Sony Corporation

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Sony Group Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Yusuke Tanaka

Toshifumi Wakano

Koki Shimada

Koya Iwakura

Tetsu Hamano

Yuta Araki

Nobuhiro Toki

Ken Takenaga

Taiji Maruyama

Shota Asada

Fumie Kameyama

Yusuke Otake

Hideaki Matsumura

Takashi Nagano

Tomoyuki Hirano

Atsushi Masagaki

Nanako Kato

Keiji Tatani

Yoshiharu Kudoh

Yoichi Ueda

Hirotoshi Nomura

Akira Matsumoto

Takuya Sano

Ken Sawada

Yuichi Morioka

Koji Asakawa

Tomoya Yamaura

Hiroshi Tomita

Takeshi Itagaki

Yusuke Naratani

Kousuke Tanaka

Atsushi Matsuyama

Daiju Takeda

Atsushi Kuriyama

Yuuki Nakagawa

Takuya Fukuhara

Kentaroh Fukami

Ryoh Suzuki

Takeshi Matsunuma

Tetsuya Uchida

Shinichi Yoshida

Kosuke Nakanishi

Hideyuki Honda

Akikazu Iwata

Yasuo Ohba

Takato Mochizuki

Shunsuke Maruyama

Hayato Iwamoto

Toshimitsu Takahashi

Keiichi Nakazawa

Hirofumi Yamashita

Shinpei Yamaguchi

Shohei Shimada

Nanae Uchinuno

Hiroki Iwashita

Hideo Harifuchi

Eiichi Tauchi

Yasuhito Yoshimizu

Hideyuki Nishizawa

Hisashi Okuchi

Shigeki Hattori

Takahiro Kiuchi

Masaya Shimmachi

Yukimichi Kimura

Junichi Kubokawa

Kyohei Sato

Hiromasa Tsutsumi

Hiroki Yoshida

Shimpei Fujisaki

Masateru Komori

Takeshi Hirabayashi

Shigeyuki Itoh

Yiru Chen

Makoto Seki

Yuta Kiyao

Toshihisa Hioki

There is provided an ink jet recording apparatus capable of preventing a user from erroneously performing an opening and closing operation of a valve in the supply of ink to a recording head from an ink tank. The ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording head configured to eject ink, an ink tank provided in an apparatus body, including an filling portion for filling ink to be supplied to the recording head, and configured to store the filled ink, a cover member configured to be movable to a position where the filling portion is not exposed and a second position where the filling portion is exposed, and a valve configured to be switchable between an opened state where ink can be supplied to the recording head from the ink tank and a closed state where the supply of ink to the recording head from the ink tank is blocked, wherein the valve operates interlocking with the movement of the cover member, and is in the opened state when the cover member is at the first position and in the closed state when the cover member is at the second position.

Ink jet recording apparatus

A recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium in a first direction toward a recording head for ejecting a liquid, a tank including a containing chamber containing the liquid to be supplied to the recording head, and an injection port through which the liquid is injected into the containing chamber, the tank being disposed downstream of the conveyance unit in the first direction, a rotatable lever that holds a tank cap for closing the injection port, and a cover that rotates about a rotation shaft between an open position for exposing the lever and a closed position for covering the lever, the rotation shaft being disposed upstream of the conveyance unit in the first direction. The cover includes a sliding portion that is provided on a surface facing the lever and comes into contact with the lever while the cover is rotating toward the closed position.

Recording apparatus

A sheet processing apparatus includes a first guide plate and a second guide plate facing with a given space in a thickness direction and having second and third openings, a sheet conveyance passage between the first and second guide plates, and a sheet conveyor including a drive source, a drive roller, a first driven roller, and a second driven roller. The drive roller protrudes from the first guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the first opening. The first driven roller faces the drive roller and protrudes from the second guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the second opening. The second driven roller protrudes from the second guide plate toward the sheet conveyance passage through the third opening. The second driven roller is disposed at a position shifted from the drive roller in a width direction orthogonal to the sheet conveyance direction and the thickness direction.

Sheet processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system

A sheet processing apparatus includes a sheet conveyance passage, a sheet circulation passage, a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a third conveyor, and circuitry. In the sheet circulation passage, a sheet is circulated to be overlaid with a following sheet in the sheet conveyance passage. The circuitry circulates the sheet in the sheet circulation passage to overlay the sheet with the following sheet conveyed after the sheet in the first sheet conveyance passage, at an upstream position of the first sheet conveyance passage, and adjusts a sheet conveyance speed of the third conveyor to circulate the sheet, based on a reduction amount that is obtained when a preceding amount of a leading end of the following sheet with respect to a leading end of the sheet is reduced while the following sheet is temporarily stopped due to a temporary stop of the first conveyor.

A printing apparatus includes a liquid storing container including a storage chamber configured to store a liquid supplied to a printing unit that prints an image by discharging the liquid, an outlet portion of the liquid, and a channel configured to connect the storage chamber and the outlet portion. The liquid storing container includes a first side portion on a side of a print region where printing is executed by the printing unit, and a second side portion on an opposite side of the first side portion, and the channel is formed in the second side portion.

Printing apparatus and liquid storing container

A post-processing apparatus includes a first conveyor, a second conveyor, a third conveyor, and a conveyance passage corrector. The first conveyor conveys a sheet conveyed along a first conveyance passage downstream from the first conveyor. The second conveyor conveys the sheet along a second conveyance passage. The third conveyor conveys the sheet along a third conveyance passage. The conveyance passage corrector includes a retracting mechanism to retract from a joining position at which the third conveyance passage joins to the first conveyance passage and turns a conveyance direction of the sheet toward the first conveyor when the sheet enters from the third conveyance passage to the first conveyance passage.

Image forming apparatus

A recording apparatus includes a recording head having discharge orifices arranged on a discharge orifice surface, a cap, a wiper, and a moving unit that moves the wiper in a first direction. When the cap covers the discharge orifice surface, a first member is disposed at an inside wall of the cap at a position near a first side of a region having the discharge orifices, and a second member is disposed at another inside wall of the cap at a position near a second side of the region having the discharge orifices. The first side faces in a direction opposite to the first direction and the second side faces in the first direction. In a direction normal to the discharge orifice surface, a distance between the second member and the discharge orifice surface is smaller than a distance between the first member and the discharge orifice surface.

The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image pickup device and an electronic apparatus that are capable of preventing leakage of charges between adjacent pixels. A plurality of pixels perform photoelectric conversion on light incident from a back surface via different on-chip lenses for each pixel. A pixel separation wall is formed between pixels adjacent to each other, and includes a front-side trench formed from a front surface and a backside trench formed from the back surface. A wiring layer is provided on the front surface. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a backside illuminated CMOS image sensor.

Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus having a divided pixel separation wall

A liquid discharge apparatus includes a discharging unit configured to be capable of discharging a plurality of kinds of liquids onto a medium, and a waste liquid tank including a storage part configured to store a waste liquid of the liquid. The waste liquid tank includes a first inflow port and a second inflow port from which the waste liquid flows into the storage part, and a restriction portion located between the first inflow port and the second inflow port, and configured to restrict movement of the waste liquid in the storage part.

Liquid discharge apparatus and waste liquid tank

A post-processing device () includes a circulation conveyance path, a zeroth conveyer (R), and a controller (). The circulation conveyance path includes a first conveyance path (W), a second conveyance path (W), a third conveyance path (W), a first conveyer (R), a second conveyer (R), and a third conveyer (R). The first and second conveyers convey a preceding sheet (P) along the first and second conveyance paths. The third conveyer conveys it from the third conveyance path to the first conveyance path. The zeroth conveyer conveys a following sheet (P) toward the first conveyer. The controller controls the third conveyer to stop the preceding sheet, subsequently controls the zeroth conveyer and the third conveyer to overlay the preceding sheet with the following sheet to form a sheet bundle (Q) having a shift amount (G) between a leading edges of the preceding sheet and the following sheet and strike the leading edges of the preceding sheet and the following sheet against the first conveyer.

Post-processing device, image forming apparatus, and image forming system

The solid-state imaging element includes a photoelectric converter, a first separator, and a second separator. The photoelectric converter is configured to perform photoelectric conversion of incident light. The first separator configured to separate the photoelectric converter is formed in a first trench formed from a first surface side. The second separator configured to separate the photoelectric converter is formed in a second trench formed from a second surface side facing a first surface. The present technology is applicable to an individual imaging element mounted on, e.g., a camera and configured to acquire an image of an object.

Solid-state imaging element, method for manufacturing the same, and electronic apparatus

A recording apparatus includes a tank including a chamber configured to store liquid to be supplied to a recording head that ejects the liquid and a filling port from which the liquid is injected into the chamber, and an injection auxiliary member configured to assist injecting of the liquid into the chamber from the filling port, the injection auxiliary member including a first and a second flow channels each defined by a first or a second upper end portion that opens toward outside of the tank and a first or a second lower end portion that opens toward inside of the tank, wherein the second flow channel has an expansion portion arranged in a middle portion between the second upper end portion and the second lower end portion and configured to form a step to expand a cross-sectional area.

Recording apparatus and tank

Provided is a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable of achieving both of a high dynamic range operation and an auto focus operation in a pixel configuration in which a plurality of unit pixels includes two or more subpixels. The solid-state imaging device includes a first pixel separation region that separates a plurality of unit pixels including two or more subpixels, a second pixel separation region that separates each of the plurality of unit pixels separated by the first pixel separation region and an overflow region that causes signal charges accumulated in the subpixels to overflow to at least one of adjacent subpixels, in which the overflow region is formed between a first subpixel and a second subpixel.

Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus

There is provided a solid-state image-capturing element capable of reducing the capacitance by using a hollow region. At least a part of a region between an FD wiring connected to a floating diffusion and a wiring other than the FD wiring is a hollow region. The present disclosure can be applied to a CMOS image sensor having, for example, a floating diffusion, a transfer transistor, an amplifying transistor, a selection transistor, a reset transistor, and a photodiode.

Solid-state image-capturing element having floation diffusion and hollow regions

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Yusuke Tanaka