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| 20080199211 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an apparatus body, a door, a sheet conveyance unit, and a positioning device. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The image forming unit is disposed in the apparatus body. The door is provided in the apparatus body so as to be openable and closable. The sheet conveyance unit conveys the sheet to the image forming unit. The sheet conveyance unit is provided in the door. The positioning device positions the door in relation to the apparatus body in the vertical direction and the horizontal direction. The positioning device performs positioning of the door in the vicinity of the image forming unit. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090304428 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system including: an image reading portion, which reads an image on an original; an image forming portion, which forms an image on a sheet; and a storage device, which stores an original before the image reading portion reads an image thereon and a sheet before the image forming portion forms an image thereon, the storage device being detachably mounted to the image forming system. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100178088 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus for heating an image on a recording material, includes a rotatable heat generation member capable of induction heat generation by a magnetic flux; a coil, provided outside the heat generation member, for generating the magnetic flux for the induction heat generation; a movable magnetic core provided at a position opposed to the coil; a moving device for moving the magnetic core between a first position opposed to the coil and a second position which is more away from the coil than the first position; and an electroconductive member mounted at a position where a magnetic circuit is capable of being formed with the coil when the magnetic core is in the second position. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100329729 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an apparatus including a fixing device configured to be rotated by receiving a driving force from a main body of the apparatus and a drawer configured to draw out of the main body while holding the fixing device, a storage position of the drawer is adjusted to adjust an alignment between a transfer unit and a fixing nip. With the alignment so adjusted, meshing of gears that transmit force to rotate a fixing roller from a driving source of the main body of the apparatus may deteriorate, thus causing a rotational unevenness of the fixing roller. Therefore, an alignment unit configured to adjust an alignment is provided between a fixing support member configured to support a fixing unit and a fixing driving unit driving the fixing unit and a transfer support member configured to support a support member supporting the fixing support member. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110076070 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes an excitation coil; an image heating member for heating an image on a recording material by heat generated by a magnetic flux of the excitation coil; a core disposed opposed to the coil; a moving device for moving the core between a first position in which the core is opposed to the excitation coil and a second position in which the core is remoter from the excitation coil than the first position; and an air blower for blowing air into a space between the core and the excitation coil, the space being provided by moving the core to the second position. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110097102 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has: a rotary member which conveys a sheet; a blowing device which blows a cooling air to cool the rotary member; and a blow-off member which blows the cooling air from the blowing device toward the rotary member. The cooling air is blown toward the portion of the rotary member serving as a downstream side of the rotary member and a blow-off direction of the cooling air is opposite to a rotating direction of the rotary member. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110150546 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes a belt unit including a belt; a coil unit, provided opposed to an outer surface of the belt, including a coil for generating a magnetic flux for heating the belt; a pressing member for forming a nip, in which a recording material is to be heated, between itself and the belt; a positioning portion, provided on the coil unit, for positioning the coil unit with respect to the belt unit; a portion to be positioned, provided on the belt unit, for being engaged with the positioning portion; and an elastic member for urging the coil unit toward the belt unit. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20120057887 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, including: a fixing device configured to fix a toner image onto a sheet by heating the sheet having the toner image formed thereon; a wire-shaped guide configured to guide the sheet having the toner image fixed thereto; and a holder, configured to hold the wire-shaped guide, to which the wire-shaped guide is fixed by using elasticity of the wire-shaped guide. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120148318 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An image heating apparatus includes an excitation coil; an image heating member for generating heat using a magnetic flux from the excitation coil to heat an image on a recording material; a magnetic core; image heating member; a core supporting member; magnetic core; a back-up member; a pressing member forming a nip between the back-up member and itself with the image heating member therebetween; a stay member; an apparatus side plate; a first positioning portion for determining a position of the stay member relative to one of the apparatus side plates; a second positioning portion, provided at a central portion of the stay member, for determining a position of the core supporting member relative to the stay member. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120155934 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a coil generating magnetic flux, a rotatable heater generating heat by the flux generated from the coil, for heating an image on a recording material, magnetic cores provided outside the heater and arranged in a rotational axis direction of the heater, a first mover moving at least a part of the cores from a first position to a second position spaced form the coils, an adjuster, movable between the cores and the heater, for reducing the flux directed from the cores toward the heater, and a second mover moving, when a first core in a non sheet passing area of the recording material is moved to the second position by the first mover and a second core adjacent to the first core in the non sheet passing area is disposed at the first position to heat the image, the adjuster to a position corresponding to the second core. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20130045033 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS WITH ROTATABLE HEAT GENERATION MEMBER CAPABLE OF INDUCTION HEAT GENERATION BY A MAGNETIC FLUX - An image heating apparatus for heating an image on a recording material, includes a rotatable heat generation member capable of induction heat generation by a magnetic flux; a coil, provided outside the heat generation member, for generating the magnetic flux for the induction heat generation; a movable magnetic core provided at a position opposed to the coil; a moving device for moving the magnetic core between a first position opposed to the coil and a second position which is more away from the coil than the first position; and an electroconductive member mounted at a position where a magnetic circuit is capable of being formed with the coil when the magnetic core is in the second position. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130328262 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a manual feed portion provided on a side surface of a housing that accommodates an image forming portion and having an abutting portion against which a downstream end in a sheet feeding direction of a sheet inserted into a gap between the manual feed portion and the side surface abuts. The manual feed portion also includes a holding portion configured to hold the sheet such that a sheet surface is held along the side surface of the housing in the condition in which the downstream end of the sheet abuts against the abutting portion. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20140093291 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a coil generating magnetic flux, a rotatable heater generating heat by the flux generated from the coil, for heating an image on a recording material, magnetic cores provided outside the heater and arranged in a rotational axis direction of the heater, a first mover moving at least a part of the cores from a first position to a second position spaced form the coils, an adjuster, movable between the cores and the heater, for reducing the flux directed from the cores toward the heater, and a second mover moving, when a first core in a non-sheet-passing area of the recording material is moved to the second position by the first mover and a second core adjacent to the first core in the non-sheet-passing area is disposed at the first position to heat the image, the adjuster to a position corresponding to the second core. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140093292 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - An apparatus includes a coil generating magnetic flux, a rotatable heater generating heat by the flux generated from the coil, for heating an image on a recording material, magnetic cores provided outside the heater and arranged in a rotational axis direction of the heater, a first mover moving at least a part of the cores from a first position to a second position spaced form the coils, an adjuster, movable between the cores and the heater, for reducing the flux directed from the cores toward the heater, and a second mover moving, when a first core in a non-sheet-passing area of the recording material is moved to the second position by the first mover and a second core adjacent to the first core in the non-sheet-passing area is disposed at the first position to heat the image, the adjuster to a position corresponding to the second core. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140147183 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet conveyance apparatus includes an apparatus main body, an opening/closing door movably supported by the apparatus main body so as to be capable of opening a conveyance path through which a sheet is conveyed, a sensor lever configured to rotate when pushed by the sheet in the conveyance path, a holder rotatably holding the sensor lever and movably supported by the opening/closing door, a positioning portion provided in the apparatus main body and configured to perform positioning of the holder by coming into contact with the holder, and a sheet detection sensor provided in the apparatus main body and configured to generate a signal corresponding to the position of the sensor lever. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140174888 | BELT UNIT, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND BELT MEMBER EXCHANGING METHOD - A belt unit includes: a belt member; a belt supporting unit including a plurality of supporting rollers for supporting the belt member, and a pair of side units for supporting end portions of each of the plurality of supporting rollers; and a cleaning unit, including a cleaning blade for cleaning the belt member, detachably mountable to the belt supporting unit. The cleaning unit includes a connecting portion connectable to one of the side units so that the belt supporting unit from which the cleaning unit is demounted is placed in a standing state such that the one of the side units is directed downward and the other side unit is directed upward. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140178099 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a main assembly; a belt unit, including a belt member and supporting rollers for supporting the belt member, detachably mountable to the main assembly with respect to a direction crossing a rotational axis direction of the supporting rollers; image forming portions, provided below the belt unit along the belt member, for forming toner images on the belt member; toner cartridges, provided above the belt unit, for supplying toners to the image forming portions, respectively; a side plate provided in the main assembly; and an integrated member provided on the side plate and including a guiding member having a guiding portion for guiding the belt unit and toner supply passages for permitting communication of the image forming portions with the toner cartridges, respectively. The guiding member and the toner supply passages are integrally constituted so that the toner supply passages penetrate the guiding member. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20150288850 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes: a skew correction unit configured to correct skew feeding of a recording material and convey the recording material; a transfer unit configured to include an image bearing member which carries a toner image to be transferred onto the recording material corrected in the skew feeding by the skew correction unit; an opening/closing door configured to be provided in an apparatus body of the image forming apparatus to be opened; and a positioning member configured to include a first positioning portion to position the skew correction unit and a second positioning portion to position the transfer unit. | 10-08-2015 |
| 20150346646 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, comprising:
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| 20090027758 | Reversible Coloring and Decoloring Solid-State Device, a Reversible Conductive Property Changing Solid-State Device, a Reversible Refractive Index Changing Solid-State Device, a Nonradiative Display Device, a Conducting Path Device and a Light Waveguide Device - A reversible coloring and deccoloring solid-state device includes a solid-state electrolyte film and a coloring and decoloring film which colors or decolors the coloring and decoloring film reversibly by applying an electric field. A barrier thin film is inserted between the solid-state electrolyte film and the coloring and decoloring film. The barrier thin film comprises at least one layer which is formed by a material having a band gap energy, functions as a barrier for the carrier movement, and has a thickness of 7 nm to 7±2 nm which does not prevent ion conduction. The coloring and decoloring speed is 0.1 seconds to 0.3 seconds by a voltage driving. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20100025145 | PRESSURE WAVE GENERATOR AND TEMPERATURE CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A pressure wave generator ( | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100193362 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING SILICON BASE MATERIAL, ARTICLE PROCESSED BY THE METHOD, AND PROCESSING APPARATUS - In a state where a silicon base material ( | 08-05-2010 |
| 20110204290 | SILICON-BASED BLUE-GREEN PHOSPHORESCENT MATERIAL OF WHICH LUMINESCENCE PEAK CAN BE CONTROLLED BY EXCITATION WAVELENGTH AND PROCESS FOR PRODUCING SILICON-BASED BLUE-GREEN PHOSPHORESCENT MATERIAL - Provided is a silicon-based blue phosphorescent material having a longer luminescence lifetime, a high luminescence intensity, and excellent long-term stability and reproducibility. A method for producing a silicon-based blue-green phosphorescent material controllable by an excitation wavelength, which comprises a first step of anodizing the surface of silicon to prepare a nanocrystal silicon or a nanostructure silicon, a second step of processing the nanocrystal silicon or the nanostructure silicon prepared in the first step for rapid thermal oxidation, and a third step of processing the nanocrystal silicon or nanostructure silicon having been processed for rapid thermal oxidation in the second step, for high-pressure water vapor annealing. Further, a silicon-based blue-green phosphorescent material controllable by an excitation wavelength, which comprises a silicon oxide film in which numerous nanoscale crystal silicon or nanostructure silicon embedded therein, and which has a transition property between molecular energy levels through triplet excitons having a relaxation time of not shorter than 1 ms, or luminescence transition through quasi-stable excitation or trap having a relaxation time of not shorter than 1 ms. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20130032801 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - The electronic device includes a substrate, a first electrode formed over a surface of the substrate, a second electrode located on an opposite side of the first electrode from the substrate so as to face the first electrode, and a functional layer interposed between the first electrode and second electrode and formed by means of anodizing a first polycrystalline semiconductor layer in an electrolysis solution so as to contain a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals. The electronic device further includes a second polycrystalline semiconductor layer interposed between the first electrode and the functional layer so as to be in close contact with the functional layer. The second polycrystalline semiconductor layer has an anodic oxidization rate in the electrolysis solution lower than that of the first polycrystalline semiconductor layer so as to function as a stop layer for exclusively anodizing the first polycrystalline semiconductor layer. | 02-07-2013 |
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| 20090237018 | Drive unit and manufacturing method thereof - A drive unit includes a rotating electrical machine; a rotation sensor that detects a rotational position of a rotor of the rotating electrical machine, and a storage medium. In an inspecting step of measuring a counter electromotive force by mechanically driving the rotating electrical machine after the rotating electrical machine and the rotation sensor are assembled together, positional error information of the rotation sensor obtained based on information of the counter electromotive force and output information from the rotation sensor is stored in the storage medium. The storage medium is integrally provided to the drive unit in such a state that the storage medium is readable upon assembling a control device that controls the rotating electrical machine. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090243443 | Drive unit - A drive unit includes a rotary electric machine; an inverter used to control the rotary electric machine and a capacitor that smooths a power supply voltage of the inverter; and a case housing the rotary electric machine. A control equipment housing space structured by an inverter housing space portion that houses the inverter and a capacitor housing space portion that houses the capacitor is formed in the case on an outer side of the rotary electric machine in an axial center radial direction of the rotary electric machine. A refrigerant flow chamber through which a refrigerant flows is formed between the control equipment housing space and the rotary electric machine. A capacitor heat exchange fin that performs heat exchange between the capacitor housing space portion and the refrigerant is provided between the capacitor housing space portion and the refrigerant flow chamber. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090251018 | Drive device - A drive device includes a rotating electrical machine; a control device that controls the rotating electrical machine; and a case that accommodates the rotating electrical machine and the control device. The case includes a machine chamber that accommodates the rotating electrical machine, and an electric chamber that accommodates the control device. The machine chamber and the electric chamber are separated from each other by a partition wall, and a connection member that electrically connects the rotating electrical machine and the control device to each other is provided so as to extend through the partition wall in a fluid-tight state. Each of the machine chamber and the electric chamber has an opening on one axial end side of the rotating electrical machine, and a cover that covers the openings in a separated state from each other is mounted to the openings. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090267352 | Drive device - A drive device includes an input shaft connected to an engine; a first rotating electrical machine and a second rotating electrical machine; a differential gear unit including a first rotating element, a second rotating element, and a third rotating element; and a control device. The first rotating electrical machine and the differential gear unit are positioned coaxially with the input shaft. The first rotating electrical machine and the second rotating electrical machine are positioned on different axes from each other so as to axially overlap each other. A first component of the control device is positioned lower than the first rotating electrical machine and positioned so that at least a part of the first component overlaps the first rotating electrical machine when viewed in a vertical top plan view. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20140011618 | VEHICLE DRIVE DEVICE - A vehicle drive device having an input member coupled to an internal combustion engine; an output member coupled to a wheel; a first rotating electrical machine; a second rotating electrical machine; and a differential gear unit having at least three rotating elements. A dog engagement device is provided on a power transmission path between the input member and an input rotating element. The engagement device includes a state selecting member that switches a state among three states, which are a first state where the input rotating element and the input member are coupled and the input rotating element and a non-rotating member are not coupled, a second state where the input rotating element coupled with both the input member and the non-rotating member, and a third state where the input rotating element and the non-rotating member are coupled. | 01-09-2014 |
