Abstract: A method for manufacturing an enameled wire includes providing a conductor with an enamel coating thereon, and exposing the conductor to a light with a wavelength absorbable by a solvent included in the enamel coating to evaporate the solvent. The light includes a peak wavelength of less than 4 ?m.

Abstract: A die with alignment mechanism includes a die including a through-hole through which a traveling wire travels, a bearing member for rotationally moving the die in a circumferential direction of the traveling wire, and a movable member that moves the die so that a central axis of the through-hole is aligned with a travel direction of the traveling wire without inhibiting the rotational movement of the die produced by the bearing member when the travel direction changes in a direction orthogonal to the travel direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a charging unit, an exposure unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, a detector, and a controller. The charging unit charges the photoreceptor. The exposure unit exposes the photoreceptor charged by the charging unit to light and forms an electrostatic latent image on the photoreceptor. The developing unit develops the electrostatic latent image that has been exposed by the exposure unit and formed on the photoreceptor. The transfer unit transfers an image obtained by development by the developing unit to a transfer object. The detector detects strip developer, which is a strip-shaped developer image formed on the transfer object.

Abstract: A cleaning device includes a cleaning member, a first bearing member, a second bearing member, and a moving mechanism. The cleaning member includes a shaft portion and an elastic layer disposed around the shaft portion. The elastic layer is brought into contact with a rotating charging body. The cleaning member cleans the charging body while rotating. The first bearing member supports a first end portion of the shaft portion while rendering the shaft portion rotatable. The second bearing member supports a second end portion of the shaft portion while rendering the shaft portion rotatable. The moving mechanism is supported by the first bearing member and the second bearing member. The moving mechanism periodically moves the shaft portion in an axial direction of the shaft portion together with a rotation of the cleaning member.

Abstract: A die with alignment mechanism includes a die including a through-hole through which a traveling wire travels, a bearing member for rotationally moving the die in a circumferential direction of the traveling wire, and a movable member that moves the die so that a central axis of the through-hole is aligned with a travel direction of the traveling wire without inhibiting the rotational movement of the die produced by the bearing member when the travel direction changes in a direction orthogonal to the travel direction.

Abstract: A cleaning device includes a cleaning member, a first bearing member, a second bearing member, and a moving mechanism. The cleaning member includes a shaft portion and an elastic layer disposed around the shaft portion. The elastic layer is brought into contact with a rotating charging body. The cleaning member cleans the charging body while rotating. The first bearing member supports a first end portion of the shaft portion while rendering the shaft portion rotatable. The second bearing member supports a second end portion of the shaft portion while rendering the shaft portion rotatable. The moving mechanism is supported by the first bearing member and the second bearing member. The moving mechanism periodically moves the shaft portion in an axial direction of the shaft portion together with a rotation of the cleaning member.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing roller that fixes a toner image to a recording medium; a cleaning roller that contacts the fixing roller and rotates, and cleans off toner adhered to a surface of the fixing roller; and a collecting roller that contacts the cleaning roller and rotates, and collects toner adhered to a surface of the cleaning roller, the collecting roller including an air passage section that extends through the collecting roller in an axial direction of the collecting roller and through which air passes.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing roller that fixes a toner image to a recording medium; a cleaning roller that contacts the fixing roller and rotates, and cleans off toner adhered to a surface of the fixing roller; and a collecting roller that contacts the cleaning roller and rotates, and collects toner adhered to a surface of the cleaning roller, the collecting roller including an air passage section that extends through the collecting roller in an axial direction of the collecting roller and through which air passes.

Abstract: There is provided a method for manufacturing an insulated wire, including at least: coating an outer periphery of a running wire with an insulation coating material discharged from a coating material discharging tank; baking the insulation coating material by an incinerator, the insulation coating material being used for coating the outer periphery of the running wire; and cooling the running wire by a cooling mechanism so that a temperature of the running wire before being coated with the insulation coating material, is a specific temperature, based on a temperature of the running wire detected by a temperature detector, wherein the coating, the baking, and the cooling are repeated.

Abstract: A flat wiring member includes a plurality of rectangular enamel coated wires arranged in the form of a flat plate, a wiring stem portion that the rectangular enamel coated wires are arranged in parallel to each other and adjacent ones of the rectangular enamel coated wires are bonded to each other at a surface of an enamel coat layer thereof, and a wiring branch portion with the rectangular enamel coated wires bent so as to branch off from the wiring stem portion.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes multiple image-forming units capable of forming a full-bleed image with no margin around a recording medium in an image-forming region larger than an image-forming surface region of the recording medium using three or more toners having a volume average particle size of about 2 to about 5 ?m, an intermediate transfer member, a transfer device, a fixing device, and an image-forming process unit that, at least if an image to be formed in a peripheral region of the recording medium during the formation of the full-bleed image has a toner layer thickness larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold, converts the image to be formed in the peripheral region of the recording medium into an image having a toner layer thickness smaller than or equal to the threshold while maintaining the image density ratio of the individual toners.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus includes multiple image-forming units capable of forming a full-bleed image with no margin around a recording medium in an image-forming region larger than an image-forming surface region of the recording medium using three or more toners having a volume average particle size of about 2 to about 5 ?m, an intermediate transfer member, a transfer device, a fixing device, and an image-forming process unit that, at least if an image to be formed in a peripheral region of the recording medium during the formation of the full-bleed image has a toner layer thickness larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold, converts the image to be formed in the peripheral region of the recording medium into an image having a toner layer thickness smaller than or equal to the threshold while maintaining the image density ratio of the individual toners.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an enameled wire includes providing a conductor with an enamel coating thereon, and exposing the conductor to a light with a wavelength absorbable by a solvent included in the enamel coating to evaporate the solvent. The light includes a peak wavelength of less than 4 ?m.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that rotates, a latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier, a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier, with a developer including a toner and an external additive, a transfer unit that transfers an image developed on the image carrier to a recording material, a cleaning member that cleans a residue remaining on the image carrier after transfer, a supply unit that supplies a developing bias, which has an alternating-current component superimposed on a direct-current component, between the image carrier and the developing unit, and a setting part that increases a peak-to-peak value of the alternating-current component of the developing bias when a non-image region on the image carrier passes a developing region, in comparison to when an image region on the image carrier passes the developing region.

Abstract: There is provided an insulated wire including: a conductor wire; and a polyamide-imide insulation coating formed around the conductor wire, the polyamide-imide insulation coating being made from a polyamide-imide resin based insulating varnish, the varnish being synthesized by reaction of an isocyanate constituent and an acid constituent in a solvent, the isocyanate constituent including 5 to 50 mol % of 2,4?-diphenylmethane-diisocyanate having a flexible molecular structure.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that rotates, a latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier, a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier, with a developer including a toner and an external additive, a transfer unit that transfers an image developed on the image carrier to a recording material, a cleaning member that cleans a residue remaining on the image carrier after transfer, a supply unit that supplies a developing bias, which has an alternating-current component superimposed on a direct-current component, between the image carrier and the developing unit, and a setting part that increases a peak-to-peak value of the alternating-current component of the developing bias when a non-image region on the image carrier passes a developing region, in comparison to when an image region on the image carrier passes the developing region.

Abstract: A insulated wire includes a conductor, and an insulating coating on a periphery of the conductor. The insulating coating includes an insulating film formed by applying and baking a polyester imide resin insulating coating material, and the insulating film has a relative permittivity of less than 3.5 both in a dried state and in a moisture-absorbed state. The insulating film is formed by applying and baking a polyester imide resin insulating coating material including an imide dicarboxylic acid and an alcohol component, the imide dicarboxylic acid being obtained by synthesizing a diamine component including aromatic diamine having not less than three aromatic rings and an acid component including aromatic tricarboxylic acid anhydride.

Abstract: An electrically insulated wire includes a rectangular conductor having a substantially rectangular cross section with corners shaped in a circular arc, and an electrical insulating coating formed by heating an electrical insulating varnish applied to coat an outer periphery of the rectangular conductor. The electrical insulating coating includes a thickest portion and a thinnest portion in a peripheral direction thereof. The rectangular conductor has a curvature radius of the corners of 0.6 mm or less and a ratio L2/L1 of 2.0 or less where L1 is a length of a short side in a width direction and L2 is a length of a long side in a longitudinal direction. The electrical insulating coating has a ratio d1/d2 of 1.3 or less where d1 is a coating thickness of the thickest portion and d2 is a coating thickness of the thinnest portion in the peripheral direction of the electrical insulating coating.

Abstract: A flat wiring member includes a plurality of rectangular enamel coated wires arranged in the form of a flat plate, a wiring stem portion that the rectangular enamel coated wires are arranged in parallel to each other and adjacent ones of the rectangular enamel coated wires are bonded to each other at a surface of an enamel coat layer thereof, and a wiring branch portion with the rectangular enamel coated wires bent so as to branch off from the wiring stem portion.

Abstract: An insulating coating material includes a polyamide-imide resin insulating coating material, and surface-treated inorganic fine particles dispersed in the polyamide-imide resin insulating coating material. A viscosity measured by an E-type viscometer is 1000 to 4000 mPa·s at 30° C. and at a shear rate of 200 s?1 and 4000 to 12000 mPa·s at 30° C. and at a shear rate of 1 s?1. An insulated wire includes a rectangular conductor, and an insulating layer formed on the rectangular conductor and including the insulating coating material.