Abstract: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes an undercoat layer that includes metal oxide particles and a compound represented by formula (1).

Abstract: A radiation detection apparatus includes a substrate; a pixel area constituted of one or more pixels including a sensor element on the substrate; and a light source, wherein the light source is disposed at a side of the substrate in which the pixel area is disposed and outside of the pixel area, and light from the light source is incident on the sensor element.

Abstract: An electromechanical transducer includes a plurality cells that are electrically connected to form a unit. Each of the cells includes a first electrode and a second electrode provided with a gap being disposed therebetween. Dummy cells that are not electrically connected to the cells are provided around the outer periphery of the unit of the cells.

Abstract: To provide an organic electroluminescence device that emits blue light and is excellent in luminescence properties (in particular, external quantum yield), and provide an organic metal complex including xanthone in a ligand of the following formula (1).

Abstract: An apparatus includes: an image sensor including pixels which constitute rows; and a controller configured to control an irradiation operation of irradiating a pixel of the image sensor with a charged particle beam to generate a signal charge, a transfer operation of sequentially transferring, pixel by pixel in a column direction, the signal charge accumulated in the irradiated pixel, and an output operation of outputting the transferred signal charge from the image sensor. The controller is configured to cause a first irradiation operation for a first part of the rows as an irradiated region, a transfer operation of transferring a signal charge generated in the first part to a second part of the rows adjacent to the first part, as a non-irradiated region, and a second irradiation operation for the first part, to be performed sequentially.

Abstract: A print head and an ink jet printing apparatus are provided which can have smaller sizes if a print head is used which includes a substrate with a plurality of ejection port arrays and a substrate with ejection port arrays longer than the plurality of ejection port arrays. A drive circuit formed in a substrate is formed outside ejection port arrays in the substrate along the extending direction of the ejection port arrays. The drive circuit formed on an overlapping side of the substrate where the ejection port arrays overlap is formed to be longer, along the extending direction of the ejection port arrays, than a drive circuit formed on a side of the substrate which is opposite to the overlapping side. Furthermore, the ejection port arrays and the ejection port arrays overlap in the extending direction of ink supply ports, and the substrates are mounted on a support.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus can switch between a color mode, in which an image is formed by sequentially transferring the color toner images formed by developing members in an overlapping manner, and a mono mode, in which an image is formed by using one developing member. The developing member used in the mono mode develops the toner image to be transferred secondly or thereafter in the color mode, the exposure device exposes a non-image portion where the toner image is not formed on the surface of the image carrier at an exposure amount smaller than an exposure amount for an image portion where the toner image is formed, and, in the mono mode, the exposure amount at which the exposure device exposes the non-image portion of the image carrier in the case the image is formed in the mono mode is smaller than the color mode.

Abstract: An image fixing apparatus includes a heater including a substrate, a first electrode provided on one side of the substrate and a second electrode provided on the other side of the substrate; and a connector, connected with the heater, for receiving electric power, the connector including an electrically insulative housing, and a contact terminal provided inside the housing and having first spring contact contacted to the first electrode and a second spring contact contacted to the second electrode, wherein the first spring contact and the second spring contact are disposed at positions different as seen in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate.

Abstract: An electro-conductive member for electrophotography, including an electro-conductive mandrel and an electro-conductive layer; and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus using the same. The layer contains a binder resin having a sulfo or a quaternary ammonium group as an ion exchange group, and an ion opposite in polarity to the ion exchange group. The resin has any one of structures represented by formulas (1)-1 and (1)-2, and any one of structures represented by formulas (2)-1 to (2)-3; and the resin has a molecular structure preventing occurrence of a matrix-domain structure. M represents an integer of 2-20, n represents an integer of 5-50, p represents an integer of 1-25, q represents an integer of 1-15, and r represents an integer of 1-12.

Abstract: Before transmitting a print job to a printing apparatus, a CPU of a print processing apparatus determines whether paper information designated in the print job has been registered in a paper information database of the print processing apparatus. If the paper information has not been registered, the CPU extracts paper information similar to the paper information designated in the print job from those stored in the paper information database of the print processing apparatus. Furthermore, the CPU copies information about the dependency on the printing apparatus, which is included in the extracted paper information (printer dependency information) to the paper information designated in the print job. Then, the CPU registers the paper information designated in the print job, to which the printer dependency information has been copied, in a paper information database of the printing apparatus and transmits the print job to the printing apparatus.

Abstract: A charged-particle beam lens includes a plate-like anode, a plate-like cathode, and an insulator disposed between the anode and the cathode. The insulator, the anode, and the cathode have a passage portion through which a charged beam is passed. A high-resistance film is formed on an inner side of the insulator, the inner side forming the passage portion, or an outermost side of insulator, and the anode and the cathode are electrically connected together via the high-resistance film. The anode and the high-resistance film, and the cathode and the high-resistance film each contain the same metal or semiconductor element and have different resistant values. This suppresses electric field concentration due to an increase in resistance and poor connection at the interface between the anode and the cathode and the high-resistance film or at the interface between the electroconductive film and the high-resistance film, thus suppressing generation of discharge.

Abstract: Provided is an optical coherence tomography apparatus for obtaining a tomographic image from an interference light between a reference light and a measurement light having passed through an object. The optical coherence tomography apparatus includes: a storage unit for storing information of a display mode of an imaging screen when the object is imaged; and a control unit for displaying an imaging screen of a display mode, based on the information stored in the imaging, as an initial screen, when the object is imaged after storage in the storage unit.

Abstract: An optical system includes, in order from an enlargement conjugate side to a reduction conjugate side via a largest air gap, a front unit having a negative power, and a rear unit having positive power. The optical system satisfies 1.75<Ndn1<2.05, 0.02<?gFn1?(0.6438?0.001682×? dn1)<0.08, and 2.5<|fn1/F|<5.0, where fnl represents a focal length of a negative lens in the front unit, Ndnl represents a refractive index of a material of the negative lens, ? dn1 represents an Abbe number of the material of the negative lens, ?gFn1 represents a partial dispersion ratio of the material of the negative lens, and F represents a focal length of the optical system.

Abstract: There is provided a medical support system in which a plurality of photography apparatuses and a portable-type viewer apparatus including a display unit are communicably connected to a server. The portable-type viewer apparatus includes: a selection unit that selects one of the plurality of photography apparatuses; and a photographer ID input unit that inputs a photographer ID that is an ID of a photographer photographing a subject using the selected photography apparatus. The selected photography apparatus further includes a transmission unit that transmits image data of the subject photographed by the selected photography apparatus to the server, and the server includes a recording unit that records the photographer ID and the transmitted image data in association with each other in a case where the photographer ID is input.

Abstract: An output control apparatus which performs output control of data displayed on a display unit includes a detection unit configured to detect an output apparatus located near the display unit, an acquisition unit configured to acquire arrangement position information indicating an arrangement position of the output apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine an output layout of the data according to a relationship between the arrangement position of the output apparatus indicated by the arrangement position information and a display position of the data displayed on the display unit, and a control unit configured to perform control to output the data from the output apparatus with the output layout determined by the determination unit.

Abstract: Provided is an optical coherence tomography apparatus for obtaining a tomographic image from an interference light between a reference light and a measurement light having passed through an object. The OCT apparatus includes: a detection unit for detecting the presence/absence of an anterior eye imaging attachment member of the optical coherence tomography apparatus; a storage unit for storing information about the presence/absence of the anterior eye imaging attachment member obtained by the detection unit when the object is imaged; and a control unit for restricting capturing of the tomographic image when the object is imaged again based on the information about the presence of the anterior eye imaging attachment member stored in the storage unit and when the detachment of the anterior eye imaging attachment member is detected by the detection unit.

Abstract: A cartridge for use with a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the cartridge being dismountable from the main assembly and including (i) a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, the developing roller being rotatable about an axis thereof; and (ii) a coupling member capable of taking a rotational force transmitting angular position for transmitting a rotational force for rotating the developing roller to the developing roller and a disengaging angular position in which the coupling member is inclined away from the rotational force transmitting angular position.

Abstract: A method includes pulling out and conveying a sheet having splice portions, acquiring information relating to a position of an indentation on the sheet formed in addition to a splice portion, and performing processing on the sheet but a position corresponding to the acquired position of the indentation and its vicinity.

Abstract: There is provided a technique for adaptively acquiring, from a tomogram of an eye region, diagnosis information data of the eye region which is used for the diagnosis of a plurality of kinds of diseases, without increasing load on a user. A layer acquisition unit (331) acquires a predetermined layer area from the tomogram of the eye region. A changing unit (332) changes an algorithm for the acquisition of diagnosis information data as information used for the diagnosis of the eye region from the tomogram based on the information data extracted from the layer area. A quantifying unit (336) acquires diagnosis information data from the tomogram based on the changed algorithm.

Abstract: A probe is provided where a problem of reduction in a reflective performance of an optical reflection layer due to the surface roughness of a support layer of an optical reflection member provided on an element for reflecting irradiation light onto an object or scattered light thereof is solved. The probe includes an element including cells. The probe further includes: an optical reflection layer 108 that is provided closer to the object than the element is; a support layer 104 supporting the optical reflection layer 108; and a smooth layer 106 that is provided between the support layer and the optical reflection layer, and has a smoother surface than the surface of the support layer 104.