Abstract: Provided is a static charge image developing toner of which flowing start temperatures (Tfb) measured with a flow tester satisfy relational formulae below: Tfb(2-5)=100?[Tfb(5 Kg)/Tfb(2 Kg)]×100??(Formula 1) 2.00?Tfb(2-5)?6.50??(Formula 2) where in Formula 1 above, Tfb(2 Kg) and Tfb(5 Kg) represent flowing start temperatures of the static charge image developing toner when 1.5 g of the toner is heated at a temperature raising rate of 3° C./minute and let to flow out from a die having a diameter of 1.0 mm under loads of 2 Kg and 5 Kg respectively.

Abstract: A reducing agent tank is provided which can improve a heat transfer efficiency to a reducing agent and transfer heat to the reducing agent in a height direction of the reducing agent tank without unevenness. The reducing agent tank includes a container main body which has an upper face and a bottom face and constitutes a space for storing the reducing agent between the upper face and the bottom face, and a heat exchanger which performs heat exchange with the reducing agent. The heat exchanger has penetrating portions and inclined portions. The penetrating portions penetrate to the upper face of the container main body and extend into the space. The inclined portions are inclined relative to the penetrating portions at a position different from each other in an extending direction of the penetrating portions and extend toward a side of the bottom face.

Abstract: A container main body of a reducing agent tank stores a reducing agent. A suction pipe has a suction port positioned in the container main body, and guides the reducing agent from the suction port to outside of the container main body. The strainer is provided at the suction port of the suction pipe. The strainer includes a surrounding portion and a facing portion. The surrounding portion has a filter portion which surrounds an internal space to partition the internal space and an external space of the strainer and allows the reducing agent to pass through between the internal space and the external space. The facing portion extends into the internal space of the surrounding portion to face with the filter portion through a gap space communicating with the suction port in the internal space and partition the gap space and the external space.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photoacoustic imaging contrast medium which exhibits a high degree of accumulation into a tumor even when some extent of time has passed after performing administration and which facilitates an increase in the intensity of photoacoustic signal produced by the tumor. A compound produced by covalent-bonding of an organic dye which absorbs light in the near-infrared wavelength region and a PEG having a branch.

Abstract: There is provided a load sensor including: a pressing shaft configured to transmit a load in an axial direction of the pressing shaft; a sensor element configured to measure the load being transmitted by the pressing shaft; and a load limiting means configured to limit the load applied to the sensor element and protect the sensor element from being applied with excessive load, the load limiting means being configured to be deformable by the load when the load transmitted by the pressing shaft exceeds an allowable measurement range set for the sensor element.

Abstract: The present invention provides a compound which exhibits a high degree of accumulation into a tumor even when some extent of time has passed after performing administration and which facilitates an increase in the intensity of photoacoustic signal produced by the tumor. A compound produced by bonding of a polyethylene glycol and a specific cyanine based compound.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: image bearing member; latent image forming unit; developing unit; transfer unit; fixing unit, wherein toner in the developing unit contains amorphous polymer, crystalline resin and releasing agent, when the toner is measured for G? at 40° C. to 210° C. with rheometer at 1 Hz and 1 deg, G?(100) is ?20,000 and G?(150) is ?500 Pa, and straight line drawn by connecting points of the G?(100) and G?(110) on curve of the G? has gradient of ?0.035, the gradient being “a” expressed by: a=|log10G?(100)?log10G?(110)|/10, and the fixing unit includes: heating member containing flexible endless belt; heat source fixed within the flexible endless belt; and press member in contact with the belt to form nip portion, and the fixing unit is configured to heat/press the medium passing through the nip portion to fix the image on the medium.

Abstract: A toner, containing: toner base particles; and an external additive, the toner base particles each including a binder resin and a releasing agent, wherein the external additive includes non-spherical coalesced particles in each of which primary particles are coalesced together, and wherein the coalesced particles satisfy the following formula (1): Nx/1,000×100?30% where Nx is a number of the primary particles present alone relative to 1,000 of the coalesced particles, as observed under a scanning electron microscope after stirring 0.5 g of the coalesced particles and 49.5 g of a carrier placed in a 50 mL bottle for 10 minutes by means of a mixing and stirring device at 67 Hz.

Abstract: A toner including: toner base particles; and an external additive, the toner base particles each comprising a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the external additive comprises non-spherical particles and spherical particles, wherein the non-spherical particles are each a secondary particle in which spherical primary particles are coalesced together, and wherein the non-spherical particles and the spherical particles in the external additive satisfy a relationship expressed by the following formula (1): 3Ca(%)<Cb(%)??Formula (1) where Ca is greater than 10% but smaller than 20% and Cb is greater than 40% but smaller than 70%, and Ca and Cb are values given by: Ca = ( an ? ? amount ? ? of ? ? the ? ? non ? - ? spherical ? ? particles ? ? ( % ? ? by ? ? mass ) / 100 ) × ( a ? ? projected ? ? area ? ? of ? ? the ? ? non ? - ? spherical ? ? particles ? ? ( cm 2 ? / ? g ) ) ( an ? ? amount ? ? of ? ? the

Abstract: A toner set, including: at least one chromatic toner containing a colorant; and a transparent toner containing no colorant, wherein the chromatic toner and the transparent toner each include a releasing agent and a binder resin, and wherein an amount of a tetrahydrofuran insoluble matter in the transparent toner is smaller than an amount of a tetrahydrofuran insoluble matter in the chromatic toner.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to obtain a labeled protein, and specifically, to separate a labeled protein and the same unlabeled protein. There is provided a labeled protein including: a protein to be labeled having a target protein, at least one or more affinity interaction domains for binding to an affinity support, and at least one or more labeling sites; and a labeling reagent binding to at least one of the labeling sites; wherein the affinity of the labeled protein for the affinity support is difference from that of the protein to be labeled for the affinity support.

Abstract: A small-sized load sensor unit including a pressure member, to which a pressing force is applied, a strain body which is fixed to the pressure member by a first fixing member, a strain measuring unit which is provided on the strain body and is configured to be deformed together with the strain body, a first restricting unit which restricts a pressing force applied to a substantially center portion of the pressure member such that the pressing force becomes a predetermined threshold value or less, and a second restricting unit which restricts the pressure member from moving by a predetermined amount or more when a pressing force of an excessive load is applied to an edge portion of the pressure member.

Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic image, including: toner base particles each including a binder resin and a releasing agent; and inorganic fine particles, wherein the toner includes the inorganic fine particles as an external additive on a surface of the toner base particle, wherein the toner base particles have a BET specific surface area of 2.5 m2/g to 5.0 m2/g, and wherein the inorganic fine particles comprise inorganic fine particles (A) which are each a secondary particle where a plurality of primary particles are coalesced together.

Abstract: A toner including a non-crystalline polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin, wherein a tetrahydrofuran soluble component of the non-crystalline polyester resin has a weight-average molecular weight of 3,000 to 8,000 measured by gel permeation chromatography, and wherein the toner has a glass transition temperature A before an extraction process of the toner with methanol and a glass transition temperature B after the extraction process of the toner with methanol, and a difference between A and B (B?A) is 2.0° C. or less.

Abstract: Electron beam sterilization equipment includes an outer-surface sterilization zone Z2 for sterilizing the outer surface of a container B by emitting electron beams when the container B is transported along circular paths L1 and L2; and an inner-surface sterilization zone Z3 for sterilizing the inner surface of the container B. An electron beam irradiator E1 is located near the upstream side of a 1-2 joint J1-2 of the circular paths L1 and L2 disposed in the outer-surface sterilization zone Z2, and a electron beam irradiator E2 is located near the downstream side of the joint. Thus, the electron beam irradiator E1 and the electron beam irradiator E2 are brought close to each other so as to sequentially sterilize the one half outer surfaces and the other half outer surface of the container B.

Abstract: A shield structure for electron beam sterilization equipment. The shield structure satisfies at least one of the following conditions: (I) an outer diameter D4 of an internal circumferential shield S4 is larger than an outer diameter D5 of an internal circumferential shield S5, and (II) an internal circumferential shield ST2 of a circular path LT2 downstream of an entrance trap zone Z1 connected to an outer-surface sterilization zone Z2 has an outer diameter DT2 that is larger than an outer diameter D1 of an internal circumferential shield S1 of a circular path L1 upstream of the outer-surface sterilization zone Z2.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing toner including melting, mixing, and kneading a releasing agent and a coloring agent with at least part of a polyester binder resin, and suspending and granulating an oil phase comprising the binder resin, the coloring agent, and the releasing agent in an aqueous medium.

Abstract: A shield structure for electron beam sterilization equipment. The shield structure satisfies at least one of the following conditions: (I) an outer diameter D4 of an internal circumferential shield S4 is larger than an outer diameter D5 of an internal circumferential shield S5, and (II) an internal circumferential shield ST2 of a circular path LT2 downstream of an entrance trap zone Z1 connected to an outer-surface sterilization zone Z2 has an outer diameter DT2 that is larger than an outer diameter D1 of an internal circumferential shield S1 of a circular path L1 upstream of the outer-surface sterilization zone Z2.

Abstract: To provide a toner, which contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, wherein the binder resin contains a low molecular weight resin component, where the low molecular weight resin component has a resin softening coefficient (A), represented by the following formula (1), satisfying A>0.165, and has storage elastic modulus (dyne/cm2) G?(Tfb) satisfying G?(Tfb)?1×104 where Tfb is a flow onset temperature (° C.) of the low molecular weight resin component as measured by a capillary rheometer: A=|[(r1)?ln G?(r2)]/(T1?T2)|??Formula (1) (where T1 is temperature (° C.) at which storage elastic modulus G?(r1) is 1×105 (dyne/cm2) and T2 is temperature (° C.) at which storage elastic modulus G?(r2) is 1×103 (dyne/cm2) as measured by means of a viscoelasticity measuring device with measuring frequency of 1 Hz, and measuring distortion of 1 deg; and | | represents an absolute value.).

Abstract: A toner including: a binder resin; a releasing agent; and a colorant, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin and a non-crystalline polyester resin, wherein the releasing agent has an endothermic peak temperature of 60° C. to 80° C. at the second temperature rising in differential scanning calorimetry, and wherein the releasing agent is an ester wax which satisfies the following expressions (1) and (2): 1.1 Pa·s??*a?2.0 Pa·s . . . Expression (1) 0.001??*b/?*a?1.00 . . . Expression (2) where in Expressions (1) and (2), ?*a denotes a complex viscosity (Pa·s) determined by measuring a dynamic viscoelasticity of the releasing agent at a measurement frequency of 6.28 rad/s, and ?*b denotes a complex viscosity (Pa·s) determined by measuring a dynamic viscoelasticity of the releasing agent at a measurement frequency of 62.8 rad/s.