Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Kazuhiko Hirokawa

Makoto Furuki

Minquan Tian

Shinji Hasegawa

Yuka Ito

Takashi Matsubara

Kazunori Anazawa

Miho Watanabe

Tomoko Miyahara

Suguru Nakaso

Mamoru Fujita

Kazunaga Horiuchi

Takahiro Ishizuka

Akira Sakamoto

Yoshiro Yamashita

Kunihiko Sato

Jun Isozaki

Takashi Kikuchi

Yukari Motosugi

Tomoco Miyahara

Shimpei Takagi

A near-infrared absorbent dispersion includes water, a near-infrared absorbent, and a resin dispersant, wherein a weight ratio of the near-infrared absorbent to the total weight of the near-infrared absorbent and the resin dispersant is more than 0.01 and less than 0.33.

Near-infrared absorbent dispersion, aqueous ink for ink jet recording, and aqueous ink set for ink jet recording

Provided is an aqueous ink for ink jet recording that includes: water; a water-soluble organic solvent; a coloring material; and a specific compound having a structure expressed by the following General Formula (I), wherein ink pH is in a range of 6.5 to 8.5.  In General Formula (I), R, R, R, and Reach independently represent a structure expressed by General Formula (I-R) or an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms which is not branched, Rrepresents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and n represents an integer in a range of 0 to 3, and the total carbon number of the structure expressed by General Formula (I-R) is equal to or less than 6.

Aqueous ink for ink jet recording, aqueous ink set for ink jet recording, and ink jet recording method

A liquid supply device includes a first storage unit that stores a first liquid, a second storage unit that stores a second liquid separately from the first liquid, the second liquid containing an infrared absorbing agent, a mixing unit that mixes the first liquid and the second liquid to generate a mixture, and a supply unit that supplies the mixture to an outside of the liquid supply device.

Liquid supply device and droplet ejecting apparatus

An aqueous ink contains a colorant, an aqueous solvent, and as an infrared absorber, a compound represented by general formula (I): where R, R, and Rare each independently alkyl, and Ris a group represented by general formula (I-R): where Ris hydrogen or methyl, and e is an integer of 0 to 3.

Aqueous ink, ink cartridge, ink drying system, ink drying method, recording apparatus, and recording method

A developing device includes a developer carrier that holds a developer on a surface thereof, rotates around a rotation axis, and supplies the developer to an image carrier at a facing portion at which the developer carrier faces the image carrier; a transport member that transports the developer in a transport direction along the rotation axis while supplying the developer to the surface of the developer carrier; and a guide member that includes a guide portion that guides, toward downstream in the transport direction, the developer that has passed the facing portion without being supplied to the image carrier, the guide member making an amount of the developer that reaches the transport member on an upstream side of the guide portion in the transport direction be smaller than an amount of the developer that reaches the transport member in on a downstream side of the guide portion.

Developing device and image forming apparatus

An image forming material includes a perimidine-substituted squarylium dye that has a structure represented by the following formula (I) and shows diffraction peaks at least at Bragg angles (2&#x3b8;&#xb1;0.2&#xb0;) of 17.7&#xb0;, 19.9&#xb0;, 22.1&#xb0;, 23.2&#xb0; and 24.9&#xb0; in its X-ray powder diffraction spectrum measured by irradiation with X rays generated from a Cu target with a wavelength of 1.5405 angstroms: 

Image forming material

A black color material includes a squarylium compound represented by the following formula (1); and a blue color material: 

Black color material and toner

An image processing device provided with an acquiring unit and a generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires invisible image data of an invisible image subject to forming on a recording medium with invisible coloring material and acquires source image data of a source image subject to forming on the recording medium with visible coloring material. The generating unit generates corrected-image-data of the source image data corrected according to the absorption wavelength characteristics of the invisible coloring material, such that the color of overlapping regions where both the invisible image and the source image are superimposed when formed on the recording medium approximates to the color of regions corresponding to the overlapping regions in the source image.

Image processing device and image forming device for generating corrected image data for a source image according to absorption wavelength characteristics of invisible coloring material

An image-forming material includes a perimidine-based squarylium dye represented by the following Formula (I): 

Image-forming material

A colorant comprising an aggregate of a molecule having a squarylium skeleton and having a maximum absorption wavelength at about 500 nm to about 600 nm in a molecular dispersion state.

Colorant and toner

A perimidine-substituted squarylium dye is represented by the following formula (I): 

Perimidine-substituted squarylium dye, dispersion medium, detection medium and image forming material

The black color material includes a condensation product of a pyrrole compound represented by the following formula (1) and a squaric acid represented by the following formula (2): 

The image-forming material includes a perimidine-based squarylium dye represented by the following formula (I): 

A display medium includes: a first substrate having transparency and provided with a transparent electrode on one face thereof, a member having a plurality of penetration holes, the member being placed on a surface of the transparent electrode, the penetration holes penetrating the member from the transparent electrode surface side, the ratio of the length of each of the penetration holes to the largest hole diameter being two or more; a second substrate placed so as to face the transparent electrode side of the first substrate; an electrolytic solution containing a metal ion and placed so as to fill a space between the first and second substrates; and a counter electrode placed in a position so as to be insulated from the transparent electrode and in contact with the electrolytic solution.

Display medium, display device and display method

A colorant contains a crystal of a compound represented by the following formula (1): the crystal having a crystal form showing main peaks at interplanar spacings d of 3.45&#xb1;0.5 &#x212b;, 3.63&#xb1;0.5 &#x212b;, 4.23&#xb1;0.5 &#x212b;, 6.65&#xb1;0.5 &#x212b;, and 7.84&#xb1;0.5 &#x212b; in powder X-ray diffraction pattern with CuK&#x3b1; radiation.

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Kazuhiko Hirokawa