Sakata Inx Corporation

Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Hirohito Maeda

Satoshi Yagi

Motonobu Ikeda

Kazuki Moriyasu

Eri Ueda

Keisuke Shimatani

Takaaki Sano

Yoichi Sato

Masafumi Hashimoto

Takaaki Yodo

Koji Iwase

Hirotaka Doi

Nobuki Kitano

Hideo Shibata

Masakazu Katou

Michiya Takezoe

Katsutoshi Okamoto

Naoya Inazumi

Takeomi Ukai

Hironobu Mizobe

Hiroyuki Kondou

Tomoaki Inoue

An aqueous inkjet ink composition containing a pigment, an alkali-soluble resin, a surfactant, a water-soluble solvent, colloidal silica, and water, in which the surfactant includes a surfactant having an HLB value equal to or greater than 3 and less than 10 and a surfactant having an HLB value of 10-20 (inclusive), the water-soluble solvent has a boiling point of 170-250° C. (inclusive) at 1 atm, and the percentage of the colloidal silica in the aqueous inkjet ink composition is 0.05-2 mass % (inclusive). The aqueous inkjet ink composition has excellent storage stability, mechanical stability, discharge stability, coating film drying properties, and cissing resistance.

Aqueous inkjet ink composition, printed matter, and inkjet printing method

A cleaning fluid used in an ink-jet printer ejecting an aqueous ink-jet ink containing a pigment and an alkali-soluble resin, to clean a portion of the ink-jet printer to which the ejected aqueous ink-jet ink is adherent. The cleaning fluid includes a surfactant, an antiseptic, and water. The surfactant is a compound having a polyoxyalkylene skeleton and an HLB of 9-20, and the antiseptic includes a compound having a hydantoin skeleton, the content of which is 0.05-0.3 mass %. The cleaning fluid does not attack nozzle plates made of silicone and has satisfactory storage stability, antiseptic effect, and ability to remove aqueous ink-jet inks.

Cleaning fluid, ink set, and cleaning method

An object is to provide a method for storing or transporting an aqueous white ink composition for inkjet that does not cause precipitation of a pigment therein during storage for a long period or transport, and allows the pigment to be easily redispersed even if precipitation occurs. As means for solving the problems, a storing method is provided that includes placing an aqueous white ink composition for inkjet containing titanium oxide and a pigment dispersant in a tank and maintaining the entire aqueous white ink composition for inkjet in the tank at a temperature of −5 to −35° C.

Method for storing aqueous white ink composition for inkjet

A primer composition including a resin emulsion, an aggregation accelerator, a surfactant, and water, the surfactant containing one or more of acetylene-based surfactants and silicone-based surfactants, and a nonionic surfactant other than the surfactant, the nonionic surfactant having an HLB value of 10 or above and below 15.5 and having multiple polyoxyalkylene groups, and the proportion of the nonionic surfactant in the primer composition is 3 mass % or below. The primer composition has excellent storage stability and makes it possible to form a primer layer that has excellent transparency and that produces excellent bleeding resistance and printability when a solid image is printed by an aqueous inkjet ink composition.

Primer composition, primer layer, ink set, printed matter, and image formation method

A motor current detecting device includes a first wire, an instantaneous current detecting unit, an average electric current detecting unit, and a calculation unit. The first wire is configured and arranged to carry flow of a motor current that has been passed through a motor and a drive current that has been passed through a motor drive unit to drive the motor. The instantaneous current detecting unit is configured and arranged to detect an instantaneous value for a sum of the motor current and the drive current flowing on the first wire. The average electric current detecting unit is configured and arranged to detect an average value of the sum of the motor current and the drive current flowing on the first wire. The calculation unit is configured to calculate the motor current on the basis of the instantaneous value and the average value.

Motor current detecting device and air conditioning apparatus

The present invention provides a method for producing a liquid developer for electrophotography or electrostatic recording obtained by a coacervation method, which sufficiently maintains the charging property and has good dispersion stability of colored resin particles, as well as a liquid developer obtained by the method. A method for producing a liquid developer by a coacervation method,

Method for producing liquid developer

Triggered by a position detection sensor detecting that a rotor is positioned at any one of K predetermined electrical angles, for example, 60&#xb0;, 180&#xb0;, and 300&#xb0;, a voltage vector to be given to a motor is updated. When, for example, the rotation frequency is equal to or higher than a specified value, the predetermined electrical angles is changed into M, for example, into one angle of 60&#xb0;.

Motor control method, motor control device, fan device, compressor, and pump device

A current detecting device includes a current leveling unit, a first wire and a current detecting unit. The current leveling unit is configured to level a drive current that is passed through a motor drive unit to drive a motor. The first wire is configured and arranged to carry flow of a motor current that has been passed through the motor and the drive current that has been leveled by the current leveling unit. The current detecting unit is configured to detect a sum of the motor current flowing on the first wire and the drive current that has been leveled flowing on the first wire.

Current detecting device, air conditioning apparatus, correction constant calculating system and correction constant calculating method

Production process for a liquid developer for use in electrophotograph or electrostatic recording by coacervation method. The process can produce a liquid developer in which a coloring agent (e.g., a pigment) is included completely within a resin particle by distillation of a solvent while retaining the state where the coloring agent is finely dispersed and the resulting colored resin particle is small in particle size with excellent dispersion stability, and excellent optical properties.

Process for production of liquid developer, and liquid developer produced by the process

An object of the present invention is to provide a carbodiimide type compound having high dispersibility and dispersion stability of pigments, fine resin particles, and pigment-resin composite fine particles particularly in a silicone dispersion medium; a pigment dispersion composition and a pigment-resin composite fine particles-containing dispersion composition preferably usable in a wide range of fields such as inks for solvent ink jet, liquid developers, and the like by using the compound; and a liquid developer using such a pigment dispersion composition and/or pigment-resin composite fine particles-containing dispersion composition. The present invention provides a carbodiimide type compound obtained by introducing a polysiloxane chain by reaction of a functional group of a polysiloxane chain-containing compound having the functional group reactive with a carbodiimide group with a carbodiimide group of a carbodiimide compound having a carbodiimide equivalent weight of 100 to 50000.

Carbodiimide compound and use thereof

A boot capacitor that functions as an operating power supply for a high-arm-side transistor provided in an inverter has to be charged prior to normal operation of a motor. This operation of charging the boot capacitor is performed at a carrier frequency that is lower than a carrier frequency for the normal operation.

Inverter driven compressor operation method and compressor drive device

Two current threshold values are adopted, which are larger than the upper limit of current of an operating region. When a rotating speed is smaller than a speed threshold value, the current threshold value is adopted as a criterion to judge whether an input current to an inverter is abnormal, and when the rotating speed Rot is larger than that, the other current threshold value is adopted as the criterion.

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Osaka, Japan

Hirohito Maeda