Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Micron Technology Incorporated

Jgc Corporation

Hiroki Takahashi

Yoji Nagase

Takeo Shirato

Hiroyuki Iwasaki

Shunichi Suwa

Masashi Miyakawa

Chikashi Kobayashi

Norimasa Sohgawa

Kunihiko Nagamine

Seiji Shibahara

Tomohiro Mizutani

Hirohito Murate

Masahiko Mizuki

Katsuhiro Tobita

Kohsuke Inoue

Ryuichi Hayashi

Takatsugu Maeda

Kohtaroh Ikegami

Shogo Miura

Shuichi Murai

Ryuuta Katoh

Yasuyuki Horie

Sumito Shiina

Koji Hidaka

Hiromasa Mitani

Tomonori Miyashita

Provided is a technology of preventing an increase in size of a treatment plant, which may be caused when a safety clearance for the prevention of spread of a fire is set, and restraining an increase in designed fire-extinguishing water usage. A treatment plant for handling a flammable liquid includes: an equipment placement region in which a plurality of equipments configured to handle the flammable fluid are placed, the equipment placement region being divided into four or more firewater supply sections. A plurality of fire-extinguishing water supply facilities are provided to the firewater supply sections, respectively, the fire-extinguishing water supply facilities each being capable of, when a fire occurs in the firewater supply sections, simultaneously supplying fire-extinguishing water to a fire-occurrence section and an adjacent section.

Treatment plant and method for designing treatment plant

An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor configured to convey a recording medium based on a prescribed amount of conveyance, an image forming device configured to form an image on the recording medium conveyed by the conveyor, a marker configured to add a plurality of orderly-arrayed marks on the recording medium when the recording medium is conveyed by the conveyor, a detector configured to detect the plurality of orderly-arrayed marks on the recording medium, and circuitry. The circuitry of the image forming apparatus is configured to calculate an amount of movement of the plurality of orderly-arrayed marks detected by the detector, and correct the prescribed amount of conveyance of the recording medium based on the amount of movement.

Image forming apparatus

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a head, a sensor, a motor, and control circuitry. The head is configured to discharge liquid in a plurality of times of scanning. The sensor is configured to measure a density of a region formed with the liquid discharged in first scanning among the plurality of times of scanning. The motor is configured to move a measurement position at which the sensor performs measurement. The control circuitry is configured to control discharge of the head in second scanning performed after the first scanning among the plurality of times of scanning, based on the measurement position and the density measured at the measurement position.

Liquid discharge apparatus, liquid discharge method, and storage medium

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a first nozzle row group including at least two nozzle rows to discharge a first color liquid, shifted in the sub-scanning direction; a second nozzle row group including at least two nozzle rows to discharge a second color liquid, arranged in the main scanning direction; a main scanning device; a sub-scanning device; and circuitry to cause the first nozzle row group to discharge the first color liquid to positions corresponding to a plurality of pixels to form a first area on the recording medium, in accordance with scanning in the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction in a first sequence; and cause the second nozzle row group to discharge the second color liquid to positions corresponding to a plurality of pixels to form a second area on the recording medium, in accordance with scanning in the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction in a second sequence.

Liquid discharge apparatus, liquid discharge method, and recording medium

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head and a pattern printer. The liquid discharge head includes a plurality of nozzles to discharge liquid. The pattern printer drives the liquid discharge head to print a plurality of adjacent rectangular patterns under different drive conditions. The adjacent rectangular patterns are a reference pattern and an adjustment pattern.

Liquid discharge apparatus

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head configured to discharge liquid onto an object in accordance with a discharge cycle signal, image data, and a drive waveform; and a carriage on which the liquid discharge head is mounted. The carriage is configured to scan the object in a predetermined direction. The liquid discharge apparatus further includes circuitry configured to output pattern data for decimating the discharge cycle signal, the image data, and the drive waveform in accordance with a number of scans performed by the carriage to form a line of an image. The circuitry is configured to decimate the discharge cycle signal in accordance with the pattern data.

Liquid discharge apparatus, liquid discharge system, and liquid discharge method

Memory devices employ circuitry that may be used to adjust the output impedance. Embodiments describe herein relate to fuse-based adjustment circuitry that may be used to assist output impedance compensation such as ZQ calibration, and facilitate reduction in the dimensions and/or power consumption of the memory device.

Fuse adjustable output driver

A liquid-crystal display apparatus includes a plurality of rectangular pixels. Each pixel includes a first electrode and a second electrode. A slit region and a concave and convex portion are formed in the first electrode. It further includes a control circuit. The plurality of pixels are constituted of a first pixel group and a second pixel group. First data lines and for applying a voltage on the first electrode are provided closer to the first substrate than the first electrode. In each pixel that constitutes the first pixel group, a second data line extension extending from a second data line is provided adjacent to a first data line. In each pixel that constitutes the second pixel group, a first data line extension extending from the first data line is provided adjacent to the second data line.

Liquid-crystal display apparatus and method of giving a pretilt to liquid-crystal molecules

A controller for a liquid discharging device generates a correction chart including a reference pattern and a correction part, using a liquid discharged from a liquid discharge head, the liquid discharge head having a plurality of nozzles that are arranged to form a nozzle array. The controller drives a predetermined number of the plurality of nozzles to form the reference pattern on the recording sheet along a direction of the nozzle array, the predetermined number being a number equal to or less than a total number of the plurality of nozzles of the nozzle array, and drives a number of the plurality of nozzles that is different than the predetermined number of nozzles driven in forming the reference pattern, to form the correction pattern on the recording sheet along the direction of the nozzle array.

Liquid discharging device, correction chart generating method, and recording medium

An image recording apparatus includes: a plurality of recording heads driven on a basis of drive waveform data; a data storage that retains parameter sets corresponding to the respective recording heads; a simultaneously driven nozzle count detector that detects, for each of the recording heads, a simultaneously driven nozzle count that represents a count of nozzles to be driven at an identical drive timing based on image data to be recorded on a recording medium; a correction parameter selector that selects, for each of the recording heads, a correction parameter corresponding to the detected simultaneously driven nozzle count from among a plurality of correction parameters included in the parameter set corresponding to the recording head; and a drive waveform data generator that corrects reference waveform data using the correction parameter selected for each of the recording heads and generates the drive waveform data for each of the recording heads.

Image recording apparatus and recording head driving method

A liquid-crystal display includes scan lines arranged on a substrate and also functioning as a gate of a thin-film transistor, a main line arranged between the scan lines, source lines arranged in a direction intersecting the scan lines, a picture-element electrode arranged between the source lines and between the scan lines, a storage capacitor formed with the main line, an insulation layer, and an intermediate electrode, a drain line connected to a drain of the thin-film transistor and the intermediate electrode. The main line includes a first transparent electrode and a first metallic line, which is formed on the first transparent electrode, is narrower and has a lower resistance than the first transparent electrode. The drain line includes a second transparent electrode and a second metallic line which is narrower and has a lower resistance than the second transparent electrode. The intermediate electrode is formed by extending the second transparent electrode.

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