Seiko Epson Corporation

Nissan Motor Company Limited

Sony Corporation

Epson Imaging Devices Corporation

Japan Display West Inc.

Tomoyuki Nakano

Keiji Takizawa

Hideki Kaneko

Yoshihiro Otagiri

Kimitaka Kamijo

Ryohey Toyota

Toshinori Uehara

Chihiro Tanaka

Hiromu Terai

Toshihiro Otake

Tadahiro Mizutani

Hitoshi Igarashi

Ryoichi Tanaka

Takumi Nagashima

Katsuhito Suzuki

Hiroshi Shirotori

Kouhei Toyohara

Hiroki Sugiyama

Akira Takano

Hiroki Sato

Tatsuya Kato

Katsumi Yamada

Akito Sato

Naoki Sudo

Takashi Kobayashi

Tatsuo Itabashi

Keigo Yamasaki

Mutsumi Matsuo

Yutaka Kaneko

Tomoyuki Kurata

Kazuhiko Tazoe

Katsuhiro Imai

Takayoshi Kojima

Kouichi Kotsuji

Hiroyuki Fukuda

Yoshiyuki Ozawa

Kazunobu Nimura

Yoshiaki Shibasaki

Masaaki Hagio

Kanako Ide

Masahiro Murata

Kunio Maruyama

Hitoshi Toyoshima

Tatsuya Asada

Tomohiko Kojima

When a known lid member was merely applied to a bottle that contains ink, there was room for improvement in terms of the operation of the lid member and the way how to bring attention to the handling thereof. A bottle set is provided that includes: a bottle that includes an ink container that contains ink, and an outflow port through which the ink in the ink container flows out to the outside; and a lid member that is configured to attach to and detach from the bottle, and is configured to cover the outflow port in a state of being attached to the bottle. The lid member includes a colored portion that has optical transparency and is colored with a color corresponding to a type of the ink contained in the ink container in at least a portion of the lid member.

Bottle set and bottle

A printing apparatus includes a head capable of discharging CMYK inks including a K ink, and a control unit configured to, based on image data to be printed, generate ink amount data for controlling an ink amount of each of the CMYK inks discharged by the head, and to control the head based on the ink amount data, wherein the control unit generates the ink amount data as ink amount data such that lightness of a composite color at least does not increase in a direction from a freely-selected coordinate point toward a black point, the composite color being formed by the CMY inks excluding the K ink based on ink amount data of each of the CMYK inks corresponding to a coordinate on a straight line from the freely-selected coordinate point toward the black point in a predetermined hue range of a color gamut of a color space of the image data.

Printing apparatus and printing method

An image forming apparatus that forms an output image including an authentication image for authenticity determination on a medium. The image forming apparatus includes: a recording head configured to discharge a droplet onto the medium; a drive unit configured to perform main scanning in which the recording head moves in a main scanning direction and sub scanning in which the medium is fed in a feeding direction; and a control unit configured to control, based on image formation data representing the output image, the main scanning and the sub scanning performed by the drive unit, and the discharge of the droplet performed by the recording head. The control unit performs a control to form the authentication image by a plurality of times of the main scanning in which feeding positions of the medium in the feeding direction are different, and performs a control so that at least one feeding amount of the medium in one sub scanning is different between a feeding amount at time of forming the authentication image and a feeding amount at time of forming a portion of the output image that does not include the authentication image.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

A recording head unit includes a first line head and a second line head in which nozzles are provided in an X-axis direction. The first line head is arranged on one side of the second line head in a Y-axis direction intersecting the X-axis direction. The first line head includes a first windbreak member. The second line head includes a second windbreak member. A length by which the first windbreak member protrudes is smaller than a length by which the second windbreak member protrudes.

Recording head unit, recording device, and recording method

The control mode is switched between a first control mode configured to control the speed change pump based on an actual speed ratio being an actual speed ratio of the variator, and a second control mode configured to control the speed change pump based on an actual working pressure being an actual working pressure of the variator. In the first control mode, the actual speed ratio is calculated based on a detected value of a vehicle speed; and the speed change pump is controlled to cause the actual speed ratio to approach the target speed ratio. In the second control mode, the actual working pressure is detected and the speed change pump is controlled to cause the actual working pressure to approach a target working pressure corresponding to the target speed ratio. In a situation or a condition where the detection accuracy of the vehicle speed by the vehicle speed sensor decreases, the control mode is switched from the first control mode to the second control mode.

Automatic transmission control method and control device

A control method of a continuously variable transmission includes supplying oil pressure to a secondary pulley oil chamber by a source pressure oil pump, and controlling a flow of oil into and from a primary pulley oil chamber by an electric oil pump arranged in an oil passage between the primary pulley oil chamber and the secondary pulley oil chamber. After start-up of the source pressure oil pump, an operation of the electric oil pump is restricted until the oil is filled in the oil passage on the secondary pulley oil chamber side of the electric oil pump. The operation of the electric oil pump is permitted when rotation speed of the electric oil pump reaches a predetermined rotation speed.

Control method and control device of continuously variable transmission

A continuously variable transmission control method for controlling entry and exit of oil in a primary pulley oil chamber by an electric oil pump disposed in an oil path between the primary pulley oil chamber and a secondary pulley oil chamber, the control method including: comparing a temperature of the electric oil pump with a first threshold; and restricting a shift amount of a continuously variable transmission when the temperature of the electric oil pump is higher than the first threshold.

Continuously variable transmission control method and continuously variable transmission system

A control method of a continuously variable transmission includes supplying oil pressure to a line-pressure oil passage and a secondary pulley oil chamber by a source pressure oil pump, controlling a flow of oil into and from a primary pulley oil chamber by an electric oil pump arranged in an oil passage between the primary pulley oil chamber and the secondary pulley oil chamber, and limiting a discharge flowrate of the electric oil pump to an amount smaller than a discharge flowrate of the source pressure oil pump.

A continuously variable transmission includes a variator having a primary pulley that has a primary oil chamber, a secondary pulley that has a secondary oil chamber, and a belt looped over the primary pulley and the secondary pulley, wherein secondary pressure is supplied to the secondary oil chamber, an oil pump provided in an oil passage that provides communication between the primary oil chamber and the secondary oil chamber, and a controller. The oil pump is configured to control an inflow and an outflow of oil of the primary oil chamber. The oil pump is formed by a gear pump. The continuously variable transmission controls the oil pump in such a manner that a target speed ratio of the variator is achieved.

Continuously variable transmission and control method of continuously variable transmission

A continuously variable transmission has a primary pulley hydraulic chamber, a secondary pulley hydraulic chamber, a first oil passage connected to the secondary pulley hydraulic chamber, a second oil passage connected to the primary pulley hydraulic chamber, the second oil passage branching from the first oil passage, an electric oil pump provided on the second oil passage so as to allow oil to flow into and flow out from the primary pulley hydraulic chamber, and an oil discharge mechanism configured to discharge oil outside the second oil passage, the oil being to be supplied to the primary pulley hydraulic chamber by the electric oil pump.

Continuously variable transmission and control method thereof

In a hybrid vehicle that does not have a differential rotation absorbing element in the drive system, a hybrid control module controls a driving force to a drive wheel in accordance with a required driving force within a range of a maximum outputable driving force of a traveling drive source. The hybrid control module limits a driving force transmitted to the drive wheel in the HEV mode in accordance with the maximum outputable driving force in the EV mode at the time of the mode transition, when the mode transitions from an EV mode, in which only a first motor/generator is used as the traveling drive source to an HEV mode in which the first motor/generator and an internal combustion engine are used as traveling drive sources when a change in the vehicle speed is occurring.

Device for controlling driving force of hybrid vehicle

In a droplet ejection control apparatus according to the invention, a judgment section judges, taking a dot position that is assigned by a predetermined nozzle (incorrect ejection position) as a reference, whether or not a printing state is such that a second proximity dot lands earlier than a first proximity dot. A changing section changes an ejection state, when the ejection state is judged to be such that the second proximity dot lands earlier than the first proximity dot, to another ejection state in which the first proximity dot lands earlier than the second proximity dot.

Droplet ejection control apparatus, droplet ejection control method, and droplet ejection apparatus

A printing control apparatus controls ejection of a pigment ink, supplied from a cartridge, from a nozzle row having a plurality of nozzles. Time information regarding an elapsed time of the cartridge is obtained, and used nozzles, in the nozzle row, that eject the pigment ink are reduced based on the time information of the cartridge.

Printing control apparatus, printing control method, and program

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Tomoyuki Nakano