Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member that fixes a toner image to a recording medium, a pressure member that forms, together with the fixing member, a pressure portion through which the recording medium carrying the toner image yet to be fixed passes, and a heating member including a heating layer that generates heat when energized and an insulating layer that encloses the heating layer so as to electrically insulate the heating layer. The heating member has a curved shape along an inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, in a state in which no external force is applied, and is in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the fixing member.

Abstract: A heating member includes a flexible surface heater and an auxiliary heating portion. The flexible surface heater has a fixed end side and a free end side, has a contact region in contact with a member to be heated on the free end side and a non-contact region on the fixed end side, is partially fixed, and includes a heating portion in the contact region. The auxiliary heating portion supplementally heats the non-contact region on the fixed end side of the flexible surface heater so as to suppress an occurrence of a temperature difference between the free end side and the fixed end side of the flexible surface heater.

Abstract: A dual-structure storage box is used in a railcar and stores device units. The dual-structure storage box includes a device receiver case and a storage case. The device receiver case is fixed to a floor of the railcar, and the device units are attached to the device receiver case. The storage case is configured separately from the device receiver case, covers the device receiver case from an outer side of the device receiver case, and stores the device units.

Abstract: A surface heater includes a heating body, insulation layers, and a first support layer and a second support layer. The heating body is interposed between the insulation layers. The heating body and the insulation layers are interposed between the first support layer and the second support layer. The first support layer has a first region superposed on the heating body and a second region not superposed on the heating body. The first support layer has at least one slit which is located at a side of an inner circumferential surface of the surface heater bent into an arc shape. The second region has the at least one slit and the first region has no slit, or the at least one slit includes a plurality of slits and the second region has a greater number of slits out of the plurality of slits than the first region has.

Abstract: In the present invention, a CPU obtains in advance a loop period LP corresponding to the beat (minimum note length) of a musical piece from musical performance data. In a case where key pressing is not performed even when the key-press timing of a guided key is reached, the CPU sets a loop start point in musical-piece waveform data in accordance with the obtained loop period LP, and instructs a sound source to perform the loop replay of the musical-piece waveform data from the set loop start point to an end address.

Abstract: A driver's cab of a railcar includes: side bodyshells; a roof bodyshell; and an interior panel unit including a pair of side panels located at an inner side of the side bodyshells, a ceiling panel located at an inner side of the roof bodyshell, and a back-surface panel that separates the driver's cab from a passenger room. At least one of the panels includes an opening portion through which an adjusting member can be inserted, the adjusting member being configured to adjust positions of the one panel and the side bodyshell or positions of the one panel and the roof bodyshell. An interior space of the driver's cab is defined by coupling the adjacent panels to one another. The adjusting member adjusts a position of the driver's cab relative to the side bodyshell or the roof bodyshell.

Abstract: A railcar is a railcar including a driver's cab. One of both railcar-width-direction portions of the driver's cab is formed by a first driver's cab device unit. The first driver's cab device unit includes: a plurality of first driver's cab devices distributedly arranged in a plurality of areas located at one of both railcar-width-direction sides of the driver's cab; a first driver's cab device wire that connects the first driver's cab devices located in the different areas to one another; and a first driver's cab floor surface plate, a first driver's cab side plate, a first driver's cab back plate, and a first driver's cab ceiling plate, which form a part of an outer body of the driver's cab, the part being located at the one of both railcar-width-direction sides of the driver's cab. These components of the first driver's cab device unit are integrated to form a box shape.

Abstract: A low profile module is provided that has a high functionality achieved by increasing the component mounting density. In spite of achieving high functionality in a module 100 by respectively mounting components such as a semiconductor substrate 104 and chip components 105 on the two main surfaces 101a and 101b of a wiring substrate 101, the low-profile module 100 can be provided which has a high functionality as a result of increasing its component mounting density by forming a thickness Ha of a first component layer 102 formed by mounting only the semiconductor substrate 104 face down on one main surface 101a of the wiring substrate 101 so as to be smaller than the thickness of a second component layer 103 formed by mounting a plurality of chip components 105 on the other main surface 101b of the wiring substrate 101.

Abstract: Provided is a fixing device including a heating unit that includes a circularly moving heating belt, and a pressurizing roller that presses an external face of the heating belt, the fixing device fixing a toner image on a sheet onto the sheet by nipping the sheet between the heating belt and the pressurizing roller and by heating and pressurizing the sheet transported with the toner image being held.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a rotatable endless fixing member that fixes a toner image onto a recording medium, and a heating member. The heating member includes a heat-generating layer that generates heat when supplied with electricity; an insulation layer that encloses the heat-generating layer therein to electrically insulate the heat-generating layer; a metallic layer that is laminated on a first surface of the insulation layer, has higher rigidity than the insulation layer, and generates an elastic restoring force; and a thermally conductive layer that is laminated on a second surface of the insulation layer, has lower rigidity than the metallic layer, and has higher thermal conductivity than the insulation layer and the metallic layer. The heating member is supported by one edge of the fixing member in a circumferential direction thereof, elastically deforms by being pressed against an inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, and heats the fixing member.

Abstract: To provide a compact module that is capable of achieving a low profile and that has excellent high-frequency characteristics, a module includes a parent board; first and second child boards arranged so as to face the parent board; multiple electronic components that include first electrodes and second electrodes electrically connected to the first electrodes, respectively, on both opposing faces, the first electrodes being connected to the first child board, the second electrodes being connected to the parent board; and multiple electronic components that include first electrodes and second electrodes electrically connected to the first electrodes, respectively, on both opposing faces, the first electrodes being connected to the second child board, the second electrodes being connected to the parent board.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material; an endless belt member; a pressure member that applies pressure to the belt member; a pressing member that presses the belt member from an inner side of the belt member towards the pressure member; and an adjusting section that adjusts a position of an end portion of a nip part at a downstream side in a movement direction of the recording material and a position of a curved portion of the belt member by moving or deforming the pressing member, the nip part being formed by the belt member and the pressure member, the curved portion of the belt member being formed by an end portion of the pressing member at a downstream side in the movement direction of the recording material.

Abstract: Provided is a heating device that heats a belt which transports a medium on which a non-fixed image to be fixed onto the medium through heating is formed, the heating device including a heating element, a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer that are arranged to nip the heating element, a first supporting layer that comes into contact with the first insulating layer and a second supporting layer that comes into contact with the second insulating layer, both of which are arranged to nip the first insulating layer, the heating element, and the second insulating layer, and a connection member that connects the first supporting layer and the second supporting layer in a normal direction of the first supporting layer and the second supporting layer.

Abstract: Provided is a fixing device including a fixing member that fixes a toner image onto a recording material, a pressurizing member that forms a pressurizing portion, in cooperation with the fixing member, through which the recording material holding a non-fixed toner image passes, a heating member that includes a heat generating portion having a predetermined pattern shape and being energized to generate heat, and heats the fixing member, a supporting member that supports the heating member along an inner circumferential surface of the fixing member, and a thermal diffusion member that faces the supporting member with interposing the heating member, and diffuses heat from the heating member and conducts the heat to the fixing member.

Abstract: A roller-shaped rotator includes an endless belt and a roller-shaped base member. The roller-shaped base member is formed by winding a thin plate material plural times through elastic deformation into a roller shape. The roller-shaped base member is inserted into the endless belt, and brought into press contact with an inner peripheral surface of the belt by an elastic repulsive force due to the deformation. The roller-shaped base member is supported at both end portions in an axial direction so as to be rotatable about an axis of the roller-shaped base member.

Abstract: A low profile module is provided that has a high functionality achieved by increasing the component mounting density. In spite of achieving high functionality in a module 100 by respectively mounting components such as a semiconductor substrate 104 and chip components 105 on the two main surfaces 101a and 101b of a wiring substrate 101, the low-profile module 100 can be provided which has a high functionality as a result of increasing its component mounting density by forming a thickness Ha of a first component layer 102 formed by mounting only the semiconductor substrate 104 face down on one main surface 101a of the wiring substrate 101 so as to be smaller than the thickness of a second component layer 103 formed by mounting a plurality of chip components 105 on the other main surface 101b of the wiring substrate 101.

Abstract: Provided is a heating device that heats a belt which transports a medium on which a non-fixed image to be fixed onto the medium through heating is formed, the heating device including a heating element, a first insulating layer and a second insulating layer that are arranged to nip the heating element, a first supporting layer that comes into contact with the first insulating layer and a second supporting layer that comes into contact with the second insulating layer, both of which are arranged to nip the first insulating layer, the heating element, and the second insulating layer, and a connection member that connects the first supporting layer and the second supporting layer in a normal direction of the first supporting layer and the second supporting layer.

Abstract: Provided is a fixing device including a heating unit that includes a circularly moving heating belt, and a pressurizing roller that presses an external face of the heating belt, the fixing device fixing a toner image on a sheet onto the sheet by nipping the sheet between the heating belt and the pressurizing roller and by heating and pressurizing the sheet transported with the toner image being held.

Abstract: Provided is a fixing device including a fixing belt that is formed in an endless shape, is driven to rotate, and includes an outer circumferential surface pressed to a recording sheet holding a toner image, and a thin plate shaped heating member that contacts with an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt to generate heat and heats the fixing belt, wherein the heating member is supported to be fixed at one end portion in a circumferential direction of the fixing belt, contacts with the fixing belt along the circumferential direction, is elastically deformed so that a shape of the heating member is restrained by the fixing belt, and is pressed to the circumferential surface of the fixing belt by an elastic repulsive force.

Abstract: Provided is a fixing device including a fixing member that fixes a toner image onto a recording material, a pressurizing member that forms a pressurizing portion, in cooperation with the fixing member, through which the recording material holding a non-fixed toner image passes, a heating member that includes a heat generating portion having a predetermined pattern shape and being energized to generate heat, and heats the fixing member, a supporting member that supports the heating member along an inner circumferential surface of the fixing member, and a thermal diffusion member that faces the supporting member with interposing the heating member, and diffuses heat from the heating member and conducts the heat to the fixing member.