Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Nec Electronics Corporation

Sony Corpotation

Nifco Inc.

Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation

Yasuhiro Watanabe

Ryoh Tashiro

Atsushi Takeuchi

Kouichi Matsuda

Hiroshi Ueno

Daisuke Kosugi

Akira Shimofuku

Osamu Machida

Shuichi Konami

Kiyokazu Hino

Toshihiro Hatanaka

Hiromitsu Shiraishi

Ryuji Tsuchiya

Misaki Ueno

Ryo Tashiro

Masayuki Ishiyama

Tomohiro Matsuo

Norihiko Ochi

Disclosed is an electromechanical transducer film forming method including a surface modification process; an application process; and processes of drying, thermally decomposing, and crystallizing sol-gel solution applied to a portion of a surface of a first electrode. An electromechanical transducer film is formed on a desired pattern area on the surface of the first electrode by repeating the above processes. In the application process, each of dots of the sol-gel solution applied by the inkjet method drops onto both a first area inside the desired pattern area and a second area outside the desired pattern area. The first area is a hydrophilic area on the surface of the first electrode, and the second area is a hydrophobic area on the surface of the first electrode. The hydrophilic area and the hydrophobic area have been modified by the surface modification process.

Method of forming electromechanical transducer film, electromechanical transducer film, electromechanical transducer element, and liquid discharge head

A thin film forming apparatus which automatically forms, on an electrode layer formed on a substrate, a functional thin film which is crystallized from a precursor layer is disclosed, including a water-repellant film forming unit which forms, on a region other than a region on which is to be formed the functional thin film on the electrode layer, a water-repellant film which includes a self-assembled monolayer; an inkjet coating unit which coats, on the region on which is to be formed the functional thin film on the electrode layer, the precursor layer by an inkjet method; and a controller which controls, to within a predetermined time, a time from forming the water-repellant film with the water-repellant film forming unit to coating the precursor layer with the inkjet coating unit.

Thin film forming apparatus, thin film forming method, electro-mechanical transducer element, liquid ejecting head, and inkjet recording apparatus

Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an electromechanical transducer element including a first process of hydrophobizing a first area of an electrode by forming a self-assembled monolayer film; a second process of applying a sol-gel solution onto a predetermined second area of the electrode so as to produce a complex oxide; a third process of producing the complex oxide by calcining the electrode; a fourth process of acid-washing the electrode on which the complex oxide has been produced; a fifth process of hydrophobizing the first area of the acid-washed electrode by forming the self-assembled monolayer film; a sixth process of applying the sol-gel solution onto the predetermined second area; and a seventh process of producing the complex oxide by calcining the electrode.

Method of manufacturing electromechanical transducer element, electromechanical transducer element, discharging head, and inkjet recording device

A method of producing a piezoelectric actuator includes a first electrode film forming process; a monomolecular film forming process; a pattering process of removing a monomolecular film having a rectangular shape; an application process of applying a precursor solution to the first electrode film exposed in the rectangular shape; a piezoelectric film forming process of converting the applied precursor solution into a piezoelectric film; and a second electrode film forming process. Materials of the precursor solution, the first electrode film, and the monomolecular film are adjusted so that the first electrode film is lyophilic and the monomolecular film is lyophobic to the precursor solution. The piezoelectric film forming process includes a drying and thermally decomposing process of drying and thermally decomposing the precursor solution; and a crystallizing process of crystallizing a thermally decomposed piezoelectric material.

Method of producing piezoelectric actuator

An information processing method includes generating a state transition diagram based on state transition information; displaying the state transition diagram; manipulating the displayed state transition diagram; updating the state transition information in accordance with how the state transition diagram has been manipulated; and storing a position of a state designated as a transition starting state by the manipulating step. When the position of the transition starting state has been specified by the manipulating step, the displaying step displays as a pointer an icon indicating that the position of the transition starting state has been specified. When a position of a transition destination state has been specified by the manipulating step, the displaying step displays a transition directed from the stored transition starting state toward the transition destination state, and the updating step updates the state transition information by adding information of the transition to the state transition information.

Information processing method and apparatus, recording medium, and program

A constant current circuit includes a first current mirror composed of a first transistor formed on a first current path and a second transistor formed on a second current path, a second current mirror composed of a third transistor formed on the first current path and a fourth transistor formed on the second current path, a first diode formed on the first current path, a second diode formed on the second current path, a resistor formed on the second current path, a variable resistance element connected with the first current path and with the second current path, and a feedback unit to control a resistance value of the variable resistance element based on a current flowing through the second current path.

Constant current circuit

This invention is intended to provide an information processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program in which, on the basis of a first script for executing the processing for playing a game, a second script for causing the opponent of the game to execute the processing is generated as well as data indicative of game progress status and the generated second script and data are stored in an electronic mail to be sent to the opponent of the game. Consequently, the game players can proceed with a game via a network without always being connected thereto.

Method, system, and computer program product for playing a game over electronic mail

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yasuhiro Watanabe