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20090121140 | HALIDE-CONTAINING STIMULABLE PHOSPHOR PRECURSOR, HALIDE-CONTAINING STIMULABLE PHOSPHOR, RADIATION IMAGE CONVERSION PANEL AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - This invention relates to a halide-containing stimulable phosphor having improved moisture resistance and luminance, and a process for producing the same. The halide-containing stimulable phosphor is characterized in that, among elements constituting the outermost surface and inside of the phosphor, there is a difference in composition ratio of a halogen element between the outermost surface and the inside of the phosphor. A radiation image conversion panel, which has been improved, for example, in moisture resistance, luminance and image quality by using the phosphor, and a process for producing the same are also provided. | 05-14-2009 |
20100190919 | RESIN MATERIAL FOR OPTICAL PURPOSES, AND OPTICAL ELEMENT UTILIZING THE SAME - Disclosed is a resin material for optical purposes, which has high light permeability and high refractive index stability against temperature variation. Also disclosed is an optical element utilizing the resin material. The resin material for optical purposes comprises a curable resin and an inorganic microparticle comprising two or more metal oxides having different refractive indexes and dispersed in the curable resin, wherein the inorganic microparticle has a refractive index distribution, has the surface treated with a surface-treating agent, and is at least partially modified with a surface-modifying agent having a polymerizable functional group, and wherein the refractive index of the curable resin after being cured (nh) and the refractive index of the inorganic microparticle (ng) meet the requirement represented by the formula (1). | 07-29-2010 |
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20080292374 | Fixing device and electro photographic apparatus using the same - According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fixing device including: a heating roller that generates a heat and is formed to have a mold releasing property; a pressure belt that is brought into contact with the heating roller and is driven according to a rotation of the heating roller; an arm that presses the pressure belt toward the heating roller; and a belt regulating member that contacts an end face of the pressure belt to regulate a shift thereof and is configured to be swingable with respect to the arm. | 11-27-2008 |
20110211210 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus including an image reading unit disposed in an upper portion of the image forming apparatus, an image forming unit disposed below the image reading unit to form an image on a sheet fed from a sheet roll, a pair of flange members attached to both lateral ends of the sheet roll in a width direction of the sheet roll, a sheet roll supporter disposed below the image reading unit in a rear portion of the image forming apparatus to support the sheet roll, an opening through which the sheet roll is set to the sheet roll supporter, and a guide assembly provided at upper and lower parts of the opening to position at least one of the pair of flange members attached to the sheet roll in the width direction to guide the sheet roll to the sheet roll supporter. | 09-01-2011 |
20110229242 | ROLLED PAPER DRIVING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A rolled paper driving apparatus includes supporting rollers that support rolled paper in such a manner that an axis line of the rolled paper extends between the supporting rollers, the rolled paper having a core pipe in a shape of a pile; a driving roller that is pressed onto an inner circumferential surface of the core pipe of the rolled paper and gives force to rotate the rolled paper; a driving force transmission part that rotates the driving roller; and a pressing force adjustment part that adjusts a state of the driving roller being pressed onto the inner circumferential surface of the core pipe of the rolled paper. The driving roller is disposed in the inside of a triangle that has vertexes corresponding to the supporting rollers and a center of the rolled paper, respectively. | 09-22-2011 |
20120032021 | ROLL MEDIUM HOLDING UNIT, ROLL SHEET FEEDER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A roll medium holding unit is disclosed that includes a core part configured to be inserted in a core pipe of a roll medium; and plural diameter-increasing members configured to be variably arranged at corresponding first positions provided along a periphery of the core part and arranged at corresponding second positions provided away from the core part. The roll medium holding unit is capable of being set in a first holding state where the diameter-increasing members arranged at an outer peripheral surface of the core part support the roll medium with the diameter-increasing members arranged at the corresponding first positions and capable of being set in a second holding state where the core part of a holding member supports the roll medium with the diameter-increasing members arranged at the corresponding second positions. | 02-09-2012 |
20120139987 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SHEET CUTTING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feed device to feed a sheet along a sheet feed path, a sheet cutting device including a cutter and a cutter holder to cut the sheet to a desired length, a controller to control the sheet feed device and the cutter holder. The cutter holder holds the cutter and is reciprocally movable in a width direction of the sheet perpendicular to a sheet feed direction. The cutter holder, after cutting the sheet, is movable in the width direction with the cutter holder retracted away from the sheet feed path in a thickness direction of the sheet perpendicular to both the sheet feed direction and the width direction. The controller controls the sheet feed device to feed the sheet while the cutter holder moves in the width direction with the cutter holder retracted away from the sheet feed path in the thickness direction. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140010 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SHEET CUTTING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a head holder, a cutter, and a cutter holder. The recording head ejects ink onto a sheet of recording media fed along a sheet feed path to record an image on the sheet. The head holder holds the recording head. The cutter includes opposed blades opposing each other with the sheet interposed therebetween. The cutter holder holds the cutter and is reciprocally movable in a width direction of the sheet perpendicular to a sheet feed direction in which the sheet is fed along the sheet feed path. The cutter holder is disposed downstream from the recording head in the sheet feed direction and within a width of the head holder in the sheet feed direction. | 06-07-2012 |
20120140011 | SHEET CUTTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SHEET CUTTING DEVICE - A sheet cutting device includes a cutter including opposed blades to cut a sheet fed along a sheet feed path to the device, a cutter holder holding the cutter and reciprocally movable in a width direction of the sheet perpendicular to a sheet feed direction in which the sheet is fed, and a guide member including a first path to guide the holder in the width direction of the sheet to cut the sheet with the cutter and a second path to guide the holder in the width direction after the sheet is cut. The second path is disposed away from the first path in a thickness direction of the sheet perpendicular to both the sheet feed direction and the width direction of the sheet. When the holder moves along the second path, the holder is retracted away from the sheet feed path in the thickness direction of the sheet. | 06-07-2012 |
20120210838 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SHEET CUTTING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a carriage, a sheet cutting device, a cutter position detecting device, and a notification device. The carriage mounts the recording head and is reciprocally movable in a width direction of a sheet perpendicular to a sheet feed direction. The sheet cutting device includes a cutter and a cutter holder. A movement area of the carriage overlaps, in a thickness direction of the sheet, a movement area of the cutter holder in which the cutter holder moves to cut the sheet with the cutter. The cutter holder, after cutting the sheet, is movable in the width direction of the sheet with the cutter holder being retracted from the sheet feed path in the thickness direction of the sheet. The notification device notifies a user of an abnormality of the cutter holder based on a detection result of the cutter position detecting device. | 08-23-2012 |
20120222530 | SHEET CUTTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SHEET CUTTING DEVICE - A sheet cutting device includes a cutter holder, a moving unit, a connecting member, and a drawing member. The cutter holder accommodates a cutter. The cutter has opposed blades opposing each other to cut a sheet of recording media fed along a sheet feed path. The moving unit is disposed away from the cutter holder in a sheet feed direction in which the sheet is fed along the sheet feed path. The moving unit is reciprocally movable in a sheet width direction perpendicular to the sheet feed direction. The connecting member connects the cutter holder to the moving unit. The drawing member is mounted on the moving unit to draw the moving unit in the sheet width direction. The cutter holder is pivotable around the connecting member in a thickness direction of the sheet relative to the moving unit. | 09-06-2012 |
20120222531 | SHEET CUTTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SHEET CUTTING DEVICE - A moving unit of a sheet cutting device is movable in a sheet width direction perpendicular to a sheet feed direction in which a sheet of recording media is fed along a sheet feed path. A cutter holder accommodates a cutter, is connected to the moving unit and is rotatable in a thickness direction of the sheet relative to the moving unit. A guide member is disposed along the sheet width direction to guide the moving unit in the sheet width direction. A drawing member is mounted on the moving unit to draw the moving unit toward a downstream side in a cutting direction in which the cutter holder moves to cut the sheet. The moving unit is connected to the cutter holder at a position downstream in the cutting direction from an accommodated position of the cutter in the cutter holder. | 09-06-2012 |
20120222532 | SHEET CUTTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SHEET CUTTING DEVICE - A sheet cutting device includes a cutter holder, a moving unit, and a guide member. The cutter holder accommodates a cutter. The cutter has opposed blades opposing each other to cut a sheet of recording media fed along a sheet feed path of a feed guide plate unit. The moving unit holds the cutter holder and is movable in a sheet width direction perpendicular to a sheet feed direction in which the sheet is fed along the sheet feed path. The guide member is disposed along the sheet width direction to guide the moving unit in the sheet width direction. The cutter holder partially overlaps with the feed guide plate unit in a thickness direction of the sheet perpendicular to both the sheet width direction and the sheet feed direction. | 09-06-2012 |
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20090271047 | POWER TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, POWER RECEIVING APPARATUS, POWER TRANSMISSION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - There is provided a power transmitting apparatus including a power transmission side communication unit for communicating with a power receiving apparatus, a power transmission unit for transmitting power to the power receiving apparatus in a non-contact manner, a transmission power information deriving unit for increasing discretely a first transmission power to transmit from the power transmission unit to the power receiving apparatus, and deriving information related to power transmission for determining a second transmission power corresponding to power desired by the power receiving apparatus based on reception of received power information transmitted from the power receiving apparatus at the power transmission side communication unit, indicating that a received power level meet a predetermined level, and a transmission power determining unit for determining the second transmission power to transmit to the power receiving apparatus based on information related to power transmission derived by the transmission power information deriving unit. | 10-29-2009 |
20090271048 | Power Transmitting Apparatus, Power Transmission Method, Program, and Power Transmission System - There is provided a power transmitting apparatus including a power transmission side communication unit for communicating with one or more power receiving apparatus for receiving transmitted power; a power transmission unit for transmitting power to the one or more power receiving apparatus in a non-contact manner; an allocating unit for dividing transmission of power from the power transmission unit to the power receiving apparatus to a plurality of dividing periods for every predetermined period, and allocating the one or more power receiving apparatus to one of the dividing periods; and a power transmission control unit for selectively transmitting power to the one or more power receiving apparatus for every dividing period based on the allocation result in the allocating unit. | 10-29-2009 |
20090281678 | Power Transmission Device, Power Transmission Method, Program, Power Receiving Device and Power Transfer System - There is provided a power transmission device including a communication part that performs communication with an external power transmission device that transmits power, a power transmission part that transmits power to a power receiving device that receives the transmitted power in a non-contact manner, a determination part that determines whether power can be transmitted, based on external power transmission information received by the communication part indicating a start of power transmission by the external power transmission device, and a power transmission control part that controls the power transmission part to selectively transmit power based on a determination result from the determination part. | 11-12-2009 |
20090310497 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION SCHEME SETTING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - [Object] To ensure a maximum data transfer rate to achieve an improvement in throughput. [Solving Means] A CPU 114 determines whether or not time-dependent interference is present during communication with a communication partner. When it is determined that time-dependent interference is present, a PHY mode to be used in each zone is determined for each communication partner on the basis of transmission line state information or packet error detection information received via a CPU I/F register | 12-17-2009 |
20110249818 | Transmission device and transmission method - A transmission device includes a transmission power setting unit that respectively sets a transmission power for transmitting a main sound signal indicating a main sound and transmission powers for transmitting one or two or more subsidiary sound signals which pertain to the main sound signal and which realize a predetermined sound effect, and a first communication unit that respectively transmits the main sound signal and the one or two or more subsidiary sound signals on time division channels using the same frequency band, based on the transmission powers set by the transmission power setting unit, wherein the transmission power setting unit sets the transmission power for the main sound signal to a first reference value, and sets the transmission powers for the subsidiary sound signals to a second reference value smaller than the first reference value. | 10-13-2011 |
20120250640 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Provided is a communication device including a streaming packet transmission unit for transmitting a streaming packet, a control information acquisition unit for acquiring control information regarding the streaming packet, a control packet transmission unit for transmitting a control packet including the control information, a control information addition unit for adding the control information to the streaming packet, and a transmission channel selection unit for selecting, according to a predetermined condition, whether to transmit the control packet including the control information or to transmit the streaming packet to which the control information has been added. | 10-04-2012 |
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20090075122 | IMPRINT MOLD STRUCTURE, IMPRINTING METHOD USING THE SAME, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention provides an imprint mold structure which can efficiently and uniformly transfer a pattern by enhancing flow of a composition of the imprint resist layer when the imprint mold structure is pressed against the imprint resist layer, an imprinting method of improved transfer accuracy by using the imprint mold structure, and a magnetic recording medium of improved recording and reproduction property. Provided is an imprint mold structure in which at at least any one of an inner circumferential edge and an outer circumferential edge of the concavo-convex patterns in a data area and a servo area of the disc-shaped substrate of the imprint mold structure a dummy pattern is formed which corresponds to a pattern on a magnetic recording medium substrate extending radially from at least any one of an inner circumferential edge and an outer circumferential edge of a pattern forming area. | 03-19-2009 |
20100173177 | MOLD STRUCTURE USED TO PRODUCE DISCRETE TRACK MEDIUM, IMPRINTING METHOD, METHOD FOR PRODUCING DISCRETE TRACK MEDIUM, AND DISCRETE TRACK MEDIUM - To provide a mold structure used to produce a discrete track medium, including in a surface of the mold structure: a plurality of line pattern forming concave portions which are positioned so as to be adjacent and substantially parallel to each other; and a communicating concave portion which is positioned so as to intersect the line pattern forming concave portions and connects the line pattern forming concave portions. | 07-08-2010 |
20120027950 | PATTERN FORMING METHOD - To provide a pattern forming method, which contains: providing an active species-supplying source to a pattern formable body; and applying excitation light to the active species-supplying source to form an oxide film on a surface of the pattern formable body. | 02-02-2012 |
20130113863 | LIQUID APPLICATION DEVICE, LIQUID APPLICATION METHOD, AND NANOIMPRINT SYSTEM - A liquid application device includes: a liquid discharge head having a structure in which nozzles for performing droplet ejection of a functional liquid onto a substrate are aligned in a row in a predetermined direction, and including liquid chambers connected to the nozzles respectively and piezoelectric elements which are provided correspondingly to the liquid chambers and serve to pressurize the liquid in the liquid chambers; a relative movement unit for causing relative movement between the substrate and the liquid discharge head; and a droplet ejection control unit for operating the piezoelectric elements so as to cause the liquid to land discretely on the substrate, and controlling operation of the piezoelectric elements according to each of groups formed by grouping the nozzles correspondingly to the structure of the liquid discharge head. | 05-09-2013 |
20130120485 | LIQUID APPLICATION DEVICE, LIQUID APPLICATION METHOD, AND NANOIMPRINT SYSTEM - A liquid application device includes: a liquid ejection head including: nozzles configured to perform ejection of droplets of liquid toward a substrate; and liquid chambers connected respectively to the nozzles and defined by side walls, at least respective parts of the side walls being constituted of piezoelectric elements, the liquid ejection head being configured to cause shear deformation of the piezoelectric elements to eject the droplets of the liquid in the liquid chamber through the nozzles; and a droplet ejection control device configured to group the nozzles into groups of not less than three in such a manner that adjacent nozzles belong to different groups, and is configured to control operation of the piezoelectric elements in such a manner that the droplet ejection is performed at a same timing only through the nozzles belonging to a same group so as to deposit the liquid discretely onto the substrate. | 05-16-2013 |