Konica Corporation

Seiko Instruments Inc

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.

Nihon Micro Coating Co., Ltd.

Ntt Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.

Osamu Murata

Yoshikazu Maekawa

Masanobu Kawano

Yasushi Yamada

Nobuo Suzuki

Junzi Sato

Norio Jouichi

Hideo Watanabe

Toru Yamazaki

Masaru Ushio

Kazuhiro Hirota

Tsuyoshi Mizubata

Hisao Hosoya

Minoru Kawano

Kohji Yoshie

Hiroaki Arakawa

Kazunobu Miura

Yutaka Aoki

Tomoya Motoyoshi

Tetsuo Okuno

Eiji Iri

Tetsuya Baba

Yoshio Kashima

Yoshio Ueda

Yuji Kakutani

Yasunari Nobuoka

Tatsuro Ooishi

An ink-jet head in which an ink emitting surface (front surface) for emitting ink from ink channels partitioned by piezo-electric driving walls is opposite to an ink supplying surface (rear surface) for supplying ink to the ink channels, wherein the printed circuit board which covers the ear parts of ink channels provides, wiring electrodes to be electrically connected to connecting wires which are extended to the rear surface to drive piezo-electric elements, and a recessed area (to work as a common ink chamber) which faces to ink channels to supply ink to the ink channels.

Ink-jet head

A polishing film includes a plastic film and a polishing layer formed on its surface, having a mixture of a first group of silica particles with a first average diameter and a second group of silica particles with a second average diameter fixed in a resin binder, the first average diameter and the second diameter being different from each other and both within a range of 0.001-10 &#x3bc;m. The mixture of the two groups of silica particles has a granularity distribution curve with two peaks at two different diameter values corresponding to the first and second average diameters.

Polishing film and method of producing same

A driving apparatus for a printer, includes: a first memory for successively storing pixel data by one pixel on the basis of data of a plurality of bits constituting one pixel which represents gradation, which are inputted in parallel, and after storing a predetermined number of pixel data, for outputting in parallel the stored pixel data; a position information signal outputting device provided in accordance with each of outputs from the first memory for outputting a position information signal within a pixel according to each pixel data of the first memory; and a recording device provided in accordance with each of outputs from the position information signal outputting device and driven according to the position information signal within the pixel.

Driving apparatus for printer capable of recording multiple gradation,

In a method of making an optical fiber termination which includes a ferrule consisting of a cylindrical pipe having a through hole at the center, the ferrule is finished in advance to a convex spherical surface. After the optical fiber inserted into and fixed to the ferrule, the end surfaces of the ferrule and the optical fiber are together ground and shaped.

Method of making fiber termination

A sorter, which sorts sheets transferred from an image forming apparatus to form a plurality of sheet stacks and staples each sheet stacks, is disclosed herewith. The sorter is provided with a plurality of bins arrayed in an upright direction for stacking the sorted sheets, and is provided also with a stapler to staple each sheet stack. The bin is adapted to swing horizontally between a first angular position to stack the sorted sheets and a second angular position to undergo the stapling of the sheet stack by the stapler. The stapler is adapted to move along the upright direction through a plurality of stapling positions, and staples each sheet set at each stapling position.

Sorter with trays having guide plates and return springs

A sorter provided with a stapler for use with an image forming apparatus, in which there are provided a plurality of bins each for accommodating various widths of recording sheets delivered from the image forming apparatus, the center of the sheets being positioned in the center of the bins. An aligner aligns the accommodated sheets by pushing the sides of the sheets toward a reference stop wall on each of the bins, and a casing to house the bins is integrated into a unit. The casing is movable in a direction at right angles to a feeding direction of the sheets, and is moved to correspond with the width of the sheets. The home position of the casing is set to a position where the minimum width of sheets are accommodated.

Sorter with casing movable in a transverse direction to the direction of

The invention provides a copying apparatus for producing a required number of copy sets of two-sided copy from document sheets of an original by selecting one of ADF mode in which the required number of copy sets are produced simultaneously and RDH mode in which the required number of copy sets are produced one set by one set.

Copier having copy mode selection means

An automatic document feeding apparatus in which a plurality of documents are sequentially fed to an image exposure section. Before the completion of the exposure of a foregoing document, the feeding of a following document is started to place the document on a given position before the image exposure section and stopped thereon temporarily for stand-by. The position of the temporary stop of the following document can be varied in accordance with document size detecting signals from a document size detector or selected in such a manner that the distance between the trailing end of the foregoing document and the leading end of the following document becomes constant substantially irrespective of the size of the document.

Automatic document feeding apparatus

An automatic document feeding apparatus wherein a plurality of sheet-like documents are fed sheet by sheet to an image exposure portion, and discharge the documents by discharge device after exposed by an optical device. Before completion of the exposure operation of a preceding sheet-like document, a succeeding document is stopped temporarily and kept in the stand-by state at least in two stop positions corresponding to document sizes respectively on the upstream side of the image exposure portion, according to a document size detection signal from document size detection device. That a distance from the leading edge of the succeeding document in the temporary stop state to the leading edge of a preceding document in the image exposure portion is set greater than a distance from the trailing edge of the preceding document in the image exposure portion to a discharge position of the discharge device.

The present invention relates to a connector for connecting optical fiber ribbons to each other, each of ribbons including a plurality of optical fibers spaced in line, and a method of attaching the same. The connector comprises an alignment member for placing the optical fibers in the grooves formed therein, a deformable metal member disposed on the optical fibers in the grooves of the alignment member, and a ferrule incorporated at the front end pportion with both the alignment member and the deformable metal member and adapted at the rear end portion to retain the unexposed portion of the optical fiber ribbon. Accordingly, the optical fibers are fixedly held between the alignment member and the deformable metal member while the ribbon is fixedly held by the rear end portion of the ferrule. The front ends of the optical fibers are cut at the front end of the ferrule. As the result, the optical fiber ribbon can remain fastened firmly and securely for a long period of time and additionally, its attaching work can be made with ease within a short time.

Connector for optical fiber ribbon and a method of attaching the same

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Hachioji, Japan

Osamu Murata