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Asahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Showa Denko Kabushiki Kaisha

Minoru Takeda

Motohiro Furuki

Seiji Kobayashi

Koichi Maruyama

Akio Yasuda

Tatsumi Ito

Akira Toyama

Makoto Ando

Koji Ashizaki

Shingo Imanishi

Takahiro Toyoda

Nobuyuki Arakawa

Masanobu Yamamoto

Masataka Shinoda

Toshiyuki Kashiwagi

Shigeo Kubota

Hisayuki Yamatsu

Yuichi Aki

Satoru Miyabe

Yoshihiro Hanada

Morio Kobayashi

Akira Nishida

Yutaka Hayashi

Jun Sasaki

Mari Ichimura

Michio Oka

Noriyuki Kishii

Kazuhiro Nakagawa

Masayuki Togawa

Setsuo Norioka

Naoki Date

Shingo Sugiyama

Takao Kondo

Shin Masuhara

Seiichi Nakagawa

Masaya Suzuki

Tohru Ogawa

Makoto Iwaki

Michihiro Ohnishi

Hiroshi Suganuma

Kiyoshi Toyama

Machio Yamagishi

Mitsuru Koizumi

Hirotaka Tagoshi

Tadashi Hattori

Kazuyuki Fujiwara

Michio Negishi

Tomoteru Abe

Hiroshi Kawase

Tetsuo Abe

Takuro Yamamoto

Kouki Okawauchi

Toshiaki Miyokawa

Susumu Tago

Masahiro Kanbara

Hironori Fujita

Gakuo Komatsubara

Syunitirou Wakamiya

Mayumi Shiono

Disclosed is a method for producing an electrocast belt which method ensures long-term use of an electrocasting bath and which method enables provision of an electrocast belt having a required product quality even when an electrocasting bath that has been used in electrolysis with a large cumulative amount of electricity. The method includes a first step of producing an electrocast belt having a required product quality in an electrocasting bath of a specific composition until a predetermined period of time has elapsed; a second step of subsequently producing an electrocast belt in the same electrocasting bath; and a third step of polishing a surface of the electrocast belt produced from the second step so that the electrocast belt produced from the third step has a product quality equivalent to that of the electrocast belt produced from the first step.

Method of producing electrocast belt

An electromagnetic induction heating element includes a first heating layerformed of electrocast nickel and having an endless-belt-like form; a second heating layerformed of a non-magnetic material; and a coating layerhaving a thickness of 3 &#x3bc;m or less, wherein the first heating layer, the second heating layer, and the coating layerare sequentially stacked.

Method for producing a fixation belt

The present invention provides a fixation member having a multi-layer metallic structure, which member comprises a substrate employing electroformed nickel for preventing image quality failure. The fixation member of the present invention includes a metallic substrate including a first layer formed of an electroformed seamless belt made of nickel or a nickel alloy, and a second layer formed of an electroformed seamless belt made of a metal having a thermal conductivity greater than that of the first layer; an adhesion layer disposed on the surface of the second layer; and a fluororesin layer disposed by the mediation of the adhesion layer, wherein the ratio of the thickness of the second layer to the total thickness of the metallic substrate is 0.66 to 0.95.

Image-fixation member having multi-layer metallic structure

A substrate for bioassay comprises a substrate and a group of reaction regions serving as a field where interaction between substances proceeds and formed in the substrate, and a group of information pits used to obtain positional information of individual reaction regions and/or substance information used in the reaction regions. The group of reaction regions and the group of information pits are not formed in the same substrate surface. A bioassay apparatus using the substrate and a method for making the substrate are also provided.

Substrate and device for bioassay and method for making the substrate

A recording medium processing device includes a printing section capable of printing visible information on a non-recording side of a recording medium, a data processing section for retrieving print data in which one recording medium and visible information printed and/or to be printed on the non-recording side of the recording medium are associated with each other, and a print configuration section for determining a printing area of the visible information to be printed on the non-recording side of the one recording medium based on the print data retrieved by the data processing section.

Recording medium processing device, printing method, and computer program

A recording medium driving device includes a recording and/or playback unit for performing at least one of recording of a data signal on the recoding surface of a recording medium, and playback of a data signal from the recording surface, a printing unit for printing visible information on the main surface different from the recording surface of the recording medium using an inkjet method, a driver for performing driving as to the recording medium, and a drive control unit for switching the driving speed of the driver by a printing mode for printing visible information on the main surface or a recording/playback mode for recording or playback of the data signal on/from the recording surface.

Recording medium driving device and recording medium driving method

A method of manufacturing a magnetic disk is provided. The method of manufacturing a magnetic disk includes the step of disposing a plurality of magnetic recording tracks concentrically, each of the magnetic recording track including a data information recording area and a control information recording area, and the step of forming a separation groove between data areas each included in the data information recording area, and in which data is written, wherein, the step of forming a separation groove includes the step of forming a resist layer having an opening corresponding to a pattern of the separation groove by photolithography, and the step of etching to form the separation groove on a surface of a substrate or a material formed on the substrate through the opening of the resist layer, the step of forming the resist layer and the step of etching are performed for both of a front surface and a back surface of the substrate.

Method of manufacturing magnetic disk

Disclosed is a print apparatus including a rotating unit rotating a printed object, a print head printing visible information by ejecting ink droplets onto the printed object being rotated by the rotating unit, and a control unit generating ink ejection data based on the visible information and controlling the print head based on the ink ejection data. In the print apparatus, the control unit converts the visible information, which is expressed using biaxial perpendicular coordinate data, to polar coordinate data and carries out dot density correction that applies a correction weighting calculated in accordance with the number of dots per unit area for each dot in the polar coordinate data to a luminance value of each dot to generate the ink ejection data.

Print apparatus, print method and recording medium driving apparatus

A printer-equipped disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: a disk drive; a printer; a single light-emitting indicator unit able to luminously indicate colors; an ink tank containing color inks of which the number corresponds to the number of colors the light-emitting indicator unit can indicate; an ink level detection unit that detects color ink levels in the ink tank and outputs detected signals; a printing operation detection unit that detects a printer operation and outputs a detected signal; a drive operation detection unit that detects a disk drive operation and outputs a detected signal; and a first light emission control unit that controls a luminous color and state of the light-emitting indicator unit in accordance with the printer operation, the disk drive operation and the color ink levels on the basis of the detected signals from the ink level detection unit, printing operation detection unit and drive operation detection unit.

Printer-equipped disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus

A recording medium processing apparatus is disclosed. The recording medium processing apparatus includes: a head unit which traces a track formed on a recording surface of a recording medium and reads a data signal; a signal processing unit which detects positional information of the recording medium on the basis of the data signal; and a printing unit which prints visible information on a non-recording surface of the recording medium by referring to the positional information.

Recording medium processing apparatus, printing method, and computer program

An information recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a laser light source from which a laser beam having a wavelength of from 220 nm to 280 nm exits; and a converging lens unit disposed at a nearfield area of a recording medium and upon which the laser beam from the laser light source is incident. The converging lens unit includes an objective lens and a solid immersion lens. The solid immersion lens is disposed between the objective lens and the recording medium, and is formed of a highly refractive material having a high transmittance. The information recording and/or reproducing apparatus records an information signal onto or reproduces an information signal from the recording medium by irradiating the recording medium with the laser beam from the laser light source.

Information recording and/or reproducing apparatus

A method of producing a stamper, an optical recording medium produced by molding using the stamper, and a method of producing the same, wherein a base member having a mirror polished main surface and comprising silicon or glass is formed with a resist film; the resist film is exposed by a focused electron beam, an ultraviolet ray laser, etc. and developed so as to form a resist film of a pattern corresponding to relief shapes; the mirror surface of the base member is processed to relief shapes (projecting regions and recessed regions) by dry etching etc. using the obtained resist film as a mask so as to obtain a stamper; the obtained stamper is used for injection molding to form a medium substrate; and an optical recording multilayer film and a protective layer are formed to thereby produce an optical recording medium.

Stamper for producing optical recording medium, optical recording medium, and methods of producing the same

The invention is to offer an optical device which is capable of reducing the insertion loss comparing with a conventional one. The optical switch comprises a fiber collimator for input an light beam, a fiber collimator for output the light beam to the outside, an optical path switching element, an optical path switching element as well as a slider arranged in the optical paths between the fiber collimator and the fiber collimator to change the light path and the optical characteristics, a solenoid actuator for moving the slider, a guide mechanism for guiding the slider as the slider moves, a magnet for generating a magnetic field, the magnet being arranged at a position where the slider is pressed against the guide mechanism by means of a magnetic force of a magnetic field generated by the magnet.

Optical device

An electron beam irradiation apparatus, includes a support section for supporting an electron beam irradiation subject to be irradiated with an electron beam, and an electron beam irradiation head opposed to the electron beam irradiation subject via a minute space, the electron beam irradiation head having an electron beam emission hole for irradiating the electron beam irradiation subject with the electron beam. In the electron beam irradiation head, an electron beam path communicating with the electron beam emission hole is provided, and in addition one or more ring shaped gas suction grooves opened from a surface of the electron beam irradiation head facing the electron beam irradiation subject is formed around the electron beam emission hole. Vacuum pumps are coupled to the electron beam path and the ring shaped gas suction grooves, and the electron beam path is held in a high vacuum state.

Electron beam irradiation apparatus, electron beam irradiation method, original disk, stamper, and recording medium

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Tokyo, Japan

Minoru Takeda