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20090102907 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes a liquid discharger including a liquid discharge head configured to discharge a droplet of liquid so as to form an image. The liquid discharge head includes multiple individual channels communicating with corresponding nozzles from which the liquid is discharged; a common channel configured to supply the liquid to the individual channels; a deformable member configured to form at least one wall face of the common channel; and a vibration damping member formed of a viscoelastic material, the vibration member being provided in contact with the deformable member. | 04-23-2009 |
20090147034 | LIQUID DISCHARGE APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A liquid discharge apparatus is disclosed that includes a liquid discharge head that discharges plural types of liquid droplets; a drive waveform generating unit that generates and outputs a drive waveform including a first drive signal group made up of one or more drive signals and a second drive signal group made up of one or more drive signals within one drive period; a control signal output unit that outputs first control signals for controlling selection of the drive signals of the first drive signal group and second control signals for controlling selection of the drive signals of the second drive signal group; and a drive unit that inputs the drive waveform, the first control signals, and the second control signals, selects one or more drive signals from the drive signals of the first drive signal group and the second drive signal group using the first control signals and the second control signals, and supplies the selected drive signals to the liquid discharge head. | 06-11-2009 |
20090289975 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND PRINTED MATTER - In an image forming device including a liquid discharge head in which nozzles for discharging liquid drops are arranged side by side, a drive waveform generating unit generates, within a single drive cycle, a first drive waveform containing a drive signal to discharge an amount of liquid drop used for image formation, and a second drive waveform containing a drive signal to discharge an amount of liquid drop smaller than a minimum discharge drop amount used for image formation. A head control unit causes the liquid discharge head to discharge the amount of liquid drop used for image formation in accordance with the first drive waveform for a region where an image is formed, and to discharge the amount of liquid drop smaller than the minimum discharge drop amount in accordance with the second drive waveform for a region where any image is not formed. | 11-26-2009 |
20110096113 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND PRINTED MATTER - In an image forming device including a liquid discharge head in which nozzles for discharging liquid drops are arranged side by side, a drive waveform generating unit generates, within a single drive cycle, a first drive waveform containing a drive signal to discharge an amount of liquid drop used for image formation, and a second drive waveform containing a drive signal to discharge an amount of liquid drop smaller than a minimum discharge drop amount used for image formation. A head control unit causes the liquid discharge head to discharge the amount of liquid drop used for image formation in accordance with the first drive waveform for a region where an image is formed, and to discharge the amount of liquid drop smaller than the minimum discharge drop amount in accordance with the second drive waveform for a region where any image is not formed. | 04-28-2011 |
20120236080 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head includes a channel plate, a diaphragm member, and a piezoelectric member. The channel plate includes a separate liquid chamber, a fluid resistance portion, and a liquid introducing portion. The diaphragm member has a thin layer and a thick layer. The thin layer forms a wall face of each of the separate liquid chamber, the resistance portion, and the introducing portion and includes a vibration area facing the separate liquid chamber. The piezoelectric member is arranged to deform the vibration area and has a portion opposing the introducing portion. The thin layer has a thin portion forming the wall face of the introducing portion. The thick layer has a thick portion formed along the longitudinal direction of the separate liquid chamber on a first face opposite a second face opposing the introducing portion. In a plan view, the thin portion is divided by the thick portion. | 09-20-2012 |
20140210914 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE LIQUID EJECTION HEAD - A liquid ejection head includes a channel plate, a diaphragm member, and a piezoelectric member. The channel plate includes a separate liquid chamber, a fluid resistance portion, and a liquid introducing portion. The diaphragm member has a thin layer and a thick layer. The thin layer forms a wall face of each of the separate liquid chamber, the resistance portion, and the introducing portion and includes a vibration area facing the separate liquid chamber. The piezoelectric member is arranged to deform the vibration area and has a portion opposing the introducing portion. The thin layer has a thin portion forming the wall face of the introducing portion. The thick layer has a thick portion formed along the longitudinal direction of the separate liquid chamber on a first face opposite a second face opposing the introducing portion. In a plan view, the thin portion is divided by the thick portion. | 07-31-2014 |
20140218428 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING LIQUID EJECTING HEAD - An image forming apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head including a nozzle that ejects a droplet and a pressure producing unit that produces pressure to pressurize a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle; and a head drive controlling unit that provides a driving signal to the pressure producing unit. The head drive controlling unit outputs the driving signal including at least a first driving pulse and a second driving pulse to eject droplets and a residual vibration suppressing pulse to suppress residual vibration in the pressure chamber without ejecting a droplet. The residual vibration suppressing pulse is output at such a timing that the residual vibration suppressing pulse has an opposite phase to a composite vibration Vab that is formed by superposition of a meniscus vibration Va generated by droplet ejection with the first driving pulse and a meniscus vibration Vb generated by droplet ejection with the second driving pulse. | 08-07-2014 |
20140285554 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND HEAD DRIVE CONTROL METHOD - A head drive control unit generates and outputs a pulse formed of a first expansion waveform element to expand individual liquid chambers, a first contraction waveform element to contract the individual liquid chambers, a second expansion waveform element to expand the individual liquid chambers, and a second contraction waveform element to return the individual liquid chambers that have repeatedly expanded and contracted to an initial state. The first contraction waveform element serves as a waveform element that contracts the individual liquid chambers at a timing of resonance with a change in a pressure in the individual liquid chambers due to the first expansion waveform element. The second contraction waveform element serves as a waveform element that suppresses the change in the pressure in the individual liquid chambers. | 09-25-2014 |
20150042525 | ANTENNA DEVICE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - An antenna device ( | 02-12-2015 |
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20080298799 | GATEWAY DEVICE, OPTICAL NETWORK TERMINAL, AND PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM - In a broadband access network, calls can be kept active even when a telephone network fails. A voice gateway function captures callee telephone number information sent from a caller subscriber telephone to the telephone network and, when the telephone network fails, keeps the call active by retaining the connection between the caller and the callee. Furthermore, when the telephone network fails, the operation mode of the voice gateway and all ONTs is switched from an H.248 gateway mode to an SIP softswitch mode, allowing the voice gateway function to relay communication packets between ONTs and new call connections to be made in the broadband access network. | 12-04-2008 |
20090041461 | ONU MANAGEMENT METHOD AND OPTICAL LINE TERMINATION - In a PON system, a PON-ID assigned to a connected ONU before replacement is assigned to a newly connected ONU after the replacement and, setting data before the replacement is succeeded also after the replacement. An OLT includes a PON-ID state where a management state of the PON-ID is stored, a PON-ID management table where the PON-ID and an ONU serial number of the connected ONU and setting data are correspondingly stored and, a delete ONU table where the PON-ID and an ONU serial number of a replacement object are correspondingly stored. When the OLT receives an ONU replacement instruction from an operation system, the PON-ID assigned to the ONU of the replacement object is assigned to an ONU newly connected during the ONU replacement. | 02-12-2009 |
20090047020 | ONU MANAGEMENT METHOD AND OPTICAL LINE TERMINATION - In a PON system, a PON-ID assigned to a connected ONU before replacement is assigned to a newly connected ONU after the replacement and, setting data before the replacement is succeeded also after the replacement. An OLT includes a PON-ID state where a management state of the PON-ID is stored, a PON-ID management table where the PON-ID and an ONU serial number of the connected ONU and setting data are correspondingly stored and, a delete ONU table where the PON-ID and an ONU serial number of a replacement object are correspondingly stored. When the OLT receives an ONU replacement instruction from an operation system, the PON-ID assigned to the ONU of the replacement object is assigned to an ONU newly connected during the ONU replacement. | 02-19-2009 |
20140232796 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A liquid ejection head includes a nozzle plate, a channel plate, a common-liquid-chamber member, and a deformable damper area. The nozzle plate includes plural nozzles to eject droplets of liquid. The channel plate includes individual liquid chambers communicated with the nozzles. The common-liquid-chamber member includes a common liquid chamber to supply the liquid to the individual liquid chambers. The deformable damper area forms a wall face of the common liquid chamber. The channel plate has an end in a direction perpendicular to a nozzle array direction in which the nozzles are arrayed. The end is opposed to a portion of the damper area and has a relief at a side facing the damper area to permit deformation of the damper area. | 08-21-2014 |
20160129691 | LIQUID EJECTION HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A liquid ejection head includes a nozzle plate, a channel plate, a common-liquid-chamber member, and a deformable damper area. The nozzle plate includes plural nozzles to eject droplets of liquid. The channel plate includes individual liquid chambers communicated with the nozzles. The common-liquid-chamber member includes a common liquid chamber to supply the liquid to the individual liquid chambers. The deformable damper area forms a wall face of the common liquid chamber. The channel plate has an end in a direction perpendicular to a nozzle array direction in which the nozzles are arrayed. The end is opposed to a portion of the damper area and has a relief at a side facing the damper area to permit deformation of the damper area. | 05-12-2016 |
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20080271912 | PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - Provided is a printed circuit board which can be improved in plating adhesiveness to give high reliability and productivity by reducing development residues in opening portions such as a minute pad formed in a predetermined region of an alkali development type solder resist layer, and a manufacturing method thereof. An alkali development type solder resist layer containing a carboxyl group-containing urethane (meth)acrylate compound as a carboxyl group-containing resin is formed on a substrate surface with a conductor pattern formed thereon, and the alkali development type solder resist layer is exposed in a predetermined opening pattern, developed in a dilute aqueous alkaline solution, washed with water containing 30 to 1,000 ppm of divalent metal ions, and then thermally cured to form an opening portion at a predetermined position of the alkali development type solder resist layer. | 11-06-2008 |
20110289420 | SCREEN CUSTOMIZATION SUPPORTING SYSTEM, SCREEN CUSTOMIZATION SUPPORTING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A process includes, in performing a process of electronic commerce executed by a user terminal of a party A, generating an output screen with a display setting content of the output screen corresponding to the relevant process, receiving a change instruction for the display setting content from the user terminal displaying the output screen, updating the display setting content related to the output screen in accordance with the change instruction, and storing identification information of the party A and the output screen in the first database in an associated manner, and, in performing a process of electronic commerce executed by a user terminal of one of the party A and a party B in transactional relationship with the party A, setting the transactional data into the output screen in accordance with the identified display setting content with a display setting content of an output screen that corresponds to the process and that is associated with the identification information of the party A, and sending it back to the user terminal of one of the party A and the party B. | 11-24-2011 |
20120330914 | SERVER, INTER-BUSINESS ENTERPRISE INFORMATION CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A Web server includes a storage unit that stores transaction relation information, transaction data requirement information that determines whether a reference authority is appended to a user for transaction data, and information that identifies the user, associated with each other; and a control unit that controls to receive the transaction data containing the transaction relation information, refer to the storage unit, extract user identification information for appending information indicating the transaction relation and the reference authority from the storage unit, when the storage unit stores the received transaction relation information and the received transaction data satisfies the transaction data requirement, and register the extracted information and information for identifying the transaction data in the database, from the user terminal, therefore, separate third parties can refer to every transaction data, even to the transaction data transmitted and received between the same transaction relations. | 12-27-2012 |
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20110114858 | Digital input circuit - A digital input circuit includes a pair of input terminals that an input signal of a digital voltage signal is inputted; a photocoupler for transmitting the input signal from the input terminals to an input port of a microcomputer and having one light emitting diode and one phototransistor, wherein the light emitting diode of the photocoupler is connected between the input terminals, a collector of the phototransistor is connected to a positive side of a power supply, and an emitter of the phototransistor is connected to ground via a first resistor; and a bipolar transistor provided between the ground and a second resistor, wherein a collector thereof is connected to the second resistor for pulling up the input port of the microcomputer, an emitter thereof is connected to the ground, and a base thereof is connected to a connection node between the emitter of the phototransistor and the first resistor. | 05-19-2011 |
20110121210 | Digital output circuit - A digital output circuit includes a photocoupler, having one light emitting diode and one phototransistor, for transmitting a digital voltage output signal to the load; an output transistor, having a control terminal, a first terminal and second terminals, for transmitting an output signal from the phototransistor to the load; and a voltage smoothing unit. Further, a first terminal of the phototransistor is connected to a power supply terminal via a first resistor and a second terminal of the phototransistor is connected to the control terminal of the output transistor. A second resistor is connected between the control terminal and the first terminal of the output transistor. The first terminal of the output transistor is connected to the common terminal and the second terminal of the output transistor is connected to the output terminal. The voltage smoothing unit is connected between the first terminal of the phototransistor and the common terminal. | 05-26-2011 |
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20120301824 | LAYERED STRUCTURE AND PHOTOSENSITIVE DRY FILM TO BE USED THEREFOR - In a layered structure having at least a substrate and a photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer formed on the substrate and containing an inorganic filler, the content of the inorganic filler in the photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer is low on the side contacting the substrate and high on the surface side away from the substrate, so that a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer as a whole is maintained as low as possible. Preferably, the inorganic filler content in the layer gradually increases continuously obliquely or stepwise from the side contacting the substrate to the surface side away from the substrate. A photosensitive dry film containing the above-mentioned photosensitive resin layer is suitable for use as a solder resist or an interlayer resin insulation layer of a printed wiring board. | 11-29-2012 |
20120301825 | LAYERED STRUCTURE AND PHOTOSENSITIVE DRY FILM TO BE USED THEREFOR - In a layered structure having at least a substrate and a photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer formed on the substrate and containing an inorganic filler, the content of the inorganic filler in the photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer is lower in a surface layer region away from the substrate than in other region, so that a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the layer as a whole is maintained as low as possible. Preferably, the photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer comprises at least two layers having different inorganic filler contents, wherein the inorganic filler content in the layer on the surface side away from the substrate is lower than the inorganic filler content in the other layer. A photosensitive dry film containing the photosensitive resin layer is suitable for use as a solder resist or an interlayer resin insulation layer of a printed wiring board. | 11-29-2012 |
20120308838 | PHOTOCURABLE RESIN COMPOSITION, DRY FILM, CURED ARTICLE AND PRINTED WIRING BOARD - Disclosed are: a photocurable resin composition which may be developed with an alkali, has excellent resolution properties, and enables a cured article having excellent (humidity) heat resistance and thermal impact resistance to be formed; a dry film; a cured article thereof; and a printed wiring board using the cured article. The photocurable resin composition of the present invention is characterized by containing a carboxyl group-containing resin, a photopolymerization initiator, and surface-treated Neuburg siliceous earth particles. | 12-06-2012 |
20150185603 | LAYERED STRUCTURE AND PHOTOSENSITIVE DRY FILM TO BE USEDTHEREFOR - In a layered structure having at least a substrate and a photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer formed on the substrate and containing an inorganic filler, the content of the inorganic filler in the photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer is low on the side contacting the substrate and high on the surface side away from the substrate, so that a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer as a whole is maintained as low as possible. Preferably, the inorganic filler content in the layer gradually increases continuously obliquely or stepwise from the side contacting the substrate to the surface side away from the substrate. A photosensitive dry film containing the above-mentioned photosensitive resin layer is suitable for use as a solder resist or an interlayer resin insulation layer of a printed wiring board. | 07-02-2015 |
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20130309405 | PLATING PRETREATMENT SOLUTION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING ALUMINUM SUBSTRATE FOR HARD DISK DEVICES USING SAME - An object of the invention is to provide a plating pretreatment solution that can convert the surface of an aluminum substrate for hard disk devices into a surface suitable for electroless nickel plating, and a method for producing an aluminum substrate for hard disk devices using the same. The plating pretreatment solution of the present invention used for a plating pretreatment in production of an aluminum substrate for hard disk devices has an iron ion concentration of 0.1 g/l to 1.0 g/l and a nitric acid concentration of 2.0 wt % to 12.0 wt %. This plating pretreatment solution is used for a pretreatment of a plating step in which electroless nickel plating is applied to an aluminum substrate for hard disk devices. Accordingly, the surface of the aluminum substrate for hard disk devices is converted into a surface suitable for electroless Ni plating, and a smooth surface of a plated film is obtained by suppressing generation of waviness, nodules, and pits on the plated surface when electroless nickel plating is performed in the plating step. | 11-21-2013 |
20150064347 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HARD DISK SUBSTRATE - An object of the present invention is to obtain a hard disk substrate that can have a smooth surface of a plating film through electroless NiP plating and does not have deteriorated corrosion resistance against acid solutions. A method for producing a hard disk substrate of the present invention includes a first plating step of immersing a substrate in a first electroless NiP plating bath containing an additive with leveling action, thereby forming a lower layer of the electroless NiP plating film on a surface of the substrate, the lower layer having smaller average surface roughness than the surface; and a second plating step of immersing the substrate that has the lower layer of the electroless NiP plating film formed thereon through the first plating step in a second electroless NiP plating bath, thereby forming an upper layer of the electroless NiP plating film, the upper layer having corrosion resistance against acid solutions. Exposure of the lower layer to the atmosphere is suppressed in the period during transition from the first plating step to the second plating step. | 03-05-2015 |
20150125598 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HARD DISK SUBSTRATE - An object of the present invention is to obtain a hard disk substrate that can have a smooth surface of a plating film through electroless NiP plating and does not have deteriorated corrosion resistance against acid solutions. A method for producing a hard disk substrate of the present invention is a method for producing a hard disk substrate with an electroless NiP plating film, the method including immersing a substrate in a first electroless NiP plating bath containing an additive with leveling action, thereby forming a lower layer of the electroless NiP plating film on a surface of the substrate, the lower layer having smaller average surface roughness than the surface; and immersing the substrate that has the lower layer of the electroless NiP plating film formed thereon through the first plating step in a second electroless NiP plating bath, thereby forming an upper layer of the electroless NiP plating film, the upper layer having corrosion resistance against acid solutions and having a thickness of greater than or equal to 4 μm. | 05-07-2015 |
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20150077469 | DROPLET DISCHARGE HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A droplet discharge head includes a nozzle substrate containing a plurality of nozzles to discharge droplets; a channel substrate to form a plurality of individual liquid chambers to which the plurality of nozzles communicate; a common liquid chamber member, comprising a wall, to form a common liquid chamber to supply liquid to the plurality of individual liquid chambers; a wall member to form a deformable damper area on a part of the wall of the common liquid chamber member, in which the channel substrate and the common liquid chamber member are laminated together with the wall member sandwiched in between, and the channel substrate includes a concave-shaped damper chamber corresponding to the damper area; and a plurality of support pillars disposed on a concave-shaped bottom of the damper chamber, the support pillar connecting to the wall. | 03-19-2015 |
20150246533 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND PRINTED MATTER - An image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium by discharging ink droplets onto the recording medium. The image forming apparatus includes a head having a nozzle orifice that discharges ink droplets onto the recording medium, a main-scanning controller that controls the movement of the head in a main-scanning direction, a main-scanning encoder that generates a position signal indicating the position of the head in the main-scanning direction at a certain interval, a timing generating unit that generates a timing signal with a phase shifted from the position signal, a signal output unit that outputs a recording signal of a waveform pattern corresponding to image data at a timing of the timing signal, and a head drive unit that discharges ink droplets from the nozzle orifice in accordance with the recording signal. | 09-03-2015 |
20150246536 | LIQUID DISCHARGING HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME - A liquid discharging head includes a nozzles plate including a plurality of nozzles to discharge droplets; a channel plate including a plurality of individual liquid chambers disposed in a row and connected to the plurality of nozzles; a wall-forming member to form a wall of the individual liquid chambers; a plurality of dummy individual channels disposed on the channel plate along a nozzle alignment direction outside lateral ends of the row of individual liquid chambers; and partitions between the dummy individual channels. A width of the partitions between the dummy individual channels along the nozzle alignment direction increases away from the individual liquid chambers. | 09-03-2015 |
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20150375504 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND HEAD DRIVE METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a liquid discharging head unit including multiple nozzles to discharge liquid droplets, individual liquid chambers communicated to the multiple nozzles, and pressure generating units to generate pressure applied to a liquid in the individual liquid chambers; and a head drive control unit to generate a common driving waveform including multiple discharging pulses arranged in time series within one driving cycle of discharging liquid droplets of the liquid, to select at least one of the multiple discharging pulses from the common driving waveform, and to apply the selected at least one of the discharging pulses to the pressure generating units. The common driving waveform, generated by the head drive control unit, include at least a first discharging pulse and a second discharging pulse for discharging liquid droplets of same size. | 12-31-2015 |
20160082728 | LIQUID DISCHARGE HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A liquid discharge head includes a nozzle plate having nozzles arrayed to discharge liquid droplets; a passage plate to form individual liquid chambers communicating with the respective nozzles; and a wall surface member to form a wall surface of the individual liquid chambers. The passage plate is formed with at least three plate-shaped members stacked and bonded by an adhesive. The nozzle plate and one plate-shaped member, and another plate-shaped member and the wall surface member are bonded, respectively. The three plate-shaped members include separation wall parts forming separation walls between the individual liquid chambers. At least one of the three plate-shaped members has a separation wall width different from that of the others, to have fillets of the forced-out adhesive formed between the wall surfaces, and surfaces of the plate-shaped members, the nozzle plate, or the wall surface member. | 03-24-2016 |
20160096369 | LIQUID-EJECTION HEAD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A disclosed liquid-ejection head for ejecting liquid droplets includes a substrate having a diaphragm forming a part of walls of a pressure liquid chamber, and a piezoelectric element adhered to the substrate with adhesive, and configured to apply pressure to the pressure liquid chamber via the diaphragm. The piezoelectric element has a surface facing the substrate having the diaphragm, and the surface has one or more projection parts in an area in which the pressure liquid chamber is not disposed, and whereon the substrate having the diaphragm has one or more recess parts that fit in the respective projection parts. | 04-07-2016 |