Yazaki Corporation

Star Micronics Company Limited

Tatsuo Fujinami

Hiroshi Iizuka

Hideaki Kamohara

Takitaro Yamaguchi

Masami Iwayama

Mamoru Katsumata

Yoshio Mitsumori

Kouichi Sasakura

Masatoshi Kishida

An image forming apparatus comprises: an image forming body comprising a substrate and a self-assembling compound adsorbed to a surface of the substrate to form a self-assembling monomolecular film; a first desorbing device for selectively desorbing at least a part of the self-assembling compound forming the self-assembling monomolecular film from the surface of the image forming body, so as to provide the surface of the image forming body with a desorbed face and an undesorbed face which have wettabilities different from each other; a developing device for supplying the surface of the image forming body with ink which preferentially attaches to one of the desorbed face or undesorbed face; and a transfer device for transferring to a recording medium the ink attached to the surface of the image forming body. In this apparatus, a printing plate can easily be formed and erased, and the same printing plate can be used repeatedly. Therefore, higher-speed printing, smaller dimensions in the apparatus, lower running cost at the time of copy-printing a small number of sheets can be realized, while making it possible to achieve higher resolution.

Image forming and plate making method and apparatus

The present invention provides conductive materials having high ionic conductivity and cationic transference number, small amount of polarization and good flexibility. The conductive material comprises high molecular compounds and alkalisiloxyaluminate.

Conductive materials and their compositions

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Shizuoka, Japan

Tatsuo Fujinami