Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Daiwa Can Company

Yoshio Hotta

Tadashi Mihara

Yasuto Kodera

Yukio Hanyu

Katsutoshi Nakamura

Osamu Taniguchi

Kazunori Katakura

Mitsuo Iwayama

Akira Tsuboyama

Yutaka Inaba

Masanobu Asaoka

Hideaki Takao

Makoto Kojima

Kenji Onuma

Takatsugu Wada

Takahiro Akiyama

Yoshinori Tomida

Yuichi Masaki

Satoshi Yoshihara

Sunao Mori

Akihiko Komura

Shinjiro Okada

Takahisa Kato

Atsushi Kandori

Kazunari Fujii

Kimio Takahashi

Hironobu Mizuno

Suguru Miyagawa

Eiji Takeuchi

Kenji Ohnuma

Yosihiko Matukawa

Shinichirou Kanamori

Kana Hashimoto

Fumiko Hashizume

Seimei Shiratori

Koji Fujimoto

Atsushi Kido

Mitsunobu Kobayashi

The present invention is a liquid-repellent film or sheet that exhibits an excellent liquid repellency, and a packaging material using the same. The liquid-repellent film or sheet comprises:

Liquid repellent film or sheet, and packaging matertal, using same

Provided are a highly reliable probe including a light reflecting layer, which is resistant to the falling off of the light reflecting layer, and an information obtaining apparatus using the same. The probe includes: an element including at least one cell, each cell including a first electrode provided on a substrate, and a vibration membrane including a second electrode provided across a gap from the first electrode; an acoustic impedance matching layer disposed above the element; and a light reflecting layer. The light reflecting layer is fixed to the substrate via an adhesive layer.

Probe and subject information obtaining apparatus using the same

A probe configured to receive an acoustic wave from an object including an element having a cell structure, in which a vibration membrane having one of a pair of electrodes formed with a gap arranged therebetween is supported so that the vibration membrane can be vibrated by the acoustic wave; a light reflection layer provided at a position near the object with respect to the element and configured to reflect light; and a support layer provided between the element and the light reflection layer and configured to support the light reflection layer.

Probe, object information acquisition apparatus, and method of manufacturing the probe

A capacitance type transducer includes one or more cells having a structure in which a vibrating film including one electrode of a pair of electrodes formed spaced apart from each other is supported to be capable of vibrating. The cells are disposed on one surface of a substrate. An acoustic matching layer is provided between a water-resistant sheet and the cells. A water-resistant frame is disposed to surround a side surface of the substrate. The sheet is bonded to an end face of the frame to cover an opening of the frame.

Capacitance type transducer, manufacturing method therefor, and subject information acquiring apparatus

A method of manufacturing an oscillator device having first and second oscillators being driven at first and second driving resonance frequencies gf1 and gf2, the method including a first step for processing the two oscillators, wherein, when the two oscillators are going to be processed as oscillators having first and second resonance frequencies different from the two driving resonance frequencies with a certain dispersion range, the two oscillators are so processed that the first and second resonance frequencies different from the two driving resonance frequencies become equal to first and second resonance frequencies f1 and f2, respectively, which are included in adjustable resonance frequency ranges, respectively, and a second step for adjusting the first and second resonance frequencies f1 and f2 so that they become equal to the first and second driving resonance frequencies gf1 and gf2, respectively.

Method of manufacturing oscillator device, and optical deflector and optical instrument with oscillator device

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

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

A ferroelectric liquid crystal device of a cell structure having a suppressed increase of cell thickness along a cell side is constituted by disposing a ferroelectric liquid crystal between a pair of electrode plates each sequentially provided with an electrode, an insulating film and an alignment film on a substrate. The alignment film is provided with a surface unevenness for suppressing a liquid crystal movement causing the increase in cell thickness. The surface unevenness is provided to the alignment film directly or to the insulating film below the alignment film, e.g., by wet forming the relevant film by using at least two solvents having different boiling points or dispersing fine particles within the relevant film, optionally followed by removal of the fine particles.

Method of making ferroelectric liquid crystal device using particles to

A liquid crystal device is constituted by a pair of oppositely disposed substrates having opposing inner surfaces and opposing electrodes thereon, and a chiral smectic liquid crystal disposed between the opposing electrodes. The liquid crystal device has an effective optical modulation region and a peripheral region outside the effective optical modulation region. In the device, liquid crystal molecules in the peripheral region have a pretilt angle which is larger than a pretilt angle of liquid crystal molecules in the effective optical modulation region. As a result, a local pressure irregularity or a cell thickness change caused by a liquid crystal molecular movement along an extension of the device is effectively suppressed.

Liquid crystal device

A liquid crystal apparatus includes: a ferroelectric liquid crystal device comprising an electrode matrix including a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines intersecting with the scanning lines, and a ferroelectric liquid crystal disposed between the scanning lines and data lines, and a driver for sequentially applying a scanning signal to the scanning lines for selecting a particular scanning line, and for applying data signals for the pixels on the selected scanning line to the data lines. Each of the data signals has a plurality of pulses including a pulse in a controlled phase and a pulse in an auxiliary phase, and the scanning signal for the selected scanning line has a compensation pulse for compensating the pulse in the auxiliary phase of a data signal for a pixel on the selected scanning line.

Chiral smectic liquid crystal display and method of selectively driving

Liquid crystal apparatus

Liquid crystal device with different pretilt in peripheral portion

Ferroelectric liquid crystal device with uneven surface under alignment

A liquid crystal apparatus comprises: matrix electrodes which are formed by a scanning electrode group and an information electrode group which intersect the scanning electrode group so as to face the scanning electrode group; a ferroelectric liquid crystal which is arranged between those electrode groups and is driven by an electric field applied through the electrode groups; a drive circuit having a scanning side drive circuit for sequentially generating scan selection signals to the scanning electrode group and for generating scan non-selection signals to the scanning electrodes whose scan is not selected and an information side drive circuit for generating information signals to the information electrode group synchronously with the scan selection signal in accordance with the input information; and a control circuit for controlling the drive circuit in a manner such that an interval between two scan selection signals which are continuously applied to the same scanning electrode is set to a predetermined period of time smaller than a full screen scanning period.

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Atsugi, Japan

Yoshio Hotta