Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Kentaro Ageishi

Yoshiro Yamashita

Ken Hashimoto

Hiroshi Ikeda

Jiro Minabe

Toshitake Yui

Daisuke Nakayama

Taichi Yamada

Hiroshi Inoue

Lyong Sun Pu

Takako Kobayashi

Yoshihiro Inaba

Ryosaku Igarashi

Kunichi Yamashita

Tsutomu Sugimoto

Ryuji Watanabe

Masayuki Ookoshi

A filament for three-dimensional modeling includes two or more kinds of resins; a fiber; and a compatibilizing agent, and has a sea-island structure including a sea part and island parts, the sea part including at least one kind of the two or more kinds of resins and the island parts including at least one kind of the two kinds of resins.

Filament for three-dimensional modeling

Provided is a shaping apparatus including: a stage; and a delivery unit configured to: deliver and apply a shaping material in which continuous fibers is impregnated with a resin onto the stage; and, configured to change delivery amounts between an inner side and an outer side of a path of the shaping material according to a difference in path lengths between the inner side and the outer side, the difference being generated when an applying direction of the shaping material is changed.

Shaping apparatus

An image recording composition including a curable material that is cured upon application of an external stimulus, water-absorbing resin particles, and a nonionic surfactant.

Image recording composition, image recording ink set and recording apparatus

A method includes: shaping a transparent belt base having opposite ends into a tubular shape with the ends thereof spaced away from or in contact with each other to make a tubular belt base; superposing a release base having a liquid layer of a curable polyurethane elastomer on and in contact with the outer periphery of the tubular belt base inclusive of the space or contact portion between the ends in a manner that the liquid layer is sandwiched in between the transparent belt base and the release base; curing the curable polyurethane elastomer while the liquid layer being sandwiched between the transparent belt base and the release base to form a transparent polyurethane elastomer layer; stripping the release base off the transparent polyurethane elastomer layer; and connecting the ends of the tubular transparent belt base spaced away from or in contact with each other to form a joint.

Intermediate transfer belt of image recording device, method for making the same, and image recording device

A layer forming device forms a layer of liquid absorbing particles on a surface of a layer of a hardenable solution capable of being hardened in response to a given stimulus so that the liquid absorbing particles absorb liquid drops supplied to the surface of the layer of the hardenable solution.

Layer forming device, image forming apparatus, and computer readable medium

A recording apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer member; a supply unit that supplies a curable liquid onto the intermediate transfer member, the curable liquid including at least one curable material that is cured by an external stimulus and a liquid absorbing material; a first temperature information acquisition unit that acquires temperature information related to the curable liquid; a temperature regulation unit that regulates the temperature of the curable liquid supplied onto the intermediate transfer member; an ink application unit that applies ink onto a curable liquid layer formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that brings the curable liquid layer onto which the ink has been applied into contact with a recording medium, and transfers the curable liquid layer from the intermediate transfer member to the recording medium; and a stimulus application unit that applies a stimulus for curing the curable liquid layer to the curable liquid layer.

Recording apparatus and recording method

A recording apparatus including: an intermediate transfer member; an image forming composition layer formation unit that supplies an image forming composition to the intermediate transfer member, the image forming composition containing a curable material that cures upon application of an external stimulus; an ink application unit that applies ink to the image forming composition layer that has been formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that transfers the image forming composition layer from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium by contacting the image forming composition layer onto which the ink has been applied with the recording medium; and a first stimulus application unit that applies a stimulus to the image forming composition layer that cures the image forming composition layer, the stimulus being applied at least one of immediately before the image forming composition layer comes into contact with the recording medium, or during the contact.

Recording apparatus

A recording device includes: an intermediate transfer member; a layer forming unit that forms a curable solution layer on the intermediate transfer member, the curable solution layer including a liquid-absorbing component, a curable material that is cured by irradiation of UV rays, and a surfactant having an HLB value of from 8 to 18; an ink supply unit that supplies ink droplets to the curable solution layer formed on the intermediate transfer member; a transfer unit that transfers the curable solution layer, to which the ink droplets have been applied, from the intermediate transfer member to a recording medium; and a UV irradiation unit that irradiates UV rays onto the recording medium, to which the curable solution layer has been transferred.

Recording device and recording material

An image recording composition including water-absorbing resin particles and a curable material that is cured upon application of an external stimulus, a volume average particle diameter of the water-absorbing resin particles being from about 0.5 &#x3bc;m to about 5.0 &#x3bc;m, and a content of the water-absorbing resin particles in the image recording composition being from about 5% by weight to about 50% by weight.

There is provided a recording apparatus including: an intermediate transfer body; a forming unit that forms an ink receiving layer on the intermediate transfer body, the ink receiving layer including a first solution layer containing a curable material that cures when irradiated with ultraviolet radiation, and a second solution layer, on the first solution layer, containing a curable material that cures when irradiated with ultraviolet radiation, and a liquid absorbing component, and in the case in which the first solution layer contains a liquid absorbing component, the content of the liquid absorbing component in the second solution layer being larger than the content of the liquid absorbing component in the first solution layer; an ink supplying unit that supplies ink droplets onto the ink receiving layer; a transferring unit that transfers the ink receiving layer from the intermediate transfer body to a recording medium; and an ultraviolet irradiation unit that irradiates the recording medium with ultraviolet radiation.

Recording apparatus that forms ink receiving layer(s) on an intermediate transfer body and recording method thereof

An image recording composition including a curable material that is cured upon application of an external stimulus, and a cationic resin having a cationic functional group.

The invention provides a transporting belt for inkjet use, the belt having a seamless belt shape having at least one layer, the innermost layer comprising at least one of polyamide, polyester, and polyimide resins as the resin component and a conductive filler, and having a volume resistivity of about 10to 10&#x3a9;&#xb7;cm.

Transporting belt for inkjet and inkjet-recording apparatus

Ink receiving particles is provided. The ink receiving particles includes polymer particles, the polymer particles including a resin including an acidic group and a polyoxyethylene chain, the acidic group at least partially having a salt structure.

Ink receiving particles, method for producing the same, and curable resin dispersion composition

A single-layer seamless inkjet conveying belt including a polyimide resin or a polyamide-imide resin as a resin component and a conductive filler, the inkjet conveying belt having a volume resistivity of 10to 10&#x3a9;cm. Also provided is an inkjet recording apparatus including a recording medium conveying device containing the inkjet conveying belt and a recording head that discharges ink droplets onto a recording medium.

Inkjet conveying belt and inkjet recording apparatus

The present invention provides a roll for charging a belt for inkjet recording, in which the roll has a surface layer including a fluororesin and having a nip resistance of 10to 10&#x3a9; at 23&#xb0; C. and 55% RH formed on a roll having an underlayer formed on the outer peripheral surface of a metal core material, and an inkjet recording apparatus equipped with the roll for charging a belt for inkjet recording.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kentaro Ageishi