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| 20080226364 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method comprising the steps of: (i) charging a surface of a photoreceptor; (ii) exposing the charged photoreceptor to form an electrostatic latent image; (iii) developing the electrostatic latent image using a toner comprising at least a release agent to form a toner image; (iv) transferring the toner image on the photoreceptor to a transfer material; and (v) fixing the toner image transferred on the transfer material employing a contact-heating fixing devise comprising a pair of belts, wherein the releasing agent comprises a first release agent component containing a monoester compound represented by Formula (1) and a second release agent component containing a hydrocarbon having a branched chain structure, wherein a content of the first release agent is 40 to 98% by mass, based on a total mass of the first release agent component and the second release agent component: | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090087770 | TONER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY - An electrophotographic toner is disclosed, meeting the requirement that G′ (60)/G′ (80) is from 1×10 | 04-02-2009 |
| 20100028798 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPMENT AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A toner for electrostatic latent image development, in which the image quality is fine, toner blister would not occur, and furthermore, the image quality which can fulfill customer's satisfaction can be obtained regardless of the temperature humidity environment in the image forming. The toner for electrostatic latent image development is made by agglomeration of resin particles and colorant particles in an aqueous medium. The acid value of the toner is less than 20 mgKOH/g, and the hydroxyl value of the toner is 7 to 57 mgKOH/g. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20110129771 | TRANSPARENT TONER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A transparent toner for forming a glossy surface is disclosed, wherein a critical surface tension of a glossy surface formed by the transparent toner at 20° C. is at least 50 mN/m, and the transparent toner comprises a resin composed of a polymer formed by employing at least a polymerizable monomer containing a carboxylic group (—COOH). An image forming method employing the transparent tone is also disclosed. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110207045 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF - A toner for electrostatic latent image development is disclosed, comprising a binder resin which comprises a resin A comprising a copolymer comprised of at least a styrenic monomer unit and a (meth)acrylic monomer unit and a resin B comprising a copolymer comprised of at least a methacrylate monomer unit and a radical-polymerizable monomer unit containing plural carboxyl groups, and a total amount of the methacrylate monomer unit and the radical-polymerizable monomer unit containing plural carboxyl groups accounts for not less than 70% by mass and not more than 95% by mass of all monomer units forming the copolymer of the resin B. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20120028175 | FOIL TRANSFERRING FACE FORMING TONER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A method for forming an image at least comprising steps of forming an electrostatic latent image by exposing an electrophotographic photoreceptor, forming a foil transferring face by supplying a toner onto the electrophotographic photoreceptor having the electrostatic latent image, transferring the foil transferring face formed on the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a base substance, fixing the foil transferring face transferred on the base substance, supplying a transfer foil to the base substance fixed with the foil transferring face, adhering the transfer foil onto the foil transferring face by heating under a condition of contacting the transfer foil with the foil transferring face; and removing the transfer foil from the base substance while leaving the foil adhered onto the foil transferring face, wherein the toner comprises a binder resin having a softening temperature in the range of from not less than 105° C. to not more than 140° C., and having a molecular weight of not less than 60,000 in a ratio of not less than 10% and not more than 30% based on the total binder resin constituting the toner. | 02-02-2012 |
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| 20090026992 | PRINTER AND DC MOTOR SPEED CONTROL DEVICE - In speed control that is performed within a single operating cycle of a printer, three-level control of ON control, OFF control, and chopper control, is performed in place of the two-level control of ON control and OFF control, to effectively suppress speed variations due to load variations within a single operating cycle, even in small printers provided with DC motors having small output torques. In a printer comprising a DC motor | 01-29-2009 |
| 20100247215 | NEAR-END OF ROLL DETECTING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING NEAR-END OF ROLL OF RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PRINTER - A printer includes a recording medium accommodating unit that holds an outer circumferential portion of a recording medium wound in a roll, a printing unit that prints on the recording medium fed from the recording medium accommodating unit, a first detecting lever that is biased to abut a side aspect of the recording medium and that includes on a tip, a first protrusion that enters a space of a roll-core part in the center of the recording medium when the roll-core part is moved to a predetermined position by the weight of the recording medium as the recording medium is consumed, and a detecting switch that converts an action of the first detecting lever into an electric signal, where the first protrusion is provided on the first detecting lever being rotatable in a direction that the roll-core part moves to be detached from the recording medium accommodating unit. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100247217 | PRINTER - A recording medium accommodating unit | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100247221 | PRINTER - A printer includes a fixed blade attached to a cover unit; a movable blade that faces a fixed blade, freely reciprocates relative to the fixed blade when the cover unit is closed and cuts the recording medium together with the fixed blade by overlapping the fixed blade during reciprocation; a movable blade driving motor that causes the movable blade to reciprocate; and a movable blade unit that includes the movable blade, the movable blade driving motor, and an accommodating unit accommodating the movable blade and provided at a printer main body. The printer further includes a mechanism that, when the movable blade protrudes from the accommodating unit and is stopped, widens a space over which the fixed blade and the protruding movable blade face each other before the movable blade driving motor accommodates the protruding movable blade in the accommodating unit, as initiated by operation of a cover opening lever. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100310294 | NEAR-END OF ROLL DETECTING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING NEAR-END OF ROLL OF RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PRINTER - To improve precision in identifying the amount that remains of a recording medium, an apparatus includes a paper holder that supports an outer circumferential surface of a recording medium that is biased downward in a vertical direction by the weight of the recording medium, such that a position of a center of the recording medium moves on a straight-line trace, associated with consumption of the recording medium; and a light-reflecting sensor that is provided at a predetermined position at a side face of the paper holder and senses displacement per unit time at a position facing the predetermined position of the recording medium that is rotated by being pulled out of the paper holder, associated with the consumption of the recording medium, where based on the displacement sensed by the light-reflecting sensor, a radius of the recording medium at the time the light reflecting sensor senses the displacement is calculated. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20110164913 | PRINTER APPARATUS - A printing apparatus | 07-07-2011 |
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| 20090117538 | Methods for Obtaining Gene Tags - The present invention provides methods for providing as tags the nucleotide sequences at the 5′ end of mRNA. The method of the present invention comprises the step of synthesizing cDNA using, as a template, mRNA whose CAP structure is linked with a IIs linker having a type IIs endonuclease recognition sequence. Tags including the nucleotide sequence from the 5′ end of mRNA are generated by reacting the type IIs endonuclease to cDNA. Tags can be generated from all mRNA, independently of their nucleotide sequences. Methods for identifying transcriptional start sites and primers for full-length cDNA synthesis are provided based on the nucleotide sequence information of tags of the present invention. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090214587 | Recombinant virus and use thereof - The present invention provides a recombinant virus which is efficacious and highly safe in preventing the onset of SARS infection and a vaccine for SARS coronavirus containing the same. The recombinant virus of the invention can express a SARS coronavirus gene. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20110081370 | Methods and Compositions for Modulating Immune Tolerance - The instant invention provides methods and compositions for modulation of the immune system. Specifically, the invention provides methods and compositions for increasing T cell mediated immune response useful in the treatment of cancer and chronic infection. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20120027748 | IMMUNOLOGICAL RECONSTITUTION PROMOTER OR PROPHYLACTIC AGENT FOR INFECTIONS EACH OF WHICH MAINTAINS GRAFT-VERSUS-TUMOR EFFECT - The object of the invention is to provide an immunological reconstitution promoter or a prophylactic agent for infections for use in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation therapy for tumors. The promoter or prophylactic agent enables the amelioration of delayed immune reconstitution or the prevention of infection following transplantation, while maintaining the GVT effect of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Specifically, in a transplant patient in whom immune reconstitution is delayed, such reconstitution can be promoted by administering, at an early stage following transplantation, a substance capable of depleting CD4 | 02-02-2012 |
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| 20080316889 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording/reproducing unit to record/reproduce information data on/from each of a plurality of first recording media; an outputting unit to output the information data reproduced from the first recording media to a recording device in order to record the information data recorded on the first recording media on a second recording medium by the recording device; an obtaining unit to obtain sizes of respective pieces of the information data recorded on the first recording media; a generating unit to generate association information including identification information to identify the first recording media associated with each other and order information indicating order of the first recording media; and a determination unit configured to determine addresses used to record the respective pieces of the information data recorded on the first recording media on the second recording medium based on the association information and the obtained data sizes. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090125928 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an information recording apparatus, such as a digital camera, arranged to record information on a detachably mountable storage medium, such as for example to record video data on the storage medium. In one version of the apparatus, when a connection of an AC adapter is cancelled, the storage medium is detected by a storage medium detection unit, and in a case where the storage medium is not mounted to the mounting unit, a warning is issued, for example in an audio output unit or a display unit. Accordingly, the user can find out that the storage medium is not mounted before the digital camera has been brought outside for use. Thus, it may be possible to prevent a failure in which the user first realizes that they forgot to mount the storage medium only when they are already away from home. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090213485 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND RECORDING APPARATUS - A reproducing apparatus includes a recording medium mounting detection unit configured to detect that a detachable recording medium is mounted, and a file analysis unit configured to analyze a file recorded in the recording medium. When the recording medium mounting detection unit detects that the recording medium is mounted, representative information that represents recorded content on the recording medium (a representative image and/or a representative title) is acquired from the recording medium and displayed on a display unit prior to file analysis by the file analysis unit. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100045823 | RECORDING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A recording apparatus including a mounting portion configured to allow a rewritable recording medium and an unrewritable recording medium to be mounted thereon includes a determination unit configured to determine a file name with a number for recording a file on a recording medium mounted on the mounting portion, and a recording control unit configured to record, on the recording medium mounted on the mounting portion, the file using the file name determined by the determination unit, wherein the determination unit changes a file name determination method when the recording medium mounted on the mounting portion is replaced such that the rewritable recording medium and the unrewritable recording medium are replaced with each other. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100134657 | INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This invention has as its object to allow information recording by maximally utilizing the size of a storage medium while maintaining compatibility to an electronic device which can handle only a storage medium initialized by the first file system to some extent. To this end, on a storage medium, two storage areas, i.e., a partition A initialized by the FAT16 file system to be accessed by a normal digital still camera, and a partition B initialized by the FAT32 file system that allows a still larger address space, are assured. A main image sensed by a camera unit is stored in the partition B, and a thumbnail image as its derivative information is stored in the partition A. Even when this memory card is attached to the conventional digital still camera, the thumbnail image can be browsed. Also, information indicating correspondence between the main image and corresponding thumbnail image is stored in the partition B as management information. As a result, even when a thumbnail image is detected by the conventional digital still camera, whether the main image is to be deleted or the deleted thumbnail image is to be restored can be selected based on the correspondence with the main image. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100153476 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A recording apparatus including a mounting unit to mount a removable recording medium, a recording capacity obtaining unit to obtain recording capacity of the recording medium, a file format determination unit to determine a file format used in the recording medium, and a changing unit to change the file format used in the recording medium and initialize the recording medium based on a relationship between the recording capacity and the file format. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100159831 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - A method for controlling a communication apparatus includes communicating with an external device through close proximity wireless communication, receiving a remote control signal transmitted from a remote controller, storing a remote control setting which enables or disables an operation of the remote controller, making a determination as to whether a connection between the communication apparatus and the external device through the close proximity wireless communication is established, and controlling an operation of the remote controller for the communication apparatus on the basis of the determination. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110188834 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A recording apparatus is disclosed that records information data and file system information for managing a file containing the information data in accordance with a predetermined file system to a recording medium having a plurality of blocks including an alternative block for a detect block. The data recorded in the recording medium is managed in accordance with the predetermined file system. The recording apparatus sets a threshold based on the size of the file system information, and if the alternative block remaining amount in the recording medium is less than or equal to the threshold, recording of the information data to the recording medium is inhibited. | 08-04-2011 |
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| 20090165564 | SEMICONDUCTOR PRESSURE SENSOR AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - For example, to adjust an offset of a pressure sensor, there are provided an external resistor RE and an internal resistor circuit that is connected to both ends of RE and formed in a semiconductor chip such as a processor. The internal resistor circuit includes N pieces of internal resistors RI connected in series between both ends of RE, and (N+1) pieces of switches selecting one of voltages of respective nodes of the serial resistors and outputs the same as a signal. RE has a high absolute value precision of, e.g., several ten ohms to several hundred ohms, and RI has a high relative value precision of, e.g., several kilo-ohms. Therefore, an offset adjustment range is decided at a high absolute value precision mainly by RE, and with regard to the arrangement resolution, a high precision can be obtained along with the relative value precision of the RI. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20100245140 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - In AD conversion of a voltage under measurement, data continuity is ensured between the result of conversion after amplification by using an amplifier circuit and the result of direct conversion without using the amplifier circuit. In AD conversion operation using a DA converter circuit, an amplifier circuit, and an AD converter circuit under the direction of a control circuit, an analog signal output from the DA converter circuit is directly converted by the AD converter circuit, and also the analog signal is converted therein after amplified by the amplifier circuit with an expected gain of 2 | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110166804 | SEMICONDUCTOR PRESSURE SENSOR AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - For example, to adjust an offset of a pressure sensor, there are provided an external resistor RE and an internal resistor circuit that is connected to both ends of RE and formed in a semiconductor chip such as a processor. The internal resistor circuit includes N pieces of internal resistors RI connected in series between both ends of RE, and (N+1) pieces of switches selecting one of voltages of respective nodes of the serial resistors and outputs the same as a signal. RE has a high absolute value precision of, e.g., several ten ohms to several hundred ohms, and RI has a high relative value precision of, e.g., several kilo-ohms. Therefore, an offset adjustment range is decided at a high absolute value precision mainly by RE, and with regard to the arrangement resolution, a high precision can be obtained along with the relative value precision of the RI. | 07-07-2011 |
