Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080238960 | Print method, print apparatus, and recording medium driving apparatus - A print method that prints visible information by ejecting ink droplets from a print head onto a printed object rotated by a rotational driving unit is provided. The print method includes the steps of: carrying out impact position correction that corrects displacements in impact positions of the ink droplets to convert the visible information to impact position-corrected polar coordinate data when converting the visible information from biaxial perpendicular coordinate data to polar coordinate data; generating ink ejection data based on the impact position-corrected polar coordinate data; and printing the visible information by ejecting the ink droplets onto the printed object based on the ink ejection data. | 10-02-2008 |
20080303860 | Liquid ejecting head and printing apparatus - Disclosed is a liquid ejecting head includes a head main body having nozzles facing a spray surface of a rotating member rotationally driven, and ejecting liquid from the nozzles, and a mist capturing unit capturing mist of the liquid ejected from the nozzles. In the liquid ejecting head, the mist capturing unit is formed such that a passage, through which air flows in a predetermined direction over the spray surface while the rotating member is driven to rotate, is formed narrower than a distance between the nozzles and the spray surface. | 12-11-2008 |
20090183188 | DISC RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND MIST ADSORBING METHOD OF THE DISC RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a disc mounting unit to which a disc recording medium is removably mounted, the disc mounting unit rotating the disc recording medium; a print head which discharges an ink drop towards a label surface of the disc recording medium that is rotationally driven by the disc mounting unit; and a mist attracting unit which, by applying a voltage, attracts mist of the ink drop discharged from the print head, the mist attracting unit provided near the disc recording medium mounted to the disc mounting unit. | 07-16-2009 |
20090201324 | PRINTER-EQUIPPED DISK RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A printer-equipped disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a disk drive; a printer; a single light-emitting indicator unit able to luminously indicate colors; an ink tank containing color inks of which the number corresponds to the number of colors the light-emitting indicator unit can indicate; an ink level detection unit that detects color ink levels in the ink tank and outputs detected signals; a printing operation detection unit that detects a printer operation and outputs a detected signal; a drive operation detection unit that detects a disk drive operation and outputs a detected signal; and a first light emission control unit that controls a luminous color and state of the light-emitting indicator unit in accordance with the printer operation, the disk drive operation and the color ink levels on the basis of the detected signals from the ink level detection unit, printing operation detection unit and drive operation detection unit. | 08-13-2009 |
20090251500 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a printing apparatus including a printing unit for printing visual information on a non-recording surface of a rotatably driven recording medium by discharging ink droplets; and a control unit for controlling movement of the printing unit in a radial direction of the recording medium, and controlling a discharge timing of the ink droplets discharged from the printing unit, wherein the printing unit prints the visual information by multi-path printing of completing printing on a same radius position of the non-recording surface by discharging ink from different ink discharge nozzles, and the control unit controls the printing unit so as to print with a printing pattern different from a printing pattern on other locations of the non-recording surface when printing on an innermost periphery region of the non-recording surface with the printing unit. | 10-08-2009 |
20090251501 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - There is provided a printing apparatus including a printing unit for printing visual information on a non-recording surface of a rotatably driven recording medium by discharging ink droplets; and a control unit for controlling movement of the printing unit in a radial direction of the rotatably driven recording medium, and controlling a discharge timing of the ink droplets discharged from the printing unit, wherein the printing unit includes a plurality of ink droplet discharge nozzles, arrayed in a line in the radial direction of the recording medium, for discharging ink droplets of different colors by the control of the control unit, and the control unit completes the printing of the visual information by reciprocating the ink droplet discharge nozzles for plural times in the radial direction of the rotatably driven recording medium. | 10-08-2009 |
20090288108 | OPTICAL DISK DEVICE AND ROTATION CONTROL METHOD - An optical disk device of the present invention includes a spindle motor, an optical pick-up, and a rotation control portion. The spindle motor is a rotational drive portion that rotates an optical disk, on an information recording surface of which a plurality of addresses are recorded. The optical pick-up records an information signal onto and plays back the information signal from the information recording surface of the optical disk that is rotated by the spindle motor. The rotation control portion controls the rotation of the optical disk by the spindle motor. In this case, the rotation control portion performs control based on a first reference signal that can be read off the optical disk, such that the optical disk is rotated at a speed that is based on a specified clock count. | 11-19-2009 |
20090289970 | DISK RECORDING DEVICE - A disk recording device includes a disk rotation mechanism, a pick-up device, a print head, and an air flow guide portion. The disk rotation mechanism rotates a removably mounted disk-shaped recording medium. The pick-up device is disposed such that it faces a recording surface of the disk-shaped recording medium, and it at least one of records information to and plays back information from the disk-shaped recording medium. The print head is movably disposed on a printing surface side of the disk-shaped recording medium and has an ink discharge portion that discharges ink droplets in the direction of the printing surface of the rotating disk-shaped recording medium. The air flow guide portion is provided around the disk-shaped recording medium, and it guides an air flow that is generated by the rotating of the disk-shaped recording medium by the disk rotation mechanism. | 11-26-2009 |
20090296123 | PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing device includes a controlling section that converts visible information, expressed using biaxial orthogonal coordinate data, into polar coordinate data, and binarizes the polar coordinate data to generate binarized polar coordinate data. Next, the controlling section performs landing position correction on the binarized polar coordinate data, and generates ink discharge data in which displacements of landing positions of ink drops, caused by the order in which the ink drops are discharged from discharge nozzles, are corrected. | 12-03-2009 |
20100039464 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A print head which includes at least two discharge nozzle lines arranged on at least two lines, out of a base line corresponding to a radial direction of the rotating print object and at least one offset lines parallel to the base line, discharges ink drops of the same color from discharge nozzles of the discharge nozzle lines, moves the print head so as to minutely move the discharge nozzle lines on the base line or the offset lines, and discharges ink drops of the same color from the discharge nozzles passing through second paths moved minutely from the first paths over the rotating print object. In this way, the ink drops are discharged on the area where print defects are caused because the area is not on the paths of the discharge nozzles before the discharge nozzles are minutely moved. | 02-18-2010 |
20100289849 | DISC DEVICE - According to the present invention, provided is a disc device including a disc mounting unit having a mounting surface, on which a disc-like recording medium is mounted; a print head for discharging ink towards a label surface of the disc-like recording medium mounted on the disc mounting unit; and a mist inducing unit for inducing the ink discharged from the print head when applied with a predetermined voltage. | 11-18-2010 |
20120153185 | MICROCHIP AND PARTICULATE FRACTIONAL COLLECTION APPARATUS - A microchip includes a sample liquid feed channel permitting a sample liquid containing particulates to flow through, at least one pair of sheath liquid feed channels configured to merge to the sample liquid feed channel from both sides thereof for permitting a sheath liquid to flow through surrounding the sample liquid, a merging channel connected to the sample liquid feed channel and the one pair of the sheath liquid feed channels for permitting the sample liquid and the sheath liquid to merge and flow through the merging channel, a vacuum suction unit for drawing into the particulate subject to collection, connected to the merging channel, and at least one pair of discharge channels formed on both sides of the vacuum suction unit for permitting to flow through from the merging channel. | 06-21-2012 |
20130008240 | MICROCHIP AND PARTICULATE ANALYZING DEVICE - A microchip is provided which includes a first introduction channel, second introduction channels arranged to sandwich the first introduction channel and merged with the first introduction channel from both sides, and a merge channel connected to the first introduction channel and the second introduction channels, where fluids fed from the first and the second introduction channels are merged and flow, wherein the merge channel has a tapered portion formed so that a channel width in a sandwiching direction along which the first introduction channel is sandwiched by the second introduction channels gradually increases along a fluid feeding direction. | 01-10-2013 |
20130026391 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND METHOD OF CORRECTING INTENSITY OF FLUORESCENCE SPECTRUM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including an estimation unit that expresses a light intensity distribution, which is obtained by irradiating light to a measurement object of a measurement target having a plurality of substances with mutually different responsive characteristics to the light on a surface and/or an inside of the measurement object, as a linear combination of light intensity distributions, which are obtained by irradiating the light to reference measurement objects, each of which has a single substance, models the light intensity distribution obtained from each of the reference measurement objects so as to follow a predetermined probability distribution, and estimates a combination coefficient of the linear combination from the light intensity distribution obtained from the measurement object of the measurement target. | 01-31-2013 |
20130323825 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus, including a testing section performing statistical testing on simple staining data obtained by performing fluorescence measurement on a particle subjected to simple staining with a staining material having a prescribed fluorescence characteristic and unstaining data obtained by performing fluorescence measurement on an unstained particle for comparison for a frequency band, a masking processing section setting, in a case where there is no significant difference between the simple staining data and the unstaining data for the frequency band, the simple staining data to 0 or a prescribed value, and an estimation section estimating, in a manner that double staining data obtained by performing fluorescence measurement on a particle stained with a plurality of staining materials is represented by a linear combination of base vectors representing a distribution of the simple staining data corresponding to each staining material, a combination coefficient of the linear combination. | 12-05-2013 |
20140027356 | MICROPARTICLE SORTING METHOD - There is provided a microparticle sorting method, including a procedure of collecting a microparticle in a fluid that flows through a main channel in an area that is formed in a manner that a vertical cross-section increases in a flow direction of the fluid at a branch channel which is in communication with the main channel by generating a negative pressure in the branch channel. | 01-30-2014 |
20140048458 | MICROPARTICLE SORTING METHOD AND MICROCHIP FOR SORTING MICROPARTICLES - There is provided a microparticle sorting method including a procedure of collecting a microparticle in a fluid that flows through a main channel in a branch channel that is in communication with the main channel by generating a negative pressure in the branch channel. In the procedure, a flow of a fluid is formed that flows toward a side of the main channel from a side of the branch channel at a communication opening between the main channel and the branch channel. | 02-20-2014 |
20140290786 | MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL AND MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE - A microfluidic channel includes an agitating flow channel whose central axis is a three-dimensional curve. | 10-02-2014 |
20140299522 | PARTICLE SORTING APPARATUS AND PARTICLE SORTING METHOD - There is provided a particle sorting apparatus, including: an excited light irradiating unit for irradiating an excited light to particles flowing through a flow path; a light irradiating unit for detecting a speed for irradiating a light for detecting a speed to the particles at a position different from the excited light; a light detecting unit for detecting a light emitted from the particles; a calculating unit of an arrival time for individually calculating an arrival time of each particle at a sorting unit being communicating with the flow path from a detection time difference between the light derived from the excited light and the light derived from the light for detecting a speed; and a sorting control unit for controlling sorting of the particles, and a method thereof. | 10-09-2014 |