Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Lab. At-site Ltd.

Takemi Yamamoto

Yumio Matsumoto

Jun Sakai

Makoto Suzuki

Ryohei Komiya

Kazuo Sangyoji

Naoyuki Hatta

Kenji Sakakibara

Osamu Takagi

Yuji Asano

Shunichi Higashiyama

Masashi Ueda

Ichiro Sasaki

Akira Sago

Kiyoharu Hayakawa

Hitoshi Nakai

Susumu Kuzuya

Shigeyuki Hayashi

Michitoshi Akao

Hiroshi Kawahara

Yasuo Kimura

Isao Kagami

Yuuichi Takenaka

Naoto Iwao

Yasuhiro Hattori

Tsugio Okamoto

Yoichi Horaguchi

Takashi Nakata

Hitoshi Yoshida

Fumihiro Sunda

Koji Kobayakawa

Yoshiyuki Ban

Izumi Takagi

Takao Nakazawa

Kazuo Kobayashi

Shigeru Kagayama

Naohisa Kinoshita

Takeshi Asano

Takeshi Miyabayashi

Takeshi Izaki

Mitsuru Ohta

Osamu Nagata

Akihiro Sawada

Takashi Miki

Tsuneo Yasui

Hideo Yoshihara

Tetsuji Fuwa

Yoshimasa Hara

Masanari Kobayashi

Shigeo Ishikawa

Yuji Hiraoka

Kazuhiko Matsuda

Shigeki Ishikawa

Morimasa Mano

Kuniyasu Makino

Isao Kawano

Eiji Fujii

Yasuhiro Miki

Katsuhiko Yokoi

Yasutaka Tomida

Kouji Kobayakawa

Takehiko Murata

A peeling sheet on the back of a cover sheet is provided with a cover seal having a printed front surface is peeled off to partially expose an adhesive layer. A core material for cover is placed thereon. First side piece portion and second side piece portion are then peeled off and the entire surface of the first cover members, backbone member and second cover member of the core material for cover is bonded and fixed by the adhesive layer of the cover sheet for cover. Outer circumferential region of the cover seal for cover is then bent to the inside thus making a cover of a booklet. When a personal user edits electronic images and prints the electronic images on a printed sheet, the printed sheet can be fixed easily in a short time for making a booklet.

Method of creating booklet cover and booklet cover kit

A printing paper includes a sheet having a first surface and a second surface, an adhesive layer formed on the second surface, a release paper attached to the adhesive layer, a plurality of boundary lines including first folding direction boundary lines and second folding direction boundary lines that divide the sheet into page regions, the release paper having a plurality of release-assist formation lines, wherein when folding along the first folding direction boundary line, first partial surfaces of adjacent page regions are brought together and when folding along the second folding direction line, second partial surfaces of adjacent page regions are brought together. When folding along the first folding direction boundary line, at least one tab portion of the release paper detaches from the adhesive layer and extends outward from the second surface, and the at least one tab portion enables removal of the release paper.

Printing paper

To provide an intermediate medium capable of forming an image without gloss and also to provide an image forming device including the intermediate medium. The transfer belt is produced from polyimide by molding techniques using a mold having a surface roughness Rz of between 5 &mgr;m and 50 &mgr;m. Therefore, the transfer belt produced in this manner also has surface roughness Rz of between 5 &mgr;m and 50 &mgr;m. An ink image is first formed onto the transfer belt , and then, transferred onto a recording sheet S by application of heat and pressure. In this way, an ink image without gloss can be obtained.

Image forming device including intermediate medium

A hot melt ink which is applicable to an ink jet printing system where the hot melt ink is jetted out to a printing medium to form an image on the printing medium includes a binder which contains a hot melt composition; a coloring material which is dispersed in the binder; and a photo-curing composition. The binder as a dispersion medium is dispersed in the photo-curing composition in the form of grains and a surface of the hot melt ink is covered with the photo-curing composition when the hot melt ink is fixed on the printing medium. An ink jet printing apparatus includes a jetting device which jets the above hot melt ink melted by heat out to a printing medium to draw an image on the printing medium; and a light source for irradiating the hot melt ink on the printing medium which is jetted out from the jetting device to cure the photo-curing composition.

Hot melt ink and ink jet printing apparatus

An image forming device including a plurality of image forming units each for forming an image on an intermediate transfer body using one of different colored inks. Different colored images are selectively formed in an overlapping relation on the intermediate transfer body, thereby forming a multicolor image thereon. Each different colored image is formed by a thermal transfer operation in which ink on an ink holding member is heated, melted, and then transferred directly onto the intermediate transfer body or onto an existing ink image on the intermediate transfer body. Heat to be supplied to the ink to be transferred onto the existing ink image is insufficient to melt ink in the existing ink image.

Thermal transfer type image forming device

An ink cartridge includes a bag filled with ink and sealed. The bag is housed in a cartridge case. The bag is formed out of a laminate including a ductile film and a rigid film which are laminated together. The case has a hole, through which a hollow needle can protrude from the outside into the case and pierce the bag to take out ink from the bag. The laminate has such a sealing effect that, when it is pierced by the needle, the pierced hole is blocked. The cartridge is suitable for an ink jet printer.

Ink cartridge and printer

A photosensitive recording medium comprising a base material and formed thereon a photosensitive layer containing at least yellow color-forming particles containing a first photosensitive component having a maximum hardening sensitivity to light with wavelength L1, magenta color-forming particles containing a second photosensitive component having a maximum hardening sensitivity to light with wavelength L2 and cyan color-forming particles containing a third photosensitive component having a maximum hardening sensitivity to light with wavelength L3. All the wavelengths L1, L2 and L3 are wavelengths longer than 500 nm.

Photosensitive recording medium exposed by three exposure wavelengths

An input device including a medium support for supporting a medium; a reading unit for reading an image from the medium and for generating image data accordingly; and a movement mechanism for generating relative movement between the medium support and the reading unit.

Device for inputting and outputting image data

An electric pen is used as a data input/output device with the same feel as though writing on paper with an ordinary pen. The electric pen can be used in conjunction with an external data processor, such as a compact portable electric note book. Hand written characters inputted by the electric pen is data processed in the external data processor and characters can be printed in a designated print area on paper or the like in print form.

Electric pen that functions as hand-held printer with multiple colors

The present invention provides a life detecting system that accurately detects the end of the useful life of a process unit used in electrophotographic printers. The life detecting system comprises a RAM that stores a count of the number of driving pulses generated at an exposure unit and a ROM that stores a predetermined reference count that represents the useful life of the process unit in terms of a driving pulse count. The system indicates that the end of the useful life of the process unit has been reached when it determines that the count stored in the RAM is greater than or equal to the predetermined reference count stored in the ROM.

Life detecting system for detecting the useful life of a process unit

The image developing part 10 is constructed from the developing agent storing part 20 storing the fluid developing agent 18 and the developing agent supplying part 22 confronting the surface of the photosensitive drum 12 via the minute opening 25. The developing agent supplying part 22 includes a pair of, upper and lower, flat plates 24a and 24b which are placed in parallel and which define the uniform minute opening 25 over an entire width of the photosensitive drum 12. The flat plates 24a and 24b are formed with the electrodes 26a and 26b, respectively. It is possible to finely adjust the gap between the flat plates 24a and 24b through operating the minute displacement actuator 28 placed at the gap between the flat plates 24a and 24b. It is therefore possible to control the pressure to be exerted upon the fluid developing agent 18.

Image developing apparatus to prevent generation of odor and scatter of

A resistance heating element member formed with a resistor member on a polyimide film or resin sheet is fixed to the inner circumferential surface of a roller drum by blow-molding with a heat-resistant resin member. The resistor member includes a metal foil and meanders several times in a predetermined belt-like or serpentine pattern, and electrically contacts slide electrodes arranged on the roller at each side of the roller.

Heating roller for fixation and method for fabricating same

When a mobile data communication device is rocked due to an input/output operation, a rotary shaft of a generator coupled with a weight is rotated, and power is generated. The generated power is stored in a capacitor. The power stored in the capacitor is controlled to constant voltage by a voltage stabilizing circuit and is supplied to a control circuit. In the control circuit, based on information inputted in a pointing device by supplied power, data are transmitted and received with an external data processing device through an infrared data transmitting/receiving device. Alternatively, power may be supplied from the outside of the mobile data communication device by electromagnetic induction. According to the above-mentioned configuration, not using a battery or a wire system, the mobile data communication device is capable of easily supplying power.

Mobile data communication device

An article which bears information representative of a convertible value thereof is deposited by a consumer for retrieval by the manufacturer of the article. The information is represented by a bar code on the article and read by a bar-code reader. A valuable return, such as a monetary payment, to the consumer is prepared based on the convertible value represented by the information read by the bar code reader. The valuable return is actually made to the consumer based on information borne by a consumer's recording card and updated based on the information read by the bar-code reader.

Article with information for retrieval and article retrieval system

To eliminate wasteful use of thermal stencil paper and thereby provide an inexpensive stamp device, a single thermal head is employed for both the thermal recording on a reversible thermal recording sheet for confirmation of a stamp image and the thermal perforation through the thermal stencil paper for creation of a stamp original. The stamp image is first thermally recorded on the reversible thermal recording sheet; the stamp image thus recorded is then confirmed; and the thermal stencil paper is thermally perforated in accordance with the stamp image to create the stamp original. The stamp device of the present invention includes a thermal head 19, a thermal stencil paper 24 adapted to be thermally perforated by the thermal head 19 to form a dot image as a stamp image, a reversible thermal recording sheet 101 adapted to be heated by the thermal head 19 to thermally record an image corresponding to the stamp image, so as to confirm the stamp image, and a heating roller pair 90 for erasing the image thermally recorded on the reversible thermal recording sheet 101.

Stamp device capable of perforating thermal stencil paper

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Nagoya, Japan

Takemi Yamamoto