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20120155918 | FIXING DEVICE INCLUDING BELT GUIDE MEMBER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A fixing device includes a fixing rotator unit and an induction heating portion. The fixing rotator unit includes a heating rotary belt, a pressing member being in contact with the inner surface of the heating rotary belt, a pressurizing rotator forming a fixing nip between the pressurizing rotator and the pressing member, a belt guide member including a guide portion and an extending portion, positioning the heating rotary belt, and guiding rotation. The induction heating portion includes a magnetic-flux generating portion, a magnetic core portion, and a support member supporting the magnetic-flux generating portion. The support member includes a positioning portion that positions the belt guide member by coming into contact with or engaging the extending portion to control a distance between the magnetic-flux generating portion and the outer surface of the heating rotary belt. | 06-21-2012 |
20130071154 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a pressing rotating body, a heating rotating belt, an induction coil, a magnetic core portion, and a belt guide member. The belt guide member is disposed on the inner side of the heating rotating belt and includes a coil side section that is disposed toward the induction coil relative to a rotational axis of the heating rotating belt and includes a temperature-rise corresponding portion and a non temperature-rise corresponding portion, and a nip side section that is disposed toward the pressing rotating body relative to the rotational axis and includes a paper-passing corresponding portion and a heat transfer portion disposed on the outer side of the paper-passing corresponding portion and having thermal conductivity higher than the thermal conductivity of the paper-passing corresponding portion. | 03-21-2013 |
20140241767 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring rotator, a pressing member, a heat source, a supporting member, and an end cap. The fixing belt is rotatably provided. The pressuring rotator is rotatably provided, and comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the pressuring rotator. The pressing member presses the fixing belt from inside toward the pressuring rotator. The heat source is disposed outside of the fixing belt, and heats the fixing belt. The supporting member faces the heat source across the fixing belt, and supports the fixing belt from inside. The end cap is mounted to an end part in the direction of a rotation axis of the fixing belt, and is rotatably supported by the supporting member. | 08-28-2014 |
20140241768 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring rotator, a pressing member, a holding member, and an end cap. The fixing belt is rotatably provided. The pressuring rotator is rotatably provided, and comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the pressuring rotator. The pressing member presses the fixing belt from inside toward the pressuring rotator. The holding member holds the pressing member. The end cap is mounted to an end part in a direction of a rotation axis of the fixing belt, and is movable in a radial direction of the fixing belt with respect to the holding member. | 08-28-2014 |
20140376934 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring rotation body, a drive source, a heat source, detected members, rotation detecting parts, a storing part and a controlling part. The storing part stores standard condition for occurrence difficulty of a slip between the fixing belt and detected members co-rotated with rotation of the fixing belt. The controlling part stops heating of the fixing belt by the heat source on a condition that both rotation detecting parts do not detect the rotation of the detected members within a first time when the drive source rotates the fixing belt in a situation unsatisfying the standard condition. The controlling part stops the heating on a condition that at least one of the rotation detecting parts does not detect the rotation of the detected members within a second time when the drive source rotates the fixing belt in a situation satisfying the standard condition. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376935 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring rotation body, a drive transmission member, a detected member, and a rotation detecting part. The fixing belt rotates around a rotation axis. The pressuring rotation body comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt to form a fixing nip. The drive transmission member is held by one end part of the fixing belt. The detected member is held by another end part of the fixing belt. The rotation detecting part detects the rotation of the detected member. The fixing belt is configured to co-rotate with the rotation of the drive transmission member by friction force between the one end part of the fixing belt and drive transmission member. The detected member is configured to co-rotate with the rotation of the fixing belt by friction force between the other end part of the fixing belt and detected member. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376979 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring rotation body, a cap member and an elastic member. The cap member includes a main body part covering an outside of an end part of the fixing belt and a flange part covering an external diameter side of the end part. The elastic member includes a belt insertion part into which the end part is inserted, a cap insertion part into which the flange part is inserted and a contact part coming into contact with an internal side face of the main body part. When the fixing belt is deformed to an internal diameter side, the elastic member is elastically deformed to make the belt insertion part moved to the internal diameter side, and then, a gap is formed in at least a part between the internal side face of the main body part and the contact part. | 12-25-2014 |
20150301487 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - According to the present disclosure, a fixing device includes a heating member, a rotatable pressure roller, and a metal pattern. The heating member includes a heating rotary body configured to be heated by a heating device. The pressure roller is pressed against an outer circumferential surface of the heating rotary body. The metal pattern is disposed facing the heating member so as to extend in a sheet width direction which is equal to an axial direction of the pressure roller, and the metal pattern is formed of a metal wire of which a resistance varies according to variations in temperature of the heating member. | 10-22-2015 |
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20100163546 | WIRING STRUCTURE, HEATER DRIVING DEVICE, MEASURING DEVICE, AND CONTROL SYSTEM - The number of wirings and the number of switching elements are decreased in a heater, a sensor, and the like. First to ninth heaters that heat a hot plate are connected into a matrix form between first power lines in a row direction and second power lines in a column direction. The first power lines are connected to one end of a power supply through three switching elements, respectively. The second power lines are connected to the other end of the power supply through three switching elements, respectively. On-off control is performed to the switching elements to select the heater to be driven. Therefore, the number of power lines and the number of switching elements are decreased compared with a conventional technique in which the heaters are separately wired. | 07-01-2010 |
20110220635 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM AND TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD - A temperature control system has a plurality of heaters arranged on a control target in a plurality of rows and columns, heaters of the same row being connected to a common wiring and heaters of the same column being connected to a common wiring, wirings of the rows being connected to a side of one pole of a power source via respective elements that respond to a heater firing instruction, and wirings of the columns being connected to a side of the other pole of the power source via respective elements that respond to a heater firing instruction, and a controller that controls driving of the plurality of heaters based on an operation amount that is input for controlling a temperature of the control target. | 09-15-2011 |
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20110016110 | TRAIL MANAGEMENT METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - A trail management system acquires and manages operation contents in a PC that is provided with an operation function including a document transcription function. When a user performs a transcription operation, a server acquires operation information and stores it as chronological data. The operation information contains time of the transcription operation, a user name, a value transcribed by the transcription operation, document specification information for specifying a transcription origin document during the transcription operation, location specification information for specifying a transcription origin location in the transcription origin document, document specification information for specifying a transcription destination document during the transcription operation, and location specification information for specifying a transcription destination location in the transcription origin document. Using a PC, an administrator searches for chronological data in accordance with a search condition supplied to search for the chronological data and displays a search result on the PC. | 01-20-2011 |
20110093126 | Intra-Area Environmental Control System and Intra-Area Environmental Control Method - An environmental control system according to the present invention is a system for controlling environmental devices by which a work status and a behavior status are monitored and the environmental devices are finely controlled in accordance with the statuses to improve comfort. The environmental control system includes a communication unit, a unit for detecting environments, a unit for detecting a work status, a unit for obtaining power consumption, a unit for determining the control of a device, and a unit for transmitting a control signal, and enables fine control in accordance with a work type. | 04-21-2011 |
20110153379 | STAFF ARRANGEMENT SYSTEM AND SERVER - According to one embodiment of the present invention, a skill level of a staff member is discriminated from an actual job log of the staff member, productivity including the skill level, a salary, and combination efficiency with another staff member is calculated, and a staff arrangement plan maximizing a productive efficiency is outputted. A system of calculating an optimum staff arrangement of staff arrangements for a job operated by a plurality of staff members, includes: a record database for a job amount generated during a certain period; a profile database for staff members; a combination-efficiency database for staff members; a skill-level database for staff members; means of acquiring a staff-profile data; means of acquiring a record of a past-generated job amount; means of calculating combination efficiency between staff members; means of predicting a job demand of the job in a specific period, from the record of the past-generated job amount; means of calculating the required number of staff members from the predicted job demand; means of calculating a working shift satisfying the required number of staff members; means of calculating a working-shift matching degree from data of the combination efficiency with the staff member and the working shift; means of performing an arrangement plan corresponding to the required number of staff members by sequentially arranging staff members in descending order of the high matching degree; and means of calculating productive efficiency of the arrangement plan, so that the arrangement plan having the highest productive efficiency is shown. | 06-23-2011 |
20130080518 | WEB PAGE SUPPLYING SYSTEM, WEB PAGE SUPPLYING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WITH CONTROL PROGRAM STORED THEREIN - Disclosed is a web page supplying system provided with a web server and a management server, wherein the web server has stored therein control information indicating whether to insert adding information into a web page requested by a client apparatus, refers to the stored control information when receiving a browsing request, evaluates whether to insert the adding information into the web page to be transmitted to the client apparatus requesting the web page, and controls, when an evaluation is made not to insert the adding information into the web page, an adding information inserting means such that the adding information is not inserted into the web page. | 03-28-2013 |
20130086418 | DATA PROCESSING FAILURE RECOVERY METHOD, SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - When reproducing the running state after a failure has occurred in stream data processing, all window operations are used while minimizing the storage amount necessary for obtaining backup data. While an operator is performing stream data processing in response to a query, a query analysis unit analyzes the operator, which holds the running state of the window, etc., and the recovery points of said operator. When obtaining backup data, a backup data management unit manages the capacity necessary to obtain snapshots of the analyzed recovery points, calculates the storage area capacity needed for backing up input data up to each recovery point and the storage area capacity needed to obtain a snapshot for a window that cannot be reproduced in that way, and records the execution state by selecting a recovery point which minimizes the total value of necessary storage capacity. | 04-04-2013 |
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20130125143 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECORDING OPERATIONS IN A WEB APPLICATION - Collecting log data efficiently by controlling the capturing event for an operation log on the basis of application layer information. A web server generates a response including an operation log capturing script and the information from an operation log capturing control definition table and a property capturing definition table, and sends the response to a client. In the client, the received information is forwarded from a web browser module to a script engine module. An operation log capturing module sets the information acquisition event handler on the basis of the forwarded information, captures a sequential operation log on the basis of the operations performed by a user in the web browser, and sends the captured sequential operation log to a log server. A log server module collects sequential operation log in an operation log table, and a log analysis module analyzes the collected logs. | 05-16-2013 |
20150234897 | TIME SERIES DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An unnecessary load is prevented from being applied to the system even in cases where the time series data required for the time series data analysis processing has not been collected. A time series data processing apparatus assigns an arrival time, which is a time that the time series data arrived, to the time series data sent from the data source, determines whether the requested time series data has arrived, and predicts the arrival time of the time series data, which was determined by the data arrival determination unit as not yet arrived, based on the arrival time assigned to each of the time series data. | 08-20-2015 |
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20130137213 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a semiconductor device including a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, and a gate electrode layer on side surfaces of which sidewall insulating layers are provided are stacked in this order, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are provided in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer and the sidewall insulating layers. In a process for manufacturing the semiconductor device, a conductive layer and an interlayer insulating layer are stacked to cover the oxide semiconductor layer, the sidewall insulating layers, and the gate electrode layer. Then, parts of the interlayer insulating layer and the conductive layer over the gate electrode layer are removed by a chemical mechanical polishing method, so that a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are formed. Before formation of the gate insulating layer, cleaning treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor layer. | 05-30-2013 |
20150137124 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - In a semiconductor device including a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, and a gate electrode layer on side surfaces of which sidewall insulating layers are provided are stacked in this order, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are provided in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer and the sidewall insulating layers. In a process for manufacturing the semiconductor device, a conductive layer and an interlayer insulating layer are stacked to cover the oxide semiconductor layer, the sidewall insulating layers, and the gate electrode layer. Then, parts of the interlayer insulating layer and the conductive layer over the gate electrode layer are removed by a chemical mechanical polishing method, so that a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are formed. Before formation of the gate insulating layer, cleaning treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor layer. | 05-21-2015 |
20150255534 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A method for forming an oxide that can be used as a semiconductor of a transistor or the like is provided. In particular, a method for forming an oxide with fewer defects such as grain boundaries is provided. One embodiment of the present invention is a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor, an insulator, and a conductor. The oxide semiconductor includes a region overlapping with the conductor with the insulator therebetween. The oxide semiconductor includes a crystal grain with an equivalent circle diameter of 1 nm or more and a crystal grain with an equivalent circle diameter less than 1 nm. | 09-10-2015 |
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20090261328 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Disclosed is a thin film transistor which includes, over a substrate having an insulating surface, a gate insulating layer covering a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer which functions as a channel formation region; and a semiconductor layer including an impurity element imparting one conductivity type. The semiconductor layer exists in a state that a plurality of crystalline particles is dispersed in an amorphous silicon and that the crystalline particles have an inverted conical or inverted pyramidal shape. The crystalline particles grow approximately radially in a direction in which the semiconductor layer is deposited. Vertexes of the inverted conical or inverted pyramidal crystal particles are located apart from an interface between the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor layer. | 10-22-2009 |
20100096631 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A thin film transistor includes, over a substrate having an insulating surface, a gate insulating layer covering a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer which includes a plurality of crystalline regions in an amorphous structure and which forms a channel formation region, in contact with the gate insulating layer; a semiconductor layer including an impurity element imparting one conductivity type, which forms source and drain regions; and a buffer layer including an amorphous semiconductor between the semiconductor layer and the semiconductor layer including an impurity element imparting one conductivity type. The crystalline regions have an inverted conical or inverted pyramidal crystal particle which grows approximately radially in a direction in which the semiconductor layer is deposited, from a position away from an interface between the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor layer. | 04-22-2010 |
20100245712 | Liquid crystal DISPLAY DEVICE having a pair of electrodes over an inner side of a substrate of a liquid crystal element in which a stack of polarizers on the outer side of a substrate are provided and arranged between a pair of protective layers such that no protective layer is located between the stacked polarizers - To provide a display device having a high contrast ratio by a simple and easy method and to manufacture a high-performance display device at low cost, in a display device having a display element between a pair of light-transmitting substrates, layers each including a polarizer having different wavelength distribution of extinction coefficient from each other with respect to the absorption axes are stacked and provided on an outer side of the light-transmitting substrates. Further, a retardation plate may be provided between the stacked polarizers. | 09-30-2010 |
20110013117 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device with a higher contrast ratio is provided. The display device is provided with stacked polarizing plates arranged displaced from a parallel nicol state. Moreover, in the display device, at least one of a pair of stacked polarizing plates is displaced from a parallel state. The pair of stacked polarizing plates is arranged in a cross nicol state. A retardation plate may be provided between the polarizing plate and the substrate. As a result, the contrast ratio can be increased. | 01-20-2011 |
20110051034 | Display Device - To provide a display device having a high contrast ratio by a simple and easy method and to manufacture a high-performance display device at low cost, in a display device having a display element between a pair of light-transmitting substrates, layers each including a polarizer having different wavelength distribution of extinction coefficient from each other with respect to the absorption axes are stacked and provided on an outer side of the light-transmitting substrates. Further, a retardation plate may be provided between the stacked polarizers. | 03-03-2011 |
20110063545 | DISPLAY DEVICE - An object of the invention is to provide a display device having a high contrast ratio. Another object of the invention is to manufacture such a high-performance display device at low cost. In a display device having a display element between a pair of light-transmissive substrates, polarizer-including layers, which have different wavelength distributions of extinction coefficients, are stacked so that absorption axes are in a parallel nicol state, over each light-transmissive substrate. Absorption axes of one of a pair of stacks of polarizers and the other together which interpose the display element are deviated from a cross nicol state. A retardation plate may be provided between the stack of polarizing plates and the substrate. | 03-17-2011 |
20110134647 | ANTIREFLECTIVE FILM AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide an antireflective film having an anti-reflection function with which reflection of external light which is incident on the antireflective film can be further reduced and a high-visibility display device having such an antireflective film. The tops of the plurality of pyramidal projections are evenly spaced and each side of the base of a pyramidal projection is in contact with one side of the base of an adjacent pyramidal projection. That is, one pyramidal projection is surrounded by other pyramidal projections, and the base of the pyramidal projection and the base of the adjacent pyramidal projection have a side in common. | 06-09-2011 |
20120021570 | METHOD FOR FORMING MICROCRYSTALLINE SEMICONDUCTOR FILM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A seed crystal including mixed phase grains having high crystallinity with a low grain density is formed under a first condition, and a microcrystalline semiconductor film is formed over the seed crystal under a second condition which allows the mixed phase grains in the seed crystal to grow to fill a space between the mixed phase grains. In the first condition, the flow rate of hydrogen is 50 times or greater and 1000 times or less that of a deposition gas containing silicon or germanium, and the pressure in a process chamber is greater than 1333 Pa and 13332 Pa or less. In the second condition, the flow rate of hydrogen is 100 times or greater and 2000 times or less that of a deposition gas containing silicon or germanium, and the pressure in the process chamber is 1333 Pa or greater and 13332 Pa or less. | 01-26-2012 |
20120032581 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND FIELD EMISSION DISPLAY - It is an object of the present invention to provide a PDP and an FED with excellent visibility and a high level of reliability that each have an antireflective function by which reflection of external light can be reduced. A plurality of adjacent pyramidal-shaped projections and an antireflective layer equipped with a covering film that covers the projections are provided. The reflection of light is prevented by the index of refraction of incident light from external being changed by a pyramid, which is a physical shape, projecting out toward an external side (atmosphere side) of a substrate that is to be used as a display screen as well as by the covering film used to cover the projections being formed of a material that has a higher index of refraction than the index of refraction of the pyramidal projection. | 02-09-2012 |
20120061676 | THIN FILM TRANSISTOR - A highly reliable transistor in which change in electrical characteristics is suppressed is provided. A highly reliable transistor in which change in electrical characteristics is suppressed is manufactured with high productivity. A display device with less image deterioration over time is provided. An inverted staggered thin film transistor which includes, between a gate insulating film and impurity semiconductor films functioning as source and drain regions, a semiconductor stacked body including a microcrystalline semiconductor region and a pair of amorphous semiconductor regions. In the microcrystalline semiconductor region, the nitrogen concentration on the gate insulating film side is low and the nitrogen concentration in a region in contact with the amorphous semiconductor is high. Further, an interface with the amorphous semiconductor has unevenness. | 03-15-2012 |
20120081909 | ANTI-REFLECTION FILM AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An anti-reflection film that can provide high visibility and has an anti-reflection function by which reflection of incident light from external can be further reduced, and a display device having such an anti-reflection film. A plurality of contiguous pyramidal projections is arranged in a geometric pattern, so that reflection of incident light is prevented. In addition, a protective layer formed of a material having a lower refractive index than the pyramidal projections is provided so as to fill a space between the plurality of pyramidal projections. The plurality of pyramidal projections has a hexagonal shape and can be densely arranged with no space therebetween. Further, since six sides of each pyramidal projection are provided at a different angle from the base, light can be effectively scattered in many directions. | 04-05-2012 |
20130027622 | DISPLAY DEVICE - An object of the present invention is to provide a display device having a high contrast ratio by a simple and easy method. Another object of the present invention is to manufacture such a display device having a high contrast ratio at low cost. The present invention relates to a display device including a first substrate; a second substrate; a layer including a display element, wherein the layer including the display element is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and stacked polarizers on the outer side of the first substrate or the second substrate. The stacked polarizers are arranged to be in a parallel Nicols state and the wavelength distributions of the extinction coefficients of the stacked polarizers are different from each other. | 01-31-2013 |