Abstract: A cleaning element for an image-forming apparatus, includes: a shaft; a strip-shaped sheet which is disposed helically on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft; and an adhesive layer which is disposed between the shaft and the strip-shaped sheet and binds the shaft and the strip-shaped sheet, the strip-shaped sheet having, on a surface thereof facing the shaft, an unbound region in which the adhesive layer is absent, at an end in a width direction of the strip-shaped sheet which faces a downstream side in a rotation direction of the shaft.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has a die pad, a heat dissipating plate in the form of a frame arranged between the die pad and leads so as to surround the die pad, members that connect the die pad and the inner edge of the heat dissipating plate, and a suspension lead linked to the outer extension of the heat dissipating plate. A semiconductor chip larger than the die pad is mounted over the die pad and the members. Top surfaces of the die pad and the members in opposition to the back surface of the chip are bonded to the back surface of the chip with silver paste. Heat is conducted from the back surface of the chip to the heat dissipating plate via the silver paste, the die pad, and the members, and dissipated to the outside of the semiconductor device via the leads.

Abstract: A piston with a piston rod coupled thereto is inserted in a cylinder, which sealingly contains oil. An oil flow generated by movement of the piston is controlled by a damping force generation mechanism, thereby generating a damping force. A separator tube is disposed around the cylinder, and the oil is transmitted to the damping force generation mechanism through a branch tube integrally formed on a cylindrical sidewall of the separator tube. The branch tube is tapered at the outer circumferential portion thereof with the outer diameter thereof reducing toward the distal end of the branch tube.

Abstract: A flow passage structure having a plurality of flow passageways therein includes a first junction portion for joining a first fluid introduced into a first inlet path and a second fluid introduced into a second inlet path, a first joined fluid flow passage through which a fluid made by joining both the fluids flows, a branch portion for dividing the fluid flowing in the first joined fluid flow passage into two fluids, a first branch path through which one of the two divided fluids flows, and a second branch path through which the other flows, wherein a corresponding diameter of the first branch path and a corresponding diameter of the second branch path in each of the passageways are smaller than a corresponding diameter of the first joined fluid flow passage in the passageway.

Abstract: An image forming system includes plural image forming devices, a determining unit determining an image forming device in which image data corresponding to user information is stored among the plural image forming devices, a first storage unit storing the user information and device information in a correlated manner, a transmitting device in which the user information is preset, a transmitting unit transmitting image data corresponding to the preset user information to the determined image forming device with respect to the user information, a second storage unit storing the transmitted image data, a receiving unit receiving an input of the user information, a first acquiring unit acquiring image data from an image forming device correlated with the input user information, and an image forming unit forming an image acquired by the first acquiring unit.

Abstract: An image forming system including plural image forming devices, a first storage unit that stores user information and device information, a transmitting device that transmits image data to an image forming device, a second storage unit that stores the image data, a receiving unit that receives an input of the user information, a first acquiring unit that acquires image data from an image forming device, an image forming unit that forms an image corresponding to the image data, a recording unit that records a use history of the image forming device in the second storage unit, a specifying unit that specifies the image forming device and the user information based on the use history when a use frequency satisfies a predetermined condition, and an updating unit that updates the device information so that the specified image forming device and the specified user information are stored in a correlated manner.

Abstract: A cleaning member for an image forming apparatus includes a core member, a foamed elastic layer in which two or more strip-shaped foamed elastic members connected together at one or both of longitudinal end portions are spirally wound around the outer peripheral surface of the core member from one end of the core member to the other end thereof, and an adhesive layer for bonding the core member and the foamed elastic layer together.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming system including plural image forming devices, a first storage unit that stores user information and device information, an updating unit that updates the device information, and a transmitting device that transmits image data to an image forming device, each image forming device including a second storage unit that stores the image data, a receiving unit that receives an input of the user information, a first acquiring unit that acquires image data from an image forming device, an image forming unit that forms an image, a counter unit that measures frequency in which image data is acquired by another image forming device and stores the user information, the device information, and the measured frequency in the second storage unit in a correlated manner, and a transmitting unit that transmits the user information and the device information to the updating unit.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a transmission apparatus, a reception section that is provided in the image forming apparatus and receives a designation of the transmission apparatus, a first transmission section that is provided in the image forming apparatus and transmits apparatus information indicating the own apparatus to a transmission apparatus designated in the reception section, a first storage unit that is provided in the transmission apparatus and stores the apparatus information transmitted from the first transmission section, a second transmission section that is provided in the transmission apparatus and transmits image data to an image forming apparatus indicated by the apparatus information stored in the first storage section, and an image forming unit that is provided in the image forming apparatus and forms an image corresponding to the image data transmitted from the second transmission section.

Abstract: A linear heater is formed of an enamel wire composed of a heating wire and an enamel layer. The heating wire is made of a copper alloy containing silver, for example. The enamel layer is made of polyester imide (PEI), polyimide (PI) or polyamide imide (PAI), for example. The enamel layer is coated with an insulating coating layer. The insulating coating layer is made of fluororesin such as perfluoroalkoxy mixture (PFA), polyimide (PI), or polyamide imide (PAI). The linear heater is bonded to the lower surface of an upper toilet seat casing such that it is sandwiched between a metal foil and a metal foil made of aluminum, for example.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming system including plural image forming devices that form an image, each including: a storage unit that stores user identification information for identifying users and image data that represents an image in correlation, a receiving unit that receives the user identification information of any of the users, a first acquiring unit that acquires image data correlated with the user identification information from the storage unit included in the subject device when the image data is stored in the storage unit, a second acquiring unit that acquires image data correlated with the user identification information and stored in the storage unit included in another image forming device different from the subject device when the first acquiring unit is unable to acquire the image data, and an image forming unit that forms an image corresponding to the image data acquired by the first or second acquiring unit.

Abstract: According to a medical traction device containing a polymer molded article having biocompatibility as a weight for traction of a living tissue to be resected under observation with an endoscope, and a medical traction equipment containing the medical traction device and a grasping member connected to each other, such a medical traction device or traction equipment is provided that in ESD in a digestive tract, a dissected living tissue is efficiently removed from the operative field also in a direction that is different from the moving direction of the endoscope, thereby maintaining the field of view, and the procedures are thus performed safely and rapidly.

Abstract: An image forming system includes plural server devices, a transmission device, and an image forming device. The transmission device includes a first memory, a selection unit, and a transmission unit. The first memory stores priorities assigned to the server devices. The selection unit selects an available server device having the highest priority. The transmission unit transmits user identification information and associated image data to the selected server device. Each server device includes a storage location for storing the transmitted identification information and image data. The image forming device includes a second memory, an acquisition unit, and an image forming unit. The second memory stores server information. Upon receipt of user identification information, the acquisition unit acquires image data associated with the user identification information from the storage location in the server device identified by the server information.

Abstract: An image forming system includes a first storage unit that stores identification information and storage information with the identification information mapped to the storage information, the identification information identifying a user, the storage information indicating a storage location where image data corresponding to the identification information is stored, an identifying unit that, in response to the identification information input by the user, identifies the storage location indicated by the storage information stored on the first storage unit with the identification information mapped thereto, a retrieval unit that retrieves, from the storage location identified by the identifying unit, the image data corresponding to the identification information, and an image forming unit that forms an image responsive to the image data retrieved by the retrieval unit.

Abstract: This invention relates to a nonwoven fabric for filters, in which a melt blown nonwoven fabric formed of polybutylene terephthalate or polypropylene terephthalate fibers with an average fiber diameter of 1 to 8 ?m and a spunbonded nonwoven fabric formed of polyester-based fibers with an average fiber diameter of 10 to 30 ?cm are laminated for integration.

Abstract: A semiconductor device has a die pad, a heat dissipating plate in the form of a frame arranged between the die pad and leads so as to surround the die pad, members that connect the die pad and the inner edge of the heat dissipating plate, and a suspension lead linked to the outer extension of the heat dissipating plate. A semiconductor chip larger than the die pad is mounted over the die pad and the members. Top surfaces of the die pad and the members in opposition to the back surface of the chip are bonded to the back surface of the chip with silver paste. Heat is conducted from the back surface of the chip to the heat dissipating plate via the silver paste, the die pad, and the members, and dissipated to the outside of the semiconductor device via the leads.

Abstract: To promote mixture of fluids on a plurality of stages, flow channels include a plurality of merging portions which penetrate from a top surface to a back surface of a substrate. An end of each of the sub channels is disposed so as to overlap the main channel at each of positions separated along the direction in which the main channel extends, and each of the merging portions communicates the main channels and the ends of the sub channels with each other, thereby changing a flow direction of the second fluid flowing through the sub channels to the thickness direction of the substrate, and merges the second fluid with the first fluid flowing through the main channels.

Abstract: Scissors (1) for an endoscope includes a treatment section (5) provided with a pair of scissor elements (10, 11) which are pivotably supported by a pivoting shaft (support pin (13)) and are pivotally displaced between an open position and a closed position; an operation wire (3) connected to the treatment section (5), and an operation section for displacing the scissor elements (10, 11) between the open position and the closed position by advancing and retracting the operation wire (3). A stopper (14) is provided to the treatment section (5). In the open position, the stopper (14) restricts the relative movement between the pair of scissor elements (10, 11) in the opening direction, and in the closed position, the stopper (14) restricts the relative movement between the pair of scissor elements (10, 11) in the closing direction, thereby to restrict excessive opening and closure of the scissor elements.

Abstract: A flow channel structure that includes a first inlet path for a first fluid, a second inlet path for a second fluid, a merging portion that merges, in the thickness direction of a substrate, the first fluid and the second fluid, a first merged fluid channel in which both fluids merged in the merging portion flow along a top surface of the substrate, a flow direction altering portion that causes the flow direction of the fluid flowing through the first merged fluid channel to change from the top surface side of the substrate towards the back surface side thereof, and a second merged fluid channel for changing the flow direction of this fluid to flow to the downstream side so that the fluid flowing from the first merged fluid channel through the flow direction altering portion flows along the back surface of the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchanger that can more efficiently transfer heat between a heat-exchange fluid and an object with which heat is to be exchanged. A heat exchanger (1) can transfer heat between a heat-exchange fluid flowing through flow paths (R1) and a fluid with which heat is to be exchanged flowing through other flow paths (R2) by means of the flow path structure member (10) (a first metal sheet (11) and a second metal sheet (12)) in which the flow paths (R1 and R2) are formed. The flow paths (R1 and R2) are formed so that the side surfaces thereof are not straight and so that the depths thereof change along the flow direction.