Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Canon U.s.a., Inc.

Kunihiro Sakai

Takahiro Oguchi

Hiroshi Matsuda

Haruki Kawada

Toshihiko Miyazaki

Akihiko Yamano

Ken Eguchi

Katsunori Hatanaka

Hisaaki Kawade

Kiyoshi Takimoto

Shunichi Shido

Hiroyasu Nose

Yuko Morikawa

Yoshihiro Yanagisawa

Ryo Kuroda

Yoshinori Tomida

Yukuo Nishimura

Toshimitsu Kawase

Takashi Nakagiri

Toshiaki Kimura

Kenji Saito

Eigo Kawakami

Masahiro Fushimi

Kenji Saitoh

Tetsuya Kaneko

Hidetoshi Suzuki

Hideya Kumomi

Masaki Kuribayashi

Takashi Hamamoto

Yutaka Hirai

Minoru Yoshii

Nobuhiro Ito

Etsuro Kishi

Osamu Takamatsu

Hideyuki Kawagishi

Yuji Kasanuki

Teruyoshi Washizawa

Toshihiko Takeda

Keisuke Yamamoto

Takayuki Yagi

Masahiro Haruta

Kenton C Hasson

Takehiko Kawasaki

Yoshio Suzuki

Takamasa Sakuragi

Hiroyuki Sugata

Johnathan Stuart Coursey

Katsuhiko Shinjo

Shulin Zeng

George Maltezos

Masahiro Tagawa

Noritake Suzuki

Yasuyuki Todokoro

Masahiko Miyamoto

Hongye Liang

Arvind Virmani

Yasufumi Sato

Hanyoup Kim

Makoto Ogusu

Harini Shandilya

Melissa Gosse

Yoichi Murakami

Yuki Kasanuki

Tsutomi Ikeda

Christopher Sneeder

Shun-Ichi Shido

Sunichi Shido

Denis Alias

Toshimitsu Kawasa

Abhijit Dohale

Jason Zsak

Brian Scrivens

Yasuyuki Numajiri

Horoshi Matsuda

The present invention relates to sample-to-answer systems, devices, cartridges, and method of using the same for detecting the presence of microorganisms in a sample, such as bacteria.

Sample-to-answer system for microorganism detection featuring target enrichment, amplification and detection

A method of manufacturing an image forming apparatus having an envelope made of members inclusive of a first substrate and a second substrate disposed at a space being set therebetween, image forming means and spacers disposed in the envelope, the spacers maintaining the space, the method including the steps of forming a spacer having a desired shape by cutting a spacer base member, and abutting the spacer upon the first and second substrates at a non-cut surfaces of the spacer.

Method of manufacturing image forming apparatus

A method of manufacturing an image forming apparatus having an envelope made of members inclusive of a first substrate and a second substrate disposed at a space being set therebetween, image forming means and spacers disposed in the envelope, the spacers maintaining the space, the method comprising the steps of forming a spacer having a desired shape by cutting a spacer base member, and abutting the spacer upon the first and second substrates at non-cut surfaces of the spacer.

A method of manufacturing a spacer having a low-resistance film without using any exhaust device, and being interposed between a first substrate having an image forming member and a second substrate having an electron-emitting device. The method including the steps of preparing a spacer substrate with an edge including a tapered, chamfered or arcuated portion, preparing a liquid comprising a dispersed conductive material or dissolved conductive material, dipping the edge into the liquid, and drying and/or baking the spacer substrate after the dipping step.

Method of manufacturing spacer, method of manufacturing image forming apparatus using spacer, and apparatus for manufacturing spacer

Method of manufacturing an image forming apparatus having improved spacers

In an image display apparatus which has a multi-electron beam source in which a plurality of electron emission elements are connected in a matrix pattern using a plurality of data electrodes and a plurality of scanning electrodes, and a fluorescent screen having phosphors of three primary colors R, G, and B corresponding to the electron emission elements, natural white color emission is obtained while suppressing a decrease in G luminance, using, e.g., a checkerboard layout which has a G spatial resolution higher than the R or B spatial resolution and includes more G phosphors than the R or B phosphors. For this purpose, the scanning electrodes connected to the electron emission elements corresponding to the G phosphors are electrically independent from those connected to the electron emission elements corresponding to the R or B phosphors, signal components corresponding to the G phosphors and signal components corresponding to the R or B phosphors are extracted from an image signal for a 1-line period, and the scanning electrode connected to the electron emission elements corresponding to the G phosphors and those connected to the electron emission elements corresponding to the R or B phosphors are selected during successively the 1-line period.

Image display apparatus and its driving method

This invention has as its object to easily form a low-cost spacer having a low-resistance film (electrode) without using any exhaust device. This invention provides a method of manufacturing a spacer interposed between the first substrate having an image forming member and the second substrate having an electron-emitting device, including the steps of preparing a glass preform, stretching part of the glass preform while heating the glass preform by a heater, and cutting the stretched glass preform into a desired length, wherein the stretching step has the step of feeding the glass preform at a velocity v toward the heater, and stretching the glass preform heated by the heater in a direction away from the heater at a velocity v , and the velocities v and v have different speeds and satisfy a relation: v <v

Method and manufacturing an image forming apparatus having improved spacers

A method and apparatus for driving an electron source in which a high-quality image display is presented by correcting a non-uniform effective current distribution caused in cold cathode elements by leakage current. A digital video signal enters a shift register where a serial-to-parallel conversion is made for each line of an image based upon a shift clock signal. One line of the image data that has been subjected to the serial-to-parallel conversion is latched in a latch circuit and then applied to a voltage modulating circuit. The latter voltage-modulates the input data and sends the modulated signal to a voltage/current converting circuit. The latter converts the voltage quantity to a current quantity, which is applied to each of the cold cathode elements of a display panel through respective column terminals. A voltage V is applied to the selected row wire, and a voltage V (V &ne;V ) is applied to all other row wires, for controlling the leakage current.

Electron-beam generating device having plurality of cold cathode elements, method of driving said device and image forming apparatus applying same

In order to prevent voltage drops across the wiring resistances in a multi-electron source having a plurality of electron emitters wired in the form of a matrix through a plurality of data wiring layers and a plurality of scanning wiring layers, a constant current signal is output to each data wiring layer. At this time, each non-selected data wiring layer tends to be set at a high impedance and vary in potential, resulting in an abnormal turn-on operation or an electron orbit shift. A driving circuit for solving this problem is provided. A switch for switching a constant current output unit for outputting a constant current regardless of the impedance of a signal output destination, and a constant voltage output unit for outputting a constant voltage regardless of the impedance of a signal output destination is connected to each data wiring layer. For example, a constant-current circuit (,) as a current output unit always outputs the same current (I,to In) to a switch (,). A pulse width signal (PW,to PWn) from a pulse-width modulation circuit (,) serves to switch the mode of outputting a current (I,to In) to a data wiring layer (D,to D,) and the mode of fixing a data wiring layer to voltage GND.

Electron generating device, image display apparatus, driving circuit therefor, and driving method

A microprobe is provided which comprises a single crystal provided on a part of one main surface of a substrate or a part of a thin film formed on one main surface of the substrate. The microprobe may have a single crystal having an apex portion surrounded by facets having a specific plane direction and comprising a specific crystal face. The method for preparing the microprobe and an electronic device employing the microprobe also provided which is useful for recording and reproducing.

Microprobe, preparation thereof and electronic device by use of said

Image display apparatus having phosphors arranged in a checkerboard

In an information processing apparatus, at least one of recording and reproduction of information is performed while two-dimensionally scanning a recording medium with a probe, utilizing a physical phenomenon occurring between the probe and the medium. The apparatus includes a scanning mechanism for effecting relative movement between the probe and the medium so as to translate the probe as drawing a circular or elliptic locus on the medium and a recording and/or reproducing circuit for performing at least one of the recording and reproduction of information, utilizing the physical phenomenon during the relative movement.

Information processing apparatus with probe undergoing circular motion

An information processing apparatus utilizing a scanning tunnel microscope includes a probe, a detector for detecting the distance between the probe and an object opposed thereto, based on a physical interaction working between the probe and the object, an electrostatic actuator for displacing the probe, for adjusting the distance between the probe and the object. The electrostatic actuator includes mutually opposed two electrodes: A controller is provided for controlling the amount of charge to be accumulated between the electrodes, so as to maintain a desired distance between the probe and the object, based on the result of detection by the detector.

Information processing aparatus effecting probe position control with

Apparatus for storing image information in a recording medium, and outputting image information based on editing information includes dividing structure for dividing input image information. A memory is provided for storing each of the divided input image information. The memory includes a plurality of probes, each probe being arranged to oppose the recording medium. The memory also includes scanning structure for relatively moving the probes and the recording medium so that the probes scan a surface of the recording medium. The memory also includes recording and reproducing structure for recording the divided information on the recording medium by using the probes, and for reproducing the divided information recorded on the recording medium. Control circuitry is provided for controlling the scanning structure according to scanning procedures for each of the probes based on the editing information.

Apparatus for recording and reproducing image information in a recording

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Isehara, Japan

Kunihiro Sakai