Konica Minolta Medical and Graphic, Inc.

Konica-minolta Holdings, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Yukihiro Niekawa

Yoshihiko Eguchi

A radiographic image capturing apparatus includes: a readout IC equipped with a plurality of readout circuits connected to signal lines, respectively; a power source circuit which supplies a power to the readout IC; and a discharge circuit disposed on a path through which the power source circuit supplies the power to the readout IC, the discharge circuit being is capable of connecting the path and a GND to each other. The discharge circuit connects the path and the GND during a sleep mode.

Radiographic image capturing apparatus

Provided is a radiation image detecting system including a cassette type radiation image detecting apparatus capable of being driven by electric power supplied from a built-in battery; a charge controlling circuit to control charging of the battery; a cradle supplying electric power to the radiation image detecting apparatus; and a cable supplying electric power to the radiation image detecting apparatus, wherein the radiation image detecting apparatus includes a connection section being electrically connected to each of the cradle and the cable to receive the electric power; the battery is charged by the cradle being connected to the connection section and by the cable being connected to the connection section; and the charge controlling circuit switches a charging current between a time when the cradle is connected to the connection section and a time when the cable is connected to the connection section.

Radiation image detecting system

An ink-jet recording device capable of recording an image with no conspicuous joint line between bands each being formed by multiple horizontal scanning. A band having a width corresponding to a predetermined amount M of movement is formed by (n+1)-times record scanning. The ink-jet recording device has a controller which allows a second group of nozzles to perform recording at the time of the (n+l)+lth horizontal scanning and beyond where the relations L=Mx(n+l)+a and M&#x3e;a are satisfied, where L is a row length of all the nozzles of a recording head and &#x3b1; is a low length of a second group of nozzles and allocate recording data to each of the nozzles so that the border in the region recorded by the horizontal scanning on the upstream side of the relative vertical scanning direction may be formed within the width of the band formed by the first to (n+l)-th horizontal scanning.

Ink-jet recording device and ink-jet recording method

A radiation image detector including: an internal power supply section, which is capable of being charged, to supply power to each section; an external power supply terminal to receive power from an external power source to allow the internal power supply section to be charged; and a power supply control section to control supply of the power to the internal power supply section, the power being received from the external power source via the external power supply terminal, wherein when detecting that the external power supply terminal receives power from the external power source, the power supply control section judges an operating state of each section, and controls supply of the power to the internal power supply section according to the operating state of each section, the power being received from the external power source via the external power supply terminal.

Radiation image detector

Clogging of an ink-jetting opening is more reliably prevented, by inkjet recording apparatushaving recording heads-each having an ink-jetting surfacein which an ink-jetting opening for jetting photo-curable ink toward a recording medium K is formed, light emitting devicesandwhich emit light rays onto ink landed on the surface of recording medium K, platenwhich supports recording medium K from its back side under a condition that recording medium K is faced to recording heads-and light emitting devicesand, and box memberandwhich prevent the light rays received from light emitting devicefrom reflecting toward ink-jetting surface, wherein box memberandare placed at the side of recording medium K, and are closer to light emitting devicethan the rear surface of recording medium K.

Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method

An inkjet recording apparatus having a recording head unit having nozzle lines driven with multi-phase drive, a moving unit to move the recording head unit in a scanning direction crossing the nozzle lines, a clock generating unit, and a recording head control section. The recording head control section includes a phase control section to control each drive phase of the nozzle lines on the basis of the clock signals, and controls the recording head unit such that, by driving the nozzle lines with the drive phases controlled by the phase control section during movement of the recording head unit by the moving unit, an image is recorded with a plurality of pixels reduced by a predetermined reduced pattern, and with predetermined times of repetition of this recording, an image recording in the recording area is completed.

Phase controlled, multi-pass inkjet recording apparatus and method

An inkjet recording apparatusis provided with: a recording headto eject light-hardenable ink onto a recording medium S; a plurality of light sourcesandconfigured with semiconductor light emitting elements to radiate light onto the light-hardenable ink; a constant voltage power supplyto receive an alternating current and convert into a direct current power having a predetermined voltage; constant current circuitsandto convert the direct current power supplied from the constant voltage power supply into a direct current power having a predetermined current value and to supply the direct current power to the light sources; and a control sectionto control the current value of the direct current power supplied from the constant current circuits, where a plurality of the light sources are connected serially and a plurality of the constant current circuits are provided in accordance with number of blocksandwhich are configured with a plurality of light sources divided into a predetermined number of the light sources or number of a plurality of the light sources.

Inkjet recording apparatus for efficiently lighting semiconductor light emitting elements

An ink-jet recording apparatus includes: a conveyance section which conveys a recording medium; a plurality of recording heads each aligned along a conveyance direction of the recording medium, which ejects the same kind of photo-curing type ink onto the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance section; and a plurality of light irradiating sections each aligned along the conveyance direction of the recording medium, which irradiates light onto the recording medium to which the photo-curing type ink has been ejected from each of the plurality of recording heads.

Ink-jet recording apparatus

An inkjet recording apparatus includes: a conveyance device for moving a recording medium P in a predetermined direction; a recording device for recording an image on the recording medium P by using an ink cured by photo irradiation; light irradiating devices for irradiating light to the ink landed on the recording medium P; sensors for detecting illumination intensity of the light irradiated from each of the light irradiating devices; and a controller for controlling each of the conveyance device, the recording device, the light irradiating devices, and the sensors, wherein the controller controls the illumination intensities of the light irradiating devices so that the illumination intensities are substantially the same as each other, in accordance with the light irradiating device having the lowest illumination intensity.

Inkjet printer

An ink jet recording apparatus having: a recording head having a plurality of nozzles formed thereon to jet ink; a feeding device to feed a recording medium; and a control unit to control ink jetting from the nozzles of the recording head so that the recording head is driven with multi-phase drive to record with recorded pixel locations shifted at every drive phase switching by an integer times a pixel width of a recording resolution.

Ink jet recording apparatus, recording head and ink jet recording method

An inkjet printer capable of inhibiting color tone change on a recording-finished image with an easy structure. The inkjet printer has: a plurality of recording heads for jetting ink having different colors from each other, wherein an image is recorded by moving the plurality of the recording heads over a recording medium conveyed along a conveyance direction, along a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction; each recording head has a plurality of nozzles for jetting the ink as minute liquid drops; the plurality of nozzles are arrayed at intervals of predetermined number of pixels along the conveyance direction in each recording head; and each nozzle of one recording head is arranged at a position shifted from each nozzle of the other recording head along the conveyance direction so as to dispose each nozzle of the one recording head within the interval between the nozzles of the other recording head.

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Hachioji, Japan

Yukihiro Niekawa