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| 20080296827 | CASSETTE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cassette is used by being mounted on an image forming apparatus body and can be accommodated in a state where media, which will be supplied to the image forming apparatus body, are loaded. The cassette includes a first tray, a second tray and a slide mechanism. The first tray is able to contain multiple media. The second tray is able to contain multiple media. The slide mechanism allows the first tray and the second tray to be movable relative to each other. The first tray has an oblique surface and a first separation portion, and the second tray has an oblique surface and a second separation portion. Each of the oblique surfaces can separate an uppermost medium from other media in such a manner that distal ends of the media during delivery abut against the oblique surface. Each of the first and second separation portions guides the separated medium along the oblique surface in a paper feeding direction. The first separation portion provided for the first tray is different in structure of the oblique surface from the second separation portion provided for the second tray. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080296831 | CASSETTE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cassette is used by being mounted on an image forming apparatus body and can be accommodated in a state where media, which will be supplied to the image forming apparatus body, are loaded. The cassette includes a first tray, a second tray, a slide mechanism, and a power transmission mechanism. The first tray is able to contain multiple media. The second tray is able to contain multiple media. The slide mechanism allows the first tray and the second tray to be movable relative to each other. The power transmission mechanism moves the first tray and the second tray relative to each other by input power in a direction in which a paper feeding tray can be switched. The power transmission mechanism is provided with a gear that receives the power, wherein the gear can be displaced in a cassette insertion direction in which the cassette is inserted. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090236791 | RECORDING MEDIUM FEEDING DEVICE AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording medium feeding device includes a recording medium cassette that is detachable from a main body and a recording medium retracting unit that retracts a recording medium lying on a recording medium feeding path back to the recording medium cassette. The recording medium cassette includes a lower tray that accommodates a recording medium, and an upper tray that accommodates a recording medium and is provided to be slidable with respect to the lower tray along a transport direction of the recording medium. The recording medium feeding device is provided with a unit for performing a retracting operation of the recording medium using the recording medium retracting unit in accordance with sliding of the upper tray in the transport direction. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090236796 | EDGE REGULATING DEVICE, PRINTING MEDIUM CASSETTE, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - An edge regulating device that regulates edge of a printing medium by an edge guide includes a first holding unit that is able to hold the edge guide with a predetermined pitch along the direction of displacement of the edge guide and a second holding unit that is able to hold the edge guide with a pitch larger than the holding pitch by the first holding unit along the direction of displacement of the edge guide. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20110187050 | SHEET MATERIAL TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A sheet material transport apparatus includes a second planetary gear engaging with a transmission gear and providing planetary motion around the transmission gear. The second planetary gear is in a second separated position not capable of engaging with a first planetary gear during forward-direction rotation. The transmission gear engages with the first planetary gear and rotates in a direction that causes a second transport roller to rotate in the forward rotation direction, and positioned to engage with the first planetary gear that is positioned in a first engaging position during reverse rotation. A load is placed on the transmission gear by the second transport roller. The transmission gear rotates in the opposite direction to the forward-direction rotation. The second planetary gear applies a force on the first planetary gear in the direction that separates the first planetary gear from the transmission gear due to rotation. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110292148 | RECORDING DEVICE - A recording device includes a cassette having a protruding portion; a lever as a transmission member in which the distance from a shaft portion to an abutting portion is shorter than the distance from the shaft portion to a connection portion, the lever transmitting a force that the abutting portion receives from the cassette to the connection portion as an acting force by rotating on shaft portion as the axis when the protruding portion of the cassette abuts on the abutting portion; a damper mechanism portion; a separation slope separating the papers; and a stopper as a restriction member restricting the movement of the papers at an upstream side position in the installation direction of the separation slope, and releasing the restriction on the movement of papers by retreating from the position where the stopper restricts the papers when receiving the acting force from the damper mechanism portion. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110316224 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a slider that has a cam face with which a cam of the stopper comes into sliding contact and moves in the insertion direction from a first position to a second position with a resistance when the cassette is inserted into the mounting unit. The cam face includes a first cam face on which the cam slides when the slider moves from the first position to the second position and a press cam face against which the cam presses when the paper sheet comes into contact with the stopper. The press cam face has an inclination relative to a reference straight line which is perpendicular to a plane parallel to the insertion direction of the cassette which is greater than that relative to a straight line which extends from the contact point between the press cam face and the cam to the shaft. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110316227 | RECORDING APPARATUS - There is provided a recording apparatus including: a first member having a first sliding surface formed into a comb shape along the direction of movement of an object; a second member having a second sliding surface formed into a comb shape opposing the first sliding surface of the first member with the intermediary of a viscous member, the second member sliding between a first position which causes a restricting member to be positioned at a restricting position and a second position which causes the restricting member to be positioned at the releasing position in a state of engaging the restricting member; and a urging device configured to apply an urging force which causes the second member to slide from the first position to the second position, the urging device being arranged at least partly between tips and roots of teeth of the comb shape of the second sliding surface. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120001381 | DAMPER MEMBER, TRANSPORT UNIT, AND RECORDING UNIT - A damper member moves a stopper after a delay in time from a restricting position, at which the stopper restricts the movement of paper, to a releasing position, at which the restriction on the movement is released; the damper member includes a base having a first sliding surface along the paper movement direction and also includes a slider, having a second sliding surface facing the first sliding surface through a viscous material, that slides between a first position at which the stopper is placed at the restricting position and a second position at which the stopper is placed at the releasing position; when at least the slider slides and reaches the first position or the second position, a clearance area is formed in the base to store a viscous material, at a position corresponding to the front end in the sliding direction of the slider. | 01-05-2012 |
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| 20090003854 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record an image on a recording medium, a roller configured to convey the recording medium, a first signal generation unit configured to generate a first period signal according to a movement of the recording medium, a second signal generation unit configured to generate a second period signal according to a rotation of the roller, a correction unit configured to correct the first period signal when a period value of the first period signal is outside a predetermined range, an information generation unit configured to generate variation information of a moving speed of the recording medium based on the first period signal, and a control unit configured to control recording on the recording medium based on the variation information and the second period signal. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090096838 | INK JET RECORDING HEAD - An ink jet recording head is constituted by a plurality of recording element substrates each including at least one nozzle array having a plurality of nozzles for ejecting ink and heat generating resistors for ejecting the ink by thermal energy, a common liquid chamber having an introducing port for supplying the ink to the nozzles and a discharging port for discharging the introduced ink outside the ink jet recording head, and a supporting member on which the recording element substrates are mounted and in which a plurality of individual liquid chambers for supplying the ink to associated ones of the recording element substrates and a plurality of ink inlet ports for supplying the ink from the common liquid chamber to associated ones of the individual liquid chambers are formed. The individual liquid chambers are arranged in a direction of flow of the ink flowing from the ink introducing port toward the discharging port. At least in an upstreammost individual liquid chamber with respect to the direction, a center line of an associated inlet port with respect to the direction is located downstream of a center line of with respect to the direction. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090141063 | INKJET PRINTING HEAD AND INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - A temperature rise of a head due to a printing operation with a higher speed and a higher density is suppressed. To realize this, an inkjet printing head is provided in which a plurality of printing element substrates having an ejection opening array consisting of a plurality of ejection openings for ejecting ink are arranged on a support plate in a direction of the ejection opening array. The support plate includes therein a heat pipe and a flow path through which cooling liquid is flowed. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090141064 | INK JET RECORDING HEAD AND INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS - An ink jet recording head includes a flow passage for a liquid for cooling a recording element substrate. The flow passage is provided inside a support plate that supports the recording element substrate along a recording element array of the recording element substrate. The shortest distance between a recording element and the flow passage at the end of the support plate is larger than the shortest distance between a recording element and the flow passage in the middle of the support plate. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20100295917 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus capable of enhancing the accuracy of the scanning position of a laser beam to thereby obtain a more precise image. Optical sensors detect reflected light from a surface of a photosensitive drum. During image formation, the apparatus detects the scanning speed of the laser beam in a main scanning direction based on detection signals from the respective optical sensors in each of divisional sections of an image forming area in the main scanning direction. The apparatus corrects magnification of the image in the main scanning direction, based on results of detection of the scanning speed of the laser beam in the main scanning direction. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20110199417 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record images on a recording medium of a roll-type, the recording unit including a plurality of line-type recording heads, a first conveyance roller, located at an upstream side of the plurality of line-type recording heads, a second conveyance roller, located at a downstream side of the plurality of line-type recording heads, a first signal generation unit, including a laser doppler speed meter for detecting a surface of the recording medium being conveyed, a second signal generation unit, including a rotary encoder, a correction unit configured to correct the first signal when a period value of the first signal is outside a predetermined range, an information generation unit, and a control unit configured to control recording on the recording medium based on the variation information and the second signal so as to suppress adverse effects caused by the first conveyance roller. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20120019608 | OPTICAL SCANNING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An optical scanning apparatus capable of properly correcting a main scanning scale factor. Upstream and downstream laser-light detection sensors of the optical scanning apparatus each generate a signal when first or second light beam passes through each of slits formed in the sensors. Based on signals, a scanning time required for each light beam to scan between the sensors is measured. A correction coefficient is decided by a correction value calculation unit based on a difference between wavelengths of the first and second light beams, a scanning time difference is calculated by a comparison unit based on the correction coefficient and scanning times of the light beams, and the downstream laser-light detection sensor is rotated by a sensor rotation drive unit to make the scanning time difference zero, whereby the slits are made parallel to each other. | 01-26-2012 |
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| 20110091928 | Agent for Recruitment of Bone-Marrow-Derived Pluripotent Stem Cell Into Peripheral Circulation - The present invention for the first time demonstrated that: | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110097309 | Pharmaceutical Agent for Promoting the Functional Regeneration of Damaged Tissue - The present inventors assessed the possibility that bone marrow-derived cells are mobilized to the grafted skin from nonskin tissues and contribute to skin tissue regeneration during the engraftment of grafted skin on biological tissues. As a result, the present inventors for the first time in the world demonstrated that: | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110104803 | Method for Collecting Functional Cells In Vivo with High Efficiency - Biologically low invasive vessels are filled with biological factors that have the activity of mobilizing specific functional cells in the body. The vessels are indwelled in the body. After specific functional cells are mobilized into the vessels, the vessels are removed from the body to collect functional cell populations mobilized to the vessels. Alternatively, the cells are directly collected from the vessels indwelled in the body. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20120251510 | AGENTS FOR PROMOTING TISSUE REGENERATION BY RECRUITING BONE MARROW MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS AND/OR PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS INTO BLOOD - It was revealed that the intravenous administration of HMGB-1 and S100A8 promoted the healing of skin ulcer by recruiting bone marrow-derived cells to the site of skin ulcer. Furthermore, when HMGB-1 was intravenously administered to cerebral infarction model mice after creation of cerebral infarction, bone marrow-derived cells expressing nerve cell markers were detected in their brain. A marked cerebral infarct-reducing effect was observed in mice intravenously administered with HMGB-1 as compared to the control. The post-cerebral infarction survival rate was increased in the intravenous HMGB-1 administration group. The involvement of bone marrow pluripotent stem cells in the process of bone fracture healing was assessed using mice, and the result demonstrated that bone marrow-derived cells distant from the damaged site migrated to the bone fracture site to repair the damaged tissue. | 10-04-2012 |
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| 20120022824 | SENSING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A sensing device with lower power consumption by controlling a rate for generating output data is to be provided. A sensing device includes: a sensor module including a group of sensors, at least one of which is set as a motion sensor; and a data generating unit that generates output data on the basis of outputs from the group of sensors. The data generating unit switches, on the basis of an output from the motion sensor, a rate for generating the output data. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023354 | SENSING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A sensing device includes: a sensor module that includes a group of sensors, at least one of which is set as a motion sensor, and can switch an operation mode to an overall operation mode in which all of the group of sensors operate and a partial operation mode in which a part of the sensors including the at least one sensor set as the motion sensor operate; and a control unit that controls the switching of the operation mode of the sensor module on the basis of an output from the motion sensor. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120030419 | SENSING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A sensing device and an electronic apparatus in which impairment of performance due to destruction of parameters can be reduced are to be provided. Parameters (sensor parameters | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120304765 | MODULE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A module includes a sensor device, a mounting substrate that has a plurality of mounting faces, a portion between the mounting faces adjacent to each other being foldable, a supporting member having fixing faces, wherein the sensor device is mounted on at least one of the mounting faces, each of the mounting faces is disposed along each of the fixing faces, and the sensor device is disposed on the supporting member side. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120304768 | MODULE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A module includes a first rigid substrate including an analog circuit; a second rigid substrate including a digital circuit; a third rigid substrate including an angular velocity sensor; a first connecting portion that connects the first rigid substrate and the second rigid substrate so as to electrically connect the analog circuit and the digital circuit, and that has flexibility; and a second connecting portion that connects the first rigid substrate and the third rigid substrate so as to electrically connect the analog circuit and the angular velocity sensor, and that has flexibility. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120307459 | MAINTAINING MEMBER, MODULE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A maintaining member includes alignment portions that determine a maintaining position of a module, in which each of the alignment portions has a mounting face to fix the module. When the maintaining member is partitioned into a first region to a fourth region by a first axis and a second axis that are orthogonal to each other in plan view with respect to the center of the maintaining member, the alignment portions are provided at the regions one by one. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20130014578 | SENSOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUSAANM SAKUMA; MasayasuAACI KamiinaAACO JPAAGP SAKUMA; Masayasu Kamiina JPAANM KOBAYASHI; YoshihiroAACI KomaganeAACO JPAAGP KOBAYASHI; Yoshihiro Komagane JPAANM KITAMURA; ShojiroAACI SuwaAACO JPAAGP KITAMURA; Shojiro Suwa JPAANM CHINO; TaketoAACI HokutoAACO JPAAGP CHINO; Taketo Hokuto JP - A sensor device includes a mounting member having fixation surfaces inside, and at least one electronic component directly or indirectly fixed to the fixation surfaces of the mounting member, and the mounting member constitutes a part of a casing for housing the electronic component. Further, the fixation surfaces are perpendicular to each other. | 01-17-2013 |
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| 20090073141 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DETECTING INDICATING OBJECT - Provided is a device for driving first and second electrodes and an electro-optical element including a material having optical characteristics that vary with an applied voltage. The device includes: a driving unit which drives the electro-optical element between first and second driving states; a display unit which displays an image based on the optical characteristics of the electro-optical element; a pickup unit that outputs image data according to the amount of incident light; a first memory which fetches/stores the image data as reference image data; a second memory which fetches/stores the image data as target image data; a difference image data generating unit which generates difference image data from a difference between the reference and target image data; and a control unit which controls the write/read of the first and second memories such that the driving states corresponding to the reference image data and the target image data become equal. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090207154 | SENSING DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND SENSING METHOD - A sensing device includes: a plurality of sensors that are arrayed on a screen and that generate first detection signals each having a level corresponding to a touch state of an object on the screen or a distance between the object and the screen; a read unit that reads the first detection signals from the plurality of sensors at predetermined periods; a binarization unit that compares a level of each of the first detection signals read by the read unit with a threshold value and generates a second detection signal that is binarized; a determination unit that determines whether or not the object touches the screen on the basis of each second detection signal; a detection unit that detects a touch position of the object on the screen on the basis of each second detection signal; and a control unit that controls the read unit such that the predetermined period becomes a first period when the determination unit determines that there is no touch and that controls the read unit such that the predetermined period becomes a second period shorter than the first period when the determination unit determines that there is a touch. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090284492 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND CONTACT DETECTION METHOD - An electro-optical device includes: a screen on which an image is displayed; a first substrate and a second substrate that are provided opposite to each other; liquid crystal that is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; an electrostatic capacity detecting unit that outputs a detection signal whose level corresponds to the value of a capacitance that is formed by the liquid crystal, a first electrode, and a second electrode; an image displaying unit that includes the liquid crystal, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode, the image displaying unit controlling the transmission factor of the liquid crystal for displaying an image on the screen; a first memory unit that memorizes the level of the detection signal outputted by the electrostatic capacity detecting unit in a state in which a detection target object is not in contact with the screen as reference data; a second memory unit that memorizes the level of the detection signal outputted by the electrostatic capacity detecting unit in a state in which a judgment is made as to whether the screen is contacted or not as detection target data; a difference data generating unit that generates a difference between the reference data that has been read out of the first memory unit and the detection target data that has been read out of the second memory unit as difference data; and a judging unit that judges whether the detection target object is in contact with the screen or not on the basis of the difference data. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20100045622 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF DETECTING POSITION OF DIRECTING OBJECT - An electro-optical device includes an electro-optical element that includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electro-optical material pinched by the first and second electrodes of which the optical characteristic is changed in accordance with supply of a predetermined electric potential, a position detecting unit that detects a position of an object, which is brought into contact with an image displaying surface that displays an image configured by the electro-optical element, on the image displaying surface, and a physical amount measuring unit that is included in the position detecting unit and measures a predetermined physical amount of the whole or a part of the image displaying surface for a case where the object is brought into contact with the image displaying surface. The position detecting unit detects the position of the object on the image displaying surface based on the measurement result of the physical amount measured by the physical amount measuring unit and based on the measurement result from which the measurement result measured by the physical amount measuring unit at an inversion time of the polarity of an electric potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode is excluded. | 02-25-2010 |
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| 20080243474 | SPEECH TRANSLATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Speech translation apparatus includes first generation unit generating first text representing speech recognition result, and first prosody information, second generation unit generating first para-language information, first association unit associating each first portion of first text with corresponding first portion of first para-language information, translation unit translating first text into second texts, second association unit associating each second portion of first para-language information with corresponding second portion of each second text, third generation unit generating second prosody-information items, fourth generation unit generating second para-language-information items, computation unit computing degree-of-similarity between each first para-language information and corresponding one of second para-language-information items to obtain degrees of similarity, selection unit selecting, from second prosody-information items, maximum-degree-of-similarity prosody information corresponding to maximum degree, fifth generation unit generating prosody pattern of one of second texts which corresponds to maximum-degree-of-similarity prosody information, and output unit outputting one of second texts which corresponds to maximum-degree-of-similarity prosody information. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20120265575 | TASK COORDINATION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND TASK COORDINATION SUPPORT METHOD - There is provided a task coordination support system for staffs each holding a mobile terminal in which the task information storage stores information on tasks to be implemented by the staff and task flow information showing constraint on order to implement the tasks, the receiving unit receives sensor information from the mobile terminal, the storage stores received sensor information therein, the estimating unit calculates, for each of the tasks, accuracy at which a predetermined implementation status is reached and estimates a task reached the predetermined implementation status among tasks not yet reached the predetermined implementation status, and the tweet message generator/deliverer generate a message corresponding to an estimated task, determine as a destination of the message a mobile terminal of a staff previously related to the estimated task which is different from the staff in charge of the estimated task and deliver the message to the mobile terminal. | 10-18-2012 |
