Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080257072 | Methods of Separating, Identifying and Dispensing Specimen and Device Therefor, and Analyzing Device Method - [PROBLEMS] A (a) (b) separation unit can confirms a separation state, a detection unit enhances a lighting efficiency and a light reception sensitivity, and a dispensing unit ensures the normal state of a specimen. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A specimen separation device characterized by comprising a container for storing a specimen, a nozzle for sucking and ejecting the specimen from the container, a nozzle operating means for moving the nozzle vertically and laterally, and a nozzle controlling means for controlling the suction force and ejection force of the nozzle. A specimen identification device comprising a nozzle for sucking a specimen from a container storing the specimen, a flow path for allowing the specimen to flow therethrough, and a measuring unit having a monitoring light lighting unit and a light receiving unit for observing (monitoring) the specimen that are installed in a flow path, characterized in that the above nozzle, the flow path and the measuring unit are formed in an integrated structure. | 10-23-2008 |
20080304186 | PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD - To provide a perpendicular magnetic recording head which can prevent unintentional recording and erasing from occurring on recording media. | 12-11-2008 |
20100233753 | OPTICAL MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR - The light measurement apparatus of the invention, in which the light is irradiated to the sample dispersed in the liquid flowing through the flow passage, is used for measuring optical information of the sample. The apparatus includes a light source portion | 09-16-2010 |
20110050330 | REFERENCE CURRENT GENERATING CIRCUIT - A reference current generating circuit includes an operational amplifier having one input terminal to receive a reference voltage and a field effect transistor having a gate to receive an output voltage of the operational amplifier. k resistors (k is an integer not less than 2) are connected in series to a drain of the field effect transistor, and a voltage at one of connection points of the resistors is feed backed to the other input terminal of the operational amplifier. A switch selects one of the connection points of the resistors and applies the voltage of the selected connection point as a reference voltage to a gate of a reference transistor to generate a reference current. | 03-03-2011 |
20110103426 | STEEL PLATE QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM AND EQUIPMENT THEREOF - The present invention provides a steel plate quality assurance system and facilities thereof, wherein the steel plate quality assurance system measures, with a steel plate manufacturing line including a finishing mill of a steel plate manufacturing line, and accelerated cooling equipment disposed on the downstream side of the finishing mill in the advancing direction of the steel plate manufacturing line, temperature of at least the whole area of the upper surface of a steel plate, or the whole area of the lower surface of a steel plate to perform quality assurance, and includes temperature measurement means; temperature analysis means; and mechanical property determining means. | 05-05-2011 |
20110135226 | LINEAR MOTION GUIDANCE APPARATUS - A linear motion guidance apparatus suppresses a waving phenomenon, and includes a track rail with rolling member rolling grooves along the longitudinal direction, a movable block with loaded rolling member rolling grooves that face the rolling member rolling grooves, and a plurality of balls rollably provided in loaded rolling paths formed of the rolling member rolling grooves and the loaded rolling member rolling grooves. The movable block can make reciprocating motion in the longitudinal direction of the track rail. The linear motion guidance apparatus is configured so that the diameter of each of the balls is 1/10 of the width of the track rail or smaller and the movable block has a block length compliant with ISO. The number L of endless circulation paths is L=4×N (N is a natural number greater than or equal to two), and in particular, the number of paths L is preferably eight. | 06-09-2011 |
20110177489 | SPECIMEN IDENTIFICATION AND DISPENSATION DEVICE AND SPECIMEN IDENTIFICATION AND DISPENSATION METHOD - A specimen identification and dispensation device includes an optical measurement device which is an identification part for measuring and identifying optical information on a specimen by emitting exciting light to the specimen being a measurement target dispersed in a liquid flowing through inside of a capillary, a dispensation part for dispensing the identified specimen into wells being sections to be dispensed through a nozzle, and a concentration adjustment part which adjusts the number of the specimens contained in an aliquot solution to a desired number according to the concentration of a sample liquid and the amount of the aliquot solution. The dispensation part is movable three-dimensionally with respect to the identification part and the nozzle. | 07-21-2011 |
20110177544 | METHOD FOR DISTINGUISHING AND SORTING OF CELLS AND DEVICE THEREFOR - A method for distinguishing and sorting cells characterized by comprising distinguishing and sorting a specific cell mass or a part of the cells in the cell mass with the use of transmitted light data reflecting the morphological characteristics of the cells such as size and shape optionally together with side-scattering light data reflecting the characteristics of the internal structure of the cells. The part of the cells in the specific cell mass as described above are at the G1 stage or at a part of the M stage in the cell cycle. A part of the cells at the G1 stage are referred to as the left bottom line in an analytical dispersion diagram of the cells wherein the abscissa indicates the transmitted light data, while a part of the cells at the M stage are referred to as the right bottom line in the analytical dispersion diagram of the cells wherein the abscissa indicates the transmitted light data. | 07-21-2011 |
20110199776 | VEHICLE HEADLAMP UNIT - A vehicle headlamp unit has a plurality of projection lenses configured to project light from at least one light source. The plurality of projection lenses is configured and arranged such that each of the projection lenses includes an outer peripheral portion that faces and extends along the outer peripheral portion of an adjacent one of the projection lenses. The outer peripheral portion of each of the projection lenses touches or lies close to the outer peripheral portion of the adjacent one of the projection lenses such that light emitting areas of the plurality of projection lenses as a whole are visually recognized as a single light emitting area. | 08-18-2011 |
20120004864 | OPTICAL MEASURING APPARATUS AND SPECIMEN DISCRIMINATING AND DISPENSING APPARATUS - The invention provides an optical measuring apparatus having a plurality of measuring sections each having a light irradiating section for irradiating light to specimens and a light receiving section for receiving optical data acquired by irradiating the light to the specimens and a flow rate calculating section for calculating flow rate values of the specimens based on a difference of measured times of the optical data measured by the plurality of measuring sections with respect to the specimens and a distance between the plurality of measuring sections. The optical measuring apparatus measures the optical data of the specimens by irradiating light to the specimens, i.e., the objects to be measured, dispersed within a sample fluid flowing through a flow passage. The optical measuring apparatus further includes a flow rate graph generating section for generating flow rate graph data in which the values of flow rate of the specimens calculated by the flow rate calculating section are arrayed in order of calculation in time-series manner and for outputting the generated flow rate graph data to a displaying section. | 01-05-2012 |
20120092667 | OPTICAL INFORMATION ANALYZING DEVICE AND OPTICAL INFORMATION ANALYZING METHOD - There are provided an optical information analyzing device and an optical information analyzing method in which a light receiving unit for receiving transmitted light is provided at a position directly facing an irradiating unit and which may increase the sensitivity of the received transmitted light by adjusting the position of a sample flow relative to a measurement region in a flow passage and measure the optical information on specimens with a small variation. An optical information analyzing device includes an irradiating unit that irradiates irradiation light to specimens, a transmitted light receiving unit that receives transmitted light and detects the transmitted light as a transmitted light signal, a scattering/fluorescent light receiving unit that receives lateral scattering light and fluorescent light and detects the lateral scattering light and the fluorescent light as a scattering/fluorescent light signal, a nozzle position adjusting mechanism that adjusts the position of an end portion of an introduction nozzle so as to align the position of the end portion of the introduction nozzle with the transmitted light receiving unit and the irradiating unit, and an analyzing unit that measures the optical information on the specimen on the basis of the detected transmitted light signal and the detected scattering/fluorescent light signal and analyzes the specimen. | 04-19-2012 |
20120097582 | SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION/SORTING APPARATUS AND SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION/SORTING METHOD - A sample identification/sorting apparatus ( | 04-26-2012 |
20120106258 | READOUT CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE - A readout circuit has a sense amplifier to compare a cell current which changes according to whether a memory cell is on or off with a reference current, to output a comparison signal of a first logic upon detecting that the cell current is smaller than the reference current, and to output a comparison signal of a second logic upon detecting that the cell current is greater than the reference current, the readout circuit outputting a data output signal depending upon an output of the sense amplifier. The reference current is set to be greater than a middle value between a first cell current which flows when the memory cell is in an off-state and a second cell current which flows when the memory cell is in an on-state and which is greater than the first cell current, and to be smaller than the second cell current. Unless the sense amplifier detects that the cell current is smaller than the reference current as a result of comparison made between the cell current and the reference current, the sense amplifier outputs the comparison signal of the second logic regardless of whether the sense amplifier detects that the cell current is greater than the reference current. | 05-03-2012 |
20120154804 | OPTICAL INFORMATION ANALYZER AND OPTICAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS METHOD - An optical information analyzer ( | 06-21-2012 |
20120171700 | CELL IDENTIFYING APPARATUS AND CELL IDENTIFYING METHOD - A cell identifying apparatus includes a capillary through which a sample flow passes, an irradiating unit that irradiates irradiation light, a light receiving unit that receives transmitted light and outputs a transmitted light signal based on the transmitted light, a measuring unit that receives the transmitted light signal output from the light receiving unit and measures the change of the transmitted light signal caused by cells, an identifying unit that identifies whether the cells are peripheral blood cells on the basis of a value of an extreme point in the change of the transmitted light signal, the change being caused by the cells and measured by the measuring unit, a sorting unit that sorts the cells in a predetermined vessel, on the basis of the identification result of the identifying unit, and a supplying unit that supplies the sample flow to the capillary. | 07-05-2012 |
20130026180 | METHODS OF SEPARATING, IDENTIFYING AND DISPENSING SPECIMEN AND DEVICE THEREFOR, AND ANALYZING DEVICE METHOD - A specimen sorter includes a separating device to remove a specimen from a container, a detection device to identify the specimen as a target specimen or a non-target specimen, and a dispensing device to dispense the specimen. The dispensing device includes a dispensing nozzle to contact a vibration member to form liquid droplets at a front end of the dispensing nozzle and to dispense the liquid droplets, a first container to collect the liquid droplets dispensed from the dispensing nozzle that contain the target specimen, and a second container to collect the liquid droplets dispensed from the dispensing nozzle that contain the non-target specimen. | 01-31-2013 |
20130126987 | PHYSICAL QUANTITY SENSOR AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - A first sealing layer having a frame-like shape and a first contact layer are formed on a back surface of a frame portion of a sensor substrate. The first contact layer is separated from the first sealing layer, extends through a functional member and an insulation layer, and is electrically connected to the functional member and a first base member. A second sealing layer and a second contact layer are formed on a surface of a wiring substrate. The second sealing layer faces the first sealing layer. The second contact layer is separated from the second sealing layer, extends through the insulation layer, and is electrically connected to the second base member. The sealing layers are eutectically bonded to each other. The contact layers are electrically connected to each other, and thereby the first and second base members and the frame portion have the same potential. | 05-23-2013 |
20130236133 | MOTION GUIDE DEVICE - The motion guide device includes: a raceway rail; a moving block including an endless circulation path for rolling elements; and spacers interposed in the endless circulation path of the moving block. The moving block includes: a block body including: a load rolling element path for the rolling elements; and a rolling element return path parallel to the load rolling element path; and turning path forming members fixed to the block body. The turning path forming member includes a direction turning path for coupling the load rolling element path and the rolling element return path to each other. The direction turning path includes: a turning portion for continuously varying a rolling direction of the rolling elements; and a preliminary turning portion which allows the spacers to move in a curved form while linearly guiding the rolling elements. | 09-12-2013 |
20150023387 | STEEL PLATE QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM AND EQUIPMENT THEREOF - A steel plate quality assurance system according to a steel plate manufacturing line, and facilities thereof are provided. Specifically, the present invention provides a steel plate quality assurance system and facilities thereof, wherein the steel plate quality assurance system measures, with a steel plate manufacturing line including a finishing mill of a steel plate manufacturing line, and accelerated cooling equipment disposed on the downstream side of the finishing mill in the advancing direction of the steel plate manufacturing line, temperature of at least the whole area of the upper surface of a steel plate, or the whole area of the lower surface of a steel plate of a steel plate to perform quality assurance, and includes temperature measurement means; temperature analysis means; and mechanical property determining means; with the temperature measurement means including a thermometer disposed on at least the upstream side or downstream side of the finishing mill, or/and at least the upstream side or downstream side of the accelerated cooling equipment, and temperature collecting means configured to collect temperature measured at the thermometer; with the temperature analysis means creating a temperature MAP of the whole area of a steel plate from the temperature collected at the temperature collecting means; and with the mechanical property determining means estimating the material property of the whole area of s steel plate from the temperature MAP to perform judgment of acceptance. | 01-22-2015 |
20150152037 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARBONATE COMPOUND AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING AROMATIC POLYCARBONATE - The present invention relates to a method for producing a carbonate compound containing: a first step of reacting a compound represented by the following Formula (1) with a compound represented by the following Formula (21) or a compound represented by the following Formula (22) to obtain a reaction mixture containing a carbonate compound, and a second step of bringing the reaction mixture containing a carbonate compound into contact with a strongly basic compound, | 06-04-2015 |
20150154760 | VERIFICATION METHOD, VERIFICATION SYSTEM, APPARATUS, VERIFICATION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM - The present invention is a verification method comprising: designating as a verification area at least a part of a predetermined area of an article that has a textured pattern provided thereto, and previously storing at least one or more image features of the textured pattern of the verification area; acquiring the image feature of the textured pattern that is provided to the verification area of an article to be verified; and verifying the article to be verified by using the acquired image feature and the stored image features. | 06-04-2015 |
20150177121 | SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION SORTING APPARATUS AND SAMPLE IDENTIFICATION SORTING METHOD - A sample identification sorting apparatus includes an identifying unit having an optical information-measuring section that measures optical information of a sample dispersed in a liquid, and a determining section that determines whether the sample is a target sample or a non-target sample, a sorting unit including a sorting nozzle having a flow path in communication with the flow path of the identifying unit, a liquid waste-collecting section that collects by suction a liquid waste discharged from a sorting nozzle tip, and a container to collect a sorting solution containing a target sample, a moving unit and a control unit that cause the sorting nozzle and/or the collecting container to move relatively based on the optical information. The liquid waste-collecting section has a suction nozzle that sucks a liquid waste containing a non-target sample discharged from the sorting nozzle tip or containing a non-target sample or a non-sortable sample. | 06-25-2015 |
20150189238 | VERIFICATION METHOD, VERIFICATION SYSTEM, VERIFICATION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - The present invention addresses the problem of providing technology that makes it possible to perform verification for the purposes of distribution management, authenticity assessment, and the like of merchandise without building an RFID chip into each of a plurality of fasteners. The present invention is characterized in that image characteristics of a component of a product to be verified are acquired and the product to be verified is verified on the basis of the acquired image characteristics of the component. | 07-02-2015 |
20150205855 | PRODUCT MANAGEMENT METHOD, PRODUCT MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PRODUCT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM - Provided is to manage distribution of a product equipped with a component using dissimilarity on a surface of the component caused by differences between parameters in a manufacturing device and a manufacturing step. In the present invention, clustering a distribution information log database in which an image feature of a pattern formed on a surface of a component is related with at least one of product information regarding a product equipped with the component and distribution information regarding distribution of the product, based on the image feature; and analyzing, using statistical processing, one or both of the distribution information and product information related with the image feature belonging to each group obtained by the clustering. | 07-23-2015 |
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20100026747 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING NOZZLE ARRAY - A printing apparatus includes: a first nozzle array with nozzles aligned in a predetermined direction for ejecting liquid on a medium; a second nozzle array with nozzles aligned in the predetermined direction for ejecting liquid on the medium, the second nozzle array being aligned in a direction cross to the predetermined direction of the first nozzle array; and a moving mechanism for relatively moving the first nozzle array, the second nozzle array, and the medium in the moving direction. Here, when a plurality of dot arrays disposed along the moving direction is formed in a direction cross to the moving direction with a predetermined interval therebetween by using the nozzles belonging to the first nozzle array, and a plurality of dot arrays disposed along the moving direction is formed in a direction cross to the moving direction with a predetermined interval therebetween by using the nozzles belonging to the second nozzle array, the dot arrays are formed by a specific first nozzle among the nozzles belonging to the first nozzle array and a specific second nozzle among the nozzles belonging to the second nozzle array, and have a length different from the dot arrays formed by the other nozzles. | 02-04-2010 |
20100060691 | PRINTING METHOD AND PRINTER - [Task] To achieve reduction of the number of correction value tables. | 03-11-2010 |
20100201726 | FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS - A manufacturing method of a fluid ejecting apparatus includes: forming first and second test patterns by ejecting fluid from first and second nozzle rows which intersect with a relative movement direction of a medium, wherein the first nozzle row forms the first test pattern by ejecting the fluid in accordance with a first driving pulse and the second nozzle row forms the second test pattern by ejecting the fluid in accordance with a second driving pulse; measuring the density of the first test pattern and the density of the second test pattern; and correcting a parameter of the first driving pulse and a parameter of the second driving pulse such that the density of the first test pattern and the density of the second test pattern become a common target density. | 08-12-2010 |
20110138608 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PRINTING DEVICE - A dither mask is used in a halftone process that is performed by the printer that includes the preceding and following heads. The dither mask includes preceding and following head storage regions. The preceding head storage region is used for a printing portion of the preceding head. The following head storage region is used for a printing portion of the following head. The dither mask is generated by determining, using comprehensive evaluation values, storage elements in which thresholds are to be stored under the condition that dots are permitted to be formed by the preceding and following heads at the same position in the region corresponding the overlapping regions. | 06-16-2011 |
20120218335 | CORRECTED VALUE CALCULATION METHOD AND PRINTING DEVICE - A density correction value calculation method for a printing device comprising: (A) determining the density of each pixel column composed of pixels aligned in the intersecting direction in a duty determination pattern, and also determining the density of each pixel column in the duty determination pattern; (B) specifying the total duty for which the lowest density of the pixel column densities of the overlapping regions is equal to or greater than the lowest density in the pixel columns of the non-overlapping regions; and (C) calculating a density correction value of the pixel columns using a density correction pattern formed with the specified total duty, and also calculating a density correction value so that the lowest density of the pixel column densities of the density correction pattern is a reference. | 08-30-2012 |
20120242729 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus is provided in which a position of a joint of a first yellow nozzle group and a second yellow nozzle group in a predetermined direction is offset from a position of a joint of a first magenta nozzle group and a second magenta nozzle group in a predetermined position and a position of a joint of a first cyan nozzle group and a second cyan nozzle group in the predetermined position, and the position of the joint of the first magenta nozzle group and the second magenta nozzle group in the predetermined position is the same as the position of the joint of the first cyan nozzle group and the second cyan nozzle group in the predetermined direction. | 09-27-2012 |
20120242737 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus: the medium-conveying part conveying the medium; the nozzles discharging ink droplets curable by light irradiation onto the medium; the light-irradiation part irradiating the medium with light; the medium-deforming part being arranged on the downstream side of the light-irradiation part, holding the medium from the front and back, and deforming the medium so that an irregular shape is formed in cross section; the controller performing an image-forming step, a light-irradiating step, and a medium-deforming step; in the image-forming step, the ink droplets being discharged by the nozzles to form an image on the surface of the medium; in the light-irradiating step, the ink droplets discharged onto the medium being irradiated with light by the light-irradiation part to cure the droplets; and in the medium-deforming step, the medium being released by the medium-conveying part after the medium is deformed by the medium-deforming part. | 09-27-2012 |
20120242740 | PRINTING METHOD - A printing method including: ejecting an ink which includes a designated compound is ejected from a first nozzle row which is relatively move in an intersection direction intersecting a direction along the nozzle row with respect to a medium, ejecting the ink while relatively moving in the intersection direction to the medium, from the end portion of a second nozzle row which is overlapped with the end portion of the first nozzle row in a direction along the nozzle row direction, wherein when nozzles of the nozzle rows which are partly overlapped with each other in a direction along the nozzle row share with each other to form a common dot line, the amount of ink ejected per unit area in the partly overlapping region is larger than the amount of ink ejected per unit area in a non-overlapping region. | 09-27-2012 |
20120242766 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes a nozzle that ejects, onto a medium, photo-curing ink cured when irradiated with light, and an irradiation unit that irradiates, with the light, the photo-curing ink landed on the medium. Here, when printing an image on the medium by coating with the photo-curing ink, the photo-curing ink is ejected from the nozzle so that the photo-curing ink is coated on the medium with a smaller amount of ink than normally coated in a region inside an outer border of the image, and the photo-curing ink is cured by irradiating the image with the light from the irradiation unit. | 09-27-2012 |
20120242767 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes a nozzle that ejects, to a medium, photo-curing ink cured when irradiated with light, and an irradiation unit that irradiates, with the light, the photo-curing ink landed on the medium. Here, when printing an image on the medium by coating with the photo-curing ink, the photo-curing ink is ejected from the nozzle so that unevenness is formed in an original edge of the image by having a pixel that forms a dot along the edge and a pixel that does not form the dot appeared, and the photo-curing ink is cured by irradiating the image with the light from the irradiation unit. | 09-27-2012 |
20120268537 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus includes a chromatic ink ejecting nozzle that ejects a chromatic photocuring ink which is cured upon irradiation of light onto a medium, an achromatic ink ejecting nozzle that ejects an achromatic photocuring ink which is cured upon irradiation of light onto the medium, and an irradiation section that irradiates the light onto the chromatic photocuring ink impacted on the medium. At a time of applying the chromatic photocuring ink to print an image on the medium, the printing apparatus performs a process of ejecting the chromatic photocuring ink on the medium, a process of ejecting the achromatic photocuring ink on the medium from the achromatic ink ejecting nozzle in such a way as to apply the achromatic photocuring ink along an edge of an application range of the chromatic photocuring ink, and a process of irradiate the light from the irradiation section to cure the photocuring ink. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268538 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A printing apparatus is provided with an ink discharge nozzle which discharges photocurable ink which is cured when irradiated with light onto a medium, a surfactant nozzle which discharges a surfactant which has a substance which improves the wetting properties of the photocurable ink, and an irradiating section which irradiates the light onto the photocurable ink which has landed on the medium, wherein a process of discharging the surfactant from the surfactant nozzle onto the medium, a process of discharging the photocurable ink onto the medium, and a process of curing the photocurable ink by irradiating the light from the irradiating section are performed so that the surfactant is applied in the surroundings of the application range of the photocurable ink when an image is printed on the medium due to the application of the photocurable ink. | 10-25-2012 |
20120268539 | PRINTING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - A printing apparatus includes an ink ejection nozzle configured to eject therethrough a photo-curable ink, onto a medium; and an irradiation portion configured to irradiate the photo-curable ink having been applied to the medium with the light. Further, when printing of an image is performed onto the medium by applying the photo-curable ink, the printing apparatus ejects the photo-curable ink onto the medium such that the photo-curable ink is applied onto an increased portion of an area resulting from expansion of at least one original area, in an outward direction of the at least one original area from an entire edge thereof; the printing apparatus cures the photo-curable ink having been applied onto the medium by irradiating the photo-curable ink with the light from the light irradiation portion; and the printing apparatus removes the photo-curable ink having been applied onto the increased portion from the medium. | 10-25-2012 |
20120293593 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus includes a head section which discharges a first ink which is cured due to the irradiation of light and a second ink which is a clear ink which is cured due to the irradiation of light and an irradiation section which irradiates the light, wherein a first image is formed by the light being irradiated with regard to the first ink which is discharged onto the medium, a second image is formed by the light being irradiated with regard to the second ink which is discharged onto the first image and the medium, a region where the first image is formed is included in a region where the second image is formed, and the discharge amount of the second ink per unit region is equal to or less than the discharge amount of the first ink per unit region. | 11-22-2012 |
20120313992 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus including a head section which discharges a color ink which is cured due to irradiation of light and a clear ink which is cured due to the irradiation of light, an irradiation section which irradiates the light, and a storage section which stores a relationship between a total amount of color duty which is an amount of the color ink which is discharged per unit region and clear duty which is an amount of the clear ink which is discharged per unit region, and glossiness of an image which is printed using the color ink and the clear ink which have been discharged, wherein, according to the color duty in a certain region in the image, the clear duty in the region is determined based on the relationship so that the glossiness of the image is a predetermined value. | 12-13-2012 |
20130100191 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A head unit is provided that includes a plurality of head groups having a first head and a second head in a direction which crosses a transport direction of a medium. Color difference is obtained which indicates difference in color between patches formed for each band using dots having the same dot diameter from among a plurality of patches based on the result of color measurement performed on a test pattern which includes the plurality of patches for each band, the plurality of patches being formed for each head group using dots having different dot diameters. The amount of first ink and the amount of second ink, which are respectively ejected from the first head and the second head which are included in all the head groups, are adjusted such that the dot diameter becomes the dot diameter which is determined based on the color difference. | 04-25-2013 |
20140232775 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus including a head section which discharges a color ink which is cured due to irradiation of light and a clear ink which is cured due to the irradiation of light, an irradiation section which irradiates the light, and a storage section which stores a relationship between a total amount of color duty which is an amount of the color ink which is discharged per unit region and clear duty which is an amount of the clear ink which is discharged per unit region, and glossiness of an image which is printed using the color ink and the clear ink which have been discharged, wherein, according to the color duty in a certain region in the image, the clear duty in the region is determined based on the relationship so that the glossiness of the image is a predetermined value. | 08-21-2014 |
20140247308 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus is provided in which a position of a joint of a first yellow nozzle group and a second yellow nozzle group in a predetermined direction is offset from a position of a joint of a first magenta nozzle group and a second magenta nozzle group in a predetermined position and a position of a joint of a first cyan nozzle group and a second cyan nozzle group in the predetermined position, and the position of the joint of the first magenta nozzle group and the second magenta nozzle group in the predetermined position is the same as the position of the joint of the first cyan nozzle group and the second cyan nozzle group in the predetermined direction. | 09-04-2014 |
20140285558 | METHOD OF ADDING GLOSS CONTROL TABLE - In a method of adding a gloss control table, first base material information formed from a first gloss control table of a first base material and a first pattern measurement value of a test pattern formed on the first base material, and second base material information formed from a second gloss control table of a second base material and a second pattern measurement value of a test pattern formed on the second base material, are stored in the storage unit. The method includes: measuring a pattern of new base material for measuring the test pattern formed using a predetermined amount of ink of a new recording medium, and interpolating the gloss control tables for obtaining a new gloss control table of the new base material using a predetermined measured value interpolation method based on the first base material information and the second base material information. | 09-25-2014 |
20140292861 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND LIQUID DISCHARGING METHOD - There is provided a liquid discharging apparatus including: a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row in which nozzles for discharging liquid are lined up in a predetermined direction; and a control unit, in which the control unit, when a value of the input data of the image is at least in a partial range, obtains a corrected discharging rate which is a discharging rate smaller than a discharging rate in the non-overlapped region with respect to the value of the input data at least in the partial range of the input data, and discharges the liquid from the nozzles of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row depending on the corrected discharging rate, and a predetermined recording duty which is a recording duty higher than a recording duty in the non-overlapped region, in the overlapped region. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292862 | LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS AND LIQUID DISCHARGING METHOD - There is provided a liquid discharging apparatus including: a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row in which nozzles for discharging liquid are lined up, and the second nozzle row is disposed by forming an overlapped region in which an end portion of one side in a predetermined direction is overlapped with an end portion of the other side in the predetermined direction of the first nozzle row; and a control unit which discharges liquid from the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row depending on input data of an image and a recording duty for discharging liquid, increases a recording duty in the overlapped region with respect to a recording duty in a non-overlapped region which is a region other than the overlapped region, and differentiates increased amounts of the recording duty in the overlapped region from each other depending on the input data. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292863 | METHOD OF ACQUIRING CORRECTION VALUE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING LIQUID DISCHARGING APPARATUS - There is provided a method of acquiring a correction value of a liquid discharging apparatus that includes a first nozzle row, a second nozzle row, a third nozzle row, and a fourth nozzle row, the method includes: acquiring the amount of deviation (heterogeneous row error) of a dot formed by the third nozzle row in the predetermined direction, acquiring the amount of deviation (overlapping area error) between the dot formed by the third nozzle row and a dot formed by the fourth nozzle row in the predetermined direction, and acquiring a correction value which causes discharge data assigned to the fourth nozzle row to shift in the predetermined direction based on the heterogeneous row error and the overlapping area error. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292870 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING COMPENSATION VALUE - A method for calculating a compensation value for use in a correction of a liquid landing position in a liquid ejection device provided with a first head for ejecting a first colored liquid and a second head for ejecting a transparent liquid includes, when forming a test pattern on a medium, forming the test pattern by feeding the first colored liquid to the second head and causing the second head to eject the first colored liquid, and obtaining a compensation value for a correction of a landing position of a liquid ejected by the second head on the basis of the test pattern formed on the medium. | 10-02-2014 |
20140292928 | PRINTING APPARATUS - A printing apparatus includes: a supporting member which supports a medium; a transport device which transports the medium; first to fourth heads which eject first to fourth radiation curable type inks; a first irradiation section; a second irradiation section; a third irradiation section; and a fourth irradiation section which is arranged on the downstream side of the fourth head, in which the radiation rays respectively irradiated from the first irradiation section to the third irradiation section have a peak wavelength of 350 nm to 450 nm, and coloring materials included in the third ink and the fourth ink have higher absorption properties of the radiation rays with the peak wavelength than coloring materials included in the first ink and the second ink. | 10-02-2014 |
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20100039466 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing device includes a first nozzle column in which nozzles discharging liquid to a medium are arranged in a line in a predetermined direction, a second nozzle column in which nozzles discharging liquid to the medium are arranged in the predetermined direction, in which the first and second nozzle columns are arranged in a line in an intersecting direction with respect to the predetermined direction, a control portion which causes the first nozzle column and the second nozzle column to discharge the liquid to the medium while moving the first and second nozzle columns and the medium relatively to each other in a moving direction, in which the control portion forms a certain correction pattern composed of a first pattern formed by the first nozzle column and positioned on one side in the intersecting direction with respect to the moving direction and a second pattern formed by the second nozzle column and positioned on the other side in the intersecting direction with respect to the moving direction in parallel with the first pattern, and the correction pattern forms another correction pattern in which the distance between the second side end of the first pattern and the first side end of the second pattern in the intersecting direction with respect to the moving direction is different from that in the certain correction pattern. | 02-18-2010 |
20100039468 | ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A method of adjusting a print apparatus includes: a first nozzle array configured of nozzles which are aligned in a predetermined direction to eject a liquid to a medium; a second nozzle array configured of nozzles which are aligned in the predetermined direction to eject a liquid to a medium; a base plate on which the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array are disposed on positions shifted in a direction cross to the predetermined direction; and a moving mechanism which moves the base plate and a medium relative to each other in a moving direction, wherein a first pattern is formed by the first nozzle array, and a second pattern is formed by the second nozzle array so as to be adjacent to the first pattern in a direction cross to the moving direction, and wherein an inclination of the base plate with respect to the moving direction is adjusted on the basis of an interval between the first pattern and the second pattern in a direction cross to the moving direction. | 02-18-2010 |
20100053246 | FLUID EJECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF EJECTING FLUID - The first head includes first nozzle rows each having a nozzle for ejecting a fluid of a first color and a nozzle for ejecting a fluid of a second color lined up in a color order in a cross direction. The second head includes second nozzle rows each having the two nozzles lined up in a color order in the cross direction. The controller controls a nozzle to dispose a plurality of color-overlapped dots to form a raster line, such that a ratio of A1 to “A1+A2” is larger than a ratio of B1 to “B1+B2” to form the raster line, where A1 and A2 donate amounts of a fluid of the first color from the first and second nozzle rows, respectively, and B1 and B2 donate amounts of a fluid of the second color from the first and second nozzle rows, respectively. | 03-04-2010 |
20110273499 | METHOD FOR DETECTING ADJUSTMENT VALUE OF FLUID EJECTION DEVICE, AND FLUID EJECTION DEVICE - An adjustment method is a method for adjusting a fluid ejection device having first and second heads with the first head disposed on an upstream side of the second head in a feed direction in which a medium is conveyed, the second head forming dot rows of a fluid between dot rows of the fluid formed by the first head. The first head and the second head are driven with a first voltage change amount to form a first test pattern, and the first head and the second head are driven with a second voltage change amount to form a second test pattern. | 11-10-2011 |
20110273729 | FLUID EJECTION DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND FLUID EJECTION METHOD - A fluid ejection device includes first, second and third nozzle rows for forming first, second and third band images, respectively. The fluid ejection device forms an image in which an edge portion at one side in a prescribed direction in the first band image overlaps an edge portion at the other side in the second band image, and an edge portion at one side in the second band image overlaps an edge portion at the other side in the third band image. The fluid ejection device carries out a halftoning process whereby a center area of a dither mask equal in size to the input data for forming a band image but having a smaller dot generation rate in the edge areas than in the center area is associated with the input data for forming the edge portion to the other side of the first band image. | 11-10-2011 |
20120092684 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - The invention includes a dot formation section having nozzle rows of lined up nozzles, and adapted for forming a plurality of dot lines of a plurality of lined-up dots by ejecting ink from the nozzle rows while bringing about relative movement of the nozzle rows and a medium; a detection section for detecting dot width in a given dot line; and a correction value adjustment section for comparing dot width detected by the detection section and dot width stored in a storage section, and respectively correcting concentration correction values in the correction data according to the comparison results. | 04-19-2012 |
20120206525 | FLUID-EJECTING DEVICE AND FLUID-EJECTING METHOD - To minimize any decrease in image quality, even in an instance in which there is a displacement in a landing position of a fluid in a region in which nozzle rows overlap, (A) a fluid-ejecting device including: a first nozzle column; (B) a second nozzle column, the second nozzle column being arranged so as to form an overlapping region; and (C) a control part for causing the fluid to be ejected so that in each of a plurality of raster lines arranged in a row in the predetermined direction in the overlapping region, dots to be formed are apportioned between the first nozzles and the second nozzles; the control part causing the fluid to be ejected so that there are produced. | 08-16-2012 |
20120223982 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - To reduce the tendency of glossiness to vary according to the ink ejection quantity, a printing device includes a color ink head for ejecting color ink to a medium, a clear ink head for ejecting transparent clear ink to the medium, and a controller for controlling ejection of the clear ink so that the clear ink is ejected to a region in which an ejection quantity of the color ink per unit area of the medium is less than a predetermined quantity, and the clear ink is not ejected to a region in which the ejection quantity of the color ink per unit area of the medium is greater than the predetermined quantity. | 09-06-2012 |
20120223995 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - To make it possible to easily provide printed matter with varying degrees of gloss, a printing device includes a head for ejecting a photo-curing ink to a medium, a photo-irradiation device for radiating light to the photo-curing ink ejected on the medium and curing the photo-curing ink, and a controller for causing an ejection and curing operation to be performed for ejecting the photo-curing ink and subsequently radiating the light to cure the photo-curing ink, the controller being configured so that when an image having a first degree of gloss is formed, the image is formed by a first number of ejection and curing operations, and when an image having a second degree of gloss lower than the first degree of gloss is formed, the image is formed by a second number of ejection and curing operations greater than the first number. | 09-06-2012 |
20120242728 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - To prevent uneven gloss on a printed image in a printing apparatus in which light-curable ink is used, a printing apparatus is provided. The printing apparatus includes a controller controls medium-conveying parts for conveying a medium so that the medium supplied from an upstream side is released on a downstream side; nozzles for discharging ink droplets cured by light irradiation onto the medium; a light-irradiation part for irradiating the medium with light; and medium-deforming parts arranged on the downstream side of the nozzles, holding the medium from the front and back, and deforming the medium so that an irregular shape is formed in cross section; the medium is conveyed downstream by the medium-conveying parts after the medium is deformed by the medium-deforming parts; droplets of ink are discharged from the nozzles to form an image on the surface of the medium; and the ink droplets discharged onto the medium are irradiated with light by the light-irradiation part to cure the droplets. | 09-27-2012 |
20130235135 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus having a head unit that ejects a yellow UV curable-type ink onto a medium, an irradiating section that irradiates the UV light, and a controller that works as follows: when the first mode is set, control is carried out so that, after the UV light with the first energy is irradiated on the UV curable-type ink ejected onto each unit area of the medium, the UV light with the second energy higher than the first energy is irradiated; when the second mode is set for printing an image with a glossiness higher than that of the image printed according to the first mode, control is carried out so that the UV light with an energy higher than that of the first energy is irradiated on the UV curable-type ink ejected on unit area of the medium. | 09-12-2013 |
20130278670 | PRINT CONTROL DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A plurality of test patterns that are disposed in a predetermined direction are printed using dot arrays formed along an intersecting direction interesting with the predetermined direction using nozzles included in an overlapping portion of a first nozzle array and a second nozzle array, a plurality of rules lined in the predetermined direction are printed so as to be adjacent to the test patterns using nozzles included in the first nozzle array and the second nozzle array, density correction values are computed according to density of each of raster lines of the test patterns, and the positions of nozzles specified from the positions of rules are associated with the positions of the raster lines for which density correction values are computed. | 10-24-2013 |
20130286085 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - There is provided a printing apparatus including: a transport unit which transports a medium in a transport direction, a first head, a first light source which is provided further to the downstream side in the transport direction than the first head, a second head which is provided further to the downstream side in the transport direction than the first head and the first light source, and a second light source which is provided further to the downstream side in the transport direction than the second head and which irradiates light with a stronger irradiation energy than the irradiation energy of the first light source, in which the first head ejects ink of one color of any among magenta ink, cyan ink, and black ink onto a medium, and the second head ejects yellow ink onto the medium. | 10-31-2013 |
20130286095 | PRINT APPARATUS AND PRINT METHOD - A print device is provided with a conveyance unit for conveying a medium in a conveyance direction; a magenta head; a cyan head; a black head; a yellow head; a first light source; a clear head; and a second light source. The first light source is provided downstream in the conveyance direction than the color ink heads; the clear head is provided downstream than the first light source; the second light source is provided downstream than the clear head; and, where the irradiation energy needed for the main curing of the color inks is Pc, the irradiation energy needed for the main curing of the clear ink is Pcl, the irradiation energy of the first light source is P | 10-31-2013 |
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20150062269 | PRINTER, PRINTER CONTROL METHOD, AND LIGHT IRRADIATION DEVICE - A printer or the like is provided that can increase adhesiveness between cured photo curable ink and a print medium as necessary. The printer includes a discharge unit | 03-05-2015 |
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20120256472 | SENSOR-EQUIPPED BEARING DEVICE FOR WHEEL HAVING INTEGRATED IN-WHEEL MOTOR - To provide a sensor equipped and in-wheel motor incorporated bearing device for a vehicle wheel, which is capable of accurately detecting a rotating condition of a vehicle drive wheel and is effective to accurately control an electric drive motor or an automotive vehicle, the sensor equipped and in-wheel motor incorporated bearing device includes a wheel support bearing assembly for rotatably supporting a hub of the vehicle drive wheel, an electric drive motor providing a rotation device source for the vehicle drive wheel, and a speed reducing mechanism interposed between the electric drive motor and the wheel support bearing assembly. A rotation detecting device is also provided for detecting the rotation of an output shaft of the speed reducing mechanism. | 10-11-2012 |
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20130066517 | WHEEL BEARING WITH SENSOR - A sensor equipped wheel support bearing assembly having good assemblability with a compact structure and capable of accurately detecting load acting on a bearing of a vehicle wheel is provided. One of an outer member and an inner member that serves as a stationary member has a vehicle body fitting flange to be fitted to a knuckle. One or more load detecting sensor unit is provided on the stationary member and includes a strain generating member having two or more contact fixing segments fixed to the stationary member, and one or more sensors fitted to the strain generating member for detecting a strain occurring in the strain generating member. A circuit fixing stay is provided on a side face of the vehicle body fitting flange and a calculation processing circuit is fitted to this stay for calculating and processing an output signal of the sensor. | 03-14-2013 |
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20090232522 | PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A printing system enabling a less wasteful and rapid printing restart for both cases where an interrupted job utilizes an ordered sheet, and where such a job utilizes a disordered sheet. A job processing unit executes a job outputting at least one sheet included in a set of a plurality of sheets in a case where sheets printed by a printing operation are outputted. A control unit controls to output, to a predetermined sheet-ejecting unit, a sheet which has not been outputted by the job processing unit among the set of a plurality of the sheets used by the job when the job executed by the job processing unit is interrupted. The job processing unit restarts to execute the interrupted job based on an instruction of a user after the sheet which has not been outputted by the job processing unit is outputted to the predetermined sheet-ejecting unit. | 09-17-2009 |
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