PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a color image from occurring color smear.

SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus comprises: a supporting member for supporting an image carrier; a positioning member 64 movably arranged on the supporting member and provided with a second engagement element to be engaged with a first engagement element arranged in an exposure device; and an energization member...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain a computer reproduction system and a computer program, which promptly perform a various kinds of settings of a content reproduction device.

SOLUTION: In the content reproduction system in which a plurality of receiver devices 30 are connected together in a network 20, operation parameters such as a volume of a speaker connected to each receiver device 30, out...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an antireflection material which is excellent in low reflectivity and economicity, and well-balancedly satisfies electric conductivity, scuffing resistance, wear resistance and fouling resistance by disposing only a hard coat layer and a low refractive index layer on a light-transmissive base body.

SOLUTION: The antireflection material is made by successivel...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the storage amount of developer in a certain color to be frequently used larger than that of developer in other colors while using components in common, to facilitate manufacture.

SOLUTION: Regarding the rotary developing device 21 used for a color printer 1 for forming a color image, the device 21 includes a plurality of developing units 26 and a rotating fram...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a liquid crystal display device capable of displaying an excellent image which has a high contrast and superior viewing angle characteristics and is free of gradation inversion by suitably and optically compensating a liquid crystal cell of bend alignment mode.

SOLUTION: The liquid crystal display device has a pair of polarizing films, the liquid crystal cel...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stereoscopic two-dimensional image display device which has a wide viewing angle.

SOLUTION: The stereoscopic two-dimensional image display device 1 comprises a display unit 10 having an image display surface 11 where a two-dimensional image is displayed and a microlens array 20 arranged apart from the image display surface 11, and displays stereoscopic two...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrophotographic photoreceptor having high durability, high sensitivity, and high potential stability even in repeated use, and less liable to cause reduction in sensitivity even when short-wavelength light, particularly light having a wavelength of 380-450 nm is used as exposure light, and to provide a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatu...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and method for accurately and quickly extracting feature points of facial organs from inputted face image data automatically, which is independent of persons' face features of various kinds and excludes restrictions such as an illumination condition as much as possible to achieve automatic processing without manual adjustment operations.

SOLUTION: T...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To control access to systems of a plurality of enterprises by authentication of one authentication and authorization system and to consolidate user attribute information even when a user has authorities over a plurality of enterprises to access systems of the plurality of enterprises from one authentication and authorization server.

SOLUTION: An authentication and auth...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prompt installation of software on a client having no software to be loaded thereon without mounting an agent function on a server and the client.

SOLUTION: The information management apparatus is provided with a program information receiving section 21 for receiving information including a type of a specific program XYZ from a client 2 having a specific program 121...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for supporting transaction to appropriately and efficiently decide a value.

SOLUTION: A control part 21 of a transaction support system 20 receiving a clear-off instruction from a client terminal 10 acquires transaction result data from a transaction result data storage section 22 to execute processing for preparing a popularity map. The ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a monitoring device 20 to report content of an event to a supervisor H only in occurrence of a predetermined event among events occurring in a person recognition device 10.

SOLUTION: Among the events occurring in the person recognition device 10, the event to be reported is previously set by the monitoring device 20. In the monitoring device 20, processing sit...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonaqueous secondary battery which can prevent insulation loss of a separator for avoid the possibilities of explosion, firing and the like, even when rapid exothermal reaction due to internal short-circuiting, etc. occurs by making thermal expansion microcapsules interposed which are thermally expandable having quick response.

SOLUTION: Thermal expansion ...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery improved in a rate characteristic and a cycle characteristic.

SOLUTION: This nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is provided with a positive electrode using a mixture of (1) Li(MnaCobNic)O2and (2) Li(MndCoeNif)O2, where a and b are each a n...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery which is high in high rate discharge cycle characteristics and strong in welding strength.

SOLUTION: In the battery in which in a cylindrical sheath can made of iron or an iron alloy, a wound electrode body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound around, and an electrolytic solution are housed, negative electrode tabs are m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of manufacturing a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery capable of suppressing increase of the thickness of the battery, and of improving a cycle characteristic and a storage characteristic.

SOLUTION: This method of manufacturing the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is characterized by comprising processes of: preparing slurry by mixing,...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having high capacity and excelling in a cycle characteristic.

SOLUTION: In this manufacturing method of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided with a positive electrode having a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode having a negative electrode active material...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide composite powder for an electrode wherein without reducing weight energy density and volume energy density, the electrode in which charge and discharge characteristics at high current density have been improved can be obtained, and in which joining strength of an electrode active material and a conductive material have been improved, and to provide a method of m...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a discharge amount of preliminary discharge executed for voltage adjustment immediately after battery assembly, in a nonaqueous electrolyte battery composed by combining a positive electrode of a metal oxide such as lithium titanate with a negative electrode of a lithium-aluminum alloy or the like, and having a battery voltage of 1.5 V to around 1.2 V.

SOLUTI...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrode plate for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery having a void ratio enough to secure excellent permeability and electrolyte retention capability of an electrolyte, and having a low volume resistivity by ensuring excellent contact of conductive agent particles.

SOLUTION: This electrode plate for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery hav...