Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Yoshiharu Sasaki

Mitsuru Sawano

Akihiro Shimomura

Koichi Kimura

Koji Wada

Toshiharu Tanaka

Mitsuru Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Shibata

Hideyuki Koguchi

Hironobu Satou

Hironobu Sato

A recording head adjustment method includes: a dot row forming step of causing relative movement between a recording medium and a recording head in which a plurality of sub-heads each including a plurality of recording elements are joined together, and driving the plurality of recording elements at prescribed drive timing with respect to each of the plurality of sub-heads in such a manner that dot rows for the respective sub-heads are formed in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction of the relative movement; a step-difference amount calculation step of measuring positions in the direction of the relative movement of the dot rows for the respective sub-heads in a situation where a range of a part of the dot rows formed by an overlapping portion between the mutually adjacent sub-heads where recording rates represented by number of dots per unit surface area are substantially same as each other is set as a measurement object, and obtaining an amount of step difference between the sub-heads represented by difference or ratio of the measured positions in the direction of the relative movement of the dot rows for the respective sub-heads; an adjustment value calculation step of calculating an adjustment value for the drive timing of the plurality of recording elements with respect to each of the plurality of sub-heads according to the obtained amount of step difference; and a drive timing adjustment step of adjusting relative drive timing with respect to each of the plurality of sub-heads according to the calculated adjustment value.

Recording head adjustment method and image recording apparatus

An image-forming method, containing: providing a heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet having at least one heat insulation layer containing hollow polymer particles and at least one receptor layer containing at least one latex polymer, in this order on a support, and a heat-sensitive transfer sheet having a thermal transfer layer containing a thermal transferable dye; feeding the sheets through, between a rotatable platen roller and a thermal head having heating elements aligned in a main scan direction, to move the sheets in a sub scan direction approximately perpendicular to the main scan direction, to form an image on the image-receiving sheet, in which the thermal head has a glaze provided with the heating elements and formed in a convex shape, and the glaze's convex vertex is shifted to an upstream side in the sub scan direction, with respect to the center's position of the heating elements.

Image-forming method by heat-sensitive transfer system

In the recording apparatus, a recording medium fixing memberhaving a plurality of suction ports on the fixed surface to fix the recording medium; an adhering rollerwhich can contact with or separate from the recording medium fixing memberand which cleans the fixed surface; a flexible platewhich is attached onto the fixed surface of the recording medium fixing memberand whose contact surface with the recording medium is cleaned by the adhering roller; and a suction apparatus for recording medium fixing which sucks the air from the suction ports of the recording medium fixing memberand sucks and fixes the flexible plateand the recording mediumonto the fixed surface of the recording medium fixing member, are provided.

Recording apparatus and method of foreign material removal thereof

In forming a mask pattern on a circuit board, a mask pattern of N-layer structure is formed in a region where the mechanical strength of the circuit board needs to be increased. N photosensitive layers are first stacked on a substrate so that they becomes lower in sensitivity from the first photosensitive layer toward the Nphotosensitive layer. In the first photosensitive layer (bottom layer), a first pattern is formed and has the same shape as a predetermined pattern to be formed on the circuit board. In the Kphotosensitive layer (N&#x2267;K&#x2267;2), a Kpattern is formed so that the Kpattern is smaller than a (K&#x2212;1)pattern formed in the (K&#x2212;1)photosensitive layer and arranged inside the (K&#x2212;1)pattern.

Method of forming patterns

A recording method in which, using recording head () having a plurality of recording elements, a plurality of colors are recorded on a recording medium with spots formed by the recording elements that are actuated in accordance with the key image information. Recording is performed with the start position with being offset from at least among two colors either upstream or downstream in the sub-scanning direction by an amount of spot(s) in the range from one spot to the number of spots defined such that total number of spots in the sub-scanning direction subtracts one spot.

Recording method and apparatus

A record head for applying laser light for drawing to a record medium and a record medium are supported so that they can be relatively moved in a main scanning direction and a sub scanning direction along the surface of the record medium through a move guide mechanism. The record head has a laser displacement sensor for detecting the distance to the light exposure position of the record medium in a noncontact manner. A record apparatus has an auto focus mechanism for correcting misregistration between the focus position of the laser light for drawing emitted from the record head and the record medium to a reference value based on the detection value of the laser displacement sensor, so that the focal distance between the record head and the record medium is held good regardless of deformation of a guide rail of the move guide mechanism, etc.

Recording method and recording apparatus utilizing laser focusing element

An image recording equipment is provided with an adhesive roller that is brought into contact with a surface of an image recording sheet wound around a rotary drum and keeps in contact with the image recording sheet with contact pressure axially distributed in a range from approximately 0.01 Mpa to approximately 0.2 Mpa desirably in a concave distribution pattern.

Extraneous matter removal method and image recording equipment with extraneous matter removal feature

To provide a recording apparatus capable of executing the stable recording not to waste the light energy even when the power/wavelength of the light beam in the recording apparatus, that records the image/characters onto the recording medium like the data by employing the light beam, are changed, the circumstances such as the temperature, the humidity, etc. are changed, and the recording velocity is changed. A recording apparatus comprises a recording medium fixing member for fixing a recording medium that consists of a superposition of a transfer film and a receiver film, a main scanning direction moving device for moving the recording medium fixing member, a laser recording head for emitting a light beam, and a vertical scanning direction moving device for moving the light beam emitted from the laser recording head in a vertical scanning direction that is perpendicular to the main scanning direction, wherein a light intensity distribution of the light beam is almost a rectangular parallelepiped.

Recording apparatus having a rectangular parallelepiped light intensity distribution

In a recording apparatus, a recording medium is fixed to a recording medium fixing member. To record a desired image, the recording medium is exposed to light containing image/character data, while the recording medium is moved in the main scan direction, and a plurality of spots arrayed on the recording medium are moved in a direction orthogonal to the main scan direction. In the recording apparatus, first and second exposure operations are performed. In the first exposure operation, the recording medium is exposed to the light containing image/character data, while forming pixel groups or island patterns each consisting of a predetermined number of pixels consecutively arrayed on the recording medium in the main and sub-scan directions. In a second exposure operation and the subsequent ones, the pixels in an unexposed area other than the island patterns on the recording medium are successively exposed to the light.

Recording apparatus and recording method

A transfer sheet separated from a support member is held and its recording position is detected, and the separated transfer sheet is returned and superposed on the recording surface of a support member which is then delivered in. Based on the result of the detection of the recording position, the returning position of the transfer sheet is changed or image data to be recorded are changed, thereby carrying out a recording operation over the support member by using an unrecorded section present between the recorded stripes of the transfer sheet. For example, the transfer sheet is returned to almost the same position as that set before the separation and the recording position is shifted at an arrangement pitch of a stripe corresponding to 1 to 1.5 pitches to carry out the recording operation. Thus, the recording operation is performed over the support member by using an unrecorded section.

Recording method and recording apparatus

An image recording method includes the steps of attaching recording paper on an outer peripheral surface of a recording drum, attaching an image receiving sheet having an image receiving layer on the recording paper to transfer the image receiving layer thereon, attaching a toner sheet on the image recording sheet, and transferring toner of the toner sheet onto the image receiving layer in accordance with recording data.

Image recording method and image recording apparatus

When desired images are recorded on an image receiving sheet by laminating a toner layer of a transfer sheet as heat-mode sensitive material and an image receiving layer of an image receiving sheet to be fixed to a recording medium fixing member and exposing the transfer sheet of a recording medium while moving the recording medium fixing member in a main scanning direction and also moving a plurality of aligned laser beam spots in a vertical scanning direction that is perpendicular to the main scanning direction, exposure is carried out by laser beam spots which are inclined such that a spot on an upstream end in the vertical scanning direction is positioned on a downstream side in the main scanning direction rather than a spot on a downstream end in the vertical scanning direction.

Recording method and recording apparatus with inclined plural beam orientation

Apparatus and method of forming a spacer for use in a liquid crystal panel are capable of economizing materials used for spacers for use in the liquid crystal panel and reducing a quantity of waste of the materials used, while being suitable for a large-scaled liquid crystal panel. A recording medium having an image forming layer is superposed on a substrate used to form a liquid crystal panel, then the recording medium is exposed through irradiation of a laser beam emitted from a recording head, and an image pattern of spacers is thereby recorded in the image forming layer. The image pattern of spacers thus recorded is then recorded on the substrate to be used as spacers for use in the liquid crystal panel by peeling off the recording medium from the substrate.

Apparatus and method of forming a spacer for a liquid crystal panel

The package of recording media contains a set of recording media which are pre-stacked in a predetermined order is provided to a recording medium holding member so that immediately after the package is opened, the recording media are disposed in a recording apparatus at a time. This package, by avoiding a need of manual stacking of the recording media, lowers a possibility of each recording medium being contaminated with foreign particles so as to reduce resultant image defects. Further, a recording feed cassette stacking the recording media in said manner can achieve the same effect.

Recording medium package, feed cassette and recording apparatus using the same

It is the purpose of the present invention to provide an image recording method and image recording apparatus for performing high-density recording without degrading the resolution. A desired image is recorded on a recording medium by exposing the image on the recording medium while moving the recording medium in the main scan direction where a toner layer of a transfer sheet is overlaid on an image reception layer of an image reception sheet as well as moving a plurality of laser beam spots arranged on the recording medium in the sub-scan direction orthogonal to the main scan direction. In this practice, a recording process on the transfer sheet is repeated a plurality of times to record a same image repeatedly with transfer sheets replaced after the transfer sheet has been exposed.

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Shizuoka, Japan

Yoshiharu Sasaki