Abstract: A fixing member having a base layer and a surface layer, wherein the surface layer includes a tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoroalkyl vinyl ether copolymer, and having at least one pore communicating with an opening on an outer surface thereof. A composition containing perfluoropolyether and a fluoropolymer is contained in at least a part of the at least one pore. The fluoropolymer has a particular repeating unit composed of perfluoropolyether, and at least one structure selected from the group consisting of a T unit of siloxane and a Q unit of siloxane.

Abstract: A heater includes a substrate, a first heating element and a second heating element disposed on a first surface of the substrate, a temperature detection element, and a conductor. The temperature detection element is disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface of the substrate. The conductor is disposed on the second surface and connected to the temperature detection element. The first heating element has a first distance from the temperature detection element in a lateral direction of the substrate orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and the second heating element has a second distance that is greater than the first distance from the temperature detection element in the lateral direction. As viewed in a thickness direction of the substrate orthogonal to the lateral direction and the longitudinal direction of the substrate, the conductor overlaps the first heating element and the second heating element.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member, a charging member, a developing device, a blade, a detecting portion, and a controller. The controller causes the photosensitive member to rotate through one full circumference or more on the following conditions during a predetermined operation: (i) a voltage which is a discharge start voltage or more is applied to the charging member, and (ii) an operation condition of the developing device is a first condition on which an amount of fog toner deposited from the developer carrying member on the photosensitive member is less than an amount of the fog toner in a second condition which is an operation condition of the developing device during a sheet interval before the image formation during the continuous image formation is interrupted.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for determining control values for controlling a position of a vehicle for conveying a cargo includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire first information for identifying a three-dimensional shape of the cargo based on a captured first image of the cargo, and second information for identifying, based on a captured second image of an environment where the vehicle moves, a distance between an object in the environment and the vehicle, and a determination unit configured to, based on the first information and the second information, determine the control values for preventing the cargo and the object from coming closer than a predetermined distance.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a first scan beam from a first light source; and a control unit. The control unit performs corrections in which a light emission period of scan beams per pixel is changed in accordance with which section is scanned by the scan beams, and performs corrections in which a light exposure amount by which the photosensitive member is exposed to light by the scan beams is changed in accordance with which section in the main scanning direction is scanned by the scan beams. Based on a detection timing at which the detection unit has detected the first scan beam, the control unit controls scan start timings at which the scan beams start scanning of the photosensitive member.

Abstract: A resin molded article including an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer resin and carbon black as primary components. After the resin molded article is heated from 25 degrees Celsius to 100 degrees Celsius and then cooled to 25 degrees Celsius, the shrinkage factor of the resin molded article at 25 degrees Celsius cooled after heated to 100 degrees Celsius relative to the resin molded article at 25 degrees Celsius before heated is less than or equal to 2.0%.

Abstract: An observation optical system includes, in order from a display panel side to an observation side, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, and a third lens having a positive refractive power, and an optical path brancher configured to branch an optical path, and disposed between a display panel and the first lens. An absolute value of a radius of curvature of a lens surface on the observation side of the first lens is smaller than that on the display panel side of the first lens. A predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A curable resin composition that is capable of forming a cured product having impact resistance and a high elastic modulus, and has a low viscosity, thereby being suitable for three-dimensional shaping. The curable resin composition contains: (A) an ?-(unsaturated alkoxyalkyl)acrylic acid or an ester thereof; (B) a bifunctional radically polymerizable oligomer; optionally (C) a radically polymerizable compound other than the component (A) and the component (B); (D) rubber particles; and (E) a radical polymerization initiator, wherein the component (A) is represented by the following formula (1).

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a normal image formation mode and a wide color gamut image formation mode in which an amount of a developer per unit area of a developer image of at least a color that differs from a prescribed color among a plurality of colors is increased as compared to the normal image formation mode. Image data is generated such that an image portion formed in the prescribed color in an image formed on a recording material is formed solely by a developer image of the prescribed color in the normal image formation mode, but formed by superimposing a developer image of a color that differs from the prescribed color on a developer image of the prescribed color or formed solely by a developer image of a different color in place of a developer image of the prescribed color in the wide color gamut image formation mode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material, a controller configured to control the image forming unit, a sheet feeding tray configured to store a recording material to be supplied to the image forming unit, and a sheet feeding tray cover configured to cover an access point of the sheet feeding tray. The sheet feeding tray cover includes a user interface for inputting information into a controller unit or outputting information from the controller.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a function including at least a print function includes a first authentication unit configured to perform authentication processing on local access to the image forming apparatus, a second authentication unit configured to perform authentication processing on remote access to the image forming apparatus, and a reception unit configured to receive separately a setting to activate multi-factor authentication processing including a plurality of authentication factors in the authentication of the local access and a setting to activate multi-factor authentication processing including a plurality of authentication factors in the authentication of the remote access.

Abstract: A printing apparatus comprises a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet to a printing unit configured to perform printing; a control unit configured to cause the conveyance unit to hold the sheet onto which printing was performed by the printing unit; and a receiving unit configured to receive an ejection instruction for instructing to eject the sheet. The control unit, in a case where the receiving unit receives the ejection instruction, controls the conveyance unit to eject the sheet to outside of the apparatus after a predetermined time has elapsed.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device in the present disclosure includes a first trench extending inside a semiconductor substrate from a first face of the semiconductor substrate between a first photoelectric conversion portion and a second photoelectric conversion portion arranged in a first pixel and a second trench extending from a second face of the semiconductor substrate between the first pixel and a second pixel, and the end on the second face side of the first isolation portion is located closer to the second face side than the end on the first face side of the second isolation portion.

Abstract: A movable member includes a frame, a mounting portion, a rotatable image bearing member, a charging member, and a cleaning member. The cleaning member includes a base portion including a first surface positioned on one side of the frame, a second surface positioned on the other side of the frame, and a third surface, and includes a projected portion. The projected portion includes a first side surface positioned on the aforementioned the other side and a second side surface positioned on the aforementioned one side. The first side surface is positioned between the first surface and the second surface. The first side surface constitutes an end surface of the projected portion on the aforementioned the other side with respect to the axial direction, and the second side surface constitutes an end surface of the projected portion on the aforementioned one side with respect to the axial direction.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus having a reading device to read an image from a sheet includes one or more controllers to perform operations. One image is read from one sheet by using the reading device. Edge detection processing is executed on the one image. At least one pair of edges is determined from among a plurality of edges based on information of the plurality of edges detected in the edge detection processing and size information of the one sheet.

Abstract: Provided is a liquid ejection head including plural liquid chambers arranged in rows, each liquid chamber being provided with an orifice configured to eject liquid filling the liquid chamber and an ejection energy generating element, wherein the liquid ejection head includes: a liquid supply path that extends in a direction that the plural liquid chambers are arranged and individually communicates with the plural liquid chambers; a direction change flow path that communicates with the liquid supply path and extends in a direction transverse to the liquid supply path; and a common supply flow path that communicates with the direction change flow path and extends in a direction transverse to the direction change flow path, such that the direction change flow path includes a body portion and at least one grooved flow path, which is narrower than the body portion.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device unit including imaging regions for each of which exposure conditions are individually controllable, a calculation unit configured to calculate, for positions on the solid-state imaging device, a movement amount between a first position on the solid-state imaging device unit, corresponding to a portion in an image captured at a present imaging, and a second position on the solid-state imaging device unit, corresponding to the same portion in an image captured for a next imaging, and calculate a direction in which the first and second positions move based on control information directed to the image capturing apparatus, and a determination unit configured to determine the exposure conditions for each of the imaging regions to be used for the next imaging based on luminance distribution information about a captured image at the present imaging, the movement amount, and the calculated direction.

Abstract: The present invention provides a measurement method including while driving a measurement target region of a surface of a substrate in a first direction with respect to a measurement unit, obtaining first measurement information indicating a height of the measurement target region in each of a plurality of first measurement lines parallel to the first direction and different from each other by measuring each measurement line by the measurement unit, and while driving the measurement target region with respect to the measurement unit in a second direction crossing all of the plurality of first measurement lines, obtaining second measurement information indicating a height of the measurement target region in one second measurement line parallel to the second direction by measuring the second measurement line by the measurement unit.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first authentication unit that performs an authentication process for determining whether an external apparatus is a predetermined external apparatus, a second authentication unit that performs an authentication process for determining whether a battery connected to the external apparatus is a predetermined battery, and a control unit that permits the battery to be discharged but restricts the battery from being charged regardless of whether the battery is the predetermined battery, in a case where the external apparatus is not authenticated as the predetermined external apparatus.