Abstract: The weight of a body-to-be-conveyed constituting a conveying device is reduced, and the friction force between the sliding surface of the body-to-be-conveyed and the conveyance path is reduced. A body-to-be-conveyed that is a component of a conveying device that uses electromagnetic force as thrust and can move in a horizontal direction includes a mover in which a bottom surface is arranged so that a predetermined gap is formed in a vertical direction with respect to the sliding surface thereof, in which the mover includes a permanent magnet and a cover, a gap facing surface of the permanent magnet facing the gap includes one magnetic pole, the cover is installed on a side of the permanent magnet opposite from the gap facing surface in the vertical direction, the horizontal outermost diameter of the cover is larger than the horizontal outermost diameter of the permanent magnet, and the cover is formed of a flat plate.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes: a sensor head having a magnetic material; a drive unit configured to energize the sensor head; a pickup coil close to the sensor head; and an information processing unit configured to generate a bias magnetic field by energizing the pickup coil and detect a signal corresponding to an induced voltage generated in the pickup coil, in which the information processing unit generates a difference signal indicating a difference between a first signal corresponding to a first voltage generated in the pickup coil when the sensor head is in an energized state and a second signal corresponding to a second voltage generated in the pickup coil when the sensor head is in a non-energized state.

Abstract: A steel sheet having a film containing an organic resin and a wax on at least one surface of the steel sheet, in which the organic resin is at least one of an acryl-based resin, an epoxy-based resin, a urethane-based resin, a phenol-based resin, a vinyl acetate-based resin, and a polyester-based resin, in which the wax is a polyolefin wax having a melting temperature of 120° C. or higher and 140° C. or lower and an average particle size of 3.0 ?m or less, in which a proportion of the wax in the film is 10 mass % or more, and in which a coating weight per side W (g/m2) of the film and an arithmetic average roughness Ra (?m) of the steel sheet satisfy relational expression (1) below. W?0.12×Ra2+0.

Abstract: The present invention provides a transport device and a specimen analysis system including the transport device that reduce the pulsation of thrust for moving an object to be transported, reduce vibration of the object to be transported during transport, and realize stable transport. The transport device of the present invention includes a first electromagnet unit including a first tooth made of a magnetic body, a first core connected to the first tooth and made of a magnetic body, and a first winding formed around the first core; a second electromagnet unit including a second tooth installed adjacent to the first electromagnet unit and made of a magnetic body, a second core connected to the second tooth and made of a magnetic body, a second winding formed around the second core; and a magnetic coupling unit made of a magnetic body between the first tooth of the first electromagnet unit and the second tooth of the second electromagnet unit.

Abstract: A polysilicon rod wherein in an area whose distance from a center of a cross section of the polysilicon rod is within ? of a radius and that excludes a seed core, average grain boundary characteristics have following features: a coincidence grain boundary ratio exceeds 20%, a grain boundary length exceeds 550 mm/mm2, and a random grain boundary length does not exceed 800 mm/mm2.

Abstract: A polysilicon rod wherein in an area whose distance from a center of a cross section of the polysilicon rod is within ? of a radius and that excludes a seed core, average grain boundary characteristics have following features: a coincidence grain boundary ratio exceeds 20%, a grain boundary length exceeds 550 mm/mm2, and a random grain boundary length does not exceed 800 mm/mm2.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes an endless attraction member (200) attracting a sheet and rotating, and the attraction member (200) includes a plurality of electrode pattern areas. Each of the electrode pattern areas includes first and second electrodes (510 and 511) supplied the voltages from a power feed portion respectively. The electrode pattern areas are arrayed in the circumferential direction in such a manner that the electrode pattern areas are electrically insulated each other, and each circumferential direction length of the electrode pattern areas is set shorter than a circumferential direction length, between the power feed portion and the discharge portion, of the attraction member.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a first and second electrode elements arranged on an attracting member, including a plurality of attracting force generation electrodes and power feeding electrodes corresponding to the respective attracting force generation electrodes. The attracting force generation electrodes of the first and second electrode elements are alternately arranged. Further, the sheet feeding apparatus includes a power feeding brush arranged at a position different from an attracting position and capable of supplying voltages to the electrode elements, respectively, and a neutralization roller pair arranged at a position different from the attracting position and the power feeding brush and configured to be brought into contact with the electrode elements to remove a residual charge on the attracting member.

Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes a controller for shifting a sheet attractor from a stand-by state in which the attractor is away from a sheet accommodated in a sheet stacking device to an attraction state in which the attractor is elastically deformed to surface-contact with the sheet stacked on the stacker to electrostatically attract the sheet, to a separating state for separating the sheet from a lower sheet by lifting a downstream end of the sheet with respect to the feeding direction, and to a spaced state in which the attractor spaces the attracted sheet from the lower sheet, the controller changing a slackness of the attractor in the separating state on the basis of a stiffness information of the sheet.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet feeding device and an image forming apparatus capable of performing sheet feeding by electrostatic adsorption at a low noise with a simple configuration. A first outer nip conveying roller 201b and a second outer nip conveying roller 202b that nip an adsorbing member 200 supported in a state an inside is loose by a first inner nip conveying roller 201a and a second inner nip conveying roller 202b are provided.

Abstract: Provided are a sheet feeding device and an image forming apparatus which can separately feed a sheet with safety without causing the length of an adsorption member to be increased. One end of a flexible adsorption member (29) is fixed to a holding member (24) which is disposed on the upper side of a storing unit to store the sheet and rotated in a sheet feeding direction. Then, when the holding member (24) is rotated, the rigidity of a second region (29b) of the adsorption member (29) is set to be lower than that of a first region (29a) of the adsorption member (29) which comes into surface contact with the sheet stored in the storing unit and adsorbs the sheet by an adsorbing force by static electricity.

Abstract: Provided are a sheet feeding device and an image forming apparatus which can feed a sheet by an electrostatic adsorption with a simple configuration and with low noises. One end of a flexible adsorption member (29) is fixed to a holding member (24) rotating in a sheet feeding direction, and comes into surface contact with a sheet (P) stored in a sheet feeding cassette (20) while being elastically deformed when the holding member (24) is rotated, and adsorbs the sheet (P) by an adsorbing force by static electricity. Then, the sheet (P1) adsorbed to the adsorption member (29) is delivered to a registration roller (15) while winding up the adsorption member (29), and then the holding member (24) is stopped at a position where the adsorption member (29) is separated from the sheet.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet feeding device and an image forming apparatus capable of performing sheet feeding by electrostatic adsorption at a low noise with a simple configuration. An adsorbing member 400 is arranged to be rotatable in synchronization with rotation of one driving roller (rotary member) 401, and while the driving roller 401 is performing one rotation, the adsorbing member 400 adsorbs and feeds a sheet from a standby position, and then the adsorbing member 400 returns to the standby position again.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet feeding device and an image forming apparatus capable of performing sheet feeding by electrostatic adsorption at a low noise with a simple configuration. An adsorbing member 410 includes a straight line portion 410m and a curved portion 410n, and the adsorbing member 410 adsorbs a sheet through the curved portion 410n and conveys the sheet upward through the straight line portion 410m.

Abstract: Provided is a sheet feeding device and an image forming apparatus capable of performing sheet feeding by electrostatic adsorption at a low noise with a simple configuration. A first outer nip conveying roller 201b and a second outer nip conveying roller 202b that nip an adsorbing member 200 supported in a state an inside is loose by a first inner nip conveying roller 201a and a second inner nip conveying roller 202b are provided.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of accurately forming an image in a predetermined position on a sheet. An image forming unit forms a toner image on a drum. The toner image is transferred onto a belt. A motor drives the belt to convey the toner image to a transfer position where the toner image is transferred onto a sheet. An image position-detecting section detects that a patch image indicating the position of the toner image on the belt has reached a detection position upstream of the transfer position in an image conveying direction. A sheet position-detecting section detects that the leading edge of the sheet has reached a detection position upstream of the transfer position in a sheet conveying direction. An image speed-setting section controls the conveying speed of the belt based on timings of detection by the respective image position-detecting and sheet position-detecting sections.

Abstract: The method comprises at least three steps of a hydrogenation step (101) and/or a chlorination step (102), an impurity conversion step (103), and a purification step (104). In the impurity conversion step (103), an aldehyde compound represented by the general formula Ar—R—CHO (Ar; denotes a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, R; denotes an organic group having two or more carbon atoms) is added to convert donor impurities and acceptor impurities contained in a chlorosilane distillate to a high-boiling substance. The chlorosilane distillate after the donor impurities and acceptor impurities have been converted to a high-boiling substance is sent to the purification step (104). In the purification step (104), high purity chlorosilanes from which the donor impurities and acceptor impurities have been thoroughly removed are obtained by using a distillation column or the like, where the high purity chlorosilanes are recovered outside the system from the top of the column.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus capable of accurately forming an image in a predetermined position on a sheet. An image forming unit forms a toner image on a drum. The toner image is transferred onto a belt. A motor drives the belt to convey the toner image to a transfer position where the toner image is transferred onto a sheet. An image position-detecting section detects that a patch image indicating the position of the toner image on the belt has reached a detection position upstream of the transfer position in an image conveying direction. A sheet position-detecting section detects that the leading edge of the sheet has reached a detection position upstream of the transfer position in a sheet conveying direction. An image speed-setting section controls the conveying speed of the belt based on timings of detection by the respective image position-detecting and sheet position-detecting sections.

Abstract: The method comprises at least three steps of a hydrogenation step (101) and/or a chlorination step (102), an impurity conversion step (103), and a purification step (104). In the impurity conversion step (103), an aldehyde compound represented by the general formula Ar—R—CHO (Ar; denotes a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, R; denotes an organic group having two or more carbon atoms) is added to convert donor impurities and acceptor impurities contained in a chlorosilane distillate to a high-boiling substance. The chlorosilane distillate after the donor impurities and acceptor impurities have been converted to a high-boiling substance is sent to the purification step (104). In the purification step (104), high purity chlorosilanes from which the donor impurities and acceptor impurities have been thoroughly removed are obtained by using a distillation column or the like, where the high purity chlorosilanes are recovered outside the system from the top of the column.

Abstract: The invention is to provide a miniaturized sheet processing apparatus in that a conveying length a conveying distance need not be increased even though the number of sheets per bundle increases. A glue applying bookbinder that partially glues sheets and performs a pressing process to form a sheet bundle. The glue applying bookbinder includes a processing tray that stacks sheets, a glue applying portion that applies a glue on the sheets on the processing tray, and pressing portions that press the sheets on the processing tray. The glue applying portion is arranged such that the glue applying portion can be moved from a first standby position outside the sheets stacked on the stacking portion to a second standby position, different from the first standby position, outside the sheets through an upper surface of the sheets, and the pressing portions are moved integrally with the glue applying portion.