Cartridge and drum unit for electrophotographic image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10203652B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-12

    申请号:US15697610

    申请日:2017-09-07

    IPC分类号: G03G21/16 G03G21/18

    摘要: A cartridge mountable to a printer, said printer including a coupling guide contactable to a coupling of the cartridge to guide the coupling member. A case of the cartridge is provided with a hole for exposing a free end portion of the coupling to an outside of the cartridge, and a retracted portion provided in downstream of the hole with respect to the mounting direction of the cartridge. When the cartridge is mounted to a main assembly of the printer, the coupling guide enters the retracted portion from which the coupling member has retracted.

    Cartridge, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus which uses cartridge

    公开(公告)号:US10168665B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-01

    申请号:US15595218

    申请日:2017-05-15

    IPC分类号: G03G21/18 G03G15/08

    摘要: A cartridge for use with a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the main assembly including a driving shaft having a rotational force applying portion, wherein the cartridge is dismountable from the main assembly in a direction substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the driving shaft, the cartridge including i) a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, the developing roller being rotatable about an axis thereof; and ii) a coupling member engageable with the rotational force applying portion to receive a rotational force for rotating the developing roller, the coupling member being capable of taking a rotational force transmitting angular position for transmitting the rotational force for rotating the developing roller to the developing roller and a disengaging angular position in which the coupling member is inclined away from the rotational force transmitting angular position, wherein when the cartridge is dismounted from the main assembly of the electrophotographic image forming apparatus in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of the developing roller, the coupling member moves from the rotational force transmitting angular position to the disengaging angular position.

    Solid-state imaging apparatus and imaging system

    公开(公告)号:US10158817B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-18

    申请号:US15862292

    申请日:2018-01-04

    摘要: Provided is a solid-state imaging apparatus, including pixels each including: a photoelectric conversion unit; a charge accumulation unit; a transistor including a control electrode; a waveguide; and a light-shielding portion. The waveguide includes an incident portion and an output portion, the light-shielding portion includes a first portion that covers the control electrode of the transistor and a second portion that covers a part of the photoelectric conversion unit, the output portion and the photoelectric conversion unit are arranged with an interval therebetween, the interval between the output portion and the photoelectric conversion unit is larger than an interval between a lower end of the second portion of the light-shielding portion and the photoelectric conversion unit, and the interval between the output portion and the photoelectric conversion unit is smaller than an interval between an upper end of the second portion of the light-shielding portion and the photoelectric conversion unit.

    Light scanning apparatus
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10156808B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-18

    申请号:US15674415

    申请日:2017-08-10

    摘要: A light scanning apparatus, including: a light source configured to emit a light beam; and a rotary polygon mirror configured to deflect the light beam emitted from the light source so that the light beam scans a surface of a photosensitive member, wherein the rotary polygon mirror is formed in a four-sided polygon, and wherein a difference between a pair of diametrically opposed interior angles of the rotary polygon mirror is larger than 0.03°, and a difference between another pair of diametrically opposed interior angles of the rotary polygon mirror is 0.03° or less.

    Electrochromic element
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10151958B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-11

    申请号:US15543734

    申请日:2016-03-30

    摘要: An electrochromic element, includes: a pair of electrodes (3, 5); and an electrochromic layer (7) disposed between the pair of electrodes (3, 5), the electrochromic element being controlled in transmittance by pulse width modulation, in which: the electrochromic layer (7) contains at least one of two or more kinds of anode electrochromic materials, or two or more kinds of cathode electrochromic materials; and all of one of the anode electrochromic materials and the cathode electrochromic materials have an equal molecular length, or have a molecular length ratio of (large molecular length)/(small molecular length) of 1.4 or less, the electrochromic element being such that even when a driving environment temperature changes, its gradation can be controlled under a state in which its absorption spectrum is retained.

    Light source device with color conversion member, supporting member and light suppressing member

    公开(公告)号:US10151950B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-11

    申请号:US15394926

    申请日:2016-12-30

    发明人: Yasuhiro Matsuura

    摘要: A light source device of the present invention includes a light source that emits first light, a wavelength conversion member that converts the wavelength of the first light made incident on a surface of the wavelength conversion member on the side of the light source and emits second light different from the first light, and a supporting member that supports the wavelength conversion member at an end portion of a surface of the wavelength conversion member on the side of the light source. A light absorbing member is provided between a surface of the wavelength conversion member on the side of the light source and the supporting member.

    Recording apparatus and recording method

    公开(公告)号:US10150311B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-11

    申请号:US15581435

    申请日:2017-04-28

    发明人: Yuki Omagari

    IPC分类号: B41J13/00 B41J11/58

    摘要: A recording apparatus performs recording on a recording medium by using a tray having a plurality of slots, and includes a reception unit receiving information for specifying a detection position of the recording medium in a slot of the tray from an external apparatus, and a specification unit to specify the detection position. In addition, a control unit controls the recording apparatus so that, in a case where the recording medium is arranged in a first slot and no recording medium is arranged in a second slot, recording processing is performed on the recording medium arranged in the first slot, and recording processing is not performed in association with the second slot. Detection processing to detect a recording medium is not performed for a third slot which is not specified, and detection processing is performed for the first and second slots which are specified.

    Photoacoustic apparatus and control method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US10149639B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-11

    申请号:US14007447

    申请日:2012-03-29

    摘要: A used photoacoustic apparatus includes: a light source capable of individually emitting light having a first wavelength at which absorption coefficients of oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin are equal and light having a second wavelength; an acoustic detector that receives acoustic waves generated when the light having the first and second wavelengths is absorbed by an object; an absorption coefficient distribution generator that determines absorption coefficient distributions of an object interior; a blood vessel position determining unit that determines a blood vessel position from an absorption coefficient distribution corresponding to the first wavelength; an organism characteristics distribution calculator that determines an organism characteristics distribution from the absorption coefficient distributions; and a trimming unit that trims the organism characteristics distribution in accordance with the blood vessel position.