Abstract: A developing device includes a rotatable developing member carrying a developer containing toner and a carrier to a developing position and a magnet provided fixedly inside the rotatable developing member and including first and second magnetic poles. A cover portion opposes the rotatable developing member. A most upstream end of the cover portion is positioned downstream of an uppermost position of the rotatable developing member and upstream of a most upstream position of a half-width of magnetic flux density of the first magnetic pole, and a most downstream end of the cover portion is positioned downstream of a first peak position and upstream of a position where the magnetic flux density of the first magnetic pole is a minimum on a side downstream of the first peak position and upstream of a second peak position where magnetic flux density of the second magnetic pole is a maximum.

Abstract: A temperature control device includes a first light source unit; a second light source unit, a temperature control effort for which is different from a temperature control effort for the first light source unit; a heat exchanger plate in contact with the first light source unit and the second light source unit; a single temperature control element configured to control temperature of the first light source unit and temperature of the second light source unit via the heat exchanger plate; and a thermal resistance adjustment part configured to adjust at least one of a value of a thermal resistance between the temperature control element and the first light source unit and a value of a thermal resistance between the temperature control element and the second light source unit.

Abstract: A force for warping a regulating blade is imparted to the regulating blade in such a manner that a gap between a developer bearing member supported by a development frame member and the regulating blade attached to an attaching portion of the development frame member falls within a predetermined range over a longitudinal direction of the developer bearing member. The regulating blade is fixed to the attaching portion in a state in which the regulating blade is warped by the force imparted to the regulating blade and the gap is within the predetermined range over the longitudinal direction of the developer bearing member.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a signal processing device, a signal processing method, and a program that can provide sound with more increase in realistic sense by restoring a difference of sound pressure between sound sources. The signal processing device includes: an acoustic signal obtaining unit that obtains an acoustic signal; a sound source positional information obtaining unit that obtains sound source positional information relating to a distance between a sound source and a sound collecting unit that collects sound from the sound source; a listening positional information obtaining unit that obtains listening positional information relating to a distance between a reproducing device that reproduces the acoustic signal and a listener who listens to sound reproduced by the reproducing device; and a correcting unit that corrects gain of the acoustic signal on a basis of the sound-source positional information and the listening positional information. The present technology can be applied to, e.g.

Abstract: A developing device includes an accommodating casing, a rotatable developer carrying member, a regulating portion, a magnetic flux generating portion including a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole which have the same polarity, and a cover portion provided downstream of the developing region and upstream of a maximum magnetic flux density position of the second magnetic pole with respect to a rotational direction of the developer carrying member. The cover portion is disposed between the casing and the developer carrying member. A downstream end of the cover portion with respect to the rotational direction is in a side upstream, with respect to the rotational direction, of a minimum magnetic flux density position between the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole with respect to the rotational direction.

Abstract: A developing device includes an accommodating casing, a rotatable developer carrying member, a regulating portion, a magnetic flux generating portion including a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole which have the same polarity, and a cover portion provided downstream of the developing region and upstream of a maximum magnetic flux density position of the second magnetic pole with respect to a rotational direction of the developer carrying member. The cover portion is disposed between the casing and the developer carrying member. A first opposing region between an inner surface of the casing and the developer carrying member is in a side downstream of the developing region and upstream of a second opposing region between the cover portion and the developer carrying member with respect to the rotational direction.

Abstract: A developing device includes a developer accommodating casing, a developer carrying member, a regulating portion, a magnetic flux generating portion, and a cover portion. A first opposing region between the casing and the developer carrying member is downstream of the developing region and upstream of a second opposing region between the cover portion and the developer carrying member with respect to a rotational direction. The following relationships are satisfied: L1?L2+L3, and L2?L3, where L1 is a minimum distance between the developer carrying member and the accommodating casing in the first opposing region, L2 is a minimum distance between the developer carrying member and the cover portion in the second opposing region, and L3 is a minimum distance between the cover portion and the accommodating portion opposing the cover portion.

Abstract: A steering apparatus includes a steered shaft; a rack housing; a ball screw nut; a bearing disposed between an inner peripheral surface of the rack housing and an outer peripheral surface of the ball screw nut, the bearing supporting the ball screw nut such that the ball screw nut is rotatable with respect to the rack housing; and a tubular rack boot covering an axial end portion of the rack housing. The rack housing includes a partition wall protruding radially inward from a cylindrical inner peripheral surface of the rack housing and separating a ball screw chamber housing the ball screw nut and an inner chamber of the rack boot. The partition wall has a through-hole through which the steered shaft extends, and a drain passage provided vertically below the through-hole and providing communication between the ball screw chamber and the inner chamber of the rack boot.

Abstract: This invention provides a developing apparatus including: first and second chambers containing developer and configured to form a circulation path of the developer; a first feeding member arranged in the first chamber and feeding the developer in a first direction; a second feeding member arranged in the second chamber and feeding the developer in a second direction opposite to the first direction; first and second communication parts through which the developer is transferred; a feeding path having a discharging port and communicating with the first chamber on a downstream side relative to the first communication part in the first direction to feed the developer toward the discharging port; a sealing part sealing the developer; a feeding path sealing part sealing the feeding path on an upstream side relative to the discharging port in the first direction; and an unsealing mechanism receiving a driving force and unsealing the sealing part.

Abstract: When a position of a developing unit with respect to a photoreceptor unit, the developing unit being mounted in an image forming apparatus, is switched to a contact position from a separation position with a switching unit, the developing unit at the contact position is brought to a state forming a predetermined space with the guide unit through which an airflow generated by a fan and that flows in a longitudinal direction of the guide unit flows, and when the position of the developing unit with respect to the photoreceptor unit, the developing unit being mounted in the image forming apparatus, is switched to the separation position from the contact position with the switching unit, the developing unit at the separation position is brought to a state in which the developing unit enters at least a portion of an area of the predetermined space.

Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus is configured to provide steering assistance as rotary torque of a driving toothed-pulley fixedly fitted to a rotary shaft of an electric motor is transmitted through a toothed belt to a driven toothed-pulley that rotates together with a ball screw nut in an integrated manner. The electric power steering apparatus is configured such that the amount of axial travel of a rack shaft is limited when a rack end and a housing come into contact with each other in the axial direction. The electric power steering apparatus includes a tilt allowing portion configured to cause the ball screw nut to tilt relative to a ball screw shaft such that the distance between the center of rotation of the driven toothed-pulley and that of the driving toothed-pulley increases when the rack end and the housing come into contact with each other in the axial direction.

Abstract: The present inventors assessed the effect of anti-IL-6 receptor antibodies in suppressing chronic rejection reaction. They assessed the effect of anti-mouse IL-6 receptor antibody (MR16-1) administration in suppressing the chronic rejection reaction using a mouse model for post-heart-transplantation chronic rejection. The result of histopathological analysis of transplanted hearts extirpated 60 days after transplantation revealed that fibrosis of myocardium and vascular stenotic lesions, which are pathological conditions characteristic of the chronic rejection reaction, were significantly suppressed in the MR16-1-treated group as compared to the control group. Thus, MR16-1 administration was demonstrated to have the effect of suppressing chronic rejection reaction. Specifically, the present inventors discovered for the first time that the rejection reaction in the chronic phase after organ transplantation was suppressed by administering an anti-IL-6 receptor antibody.

Abstract: A heat dissipating component includes a plurality of heat absorbers each provided for a corresponding one of a plurality of electronic components and to absorb heat from the corresponding one of the plurality of electronic components, and a heat dissipator thermally connected to the plurality of heat absorbers and to dissipate the heat absorbed by the plurality of heat absorbers. The heat dissipating component may be incorporated in an electronic device.

Abstract: The present inventors assessed the effect of anti-IL-6 receptor antibodies in suppressing chronic rejection reaction. They assessed the effect of anti-mouse IL-6 receptor antibody (MR16-1) administration in suppressing the chronic rejection reaction using a mouse model for post-heart-transplantation chronic rejection. The result of histopathological analysis of transplanted hearts extirpated 60 days after transplantation revealed that fibrosis of myocardium and vascular stenotic lesions, which are pathological conditions characteristic of the chronic rejection reaction, were significantly suppressed in the MR16-1-treated group as compared to the control group. Thus, MR16-1 administration was demonstrated to have the effect of suppressing chronic rejection reaction. Specifically, the present inventors discovered for the first time that the rejection reaction in the chronic phase after organ transplantation was suppressed by administering an anti-IL-6 receptor antibody.

Abstract: A temperature control device includes a first light source unit; a second light source unit, a temperature control effort for which is different from a temperature control effort for the first light source unit; a heat exchanger plate in contact with the first light source unit and the second light source unit; a single temperature control element configured to control temperature of the first light source unit and temperature of the second light source unit via the heat exchanger plate; and a thermal resistance adjustment part configured to adjust at least one of a value of a thermal resistance between the temperature control element and the first light source unit and a value of a thermal resistance between the temperature control element and the second light source unit.

Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus is configured to provide steering assistance as rotary torque of a driving toothed-pulley fixedly fitted to a rotary shaft of an electric motor is transmitted through a toothed belt to a driven toothed-pulley that rotates together with a ball screw nut in an integrated manner. The electric power steering apparatus is configured such that the amount of axial travel of a rack shaft is limited when a rack end and a housing come into contact with each other in the axial direction. The electric power steering apparatus includes a tilt allowing portion configured to cause the ball screw nut to tilt relative to a ball screw shaft such that the distance between the center of rotation of the driven toothed-pulley and that of the driving toothed-pulley increases when the rack end and the housing come into contact with each other in the axial direction.

Abstract: Flat-plate connecting portions are formed in a band plate by a connecting-portion forming unit. The flat-plate connecting portions are cut off by another connecting-portion forming unit except one flat-plate connecting portion so as to form a corrugated-plate connecting portion. A corrugated-plate portion is formed by a corrugation forming unit, so that the corrugated-plate portion has multiple projections arranged in a width direction of the band plate and each of the projections extends in a plate feeding direction. The corrugated-plate connecting portion corresponding to a predetermined connecting number is cut off so as to form a corrugated fin having a predetermined number of corrugated-plate portions.

Abstract: A numerical control device includes a program storage unit storing machining programs of systems; and a program analysis unit executing the machining programs independently for each system by analyzing the machining programs of the systems, wherein when control variable is not being executed in machining program of any system, if control variable is executed in machining program of any system, the program analysis unit permits only a system having executed the control variable to execute the control variable, and does not permit another system other than the system having executed the control variable to execute the control variable even when an attempt is made to execute the control variable in machining program of the other system, and when execution of the control variable is completed in the machining program being executed, the program analysis unit permits machining program of any system to execute the control variable.

Abstract: A sheet conveying apparatus forms a loop of a sheet between a first conveyance roller pair and a second conveyance roller pair, and before a leading edge of the sheet reaches a nip portion of a third conveyance roller pair, separates the first conveyance roller pair.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that controls display of a graphic including a single shape, where the single shape corresponds to a plurality of content output characteristic adjusting parameters. The processor also modifies the single shape included in the graphic displayed on the display based on input information, and adjusts at least one content output characteristic adjusting parameter of reproduced content based on the input information.