Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Thk Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Sony Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Junichi Sakai

Kaoru Hoshide

Sadayuki Sugama

Takashi Imai

Shinichi Hakamada

Takashi Saito

Yasuhiro Nito

Katsuhiko Suzuki

Satoshi Kudo

Yuki Nakamura

Minako Kawabe

Hideo Saito

Masashi Miyagawa

Mikio Sanada

Tsuyoshi Kanke

Koichi Osumi

Hideki Yamakami

Masashi Tsujimura

Kenji Nishiguchi

Yoshio Nakajima

Masato Ito

Masayuki Ikegami

Shinya Mishina

Masashi Ogasawara

Yoichi Takada

Hirofumi Ichinose

Yuki Nomura

Hideyuki Takai

Kenji Moribe

Hideki Takayama

Jun Yoshizawa

Kousuke Yamasaki

Masaaki Hiro

Shuhei Yamanaka

Shin-ichi Sato

Tetsuo Kaneko

Fumiaki Fujioka

Yoshiyuki Kaneko

Mamiko Kaji

Tetsu Iwata

Shinichi Sakurada

Nobuyuki Maki

Kazuto Homma

Otome Yamashita

Akiko Tominaga

Shigemi Nakamura

Fukuji Nakano

Kenichi Hasebe

Shigeo Tomita

Yosuke Irie

Yoko Ichinose

Muten Iwamoto

Toshihisa Maeda

Kenji Narata

Katsunori Yamamura

Kuniaki Fujimoto

Toshiaki Kaneko

Katsuhiro Hayashi

Satoshi Takebayashi

Yasuhiro Iizuka

Yukako Tamanuki

Makiko Endo

Mitsuru Ishii

Itaru Tsuji

Keishi Danjo

Norihiko Kobayashi

Yasuhito Mori

Shoichi Takeda

Hideya Nakayama

Ryosuke Nagao

Yoshihisa Yamashita

Shota Tanaka

Kazuya Horiike

Aki Takano

Satoru Okamura

Yoichi Fukasawa

Kazuya Horike

Tomoya Ozaki

Shin-Ichi Sato

An aqueous ink for ink jet recording includes a titanium oxide particle containing titanium oxide, at least part of the surface of the titanium oxide being covered with alumina and silica in specific proportions, in which the titanium oxide particle is dispersed at least by the action of the silica, and the ratio (η/η) of the viscosity (η) of the aqueous ink at a shear rate of 1 (1/s) to the viscosity (η) at a shear rate of 1,000 (1/s) is 1.10 times or less.

Aqueous ink, ink cartridge and ink jet recording method

In a remote-operation apparatus, a communication circuit receives, from an autonomous vehicle via a network, detection data indicating circumstances of an area around the autonomous vehicle. A display displays an image of the area around the autonomous vehicle generated based on the received detection data. The communication circuit transmits, via the network to the autonomous vehicle that is being remotely operated, a control command including an amount of operation obtained by correcting, based on characteristics of the autonomous vehicle, an amount of operation applied to an operation accepter by a remote operator.

Remote-operation apparatus and remote-operation method

A control device for controlling a linear actuator having a linear motor and a brake device includes a magnetic pole position estimation means to estimate which of a plurality of sections obtained by dividing a magnetic pole position of 0&#xb0; to 360&#xb0;, the mover is located in on the basis of a direction of movement of the mover by pulse energization, a magnetic pole position setting means to perform direct current excitation at an estimated magnetic pole position estimated by the magnetic pole position estimation means and set the estimated magnetic pole position as a magnetic pole position of the mover, and a brake control means to turn on a brake device before pulse energization by the magnetic pole position estimation means is performed and turn off the brake device after the magnetic pole position estimation means estimates the section in which the mover is located.

Device and method for controlling linear actuator

A motion guide device is formed of: a track member including a base portion extending along a longitudinal direction, and a pair of wall portions erected from both edges of the base portion in a width direction, and having rolling element rolling grooves formed along a longitudinal direction; and a moving member which is assembled in a movable manner along the longitudinal direction between the wall portions, and to which a pair of guide members are assembled, load rolling element rolling grooves which correspond to the rolling element rolling grooves being formed in the guide members, wherein at least either one of the guide members is equipped with a biasing member on a surface of the guide member on a side opposite to a surface of the guide member on which the load rolling element rolling groove is formed.

Motion guide device

An aqueous ink that enables recording of an image with suppressed feathering and has high ejection stability can be provided. An aqueous ink for ink jet contains a pigment, a polyhydric alcohol derivative and a water-soluble organic solvent. The polyhydric alcohol derivative is a compound in which a proportion of {Y/(X+Y)}&#xd7;100 (%) where X mole(s) of ethylene oxide group(s) and Y mole(s) of propylene oxide group(s) are added to polyhydric alcohol having three or more hydroxy groups is 55% or more to 95% or less. The water-soluble organic solvent includes a first water-soluble organic solvent having a relative dielectric constant of 10.0 or more to 40.0 or less.

Provided is a point of view camera that includes: an imaging unit; a body configured to selectively form a mechanical coupling to one of a surfboard, a bicycle, and an associate imaging device; and a communication unit configured to communicate wirelessly or in a wired way with the associate imaging device.

Point of view camera and imaging device

Provided is an ink jet recording method for recording an image on a recording medium by making use of an aqueous reaction liquid containing a reactant and first and second inks which are aqueous inks containing a coloring material. This method has a step of applying the reaction liquid to a first recording medium, a step of applying the first and second inks, in order of mention, to the first recording medium to form a first image and a step of bringing a porous layer of a liquid absorption member into contact with the first image and thereby absorbing a liquid component therefrom. The second image has brightness higher than that of the first ink.

Ink jet recording method and ink jet recording apparatus

An actuator includes a track member provided with a base extending along a longitudinal direction and a pair of walls erected from opposite ends of the base in a width direction, with rolling-element rolling grooves formed along the longitudinal direction; and a moving member assembled movably along the longitudinal direction between the walls, with respective load rolling-element rolling grooves corresponding to the rolling-element rolling grooves being formed in the moving members; and a screw shaft passed through a through-hole formed in the moving member, with a screw rolling-element rolling groove formed in the screw shaft, the screw rolling-element rolling groove being spiral in shape, wherein the moving member has the nut member attached to the through-hole, with the screw load rolling-element rolling groove corresponding to the screw rolling-element rolling groove formed in the nut, the nut member is assembled via a flange member which includes a lubricant supply device.

Actuator

There is provided an ink jet recording method which records an image on a recording medium using aqueous ink. The ink jet recording method includes an intermediate image forming step of forming an intermediate image by applying aqueous ink to a transfer body and then applying an aqueous transfer promotion liquid to a region of the transfer body in which the aqueous ink is applied; and a transferring step of transferring the intermediate image by bring the intermediate image into contact with the recording medium in this order. The transfer promotion liquid contains a rosin particle formed by containing a rosin ester resin, an anionic emulsifier and a nonionic emulsifier, and the content of an alkali metal ion in the transfer promotion liquid is more than that of an alkali metal ion in the ink.

An ink let recording method using an apparatus including plural aqueous inks, a recording head having a heat-generating portion to eject the inks, and ink storage portions therefor which are housings bonded to the recording head, the method including ejecting the inks from the recording head to record an image on a recording medium. The recording head has plural ejection orifice arrays corresponding to the inks and including a first and a second ejection orifice array at both sides and a third ejection orifice array at the other positions. A protective layer containing tantalum or tantalum oxide is formed on the heat-generating portion to contact with the inks. Dynamic surface tension and lightness of the ink corresponding to the third ejection orifice array are respectively smaller than maximum dynamic surface tension and larger than minimum lightness of the inks corresponding to the first and second ejection orifice arrays.

A motion guide apparatus ensures that a retaining portion retains a rolling element. A rolling element retainer having retaining portions that prevent a rolling element from falling out of a movable body, the retaining portions extending along a loaded rolling element rolling portion, is incorporated in the movable body of the motion guide apparatus. End plates are formed integrally with the retaining portions. Fall prevention portions to reduce the widths of openings between the retaining portions are provided to center parts of the retaining portions in a length direction thereof. The fall prevention portions are padding portions integrated with the retaining portions, the padding portions rising in such a manner as to reduce the widths of the openings, and/or projections integrated with the retaining portions, the projections touching the movable body in such a manner that the center parts of the retaining portions bend toward a track member.

Motion guide apparatus

An object is to provide a motion guide apparatus that can facilitate an assembly operation. An end member () including an inner peripheral side of a direction changing path () is placed on an end surface in a movement direction of a moving member body (). At least one of a pair of the end members (and) includes an opening () linking to the inner peripheral side of the direction changing path () to load rolling elements () into a circulation path. Opposing surfaces () of the pair of the end members (and) to the moving member body () are formed in flat surfaces. The pair of the end members (and) molded integrally with a holding portion () is incorporated into the moving member body () in a direction orthogonal to the movement direction of the moving member body (). A lid member () closes the opening () in the end member ().

Motion guide apparatus and method for manufacturing the same

Roller bearing

Provided is a synthesis method for a self-dispersible pigment, including performing ring-opening addition of a lactone-based compound to an acidic group bonded to a surface of a pigment particle directly or via another atomic group to bond a functional group including an ester group to the surface of the pigment particle.

Synthesis method for self-dispersible pigment, self-dispersible pigment, ink jet ink, ink cartridge, and ink jet recording method

The present invention provides an ink jet ink that is capable of recording an image excellent in light resistance and ozone resistance and has excellent intermittent ejection stability. The ink jet ink contains a coloring material and a water-soluble organic solvent. The coloring material contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I), the water-soluble organic solvent contains ethylene urea end an alkanediol having 4 to 6 carbon atoms, and a content A (% by mass) of the coloring material, a content B (% by mass) of the ethylene urea and a content C (% by mass) of the alkanediol having 4 to 6 carbon atoms based on a total mass of the ink satisfy relationships of 0.20&#x2266;B/A&#x2266;10.0 and 0.10&#x2266;C/A&#x2266;10.0. 

Ink, ink cartridge and ink jet recording method

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Junichi Sakai