Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Kenji Yamakawa

Ryo Imai

Manabu Tobise

Tatsuya Fujinami

Norihisa Sutoh

Masamichi Sato

Yoshiyuki Takase

Yukihiro Kaneko

Hitoshi Saito

Yasuko Sonoda

Toshiaki Fujimaki

Masafumi Kamikubota

Masaru Inamura

The present invention provides an imaging module capable of performing positioning of an imaging element unit, and a lens unit at a low cost and with high precision and an electronic device including the imaging module. An imaging moduleincludes a lens unitincluding VCMsA,C, andE which move a lens groupin an x direction, a y direction, and a z direction, respectively, terminalsA andB which are connected to the VCMA, terminalsC andD which are connected to the VCMC, and terminalsE andF which are connected to the VCME, and an imaging element unitincluding terminalsA toF which are connected to the terminalsA toF. Exposed areas of the terminalsA andB are larger than exposed areas of the terminalsC toF.

Imaging module and electronic device

The present invention provides an imaging module, an electric device provided therewith, and an imaging-module manufacturing method capable of simply and reliably performing probing and fixing a lens unit and an imaging element unit to each other with high accuracy even when the miniaturized lens unit is used. A the lens unit () includes a focus driving unit, a housing (), a first connection portion (A), a first wiring portion by which the focus driving unit and the first connection portion are electrically connected to each other, and a second wiring portion which is electrically connected to the focus driving unit to which the first wiring portion is connected. The second wiring portion extends from the inside of the housing to the outside thereof, and a wire of the second wiring portion extends to an end surface on an end () of the extended second wiring portion.

Imaging module, electronic device provided therewith, and imaging-module manufacturing method

An imaging module, an electronic device, and an imaging-module manufacturing method capable of relatively easily adjusting a relative position between an imaging element unit and a lens unit with high accuracy are provided. An imaging moduleincludes an imaging element unita lens unitwhich includes a lens groupa first image-blur correction driving unita second image-blur correction driving unita focus driving unitand a connection portionwhich is electrically connected to a circuit of the imaging element unit by a conductive joining material, and a flexible wiring portionwhich includes a wiring group which connects the circuit of the imaging element unit to at least one driving unit among the first image-blur correction driving unit, the second image-blur correction driving unit, and the focus driving unit, and extends between the imaging element unit and the lens unit.

Imaging module, electronic device, and imaging-module manufacturing method

An imaging moduleincludes a lens unitand an imaging element unit. The lens unitincludes a VCMA which moves a lens groupin a z direction, terminalsA andB which are electrically connected to the VCMA, a VCMC and a VCME which move the lens groupin an x direction and a y direction, and terminalsC toF which are electrically connected to the VCMC and the VCME. The imaging element unitincludes terminalsA toF which are electrically connected to the terminalsA toF. Exposed areas of the terminalsA andB are larger than exposed areas of the terminalsC toF.

A vascular anastomosis device of an aspect of the presently disclosed subject matter can include: a head portion that is provided on a distal side of an insertion portion and is capable of projecting a joining member and a cutting member from a distal surface thereof; an anvil configured to deform the joining member projecting from the head portion at a position where the anvil faces the distal surface of the head portion; and a connection member that can be installed so as to be able to project from and retract into the head portion. The anvil can be connected to the distal end of the connection member. The connection member can be configured to allow, along an axial direction, a portion thereof to be separated and ends of the remaining portion to be joined together.

Vascular anastomosis device

A heating element of a thermal head has a first electrode layer formed on a glaze layer and a second electrode layer formed opposite to the first electrode layer. A first insulation layer is formed on the first electrode layer to expose both ends of the first electrode layer in a transporting direction of a recording paper. A third electrode layer is formed on the first insulation layer to expose both ends of the first insulation layer in the transporting direction, and a heating resistor layer is formed across the first to the third electrode layers and the first insulation layer. A protective layer is formed covering the first to the third electrode layers, the first insulation layer, and the heating resistor layer. A system controller selectively applies the current to among the first, the second and the third electrode layers based on the image data to record.

Thermal head and thermal printer

A roil of a recording paper is rotatably contained in a paper magazine. The magazine is provided with a mouth through which the recording paper is drawn out and fed to a printer. A leading edge of the recording paper is adapted to come into contact with an outer periphery of the roll by a contacting device. The remainder of the roll is indicated by an indicating device. The mouth of the magazine is opened and closed with a shutter unit. The inside of the magazine tightly closed with the shutter unit is kept at constant humidity by a humidity conditioning paper. On the other hand, the roll is caught between a pair of flanges. One of the flanges is biased by plate springs toward the other of the flanges so that the roll is held in the magazine without looseness.

Paper magazine for a recording paper roll and recording paper roll

A roll of a recording paper is rotatably contained in a paper magazine. The magazine is provided with a mouth through which the recording paper is drawn out and fed to a printer. A leading edge of the recording paper, is adapted to come into contact with an outer periphery of the roll by a contacting device. The remainder of the roll is indicated by an indicating device. The mouth of the magazine is opened and closed with a shutter unit. The inside of the magazine tightly closed with the shutter unit is kept at constant humidity by a humidity conditioning paper. On the other hand, the roll is caught between a pair of flanges. One of the flanges is biased by plate springs toward the other of the flanges so that the roll is held in the magazine without looseness.

Paper magazine for recording paper roll and recording paper roll

A roll of a recording paper is rotatably contained in a paper magazine. The magazine is provided with a mouth through which the recording paper is drawn out and fed to a printer. A leading edge of the recording paper is adapted to come into contact with an outer periphery of the roll by a contacting device. The remainder of the roll is indicated by an indicating device. The mouth of the magazine is opened and closed with a shutter unit. The inside of the magazine tightly closed with the shutter unit is kept at constant humidity by a humidity conditioning paper. On the other hand, the roll is caught between a pair of flanges. One of the flanges is biased by plate springs toward the other of the flanges so that the roll is held in the magazine without looseness.

A color thermosensitive recording material includes a support and yellow, magenta and cyan thermosensitive coloring layers formed on the support. The three coloring layers are different in thermal sensitivity. The yellow coloring layer is the farthest from the support and having fixability to ultraviolet rays of a first wavelength range. The magenta coloring layer has fixability to ultraviolet rays of a second wavelength range. To print a full-color image, the recording material is conveyed alternately in advancing and returning directions. In conveying the recording material in the advancing direction for three times, yellow, magenta and cyan images are recorded respectively to the three coloring layers inside a recording area on the recording material by use of a thermal head. A fixer is operated, which selectively applies ultraviolet rays of the first and second wavelength ranges to the recording material being moved past a ray applying region in a printing path, to fix the magenta and cyan color images. While a border between the recording area and a non-recording area is moved past the ray applying region, a shutter is moved together with the recording material, to avoid fixing the magenta and yellow coloring layers in the non-recording area.

Color thermal recording method and color thermal printer

In a thermal printer having a stationary thermal head and a platen movable between a pressing position on the thermal head and a retracted position off the thermal head, a paper transport device is provided with a platen shift device for shifting the platen between the retracted position and the pressing position, a feed roller device for transporting the recording paper to the thermal head along a transport path, and a guide member disposed between the feed roller device and the thermal head. The guide member is movable in cooperation with the platen shift device, such that when the platen shift device shifts the platen to the retracted position the guide member moves to a guide position in the transport path and guides the recording paper to remove slantwise from the thermal head while passing through between the thermal head and the platen. When the platen shift device shifts the platen to the pressing position the guide member moves to an ineffective position off the transport path.

Paper transport device for thermal printer

A protective sheet protects a recording surface of a recording sheet. Plural recording sheets are stacked with the recording surface of the recording sheets oriented toward the protective sheet. The recording sheet is fed for recording while an advancing edge of the recording sheet is advanced. The protective sheet includes a discriminative mark, disposed away from the advancing edge and on a surface oriented opposite to the plural recording sheets for signaling presence of the protective sheet. For use with those sheets, a printer records with a thermal head on a recording surface of a recording sheet set on a platen drum in rotation of the platen drum. The advancing edge is clamped by a clamper on the platen drum. The recording sheets and the protective sheet are fed one after another toward the platen drum, to pass the advancing edge of the one fed sheet inside the clamper. The advancing edge at the clamper is detected by the position sensor. The one fed sheet is mounted on the platen drum while rotating the platen drum after the clamper clamps the advancing edge. Presence of the discriminative mark is detected on the one fed sheet on the platen drum. If the discriminative mark is detected, the one fed sheet is judged as the protective sheet, to exit at least the protective sheet from the platen drum.

Protective sheet for recording sheets and printer in use therewith

During thermal recording and optical fixing of a sheet of thermosensitive recording paper, a leading end of the recording paper has been clamped by a clamp member for securing the recording paper to a platen drum. Thereafter, the clamp member is released, and the platen drum is rotated at a high speed to rapidly move the leading end to a bleaching position directly below the center of an ultraviolet lamp which is used for the optical fixing. The leading end is stopped in the bleaching position for a short time enough to bleach the leading end by the ultraviolet rays.

Bleaching method for thermosensitive recording medium

A wax transfer type thermal printer includes a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements arranged in the main scanning direction. Each heating element transfers an ink dot in a unit pixel. The length of each ink dot is changed in accordance with gradation levels. In printing characters, a unit pixel is used as one pixel. In printing a half-tone image, the heating elements are divided into plural groups each of which has N heating elements and records (N.times.M) unit pixels as one pixel, where M, N are integers of 2 or more.

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Kenji Yamakawa