Abstract: A structure of a resin-made pipe joint includes a sleeve which is press-insertable from one axial side into one longitudinal end portion of a flexible tube to flare the one longitudinal end portion to hold the flared state, a joint body which is couplable to the sleeve, and a union nut which is fastenable to the joint body to hold a state where the sleeve press-inserted into the one longitudinal end portion is coupled to the joint body. The sleeve has a taper-like first outer circumferential surface, a second outer circumferential surface having an outer diameter that is smaller than a maximum outer diameter of the first outer circumferential surface, and an annular step portion which is an annular step portion that is disposed between the first outer circumferential surface and the second outer circumferential surface and comprises an edge portion on a side of the first outer circumferential surface.

Abstract: A sound-absorbing membrane and a sound-absorbing material, which can improve sound absorbing performance and can improve releasability, are provided. A sound-absorbing membrane 10 includes a base sheet 11 made of a nonwoven fabric impregnated with a water-soluble polymer, and a resin film 12 made of a thermosetting resin covering one surface of the base sheet 11, in which a thickness of the resin film 12 is 0.01 to 0.2 mm, fillers 13 are dispersed in the resin film 12, and a whole airflow resistance is 0.2 to 5.0 kPa·s/m. A sound-absorbing material 20 includes the sound-absorbing membrane 10, and a sound absorbing base sheet 21 made of a porous material, in which the sound-absorbing membrane 10 is laminated on a surface of the sound absorbing base sheet 21, and then formed into a predetermined shape.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixer including fixing rotation body and pressing rotation body with a fixing nip therebetween, and heats and presses a fed sheet through the fixing nip to fix a toner image on the sheet to the sheet; and a hardware processor making a velocity difference between respective surface velocities of the fixing rotation body and the sheet passing through the fixing nip during a high-gloss mode operation to adjust a gloss of the toner image on the sheet. The hardware processor performs a control so that an absolute value of a velocity difference between respective surface velocities of the fixing rotation body and the pressing rotation body in press-contact when the sheet does not pass through the fixing nip is less than one between respective surface velocities of the fixing rotation body and the sheet when the sheet passes through the fixing nip during the high-gloss mode operation.

Abstract: A plate-like glass includes a chemically strengthened glass having a first surface, a second surface facing the first surface, and an end surface connecting the first surface and second surface. When a tangential direction from an arbitrary point on the first surface is assumed to be an X-axis, a direction orthogonal to the X-axis is assumed to be a Y-axis, and a direction orthogonal to the X-axis and the Y-axis is assumed to be a Z-axis, the X-axis is a direction in which a first curvature radius R1 in cross-section of the first surface in an XZ plane passing the X-axis and Z-axis is minimum. The first surface has a curvature part in which the surface is bent in the X-axis direction on the first surface and the first curvature radius R1 is within a specific range.

Abstract: A fixing device fixes a toner image formed on paper, wherein a fixing member of which surface hardness of a surface opposed to an image surface of the paper is not higher than a predetermined Value is used, and a gloss level of the loner image is controlled by adjusting a speed of the paper or the fixing member to change a speed difference between the image surface of the paper and a surface of the fixing member.

Abstract: A resin tube fitting prevents backwaters between its body and inner ring. The fitting includes a body, an inner ring, and a union nut. The body has main, outer, and inner sleeves, and a groove. The inner ring has a cylinder, an insert, and outer and inner protrusions. The union nut has a body and a pressing member. The inner sleeve has a through hole serving as a channel. The inner protrusion extends from the cylinder to an axial direction to contact the inner sleeve. The inner protrusion has a through hole serving as another channel connected with the inner sleeve's channel. The tip of the inner protrusion has an inner diameter not less than the minimum inner diameter of the inner sleeve. An inner peripheral surface is located at the inner periphery of the inner protrusion and causes it to reduce in inner diameter toward another axial direction.

Abstract: A structure of a resin-made pipe joint includes a joint body having a cylindrical shape, a sleeve having a cylindrical press-inserting portion which is press-insertable into the joint body and a cylindrical coupling portion which is press-insertable into a tube, and a fastening member for fixing the tube which is in a state where the coupling portion is press-inserted, to the joint body through the sleeve. The sleeve contains a sealing surface in an outer circumferential surface of the press-inserting portion, the sealing surface being closely contactable with an inner circumferential surface of the joint body, and comprises a non-contacting surface between the press-inserting portion and the coupling portion, the non-contacting surface forming a space with respect to the inner circumferential surface of the joint body, when the sealing surface is closely contacted with the inner circumferential surface of the joint body.

Abstract: A resin tube fitting has a body with a sleeve allowing the longitudinal end of the tube to be put therein, an inner ring with a press-in portion configured to be pressed in the longitudinal end of the tube, and a union nut with a connector configured to be screwed to an outer periphery of the body to allow the longitudinal end of the tube to be put radially between the connector and the press-in portion. The inner ring and the union nut are made of resin, which has a property of contracting in response to change in ambient temperature. The radial contraction rate of the connector is higher by 0.05% or more than that of the press-in portion of the inner ring.

Abstract: A resin tube fitting has: a body with an outer sleeve; an inner ring including an insert portion insertable into the outer sleeve to contact the outer sleeve radially, and a press-in portion configured to be pressed into a longitudinal end of the tube; and a union nut configured to be engageable with the body. The body and the inner ring are made of resin, which has a property of contracting in response to change in ambient temperature. A radial contraction rate of the outer sleeve of the body is designed to be higher by 0.09% or more than that of the insert portion of the inner ring.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a formed glass includes using a heating apparatus. The heating apparatus includes a heating element and a heat reservoir having a transmittance of 50% or more in a wavelength of 0.5 ?m to 2.5 ?m. The heat reservoir is arranged between the heating element and a glass substrate as an object to be heated. The glass substrate is heated with the heating element, and the glass substrate is formed into a desired shape.

Abstract: A fixing device fixes a toner image formed on a paper sheet, and the fixing device includes: an endless fixing belt; a pressure roller that is rotatable; and a pressing member that is arranged to face the pressure roller with the fixing belt interposed there between and forms a fixing nip for conveying a paper sheet between the pressing member and the pressure roller, wherein a toner layer of the toner image includes crystalline polyester resin, and a pressure distribution of the fixing nip in a sheet passing direction is set so that pressure at an inlet side in the sheet passing direction is the largest, and gloss of an image fixed on the paper sheet is enhanced.

Abstract: A resin-made pipe joint with enhanced sealing property between a joint body and sleeve. A sealing portion which seals between an inner circumferential surface of an inserting portion of a sleeve and an outer circumferential surface of an inner cylinder portion is formed by press-inserting an inserting portion into a groove portion of the joint body. When the inserting portion is press-inserted into the groove portion, a space is formed between a body cylinder portion located opposite to an opening portion of the groove portion in the axial direction, and the projection end of the inserting portion. After completing press insertion of the inserting portion into the groove portion, in a section including axis of the inner cylinder portion, a region in the outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder portion facing the space forms an angle of 5° to 15° to the axis of the inner cylinder portion.

Abstract: Provided are a sound-absorbing membrane, a sound-absorbing material, and methods of manufacture therefor that can provide suitable sound absorbing performance, suppressed deterioration in appearance quality, and easy production. A sound-absorbing membrane 10 includes: a base sheet 11 made of a nonwoven fabric having a airflow resistance of 0.01 to 0.1 kPa·s/m; and a resin film 12 covering one surface of the base sheet, the resin film 12 made of a thermosetting resin in a semi-cured state. Fillers 13 made of powder having an average particle diameter of 1 to 100 ?m are dispersed in the resin film 12. The sound-absorbing membrane 10 has a whole airflow resistance of 0.2 to 5.0 kPa·s/m.

Abstract: A resin-made pipe joint enhancing sealing property between a joint body and a sleeve. The joint body and the sleeve are produced by using a fluorine resin. A sealing portion which seals between the inner circumferential surface of an inserting portion of the sleeve and the outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder portion is formed by press-inserting the inserting portion into a groove portion of the joint body. When, with respect to the inserting and groove portions, an insertion rate of the inserting portion to the groove portion is indicated by X, and a multiplying factor of the radial width of the inserting portion to the radial width of the groove portion is indicated by Y, the resin-made pipe joint has the insertion rate and multiplying factor which are within a range defined by following Expressions (1) and (2): Y=?0.218X+1.218??(1) and Y=?0.67X+1.67.

Abstract: A pipe joint, made of synthetic resin, including: an inner ring; a joint body having an annular sealing groove and a male screw portion formed on an outer circumference; a union nut having a female screw portion formed on an inner circumference to be tightened onto the male screw portion of the joint body, such that a first opposing surface is formed in the joint body to be perpendicular to an axial direction, and a second opposing surface is formed in the union nut to oppose the first opposing surface. An engagement projection is provided in one of the first opposing surface and the second opposing surface. An engagement recess is provided in the other of the first opposing surface and the second opposing surface such that the engagement projection engages with the engagement recess when the union nut has been tightened up to an appropriate position.

Abstract: A pipe-connecting device including a resin-made tube and an inner ring. The inner ring has a flared portion and a tip-contracted outer-circumferential flared surface. The tip-contracted outer-circumferential flared surface is press-inserted into an end portion of the tube to cause the end portion of the tube to be flared and deformed. A section shape of the outer-circumferential flared surface in a direction extending along an axis of the inner ring body is formed into a convex curved surface passing through a first place, which is a maximum-diameter portion of the flared portion, a second place, which is the tip end side of the flared portion of the inner ring body, and a third place, which is between the first place and the second place, and in which a diameter is equal to an outer diameter of the tube with respect to the axis.

Abstract: A pipe joint made of synthetic resin comprises a first opposing surface formed in a joint body perpendicular to the axial direction, and a second opposing surface formed in a union nut that opposes the first opposing surface. An engagement projection is provided in the second opposing surface that projects toward the first opposing surface. An engagement recess is provided in the first opposing surface such that the engagement projection engages with the engagement recess when the union nut has been tightened up to an appropriate position.

Abstract: A pipe-connecting device includes: an inner ring having: an outer circumferential portion having a tip-contracted outer-circumferential flared surface that is to be press-inserted into an end portion of a tube to flare the tube, and an inner circumferential portion constituting a fluid transfer path; a pipe joint body that has a tubular screwing portion having an external thread; and a union nut having an internal thread that is screwed with the external thread. The inner ring including the tube is inserted into the tubular screwing portion, and the tip-contracted outer-circumferential flared surface is pressed through the tube by a pressing portion of the union nut. The pressing portion of the union nut is formed into an inclined inner circumferential surface that is inclined in the same direction as the tip-contracted outer-circumferential flared surface with respect to the axis of the tubular screwing portion.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a bent substrate, which forms a bent part in at least a part of a substrate, in which the substrate includes a second region and a first region, the method for manufacturing including: supporting the first region of the substrate on a substrate support surface of a support member including a mold surface having a same curved surface shape as that of the bent part and the substrate support surface that supports the first region, in a state of facing the second region of the substrate to the mold surface; heating the second region of the substrate to soften the second region of the substrate by the heating; placing the second region along the mold surface of the support member by an own weight of the second region; and transferring the curved surface shape of the mold surface to the second region by an external force.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a manufacturing method of a processed member including removing a first uplift portion from a plate member containing the first uplift portion and a support portion connecting to the first uplift portion, in which the plate member includes a first main surface and a second main surface, the first uplift portion is a projection portion in the first main surface and a portion in the second main surface, corresponding to the projection portion is a recess portion, and the first uplift portion has a line shape in a top view.