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20110081173 | SEPARATION UNIT, FIXING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A separation unit is provided on a downstream side of a contact area between a belt-like rotating body and a pressure rotating body. The separation unit includes a pressure member, a guide portion and a pressure portion. The pressure member extends along a width direction of the belt-like rotating body, and presses the belt-like rotating body to deform the belt-like rotating body into a bent shape changing a course away from a surface of the pressure rotating body. The guide portion is on the pressure rotating body side of the pressure member to guide the belt-like rotating body so that an angle portion of the bent shape bites into the pressure rotating body. The pressure portion is on the surface in the pressure rotating body side, and the surface separates sequentially from the pressure rotating body in the extending direction from a center portion to an end portion. | 04-07-2011 |
20130236223 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a heat assembly including an endless belt, a heat source, an attachment member having an attachment surface and first and second side surfaces, and a slide sheet having first and second end portions that are respectively fixed to a first fixing portion at the first side surface and a second fixing portion at the second side surface, the slide sheet having a larger length from the first end portion to the second end portion than a length of a path of the attachment member extending from the first fixing portion to the second fixing portion through the first side surface, the attachment surface, and the second side surface; and a pressure roller that presses the outer surface of the endless belt to the attachment surface. | 09-12-2013 |
20130236224 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a heat assembly including an endless belt, a heat source, an attachment member having an attachment surface and first and second side surfaces, and a slide sheet having first and second end portions that are respectively fixed to a first fixing portion at the first side surface and a second fixing portion at the second side surface, the slide sheet having a larger length from the first end portion to the second end portion than a length of a path of the attachment member extending from the first fixing portion to the second fixing portion through the first side surface, the attachment surface, and the second side surface; and a pressure roller that presses the outer surface of the endless belt to the attachment surface. | 09-12-2013 |
20130272757 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a rotatable endless belt, a heating source that heats the belt, a pad member having a sliding surface abutting on an inner surface of the belt, and a pressure roller that presses an outer surface of the belt toward the sliding surface and rotates to rotate the belt. The pressure roller works together with the belt to fix an unfixed toner image onto a medium that bears the unfixed toner image by allowing the medium to enter between the roller and the belt. Assuming that the sliding surface is divided into upstream and downstream regions in a moving direction of the belt, the upstream and downstream regions both have recessed curved surfaces in the moving direction. A first curved surface corresponding to the upstream region has an average curvature that is larger than that of a second curved surface corresponding to the downstream region. | 10-17-2013 |
20140270869 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes an endless belt member, a secured member disposed to contact the belt member, a heating unit that heats the belt member, and a rotary pressurizing roller including an elastic layer that is elastically deformed when the belt member is pressed against a pressing surface of the secured member to form a fixing part. The pressurizing roller is curved such that a center portion is smaller in outside diameter than end portions along the axial direction. The pressing surface is curved such that a center portion projects toward the pressurizing roller more than end portions along the longitudinal direction. On the pressing surface, an amount of projection of the center portion with respect to the end portions along the longitudinal direction is set to be larger on an output side than on an input side of the fixing part along a moving direction of the belt member. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270870 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes: an endless belt member; a secured member disposed to contact the belt member; a support roller that rotatably supports the belt member; a heating unit that heats the belt member; and a rotary pressurizing roller that includes an elastic surface layer that is elastically deformed when the belt member is pressed against the secured member to form a fixing part. The secured member includes a recessed part provided on a surface of the secured member that faces the pressurizing roller and configured to curve the belt member into a recessed shape, projecting parts provided upstream and downstream of the recessed part, respectively, and configured to curve the belt member into a projected shape, and a region provided between at least one of the projecting parts and the recessed part and having a small curvature compared to the corresponding projecting part. | 09-18-2014 |
20140286683 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a belt, a secured member, a support roller, a heating unit, and a pressure roller that is driven to rotate and has an elastic surface layer deformed when pressing the belt against the secured member so as to form a fixing portion. A recording medium that holds an unfixed image passes through the fixing portion. The secured member has a contact portion and an insertion portion having first and second curved surfaces respectively curved toward first and second sides opposite to each other. Conditions t(1/r | 09-25-2014 |
20140348558 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes an endless belt member, a fixed member that is in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the belt member, a heating member configured to heat the belt member, and a pressing member including at least a pressing roller that includes an elastic surface layer and presses the belt member against the fixed member from an outer circumferential side of the belt member in such a manner as to form a fixing part through which a recording object carrying an unfixed image is made to pass. A center, in a direction of rotation of the pressing roller, of a contact part of the fixed member that is in contact with the pressing roller through the belt member resides at a position that is displaced toward an entrance side of the fixing part with respect to a center of rotation of the pressing roller. | 11-27-2014 |
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20100192085 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS - There is provided a navigation apparatus including: a display unit having a display screen; a touch panel provided to the display screen; and a display controller that selectively changes first, second, and third screens in response to contacting the touch panel to be displayed, wherein each of the screens has a manipulation-button display area for displaying a screen-changing button, and wherein, the display controller performs a first displaying operation of circulatingly changing the screens in a predetermined order to be displayed at each time of contacting the manipulation-button display area, a second displaying operation of displaying a pop-up menu including first, second, and third screen-selecting buttons for directly selecting the screens at the same time of the first displaying operation, and a third displaying operation of displaying on the display screen one screen selected among the screens in response to contacting the screen-selecting buttons displayed by the second displaying operation. | 07-29-2010 |
20100198502 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS - A navigation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: map display means that displays a map on the basis of map data in a database that stores the map data, facility type information about the type of the facility and facility information about the facility; route guidance means that searches for a guide route from the current position of a navigation apparatus to a specified destination on the basis of the map data and performs route guidance; selection means that searches the database for a facility to be displayed on the map on the basis of selection conditions defined by the facility type information, the travelling direction of the navigation apparatus and a distance from the guide route to the facility; and display control means that controls the map display means so that the map display means displays the obtained facility along with its facility information on the map. | 08-05-2010 |
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20110217067 | TONER CARTRIDGE - A toner cartridge includes a toner cartridge main body having a cylindrical toner container that contains toner therein, a toner discharge port disposed on one end of the toner container, and a rotating shaft disposed on the other end of the toner container; and an annular IC chip holder that is fitted to the rotating shaft of the toner cartridge main body to rotate together with the toner cartridge main body, and has a notch formed in an outer peripheral surface in which an IC chip is mounted, wherein the IC chip holder rotates together with the toner cartridge main body until the IC chip holder is fixed to an IC chip contact holder having a contact member for contacting a terminal of the IC chip disposed in the image forming apparatus main body. | 09-08-2011 |
20120141175 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING AND ERASING METHOD - An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an image erasing section including a first member which has an elastic layer and heats a recording medium having a thermally decolorizable toner image on the toner image side and a second member which erases the toner image by allowing the recording medium in cooperation with the first member; an image forming section which transfers a thermally decolorizable toner image onto the recording medium on which the toner image is erased to form an unfixed toner image; and an image fixing section including a third member which does not have an elastic layer and heats the recording medium on the unfixed toner image side and a fourth member which fixes the unfixed toner image by allowing the recording medium in cooperation with the third member. | 06-07-2012 |
20120308278 | FUSER FOR EQUALIZING TEMPERATURE OF HEAT GENERATING SECTION - According to one embodiment, a fuser includes a fixing belt including a conductive layer, an induction-current generating section to electromagnetically induction-heat the conductive layer, an opposed section to form a nip in cooperation with the fixing belt, an auxiliary heat generating section electromagnetically induction-heated by the induction-current generating section, and a moving section to move the auxiliary heat generating section with respect to the fixing belt. | 12-06-2012 |
20140341600 | FUSER FOR EQUALIZING TEMPERATURE OF HEAT GENERATING SECTION - According to one embodiment, a fuser includes a fixing belt including a conductive layer, an induction-current generating section to electromagnetically induction-heat the conductive layer, an opposed section to form a nip in cooperation with the fixing belt, an auxiliary heat generating section electromagnetically induction-heated by the induction-current generating section, and a moving section to move the auxiliary heat generating section with respect to the fixing belt. | 11-20-2014 |
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20080274479 | Assay of Ubiquitinization of Synoviolin and Use Thereof in Screening - The present invention relates to an assay method for determining a auto-ubiquitination activity of synoviolin, comprising reacting synoviolin and ubiquitin in a reaction system containing them and determining an amount of ubiquitin binding to synoviolin, to a method of screening a substance capable of regulating such an activity, and to a kit for auto-ubiquitination assay of synoviolin. | 11-06-2008 |
20080305102 | Therapeutic Agent for Cancer Comprising Substance Capable of Inhibiting Expression or Function of Synoviolin as Active Ingredient and Screening Method for the Therapeutic Agent for Cancer - Inhibition of synoviolin function was found to activate the cancer-suppressing protein p53. Substances inhibiting the function of synoviolin are useful as cancer therapeutic agents. The inhibition of synoviolin function was also found to lead to the inhibition of p53 ubiquitination, increased activity of p53 phosphorylation proteins, and the like. Based on these findings, the present invention provides methods capable of efficiently screening for cancer therapeutic agents. Further, it was also found that regulation of the autoubiquitination of synoviolin protein suppresses the proliferation of rheumatoid arthritis synovial cells. Substances regulating the autoubiquitination of synoviolin protein are useful as anti-rheumatic agents. Moreover, the present invention provides methods of efficiently screening for anti-rheumatic agents. | 12-11-2008 |
20080305499 | Anti-Synoviolin Antibody - The present invention relates to an antibody against synoviolin or a fragment thereof for providing a monoclonal antibody capable of recognizing a part of synoviolin, which monoclonal antibody is capable of inhibiting the auto-ubiquitination of synoviolin. | 12-11-2008 |
20090276863 | Protein formulations comprising s1-5 - The present inventors discovered that knockout mice whose S1-5 gene function is lost develop age-related diseases or symptoms. Histological analysis in such knockout mice revealed that bone mineral content, bone mineral density, and bone strength were decreased, and the number of osteoclasts in bone tissues was increased. Analysis of osteoclast-forming ability using bone marrow cells derived from the knockout mice revealed that osteoclast-forming ability is enhanced and osteoclasts are larger in the knockout mice than in wildtype mice. When purified S1-5 protein was added to this in vitro system, osteoclast-forming ability was inhibited. | 11-05-2009 |
20100058488 | PROTEIN FORMULATIONS COMPRISING S1-5 - The present inventors discovered that knockout mice whose S1-5 gene function is lost develop age-related diseases or symptoms. In such knockout mice, bone mineral content, bone mineral density, and bone strength were found to be decreased, and the number of osteoclasts in bone tissues was found to be increased. Analysis of osteoclast-forming ability using bone marrow cells derived from the knockout mice revealed that osteoclast-forming ability is enhanced and osteoclasts are larger in the knockout mice than in wildtype mice. When purified S1-5 protein was added to this in vitro system, osteoclast-forming ability was inhibited. Furthermore, administration of purified S1-5 protein to osteoporotic model mice showed that this protein has the effect of improving osteoporosis. The above findings demonstrate that S1-5 protein is useful for treating and preventing age-related diseases such as osteoporosis. | 03-04-2010 |