| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6667754 |
Heat developing apparatus |
December 23, 2003 |
| In a heat developing apparatus having a heat applying member to thermally developing a photothermographic element by bringing the heat applying member into contact with the photothermographic element conveyed at a predetermined processing speed, and a guide surface to guide the element |
| 6666538 |
Recording method of medical image and apparatus for recording medical image |
December 23, 2003 |
| A recording method of a medical image comprising: jetting ink onto a recording medium to make the medical image, wherein a reflection density vs. transmission density characteristic curve of the recorded medical image is monotone non-decreasing in the range of the transmission density |
| 6666443 |
Sheet finisher having stapler and image forming apparatus for use therewith |
December 23, 2003 |
| In a sheet finisher having a stacker for sheets conveyed from an image forming apparatus and a stapler for stacked sheets, the sheet finisher further has a conveying timing adjustment section arranged upstream of the stacker including: a conveying-in section for a sheet from the image |
| 6665130 |
Objective lens, optical pickup apparatus and recording and/or reproducing apparatus |
December 16, 2003 |
| An objective lens for recording and/or reproducing information of an optical information recording medium, comprises a first lens group having a positive refractive power; and a second lens group having a positive refractive power. The first and second lens groups are arranged in this |
| 6660985 |
Optical pick-up device and objective lens therefor |
December 9, 2003 |
| In an optical pickup apparatus provided with a first light source; a second light source; a converging optical system having an objective lens provided with a diffractive section, and an optical detector, the optical detector comprises a central light receiving section to detect a focusi |
| 6656669 |
Bleach-fixing composition for a color photographic processing system used for silver halide ligh |
December 2, 2003 |
| A photographic bleach-fixing composition for a color photographic processing system in which bleach-fixing is carried out in a bleach-fixing bath that is replenished with a replenishing solution, wherein the photographic bleach-fixing composition comprises: (a) a Fe(III) complex of a |
| 6656608 |
Electroluminescent material, electroluminescent element and color conversion filter |
December 2, 2003 |
| An electroluminescent element, comprising an electroluminescent material and a fluorescent substance emitting light having an emission maximum at the wavelength different from that of light emitted from the electroluminescent material upon absorption of the light emitted from the ele |
| 6654510 |
Image processing method and image processing system |
November 25, 2003 |
| An image processing system is provided which includes an input device for inputting first image data; and a processor for processing the first image data inputted by the input device so as to obtain second image data and for then outputting the second image data to an output device. The |
| 6652994 |
Radiation image conversion panel |
November 25, 2003 |
| A radiation image conversion panel comprising, (i) a phosphor sheet which contains a support having thereon an stimulating light absorbing layer(A) being colored to absorb the stimulating light, and a stimulable phosphor layer in the order; and (ii) a protecting layer which covers the |
| 6652926 |
Cellulose ester film, protective film for a polarizing plate of liquid crystal display and produ |
November 25, 2003 |
| A film for a liquid crystal display. The film is a cellulose ester film with a thickness between 20 and 65 .mu.m and containing fine particles. The average diameter of fine particles is 0.005 to 3.0 .mu.m. The number of fine particles per 1,000 .mu.m.sup.2 is 5 to 500 in the cross-sectio |
| 6652069 |
Method of surface treatment, device of surface treatment, and head for use in ink jet printer |
November 25, 2003 |
| In a surface treatment for treating a surface of a subject of treating by a discharge-activated gas, under an atmospheric pressure or a pressure in the neighborhood of it, by arranging a second electrode at a position separated from the discharging section for generating said dischar |
| 6651335 |
Method of producing an ink jet print head through a processing method of electroless plating |
November 25, 2003 |
| A processing method of electroless plating in which a catalyst layer is absorbed on a surface of a substrate, a laser beam is selectively applied to the catalyst layer, processing of electroless plating is applied to the substrate, thereby a plating layer is not formed on a part to which |
| 6650863 |
Fixing unit and image forming apparatus |
November 18, 2003 |
| The invention concerns the image forming apparatus incorporating a fixing unit, which is includes either a fixing belt or a fixing roller, and effectively used in a copier or a printer. The fixing unit includes a fixing belt threaded on a plurality of supporting rollers and a tempera |
| 6650835 |
Photographing device, recording medium, program, camera and camera production method |
November 18, 2003 |
| A photographing device having an operation member to be operated by an external operation, a memory device for memorizing a plurality of control sequences to be conducted according to an operation of the operation member, a setting device for setting a requested control sequence among |
| 6649338 |
Silver salt photothermographic imaging material |
November 18, 2003 |
| A silver salt photohermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having provided thereon a light-sensitive layer containing light-sensitive silver halide, a light-insensitive organic silver salt and a binder, wherein the photohermographic material exhibits a gradation of 2.0 t |
| 6647155 |
Inclination correction device and image reading apparatus therewith |
November 11, 2003 |
| An inclination correction device for correcting an inclination of an image caused when the image is read while the image is inclined from a main scanning direction in an image reading apparatus which scans the image in the main scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction, by shift |
| 6646815 |
Zoom lens |
November 11, 2003 |
| A zoom lens, comprises: three lens groups including a first lens group having a negative refracting power, a second lens group having a positive refracting power and a third lens group having a positive refracting power arranged serially in this order from the object side. The second len |
| 6641989 |
Silver salt photothermographic imaging material |
November 4, 2003 |
| A silver salt photothermographic imaging material is disclosed, comprising a support provided thereon with a light sensitive layer containing an organic silver salt, a light sensitive silver halide, a reducing agent and a binder, wherein at least one side of the support is provided with |
| 6639629 |
Camera having photographing elements for photoelectrically converting optical image into image s |
October 28, 2003 |
| A camera is provided with a lens for focusing an optical image of a subject onto an image focusing surface; photographing elements, provided on the image focusing surface, for photoelectrically converting the optical image into image signals, the photographing elements arranged with an |
| 6638707 |
Photothermographic material |
October 28, 2003 |
| A photothermographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon an image forming layer containing an organic silver salt, further thereon a protective layer and optionally an interlayer between the support and the image forming layer, wherein at least one of the image |
| 6638706 |
Photothermographic recording material |
October 28, 2003 |
| A photothermographic recording material comprising on one side of a support an image recording layer comprising a light-insensitive organic silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent for silver ions and a binder, wherein the difference in specular glossiness at an angl |
| 6637656 |
Optical reading apparatus and optical reading method |
October 28, 2003 |
| The present invention concerns an optical reading apparatus and an optical reading method for obtaining objective information by reading a subject and processing the read information through an arithmetic processing. The optical reading apparatus includes a light source to irradiate a li |
| 6636707 |
Image forming apparatus and control method of sheet feeding therein |
October 21, 2003 |
| A control method is provided for sheet-feeding in an image forming apparatus in which a sheet is fed to an image forming section of the image forming apparatus having a finisher which receives the sheet on which the image is formed and finishes the sheet. The control method includes the |
| 6636365 |
Optical pickup apparatus and objective lens |
October 21, 2003 |
| An optical pickup apparatus for first and second optical information recording medium, comprises first and second light sources to emit first and second light flux; a single objective lens made and a diaphragm having an aperture. The pitch of a plurality of ring-shaped diffractive zones |
| 6634744 |
Ink-jet printer |
October 21, 2003 |
| An ink-jet printer comprises: a recording head to eject ink through a nozzle; a conveying element located so as to face the recording head and conveying a recording medium onto which an image is recorded employing the recording head; and a recording medium expansion and contraction-p |
| 6632596 |
Silver halide emulsion |
October 14, 2003 |
| A silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising silver halide grains having a chloride content of not less than 90 mol % and internally doped with an iridium compound (A) and a compound (B) forming a stronger electron trap than said iridium compound (A), the silver halide grains me |
| 6628900 |
Light emission device and camera equipped therewith |
September 30, 2003 |
| A light emission device having therein a light emission tube which is almost straight in shape and emits light in a radial manner and a reflection shade that reflects light emitted from the light emission tube toward an object, wherein the reflection shade has a reflection surface in |
| 6625406 |
Image forming system wherein an image input to one of the plurality of image forming apparatus i |
September 23, 2003 |
| An image forming system for connecting a plurality of image forming apparatus and which is capable of conducting a tandem operation such that an image input by one of the plurality of image forming apparatus is output by the plurality of image forming apparatus and which includes job |
| 6625401 |
Battery storing apparatus, electronic equipment and photographing apparatus |
September 23, 2003 |
| There is described a battery storing apparatus for storing two or more types of batteries and easily distinguishing the type of the battery, and an electronic equipment and a digital camera having it. The battery storing apparatus includes a battery storing section being capable of s |
| 6621999 |
Developing device and image forming apparatus |
September 16, 2003 |
| A developing device for developing a static latent image is disclosed. The relation between an average of the circle corresponding diameter of the toner aggregates in the toner image on the image carrier surface formed by developing the static latent image and a value obtained by dividin |
| 6620470 |
Ink jet recording media |
September 16, 2003 |
| The present invention is to provide a ink-jet recording sheet of high ink absorptive property, high cockling resistance, high surface smoothness, low cost, and high image quality with incorporating specially designed void-forming absorptive layer whose absorptiveness is determined by a |
| 6618166 |
Tandem image forming system |
September 9, 2003 |
| An image forming apparatus is provided with an interface connected to a network so as to send or receive data; a memory to store a resident communication program to communicate with another image forming apparatus through the network, wherein the resident communication program establ |
| 6616135 |
Bookbinding apparatus using pasting process |
September 9, 2003 |
| A pasting binding apparatus for binding a bundle of sheets comprises a paste coating device to coat a paste in a form of a line onto a binding side of a sheet being conveyed on a conveying passage in a conveying direction by a conveying device; a pressing device located above the paste |
| 6614600 |
Objective lens and optical pickup apparatus |
September 2, 2003 |
| An objective lens comprises an inner optically functional region an inner optically functional region allowing a light flux to pass through for conducting recording and/or reproducing information for a first and second optical information recording mediums, an outer optically functional |
| 6613419 |
Ink jet recording sheet |
September 2, 2003 |
| An ink jet recording sheet is disclosed, comprising a support having on at least one side of the support an ink absorbing layer, wherein the surface of the ink absorbing layer side of the sheet exhibits a center-line mean roughness (Ra) of 0.4 to 2.5 .mu.m and a ten-point mean roughness |
| 6603947 |
Fixing device having heat applying rotary body and pressure applying rotary body, and image form |
August 5, 2003 |
| A fixing device for use in an image forming apparatus capable of forming both-side images on a sheet which by using a sheet reversing and conveying device. The fixing device has a heat applying rotary body with an elastic layer made of rubber and a toner releasing layer on top thereof, f |
| 6603932 |
Image-forming apparatus for obtaining clean images |
August 5, 2003 |
| An image-forming apparatus is provided which primarily transfers a toner image onto an intermediate transfer member, and then secondarily transfers the toner image from the intermediate transfer member onto a transfer material, wherein a controller controls the process so that when the i |
| 6603129 |
Process for preparing rare earth activated alkaline earth metal fluorohalide stimulable phosphor |
August 5, 2003 |
| A preparation process of a particulate rare earth activated alkaline earth metal fluorohalide stimulable phosphor represented by formula (1) is disclosed, wherein precursor particles of the stimulable phosphor, prepared in the liquid phase process are covered with fine particles of at |
| 6597519 |
Objective lens, optical pick-up apparatus and optical information recording reproducing apparatu |
July 22, 2003 |
| An objective lens is used in an optical pickup apparatus. The objective lens is a single lens and satisfies the following formulas:the objective lens satisfying the following formula:where .delta.Wtemp represents an aberration of the objective lens when an ambient temperature of the optical |
| 6596462 |
Printing plate element and preparation method of printing plate |
July 22, 2003 |
| A printing plate element is disclosed, comprising a substrate and a component layer containing a first material which is water-insoluble or capable of varying from being water-soluble to being water-insoluble at a prescribed temperature of not less than 60.degree. C. and a second mat |
| 6593076 |
Photothermographic material and image forming method |
July 15, 2003 |
| A photothermographica material is disclosed, comprising an organic silver salt and a light sensitive silver halide, wherein the photothermographic material contains a hydrophilic binder of 0.5 to 2 g per mol of the organic silver salt and the organic silver salt having been formed in the |
| 6593071 |
Silver halide photographic emulsion and silver halide photographic light sensitive material |
July 15, 2003 |
| A silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising tabular grains having dislocation lines in the fringe portion, the tabular grains comprising a silver halide phase (V3) having a maximum iodide content, a silver halide phase (V6), internal to V3, having an average iodide content of A6 mo |
| 6592056 |
Gluing device, bookbinding apparatus with the gluing device and image forming apparatus with boo |
July 15, 2003 |
| A gluing device having therein a pressuring means which presses a glue container containing a liquid glue to eject contained glue from an ejection opening, a supply tube through which the ejected glue is transported from the glue container, a connecting means on the glue container si |
| 6591075 |
Cleaning method of toner image carrying body, cleaning device of the toner image carrying body a |
July 8, 2003 |
| A cleaning method of a toner image carrying body, includes the steps of: bringing a discharging member formed in a shape of flexible plate having electric conductivity, which is electrically grounded or to which a discharging voltage is applied, into contact with the toner image carrying |
| 6585258 |
Automatic document feeder having a document shunting path |
July 1, 2003 |
| In an automatic document feeder for use in an image forming device such as copy machine and facsimile machine: a document shunting path for temporarily shunting a document is provided at an upstream side of a document reading portion; in a different-size mixed mode where different si |
| 6584298 |
Small sized fixing device capable of securing a heat generation area, and image forming apparatu |
June 24, 2003 |
| A fixing device includes a heat applying coil formed by winding a wire around the circumference of a coil supporting member disposed along the inside of the cylindrical fixing roller, for heating the fixing roller by inducing an induced current therein, and a pressing roller which forms |
| 6583820 |
Controlling method and apparatus for an electronic camera |
June 24, 2003 |
| A camera and a method of controlling the camera. The method includes the steps of: obtaining image signals from an image sensor by having the image sensor detect an image under a predetermined exposure amount; detecting luminance distribution condition of the image signals; and determini |
| 6582645 |
Method for producing cellulose acylate film |
June 24, 2003 |
| A method for producing a cellulose acylate film is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of, casting dope containing cellulose acylate on a surface of a metal support, peeling off a web formed by casting the dope from the metal support, contacting surface of the web which has been |
| 6580897 |
Cleaning device, and image forming method and image forming apparatus using the cleaning device |
June 17, 2003 |
| A cleaning device removing residual toner from a photoreceptor. The cleaning device has a cleaning blade composed of a plurality of plate materials laminated together. The plate materials include a cleaning blade member and a plastic member each of which is mounted on a support. In use, |
| 6577843 |
Image forming apparatus |
June 10, 2003 |
| An image forming apparatus includes, a rotatable image carrier, a writing exposure device to write the image and form a latent image in the rotatable image carrier, a developing device to form a toner image, a registration roller to convey a transfer sheet to an image transfer area w |
