Abstract: A correcting apparatus of a seamless belt includes a bottomed cylindrical main body that has an inner peripheral surface formed of mirror surface and that accommodates a seamless belt at a distance from the inner peripheral surface, a lid body detachably attached to the main body, a fixing unit that fixes an upper end and a lower end of the seamless belt to the mirror surface, a pressing unit that presses the seamless belt accommodated in the main body against the mirror surface, and a heating unit that heats the mirror surface.

Abstract: A cylindrical heating element comprising a cylindrical member, a metallic pattern provided on at least one of outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the cylindrical member, which is capable of generating heat by being electrified, and a resistive pattern for detecting temperature provided on at least one of the outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the cylindrical member. A fixing device which passes a recording medium on which an unfixed toner image is held through a nip formed by a rotating member for heating and a rotating member for pressurizing which is pressed against the rotating member for heating to fix the toner image on the recording medium with heating under pressure, the rotating member for heating comprising the cylindrical heating element.

Abstract: A magnetizing coil and a demagnetizing coil are disposed in a fixing apparatus that uses electromagnetic induction to heat a conductive heat-producing rotating body and thermally fixes a toner image onto a recording sheet in one of a plurality of sizes. The magnetizing coil is arranged along the outer surface of the rotating body and heats the rotating body through electromagnetic induction heating. The demagnetizing coil is arranged in partially-overlapping proximity to the magnetizing coil and suppresses overheating in a non-sheet-passing region of the rotating body by partially canceling out the flux produced by the magnetizing coil when fixing is performed on a small sheet. The demagnetizing coil is a coil pattern printed on a flexible substrate, and the wire width thereof is wider than the inter-wire distance of neighboring portions of the wire.

Abstract: A cylindrical heating element comprising a cylindrical member, a metallic pattern provided on at least one of outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the cylindrical member, which is capable of generating heat by being electrified, and a ring-shaped electrode portion provided on at least one of the outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the cylindrical member in at least one of end portions of the cylindrical member and connected to the metallic pattern in such a manner that the metallic pattern can be electrified through the electrode portion. A fixing device which passes a recording medium on which an unfixed toner image is held through a nip formed by a rotating member for heating and a rotating member for pressurizing which is pressed against the rotating member for heating to fix the toner image on the recording medium with heating under pressure, the rotating member for heating comprising the cylindrical heating element.

Abstract: A cylindrical heating element comprising a cylindrical member, a metallic pattern provided on at least one of outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the cylindrical member, which is capable of generating heat by being electrified, and a resistive pattern for detecting temperature provided on at least one of the outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the cylindrical member. A fixing device which passes a recording medium on which an unfixed toner image is held through a nip formed by a rotating member for heating and a rotating member for pressurizing which is pressed against the rotating member for heating to fix the toner image on the recording medium with heating under pressure, the rotating member for heating comprising the cylindrical heating element.

Abstract: A cylindrical heating element comprising a cylindrical member, and a metallic pattern provided on at least one of outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the cylindrical member, which is capable of generating heat by being electrified. A fixing device which passes a recording medium on which an unfixed toner image is held through a nip formed by a rotating member for heating and a rotating member for pressurizing which is pressed against the rotating member for heating to fix the toner image on the recording medium with heating under pressure, the rotating member for heating comprising the cylindrical heating element.

Abstract: A correcting apparatus of a seamless belt includes a bottomed cylindrical main body that has an inner peripheral surface formed of mirror surface and that accommodates a seamless belt at a distance from the inner peripheral surface, a lid body detachably attached to the main body, a fixing unit that fixes an upper end and a lower end of the seamless belt to the mirror surface, a pressing unit that presses the seamless belt accommodated in the main body against the mirror surface, and a heating unit that heats the mirror surface.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer member that is provided with a base member containing polyphenylene sulfide and polyamide, and a semi-conductive inorganic layer having a volume specific resistance in the range from 1×107 ?cm to 1×1013 ?cm, that is formed on the base member, a method for manufacturing such an intermediate transfer member in which the inorganic layer is formed by means a plasma CVD method, and an image-forming apparatus equipped with such an intermediate transfer member.

Abstract: A hand shake compensation unit having a first substrate on which an image sensor is provided, a second substrate on which a processing circuit for processing an output signal from the image sensor is provided, a driving mechanism that drives the first substrate with respect to the second substrate, and a plurality of cable members that connects the first substrate with the second substrate and whose drawing directions on the first substrate are different from each other.

Abstract: A small-sized photographing apparatus in which a single display device performs both of a viewfinder and monitor display. The apparatus includes a body having a viewfinder window; the display device, the display surface of which can be observed from outside of the body; a pair of reflection mirrors inside the body; and a member for moving one of the reflection mirrors between a reflection position at which a beam of light from the display surface of the display device is reflected so that the beam is guided towards the viewfinder window, and a non-reflection position which is different from the reflection position.

Abstract: A small-sized photographing apparatus in which a single display device performs both of a viewfinder and monitor display. The apparatus includes a body having a viewfinder window; the display device, the display surface of which can be observed from outside of the body; a pair of reflection mirrors inside the body; and a member for moving one of the reflection mirrors between a reflection position at which a beam of light from the display surface of the display device is reflected so that the beam is guided towards the viewfinder window, and a non-reflection position which is different from the reflection position.

Abstract: A center server in a network photo-print service system receives print order information related to a print, order and information related to conditions for a delivery site for prints, outputted in response to the order, from the customer (a customer-side terminal) through the network, extracts a delivery shop candidate group suitable for the conditions for a delivery site for prints from the shops capable of delivering the prints, requests the customer to select a shop from the delivery shop candidate group as a delivery shop, that is, a delivery site for the prints, and transmits the print order information to a print output device placed in the delivery shop thus determined in accordance with the selection by the customer.

Abstract: A portable apparatus or camera is provided with: a basic date data generator for generating basic date data based on a standard time of a first place; a display device for displaying date data; a first memory for storing data on a second place and data on travel schedule for the second place; a second memory for storing data on time difference between the standard time of the first place and a standard time of the second place; a field date data generator for changing generated basic date data into field date data of the second place based on the time difference data stored in the second memory; a judging device for judging, based on the travel schedule data, whether generated basic date data corresponds to a traveling period of the second place; and a controller for controlling the display device to display the field date data of the second place when the generated basic date data is judged to correspond to a traveling period of the second place.

Abstract: A center server in a network photo-print service system receives print order information related to a print order and information related to conditions for a delivery site for prints, outputted in response to the order, from the customer (a customer-side terminal) through the network, extracts a delivery shop candidate group suitable for the conditions for a delivery site for prints from the shops capable of delivering the prints, requests the customer to select a shop from the delivery shop candidate group as a delivery shop, that is, a delivery site for the prints, and transmits the print order information to a print output device placed in the delivery shop thus determined in accordance with the selection by the customer.

Abstract: An illuminated display system having a display member and a light guiding member faces and extends in parallel with the display member. The display member includes a displaying element and a structural element. A light source illuminates the side ends of the display member and the light guiding member so that light which is transmitted by multiple internal reflections through both the display member and the light guiding member to illuminate the display.

Abstract: A camera operating from a secondary battery has a camera body, a unit including a taking lens, and a secondary battery incorporated in the unit. The secondary battery is charged by being supplied with electric power from the camera body. The unit is a lens barrel.

Abstract: The circuit board connecting method and a connection structure. A first flexible board is adhered to a first surface of the circuit board at a first temperature, and then a second flexible board is adhered to a second flexible board at a second temperature lower than the first temperature.

Abstract: A multi-layer, flexible printed circuit device having a relatively rigid electronic component mounting portion and a relatively pliable connection wiring portion. The electronic component mounting portion comprises multiple layers of bases including at least one rigid base, and circuit pattern layers. The pliable connection wiring portion is formed by extending pliable bases and circuit pattern layers at one end. The rigidity of the electronic component mounting portion may be maintained by means of the rigid base or bases comprising a thick panel made of the same material as the pliable bases. Alternatively, the copper films of the circuit pattern layers may be made relatively thick or a base material with high rigidity may be used.

Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board for use in a display unit of a camera, which includes a flexible substrate with a printed circuit pattern, a die of an integrated circuit chip mounted on said substrate for driving the display drive, a plurality of wires, and resin sealant for covering said integrated circuit chip. The flexible substrate has first terminals to be in contact with a display device and second terminals in electric connections to said first terminals, respectively. The die of the integrated circuit chip includes a plurality of connecting terminals. The plurality of wires are for bonding said connecting terminals of the integrated circuit chip to said second terminals of said printed circuit pattern.

Abstract: The present invention provides an improved chip mounting method for mounting an IC chip on a substrate, comprising the steps of; integrally molding a projection on the substrate, the projection being located on a surface of the substrate on which the IC chip will be mounted; forming a conductive pattern on the projection and on a necessary portion of the substrate; forming a connecting layer on the conductive pattern formed on the projection; and fixing said IC chip on the substrate while electrically connecting an exposed electrode of the IC chip with the conductive pattern formed on the projection through the connecting layer.