Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating the same

    公开(公告)号:US12092978B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-17

    申请号:US18329201

    申请日:2023-06-05

    CPC classification number: G03G15/2053 G03G15/2028

    Abstract: A fixing device includes a first rotator, a second rotator, a heater, a nip formation pad, and a separator. The second rotator contacts an outer circumferential surface of the first rotator to form a nip between the first rotator and the second rotator. The heater includes a resistive heat generator to heat the first rotator. The nip formation pad contacts an inner circumferential surface of the first rotator to form the nip. The separator separates a recording medium passing through the nip from the first rotator. The separator includes a separating surface and a contact. The separating surface is separated from the outer circumferential surface of the first rotator and separates the recording medium from the first rotator. The contact contacts the outer circumferential surface of the first rotator at a position where the first rotator is pinchable between the contact and the nip formation pad.

    Developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10969708B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-06

    申请号:US16804812

    申请日:2020-02-28

    Abstract: A developing device includes a developing roller to rotate in a predetermined direction of rotation and opposed to or in contact with an image bearer to form a development range, a cover to cover the developing roller downstream from the development range in the predetermined direction of rotation, a sheet member cantilevered by the cover to contact the developing roller with a flat face of the sheet member while trailing along the predetermined direction of rotation at a position downstream from the development range. The cover includes a large gap portion to form a first gap in a first predetermined range in the predetermined direction of rotation and a small gap portion disposed adjacent to and downstream from the large gap portion in the predetermined direction of rotation to form a second gap smaller than the first gap in a second predetermined range in the predetermined direction of rotation.

    Client steering
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10945192B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-09

    申请号:US16410289

    申请日:2019-05-13

    Abstract: A wireless network device, for use within a wireless network, comprising: a processor; a memory; and an interface for receiving and transmitting data; wherein the wireless network device is adapted to: determine a first cost associated with communication between the wireless network device and a client device to which the wireless network device is connectable; determine a second cost associated with communication between the client device and a further wireless network device to which the client device is connectable; determine whether the first cost or the second cost is the lower cost; and if the second cost is the lower cost, the wireless network device is adapted to guide the client device to communicate with the further network device.

    Elevator system and counterweight screen

    公开(公告)号:US10919731B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-16

    申请号:US15970155

    申请日:2018-05-03

    Inventor: Tapani Talonen

    Abstract: An elevator system comprising a shaft having a pit, a car guided by a pair of first guide rails to be vertically movable in the shaft, a counterweight connected to the car by a suspension rope, the counterweight being guided by a pair of second guide rails to be vertically movable in the shaft, and a counterweight screen in a space between the counterweight and the car, the counterweight screen being attached to the second guide rails at the pit. The counterweight screen is a sandwich-structured composite panel.

    Semiconductor device
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10911034B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-02

    申请号:US16679794

    申请日:2019-11-11

    Abstract: A semiconductor device may include a clock driver including a first gate line, a second gate line, a third gate line and a fourth gate line each extending in a first direction, the first gate line and the second gate line each configured to receive a clock signal, and the third gate line and the fourth gate line each configured to receive an inverted clock signal; a master latch circuit overlapping the first gate line and the third gate line such that the master latch circuit receive the clock signal from the first gate line and receive the inverted clock signal from the third gate line; and a slave latch circuit overlapping the second gate line and the fourth gate line such that the slave latch circuit receives the clock signal from the second gate line, and receives the inverted clock signal from the fourth gate line.

    Three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices

    公开(公告)号:US10910396B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-02

    申请号:US16444716

    申请日:2019-06-18

    Abstract: A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of first insulating layers vertically stacked on a peripheral logic structure, second insulating layers stacked alternately with the first insulating layers, conductive layers stacked alternately with the first insulating layers and disposed on sidewalls of the second insulating layers, through-interconnections penetrating the first insulating layers and the second insulating layers so as to be connected to the peripheral logic structure, and a first conductive line electrically connected to a plurality of first conductive layers of the conductive layers.

    Display-and-operation device and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10897545B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-19

    申请号:US16299301

    申请日:2019-03-12

    Applicant: Goro Katsuyama

    Inventor: Goro Katsuyama

    Abstract: A display-and-operation device includes a housing, a display operation panel, a plurality of wireless communicators, and a control board. The display operation panel forms a display operation screen on an outer surface of the housing. The plurality of wireless communicators are included in the housing and each having an antenna to perform wireless communication with a communication object. The control board controls the display operation panel. The control board is included in the housing. The plurality of wireless communicators are arranged on a same side of the display operation screen.

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