Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Oki Data Corporation

Hitachi, Ltd.

Konica Minolta Ij Technologies, Inc.

Tdk Corporation

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Oki Electric Co., Ltd.

Oki Daga Corporation

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Hideyuki Kobayashi

Takashi Matsubara

Masahiro Watanabe

Takashi Matsuo

Yuichi Kurosawa

Kusunoki Higashino

Michihei Murayama

Mitsuru Kishimoto

Noboru Ooishi

Kiyoshi Ikeda

Naoshi Inoue

Kenichiro Sugiura

Masanao Yasuda

Yoshinori Yamaguchi

Shigehiro Kadota

Yoji Furuya

Toshio Sugino

Hiroo Teraichi

Tatsuki Inuzuka

Masahiko Shimosugi

Makoto Orikasa

Takeo Fujii

Shigenori Koido

Susumu Taniguchi

Masahiro Makita

Takakazu Kuki

Osamu Ueno

Kenta Tsukijishin

Mitsuji Furusawa

Shouhei Kuramochi

Hiroyuki Ueki

Mutsumi Miyata

Kenichi Sugiura

Takasi Satou

A bonding structure is a bonding structure which bonds a light emitting element and a substrate and includes a first electrode formed on the light emitting element, a second electrode formed on the substrate, and a bonding layer which bonds the first electrode and the second electrode, and the bonding layer contains a first bonding metal component and a second bonding metal component different from the first bonding metal component.

Junction structure

A display device of electric power system information comprises a display unit including a display screen; and a screen display control unit for controlling the display unit. The display screen includes a display area that is divided into a plurality of display cells each of which has a mapping function for showing relative positional relations. The display unit includes an electric power system diagram display function unit for displaying an electric system diagram that embodies the state of an electric power system being a monitoring target, a mapping item display function unit for displaying mapping display items in the background of the electric power system diagram using the display cells, and a menu display function for displaying menus and icons, which are used for selecting the mapping display items, on the display screen, and for accepting selection operations to the menus and icons on the display cells on the display screen. The mapping display items represent information of state quantities regarding the state of the electric power system being the monitoring target, and the mapping display items are displayed per display cell with different colors in accordance with the corresponding values of state quantities.

Display device and display method of electric power system information

A control command apparatus in a power system selecting a measuring apparatus according to a power system state, includes: a measuring apparatus extraction unit () extracting a measuring apparatus () between a first and second control apparatus () downstream the first control apparatus (), or a measuring apparatus () downstream the first control apparatus () if no second control apparatus () exists, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, based on system configuration information (), and generating measuring apparatus information () associating the extracted measuring apparatus () and the first control apparatus () with each other; and a control command generation unit () acquiring a measurement value from the measuring apparatus (), identifying a control apparatus () associated with the measuring apparatus () as a the measurement value source based on the measuring apparatus information (), and calculating and outputting a control parameter to the identified control apparatus ().

Control command apparatus, power system control system and control command method

In an electric power system with a distributed power source, a fluctuation of its system voltage is brought about by an amount of power generation of the distributed power source that depends on weather. Stabilization of the system voltage is realized by generating a driving signal of a switch that the system has from weather forecast information and power system information and switching a configuration of the system.

Power system voltage stabilizer and stabilization method

An apparatus that controls a display unit to display, as a preview image, an image to be printed on a print medium by a printing apparatus that includes a function for adjusting a conveyance amount to convey a print medium in a conveyance direction by increasing or decreasing the conveyance amount as compared to a reference conveyance amount when an image of a designated size is printed acquires an adjustment amount of the conveyance amount and changes a size of the preview image with respect to the conveyance direction according to the acquired adjustment amount.

Display control apparatus, display control method, and program

A data generation apparatus for generating image data used for printing an image on a print medium by using a printing apparatus having an adjusting function for increasing and/or decreasing a conveyance amount by which the print medium is conveyed in a conveyance direction with respect to a standard conveyance amount used when an image with a specified size is printed includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an adjustment amount of the conveyance amount, and a changing unit configured to change a size of the image data corresponding to the conveyance direction of the print medium according to the adjustment amount acquired by the acquisition unit.

Data generation apparatus, data generation method, and program

Provided are an inkjet recording device and an inkjet recording method for providing an image wherein concentration nonuniformity is reduced with less ink bleed between inks of different colors, in high speed multicolor printing of single path system. In the device and the method, a conditional expression of 0.6&#x2266;R/R0&#x2266;0.9 is satisfied, where, R is a dot radius of a second ink jetted on a first ink which is jetted on the recording medium and semi-cured by a beam applied, and R0 is a dot radius of the second ink directly jetted on the recording medium.

Ink jet recording device and ink jet recording method

An inkjet recording apparatus including a recording head having a nozzle, a pressure chamber, and a pressure generation section; and a drive signal generator which generates a drive signal for applying at least one drive pulse, wherein the apparatus ejects the ink droplet from the nozzle by applying the drive signal to activate the pressure generation section, wherein the drive signal generator generates the drive signal within one pixel period in chronological order including a first expansion pulse to expand the volume of the pressure chamber, a contraction pulse, and a second expansion pulse, and wherein a contraction pulse width is 0.1 AL through 0.5 AL, where AL represents a half of an acoustic resonance period of the pressure chamber, and |Von|/|Voff| is 1.3 through 10, where Von and Voff respectively represent drive voltages of the first expansion pulse and the contraction pulse.

Inkjet recording apparatus

An inkjet recording apparatus having: a recording head including a pressure generation section, a pressure chamber, and a nozzle; and a drive signal generator which generates the drive signal including a first expansion pulse, a contraction pulse, and a second expansion pulse, wherein the pulses are generated to satisfy that: a peak value position Pof positive pressure is not more than 1.45AL from a drive signal applying start time, and |M/P|&#x2267;0.45, where AL represents a half of the acoustic resonance period of the pressure chamber, Mis a first peak value of negative pressure in the pressure chamber, Pis a peak value of a positive pressure succeeding to M, and Mis a peak value of a negative pressure succeeding to P, wherein M, Pand Mare values of a pressure wave generated by total effect of all the pulses.

Inkjet recording apparatus and drive method of inkjet recording head

An ink jet recording apparatus is provided with a black head and a plurality of color heads. The black head has a predetermined number of first orifices aligned at predetermined intervals (e.g. 0.0169 mm) in a sub scanning direction (direction in which a print medium travels). The plurality of color heads eject different colored ink drops. Each color head has the predetermined number of second orifices aligned in the sub scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction. The second orifices of adjacent color heads are aligned in a main scanning direction perpendicular to the sub scanning direction.

Ink jet recording apparatus

A dot data generator receives print data from a host apparatus and generates dot data from the print data. Dots have different diameters according to a gradation level. A drive frequency setting section sets a drive frequency in accordance with the print data. A drive signal generator generates a timing in timed relation with the drive frequency. A recording head is driven at the generated timing to form a plurality of dots on a print medium. An operation circuit determines a total drive time forming dots for each line in the main scanning direction. The drive frequency is set on a line-by-line basis in accordance with the total drive time. The timing may be delayed so that dots are formed always at accurate print positions irrespective of the scanning speed in the main scanning direction and in the sub scanning direction.

Recording apparatus

An ink Jet head includes first base second base which are made of a piezoelectric material. The first and second bases are formed with a plurality of first and second grooves in their surfaces, respectively, and are formed with first and second electrodes on their surfaces between the first grooves, respectively. The first and second bases also includes side surfaces intersecting the surfaces of the first and second bases, respectively. The electrodes are spaced apart from the side surfaces. The second base is placed on the first base so that the grooves in the first base and the grooves in the second base communicate with each other to define ink pressure chambers. An insulating layer is formed on the inner walls of the ink pressure chambers. An orifice plate having orifices is bonded to the side surfaces so that the ink chambers communicate with atmosphere through the orifices.

Ink jet head having electrode and non-electrode areas

An ink jet head has a plurality of ink pressure chambers defined therein and a surface to which a plurality of ink pressure chambers open. An orifice plate having an orifice therein is bonded to the surface. When manufacturing the ink jet head, a coating of an insulating material is first formed on an inner wall of the ink pressure chambers and subsequently a re-dissolvable curingresin is applied to the ink jet head in an area from the inner walls to the surface. Then, the coating and the resin deposited on the surface are removed from the surface. Then, the resin deposited on the coating in the ink pressure chambers is dissolved to remove the resin from the inner wall. Finally, the orifice plate is bonded to the surface.

Ink jet head having an improved coating in an ink pressure chamber and a

An ink jet recording apparatus includes a printhead that ejects black ink drops and colored ink drops through a plurality of corresponding ink nozzles in accordance with print data. The printhead ejects ink drops when the printhead is moved to scan a recording medium in a forward direction and a reverse direction opposite to the forward direction. The forward and reverse directions are perpendicular to a direction in which the recording medium travels. A print data identifier separates the print data for a line into black print data and color print data. A print data selector supplies one of the black print data and color print data to the printhead when the printhead scans the recording medium in the forward direction, and the other of the black print data and color print data to the printhead when the printhead scans the recording medium in the reverse direction.

Ink jet recording apparatus and control method thereof

A multifunctional information processing apparatus includes a selection unit consisting of a CRT display and a touch panel, for selecting a desired function of a plurality of executable functions, a plurality of function programs for executing different functions, respectively, a memory for storing data formed upon execution of the function program selected by the selecting unit so as to allow subsequent use of the data by other function programs, and a CPU for controlling to cause another function program selected by the selecting unit to utilize the data stored in the memory.

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Hideyuki Kobayashi