Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing rotator that rotates and a heat source that heats the fixing rotator. A pressure rotator contacts an outer circumferential surface of the fixing rotator. A nip former is disposed opposite the pressure rotator via the fixing rotator to form a nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. A support supports the nip former and includes a metal member. The nip former includes a resin nip forming member made of resin and a metal nip forming member made of metal and interposed between the resin nip forming member and the fixing rotator. The metal nip forming member includes a contact face disposed in at least a part of a lateral end span of the nip former in a longitudinal direction of the nip former. The contact face contacts the metal member of the support.

Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless fixing rotator, a temperature detector, a pressure rotator, a nip formation pad, and a plurality of heaters. The temperature detector detects a temperature of the fixing rotator. The pressure rotator is in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing rotator. The nip formation pad is disposed inside a loop of the fixing rotator to form a nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. The plurality of heaters heat an inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator and includes a first heater and a second heater. The first heater uniformly generates heat in a longitudinal direction of the fixing rotator and independently receives power. The second heater generates different heat generation amounts at different positions in the longitudinal direction of the fixing rotator and receives power together with the first heater.

Abstract: A first fiber is connected to a first end of a third fiber doped with a rare earth element, and a second fiber is connected to a second end of the third fiber. In the third fiber doped with the rare earth element, a central portion of a core is more heavily doped with the rare earth element than a peripheral portion of the core is.

Abstract: An organometallic compound and a method of manufacturing an integrated circuit (IC) device, the organometallic compound being represented by Formula (I),

Abstract: Materials for fabricating a thin film that has improved quality and productivity are provided. The materials may include a Group 5 element precursor of formula (1): M1 may be a Group 5 element, each of R1 to R10 independently may be a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or f7onnula (2), R11 may be a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and L1 may be an alkyl group, an alkylamino group, an alkoxy group or an alkylsilyl group, each of which may have 1 to 5 carbon atoms and may be substituted or unsubstituted. Formula (2) may have a structure of Each of Ra to Rc independently may be a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing rotator that rotates and a heat source that heats the fixing rotator. A pressure rotator contacts an outer circumferential surface of the fixing rotator. A nip former is disposed opposite the pressure rotator via the fixing rotator to form a nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. A support supports the nip former and includes a metal member. The nip former includes a resin nip forming member made of resin and a metal nip forming member made of metal and interposed between the resin nip forming member and the fixing rotator. The metal nip forming member includes a contact face disposed in at least a part of a lateral end span of the nip former in a longitudinal direction of the nip former. The contact face contacts the metal member of the support.

Abstract: A photoconductor for electrophotography includes a base member; an anodic oxide coating provided on the base member and having a film thickness of 2 to 10 ?m; an interlayer provided on the anodic oxide coating and containing a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer resin and having a film thickness of 0.02 to 0.3 ?m; and a photosensitive layer including a charge transport layer formed on the interlayer and containing a charge transport material and a first resin binder, and a charge generation layer laminated on the charge transport layer and containing a charge generation material, a hole transport material, a first electron transport material that is a naphthalenetetracarboxylic diimide compound, a second electron transport material that is an azoquinone compound, a diphenoquinone compound, or a stilbenequinone compound and that has a mobility of 17×10?8 cm2/V·s or more, and a second resin binder.

Abstract: An organometallic adduct compound and a method of manufacturing an integrated circuit (IC) device, the organometallic adduct compound being represented by General formula (I): in General formula (I), R1, R2, and R3 are each independently a C1 to C5 alkyl group, at least one of R1, R2, and R3 being a C1 to C5 alkyl group in which at least one hydrogen atom is substituted with a fluorine atom, M is a niobium atom, a tantalum atom, or a vanadium atom, X is a halogen atom, m is an integer of 3 to 5, and n is 1 or 2.

Abstract: Provided is a Cr alloy target material with which formation of craters on the surface of the Cr alloy target material during film formation can be limited and the adhesion of droplets on the material being treated can be limited. The Cr alloy target material is represented by an atom ratio composition formula of Cr100-x-yM1xM2y, wherein 0.1?x?21.0, 0.1?y?23.0, M1 is at least one kind of element selected from Ti and V, and M2 is at least one kind of element selected from Mo, Mn, B, W, Nb and Ta, with the balance being unavoidable impurities. The Cr alloy target material contains 10-1000 mass ppm of oxygen as an unavoidable impurity.

Abstract: An amplification fiber which can generate a laser beam in a visible region even when a silica glass is used as a base material of a core of the amplification fiber is realized. An amplification fiber according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a core configured to generate a laser beam from an excitation beam in a visible region, and a cladding surrounding the core. The core is composed of a core material including Dy, one or more elements selected from Al, Ge, and P, and a silica glass.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor, including a photosensitive layer formed on an electroconductive substrate. The photosensitive layer includes a charge-generating material and an electron-transporting material, and the electron-transporting material includes first and second electron-transporting materials. A difference in lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy between the first electron-transporting material and the charge-generating material is in a range from 1.0 to 1.5 eV, and a difference in LUMO energy between the second electron-transporting material and the charge-generating material is in a range from 0.6 to 0.9 eV. A ratio of mass of the second electron-transporting material to a total of mass of the first electron-transporting material and the mass of the second electron-transporting material is in a range from 3 to 40%.

Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a TiAl intermetallic compound powder in which it is possible to reduce the number of internal pores. Also provided is a TiAl intermetallic compound powder in which internal pores have been reduced in number. This method for producing a TiAl intermetallic compound powder comprises passing a cutting chips of a TiAl intermetallic compound through a thermal plasma flame and performing a spheroidizing treatment. This TiAl intermetallic compound powder of which a cross section has a porosity of 0-0.4 area %. The TiAl intermetallic compound powder described above is suitable as a raw material powder for use in fabricating a molded article by various powder metallurgy methods and/or layer molding methods.

Abstract: A fixing device includes an endless belt rotatable in a predetermined direction of rotation and a nip formation assembly disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of the endless belt. An opposed rotary body is pressed against the nip formation assembly via the endless belt to form a fixing nip between the endless belt and the opposed rotary body through which a recording medium bearing a toner image is conveyed. A belt holder contacts and supports each lateral end of the endless belt in an axial direction thereof. The belt holder is isolated from the opposed rotary body with a first interval interposed therebetween in the axial direction of the endless belt.

Abstract: An additive layer manufactured hot work tool according to the present disclosure includes a component composition of by mass %, C: 0.3-0.5% to Si: 2.0% or less, Mn: 1.5% or less, P: 0.05% or less, S: 0.05% or less, Cr: 3.0 to 6.0%, 1 or 2 kinds of compounds of Mo and W, a relation between Mo and W being represented by a relational expression of (Mo+1/2W): 0.5 to 3.5%, V: 0.1 to 1.5%, Ni: 0 to 1.0%, Co: 0 to 1.0%, and Nb: 0 to 0.3%, and with Fe and an unavoidable impurity as a remainder, and an area ratio of defects having an area of 1 ?m2 or more is 0.6% or less in a cross section parallel to the amination direction.

Abstract: A disclosed fixing device includes a pressing member; an endless tubular fixing member disposed opposite to the pressing member; a heating source configured to heat the fixing member; a nip forming member disposed opposite to the pressing member via the fixing member to form a nip portion; and a supply unit configured to supply lubricant to a portion of an inner surface of the fixing member, the portion facing the nip forming member, wherein the nip forming member includes a contact portion that contacts the inner surface of the fixing member, the contact portion includes a guide portion for guiding lubricant, and the guide portion is formed by extending obliquely from opposite ends in a width direction toward a center of the fixing member as the contact portion moves from upstream to downstream in a rotational direction of the fixing member.

Abstract: A roll-to-roll deposition apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a film travel mechanism, a lithium source, and a first roller. The vacuum chamber is capable of maintaining a reduced-pressure state. The film travel mechanism is capable of causing a film to travel inside the vacuum chamber. The lithium source is capable of evaporating lithium inside the vacuum chamber. The first roller is disposed between a deposition surface of the film and the lithium source. The first roller has a transfer pattern that receives the lithium evaporated from the lithium source. The first roller transfers a pattern of a lithium layer corresponding to the transfer pattern to the deposition surface while rotating.

Abstract: Provided is a device for controlling a fuel injection device capable of suppressing deterioration of exhaust performance while ensuring driving performance when acceleration of a vehicle is requested during an intake stroke. Therefore, when the acceleration of a vehicle is requested during an intake stroke in one combustion cycle, an engine control unit 9 estimates an increase (acceleration intake air amount Qad) of the amount of air taken in a combustion chamber 19 of an internal combustion engine 1 associated with the acceleration of the vehicle after the acceleration of the vehicle is requested in one combustion cycle based on a lift amount of an intake valve 3. The engine control unit 9 controls a fuel injection valve 5 so as to increase a fuel injection amount in one combustion cycle according to the acceleration intake air amount Qad.

Abstract: Provided are a laminate shaped article made of a maraging steel and having excellent toughness, a method for manufacturing the same, and a metal powder for laminate shaping. The laminate shaped article is made of a maraging steel comprising 0.1-5.0 mass % of Ti. When sis is performed on concentration distribution of Ti in a cross section parallel to a lamination direction of the above laminate shaped article, a length of a linear Ti-rich portion having a Ti concentration B of (1.5×A) or more with respect to an average Ti concentration A in the cross section is 15 ?m or less. In addition, the method for manufacturing the laminate shaped article uses a metal powder made of a maraging steel comprising 0.1-5.0 mass % of Ti, and a heat source output is set to 50-330 W and a scanning speed is set to 480-3000 mm/sec during the laminate shaping.

Abstract: A spherical Ti-based powder and a manufacturing method therefor are provided. The spherical Ti-based powder has a 50% particle size (D50) of 1 to 250 ?m in a cumulative particle size distribution based on volume, in which a total amount of oxygen and hydrogen is less than 3000 ppm by mass, an area defect rate in a cross-section of the spherical Ti-based powder is less than 0.100%, and an area circularity of the spherical Ti-based powder in a secondary projection image is 0.90 or more. The spherical Ti-based powder can be obtained by subjecting a pulverized Ti-based powder to a fusion and solidification treatment using a thermal plasma in which a flow rate of hydrogen gas as a working gas is adjusted to less than 0.3 l/min.

Abstract: A first fiber is connected to a first end of a third fiber doped with a rare earth element, and a second fiber is connected to a second end of the third fiber. In the third fiber doped with the rare earth element, a central portion of a core is more heavily doped with the rare earth element than a peripheral portion of the core is.