Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshinori Tomida

Yukuo Nishimura

Ken Eguchi

Toshihiko Miyazaki

Haruki Kawada

Hiroshi Matsuda

Kunihiro Sakai

Kenji Saito

Takashi Nakagiri

Toshiaki Kimura

Tetsuya Yano

Tadashi Okamoto

Kiyoshi Takimoto

Nobuko Yamamoto

Masahiro Kawaguchi

Satoshi Yuasa

Yutaka Hirai

Masato Minami

Hirohide Munakata

Takeshi Miyazaki

Masahiro Haruta

Kenji Saitoh

Takashi Hamamoto

Atsushi Takahashi

Etsuko Sugawa

Kimihiro Yoshimura

Yoshio Hotta

Yasuhiko Tabata

Hidetoshi Tsuzuki

Kouichi Kato

Satoshi Yoshihara

Katsuaki Kuge

Hiroki Miura

Tetsuya Matsuda

Teruyuki Kondo

Keisuke Makino

Akira Murakami

Hidehito Tochio

Shingo Matsuki

Michiko Narazaki

Jun-ichiro Jo

Mie Morita

Hiroshi Tsujita

Zainul Abedin Siddique

Hisaaki Kawade

Toshikazu Ohnishi

Tsuyoshi Shibata

Osamu Kanome

Hiroyuki Hashimoto

Tatsuki Fukui

Etsuro Kishi

Hiroyuki Sugata

Fumio Yamauchi

Yuko Morikawa

Satoshi Ogawa

Masanori Sakuranaga

Kengo Kanazaki

Daisuke Sasaguri

Yoshimasa Okamura

Masahito Niibe

Fumiko Tomatsu

Sachiko Inoue

Shinzaburo Ito

Hiroyuki Aoki

Etsurō Kishi

There is provided an ICG-loaded polymer nanoparticle that is dynamically stable, prevents the leakage of contained ICG and the resulting discoloration, and has a high molar absorbance coefficient. The particle contains a hydrophilic dye having a sulfonate group and a hydrophobic polymer, and the particle further contains at least one of a lipid having a positively charged region, a nicotinic acid derivative and a thiamine derivative.

Particle and contrast agent having the particle

There is provided a gelatin-ICG complex that can suppress leakage of ICG included therein. The complex has a gelatin derivative including at least one of a phospholipid covalently bonded to a gelatin or a cholesterol covalently bonded to a gelatin, and indocyanine green.

Complex and contrast agent for photoimaging using the same

A core of a cyclic structure represented by (&#x2014;N&#x2014;(CH)&#x2014;)is bonded to a dendrimer-type side chain with a specific branched structure at all nitrogen atoms in the core to produce a compound with a specific structure for producing a metal complex that exhibits a T1-reducing effect, and the resulting compound is coordinated to a metal ion that has a T1-reducing effect to obtain a metal complex that exhibits an excellent T1-reducing effect which is useful as an effective component of an MRI contrast agent and an MRI contrast agent using the same.

Aza metal complexes

AZA compounds and production method thereof, and metal complexes as MRI contrast agents

A compound represented by Formula (1) below, where n is 2 or 3; a is an integer of 1 to 4 and b is an integer of 3 and 5 to 10, or a is 5 and b is an integer of 1 to 10; Rto Reach independently represent a hydrogen atom or a sulfonate that is any one of sodium sulfonate, potassium sulfonate, ammonium sulfonate, triethylammonium sulfonate, pyridinium sulfonate, lysine sulfonate, and arginine sulfonate; and Rto Reach independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C3 alkyl group.

Compound, probe containing the novel compound, and fluorescence-imaging contrast agent containing the novel compound or the probe

An electrophoretic display device capable of realizing a stable memory characteristic without relying on a circuit-open state is provided. The electrophoretic display device has a cell structure including at least two electrodes, fixing surfaces each associated with one of the at least two electrodes an electrophoretic layer disposed in the cell and comprising an insulating liquid and colored charged particles disposed in the electrophoretic layer, and voltage application device for applying a voltage between the electrodes thereby causing migration of the colored charged particles toward and collective attachment onto one of the fixing surfaces; wherein the fixing surfaces are provided with a charged film having a constant surface charge of a polarity opposite to that of the colored charged particles, regardless of a polarity of electricity supplied to the associated electrodes.

Electrophoretic display device

An electrophoretic display device capable of realizing a stable memory characteristic without relying on a circuit-open state is provided. The electrophoretic display device has a cell structure including at least two electrodes, fixing surfaces each associated with one of said at least two electrodes, an electrophoretic layer disposed in the cell and comprising an insulating liquid and colored charged particles disposed in the electrophoretic layer, and voltage application device for applying a voltage between the electrodes thereby causing migration of the colored charged particles toward and collective attachment onto one of the fixing surfaces; wherein at least one of the timing surfaces and the colored charged particles is provides with an adhesive layer allowing repetitive attachment thereto and separation therefrom of the colored charged particles; or the fixing surfaces are provided with a charged film having a constant surface charge of a polarity opposite to that of the colored charged particles.

An image erasing device for erasing an image formed erasably on a recording medium is provided. An image display apparatus equipped with the image erasing device, and an image recording apparatus equipped with the image erasing device are also provided. The image erasing device includes a device for feeding the recording medium stepwise, and a cleaner for erasing the image forming on the recording medium by independently scanning the cleaner perpendicularly to the direction of feeding of the recording medium while the recording medium stays stationary.

Image erasing device, and image display apparatus and image recording apparatus equipped with the image erasing device

An ink-jet recording apparatus and recording method uses a recording head wherein nozzles with small diameter are arrayed in high density, to achieve both high quality and high speed. Accordingly, whether to record a certain area in the image with recording ink alone or with both recording ink and clear ink is determined according to the image data of the certain area, and recording is performed based on the determined results, using a recording head wherein ink discharging nozzles and clear ink nozzles are arrayed alternately.

Ink-jet recording method, ink-jet recording apparatus, computer-readable medium, and program

There is provided an image display apparatus and an image erasing method, by which a color image made of an ink can be displayed by fixing the ink on the recording medium, and, when it is desired to erase the color image, the color image on the recording medium can be erased by image erasing means. Therefore, the present invention comprises ink application means for applying an ink onto recording medium in accordance with image data, and image erasing means for erasing the image formed on recording medium by ink application means , wherein, when the solubility parameter (SP value) of the substance remaining on recording medium after applying the ink is taken as SP , the SP value of the substance constituting the surface of the recording medium is taken as SP , and the SP value of the substance constituting the surface of the image erasing means is taken as SP , said SP , SP and SP satisfy the relationship &verbar;SP &minus;SP &verbar;>&verbar;SP &minus;SP &verbar;.

Image display apparatus, and ink and image erasing method for use in the apparatus

An electron-emitting device having an electroconductive film including an electron-emitting region and arranged between a pair of electrodes is manufactured by forming an electroconductive film on a substrate and producing an electron-emitting region in the electroconductive film. The electroconductive film is formed on the substrate by heating the substrate in an atmosphere containing a gasified organic metal compound to a temperature higher than the decomposition of the gasified organic metal compound.

Method of manufacturing electron-emitting device and image-forming

A stain for a nucleic acid characterized by containing, as an effective component, a pyrylium salt compound having Y as a negative portion and a pyrylium ring or a pyrylium-similar ring, wherein the ring is comprised of X selected from O, S, Se and Te as a hetero atom and has substituents R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, wherein each of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 is independently a hydrogen atom, sulfonate group, amino group, substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, etc., R.sup.3 is -A or -L-A, L is -L.sup.1 -, -L.sup.2 -L.sup.3 - or -L.sup.4 -L.sup.5 -L.sup.6 -, and each of L.sup.1 to L.sup.6 is independently --(CH.dbd.CH)--, a divalent group derived from the substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, etc., A is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, etc., and Y.sup.- is an anion. A method for detecting a nucleic acid which comprises the steps of reacting a sample with the stain, and then detecting, by an optical means, the double-strand nucleic acid stained with the stain in the case that the double-strand nucleic acid is contained in the sample.

Fluorescent stain containing pyrylium salt and fluorescent staining

A method for detecting a nucleic acid hybrid comprises steps of adding a nucleic acid probe into a sample solution containing a targeted nucleic acid, and detecting a double helical structure of a hybrid formed between the probe and the targeted nucleic acid, wherein the step for detecting the double helical structure comprises incorporating, into the sample solution, two or more kinds of reagents which are capable of causing a detectable change by interaction therebetween through the double helical structure and measuring the change caused by the interaction of the reagents; and at least one of the two or more kinds of reagents is joined to the probe.

Detection of nucleic acid hybrid variation which interacts with double

In a solution for forming electron-emitting regions of electron-emitting devices, the solution contains a metal carboxylate expressed by the following general formula (I), an organic solvent and/or water;

Solution for fabrication of electron-emitting devices, manufacture

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Atsugi, Japan

Yoshinori Tomida