Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Subaru Corporation

Nippon Steel Corporation

Nsk Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Tdk Corporation

Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Tohoku University

Schneider Electric Industries Sas

Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.

Fuji Electric Fa Components & Systems Co., Ltd.

Nippon Steel Chemical & Material Co., Ltd.

Yutaka Sato

Koji Asakawa

Jun Sato

Kazuhiro Doda

Kohei Wakatsu

Tsuguhiro Yoshida

Takashi Narahara

Ken Nakagawa

Takeshi Shinji

Tatsuya Fujii

Takeshi Fujita

Tomohiro Uno

Naoto Shiraishi

Yasuo Osada

Osamu Takahashi

Takanori Watanabe

Kiyoshi Sato

Takashi Hashimoto

Yasuhiro Takahashi

Osamu Suzuki

Keiichi Kimura

Takashi Seki

Satoshi Imai

Yoshinori Yamamoto

Shinya Imano

Tomoo Akizuki

Toshiyuki Hisatsune

Jun Miura

Seiji Ishida

Kiyohito Ishida

Yukio Kadowaki

Kouji Ishikawa

Susumu Suzuka

Masami Tanaka

Masafumi Maeda

Hikaru Osada

Koji Nihonyanagi

Hiroshi Arita

Hisashi Nakahara

Nobuo Ando

Nobuo Goto

Masahiro Nagasu

Satoshi Hirano

Mitsutaka Iwasaki

Masafumi Tanaka

Osamu Sasaoka

Tatsuya Kinukawa

Sho Taguchi

Kuniaki Kasuga

Eiichi Toyota

Naofumi Murata

Jean-Pierre Nereau

Toshihiro Omori

Shinichi Inoue

Kazuhiko Teramachi

Ryo Morihara

Kazuo Sakamoto

Yukihiro Imai

Ken Oi

Masanori Ae

Katsumasa Yagi

Shuji Shimizu

Fukuharu Sudo

Michihiro Gonda

Yusuke Nakazono

Motomi Shimada

Tsutomu Yamaguchi

Koji Uchiyama

Shuko Yamauchi

Hiroto Unno

Seunghwan Park

Ryo Fukui

Yasufumi Fujikawa

Hitoshi Endoh

Nariaki Hatta

Tomofumi Yamashita

Mitsuru Nagai

Yosuke Yasuda

Mutsuhito Tanaka

Toshiaki Kikuchi

Tatsuya Kaneko

Takaaki Domon

Mikiko Kanasugi

Tadanori Ryu

Yuki Oshima

Yoshio Kaita

Yoshinobu Hamada

Fumio Tsuyama

Hirotada Furukawa

Toshiyuki Murakami

Nobutake Hayashi

Shinya Kurasawa

Satoru Okabe

Tsutomu Miyauchi

Toshimasa Takahashi

Yohei Hosooka

Takashi Utsunomiya

Seung Hwan Park

Shigenobu Yanai

A method for manufacturing a composite member, in which a composite member having a high joining strength can be manufactured in an inexpensive and efficient way; and the composite member. A metal member and a resin-containing member are joined together by heating the metal member while pressing the resin-containing member against a metal porous film formed on a surface of the metal member. The porous film is formed by impacting the surface of the metal member with metal powder by the cold spray process.

Method for manufacturing composite member, and composite member

The heater including a substrate, a first heat generation member, a second heat generation member having a length substantially a same in a longitudinal direction as a length of the first heat generation member, a third heat generation member having a length shorter than lengths of the first heat generation member and the second heat generation member in the longitudinal direction, and a fourth heat generation member having a length shorter than length of the third heat generation member in the longitudinal direction, wherein the first heat generation member, the second heat generation member, the third heat generation member and the fourth heat generation member are arranged on the substrate.

Heater including a plurality of heat generation members, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus

A system for automatically opening a gate of a public transport station may comprise a plurality of transmitters (), a mobile device () of a passenger reaching the plurality of gates and a plurality of gate control devices () controlling the plurality of gates (). Each transmitter may be installed at one of a plurality of gates () and may send a transmitter signal including a gate identifier identifying the respective gate. The passenger's mobile device () may receive a plurality of transmitter signals from the plurality of transmitters (), select one of the plurality of received transmitter signals based on a signal characteristic of the received transmitter signals, read the gate identifier included in the selected transmitter signal, and transmit a validation signal including the gate identifier of the selected transmitter signal and a user identifier of the passenger's mobile device () to the plurality of gate control devices (). Each gate control device () may receive the validation signal from the passenger's mobile device (), compare the gate identifier included in the received validation signal with a gate identifier of the gate () controlled by the gate control device (), and open the gate () if the gate identifier included in the received validation signal corresponds to the gate identifier of the gate () controlled by the gate control device ().

System, method and computer program product for automatically opening a gate of a public transport station

A fixing apparatus is used that has: a first rotation member; an elongated heater disposed in an internal space of the first rotation member, and having a heat generating member and a substrate on which the heat generating member is provided; a temperature sensing unit that detects a temperature of the heater; a heater holder that holds the heater; a second rotation member that forms a nip portion with the heater, across the first rotation member; a reservoir unit that stores grease that is supplied between the first rotation member and the heater; and an elastic member that encloses the temperature sensing unit, such that a toner image formed on a recording material is heated and fixed at the nip portion.

Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a feed tray, first and second sensors, and a controller. The controller adjusts a sheet interval between the first and second recording materials based on sensor detected length and width of a recording material fed from the feed tray. When a first recording material has a first length and a second recording material has a second length longer than the first length, the controller performs control to increase a sheet interval in response to a first number of recording materials having the second length and conveyed successively. When the first recording material has the first length and the second recording material has a third length shorter than the first length, the controller performs control to reduce the sheet interval in response to a second number of recording materials having the third length and conveyed successively. The second number is greater than the first number.

Image forming apparatus

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a fixation unit configured to heat a toner image formed corresponding to image data and fix the heated toner image onto a recording material; and a control unit configured to determine a fixation target temperature used by the fixation unit to heat the toner image on the basis of the image data, wherein the control unit performs a first determination to calculate a first target temperature on the basis of image density information in each of a plurality of regions in which the image data is divided in a main-scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction and a second determination to determine whether the image data is a text image, and determines the fixation target temperature on the basis of results of the first determination and the second determination.

Image forming apparatus and method for controlling same

A heater includes: a substrate; an insulating layer that is provided on the substrate; and a heat generating element that is provided on the insulating layer, and in a case where a region including a center of the substrate is defined as a first region, a region on a side closer to one end portion than the first region is defined as a second region, and a region on a side closer to the other end portion than the first region is defined as a third region in a transverse direction that is orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of a surface of the substrate on which the insulating layer is provided, the first region is a plane, and the second region and the third region are bent from the first region in a thickness direction of the substrate that is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction.

Heater, heating device, and image forming apparatus

There is used an image forming apparatus including a fixing unit configured to heat a recording material at a fixing nip portion to fix a toner image, and a control unit configured to switch a target temperature, wherein, in the case where the target temperature of preceding recording material is first temperature, the target temperature of subsequent recording material is second temperature which is higher than the first temperature, and a difference between the second temperature and the first temperature has a first value, the control unit performs switching from timing which is earlier than reaching of the second recording material to the fixing nip portion by a predetermined period, and, the higher the target temperature of the preceding recording material, the shorter the predetermined period.

A residual gas volume measuring device for measuring volume of residual gas in a container filled with liquid. The device includes: a puncture member having a first communication path and a second communication path formed therein and connecting a penetrating portion and a coupling portion together, the penetrating portion being located inside the container and the coupling portion being located outside the container when the puncture member is in a penetrating position where an end of the puncture member penetrates into the container; an injection section coupled to the first communication path at the coupling portion and configured to inject a liquid into the container; a discharging section coupled to the second communication path at the coupling portion and configured to discharge the residual gas purged by the injected liquid; and a measurement section configured to measure the volume of the residual gas discharged by the discharging section.

Residual gas volume measuring device, residual gas volume measuring method, and puncture member

An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device having a heater, a first temperature detection unit, a pair of second temperature detection units, a pair of first sheet-width detection units, a pair of second sheet-width detection units, and a control unit. The heater includes a first heat generating element, a second heat generating element having a length smaller than a length of the first heat generating element in a longitudinal direction, and a third heat generating element having a length smaller than the length of the second heat generating element in the longitudinal direction. The control unit controls a temperature of the heater based on a detection result of the pair of first sheet-width detection units, a detection result of the pair of second sheet-width detection units, and a detection result of the pair of second temperature detection units.

Image forming apparatus including a plurality of heat generating elements

A vehicle heat management system includes a refrigerant circuit, a heating circuit, and a battery temperature regulation circuit. The refrigerant circuit circulates a refrigerant to regulate a temperature inside a passenger compartment through the refrigerant circuit. The heating circuit circulates a liquid that exchanges heat with the refrigerant through the heating circuit. The heating circuit regulates the temperature inside the passenger compartment. The battery temperature regulation circuit regulates a temperature of a battery by introducing a liquid that exchanges heat with the refrigerant to the battery.

Vehicle heat management system

In a case where fixing processing is performed continuously on sheets having a width that is shorter than a length of a heat generation member in a longitudinal direction and longer than a length of another heat generation member in the longitudinal directions, the CPU determines a timing to switch between the heat generation member and the another heat generation member by a heat generation member switching device based on information relating to a size of the sheet.

Fixing apparatus switching heat generation members and image forming apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Yutaka Sato