Abstract: A filament for three-dimensional modeling includes two or more kinds of resins; a fiber; and a compatibilizing agent, and has a sea-island structure including a sea part and island parts, the sea part including at least one kind of the two or more kinds of resins and the island parts including at least one kind of the two kinds of resins.

Abstract: Provided is a shaping apparatus including: a stage; and a delivery unit configured to: deliver and apply a shaping material in which continuous fibers is impregnated with a resin onto the stage; and, configured to change delivery amounts between an inner side and an outer side of a path of the shaping material according to a difference in path lengths between the inner side and the outer side, the difference being generated when an applying direction of the shaping material is changed.

Abstract: A filament manufacturing device includes an impregnation unit and a twisting unit. The impregnation unit is configured to impregnate a bundle of transported continuous fibers with a resin so as to form a filament. The twisting unit is configured to twist the filament downstream of the impregnation unit in a transport direction in which the bundle of continuous fibers is transported, so as to form the twisted filament.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus includes: a table having a surface; a stacking unit that stacks layers of a manufacturing material along the surface to form a stack; and a forming unit that forms a layer of the manufacturing material along a side surface of the stack by ejecting the manufacturing material toward the side surface while moving along the side surface so as to traverse the plural layers forming the stack in a stacking direction of the stack.

Abstract: A filament for three-dimensional modeling includes two or more kinds of resins; a fiber; and a compatibilizing agent, and has a sea-island structure including a sea part and island parts, the sea part including at least one kind of the two or more kinds of resins and the island parts including at least one kind of the two kinds of resins.

Abstract: A molding apparatus includes: a receiving part on which a wire-shaped molding material that is formed of a bundle of continuous fibers impregnated with resin is discharged; a discharge part that discharges the molding material on the receiving part; and a rotation mechanism that rotates the discharge part to spirally twist the molding material being discharged from the discharge part.

Abstract: Provided is a shaping apparatus including: a stage; and a delivery unit configured to: deliver and apply a shaping material in which continuous fibers is impregnated with a resin onto the stage; and, configured to change delivery amounts between an inner side and an outer side of a path of the shaping material according to a difference in path lengths between the inner side and the outer side, the difference being generated when an applying direction of the shaping material is changed.

Abstract: An image recording composition including a curable material that is cured upon application of an external stimulus, water-absorbing resin particles, and a nonionic surfactant.

Abstract: A method includes: shaping a transparent belt base having opposite ends into a tubular shape with the ends thereof spaced away from or in contact with each other to make a tubular belt base; superposing a release base having a liquid layer of a curable polyurethane elastomer on and in contact with the outer periphery of the tubular belt base inclusive of the space or contact portion between the ends in a manner that the liquid layer is sandwiched in between the transparent belt base and the release base; curing the curable polyurethane elastomer while the liquid layer being sandwiched between the transparent belt base and the release base to form a transparent polyurethane elastomer layer; stripping the release base off the transparent polyurethane elastomer layer; and connecting the ends of the tubular transparent belt base spaced away from or in contact with each other to form a joint.

Abstract: A layer forming device forms a layer of liquid absorbing particles on a surface of a layer of a hardenable solution capable of being hardened in response to a given stimulus so that the liquid absorbing particles absorb liquid drops supplied to the surface of the layer of the hardenable solution.

Abstract: A method includes: shaping a transparent belt base having opposite ends into a tubular shape with the ends thereof spaced away from or in contact with each other to make a tubular belt base; superposing a release base having a liquid layer of a curable polyurethane elastomer on and in contact with the outer periphery of the tubular belt base inclusive of the space or contact portion between the ends in a manner that the liquid layer is sandwiched in between the transparent belt base and the release base; curing the curable polyurethane elastomer while the liquid layer being sandwiched between the transparent belt base and the release base to form a transparent polyurethane elastomer layer; stripping the release base off the transparent polyurethane elastomer layer; and connecting the ends of the tubular transparent belt base spaced away from or in contact with each other to form a joint.

Abstract: A conductive roller includes a conductive core and a foamed elastic layer covering the conductive core. The foamed elastic layer contains at least three conductive rubbers having different volume resistivities within the range of less than about 1×1014 ? cm, at least one insulating rubber having a volume resistivity of about 1×1014 ? cm or more, and at least two conductive fillers.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer member; a supply unit that supplies a curable liquid onto the intermediate transfer member, the curable liquid including at least one curable material that is cured by an external stimulus and a liquid absorbing material; a first temperature information acquisition unit that acquires temperature information related to the curable liquid; a temperature regulation unit that regulates the temperature of the curable liquid supplied onto the intermediate transfer member; an ink application unit that applies ink onto a curable liquid layer formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that brings the curable liquid layer onto which the ink has been applied into contact with a recording medium, and transfers the curable liquid layer from the intermediate transfer member to the recording medium; and a stimulus application unit that applies a stimulus for curing the curable liquid layer to the curable liquid layer.

Abstract: An image-recording composition contains absorbent particles; a curable material curable in response to ultraviolet radiation, an electron beam, or heat; and a viscocontroller that increases the viscosity of the image-recording composition with increasing temperature.

Abstract: A recording apparatus including: an intermediate transfer member; an image forming composition layer formation unit that supplies an image forming composition to the intermediate transfer member, the image forming composition containing a curable material that cures upon application of an external stimulus; an ink application unit that applies ink to the image forming composition layer that has been formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that transfers the image forming composition layer from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium by contacting the image forming composition layer onto which the ink has been applied with the recording medium; and a first stimulus application unit that applies a stimulus to the image forming composition layer that cures the image forming composition layer, the stimulus being applied at least one of immediately before the image forming composition layer comes into contact with the recording medium, or during the contact.

Abstract: A recording device includes: an intermediate transfer member; a layer forming unit that forms a curable solution layer on the intermediate transfer member, the curable solution layer including a liquid-absorbing component, a curable material that is cured by irradiation of UV rays, and a surfactant having an HLB value of from 8 to 18; an ink supply unit that supplies ink droplets to the curable solution layer formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that transfers the curable solution layer, to which the ink droplets have been applied, from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium; and a UV irradiation unit that irradiates UV rays onto the recording medium, to which the curable solution layer has been transferred.

Abstract: An image recording composition including water-absorbing resin particles and a curable material that is cured upon application of an external stimulus, a volume average particle diameter of the water-absorbing resin particles being from about 0.5 ?m to about 5.0 ?m, and a content of the water-absorbing resin particles in the image recording composition being from about 5% by weight to about 50% by weight.

Abstract: There is provided a recording apparatus including: an intermediate transfer body; a forming unit that forms an ink receiving layer on the intermediate transfer body, the ink receiving layer including a first solution layer containing a curable material that cures when irradiated with ultraviolet radiation, and a second solution layer, on the first solution layer, containing a curable material that cures when irradiated with ultraviolet radiation, and a liquid absorbing component, and in the case in which the first solution layer contains a liquid absorbing component, the content of the liquid absorbing component in the second solution layer being larger than the content of the liquid absorbing component in the first solution layer; an ink supplying unit that supplies ink droplets onto the ink receiving layer; a transferring unit that transfers the ink receiving layer from the intermediate transfer body to a recording medium; and an ultraviolet irradiation unit that irradiates the recording medium with ultravi

Abstract: A layer forming device forms a layer of liquid absorbing particles on a surface of a layer of a hardenable solution capable of being hardened in response to a given stimulus so that the liquid absorbing particles absorb liquid drops supplied to the surface of the layer of the hardenable solution.

Abstract: The invention provides a transporting belt for inkjet use, the belt having a seamless belt shape having at least one layer, the innermost layer comprising at least one of polyamide, polyester, and polyimide resins as the resin component and a conductive filler, and having a volume resistivity of about 1010 to 1014?·cm.