Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Shiroki Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Cabot Corporation

Shiroki Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Yoichi Takada

Shinichi Hakamada

Toru Ohnishi

Shinya Mishina

Yoshihisa Takizawa

Masashi Tsujimura

Shingo Okushima

Nobuyuki Matsumoto

Yasuhiro Nito

Mitsutoshi Noguchi

Ryosuke Hirokawa

Hisashi Teraoka

Masao Kato

Mikio Sanada

Koichi Osumi

Noriyasu Asaki

Toshifumi Akasaka

Takashi Imai

Sadayuki Sugama

Katsuhiko Takahashi

Hiroshi Tomioka

Daisaku Ide

Daiji Okamura

Masashi Ogasawara

Takashi Sawada

Hiroyuki Ogino

Koji Inoue

Hirofumi Ichinose

Masanori Ito

Hideki Takayama

Motoo Urawa

Kousuke Yamasaki

Tomonari Watanabe

Fumiaki Fujioka

Hiroshi Asakawa

Hitoshi Nagashima

Yuuki Nishino

Mitsuru Ishii

Yui Tokuda

Itaru Tsuji

Yuko Yakushigawa

Yuko Takada

Muneyoshi Sunada

Hiromitsu Suzuki

Akitoshi Yamada

Masahiko Kubota

Teruo Ozaki

Tetsuya Suwa

Takeshi Yazawa

Shinjiro Hori

Fumihiro Gotoh

Hideo Saikawa

Kumiko Mafune

Junichi Sakai

Takuto Moriguchi

Takumi Kaneko

Tsuyoshi Santo

Jun Yasutani

Tsuyoshi Kanke

Tsutomu Shimada

Kenji Maeda

Kenji Nishiguchi

Yoshio Nakajima

Hiroyuki Takuhara

Nobuhiro Kitabatake

Takahiro Ishijima

Sachie Furukawa

Yoshifumi Fujita

Masato Horie

Shin-Ichi Hakamada

There is provided a transfer type ink jet recording apparatus including: an image forming section forming an image by applying, onto a transfer body, a reaction liquid for increasing a viscosity of ink and ink containing an aqueous liquid medium and a coloring material; a liquid absorbing section having a porous body that absorbs at least a part of a liquid component from the formed image; a heating section heating the image treated by the porous body; a transfer section that transfers the heated image onto a recording medium; and a deterioration prevention treatment section including a deterioration preventing agent applying device that applies, onto the porous body provided in the liquid absorbing section, a deterioration preventing agent that prevents deterioration of the transfer body.

Transfer type ink jet recording apparatus and transfer type ink jet recording method

An ink jet recording method of the present invention includes: forming an ink image by ejecting an ink onto a transfer body with an ink jet head in which a recording element substrate provided with an element generating energy to be used for ejecting the ink, a pressure chamber including the element inside, and an ejection orifice ejecting the ink is provided, and the ink in the pressure chamber is circulated between the pressure chamber and the outside of the pressure chamber; and transferring the ink image onto a recording medium by bringing the recording medium into contact with the transfer body on which the ink image is formed, wherein a viscosity of the ink is 2 mPa&#xb7;s or more to 20 mPa&#xb7;s or less.

Ink jet recording method and ink jet recording apparatus

An ink jet printing apparatus including: an image forming unit which forms an ink image containing an aqueous liquid component and a coloring material, including a reaction solution applying unit and an ink applying unit; and a liquid absorbing unit for absorbing at least a portion of a liquid component from the ink image by bringing a porous body into contact with the ink image, the liquid absorbing unit including a liquid absorbing member having the porous body, wherein the ink applying unit includes a liquid ejection head including a plurality of printing element substrates each having an element which generates energy that is utilized for discharging a liquid, a pressure chamber which has the element in the inside, and a plurality of ejection orifices which discharge a liquid, and the ink is circulated between the inside of the pressure chamber and the outside of the pressure chamber.

Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection head which is provided with a pressure chamber having, in the inside thereof, an energy-generating element, a transfer body onto which a liquid is ejected through the liquid ejection head to form an image, and a pressing unit which presses a recording medium against the transfer body to transfer the image formed on the transfer body onto the recording medium, wherein the liquid ejection apparatus further includes a heating unit for heating the transfer body during a period from the ejection of the liquid through the liquid ejection head and until the pressing of the recording medium by means of the pressing unit, and the liquid in the pressure chamber in the liquid ejection head is circulated between the pressure chamber and the outside of the pressure chamber.

Liquid ejection apparatus with liquid in pressure chamber in liquid ejection head being circulated between pressure chamber and outside

An intermediate transfer body is efficiently heated, and thus, transfer properties of an image and durability of the intermediate transfer body are ensured. A heating unit heats the intermediate transfer body by using a plurality of heating sources which are positioned by being shifted, with respect to a rotation direction of the intermediate transfer body. The plurality of heating sources includes a first heating source and a second heating source. A degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the second heating source is greater than a degree of heating the intermediate transfer body by the first heating source. The second heating source is positioned on an upstream side, with respect to the rotation direction of the intermediate transfer body, from the first heating source.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method

There is provided an ink jet printing method including: an image forming process of applying ink onto an image forming surface of a transfer body to form a first intermediate image; an auxiliary liquid applying process of applying an auxiliary liquid containing a thermoplastic resin onto the first intermediate image on the transfer body to form a second intermediate image; and a transferring process of contacting the second intermediate image on the transfer body with a printing medium and separating the second intermediate image from the transfer body while maintaining a contact state with the printing medium to transfer the second intermediate image to the printing medium, wherein in the auxiliary liquid applying process, an area difference between an area of a first intermediate image and an area of an auxiliary liquid application area in the image forming surface is adjusted.

Ink jet printing method and ink jet printing apparatus

An inkjet recording method of the present invention comprises forming an ink image by ejecting ink on an ejection receiving medium by an inkjet head including a recording element substrate having an energy generation element, a pressure chamber, and an ejection port, wherein the ink is circulated between the inside of the pressure chamber and the outside of the pressure chamber; and removing at least a portion of a liquid component from the ink image by bringing a liquid absorbing member into contact with the ink image, wherein the ink contains 5 to 30 mass % of a water-soluble organic solvent having a bp of 110&#xb0; C. or more, and 50 mass % or more of the water-soluble organic solvent contained in the ink image and having a bp of 110&#xb0; C. or more is removed from the ink image in the removal of at least a portion of a liquid component from the ink image.

Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus

An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ejection head configured to eject an ink to form an image, a head heater configured to heat the ejection head to a temperature Tand a control unit configured to control the temperature of the ejection head and the temperature at an image forming position by the ejection head. The control unit controls heating of the ejection head by the head heater and the temperature at the image forming position in such a way that the temperature of the ejection head is higher than the temperature at the image forming position.

Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method

A lumbar support apparatus includes a curved plate which is provided to a seat-back frame so that the upper part of the curved plate is rotatable in the vertical direction, and which is deformable in the direction in which a seated person's lumbar spine is pressed; a curved-plate deformation-amount adjustment unit including a threaded rod having an external thread formed on the peripheral surface thereof, and a nut member that is threadedly engaged with the external thread of the threaded rod and is attached to the lower part of the curved plate so as to be prohibited from rotating about a center axis and so as to be movable in the vertical direction; and a drive unit for rotatingly driving the threaded rod.

Lumbar support apparatus

An aqueous ink comprising water, a water-soluble organic solvent and at least two pigments. The aqueous ink is used together with a reaction liquid containing a reactive component that reacts with the aqueous ink to cause aggregation or gelation of the aqueous ink. The at least two pigments have a difference in precipitation value to the reaction liquid of 0.2 or less.

Aqueous ink, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge and ink jet recording apparatus

The invention relates to a seat track having a retainer arranged in a space extending in the fore-and-aft direction and the vertical direction between a lower rail and an upper rail and a lower ball and an upper ball rotatably supported on an upper portion and a lower portion of the retainer and configured to come into contact with both the lower rail and the upper rail, and is intended to provide a seat track in which vibrations in the vertical direction generated in the upper rail are reduced. There are provided a plurality of the lower balls and a plurality of the upper balls which are supported by the retainer, and a center-to-center distance between the plurality of lower balls lying next to each other is set to be different from a center-to-center distance between the plurality of upper balls lying next to each other.

Seat track

An ink jet ink contains a self-dispersing pigment and a polyurethane polymer. The polyurethane polymer has units derived from a polyisocyanate, a polyol having no acid group, and a diol having an acid group. The polyurethane polymer has a cross-linked structure and an acid value of the polyurethane polymer is 60 mgKOH/g or more and 100 mgKOH/g or less.

Ink jet ink, ink cartridge, and ink jet recording method

An ink jet ink including a pigment and an ABC triblock polymer, wherein the above-described ABC triblock polymer is formed from an A block having an aryl group, a B block having a unit represented by the following general formula (1), and a C block having a unit represented by the following general formula (2). 

A seat may be obtained with improved operability of plural adjustable units. A vehicle seatis provided with: a seat lifterprovided to a seat body that is for sitting on, and is adjusted by operation force transmitted from a first operating system; a reclining mechanismprovided to the seat body, that is adjusted by operation force transmitted from a second operating system; and an operation lever, imparting operation force for independently adjusting the reclining mechanismand the seat lifter. The operation leverimparts operation force to the seat lifterwhen operated by rotation along the seat up-down direction in the direction of arrow D and arrow E, and imparts operation force to the reclining mechanismwhen operated by rotation along the seat width direction in the direction of arrow F.

Seat

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