Abstract: A fixing apparatus includes a first member that is heated by a heat source and is rotatable; a second member that is rotatable, the second member forming a nip portion capable of sandwiching a recording material between the first member and the second member; and a pressure member that is disposed inside the first member, has a surface coming into contact with an inner surface of the first member, and pressurizes the first member against the second member, in which the pressure member has a surface layer forming the surface of the pressure member coming into contact with the inner surface of the first member, and the surface layer includes a diamond-like carbon film having an sp3 bond ratio of 40% or more and 90% or less.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording material and a fixing unit, wherein, in a case where an image is formed by using the toners of the plurality of colors, when a specific gravity of the toners is ? (g/cm3) and a weight average particle diameter of the toners is L (?m), the image forming unit sets a maximum laid-on amount A (mg/cm2) of each color in the unfixed toner image on the recording material so as to satisfy the following condition: A<??L/30?3, and wherein the fixing unit fixes the unfixed toner image to the recording material so that a dot spread amount (?m) of the toner image satisfies the following condition: ?(??L3/90?3A)?Dot Spread Amount.

Abstract: A multiply-connecting image forming system in which a second image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording material on which an image has been formed by a first image forming apparatus, the multiply-connecting image forming system suppressing degradation in quality of an output image when only the second image forming apparatus continues duplex image formation because the first image forming apparatus has run out of toner during the duplex image formation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device a fixing device having a fixing nip by wherein in an image forming process of the image forming device, 0<B<??L/(30×31/2) is satisfied where L (?m) is a volume average particle size of toner of the unfixed toner image, ? (g/cm^3) is a density of the toner, B (mg/cm^2) is a maximum toner deposition amount, per unit area, on a predetermined recording paper, wherein the fixing device fixes the toner image while satisfying that, at an outlet of the fixing nip, a viscosity of a toner layer contacting the fixing device is not higher than 1500 (Pa·s), and a viscosity of a toner layer contacting the recording paper is not lower than 3000 (Pa·s).

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit which forms an image in which toner containing a wax is used on a recording material, and a fixing device which heats the toner image formed on the recording material at a nip portion which nips and conveys the recording material, when the fixing device heats the recording material on which a toner image having a maximum toner-carrying amount of toner is formed, when a temperature of a surface of the toner layer reaches a temperature at which an endothermic amount indicates a peak in a relationship between a temperature of the toner and the endothermic amount, a condition of the fixing device at the nip portion is set so that a temperature of an interface between the toner and the recording material is lower than a temperature of a surface of the toner.

Abstract: When an unfixed toner image is formed on a recording material, a maximum toner amount per unit area satisfies A<(??L)/30?3, where a specific gravity of a toner is ? (g/cm3), a weight-average particle size is L (?m), and the toner amount per unit area of the unfixed toner image on the recording material is A (mg/cm2), in formation of the unfixed toner image with each color toner, and the unfixed toner image is fixed so that a region where colors of chromatic toners of respective colors in the above-described images are seen in an overlaid state is 84% or more.

Abstract: An image forming portion of an image forming apparatus is configured to form a toner image on a recording medium such that a relationship of M???L/(30?3) is satisfied, where a volume average particle size of toner is L(?m), density of the toners is ? (g/cm3), and a maximum toner laid quantity per unit area of a single color toner image on a recording medium is M (mg/cm2). The toner image formed by the image forming portion is fixed on the recording medium by a fixing nip portion by being heated and applied a force in a direction of a plane of the recording medium.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus includes: (i) an endless belt; (ii) a driving member; (iii) a heater including: (iii-i) a substrate; (iii-ii) a resistor; (iii-iii) a first electroconductive portion electrically connected to the resistor in a widthwise end side; and (iii-iv) a second electroconductive portion electrically connected to the resistor in another widthwise end side; and (iv) a selector for selecting one of first and second electric energy supply paths. The first electric energy supply path is electrically connected to a region of the first electroconductive portion at a longitudinal central portion of the resistor and to a region of the second electroconductive portion in at the longitudinal central portion. The second electric energy supply path is electrically connected to a region of the first electroconductive portion at a longitudinal end portion of the resistor and to a region of the second electroconductive portion at another longitudinal end portion.

Abstract: A heater includes: a substrate; a resistor, provided obliquely on the substrate with respect to a sheet passing direction, for generating heat by electric energy supply; a pair of first electrodes which are disposed opposed to each other via the resistor and which are electrically connected with respective ends of the resistor with respect to the sheet passing direction; and a pair of second electrodes which are disposed opposed to each other via the resistor and which are electrically connected with respective ends of the resistor with respect to the sheet passing direction. One of the first electrodes and one of the second electrodes overlap with each other as seen from the sheet passing direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a heater for heating an image formed on first and second recording materials, the second recording material being thicker than the first recording material; a pressing member for forming a nip, between itself and the heater, for nipping and conveying each recording material; and an executing portion for heating the images formed on the first and second recording materials under first and second heating conditions, respectively, in first and second operation modes, respectively. When the images are formed in the first mode and subsequently the image is formed in the second mode, a switching operation is carried out in which the first recording material is heated under a third image heating condition different from the first image heating condition. The switching operation is started before finishing the operation in the first mode.

Abstract: [Problem] The present invention provides a novel pathological marker of angiitis which serves as an alternative to MPO-ANCAs. [Means for Solution]According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for testing angiitis which includes a step of detecting an antibody specifically recognizing a moesin in a biological sample is provided. In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, a reagent for testing angiitis which contains a substance that detects an antibody specifically recognizing a moesin in a biological sample is provided.

Abstract: A method of treating or reducing at least one inflammatory condition or the susceptibility to at least one inflammatory condition is provided involving administering at least one CD69 antagonist to a subject, wherein the subject has been diagnosed with at least one inflammatory condition, or a susceptibility to the same. CD69 antagonists can include one or more of an anti-CD69 antibody, an anti-CD69 aptamer, a CD69 mRNA antagonist, and a small molecule pharmaceutical.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device a fixing device having a fixing nip by wherein in an image forming process of the image forming device, 0<B<??L/(30×31/2) is satisfied where L (?m) is a volume average particle size of toner of the unfixed toner image, ? (g/cm?3) is a density of the toner, B (mg/cm?2) is a maximum toner deposition amount, per unit area, on a predetermined recording paper, wherein the fixing device fixes the toner image while satisfying that, at an outlet of the fixing nip, a viscosity of a toner layer contacting the fixing device is not higher than 1500 (Pa·s), and a viscosity of a toner layer contacting the recording paper is not lower than 3000 (Pa·s).

Abstract: A multiply-connecting image forming system in which a second image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording material on which an image has been formed by a first image forming apparatus, the multiply-connecting image forming system suppressing degradation in quality of an output image when only the second image forming apparatus continues duplex image formation because the first image forming apparatus has run out of toner during the duplex image formation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable heater for heating a toner image on a recording material in a nip; a rotatable pressor for pressing against the heater to form the nip; a moving mechanism for spacing the heater and the pressor from each other; a detector for detecting a temperature of the pressor; a cooler for cooling the pressor; a changer for changing the rotational speed of the pressor; and an executor for executing, when the temperature of the pressor reaches an upper limit temperature during execution of an image formation job of continuously forming the images, a cooling mode for cooling the pressor by the cooler in a state that the pressor and the heater are spaced from each other while rotating the pressing member at a second rotational speed higher than a first rotational speed which is a speed during the execution of the job.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a first image forming station including a first toner image forming portion for transferring the toner image onto a sheet, and a first image heating portion; a second image forming station including a second toner image forming portion onto the sheet received from the first image heating portion, and a second image heating portion; a controller capable of executing an operation in a first mode in which a predetermined image formation in accordance with an inputted image forming condition is effected using the first and second image forming stations, a second mode in which it is effected without using the second image forming portion; and a temperature controller for the second image heating portion in the second mode so as to be smaller than a temperature of the second image heating portion in the first mode.

Abstract: A method of treating or reducing at least one inflammatory condition or the susceptibility to at least one inflammatory condition is provided involving administering at least one CD69 antagonist to a subject, wherein the subject has been diagnosed with at least one inflammatory condition, or a susceptibility to the same. CD69 antagonists can include one or more of an anti-CD69 antibody, an anti-CD69 aptamer, a CD69 mRNA antagonist, and a small molecule pharmaceutical.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit which forms an image in which toner containing a wax is used on a recording material, and a fixing device which heats the toner image formed on the recording material at a nip portion which nips and conveys the recording material, when the fixing device heats the recording material on which a toner image having a toner maximum carrying amount of toner is formed, when a temperature of a surface of the toner layer reaches a temperature at which an endothermic amount indicates a peak in a relationship between a temperature of the toner and the endothermic amount, a condition of the fixing device at the nip portion is set so that a temperature of an interface between the toner and the recording material is lower than a temperature of a surface of the toner.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of executing a mode for decelerating a rotation speed of a fixing member and a pressure member between sheets in a continuous print than that during a fixing operation.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image heating member for heating an image formed on each of a plurality of first recording materials and a second recording material; a pressing member for forming a nip, between itself and the image heating member, in which each recording material is to be nipped and conveyed; and an executing portion for executing an operation in a first mode in which the image formed on each of the plurality of the first recording materials is heated under a first image heating condition and an operation in a second mode in which the image formed on the second recording material having a thickness larger than that of the first recording materials is heated under a second image heating condition. When the images are formed in the first mode and subsequently the image is formed in the second mode, a switching operation is carried out in which the first recording material is heated under a third image heating condition different from the first image heating condition.