Tdk Corporation

Mimaki Engineering Company, Ltd.

Fujikoshi Machinery Corp.

Kenji Hashizume

Masatoshi Okamura

Haruo Shiba

Masaru Ikebe

Hiroshi Kaneda

Shinichi Sato

Yukio Miyazaki

Morimasa Sasaki

Akio Momoi

Motohiko Shima

Yoshiya Sakata

Masaru Ohnishi

Takateru Satoh

Hiroshi Kanai

Shinichi Uehara

Koji Maruyama

Katsuhisa Tsuchiya

Kimio Tanaka

Yoshio Nakamura

Hisao Katoh

Mitsue Ogawa

An inkjet printer includes a platen, a printing head, a feeding device, a pre-heater and a print heater. The printing head is configured to move in a right-left direction above the platen and to eject solvent ink from nozzles of the printing head on a printing surface of a medium at a printing position. The feeding device is configured to feed the medium on the platen in a forward direction substantially perpendicular to the right-left direction. The temperature controller is configured to control a pre-heater heating temperature of the pre-heater and a print heater heating temperature of the print heater such that a surface temperature of the printing surface of the medium at the printing position becomes within a range of from 30&#xb0; C. to 70&#xb0; C.

Inkjet printing system

An inkjet printer includes a printing head configured to eject solvent ink from nozzles of the printing head on a medium at a printing position. A medium is made of a polyvinyl chloride film. The solvent ink includes an organic pigment of from 3 to 7 weight %, a resin of 15 weight % or less, and solvents. A print heater is configured to heat the medium at the printing position. The print heater is arranged separately from a pre-heater. A temperature controller is configured to control a pre-heater heating temperature of the pre-heater and a print heater heating temperature of the print heater such that a surface temperature of the medium at the printing position becomes within a range of from 30&#xb0; C. to 70&#xb0; C.

Inkjet printer

A clamping plate capable of reliably clamping a disk-shaped medium. In the clamping plate, at an imaginary intersecting portion between an imaginary extended surface of a rear surface of an outer peripheral portion of a main body and an imaginary extended surface of a rear surface of an inner peripheral wall of the main body, an annular groove recessed from the imaginary extended surfaces in the directions of the thicknesses of the outer peripheral portion and the inner peripheral wall is formed along an imaginary cross line of the imaginary extended surfaces.

Clamping plate, cartridge case, information medium, mold, and method of manufacturing clamping plate

A disc cartridge is constructed so that disc access to a recording medium enclosed within the disc cartridge via an opening in the cartridge case is restricted by a disc tray and a shutter member disposed inside the cartridge case. The shutter member is rotatably attached to one of the disc tray and the cartridge case, and detachment of the shutter member is restricted at least in a range of rotation of the shutter member between a position where the shutter member covers part of the opening and a position where the shutter member has been withdrawn from the opening. Attachment of the shutter member is carried out without crimping.

Disc cartridge having disc access opening

A disc cartridge which is capable of positively closing a disc access opening by shutter members. In the disc cartridge, a lower shell is formed with urging protuberances for urging shutter members in a manner causing the shutter members to pivotally move toward respective closing positions, and the shutter members are each formed with a protruding portion protruded from a side end face thereof such that a force for pressing the protruding portion against the urging protuberance is progressively increased after the protruding portion is brought into abutment with the urging protuberance before completion of a pivotal motion of a disc tray until the completion of the pivotal motion of the disc tray.

Disc cartridge

The method of sucking water is capable of easily removing excess water included in a backing member adhered on a plate of a polishing apparatus. In the method, the excess water is removed from the backing member by the steps of: pressing a water absorbing member onto a holding surface of the backing member, on which the work piece is adhered and held, so as to absorb the excess water from the backing member; and sucking the excess water absorbed by the water absorbing member.

Method of sucking water and water sucking device

A disc cartridge includes a cartridge main body composed of a lower shell, in which a first opening that enables disc access for a disc-like recording medium in a housed state is formed, and an upper shell, a disc tray that is rotatably provided inside the cartridge main body and formed so that the recording medium can be mounted thereon, and a single shutter member disposed between the lower shell and the disc tray. A second opening, which enables disc access for the recording medium when the second opening overlaps the first opening in a thickness direction of the disc cartridge, is formed in the disc tray. The disc tray closes part of the first opening in a restricted state where the disc access is restricted, and is capable of opening the part of the first opening in a disc access state by being rotated inside the cartridge main body and causing the shutter member to slide. The shutter member closes another part of the first opening in the restricted state so as to close the first opening in concert with the disc tray, and in the disc access state the shutter member is caused to slide by the disc tray so as to be capable of opening the other part of the first opening.

In a disc cartridge for an optical disc and the like, to increase stiffness in an opening for a record and reproduction mechanism. A disc cartridgehas an upper shell, a center frame, and a lower shellclamped to one another. A center frame openingand a lower shell openingexpose a recording surface of a recording medium contained between the center frameand the upper shelldownwardly, and a reinforcing memberintegrally couples the ends of the center frame openingand a lower shell reinforcing memberintegrally couples the ends of the lower shell opening

A recording medium cartridge capable of permitting energy to be effectively transmitted from a welding horn to a casing to highly improve welding between an upper casing member and a lower casing member which is carried out in order to integrally form the casing. The casing members are made of crystalline resin to which a filler such as glass fiber or the like is added.

Recording medium cartridge with improved welding characteristics

A tape cassette providing a case body and a couple of hubs set rotatably in the case body, around which a tape-like member is wound, and a combination structure of the tape cassette and a driving device. The hub members provide a through hole in which a rotative driving spindle of a driving device is to be inserted through an insertion opening and a plurality of spline projections formed at an interior of the through hole, and the spline projection widens toward the insertion opening gradually. When the hub members are rotatively driven under an engagement of the spline projection thereof with an engagement projection of the rotative driving spindle of the driving device, since the hub member is forced toward the insertion opening, the hub member is moved toward the insertion opening, and it is consequently rotated stably at the location where it is moved to.

Tape cassette and combination structure of the tape cassette and driving device

In a tape cassette, a reel brake member has an opening hole portion for insertion of a brake release member on a device side, and a guide recessed portion for guiding the brake release member is formed in a central portion of an abutment side wall portion of the brake release member in the opening hole portion. This guide recessed portion is formed in the abutment side wall portion of the brake release member in a vertical direction in a central portion of the opening hole portion, and an internal surface of the guide recessed portion is formed into a U-shaped groove having a curved surface. Arms are provided on sides of a main body of a reel brake member via hinge portions, and a brake pawl is provided at a distal end of the respective brake pawls. An opening hole is formed for insertion of a brake release operation member provided on a device side. In addition, upper surface portion and lower surface portion are provided which are adapted to abut with and slide over internal surfaces of upper and lower cases. Recessed portions are provided on the upper surface portion on both sides of a front side at positions corresponding to outer circumferential edges of the tape reels, and a butt recessed portion is provided on a front side of the lower surface portion so as to correspond to holding ribs provided along tape reel receiving areas on a front side of a reel brake sliding area.

Tape cassette

A disk cartridge has a casing composed of upper and lower casings which are adapted to rotatably receive therein a disk-like medium a shutter attached to the casing so as to open and shut openings for driving shaft insertion holes and magnetic head insertion holes formed in the upper and lower casings a disk-like medium taking-out port formed in the casing and a cover member for opening and closing the disk-like medium taking-out port wherein the cover member is disposed in the casing at a position opposing the shutter a disk-like medium placing portion is provided by forming tongue-like projections in the cover member to support the disk-like member from its lower surface side; the cover member is so arranged as to slide between the upper and lower casings whereby the disk-like member can be taken out by simply drawing the cover member from the disk-like medium taking-out port or the disk-like medium can be placed by simply inserting it, and operability in exchanging the disk-like medium can be done extremely well. The lower casing is so constructed that a recessed face portion for receiving the tongue-like projections formed in the cover member is formed in an inner face which opposes the disk-like medium whereby the strength of the casing can be well maintained; easy taking-out and insertion of the disk-like medium are permissible, and good operability of exchanging the disk-like medium is obtainable.

Disk cartridge

A tape cassette having a case body including an upper case and a lower case, a recessed portion formed on the side of a lower surface of the case body, and a slider so provided in the case body as to be slidable for opening and closing the recessed portion, is disclosed. The tape cassette further has a lock member positioned at an opening of the lower case to lock the slider in respective positions where the recessed portion is closed and opened, and a biasing member, supported at its two side ends with the opening being interposed therebetween by an inner surface of the lower case, for biasing the slider to a lock position.

Tape cassette having a biased locked member

An improvement of a tape cartridge is characterized in that connecting plate parts having recesses, one for each, in the rear inner portions thereof facing the exposed tape portion. The recesses formed in the rear inner portions of the connecting plate parts are preferably bevels tapering rearwardly and outwardly, but they may take the form of steps instead.

Tape cartridge

A cartridge including a housing which holds a tape medium or disk medium and which is composed of upper and lower casings. The two casings are joined with screws in bosses formed at their four corners. The cartridge is characterized in that the bosses in at least one of the upper and lower casings have ends with partially different heights each so that, when the upper and lower casings are joined, their bosses come in contact with one another before the sidewalls of the in casings are mated.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kenji Hashizume