Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sensor for tires capable of measuring a physical quantity including a temperature of a tire. An aspect of the present disclosure is a sensor for tires including: a base portion 5 fixed to an inside of a tire T and in contact with the tire T, and a sensor chip 7 including a tire temperature detection unit that detects the temperature of the tire T through the base portion 5.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a strain amount detection device capable of accurately detecting deformations, in multiple directions, of a tire by one strain measuring element. A strain amount detection device according to the present invention includes a disk-shaped base member that holds a strain measuring element, in which the base member acts as a strain body by transmitting strain of a tire to the strain measuring element.

Abstract: A second unit includes a restricted portion that comes into contact with a restricting portion provided to a body of an apparatus, the restricted portion coming into contact with the restricting portion, in order to restrict the movement of a developer carrier in a direction to make contact with an image carrier, when a developing cartridge has not reached a predetermined attachment position, and not coming into contact with the restricting portion when the developing cartridge is in the predetermined attachment position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of relocating optical devices onto a carrier substrate in a case where a pixel pitch of a display is not an integer multiple of a pitch of the optical devices arrayed on a sapphire substrate. A moving speed ratio between a donor substrate and a receptor substrate is determined from an array pitch (3, 4) of optical devices (2) formed on the sapphire substrate and an array pitch (5, 7) of optical devices to be transferred onto a carrier substrate (6), and the optical devices are subjected to LIFT (laser transferred) in synchronization with movement of the donor substrate, whereby the optical devices on the sapphire substrate are transferred onto the carrier substrate at an array pitch that is identical to the pixel pitch of the display.

Abstract: A toner conveying apparatus includes: a first conveying portion to convey the toner, the first conveying portion having a first screw that is rotatable, and a first conveying passage forming member that forms a first conveying space so as to surround the first screw; and a second conveying portion to convey upward the toner from the first conveying portion, the second conveying portion having a second screw that is rotatable, and a second conveying passage forming member that forms a second conveying space so as to surround the second screw and that includes a connecting portion. The first conveying space includes a first region and a second region that is closer to the connecting portion than the first region is, and a cross-sectional area of the first conveying space is smaller in the second region than in the first region.

Abstract: Proposed are a method and an apparatus for transferring devices arranged on a first substrate to a second substrate by using laser light while correcting positional deviations of the devices. The present invention involves: acquiring actual positional information about devices on the first substrate; performing grouping in accordance with a criterion determined on the basis of an allowable positional deviation amount; correcting, for each group unit, a position of the first substrate such that positions of the devices fall into a range of an allowable positional deviation amount; and applying laser light from the back surface of the first substrate and transferring the devices to the second substrate.

Abstract: A toner conveying apparatus conveying toner used for image forming includes a first conveying portion to convey the toner and having a first screw and a first conveying passage forming member that forms a first conveying space, and a second conveying portion to convey upward the toner and including a second screw and a second conveying passage forming member that forms a second conveying space. The second conveying passage forming member has a connecting port connected to the first conveying passage forming member. The second screw overlaps with the first screw viewed in a direction of a rotational axial line of the first rotation shaft. A cross-sectional area of the first conveying space orthogonal to the direction of the rotation axial line in a second region is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the first conveying space orthogonal to the direction of the rotational axial line in a first region.

Abstract: A toner conveying apparatus includes a frame body, a conveyance member, a light transmission portion, a light emission portion, a light reception portion, and a rubbing member. The frame body forms a conveyance passage surrounded by a wall portion and is provided with a reception inlet for receiving toner from outside. The conveyance member is provided in the conveyance passage and rotates around a first rotation axis to convey the toner. The light transmission portion that is provided in the wall portion and has translucency. The light emission portion emits light toward an inside of the conveyance passage through the light transmission portion. The light reception portion receives the light emitted from the light emission portion through the light transmission portion. The rubbing member rubs on the light transmission portion by being rotated around a second rotation axis extending in a direction crossing the first rotation axis.

Abstract: A toner storage apparatus to which a toner cartridge is mountable by being moved in a moving direction includes a toner storage frame that has a reception port and a seal attachment surface, stores toner supplied from the cartridge via the reception port, and has a protrusion from the attachment surface, and a seal portion that is attached to the attachment surface, has a rubbing surface that rubs against the cartridge when the cartridge is moved in the moving direction, and has a communication hole with the reception port. At least part of the protrusion is inside the communication hole and upstream of the reception port in the moving direction. An end of the protrusion is closer to the attachment surface than the rubbing surface in a direction perpendicular to the attachment surface. The seal portion contacts an outer peripheral surface of the protrusion extending in the perpendicular direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, and a toner container configured to take a mounted state and a dismounted state, and including a supply port, wherein the apparatus main body includes a reception port and a seal member, the reception port is configured to receive the toner supplied from the toner container and communicate with the supply port in the mounted state, and the seal member is disposed around the reception port and configured to seal a gap between the toner container and the apparatus main body in the mounted state, and wherein the seal member includes a foam layer and an elastic sheet fixed to a surface of the foam layer, and the seal member is partially pressed in the mounted state so that the elastic sheet deflects in the thickness direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a developing apparatus including: a developer bearing member that bears a developer; a developing frame body that rotatably supports the developer bearing member; a one-end side end member that supports one-end side in an axis direction of the developer bearing member of the developing frame body; and another-end side end member that supports the other-end side in the axis direction of the developer bearing member of the developing frame body. Each of the one-end side end member and the other-end side end member is independently movable with respect to the developing frame body.

Abstract: A toner conveying device for conveying toner, comprising: a first conveying portion; and a second conveying portion conveying the toner conveyed from the first conveying portion. The first conveying portion further includes: a first screw which includes a first rotation shaft and a first blade portion, the first screw including an engaging portion and a first protruded portion on a first end portion; and a first conveying passage forming member having a first inner wall face which forms a first conveying passage. The second conveying portion includes: a second screw which includes a second rotation shaft and a second blade portion, the second screw including an engaged portion and a second protruded portion on a second end portion; and a second conveying passage forming member having a second inner wall face which forms a second conveying passage, and which is connected with the first conveying passage forming member.

Abstract: A second unit includes a restricted portion that comes into contact with a restricting portion provided to a body of an apparatus, the restricted portion coming into contact with the restricting portion, in order to restrict the movement of a developer carrier in a direction to make contact with an image carrier, when a developing cartridge has not reached a predetermined attachment position, and not coming into contact with the restricting portion when the developing cartridge is in the predetermined attachment position.

Abstract: A second unit includes a restricted portion that comes into contact with a restricting portion provided to a body of an apparatus, the restricted portion coming into contact with the restricting portion, in order to restrict the movement of a developer carrier in a direction to make contact with an image carrier, when a developing cartridge has not reached a predetermined attachment position, and not coming into contact with the restricting portion when the developing cartridge is in the predetermined attachment position.

Abstract: A first contact portion provided on a first shutter member that opens and closes a receiving port for receiving a developer from a cartridge and a second contact portion provided on the cartridge are configured to contact each other in an attachment and detachment direction of the cartridge so that the first shutter member is in a position at which the receiving port is opened. The first shutter member is urged by a first urging member so that a contacting state between the first contact portion and the second contact portion is maintained until a second shutter member that opens and closes a supplying port of the cartridge closes the supplying port when the cartridge is discharged from the apparatus body.

Abstract: A developing apparatus includes a developer carrying member configured to carry developer, and a developer supply member configured to supply the developer to the developer carrying member, the developer supply member including a shaft, first and second driving members disposed at a first end and a second end of the shaft, respectively, and a toner supply unit disposed between the first end and the second end of the shaft, wherein the first driving member receives a driving force for rotating the developer supply member, and the second driving member outputs the driving force, and wherein the second driving member is mounted to the shaft without play in a rotational direction of the developer supply member with respect to the shaft.

Abstract: A toner conveying device for conveying toner, comprising: a first conveying portion; and a second conveying portion conveying the toner conveyed from the first conveying portion. The first conveying portion further includes: a first screw which includes a first rotation shaft and a first blade portion, the first screw including an engaging portion and a first protruded portion on a first end portion; and a first conveying passage forming member having a first inner wall face which forms a first conveying passage. The second conveying portion includes: a second screw which includes a second rotation shaft and a second blade portion, the second screw including an engaged portion and a second protruded portion on a second end portion; and a second conveying passage forming member having a second inner wall face which forms a second conveying passage, and which is connected with the first conveying passage forming member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a developing apparatus including: a developer bearing member that bears a developer; a developing frame body that rotatably supports the developer bearing member; a one-end side end member that supports one-end side in an axis direction of the developer bearing member of the developing frame body; and another-end side end member that supports the other-end side in the axis direction of the developer bearing member of the developing frame body. Each of the one-end side end member and the other-end side end member is independently movable with respect to the developing frame body.

Abstract: A toner storage apparatus to which a toner cartridge is mountable by being moved in a moving direction includes a toner storage frame that has a reception port and a seal attachment surface, stores toner supplied from the cartridge via the reception port, and has a protrusion from the attachment surface, and a seal portion that is attached to the attachment surface, has a rubbing surface that rubs against the cartridge when the cartridge is moved in the moving direction, and has a communication hole with the reception port. At least part of the protrusion is inside the communication hole and upstream of the reception port in the moving direction. An end of the protrusion is closer to the attachment surface than the rubbing surface in a direction perpendicular to the attachment surface. The seal portion contacts an outer peripheral surface of the protrusion extending in the perpendicular direction.

Abstract: A developing cartridge includes a developing frame body rotatably supporting a developing roller. A first end member is attached to the first end of the developing frame and a second end member is attached to the second end of the developing frame body. The first end member and the second end member are rotatable independently of each other and relative to the developing frame body about a rotational axis common to the first end member and the second end member, and with rotation of the developing frame body relative to the first end member and the second end member, the developing roller moves from a first position to a second position in a direction that crosses a position of an axis of the developing roller when the developing roller is in the first position.