Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110190804 | FLUID INJECTION DEVICE - A fluid injection device that injects a fluid to a biological tissue from an injection opening to excise the biological tissue, includes: a fluid injection means that injects the fluid from the injection opening; and a suction means that sucks at least one of the injected fluid and the excised biological tissue by periodically varying a negative suction pressure. | 08-04-2011 |
20110238098 | LIQUID INJECTION DEVICE - A liquid injection device includes: a chamber which supply of the liquid and connects with the injection nozzle; a chamber volume varying unit to which driving voltage is applied to reduce the volume of the chamber to a volume smaller than the volume of the chamber before the driving voltage is applied; a driving voltage applying unit which applies the driving voltage to the chamber volume varying unit with the liquid supplied to the chamber; a pseudo noise data memory unit which stores sound data of pseudo noise having audible frequency components contained in driving noise generated when the driving voltage is applied to the chamber volume varying unit; and a pseudo noise outputting unit which outputs the pseudo noise by using the sound data of the pseudo noise such that the sound pressure of the driving noise decreases within the audible frequency range when the driving voltage is applied. | 09-29-2011 |
20120181352 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: an inflow channel to which liquid is supplied; an outflow channel communicated with a nozzle; a liquid chamber formed with a spiral flow channel having a substantially constant cross-sectional area between the inflow channel and the outflow channel and having a given volume; a volume changing portion configured to deform the liquid chamber so as to change the volume of the liquid chamber to a volume smaller than the given volume; and an ejection control unit configured to cause the liquid to be ejected from the nozzle in a pulsed manner by driving the volume changing portion in a state in which the liquid chamber is filled with the liquid. | 07-19-2012 |
20130096601 | LIQUID INJECTION DEVICE AND MEDICAL APPARATUS - A liquid injection device includes an injection unit which injects a liquid, a liquid supply instrument which supplies the liquid to the injection unit, and a control unit which controls operation of the injection unit and the liquid supply instrument, wherein the injection unit includes a distal end portion where a nozzle for injecting the liquid is formed, and a body portion in which the distal end portion is removably loaded, at the distal end portion, a distal end-side memory is provided in which first startup data is written, and the control unit is a control unit which reads and writes the first startup data from and to the distal end-side memory in the distal end portion loaded in the body portion and manages use time of the distal end portion based on the first startup data that is read out. | 04-18-2013 |
20130214058 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE SYSTEM AND MEDICAL APPARATUS - A fluid ejection device system includes: a fluid ejecting unit configured to change a volume of a fluid chamber to thereby eject fluid from a nozzle provided at a distal end of a fluid ejection pipe connected to the fluid chamber; a fluid supplying unit connected to the fluid ejecting unit by a connection tube and configured to supply the fluid to the fluid chamber; a control unit configured to control operation of the fluid ejecting unit and the fluid supplying unit; and a stand configured to hold at least a part of the fluid ejecting unit, and when it is detected that the fluid ejecting unit is held in the stand, the control unit controls at least one of the fluid ejecting unit and the fluid supplying unit to thereby execute a predetermined discharge operation for discharging the fluid in the fluid chamber. | 08-22-2013 |
20130304104 | LIQUID INJECTION DEVICE - A liquid injection device includes: a chamber which supply of the liquid and connects with the injection nozzle; a chamber volume varying unit to which driving voltage is applied to reduce the volume of the chamber to a volume smaller than the volume of the chamber before the driving voltage is applied; a driving voltage applying unit which applies the driving voltage to the chamber volume varying unit with the liquid supplied to the chamber; a pseudo noise data memory unit which stores sound data of pseudo noise having audible frequency components contained in driving noise generated when the driving voltage is applied to the chamber volume varying unit; and a pseudo noise outputting unit which outputs the pseudo noise by using the sound data of the pseudo noise such that the sound pressure of the driving noise decreases within the audible frequency range when the driving voltage is applied. | 11-14-2013 |
20130310862 | MEDICAL APPARATUS - Liquid is ejected in a pulse-like manner from a nozzle provided at the distal end of a liquid ejection pipe. When the liquid is ejected, moving speed of the nozzle is detected. A driving frequency of a piezoelectric element is increased when the moving speed increase. The driving frequency is reduced when the moving speed decreases. Consequently, it is possible to prevent the number of times the liquid is ejected per unit length from changing according to the moving speed of the nozzle. Therefore, it is possible to excise a biological tissue at stable excision depth. | 11-21-2013 |
20140277023 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE - A fluid ejection device for ejecting fluid includes an ejection tube including an opening to eject the fluid, a pulsation applying part which communicates with the ejection tube and applies pulsation to the fluid, a supply flow path to supply the fluid to the pulsation applying part, and a cooling part to cool the fluid in the supply flow path. | 09-18-2014 |
20140296891 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE AND MEDICAL APPARATUS - A fluid ejection device which ejects a fluid includes: an ejection tube containing a conductive material and having an opening for the fluid; a fluid chamber communicating with the ejection tube; an actuator which operates on receiving supply of electric energy, thereby changing pressure of the fluid in the fluid chamber; and an insulating member which is made of an insulating material and electrically insulates a member forming the fluid chamber and the ejection tube from each other. | 10-02-2014 |
20140296893 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE AND MEDICAL APPARATUS - A liquid ejection device ejecting a liquid in a pulsed manner, includes: an ejection channel that includes an ejection port ejecting the liquid; an actuator that transports pulsed flow to the ejection channel by pressurizing the liquid supplied from outside; a suction channel that includes a suction port capable of sucking the liquid; and a storage container that accommodates a part of the suction channel and the actuator, and in which the ejection channel extends from one end thereof, in which the ejection channel is disposed near the suction channel on a side of the ejection port and is separated from the suction channel by being curved in the storage container, and in which the suction channel is a linear shape or a curved shape having a curvature that is less than that of a curve of the ejection channel in a portion in which the ejection channel is separated. | 10-02-2014 |
20140296894 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE AND MEDICAL APPARATUS - A liquid ejection device ejecting a liquid includes: an ejection tube that has an ejection port ejecting the liquid; an actuator that communicates with the ejection tube and applies pulsation to the liquid that is flowed into and then supplies the liquid to the ejection tube; a casing that includes the ejection tube and accommodates the actuator on an inside thereof; a suction channel that is provided in the casing and is capable of sucking the liquid around the ejection port; and a suction adjustment mechanism that has an operation section for adjusting a degree of the suction of the suction channel, in which the operation section is provided in a position near the ejection port from the actuator of the casing. | 10-02-2014 |
20140296895 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE AND MEDICAL APPARATUS - A fluid ejection device which ejects a fluid includes: an ejection tube which ejects the fluid; a fluid chamber which communicates with the ejection tube; a piezoelectric element capable of changing a volume of the fluid chamber; a controller which controls a drive voltage applied to the piezoelectric element; and a fluid supplying unit which supplies the fluid to the fluid chamber at a predetermined flow rate. If a maximum frequency available to be set of the drive voltage is fmax [Hz] and an amount of change in the volume of the fluid chamber when a maximum value available to be set of the drive voltage is applied to the piezoelectric element to drive the piezoelectric element is V | 10-02-2014 |
20140309674 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE AND MEDICAL APPARATUS - A liquid ejection device that ejects a liquid from an ejection opening includes: an actuator that is stored in a storage container and pressurizes the liquid supplied from outside; an inlet channel that has a curved shape and is connected to a first surface of the actuator, and supplies the liquid to the actuator; and an outlet channel that is connected to the first surface of the actuator and causes the liquid to flow out from the actuator to the ejection opening. | 10-16-2014 |
20140316452 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE AND MEDICAL APPARATUS - A liquid ejection device includes a liquid chamber, a volume varying unit, a liquid supplying unit, and a control unit. An interior volume of the liquid chamber can be varied. The volume varying unit varies the volume in the liquid chamber. The liquid supplying unit supplies liquid to the liquid chamber. The control unit controls the volume varying unit and the liquid supplying unit to thereby adjust the pressure in the liquid chamber. | 10-23-2014 |
20150041348 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT HOLDING APPARATUS - A medical instrument holding apparatus (stand) that holds a medical instrument having a functional unit, includes: an instrument housing unit capable of housing at least a part of the instrument; and a coordination unit which coordinates with the functional unit when at least apart of the instrument is housed in the instrument housing unit. Thus, as the medical instrument is housed in this medical instrument holding apparatus, coordination between the two is possible. | 02-12-2015 |
20150069163 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT STORAGE APPARATUS - A medical instrument storage apparatus includes a storage portion configured to store a tube which constitutes part of the medical instrument therein, and a drag generating mechanism configured to generate a force acting against a force in a direction of removal of the tube stored in the storage portion from the storage portion if generated. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073450 | LIQUID INJECTION DEVICE AND MEDICAL DEVICE - A liquid injection device includes a liquid injection mechanism including a liquid chamber and an air bubble generation unit provided in the liquid chamber and generating air bubbles, and a control unit that changes a drive signal for driving the air bubble generation unit in response to a movement speed of the liquid injection mechanism. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073452 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS, LIQUID EJECTING METHOD, AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENT - A liquid is supplied to a liquid chamber, the pressure in a liquid chamber fluctuates according to a drive signal, and the liquid of the liquid chamber is ejected from an ejection port at the tip of an ejection pipe by fluctuation of the pressure in the liquid chamber. At this time, the relationship between the amount of variation of the moving speed of the ejection port and the amount of change of a parameter (drive signal) involved in fluctuation of the state of the liquid ejected from the ejection port is set, and the parameter is changed according to the relative speed of the ejection port using the set relationship. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073453 | MEDICAL DEVICE - A medical device that ejects a fluid includes a fluid ejection portion having an ejection tube having an opening for ejecting the fluid and a pulsation generation portion that generates pulsation to the fluid. A control portion controls a pulsation frequency by controlling the pulsation generation portion. A measurement portion measures movement velocity of the fluid ejection portion. A receiving portion receives instructions for setting a specific frequency and a specific movement velocity from a user. A setting portion sets the specific frequency and movement velocity based on the instruction from a user. A calculation portion calculates a control constant using the specific frequency and movement velocity. The control portion controls the frequency in accordance with the movement velocity so that a value calculated by the same method as calculation of the control constant using the frequency and movement velocity falls within a predetermined range including the control constant. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073454 | LIQUID EJECTION DEVICE AND MEDICAL APPARATUS - A liquid ejection device includes: a liquid chamber with a variable inside volume; a volume varying unit which varies the volume inside the liquid chamber according to a drive signal; a volume changing unit which changes a representative volume of the liquid chamber; an ejection tube having an ejection port for ejecting a liquid from the liquid chamber; and a control unit which controls the volume varying unit and the volume changing unit and thereby adjusts pressure inside the liquid chamber. The control unit changes the representative volume according to a moving speed of the ejection port. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073455 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL DEVICE - A liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid ejecting mechanism which is provided with a liquid chamber and a volume fluctuation portion that fluctuates a volume within the liquid chamber, a liquid supply portion that supplies a liquid to the liquid chamber, and a control portion that controls the volume fluctuation portion and the liquid supply portion. The control portion changes at least one of a voltage applied to the volume fluctuation portion and a flow rate of a liquid supplied to the liquid chamber in accordance with a movement velocity of the liquid ejecting mechanism. | 03-12-2015 |
20150073456 | LIQUID INJECTION APPARATUS AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENT - A liquid injection apparatus which includes a varying portion configured to vary a pressure in an interior of a liquid chamber in accordance with a drive signal, an injection tube having an injection port configured to inject liquid from the liquid chamber, a liquid supply unit configured to supply liquid to the liquid chamber, and a control unit configured to adjust the pressure in an interior of the liquid chamber by controlling the varying portion and the liquid supply unit. The control unit changes a rise time, which is a time period required for a drive signal to reach a second predetermined voltage from a first predetermined voltage in accordance with a speed of movement of the injection port. | 03-12-2015 |
20150075367 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: an inflow channel to which liquid is supplied; an outflow channel communicated with a nozzle; a liquid chamber formed with a spiral flow channel having a substantially constant cross-sectional area between the inflow channel and the outflow channel and having a given volume; a volume changing portion configured to deform the liquid chamber so as to change the volume of the liquid chamber to a volume smaller than the given volume; and an ejection control unit configured to cause the liquid to be ejected from the nozzle in a pulsed manner by driving the volume changing portion in a state in which the liquid chamber is filled with the liquid. | 03-19-2015 |
20150080923 | LIQUID INJECTION DEVICE AND MEDICAL DEVICE - A liquid injection device that injects a liquid includes a liquid chamber, a first channel connected to the liquid chamber and feeding a liquid to the liquid chamber, a second channel connected to the liquid chamber, to which the liquid is fed from the liquid chamber, and an injection tube that communicates with the second channel and injects the liquid, and the second channel has a curved shape. | 03-19-2015 |
20150088123 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT - A liquid ejecting apparatus for medical treatment includes a liquid ejecting scalpel that ejects a liquid, an ultrasonic scalpel that generates an ultrasonic wave, an inner body that accommodates the liquid ejecting scalpel and the ultrasonic scalpel and includes a first opening portion allowing a distal end portion of the liquid ejecting scalpel or a distal end portion of the ultrasonic scalpel to protrude therethrough, an outer body that accommodates the inner body and includes a second opening portion at a position corresponding to the first opening portion, a suctioning path that is made by an aperture formed between the inner body and the outer body, and a manipulation section that is arranged in the outer body and selectively causes the distal end portion of the liquid ejecting scalpel or the distal end portion of the ultrasonic scalpel to protrude through the first opening portion. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088130 | LIQUID EJECTING APPARATUS FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT - A liquid ejecting apparatus for medical treatment includes a liquid ejecting scalpel that ejects a liquid, an ultrasonic scalpel that generates an ultrasonic wave, an outer case that accommodates the liquid ejecting scalpel and the ultrasonic scalpel and includes an opening portion allowing a distal end portion of the liquid ejecting scalpel or a distal end portion of the ultrasonic scalpel to protrude therethrough, a guide portion that is arranged in the outer case and guides the distal end portion of the liquid ejecting scalpel or the distal end portion of the ultrasonic scalpel to the opening portion, and a manipulation section that is arranged in the outer case and selectively causes the distal end portion of the liquid ejecting scalpel or the distal end portion of the ultrasonic scalpel to protrude through the opening portion. | 03-26-2015 |
20150133961 | ROBOTIC SURGICAL APPARATUS AND FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS FOR ROBOTIC SURGICAL APPARATUS - A robotic surgical apparatus including a robot arm portion, an operation portion that receives an input by a user, and a tool control portion configured to operate the robot arm portion based on the input which the operation portion receives from a user. The robotic surgical apparatus includes a fluid chamber, a pulsating flow-provision portion configured to provide a fluid within the fluid chamber with a pulsating flow, a fluid ejection tube which includes a fluid ejection port for ejecting a fluid, a fluid supply portion which supplies a fluid to the fluid chamber, and a fluid ejection control portion which controls the pulsating flow-provision portion. The fluid ejection tube is mechanically fixed to the robot arm portion, and the fluid ejection control portion is configured such that the ejection amount of a fluid per unit time is changed in accordance with the movement speed of the fluid ejection port. | 05-14-2015 |
20150238210 | OPERATION INSTRUMENT - An operation instrument includes an electric surgical knife, a fluid ejection surgical knife, and a gripper mechanism. The gripper mechanism including a pair of gripper strips configured to be openable and closable so as to grip a living tissue and at least one of which is a movable portion. The gripper strips each are provided with an electrode for the electric surgical knife. An ejection opening for the fluid ejection surgical knife is formed in a first gripper strip, and the ejection opening is formed at a position retracted from an end portion on a distal end side of the electrode. | 08-27-2015 |
20150238225 | LAPAROSCOPIC SURGICAL APPARATUS - A fluid ejection device includes a fluid ejection tube having a forward end nozzle inserted into an abdominal cavity. The fluid ejection tube, accommodated in a cylindrical casing section, is movable in an extending direction. The fluid ejection tube moves in the extending direction, interlocked with a sliding operation of a sealing state switching operation section on the outside of the casing section. Fixed and sliding sealing sections, which seal the inside of the abdominal cavity off from outside, are arranged between the fluid ejection tube and an inner wall surface of the casing section. The fixed and sliding sealing sections shift from a first sealing state with a first airtightness to a second sealing state with a higher airtightness, through movement of the fluid ejection tube by the sealing state switching operation section. The fluid ejection device is electrically drivable when the second sealing state is established. | 08-27-2015 |
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20080199081 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer-readable medium - An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit, a representative-image generating unit and a vector converting unit. The extracting unit extracts pixel blocks from image data. The representative-image generating unit generates representative images from the pixel blocks extracted by the extracting unit, based on a similarity between the pixel blocks. The vector converting unit converts the representative images generated by the representative-image generating unit into vector information. | 08-21-2008 |
20090097765 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND COMPUTER DATA SIGNAL - An image processing apparatus includes an image extracting unit, a vector information generating unit and a color information adding unit. The image extracting unit extracts an image to be vectorized from a multilevel image as a binary image. The vector information generating unit vectorizes the binary image extracted by the image extracting unit to generate vector information. The color information adding unit adds color information to the vector information generated by the vector information generating unit. | 04-16-2009 |
20090214115 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: an image acceptance unit that accepts an image; a character information adding unit that adds a character identifier for uniquely identifying a character, a character position indicating a position of the character in the image, a character size indicating a size of the character, and a character color indicating a color of the character as character information, to the image accepted by the image acceptance unit; a font allocation unit that allocates a font without drawing element as a font corresponding to the character identifier within the character information added by the character information adding unit; and an electronic document generation unit that generates an electronic document for reference to the font information allocated by the font allocation unit, based on the character information added to the image by the character information adding unit. | 08-27-2009 |
20100158381 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device including: an image acceptance unit accepting a first image and a second image; a perimeter measurement unit measuring a perimeter of an object image within the first image or an object image within the second image; an area measurement unit measuring an area of the object image within the first image or the object image within the second image; a first reference area generation unit generating a first reference area based on the perimeter and area measured; a datum point extraction unit extracting datum points from the first image and the second image; and a first match judgment unit making the datum points coincide with each other, and judging whether or not the object image within the first image and the object image within the second image are matched, based on densities of the first and second image within the first reference area. | 06-24-2010 |
20100211871 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processor is provided, the information processor including: a line extracting unit that extracts a line by using information of rectangular forms each of the rectangular forms surrounding a pixel mass in an electronic document; a paragraph extracting unit that extracts a paragraph including the extracted line; a paragraph integrating unit that integrates the extracted paragraph; and a rectangular form calculating unit that calculates a position and a size of a rectangular form surrounding a pixel mass contained in the integrated paragraph, and a positional relation between the pixel mass contained in the integrated paragraph and the corresponding rectangular form in accordance with a size of a line contained in the integrated paragraph and a position of a pixel mass forming the line contained in the integrated paragraph. | 08-19-2010 |
20110044539 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes: a document receiving unit that receives a document containing at least one page, wherein positions of document components of a page of the at least one page are fixed within the page; a page dividing unit that divides the document received by the document receiving unit into at least one page; a page heading determining unit that determines a heading of a page of the at least one page divided by the page dividing unit based on components included in the page; and a processing unit that assigns the heading determined by the page heading determining unit to the page divided by the page dividing unit as first level outline information of the page. | 02-24-2011 |
20150206006 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a receiving unit and a selecting unit. The receiving unit receives an image of a document. The selecting unit selects a character recognition result in a first frame of the document from plural character recognition candidates in the first frame on the basis of definition information defining a relationship between a character string in the first frame of the document and a character string in a second frame of the document different from the first frame. | 07-23-2015 |
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20090183672 | LIQUID APPLYING APPARATUS AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - A cap sheet metal (and pivot sheet metal) is configured to be able to move linearly with a cap arm (and an arm stay) via engagement between an engagement hole and a fitting shaft. Furthermore, the cap sheet metal (and the pivot sheet metal) can move pivotally with respect to the cap arm (and the arm stay) using the fitting shaft, which engages with the engagement hole, as a pivotal shaft. Thus, even if, for example, the direction of biasing toward the applying roller deviates or a positional relationship with the applying roller deviates slightly, the liquid holding member moves and pivots in the bias direction depending on the deviation. As a result, the contacting pressure of a contacting portion on the applying roller can be made uniform. | 07-23-2009 |
20090183678 | LIQUID APPLYING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid applying apparatus that enables the viscosity of a liquid to be applied and the condition of supply of the liquid to be detected using conventional mechanisms and without the need for a viscometer or the like, thus allowing prevention of improper application of the liquid to a medium and mitigation of wear of an applying roller or the like, the apparatus having an inexpensive configuration. Thus, according to the present invention, a driving load on an applying roller driving motor is detected when an applying roller is driven. If the driving load is equal to or more than a preset threshold, an operation of re-supplying the liquid is performed by a pump, or an operation of the roller driving motor is stopped. | 07-23-2009 |
20090194019 | LIQUID APPLICATION APPARATUS AND PRINTING APPARATUS - There is provided a liquid application apparatus capable of performing stable application without providing a new mechanism, by efficiently removing an application liquid increased in viscosity and fixedly adhered to an abutting portion between an application member and a liquid supplying member. A liquid application apparatus includes an application member that applies a liquid supplied to an applied face to a printing medium by rotating an application roller and a liquid holding member that abuts against the applied face to form a liquid holding space for holding the liquid, and the amount of liquid that is held in the liquid holding space and makes contact with the application member in unit time is larger before an applying operation for applying the liquid to the printing medium than in the applying operation. | 08-06-2009 |
20110148983 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes a joint portion movable to a first position at which communication is established between a flexible tube connected to an ink tank and a recording head and a second position at which such communication is interrupted, a manipulating member rotatably provided on a carriage to take a first posture and a second posture with respect to the carriage, and a link mechanism that causes the manipulating member and the joint portion to operate in conjunction with each other such that the joint portion moves to either of the first position and the second position along with rotation of the manipulating member. The manipulating member is urged to be maintained in either of the first posture and the second posture by a restoration force of the tube. | 06-23-2011 |
20130070032 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - A turning operation of a headset lever is completed, and a printing head can be detached from a carriage part. By the above described turning operation of the head set lever, a supply port insertion and extraction part connected via a link slides, a needle pipe of the supply port insertion and extraction part is brought into a state of being the farthest from the printing head, and a needle insertion and extraction lever is brought into state in which it moves under a case wall. Thereby, an operator cannot turn only the needle insertion and extraction lever when the head set lever is in an opened state. In this manner, when the headset lever is in the opened state, the operation of the needle insertion and extraction lever which is used for connection of the supply port insertion and extraction part to ink supply port is restricted. | 03-21-2013 |
20130100206 | DRIVING APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A driving apparatus includes an endless belt supported by a drive pulley configured to be driven by a motor and an idler pulley, and a moving member configured to be coupled to the endless belt and moved by driving the drive pulley by the motor, wherein a first limit value of electric power to be supplied to the motor when the moving member is moved in a first direction approaching the drive pulley is set larger than a second limit value of electric power to be supplied to the motor when the moving member is moved in a second direction approaching the idler pulley. | 04-25-2013 |
20130300784 | PRINTING APPARATUS - There is provided an ink jet printing apparatus, in which vibrations can be suppressed to a low level without local concentration of abrasion between a carriage and a guide shaft. The ink jet printing apparatus makes the carriage reciprocate along the guide shaft without ejecting ink, thus achieving a stirring operation in which the ink reserved in an ink tank is stirred. At least either one of a limited range in one direction, in which a stirring operation is performed, and a portion of the guide shaft that contacts the carriage when seeing from the direction, is changeable. | 11-14-2013 |
20130300809 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - An ink jet apparatus according to the present invention includes: a head cartridge; an ink tank, for which an ink supply portion to be connected to the ink inflow portion of the head cartridge, and the first engagement portion to engage the head cartridge are formed; a carriage on which the head cartridge is detachably mounted; and a tank holding member, which is swingably supported by the carriage to engage the second engagement portion of the ink tank. When the head cartridge and ink tank are mounted on the carriage, the ink tank is pivoted around the first engagement portion by receiving a force exerted against the ink supply unit via the ink inflow portion, and the ink holding member is pushed by the second engagement portion and is moved. | 11-14-2013 |
20130328978 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink passage member capable of supplying ink from an ink storage unit to a carriage, a passage connecting member capable of connecting the ink passage member to a recording head, an operating member capable of switching the passage connecting member between a connection state where the ink passage member is connected to the recording head and a disconnection state where the ink passage member is disconnected from the recording head, and an operating-member regulating member regulating the operating member. The operating-member regulating member is capable of switching the operating member between a state where switching to the disconnection state by the operating member is permitted and a state where this switching is prevented. | 12-12-2013 |
20150352868 | CARRIAGE ASSEMBLY AND HEAD POSITION ADJUSTMENT MECHANISM - The present invention provides a mechanism that improves accuracy for positioning a head relative to a carriage, and easily performs positional adjustment for the head. A carriage unit includes a first carriage structure and a second carriage structure. The first carriage structure includes a first sliding face that can slide along a guide shaft, and a head can be mounted on the first carriage structure. The second carriage structure includes a second sliding face that can slide along the guide shaft, and can hold the first carriage structure to allow positional adjustment for the first carriage structure in a predetermined direction in which a position where the first sliding face contacts the guide shaft is to be shifted. | 12-10-2015 |
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20100059922 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes a holding section connected to a downstream end of a main transfer path for consecutively transferring paper sheets and formed of a curved transfer path, which consecutively transfers the paper sheets led out from the main transfer path in a curved state and holds them in an overlaid state. | 03-11-2010 |
20100078869 | PRINTER - In the state that a preceding sheet awaits at an awaiting position, a pair of conveying rollers are separated from each other, and the front end of a subsequent sheet sent out from a main conveying path passes the gap between the pair of conveying rollers. Based on a configuration that the distance from the trailing end of the subsequent sheet in the conveying direction to the pair of conveying rollers becomes equal to that from the front end of the preceding sheet to the pair of conveying rollers, the preceding sheet and subsequent sheet are sandwiched by the pair of conveying rollers so as to be conveyed in a first direction, thereby making the sheets into a state that the sheets are put on each other. Thereafter, the sheets are conveyed in a second direction by the pair of conveying rollers, so as to be discharged into discharging unit. | 04-01-2010 |
20100230894 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus is provided with a storage unit that is configured by a curved carrying route including first and second arc carrying routes which are sequentially connected to a carry-out side of a main carrying path along a sheet carrying direction, and the first and second arc carrying routes are arranged on upper and lower sides of a line component extending along a sheet carrying surface in a printing device. | 09-16-2010 |
20110050003 | ELECTRIC SHOCK PREVENTING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL INCLUDING ELECTRIC SHOCK PREVENTING DEVICE - There is provided an information processing terminal including an electric shock preventing device in a rear surface thereof. The electric shock preventing device includes a power source covering plate which slides to cover a connection unit; a separation preventing member which is prevented from sliding in a transverse direction by the power source covering plate if the power source covering plate exposes the connection unit, and is allowed to slide in the transverse direction if the power source covering plate covers the connection unit; and a lock installing member which prevents sliding in the transverse direction of the separation preventing member. The separation preventing member prevents separation of a printing circuit board block. Accordingly, an operator can separate the printing circuit board block only when removed a power cable from the connection unit, and electric shocks can be prevented. | 03-03-2011 |
20110204199 | STAND FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A stand for an information processing apparatus includes a supporting member supporting the information processing apparatus from a side thereof, and a coupling member having protrusions and recesses on a first side thereof, which are spaced at a certain interval and have shapes engageable with each other. The stand also includes a protruding member provided on an end of the coupling member and that protrudes from the supporting member in a direction opposite to the coupling member. | 08-25-2011 |
20110205032 | DISPLAY DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display unit and a mounting stand. The display unit has a housing, a display panel housed at least partially within the housing, an engaging member joined to the housing at a first predetermined location and a processing unit configured to control the display panel to display a position indicator at a second predetermined location substantially corresponding in height to the first predetermined location. The mounting stand has a plurality of engaging parts disposed at different heights for engagement with the engaging member and a plurality of position marks disposed at third predetermined locations, the third predetermined locations being respectively at the different heights and visible when the display unit is mounted on the mounting stand. | 08-25-2011 |
20110293347 | PAPER DISCHARGE APPARATUS, PAPER DISCHARGE METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A paper discharge apparatus includes a conveying path configured to convey a paper from an upstream portion to a downstream portion, a feed roller provided on the conveying path, the feed roller configured to convey the paper from the upstream portion to the downstream portion, and a feed belt arranged downstream of the feed roller on the conveying path, the feed belt configured to convey the paper from the upstream portion to the downstream portion. A control unit controls the feed belt and the feed roller to bend the paper by keeping a speed of the feed belt slower than a speed of the feed roller for a period of time, and discharge the paper from the conveying path by keeping the speed of the feed belt to be at least the same speed as the feed roller. | 12-01-2011 |
20120010061 | PAPER DISCHARGE APPARATUS, PAPER DISCHARGE METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A paper discharge apparatus includes a conveying path configured to convey a paper from an upstream portion to a downstream portion. A preventing mechanism is provided on the conveying path. The preventing mechanism is configured to prevent the paper from being conveyed to the downstream portion by pushing the paper or blocking the conveying path. A control unit is configured to bend the paper by preventing the conveyance of the paper by using the preventing mechanism, and then convey the paper to the downstream portion of the conveying path for discharge of the paper from the conveying path. | 01-12-2012 |
20120055272 | PAPER ROLL DETECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PRINTER - Embodiments described herein are to an apparatus for detecting an amount of paper in a roll of paper, which includes a container including a support surface, and first and second recessed portions connected to each other on the support surface, the roll of paper being contained in one of the first and second recessed portions. The apparatus further includes a first sensor to detect whether an outer periphery of the roll of paper contained in one of the first and second recessed portions reaches a first outer diameter, and a second sensor to detect whether the outer periphery of the roll of paper contained in one of the first and second recessed portions reaches a second outer diameter smaller than the first outer diameter. The apparatus further includes an estimation unit to estimate a remaining amount of the paper based on a thickness of the paper. | 03-08-2012 |
20120056366 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PAPER HOLDING DEVICE - Embodiments described herein are to a printing apparatus includes a printing mechanism to print information on a plurality of paper sheets and further to sequentially convey the printed paper sheets along a first conveying path. The apparatus further includes a paper holding mechanism provided downstream from the printing mechanism in a paper feed direction, which includes a pair of conveying members configured to face each other via the first conveying path. The apparatus further includes a control unit configured to control the printing mechanism and the paper holding mechanism to convey sequentially the printed paper sheets through a gap between the pair of conveying members so that the printed paper sheets are sequentially accumulated in the paper holding mechanism, and further configured to collectively discharge the printed paper sheets outside of the apparatus by holding the printed paper sheets between the pair of conveying members. | 03-08-2012 |
20130258022 | PRINTER - According to one embodiment, a printer includes a housing that has an outlet, a drawer unit, first, second and third print medium support units and a printing unit. The drawer unit is placed inside of the housing so that it can be drawn out from the housing. The first and the second print medium supporting unit are fixed to the drawer unit. The third print medium supporting unit is fixed to the housing so as to be located between the lower end of the first print medium supporting unit and the lower end of the second print medium supporting unit when the drawer unit is in the closed position. The printing unit prints on a belt-shaped print media, which is drawn out from a roll of printable media that is rotatably supported by at least the first print medium supporting unit. | 10-03-2013 |
20130258023 | DUAL PURPOSE PRINTING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a dual purpose printer has a housing, a printing medium supporting section, a first printing section, and a second printing section. The housing has a discharge port and an entrance port. The printing medium supporting section is arranged inside the housing, and rotatably supports a rolled printing medium. The first printing section is configured to print on a top surface of a first continuous sheet printing medium drawn from the rolled printing medium supported on the printing medium supporting section, and to print on a second printing medium carried in through the entrance port. The second printing section is arranged inside the housing, and is configured to print on the bottom surface of the first continuous sheet printing medium. | 10-03-2013 |
20130293655 | PRINTER - A printer includes a housing, a drawer unit, first and second print medium supporting units, a third support, and a printing unit. The drawer unit is placed inside the housing so that it can be drawn out from the housing into open and closed positions. The first print medium supporting unit is fixed to the drawer unit and spaced apart from the second print medium supporting unit. The upper end of the second print medium supporting unit is fixed to the drawer unit and its lower end rotates with respect thereto. The third support is disposed in the housing and supports the lower end of the second print medium supporting unit when the drawer unit is in a closed position. The printing unit can print on a print medium pulled out from the rolled print medium which is rotatably supported by at least the first print medium supporting unit. | 11-07-2013 |
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20140231131 | SLIDING POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - Provided is a sliding power supply device which can reduce entire length of a case extendably housing a wiring harness, for a large slide stroke of a sliding seat and such. The sliding power supply device includes a long case extendably housing a wiring harness, a slider arranged slidable in a longitudinal direction of the case and arranged to lead out the wiring harness to outside of the case, and an extra length absorption portion arranged to support a wiring harness portion lead outside of the case such that the wiring harness portion is lead out at location further away from a movement end of the slider in the longitudinal direction of the case. The extra length absorption portion is a subcase having at least a bottom plate portion. Both ends of the wiring harness portion in a movement direction of the slider are positioned at the same height. | 08-21-2014 |
20150102182 | POWER-SUPPLYING SYSTEM - An objective of the present invention is to provide a power-supplying system that can restrain an increase in size thereof with a spring equipped therewith. A first end of a rolling spring projects inwardly, and a first locking section is formed on a primary shaft of a turning member, the primary shaft being disposed inside the rolling spring so that the turning member can engage with the rolling spring at the inside of the rolling spring, thereby restraining an increase in size thereof. | 04-16-2015 |
20150107876 | ELECTRIC WIRE ROUTING DEVICE - The present invention provides an electric wire routing device with which the device can be reduced in size and a mounting space for the device can be reduced. The electric wire routing device includes an outer member provided in either one of a support body and a slide body, and an inner member turnably supported in the outer member. An electric wire is inserted through the inner member. The inner member is configured by combining, with each other, a pair of inner divided bodies having the same shapes. The inner divided bodies sandwich butt surfaces which intersect with a first axis and which include a second axis. Each of the inner divided bodies includes a male lock portion provided on one side of a radial direction of the device, and a female lock portion provided on the other side. | 04-23-2015 |
20150108289 | ARM POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - There is employed an arm power supply device in which a first arm is rotatably and axially supported to a base member having one harness fixing portion, a second arm having the other harness fixing portion is rotatably and axially supported on a rotation tip side of the first arm, the first arm includes an enclosure portion forming a slit through which a wire harness is inserted, and the wire harness passes from the base member to the slit and is wired over the second arm. The enclosure portion includes an inclined wall to guide the wire harness derived in a bent shape from the second arm to be in contact with the inner surface. | 04-23-2015 |
20150115648 | SLIDING-DOOR POWER FEEDING STRUCTURE - A sliding-door power feeding structure is provided which achieves minimized manufacturing costs, small size, and light weight. The sliding-door power feeding structure includes a second end retainer provided between a door panel and a door trim and configured to retain a second end of an electric wire, the second end retainer including a base fixed to one of the door panel and the door trim, a turnable arm turnably supported on the base and having an end configured to retain the electric wire, and biasing part for biasing the turnable arm in a direction to absorb a surplus length of the electric wire, wherein the door trim has a lower edge including an electric wire guiding portion, the electric wire guiding portion including a first bend bent to the outboard side and a second bend bent at an end of the first bend downward and to the inboard side. | 04-30-2015 |
20150203057 | ARM POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - An arm power supply device includes a first arm configured to be axially supported to a base member to be freely rotated, and a second arm configured to be axially supported on the rotation tip side of the first arm to be freely rotated. The second arm includes a harness insertion groove and a harness fixing portion on the rotation tip side. The first arm includes a flange portion on the rotation tip side to prevent a harness covering a portion of the harness insertion groove on a rotational base end side from escaping. The flange portion is formed in a longitudinal direction of the first arm to protrude. The flange portion is formed in a width integrally with a longitudinal direction and a width direction of the first arm. | 07-23-2015 |
20150321626 | POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - A power supply device includes: a rotary member that holds a wire harness inserted therethrough; and a support member that swingably supports the rotary member and is fixed to a fixed structure body or a sliding structure body, wherein the rotary member has an annular outer peripheral wall and a harness lead-out portion, the support member has one sidewall disposed along the outer peripheral wall, and the harness lead-out portion moves in a direction away from the sidewall when the sliding structure body is fully opened, the outer peripheral wall is widely exposed between the harness lead-out portion and the sidewall, and the outer peripheral wall and the sidewall are overlapped with each other in a plate thickness direction in a state where the outer peripheral wall is widely exposed and come in contact with each other so as to avoid an entry of foreign matters therebetween. | 11-12-2015 |
20150325989 | ARRANGEMENT STRUCTURE OF POWER-SUPPLYING PROTECTION TUBE - The present invention is to smoothly bend a wire harness equipped with a protection tube between a sliding structure body and a fixed structure body without causing buckling or the like and to prevent interference with the fixed structure body. | 11-12-2015 |
20150330130 | ARM POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - An arm power supply device includes a first arm configured to be rotatably and axially supported to a base member, and a second arm configured to be rotatably and axially supported on a rotation tip side of the first arm. The second arm includes a harness insertion groove and a harness fixing portion on a rotation tip side. There is employed a configuration in which an outer wall of the harness insertion groove is extended longer than an inner wall on a rotational base end side, the outer wall includes an inclined or bent guide wall portion on the rotational base end side, and a wire harness is guided upward along the guide wall portion when the second arm rotates to the lower side. | 11-19-2015 |
20150360628 | PROTECTION STRUCTURE FOR SPRING PORTION OF POWER SUPPLY DEVICE - The present invention is to prevent sand or water from adhering to a spring member biasing a rotary member of a power supply device and thus cause the power supply device to smoothly and reliably perform a biasing operation of the rotary member over a long period. | 12-17-2015 |
20150360629 | REINFORCEMENT STRUCTURE FOR POWER-SUPPLYING CASE - The present invention is provided with a wire harness having an exterior member; and a case that accommodates the wire harness, wherein the exterior member has rigidity portions disposed between wall portions of the case in a direction orthogonal to the wall portions, the wall portions being opposite to each other, and when external force acts on the wall portions, the rigidity portions are arranged in directions in which the external force acts on the wall portions to support the wall portions together with the exterior member. The exterior member is a corrugated tube, and the rigidity portions are reinforcing ribs formed on its sidewalls. Alternately, the exterior member is a caterpillar-like member and the rigidity portions are its sidewalls. | 12-17-2015 |
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20130114746 | DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A data transmission system includes a plurality of signal lines, a signal line determination unit, and a data transmission unit. The plurality of signal lines transmit data transmitted from a transmission-side device to a reception-side device. The signal line determination unit determines which signal line among the signal lines is used to transmit reception adjustment data to the reception-side device. The data transmission unit uses the signal line determined by the signal line determination unit to transmit the reception adjustment data to the reception-side device and uses another signal line to transmit transmission data to the reception-side device. | 05-09-2013 |
20130272454 | DATA RECEIVING CIRCUIT, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, A COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DATA RECEIVING METHOD - A data receiving circuit includes a generating unit that generates multiple clocks with different phases from one another. The data receiving circuit includes multiple acquiring units that acquire data from a received data signal by using different clocks from one another out of the multiple clocks generated by the generating unit. The data receiving circuit includes a determining unit that determines whether the data acquired by the multiple acquiring units are consistent. The data receiving circuit includes a correcting unit that corrects the phases of the multiple clocks in a direction in which data inconsistency does not occur when the determining unit has determined that there is data inconsistent with the other data in the data acquired by the multiple acquiring units. | 10-17-2013 |
20140040684 | SYSTEM FOR PACKET COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A system includes a transmitting device configured to transmit a packet, and a receiving device connected through a switch device to the transmitting device, the receiving device being configured to receive the packet, wherein the switch device includes a first memory storing first expected value information indicative of an expected value of a fixed value region, the fixed value region being a region whose value is determined in advance in a transaction layer packet, and a switch control unit configured to compare a value of the fixed value region of the transaction layer packet received from the transmitting device with the expected value and make an error response to the transmitting device if the value of the fixed value region is different from the expected value. | 02-06-2014 |
20140192928 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, SENDING DEVICE, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND TRANSMISSION METHOD - A transmission system includes a data sending device that sends data at a first speed and a data receiving device that receives, by using a plurality of clocks having different phases, data that has been sent by the sending device at the first speed. The data sending device sends, to the data receiving device, some of the data, which is sent at the first speed, at a second speed that is lower than the first speed. Furthermore, in accordance with determination as to whether the content of the received data sent at the second speed matches a corresponding portion of the data received by using a plurality of clocks, the data receiving device changes the timing at which the data that has been sent at the first speed is received. | 07-10-2014 |
20140294015 | RELAY DEVICE AND RELAY METHOD - A relay device receives packets from an information processing apparatus or a relay device. The relay device updates a value of priority data indicating an accumulated wait time for arbitration contained in each of the received packets according to an elapsed time. The relay device selects a packet to be transmitted according to a result of comparison of the values of the pieces of the priority data contained in the received packets. The relay device transmits the selected packet to another relay device. | 10-02-2014 |
20140372837 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF PROCESSING IN SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a first-combinational-circuit to output a state-value depending on an input signal and a parity-value of the state-value which are stored by a first-flip-flop-circuit; a first-parity-check-circuit to perform a parity check based on the state-value and the parity-value and output a first-parity-error; a second-flip-flop-circuit to store the state-value and the parity-value output by the first-combinational-circuit; a second-parity-check-circuit to perform a parity check based on the state-value and the parity-value stored in the second-flip-flop-circuit and output a second-parity-error; and a selector to, when the first-parity-error is not output but the second-parity-error is output, output the state-value stored in the first-flip-flop-circuit to the first-combinational-circuit, and when the first-parity-error is output but the second-parity-error is not output, output the state-value stored in the second-flip-flop-circuit to the first-combinational-circuit, wherein the first-combinational-circuit outputs a current state-value depending on the state-value output by the selector and the input signal. | 12-18-2014 |