Abstract: A laminated body includes: a supporting base material; an adhesive layer; a metal layer; and a substrate in this order. The metal layer contains at least one metal selected from the group consisting of copper, titanium, palladium, gold, nickel, tungsten, and molybdenum. The metal layer preferably contains at least one metal selected from the group consisting of copper, titanium, palladium, gold, and nickel.

Abstract: A glass laminate includes a support substrate, an adhesive layer and a glass substrate in this order. The glass laminate has a peel strength between the support substrate and the adhesive layer different from a peel strength between the adhesive layer and the glass substrate. The glass laminate has a contact area between the adhesive layer and the support substrate and a contact area between the adhesive layer and the glass substrate both being 1200 cm2 or more. The glass substrate has a thickness of 0.3 mm or less. There are no bubbles or, when there is a bubble(s), the bubble(s) has a diameter of 10 mm or less, in a boundary between the support substrate and the adhesive layer or a boundary between the adhesive layer and the glass substrate, whichever has a smaller peel strength.

Abstract: To provide a glass laminate of which an increase of the peel strength between a glass substrate and a silicone resin layer is suppressed even after a high temperature heat treatment, and from which the glass substrate can readily be separated. A glass laminate comprising a support substrate, a silicone resin layer and a glass substrate in this order, with a peel strength at the interface between the support substrate and the silicon resin layer higher than the peel strength at the interface between the silicone resin layer and the glass substrate, wherein a silicone resin in the silicone resin layer is a cured product obtained by reacting an alkenyl-group containing organopolysiloxane (A) and a hydrogen polysiloxane (B) having a hydrosilyl group, and the mixing molar ratio of the hydrosilyl groups in the hydrogen polysiloxane (B) to the alkenyl groups in the alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane (A) (that is, number of mols of hydrosilyl groups/number of mols of alkenyl groups) is from 0.15/1 to 0.65/1.

Abstract: A reference member which regulates a position of one side end of a sheet along the sheet conveying direction is provided at one side of a sheet conveying path in the width direction so as to follow the sheet conveying direction and to be rotatable about its downstream end portion in the sheet conveying direction. Then, one side end of the sheet is skew-conveyed toward the reference member by a plurality of pair of skew-conveying rollers which is arranged in the sheet conveying path along the sheet conveying direction. Then, when forming an image on both faces of the sheet, a control portion rotates the reference member so that the sheet is displaced to the center side in the sheet conveying path compared to the case of forming an image on one face of the sheet.

Abstract: A skew feeding correction portion includes a first pair of skew-feed rollers that has rollers, a second pair of skew-feed rollers, a third pair of skew-feed rollers, as skewing at the downstream side of the second pair of skew-feed rollers, and a reference member that is arranged along a sheet conveying direction and that corrects the skew feeding of the sheet in such a manner that a side end of the sheet, which is conveyed as being skewed by the respective pairs of skew-feed rollers, is brought into contact with the reference member, wherein the first pair of skew-feed rollers releases the nip of the sheet by separating the rollers from each other before the sheet is nipped by the third pair of skew-feed rollers after the sheet is nipped by the second pair of skew-feed rollers.

Abstract: There are provided a sheet conveying apparatus and an image forming apparatus, which enable stable sheet conveyance without depending on sheet size. An air suction portion having a duct portion for air suction is provided inwardly of an endless belt having a plurality of suction holes. Air is taken in through the suction holes of the endless belt and the duct portion for air suction by the air suction portion to absorb a sheet onto the endless belt. When the sheet having a sheet conveying direction length in which a sheet trailing end reaches the endless belt before a sheet leading end reaches a fixing device is conveyed, at least part of the portion of the duct portion through which the sheet trailing end passes before the sheet leading end reaches the fixing portion is closed by a shutter.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include a transfer nip, a first conveyance belt, a second conveyance belt, a fixing nip, a fixing drive unit, and a control unit. The first conveyance belt conveys the sheet to which a toner image is transferred and fixed. The fixing drive unit drives the fixing nip so that the fixing nip conveys the sheet at a speed that is higher than the transfer speed in a high speed fixing mode in which the fixing nip fixes the toner image to the sheet while conveying the sheet. The control unit sets a circumferential speed of the first conveyance belt and a circumferential speed of the second conveyance belt so that the sheet bridging the first and second conveyance belts is pulled by the second conveyance belt to slide on the first conveyance belt in the high speed fixing mode.

Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus and an image forming apparatus are provided. The sheet conveying speed of a pair of conveying rollers which convey a sheet to a skew feeding correction device 55 and can be contacted and separated is set to be a speed in which the sheet obliquely conveyed by a pair of first oblique feed rollers is warped between the pair of first oblique feed rollers and the pair of conveying rollers. After the sheet is warped, a separation mechanism is controlled to separate the pair of conveying rollers.

Abstract: A skew feeding correction portion includes a first pair of skew-feed rollers that has rollers, a second pair of skew-feed rollers, a third pair of skew-feed rollers, as skewing at the downstream side of the second pair of skew-feed rollers, and a reference member that is arranged along a sheet conveying direction and that corrects the skew feeding of the sheet in such a manner that a side end of the sheet, which is conveyed as being skewed by the respective pairs of skew-feed rollers, is brought into contact with the reference member, wherein the first pair of skew-feed rollers releases the nip of the sheet by separating the rollers from each other before the sheet is nipped by the third pair of skew-feed rollers after the sheet is nipped by the second pair of skew-feed rollers.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus may include a transfer nip, a first conveyance belt, a second conveyance belt, a fixing nip, a fixing drive unit, and a control unit. The first conveyance belt conveys the sheet to which a toner image is transferred and fixed. The fixing drive unit drives the fixing nip so that the fixing nip conveys the sheet at a speed that is higher than the transfer speed in a high speed fixing mode in which the fixing nip fixes the toner image to the sheet while conveying the sheet. The control unit sets a circumferential speed of the first conveyance belt and a circumferential speed of the second conveyance belt so that the sheet bridging the first and second conveyance belts is pulled by the second conveyance belt to slide on the first conveyance belt in the high speed fixing mode.

Abstract: There are provided a sheet conveying apparatus and an image forming apparatus, which enable stable sheet conveyance without depending on sheet size. An air suction portion having a duct portion for air suction is provided inwardly of an endless belt having a plurality of suction holes. Air is taken in through the suction holes of the endless belt and the duct portion for air suction by the air suction portion to absorb a sheet onto the endless belt. When the sheet having a sheet conveying direction length in which a sheet trailing end reaches the endless belt before a sheet leading end reaches a fixing device is conveyed, at least part of the portion of the duct portion through which the sheet trailing end passes before the sheet leading end reaches the fixing portion is closed by a shutter.

Abstract: Provided is an electroconductive laminate having a substrate and an electroconductive film formed on the substrate, wherein the electroconductive film has a multilayer structure having an oxide layer and a metal layer alternately laminated from the substrate side in a total layer number of (2n+1) (wherein n is an integer of at least 1); the oxide layer predominantly contains zinc oxide and titanium oxide having a refractive index of at least 2.3; the oxide layer has an atomic ratio of titanium to a total amount of titanium and zinc of 15-50 atomic %; and the metal layer predominantly contains silver or a silver alloy. Also provided is a process for producing the electroconductive laminate.

Abstract: There are provided a sheet conveying apparatus and an image forming apparatus, which enable stable sheet conveyance without depending on sheet size. An air suction portion having a duct portion for air suction is provided inwardly of an endless belt having a plurality of suction holes. Air is taken in through the suction holes of the endless belt and the duct portion for air suction by the air suction portion to absorb a sheet onto the endless belt. When the sheet having a sheet conveying direction length in which a sheet trailing end reaches the endless belt before a sheet leading end reaches a fixing device is conveyed, at least part of the portion of the duct portion through which the sheet trailing end passes before the sheet leading end reaches the fixing portion is closed by a shutter.

Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus and an image forming apparatus are provided which can prevent the collision of the side end of a sheet with the upstream end in the sheet conveying direction of an abutment reference member. The sheet conveying speed of a pair of conveying rollers 34 which convey a sheet S to a skew feeding correction device 55 and can be contacted and separated is set to be a speed in which the sheet obliquely conveyed by a pair of first oblique feed rollers 32a is warped between the pair of first oblique feed rollers 32a and the pair of conveying rollers 34. After the sheet S is warped, a separation mechanism is controlled to separate the pair of conveying rollers 34.

Abstract: A before-toner-fixation conveying guide is provided between a transfer portion configured to transfer a toner image, which is formed by an image forming portion, onto a sheet and a fixing portion configured to fix the toner image, which is transferred on the sheet by the transfer portion, to the sheet. The before-toner-fixation conveying guide guides the sheet, on which the toner image is transferred, to the fixing portion. A plurality of consecutive chevron shapes are formed, along a direction orthogonal to a sheet conveying direction, in an end portion on a downstream side in the sheet conveying direction of the before-toner-fixation conveying guide.

Abstract: To provide an electroconductive laminate which has a broad transmission/reflection band and which is excellent in electrical conductivity (electromagnetic wave shielding properties), visible light transmittance, visible light antireflection properties, near infrared shielding properties and moisture resistance, and an electromagnetic wave shield for a plasma display employing such a laminate. An electroconductive laminate 20 comprising a substrate 21 and an electroconductive film 22 formed on the substrate 21, wherein the electroconductive film 22 has a multilayer structure having a high refractive index layer (23a to 23e) and a metal layer (24a to 24d) alternately laminated in this order from the substrate side in a total number of 2n+1 layers (wherein n is an integer of from 1 to 12) and further having a hydrogenated carbon layer 25 at a position most removed from the substrate 21; the refractive index of the high refractive index layer (23a to 23e) is from 1.5 to 2.

Abstract: There are provided a sheet conveying apparatus and an image forming apparatus, which enable stable sheet conveyance without depending on sheet size. An air suction portion having a duct portion for air suction is provided inwardly of an endless belt having a plurality of suction holes. Air is taken in through the suction holes of the endless belt and the duct portion for air suction by the air suction portion to absorb a sheet onto the endless belt. When the sheet having a sheet conveying direction length in which a sheet trailing end reaches the endless belt before a sheet leading end reaches a fixing device is conveyed, at least part of the portion of the duct portion through which the sheet trailing end passes before the sheet leading end reaches the fixing portion is closed by a shutter.

Abstract: An image forming member has a first sheet conveying member arranged at upstream side of a sheet conveying path of a sheet material, a second sheet conveying member arranged at downstream side of said sheet conveying path, a guide member which is provided between the first and the second sheet conveying members and guides the sheet material and a movable portion which is provided in the guide member and executes front-and-far-side adjustment of the sheet material by moving a portion against which the tip of sheet material is abutted in parallel to a sheet width direction perpendicular to a conveying direction.

Abstract: To provide a high reflection mirror which exhibits a high reflectance in a visible light region and which has moisture resistance, in particular, being capable of retaining the high reflectance and high resistance to hydrogen sulfide even after being exposed to high temperature and high humidity conditions. A high reflection mirror comprising a substrate and a silver film formed thereon, characterized in that a protective film is formed on the topmost surface of the high reflection mirror, and the protective film has an extinction coefficient of at most 0.1, and the protective film is a carbon film. It is preferred that an underlayer is formed on the substrate side of the silver film, and it is preferred that the underlayer is a titanium oxide film, and the titanium oxide film is formed from an oxygen-deficient target.

Abstract: An electroconductive laminate comprising a substrate and an electroconductive film formed on the substrate, wherein the electroconductive film has a multilayer structure having a high refractive index layer containing an inorganic compound and a metal layer alternately laminated from the substrate side in a total layer number of (2n+1) (wherein n is an integer of from 1 to 12); the refractive index of the inorganic compound is from 1.5 to 2.7; the metal layer is a layer containing silver; the total thickness of all metal layer(s) is from 25 to 100 nm; and the resistivity of the electroconductive film is from 2.5 to 6.0 ??cm.