Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Chisato Yoshimura

Yoshikatsu Suito

Yuji Shinkai

Kouji Inaishi

Takeo Iwasaki

Takaaki Banno

Chie Nakashima

Hideo Maruyama

Masayuki Ishibashi

Motonori Tanaka

Yumiko Oshika

Hideo Nakano

Takanori Ishishika

A printer includes a thermal head and a controller. The thermal head performs thermal printing on a thermosensitive medium having a background area with a background color being an unprinted color and a pre-print area, which is an area colored in advance, with a pre-print color different from the background color. The controller performs printing processing of causing the thermal head to execute the thermal printing in which a print area, which includes at least a part of the pre-print area, of the thermosensitive medium is printed with a print color different from both the background color and the pre-print color, and an overlapping area of the pre-print area, which overlaps with the print area, is printed with a specific color different from the pre-print color.

Printer, control method of the printer, and thermosensitive medium

A print information processing system includes a terminal device, and a server. The terminal controller controls an image capturing device to capture an image representing at least part of a cassette and acquiring the captured image. The cassette accommodates print medium therein. A server storage stores information concerning a specific content including at least one of print data and information available for editing the print data. The system performs a detection process detecting the cassette by analyzing the captured image and a determination process determining whether the detected cassette satisfies a specific condition. The server controller performs an information transmission process transmitting the information concerning the specific content to the terminal device in a case where the determination process determines that the detected cassette satisfies the specific condition. The information transmission process is not performed in a case where the detected cassette does not satisfy the specific condition.

Print information processing system detecting cassette by analyzing image and determining whether detected cassette satisfies specific condition

The disclosure discloses an adhesive tape cartridge including an adhesive tape roll. The adhesive tape roll winds an adhesive tape around a predetermined axis in a housing. The adhesive tape includes a base layer, and a first particle-containing adhesive layer. The first particle-containing adhesive layer is disposed on first side of the base layer in a thickness direction and comprises an adhesive to which particles having an average particle diameter of 10 &#x3bc;m or more are added. On condition that the first particle-containing adhesive layer is virtually divided into two equal parts as a first region on the first side in the thickness direction and an second region on an second side in the thickness direction, a volume proportion of the particles to the adhesive in the second region is larger than a volume proportion of the particles to the adhesive in the first region.

Adhesive tape cartridge, adhesive tape roll, and method of manufacturing an adhesive tape roll

The disclosure discloses a tape roll that winds a tape with a minimum radius R. The tape before being wound includes a flexible material layer. The flexible material layer includes flat plate-shaped reflectors inside and having a thickness T. On condition that a flexural modulus of the reflectors is G, a bending strength of the reflectors is A, and an average particle diameter of the reflectors is 2L, the reflectors satisfy the following relationships R/L{1&#x2212;cos(L/R)}&#x3c;A/G, and 2L&#x3e;T.

Tape roll, tape cartridge, and method for manufacturing tape roll

The disclosure discloses an adhesive tape cartridge including an adhesive tape roll. The adhesive tape roll winds an adhesive tape around a predetermined axis in a housing. The adhesive tape includes a base layer, a colored layer, and a pigment-containing adhesive layer. The colored layer is disposed on a first side of the base layer in a thickness direction and comprises a pigment added thereto. The pigment-containing adhesive layer is disposed on the first side of the colored layer in the thickness direction and comprises an adhesive to which a pigment is added.

Adhesive tape cartridge and adhesive tape roll

A test chip includes a substrate, a lid member, a separation portion, a first flow path, and a first holding portion. The substrate includes a surface on which a flow path is formed. The lid member covers the surface of the substrate. By centrifugal force, the separation portion separates components of a test object liquid into a separated component and a residual component having a larger specific gravity than a specific gravity of the separated component. The first flow path guides the separated component from the separation portion to a receiving portion. The first holding portion holds at least part of the residual component overflowing from the separation portion in a case where the separated component separated in the separation portion is moved from the separation portion to the receiving portion. The first holding portion is connected to at least one of the separation portion and the first flow path.

Test chip

A test object receptacle, capable of measuring a test object in a wide range of concentrations with good accuracy and within a short time, contains a plurality of fine protruding portions inside grooves. The test object receptacle can fix antigens, antibodies and test objects faster than without the protruding portions. Furthermore, the protruding portions are so formed that the surface area thereof increases gradually to the downstream with respect to the movement direction of the test object in the grooves, the detection intensity (intensity of color development) of the test object is not saturated downstream of the grooves even when the test object has a high concentration. For this reason, the test object can be detected within a short time and the measurements can be conducted within a wide concentration range.

Test object receptacle, test apparatus, and test method

The invention relates to an optical microlens array producing method. The microlens array producing method according to the invention uses an intermediate material forming process for forming an intermediate material of photoresist on a flat sheet, the intermediate material having projections formed in the shape of a predetermined pattern; a resist master forming process of forming a resist master by heating the intermediate material to thereby smooth the surfaces of the projections; an inverted mold forming process for forming an inverted mold having a surface shape that is the inverse of the resist master; a clad portion forming process, for forming a clad portion having grooves equal in sectional shape to the inverted mold, using the inverted mold and also using a first light-transmitting material of a low refractive index; a process for forming microlenses by filling the concave portion of the clad portion with a second light-transmitting material which is higher in refractive index than the first light-transmitting material microlens with index than the first or the second light-transmitting.

Method for producing a microlens array

The invention relates to an optical waveguide array producing method. The optical waveguide array producing method according to the invention uses an intermediate material forming process for forming an intermediate material of photoresist on a flat sheet, the intermediate material having projections formed in the shape of a predetermined pattern; a resist master forming process of forming a resist master by heating the intermediate material to thereby smooth the surfaces of the projections; an inverted mold forming process for forming an inverted mold having a surface shape that is the inverse of the resist master; a clad portion forming process, for forming a clad portion having grooves equal in sectional shape to the inverted mold, using the inverted mold and also using a first light-transmitting material of a low refractive index; a process for forming core portions by filling the grooves of the clad portion with a second light-transmitting material which is higher in refractive index than the first light-transmitting material; and a process of covering the core portions with a third light-transmitting material lower in refractive index than the first or the second light-transmitting material.

Method for producing an optical waveguide array using a resist master

An optical wave guide array is used in an optical recording apparatus. The array comprises a clad substrate made of a resin material resistant to a UV curable resin and having a number of grooves arranged in lines on the surface thereof, core portions for optical wave guides formed by filling a UV curable resin in the respective grooves and curing the resin by irradiation of UV light, and a covering clad portion for covering the clad substrate and core portions.

Optical wave guide array

In the optical waveguide array according to the present invention, a clad portion and cores formed by curing photocurable resins are sandwiched between two reinforcing members, at least one of which has a light transmitting characteristic. The clad portion covers the cores. The method of manufacturing the optical waveguide array according to the present invention comprises applying a first photocurable resin to a mold having an optical waveguide pattern of the optical waveguide array; placing a first reinforcing member having a light transmitting characteristic closely on the upper surface of the photocurable resin and then radiating light from above the first reinforcing member to form a clad layer having grooves corresponding to the optical waveguide pattern, the clad layer being bonded firmly to the first reinforcing member; pouring a second photocurable resin, having a refractive index higher than that of the first photocurable resin, into the grooves of the clad layer; radiating light from above the first reinforcing member to cure the second photocurable resin to thereby form cores; applying a third photocurable resin, having a refractive index lower than that of the second photocurable resin, onto the core-formed surface of the clad layer and then placing a second reinforcing member on the third photocurable resin; and radiating light from above the first reinforcing member to cure the third photocurable resin applied to the core-formed surface of the clad layer to thereby form a photocured resin layer and bonding the second reinforcing member firmly to the photocured resin layer. Alternatively, if the second reinforcing member is also has a light transmitting characteristic, light can be radiated through the second reinforcing member to cure the third photocurable resin.

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Nagoya, Japan

Chisato Yoshimura