Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd.

Ricoh Printing Systems, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Printing Solutions, Ltd.

Hitachi Kiki Co., Ltd.

Makoto Kurosawa

Hiroshi Sasaki

Tsuneki Kobayashi

Masaaki Koseki

Yoshikane Matsumoto

Yoshinari Suzuki

Kazuo Shimizu

Osamu Machida

Minoru Seino

Kensei Hosoya

Kenichi Igarashi

Yutaka Ito

Susumu Saito

Takahiro Yamada

Hitoshi Kida

Isao Nakajima

Satoru Tobita

Masataka Kawauchi

Junichi Matsuno

Kenji Yamada

Mamoru Okano

Yasushi Hashimoto

Toshitaka Ogawa

Michio Yanadori

Junshin Sakamoto

Takuji Torii

Yuji Hosoda

Toshio Hiki

Kenichi Kugai

Nobuhiro Noto

Katsunori Kawasumi

Tsuyoshi Ogasawara

Yuichiro Suzuki

Hiroshige Nakano

Takeshi Terakado

Hiroomi Kozawa

Kazunobu Hayashi

Satoru Wada

Youichi Takeuchi

Takahiro Kikuchi

Tetsuro Takahashi

Tetsuroh Takahashi

Ken-ichi Kawashima

A substrate is provided on which wires can be formed satisfactorily using a dispersion liquid of metal microparticles without causing disconnection or short circuit. The wiring substrate comprises a substrate, an organic membrane formed on the substrate, and a metal wire formed on the organic membrane. An arithmetic mean deviation Ra of the profile of the surface of the organic membrane where the metal wire is formed is not less than 60 nm and not more than 5&#xd7;10D, where D is the width of the metal wire. The contact angle with respect to water on the surface of the organic membrane where the metal wire is formed is not less than 110&#xb0;.

Wiring substrate

To coat a solution on both surfaces continuously in such a state that an edge portion of the substrate is so constructed as to be fixed, and the substrate is attached to a substrate fixing frame having a positioning mechanism.

Apparatus for forming thin film and method for forming the same

In an ink-jet head having an orifice ejecting an ink for forming an image, the ink-jet head further has a water repellent film for repelling the ink on a surface of the orifice, and the water repellent film has a fluorine-containing polymer resin layer and a part having a perfluoropolyether chain or a perfluoroalkyl chain bonded on the layer, whereby an ink-jet head and an ink-jet printer having a water repellent film having high water repelling property to an oil-based ink and high abrasion resistance can be provided.

Ink-jet head, ink-jet printer using the same, and process for producing ink-jet head

An inkjet recording head characterized by better ink repellency, greater resistance to abrasion and a longer service life than a conventional product can be attained when an ink repellent layer comprising a compound made up of a perfluoropolyether chain and alkoxysilane residue is formed on the nozzle plate of the inkjet recording head. An inkjet printer for forming an image by jetting out liquid ink, wherein this nozzle plate is employed, becomes substantially maintenance free.

Inkjet head

An inkjet head having an ink flow path communicated with an ink chamber to an inkjet nozzle and having an orifice plate to which the nozzle is formed. An ink-philic layer is formed on the surface of the ink flow path, and an ink repellent layer is formed on the surface of the orifice plate where the nozzle is formed. The ink-philic layer is made of amorphous silica or inorganic polymer of colloidal silica bonded with a polymer of (SiOR), and the ink repellent layer contains a compound having perfluoropolyether chain and alkoxysilane residue as a terminal.

Inkjet printer and printer head

A print head for ink jet printer having a reduced length in a main scanning direction and an elongated length in an auxiliary scanning direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction. A plurality of linear print head modules are arrayed in the auxiliary scanning direction, and each linear print head module extends in a slanting direction with respect to the main scanning direction by a predetermined angle. Further, each linear print head module has a width in a direction perpendicular to its extending direction. The slanting angle and the width determine scanning pitch extending in the auxiliary scanning direction and can reduces the length of the print head in the main scanning direction.

Print head having array of printing elements for printer

A rotary polygon mirror device comprises: a rotor including a polygon mirror secured to one end face of a cylinder, a central rod secured inside said cylinder in such a manner that the central rod is extended along the axis of the cylinder, and a thrust bearing magnet secured to the end face of the central rod, said magnet; and a casing coaxially surrounding the cylinder with a gap therebetween. In the device, the gap provides radial bearing means, and the cylinder and the casing are made equal in thermal expansion coefficient.

Dynamic pressure bearing and rotary polygon mirror device with the

In an electrostatic printing machine, a paper curl correction apparatus can vary the amount of curl correction provided by rotating paper guide rollers around a shaft on which paper conveying rollers are provided. As a result, angle between the shaft and a circumference of the paper guide rollers can be varied.

Paper curl correction apparatus

A paper feed device for holding a stack of printing paper sheets, has a paper holder box, a paper support bed on which the paper sheets are adapted to be placed and an elevator mechanism for moving the paper support bed upward and downward, a sensor detects the height of the paper sheets, whereby at the time of supply of the paper sheets, the paper support bed is moved downward so that the level of the paper sheets can be at a predetermined height relative to an upper end of the paper holder box.

Paper feed device

A sheet reversing apparatus comprises a support in which sheets are stacked, an entrance section for guiding the sheet to the support, a blowing mechanism for directing an air stream to a sheet stack on the support to separate a lowermost sheet from remaining sheets, and a feeding mechanism for attracting the sheet to feed it. Further, stopper plates are provided to be pivoted above the support so that it cooperates with the support to pinch and brake the sheet therebetween in a continuous reversing mode wherein the incoming sheet is immediately fed and that it abuts against the incoming sheet by a portion thereof opposing a leading end of the sheet in a stack reversing mode wherein while the sheets are being stacked the lowermost sheet is separated and fed.

Sheet reversing apparatus for individual sheet feeding

In an electrophotographic printing mechanism in which a photosensitive drum mechanism having a photosensitive drum and a drum cap is turned to electrostatically form an image on the photosensitive material wound on the drum, the drum cap is provided with a switch which is operated by a switch control unit, so that when the mechanism is stopped for urgent work, the operator is protected from being struck by electricity touching the drum cap.

Electrophotographic printing mechanism

A dot-line printer has a hammer bank carrying a plurality of printing hammers arranged in groups, each group having a predetermined number of printing hammers displaced from one another by predetermined numbers of dot-lines in the direction of paper feed. A shuttle mechanism causes the hammer bank to undergo reciprocating shuttle movements with a reversing period between successive shuttle movements. A character line, covering a predetermined number of dot-lines, is printed over a plurality of shuttle movements, a paper feed mechanism causing the paper to move a predetermined number of dot-lines in the reversing period between shuttle movements. A number of blank dot-lines separate a printed character line from the beginning of the first dot-line of the next character line to be printed. A control mechanism sets the reversing period between successive shuttle movements to be longer than the paper feed time to move the paper to the first dot-line to be printed after the preceding character line has been printed and causes the paper feed to the first dot-line of the next character line to be printed to occur entirely in the reversing period.

Paper feed control for a dot-line printer

A dot matrix type printer head in which delays in the release of print hammers are eliminated by providing release coils only in alternate hammer positions, or alternatively, activating at one time only release coils in one of even-numbered and odd-numbered hammer positions. A rear yoke and a permanent magnet affixed to a lower leg of the rear yoke are provided in common for all hammer positions. An upper leg of the rear yoke is divided into a plurality of pole pieces. Hammer elements are provided having lower ends rigidly affixed to the rear yoke at positions adjacent the permanent magnet and upper ends retractable against pole faces of corresponding pole pieces by the magnetic force of the permanent magnet. In a first preferred embodiment of the invention, release coils are provided around only even-numbered or odd-numbered pole pieces. In a second preferred embodiment, release coils are provided around all pole pieces, but only release coils in even-numbered or odd-numbered hammer positions are driven simultaneously. In either case, stray magnetic flux which causes a delay in the release of a print hammer interposed between two previously activated print hammers is eliminated.

Printhead which minimizes stray magnetic flux

A printing mechanism is provided with a counter-balanced hammer bank such that the hammer bank and a counterweight are oppositely reciprocated by a pair of cams mounted on a vertically oriented cam shaft. Vibration of the printer even at high speed can be eliminated by completely dynamically balancing the system.

Dot printer

A dot printer in which vibration is eliminated without the use of a separate counterweight. The printer includes first and second hammer banks each holding a plurality of dot printing elements. The first and second hammer banks are spaced apart from each other a predetermined distance in the direction in which a printing sheet passes. A motor and oppositely-phased drive cams reciprocate the two hammer banks in opposite directions parallel to a dot printing direction.

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Makoto Kurosawa