Abstract: A transfer member includes: an inner layer; and an outer layer that is adhered to the inner layer and has a hardness lower than a hardness of the inner layer.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a recording medium whose image formation surface has electric conductivity; a transfer unit that makes contact with the image formation surface of the recording medium transported by the transport unit and transfers an image formed with particles onto the image formation surface by an electric field formed between the transfer unit and the image formation surface; and a support unit that has electric conductivity, supports the recording medium so as to be conductive with the image formation surface of the recording medium, and is transported to the transfer unit together with the recording medium by the transport unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer unit that transfers an image onto an object by making contact with the object; a holding unit that holds the object having a circumferential surface so that the circumferential surface rotates along a transfer direction of the transfer unit; and a transport unit that transports the holding unit holding the object along a transport path, and the transfer unit transfers an image onto the circumferential surface of the object in a circumferential direction as the object rotates, by making contact with the circumferential surface of the object maintained at a transfer position.

Abstract: A transfer device includes a transfer drum that rotates in conjunction with a fixing roller, a transfer belt that transfers an image onto a medium while rotating along with the transfer drum in a state where the medium is nipped between the transfer belt and the transfer drum, a pressing member that is disposed in a space enclosed by the transfer belt, and a switching unit that moves the pressing member and switches between a pressed state in which the transfer belt is pressed against the transfer drum and a separated state in which the transfer belt is separated from the transfer drum.

Abstract: A cylinder member includes: a cylinder body having a cross section and including a dent portion; a sheet member wrapped around the cylinder body and including a metal layer contacting the cylinder body and an outer layer; a first attachment member on a sheet member first end portion and removably attached to the dent portion; a second attachment member on a metal layer end portion protruding from the outer layer in the circumferential direction at a sheet member second end portion, the second attachment member being removably attached to the dent portion; a tension-applying mechanism pulling the second attachment member in a dent portion depth direction to apply tension to the metal layer; a projection on one of the second attachment member and metal layer end portion; and a fitting portion on other one of the second attachment member and the metal layer end portion and fitted to the projection.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports an object along a transport path; a transfer unit that transfers an image onto the object on the transport path; and a fixing unit that has a heat source for increasing a temperature inside the fixing unit, into which the object onto which the image has been transferred is carried along the transport path, and includes a first opening and closing member that opens a carry-in opening when the object is carried into the fixing unit and closes the carry-in opening after the object is carried into the fixing unit.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: a transporter that transports an object; a transfer unit that transfers an image onto the object transported by the transporter; a fixing unit that fixes, onto the object, the image transferred by the transfer unit; and a processor configured to: in a first mode, exert control to obtain the state in which the fixing unit enables an image to be fixed; and, in a second mode, exert control to obtain the state in which the fixing unit does not fix an image.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer unit that transfers an image onto an object by making contact with the object; a holding unit that holds the object having a circumferential surface so that the circumferential surface rotates along a transfer direction of the transfer unit; and a transport unit that transports the holding unit holding the object along a transport path, and the transfer unit transfers an image onto the circumferential surface of the object in a circumferential direction as the object rotates, by making contact with the circumferential surface of the object maintained at a transfer position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit that transfers an image onto an object by making contact with the object; an attachment table to which the object is attached and that changes a height thereof in accordance with force by which the transfer unit makes contact with the object; and a transport unit that transports the attachment table to which the object has been attached along a transport path.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: a transfer unit that transfers an image onto an object; a transporter that transports the object in the horizontal direction; a raising/lowering unit that raises and lowers the object in the vertical direction; and a processor configured to: after height adjustment performed by the raising/lowering unit, if the object has a top whose height is greater than a predetermined height when the object is to be transported to the transfer unit, stop the transport of the object to the transfer unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a recording medium whose image formation surface has electric conductivity; a transfer unit that makes contact with the image formation surface of the recording medium transported by the transport unit and transfers an image formed with particles onto the image formation surface by an electric field formed between the transfer unit and the image formation surface; and a support unit that has electric conductivity, supports the recording medium so as to be conductive with the image formation surface of the recording medium, and is transported to the transfer unit together with the recording medium by the transport unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an attachment table to which an object is attached; a transfer unit that transfers an image onto the object; and a transport unit that transports the attachment table along a transport path that has a transport start position on one side relative to the transfer unit and has a transport end position on a same side as the transport start position relative to the transfer unit, the transport path extending beyond the transfer unit and the attachment table being transported so as to turn back at a position beyond the transfer unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a recording medium; a transfer unit that transfers an image formed with particles onto an image formation surface of the recording medium transported by the transport unit by an electric field formed between the transfer unit and the image formation surface by making contact with the image formation surface; and a support unit that supports the recording medium, is transported to the transfer unit together with the recording medium by the transport unit, and is not directly conductive with the transfer unit.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a recording medium having an image formation surface whose height changes from a front end toward a rear end; a transfer unit that transfers an image onto the image formation surface of the recording medium transported by the transport unit by making contact with the image formation surface; and a support unit that supports the recording medium without hindering contact of the transfer unit with the image formation surface and is transported together with the recording medium by the transport unit.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition having excellent sensitivity to exposure. Another object of the present invention is to provide a resist film, a pattern forming method, and a method for manufacturing an electronic device, which relate to the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition. The actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition contains a resin which is decomposed by action of acid to increase polarity, in which at least one of a requirement that the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition further contains a compound represented by Formula (1), or a requirement that the resin which is decomposed by action of acid to increase polarity has a residue formed by removing one hydrogen atom from the compound represented by Formula (1) is satisfied.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a colorant image former; an image holder configured to hold a colorant image formed by the colorant image former and to be rotationally driven; a transfer member configured to transfer the colorant image onto a recording medium, which is transported from an upstream side, by sandwiching the recording medium between the transfer member and the image holder, and rotationally driving the transfer member to transport the recording medium to a downstream side; and a contact-and-separation mechanism configured to relatively contact or separate the image holder and the transfer member, in which, in response to an abnormality being detected, the image forming apparatus operates in a mode in which the contact-and-separation mechanism relatively separates the image holder and the transfer member, and then rotational driving of the transfer member is stopped after rotational driving of the image holder is stopped.

Abstract: Provided are an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition with which LWR of a pattern to be formed can be reduced; a resist film; a pattern forming method; and a method for manufacturing an electronic device. The actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition of the present invention is an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing a resin (A) having a repeating unit (a), in which the repeating unit (a) is a repeating unit having an ionic group which generates an acid in a case where a leaving group is eliminated by irradiation with an actinic ray or a radiation, in which a repeating unit obtained by replacing the leaving group with a hydrogen atom has a molecular weight of 300 or less, and the repeating unit (a) is a predetermined amount or more with respect to a total solid content of the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a kit and a method which are capable of measuring a measurement target substance in a biological sample with high precision in a measurement range from a low concentration range to a high concentration range. According to the present invention, there is provided a kit for measuring a measurement target substance in a biological sample, including a labeled particle having a first binding substance capable of binding to a measurement target substance in a biological sample, and a substrate having a second binding substance capable of binding to any one of the measurement target substance or the first binding substance, in which the labeled particle is a luminescent labeled particle containing at least one kind of compound represented by Formula (1) and a particle. Each symbol in Formula (1) has the meaning described in the present specification.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a photoelectric conversion element exhibiting an excellent production suitability. Also, the other object of the invention is to provide an optical sensor and an imaging element comprising the photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element of the invention includes a conductive film, a photoelectric conversion film, and a transparent conductive film, in this order, in which the photoelectric conversion film contains a compound represented by Formula (1) below.

Abstract: A method for attaching a sheet member to a cylinder body includes: preliminarily fixing a first end portion of the sheet member to a first fixation portion of a cylinder body provided in an apparatus body and having a substantially circular cross section; wrapping the sheet member around the cylinder body by rotating the cylinder body; fixing the first end portion and a second end portion of the sheet member to the first fixation portion and a second fixation portion, respectively; and installing an installation member between the apparatus body and an inner surface of the sheet member before the wrapping of the sheet member around the cylinder body.