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| 20090049655 | BOOT BAND - The resistance against the portion of a band body that is riding over engagement claws at the time of fastening the band body is reduced, so that the band body can be fastened by a small amount of fastening force. This boot band consists of: a band body that is fastened by winding in a ring shape an outer overlapping portion and an inner overlapped portion around a member to be fastened; engagement claws and that are formed on the outer overlapping portion; engagement holes that are formed in the inner overlapped portion and that engage with the engagement claws, so as to maintain the band body in a fastened condition; a lip that is formed by separating, along the fastening direction of the band body, the area of the inner overlapped portion where an engagement hole is formed from that area's surrounding area, and with the fastening-direction end of the lip formed as a free end; and a slit, which the lip penetrates through to the opposite side of the slit. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090207226 | PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING PATTERN - The invention presents a pattern forming apparatus including: an intermediate transfer body; a particle supply unit, for forming a liquid receptive particle layer of a specified layer thickness by supplying liquid receptive particles, capable of receiving a recording liquid containing recording material and also capable of trapping the recording material at the surface thereof, onto the intermediate transfer body; a liquid droplet ejection unit for ejecting liquid droplets of the recording liquid on the liquid receptive particle layer on the basis of specified data, and forming a pattern of the recording material near the surface of the liquid receptive particle layer; and a transferring unit, for transferring the liquid receptive particle layer containing the recording liquid onto a transfer object, so that the pattern is placed between the transfer object (recording medium) and the liquid receptive particle layer. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090213201 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming method including: forming a liquid receiving particle layer on an intermediate transfer member using a liquid receiving particle that is capable of receiving a recording liquid including a recording material; forming an image of the recording material on a surface of the liquid receiving particle layer by applying a liquid droplet of the recording liquid to the liquid receiving particle layer on the basis of image data and holding the recording material on the surface of the liquid receiving particle layer on the intermediate transfer member; applying a transfer auxiliary liquid in at least a portion of a formation range of the image; and transferring the liquid receiving particle layer to which the recording liquid is applied to a transfer receiving member from the intermediate transfer member, such that the image is interposed between the transfer receiving member and the liquid receiving particle layer is provided. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090237479 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus including: an intermediate transfer member; an image forming composition layer formation unit that supplies an image forming composition to the intermediate transfer member, the image forming composition containing a curable material that cures upon application of an external stimulus; an ink application unit that applies an ink to the image forming composition layer that has been formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that transfers the image forming composition layer from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium by contacting the image forming composition layer onto which the ink has been applied with the recording medium; and a first stimulus application unit that applies a stimulus to the image forming composition layer that cures the image forming composition layer, the stimulus being applied at least one of immediately before the image forming composition layer comes into contact with the recording medium, or during the contact. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090263911 | End point detection method , end point detection device, and gas phase reaction processing apparatus equipped with end point detection device - The object of the present invention is to provide an end point detection method in a gas phase reaction processing apparatus. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100073407 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus that includes: an intermediate transfer member; an ink absorbing particle supplying unit for supplying ink absorbing particles on a surface of the intermediate transfer member; an ink ejecting unit for ejecting ink to the ink absorbing particles; a transfer unit for transferring the ink absorbing particles to a recording medium; a fixing unit for fixing the transferred ink absorbing particles onto the recording medium; a particle collecting unit for collecting remaining ink absorbing particles on the intermediate transfer member; a humidity reducing unit for reducing humidity around the collected ink absorbing particles; and a particle supplying unit for supplying the ink absorbing particles with humidity reduced by the humidity reducing unit. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100073448 | RECORDING MATERIAL AND RECORDING APPARATUS - According to an aspect of the invention and there is provided a recording material comprising an ink, ink absorbing particles that absorb the ink, and a curable liquid that cures the substantial surface of the ink absorbing particles. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100091064 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: a supply unit that supplies liquid absorbing particles to receive a liquid; a transporting unit that transports the liquid absorbing particles supplied by the supply unit; and a ejecting unit that ejects liquid droplets to the liquid absorbing particles transported by the transporting unit, the ejecting unit having: an ink ejecting part that ejects ink; and a dampening solution ejecting part that ejects a dampening solution to dampen the liquid absorbing particles, the ink ejecting part being provided on an upstream side of the dampening solution ejecting part in an image forming direction. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100119167 | IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image decoding apparatus includes an information acquisition section that acquires information of a bit-plane truncation position in an encoded stream from the encoded stream generated by performing bit-plane encoding on a transform coefficient, a decoding process section that performs a decoding process on the encoded stream and generates a transform coefficient, and a significant coefficient detection section that detects whether the transform coefficient generated in the decoding process section is significant. The image decoding apparatus includes a correction value acquisition section that acquires a correction value corresponding to the bit-plane truncation position in the transform coefficient detected to be significant, from a correction value table, and a coefficient correction processing section that performs coefficient correction processing on the transform coefficient using the correction value acquired in the correction value acquisition section only for the transform coefficient detected to be significant in the significant coefficient detection section. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100123748 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING APPARATUS, LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM - A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting module and a measurement section. The liquid ejecting module includes a pressure chamber that has a piezoelectric element and an ejecting nozzle, and a supply passage that supplies liquid into the pressure chamber, and the liquid ejecting module configured to eject, from the ejecting nozzles, liquid which is supplied to the pressure chamber through the supply passage. The measurement section measures an admittance or a phase difference between a voltage applied to the piezoelectric element and a current through the liquid ejecting module when the voltage is applied. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100156971 | RECORDING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a recording apparatus, which ejects a second liquid to a non-image area other than an image area formed by dots recorded by ejecting ink droplets onto a curable solution layer. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100172583 | ENCODING DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An encoding device includes: a color-difference signal encoding unit for encoding a color-difference signal for each processing block in multiple color-difference signal encoding modes to generate multiple color-difference signal bit streams; a color-difference mode selecting unit for selecting a color-difference signal encoding mode from the multiple color-difference signal encoding modes; a luminance signal encoding unit for calculating luminance target code amount by subtracting the code amount of the encoded color-difference signal bit stream from fixed code amount, and encoding a luminance signal to generate a luminance signal bit stream; a color-difference reselecting unit for selecting the color-difference signal encoding mode corresponding to the color-difference signal bit stream having the code amount not greater than the fixed code amount, and small deterioration as to the color-difference signal; and a multiplexing unit for multiplexing the luminance signal bit stream, and the encoded color-difference signal bit stream to generate a bit stream. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20110048324 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes: a curable solution layer forming device that forms a curable solution layer by supplying a curable solution to a recording member or an intermediate member, the curable solution including at least a curable material to be cured by an external stimulus, and a water-absorbing component; an ink applying device that applies an ink to the curable solution layer; a stimulus supplying device that supplies the stimulus for curing the curable solution layer, to the curable solution layer; and a water-absorption controlling component-contact device that brings a liquid, including a component that controls water-absorption by the water-absorbing component, into contact with the curable solution layer, before or after the ink is applied to the curable solution layer by the ink applying device. | 03-03-2011 |
