Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor that forms a toner image; a light emission element that exposes the photoreceptor; at least one light emission controller that controls light emission of the light emission element; and a hardware processor that transmits a signal including a control parameter for controlling the light emission element with respect to the light emission controller, wherein the light emission controller stops light emission control over the light emission element according to communication that receives the signal including the control parameter from the hardware processor.

Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting element layer including a plurality of light-emitting elements. The light-emitting element layer includes, for each of the plurality of light-emitting elements, a first electrode and a plurality of openings exposing the first electrode, and includes an edge cover covering an end portion of the first electrode, a plurality of light-emitting layers covering each of the plurality of openings, and a second electrode that is common to the plurality of light-emitting elements and covers the plurality of light-emitting layers. The second electrode includes a metal nanowire. Furthermore, the light-emitting element layer includes an auxiliary wiring line provided in a lattice pattern in a position overlapping the edge cover, and the auxiliary wiring line and the metal nanowire are electrically connected to each other.

Abstract: An automatic analyzer is equipped with a sterilization mechanism removably attached to an opening of a container that holds a reagent and having an ultraviolet light generation section that radiates ultraviolet light; a suction nozzle removably attached, together with the sterilization mechanism, to the opening of the container; an analysis section adding the reagent drawn in by suction from the container via the suction nozzle to the reagent, and executing an analysis operation; and a control section exercising variable control over an irradiation light intensity of the ultraviolet light generated by the ultraviolet light generation section.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor that forms a toner image; a light emission element that exposes the photoreceptor; at least one light emission controller that controls light emission of the light emission element; and a hardware processor that transmits a signal including a control parameter for controlling the light emission element with respect to the light emission controller, wherein the light emission controller stops light emission control over the light emission element according to communication that receives the signal including the control parameter from the hardware processor.

Abstract: A broadband light source device in a biochemical analyzing device, and facilitates maintenance thereof, including an LED substrate that is provided with an LED chip generating a light beam having a first wavelength band and including a fluorescent substance in the light beam having a first wavelength band and that is provided with an LED chip generating a light beam having a second wavelength band, in which the fluorescent substance includes at least alumina and at least one of Fe, Cr, Bi, Tl, Ce, Tb, Eu, and Mn and is produced by calcining a raw material that contains sodium at 6.1 to 15.9 wt. % in the whole raw material. The broadband light source device further includes an optical system including a light pipe that color-mixes the light beam passing through the fluorescent substance of the LED chip and the light beam emitted from the LED chip, and a flat dichroic prism.

Abstract: The present invention improves the performance of an analyzer and facilitates the maintenance of the analyzer. This fluorescent body is produced by firing a raw material which contains: an alumina; and at least one among Fe, Cr, Bi, Tl, Ce, Tb, Eu, and Mn, wherein the raw material contains 6.1-15.9 wt % of sodium with respect to the total amount of the raw material.

Abstract: A chip-mounted board including: micro light-emitting chips arranged in a matrix pattern in a light-emitting region; and a conductive line electrically connected to the micro light-emitting chips, the light-emitting region including a first region having a first luminance, a second region having a second luminance lower than the first luminance, and a third region having a third luminance lower than the first luminance and higher than the second luminance, the luminances being values determined with the same magnitude of current supplied to the micro light-emitting chips, the third region being positioned between the first region and the second region and satisfying the following formulas (1) and (2): (1+k)/(1?k)?63.895×tan(0.5°)×500/W+6.0525??(1) L2=k×L1??(2) wherein L1 represents the first luminance, L2 represents the second luminance, and W represents a width (unit: mm) of the third region.

Abstract: Provided is a backlight unit (2) including a light source (4) where multiple light-emitting elements (8) are two-dimensionally laid out, and a wavelength converting member (6) that has a phosphor (12), and that converts a wavelength of light from the light source, where a wavelength conversion capability varies in accordance with a distance to a light-emitting element that is closest of the multiple light-emitting elements, in order to reduce color unevenness that occurs depending on difference in distance between the light source and wavelength converting member of the backlight unit.

Abstract: A controller causes a sensor unit to perform: a first operation for detecting a front end of a sheet; and a second operation for detecting a type of the sheet performed at a timing that is based on detection of the front end of the sheet in the first operation.

Abstract: A conveyor conveys a sheet along a conveyance path provided with an ultrasonic sensor, and includes: an updating member that successively updates a parameter indicating aged deterioration of the conveyor; a searcher that searches a look-up table storing pieces of noise data of noises predicted to be superimposed on a detection signal of the ultrasonic sensor in accordance with a degree of the aged deterioration, and obtains a piece of noise data corresponding to a current parameter value of the conveyor; and a signal processor that uses, for signal processing, a remaining portion of the detection signal of the ultrasonic sensor excluding a portion corresponding to the piece of noise data obtained by the searcher.

Abstract: First and second prism sheets have pluralities of first and second unit prisms, respectively, arranged along a first direction and extending along a second direction, each of which has a base that is parallel to the first direction and a pair of oblique sides standing from both ends, respectively, of the base, and an angle that a second LED facing oblique side, which is one of the oblique sides that faces toward the LED, forms with respect to the base in the first direction in the second unit prism is smaller than an angle that a first LED facing oblique side that faces toward the LED forms with respect to the base in the first direction in the first unit prism.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide an automatic analysis apparatus which is capable of both sterilizing a reagent and suppressing property variations in the reagent. Provided is an automatic analysis apparatus including a reagent vessel which holds a reagent; a suction nozzle which sucks the reagent; an analysis unit which executes an analysis operation by adding a reagent sucked from the reagent vessel to a specimen via the suction nozzle; an ultraviolet ray source which sterilizes a reagent by ultraviolet irradiation; and an electrode or a substrate which supplies electric power to the ultraviolet ray source, in which a heat insulation portion is arranged between a reagent in the suction nozzle and the ultraviolet ray source and the electrode or the substrate, or, it is isolated between a reagent in the suction nozzle and the ultraviolet ray source and the electrode or the substrate.

Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source having a light exit surface, an optical member covering the light exit surface and applying an optical action to light exiting the light source, and a prism sheet coveting the optical member from an opposite side from the light source, and the prism sheet includes prism portions and a light reflecting portion that covers a part of a surface of the prism portions opposite from the optical member.

Abstract: A sheet conveyance device including: a conveyance roller that conveys a sheet; a motor that rotationally drives the conveyance roller at a constant speed; a central processing unit (CPU) that: periodically acquires temperature increase rates for the motor from a start of sheet conveyance, the temperature increase rates depending on magnitudes of effective current applied to the motor, the effective current depending on loads during sheet conveyance; and estimates a current temperature of the motor based on a cumulative value calculated from the temperature increase rates and time elapsed from the start of sheet conveyance; and a controller that executes a motor temperature control based on the estimated temperature of the motor.

Abstract: First and second prism sheets have pluralities of first and second unit prisms, respectively, arranged along a first direction and extending along a second direction, each of which has a base that is parallel to the first direction and a pair of oblique sides standing from both ends, respectively, of the base, and an angle that a second LED facing oblique side, which is one of the oblique sides that faces toward the LED, forms with respect to the base in the first direction in the second unit prism is smaller than an angle that a first LED facing oblique side that faces toward the LED forms with respect to the base in the first direction in the first unit prism.

Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source, a light guide plate including an edge surface as a light entering surface through which light from the light source enters and one of a pair of plate surfaces as a light exit surface through which the light exits, and a light collecting sheet disposed to cover the light exit surface and applying a light collecting effect to the light exiting through the light exit surface. The light collecting sheet includes a base member having a sheet shape and a non-birefringence property and a light collecting layer disposed on a plate surface of the base member.

Abstract: Provided is a backlight unit (2) including a light source (4) where multiple light-emitting elements (8) are two-dimensionally laid out, and a wavelength converting member (6) that has a phosphor (12), and that converts a wavelength of light from the light source, where a wavelength conversion capability varies in accordance with a distance to a light-emitting element that is closest of the multiple light-emitting elements, in order to reduce color unevenness that occurs depending on difference in distance between the light source and wavelength converting member of the backlight unit.

Abstract: An analyzer that has a simple configuration, that is inexpensive, that can improve safety, and that can inhibit proliferation of microorganisms using ultraviolet light is realized. A first electric power switch, a second electric power switch, and a third electric power switch are connected in series between an ultraviolet LED that irradiates an interior of a shared reagent storage container with ultraviolet light and a power supply that supplies electric power to the ultraviolet LED. The first electric power switch, the second electric power switch, and the third electric power switch are configured with two contact points and a connection section that connects and disconnects the two contact points. The first electric power switch is opened when a reagent storage door is opened, and the second electric power switch is opened in response to an action of extracting an ultraviolet irradiation section from a shared reagent storage container.

Abstract: A stapling apparatus includes a sheet insertion portion that receives insertion of a sheet bundle, a stapler that staples the sheet bundle, a drive apparatus that drives the stapler, and a controller that controls the drive apparatus. The controller has the drive apparatus driven with first electric power when the drive apparatus operates in an on-line stapling mode in which the sheet bundle ejected from an image forming apparatus is stapled and has the drive apparatus driven with second electric power lower than maximum electric power that can be set as first electric power when the drive apparatus operates in a manual stapling mode in which the sheet bundle inserted through the sheet insertion portion is stapled.

Abstract: With the purpose of providing a light-emitting layer that is suitable for mass production and a light-emitting device having the light-emitting layer, without including a high-temperature process, there is provided a light-emitting device having: a light-emitting layer formed of a photosensitive material, in which quantum dots are dispersed; a first electrode of a lower layer than the light-emitting layer; and a second electrode of a higher layer than the light-emitting layer.