Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Fujifilm Corporation

Renesas Electronics Corporation

Sts Corporation

Sho-ongikenco., Ltd.

Takahiro Kato

Takehiro Yoshida

Makoto Kobayashi

Takeshi Ono

Tomoyuki Takeda

Masaya Kondo

Yasushi Ishida

Takashi Awai

Minoru Yokoyama

Akihiro Tomoda

Masakatsu Yamada

Takahiro Ishizuka

Satoshi Wada

Terukazu Yanagi

Akio Tamura

Hiroshi Takakura

Masaki Hamada

Kensaku Tanaka

Kunio Seto

Yasuhiro Watanabe

Masaaki Shimizu

Yasuhisa Ishizawa

Kenzoh Ina

Taketo Hasegawa

Fumio Furukawa

Masayuki Utsumi

Mamoru Osada

Yutaka Nozoe

Naoya Shibata

Masaki Sagoh

Yasufumi Ooishi

Yukio Nohata

Akifumi Shirasaka

Toshihiro Kamada

Yukari Shibuya

Takashi Minagawa

Yukari Taniguchi

Misato Sasada

Teruyuki Nishii

Hirotaka Kitagawa

Yuki Hirai

Koji Yasuda

Miho Asahi

Takafumi Hosokawa

Susumu Matsuzaki

Takashi Iizumi

Tomoko Kuwabara

Hirofumi Omura

Kazushige Nakagawa

Kiyoo Amako

Tokiko Hashimoto

Masaka Hamada

Takashi Miagawa

Kikuo Takise

Hitoshi Ohkura

Toshihiro Kamata

An object of the invention is to provide a photo-alignment copolymer which makes it possible to produce a photo-alignment film having excellent solvent resistance and liquid crystal aligning properties, and a photo-alignment film and an optical laminate produced using the photo-alignment copolymer. A photo-alignment copolymer of the invention is a photo-alignment copolymer having a repeating unit A including a photo-alignment group represented by Formula (A) and a repeating unit B including a crosslinkable group represented by Formula (B).

Photo-alignment copolymer, photo-alignment film, and optical laminate

An ink composition includes: (Component a) a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond; (Component b) a polymerization initiator; (Component c) water; and (Component d) a polyhydric alcohol having an alkyleneoxy chain, wherein the (Component a) polymerizable compound includes a monofunctional polymerizable monomer having a (meth)acrylamide structure, and a content of the monofunctional polymerizable monomer is 5% by mass or more with respect to a total content of the (Component a) polymerizable compound.

Ink composition, ink set, and image forming method

An image recording apparatus, for conveying a roll paper as a sheet and a cut paper as a sheet to record an image on the sheet, includes a sheet type selecting unit, a rotation amount measurement unit, a determination unit, a conveyance suspension unit, and a first conveyance restarting unit. The sheet type selecting unit allows a user to select a roll paper mode and a cut paper mode. The determination unit determines whether a conveyed sheet is the roll paper or the cut paper based on the rotation amount measured by the rotation amount measurement unit. The conveyance suspension unit suspends the sheet conveyance in response to it being determined that the conveyed sheet is different from the selected sheet type. The first conveyance restarting unit restarts a sheet conveyance by the conveyance suspended during the cut paper mode, by switching to the roll paper mode.

Image recording apparatus and control method thereof

An ink set for ink jet recording including an ink composition containing a coloring material, and a polymer particle including 65 mass % or more of a constituent unit derived from a methacrylic acid derivative, and a treating liquid which forms an aggregate when contacted with the ink composition, and an ink jet recording method using the same are provided.

Ink set for ink jet recording and ink jet recording method

The invention provides a water-based ink composition including: a water-based medium, a colored particle containing a pigment and a water-insoluble polymer dispersant, and a self-dispersing polymer particle including a hydrophilic constituent unit, and a hydrophobic constituent unit derived from alicyclic (meth)acrylate, as well as an ink set comprising the water-based ink composition, and an image forming method using the aqueaous ink composition or the ink set.

Water-based ink composition, ink set and image forming method

An aqueous ink composition including: a water-soluble polymerizable compound containing two or more polymerizable functional groups each selected from the group consisting of a (meth)acrylamide group, a maleimide group, a vinyl sulfone group, and an N-vinyl amide group, wherein a ratio of a molecular weight of the compound relative to a number of the polymerizable functional groups contained in a single molecule of the compound is 175 or less; a polymerization initiator; and water.

Ink composition, ink set and image forming method

There are provided an ink composition including a coloring material, a hydrophilic organic solvent, polymer particles that have a minimum filming temperature (MFT) of 60&#xb0; C. or more when dispersed in water and that have a MFT 40&#xb0; C. or more lower than the MFTwhen mixed with water and 25 mass % of the hydrophilic organic solvent based on a solid content of the polymer, and water; an ink set including the ink composition and a treating liquid capable of forming an aggregate upon contact with the ink composition; and an ink-jet recording method using the ink composition or the ink set.

Ink composition, ink set and ink-jet recording method

An ink-jet ink composition comprising: a pigment, a polymer pigment dispersion, polymer particles, a hydrophilic organic solvent, water, and at least one of a water-soluble acidic compound having a molecular weight of 200 or less or a salt thereof in an amount of from 50 ppm to 1,000 ppm; an ink set that includes the ink-jet ink composition and a treatment liquid that forms an aggregate when contacted with the ink-jet ink composition; and an image forming method using the ink set.

Ink-jet ink composition, ink set, and image forming method

An on-chip phase-locked loop circuit has reduced power consumption in a semiconductor integrated circuit. The phase locked loop circuit is equipped with a phase frequency comparator, a loop attenuator, a charge pump, a loop filter, a voltage controlled oscillator and a divider. The attenuator includes a sampling circuit and a counter. A sampling pulse and first and second output signals both outputted from the phase frequency comparator are supplied to the sampling circuit. The sampling circuit outputs a sampling output signal. When the counter completes a countup of a predetermined number of sampling pulses outputted from the sampling circuit, the counter outputs a countup completion output signal. The charge pump outputs a charging current or a discharging current to the loop filter in response to the countup completion output signal.

Semiconductor integrated circuit having an on-chip PLL and operating method thereof

An ink composition for ink-jet recording, including: coloring particles containing a pigment that is coated with a water-insoluble polymer dispersant, and self-dispersing polymer particles containing a first polymer which includes a constituent unit derived from a hydrophilic monomer and a constituent unit derived from a hydrophobic monomer, and which has a glass transition temperature from 150&#xb0; C. to 250&#xb0; C. and an I/O value of from 0.20 to 0.55; an ink set including the ink composition; and an image forming method using the ink set are provided.

Ink composition for ink-jet recording, ink set and image forming method

The invention provides an aqueous ink composition including: a) a water-based medium; b) a compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond; and c) resin particles including a water-insoluble vinyl polymer and a water-insoluble photoinitiator.

Aqueous ink composition, ink set, and inkjet image forming method

Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit device that includes a ring oscillator circuit, performs a proper oscillation operation, and expands the range of oscillation frequency variation. The ring oscillator circuit includes, for instance, plural differential amplifier circuits. MOS transistors are respectively added to input nodes of a differential pair of the differential amplifier circuits. Further, gate control circuits are incorporated to control the gates of the MOS transistors, respectively. The gate control circuits cause the MOS transistors to function as an amplitude limiter circuit in mode, exercise control to turn off the amplitude limiter circuit in mode, and use the amplitude limiter circuit to start oscillation in mode

Semiconductor integrated circuit device

An aqueous inkjet recording ink including at least a resin (A), a pigment (B) dispersed with the resin (A), a resin emulsion (C), and an aqueous liquid medium (D), wherein the resin (A) includes hydrophobic structural units (a) and hydrophilic structural units (b), the hydrophobic structural units (a) include a hydrophobic structural unit (a1) in an amount of 40% by mass or more of the resin (A), the hydrophobic structural unit (a1) having an aromatic ring indirectly linked to an atom for forming the main chain of the resin (A), and a hydrophobic structural unit (a2) in an amount of 15% by mass or more of the resin (A), the hydrophobic structural unit (a2) being derived from a Cto Calkyl acrylate or methacrylate, the hydrophilic structural units (b) include a structural unit (b1) derived from an acrylic acid or a methacrylic acid, and the content of the hydrophilic structural units (b) is 15% by mass or less in the resin (A).

Aqeous inkjet recording ink

An ink-jet recording method is provided. The ink-jet method includes recording an images by ejecting, onto a recording medium by an-inkjet method, a liquid composition containing polymer particles having a glass transition temperature (Tg) higher than the minimum film forming temperature (MFT) at least by 5&#xb0; C., a hydrophilic organic solvent, a surfactant, and water under ejection conditions satisfying all of the following (1) to (3): (1) Tg&#x3e;the temperature of the liquid composition at the time of ejection&#x3e;MFT, (2) MFT&#x3e;20&#xb0; C., and (3) the temperature of the liquid composition at the time of ejection is 30&#xb0; C. or higher.

Ink-jet recording method and recorded matter

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takahiro Kato