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20130244443 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE PRODUCT AND ETCHING LIQUID - A method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate product having: providing an etching liquid containing water, a hydrofluoric acid compound and an organic solvent, and applying the etching liquid to a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having a silicon layer and a silicon oxide layer, the silicon layer containing an impurity, and thereby selectively etching the silicon oxide layer. | 09-19-2013 |
20130244444 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE PRODUCT AND ETCHING LIQUID - A method of producing a semiconductor substrate product, having the steps of: providing an etching liquid containing water, a hydrofluoric acid compound, and a water-soluble polymer; and applying the etching liquid to a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having a silicon layer and a silicon oxide layer, the silicon layer containing an impurity, and thereby selectively etching the silicon oxide layer. | 09-19-2013 |
20150179471 | METHOD OF PRODUCING A SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE PRODUCT AND ETCHING LIQUID - A method of producing a semiconductor substrate product, having the steps of: providing an etching liquid containing water, a hydrofluoric acid compound, and a water-soluble polymer; and applying the etching liquid to a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having a silicon layer and a silicon oxide layer, the silicon layer containing an impurity, and thereby selectively etching the silicon oxide layer. | 06-25-2015 |
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20150321483 | LIQUID CONTAINER AND RECORDING DEVICE ON WHICH LIQUID CONTAINER IS MOUNTED - In a state in which a liquid container is mounted on a recording device, a liquid ejection head communicates with a liquid chamber through a first liquid channel and a second liquid channel, an opening of the first liquid channel at a side far from the liquid ejection head and an opening of the second liquid channel at a side far from the liquid ejection head are made at the liquid chamber, the opening of the first liquid channel is located at an upper side in a gravitational direction as compared with the opening of the second liquid channel, and an air-liquid interface in the first liquid channel is held by a meniscus force so that the air-liquid interface in the first liquid channel is located at the upper side in the gravitational direction as compared with an air-liquid interface in the second liquid channel. | 11-12-2015 |
20150375512 | INK CARTRIDGE AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - The ink cartridge has a communication unit for allowing an ink storage chamber to communicate with a space outside a housing. The communication unit includes a communication port formed on an outside surface of the housing, a merging channel having an end which communicates with the communication port, and a plurality of branch channels, each having an end which communicates with the merging channel and the other end which communicates with the ink storage chamber. In the branch channel, while ink flows backward, the ink flowing from the merging channel branches into the first branch channel and the second branch channel. At the same time, a ratio (Q | 12-31-2015 |
20150375515 | LIQUID STORAGE CONTAINER AND LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid storage container capable of efficiently using a liquid stored therein. An ink cartridge has a flexible member having flexibility attached to a wall surface inside a housing to define a space inside the housing. In a position during use, an angle between the wall surface inside the housing and the flexible member in a lower attachment position of the flexible member to the housing is greater than an angle between the wall surface inside the housing and the flexible member in an upper attachment position. | 12-31-2015 |
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20150046634 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - According to embodiments a memory system is connectable to a host which includes a host controller and a host memory including a first memory area and a second memory area. The memory system includes an interface unit, a non-volatile memory, and a controller unit. The interface unit receives a read command and a write command. The controller unit writes write-data to the non-volatile memory according to the write command. The controller unit determines whether read-data requested by the read command is in the first memory area. If the read-data is in the first memory area, the controller unit causes the host controller to copy the read-data from the first memory area to the second memory area. If the read-data is not in the first memory area, the controller unit reads the read-data from the non-volatile memory and causes the host controller to store the read-data in the second memory area. | 02-12-2015 |
20150067237 | MEMORY CONTROLLER, SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY SYSTEM, AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, a memory controller includes an address translation information storage unit that stores plural translation information formed by classifying a correspondence between a logical address and a physical address into two or more hierarchies, a tag management unit that sores a cache line tag, which includes hierarchy information corresponding to each of the translation information stored in the translation information storage unit, and a control unit that identities whether the translation information is stored in the translation information storage unit or not by using a cache line tag. | 03-05-2015 |
20150261444 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a first memory, an interface, and a control unit. The first memory can operate in first mode in which n (n≧2) pieces of unit data are written per word line and in second mode in which one piece of unit data is written per word line. When n pieces of unit data to be written to the first word line exist in the second memory, the control unit writes the first unit data to the first word line, using the n pieces of unit data to be written to the first word line. When receiving a flush request, the control unit writes a second unit data to a second word line, the second unit data being unit data stored in the second memory, based on the second mode. | 09-17-2015 |
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20120064469 | VERTICAL-TYPE HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME - A heat treatment apparatus and control method enabling the apparatus to settle down the internal temperature of a treating vessel to a target temperature accurately and quickly. The apparatus includes a furnace body with a heater on an inner circumferential surface thereof, a treating vessel disposed inside the furnace body, a cooling medium supply blower and cooling medium release blower connected to the furnace body, and a temperature sensor provided inside the treating vessel. A signal from the temperature sensor is sent to a heater output computing unit of a controller. The computing unit determines a heater output level to be obtained during temperature regulation with the heater only, the heater output level being based on a preset temperature that has been determined by a temperature determining unit and temperature detected by the temperature sensor. A blower output computing unit activates blower output based on the heater output level. | 03-15-2012 |
20120064472 | VERTICAL-TYPE HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS - A heat treatment apparatus and control method enabling the apparatus to settle down an internal temperature of a treating vessel to a target temperature accurately and quickly. The heat treatment apparatus includes a furnace body with a heater on an inner circumferential surface thereof, the treating vessel disposed inside the furnace body, a cooling medium supply blower and cooling medium release blower each connected to the furnace body, and a temperature sensor provided inside the treating vessel. A signal from the temperature sensor is sent to a heater output computing unit and blower output computing unit included in a controller. The heater output computing unit determines a heater output level based on a heater output numerical model and the signal from the temperature sensor. The blower output computing unit determines a blower output level based on a blower output numerical model and the signal from the temperature sensor. | 03-15-2012 |
20120223066 | THERMAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A control unit can select a large-number control zone model in which the number of control zones, which are independently controlled, is large, and a small-number control zone model in which the number of control zones, which are independently controlled, is small. When a temperature is increased or decreased, the control unit can select the small-number control zone model so as to control, based on signals from temperature sensors of the respective control zones C | 09-06-2012 |
20120251966 | HEAT TREATMENT CONTROL SYSTEM AND HEAT TREATMENT CONTROL METHOD - There is provided a heat treatment control system and method which can accurately estimate the temperatures of wafers upon loading of the wafers, enabling quick heat treatment of the wafers. The heat treatment control system includes: a processing container for processing wafers held in a boat; a lid for hermetically closing the processing container; heaters for heating the processing container; and a controller for controlling the heaters. A profile temperature sensor holding tool is installed on the lid. To the sensor holding tool are mounted profile temperature sensors which are connected to a temperature estimation section. The temperature estimation section estimates the temperature of a wafer by applying a first-order lag filter to a detection signal from a profile temperature sensor. The controller controls the heaters based on the temperatures of wafers thus determined by the temperature estimation section. | 10-04-2012 |
20120258415 | HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS AND HEAT TREATMENT METHOD - A heat treatment apparatus including: a processing container for processing wafers held in a boat; heaters for heating the processing container; and a control section for controlling the heaters. Heater temperature sensors are provided between the heaters and the processing container, in-container temperature sensors are provided in the processing container, and movable temperature sensors are provided in the boat. The temperature sensors are connected to a temperature estimation section. The temperature estimation section selects two of the three types of temperature sensors, e.g. the movable temperature sensors and the in-container temperature sensors, and determines the temperature of a wafer according to the following formula: T=T | 10-11-2012 |
20130037534 | TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM THEREFOR, TEMPERATURE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS - Provided is a method of controlling temperatures of objects to be heated in a heating unit by adjusting a heating rate of each of a plurality of heating elements, based on temperature detection values detected at a plurality of temperature detection elements, wherein the plurality of temperature detection elements are positioned at different positions and the plurality of heating elements are positioned at different positions. The method includes estimating a temperature of each of the plurality of temperature detection elements by using a first estimation algorithm when one of the plurality of temperature detection elements is broken, based on the temperature detection values of the temperature detection elements excluding the broken temperature detection element, and controlling the temperatures of the objects to be heated based on the estimated temperatures. | 02-14-2013 |
20130065189 | THERMAL TREATMENT APPARATUS, TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM, THERMAL TREATMENT METHOD, TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM EMBODIED WITH PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE THERMAL TREATMENT METHOD OR THE TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD - A thermal treatment apparatus includes a processing container, a substrate holding unit for holding a plurality of substrates at predetermined intervals in a direction inside the processing container, a heating unit for heating the processing container, a supply unit for supplying gas, a plurality of supply ports provided respectively at different locations in the direction, and a cooling unit for cooling the processing container by supplying the gas into the processing container by the supply unit via each of the supply ports, wherein the supply unit is provided in such a way that the supply unit independently controls flow rates of the gases supplied via each of the supply ports. | 03-14-2013 |
20130186878 | HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - The heat treatment apparatus includes: a processing chamber which accommodates a processing object; a heating unit which heats the processing object accommodated in the processing chamber; a temperature detecting unit which detects an internal temperature of the processing chamber; and a controller which sets a second setting temperature identical to as a temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit when the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit falls below a predetermined first setting temperature due to an external disturbance; controls the heating unit so that a third setting temperature between the second setting temperature and the first setting temperature becomes identical to the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit; and controls the heating unit so that the first setting temperature becomes identical to the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit after the third setting temperature becomes identical to the temperature detected by the temperature detecting unit. | 07-25-2013 |
20130204416 | HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - The heat treatment apparatus that increases a temperature of a processing object and performs a heat treatment in a constant temperature, the heat treatment apparatus includes: a processing chamber which accommodates the processing object; a heating unit which heats the processing object accommodated in the processing chamber; a memory unit which stores two or more temperature control models that are previously created, a temperature controller which controls a temperature of the heating unit; and an apparatus controller which controls the temperature controller and the memory unit, wherein the apparatus controller selects a temperature control model among the two or more temperature control models according to desired heat treatment conditions, and wherein the temperature controller reads out the selected temperature control model from the memory unit to control the heating unit. | 08-08-2013 |
20130209949 | TEMPERATURE SENSOR AND HEAT TREATING APPARATUS - A rising characteristic of a temperature is improved, and high-accuracy temperature control is enabled. A temperature sensor according to the present invention includes a temperature detecting element, a heat receiving body to which the temperature detecting element is fixed and that is heated by receiving surrounding heat, a heat receiving body supporting mechanism supporting the heat receiving body at a predetermined position, and a protective tube adjusting the heat receiving body in a predetermined direction and at a predetermined position and holding the heat receiving body therein. In the temperature sensor, the heat receiving body is in a flat plate shape, the temperature detecting element is fixed to the heat receiving body, and the heat receiving body supporting mechanism includes a plurality of connecting narrow tubes connected to one another and a connecting wire passing through the respective connecting narrow tubes to connect and support all the connecting narrow tubes. | 08-15-2013 |
20140238972 | THERMAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A control unit can select a large-number control zone model in which the number of control zones, which are independently controlled, is large, and a small-number control zone model in which the number of control zones, which are independently controlled, is small. When a temperature is increased or decreased, the control unit can select the small-number control zone model so as to control, based on signals from temperature sensors of the respective control zones C1 . . . C5 whose number is small, heaters located on the respective control zones C1 . . . C5. When a temperature is stabilized, the control unit can select the large-number control zone model so as to control, based on signals signals from the temperature sensors of the respective control zones C1 . . . C10 whose number is large, the heaters located on the respective control zones C1 . . . C10. | 08-28-2014 |
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20120306183 | AIR BAG DEVICE - Provided is an airbag device mounted to a steering wheel in which a mounting member is provided in a protruding manner. The airbag device includes an airbag, an inflator configured to inflate and deploy the airbag, a cover that covers the airbag, and a mounting plate. A locking body configured to be locked with the mounting member is held on the mounting plate via the holding member. The mounting plate includes a recess that is recessed from a portion for mounting the inflator. The locking body is provided in the recess of the mounting plate. | 12-06-2012 |
20120306184 | MOUNTING SECTION STRUCTURE FOR AIRBAG DEVICE - An airbag device includes an airbag, an inflator, and a mounting plate. A steering wheel includes a wheel main body and a core member as a central member. A mounting member is provided to any one of the mounting plate side and the core member side, and a locking body is provided to the other thereof. The mounting member includes a column part and a locking protrusion provided in a protruding manner to a distal end portion of the column part. The locking body is locked with an inner corner portion between the column part and the locking protrusion, whereby the airbag device is mounted to the steering wheel. A locking abutment surface of the locking protrusion, which faces a proximal end portion of the column part, includes a slip-off prevention protrusion that holds the locking body on the proximal-end-portion side of the locking protrusion. | 12-06-2012 |
20120313357 | AIRBAG DEVICE - An airbag device includes a mounting plate, a locking body formed of a linear material configured to be elastically deformed into a shape in which an intermediate wire portion and a pair of side wire portions are continuous so as to form a U-like shape, and a holding member holding the locking body on the mounting plate. Each of end portions of the pair of side wire portions is formed as an inclined portion for biasing, and a pair of auxiliary biasing members respectively configured to abut against the pair of inclined portions for biasing are provided in the mounting plate. The locking body is held on the mounting plate in a state in which the pair of inclined portions for biasing respectively abut against the pair of auxiliary biasing members to bias the intermediate wire portion toward a direction of being locked with the first mounting member. | 12-13-2012 |
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20120237575 | FILM COATING AGENT FOR SOLID PREPARATION, AND SOLID PREPARATION USING SAME - A film coating agent for a solid formulation includes a water-soluble cellulose derivative, swelling clay, a cationic surfactant, and a fatty acid, wherein mass ratio of the swelling clay to the water-soluble cellulose derivative is 2:8 to 8:2, and content of the cationic surfactant is not less than 0.5 equivalents and not more than 3.0 equivalents relative to a cation exchange equivalent of the swelling clay. | 09-20-2012 |
20120321677 | COATED SOLID PREPARATION - A montelukast-containing coated solid preparation can be applied to one-dose package, wherein the humidity stability of montelukast or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof contained therein is maintained even when the preparation is unpacked. A coated solid preparation contains as an active ingredient montelukast or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof and is coated with a coating layer comprising polyvinyl alcohol and swelling clay, wherein the mass ratio of the above-described polyvinyl alcohol to the above-described swelling clay in the above-described coating layer is 8:2 to 3:7. | 12-20-2012 |
20130156829 | COATING AGENT FOR PHARMACEUTICAL SOLID PREPARATION, PHARMACEUTICAL FILM FORMULATION, AND COATED PHARMACEUTICAL SOLID PREPARATION - A coating agent for a pharmaceutical solid preparation imparts an unpackaged pharmaceutical solid preparation with excellent barrier properties equivalent to those of a PTP sheet without affecting the disintegration properties of the pharmaceutical solid preparation. The coating agent for a pharmaceutical solid preparation includes a polyethylene glycol having an average molecular weight of 950 to 25,000 and a swelling clay, wherein the mass ratio of the polyethylene glycol and the swelling clay is 2:8 to 6:4. | 06-20-2013 |
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20120157216 | SLIDING TYPE TRIPOD CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT - A sliding-type tripod constant velocity joint that includes needle units, each of which is able to prevent rolling elements from falling off in a state where the rolling elements are introduced in a cage, is provided. Each cage ( | 06-21-2012 |
20120258807 | SLIDING TYPE TRIPOD CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT - A sliding type tripod constant velocity joint includes an outer ring of a tubular form having three raceway grooves which are formed on an inner peripheral surface and which extend in a direction of a rotation axis of the outer ring, a tripod including a boss part connected to a shaft and three tripod shaft parts which are provided upright so as to extend outward in a radial direction of the boss part from an outer peripheral surface of the boss part and which are inserted into the raceway grooves, respectively, and a pair of intermediate members which are arranged so as to sandwich a corresponding one of the tripod shaft parts from both sides of side surfaces of the raceway grooves and which are provided so as to be oscillated relative to the corresponding one of the tripod shaft parts. | 10-11-2012 |
20120264526 | SLIDING TYPE TRIPOD CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT - A sliding type tripod constant velocity joint includes an outer ring of a tubular form having three raceway grooves which are formed on an inner peripheral surface and which extend in a direction of a rotation axis of the outer ring, a tripod including a boss part connected to a shaft and three tripod shaft parts which are provided upright so as to extend outward in a radial direction of the boss part from an outer peripheral surface of the boss part and which are inserted into the raceway grooves, respectively, and an intermediate member which is provided on an outer periphery of a corresponding one of the tripod shaft parts so as to be oscillated relative to the corresponding one of the tripod shaft parts and which has power transmission surfaces on both side surfaces and opposing the side surfaces of a corresponding one of the raceway grooves. | 10-18-2012 |
20120270666 | SLIDING TYPE TRIPOD CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT - A sliding type tripod constant velocity joint includes an outer ring having three raceway grooves which are formed on an inner peripheral surface and which extend in a direction of a rotation axis of the outer ring, a tripod including a boss part connected to a shaft and three tripod shaft parts which are provided upright so as to extend outward in a radial direction of the boss part from an outer peripheral surface of the boss part and which are inserted into the raceway grooves, respectively, and an intermediate member which is provided on an outer periphery of a corresponding one of the tripod shaft parts so as to be oscillated relative to the corresponding one of the tripod shaft parts and which has power transmission surfaces on outer surfaces and opposing the side surfaces of a corresponding one of the raceway grooves. | 10-25-2012 |
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20140281486 | COMMUNITY-BASED DE-DUPLICATION FOR ENCRYPTED DATA - Technologies for de-duplicating encrypted content include fragmenting a file into blocks on a computing device, encrypting each block, and storing each encrypted block on a content data server with associated keyed hashes and member identifications. The computing device additionally transmits each encrypted block with an associated member encryption key and member identification to a key server. As part of the de-duplication process, the content data server stores only one copy of the encrypted data for a particular associated keyed hash, and the key server similarly associates a single member encryption key with the keyed hash. To retrieve the file, the computing device receives the encrypted blocks with their associated keyed hashes and member identifications from the content data server and receives the corresponding member decryption key from the key server. The computing device decrypts each block using the member decryption keys and combines to blocks to generate the file. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282844 | MANAGING DATA IN A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT USING MANAGEMENT METADATA - Computer-readable storage medium, apparatus and method associated with management of data elements in a cloud computing environment are disclosed herein. In embodiments, one or more computer-readable storage medium may contain instructions which when executed by a computing apparatus may facilitate a user in managing the user's data elements in a cloud computing environment. In embodiments, this may be accomplished through the use of management metadata associated with the user's data elements. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 09-18-2014 |
20160057142 | COMMUNITY-BASED DE-DUPLICATION FOR ENCRYPTED DATA - Technologies for de-duplicating encrypted content include fragmenting a file into blocks on a computing device, encrypting each block, and storing each encrypted block on a content data server with associated keyed hashes and member identifications. The computing device additionally transmits each encrypted block with an associated member encryption key and member identification to a key server. As part of the de-duplication process, the content data server stores only one copy of the encrypted data for a particular associated keyed hash, and the key server similarly associates a single member encryption key with the keyed hash. To retrieve the file, the computing device receives the encrypted blocks with their associated keyed hashes and member identifications from the content data server and receives the corresponding member decryption key from the key server. The computing device decrypts each block using the member decryption keys and combines to blocks to generate the file. | 02-25-2016 |
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20120158578 | HIGHLY GRANULAR CLOUD COMPUTING MARKETPLACE - A system and method may provide for defining a usage policy for an available resource of a personal computing system, and transmitting the usage policy to a market broker. The market broker may identify a match between the usage policy and a request from another computing system, and generate a notification of the match. In addition, funds may be transferred from an account associated with the other computing system to an account associated with the personal computing system based on a remote usage of the available resource by the other computing system. | 06-21-2012 |
20120158967 | VIRTUAL CORE ABSTRACTION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING - A system and method provide for mapping a virtual core of a computing system to an external computing resource and intercepting an instruction directed from an application resident on the computing system to the virtual core. The intercepted instruction may be sent to the external computing resource for processing. | 06-21-2012 |
20120167081 | Application Service Performance in Cloud Computing - Methods and apparatuses associated with cloud computing are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a method may include receiving, by a service monitor operating on a computing device, performance information associated with services provided by an application service with instances operating on a plurality of virtual machines deployed on a plurality of servers of a computing cloud. The service monitor, in response, may identify one or more requests of the computing cloud to attempt to improve performance of the services provided by the application service. Other embodiments may be disclosed and claimed. | 06-28-2012 |
20150248418 | TECHNOLOGY FOR MANAGING CLOUD STORAGE - Described herein is technology for managing cloud storage. In particular, systems, devices and methods for managing cloud storage are described. In some embodiments, management of cloud storage may result in the designation of storage allocated to a first storage pool as obsolete, and the reallocation and/or reclamation of such storage to a second storage pool and/or a general cloud storage pool. Management may occur in accordance with one or more policies. | 09-03-2015 |
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20130164042 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A developing device includes first and second developer carriers facing each other in a facing region, a regulating member that regulates a layer thickness of developer, and a separation member. The first and second developer carriers respectively include first and second magnetic members that are respectively magnetized with first and second facing magnetic poles having opposite polarities. The separation member separates the developer so that the developer is supplied toward the first and second developer carriers. The separation member is disposed such that distances between the separation member and the first and second developer carriers are the smallest in a region in which a magnitude of a combined magnetic field of the first and second magnetic poles locally decreases as compared with a case where at least one of the first and second developer carriers is independently disposed due to interaction between the first and second facing magnetic poles. | 06-27-2013 |
20140016969 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - Provided is a developing device including a first developer holding member disposed opposite to an image holding member that holds an electrostatic latent image, a second developer holding member, disposed opposite to the image holding member and the first developer holding member, a developer supply mechanism that supplies the developer to a position located further downstream than the development area in a direction of rotation of the developer holding member and located further upstream than opposite locations of the two developer holding members, a regulation member that regulates the developer supplied by the developer supply mechanism, a developer division unit that divides the developer, supplied from the developer supply mechanism into two parts for the two developer holding members, and a developer carrying unit that holds and carries the developer after division toward each of the development areas in a state where the developer is separated. | 01-16-2014 |
20140178106 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes first and second developing rollers, a trimmer, a divider, and a movement regulator. The first and second developing rollers are arranged so as to face an outer peripheral surface of a photoconductor at downstream and upstream positions, respectively, in a rotation direction of the photoconductor, and respectively include first and second sleeves and first and second magnets. The trimmer is arranged so as to face an outer peripheral surface of the first developing roller, and regulates formation of a layer of developer held by the first developing roller. The divider divides the developer regulated by the trimmer into developer that adheres to the first developing roller and developer that adheres to the second developing roller. The movement regulator is disposed between the trimmer and the divider and regulates movement of the developer held by the first developing roller before the developer is divided. | 06-26-2014 |
20160085180 | TRANSPORT MECHANISM, DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A transport mechanism includes: a container that stores a specific developer; a transport body that transports the developer in an axial direction of a shaft about which the transport body rotates in the container while stirring the developer; a bearing that supports the transport body such that the transport body is rotatable about the shaft; and a restricting portion that has a substantially annular shape and a maximum magnetic force of about 20 mT or greater and about 50 mT or smaller and restricts the transportation of the developer past the restricting portion by surrounding the shaft, the restricting portion being provided nearer to a side on which the transport body transports the developer than the bearing in the axial direction of the shaft. | 03-24-2016 |
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20120055732 | ELECTRIC POWER STEERING SYSTEM - An electric power steering system includes a motor that applies assist force to a steering system, and updates a motor resistance (Rm) that is a value indicating a resistance of the motor. Specifically, the motor resistance (Rm) is updated on the basis of the fact that an induced voltage (EX) of the motor is smaller than a first determination value (GA). In addition, when the induced voltage (EX) is smaller than or equal to a second determination value (GB), a divided value that is obtained by dividing a motor voltage (Vm) by a motor current (Im) is set as a new motor resistance (Rm). | 03-08-2012 |
20130158806 | VEHICLE STEERING SYSTEM - When a vehicle is quickly steered while the vehicle is travelling at an extremely low speed, a load on an in-vehicle power supply is reduced without deteriorating a steering feeling by reducing a motor driving current. A steering speed is compared with a threshold. When the steering speed is lower than the threshold, the process proceeds to step S | 06-20-2013 |
20140158453 | ROTATION ANGLE DETECTION DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME - Sinusoidal signals (S | 06-12-2014 |
20150109114 | WARNING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - In a warning device for a vehicle, a basic target current value setting unit sets a basic target current value based on a steering torque and a vehicle speed. When a lane deviation determining unit determines that there is a high possibility that a vehicle will deviate from a lane, a warning vibration wave generator generates a warning vibration wave containing a plurality of frequency components. A target current value is computed by adding the warning vibration wave to the basic target current value. A motor current to be applied to an electric motor is controlled so as to approach the target current value. | 04-23-2015 |
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20120207987 | ACTIVATING AGENT FOR HYDRAULIC TRANSFER FILM, HYDRAYLIC TRANSFER METHOD, AND HYDRAULIC TRANSFER PRODUCT - An ultraviolet ray hardening resin composite type coating agent for being applied to a print pattern of a water pressure transfer film to restore an adhesion and including a photo-polymerization oligomer, a photo-polymerization monomer and a photo-polymerization initiator for improving a membrane strength, a chemical resistance and light resistance, said photo-polymerization oligomer including a multi-functional oligomer and a bi-functional oligomer, said photo-polymerization monomer being a bi-functional monomer, said coating agent including a non-reactive resin added in addition to said ultraviolet ray hardening resin composite, said photo-polymerization oligomer being blended at 25 to 56 weight %, said photo-polymerization monomer being blended at 33 to 65 weight %, said photo-polymerization initiator being blended at 5 to 10 weight % and said non-reactive resin being blended at 2 to 10 weight %. | 08-16-2012 |
20150239281 | ACTIVATING AGENT FOR HYDRAULIC TRANSFER FILM, HYDRAULIC TRANSFER METHOD, AND HYDRAULIC TRANSFER PRODUCT - A coating agent of an ultraviolet ray hardening resin composite type for a water pressure transfer film to restore an adhesion, the ultraviolet ray hardening resin composite having a viscosity of 10-500 CPS (25° C.) and an ink solubility of SP value of 7 or more and including a photo-polymerization oligomer of 25 to 56 weight percent, a photo-polymerization monomer of bi-functional monomer of 33 to 65 weight percent and a photo-polymerization initiator of 5 to 10 weight percent for accomplishing both of membrane strength and adhesion, the photo-polymerization oligomer including a compound of multi-functional oligomer having a blend rate of 12 to 40 weight percent and bi-functional oligomer having a blend rate of 7 to 16 weight percent, the coating agent including a non-reactive resin of 2 to 10 weight percent added to the ultraviolet hardening resin composite, and a method of water pressure transfer method for activating the transfer film by using the coating agent. | 08-27-2015 |