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20110217085 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing apparatus contains a developer for developing a latent image formed on an image carrier. The developing apparatus includes a developer carrier disposed opposite to the image carrier; a developer regulating member regulating an amount of the developer carried by the developer carrier; and a developer circulating unit transporting the developer in a circulating path. The developer circulating unit includes a rotatable first transport member supplying the developer to the developer carrier while transporting the developer in a horizontal direction, a shielding member preventing the developer separated from the developer carrier from flowing back toward the first transport member, and a rotatable second transport member collecting the developer separated from the developer carrier while transporting the developer in the horizontal direction. A distance between the second transport member and the developer carrier is greater than a distance between the first transport member and the developer carrier. | 09-08-2011 |
20120219326 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE INCORPORATING SAME - A development device includes a developer container, a developer bearer to carry developer to a development range, a partition dividing at least partly the developer container into a supply compartment and a collecting compartment, with an end portion of the partition facing a circumferential surface of the developer bearer, a developer supply member in the supply compartment to supply the developer to the developer bearer, and a developer collecting member in the collecting compartment above the developer supply member, to receive the developer from the developer bearer. An opening is formed in a downstream end portion of the partition in a developer conveyance direction of the developer collecting member to cause the developer to fall to the supply compartment, and a width of the opening in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction increases toward downstream in the developer conveyance direction of the developer collecting member. | 08-30-2012 |
20130034368 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A development device includes a development casing for containing two-component developer, a developer bearer, a developer regulator to adjust an amount of developer carried on the developer bearer, a first developer conveyance member to supply developer to the developer bearer, a second developer conveyance member to transport axially developer separated from the developer bearer, first and second conveyance channels divided by a partition, in which the first and second developer conveyance members are respectively provided, and a removable sheet member to cover the developer bearer in an area facing the developer regulator, the first and second conveyance channels, and the partition. A first end portion of the sheet member extends from the second conveyance channel outside the development casing through a through hole formed in the development casing, and a second end portion thereof is retained by a retainer at a position outside the developer regulator. | 02-07-2013 |
20140376951 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE INCORPORATING SAME - A developing device includes a developer bearer to carry by rotation developer to a development range facing a latent image bearer, a developer container to contain developer and having a pressure-release vent to discharge air from the developer container to outside the developing device, and a filter provided to the pressure-release vent to inhibit developer from being discharged through the pressure-release vent. The filter includes a porous fluoroplastic film. | 12-25-2014 |
20150023700 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A drawing-up magnetic pole and a control magnetic pole of a magnetic field generator that is disposed in a developer carrier are adjacent to each other and a prevention member is provided that secures, between the prevention member and an upper end of a side wall of a developer supply conveyance path, a supply path through which a developer in the developer supply conveyance path passes toward the developer carrier at least over the entire width of a developing area and that prevents a control retained developer, which is prevented by a developer control member from passing through a control gap, from moving toward the surface of the developer carrier along lines of the control magnetic force. The peak of the magnetic flux density of the drawing-up magnetic pole in the normal direction is disposed below the lower end of the supply path. | 01-22-2015 |
20150063875 | TONER SUPPLYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner supplying device includes: a toner container that is tubular, includes a spiral groove at an outer circumferential face, a toner discharge opening at one end in a longitudinal direction, and a depression at the other end in the longitudinal direction, and is rotationally driven to convey toner contained in the toner container along the spiral groove in the longitudinal direction to discharge the toner from the toner discharge opening; a rotational driving unit that engages with the one end of the toner container to rotationally drive the toner container to cause the toner container to discharge the toner; and a projection provided at an interior portion at which the toner container is installed, and having an inclination in which a projection amount increases toward downstream in a rotational direction of the toner container. The projection is formed to fall in the depression of the toner container. | 03-05-2015 |
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20090192320 | MODIFIED BIO-RELATED SUBSTANCE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND INTERMEDIATE - A modified bio-related substance, wherein at least one poly(alkylene glycol)oxy group represented by the following formula (1) is combined in a molecule: | 07-30-2009 |
20100261863 | MULTIBRANCHED POLYOXYALKYLENE COMPOUND AND PRODUCING METHOD THEREOF - A multibranched polyoxyalkylene compound represented by the following formula (1): | 10-14-2010 |
20100286361 | PURIFICATION METHOD OF HIGH-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT POLYOXYALKYLENE DERIVATIVE - A purification method in which, from a specific polyoxyalkylene derivative having a molecular weight of 8,800 to 100,000, an impurity differing in the number of hydroxyl groups is separated, the method including steps (A), (B), (C), and (D). Step (A): a step in which an aprotic organic solvent is used in an amount at least 5 times by weight the amount of the polyoxyalkylene derivative to dissolve the polyoxyalkylene derivative therein and give a solution; step (B): a step in which an adsorbent comprising an oxide containing at least one of aluminum and silicon is added to the solution in an amount 0.5 to 5 times by weight the amount of the polyoxyalkylene derivative to thereby yield a slurry; step (C): a step in which the slurry is stirred at 25° C. or higher; step (D): a step in which the polyoxyalkylene derivative is recovered from the slurry. | 11-11-2010 |
20110082277 | MODIFIED BIO-RELATED SUBSTANCE, PROCESS FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND INTERMEDIATE - A modified bio-related substance, wherein at least one poly(alkylene glycol)oxy group represented by the following formula (1) is combined in a molecule: | 04-07-2011 |
20110218322 | POLYALKYLENE GLYCOL DERIVATIVE AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing a polyalkylene glycol derivative having such high molecular weight and purity that the derivative can be used in pharmaceutical applications. | 09-08-2011 |
20110245509 | POLYFUNCTIONAL POLYOXYALKYLENE COMPOUND, AND PRODUCING METHOD AND INTERMEDIATE THEREOF - A polyfunctional polyoxyalkylene compound represented by the following formula (1): | 10-06-2011 |
20120277477 | Method For Manufacturing Hydroxyl Group-containing Acetal Compound - A method for manufacturing an acetal compound represented by the formula [1] in which the steps (A) to (D) as defined herein are performed sequentially, and an acetal compound of the formula [1] which is produced by the method: | 11-01-2012 |
20130172576 | BRANCHED HETERO POLYFUNCTIONAL POLYOXYALKYLENE COMPOUND AND INTERMEDIATE THEREOF - A branched hetero polyfunctional polyoxyalkylene compound represented by the following formula (1): | 07-04-2013 |
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20090216266 | TISSUE CLOSING DEVICE - A tissue closing device includes a closure configured to close a hole penetrating a tissue membrane. The closure has a seal part for covering a hole penetrating a tissue membrane and a peripheral part of the hole from one surface side of the tissue membrane, and a deformable deformation part. The tissue closing device also comprises an arrangement device which removably retains the closure and closes the hole with the closure so as to arrange the closure in a living organism. | 08-27-2009 |
20090270885 | TISSUE CLOSING DEVICE - A tissue closing device includes an elongate arrangement device of which a distal end portion can penetrate an opening penetrating an living tissue membrane and which has a handling portion on the proximal side, and a clip which is detachably retained at a distal end portion of the arrangement device and which closes the opening. The arrangement device includes a retaining member for detachably retaining the clip and pulling the clip in the proximal direction, a cover tube, and a fixed tube. The handling portion has a first elastic member. When a restriction for maintaining the coil spring in a deformed state is canceled, the thread is moved to the proximal direction by the restoring force of the coil spring in the condition where the clip is locked to a distal end portion of the fixed tube, and the clip is pulled in the axial direction by the thread, whereby a deformation portion is deformed. | 10-29-2009 |
20130006104 | PROBE AND IMAGING APPARATUS FOR DIAGNOSIS - A probe includes a connector having a connection end surface, a first cover covering the connection end surface of the connector and defined by a surface perpendicular to a first direction corresponding to the direction toward which the probe is inserted, and a second cover configured to move in a second direction corresponding to a direction opposite to the first direction and which covers the connector by being stretched from the outer circumference of the first cover toward the second direction. The second cover moves in the second direction by receiving a press force directed toward the second direction from a wall surface formed by an opening of the adapter unit at the time of insertion of the connector into the adapter unit. The first cover is configured to be broken by the connector's press force directed in the first direction when the second cover moves in the second direction. | 01-03-2013 |
20130012810 | PROBE AND OPTICAL IMAGING APPARATUS FOR DIAGNOSIS - A probe including a catheter sheath, a shaft inserted inside the catheter sheath, and an attachment portion detachably attached to a rotational drive unit, wherein the attachment portion includes an isolation member isolating the inside of the attachment portion into a first area in which a member for transmitting the drive force generated by the rotational drive unit to the shaft is rotatably held and a second area in which the catheter sheath is fixedly held; the isolation member includes: an insertion hole through which the shaft is inserted between the first area and the second area and an ejection hole provided in a surface to which an end portion on the rotational drive unit side of the catheter sheath is connected and which is approximately perpendicular to the rotation axis of the shaft; and the ejection hole defines a flow path extending to the outside of the isolation member. | 01-10-2013 |
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20100215385 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND PHOTORECEPTOR DETERIORATION CONDITION ESTIMATION METHOD - An image forming device includes an image holding member and a charging unit. In a case in which an AC current, while being increased, is supplied to the charging unit in a state in which a DC voltage value and an AC voltage value applied to the charging unit are maintained, or a case in which a DC voltage, while being increased, is supplied to the charging unit in a state in which the AC voltage value applied to the charging unit is maintained, a current detection unit detects DC current values. An inflection point derivation unit derives an inflection point of a correlation line representing an correlation between the detected DC current values and the supply amounts. An execution unit executes pre-specified processing when a characteristic value of the derived inflection point reaches a pre-specified value. | 08-26-2010 |
20130011148 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus for an image forming apparatus including an image forming section that forms toner images based on first image data transferred onto a recording medium and based on second image data that is not transferred and a toner recovery section that recovers residual toner to a recovery container is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining part that obtains image amounts representing toner amounts used for the respective toner images when a toner amount recovered to the recovery container reaches a first permissible amount, a correction part that corrects the respective image amounts by using correction factors set for the first and second image data, and an output part that outputs notification information indicating that the toner amount in the recovery container reaches a second permissible amount when a cumulative value of the corrected image amounts reaches a first threshold. | 01-10-2013 |
20130028618 | WASTE TONER TRANSPORT SYSTEM, WASTE TONER TRANSPORT METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A waste toner transport system includes a transport unit that has a transport space through which toner removed from a surface of an image bearing member is transported, where the transport space contains a transport member that rotates and transports the toner. The waste toner transport system further includes a container that contains the toner transported by the transport member, and a controller that controls rotation of the transport member so that an amount of toner transported by the transport member per unit time is decreased if an amount of the toner contained in the container reaches a threshold value. | 01-31-2013 |
20130028625 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms, on an image bearing member, an image for adjusting operations of the image forming apparatus, a container that contains toner removed from the image bearing member, and a controller that controls formation of the image for adjusting the operations of the image forming apparatus so that after an amount of toner contained in the container reaches a threshold value, an amount of toner removed from the image bearing member and to be contained in the container is reduced to less than before the amount of toner contained in the container reaches the threshold value. | 01-31-2013 |
20130164003 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a body, a developer recovery container, a detecting section, a power supply, a detection object part, a pair of wires, a conducting section, a drive section, and a determining section. The determining section determines the developer recovery container to have been used in a case where the developer is determined to be not present in the detection object part on the basis of information from the detecting section, and in a case where the developer is determined to be present in the detection object part, checks the information from the detecting section again after driving the drive section, and determines the recovery container to have not been used when the developer is determined to be not present in the detection object part and determines the recovery container to have been used when the developer is determined to be present in the detection object part. | 06-27-2013 |