Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takayoshi Tsutsumi

Sadayuki Sugama

Yasuo Kotaki

Masanori Takenouchi

Toshihiko Ujita

Kenjiro Watanabe

Keiichiro Tsukuda

Yohei Sato

Torachika Osada

Hidemi Kubota

Kazuhiro Nakajima

Koji Yamakawa

Hiroyuki Inoue

Osamu Sato

Hirokazu Komuro

Shuzo Kaneko

Mineo Kaneko

Yoshifumi Hattori

Tohru Takahashi

Tatsuo Takeuchi

Osamu Kanome

Tsutomu Toyono

Yoichi Tosaka

Nagao Hosono

Akihiko Tojo

Ryo Fujimoto

Yoshiro Udagawa

Fumitaka Kan

Toshiaki Sasaki

A portable terminal carried and owned by each user is provided with a display screen, a communication unit, a memory storing personal information about each user, and an input/output device such as an inhaler. A database that communicates with each portable terminal is provided with a personal information storage unit storing the personal information about each user carrying the portable terminal, a medical information storage unit storing information about a medical facility, a drugstore, a medicine, and the input/output device, and a communication unit for communicating with each portable terminal. In the database, the user of the portable terminal is identified by collating the part of the information transmitted from the communication unit with information stored in the personal information storage unit. When a specific signal is transmitted from the communication unit, communication is performed with a medical facility while information, of the information stored in the medicine information storage unit, which is necessary for the user is provided for the portable terminal as an emergency measure. This makes it possible to properly and quickly handle an emergency.

Portable terminal and health management method and system using portable terminal

To reduce a quantity of uselessly consumed ink when an ink jet head is recoverably activated, the capacity of an ink path communicated with a group of ejecting ports having a small flow rate coefficient is determined to be smaller than that of an ink path communicated with a group of ejecting ports having a large flow rate coefficient. While all of plural groups of, ejecting ports are fully covered with a common recovering cap with the aid of sucking means, ink is, sucked from the plural groups of ejecting ports. When the ink remaining in the region extending from the plural groups of ejecting ports to predetermined positions in a plurality of ink paths communicated with the plural groups of ejecting ports is discharged, ink discharging positions are dislocated to predetermined positions in a plurality of ink paths to positionally coincide with the predetermined positions in the substantially same timing relationship after ejection recovering treatment starts to be conducted.

Ink jet head, ink jet apparatus and method of recoverably activating in the apparatus

A liquid storing container employable for an ink jet recording apparatus includes a housing, a storing area containing a porous ink absorbing member, a valve mechanism, a filter in contact with the porous member, and a stopper. The liquid storing container is detachably connected to an ink jet recording head, where the valve mechanism allows an outflow of ink to the ink jet head through the joint portion when connected to an ink feed pipe, and closes the joint portion when disconnected from the ink feed pipe.

Liquid storing container for recording apparatus

An ink refilling method for an ink container having a porous material capable of producing negative pressure therein and having an ink absorbing portion in a connecting zone with an ink jet recording head, after at least a part of initially contained ink is consumed through the ink absorbing portion includes breaking ink meniscus at the ink absorbing portion of the ink container; supplying the ink into the ink container by a negative pressure produced in the porous material by consumption of the ink, while maintaining fluid communication between the ink absorbing portion and the ink to be supplied.

Ink jet ink refilling method and apparatus

A liquid storing container, having a liquid feed portion for supplying liquid to a liquid injection recording apparatus, includes a rectangular receiving case for a porous member, and a filter that compresses the porous member. The liquid storing container provides for controlled feeding of liquid through a contact portion where the filter compresses the porous member, and a proper balance of air and liquid is achieved by symmetrical surfaces located within the receiving case.

Liquid storing container having filter interface for recording apparatus

A liquid storing container employable for an ink jet recording apparatus includes a housing, a porous ink absorbing member received in the housing, and a first filter coming in contact with the ink absorbing member. The liquid storing container is detachably connected to an ink jet recording head having a second filter disposed in a liquid flow path thereof. The liquid storing container is constructed such that the volume between the first filter and the second filter, a size of each filter, a condition for compressively receiving the ink absorbing member in the housing, and an inner structure of the liquid storing container satisfactorily coincide with predetermined conditions.

A method for manufacturing a recording head with integrally housed functional elements includes the steps of:

Method for manufacturing a recording head with integrally housed

An optical recording medium comprises an optical recording layer on a transparent substrate. The optical recording layer is then selectively irradiated with an energy beam to form therein a tracking region for guiding a laser beam for recording and reproduction. The tracking region is free of unevenness and has an optical characteristic different from that of the portion of the optical recording constituting a data recording region which has not been irradiated with the laser beam.

Optical recording medium and process for production thereof

An image recording and/or reproducing apparatus including a recording unit having a recording driving mechanism for recording a plurality of images in the form of electrostatic pattern on different regions of a photosensitive member, a reading unit having a beam source and capable of scanning the photosensitive member by an electron beam so as to convert the recorded pattern into electric signals, and a connecting member for connecting the recording unit and the reading unit without causing any change in the states of these units. This apparatus makes it possible to record and/or to reproduce images with a high image quality. The connecting member includes a container accommodating the recording unit and the reading unit. Alternatively, the connecting member is adapted to keep a portion of the recoding unit and a portion of the reading unit in close contact with each other.

Image recording and/or reproducing apparatus

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Takayoshi Tsutsumi