Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device to heat a recording material at a use position, an opening and closing member, and a drawer unit. In a state where the fixing device is at the use position, part of the fixing device is located in a space for the drawer unit to pass through when moved from a first inner position to a first outer position so that movement of the drawer unit from the first inner to the first outer position is restricted. The fixing device is retracted from the use position to a retracted position so that the movement of the drawer unit from the first inner to the first outer position is allowed. Part of the fixing device at the retracted position is at a position higher than a position of an upper cover portion of the opening and closing member at a closed position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device a including a belt. When image formation on a recording material is performed, the drawer unit is at a first apparatus main body inner position and the transfer device is at a second apparatus main body inner position. In this drawer unit state, (a) a part of the transfer device is disposed downstream of the drawer unit in a moving direction in which the drawer unit moves from the first inner position to a first apparatus main body outer position, and (b) in a vertical direction, an area where the part of the transfer device is positioned overlaps, at least in part, with an area where the drawer unit is positioned. The transfer device includes a cleaning member to clean the belt and is accommodated in the part of the transfer device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording material includes an apparatus main body having a first end provided with an opening and having a second end, a fixing device to heat the recording material, an opening and closing member, a drawer unit having a first photosensitive drum, and a transfer device. When being moved from a first inner position inside the apparatus main body to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body through the main body opening, the drawer unit is to be moved in a moving direction intersecting with a rotation axis of the first photosensitive drum, and is to be moved away from the second end. When being moved from a second inner position inside the apparatus main body to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body, the transfer device is moved away from the second end.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device including a belt. The drawer unit includes a first cartridge, a support member to which the first cartridge is detachably attached, and a first photosensitive drum disposed on the support member or the first cartridge. The drawer unit is moved to a first inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body. The transfer device is moved to a second inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body. The belt contacts the first photosensitive drum with the transfer device at the second inner position. The transfer device is moved from the second inner to the second outer position when the drawer unit is moved from the first inner to the first outer position.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide: a novel silicon-containing polymer that is alkali soluble or is soluble in an alkaline aqueous solution by using heat, etc.; a film-forming composition including the silicon-containing polymer; a method for forming a silicon-containing polymer coating using the film-forming composition; a method for forming a silica coating using the film-forming composition; and a production method for the silicon-containing polymer. The silicon-containing polymer including at least either a polysiloxane chain or oligosiloxane chain or a polysilane chain or oligosilane chain in the molecular chain thereof has a group that has e.g., a carboxy or carboxylic acid ester group and a sulfide group, introduced to the molecular chain as a result of an ene-thiol reaction.

Abstract: An energy-sensitive composition that yields a cured product with excellent thermal resistance and crack resistance, a cured product of the composition, and a method of forming a cured product. The energy-sensitive composition includes a polysilane and a thermal base generator, in which the thermal base generator includes an ionic compound and a nonionic compound. An anion moiety in the ionic compound preferably includes at least one of an anion having an oxaxanthone skeleton, an anion having a ketoprofen skeleton, and an anion having a fluorenone skeleton.

Abstract: A metal oxide film-forming composition that yields a metal oxide film that exhibits a suppression of volume shrinkage in heating up to 400° C.; a method for producing metal oxide films that uses the metal oxide film-forming composition; and a method for reducing the volume shrinkage ratio of metal oxide films. The metal oxide film-forming composition includes metal oxide nanoclusters, a capping agent, a base material, and solvent. The size of the metal oxide nanoclusters is not more than 5 nm, and the capping agent includes at least one of alkoxysilanes, phenols, alcohols, carboxylic acids, and carboxylic acid halides. In the solid fraction of the metal oxide film-forming composition, the proportion of the mass of the inorganic fraction, with reference to the sum of the mass of the inorganic fraction and the mass of the organic fraction, is at least 25 mass %.

Abstract: Provided are a composition for metal oxide film formation, a method for producing the composition for metal oxide film formation, and a method for producing a metal oxide film using the composition for metal oxide film formation, which allow for a decrease in amount of residual metals after washing.

Abstract: A novel compound suitable as an epoxy curing catalyst; an epoxy curing catalyst using the compound; and a method for producing the compound. A compound represented by formula (1) in which Xm+ represents an m valent counter cation, R1 represents an aromatic group which may have a substituent; R2 represents an alkylene group which may have a substituent; R3 represents a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a mercapto group, a sulfide group, a silyl group, a silanol group, a nitro group, a nitroso group, a sulfonic acid ester group, a phosphino group, a phosphinyl group, a phosphonic acid ester group or an organic group; m represents an integer of 1 or more; n represents an integer of 0-3; and R2 may bond with R1 to form a cyclic structure.

Abstract: A resin composition including a silicon-containing resin component and a solvent, the silicon-containing resin component includes (I) mentioned below, the solvent including at least one of a terpene compound having at least one of a hydroxy group and an acetoxy group, and a cyclic skeleton-containing acetate compound (excluding the terpene compound): (I) a polysilane-polysiloxane resin having a polysilane structure and a polysiloxane structure.

Abstract: A metal oxide film-forming composition including a tertiary alkyloxycarbonyloxy group-containing aromatic hydrocarbon ring-modified fluorene compound represented by Formula (1) below; metal oxide nanoparticles surface-treated with a capping agent; and a solvent.

Abstract: A photosensitive composition capable of forming a cured product with high transparency, a cured product of the photosensitive composition, and a method for producing the cured product using the photosensitive composition. In a photosensitive composition including a base component having photopolymerizability and a photopolymerization initiator, a phosphine oxide compound and an oxime ester compound as a photopolymerization initiator are used in combination such that the ratio of the mass W2 of the oxime ester compound is 35% by mass or more relative to sum of a mass W1 of the phosphine oxide compound and the mass W2 of the oxime ester compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides: a liquid composition which can be suitably used for production of an optical film having a favorable fluorescence efficiency and includes quantum dots (A), a quantum dot-containing film obtained by drying and/or curing the liquid composition, an optical film for a light-emitting display element made of the quantum dot-containing film, a light-emitting display element panel including the optical film, and a light-emitting display equipped with the light-emitting display element panel. An ionic liquid (B), and a solvent (S) are incorporated into a liquid composition including quantum dots (A), in which the solvent (S) includes a solvent (S1), the solvent (S1) being a compound having a cyclic skeleton and including a heteroatom other than a hydrogen atom and a carbon atom.

Abstract: The objective of the invention is to provide a wavelength conversion film demonstrating a high optical density, a wavelength conversion film forming composition used suitably for forming the wavelength conversion film, and a production method for a cluster-containing quantum dot that may be applied suitably to the wavelength conversion film and the wavelength conversion film forming composition. In this invention, for a wavelength conversion film containing a quantum dot converting blue light into red light or green light, the light beam transmittance of the wavelength conversion film at 450 nm wavelength is set to 40% or lower, the light beam transmittance of the wavelength conversion film at 650 nm wavelength is set to 90% or higher if the hue of the light beam after the wavelength conversion is red, and the light beam transmittance of the wavelength conversion film at 550 nm wavelength is set to 90% or higher if the hue of the light beam after the wavelength conversion is green.

Abstract: A metal oxide film-forming composition containing an organooxy group-containing aromatic hydrocarbon ring-modified fluorene compound represented by formula (1), a metal compound represented by formula L(R6)n1(O)n2, and a solvent.

Abstract: A metal oxide film-forming containing a tertiary alkyloxycarbonyl group-modified bisnaphthol fluorene compound represented by formula (1), a metal compound represented by formula L(R6)n1(O)n2, and a solvent.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide: a novel silicon-containing polymer that is alkali soluble or is soluble in an alkaline aqueous solution by using heat, etc.; a film-forming composition including the silicon-containing polymer; a method for forming a silicon-containing polymer coating using the film-forming composition; a method for forming a silica coating using the film-forming composition; and a production method for the silicon-containing polymer. The silicon-containing polymer including at least either a polysiloxane chain or oligosiloxane chain or a polysilane chain or oligosilane chain in the molecular chain thereof has a group that has e.g., a carboxy or carboxylic acid ester group and a sulfide group, introduced to the molecular chain as a result of an ene-thiol reaction.

Abstract: Provided are: a novel silicon-containing polymer capable of supporting a metal compound including a metal element; a film-forming composition including the silicon-containing polymer; a method for forming a coating film on the surface of an object to be treated using the film forming composition, and supporting a metal compound on the surface of the object to be treated by bringing the metal compound into contact with the coating film; an article including a coating film which contains said silicon-containing polymer and supports a metal compound; and a method for producing said silicon-containing polymer. This silicon-containing polymer contains, in a molecular chain, at least one among a polysiloxane chain or an oligosiloxane chain, and a polysilane chain or an oligosilane chain, wherein a cyano group-containing hydrocarbon group having 1-10 carbon atoms is introduced onto a silicon atom.

Abstract: A silicon-containing polymer which results in a composition that forms a coated film having good adhesive properties to a substrate and does not easily peel off the substrate, a film-forming composition including the polymer, a method for forming a silicon-containing polymer coating using the composition, a method for forming a silica-based coating using the composition, and a production method for the polymer. In a silicon-containing polymer including at least one of poly- or oligo-siloxane chain and poly- or oligo-silane chain in a molecular chain, a group having a silyl group and a sulfide group, which can be subjected to a condensation reaction, is introduced into the molecular chain, for example, by an ene-thiol reaction.

Abstract: A curable liquid composition containing a particulate filler and an epoxy compound having a non-aromatic cyclic group having 5 or more annular atoms, having a favorable dispersion stability of particulate filler and providing a cured material having high hardness, a filler that is suitably incorporated in the curable liquid composition, and a compound that can be suitably used as a ligand bonded to the filler. In a curable liquid composition comprising an epoxy compound having a non-aromatic cyclic group having 5 or more annular atoms as a curable component, a filler on a surface of which a ligand having an alicyclic epoxy group that may be condensed with an aromatic ring and a thiol group, is bonded, is used.