Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takashi Nakagiri

Yukuo Nishimura

Yutaka Hirai

Ken Eguchi

Hiroshi Matsuda

Haruki Kawada

Yoshiyuki Osada

Masahiro Haruta

Yoshinori Tomida

Kenji Saito

Kunihiro Sakai

Shigeru Ohno

Toshihiko Miyazaki

Yasushi Sato

Seiji Saito

Ichiro Endo

Katsumi Nakagawa

Toshiyuki Komatsu

Masao Sugata

Satoshi Omata

Tadaji Fukuda

Toshiaki Kimura

Katsunori Hatanaka

Masaki Fukaya

Yukitoshi Okubo

Yuko Morikawa

Masaki Kuribayashi

Takashi Hamamoto

Seishiro Yoshioka

Mamoru Miyawaki

Kenji Saitoh

Hisaaki Kawade

Yoshihiro Yanagisawa

Noriyuki Nose

Kiyoshi Takimoto

Noritaka Mochizuki

Yukitoshi Ohkubo

Masaki Konishi

Takaaki Yamagata

Bubble jet recording is performed using a recording head with an orifice for projecting liquid. A liquid path with a plurality of electrothermal transducers is in fluid communication with the orifice. The transducers are selectively driven to change the amount of liquid ejected from the orifice.

Bubble jet recording with selectively driven electrothermal transducers

A recording device, comprising a probe electrode, a recording medium having electric memory effect and a writing voltage applying unit for applying voltage onto the recording medium from the probe electrode, and a reproducing device comprising a probe electrode, a recording medium exhibiting electric memory effect or a recording medium recorded by energy irradiation, a voltage applying unit for applying voltage not exceeding the threshold value voltage giving rise to electric memory effect onto the recording medium from the probe electrode and a reading unit for reading the change in current quantity passing through the recording medium.

Recording device and reproduction device

A recording apparatus comprises an inlet for accepting a liquid to be delivered to an outlet orifice through a liquid flow path. Liquid is supplied to the inlet for flow through the liquid flow path to a heating element, which heats liquid in the liquid flow path. Heating is sufficient to cause a change of state of the liquid (that is, to generate a bubble) and produce a force acting on the liquid which overcomes the surface tension of liquid at the orifice and thereby projects a droplet of liquid from the orifice. The temperature of the heating element is raised at each actuation to a temperature above the maximum temperature at which the liquid in the liquid flow path is subjected only to nucleate boiling so as to promote substantially instantaneous transfer of heat to the liquid proximate to the heating element and to retard the transfer of heat from the heating element to liquid at other locations in the liquid flow path. A processing circuit changes either the size or number of the projected droplets to effect tone gradation recording.

Bubble jet recording apparatus with processing circuit for tone

In a semiconductor device comprising a wiring to be connected to the source region or the drain region of a thin film transistor, at least a portion of the wiring comprising a wiring part having the same cross-sectional structure as said source region or said drain region, and said wiring part being formed continuously with said source region or said drain region simultaneously with the respective end portions of said wiring portions, said source region and said drain region formed in such a manner that the edge thereof is set back from the end of the semiconductor layer constituting the thin film transistor.

Semiconductor device including a thin film transistor and a wiring

A switching device is characterized by having periodical layer structure of an organic insulator between a pair of electrodes and having memorizability with respect to switching characteristic. The layer structure is formed of an amphiphilic compound according to the LB method.

Switching device

A recording apparatus for recording an image sensed by a photosensor comprises an inlet for accepting a liquid to be delivered to an outlet orifice through a liquid flow path. Liquid is supplied to the inlet for flow through the liquid flow path to a heating element, which heats liquid in the liquid flow path in response to signals received by the photosensor. Heating is sufficient to cause a change of state of the liquid (that is, to generate a bubble) and produce a force acting on the liquid which overcomes the surface tension of liquid at the orifice and thereby projects a droplet of liquid from the orifice. The temperature of the heating element is raised at each actuation to a temperature above the maximum temperature at which the liquid in the liquid flow path is subjected only to nucleate boiling so as to promote substantially instantaneous transfer of heat to the liquid proximate to the heating element and to retard the transfer of heat from the heating element to liquid at other locations in the liquid flow path.

Recording apparatus which projects droplets of liquid through generation

Liquid droplets are formed by instantaneous state change by thermal energy of a liquid filled in a thermal chamber, said droplets being deposited onto a recording member to achieve recording.

Bubble jet recording apparatus actuated by interface means

An optical recording medium is provided which comprises a diacetylene derivative compound and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of azulenium salt compounds, pyrylium dyes, diene compounds, croconic methines, and polymethine compounds. An optical recording method is also provided which comprises a step of writing by irradiating with a radiation ray corresponding to a recording information an optical recording medium comprising a polydiacetylene derivative compound and a compound selected from the above-mentioned group.

Optical recording medium and optical recording method

A semiconductor element comprises its main part constituted of a polycrystalline silicon semiconductor layer containing 0.01 to 1 atomic % of fluorine atoms.

Semiconductor element

An image forming device is provided which comprises an image forming layer containing molecules of an organic compound capable of phase transition, and functional molecules such as those of a photochromic compound. An image forming process is also provided which employs the above-mentioned device.

Image forming device

An image forming medium is provided which has an image forming layer comprising a monomolecular film of a diacetylene derivative compound or its built-up film and a radiation absorbing layer. The diacetylene derivative compound may be polymeric. An image forming device employing the image forming medium is also provided.

Image recording medium comprising a diacetylene derivative compound film

A film forming device includes an optical device which has a light source, and a first optical system for projecting light beams split by a light splitting device. The light splitting device and the optical system steadily maintain the intensity center of the light beam projected onto a detecting surface of a light detector at an invariable position without positional fluctuation independently of fluctuation of an emitting angle to a thin film of the light source.

Device for measuring light absorption characteristics of a thin film

An optical recording device and an information memorizing device utilizing the same are provided. The optical recording device comprises an A-layer comprising a chromogenic compound which is usually colorless or pale colored, a B-layer comprising an auxochromic compound capable of making said chromogenic compound form color through contact with said chromogenic compound, and a light-absorbing layer, at least one of the three layers being constituted of a monomolecular film or a built-up film thereof.

Optical recording device

A recording method is provided which comprises irradiating a recording medium having a recording layer containing a diacetylene derivative compound with a laser beam having a wavelength of 420 to 800 nm according to an input information to allow irradiated portions of the recording medium to cause a color change and thereby to conduct recording. A recording medium for the recording method is also provided.

Recording method and recording medium

An optical recording-reproducing method comprising the step of irradiating a radiation for polymerization on an optical recording medium having a recording layer containing at least one selected from the group consisting of azulenium salt compounds, pyrylium dyes, diene compounds, croconic methine dyes and polymethine compounds (hereinafter called the group B) and a diacetylene derivative compound; the step of irradiating a radiation corresponding to a recording information to thereby change the color at the irradiated portion of the recording layer; and the step of reading the recorded information by irradiating a reading light with a shorter wavelength than said radiation on said recording layer. Also, an optical recording-reproducing device utilizes the above-mentioned method.

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Takashi Nakagiri