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20100195569 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a communication terminal device that reduces, in a network using a power line, the percentage of bands consumed for transmission of control packets in the bands consumed for all the communication, so as to ensure transmission of data intended to be transmitted. A PLC terminal F | 08-05-2010 |
20100195656 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - There is provided a communication apparatus which, in an ad-hoc network, when receiving control packets from a plurality of terminals, can determine whether or not there is a collision among the control packets, and, based on the determination, can be prevented from continuing to be out of the network due to a collision among the control packets transmitted from the plurality of terminals. In the communication terminal, a communication section receives a control packet which periodically comes up on a communication path. When the communication apparatus receives a plurality of control packets which are defective in at least payload portions thereof within a predetermined time period, if a control section determines that source addresses included in header portions of the control packets which are defective in the payload portions thereof include a source address which is not identical to the other source addresses, the control section determines that the control packets are transmitted from a plurality of terminals and collide with each other. | 08-05-2010 |
20100290393 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - Provided is a communication terminal that is capable of securing a route having the finest state while suppressing a bandwidth that is consume by a transmission of a control packet at a low level, when applied in an ad-hoc network which uses an electrical power line. The communication terminal included in the ad-hoc network acquires a plurality of route candidates at the beginning of a data transmission by conducting a broadcast transmission of a route creation packet, and acquires a route having the finest state by conducting an unicast transmission of a route estimation packet to each of the route candidates in each predetermined period. | 11-18-2010 |
20110261706 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - A source apparatus writes, in a route request packet, the number of routes requested by the source apparatus. When a relay apparatus receives a route request packet for the first time, the relay apparatus determines a waiting time period, based on a route evaluation value that indicates a state of a route through which the route request packet has passed, and starts a timer. The relay apparatus selects route request packets having as high route evaluation values as possible, among route request packets that have been received until the timer expires, the number of route request packets to be selected being equal to the number of routes requested by the source apparatus, and then broadcasts the selected route request packets. | 10-27-2011 |
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20090049656 | - Provided is a hose clamp which is capable of reliably fastening and fixing a hose to a pipe without being affected by a layout of the hose to be fastened. The hose clamp ( | 02-26-2009 |
20090262156 | LIQUID DROPLET EJECTING HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A liquid droplet ejecting head includes: an ejector having a nozzle, a pressure chamber, and a drive element that applies pressure to a liquid inside the pressure chamber; and a controller that applies a drive waveform to the drive element. The controller vibrates a flow velocity of the liquid ejected from the nozzle in a first positive direction vibration mode for causing a leading end portion of the liquid droplet to be ejected from the nozzle toward the opposite side of the pressure chamber side; and a second positive direction vibration mode for adjusting the velocity of a trailing end portion of the liquid droplet. An interval between the first positive direction vibration mode and the second positive direction vibration mode is set so as to make the velocity of the trailing end portion of the columnar liquid droplet faster than the velocity of the leading end portion thereof. | 10-22-2009 |
20100176833 | PROBE PIN - There is provided a material having an excellent conductivity and oxidation resistance as well as a sufficient hardness for probe pins. The present invention provides a probe pin material including Au, Ag, Pd and Cu, wherein the concentration of Au is 40 to 55% by weight, the concentration of Ag is 15 to 30% by weight and the total concentration of Pd and Cu is 15 to 40% by weight. This material can further include 0.6 to 5% by weight of any one element from among Ni, Zn and Co. Furthermore, this alloy can be precipitation-hardened by being heated at 300 to 500° C., enabling provision of a material having a higher hardness. | 07-15-2010 |
20110133767 | SILVER ALLOY HAVING EXCELLENT CONTACT RESISTANCE AND ANTIFOULING PROPERTY AND SUITABLE FOR USE IN PROVE PIN - The present invention is a silver alloy suitable for use in a probe pin made of an Ag—Cu alloy, wherein the silver alloy comprises 30 to 50% by weight of Cu and Ag as balance. This silver alloy further comprises 2 to 10% by weight of Ni to further improve strength. A probe pin made of these materials has stable contact resistance even under low contact pressure. The probe pin has excellent strength and antifouling property to adhesion of a foreign matter from a contact object due to repetitive use. Thereby, the probe pin usable in a stable manner for a long period of time can be obtained. | 06-09-2011 |
20140362150 | ULTRAVIOLET-CURABLE AQUEOUS INK, INK CARTRIDGE, RECORDING APPARATUS AND RECORDING METHOD - There is provided an ultraviolet-curable aqueous ink containing: a continuous phase containing water; and a dispersed phase dispersed in the continuous phase, wherein the dispersed phase contains a water-insoluble ultraviolet polymerizable compound, and a water-insoluble ultraviolet polymerization initiator having an absorption at a wavelength range of 375 nm or more and 450 nm or less. | 12-11-2014 |
20150158311 | DROPLETS DRYING DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR DROPLETS DRYING, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A droplets drying device includes: an illuminating unit that applies infrared laser light to droplets that have been ejected onto a recording medium by an ejecting unit that ejects droplets in accordance with an image to be formed; and a control unit that controls at least one of timing, a position or positions, and an amount or amounts of application of infrared laser light to the droplets by the illuminating unit in accordance with an attribute that influences image quality of an image formed. | 06-11-2015 |
20150251449 | Drying device, non-transitory computer readable medium storing drying program, and image forming apparatus - A drying device includes a laser element that irradiates an irradiation region with a laser, the irradiation region including a plurality of droplets on a recording medium which are ejected by an ejection unit, ejecting droplets according to an image, along a transport direction of the recording medium and a direction crossing the transport direction. | 09-10-2015 |
20160059583 | DRYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a drying device including a plurality of surface-emitting laser elements each having a plurality of laser elements and arranged along a feeding direction of a recording medium. First power supplying pads are respectively provided at both ends of an electrode on a laser illumination surface of each surface-emitting laser element in a width direction of the recording medium and a second power supplying pad is provided at one end of the electrode on a backside of each surface-emitting laser element in the feeding direction. The respective lust power supplying pads of the surface-emitting laser element arranged at an upstream-side in the feeding direction and the second power supplying pad of the surface-emitting laser element arranged at a downstream-side in the feeding direction are connected to each other by wires. | 03-03-2016 |
20160082748 | DRYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a drying device. A controller is configured to control a laser intensity so that the laser intensity becomes lower than a drying intensity set as an intensity for drying a liquid droplet when a printing part printed in advance on a recording medium is included in an illumination range of a laser element on an image formation surface of the recording medium, the laser element configured to illuminate laser to the liquid droplet ejected on the image formation surface of the recording medium in accordance with an image. | 03-24-2016 |
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20080212827 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus which is capable of extracting embedded information from the back side of a printed document without causing degradation of reading efficiency. A scanner unit reads an image on a first side of a sheet. An encoded information processing section extracts embedded information embedded in the image read by the scanner unit. When embedded information indicating that embedded information is embedded in an image on a second side of the sheet is extracted by the encoded information processing section, an automatic second-side reading section reads the image on the second side of the sheet, and the encoded information processing section extracts the embedded information embedded in the image read by the automatic second-side reading section. | 09-04-2008 |
20090161156 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing system capable of properly selecting a printer driver without putting load on the user, and generating print data using the selected printer driver even when the operating apparatus cannot communicate directly with an information processing apparatus having a print data-generating function. The printing apparatus generates a list of printer drives notified from information processing apparatuses, and sends the list to the operating apparatus when requested. The operating system selects a printer driver from the list and sends information of the selection and image data to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus sends the image data to an information processing apparatus provided with the selected printer driver. The information processing apparatus generates print data from the image data and sends the print data to the printing apparatus. | 06-25-2009 |
20110134484 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - It enables even by an image forming apparatus which does not have a function to recognize an image other than a leading image included in a multi-image file to print the image other than the leading image. To do so, there is provided a control method which comprises: outputting the image included in the multi-image file of a format in which the leading image can be processed by an image processing apparatus which does not deal with the multi-image file but an image other than the leading image cannot be processed by the image processing apparatus which does not deal with the multi-image file; and replacing, in a case where an output instruction to output, among the plural images included in the multi-image file, the image other than the leading image has been accepted, the image to which the output instruction has been accepted with the leading image. | 06-09-2011 |
20130141759 | PRINTING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present printing apparatus comprises a reception unit that receives print job identification information for identifying a print job from an information processing apparatus and print data for executing a print job, and a printing unit that executes printing according to print data received by the reception unit. Also, the printing apparatus manages print job information including the print job identification information and the number of pages already printed in a print job, discards data about pages to be printed when the page number to be printed in executing printing by the printing unit is at or below the number of pages already printed in a managed print job, and causes the printing unit to execute printing when the page number to be printed exceeds the number of pages already printed. | 06-06-2013 |
20140168699 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - A printing system includes a storage unit for storing permission information indicating that a user permits printing to be executed even if it is determined that there is a lack of a recording material. The printing system executes printing if it is determined that there is the lack of the recording material and the permission information indicating that the user who instructs printing permits printing to be executed, is stored. The printing system does not execute printing in a state where it is determined that there is the lack of the recording material if the permission information indicating that the user who instructs printing permits printing to be executed, is not stored. | 06-19-2014 |
20150146232 | IMAGE READING SYSTEM, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In the present image reading system, an information processing apparatus notifies any image reading apparatus on a network of connection information, and permits transmission of image data only in a case where the image reading apparatus notified of the connection information accesses the information processing apparatus. The image reading apparatus transmits image data that is read from an original, to a transmission destination conforming to the connection information is notified by the information processing apparatus. | 05-28-2015 |