular phone

Piezoelectric actuator () includes a piezoelectric element () that performs expansion/contraction movement in accordance with the state of an electrical field, a base () with the piezoelectric element () adhered to one surface thereof, and a support member () for supporting the piezoelectric element () and the base (), the piezoelectric element () and base () vibrating up and down in accordance with the expansion/contraction movement of the piezoelectric element (). The base () is connected to the support member () by way of a vibration film () having less rigidity than the base (). In addition, the piezoelectric element () and support member () have different outline shapes.

Piezoelectric actuator and electronic apparatus

An image-heating device has a detector for detecting the state of a recording medium at a position between a first fixing unit and a second fixing unit along a conveying path of the recording medium and a controller for controlling a fixing condition of the second fixing unit on the basis of the information obtained by the detector.

Image-heating device with a first heating member and an adjustable second heating member

An image forming apparatus has an image forming device for forming a toner image on a recording material; a plurality of image heating devices for sequentially heating an image on the recording material in one of plural modes; a selecting device for selecting the mode and thus the number of the image heating devices to be used for heating the image; and a manual setting device for manually setting an operating condition of at least one of the image heating devices.

Image forming apparatus with manual setting of an operating condition of at least one image heating device

An image forming apparatus includes a control unit for controlling a plurality of fixing units independently of one another regardless of a state of an image forming unit, and a receiving unit for receiving image forming requests, and has a control sequence, in which when not all of a recording medium material, a recording medium state, environment, and image data satisfy predetermined conditions, at least one of the plurality of fixing units are caused to operate, and a control sequence, in which when it is detected that an image forming request, for which all of the plurality of fixing units are required, is received by the receiving unit, each currently unused fixing unit is caused to operate. Accordingly, it is possible to realize high productivity even when there exist fixing units not driven due to the recording medium physical properties, recording medium state, environment, image data, or the like.

Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus capable of obtaining an image of a desired quality by a simple method is provided with an image forming device for forming a toner image on a recording material, a plurality of pairs of fixing rollers provided to fix the toner image, a glossiness detecting sensor for detecting the state of the image on the recording material on which the toner image has been fixed, and a controller for controlling the fixing conditions of the plurality of pairs of fixing rollers, and has a first image check mode for fixing the toner image by one pair of fixing rollers of the plurality of pairs of fixing rollers, and a second image check mode for fixing the toner image by the plurality of pairs of fixing rollers, and the controller selects whether the second image check mode should be executed, on the basis of the result of the glossiness detecting sensor having detected the state of the image on the recording material on which the formed image has been fixed by the first image check mode.

Image forming apparatus which excutes check mode prior to ordinary image formation

An adjustment time reduction mode of reducing adjustment operation time is provided such that a user can set the adjustment time reduction mode in which a user arbitrarily reduces the adjustment operation time, depending on the user's situation. An apparatus performing adjustment operation at a predetermined timing, monitors a timing at which the adjustment operation is to be performed and visually notifies a user of the timing at which the adjustment operation is to be performed before execution of a job requested by the user. When the adjustment time reduction mode is set, the apparatus reduces a time for the adjustment operation during execution of the job requested by the user, and the apparatus is caused to operate in the adjustment time reduction mode until the job is completed.

Adjustment mode control method and apparatus for performing the same

An image forming apparatus which can facilitate acquisition of an image output bundle that has a uniform and optimal gloss level as a whole. An image forming apparatusfixes a toner image on a plurality of sheets. An image ratio calculation unitcalculates a composition ratio of image types in a plurality of pages of image data. A gloss level control unitprovides a control for uniformly fixing toner images formed on the plurality of pages to the plurality of sheets based on the calculation result by the image ratio calculation unit

Image forming apparatus and gloss level control method

An image forming system has an image forming device, a first image heating device for heating a toner image at a first nip to maintain a target temperature, a second image heating device for heating a toner image at a second nip to maintain a target temperature, a selecting device for selecting a first image forming mode in which only the first image heating device is used for a image heating process and a second image forming mode in which the first image heating device and the second image heating device are used for the image heating process, and a delaying device for making timing at which the target temperature of the first image heating device is lowered in a stand by state later than a timing at which the target temperature of the second image heating device is lowered in the stand by state.

Image forming apparatus with setting of an operating condition of at least one image heating device

A resin-formed substrate is provided which has a component side for mounting an electronic component thereon, and a solder side for soldering thereto a lead extending from the electronic component, which is the reverse to the component side, the resin-formed substrate comprising a metal frame forming an electronic circuit pattern; and a resin covering the metal frame, the resin having an aperture formed therein, for exposing a portion of the metal frame, wherein the portion of the metal frame exposed through the aperture serves as an electrode portion for mounting of the electronic component, wherein the resin has a rib integrally formed on the component side, thereby suppressing warp of the resin-formed substrate due to a temperature difference made between a component side and a solder side during soldering.

Resin-formed substrate and resin-formed substrate unit

Retroreflective sheeting ( ) comprises a reflective base ( ), a transparent film layer ( ) which is colored different from the color of reflected light of the reflective base ( ) and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer ( ). The transparent film layer ( ) is removably provided on the reflective base ( ) via the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer ( ). Part ( &prime;) of the transparent film layer ( ) is to be cut out on use so that the transparent film layer ( ) may form a desired image. The peel strength between the transparent film layer ( ) and the reflective base ( ) is 25 to 400 gf/25 mm. After the transparent film layer ( ) is pressed to the reflective base ( ) under a pressure of 5 kgf/cm , the peel strength between the transparent film layer ( ) and the reflective base ( ) is 700 gf/25 mm or greater.

Retroreflective sheet

Process for preparing 2-phenyl-3-naphthylpropionic acid derivatives

A laser driving method is adapted for driving a plurality of laser emitting devices. A first current to be supplied to each of the plurality of laser emitting devices is always generated. A plurality of second currents controlled according to a control signal supplied from the outside are generated when necessary. The plurality of second currents are supplied to the respective laser emitting devices under supply of the respective first currents, thereby making the laser emitting devices emit respective laser beams. The plurality of laser emitting devices are caused to emit the laser beams in time division at predetermined timing to detect each of emitted light amounts by one laser monitor. Adjustment is made to at least one of the first current and the second current supplied to each of the laser emitting devices according to a plurality of detected light amounts detected. Supply of the current to the laser emitting devices not driven is stopped when the plurality of laser emitting devices are adjusted in light amount in time division.

Laser driving method and apparatus and image-forming apparatus

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Yukio Yokoyama