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20120075386 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME - A liquid discharge head comprises: a liquid discharge head substrate including an element row in which a plurality of energy generating elements for generating thermal energy for use in discharging liquid are arranged; and a discharge port member corresponding to each of the plurality of energy generating elements, the discharge port members including a plurality of walls in contact with the liquid discharge head substrate to form a plurality of liquid chambers for storing liquid and a plurality of discharge ports which communicate with each of the plurality of the liquid chambers to discharge liquid with the thermal energy generated by the energy generating element; and a plurality of heat dissipating members corresponding to each of the plurality of the liquid chambers and having a first portion exposed to the liquid chamber and a second portion exposed to the atmosphere. | 03-29-2012 |
20120242747 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a liquid ejection head, including: an ejection orifice forming member having an ejection orifice for ejecting liquid; a substrate having a supply port for supplying the liquid to the ejection orifice; and a filter disposed at a position upstream of the ejection orifice when the liquid is supplied to the ejection orifice, in which the filter includes an opening having a diameter smaller than or equal to a diameter of the ejection orifice, and a tapered shape structure disposed at a position upstream of the opening when the liquid is supplied to the ejection orifice, the tapered shape structure having a distal end directed toward an upstream side. | 09-27-2012 |
20130288405 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - The method of manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes: forming a first protective layer on one surface of the substrate; forming the wiring layer on another surface of the substrate; forming the insulating layer on the wiring layer, and then partially removing the insulating layer to partially expose the wiring layer; forming the electrode pad on an exposed portion of the wiring layer; forming a flow path member on the another surface of the substrate; forming a second protective layer on the one surface of the substrate after the formation of the flow path member; and partially removing at least one of the first protective layer and the second protective layer, and then forming the supply port leading from the one surface of the substrate to the another surface of the substrate. | 10-31-2013 |
20140035999 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head includes a print element board and an electric wiring board electrically connected to a bump of the print element board using an interconnecting wire. The bump has a first surface and a second surface. The height of the second surface from a surface of a base plate is higher than that of the first surface. The first surface has a protrusion formed therein, and the bump is connected to the interconnecting wire in the second surface. | 02-06-2014 |
20140061152 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A method for manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes the steps of: disposing an etching mask layer on a substrate having a first face and a second face that is on an opposite side of the first face, the etching mask layer being disposed on the second face; forming a concave line pattern at a region of the etching mask layer other than a region where an opening for the support port is to be formed; providing an etching opening at the etching mask layer; performing anisotropic etching from a side of the second face using the etching mask layer provided with the etching opening as a mask, thus forming the supply port at the substrate; comparing the line pattern with a recess generated at the substrate, thus selecting a device chip for liquid ejection; and connecting the selected device chip to a liquid supply part. | 03-06-2014 |
20140340451 | DEVICE SUBSTRATE, LIQUID EJECTION HEAD, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DEVICE SUBSTRATE AND LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A device substrate includes a substrate body having an energy generating device provided thereon, where the energy generating device generates energy for ejecting liquid, an ejection port forming member disposed on the substrate body, where the ejection port forming member has a pressure chamber that surrounds the energy generating device and an ejection port that communicates with the pressure chamber, and a supply port configured to supply the liquid to the pressure chamber. The ejection port forming member has a first surface that is in contact with the substrate body and a second surface other than the first surface, and the supply port is formed in the second surface. | 11-20-2014 |
20150062260 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND PRINTING APPARATUS - There are provided a liquid ejection head and a printing apparatus capable of performing high-quality printing by suppressing the shrinkage stress of an adhesive joining a substrate and a flow path forming member and the deformation and peeling of the flow path forming member. A stress dispersing section | 03-05-2015 |
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20100220540 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE CAPABLE OF DRIVING NON-SELECTED WORD LINES TO FIRST AND SECOND POTENTIALS - A semiconductor device includes a word line drive circuit for resetting the word line by driving the word line connected to a memory cell and is constituted so as to switch a reset level of the word line drive circuit, which is set at the time of the reset operation of the word line, between a first potential such as a ground potential and a second potential such as a negative potential. Further, a semiconductor device including a memory cell array formed by arranging a plurality of memory cells and a word line reset level generating circuit for generating a negative potential makes it possible to vary the amount of a current supply of the word line reset level generating circuit when non-selected word lines are set to a negative potential by applying the output of the word line reset level generating circuit to the non-selected word lines, and varies the amount of the current supply of the negative potential in accordance with the operation of the memory cell array. Furthermore, in a semiconductor device including a plurality of power source circuits each having an oscillation circuit and a capacitor, for driving the capacitor by the oscillation signal outputted by the oscillation circuit, at least a part of these power source circuits shares in common the oscillation circuit, and different capacitors are driven by the oscillation signal outputted from the common oscillation circuit. | 09-02-2010 |
20100321983 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE CAPABLE OF DRIVING NON-SELECTED WORD LINES TO FIRST AND SECOND POTENTIALS - A semiconductor device includes a word line drive circuit for resetting the word line by driving the word line connected to a memory cell and is constituted so as to switch a reset level of the word line drive circuit, which is set at the time of the reset operation of the word line, between a first potential such as a ground potential and a second potential such as a negative potential. Further, a semiconductor device including a memory cell array formed by arranging a plurality of memory cells and a word line reset level generating circuit for generating a negative potential makes it possible to vary the amount of a current supply of the word line reset level generating circuit when non-selected word lines are set to a negative potential by applying the output of the word line reset level generating circuit to the non-selected word lines, and varies the amount of the current supply of the negative potential in accordance with the operation of the memory cell array. Furthermore, in a semiconductor device including a plurality of power source circuits each having an oscillation circuit and a capacitor, for driving the capacitor by the oscillation signal outputted by the oscillation circuit, at least a part of these power source circuits shares in common the oscillation circuit, and different capacitors are driven by the oscillation signal outputted from the common oscillation circuit. | 12-23-2010 |
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20100031250 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - When a peripheral device is connected to a host apparatus for the first time, an easy and secure installation of the driver of the peripheral device into the host apparatus is made possible. A printer | 02-04-2010 |
20100259606 | IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to capture an image of a subject and obtain image data, a setting unit configured to set at least two shooting modes including an underwater shooting mode and a normal shooting mode, and a control unit configured to set a different initial value of a control amount of white balance according to whether a shooting mode set by the setting unit is the underwater shooting mode or the normal shooting mode, calculate the control amount of white balance based on the set initial value and the image data obtained by the imaging unit, and perform white balance control on the image data obtained by the imaging unit based on the calculated control amount. | 10-14-2010 |
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20130265484 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image capturing apparatus includes: a first detection unit that, based on feature amounts of an image obtained by an image sensor, detects a position of a certain subject in the image and a position of a certain part of the certain subject; and a second detection unit that detects a position of a region of the certain subject in the image obtained by the image sensor with a smaller calculation amount than the first detection unit. A focus detection area corresponding to the certain part is selected from among a plurality of focus detection areas based on a relationship between the position of the region of the certain subject detected by the second detection unit and the positions of the certain subject and the certain part detected by the first detection unit. | 10-10-2013 |
20150062348 | IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - In an image capture apparatus that can perform processing using an image on which information displayed by a display device is superimposed and a method for controlling the same, the influence of the superimposed information included in the image is reduced. A first image in which information displayed by the display device is superimposed on an optical finder image is acquired. Then, the predetermined image processing is performed using a second image that excludes data on a pixel having the display color of the information, of pixels included in the first image. | 03-05-2015 |
20160071286 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To increase the accuracy of object tracking using particle filter processing, an imaging apparatus performs object tracking processing as follows. During an SW1 holding state and continuous shooting, the apparatus repeatedly performs distributing particles according to the random number following normal distribution based on light metering image data obtained from an AE sensor, estimating an image region of an object by calculating likelihood at the position of each of the particles, and arranging a particle having a lower likelihood in the position of a particle having a higher likelihood. At this time, the apparatus calculates a movement amount of the object based on a difference between the present position of the object and the previous position thereof. If the calculated movement amount is greater than a predetermined threshold value, the apparatus increases the dispersion of the normal distribution for random movement of the particles to be performed next. | 03-10-2016 |
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20080303997 | VERTICALLY-ALLIGNED (VA) LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A vertically alignment mode liquid crystal display device having an improved viewing angle characteristic is disclosed. The disclosed liquid crystal display device uses a liquid crystal having a negative anisotropic dielectric constant, and orientations of the liquid crystal are vertical to substrates when no voltage being applied, almost horizontal when a predetermined voltage is applied, and oblique when an intermediate voltage is applied. At least one of the substrates includes a structure as domain regulating means, and inclined surfaces of the structure operate as a trigger to regulate azimuths of the oblique orientations of the liquid crystal when the intermediate voltage is applied. | 12-11-2008 |
20090207360 | VERTICALLY-ALLIGNED (VA) LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A vertically alignment mode liquid crystal display device having an improved viewing angle characteristic is disclosed. The disclosed liquid crystal display device uses a liquid crystal having a negative anisotropic dielectric constant, and orientations of the liquid crystal are vertical to substrates when no voltage being applied, almost horizontal when a predetermined voltage is applied, and oblique when an intermediate voltage is applied. At least one of the substrates includes a structure as domain regulating means, and inclined surfaces of the structure operate as a trigger to regulate azimuths of the oblique orientations of the liquid crystal when the intermediate voltage is applied. | 08-20-2009 |
20110176098 | VERTICALLY-ALLIGNED (VA) LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A vertically alignment mode liquid crystal display device having an improved viewing angle characteristic is disclosed. The disclosed liquid crystal display device uses a liquid crystal having a negative anisotropic dielectric constant, and orientations of the liquid crystal are vertical to substrates when no voltage being applied, almost horizontal when a predetermined voltage is applied, and oblique when an intermediate voltage is applied. At least one of the substrates includes a structure as domain regulating means, and inclined surfaces of the structure operate as a trigger to regulate azimuths of the oblique orientations of the liquid crystal when the intermediate voltage is applied. | 07-21-2011 |
20120120338 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device comprising a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules provided between a first substrate and a second substrate; pixels forming a display area; electrodes for applying a voltage across the liquid crystal layer within each of the pixels; a plurality of domain regulating structures for dividing orientations of the liquid crystal molecules and forming multiple domains within each of the pixels, when a predetermined voltage is applied across the liquid crystal layer within each of the pixels; and a structure which is formed in an outer area located next to the display area and is substantially the same as at least one of the plurality of domain regulating structures. | 05-17-2012 |
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20090293764 | DYE COMPOUND AND INK CONTAINING DYE COMPOUND - A dye compound has the following general formula (1). | 12-03-2009 |
20090293765 | DYE COMPOUND AND INK CONTAINING DYE COMPOUND - A dye compound represented by the following formula has at least one anionic group: | 12-03-2009 |
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20130224646 | CYAN TONER CONTAINING COMPOUND HAVING AZO SKELETON - A cyan toner comprising toner particles, each of which contains a binder resin, a compound in which a polymer portion is bound to an azo skeleton structure, and a phthalocyanine pigment serving as a colorant. | 08-29-2013 |
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20150093699 | CYAN TONER CONTAINING COMPOUND HAVING AZO SKELETON - A cyan toner comprising toner particles, each of which contains a binder resin, a compound in which a polymer portion is bound to an azo skeleton structure, and a phthalocyanine pigment serving as a colorant. | 04-02-2015 |