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20100307573 | SOLAR CELL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A solar cell comprises a p-type layer, an i-type layer, and an n-type layer, the p-type layer comprises a high-absorption amorphous silicon carbide layer and a low-absorption amorphous silicon carbide layer which have different absorption coefficients with respect to light of a wavelength of 600 nm along a thickness direction, and a buffer layer is provided between the low-absorption amorphous silicon carbide layer and the i-type layer. | 12-09-2010 |
20100307574 | SOLAR CELL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A solar cell comprises a p-type layer ( | 12-09-2010 |
20100307583 | SOLAR CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A solar cell comprises an amorphous silicon solar cell unit in which a p-type layer, an i-type layer, and an n-type layer are laminated. The p-type layer includes a high-concentration amorphous silicon carbide layer doped with a p-type dopant and an amorphous silicon buffer layer which is substantially undoped with the p-type dopant. Then, a band gap of the amorphous silicon buffer layer is defined to be 1.65 eV or greater. | 12-09-2010 |
20100326507 | SOLAR CELL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - In a manufacturing method of a thin film solar cell in which a p-type layer, an i-type layer, and an n-type layer are layered, the i-type layer is an amorphous silicon layer, the n-type layer is a microcrystalline silicon layer, and in a process of forming the n-type layer, a doping concentration of an n-type dopant is increased as a distance from the i-type layer is increased. | 12-30-2010 |
20100330734 | SOLAR CELL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - In a manufacturing process of a solar cell comprising an amorphous silicon unit in which a p-type layer, an i-type layer, and an n-type layer are layered, in a step of forming the p-type layer, a doping concentration of a p-type dopant included in the p-type layer is increased as a distance from the i-type layer is increased, and in particular, a high-absorption amorphous silicon carbide layer and a low-absorption amorphous silicon carbide layer are consecutively formed while a state of plasma generation is maintained. | 12-30-2010 |
20110073153 | PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - In a structure in which a plurality of structures, having a transparent electrode, a photovoltaic unit, and a backside electrode sequentially layered over a transparent substrate, are connected in series, a insulating groove is formed in a panel periphery in a direction intersecting the direction of series connection in which the transparent electrode, the photovoltaic unit, and the backside electrode are removed, and a separating groove is formed in a region near the separating groove and parallel to the separating groove in which the transparent electrode is left and at least the backside electrode is removed. | 03-31-2011 |
20120145239 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A photoelectric conversion device is provided wherein variance of photoelectric conversion efficiency within a panel plane is reduced. A method of manufacturing a photoelectric conversion device having a microcrystalline silicon photoelectric conversion unit ( | 06-14-2012 |
20120266948 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - In order to increase photoelectric conversion efficiency in a photoelectric conversion device, there is disclosed a photoelectric converter containing a photoelectric conversion unit in which a p-type layer ( | 10-25-2012 |
20120305053 | SOLAR CELL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed is a solar cell which allows more photogenerated carriers to be extracted while improving power generation efficiency. The solar cell has a light-receiving surface electrode layer ( | 12-06-2012 |
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20090324310 | LUBRICANT APPLYING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING ASSEMBLY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WHICH EMPLOY THE SAME - A lubricant applying device that faces a rotatable body, and that applies a solid lubricant to the rotatable body, includes: a lubricating roll in which the solid lubricant for application is formed into a circular sectional shape around a rotatable support shaft, and that is contacted with the rotatable body; and a pressing mechanism that presses the lubricating roll toward the rotatable body, wherein the lubricating roll that is pressed against the rotatable body by the pressing mechanism applies the lubricant in a state where the lubricating roll is not rotated relative to the rotatable body, and, when a rotational torque due to the contact with the rotatable body exceeds a predetermined value, the lubricating roll is rotated in accordance with rotation of the rotatable body. | 12-31-2009 |
20110069988 | DETACHABLE HOLDING PORTIONS IN AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided an image forming apparatus including: an image carrier carrying an image; a charging roll charging the image carrier; a cleaning member configured to be brought into contact with the charging roll for cleaning the charging roll; a first holding portion detachably provided in an apparatus main body for holding the image carrier; and a second holding portion provided within the apparatus main body independently from the first holding portion, for holding the cleaning member. | 03-24-2011 |
20120141174 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND FIXING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material; an endless belt member; a pressure member that applies pressure to the belt member; a pressing member that presses the belt member from an inner side of the belt member towards the pressure member; and an adjusting section that adjusts a position of an end portion of a nip part at a downstream side in a movement direction of the recording material and a position of a curved portion of the belt member by moving or deforming the pressing member, the nip part being formed by the belt member and the pressure member, the curved portion of the belt member being formed by an end portion of the pressing member at a downstream side in the movement direction of the recording material. | 06-07-2012 |
20130236219 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a heat assembly including an endless belt, a heat source, a pressure pad, and a cleaning member that cleans an inner surface of the endless belt as the result of circulation movement of the endless belt; and a pressure member that presses an outer surface of the endless belt. The cleaning member contacts the endless belt with a contact-pressure distribution such that a contact pressure of a portion located downstream of a most upstream portion in a moving direction of the endless belt is the maximum in a contact region where the cleaning member contacts the endless belt. | 09-12-2013 |
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 |
20140105656 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes an endless belt that fixes toner onto a recording medium by heat, a heating member in the form of substantially a sheet that has flexibility and that heats the belt from inside a space enclosed by the belt, and a stationary member including a curved surface that is in contact with the heating member, a fixed area in the curved surface in which the heating member is fixed to the stationary member, and a non-fixed area in the curved surface in which the heating member is not fixed to the stationary member, the stationary member having a coefficient of linear expansion different from that of the heating member. The belt is wound around the stationary member via a layer that includes the heating member, and rigidities of the belt and the heating member are lower than a rigidity of the stationary member. | 04-17-2014 |
20150030360 | FIXING DEVICE, HEATING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING HEATING DEVICE - A fixing device includes a fixing member that fixes a toner image to a recording medium, a pressure member that forms, together with the fixing member, a pressure portion through which the recording medium carrying the toner image yet to be fixed passes, and a heating member including a heating layer that generates heat when energized and an insulating layer that encloses the heating layer so as to electrically insulate the heating layer. The heating member has a curved shape along an inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, in a state in which no external force is applied, and is in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the fixing member. | 01-29-2015 |
20150098737 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a fixing device including a fixing member that fixes a toner image onto a recording material, a pressurizing member that forms a pressurizing portion, in cooperation with the fixing member, through which the recording material holding a non-fixed toner image passes, a heating member that includes a heat generating portion having a predetermined pattern shape and being energized to generate heat, and heats the fixing member, a supporting member that supports the heating member along an inner circumferential surface of the fixing member, and a thermal diffusion member that faces the supporting member with interposing the heating member, and diffuses heat from the heating member and conducts the heat to the fixing member. | 04-09-2015 |
20150110530 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a fixing device including a fixing belt that is formed in an endless shape, is driven to rotate, and includes an outer circumferential surface pressed to a recording sheet holding a toner image, and a thin plate shaped heating member that contacts with an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt to generate heat and heats the fixing belt, wherein the heating member is supported to be fixed at one end portion in a circumferential direction of the fixing belt, contacts with the fixing belt along the circumferential direction, is elastically deformed so that a shape of the heating member is restrained by the fixing belt, and is pressed to the circumferential surface of the fixing belt by an elastic repulsive force. | 04-23-2015 |
20150125191 | FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a fixing device including a heating unit that includes a circularly moving heating belt, and a pressurizing roller that presses an external face of the heating belt, the fixing device fixing a toner image on a sheet onto the sheet by nipping the sheet between the heating belt and the pressurizing roller and by heating and pressurizing the sheet transported with the toner image being held. | 05-07-2015 |
20150160590 | HEATING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a heating device that heats a belt which transports a medium on which a non-fixed image to be fixed onto the medium through heating is formed, the heating device including a heating element, a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer that are arranged to nip the heating element, a first supporting layer that comes into contact with the first insulating layer and a second supporting layer that comes into contact with the second insulating layer, both of which are arranged to nip the first insulating layer, the heating element, and the second insulating layer, and a connection member that connects the first supporting layer and the second supporting layer in a normal direction of the first supporting layer and the second supporting layer. | 06-11-2015 |
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20090023345 | Direct Mounting Connector - An inverter (apparatus), to which two motors are connected, or a connecting structure of the inverter and the motors is made compact. A direct mounting connector to be directly mounted on an apparatus, includes: six independent busbars | 01-22-2009 |
20110034053 | CHARGING CONNECTOR - To provide a charging connector to prevent the charging connector from removing while a lock system is locked by helping a user recognize that the lock system is locked. | 02-10-2011 |
20110059659 | Connector - A connector includes: a terminal fitting which includes a wire connecting portion and an electric contact portion disposed coaxially with the wire connecting portion; a connector housing for fitting to a mating connector; a rear holder which is fitted at an end portion of the connector housing; a terminal accommodating chamber which is provided in the connector housing. The terminal accommodating chamber includes a first accommodating portion for accommodating the wire connecting portion, a second accommodating portion which is continuous with the first accommodating portion to accommodate the electric contact portion, and a stepped surface formed between the first and second accommodating portions. The connector also includes a flange portion which projects from an outer peripheral surface of the wire connecting portion so as to contact the stepped surface, and a sleeve member provided between the flange portion and the rear holder. | 03-10-2011 |
20120021632 | WATERPROOF CONNECTOR - There is provided a waterproof connector in which swing of electric wires inside a rear holder can be prevented, and insertion of the rear holder into a connector body can be easily performed with a small force. The waterproof connector includes a connector body | 01-26-2012 |
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20100197171 | CONNECTOR - A connector | 08-05-2010 |
20110108680 | ELECTRICAL WIRE FIXING MEMBER - Provided is an electrical wire fixing member that can be assembled in a simple manner with the reduced number of parts, and is capable of obtaining a sufficient lap amount, which can further reduce the number of parts. In an electrical wire fixing band | 05-12-2011 |
20120003856 | WATERPROOF STRUCTURE - A waterproof structure, which is for one connector fixed to a mounting hole of an automotive motor's metallic case and another connector fixed to a mounting hole of an automotive inverter's metallic case and connected to the one connector, comprises ring-shaped first and second packings. The first packing resides between the one case's surface and the one connector's surface that are orthogonal to a fitting direction of the connectors such that the one case's mounting hole is surrounded thereby to provide waterproof interface between the one case and the one connector. The second packing resides between the other case's surface and the other connector's surface that are parallel to the fitting direction. The second packing extends on an outer circumferential surface of the other connector to provide waterproof interface between an inner circumferential surface of the other case's mounting hole and the other connector's outer circumferential surface. | 01-05-2012 |
20120164867 | DIRECT MOUNT CONNECTOR TERMINAL AND DIRECT MOUNT CONNECTOR - The present invention is to provide a direct mount connector terminal and a direct mount connector for improving reliability of connection thereof. The direct mount connector terminal is locked to a connector housing with a lance of the connector housing. The direct mount connector terminal includes an electrical connection portion extending toward a connection direction of a mating terminal, a bent portion connected to and bent with respect to the electrical connection portion, a parallel portion connected to the bent portion and parallel to the electrical connection portion, and a locking portion disposed on the parallel portion and to be locked to the lance of the connector housing. | 06-28-2012 |
20120178291 | DEVICE-CONNECTING CONNECTOR - A connector adapted to connect device, allows itself to be fastened with a bolt using a conventional tool, and to be downsized. A edge | 07-12-2012 |
20120208404 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - The present invention provides a connector assembly having a small size and preventing a contact between a bolt fastener and a detection member. The connector assembly includes a connector having an inner chamber with an opening and a plurality of connector terminals, a connector receptacle having a plurality of connector receptacle terminals securable together with the connector terminals and a first detection member, and a cover for covering the opening and having a second detection member. When the opening of the inner chamber is covered with the cover, the first detection member and the second detection member are connected together and detect that the cover is covered. The first detection member is disposed between the adjacent connector receptacle terminals. An end surface of the first housing is positioned inwardly of the inner chamber with respect to a surface of a connector electrical contact portion. | 08-16-2012 |
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20080242153 | Base connector, socket connector and complex type connector - A base connector includes an insulating base housing and a plurality of base contacts retained by the base housing. An anterior wall of the base housing includes a central convex portion which is formed at the center portion in a left-and-right direction of the anterior face of the anterior wall and projects forward, and a pair of concave portions formed on both sides sandwiching the central convex portion therebetween. At least a part of the upper face on the anterior wall including the upper face of the central convex portion is formed as a flat face. The upper face of the anterior wall is provided with a wide portion including the upper face of the central convex portion and being relatively wide in the front-and-rear direction, and a pair of narrow portions relatively narrow in the front-and-rear direction corresponding in position to the pair of concave portions. The wide portion is provided with a flat adsorbed face, which can be adsorbed by an adsorption member. | 10-02-2008 |
20130121914 | TREATMENT DRUG FOR AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES AND ALLERGIC DISEASES - The present invention provides an agent for the prophylaxis or therapy of autoimmune diseases or allergic diseases, which contains an anti-Embigin antibody, particularly an anti-Embigin antibody showing cytotoxicity or a cytotoxicity inducing activity, an agent for the prophylaxis or therapy of diseases involving Th17 cell, and a cytotoxic agent to Th17 cell. In addition, an agent for detection of Th17 cell, which contains an anti-Embigin antibody, a convenient detection method of Th17 cell, which uses the agent, a method of efficiently delivering a drug and the like in a Th17 cell selective manner, which uses an anti-Embigin antibody, and a drug delivery system to Th17 cell are provided. | 05-16-2013 |
20150037886 | TREATMENT DRUG FOR AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES AND ALLERGIC DISEASES - The present invention provides an agent for the prophylaxis or therapy of autoimmune diseases or allergic diseases, which contains an anti-Embigin antibody, particularly an anti-Embigin antibody showing cytotoxicity or a cytotoxicity inducing activity, an agent for the prophylaxis or therapy of diseases involving Th17 cell, and a cytotoxic agent to Th17 cell. In addition, an agent for detection of Th17 cell, which contains an anti-Embigin antibody, a convenient detection method of Th17 cell, which uses the agent, a method of efficiently delivering a drug and the like in a Th17 cell selective manner, which uses an anti-Embigin antibody, and a drug delivery system to Th17 cell are provided. | 02-05-2015 |
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20150040795 | RAILCAR - A railcar is a railcar including a driver's cab. One of both railcar-width-direction portions of the driver's cab is formed by a first driver's cab device unit. The first driver's cab device unit includes: a plurality of first driver's cab devices distributedly arranged in a plurality of areas located at one of both railcar-width-direction sides of the driver's cab; a first driver's cab device wire that connects the first driver's cab devices located in the different areas to one another; and a first driver's cab floor surface plate, a first driver's cab side plate, a first driver's cab back plate, and a first driver's cab ceiling plate, which form a part of an outer body of the driver's cab, the part being located at the one of both railcar-width-direction sides of the driver's cab. These components of the first driver's cab device unit are integrated to form a box shape. | 02-12-2015 |
20150059613 | DUAL-STRUCTURE STORAGE BOX OF RAILCAR AND RAILCAR INCLUDING SAME - A dual-structure storage box is used in a railcar and stores device units. The dual-structure storage box includes a device receiver case and a storage case. The device receiver case is fixed to a floor of the railcar, and the device units are attached to the device receiver case. The storage case is configured separately from the device receiver case, covers the device receiver case from an outer side of the device receiver case, and stores the device units. | 03-05-2015 |
20150059614 | DRIVER'S CAB AND RAILCAR INCLUDING DRIVER'S CAB - A driver's cab of a railcar includes: side bodyshells; a roof bodyshell; and an interior panel unit including a pair of side panels located at an inner side of the side bodyshells, a ceiling panel located at an inner side of the roof bodyshell, and a back-surface panel that separates the driver's cab from a passenger room. At least one of the panels includes an opening portion through which an adjusting member can be inserted, the adjusting member being configured to adjust positions of the one panel and the side bodyshell or positions of the one panel and the roof bodyshell. An interior space of the driver's cab is defined by coupling the adjacent panels to one another. The adjusting member adjusts a position of the driver's cab relative to the side bodyshell or the roof bodyshell. | 03-05-2015 |