Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Nec Corporation

Wellpine Communications Co., Ltd.

Max Co., Ltd.

Nec C Orporation

Takahiro Matsui

Takuya Hatsui

Yuzuru Ishida

Ichiro Saito

Maki Kato

Yoshinori Misumi

Souta Takeuchi

Yoshiyuki Imanaka

Takaaki Yamaguchi

Kousuke Kubo

Norihiro Yoshinari

Kazuaki Shibata

Teruo Ozaki

Sakai Yokoyama

Akio Goto

Tsubasa Funabashi

Hirokazu Komuro

Kenji Takahashi

Toshiyasu Sakai

Makoto Sakurai

Nobuyuki Hirayama

Masaaki Kimura

Sadayoshi Sakuma

Hiroyuki Ishinaga

Kimiyuki Hayasaki

Takatsugu Moriya

Hiroyuki Murayama

Atsushi Koike

Souhei Tanaka

Takeru Yasuda

Yoshihiro Hamada

Hirohisa Usami

An object of the present invention is to provide a tube having a holding force and being easily crushed. The present disclosure provides a tube into which an insert can be inserted. The tube into which an insert can be inserted, the tube includes a plurality of protrusions provided to protrude from an inner wall surface of the tube and to be inclined with respect to the inner wall surface.

Tube

A recording apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head including a heating element, a first protection layer that blocks contact between the heating element and liquid, a second protection layer that covers at least a portion of the first protection layer to be heated by the heating element and that functions as a first electrode, a second electrode that is electrically connected to the first electrode through the liquid, an ejection port that ejects the liquid, and a temperature detection element that corresponds to the heating element, and a detection unit configured to detect a feature point in a temperature curve that indicates a relationship between time and temperature, in which a combination of a potential set for the first electrode and a potential set for the second electrode in a case where printing is performed varies from that in a case where the detection unit detects the feature point.

Recording apparatus and control method

An information processing device system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: acquire a customer identifier (ID) that identifies a customer at a store; generate action information that represents an action of the customer in the store; and assign points in association with the customer ID based on the action information.

Information processing device, processing method, and recording medium

An article recommendation device includes: a memory; and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The processor performs operations. The operations include: acquiring a first article based on information related to a predetermined evaluation in a networking service; acquiring at least one of a category that includes the acquired first article and a feature of the first article; acquiring a second article related to at least one of the acquired category and the feature; and displaying the acquired second article as a recommended article.

Article recommendation device, article recommendation method, and recording medium

An information processing apparatus () detects that a customer () takes up a product from a display area (), using a captured image (). The information processing apparatus () generates information (customer information) indicating the acquisition count by the customer () in a manner that is associated with an identifier of the customer (). The information processing apparatussets the acquisition count, which is indicated by the customer information on the customer (), in a case where the customer () makes payment for the products, to zero.

Information processing apparatus, control method, and program

A method of cleaning a liquid discharge head includes first eluting a first electrode and second eluting a second electrode. In the cleaning method, the first eluting and the second eluting are executed such that a ratio between a first electric power amount used in the first eluting and a second electric power amount used in the second eluting is a ratio based on a ratio between an area of a first face of the first electrode and an area of a second face of the second electrode.

Cleaning method of liquid discharge head and liquid discharge apparatus

A liquid ejection apparatus, an ejection control method, and a liquid ejection head are capable of suppressing shortening of the life of the liquid ejection head and maintaining stable ejection operation. For this purpose, voltage is applied to upper electrodes and counter electrodes so as to make the voltage at the upper electrodes lower than the voltage at the counter electrodes before heat generating resistive elements are driven, and voltage is applied to the upper electrodes and the counter electrodes so as to make the voltage at the upper electrodes higher than the voltage at the counter electrodes at the same time as or after the start of driving of the heat generating resistive elements.

Liquid ejection apparatus, ejection control method, and liquid ejection head

A liquid ejection head substrate including a base including a surface having a first and second heat generation elements, a conductive first covering portion, a conductive second covering portion, an insulating layer disposed between the first heat generation element and the first covering portion, and between the second heat generation element and the second covering portion, a fuse portion, first wiring electrically connected to the first covering portion through the fuse portion, the first wiring electrically connecting the first covering portion to the second covering portion, a terminal electrically connected to the first covering portion and the second covering portion through the first wiring, second wiring, and electric connection portions provided between the fuse portion and the terminal in a current path passing through the first wiring, the electric connection portions parallelly connecting the first and second wiring to each other.

Liquid ejection head substrate, method of manufacturing liquid ejection head substrate, and liquid ejection head

The liquid discharge head substrate includes a first covering portion that covers the first heat generation element and that has conductivity, a second covering portion that covers the second heat generation element and that has conductivity, an insulative layer disposed between the first heat generation element and the first covering portion and between the second heat generation element and the second covering portion, a fuse portion provided on the substrate on a side on which the first covering portion is provided, common wiring for electrically coupling the first covering portion and the second covering portion, the common wiring coupled with the first covering portion via the fuse portion, and a cover layer including at least silicon and carbon and covering the fuse portion.

Liquid discharge head substrate and liquid discharge head

A first image capture unit generates a first customer image. A generation unit generates association information in which the first image and payment information are associated with each other. A second image capture unit generates a second customer image. A calculation unit calculates a first degree of similarity between a customer included in the first image and a customer included in the second image. An acquisition unit acquires payment information associated with the first image where there is the first image having the first degree of similarity equal to or greater than a first threshold value. A display control unit displays a candidate image where there is no first image having the first degree of similarity equal to or greater than the first threshold value. A first input reception unit receives an input for selecting a candidate image. The acquisition unit acquires payment information associated with the selected candidate image.

Payment system, payment apparatus, program, and payment method

A liquid-discharge-head substrate includes a first covering portion covering a first heating resistance element and having electrical conductivity, a second covering portion covering a second heating resistance element and having electrical conductivity, a fuse, and a common wiring line for electrically connecting the first and second covering portions. The common wiring line is electrically connected with the first covering portion via the fuse. The common wiring line and the fuse each have a multilayer structure including a stack of a plurality of conductive layers including a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer that is less oxidizable than the first conductive layer.

Liquid-discharge-head substrate, liquid discharge head, and method for manufacturing liquid-discharge-head substrate

A liquid discharge head substrate including a discharge opening through which a liquid is discharged, a base that includes a surface in which a heat generating element that generates heat to discharge the liquid through the discharge opening is provided, a first electrode that covers the heat generating element, a flow passage through which the liquid flows from a supply port that supplies the liquid, through the surface of the first electrode, and towards a collection port that collects the liquid, and a second electrode provided inside the flow passage, the second electrode together with the first electrode forming an electric field in the liquid, in which the second electrode is provided downstream of the first electrode in a flow direction of the liquid flowing towards the collection port from the supply port.

Liquid discharge head substrate, liquid discharge head, liquid discharge apparatus, and method of controlling liquid discharge head

A liquid ejection head includes: a substrate for the liquid ejection head that includes a heating resistance element, a covering portion that covers the heating resistance element, and a fuse part that electrically connects the covering portion and a common wiring to each other; and a flow path forming member. The flow path forming member is provided with a through-opening or a concave portion that is concave from a surface of the flow path forming member on a side of the substrate for the liquid ejection head, at a position that overlaps at least a part of the fuse part.

Liquid ejection head

Influence of transform of quality to an entire liquid discharge head is suppressed when a heat resistor and a covering portion are electrically connected to each other. To address this problem, a liquid discharge head substrate includes fuse portions for respective heat resistor arrays.

Liquid discharge head substrate, liquid discharge head, and method for disconnecting fuse portion in liquid discharge head substrate

A liquid ejecting head maintains stable ejecting operations without causing kogation. To achieve such operations, the liquid ejecting head includes, in its liquid chamber, a first electrode placed so as to cover a heating resistor, a second electrode placed at a position different from that of the first electrode, and a third electrode. In a case where the heating resistor is driven, a voltage is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode so that the first electrode has the same polarity as that of a predetermined liquid component, and the second electrode has the opposite polarity. In a case where the heating resistor is not driven, a voltage is applied between the second electrode and the third electrode so that the second electrode has the same polarity as that of the predetermined component, and the third electrode has the opposite polarity.

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Takahiro Matsui