Lapin Create, Inc.

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.

Osaki Electric Co., Ltd.

Kogyo Kaihatsu Kenkyusho

Masaru Watanabe

Yasushi Gotoh

Michio Butsugan

Tomoko Higashiuchi

Ryoichi Nakanishi

Yohei Ishikawa

Fumihiko Kawauchi

Masahiro Aoshima

Yasuhiro Kawashima

Tomoaki Suga

Yoshiaki Takeuchi

Hiroshi Yoshizawa

Taku Kudoh

Masashi Kohchi

Ikoh Soh

Rikio Kasahara

Hideki Sueoka

Naoki Negishi

Yukihiko Okada

Ikuo Fukuzaki

Kazuo Tatara

Shozo Yamamoto

Tomiyoshi Inoue

Shin Hori

Masahiro Kitagawa

Disclosed are adsorbent particles each containing: a carrier particle containing an organic polymer; an amino group-containing polymer adhered to a surface of the carrier particle and including a constituent unit having an amino group; and a diglycolic acid residue bonded to the amino group of the amino group-containing polymer.

Adsorbent particles, method for producing adsorbent particles, base material particles, filling column and method for recovering rare earth element

Adsorbent particles each containing: a carrier particle containing an organic polymer containing a monomer unit derived from a styrene-based monomer; a hydrophilic organic compound adhered to a surface of the carrier particle; and a diglycolic acid residue bonded to the hydrophilic organic compound. When a BET specific surface of the adsorbent particles as determined by adsorption of nitrogen gas is Xand a BET specific surface area of the adsorbent particles as determined by adsorption of water vapor is X, X/Xis 0.10 to 1.0.

Adsorbent particles, base particle, packed column, and method for recovering rare-earth element

The present invention provides a separation material including porous polymer particles that comprise at least one of styrene and divinylbenzene as a monomer unit at a proportion of 90% by mass or more based on the total amount of the monomers; and a coating layer that comprises a macromolecule having hydroxyl groups and covers at least a portion of the surface of the porous polymer particles, wherein the coating amount provided by the coating layer is 1 to 15 mg/mper unit specific surface area of the porous polymer particles.

Separation material

The present invention provides a separation material that comprises porous polymer particles comprising a styrene-based monomer as a monomer unit; and a coating layer comprising a macromolecule having hydroxyl groups, which covers at least a portion of the surface of the porous polymer particles, and the separation material has a 5% compressive deformation modulus of 100 to 1,000 MPa, and has a mode diameter in the pore size distribution of 0.1 to 0.5 &#x3bc;m.

The present invention provides a separation material comprising porous polymer particles that comprise a styrene-based monomer as a monomer unit; and a coating layer that comprises a macromolecule having hydroxyl groups and covers at least a portion of the surface of the porous polymer particles, wherein the rupture strength is 10 mN or higher.

There is provided a portable light-emitting apparatus including: a near-field wireless communication unit for transmitting and receiving a light emission mode to and from another light-emitting apparatus; and a switching unit for starting control of the light-emitting apparatus according to the light emission mode received by the near-field wireless communication unit in response to a switching instruction originating from at least one of an action using the light-emitting apparatus and an action using another light-emitting apparatus. As one example, when a switching instruction is outputted by touching another light-emitting apparatus, it is possible for a plurality of light-emitting apparatuses to successively emit light in the manner of a torch relay.

Light-emitting apparatus with near field communication unit, a control method therefor, and a non-transitory recording medium

A portable light emitting apparatus () includes: a tube-like grip () held by the hand (); a light emitting unit () that is attached to one end () of the grip (), houses LEDs () to (), and outputs light of at least three different colors individually or in a mixture; and three color switches () to () that are disposed at positions pressed by a first finger (), a second finger (), and a third finger () on the grip () and operate a first function that carries out on/off control of light of the different colors.

Light emitting apparatus

A portable light emitting apparatus includes: a tube-like grip held by the hand; a light emitting unit that is attached to one end of the grip, houses LEDs to, and outputs light of at least three different colors individually or in a mixture; and three color switches to that are disposed at positions pressed by a first finger, a second finger, and a third finger on the grip and operate a first function that carries out on/off control of light of the different colors.

There is provided a light generating unit including a transparent vessel that is elongated and contains water and a light-emitting/bubble producing unit that is attached to a base plate of the vessel. The light-emitting/bubble producing unit includes a plurality of LEDs arranged around inner surfaces of side walls of the vessel and a plurality of nozzles for discharging gas that are disposed on an inside of the plurality of LEDs. Also provided is a display apparatus in which a plurality of the light generating units are arranged with the vessels adjacent to one another so as to construct a light generating block in the shape of a wall and which is capable of displaying images and/or information by way of bubbles and illumination light.

Light generating unit and apparatus equipped with a plurality of light generating units

Lighting apparatus

A cleaning unit for use in an inkjet recording apparatus, having an inkjet head including a nozzle face, includes a first wiping member and a second wiping member. The first wiping member slides on the nozzle face in a given direction while in contact with the nozzle face to remove ink from the nozzle face and accumulate the ink to one side of the nozzle face. The second wiping member, disposed rearward of the first wiping member with respect to the given direction, removes the ink accumulated by the first wiping member.

Apparatus having head cleaning unit for enhanced capability for cleaning liquid dispensing head

A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body; a page-width inkjet head unit capable of ejecting fluid droplets without substantially moving the page-width inkjet head unit while forming an image on a medium to be recorded on; a maintaining and recovering unit maintaining and recovering a function of a nozzle of the page-width inkjet head unit; and an engaging unit for engaging the page-width inkjet head unit and the maintaining and recovering unit together as a single unit when the page-width inkjet head unit and the maintaining and recovering unit are removed from the apparatus main body as a single unit.

Image forming apparatus

A disclosed image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium includes an inkjet head having a nozzle surface and inkjet nozzles on the nozzle surface and configured to jet ink droplets from the inkjet nozzles; a recording medium conveying mechanism including a recording medium conveyor and configured to convey the recording medium by the recording medium conveyor into an image forming area facing the inkjet head; a test pattern forming part provided separately from the recording medium conveyor; a control unit configured to perform an image forming test where a test pattern is formed on the test pattern forming part by jetting ink droplets from the inkjet head; and a test pattern detection unit configured to detect the test pattern formed on the test pattern forming part.

In conventional optical isolators, an optical signal is dispersed by polarization or the characteristics are varied by heat generation in a garnet crystal. According to the invention, the crystal optical axis () of rutile crystal () is oriented so that the separation directions of the ordinary ray (O) and the extraordinary ray (E) are perpendicular to the plane including the optical axes of optical fibers (). Furthermore, the focusing central optical axis () of a focusing rod lens () is arranged parallel with optical axes of the optical fibers () and at a substantially equal distance from the four rays, i.e. the ordinary ray (O) and the extraordinary ray (E) propagating along the optical axis of the optical fiber () and the ordinary ray (O) and the extraordinary ray (E) propagating along the optical axis of the optical fiber (). An air gap () of about 200 [&#x3bc;m] is provided, as a heat insulating means, between the focusing rod lens () and a magnetized garnet crystal ().

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Masaru Watanabe