Abstract: A rotation device includes a rotator that includes a recessed portion formed on an outer circumferential surface and that rotates in a predetermined rotation direction, a removing unit that comes into contact with a portion of the outer circumferential surface in a range from an upstream end to a downstream end of the recessed portion in the rotation direction due to rotation of the rotator and that removes a foreign substance that adheres to the outer circumferential surface, an application unit that applies an inward load to the removing unit inward in a radial direction of the rotator, and an inclined surface that is located at the removing unit or the upstream end and that comes into contact with the other of the removing unit or the upstream end to move the removing unit entering the recessed portion due to the inward load outward in the radial direction of the rotator along with rotation of the rotator.

Abstract: Provided is a thin-film forming raw material, which is used in an atomic layer deposition method, including a compound represented by the following general formula (1): M(R1)x1[A1-N(R2)(R3)]y1 ??(1) in the formula (1), R1, R2, and R3 each independently represent a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, A1 represents a linear or branched alkylene group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, x1 represents an integer of from 0 to 2, y1 represents an integer of from 1 to 3, and M represents an indium atom or a zinc atom, provided that when M represents an indium atom, a compound in which x1 represents 2, y1 represents 1, and R1, R2, and R3 each represent a methyl group is excluded.

Abstract: Provided is a tin compound, which is represented by the following general formula (1): in the formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms or an alkylsilyl group having 3 to 12 carbon atoms, R3 and R4 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, and R5 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A transport device includes multiple rotation members that rotate, a cycle member that has a loop shape, and that is wound around the multiple rotation members to cycle together with rotation of the rotation members, at least one holding member that is attached to the cycle member, that cycles together with the cycle member, and that holds a leading end portion of a recording medium while being spaced apart from each other in a width direction when the leading end portion arrives at a holding position, and a deformation member that deforms the leading end portion in a thickness direction throughout the width direction by time when the leading end portion arrives at the holding position.

Abstract: A transport unit includes a transport device including a loop member that turns and that has no ends, the transport device transporting a recording medium with the recording medium attracted to a surface of the loop member; a guide unit that changes a transport direction of the recording medium fed from the transport device and that guides the recording medium in one of multiple transport directions; and a controller that controls the transport device, based on the transport direction that is changed by the guide unit such that attraction force of the transport device is changed.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit that transports a recording medium and that includes a grip portion that grips the recording medium on which a toner image is formed, and a movement unit that moves the grip portion; a heating unit that heats the recording medium that is transported by the transport unit; and a controller that exerts control such that the transport unit stops transport after the recording medium is retracted to a position downstream of the heating unit in a case where the transport unit stops the transport.

Abstract: A fixing device includes: a first roller on which an elastic layer is formed; and a second roller that forms a clamping portion at which a recording medium is clamped between the first roller and the second roller, a groove extending in an axial direction being formed in an outer peripheral surface of the second roller, and the second roller not including an elastic layer.

Abstract: A transportation device includes a first transporter, a second transporter movable between a contact position and a separate position toward and away from the first transporter to hold a to-be-transported object between the second transporter and the first transporter in the contact position, and a transportation unit that transports the to-be-transported object to a nip area where the first transporter and the second transporter hold the to-be-transported object therebetween while the second transporter is located in the separate position. The second transporter moves from the separate position to the contact position to hold the to-be-transported object transported to the nip area by the transportation unit between the second transporter and the first transporter to transport the to-be-transported object.

Abstract: A transport device includes: a first transport body; a second transport body that is movable between a contact position and a separate position with respect to the first transport body and that nips a transported material with the first transport body at the contact position; and a transport section that includes a holder to hold a leading end portion of the transported material and that transports the transported material toward a nip region where the first transport body and the second transport body nip the transported material in a state in which the second transport body is located at the separate position. After holding of the leading end portion by the holder for the transported material transported by the transport section has been released, the second transport body nips the transported material with the first transport body and transports the transported material.

Abstract: Methods provide for post processing at least one flexible glass sheet with the step of providing the glass sheet with an initial shape. The method then further includes the step of flexing the glass sheet into a secondary shape from the initial shape. The method then further includes the step of post processing the glass sheet while biasing the glass sheet into the secondary shape. The method then still further includes the step of releasing the glass sheet to at least partially return to the initial shape.

Abstract: Methods provide for post processing at least one flexible glass sheet with the step of providing the glass sheet with an initial shape. The method then further includes the step of flexing the glass sheet into a secondary shape from the initial shape. The method then further includes the step of post processing the glass sheet while biasing the glass sheet into the secondary shape. The method then still further includes the step of releasing the glass sheet to at least partially return to the initial shape.