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20120056268 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - There is provided a technology capable of achieving, in a semiconductor device having a MISFET using an insulating film containing hafnium as a gate insulating film, an improvement in the reliability of a MISFET. In the present invention, the gate insulating film of an n-channel core transistor is provided with a structure different from that of the gate insulating film of a p-channel core transistor. Specifically, in the n-channel core transistor, as the gate insulating film thereof, a laminate film of a silicon oxide film and a HfZrSiON film is used. On the other hand, in the p-channel core transistor, as the gate insulating film thereof, a laminate film of a silicon oxide film and a HfSiON film is used. | 03-08-2012 |
20150060991 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The performance of a semiconductor device having a memory element is improved. An insulating film, which is a gate insulating film for a memory element, is formed on a semiconductor substrate, and a gate electrode for the memory element is formed on the insulating film. The insulating film has a first insulating film, a second insulating film thereon, and a third insulating film thereon. The second insulating film is a high-dielectric constant insulator film having a charge accumulating function and contains hafnium, silicon, and oxygen. Each of the first insulating film and the third insulating film has a band gap larger than the band gap of the second insulating film. | 03-05-2015 |
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20090155707 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a toner for electrostatic charge image development, which includes a binder resin that includes a non-crystalline polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin, and a colorant, wherein in a measurement of an acetone-soluble fraction of the toner by gel permeation chromatography, in which W1 represents the total area of an elution curve of the acetone-soluble fraction, F(0-10) represents an eluate corresponding to from the beginning of the elution to 10% elution of W1 over time, and F (80-100) represents an eluate corresponding to from 80% elution to 100% elution of W1 over time, the amount of an aliphatic unsaturated dicarboxylic acid-derived component of the resins contained in the eluate F(0-10) is in the range of from about 0 mol % to about 10 mol % relative to the total amount of the acid-derived components of the resins contained in the eluate F(0-10), and the amount of the aliphatic unsaturated dicarboxylic acid-derived component of the resins contained in the eluate F(80-100) is in the range of from about 20 mol % to about 60 mol % relative to the total amount of the acid-derived components of the resins contained in the eluate F(80-100). | 06-18-2009 |
20090245858 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE DEVELOPER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrostatic charge developer includes a carrier having a core material and a resin coating layer covering the surface of the core material, and a toner having a binder resin that contains a non-crystalline polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin. The resin coating layer contains a copolymer that contains a nitrogen-containing acrylic ester or nitrogen-containing methacrylic ester and an alicyclic acrylic ester or alicyclic methacrylic ester. The non-crystalline polyester resin contains at least an alkyl succinic acid or an anhydride or lower alkyl ester thereof, or an alkenyl succinic acid or an anhydride or lower alkyl ester thereof. The crystalline polyester resin is an aliphatic polyester resin. | 10-01-2009 |
20110045394 | TONER SET AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An electrostatic image developing toner set includes two or more toners different in hue, wherein a difference between maximum and minimum values of an absorption rate α in a range of from 380 nm to 1,500 nm of each of the two or more toners is about 0.1 or less, the absorption rate α being represented by the following equation (1): | 02-24-2011 |
20110159422 | WHITE TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT, ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING AGENT, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention provides a white toner for electrostatic image development, including a binder resin, a first white pigment and a second white pigment, the specific gravity D | 06-30-2011 |
20110183247 | WHITE TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPEMENT, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A white toner for electrostatic charge image development is disclosed. The white toner for electrostatic charge image development includes a binder resin, a first white pigment, a second white pigment, and a release agent, a specific gravity D | 07-28-2011 |
20140106273 | POSITIVELY CHARGEABLE TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a positively chargeable toner including toner mother particles containing a binder resin having an ethylenically unsaturated bond, wherein the amine value of a component extracted with a water phase by the addition of ion exchanged water after mixing the toner with methyl ethyl ketone is from 600 to 1,250 and the weight average molecular weight of the component extracted with the water phase is from 1,000 to 200,000. | 04-17-2014 |
20140193750 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, AND TONER CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles; and an external additive that is externally added to surfaces of the toner particles, in which a content of nitrogen atoms on the surfaces of the toner particles is from 0-8 atomic % to 5.0 atomic % and a content of nitrogen atoms at a depth of 10 nm inside from the surfaces of the toner particles is 0.4 atomic % or less when measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. | 07-10-2014 |
20150111139 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, AND TONER CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a binder resin, toner particles containing an acylglycerol, and an external additive, wherein at least one of hydroxyl groups in the acylglycerol is esterified with an alkyl monocarboxylic acid that contains a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having from 12 to 22 carbon atoms, and a content of a portion esterified with the alkyl monocarboxylic acid that contains the alkyl group having the same carbon number is 95% by weight or greater with respect to the total weight of the acylglycerol. | 04-23-2015 |
20150220009 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic charge image developing toner has toner particles that contain a binder resin containing a polyester resin, a release agent containing hydrocarbon-based wax, styrene(meth)acrylic resin particles, and an aluminum element, wherein fluorescent X-ray NET intensity of the aluminum element existing in the toner particles is from 0.1 to 0.3, and 70% or more of the release agent among the entire release agent exists within 800 nm from the surface of the toner particles. | 08-06-2015 |
20150268573 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing an amorphous polyester resin (a1), a crystalline polyester resin (a2), and a styrene-acrylic resin (b) containing 2-carboxyethyl acrylate as a polymerization component. | 09-24-2015 |
20150370187 | ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, AND TONER CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a binder resin containing a polyester resin, a release agent, a colorant, and an aromatic aldehyde compound, the content of which exceeds 100 ppm and is equal to or smaller than 1200 ppm. | 12-24-2015 |
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20080224543 | Non-contact signal transmission apparatus - A non-contact signal transmission apparatus transmits electric power and a signal in a non-contact manner via magnetic induction. The apparatus includes: a pair of annular electric power cores provided in opposing relationship to each other; a pair of electric power coils respectively provided in an annular form at one of the pair of electric power cores; and a pair of signal coils respectively provided in an annular form inside one of the pair of electric power cores. Relative permeability inside and around the signal coils is lower than relative permeability of the electric power cores. | 09-18-2008 |
20080297489 | DATA INPUT SYSTEM - A data input system including electronic paper and a stylus writing device is disclosed. The electronic paper includes a transparent display substrate on which a number of optically readable code patterns have been formed, the optically readable code patterns representing positional information on a display surface, a rear surface substrate opposing the display substrate, and coloring particles that are enclosed between the display substrate and the rear surface substrate and that are movable by applying an electric or a magnetic field. The electronic paper displays an image due to motion of the particle. The stylus writing device includes a writing head provided at the end of the stylus for writing the image by applying an electric or a magnetic field to the electronic paper by contact and includes an optical reading device for optically reading the code patterns formed on the display surface where the end of the stylus contacts. | 12-04-2008 |
20110175893 | DISPLAY MEDIUM AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - The present invention provides a display medium including a pair of substrates; pixel electrodes disposed on one of the pair of substrates; a common electrode disposed on the other substrate of the pair of substrates; and a display layer, the common electrode includes two or more common electrode layers containing a first common electrode layer and a second common electrode layer which being disposed across a gap in a thickness direction, and electrical voltages thereof being controlled independently of each other, the first common electrode layer containing at least one electrode unit and at least one non-electrode area corresponding to a disposition of the pixel electrodes, and the second common electrode layer containing at least one second electrode unit, the at least one second electrode layer completely overlapping with at least the at least one non-electrode area of the first common electrode layer in a thickness direction. | 07-21-2011 |
20110316835 | DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a display device including: a pair of substrates; a display medium dispersed between the pair of substrates, and including plural kinds of particle groups that move in accordance with an electric field formed between the substrates and have different colors and different absolute values of movement voltages required to move; a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage between the substrates; a first acquisition unit which acquires area information indicating an area corresponding to plural pixels of an image displayed on the display medium; and a control unit that controls the voltage applying unit to apply voltages, which have the same polarity between pixel areas and are equal to or higher than a maximum value among the absolute values of the movement voltages of the kinds of particle groups, to the respective pixel areas when the first acquisition unit acquires the area information. | 12-29-2011 |
20120068990 | DISPLAY MEDIUM AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display medium includes a pair of substrates, a dispersion medium sealed between the pair of substrates, a migrating particle group dispersed in the dispersion medium, and a surface layer provided on at least one of the facing surfaces of the pair of substrates and including a polymer compound that is a copolymer containing the following constitutional unit (A) and constitutional unit (B): | 03-22-2012 |
20120069423 | DISPLAY MEDIUM AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display medium includes a pair of substrates, a dispersion medium sealed between the pair of substrates, a migrating particle group dispersed in the dispersion medium, and a surface layer provided on at least one of the facing surfaces of the pair of substrates and including a polymer compound that is a copolymer containing the following constitutional unit (A) and constitutional unit (B): | 03-22-2012 |
20120139966 | DISPLAY MEDIUM DRIVE DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display medium drive device includes: a translucent display medium, a back substrate opposing the display substrate, a dispersant sealed between the display substrate and the back substrate, and plural types of particle groups with different colors and charge polarities that are dispersed in the dispersant so as to move in the inter-substrate space in response to an electric field; and a voltage application unit which, in a case of displaying a gradation of a color of a first particle group, applies a first voltage and which is a voltage equal to or greater than a threshold voltage needed to cause at least some of the first particle group to detach from the display substrate or the back substrate and thereafter applies a second voltage that has the same polarity as the first voltage and is lower than the threshold voltage. | 06-07-2012 |
20130222885 | DISPERSION LIQUID FOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY, DISPLAY MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a dispersion liquid for electrophoretic display, containing a dispersion medium | 08-29-2013 |
20130222887 | ELECTROPHORETIC PARTICLE, ELECTROPHORETIC PARTICLE DISPERSION LIQUID, DISPLAY MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided an electrophoretic particle which contains a core material particle formed of a composition containing a resin, a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound having any one of an imino group, a methylol group and an alkoxymethyl group in the molecule and a heterocyclic ring having a nitrogen atom, and a coloring agent. | 08-29-2013 |
20140104675 | PARTICLE DISPERSION FOR DISPLAY, DISPLAY MEDIUM, AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A particle dispersion for display includes color particles for display that move in response to an electric field and include first color particles and second color particles; and a dispersion medium that disperses the color particles for display, in which the second color particles have a larger particle diameter than a particle diameter of the first color particles and the same charging characteristic as a charging characteristic of the first color particles, and in the color particles for display, a ratio (Cs/Cl) of a charge amount Cs of the first color particles per unit area of display to a charge amount Cl of the second color particles per unit area of display is less than or equal to 5. | 04-17-2014 |
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20080223515 | Sheet laminator, image forming apparatus, and sheet laminating method - A sheet laminator includes a bonding unit and a restricting unit. The bonding unit bonds a first sheet to a second sheet that includes an adhesive layer. The restricting unit restricts movement of any one of the first sheet and the second sheet thereby preventing bonding between the first sheet and the second sheet before the first sheet and the second sheet reach the bonding unit. | 09-18-2008 |
20130236201 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a toner forced consumption control unit that performs toner forced consumption control in which toner in a developing unit is forcibly consumed when a certain condition to perform the toner forced consumption control is met. The certain condition to perform the toner forced consumption control includes a specific performance condition that a transfer bias switching condition to switch a transfer bias to a superimposed transfer bias in which an alternating current component is superimposed on a direct current component, from a direct current transfer bias is met. When the specific performance condition is met, the toner forced consumption control unit performs preliminary toner forced consumption control in which the toner forced consumption control is performed before an image forming operation using the superimposed transfer bias is started. | 09-12-2013 |
20140248064 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a nip forming member, and a power source. The rotatable image bearing member bears a toner image on a surface thereof and rotates. The nip forming member contacts the surface of the image bearing member to form a transfer nip therebetween. The power source applies a transfer bias to the transfer nip to transfer the toner image from the image bearing member onto a recording medium interposed in the transfer nip. The transfer bias includes a superimposed transfer bias in which an alternating current (AC) component is superimposed on a direct current (DC) component and a polarity of the superimposed transfer bias changes with time. A phase difference between an AC voltage and an AC current output from the power source is equal to or less than 0.47 cycles. | 09-04-2014 |
20140314435 | TRANSFER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A transfer device includes a transfer member and a bias applicator. The transfer member contacts a surface, on which a toner image is borne, of an image bearing body, to form a transfer nip. The bias applicator applies a DC voltage and an AC voltage as transfer bias to transfer the toner image on the image bearing body to a recording sheet in the transfer nip. The bias applicator applies a DC voltage having a same polarity as the DC voltage of the transfer bias and an AC voltage having an amplitude smaller than the AC voltage of the transfer bias or applies the DC voltage having the same polarity as the DC voltage of the transfer bias without applying an AC voltage, when an inter-sheet area that exists on the image bearing body passes through the transfer nip during a continuous image formation period. | 10-23-2014 |
20140328603 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a transfer member, a power supply, and a control device that controls the power supply to output a DC-AC superimposed bias or a DC bias to transfer a toner image on the image carrier onto a recording medium. The control device controls the power supply to alternately output a first bias being a DC component the same in polarity as the DC bias and a second bias being a DC component opposite in polarity to the DC bias to clean the transfer member when image formation is not taking place. The first bias is output with two target output values including a first value and a second value lower than the first value. The second bias is output with one target output value. An output time of the second bias is longer than an output time of the first bias. | 11-06-2014 |
20140328604 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries a toner image; a transfer member that forms a transfer nip between the transfer member and the image carrier; and a power supply capable of outputting a superimposed transfer bias in which an alternating current component is superimposed onto a direct current component. The toner image on the image carrier is transferred onto a recording medium in the transfer nip by the superimposed transfer bias or a direct current bias consisting of the direct current component output by the power supply. The apparatus also includes a controller that controls the power supply so that an output target value of the direct current component when the direct current component rises up is larger than an output target value of the direct current component when the toner image is transferred onto the recording medium. | 11-06-2014 |
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20080284866 | Imaging device, method of processing captured image signal and computer program - A constant amount of new portion of image data as still images is always stored on a memory in an image taking operation. In response to a shutter release operation, the image data stored on the memory is recorded onto a recording medium. A next new portion of the image data generated subsequent to the shutter release operation is then recorded on the recording medium. A predetermined pixel count, smaller than a standard pixel count set in the image data subsequent to the shutter release operation, is set in the image data prior to the shutter release operation. Process time for multi-shot operation is shortened in order to prevent photo opportunity missing. The pixel count in the image data subsequent to the shutter release operation remains unchanged so that the image data of high image quality is acquired. | 11-20-2008 |
20080284875 | Imaging device, method of processing captured image signal and computer program - A constant amount of new portion of image data as still images is always stored on a memory in an image taking operation. In response to a shutter release operation, the image data stored on the memory is recorded onto a recording medium. A next new portion of the image data generated subsequent to the shutter release operation is then recorded on the recording medium to provide a photo opportunity slip prevention function. An operation is performed to modify a pixel count of the image data to be recorded in the photo opportunity slip prevention function. A user can multi-shot photograph with a pixel count of images captured within a unit time increased or with a higher priority placed on image quality. | 11-20-2008 |
20140253761 | CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND IMAGING APPARATUS - A control device includes: a detection section configured to detect setting to a predetermined imaging mode; and a control section configured to set a predetermined method of zooming in response to the setting to the imaging mode, and to perform zoom control with a subject distance fixed. | 09-11-2014 |
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20120264042 | METHOD OF PREPARING CARRIER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY - A method of preparing a carrier for electrophotography, including a core material and a coating material layer formed on the surface of the core material, including:
| 10-18-2012 |
20120315572 | METHOD OF PREPARING CARRIER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY, CARRIER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY, DEVELOPER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A method of preparing carrier for electrophotography, which includes a core material and a coating material layer formed on the surface of the core material, including coating a coating material of the coating material layer on the core material; and burning the coating material by an induction heater, wherein the induction heater applies an alternative current to parallely-located plural coil circuits including a conductive wire including the shape of a coil to generate a magnetic line changing its direction and intensity for inductively heating the core material to heat the coating material. | 12-13-2012 |
20130137028 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING TONER CARRIER, DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING TONER CARRIER, TONER CARRIER, DEVELOPMENT AGENT, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - A method of manufacturing toner carrier formed of a core and a cover thereon, including the steps of: coating the core with a liquid cover containing a solvent and a material for forming the cover on the core in a processing tank; heating the core and the cover by first microwave radiation to volatilize the solvent from the cover; and removing the solvent volatilized in the step of heating from the processing tank. | 05-30-2013 |