Abstract: An illumination device generally has at least one light source and an attachment assembly that connects the light source to a computing device. The light source may be one or more LEDs or a light panel using electroluminescent lighting. The illumination device includes a power source coupled to the light source and a light control mechanism to change at least one of an operative state or an intensity of the light source. The illumination device may also be integrally connected to the computing device. A light cover is implemented to cover the light source and diffuse light emanating therefrom.

Abstract: The present utility model relates to a transverse tube and a photographic equipment support. The purpose of the utility model is to provide a transverse tube that can be used with a common photographic equipment to allow a centre shaft transverse, and provide a photographic equipment containing the transverse tube.

Abstract: A camera stabilizer with a changeable structure comprises an X-axis drive device, a Y-axis drive device and a Z-axis drive device, which are perpendicular to one another and can be rotated 360 degrees. The Z-axis drive device is connected with Y-axis drive device via a first connecting arm, the Y-axis drive device is connected with X-axis drive device via a second connecting arm, and the X-axis drive device is connected with a fixing device. The disclosed camera stabilizer has three shafts which can rotate 360 degrees, and a fixing device for mounting different types of mirrorless cameras. By adjusting the three control shafts, the gravity center of the camera can be adjusted to achieve mechanical stabilization. By changing the configuration of the handheld part, the camera stabilizer can be switched between a single hand-held mode and a two hand-held mode and between a forward mode and a reverse mode.

Abstract: A gimbal locking device includes a body portion including a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, a clutch portion extending from the first surface, and a fastening portion extending from the second surface. The fastening portion includes an extension portion extending from the second surface.

Abstract: There is provided a holding member including a coupling part configured to be coupled with a small imaging device, and a handle configured to be gripped by a user.

Abstract: A laser light source module includes a plurality of unit laser light source modules, each of which emits laser light of one specific color, and when the laser light source module includes unit laser light source modules of at least two colors, and each unit laser light source module has a median of a temperature range in which a practical luminance is obtained, the unit laser light source modules are thermally connected to an evaporator and arrayed in descending sequence of their values of the median from an upstream side in a direction in which a refrigerant flows.

Abstract: A solid-state light source device 1 includes a plurality of light source cells 10, a light combining device 20 combining light emitted from the plurality of light source cells and emitting combined light, and a light reflecting/combining unit 30 reflecting the light emitted from the light source cells and emitting the light to the light combining device. The light combining device 20 has a reflective plane on a surface thereof, has a plurality of columnar-shaped regions divided along emission directions in an interior thereof, and has wavelength selective reflective planes in interfaces between the columnar-shaped regions. The light reflecting/combining unit 30 is configured in a substantially paraboloidal shape having a reflective plane on a surface thereof. Accordingly, light use efficiency is improved, and light of a desired color can be selectively extracted.

Abstract: A light source unit includes: elemental light sources each including light emitting elements and drive circuits; an integrated control circuit that controls the drive circuits; and band optical characteristic acquisition sections that receive light of an amount correlated with a total light amount of output luminous fluxes to acquire light emitting intensity indicating values and wavelength deviation indicating values. The integrated control circuit at least intermittently acquires band optical characteristic acquisition data to generate the light emitting intensity indicating values and the wavelength deviation indicating values.

Abstract: A three-dimensional screen structure is a three-dimensional screen structure on which image light projected from an image light source is incident. The three-dimensional screen structure includes particles and a bind unit. The particles are three-dimensionally disposed and capable of transmitting or reflecting the image light. The bind unit binds the particles.

Abstract: An imaging plate for projection, the imaging plate comprising an impermeable plate and a projecting device disposed in said one surface of the plate in a certain distance, wherein the projecting device is capable of projecting light and image; the plate having a plurality of cylinder through holes disposed on both surface thereof; wherein the cylinder through holes are filled with transparent pillars, one end of said pillar defined an input end which receives the light and image from the projecting device and then guides them to an output end thereof; wherein an inner wall of the cylinder through holes comprises a light reflective surface; wherein the both input end and output end of transparent pillar are parallel to the rear and front surface of the plate.

Abstract: A method for transferring an actual workpiece pattern (23) to a workpiece (24) using a pixelated phase mask (14) includes (i) evaluating a desired workpiece pattern (226) to identify a desired repetitive step cell (230) in the desired workpiece pattern (226), the desired repetitive step cell (230) having a desired step cell width (250), and a desired step cell length (252); (ii) evaluating if the desired step cell width (250) is equal to a first integer multiplied by a pixel width (28A) and an optical adjustment factor; and (iii) evaluating if the desired step cell length (252) is equal to a second integer multiplied by a pixel length (28B) and an optical adjustment factor.

Abstract: There is provided mask blank with resist film, including: a substrate 10 having a thin film 11; and a negative resist film 12 formed on a surface of the thin film 11, wherein in the resist film 12, a photoacid generator low-concentration region 12a is formed at a part where the resist film 12 is in contact with the thin film 11; a concentration of the photoacid generator low-concentration region 12a is lower than that of the other region of the resist film 12; a thickness of the photoacid generator low-concentration region 12a is 5% to 40% of the thickness of the resist film 12; and a concentration of the photo acid generator at a part in contact with the thin film 11 in the photoacid generator low-concentration region 12a is a value obtained by decreasing the concentration of the photo acid generator in the other region of the resist film 12 by 10% to 40%.

Abstract: An apparatus according to the present invention comprises a membrane layer and a supporting supportive mesh, wherein the membrane layer and the supportive mesh form a monolithic structure that absorbs less than ten percent of EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet) light passing through it in which the membrane layer is composed of a transition-metal/ceramic composite.

Abstract: An imprint apparatus that forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate-side pattern region of a substrate by using a mold. A heating unit heats a partial region of the substrate, the partial region corresponding to the substrate-side pattern region, by irradiating the substrate with light that has passed through the mold and has a first wavelength different from light having a second wavelength for curing the imprint material. The heating unit heats the partial region to deform the substrate-side pattern region by forming an uneven temperature distribution on the substrate-side pattern region by an irradiation of the light having the first wavelength with an uneven illumination distribution.

Abstract: The coloring composition includes a curable compound and a colorant represented by (D-L1-Y—X—)n—R1—(R2)m; R1 represents a (m+n)-valent linking group, X represents —C(?O)O—, Y represents an alkylene group, L1 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, D represents a colorant structure. R2 represents a monovalent substituent, m represents an integer of 1 to 13, n represents an integer of 2 to 14, m+n represents an integer of 3 to 15, L1 (in a case where L1 represents a single bond, D) and X are separated by Y by a distance of three or more carbon atoms, and at least one of D, L1, R1, R2, X, or Y has an acid group.

Abstract: The composition includes a compound represented by Formula 1, a binder polymer, and a photopolymerization initiator, in Formula 1, Q1 and Q2 each independently represent a (meth)acryloyloxy group or a (meth)acryloyloxyalkyl group; and R1 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group.

Abstract: The present invention provides a resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography for forming a resist underlayer film that can be used as a hard mask with use of hydrolysis-condensation product of a hydrolyzable silane which also absorbs K.& laser. A resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography comprising, as a silane, a hydrolyzable silane, a hydrolysis product thereof, or a hydrolysis-condensation product thereof, wherein the hydrolyzable silane includes a hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1): R1aR2bSi(R3)4?(a+b) ??Formula (1) [where R1 is an organic group of Formula (2): and is bonded to a silicon atom through a Si?C bond; R3 is an alkoxy group, an acyloxy group, or a halogen group; a is an integer of 1; b is an integer of 0 to 2; and a+b is an integer of 1 to 3], and a ratio of sulfur atoms to silicon atoms is 7% by mole or more in the whole of the silane.

Abstract: Provided are a resin composition for underlayer film formation with which a variation hardly occurs in the line width distribution after processing due to a small thickness of a residual film after mold pressing, a layered product, a method for forming a pattern, an imprint forming kit, and a process for producing a device. A resin composition for underlayer film formation includes a resin having a group represented by General Formula (A) and at least one group selected from a group represented by General Formula (B), an oxiranyl group and an oxetanyl group, a nonionic surfactant and a solvent.

Abstract: Provided is a pattern forming method including (A) a step of forming a planarization layer on a stepped substrate by using a composition (a) for forming the planarization layer, the composition (a) containing a solvent, (B) a step of forming a resist film on the planarization layer by using a resist composition, (C) a step of subjecting the resist film to exposure, and (D) a step of forming a first pattern by developing the resist film having undergone exposure, in which the planarization layer having undergone the step (D) is dissolved in the solvent.

Abstract: A vacuum-integrated metal oxide-containing hardmask formation process and related vacuum-integrated hardware that combine steps of film formation by vapor deposition and optical lithography results in direct photopatterning of metal oxide-containing hardmasks at substantially reduced cost relative to current approaches.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of aperture alignment for a multi charged particle beam writing apparatus includes irradiating a shaping aperture member with a charged particle beam while changing an incident direction, detecting a current for each of the incident directions of the charged particle beam, producing a current distribution map based on the incident direction and the current, and moving the shaping aperture member or a blanking aperture member based on the current distribution map to align the shaping aperture member with the blanking aperture member.

Abstract: There is provided a reflective imaging optical system forming an image of a first plane onto a second plane, wherein the numerical aperture with respect to a first direction on the second plane is greater than 1.1 times a numerical aperture with respect to a second direction crossing the first direction on the second plane. The reflecting imaging optical system has an aperture stop defining the numerical aperture on the side of the second plane, and the aperture stop has an elliptic-shaped opening of which size in a major axis direction is greater than 1.1 times that in a minor axis direction. The reflective image-forming optical system is applicable to an exposure apparatus using, for example, EUV light and capable of increasing numerical aperture while enabling optical path separation of light fluxes.

Abstract: An imaging optical system for a projection exposure system has at least one anamorphically imaging optical element. This allows a complete illumination of an image field in a first direction with a large object-side numerical aperture in this direction, without the extent of the reticle to be imaged having to be enlarged and without a reduction in the throughput of the projection exposure system occurring.

Abstract: An exposure method and apparatus for illuminating a pattern with an illumination system to expose a substrate through a projection system. The pattern is illuminated with illumination light with a light amount distribution in which an amount of light is larger in a pair of first areas and a pair of second areas than in an area other than the first and second areas on a pupil plane of the illumination system. The pair of the first areas being arranged outside an optical axis, the pair of the second areas being arranged on ten same straight line as the pair of the first areas are arranged on, and the pair of the second areas being arranged outside the pair of the first areas.

Abstract: An optical system illuminating a surface to be illuminated includes a wavefront splitting type integrator configured to split the wavefront of incident light to form a plurality of light sources on the exit surface side, and an optical element whose surface is polished in a scanning direction using a polishing tool. The optical element is disposed between the wavefront splitting type integrator and the surface to be illuminated, and has a direction indicating portion indicating the scanning direction. The arrangement direction of the plurality of light sources in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the optical system is non-parallel to the scanning direction indicated by the direction indicating portion.

Abstract: Metrology tools and methods are provided, which estimate the effect of topographic phases corresponding to different diffraction orders, which result from light scattering on periodic targets, and adjust the measurement conditions to improve measurement accuracy. In imaging, overlay error magnification may be reduced by choosing appropriate measurement conditions based on analysis of contrast function behavior, changing illumination conditions (reducing spectrum width and illumination NA), using polarizing targets and/or optical systems, using multiple defocusing positions etc. On-the-fly calibration of measurement results may be carried out in imaging or scatterometry using additional measurements or additional target cells.

Abstract: In a negatively-chargeable laminate-type electrophotographic photoreceptor, a charge generation layer and another charge transport layer are arranged on a conductive substrate directly or via an intermediate layer. The charge transport layer contains at least a hole-transporting substance, an electron-transporting substance and a binder resin; the mass ratio (RPN) [% by mass] between mass (P) of the hole-transporting substance and mass (N) of the electron-transporting substance is represented by the following equation (1), and satisfies the following equation (2): RPN=(N/(P+N))×100??(1) 1?RPN?40??(2); and when a voltage of +6 kV is applied to the photoreceptor for 5 seconds via a resin sheet having a thickness of 50 ?m and a surface resistivity of 2×107 ?/cm2, the surface potential difference (?Vo) and half-tone potential difference (?Vh) between before and after the voltage application are both 15 V or less.

Abstract: An electrostatic-image developing toner including at least a binder resin; a colorant; and a release agent, wherein an average circularity of particles having a particle diameter in a range of 0.79 times or more but less than 1.15 times as large as a most frequent diameter in a number particle size distribution of the toner is within a range of 1.010 times or more but less than 1.020 times as high as an average circularity of particles having a particle diameter of 1.15 times or more as large as the most frequent diameter.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a toner particle comprises two or more glass transition temperatures. Wherein, a first glass transition temperature is within a range from 5 degrees centigrade to 20 degrees centigrade and a second glass transition temperature is within a range from 50 degrees centigrade to 65 degrees centigrade.

Abstract: Herein is disclosed an electrostatic ink composition, wherein the composition is formable by combining: chargeable particles comprising a resin, a charge director comprising a sulfosuccinate salt, and a non-polymeric, non-fatty acid having a pKa, when measured in water at 20° C., of at least 1. Also disclosed herein is a method of forming an electrostatic ink composition, and a method of electrostatic printing.

Abstract: Herein is disclosed a magenta liquid electrostatic ink composition comprising chargeable particles comprising a resin, a pigment, a liquid carrier in which the chargeable particles are dispersed, and a charge director, wherein the resin is formable from polymerising alkylene monomers and methacrylic or acrylic acid monomers, the pigment is selected from pigment violet 19 type ?I pigment violet 19 type ?II pigment violet 19 type ?, pigment violet 19 type ?, pigment red 177, pigment red 208, pigment red 122 and pigment violet 32, and the liquid electrostatic ink composition lacks any other types of pigment. Also disclosed herein is a method of electrostatic printing and a print substrate having printed thereon the magenta liquid electrostatic ink composition.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus comprises a sensor configured to detect on a sheet an image with a decolorable recording agent containing a coloring material to be decolored from the sheet; a printer configured to carry out a printing operation of an image formed with the decolorable recording agent and a printing operation of an image formed with a non-decolorable recording agent containing a coloring material that is not decolored; and a controller configured to control the printer to execute the printing operation with the decolorable recording agent on the sheet in a case in which the image is detected by the sensor.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a photoreceptor drum, a charging apparatus, an exposure apparatus, a developing device, a charging bias applying unit, a developing bias applying unit, an image condition adjusting unit, and a print density measurement unit. The image condition adjusting unit forms a second electric potential region by applying the charging bias where a first differential electric potential is subtracted from a first tentative charging bias on a circumference surface of a photoreceptor drum, and forms a second toner image by an electric potential difference between the second electric potential region and a developing roller by applying the target electric potential. The image condition adjusting unit decides value of the charging bias corresponding to the target electric potential from measurement results of print densities of a first toner image and the second toner image measured by the print density measurement unit.

Abstract: A setting unit of a controller mounted on a control board sets a first mode for generating, from image data, PWM data indicating a pattern for causing an LD to emit light and transmitting to a laser driving board, or a second mode for transmitting to the laser driving board image data prior to generation of the PWM data. A data conversion unit, in the first mode, converts inputted image data into N pieces of PWM data respectively corresponding to N LDs, and in the second mode, converts inputted image data into image data for each scanning line. A P/S conversion unit converts data outputted from the data conversion unit from a serial format into a parallel format, and transmits the converted data to the laser driving board as control data.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a laser light source configured to emit a light beam, a photoconductor drum configured to be driven for rotation on which a latent image is formed by the light beam, a rotatable polygonal mirror configured to rotate about a rotation axis and have a plurality of mirror planes which deflect the light beam so that the light beam scans the photoconductor drum, and a CPU configured to perform a dither process on input image data and correct image data which has been subjected to the dither process using correction amounts based on inclinations of the plurality of mirror planes relative to the rotation axis of the rotatable polygonal mirror.

Abstract: A developing device includes a toner bearer to rotate while bearing toner and a toner regulator including a bend on a free end side. The bend is disposed in contact with a surface of the toner bearer and defines a regulation nip to adjust an amount of the toner on the toner bearer. The toner regulator further includes an area having a water contact angle greater than or equal to 70 degrees. The area having the water contact angle includes, at least, a downstream end of the bend in a rotation direction of the toner bearer.

Abstract: A developer supply container detachably mountable to a developer supplying apparatus includes a pump portion provided to act at least on said developer discharging chamber and having a volume changeable with expansion and contraction with reciprocation, the cam groove for converting the rotational force received by a gear into a force for decreasing the volume of pump portion, a cam groove for converting the received force into a force for increasing the volume of the pump portion, a cam groove not converting the received force for operating the pump portion, and a phase detecting portion for stopping the rotation of a feeding portion using one of said cam grooves.

Abstract: A developing apparatus includes a developer container including a first chamber, a second chamber, and a partition portion separating the first and second chambers, and configured such that developer borne on the developer bearing member is recovered to the second chamber. A transfer portion, through which the developer conveyed by a conveyance member arranged in the second chamber is transferred to the first chamber, is formed in the partition portion. An extended portion extended in a direction from the developer bearing member toward the second chamber is provided to the position overlapped with the transfer portion in the conveyance direction of the conveyance member. The developer recovered to the second chamber is restricted by the extended portion from moving toward the first chamber while remaining on a surface layer of the developer, and the developer is agitated with the surrounding developer.

Abstract: An image foiining apparatus includes a housing, a conveyance member, and a sheet member. The housing forms a conveyance path along which toner is conveyed. The conveyance member is supported by the housing. The conveyance member rotates about a rotation axis thereof to convey the toner. The sheet member is disposed on a contact region of the housing where the conveyance member comes in contact with the housing.

Abstract: In a cartridge, a developing roller is configured to rotate around a first rotational axis extending in a predetermined direction and to carry developer thereon, the developing roller having a first end and a second end apart from each other in the predetermined direction, a from-first-to-second direction being defined along the predetermined direction as being directed from the first end to the second end. A developing electrode is formed of a conductive material and is configured to be electrically connected to the developing roller, the developing electrode including a main part and a protruding portion protruding from the main part in the from-first-to-second direction. A detection body is formed of an insulating material and is rotatably supported by the protruding portion, the detection body including a first opening that exposes part of the protruding portion and a covering portion covering part of the protruding portion.

Abstract: A developing apparatus of the present disclosure includes a developing sleeve including a plurality of magnetic substance portions bearing, on a surface thereof, developer containing toner and carrier and conveying the developer to a developing area facing a photosensitive drum, and a magnet roller disposed within the developing sleeve and generating magnetic fluxes passing through the magnetic substance portion. The magnetic substance portion includes, on an end surface thereof, a high flux density portion disposed at least one of upstream and downstream parts in a conveyance direction of the developing sleeve and through which the magnetic fluxes pass and a low flux density portion through which the magnetic fluxes whose density is lower than the magnetic fluxes passing through the high flux density portion pass.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer member configured to abut against an image carrier for carrying a toner image to form a transfer nip; and a power supply configured to output a bias voltage for transferring the toner image on the image carrier onto a recording medium nipped in the transfer nip. The bias voltage includes a first voltage for transferring the toner image from the image carrier onto the recording medium in a transfer direction and a second voltage having an opposite polarity of the first voltage, the first and the second voltages being alternately output. A time-averaged value of the bias voltage is set to a polarity in the transfer direction and is set in the transfer direction side with respect to a median between a maximum and a minimum of the bias voltage.

Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an image processing apparatus comprises a human sensor, a fixing device and a controller. The human sensor detects a person in the vicinity of the image processing apparatus. The fixing device carries out fixation of an image formed with a decolorable recording agent serving as a recording agent containing a coloring agent which is decolored through heating on a medium and decoloration of the image formed on the medium. The controller controls the fixing device to stop the decoloration of the image when the person is detected by the human sensor.

Abstract: A fixing device includes a heater, a fixing rotator, a pressure rotator to press against the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator, through which a recording medium is conveyed, a moving device to move the pressure rotator in directions in which the pressure rotator comes into contact with and separates from the fixing rotator, a thermal expansion amount predictor to predict an amount of thermal expansion of the fixing rotator while the recording medium is conveyed, and a nip width adjuster to control a moving distance of the pressure rotator moved by the moving device toward the fixing rotator, depending on the amount of thermal expansion of the fixing rotator predicted by the thermal expansion amount predictor, so as to adjust a width of the fixing nip to maintain a substantially constant width of the fixing nip.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus in which generation of an image defect is suppressed is provided. A printer (1) includes an image forming portion (10), a belt (101) onto which a lubricant is applied at an inner surface, a pressing roller (106), a heater (100), a heater holder (103), a thermistor (111), a heat insulating member (113) for heat-insulating the thermistor and the heater holder, and a controller (45), and the controller starts an image forming operation at timing when the thermistor detected a first temperature during a warming-up process in the case where a time of energization to the heater is less than a predetermined time, and starts the image forming operation at timing when the thermistor detected a second temperature lower than the first temperature during the warming-up process in the case where the time of energization to the heater is not less than the predetermined time.

Abstract: A fixing device for fixing an image on a recording material, the fixing device includes a cylindrical rotatable heater, the heater is provided with a hole portion at least at a longitudinal end portion; and a driving member engaged with the longitudinal end portion of the heater to rotate the heater, the driving member being provided with a claw portion engaged with the hole portion of the heater, wherein the image is fixed on the recording material by the heat from the heater, and wherein the heater is provided, at the other longitudinal end portion, with a slit extending toward a central portion, the slit being disposed at a position different from the hole portion with respect to a circumferential direction of the heater so as to overlap the hole portion in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A fixing device for fixing an image on a recording material includes a cylindrical rotatable member including an electroconductive layer; a coil, provided inside the rotatable member, for forming an alternating magnetic field for causing the electroconductive layer to generate heat through electromagnetic induction heating, wherein the coil includes a helically-shaped portion having a helical axis along a generatrix direction of the rotatable member; and a magnetic core provided inside the helically-shaped portion. The rotatable member generates heat by a current induced in the electroconductive layer in a circumferential direction of the rotatable member, and the image is fixed on the recording material by the heat of said rotatable member. The rotatable member is provided with a slit at an end portion thereof with respect to the generatrix direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus as provided includes: a heating roller heated using a first heater unit disposed in the center thereof and second heater units disposed on both sides of the first heater unit; a pressure roller in pressing contact with the heating roller to form a nip; first and second sensors for detecting the temperature of a central area of the heating roller the temperature of a side area of the heating roller, respectively; and a controller for individually controlling the first and second heater units according to the respective temperatures measured by the first and second sensors when the temperature measured by the second sensor is lower than a predetermined first temperature, and commonly controlling the first and second heater units according to the temperature measured by the first sensor when the temperature measured by the second sensor is equal to or higher than the predetermined first temperature.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus, comprises: a first control unit which performs control of a load by outputting a pulse signal based on a clock signal output by a first oscillator; and a second control unit which is connected to the first control unit by a serial communication signal line, and performs control of a load by outputting a pulse signal based on a clock signal output by a second oscillator, wherein the second control unit measures a width of the pulse signal output from the first control unit via the serial communication signal line; compares a pulse signal width designated by an adjustment request with the measured width of the pulse signal; and corrects, based on a result of the comparing, the width of the pulse signal that is based on the clock signal output by the second oscillator.

Abstract: Various embodiments include an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material, an illumination unit configured to emit light, an image capturing unit configured to capture light emitted by the illumination unit and reflected by the recording material as a surface image including a plurality of pixels, and a control unit configured to calculate a first feature quantity from a difference of output values of a plurality of pixels arranged in a first direction, and calculate a second feature quantity from a difference of output values of a plurality of pixels arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction in the surface image captured by the image capturing unit, and control an image forming condition of the image forming unit based on the calculated first feature quantity and the calculated second feature quantity.