Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takayuki Sekine

Yoshiyuki Nakagawa

Shuzo Iwanaga

Koichi Ishida

Tatsuya Yamada

Shintaro Kasai

Takatsugu Moriya

Shinji Kishikawa

Akiko Saito

Kenichi Murata

Koichiro Nakazawa

Eisuke Nishitani

Shingo Nozawa

Takumi Otani

Masataka Sakurai

Yasue Sato

Makoto Kojima

Yoichi Ando

Takuto Moriguchi

Akiko Hammura

Toru Koike

Kota Iwasaki

An imaging apparatus according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes a sensor unit, a front engine that generates compressed raw image data by processing image data acquired from the sensor unit, a main engine that executes a development process on the compressed raw image data acquired from the front engine, and a display unit that displays an image. The front engine controls the display unit to display an image based on the image data acquired from the sensor unit, and the main engine records the image data subjected to the development process in a recording medium.

Imaging apparatus and controlling method

A control apparatus includes: a determination unit configured to determine a target region; an output unit configured to output a predetermined light to the target region; a detection unit configured to detect intrusion of an object to the target region by detecting the predetermined light, wherein, in accordance that the intrusion of an object to the target region is detected by the detection unit in a state of outputting the predetermined light to a first region, the determination unit is further configured to determine a second region as the target region wherein the second region is larger than the first region.

Control apparatus, control method and non-transitory computer-readable medium

A liquid discharge head includes a recording element configured to generate thermal energy and a discharge orifice disposed at a position facing the recording element. A bubble is generated in liquid by the thermal energy, liquid between the bubble and the discharge orifice is discharged from the discharge orifice by the pressure of the generated bubble, and the bubble communicates with the atmosphere on the outside of the discharge orifice.

Liquid discharge head and liquid discharge method

A recording element board includes a discharge orifice configured to discharge liquid, a pressure chamber communicating with the discharge orifice, a recording element configured to generate thermal energy to cause bubbling of the liquid, the recording element being disposed in the pressure chamber facing the discharge orifice, and a substrate on which the recording element is formed. When the recording element is driven and the liquid of within the pressure chamber is discharged, a generated bubble communicates with the atmosphere. A discharge orifice projection region where the discharge orifice has been projected on the substrate includes a region includes a region extending beyond a heat-generating region projection region where the heat-generating region of the recording element has been projected on the substrate, the outline of the discharge orifice projection region is circumscribed by the outline of the heat-generating region projection region.

Recording element board and liquid discharge head

A recording element substrate includes: a substrate on which a plurality of energy generating elements that generate energy used for ejecting liquid are arranged side by side, an ejection port forming member in which ejection ports are formed at positions corresponding to the plurality of energy generating elements, a plurality of supply passages which are channels extending in a thickness direction of the substrate and through which liquid is supplied to the energy generating elements, and a support member that is formed between the substrate and the ejection port forming member and supports the ejection port forming member, in which supply ports that are apertures of the plurality of supply passages are linearly arranged side by side on the substrate, and a plurality of support members are provided side by side between adjacent supply ports on the substrate in a direction in which the supply ports are aligned.

Recording element substrate and liquid ejection head

A liquid ejection head having at least one energy generation element for generating heat to be used for ejecting a liquid includes an insulating layer which is provided in contact with a substrate and supports the energy generation element; at least one heat transmitting layer which is composed of a material having a higher thermal conductivity than that of a material of the insulating layer and which is provided, in the insulating layer, between the energy generation element and the substrate; and a heat transmitting member which thermally connects the at least one heat transmitting layer and the substrate, wherein the heat transmitting member is connected to an area, on the heat transmitting layer, excluding an area directly below the energy generation element in a position interposed between the energy generation element and the substrate.

Liquid ejection head and liquid ejection apparatus

A transfer-type ink jet recording apparatus including an intermediate image forming unit for applying an ink containing a resin to an intermediate transfer member to form an intermediate image and a transfer unit for transferring the intermediate image to a recording medium. The apparatus further includes a heating unit for heating the intermediate image to a temperature equal to or higher than the minimum film forming temperature of the resin and a cooling unit for cooling the intermediate image heated by the heating unit to a temperature lower than the glass transition temperature of the resin to supply the image to the transfer unit.

Transfer-type ink jet recording apparatus

An ink jet recording method includes forming first and second liquid composition aggregated layers by respectively applying first and second liquid compositions containing resin to a recording medium using an ink jet recording head; performing heating and pressurization of the medium in a first fixation step using a first fixing unit; and performing heating and pressurization of the medium in a second fixation step using a second fixing unit followed by cooling to separate the medium from the second fixing unit. MFT1&#x3e;MFT2 and T1&#x3e;MFT1&#x2267;T2&#x3e;MFT2&#x2267;T3 are satisfied, where MFT1, MFT2 are, respectively, minimum film forming temperatures of the first and second liquid composition aggregated layers, and T1, T2, and T3 are temperatures of the first and second liquid composition aggregated layers upon heating and pressurization in first and second fixation steps and upon separation in second fixation step, respectively.

Ink jet recording method

Provided is a manufacturing method of forming an airtight container including an electron beam irradiation process for irradiating an electron beam to a non-evaporable type getter that has not been activated so as not to activate the non-evaporable type getter, and a sealing process for sealing a seal portion after the electron beam irradiation process.

Airtight container manufacturing method involves irradiating an electron beam to a non-evaporable type getter so as not to activate it before a sealing process

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takayuki Sekine