Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Takaya Kitawaki

Hiroshi Kiyomoto

Masashi Hiroki

Daisuke Ishikawa

Kazuki Taira

Ryozo Akiyama

Daisuke Harayama

Shuhei Yokoyama

Takao Izumi

Yoshiaki Kaneko

Atsushi Kubota

Takashi Kado

Maiko Miyoshi

Seiya Shimizu

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Taishi Fukazawa

Yui Hiyoshi

A decolorizing apparatus includes a translucent heater, a casing, and a controller. The translucent heater is configured to generate heat according to an applied voltage. The casing is configured to support the translucent heater. The controller is configured to apply a voltage to the translucent heater. The voltage is associated with a temperature at which a thermochromic colorant.

Decolorizing apparatus

According to one embodiment, a mobile printer includes a first housing, a second housing, a hinge, and a print head. The first housing has a first surface on which a printing medium can be disposed. The second housing faces the first surface. The hinge connects the first housing and the second housing and permits the first and second housings to rotate relative to each other. The print head is provided in the second housing and is configured to print an image by discharging on to the print medium when the print medium is on the first surface between the first and second housings.

Mobile printer

According to at least one embodiment, a mobile printer includes a casing, a sensor, a print head, an interface, a controller, and a decolorizing device. The casing includes a power supply. The sensor detects the movement of the casing. The print head discharges ink containing a thermochromic colorant. The interface acquires image data. The controller discharges the ink from the print head based on the image data acquired by the interface and the movement of the casing detected by the sensor. The decolorizing device is coupled to the casing and includes a translucent film in which heat is generated by an applied voltage and a translucent substrate that is heated to a temperature at which the thermochromic colorant is decolorized by the heat generated in the translucent film.

A droplet dispensing apparatus includes a droplet ejection device, a microplate holder, a sheet stand, an image capturing device and a controller. The image capturing device is configured to move to a position above the sheet stand. The controller is configured to perform image processing on image data generated from an image captured by the image capturing device when the image capturing device is at the position above the test sheet on the sheet stand, to determine a size of each of test patterns formed by droplets dropped on the test sheet from the array of nozzles. The controller is further configured to generate a data file including the determined size of each of the test patterns. The test sheet colors or discolors at a place receiving a light-transmissive droplet.

Droplet dispensing apparatus

According to an embodiment, an ink composition for inkjet recording comprises a dispersion medium that contains water and glycol ether of which boiling point is equal to or greater than 220 degrees centigrade, a pigment and a core-shell particle that includes a core consisting of hydrophobic acrylic resin and a shell consisting of at least one of aqueous urethane resin and acrylic graft aqueous urethane resin.

Ink composition for inkjet recording

In accordance with one embodiment, an ink composition for inkjet recording comprises a pigment, a pigment dispersant, water, a water-soluble solvent, a wettability enhancer including 2,5,8,11-tetramethyl-6-dodecyne-5,8-diol, and an aqueous resin emulsion.

According to one embodiment, the inkjet head of an application example includes a pressure chamber for charging the ink, an actuator for changing the volume of the pressure chamber, a nozzle for discharging the ink inside the pressure chamber when the volume of the pressure chamber is changed, and a controller that, in the formation of one pixel by discharging ink drops from the nozzle, when the elapsed interval from discharging ink drops last time by the nozzle is less than the specified interval, outputs the discharging waveform corresponding to the ink drop number determined for the formation of the pixel, and when the elapsed interval is more than the specified interval, increases the number of ink drop discharge cycles above the number determined for the formation of the pixel.

Inkjet head and an inkjet recording device

An embodiment of the invention is concerned with an aqueous inkjet ink containing an ink solvent containing water and a water-soluble organic solvent containing glycerin and triethylene glycol and a pigment dispersed in the ink solvent. The water-soluble organic solvent accounts for from 30 to 80% by weight of the ink solvent, a weight of the triethylene glycol is from 0.5 to 1.5 times the weight of the glycerin, and the pigment is blended in an amount of from 2 to 20% by weight of the total weight of the ink.

Aqueous inkjet ink and inkjet recording method

An aqueous ink for inkjet recording is provided, which includes water, pigment, a water-soluble organic solvent incorporated at a content of not less than 30% by weight, a surfactant, and 3-methoxy-3-methyl-1-butanol. The surfactant is formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of acetylene glycol-based surfactant and a fluorinated surfactant.

Aqueous ink for inkjet recording

A non-aqueous ink composition for inkjet which comprises a pigment, a dispersant, and a non-aqueous solvent is disclosed. The non-aqueous solvent comprises 50 to 90% by weight of a first liquid paraffin, and the balance of a second liquid paraffin, which is characterized in that an average number of carbon atom in the first liquid paraffin is 28 and an average number of carbon atom in the second liquid paraffin ranges from 23 to 27.

Non-aqueous ink composition for inkjet

Disclosed is a non-aqueous ink composition for ink jet, comprising a pigment, a dispersant, and a non-aqueous solvent. At least 50% by weight of the entire non-aqueous solvent is an ester series solvent having 24 to 36 carbon atoms.

Non-aqueous ink composition for ink jet

A method for recording on a recording medium by discharging a non-aqueous ink containing a non-aqueous solvent and a pigment by an inkjet system. The method contains a step of preparing recording paper having a thickness exceeding 0.083 mm as a recording medium, a step of obtaining a volume Vand a thickness Tof the recording paper, a step of obtaining a volume Vof a solvent that is capable of being retained by the recording paper by using a solvent having a vapor pressure at 25&#xb0; C. of 0.001 mmHg or less and a specific gravity of from 0.800 to 1.200, a step of obtaining a solvent absorptivity A(%) of the recording paper by the following equation (1):=()&#xd7;100 &#x2003;&#x2003;(1)a step of obtaining an allowable ink amount V(pl/m) per unit area of the recording paper by the following equation (2):=(&#x2212;0.083)&#xd7;&#xd7;10&#x2003;&#x2003;(2)and a step of discharging the non-aqueous ink in an amount V(pl/m) satisfying the following equation (3) by an inkjet system:V&#x2266;V. &#x2003;&#x2003;(3)

Method for inkjet recording

An inkjet ink composition is provided, which includes pigment, a dispersing agent, and polyalkylene glycol monoether as a solvent. This ink composition is characterized in that the polyalkylene glycol monoether polyalkylene glycol monoether is constituted by 50-90 wt %, based on an entire quantity of the solvent, of tetraethylene glycol monobutylether, and the balance of triethylene glycol monobutylether.

Ink composition for inkjet

There is disclosed an inkjet ink composition including a pigment, a dispersing agent, and a solvent. This solvent is constituted by 60-80 wt %, based on an entire quantity of the solvent, of tetraethylene glycol monobutylether, and the balance of aliphatic alcohol having 14 or 16 carbon atoms.

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Izunokuni, Japan

Takaya Kitawaki