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20090136257 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A development device includes a developer carrier configured to carry developer and disposed in a development case, partly exposed from an opening of the development case facing an image carrier, a developer-transporting member configured to transport the developer to the developer carrier, and a discharging member housing a discharging space including a communicating path connecting to an area where the developer carrier faces the developer-transporting member, from which air is discharged into the discharging space, and a discharging port that opens in a longitudinal direction of the developer-transporting member, from which air is discharged from the discharging space. | 05-28-2009 |
20090190960 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE INCLUDING DEVELOPING UNIT AND INCORPORATED IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A process cartridge for use in an image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member and a developing unit. The developing unit includes a developer bearing member to bear developer including toner and carrier, a casing forming a developer container containing the developer, a screw having a shaft with a spiral screw blade, a toner density sensor to detect a density of the toner on a detection surface, and a detection surface agitating member fixedly mounted on the shaft of the screw at a position facing a detection surface to scrape away the developer accumulated on the detection surface as the screw rotates. The detection surface agitating member includes an elastic sheet elastically deformable to scrape away the developer accumulated on the detection surface and disposed at a substantially same angle to an axial direction of the shaft of the screw as the spiral screw blade. | 07-30-2009 |
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20130164039 | DEVELOPER ACCOMMODATING CONTAINER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer accommodating unit includes: a flexible container, provided with an opening for permitting discharge of a developer, for accommodating the developer; a frame for accommodating the flexible container and for accommodating the developer discharged from the flexible container; and an urging member, provided inside the frame, for urging the flexible container to deform the flexible container. The flexible container has a plurality of sides including an opening-containing side and another side having stiffness lower than that of the opening-containing side. | 06-27-2013 |
20140029974 | DEVELOPER ACCOMMODATING UNIT, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer accommodating unit for accommodating a developer for image formation. A flexible container includes a developer accommodating portion for accommodating the developer and an opening for permitting discharge of the developer. The flexible container also includes a superposed multi layer sheet structure portion for forming the developer accommodating portion. A sealing member seals the opening and an unsealing member moves the sealing member to unseal the opening. A frame that accommodates the flexible container, the sealing member, and the unsealing member includes a fixing portion for fixing the flexible container. A fixed portion fixed to the fixing portion is provided at the superposed multi layer sheet structure portion of the flexible container, and an interlayer bonding portion between the superposed layers is provided between the fixed portion of the multi layer sheet structure portion and the developer accommodating portion. | 01-30-2014 |
20140064793 | DEVELOPING UNIT, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing unit includes: a frame; a flexible container, provided inside the frame, for accommodating a developer, wherein the flexible container includes an opening for permitting discharge of the developer; an urging member, provided inside the frame, for urging the flexible container to deform the flexible container; and a developer carrying member for carrying the developer discharged from the opening of the flexible container. The flexible container includes a projected portion projecting toward an outside of the flexible container. The projected portion is moved depending on deformation of the flexible container, by urging of the flexible container, to stir the developer discharged from the opening. | 03-06-2014 |
20140072330 | DEVELOPER ACCOMMODATING UNIT, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer accommodating unit includes: a flexible container including an opening for permitting discharge of a developer; a sealing member for forming a bonding portion between itself and the flexible container; an unsealing member; and an accommodating container. The bonding portion includes a first bonding portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the sealing member at a periphery of the opening in an upstream side of a peeling direction of the sealing member, a second bonding portion extending in the longitudinal direction at the periphery of the opening in a downstream side of the peeling direction, and a third bonding portion bonded upstream of the first bonding portion with respect to the peeling direction. When the sealing member exposes the opening, the bonding portion is peeled in the order of the third bonding portion, the first bonding portion and the second bonding portion. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072331 | DEVELOPER ACCOMMODATING CONTAINER, DEVELOPER ACCOMMODATING UNIT, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer accommodating container for accommodating a developer includes; an opening for permitting discharge of the developer; and a sealing member, mounted on the developer accommodating container, capable of exposing the opening by being moved. At least a part of the sealing member is formed of a material having compatibility with a material for forming the developer accommodating container and a material having incompatibility with the materiel for forming the developer accommodating container. Either one of the material having the compatibility and the material having the incompatibility is dispersed in the other one of the materials. | 03-13-2014 |
20140199093 | DEVELOPER ACCOMMODATING CONTAINER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer accommodating container for accommodating a developer includes: a flexible container provided with an opening for permitting discharge of the developer; a sealing member for sealing the opening in a state in which the sealing member is bonded to a periphery of the opening, wherein the sealing member is capable of exposing the opening by being removed by pulling; and a reinforcing portion, provided at least as a part of the periphery of the opening, for decreasing a degree of deformation of the opening. | 07-17-2014 |
20140199096 | DEVELOPER ACCOMMODATING UNIT, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer accommodating unit for accommodating a developer includes: a flexible container provided with a plurality of openings for permitting discharge of developer. The openings are formed and arranged in a longitudinal direction of the developer accommodating unit. The openings have opening areas such that with respect to the longitudinal direction, the opening area of the opening provided at an end portion is larger than the opening area of the opening provided at a central portion. | 07-17-2014 |
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20090199157 | PROGRAM GENERATING APPARATUS AND BLOCK DIAGRAM GENERATING APPARATUS - The apparatus of the present invention includes a block diagram dividing unit that divides a block diagram into a plurality of pieces at a branch point, connects a branch point block element to one end of a data line which has been connected to the branch point at each divided piece and thereby generates a plurality of block diagram pieces, a program instruction generator that generates program instructions for performing processing on each block diagram piece, an execution sequence determining unit that determines an execution sequence of generated program instructions, a structural information generator that generates structural information of each of the block diagram pieces and a program generator that arranges the program instructions according to the execution sequence, writes structural information of each block diagram piece into a comment line of each of the program instructions corresponding to each of the block diagram pieces and thereby generates a program. | 08-06-2009 |
20090249307 | PROGRAM ANALYSIS APPARATUS, PROGRAM ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided with an apparatus which includes: an inputting unit which inputs a target program and address definition data, a first analyzer which generates definition-reference data associating a line number of a statement, an address of a definition variable and an address of a reference variable; a second analyzer which generates address dependency data that associates the address of the definition variable, the line number of a statement containing the definition variable, and the line number of a statement containing a reference variable of same address as the definition variable; a third analyzer which generates control dependency data that associates the line number of a control statement and the line number of a controlled-object statement; and an extracting unit which extracts a slice as a set of statements reached based on the control dependency data and the address dependency data starting from the statement of a desired line number. | 10-01-2009 |
20110169214 | APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING SHEET - According to one embodiment, a sheet conveying apparatus includes a conveying mechanism and a control unit. The conveying mechanism is configured to pick up and convey a sheet every first time interval T and includes a sound source which produces a plurality of element sounds attendant on conveying the sheet. The control unit is configured to control the conveying mechanism so that the element sounds are caused at times determined based on a second time interval. The second time interval is acquired by dividing the first time interval T by a division number n which is an integer of two or more. | 07-14-2011 |
20140138042 | BATTERY PACK AND VEHICLE HEATING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a battery pack includes a battery module that houses unit cells, a heat storage portion including a heat storage container that houses a heat storage member, cooling passages through which heat of the heat storage portion is spread and discharged, and a cooling source that cools the heat storage portion. The heat storage member absorbs heat when changing from solid to liquid and dissipates heat when changing from liquid to solid. The heat storage container is thermally connected to the battery module. The cooling source is driven to circulate cooling medium to the cooling passages, and heat of the heat storage portion discharged through the passages are discharged to the outside. | 05-22-2014 |
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20140281148 | MEMORY SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, a memory system comprises a nonvolatile memory, a first volatile memory which stores management information to manage the nonvolatile memory, a controller which controls operations of the nonvolatile memory and the first volatile memory, and a power supply circuit which makes power supplied to part of the first volatile memory zero in accordance with a data capacity of the management information in response to a request from the controller. | 09-18-2014 |
20150071003 | DATA WRITE CONTROL DEVICE AND DATA STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a data transfer control device complying with a communication protocol which executes an update of information from an attachment device in a predetermined area of a system memory, the device includes a receiving part receiving the information from the attachment device, a transferring part transferring the information in the predetermined area, the information from the transferring part overwritten in the predetermined area sequentially, and a determining part inhibiting a transfer of the information in the transferring part to omit the update of the information in the predetermined area. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074298 | COMMAND PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA STORAGE DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a command processing device includes a frontend part and a backend part. The frontend part is configured to execute a data communication with respect to a host based on a predetermined communication protocol, and accept a request of an execution of first and second commands from the backend part. The backend part is configured to queue commands including the first and second commands, and execute a data communication according to the first command with respect to an attachment device and a data communication according to the second command with respect to the attachment device in parallel. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074451 | MEMORY SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, there is provided a memory system including a first storage medium group, a second storage medium group, and a controller. The controller is configured to multiply write the same data to the first storage medium group and the second storage medium group. And the controller is configured to transmit data read out from a storage medium group selected from the first storage medium group and the second storage medium group to a host according to a progress status of a readout process for the first storage medium group and the second storage medium group when receiving a readout command of stored data in the first storage medium group and the second storage medium group from the host. | 03-12-2015 |