Abstract: A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a nip forming member surrounded by the belt and configured to, with the rotator, pinch the belt to form a nip, an urging member configured to urge one of the rotator and the nip forming member towards the other in a particular direction perpendicular to the rotation axis, an upstream guide and a downstream guide. The upstream guide includes an upstream guide surface configured to guide an inner peripheral surface of the belt. The nip forming member includes a facing surface which faces the rotator. An upstream edge of the facing surface in the moving direction is located at a position farther from the rotation axis, in the particular direction, than a downstream edge of the upstream guide surface.

Abstract: A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a nip forming member surrounded by the belt, a holder holding the nip forming member, a first stay supporting the holder, an urging member urging the first stay toward the rotator, a second stay, and a connector. The nip forming member is configured to, with the rotator, pinch the belt to form a nip. The first stay extends in a width direction parallel to the rotation axis. The second stay is positioned upstream of the first stay in a moving direction of the belt at the nip. The moving direction is perpendicular to the width direction. The connector extends through at least one of the first stay and the second stay to connect the first stay to the second stay.

Abstract: A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a belt support surrounded by the belt, and a sliding sheet configured to be pinched at the nip between an inner peripheral surface of the belt and the belt support. The belt support is configured to form a nip with the rotator. One of the belt support and the sliding sheet includes a hook engaging portion. The hook engaging portion includes an aperture. The other of the belt support and the sliding sheet includes a hook engaged to the aperture.

Abstract: A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a nip forming member surrounded by the belt, a first stay surrounded by the belt and extending in a width direction parallel to the rotation axis, a holder holding the nip forming member, and an urging member urging the first stay toward the rotator. The nip forming member is configured to, with the rotator, pinch the belt to form a nip. The first stay includes a first end and a second end. The holder includes a first engaging portion positioned at a first end of the holder, and a second engaging portion positioned at a second end of the holder. The first engaging portion engages the first end of the first stay. The second engaging portion engages the second end of the first stay.

Abstract: In an imaging apparatus, a first motion vector detector calculates a first motion vector on the basis of images with a low spatial resolution and a second motion vector detector calculates a second motion vector on the basis of images with a high spatial resolution. A first control amount having a great weight for information with a low frequency resolution with respect to frequency components of the first motion vector information and a second control amount having a great weight for information with a high frequency resolution with respect to frequency components of the second motion vector information are calculated. A third control amount is calculated through multiplication by a predetermined weight regardless of the frequency resolution with respect to frequency components of the first or second motion vector information. Drive control of an image blur correction lens is performed according to the first to third control amounts.

Abstract: A fuser is described including a heater, a belt, a rotating member, and a pad. A nip portion is formed between the belt and the rotating member as the pad presses the belt toward the rotating member. The pad is biased toward a restricting member. The biasing may be performed by one or more springs. The spring may be a compression spring, a tension spring, and/or a plate spring among other types of springs.

Abstract: A device includes a rotator, a belt facing the rotator and having an outer peripheral surface which contacts the rotator to form a nip therebetween, a first pad configured to press the belt toward the rotator to form one part of the nip, a second pad configured to press the belt toward the rotator, to form another part of the nip, a holder holding the first pad and the second pad, a stay supporting the holder, and an urging member urging the stay toward the rotator in an urging direction. The second pad is located upstream of the first pad in a conveyance direction in the nip orthogonal to the urging direction. At least a portion of a contact area between the stay and the holder is located downstream of a center of the nip and upstream of a front edge of the first pad in the conveyance direction.

Abstract: An image stabilization apparatus includes a shake detector configured to detect an image blur, a generation unit configured to generate a first shake correction signal and a second shake correction signal based on a shake signal corresponding to a detection result from the shake detector, the generation unit extracting a low-frequency band signal from the shake signal, changing an amplitude of the extracted low-frequency band signal to generate the first shake correction signal, and generating the second shake correction signal based on the change in the amplitude and the shake signal, a first shake correction unit configured to correct the image blur based on the first shake correction signal, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the second shake correction signal to a second image stabilization apparatus.

Abstract: A fuser is described including a heater, a belt, a rotating member, and a pad. A nip portion is formed between the belt and the rotating member as the pad presses the belt toward the rotating member. The pad is biased toward a restricting member. The biasing may be performed by one or more springs. The spring may be a compression spring, a tension spring, and/or a plate spring among other types of springs.

Abstract: A signal processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first shake detection signal indicating a detection result of a lens shake detection unit included in an interchangeable lens and a second shake detection signal indicating a detection result of a camera shake detection unit included in a body unit and a determination unit configured to determine a correction amount which is used to correct the first shake detection signal based on the first shake detection signal and the second shake detection signal. The determination unit changes a process parameter for determining the correction amount in accordance with information regarding the camera shake detection unit or information regarding the second shake detection signal. The process parameter includes at least one of a restriction frequency and a gain for the correction amount.

Abstract: A lens unit comprises a shake detector; a shake correction mechanism for correcting image blur; a setting unit for setting a ratio of shake to be corrected by the shake correction mechanism; a control unit for, based on the shake detected by the shake detector and the ratio of shake, calculating a first shake correction amount and control an image shake correction operation by the shake correction mechanism; and a target-value correction unit for correcting the first shake correction amount, based on a difference between a result of detecting shake by the shake detector, and a result of detecting shake by a shake detector provided in the imaging device, wherein the control unit controls the shake correction mechanism based on an image stabilization amount corrected in accordance with the target-value correction unit.

Abstract: An image blur correction device detects a hand shake or the like using a shake detection unit and corrects image blur on the basis of a shake detection signal. An offset estimation unit estimates an offset component of an output of the shake detection unit. A noise term calculation unit separates an amount of shake detected by the shake detection unit into bands using a filter to calculate an amount of high frequency shake and an amount of low frequency shake. The noise term calculation unit performs control for changing characteristics of the offset estimation unit to delay updating of an offset estimation value as the amount of high frequency shake becomes larger and changing the characteristics of the offset estimation unit to advance the updating of the offset estimation value as the amount of low frequency shake becomes larger.

Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle includes: a plurality of rotary wings; a load object disposed on an airframe of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the load object being an external device or a piece of goods disposed at an outside of the airframe; and an air bag device configured to protect the external device. The air bag device includes: a sensor configured to detect a collision and/or a fall of the airframe; an air bag inflatable by a supply of gas; and an inflator configured to supply the gas to the air bag. The air bag includes a plurality of buffers each being a bag body inflatable into an approximately columnar shape. The plurality of inflated buffers are aligned in their radial direction such that the plurality of inflated buffers cover an outer surface of the load object.

Abstract: A vibration sensor of an image pick-up apparatus detects shake of an image pick-up apparatus and acquires shake information. An imaging unit outputs an image signal of a subject to an imaging signal processing unit. A motion vector detection unit calculates a motion vector according to an image signal after imaging. A feature point tracking unit performs feature point tracking by calculating a coordinate value of a subject on a photographing screen using the motion vector. A feature coordinate map and position and attitude estimation unit estimates a position or attitude of the image pick-up apparatus on the basis of information obtained by a band limit filter performing band limitation on shake information from a vibration sensor and an output of the feature point tracking unit.

Abstract: A refrigerator 10 comprises at least one box-shaped storage compartment 14 and a heat radiating member 23. The storage compartment 14 is formed in such a way that one side of a frame formed by a wall member is closed and the other thereof is provided with an opening surface configured to be opened or closed by a door. The wall member includes a hollow structure composed of a plurality of plate members 21 and 22 and a foam insulation 25 filled in the hollow structure. The heat radiating member 23 is arranged in the wall member. In the wall member, a pressure member 24 configured to press the heat radiating member against the plate member is provided. The pressure member 24 is a material configured to press the heat radiating member 23 under predetermined conditions.

Abstract: A gas adsorbing material particle includes an additive material particle having a moisture adsorption property; and a layer of a gas adsorbing metal disposed on a surface of the additive material particle, wherein the gas adsorbing metal is inactivated by moisture and adsorbs a target gas, wherein an average thickness of the layer of the metal is less than or equal to about 37 micrometers.

Abstract: An image pick-up apparatus detects shake and the like applied to an image pick-up apparatus by a vibration sensor. A motion vector detection unit detects a motion vector of an image in an image signal by an imaging unit. A feature point tracking unit calculates coordinate values of a subject on an imaging screen that changes over time on the basis of the motion vector. A feature coordinate map and a position and attitude estimation unit estimates a position and attitude of the image pick-up apparatus and a positional relationship including a depth between the subject and the image pick-up apparatus based on an output of the vibration sensor and the coordinate values of the subject. A computation unit calculates a control amount of image blur correction using feature points of a main subject, a feature coordinate map and position or attitude information of the image pick-up apparatus.

Abstract: There is provided a fuser including: a cylindrical member; an endless belt; a pressing member; a pressing roller; and a lateral guide contacting a lateral end of the endless belt. A part of an outer circumferential surface of the pressing roller is located on a downstream of the second nip area in a first direction. A guide surface of the lateral guide has: a first guide surface located on an opposite side to the pressing roller with respect to a virtual plane including the center of a first nip area and the center of rotation of the cylindrical member, and a second guide surface located on a side of the pressing roller with respect to the virtual plane, located on the downstream side of the rotation axis of the pressing roller in the first direction, and arranged on a same plane as the first guide surface.

Abstract: There are provided an electric-current sensing device capable of detecting an electric current with high accuracy, a load driving system, and a method for manufacturing the electric-current sensing device. According to one embodiment, the electric-current sensing device includes a sense IGBT through which an electric current proportional to an electric current flowing through a main IGBT flows. Further, a depth of a P type floating region from a lower end of each of a plurality of trench gates provided in the sense IGBT is shallower than a depth of another P type floating region from a lower end of each of a plurality of trench gates provided in the main IGBT.

Abstract: A low-resistivity carbon nanotube aggregate includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes each having one or more walls, wherein a ratio of a total number of carbon nanotubes that have two or three walls relative to a total number of said plurality of carbon nanotubes is 75% or greater, and wherein, in a G band of a Raman spectrum in the Raman spectroscopy of the plurality of carbon nanotubes, a G+/Gtotal ratio that is indicative of an amount of semiconductor carbon nanotubes relative to metallic carbon nanotubes is 0.70 or greater.