Abstract: A laminate film showing a good durability under pressure and heat application and suitably used as a fixing film for toner image fixation, is provided. Such a laminate film is provided by forming a polyimide resin layer on a metal base layer at a controlled imidation percentage of 70-93%.

Abstract: An electrically conductive polymer composition containing a polymer mixture containing a first crystalline polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of at least 50,000 and a second crystalline polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of at most 10,000, and a particulate electrically conductive filler has good processability and exhibits a low resistivity at 20° C. and a good positive temperature coefficient (PTC) behavior.

Abstract: The present invention provides an elastic body having a small volume change caused by the change in temperature, a roller having a small change in outer diameter thereof caused by an increase in temperature of the roller during operation, a manufacturing method therefor, and a heating and fixing device which can maintain a constant processing speed. The roller has an elastic layer formed by curing a silicone rubber material containing at least expanded resin microballoons, wherein, when the roller is placed in a vacuum chamber in which atmospheric pressure is reduced to 0.001 MPa or less over 2 minutes, the roller has a gas permeability indicating the recovery characteristic where an increased amount of the thickness of the elastic layer after 10 minutes from the start of evacuation is two-thirds or less of the maximum increased amount of the thickness of the elastic layer during a 10 minutes period from the start of evacuation.

Abstract: A tandem type image forming apparatus having plural image forming bodies and an intermediate transfer belt is provided, in which the intermediate transfer belt can be spaced from the image carrying bodies without causing any damage on the intermediate transfer belt. A retracting unit is provided which retracts a belt module along with a secondary transfer module such that a belt-shaped intermediate transfer belt is spaced from all of image carrying bodies.

Abstract: There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of finely cleaning a transfer roll at all times by regulating the relation between a mechanical adhesion force of toner to the surface of the transfer roll and a mechanical adhesion force of toner to the surface of an image carrier with which the transfer roll comes in press contact. At the time of cleaning the transfer roll, both the electrostatic adhesion force and the mechanical adhesion force of charged colorant to the surface of the belt-like image carrier are set larger than the electrostatic adhesion force and the mechanical adhesion force of charged colorant to the surface of the transfer roll.

Abstract: To provide a numerically controlled curved surface machining unit, and a method or program thereof, which, by moving a tool smoothly along a NURBS (non-uniform rational B-spline) curve, enables not only to improve the machining surface roughness and machining surface accuracy but to achieve high-speed machining so as to be able to eliminate hand finishing and reduce machining steps drastically.

Abstract: Novel derivatives of PF1022 substance, which are cyclodepsipeptides represented by the general formula (I) shown below or their salts are useful as anthelmintic agent for prevention or treatment of parasitic infections.

Abstract: A fixing-unit roller has a fixing roller and/or a pressure roller in which a composite material of an organopolysiloxane and a fluoroelastomer containing no fluorine resin or containing a fluorine resin is used as an elastic material of at least the outermost layer. The composite material has an island-in-sea structure wherein the organopolysiloxane stands as a sea phase and the fluoroelastomer containing no fluorine resin or containing a fluorine resin stands as an island phase. The particles of the island phase have a size ranging from 1 &mgr;m to 10 &mgr;m. The fixing-unit roller has superior toner releasability and superior scratch resistance and wear resistance.

Abstract: A correction device for a timepiece comprises a setting wheel which has a rotational center and which is rotatably mountable to a movement of a timepiece for undergoing rotation in accordance with rotation of a winding stem. A rocking bar has a rotational center on an axis line coinciding with an axis line of the rotational center of the setting wheel and is mounted for undergoing rocking movement in a first rotational direction relative to the movement of the timepiece and undergoing rocking movement in a second rotational direction different from the first rotational direction. The rocking bar has a first portion extended in a first direction from the rotational center and a second portion extended in a second direction from the rotational center. At least one first correction transfer wheel is disposed at the first portion of the rocking bar for undergoing rotation in accordance with rotation of the setting wheel.

Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a main circuit part having a semiconductor device formed on an electrode plate of a lead frame and a control circuit part having protective functions, which is integrally molded by a resin mold part into an integral mold structure.

Abstract: Known cyclic depsipeptides which are PF 1022F substance and PF 1022H substance, as well as a novel cyclic depsipeptide, PF 1022G substance, are now prepared simultaneously by cultivating a fungal strain capable of producing PF 1022F substance, PF 1022G substance and PF 1022H substance represented by the known PF 1022 strain (deposited under FERM BP-2671) which is a kind of fungus belonging to asporous imperfect fungi (the order Agonomycetales) and is presumable to belong to the genus Xylaria or the genus Rosellinia in the family Xylariaceae.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fluororesin-coating process, which comprises the steps of inserting a base having powder of the fluororesin on its surface in the interior of a cylindrical face transfer member, and heating both base and face transfer member by means of an infrared heater from the outside of the face transfer member, thereby heating them in a state that the fluororesin powder layer is pressed by the face transfer member making good use of a difference in coefficient of thermal expansion between the base and the face transfer member to form a fluororesin layer.

Abstract: A method for sheathing a substrate with a fluorine resin tube in accordance with the present invention includes placing a substrate sheathed with a heat-shrinkable fluorine resin tube into a cylindrical surface transfer member and heat-pressing the heat-shrinkable fluorine resin tube between the substrate and the cylindrical surface transfer member so that the heat-shrinkable fluorine resin tube is melt-bonded to the substrate. The fluorine resin tube after sheathing has excellent heat resistance and strength, and has a desired surface unevenness.

Abstract: A cold cathode electron gun includes a field emission cathode array type cold cathode for emitting electron beams toward an RF circuit unit of a microwave tube. An annular Wehnelt electrode, a first anode electrode and a second anode electrode are disposed in order from the field emission cathode array type cold cathode side coaxially with the field emission cathode array type cold cathode between the field emission cathode array type cold cathode and the RF circuit unit. The potential Ea1 of the first anode electrode, the potential Ea2 of the second anode electrode and the potential Eb of the RF circuit unit has a relationship of Ea1>Eb>EA2.gtoreq.0 V.

Abstract: Known cyclic depsipeptides which are PE 1022F substance and PF 1022H substance, as well as a novel cyclic depsipeptide, PF 1022G substance, are now prepared simultaneously by cultivating a fungal strain capable of producing PF 1022F substance, PF 1022G substance and PF 1022H substance represented by the known PE 1022 strain (deposited under FERM BP-2671) which is a kind of fungus belonging to asporous imperfect fungi (the order Agonomycetales) and is presumable to belong to the genus Xylaria or the genus Rosellinia in the family Xylariaceae.

Abstract: A heat-pressure fixing device for fixing a toner image is composed of a fixing member, a pressure member and an oil applicator for applying dimethylsilicone oil as a release oil. The fixing member is surfaced with dimethylsilicone rubber having a storage modulus E' satisfying 1.0.times.10.sup.6 dyn/cm.sup.2 <E'<1.5.times.10.sup.7 dyn/cm.sup.2 and a loss modulus E" satisfying 1.0.times.10.sup.5 dyn/cm.sup.2 <E"<7.5.times.10.sup.5 dyn/cm.sup.2, and exhibits a good release performance at a low dimethylsilicone oil application rate of 1-20 mg/A4-size (621 cm.sup.2).

Abstract: A toner fixation film has an exothermic layer within which an eddy current is induced with application of a magnetic field and then heat is generated. The exothermic layer is a composite layer in which an exothermic part and resin part coexist. The toner fixation film can offer a sufficient heat generation necessary for toner fixation, and has enough flexiblity to permit curvature separation. A toner fixation apparatus comprises the toner fixation film and at least one coil for producing an alternating magnetic field for eddy current induction.

Abstract: A field-emission cold cathode has a conductive cold-cathode substrate on which a plurality of conical emitters and a base insulator layer are formed. A ring-shaped gate electrode, a plate-shaped inner electrode, and a ring-shaped outer electrode are formed on the base insulator layer with the ring-shaped gate electrode disposed between the plate-shaped inner electrode and the ring-shaped outer electrode. A voltage supplying unit supplies the ring-shaped gate electrode, the plate-shaped inner electrode, and the ring-shaped outer electrode with a gate voltage, an inner electrode voltage, and an outer electrode voltage, each referenced to a substrate potential of the conductive cold-cathode substrate, wherein the gate voltage is higher than each of the inner electrode voltage and the outer electrode voltage.

Abstract: A calendar watch comprises a calendar corrector setting wheel disposed on the dial side of a main plate and mounted for oscillation about a center of rotation within a second domain to correct a date indicator and a day corrector. The calendar watch also comprises a date normalizing device disposed on the dial side of the main plate for normalizing the date indicator within a third domain, a day indicator normalizing device for normalizing a day star within the second domain or the third domain, and a date indicator driving device and a day indicator driving device having a center of rotation within a fourth domain. A setting lever and a yoke are disposed on a side of the main plate opposite from the dial side.

Abstract: An automatic watch, a complete barrel 30 is disposed on the side opposite from the dial of a main plate 22, i.e. on the front side, and has the center of rotation thereof within a first domain 310 or a fourth domain 340 of the main plate 22. An escape wheel & pinion 50, a pallet fork 60 and a balance 70 have their center of rotation within a third domain 330 or a fourth domain 340, respectively. A setting lever 120 and a yoke 130 are disposed on the front side of the main plate 22 and have their center of oscillation within the second domain 320, respectively. A yoke holder 140 holds a part of the setting lever 120 and a part of the yoke 130, respectively.