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20090022453 | Optical Deflection Method and Optical Deflection Apparatus - An optical deflection apparatus includes a signal light source configured to emit signal light having one or more wavelengths, a control light source configured to emit control light having a wavelength different from the wavelength of the signal light, a thermal lens forming optical element including a light absorption layer configured to transmit the signal light and selectively absorb the control light, and a beam-condensing unit configured to cause beam-condensation of the control light and the signal light at different convergence points in the light absorption layer. The thermal lens forming optical element causes convergence and divergence of the control light and the signal light on an incidence plane of the light absorption layer or its vicinity in a light traveling direction, wherein a thermal lens is reversibly formed in the light absorption layer due to a temperature increase occurring in a region where the control light is absorbed and its peripheral region, and the thermal lens changes a refractive index to change a traveling direction of the signal light. | 01-22-2009 |
20100245960 | Optical deflection method and optical deflection apparatus - An optical deflection apparatus includes a signal light source configured to emit signal light having one or more wavelengths, a control light source configured to emit control light having a wavelength different from the wavelength of the signal light, a thermal lens forming optical element including a light absorption layer configured to transmit the signal light and selectively absorb the control light, and a beam-condensing unit configured to cause beam-condensation of the control light and the signal light at different convergence points in the light absorption layer. The thermal lens forming optical element causes convergence and divergence of the control light and the signal light on an incidence plane of the light absorption layer or its vicinity in a light traveling direction, wherein a thermal lens is reversibly formed in the light absorption layer due to a temperature increase occurring in a region where the control light is absorbed and its peripheral region, and the thermal lens changes a refractive index to change a traveling direction of the signal light. | 09-30-2010 |
20100265568 | THERMAL LENS FORMING ELEMENT - A thermal lens forming element includes a first chamber serving as a control light absorbing region, which is configured as a columnar body or an N prismatic body (wherein N is an integer equal to or greater than 4) circumscribing the columnar body and filled with a control light absorbing dyestuff solution containing a solvent having a viscosity of 0 to 3 mPa·s at 160° C. or above and a ratio of the viscosity of the solvent at 160° C. to a viscosity of the solvent at 40° C. not less than 1 and not greater than 6, wherein the columnar body or the N prismatic body circumscribing the columnar body has a central axis coinciding with an optical axis of incident signal light. The first chamber is connected to a second chamber via a solution channel and a dam. The dyestuff solution and a bubble of an inert gas are confined in the second chamber. | 10-21-2010 |
20110081478 | Organic electroluminescent element and manufacturing method thereof - An method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent element, the method including a positive electrode and a glass substrate sequentially laminated on one side of a light-emitting layer and a negative electrode formed on the other side of the light-emitting layer. The organic electroluminescent element has a functional layer which is formed by causing gas molecules of at least one type of compound selected from the group consisting of dyes and charge transport materials to contact and penetrate a π conjugated organic polymer compound. | 04-07-2011 |
20120063777 | OPTICAL PATH SWITCHING SIGNAL TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION APPARATUS AND CORRESPONDING METHOD - An optical path switching type optical signal transmission/reception apparatus includes a one-to-seven compatible optically controlled optical path switching apparatus | 03-15-2012 |
20130057945 | OPTICAL-PATH-SWITCHING APPARATUS AND LIGHT SIGNAL OPTICAL-PATH-SWITCHING METHOD - An optical-path-switching apparatus according to the present invention includes a reducing optical system capable of guiding signal light and control light along the direction of gravity into a thermal-lens-forming optical element having an incidence plane positioned to be perpendicular to the direction of gravity in such a way as to differentiate respective convergence points in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. The apparatus further includes a light-receiving unit configured to converge or condense straight-traveling signal light in the absence of irradiation with the control light and signal light whose optical path has been switched due to irradiation with the control light using the same optical element. Further, the apparatus includes a wedge-type prism provided at a passing position of the optical-path-switched signal light to increase the distance between the optical axis of the optical-path-changed signal light and the optical axis of the straight-traveling signal light. | 03-07-2013 |
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20090067906 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - One paper sheet is extracted from a paper feeding cassette and fed to a process unit by plural rollers that are actuated by motors, respectively. In printing, the motors are actuated at low speed when first paper sheet is fed from the paper feeding cassette to the process unit and are actuated at high speed when second and subsequent paper sheets are fed to the process unit. | 03-12-2009 |
20110044712 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus including: an image processing unit; a printer; a memory configured to store an adjustment value; an operation panel configured to receive a change for the adjustment value according to a user input; an adjuster configured to change, according to input information from the operation panel, the adjustment value from a first value to a second value; and a print controller configured to adjust a position of an image according to the second value and cause the printer to print a numerical value character string representing the second value together with a test pattern. | 02-24-2011 |
20130272725 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to embodiments, an image forming apparatus has a cassette section for holding sheets, a conveying section for conveying the sheet, an image forming section that forms the image on the sheet conveyed by the conveying section, a determining section that determines the type of the sheet fed from the cassette, and a display section that displays different messages corresponding to the type of the sheet if a jam of the sheet has occurred while the sheet is conveyed in the conveying section. The source of a sheet for printing thereon may be changed if a threshold number of paper jams occur using paper fed from a particular cassette. | 10-17-2013 |
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20100029951 | Process for producing acrylonitrile compound - There is provided a process for stereoselectively producing E-form of 3-acyloxyacrylonitrile compound (3) or Z-form which comprises reacting 3-oxopropionitrile compound (1) with an acid chloride (2), characterized in that the reaction is conducted with removal of hydrogen chloride, or by using an organic base or an inorganic base, to thereby regulate the stereostructure of the product; a process for producing the compound (1) characterized by reacting acetonitrile compound (5) with an aromatic ester compound (6) by use of an alkali metal alkoxide in a hydrocarbon solvent while removing alcohol formed as a by-product by azeotropic distillation in a separating tank; and a process for isomerizing E-form of 3-acyloxyacrylonitrile compound to Z-form thereof by use of an organic base. | 02-04-2010 |
20100197938 | Process for producing indole compoud - There is provided a novel process for producing an indole derivative which comprises cyclizing 2-nitrobenzylcarbony compound in the presence of a catalyst comprising a Group VIII metal of the Periodic Table, characterized by conducting the cyclization in a gas atmosphere containing carbon monoxide. The process enables an indole compound to be selectively produced in a high yield from 2-nitrobenzylcarbonyl compound, and hardly yields an indoline compound as a reduction by-product that has been a problem in the catalytic hydrogenation method employing a noble metal catalyst. The indole derivative produced by the present process is useful for various fine chemical intermediates including compounds and physiologically active substances such as pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals. | 08-05-2010 |
20110313173 | Process for producing acrylonitrile compound - There is provided a process for stereoselectively producing E-form of 3-acyloxyacrylonitrile compound (3) or Z-form which comprises reacting 3-oxopropionitrile compound (1) with an acid chloride (2), characterized in that the reaction is conducted with removal of hydrogen chloride, or by using an organic base or an inorganic base, to thereby regulate the stereostructure of the product; a process for producing the compound (1) characterized by reacting acetonitrile compound (5) with an aromatic ester compound (6) by use of an alkali metal alkoxide in a hydrocarbon solvent while removing alcohol formed as a by-product by azeotropic distillation in a separating tank; and a process for isomerizing E-form of 3-acyloxyacrylonitrile compound to Z-form thereof by use of an organic base. | 12-22-2011 |
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20100156024 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING DISCHARGE DESTINATION FOR SHEET OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is composed of a main body, an image forming portion provided in the main body to form an image on a sheet, a top receiving tray provided on a top of the main body to load the sheet on which the image is formed in the image forming portion so as to be visible from the top of the main body, a side receiving tray provided at a side of the main body and under the top receiving tray to load the sheet on which the image is formed in the image forming portion with a maximum sheet loading amount more than the top receiving tray, and a control unit to control to select one of the top receiving tray and the side receiving tray as a discharge destination for the sheet according to whether or not a number of the output sheets outputted from the image forming portion exceeds a prescribed threshold value. | 06-24-2010 |
20110236040 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET CARRYING METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a carrying unit which carries a sheet from a sheet supply unit toward a sheet discharge unit; a transfer unit which transfers an image to the sheet; a fixing unit which fixes the image transferred to the sheet by the transfer unit, at a second position in the carrying unit; an acquisition unit which acquires information about the size of the sheet at a third position upstream from the second position in the carrying direction in the carrying unit; and a control unit which controls the carrying unit when the size of the sheet accepted by the acceptance unit is different from the size of the sheet acquired by the acquisition unit, and thus carries the sheet to a fourth position where a rear end of the sheet in the carrying direction is situated downstream from the second position in the carrying direction. | 09-29-2011 |
20110243583 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING GAP BETWEEN PEELING MEMBER AND FIXING MEMBER - According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a fixing member, a peeling member, a driving mechanism, and a driving-mechanism control unit. The fixing member comes into press contact with a sheet while rotating and heats the sheet. The peeling member peels the sheet off the fixing member. The driving mechanism moves the peeling member to change the size of a gap between the distal end of the peeling member and the fixing member. The driving-mechanism control unit controls the driving mechanism to set the size of the gap. | 10-06-2011 |
20120002223 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND A PAPER SHEET SUPPLY METHOD - An image forming apparatus, comprising: an input unit which designates the type of a sheet to be used in image formation; a sheet cassette which accommodates the sheets and in which the type of the accommodated sheets is set; a storage unit which stores the sheet type set in the sheet cassette if the sheet type set in the sheet cassette and the sheet type accommodated in the sheet cassette coincide with each other; and a control unit which, when the sheet type set in the sheet cassette is stored in the storage unit upon receiving a request of image formation, judges whether the sheet type designated by the input unit and the sheet type stored in the storage unit coincide with each other, if the sheet type designated by the input unit and the sheet type stored in the storage unit coincide with each other, said control unit instructs image formation, if the sheet type designated by the input unit and the sheet type stored in the storage unit do not coincide, said control unit notifies the judgment result to a user without instructing the image formation, and when the sheet type is not stored in the storage unit upon receiving the request of the image formation, said control unit instructs the image formation. | 01-05-2012 |
20140212153 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to the exemplary embodiments, there is provided an image forming apparatus that has an image forming mode and an image erasing mode. The image forming apparatus has a display unit configured to perform an error display at the time of conveyance failure of a recording medium in the image forming mode and at the time of conveyance failure of the recording medium in the image erasing mode. In the image forming apparatus, the display unit changes the content of the error display at the time of conveyance failure of the recording medium in the image forming mode and at the time of conveyance failure of the recording medium in the image erasing mode. | 07-31-2014 |
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20110193258 | RESIN PRODUCT MANUFACTURING SYSTEM, MANUFACTURING METHOD, RESIN MOLDING MACHINE AND MOLD - It is aimed to provide a resin product manufacturing system, a manufacturing method, a resin molding machine and a mold capable of easily manufacturing a burr-free finished product in injection molding or the like. | 08-11-2011 |
20120247289 | Ultrasonic Trimming Method - An ultrasonic trimming method is composed of steps, driving a cutter blade having a flat plate shape and supported by an arm at an end of an articulated robot via an ultrasonic oscillator, the cutter blade being driven by the arm while the cutter blade is ultrasonically vibrated; cutting a workpiece secured by a workpiece securing portion; and during, operation for cutting, moving the cutter blade held attached to the articulated robot to the position at where the cutting edge is brought into contact with the grindstone, maintaining the cutter blades attitude such that a plane containing the cutting edge thereof contacts the grindstone, and grinding the cutter blade by pressing the cutter blade against a grinding member by the arm while the cutter blade is ultrasonically vibrated, the grinding member being disposed within a movable range of the cutter blade driven by the articulated robot. | 10-04-2012 |
20120247295 | Ultrasonic Trimming Appratus - An ultrasonic trimming apparatus is composed of an articulated robot, a cutting apparatus, and a grindstone. The cutting apparatus is composed of an ultrasonic oscillator supported by the end portion of the robot, a cutter blade which is supported by the ultrasonic oscillator, and a workpiece securing portion which secures a workpiece. The grindstone is disposed within the movable range of the cutter blade driven by the robot and is placed in a position at which the cutter blade can pressure contact the cutter blade. The cutter blade is ultrasonically vibrated by the ultrasonic oscillator and is ground while being pressed against the grindstone by means of the articulated robot. The ultrasonic trimming apparatus efficiently cuts a sheet material composed of soft material such as plastic, fabric, or rubber, a composite material, or a material containing glass fiber even when the material has a three-dimensional shape. | 10-04-2012 |
20130247727 | Ultrasonic Trimming Method - An ultrasonic trimming method is composed of steps, driving a cutter blade having a flat plate shape and supported by an arm at an end of an articulated robot via an ultrasonic oscillator, the cutter blade being driven by the arm while the cutter blade is ultrasonically vibrated; cutting a workpiece secured by a workpiece securing portion; and during, operation for cutting, moving the cutter blade held attached to the articulated robot to the position at where the cutting edge is brought into contact with the grindstone, maintaining the cutter blades attitude such that a plane containing the cutting edge thereof contacts the grindstone, and grinding the cutter blade by pressing the cutter blade against a grinding member by the arm while the cutter blade is ultrasonically vibrated, the grinding member being disposed within a movable range of the cutter blade driven by the articulated robot. | 09-26-2013 |
20140017352 | WORKPIECE REMOVAL AND FINISHING DEVICE - There is provided a workpiece removal and finishing device that can easily, accurately, continuously and quickly perform a series of works for processing a workpiece of resin removed from a molding machine. The workpiece removal and finishing device for processing the workpiece of resin removed from the molding machine | 01-16-2014 |