Abstract: A cable protection and guide device which can protect and guide a cable with a simple connection between the movable end jig and the fixed end jig under various mounting configurations is disclosed. A cable protection and guide device in which when said link frame bodies 10 are left and right reversibly incorporated to each other, and an incorporation error preventing projection 11e, which blocks the connection by interfering with a link plate 11 incorporated in an offset mode, are provided on a surface of at least one of the pair of left and right link plates 11 forming the link frame body 10. Additionally, when the link frame bodies 10 are properly incorporated to each other, a properly connecting region 11f, which avoids interfering with the incorporation error preventing projection 11e, is provided on a surface of a link plate 11 in the link frame body 10.

Abstract: To provide a cable protection and guide device, which suppresses wear powders and can be used without being contaminated even in a clean room or reduced-pressure environment, and in which even if link frame bodies are twisted each other, the mutual connection of the link frame bodies is not disconnected and connection and incorporation of the link frame bodies can be simply, reliably performed.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical device is disclosed. The method includes coating a substrate with a resin thin layer, wherein temperature of the resin thin layer is controlled lower than a polymerization reaction starting temperature thereof and the resin is not substantially polymerized, heating the resin thin layer to a temperature higher than polymerization reaction starting temperature and glass-transition temperature but lower than a thermal decomposition starting temperature of the resin so that the resin thin layer is polymerized on the substrate to form a resin thin film thereon, pressing a stamp having an inverted micro-asperity pattern against the resin thin film such that a micro-asperity pattern is formed on a surface of the resin thin film; cooling the resin thin film to a temperature lower than the glass-transition temperature; and separating the stamp from the resin thin film.

Abstract: The device according to the invention is a device having organic thin films containing a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode that emits light by application of electric energy, characterized in that the light-emitting device contains at least a compound having the basic skeleton represented by the following General Formula (1) or (2). Use of the condensed polycyclic compound according to the invention allows production of high-brightness, high-efficiency light-emitting device superior in color purity.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including a photoreceptor having an image carrying surface, first and second exposing devices to expose the image carrying surface to form first and second latent images, and first and second developing devices to develop the first and second latent images to form first and second toner images on the image carrying surface. The first exposing device has a light source which emits a light beam, a deflector which deflects the light beam on the image carrying surface to form a scanning line, a first optical system to focus the light beam, and a first adjustor which adjusts an alignment between the first optical system and the image carrying surface for correcting variation of lateral magnification in the primary scanning direction of the optical system so that the first toner image and the second toner image are superposed on a recording sheet.

Abstract: A cable and the like protection and guide device, which can prevent the rub-damage of the cable(s) and the like even if the device is operated at high speed and high frequency is disclosed. A number of link bodies (11) are articulably connected to each other in the longitudinal direction with the cables and the like (12, 112, 113) inserted thereinto. Each of the link bodies comprises a pair of side plates (21) disposed on both sides of the cables and the like and the connecting rods (22, 23) respectively spanned across the bending outer circumferential side and the bending inner circumferential side. Further cable protecting sheets (31, 32) are inserted along the longitudinal line of the cable and the like on at least one of the bending outer circumferential side and the bending inner circumferential side.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus has light beam passing from the deflector directly to the image carrying surface. The light beam is not bent to the image carrying surface. The apparatus detects movement of optical system and it uses the detected movement to correct the inclination of the optical system.

Abstract: To provide a cable or the like protection and guide device in which even if link frame bodies receive torsion and deflection during a linear movement or a bending movement, a mutual connection can be reliably maintained and a connection and assembly operation for the link frame bodies is easy and a stable molding accuracy and a small cost load on a molding mold can be obtained.

Abstract: Terminal differentiated cells are proliferated by introducing a cyclin and a cyclin dependent kinase into the nucleus of terminal differentiated cells, and then cultivating or holding the cells. A method for proliferating terminal differentiated cells comprising adding a nucleotide sequence coding for a nuclear localization signal to at least one of a cyclin gene and a cyclin dependent kinase gene, and introducing each of the genes to terminal differentiated cells in vitro, and then cultivating the cells, or introducing each of the genes directly to terminal differentiated cells in vivo is provided. The cyclin is a cyclin that can activate CDK4 or CDK6, and the cyclin dependent kinase is a cyclin dependent kinase that is activated by D-type cyclin. The invention also provides a recombinant vector used for such a method or a pharmaceutical composition comprising the vector.

Abstract: To provide a horizontal arrangement type cable protection and guide device, which is bent without distortion between a stationary portion and a movable portion in a horizontal plane under a use environment and can smoothly follow a movement stroke of the movable portion, whereby excellent endurance can be exerted for a long period of time. In a horizontal arrangement type arrangement cable protection and guide device, link plates 12 arranged on a lower side of a large number of connected rectangular link frame bodies 10 are each formed in larger plate thickness than in link plates arranged on a upper side of said link frame bodies 10.

Abstract: To provide a near-IR absorption compound free from antimony or arsenic and excellent in stability, especially, in heat resistance, light fastness, and moisture-and-heat resistance and also an IR absorption filter, an optical information recording medium, and a resin composition excellent in durability by using the near-IR absorption compound. The near-IR absorption compound is a diimmonium compound having the following structure and the resin composition contains the diimmonium compound: (wherein R1 to R8 independently denote hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group; R9 and R10 independently denote an aliphatic hydrocarbon group optionally containing a halogen atom; and rings A and B may further have substituent groups.).

Abstract: To provide a cable protection and guide device, which suppresses wear powders and can be used without being contaminated even in a clean room or reduced-pressure environment, and in which even if link frame bodies are twisted each other, the mutual connection of the link frame bodies is not disconnected and connection and incorporation of the link frame bodies can be simply, reliably performed.

Abstract: To provide a horizontal arrangement type cable protection and guide device, which is bent without distortion between a stationary portion and a movable portion in a horizontal plane under a use environment and can smoothly follow a movement stroke of the movable portion, whereby excellent endurance can be exerted for a long period of time. In a horizontal arrangement type arrangement cable protection and guide device, link plates 12 arranged on a lower side of a large number of connected rectangular link frame bodies 10 are each formed in larger plate thickness than in link plates arranged on a upper side of said link frame bodies 10.

Abstract: To provide a cable protection and guide device, which can smoothly reliably protect and guide a cable with a simple connection between the movable end jig and the fixed end jig under various mounting use environment A cable protection and guide device in which when said link frame bodies 10 are left and right reversely incorporated to each other, an incorporation error preventing projection 11e, which blocks the connection by interfering with a link plate 11 incorporated in an offset mode, is provided on a surface of at least one of the pair of left and right link plates 11 forming the link frame body 10, and when the link frame bodies 10 are properly incorporated to each other, a properly connecting region 11f, which avoids interfering with the incorporation error preventing projection 11e, is provided on a surface of a link plate 11 in the link frame body 10 incorporated facing the incorporation error preventing projection 11e.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of an optical device having a micro-asperity pattern that has various kinds of accurate three-dimensional shapes and is realized as thin films includes: a first step of coating a substrate with a resin thin film made of a photosensitive resin; a second step of forming a material-property-changed part at a part of the resin thin film by photolithography; a third step of controlling a temperature of the resin thin film to be a temperature that is lower than a photosensitivity extinction temperature or a hardening reaction starting temperature of the resin thin film; a fourth step of pressing a die having a micro-asperity pattern against the surface of the resin thin film to form a first micro-asperity pattern in a state in which the resin thin film has been softened or melted; and a fifth step of forming a second micro-asperity pattern at a part of the resin thin film by removing the material-property-changed part.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a photoreceptor having an image carrying surface, an exposing device to imagewise expose the image carrying surface to form a latent image, and a developing device to develop the latent image to form a toner image on the image carrying surface, wherein the exposing device is composed of a light source to emit a light beam, a deflector to deflect the light beam so as to form a scanning line with the light beam on the image carrying surface, a cylindrical lens provided between the deflector and the image carrying surface and to focus the light beam on the image carrying surface, and an adjusting mechanism to adjust an inclination of the scanning line and to adjust variance in magnification of an image on the scanning line.

Abstract: An improved cable or the like protection and guide device in which static electricity can be surely escaped and the device can be produced at a reduced cost is disclosed. A cable or the like protection and guide device of the present invention includes a plurality of link bodies (11) articulably connected to each other in the longitudinal direction in a state where a cable or the like (10) was inserted into the device. The link body includes a pair of side plates (21) disposed on both sides of the cable or the like and composed of a conductive synthetic resin. And a linear position and bend position are limited by bend angle limiting means provided on a portion in a side plate, which contacts a side plate of the adjacent link body and a corresponding portion of the side plate of the adjacent link body.

Abstract: To provide a cable or the like protection and guide device, which can suppress the sliding contact noise by reliably limiting a linear position and a bending position exhibited during the movement of the cable or the like, and at the same time, which can reduce a setting space by suppressing the impact noise and wear of a connecting pin piece on a connecting pin hole even if the height size of the link body is decreased. A connecting pin piece 13, convexly provided on a link body 10, which forms a cable or the like protection and guide device, includes stopper surfaces 13a, 13a, which are parallel to the upper edge center portion and the lower edge center portion of the side plates 11 and are oppositely disposed across a bending center point O and a pair of front, and rear arc-shaped outer circumferential surfaces 13b, 13b, which are oppositely disposed across the bending center point O.

Abstract: A red fluorescent material having improved fluorescent intensity and an ink composition containing the material. The red fluorescent material is represented by the general formula (1): wherein X1 and X2 each independently represents hydrogen, halogeno, alkyl, alkoxyl, hydroxyl, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, aryl, or aralkyl; Y represents a C1-10 fluorohydrocarbon group; and Z1, Z2, and Z3 each independently represents hydrogen, halogeno, alkyl, alkoxyl, hydroxyl, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, aryl, or aralkyl.

Abstract: A cable or the like protection and guide device, which can escape static electricity reliably without an antistatic additive and can make the generation of wear particles due to sliding contact wear minimum is disclosed. A cable or the like protection and guide device according to the present invention includes a number of synthetic resin link bodies (11) articulably connected to each other with a cable or the like (10) inserted therein. Each link body comprises a pair of link plates (21) disposed on both sides of the cable or the like and an inner circumferential side connecting plate (22) and an outer circumferential side connecting plate (23) spanned across a bending inner circumferential side and a bending outer circumferential side of the link plate, respectively.