Wakamoto
Carl I. Wakamoto, Tarzana, CA US
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20090191519 | ONLINE AND COMPUTER-BASED INTERACTIVE IMMERSIVE SYSTEM FOR LANGUAGE TRAINING, ENTERTAINMENT AND SOCIAL NETWORKING - This invention is an apparatus and a method for language training and general entertainment and role-playing. It employs a computer that can play back audio or audio-visual program material, using special software to selectively direct the audio of this playback through the computer's speaker system or through a headset, with the user taking the audio routed to her headset—in particular speech—as a model and prompt to repeat this speech audibly. The user plays the role of the person in the program material whose speech is being routed to her headset, and the special software further permits the user to record her dubbing efforts along with the program material, producing a version of the program material with the user's voice recorded in place of, or in conjunction with, the voice of a character in the program material. | 07-30-2009 |
Carl Isamu Wakamoto, Tarzana, CA US
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20100099065 | INTERACTIVE CINEMATIC SYSTEM FOR BONUS FEATURES FOR MOVIES, TV CONTENTS, ANIME AND CARTOONS, MUSIC VIDEOS, LANGUAGE TRAINING, ENTERTAINMENT AND SOCIAL NETWORKING - This invention is an apparatus and a method for language training and general entertainment and role-playing. It employs a digital processing system that can play back audio or audio-visual program material, using special software to selectively direct the audio of this playback through the digital processing system's speaker system or through a headset, with the user taking the audio routed to her headset—in particular speech—as a model and prompt to repeat this speech audibly. The user plays the role of the person in the program material whose speech is being routed to her headset, and the special software further permits the user to record her dubbing efforts along with the program material, producing a version of the program material with the user's voice recorded in place of, or in conjunction with, the voice of a character in the program material. | 04-22-2010 |
20120021389 | INTERACTIVE IMMERSION SYSTEM FOR MOVIES, TELEVISION, ANIMATION, MUSIC VIDEOS, LANGUAGE TRAINING, ENTERTAINMENT, VIDEO GAMES AND SOCIAL NETWORKING - This invention is an apparatus and a method for language training and general entertainment and role-playing. It employs a digital processing system plays back audio or audio-visual program material, using special software to selectively direct the audio of this playback through the system's speakers or a headset, with the user taking the headset audio—in particular speech—as a model and prompt to repeat this speech. The user plays the role of the speaker in the program material, and the software further permits the user to record, in audio or audio-video, her dubbing efforts along with the program material, producing a version of the program material with the user's voice recorded in place of, or in conjunction with, the voice of a character in the program material. The user's recorded performance can also be overlaid onto the original program material. | 01-26-2012 |
Hiroaki Wakamoto, Tokyo JP
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20140017295 | HEMOSTATIC MATERIAL - A medical material having high hemostatic ability, which is easy to handle and shows improved productivity, is described. | 01-16-2014 |
Ikuo Wakamoto, Hatsukaichi JP
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20110120979 | MASH SEAM WELDING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A pair of upper and lower electrode wheels | 05-26-2011 |
20110163074 | METAL PLATE JOINING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A pair of upper and lower pressure rollers | 07-07-2011 |
Ikuo Wakamoto, Hiroshima-Shi JP
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20120027153 | OPENING AND CLOSING DEVICE FOR ACCESS PORT THAT OPENS TO WORKING PLATFORM OF REACTOR VESSEL - An opening and closing device that opens and closes an access port opened from a substantially cylindrical working platform disposed inside a reactor vessel and used to access a nozzle stub of the reactor vessel from the inside of the working platform, the opening and closing device includes: a cover that is slidable along an outer peripheral surface or an inner peripheral surface of the working platform from a closing position where the access port is closed to an opening position where the access port is opened; and moving device for sliding the cover. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027154 | NOZZLE STUB WORKING SYSTEM FOR REACTOR VESSEL - Disclosed is a nozzle stub working system for a reactor vessel that performs work inside a nozzle stub of the reactor vessel, the nozzle stub working system for the reactor vessel including: a platform unit that is provided at an upper portion inside the reactor vessel and includes a substantially cylindrical side wall portion and a bottom portion blocking the lower end of the side wall portion; an access window that is provided at the side wall portion of the platform unit to allow the inside of the platform unit to communicate with the nozzle stub; an access window moving device that opens and closes the access window; a working device that advances from the inside of the platform unit to the inside of the nozzle stub to perform work inside the nozzle stub; and a control device that is provided at the outside of the reactor vessel and controls the access window moving device and the working device, wherein the control device drives the access window moving device to open the access window, drives the working device to perform work inside the nozzle stub, and then drives the access window moving device to close the access window after the performance of the work. | 02-02-2012 |
Kohji Wakamoto, Nara JP
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20090263161 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including: a cylindrical photoconductor; a laser scanning section for forming an electrostatic latent image on a peripheral surface of the photoconductor; an image development section for developing the electrostatic latent image by using a toner; a toner storage section for storing the toner to be supplied; and a transfer section for transferring the visualized image with use of the toner onto a printing sheet, wherein the image development section is disposed upstream of a rotation direction of the photoconductor from the transfer section, the toner storage section is disposed above the image development section while having a predetermined distance from the image development section so as to form a space therebetween for releasing heat, and the laser scanning section emits the scanning beam obliquely upwardly with respect to a horizontal direction so that the emitted scanning beam passes through the space and exposes the peripheral surface. | 10-22-2009 |
Koji Wakamoto, Osaka JP
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20100028049 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including: a cylindrical photoconductor; a laser scanning section that includes a polygonal mirror and allows a laser beam to reflect off the polygonal mirror and then irradiate a peripheral surface of the photoconductor, so that an electrostatic latent image is formed; an image development section for developing the electrostatic latent image; and a toner storage section for storing the toner to be supplied to the image development section, wherein the image development section is disposed lower than a central axis of the photoconductor, the toner storage section is disposed above the image development section so as to form a space therebetween, and the laser scanning section is disposed so that the rotation axis of the polygonal mirror extends in a vertical direction, and the laser beam reflected from the polygonal mirror reaches to the photoconductor through the space and irradiates a portion of the peripheral surface, which is higher than the central axis of the photoconductor. | 02-04-2010 |
20120126473 | SHEET FEEDER - A switch back path is connected to a sheet feed path through a branch portion. A plurality of pairs of forward and backward rotating rollers are disposed along the switch back path from the branch portion. A driving portion selectively supplies rotation of a forward rotation direction or of a backward rotation direction to a plurality of pairs of forward and backward rotating rollers. A separation mechanism separates a first pair of forward and backward rotating rollers from each other. A control portion controls operation of the driving portion and the separation mechanism so that a sheet to be fed into the switch back path and a sheet to be fed out of the switch back path pass each other in the switch back path. | 05-24-2012 |
20120275802 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus includes: a paper feed unit; a print unit; a registration roller; a sheet leading end sensor provided downstream, in a transport direction of the recording paper, of the registration roller; a time measuring unit for measuring a time from a start point of transportation of the recording paper by the registration roller to a point of detection of the leading end of the recording paper by the sheet leading end sensor; a memory unit for storing a reference image forming time and a reference time; a print control unit; and an arithmetic unit for obtaining a difference between the reference time and the time detected by the time measuring unit. The print control unit adjusts the length of the image forming period in accordance with the adjusted image forming time determined based on the difference obtained by the arithmetic unit and the reference image forming time. | 11-01-2012 |
Kouji Wakamoto, Kitakatsuragi-Gun JP
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20080260419 | UNIT DRAWING MECHANISM AND IMAGE RECORDER - A unit drawing mechanism according to the present invention includes a drawing unit, a lever, a fixture, a preventer, a linkage, and a lever holder. The drawing unit can move along a movement path between a retracted position in an apparatus and an exposed position outside the apparatus. The lever is supported pivotably on the front side of the drawing unit. The fixture locks the drawing unit in the retracted position. The preventer prevents the drawing unit from moving from the exposed position. The linkage links the lever to the fixture and the preventer. The lever holder holds the lever in a first angular position, a second angular position, and a third angular position when the drawing unit is locked by the fixture, positioned on the movement path, and prevented by the preventer from moving from the exposed position, respectively. | 10-23-2008 |
Kouji Wakamoto, Osaka JP
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20150076294 | ARM ROTATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME - The elastic force of a spring | 03-19-2015 |
Masahiko Wakamoto, Saitama JP
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20100282835 | INFORMATION DISPLAY PANEL - In an information display panel, an illuminating device | 11-11-2010 |
Naoki Wakamoto, Tokyo JP
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20140292695 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A display device for a vehicle includes an operating unit which a passenger can operate, and a display unit which displays various types of images based on an operation input at the operating unit. The operating unit and display unit are disposed separated from each other. The operating unit is situated between the eyes of a driver performing the operation input and the display unit, and overlays the display unit on the line-of-sight direction of the driver performing the operation input. | 10-02-2014 |
Shinichi Wakamoto, Chiyoda-Ku JP
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20120192588 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - To provide an air-conditioning apparatus capable of achieving energy saving. Pump control of controlling the operating capacity of a pump is performed such that the opening degree of a heat medium flow control device, controlled by control of the heat medium flow control device, approaches a target opening degree, and a refrigeration cycle as a refrigerant circuit is controlled such that the temperature of a heat medium, whose flow rate is controlled by the control of the heat medium flow control device and the pump control, approaches a target temperature. | 08-02-2012 |
20120204588 | AIR CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus in which a heat source unit and a relay unit are connected by two pipings, and in which a hot water supply function can be readily added. The relay unit includes a connection circuit between a first branching unit and a second connecting piping that is capable of connecting a water heat exchanger that exchanges heat between a refrigerant and water. | 08-16-2012 |
20120204596 | HEAT PUMP - A heat pump capable of operating in a high COP state even if influx temperature of a medium to be heated flowing into the radiators has increased. The heat pump includes a compressor, a first radiator, a second radiator, an expansion valve, and an evaporator sequentially connected by refrigerant piping to form a first refrigeration cycle, in which a first refrigerant circulates in the first refrigeration cycle, and in which the first radiator and the second radiator are serially connected. A first heat exchange unit that heats the first refrigerant is provided in a refrigerant piping at a refrigerant inlet side of the second radiator, and a second heat exchange unit that cools the first refrigerant is provided in a refrigerant piping at a refrigerant outlet side of the second radiator. | 08-16-2012 |
20120216989 | REFRIGERATION CYCLE APPARATUS - A refrigeration cycle apparatus including a heat source side heat exchanger including a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger connected in parallel; an air-sending device that supplies air, which is an object to be heat exchanged in the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, in a variable manner; solenoid valves that each opens and closes a refrigerant passage of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger; a third refrigerant circuit that is parallelly connected to the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger; and a flow control valve that controls the flow rate of the refrigerant flowing in the third refrigerant circuit. The refrigeration cycle apparatus can improve continuity of control of a heat exchange capacity of a heat source side heat exchanger. | 08-30-2012 |
20130098092 | HEAT PUMP - A first bypass pipe has one end connected to a main pipe extending from a compressor to an indoor heat exchanger, and its other end branched off into parts that are each connected to the main pipe on an inlet side of an outdoor heat exchanger, and a second bypass pipe has one end connected to an injection port communicating with the compression chamber of the compressor in which compression is taking place and its other end branched off into parts that are each connected to the main pipe on an outlet side of the outdoor heat exchangers. During a defrosting operation that removes frost on the outdoor heat exchangers, a part of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor is supplied from the first bypass pipe to the outdoor heat exchanger to be defrosted, and is then passed through the second bypass pipe and injected from the injection port of the compressor. | 04-25-2013 |
20130283843 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus uses R32, a refrigerant mixture containing R32 and HFO1234yf in which R32 has a mass percentage of 40% or higher, or a refrigerant mixture containing R32 and HFO1234ze in which R32 has a mass percentage of 15% or higher, as a heat-source refrigerant. The air-conditioning apparatus includes a low-pressure shell-structure compressor, a first flow switching valve, a heat-source-side heat exchanger, first flow control devices, and plural use-side heat exchangers connected by refrigerant pipes, forming a refrigeration cycle. The compressor includes a compression chamber within a sealed container including an opening extending between inside and outside of the sealed container. The air-conditioning apparatus can perform only a heating at the use-side heat exchangers, only a cooling at the use-side heat exchangers, and a mixed cooling and heating in a mixed fashion at the use-side heat exchangers. | 10-31-2013 |
20140007607 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus in which a primary-side refrigerant in a two-phase gas-liquid state that has flowed into each of intermediate heat exchangers absorbs heat from a secondary-side refrigerant flowing in counterflow to the primary-side refrigerant, and evaporates and turns into a low-temperature, low-pressure gas state. The air-conditioning apparatus ensures high heat exchange efficiency even when a direction of a heat source-side refrigerant (secondary-side refrigerant) flowing through an intermediate heat exchanger changes, and enables an appropriate operation in any operation mode. | 01-09-2014 |
20140245766 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A first flow switching device causes part of a refrigerant discharged from an injection compressor to flow through a first bypass pipe and be supplied to an outdoor heat exchanger targeting for defrosting. A second flow switching device causes part of the refrigerant supplied to the outdoor heat exchanger targeting for defrosting to enter a second bypass pipe. | 09-04-2014 |
20140260387 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - When indoor units are performing a cooling operation, an air-conditioning apparatus controls third flow passage switching valves, for example a first solenoid valve, a second solenoid valve, a third solenoid valve, and a fourth solenoid valve, so that a number of intermediate heat exchangers operating as evaporators is greater than in a cooling main operation. During the cooling main operation, a target value for suction pressure or evaporating temperature at a compressor is set equal to or lower than that in a case in which the indoor units are performing the cooling operation, and a frequency of the compressor and a capacity of a heat-source-side heat exchanger are controlled. | 09-18-2014 |
20140360218 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus includes an outdoor-side flow rate control device (a fourth flow rate control device) that generates an intermediate pressure for injection into a compressor, and a bypass flow rate control device (a sixth flow rate control device) that is placed at a bypass pipe allowing bypassing of an outdoor heat exchanger in parallel to the outdoor-side flow rate control device and that controls the amount of heat exchange of the outdoor heat exchanger together with the outdoor-side flow rate control device. | 12-11-2014 |
20150176876 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus includes an outdoor unit including a compressor configured to compress a first-side refrigerant and a heat-source-side heat exchanger configured to cause heat exchange between air and the first-side refrigerant, plural indoor units including indoor heat exchangers configured to cause heat exchange between the air and a second-side refrigerant, plural intermediate heat exchangers configured to cause heat exchange between the first-side and second-side refrigerants and connected to the outdoor unit by a first-side refrigerant pipe and connected to the indoor units by a second-side refrigerant pipe, and a flow switching device configured to switch combination of connection between the indoor units and the intermediate heat exchangers. The indoor units include convective indoor units and radiant indoor units, the convective indoor units include a convective indoor heat exchanger, and the radiant indoor units include a radiant indoor heat exchanger. | 06-25-2015 |
20150198360 | REFRIGERATION CYCLE APPARATUS - A refrigeration cycle apparatus including a heat source side heat exchanger including a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger connected in parallel; an air-sending device that supplies air, which is an object to be heat exchanged in the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, in a variable manner; solenoid valves that each opens and closes a refrigerant passage of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger; a third refrigerant circuit that is parallelly connected to the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger; and a flow control valve that controls the flow rate of the refrigerant flowing in the third refrigerant circuit. The refrigeration cycle apparatus can improve continuity of control of a heat exchange capacity of a heat source side heat exchanger. | 07-16-2015 |
20150292756 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus divides an outdoor heat exchanger to form parallel heat exchangers and supplies part of refrigerant from a compressor to the parallel heat exchangers alternately to perform defrosting, performs medium-pressure defrosting in which part of the refrigerant from the compressor is decompressed and supplied to a parallel heat exchanger to be subjected to defrosting, and the refrigerant after being used for defrosting is injected into the compressor. A first flow switching unit performs switching of a connection mode of ends of the parallel heat exchangers on compressor side, where the pressure changes among high pressure, medium pressure, and low pressure according to operation contents, to one of three modes: a mode with the ends connected to the compressor discharge side, a mode with the ends connected to the compressor suction side, and a mode with the ends connected to neither the discharge nor suction side. | 10-15-2015 |
20150292789 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - An air-conditioning apparatus includes a main circuit in which a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger, a first flow control device, and a plurality of parallel heat exchangers connected in parallel to each other are sequentially connected via a pipe to allow refrigerant to circulate, a first defrost pipe that branches a part of the refrigerant discharged from the compressor and allows the refrigerant to flow into the parallel heat exchanger to be defrosted among the plurality of parallel heat exchangers, a expansion device provided in the first defrost pipe and configured to depressurize the refrigerant discharged from the compressor, and a connection switching device that allows the refrigerant flowing out of the parallel heat exchanger to be defrosted to flow into the main circuit at a position upstream of the parallel heat exchangers other than the parallel heat exchanger subject to defrosting. | 10-15-2015 |
Shinichi Wakamoto US
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20150247661 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - A controller performs medium pressure control that controls the opening degree of a second expansion device based on a deviation between a target value of medium pressure, and a detection result of a medium pressure detector or a predicted value. The controller controls the opening degree of a third expansion device based on a target value of a discharge refrigerant temperature of a compressor or a target value related to the discharge refrigerant temperature, and a detection result of a discharge refrigerant temperature detector or a value related to the discharge refrigerant temperature computed using a detected detection result, and regulates a flow rate of refrigerant to supply to a suction side of the compressor via an injection pipe. | 09-03-2015 |
Shinji Wakamoto, Wako-Shi JP
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20120325186 | INTAKE APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of branch pipes connected at downstream ends thereof to an engine main body, an intake chamber to which upstream ends of the branch pipes are connected, and a common intake air introducing part connected to the center of the intake chamber in a cylinder arrangement direction. The intake chamber includes a projecting part projecting toward the engine main body relative to the common intake air introducing part. An EGR introducing passage is connected to the center of the projecting part in the cylinder arrangement direction. A downstream end of the EGR introducing passage is directed toward a wall of the projecting part on the common intake air introducing part side. | 12-27-2012 |
Shinji Wakamoto, Wako JP
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20140283763 | COOLING STRUCTURE OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - A cooling structure of an internal combustion engine includes a cylinder block, a cylinder head and a gasket. In a cross-section defined through an inter-bore region and perpendicular to the cylinder bank center line, a first end and a second end which face a cylinder bank center line are disposed nearer to the cylinder bank center line than a third end and a fourth end which face the cylinder bank center line, respectively. In the cross-section, a fifth end of a first communication hole facing the cylinder bank center line is provided between the first end of the head opening and the third end of the block opening. In the cross-section, a sixth end of a second communication hole facing the cylinder bank center line is provided between the second end of the head opening and the fourth end of the block opening. | 09-25-2014 |
Shinji Wakamoto, Hatsukaichi-Shi JP
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20150345363 | COOLING STRUCTURE OF MULTI-CYLINDER ENGINE - A cooling structure of a multi-cylinder engine is provided. The engine has cylinders and a cylinder block formed with a cylinder bore wall. The cooling structure includes a water jacket formed in the cylinder block and defined by the cylinder bore wall and a jacket outer surface surrounding the cylinder bore wall, a water pump for feeding a coolant to the water jacket, an introduction portion formed in the cylinder block, having an introduction port opening to the jacket outer surface, and for introducing the coolant to the water jacket, and a spacer member accommodated inside the water jacket. The spacer member has a spacer main body surrounding the cylinder bore wall, and a dividing wall protruding toward the jacket outer surface from an outer circumferential surface of the spacer main body. The dividing wall extends in a circumferential direction at a position opposing the introduction port. | 12-03-2015 |
Yuichi Wakamoto, Tokyo JP
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20140147879 | CELL CULTURE APPARATUS, APPARATUS FOR LONG-TERM OBSERVATION OF CELL CULTURE, METHOD FOR LONG-TERM CELL CULTURE, AND METHOD FOR LONG-TERM OBSERVATION OF CELL CULTURE - To provide a cell culture apparatus, an apparatus for long-term observation of cell culture, a method for long-term cell culture, and a method for long-term observation of cell culture, which are capable of continuously culturing and observing cells under a uniform environmental condition without variation in physiological state associated with aging of the cultured cells, and also tracing the history (genealogy) of a certain cell. | 05-29-2014 |
Yukihiro Wakamoto, Kikuchi-Gun JP
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20100221436 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESSING METHOD - In the present invention, a holding table incorporating a heater is provided, for example, in a treatment container of a planarization unit. A pressing plate having a lower surface formed flat is disposed above the holding table. The pressing plate is movable in the vertical direction and can lower to the holding table to press a resist film on the substrate from above. The pressing plate intermittently presses the upper surface of the resist film to planarize the upper surface while the heater is heating the substrate on the holding table at a predetermined temperature to dry the resist film. According to the present invention, a coating film applied on the substrate can be sufficiently planarized and dried. | 09-02-2010 |
Yukihiro Wakamoto, Kumamoto JP
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20150336114 | COATING PROCESSING APPARATUS - At the time of initiating coating, when a first end of an ejecting port of a coating nozzle is located at one end of a peripheral edge of a wafer, the wafer and the coating nozzle are relatively moved by a moving mechanism while exposing a coating liquid from the ejecting port. During the coating, the wafer and the coating nozzle are relatively moved by the moving mechanism while the coating liquid ejected from the ejecting port is in contact with the wafer, to coat the coating liquid on the wafer. At the time of finishing the coating, when a second end of the ejecting port is located at the other end of the peripheral edge of the wafer, the wafer and the coating nozzle are relatively moved by the moving mechanism while exposing the coating liquid from the ejecting port. | 11-26-2015 |