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20090102907 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes a liquid discharger including a liquid discharge head configured to discharge a droplet of liquid so as to form an image. The liquid discharge head includes multiple individual channels communicating with corresponding nozzles from which the liquid is discharged; a common channel configured to supply the liquid to the individual channels; a deformable member configured to form at least one wall face of the common channel; and a vibration damping member formed of a viscoelastic material, the vibration member being provided in contact with the deformable member. | 04-23-2009 |
20100194823 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, INK CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A liquid ejection head is disclosed that includes piezoelectric elements constituting driving element rows in which plural driving piezoelectric element columns that generate energy for ejecting liquid droplets from nozzles are arranged side by side; a wiring board arranged on the side opposite to a surface in which the nozzles are formed; and two sheets of flexible printed circuits that are provided to correspond to the piezoelectric elements and have output terminal parts connected to the plural driving piezoelectric element columns and input terminal parts connected to the wiring board, the input terminal parts being drawn to the side of the wiring board. The flexible printed circuits are arranged facing each other with their input terminal parts not facing each other, and the input terminal parts of the flexible printed circuits are folded in a direction where the flexible printed circuits face each other and are connected to the wiring board. | 08-05-2010 |
20100245490 | PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, LIQUID EJECTING HEAD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A piezoelectric actuator is disclosed. The piezoelectric actuator includes a base member and three or more piezoelectric element members in which plural piezoelectric elements are formed by slits. The three or more piezoelectric element members are arrayed in a line on the base member and a gap is formed at the connection position between two adjacent piezoelectric element members. | 09-30-2010 |
20120069101 | INKJET HEAD - An inkjet head includes a channel substrate having multiple individual liquid chambers arranged in a shorter-side direction of the channel substrate, the individual liquid chambers being separated by multiple liquid chamber partition walls and communicating with ink supply openings; multiple diaphragms defining surfaces of the individual liquid chambers facing toward nozzle openings; multiple actuators formed on the diaphragms, each of the actuators being formed of a lower electrode, a piezoelectric element, and an upper electrode stacked in layers; and multiple individual electrode interconnects led out from the upper electrodes of the actuators, the individual electrode interconnects being connected to the corresponding upper electrodes on the nozzle opening side and on the ink supply opening side of the upper electrodes, the individual electrode interconnects being formed in regions where the liquid chamber partition walls are formed. | 03-22-2012 |
20120206540 | INKJET HEAD - Disclosed is an inkjet head including a channel substrate; a multi-interconnect structure formed on the channel substrate, including a vibration layer, plural piezoelectric elements each including a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer and a second electrode, and a common electrode interconnect electrically connected to the first electrode including a first common electrode interconnect and a second common electrode interconnect which has a thickness thicker than that of the first common electrode interconnect; and a support substrate bonded to the channel substrate through the multi-interconnect structure, the support substrate being provided with a first concave portion at a surface facing the channel substrate at an area corresponding to the second common electrode interconnect to accommodate the second common electrode interconnect. | 08-16-2012 |
20120206545 | INKJET HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - Disclosed is an inkjet head that includes individual liquid chambers having liquid droplet discharging holes; an oscillation plate; piezoelectric elements formed by laminating a lower electrode, a piezoelectric material, and upper electrodes on the oscillation plate, wherein the lower electrode is a common electrode and the upper electrode is an individual electrode; a common electrode wiring connected to the lower electrode; | 08-16-2012 |
20120320131 | INKJET HEAD AND INKJET RECORDING DEVICE - An inkjet head is disclosed, including a nozzle plate, a passage substrate, and a diaphragm. The nozzle plate forms multiple nozzles for discharging ink. A passage substrate joints to the nozzle plate. On the passage substrate, an individual liquid chamber leading to a nozzle, and a liquid supply chamber connected to the individual liquid chamber through an individual passage are formed for each of the multiple nozzles. The diaphragm forms a piezoelectric element which is laminated on a side opposite to the nozzle plate of the passage substrate and includes a lower electrode, a piezoelectric body, and an upper electrode. The liquid supply chamber formed for each of the multiple nozzles is compartmented by a bulkhead from an other liquid supply chamber, and each of the liquid supply chamber and the other liquid supply chamber include multiple ink supply ports. | 12-20-2012 |
20130016152 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING HEAD, INK CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUSAANM NONOYAMA; YusukeAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP NONOYAMA; Yusuke Kanagawa JPAANM YAMAGUCHI; KiyoshiAACI KanagawaAACO JPAAGP YAMAGUCHI; Kiyoshi Kanagawa JP - A liquid droplet ejecting head is disclosed, including a nozzle hole which ejects liquid droplets; an ejecting liquid chamber which is in communication with outside via the nozzle hole and which contains an ejecting liquid to be the liquid droplets; a pressure generating unit which generates pressure within the ejecting liquid chamber; a temperature detecting unit which detects temperature at a location at which is arranged a temperature measuring resistive body; and a pressure control unit which controls an output of the pressure generating unit based on detected results of the temperature detecting unit, wherein the pressure generating unit is configured to increase pressure within the ejecting liquid chamber, so that the ejecting liquid within the ejecting liquid chamber is ejected from the nozzle hole as the liquid droplets, and wherein the temperature measuring resistive body is arranged at the ejecting liquid chamber forming member. | 01-17-2013 |
20130021412 | DROPLET EJECTION HEAD, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DROPLET EJECTION HEAD, AND DROPLET EJECTION APPARATUS - A droplet ejection head that is attachable to and removable from a droplet ejection apparatus, includes: a nozzle plate having multiple nozzle holes to eject droplets; an individual-channel substrate in which multiple individual-liquid-chambers to supply liquid to the nozzle holes are formed; a common-channel substrate to supply liquid to the individual-channel substrate; a base plate made of metal and including a first positioning part to be engaged with a part of the droplet ejection apparatus at a given position to perform positioning with respect to the droplet ejection apparatus in a direction along an opening surface of the nozzle plate at which the nozzle holes are opened; and a housing made of resin and including a second positioning part to perform positioning with respect to the droplet ejection apparatus in a direction intersecting with the opening surface. | 01-24-2013 |
20130050354 | INKJET HEAD AND RECORDING DEVICE - Disclosed is an inkjet head including a fluid channel substrate on which individual liquid chambers are arranged, the individual liquid chambers being partitioned by liquid chamber partition walls; an oscillation plate that is formed on a surface facing openings of nozzles; actuators; wiring layer patterns that supplies driving signals to the actuators, the wiring layer patterns being formed above the corresponding liquid chamber partition walls; and a supporting substrate in which concave oscillation chambers are formed, the concave oscillation chambers being partitioned by supporting substrate partition walls. A width in the short direction of the supporting substrate partition wall is smaller than a width in the short direction of the liquid chamber partition wall and greater than a width of the wiring layer pattern. | 02-28-2013 |
20130070021 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS - An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head; a carriage to which the recording head is detachably mounted; and a first head protection member that is arranged on the carriage; wherein the recording head is positioned with respect to the carriage in a relative movement direction by moving the recording head relative to the carriage until a first position reference plane of the recording head and a second position reference plane of the carriage come into contact; the first head protection member is arranged at both sides in the relative movement direction of a nozzle face of the recording head and protrudes further than the nozzle face; and the first head protection member is movable with respect to the carriage in the relative movement direction and moves along with the recording head when the recording head moves relative to the carriage. | 03-21-2013 |
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20090129757 | VIDEO RECORDER, VIDEO PLAYER AND METHOD FOR MANAGING VIDEO MATERIAL - A video recorder which can maintain compatibility with a video recorder which uses magnetic tape as a recording medium and manage recorded videos easily is provided. The video recorder has a random access recording medium, a video management part, a control part and a video playback part. The video management part records information showing a group, and information showing record order of the video material in the specified group in the recording medium as the management information. A control part records the video data in the recording medium, reads out the management information from the recording medium, and read out the video data in the record order according to the information showing the record order. And the video playback part plays back the video data read out from the recording medium. | 05-21-2009 |
20100074596 | VIDEO DATA PROCESSOR AND VIDEO DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A video data processor and a video data processing method which uses hardware resources efficiently even when a plurality of processing occurs to video data are performed in parallel is provided. The video data read from a recording medium in playback processing, editing processing, duplication processing, and other process that may be accomplished upon video is outputted to either of two lines by distributor | 03-25-2010 |
20140122445 | DATABASE ANALYZER AND DATABASE ANALYSIS METHOD - A database analyzer includes a data sorting unit sorting a data group acquired from an analysis target database based on data values in a table column and storing it as analysis target data in a storage unit; a data pattern creation processing unit creating a group for each data value based on differences between the data values and storing a data pattern in the storage unit; a data pattern judgment processing unit for judging validity of the data pattern; and a data pattern transformation processing unit for reconstructing the data pattern with respect to constituent elements of each group included in the data pattern by transforming each group in accordance with a specified conversion rule for converting the constituent elements, which are conceptually similar to each other, into the same constituent element, and storing it in the storage unit if a negative result is obtained for the validity judgment. | 05-01-2014 |
20140289706 | TEST CASE GENERATION METHOD, TEST CASE GENERATION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A test case is generated by receiving software specification, generating a test case including a test input value for particular software from the software specification, as well as an expected output value expected to be obtained as an output value when the software is executed by inputting the test input value, and checking whether a value that can be output in the software specification is included in the expected output value. As a result of the check, if it is determined that the output value that can be output in the software specification is not included in the expected output value, a test case including the value that can be output in the software specification as well as a corresponding test input value is generated and added to the test case that has been generated. | 09-25-2014 |
20150032708 | DATABASE ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD - A database analysis apparatus pays its attention to table columns more than two constituting a table among plural tables that a database holds, and analyzes automatically a dependence and a limitation condition that exist between the table columns from a tendency of appearance at the same time of data which each table column maintains, which comprises a data category calculation means to calculate a method of categorizing a data group from association rules generated from the data group of two or more table columns and an association rules reconstruction means to generate association rules of the best granularity by reconstructing the association rules based on the result of the above categorizing. | 01-29-2015 |
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20080235742 | CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND SERVER APPARATUS AND RECEIVING APPARATUS USED IN THIS CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM - A server apparatus includes a memory which stores a management table relating content identification information for specifying the content and a trick play request and a trick play data, and a transmitter which refers to the management table based on the content identification information and the trick play request, reads out the corresponding trick play data from the management table according to the reference result, to transmit the trick play data to the receiving apparatus from the specified reproduction starting position. | 09-25-2008 |
20090077596 | BROADCAST CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND BROADCAST RECEPTION TERMINAL DEVICE FOR USE IN THE SYSTEM - It is assumed that a reception processing unit receives a broadcast program in accordance with tuning based on the user's specification. In this state, a non-viewable state detection processing unit monitors occurrence of a non-viewable state from an acquisition state of reception data. When the non-viewable state occurs due to a certain factor, a non-viewable state accumulation unit accumulates information on the non-viewable state. When the factor of a viewing interruption is solved and a user makes a request for service provision, the processing unit connects to a distribution apparatus to report content of the non-viewable state, and receives distribution of a relevant content, thereby the processing unit becomes able to recontinue interrupted broadcast content. | 03-19-2009 |
20100066915 | VIDEO DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A video data processing apparatus includes a reading unit reading video data from a video data file recorded on a randomly accessible storage medium in response to a first control signal, and reading position data indicating a frame position of the video data in the video data file from the video data file recorded on the storage medium in response to a second control signal, a memory storing the position data read by the reading unit, and a controller controlling the reading unit by outputting the second control signal before the outputting of the first control signal, and controlling the reading unit by outputting the first control signal with a designation of particular video data to be read indicated by the position data stored in the memory, in response to a request to execute a process to the video data file. | 03-18-2010 |
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20090193388 | SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT APPARATUS, PROGRAM AND METHOD - Before design information is published, a consistency state of reference design information referred to by the design information is revealed. By this, it is possible to reduce waste caused by redesign or the like of the design information. | 07-30-2009 |
20120266131 | AUTOMATIC PROGRAM GENERATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - The present invention is provided to apply a screen mockup developed for prototyping, without any modification, to actual product development for which the architecture differs. An automatic program generation device has: a storage part | 10-18-2012 |
20130125091 | AUTOMATIC PROGRAM GENERATION DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD - A device and method automatically generate a program for buffering differences based on characteristics of a component. A buffer program for buffering differences of the way to use a component during different software environments is automatically generated. The device includes a controller for executing automatic generation of the buffer program, a memory including control information and a processing program, an input device for inputting the processing content of the component, and an output device for outputting the automatically generated buffer program. The memory records a plurality of forms for buffering the component as the control information and the controller extracts characteristic information based on the processing content of the component and records the extracted characteristic information as control information in the memory, selects a specified form based on the characteristic information, and generates the buffer program based on the selected form and the characteristic information. | 05-16-2013 |
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20110298560 | HIGH-FREQUENCY MODULE - A high-frequency module enabling sufficient attenuation over a wide frequency range outside of a passband includes a triplexer including a combination of an LPF, a BPF, and HPFs arranged to demultiplex a signal input from a common terminal into a first communication signal, a second communication signal, and a third communication signal in different frequency bands, and to output the first, second, and third communication signals from individual terminals. The individual terminals of the triplexer are connected to respective baluns. The baluns are configured such that the respective passbands of the baluns overlap the respective frequency bands of the communication signals and the respective passbands of the triplexer, and the attenuation of the baluns at the attenuation poles of the triplexer is −3 dB or greater. This configuration provides high attenuation in the rebound bands of the attenuation poles. | 12-08-2011 |
20120274420 | FILTER CIRCUIT - A bandpass filter includes a multilayer body, which includes a plurality of dielectric layers stacked on top of one another, a first inductor and a second inductor connected in series with each other, and a third inductor connected to a connection point between the first and second inductors, and a ground potential. The first inductor is defined by substantially open-loop-shaped first electrode patterns provided on the dielectric layers being superposed with one another in the stacking direction of the multilayer body. The second inductor and the third inductor are defined by second electrode patterns and third electrode patterns provided on the dielectric layers being superposed with one another in the stacking direction. | 11-01-2012 |