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20080226364 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method comprising the steps of: (i) charging a surface of a photoreceptor; (ii) exposing the charged photoreceptor to form an electrostatic latent image; (iii) developing the electrostatic latent image using a toner comprising at least a release agent to form a toner image; (iv) transferring the toner image on the photoreceptor to a transfer material; and (v) fixing the toner image transferred on the transfer material employing a contact-heating fixing devise comprising a pair of belts, wherein the releasing agent comprises a first release agent component containing a monoester compound represented by Formula (1) and a second release agent component containing a hydrocarbon having a branched chain structure, wherein a content of the first release agent is 40 to 98% by mass, based on a total mass of the first release agent component and the second release agent component: | 09-18-2008 |
20090087770 | TONER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY - An electrophotographic toner is disclosed, meeting the requirement that G′ (60)/G′ (80) is from 1×10 | 04-02-2009 |
20100028798 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPMENT AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A toner for electrostatic latent image development, in which the image quality is fine, toner blister would not occur, and furthermore, the image quality which can fulfill customer's satisfaction can be obtained regardless of the temperature humidity environment in the image forming. The toner for electrostatic latent image development is made by agglomeration of resin particles and colorant particles in an aqueous medium. The acid value of the toner is less than 20 mgKOH/g, and the hydroxyl value of the toner is 7 to 57 mgKOH/g. | 02-04-2010 |
20110129771 | TRANSPARENT TONER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A transparent toner for forming a glossy surface is disclosed, wherein a critical surface tension of a glossy surface formed by the transparent toner at 20° C. is at least 50 mN/m, and the transparent toner comprises a resin composed of a polymer formed by employing at least a polymerizable monomer containing a carboxylic group (—COOH). An image forming method employing the transparent tone is also disclosed. | 06-02-2011 |
20110207045 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A toner for electrostatic latent image development is disclosed, comprising a binder resin which comprises a resin A comprising a copolymer comprised of at least a styrenic monomer unit and a (meth)acrylic monomer unit and a resin B comprising a copolymer comprised of at least a methacrylate monomer unit and a radical-polymerizable monomer unit containing plural carboxyl groups, and a total amount of the methacrylate monomer unit and the radical-polymerizable monomer unit containing plural carboxyl groups accounts for not less than 70% by mass and not more than 95% by mass of all monomer units forming the copolymer of the resin B. | 08-25-2011 |
20120028175 | FOIL TRANSFERRING FACE FORMING TONER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A method for forming an image at least comprising steps of forming an electrostatic latent image by exposing an electrophotographic photoreceptor, forming a foil transferring face by supplying a toner onto the electrophotographic photoreceptor having the electrostatic latent image, transferring the foil transferring face formed on the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a base substance, fixing the foil transferring face transferred on the base substance, supplying a transfer foil to the base substance fixed with the foil transferring face, adhering the transfer foil onto the foil transferring face by heating under a condition of contacting the transfer foil with the foil transferring face; and removing the transfer foil from the base substance while leaving the foil adhered onto the foil transferring face, wherein the toner comprises a binder resin having a softening temperature in the range of from not less than 105° C. to not more than 140° C., and having a molecular weight of not less than 60,000 in a ratio of not less than 10% and not more than 30% based on the total binder resin constituting the toner. | 02-02-2012 |
20120082493 | METHOD OF GLOSSY IMAGE FORMATION - A method of forming a glossy image is disclosed, comprising the steps of (a) forming a clear toner particle layer with clear toner particles on an image support, (b) heating and pressing the clear toner particle layer formed on the image support, while bringing the surface of the clear toner particle layer into contact with a belt, and (c) cooling the clear toner particle layer to form a clear toner layer, wherein the clear toner particles contain a binder resin and a releasing agent and exhibit a heat quantity of fusion of not less than 3.0 J/g and not more than 9.5 J/g, and the clear toner particles meeting the following requirement: | 04-05-2012 |
20120122021 | METHOD OF FORMING HOLOGRAM IMAGE, ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER AND HOLOGRAM IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method of forming a hologram image comprising the steps of forming an electrophotographic image by forming an electrophotographic image area on an image support via an electrophotographic image forming method using a toner containing at least a thermoplastic resin; laminating an emboss hologram transferring member over the electrophotographic image so that a surface on which a corrugation profile is formed of the emboss hologram transferring member is in contact with the electrophotographic image area heating the electrophotographic image and the emboss hologram transferring member at a temperature not lower than a softening temperature of the toner while pressurizing the emboss hologram transferring member onto the electrophotographic image; cooling the electrophotographic image and the emboss hologram transferring member, and peeling the emboss hologram transferring member from the electrophotographic image, whereby the corrugation profile of the emboss hologram transferring member is transferred onto the electrophotographic image area. | 05-17-2012 |
20120128393 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming method including steps of forming a clear toner layer on a photoreceptor, transferring the clear toner layer onto a transfer member, transferring the clear toner layer on the transfer member onto an image support, heating the image support having the clear toner layer, bringing the clear toner layer into close contact with a belt to cool the image support, and separating the image support from the belt are provided, in this order; and the clear toner layer is formed with a plurality of independent linear protrusion portions and the independent linear protrusion portions are formed parallel or diagonally to the conveyance direction of an image support. | 05-24-2012 |
20120141176 | METHOD FOR FORMING HIGH GLOSSY PRINTED MATTER - Provided is a method for forming a printed mater having high glossiness (for example, glossiness 80 or more by measuring angle of 20°) via high glossiness providing apparatus. A method for forming a high glossy printed matter comprising at least steps of (a) heating and melting a clear toner supplied on an image support material, (b) bringing the image support material at a side in which the a clear toner is supplied into contact with a belt, and cooling the transparent toner while contacting with the belt, and (c) releasing the image support material from the belt, wherein the clear toner comprises at least a resin and a wax, a glass transition point (Tg) of the resin is not less than 30° C. and not more than 70° C., and a crystallization temperature (Tc) of the wax is not less than 60° C. and not more than 99° C. | 06-07-2012 |
20120156609 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING PRINT HAVING FOIL IMAGE AND TONER IMAGE - Provided is a method for producing a print having a toner image and a foil image, the method containing the steps of forming a foil transferring toner image with a foil transferring toner on an image supporting substrate produced; heating and pressing by laminating the foil transferring toner image onto a transferring foil layer of a transferring foil sheet which is composed of the transferring foil layer and a base film; forming a foil image having the transferring foil layer on the foil transferring toner image by peeling off the base film after cooling the foil transferring toner image with the transferring foil layer; and forming a toner image with an image forming toner on the image supporting substrate having the foil transferring image, wherein the foil transferring toner contains a resin produced by a vinyl monomer represented by Formula (1) and a polyvalent metal compound: | 06-21-2012 |
20120177417 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming method in which a foil image exhibiting excellent finish without any wrinkle and strong adhesive strength is formed on a foil transferring face made of toner. The image forming method for transferring the transfer foil on the foil transferring face is conducted by contacting the transfer foil to the foil transferring face formed by using toner having a glass transition temperature of not more than 60° C., and by passing through a nip portion formed between a driving roller and a follower roller. | 07-12-2012 |
20120177425 | GLOSSY SURFACE FORMING APPARATUS AND GLOSSY SURFACE FORMING METHOD - Disclosed is a glossy surface forming apparatus containing a heating member to heat an image support on which a toner has been supplied, a belt member with which the image support is brought into close contact via the toner having been melted via heating by the heating member to convey the image support in a state of being in close contact, a cooling member to cool the toner on the image support which is being conveyed in a state of being in close contact with the belt member, and a separating member to separate the image support on which the toner has been solidified via cooling by the cooling member from the belt member, and the belt member contains at least a polyimide resin having a fluorine atom in the molecular structure and the center line average roughness Ra of the surface making contact with a toner layer is at most 0.3 μm. A glossy surface forming method is also disclosed. | 07-12-2012 |
20120177426 | IMAGE FORMING MERTHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method of forming an image comprising the steps of forming an image on an image support to obtain an original image, and forming a gloss adjusting layer comprising a clear toner-fixed image comprising a clear toner on the original image, wherein the gloss adjusting layer comprises an aggregate of gloss adjusting units, wherein the gloss adjusting units each comprise a section where the clear toner is attached and a section where the clear toner is unattached, wherein a borderline between the section where the clear toner is attached and the section where the clear toner is unattached comprises a straight line. | 07-12-2012 |
20120177427 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided are an image forming method by which an image in which arbitrary glossiness is adjusted to any section is formed, and an image forming apparatus thereof. It is a feature that an image forming method possesses the steps of forming a gloss adjusting layer possessing a gloss adjusting toner-fixed image formed with a gloss adjusting toner, on an image support, and forming a toner-fixed image obtained from a toner, on the gloss adjusting layer, wherein the gloss adjusting layer possesses an aggregate of gloss adjusting units; the gloss adjusting units each possess a section where the gloss adjusting toner is attached and another section where the gloss adjusting toner is unattached; and a borderline between the section and the another section is a straight line. | 07-12-2012 |
20120251174 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Provided is a method for forming an image containing the sequential steps of: forming a foil adhesion toner image on an image supporting substrate with a foil adhesion toner (α) which comprises at least a binder resin containing a thermoplastic resin using an electrophotographic method; forming a foil image on the foil adhesion toner image by contacting a transfer foil on the foil adhesion toner image with applying heat; and forming a visible toner image on the image supporting substrate which has been formed with the foil image with at least one image forming toner (β) using an electrophotographic method, followed by fixing the visible toner image by applying heat and pressure thereto, wherein Δ(Tsp(α)−Tsp(β)) is 5 to 50° C., provided that Tsp (α) is a softening point of the foil adhesion toner (α) and Tsp (β) is a softening point of the image forming toner (β). | 10-04-2012 |
20120264045 | FOIL TRANSFERRING METHOD AND TONER FOR FORMING FOIL TRANSFERRING LAYER - A foil transferring method employing an electrophotography is disclosed, in which a toner used for forming a foil transferring layer contains at least a vinyl based resin and a polyester based resin as a binder resin and an amount of the vinyl based resin is 50 to 95% by weight based on the total amount of the binder resin. | 10-18-2012 |
20130000836 | PRODUCTION PROCESS OF NON-CONTACT INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM - The non-contact information recording medium is made by forming the antenna circuit and connecting it to the IC module through connection terminals at the same time. This provides a high degree of freedom of patterning of the antenna circuit. The antenna circuit is formed on a recording substrate, in which an IC module has been embedded. A foil-bonding resin layer is formed on the connection terminals of the recording substrate, with a toner containing a binder resin by an electrophotographic method. Then a conductive foil is brought into contact with the foil-bonding resin layer to bond the foil to the resin layer, to connect the antenna circuit to the connection terminals and form the antenna circuit composed of the conductive foil. | 01-03-2013 |
20130202337 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method includes: performing a first gloss processing and a second gloss processing. The first gloss processing includes: heating and pressing a processed body which supports a first toner layer containing at least a clear toner [X] onto a first surface of a recording material, while allowing the first toner layer to be closely adhered to a gloss processing belt; and cooling the same. The second gloss processing includes heating and pressing a processed body which supports a second toner layer containing at least a clear toner [Y] onto a second surface of the recording material, while allowing the second toner layer to be closely adhered to the gloss processing belt; and cooling the same. Here, a storage elastic modulus G′ X (150) at 150° C. of the clear toner [X] is lower than a storage elastic modulus G′ Y (150) at 150° C. of the clear toner [Y]. | 08-08-2013 |
20140285820 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method which is capable of preventing occurrence of moire and forming images having sufficient color saturation and a sufficient gloss is provided. The color toner image is formed in accordance with si color image signal obtained through screen processing using a screen pattern having a screen line count of 50 to 270 lpi on manuscript image data, and the clear toner image is formed in accordance with a clear image signal obtained through contone processing on the manuscript image data. The clear image signal is controlled so that, according to the amount of the color toner per unit area of the stacked toner image obtained by the color toner image being superimposed with the clear toner image, the less the amount of the color toner, the more the amount of the clear toner becomes. | 09-25-2014 |
20150050592 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPMENT, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The present invention relates to toner for electrostatic charge image development including a resin, a metal-containing compound, and a colorant compound precursor to be converted to a colorant compound through a reaction with the metal-containing compound by heat applied at heat fixing. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide toner for electrostatic charge image development which is excellent in fluidity and storage stability and a method of manufacturing the same. | 02-19-2015 |
20150072285 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - According to one implementation, a toner includes a toner mother particle and a convex portion on a surface of the toner mother particle. The toner mother particle includes at least a resin (1). The convex portion is formed from a resin particle including at least a resin (2). An average value of a length of a long side of the convex portion is within a range of 0.1 to 0.5 μm. A ratio between a Young's modulus of a non-convex portion of the toner mother particle (ER (1)) and a Young's modulus of a convex portion of the toner mother particle (ER (2)) is a value (ER (1)/ER (2)) within the range of 1.2 to 2.0. | 03-12-2015 |
20150234306 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPMENT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - To provide a toner for electrostatic charge image development which allows obtainment of excellent low temperature fixability and a document off-set resistance sufficiently and also inhibition of an excessive increase in glossiness of a formed fixed image, and a method for manufacturing the same. | 08-20-2015 |
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20090026992 | PRINTER AND DC MOTOR SPEED CONTROL DEVICE - In speed control that is performed within a single operating cycle of a printer, three-level control of ON control, OFF control, and chopper control, is performed in place of the two-level control of ON control and OFF control, to effectively suppress speed variations due to load variations within a single operating cycle, even in small printers provided with DC motors having small output torques. In a printer comprising a DC motor | 01-29-2009 |
20100247215 | NEAR-END OF ROLL DETECTING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING NEAR-END OF ROLL OF RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PRINTER - A printer includes a recording medium accommodating unit that holds an outer circumferential portion of a recording medium wound in a roll, a printing unit that prints on the recording medium fed from the recording medium accommodating unit, a first detecting lever that is biased to abut a side aspect of the recording medium and that includes on a tip, a first protrusion that enters a space of a roll-core part in the center of the recording medium when the roll-core part is moved to a predetermined position by the weight of the recording medium as the recording medium is consumed, and a detecting switch that converts an action of the first detecting lever into an electric signal, where the first protrusion is provided on the first detecting lever being rotatable in a direction that the roll-core part moves to be detached from the recording medium accommodating unit. | 09-30-2010 |
20100247217 | PRINTER - A recording medium accommodating unit | 09-30-2010 |
20100247221 | PRINTER - A printer includes a fixed blade attached to a cover unit; a movable blade that faces a fixed blade, freely reciprocates relative to the fixed blade when the cover unit is closed and cuts the recording medium together with the fixed blade by overlapping the fixed blade during reciprocation; a movable blade driving motor that causes the movable blade to reciprocate; and a movable blade unit that includes the movable blade, the movable blade driving motor, and an accommodating unit accommodating the movable blade and provided at a printer main body. The printer further includes a mechanism that, when the movable blade protrudes from the accommodating unit and is stopped, widens a space over which the fixed blade and the protruding movable blade face each other before the movable blade driving motor accommodates the protruding movable blade in the accommodating unit, as initiated by operation of a cover opening lever. | 09-30-2010 |
20100310294 | NEAR-END OF ROLL DETECTING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING NEAR-END OF ROLL OF RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PRINTER - To improve precision in identifying the amount that remains of a recording medium, an apparatus includes a paper holder that supports an outer circumferential surface of a recording medium that is biased downward in a vertical direction by the weight of the recording medium, such that a position of a center of the recording medium moves on a straight-line trace, associated with consumption of the recording medium; and a light-reflecting sensor that is provided at a predetermined position at a side face of the paper holder and senses displacement per unit time at a position facing the predetermined position of the recording medium that is rotated by being pulled out of the paper holder, associated with the consumption of the recording medium, where based on the displacement sensed by the light-reflecting sensor, a radius of the recording medium at the time the light reflecting sensor senses the displacement is calculated. | 12-09-2010 |
20110164913 | PRINTER APPARATUS - A printing apparatus | 07-07-2011 |
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20090251641 | Liquid crystal display device, backlight used for same display device, method for driving same backlight and method for manufacturing same backlight - A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a backlight used for the LCD and a method for producing the LCD and the backlight are provided which are capable of inhibiting an increase in component counts and in assembling processes and of reducing them, thereby achieving low costs. A display image is obtained by arranging a backlight section being able to perform scanning as a single unit in a manner that it positionally matches a liquid crystal displaying section. The backlight section is provided with a plurality of scanning electrodes and light emitting layers each providing a different luminescent color, and being spatially separated from each other on a principal face of the backlight and scanning is performed on a plurality of light emitting layers providing a different luminescent color. | 10-08-2009 |
20120075554 | LIQUID CRYSTAL PANEL, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND TERMINAL DEVICE - To provide a liquid crystal panel capable of realizing excellent display performance using a circular polarizing plate therein, and a liquid crystal display device and a terminal device using the same, with respect to a semi-transmission type liquid crystal display device in a horizontal electric field mode (In-Plane Switching: IPS). | 03-29-2012 |
20120105775 | CIRCULAR POLARIZER, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND TERMINAL DEVICE - In an LCD device, a circular polarizer is provided to each of two substrates that hold a liquid crystal layer. The circular polarizer on the display surface side includes a polarizer, λ/2 plate in which Rth>0, and a λ/4 plate in which Rth<0; and the circular polarizer on the backlight side includes a polarizer, a λ/2 plate in which Rth<0, and a λ/4 plate in which Rth>0. Rth is a retardation in the thickness direction of a λ/2 plate or a λ/4 plate. The absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the λ/2 plate for which Rth>0 and the λ/2 plate for which Rth<0 is reduced, and in the absolute value of the sum of the Rth between the λ/4 plate for which Rth<0 and the λ/4 plate for which Rth>0. | 05-03-2012 |
20140104520 | Semi-Transmissive Liquid Crystal Display Device and Portable Terminal Device - A liquid crystal display accommodates a reflective portion with a concavo-convex reflecting pixel electrode for reflecting incident light from the display face side, and a transmissive portion with a transmissive pixel electrode for transmitting light output from the backlight. In a wide viewing angle region, luminance of the reflective portion is greater than the transmissive portion. In other angle regions, luminance of the transmissive portion is greater than the reflective portion. In a wide viewing field mode, the reflective portion and transmissive portion both perform normal display. In the narrow viewing field mode, the transmissive portion performs normal display, while the reflective portion performs cancelling data display, thereby rendering unviewable the display content of the transmissive portion from beyond a certain viewing angle. Thus, a semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device and a portable terminal device is switchable between a narrow viewing field mode and a wide viewing field mode. | 04-17-2014 |
20140125573 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, BACKLIGHT USED FOR SAME DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME BACKLIGHT AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME BACKLIGHT - A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a backlight used for the LCD and a method for producing the LCD and the backlight are provided which are capable of inhibiting an increase in component counts and in assembling processes and of reducing them, thereby achieving low costs. A display image is obtained by arranging a backlight section being able to perform scanning as a single unit in a manner that it positionally matches a liquid crystal displaying section. The backlight section is provided with a plurality of scanning electrodes and light emitting layers each providing a different luminescent color, and being spatially separated from each other on a principal face of the backlight and scanning is performed on a plurality of light emitting layers providing a different luminescent color. | 05-08-2014 |
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20120045718 | CYAN TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE - Disclosed is a cyan toner for developing an electrostatic image containing a cyan colorant, and the cyan colorant comprises colorant compound X represented by Formula (1) and colorant compound Y represented by Formula (2). | 02-23-2012 |
20120219892 | GREEN TONER FOR DEVELOPING STATIC LATENT IMAGE AND FULL COLOR IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Disclosed is a green toner for developing a static latent image containing a binder resin and a colorant, and the colorant contains C.I. Solvent Green 5 and colorant compound X represented by Formula (1), and content ratio of C.I. Solvent Green 5 in whole amount of the colorant is 5 to 50% by weight, | 08-30-2012 |
20140287354 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - Provided is a toner for electrostatic image development, having low-temperature fixability and long-term stable charge property and also having heat-resistant storage stability. The toner for electrostatic image development includes toner particles containing a binder resin. The binder resin has a domain-matrix structure in which a crystalline polyester resin is dispersed as a domain phase in a matrix phase formed of an amorphous vinyl polymer formed using at least a vinyl-based monomer. The amorphous vinyl polymer has a carboxy group concentration of not less than 0.2 mmol/g and not more than 1.0 mmol/g, and the crystalline polyester resin has an ester group concentration of not less than 0.1 mmol/g and not more than 7.1 mmol/g. | 09-25-2014 |
20140349231 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - Disclosed is a toner for electrostatic image development that has excellent low-temperature fixability and also has sufficient heat-resistant storage stability. The toner for electrostatic image development includes toner particles containing an amorphous resin including amorphous resins A and B and a crystalline polyester resin. The toner particles have a domain-matrix structure in which a domain phase including fine core particles of the crystalline polyester resin is dispersed in a matrix phase formed of the amorphous resin A composed of a vinyl-based polymer. The surface of the fine core particles of the crystalline polyester resin is coated with the amorphous resin B composed of a vinyl-based polymer. | 11-27-2014 |
20140356780 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION PROCESS OF THE SAME - Provided is a toner for electrostatic image development that has low-temperature fixability and long-term stable electrification performance, also has heat-resistant storage stability, and can suppress the occurrence of unevenness in gloss. Also provided is a production process of the toner. The toner for electrostatic image development includes toner particles having a domain-matrix structure. In the toner particles, a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous resin including an amorphous polyester segment and a polymerized vinyl segment that are chemically bonded are dispersed as domain phases in a matrix phase formed of a vinyl resin. | 12-04-2014 |
20140377699 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - Provided is a toner for electrostatic image development having low-temperature fixability and providing stability of glossiness for various types of paper. The toner for electrostatic image development includes toner particles having a domain-matrix structure. In the domain-matrix structure, a domain phase including a crystalline polyester resin having a melting point of 40 to 90° C. and a domain phase including a vinyl resin B having a weight average molecular weight of 250,000 to 400,000 are dispersed in a matrix phase including a vinyl resin A having a weight average molecular weight of 10,000 to 50,000. | 12-25-2014 |
20150017584 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT - Provided is a toner for electrostatic image development that has good low-temperature fixability, also has long-term heat-resistant storage stability and can form an image with unevenness in gloss suppressed. The toner for electrostatic image development includes toner particles. The toner particles have a domain-matrix structure in which a first domain phase including a crystalline polyester resin A and a second domain phase including a crystalline polyester resin B are dispersed in a matrix phase including a vinyl resin. The average diameter of the first domain phase is 400 to 900 nm, and the average diameter of the second domain phase is 10 to 200 nm. The melting point of the crystalline polyester resin A and the melting point of the crystalline polyester resin B are each 95° C. or lower. | 01-15-2015 |
20150099223 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGES - Provided is a toner for developing electrostatic images having excellent low temperature fixability and heat resistance storability. | 04-09-2015 |
20150177632 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER - An electrostatic image developing toner includes a toner particle having a core-shell structure including a core portion containing a first polyester resin A, and a shell layer containing a second polyester resin B, the shell layer coating the core portion, wherein the second polyester resin B has at least a meta-phenylene skeleton, and the following relational expression (1) is satisfied: relational expression (1): 0≦a | 06-25-2015 |
20150370188 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE - A toner for developing an electrostatic image includes a toner particle. The toner particle contains a binder resin and a release agent. The binder resin contains an amorphous resin and a crystalline polyester resin. The toner satisfies the following formulae (1) and (2). In the formulae (1) and (2), Tmc (° C.) represents a melting peak temperature derived from the crystalline polyester resin and Tmw (° C.) represents a melting peak temperature derived from the release agent in a heating process in differential scanning calorimetry of the toner. | 12-24-2015 |
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20080316889 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording/reproducing unit to record/reproduce information data on/from each of a plurality of first recording media; an outputting unit to output the information data reproduced from the first recording media to a recording device in order to record the information data recorded on the first recording media on a second recording medium by the recording device; an obtaining unit to obtain sizes of respective pieces of the information data recorded on the first recording media; a generating unit to generate association information including identification information to identify the first recording media associated with each other and order information indicating order of the first recording media; and a determination unit configured to determine addresses used to record the respective pieces of the information data recorded on the first recording media on the second recording medium based on the association information and the obtained data sizes. | 12-25-2008 |
20090125928 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an information recording apparatus, such as a digital camera, arranged to record information on a detachably mountable storage medium, such as for example to record video data on the storage medium. In one version of the apparatus, when a connection of an AC adapter is cancelled, the storage medium is detected by a storage medium detection unit, and in a case where the storage medium is not mounted to the mounting unit, a warning is issued, for example in an audio output unit or a display unit. Accordingly, the user can find out that the storage medium is not mounted before the digital camera has been brought outside for use. Thus, it may be possible to prevent a failure in which the user first realizes that they forgot to mount the storage medium only when they are already away from home. | 05-14-2009 |
20090213485 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A reproducing apparatus includes a recording medium mounting detection unit configured to detect that a detachable recording medium is mounted, and a file analysis unit configured to analyze a file recorded in the recording medium. When the recording medium mounting detection unit detects that the recording medium is mounted, representative information that represents recorded content on the recording medium (a representative image and/or a representative title) is acquired from the recording medium and displayed on a display unit prior to file analysis by the file analysis unit. | 08-27-2009 |
20100045823 | RECORDING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A recording apparatus including a mounting portion configured to allow a rewritable recording medium and an unrewritable recording medium to be mounted thereon includes a determination unit configured to determine a file name with a number for recording a file on a recording medium mounted on the mounting portion, and a recording control unit configured to record, on the recording medium mounted on the mounting portion, the file using the file name determined by the determination unit, wherein the determination unit changes a file name determination method when the recording medium mounted on the mounting portion is replaced such that the rewritable recording medium and the unrewritable recording medium are replaced with each other. | 02-25-2010 |
20100134657 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This invention has as its object to allow information recording by maximally utilizing the size of a storage medium while maintaining compatibility to an electronic device which can handle only a storage medium initialized by the first file system to some extent. To this end, on a storage medium, two storage areas, i.e., a partition A initialized by the FAT16 file system to be accessed by a normal digital still camera, and a partition B initialized by the FAT32 file system that allows a still larger address space, are assured. A main image sensed by a camera unit is stored in the partition B, and a thumbnail image as its derivative information is stored in the partition A. Even when this memory card is attached to the conventional digital still camera, the thumbnail image can be browsed. Also, information indicating correspondence between the main image and corresponding thumbnail image is stored in the partition B as management information. As a result, even when a thumbnail image is detected by the conventional digital still camera, whether the main image is to be deleted or the deleted thumbnail image is to be restored can be selected based on the correspondence with the main image. | 06-03-2010 |
20100153476 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A recording apparatus including a mounting unit to mount a removable recording medium, a recording capacity obtaining unit to obtain recording capacity of the recording medium, a file format determination unit to determine a file format used in the recording medium, and a changing unit to change the file format used in the recording medium and initialize the recording medium based on a relationship between the recording capacity and the file format. | 06-17-2010 |
20100159831 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A method for controlling a communication apparatus includes communicating with an external device through close proximity wireless communication, receiving a remote control signal transmitted from a remote controller, storing a remote control setting which enables or disables an operation of the remote controller, making a determination as to whether a connection between the communication apparatus and the external device through the close proximity wireless communication is established, and controlling an operation of the remote controller for the communication apparatus on the basis of the determination. | 06-24-2010 |
20110188834 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A recording apparatus is disclosed that records information data and file system information for managing a file containing the information data in accordance with a predetermined file system to a recording medium having a plurality of blocks including an alternative block for a detect block. The data recorded in the recording medium is managed in accordance with the predetermined file system. The recording apparatus sets a threshold based on the size of the file system information, and if the alternative block remaining amount in the recording medium is less than or equal to the threshold, recording of the information data to the recording medium is inhibited. | 08-04-2011 |
20120127349 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS CAPABLE OF DELETING VIDEO EFFECT SUPERIMPOSED ON MOVING IMAGE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE APPARATUS, AND MOVING IMAGE-RECORDING APPARATUS, AS WELL AS STORAGE MEDIUM - An image pickup apparatus capable of deleting a video effect superimposed on a moving image, in timing desired by a user. A system controller of a video camera as the image pickup apparatus performs control such that a moving image taken by an image pickup section and a title superimposed on the moving image are recorded together in a storage medium. When a specific shooting condition has changed during taking of the moving image by the image pickup section, the system controller performs control to inhibit recording of the display item in the storage medium. | 05-24-2012 |
20120133658 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A display control apparatus includes a moving image display unit configured to control a display apparatus to display a moving image thereon, a reading unit configured to read animation information including a plurality of frame images, a detection unit configured to detect touch on the display apparatus, and a display control unit configured to control the display apparatus to display a first frame image of the animation information thereon if touch on a specific position of the display apparatus is detected by the detection unit when the moving image is being displayed on the display aparatus, and to start a transition display of frame images of the animation information if the touch on the display apparatus becomes undetected by the detection unit. | 05-31-2012 |
20120140112 | IMAGING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME - An imaging device includes measures to prevent it from becoming unusable due to battery discharge or no storage in the storage medium. The device includes a battery charge function and a data transfer function. After detecting the charge amount remaining in the battery and the remaining storage capacity in the storage medium, the order of priority for performing battery charge and data transfer is set. The imaging device is switched between the battery charge function and the data transfer function based on the set priority order. The battery charge is executed in accordance with the detected remaining charge and the data transfer in accordance with the detected remaining storage capacity. | 06-07-2012 |
20120154430 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - When rendering a graphic according to the locus of an input position, it is determined whether a region which has been preset for the graphic to be rendered, and has the start position of the continuous input as a reference overlaps a region preset for an already rendered graphic by a predetermined amount or more. If it is determined that the regions do not overlap each other by the predetermined amount or more, a graphic is rendered according to the locus of the input position. Alternatively, if it is determined that the regions overlap each other by the predetermined amount or more, control is switched to remove the already rendered graphic according to the locus of the input position. | 06-21-2012 |
20120194870 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING PRINT SETTING OF IMAGE DATA - An image processing apparatus includes a recording/reproducing unit that records data on a first recording medium and reproduces recorded data from the first recording medium; a recording unit that records data on a second recording medium; and a controller, when print designation information of the first image data cannot be recorded on the first recording medium, the print designation information indicates print processing of image data, controls the recording/reproducing unit and the recording unit to read the first image data from the first recording medium and record the first image data and print designation information of the first image data on the second recording medium. | 08-02-2012 |
20130122815 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A method for controlling a communication apparatus includes communicating with an external device through close proximity wireless communication, receiving a remote control signal transmitted from a remote controller, storing a remote control setting which enables or disables an operation of the remote controller, making a determination as to whether a connection between the communication apparatus and the external device through the close proximity wireless communication is established, and controlling an operation of the remote controller for the communication apparatus on the basis of the determination. | 05-16-2013 |
20130147988 | RECORDING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A recording apparatus including a mounting portion configured to allow a rewritable recording medium and an unrewritable recording medium to be mounted thereon includes a determination unit configured to determine a file name with a number for recording a file on a recording medium mounted on the mounting portion, and a recording control unit configured to record, on the recording medium mounted on the mounting portion, the file using the file name determined by the determination unit, wherein the determination unit changes a file name determination method when the recording medium mounted on the mounting portion is replaced such that the rewritable recording medium and the unrewritable recording medium are replaced with each other. | 06-13-2013 |
20130194439 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - According to an embodiment, there is provided an information recording apparatus, such as a digital camera, arranged to record information on a detachably mountable storage medium, such as for example to record video data on the storage medium. In one version of the apparatus, when a connection of an AC adapter is cancelled, the storage medium is detected by a storage medium detection unit, and in a case where the storage medium is not mounted to the mounting unit, a warning is issued, for example in an audio output unit or a display unit. Accordingly, the user can find out that the storage medium is not mounted before the digital camera has been brought outside for use. Thus, it may be possible to prevent a failure in which the user first realizes that they forgot to mount the storage medium only when they are already away from home. | 08-01-2013 |
20130201128 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - When an item is selected with a touch from an item list, if display of a guidance is set to ON, the item is selected by a first touch and the guidance is displayed to view another item. A determination operation is performed by a second touch to the same item. If the display of the guidance is set to OFF, a determination operation of an touched item is performed by the first touch without displaying the guidance. Thus, when it is set that the guidance is not displayed, inconvenience that a user needs to touch the same option twice even the guidance display is not required to shift a screen to a sub-screen can be eliminated, and increase of troublesomeness for a shift operation to the sub-screen can be prevented. | 08-08-2013 |
20130209069 | MOVING IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A moving image recording device comprising, an item superimposition unit configured to superimpose a superimposition item over a moving image in accordance with an input from a user, a storage control unit configured to cause a storage unit to store the moving image together with the superimposition item; and a control unit configured to control the storage unit to store information of an image over which the superimposition item has been superimposed in association with the moving image so that the image over which the superimposition item has been superimposed is used as a representative image of the moving image based on a change in a superimposed state of the superimposition item superimposed over the moving image by the item superimposition unit. | 08-15-2013 |
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20150189177 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An electronic apparatus comprises a certification unit configured to certificate a mounted battery, and a control unit configured to perform control such that, if an instruction to execute first processing is given before certification processing by the certification unit is completed, the first processing is not executed before the certification processing is completed, and if an instruction to execute second processing is given before the certification processing by the certification unit is completed, the second processing is executed before the certification processing is completed. | 07-02-2015 |
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20110166804 | SEMICONDUCTOR PRESSURE SENSOR AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - For example, to adjust an offset of a pressure sensor, there are provided an external resistor RE and an internal resistor circuit that is connected to both ends of RE and formed in a semiconductor chip such as a processor. The internal resistor circuit includes N pieces of internal resistors RI connected in series between both ends of RE, and (N+1) pieces of switches selecting one of voltages of respective nodes of the serial resistors and outputs the same as a signal. RE has a high absolute value precision of, e.g., several ten ohms to several hundred ohms, and RI has a high relative value precision of, e.g., several kilo-ohms. Therefore, an offset adjustment range is decided at a high absolute value precision mainly by RE, and with regard to the arrangement resolution, a high precision can be obtained along with the relative value precision of the RI. | 07-07-2011 |
20120062403 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - In AD conversion of a voltage, data continuity is ensured between the results of conversion after amplification and of direct conversion without amplification. In AD conversion operation, an analog signal output from a DA converter circuit is directly converted by an AD converter circuit, and the analog signal is converted after amplification with an expected gain of 2 | 03-15-2012 |