Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080227664 | CELL ARRAY STRUCTURAL BODY AND CELL ARRAY - The present invention provides a cell array structural body containing a substrate, a plurality of micropores piercing the substrate from one surface to another surface, through which a sample cell can pass, and a capture/release unit for the sample cell on a wall surface of each micropore, as well as a cell array with such structural body detachably immobilizing sample cells in its micropores. In using the cell array structural body and the cell array for drug evaluations or the like, handling of a culture medium or a drug solution, or washing procedure is easy, and harvest of a desired cell from the cell array is easy and trustworthy. | 09-18-2008 |
20080246793 | INK JET PRINTING METHOD AND INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus capable of outputting a smooth monochrome photograph with indistinctive beading and conveying unevenness even in monochrome black mode for printing an image by using achromatic color inks. For this object, if it is determined that printing is carried out in the monochrome black mode, different mask patterns, such as mutually-exclusive mask patterns or mask patterns having a logical product result that shows a state where low-frequency components are less than high-frequency components, are set for two or more kinds of achromatic color inks. Use of such mask patterns suppresses the generation of grains of achromatic color inks, increases dispersibility of the grains, and also makes positions where conveying unevenness appear indistinctive. | 10-09-2008 |
20080252675 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND THE METHOD OF ACQUIRING CORRECTION VALUE OF CONVEYING ERROR - While a conveying error of a roller depends on the eccentricity of the roller, the amount and the state of the eccentricity sometimes makes the roller have different conveying errors from one point in the longitudinal direction of the roller to another. There is provided a construction for obtaining a correction value that is suitable for the correction of the conveying error even in such a case as described above. To this end, plural test patterns are formed in the longitudinal direction of the roller. Then, a suitable correction value for correcting the conveying error that depends on the eccentricity of the roller is obtained on the basis of these test patterns. | 10-16-2008 |
20080252676 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ACQUIRING CORRECTION VALUE OF CONVEYING ERROR - The sequence of the acquisition of a correction value of a conveying error depending on the eccentricity of the conveying roller (correction value for eccentricity) and the acquisition of a correction value of a conveying error depending on the outer diameter of the roller (correction value for outer diameter) is considered to acquire a precise correction value for outer diameter. A test pattern to acquire the correction values for eccentricity and for outer diameter is formed with an area exceeds the area corresponding to an integer multiple of the circumferential length of the roller. The correction value for eccentricity and that for outer diameter are acquired in this sequence. The fluctuation in the conveying error is reduced by the application of the correction value for eccentricity, and the influence of the excess area is made smaller before the correction value for outer diameter is acquired by averaging the conveying errors. | 10-16-2008 |
20080252677 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONVEYING CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a printing apparatus and a conveying-error controlling method capable of printing a high-quality image by correction reflecting the conveying amount of a printing medium. A provided inkjet printing apparatus prints images by printing scans for actual printing and by conveying the printing medium with a roller orthogonally to the printing-scan direction. In each printing scan, the printing medium is scanned with a print head having an array of nozzles from which the ink is ejected. The print head moving direction differs from the arranging direction of the nozzles in the array. The apparatus includes a conveying controller to control the conveying of the printing medium on the basis of a correction value used to correct a conveying error of the roller. The conveying controller changes the correction value to be applied in accordance with the conveying amount of the printing medium between two scans with the print head. | 10-16-2008 |
20080252710 | SHEET CONVEYING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, CORRECTION INFORMATION ACQUIRING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, METHOD OF CONVEYING SHEETS AND METHOD OF ACQUIRING CORRECTION INFORMATION - Performed is conveying-error correction in accordance with the kind and the number of rollers that are actually involved in the conveying of a printing medium. Each of the rollers that are potentially involved in the conveying of the printing medium has a unique amount of eccentricity, and may affect the quality of image to be printed in a peculiar manner. To address this problem, a surface of the printing medium is divided into areas according to the number and the combination of the rollers that are actually involved in the conveying. A pattern each is printed for each of the areas thus formed while the pattern enables the detection of the conveying error. A correction value to correct the conveying error is calculated using each of the patterns. The correction values thus obtained are reflected in the conveying of the printing medium. | 10-16-2008 |
20080266348 | PRINTING APPARATUS - The present invention aims to obtain preferable correction values to correct the conveying error of a conveying roller in accordance with the size of a printing medium, even when the conveying error caused by the eccentricity of the roller varies from a point to another in the longitudinal direction of a roller, depending on the amount and the state of eccentricity of the roller. To achieve this object, correction values are acquired using the whole part of or only a part of plural test patterns formed in the longitudinal direction of the roller. The correction values thus acquired correspond to the respective zones where the test patterns are formed. | 10-30-2008 |
20100003745 | CELL CULTURE VESSEL - A cell culture vessel for culturing adherent cells includes a channel allowing liquid to flow therethrough; a culture surface disposed on a wall of the channel, the culture surface allowing the adherent cells to adhere thereto; an inlet for introducing the liquid into the channel; an outlet for draining the liquid from the channel; a connecting portion communicating with the channel; and a connection receiving portion communicating with the channel. The cell culture vessel is capable of being connected to another cell culture vessel using the connecting portion or the connection receiving portion. When the connecting portion of the cell culture vessel is connected to a connection receiving portion of the other cell culture vessel, the culture surface of the cell culture vessel and a culture surface of the other cell culture vessel form a continuous culture surface. | 01-07-2010 |
20100021986 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTRODUCING SUBSTANCE INTO CELLS - Provided is a cell chip for exposing to a portion of each of cells microdroplets dispensed with an inkjet printer or the like in a screening test of the effect of a substance on cells by using an apparatus for introducing the substance into cells including: a cell-immobilizing support including a substrate having through-holes penetrating from one side to the other side of the substrate and including cells immobilized in the through-holes so as to block up the through-holes; a liquid phase region present in contact with one side of the support and including a medium of the cells; and a mechanism present so as to face the other side of the support and imparting a microdroplet to a portion of each of the cells exposed in the openings on the other side. | 01-28-2010 |
20100197937 | NOVEL COMPOUND, PROBE CONTAINING THE NOVEL COMPOUND, AND FLUORESCENCE-IMAGING CONTRAST AGENT CONTAINING THE NOVEL COMPOUND OR THE PROBE - A compound represented by Formula (1) below, | 08-05-2010 |
20100261238 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SCYLLO-INOSITOL - It is intended to provide a novel NAD | 10-14-2010 |
20110057980 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ACQUIRING CORRECTION VALUE OF CONVEYING ERROR - The sequence of the acquisition of a correction value of a conveying error depending on the eccentricity of the conveying roller (correction value for eccentricity) and the acquisition of a correction value of a conveying error depending on the outer diameter of the roller (correction value for outer diameter) is considered to acquire a precise correction value for outer diameter. A test pattern to acquire the correction values for eccentricity and for outer diameter is formed with an area exceeds the area corresponding to an integer multiple of the circumferential length of the roller. The correction value for eccentricity and that for outer diameter are acquired in this sequence. The fluctuation in the conveying error is reduced by the application of the correction value for eccentricity, and the influence of the excess area is made smaller before the correction value for outer diameter is acquired by averaging the conveying errors. | 03-10-2011 |
20110310141 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK SUPPLY METHOD THEREOF - A printing apparatus, including a print head having a discharge port, a stirring portion configured to stir ink in an ink tank, a valve disposed on a supply path, a cap for capping the discharge port, and a pressure reducing unit configured to reduce pressure in the cap, executes, in parallel, a stirring operation for stirring ink in the ink tank by the stirring portion and a pressure reducing operation for reducing pressure on the print head side from the valve in the supply path by the pressure reducing unit with the valve closed. | 12-22-2011 |
20120206529 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ACQUIRING CORRECTION VALUE OF CONVEYING ERROR - While a conveying error of a roller depends on the eccentricity of the roller, the amount and the state of the eccentricity sometimes makes the roller have different conveying errors from one point in the longitudinal direction of the roller to another. There is provided a construction for obtaining a correction value that is suitable for the correction of the conveying error even in such a case as described above. To this end, plural test patterns are formed in the longitudinal direction of the roller. Then, a suitable correction value for correcting the conveying error that depends on the eccentricity of the roller is obtained on the basis of these test patterns. | 08-16-2012 |
20120287197 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND THE METHOD OF ACQUIRING CORRECTION VALUE OF CONVEYING ERROR - While a conveying error of a roller depends on the eccentricity of the roller, the amount and the state of the eccentricity sometimes makes the roller have different conveying errors from one point in the longitudinal direction of the roller to another. There is provided a construction for obtaining a correction value that is suitable for the correction of the conveying error even in such a case as described above. To this end, plural test patterns are formed in the longitudinal direction of the roller. Then, a suitable correction value for correcting the conveying error that depends on the eccentricity of the roller is obtained on the basis of these test patterns. | 11-15-2012 |
20130100200 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRELIMINARY EJECTION METHOD - In a case where a temperature of the print head at a cap closing time is 35° C. or more and the cap closing time is less than six hours, a predetermined preliminary ejection is performed and the ejection number is set to 4000. That is, the predetermined preliminary ejection is, in a case where it is determined that the temperature of the print head at a cap closed time is lower than 35° C., performed by the ejection number larger than the ejection number of other preliminary ejection having the same cap closing time of six hours as that in the predetermined preliminary ejection. Therefore in a case where the temperature of the print head at a cap closing time is a predetermined relatively high temperature or more, the preliminary ejection more accurately reflecting the degree of the ink thickening in the print head at that time is performed. | 04-25-2013 |
20130196417 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SCYLLO-INOSITOL - It is intended to provide a novel NAD | 08-01-2013 |
20130209367 | PARTICLE AND CONTRAST AGENT HAVING THE PARTICLE - There is provided an ICG-loaded polymer nanoparticle that is dynamically stable, prevents the leakage of contained ICG and the resulting discoloration, and has a high molar absorbance coefficient. The particle contains a hydrophilic dye having a sulfonate group and a hydrophobic polymer, and the particle further contains at least one of a lipid having a positively charged region, a nicotinic acid derivative and a thiamine derivative. | 08-15-2013 |
20130323178 | INDOCYANINE GREEN-CONTAINING PARTICLE AND CONTRAST AGENT FOR PHOTOACOUSTIC IMAGING HAVING THE PARTICLE - Provided is the following indocyanine green (ICG)-containing particle to be used as, for example, a contrast agent for fluorescent imaging or photoacoustic imaging. The leakage of ICG from the particle in a serum is prevented and hence the particle can stably retain ICG. According to a particle characterized by having an aggregate of indocyanine green and a phospholipid, the leakage of ICG from the particle in a serum or the like is prevented and hence ICG can be stably retained in the particle. | 12-05-2013 |
20140322775 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SCYLLO-INOSITOL - It is intended to provide a novel NAD | 10-30-2014 |