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| 20090122518 | Surface Light Source Device and Image Display Unit - A surface light source device includes a first light source disposed so as to face a reflecting surface of a reflecting member, a second light source having spectrum selectivity different from that of the first light source, a light diffusing member configured to diffuse light rays emitted from the first and second light sources, and a transparent light control member disposed between the first light source and the light diffusing member so as to face the first light source and the light diffusing member. The light control member directs the light rays emitted from the first and second light sources in predetermined directions. The second light source faces an outer peripheral surface of the light control member. The light ray emitted from the second light source is directed by the light control member inside the light control member so as to be output towards the light diffusing member. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090185364 | SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A surface light source device includes a light source facing a reflective surface of a reflecting member, and a light-controlling member composed of a transparent material and disposed across the light source from the reflecting member in such a manner as to face the reflective surface, the light-controlling member guiding light emitted from the light source in a predetermined direction. The light-controlling member has on a surface thereof remote from the reflective surface projections arranged on a plane. The projections have profiles of at least one kind, each having a symmetry axis or a symmetry plane. The symmetry axes or the symmetry planes of the projections are tilted at a predetermined angle with respect to a direction in which the light controlling member faces the reflecting member. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090262521 | Surface light source device and image display device - A surface light source device includes a diffusing member which diffuses light, a reflective member which reflects light, plural light sources provided aligned in a flat manner between the diffusing member and the reflective member, and a light control member provided between the plural light sources and the reflective member as well as arranged in a state that a gap is imposed between the reflective member and the light control member, which has a light-guiding function of guiding part of light emitted from respective light sources in an alignment direction of the light sources, in which the light control member has a rugged structure portion in which geometric shapes in cross section are continuously formed on at least one surface. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100103652 | SURFACE LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME, AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - A surface light source device includes: a light source; a diffusion member that diffuses light; and reflection means provided on a side opposite to the diffusion member with the light source interposed therebetween for reflecting light emitted from the light source toward the diffusion member, wherein the reflection means is formed by layering a plurality of optical components and the plurality of optical components are stopped by each other with stopper means. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20110074935 | Image Display Viewing System and Image Display Device - Systems, methods, and display apparatuses consistent with the invention may generate control signals to control n light-passing devices such that the n light-passing devices each are sequentially operated between ON and OFF states, and such that each of the n light-passing devices are in the ON state no less than 1/n of the viewing period. This may allow different images to be viewed through different light-passing devices. The embodiments may be used, for example, to present a three-dimensional image to a viewer or to present different videos to different viewers. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110074939 | Image Display Viewing System, Optical Modulator and Image Display Device - There is provided an image display viewing system including an image display device including a signal control portion that receives input of an image signal and outputs a signal that causes each of multiple different images to be displayed at least twice consecutively, and a display panel to which the signal output from the signal control portion is input and which alternately displays each of the multiple different images at least twice consecutively, and an optical modulator including a liquid crystal layer on which an image having a predetermined polarization direction output from the image display device and external light having random polarization are incident, and which periodically changes the polarization direction of the incident light, and a polarizing plate on which light emitted from the liquid crystal layer is incident and which has a polarization axis in a predetermined direction. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110149053 | Image display device, image display viewing system and image display method - An image display device includes a display panel that periodically displays different images, a shutter control portion that generates timing signals for driving shutters for a right eye and a left eye, in synchronization with the periodical display of the display panel, with respect to glasses for viewing images, the glasses being provided with the shutters for the right and left eye, a backlight that includes a light guide plate of a size corresponding to a display area of the display panel and light sources that are provided on two opposing side faces of the light guide plate and that irradiates the display panel from a rear side of the display panel, and a backlight control portion that causes the respective light sources that are provided on the two opposing side faces to blink at different timings during an opening period of the shutters. | 06-23-2011 |
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| 20090103132 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINT SETTING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A printing system has a terminal apparatus and a printing apparatus that are interconnected via a network. The terminal apparatus includes an obtainer that gains access to the printing apparatus and obtains print setting screen data stored in the printing apparatus, a display that displays on itself a print setting screen according to the obtained print setting screen data, an input part that inputs print setting data via the print setting screen displayed on a display thereof, and a transmitter that transmits the inputted print setting data to the printing apparatus. And the printing apparatus includes a receiver that receives the print setting data from the terminal apparatus, and a code generator that generates an appropriate print controlling code for the received print setting data. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090306809 | SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING SPINE JACKET WIDTH - A control apparatus obtains information identifying sheets stored in an MFP to be caused to perform printing for printing a printed object to be subjected to jacketed book binding, wherein this information is stored in the MFP. The control apparatus stores thicknesses of respective paper sheets as information about paper sheets. From this information and from the information obtained from the MFP, the control apparatus creates a table indicative of the correspondence between the respective paper sheets stored in the MFP and their thicknesses. Further, on receiving a selection of paper sheets to be used for printing for the printed object and a number of these paper sheets, the control apparatus determines a thickness of each paper sheet by making a reference to the table and calculates the spine jacket width by multiplying the thickness by the number of paper sheets. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100238516 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus is provided which performs a correction process in such a manner that a geometrical arrangement of images of a plurality of pages of image data is approximated to a predetermined appropriate geometrical arrangement. The image processing apparatus causes a display to display a list of information indicating degrees of correction on the individual pages to be performed by an image processing portion. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110038014 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING IMAGE DATA OF DOCUMENT, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method is provided for generating image data of a document by reading an image depicted on the document having a plurality of surfaces to be read. The method includes: reading, by an image reader, a surface image that is an image depicted on each of the surfaces; detecting, by an error detector, a faulty surface that is a surface of the plurality of surfaces of the document and corresponds to a scanned image on which an error occurs, the scanned image being obtained by reading the surface image; reading, by the image reader, the surface image repeatedly until the error is not detected; and generating, by an image data generating portion, the image data by merging data on the plurality of the scanned images on which the error is not detected and which correspond to the surfaces. | 02-17-2011 |
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| 20090034150 | SUBSTRATE HOLDING SYSTEM AND EXPOSURE APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A substrate holding system including a substrate attracting device, an exhausting device, and a control device to operate the exhausting device so that a pressure around the substrate and a pressure at an interval between the substrate and the substrate attracting device are lowered to a first pressure and that only the pressure at the interval is subsequently lowered to a second pressure, which is lower than the first pressure. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090058199 | DRIVING APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A driving apparatus includes a mover having a magnet, and a stator having a coil. The driving apparatus is adapted to control the electric current to be applied to the coil to cause relative movement between the mover and the stator. The stator includes a coil holding member configured to hold the coil, a supporting member configured to support the coil holding member movably in first and second directions, a restriction member configured to restrict movement of the coil holding member in the first direction and to allow movement of the coil holding member in the second direction, and a biasing unit configured to press the coil holding member against the restriction member. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090103232 | Substrate Holding System and Exposure Apparatus Using the Same - A substrate holding system for holding a substrate based on vacuum attraction and electrostatic attraction including a rim configured to support the substrate, a protrusion for the electrostatic attraction, configured to support the substrate inside the rim, and a protrusion for the vacuum attraction, configured to support the substrate inside the rim. A substrate supporting surface area of the protrusion of the electrostatic attraction is larger than a substrate supporting surface area of the protrusion for the vacuum attraction. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20100253930 | LINEAR MOTOR, AND STAGE APPARATUS, EXPOSURE APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DEVICE USING THE SAME - A linear motor is provided with a first member including a magnet and a second member including a coil facing the magnet, which are moved relative to each other. The second member includes a thermal conduction member, a thermal insulation member, the coil, and a first cooling unit, which are disposed in this order from the magnet side, and a second cooling unit configured to cool the thermal conduction member being disposed outside an area in which the magnet and the coil face each other. | 10-07-2010 |
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| 20090283065 | INTAKE APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine comprises an intake manifold ( | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090288629 | INTAKE APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An intake apparatus for an internal combustion engine comprises an intake manifold ( | 11-26-2009 |
| 20100212696 | LAVATORY PAN WASHING APPARATUS AND WASHING METHOD - A lavatory pan washing apparatus and a lavatory pan washing method which are able to achieve both a higher discharging performance and a higher water-saving effect are provided. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20110174279 | INTAKE MANIFOLD - An intake manifold which is made of resin and configured to be connected to an intake port of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine, includes: an EGR inlet for discharging exhaust recirculation gas toward a cylinder side; and a tumble control valve which is switchable between an open position in which an intake line to the cylinder is opened and a close position in which the intake line is closed, and has an indentation that forms a gap between the tumble control valve and an inner wall of the intake line when the tumble control valve is in the close position. The intake manifold is configured so that, when the intake manifold is assembled to the internal combustion engine, in the open position and in the close position of the tumble control valve, any perpendicular line extending downward from the EGR inlet is out of intersection with the tumble control valve, and at the same time, in at least one of the open position and the close position of the tumble control valve, a perpendicular line extending downward from a most upstream portion of the EGR inlet in an intake direction intersects an area of the indentation. | 07-21-2011 |
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| 20090002444 | Liquid drop ejection head - A liquid drop ejecting head includes a cavity section which is formed by laminating a plurality of plates including at least first and second manifold plates adjacent to each other in a laminating direction. Each of the first and second manifold plates includes an opening. The openings overlap with each other when viewed in the laminating direction. At least one of the openings includes: a first opening which extends in the first direction and serves as a common liquid chamber; a second opening which is adjacent to the first opening and serves as a supply path; and a partitioning portion disposed between the first opening and the second opening. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090189961 | LIQUID TRANSFER DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A liquid transfer device of the present invention includes a passage unit, an energy supplier, and a supporter. In the passage unit, a common liquid chamber and a plurality of individual passages branching off from the common liquid chamber are formed. Such a passage unit includes a plurality of plates which are laminated on one another and include a first plate having a hole constituting the common liquid chamber and a second plate. The energy supplier supplies, to liquid in the individual passages, energy for transferring the liquid. The supporter projects inwardly from a side wall defining the hole formed on the first plate, and is continuous from one end to the other end of the common liquid chamber in a laminating direction of the plates so as to support the second plate in the laminating direction. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090244129 | LIQUID DROPLET JETTING APPARATUS - In a liquid droplet jetting mode of jetting liquid droplets, a controller controls a piezoelectric actuator to perform a liquid droplet jetting operation in which volume of a pressure chamber is decreased to a decreased volume smaller than a predetermined volume, and then the volume of the pressure chamber is increased to an increased volume greater than the predetermined volume, and the volume of the pressure chamber is again decreased to the decreased volume. On the other hand, in a warm-up mode of heating the liquid in the pressure chamber, the controller controls the piezoelectric actuator to perform at least one of a first warm-up operation in which the volume of the pressure chamber is changed repeatedly between the predetermined volume and the increased volume, and a second warm-up operation in which the volume of the pressure chamber is changed repeatedly between the predetermined volume and the decreased volume. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090244186 | WIRING UNIT AND FLUID DISCHARGING HEAD HAVING THE WIRING UNIT - A fluid discharging head includes a fluid channel unit, an actuator unit, and a wiring unit. The actuator unit includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a first actuator area and a second actuator area, and driving electrodes on the first surface. The wiring unit includes a sheet substrate having an elongated portion, a first substrate area and a second substrate area positioned at opposite ends of the elongated portion of the sheet substrate, feeding terminals positioned at the first substrate area and the second substrate area, a driver positioned at a third substrate area between the first substrate area and the second substrate area, first lines extending from and electrically connecting the driver to the feeding terminals at the first substrate area, and second lines extending from and electrically connecting the driver to the feeding terminals at the second substrate area. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090244188 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid droplet ejection head capable of securing sealing of a common liquid chamber and realizing a high damper effect while suppressing a driving energy of the liquid droplet ejection head. A passage unit includes manifold plates, and a damper plate which is stacked on the manifold plates and has a damper wall facing a common liquid chamber. The damper plate is constituted by a base portion having a damping space at a position corresponding to the manifold holes in plan view, and a resin portion stacked on the base portion. The resin portion is formed to cover at least a portion above and around the damping space to constitute the damper wall, be smaller in a contour shape than the common liquid chamber in plan view, and be stored in the manifold holes. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20100033537 | Liquid Discharge Head and Printer - A plurality of pressure chambers are arranged in two arrays in a direction intersecting an extending direction of a common liquid chamber. First pressure chambers of one array and second pressure chambers of the other array are disposed in a staggered arrangement. First and second connecting channels extend, in the intersection direction, from the first and second pressure chambers through areas located between the second and first pressure chambers up to areas outside the common liquid chamber to make communication with the common liquid chamber, respectively. The first and second connecting channels are arranged alternately in relation to the extending direction. Accordingly, both of the insurance of the length of the connecting channel and the small sizing of a head are satisfied. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20110240762 | WIRING BOARD AND LIQUID JETTING HEAD - A wiring board to be connected to an object includes: contact points to be connected to the object; wires connected to the contact points; and a substrate on which the contact points and the wires are formed. The substrate has a first portion which has openings and overlaps with the object when the wiring board is connected to the object, and a second portion which is continuous to the first portion. The contact points include first contact points formed in the first portion on one surface of the substrate facing the object, and second contact points formed in the second portion, on the other surface of the substrate, at areas which do not overlap with the first contact points when the substrate is bent so that the first portion is overlapped with the second portion. | 10-06-2011 |
