Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090068491 | TOOL FOR FRICTION STIR WELDING, METHOD OF WELDING WITH THE SAME, AND PROCESSED OBJECT OBTAINED BY THE SAME - It is an object of the invention to reduce mixing of an impurity from a friction stir welding tool, reduce abrasion of the tool, and prevent the tool from being easily broken even though an object to be worked formed by a metal or an alloy having a high melting point of 1350° C. or more is friction-stir-welded. | 03-12-2009 |
20100034564 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a developer carrying member to which a developing bias is applied. A frequency f of a developing bias waveform, a developing area S1 which is a time-integrated value of a difference between a voltage value of the developing bias and a solid electrostatic image potential VL in a developing period of the developing bias, a collecting area S2 which is a time-integrated value of a difference between the voltage value of the developing bias and VL in a collecting period of the developing bias, and a developing contrast value Vcon are used for defining a range of a value of the developing bias frequency f, a range of a value of a voltage change rate α at VL during transition of the developing bias voltage value from a developing-side voltage to a collecting-side voltage, and a range of a value represented by the formula: | 02-11-2010 |
20100159382 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT CARRIER, TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER AND IMAGE-FORMING METHOD USING THE TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER - A carrier has an impedance Z having a frequency dependence, obtained by alternating current impedance measurement. When the frequency dependence is fitted by a fitting function, parameter α lies in a range of 0.70 to 0.90 in an electric field of 10 | 06-24-2010 |
20100209147 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A duty ratio Du (%), denoted by (T | 08-19-2010 |
20110111337 | MAGNETIC CARRIER - In the formation of images by a two-component development system, provided is a magnetic carrier that can be used to output an image which has sufficient density, in which few white spots are present in a low-density portion located near the boundary between a high-density region and a low-density region, and in which the low-density portion has good graininess. The magnetic carrier contains magnetic carrier particles each of which has resin and a magnetic particle. The magnetic particle contains ferrite phases and phases comprising a perovskite-structured compound. The ferrite phases and phases comprising a perovskite-structured compound are combined. | 05-12-2011 |
20110274943 | METAL MATERIAL PROCESSING METHOD, STRUCTURE PROCESSED USING METAL MATERIAL PROCESSING METHOD AND ROTARY TOOL - In a metal material processing method, two metal materials are arranged to face each other in a processing portion, and a distal end of a rod-shaped rotary tool is inserted into the processing portion while rotating the rotary tool, thereby the two metal materials are processed. The distal end of the rotary tool has a probe protruding in a central portion and a shoulder in a peripheral portion. The probe and the shoulder are constituted by different materials in at least surface portions that are in contact with the metal materials. | 11-10-2011 |
20120237788 | METAL MATERIAL PROCESSING METHOD, STRUCTURE PROCESSED USING METAL MATERIAL PROCESSING METHOD AND ROTARY TOOL - A metal material processing method includes arranging two metal materials to face each other in a processing portion and inserting a distal end of a rod-shaped rotary tool into the processing portion while rotating the rotary tool, the two metal materials are processed. The distal end of the rotary tool has a probe protruding in a central portion and a shoulder in a peripheral portion, and the probe and the shoulder are constituted by different materials in at least surface portions that are in contact with the metal materials. | 09-20-2012 |
20130101931 | TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME, AND TWO-COMPONENT TYPE DEVELOPER - A toner containing toner base particles and an external additive, wherein regions with different tribocharging polarities with respect to a magnetic carrier are present in a domain-matrix structure on the surface of the toner base particles. The island region B has a predetermined height, the external additive has a reverse polarity to the region B in terms of tribocharging polarity to the magnetic carrier, the external additive contains a first external additive having a number-average primary particle size of 80-150 nm and a second external additive having a number-average primary particle size of 10-60 nm, and an average coverage Cb (%) with the first external additive in the region B is 27-100% and a coverage Ca (%) with the first external additive in the sea region A is 12% or less. | 04-25-2013 |
20130216263 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; an electrostatic image forming device; and a developer carrying member. The developer carrying member is provided so as to be rotated in a direction opposite to a rotational direction of the image bearing member at a peripheral speed higher than that of the image bearing member. When the peripheral speed of the image bearing member is Vp (m/sec), the peripheral speed of the developer carrying member is Vs (m/sec), and a time, of movement of the developer from the surface of the developer carrying member to the image bearing member, actually measured in a gap between the image bearing member and the developer carrying member is Tsd (sec), the peripheral speeds Vp and Vs and the time Tsd satisfy the following relationship: (Vs−Vp)×Tsd<3×10 | 08-22-2013 |
20130223861 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum; a first sleeve for carrying a developer containing toner and a carrier having a volume resistivity lower than that of the toner and for developing an image on the drum by rubbing the drum with the developer; a second sleeve for carrying the developer received from the first sleeve and for developing the image by rubbing the drum with the developer carried on the second sleeve; a voltage source for applying a developing bias voltage including a DC voltage component and an AC voltage component to the first sleeve and second sleeve; and a driving device for rotating the first sleeve at a peripheral speed higher than the drum and for rotating the second sleeve at a peripheral speed which is higher than the drum and which is lower than the first sleeve. | 08-29-2013 |