| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6282378 |
Variable focal length lens unit |
August 28, 2001 |
| A variable focal length lens unit, including: the first, the second, and the third lens components which are aligned on the optical axis; the first, the second, and the third guiding members for respectively guiding movements of the first, the second, and the third lens components; a |
| 6280917 |
Latex and silver halide photographic light-sensitive material containing the same |
August 28, 2001 |
| A latex comprising a polymer having an ethylenically unsaturated monomer unit containing an active methylene group and an ethylenically unsaturated monomer unit selected from methacrylic acid ester, acrylic acid ester, maleic acid ester and diene derivative, wherein said polymer is produ |
| 6276831 |
Rotary apparatus with asymmetrically formed dynamic pressure generating grooves |
August 21, 2001 |
| A rotary apparatus includes: a radial fixed member; a rotary unit rotatably supported on the radial fixed member; a radial dynamic pressure bearing portion at which the radial fixed member faces the rotary unit; and dynamic pressure generating grooves formed on the radial dynamic pressur |
| 6270180 |
Ink jet printer |
August 7, 2001 |
| In an ink jet printer provided with a printing head having an ink chamber, a piezoelectric element and a nozzle tip; the printer is further provided with a drive signal generating circuit for generating drive signals corresponding to image information, a temperature sensor for measuring |
| 6265144 |
Silver halide emulsion and photographic material by use thereof |
July 24, 2001 |
| A method of preparing a silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising the steps of forming a silver halide emulsion, subjecting the silver halide emulsion to chemical sensitization, and adding a sensitizing dye the silver halide emulsion, wherein the sensitizing dye exhibits an absorpt |
| 6262756 |
Thermal development apparatus |
July 17, 2001 |
| In a thermal development apparatus provided with a drum to heat a thermally developable material on an outer circumferential surface thereof while rotating at a predetermined constant rotation speed; a feeding device which feeds a sheet-like thermally developable material onto the outer |
| 6262424 |
Radiographic intensifying screen and radiation image converting panel |
July 17, 2001 |
| A method for preparing a radiographic intensifying screen or a radiation image conversion panel is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a phosphor layer, the method comprising the steps of (i) mixing a phosphor and a resin exhibiting a glass transition temperature of Tg1 to for |
| 6261995 |
Thermal transfer intermediate material, a thermal transfer image forming material and a thermal |
July 17, 2001 |
| An intermadiate transfer material;to which an image is transferred from a thermal transfer image forming material by thermal transfer;which transfers said transferred image to a final support by thermal transfer; comprising:a support and a receiving layer to which said image is transferred f |
| 6258524 |
Thermally developable material |
July 10, 2001 |
| A thermally developable material comprising a support, an image forming layer containing an organic silver salt, and a component layer provided on the same side as said image forming layer provided,wherein the stiffness (ST) of said thermally developable material under conditions of 23.d |
| 6249334 |
Image forming apparatus |
June 19, 2001 |
| An image forming apparatus includes: a recording material accommodating device for accommodating recording materials; an image forming device for forming an image on the recording material; a conveyance section for conveying the recording material fed from the recording material acco |
| 6249305 |
Color image forming apparatus |
June 19, 2001 |
| An image forming apparatus is provided which includes an image carrying member, a plurality of charging devices for charging the image carrying member, a plurality of laser exposing units for scanning the charged image carrying member with laser beams so as to form latent images at a |
| 6245498 |
Silver halide emulsion |
June 12, 2001 |
| A silver halide emulsion is disclosed, comprising tabular grains having an aspect ratio of 5 or more, the tabular grains further having dislocation lines of 30 or more per a grain, in a fringe portion of the grain and the tabular grains each containing silver iodide, the content of which |
| 6243349 |
Method for recording/reproducing optical information recording medium, optical pickup apparatus, |
June 5, 2001 |
| An optical pickup apparatus includes a light source for emitting a light flux; and a converging optical system having a first, second, and third divided surface, which are divided in the order named from the vicinity of an optical axis of the converging optical system, for converging the |
| 6243213 |
Zoom lens and camera having the zoom lens |
June 5, 2001 |
| In a zoom lens having a variable power ratio representing a ratio of a focal length at a telephoto end position to a focal length at a wide angle end position being not less than 2.5 times, the zoom lens includes, in the order named from an object side: a first lens group having a negati |
| 6240481 |
Data bus control for image forming apparatus |
May 29, 2001 |
| An image forming apparatus is provided that includes an image data obtaining device that obtains image data corresponding to image information of a document. An image memory receives the image data from the image data obtaining device and stores the image data therein. An image repro |
| 6239447 |
Radiation image reading apparatus |
May 29, 2001 |
| There is described a radiation image reading apparatus, which includes a memory to memorize information regarding each of a plurality of subjects as reservation data for each subject, a plurality of slots into each of which a recording medium recording a radiation image can be loaded, a |
| 6238784 |
Ink-jet recording sheet |
May 29, 2001 |
| An ink-jet recording sheet comprises a support, and provided thereon, an ink absorption layer containing solid fine particles, a hydrophilic binder, and oil drops in an amount of 5 to 50 weight % based on the solid fine particle weight, the content ratio by weight of the solid fine p |
| 6235455 |
Silver halide color photographic light sensitive material and image forming method by use thereo |
May 22, 2001 |
| The image forming method comprising the steps of subjecting a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising an yellow image forming layer, a magenta image forming layer and a cyan image forming layer to scanning exposure with a light beam so that an exposure time is not |
| 6229569 |
Electronic camera |
May 8, 2001 |
| An electronic camera comprises a casing in which a photographing section is accommodated; a rotating member mounted rotably to the casing; a plurality of light amount regulating members for regulating a light amount incident to the photographing section; a cover for covering the photogra |
| 6228551 |
Toner for developing electrostatic image |
May 8, 2001 |
| A toner for developing an electrostatic image is disclosed. The toner comprises a colored particle containing a binder resin, a colorant, and a low molecular weight polypropylene particle, which has a content of the low molecular weight polypropylene particle of 0.3 to 8.0 percent by |
| 6226456 |
Lens-fitted film unit with built-in strobe |
May 1, 2001 |
| In a lens-fitted film unit with a built-in strobe, when photographing is conducted with strobe light, a strobe unit takes a first attitude in which a strobe panel is directed to a subject being photographed, while when photographing is conducted without the strobe light or when photograp |
| 6226026 |
Image exposing apparatus for imagewise exposing on a light sensitive material comprising at leas |
May 1, 2001 |
| An image exposing apparatus for imagewise exposing on a light-sensitive material, consists of: a plurality of light emitting element rows; a light mixing device for mixing light emitted from the plurality of light emitting element rows to form emergent light in a line in which rays of |
| 6225041 |
Silver halide photographic emulsion and silver halide photographic light sensitive material |
May 1, 2001 |
| A silver halide photographic emulsion is disclosed, consisting essentially of tabular silver halide grains having an average aspect ratio of 3.0 or more, the tabular grains substantially having dislocation lines, a variation coefficient of grain size of said tabular grains being 20% or |
| 6225018 |
Silver halide light sensitive color photographic material |
May 1, 2001 |
| A silver halide light sensitive color photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support and at least a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer which comprises a silver halide emulsion and a coupler, the photographic material further comprising a luminance component informatio |
| 6224988 |
Adhesive composition and image forming material |
May 1, 2001 |
| An adhesive composition is disclosed, comprising an ethylenic copolymer comprising a repeating unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an active methylene group and at least a repeating unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and a copolyester |
| 6222617 |
Image forming apparatus |
April 24, 2001 |
| An exposing apparatus provided with a drum to fixedly hold a sheet-shaped light sensitive material onto an outer peripheral surface thereof by suctioning; a rotating driver capable of rotating the drum at a rotational speed not less than 1200 rpm; and an exposing device for exposing on t |
| 6222613 |
Image processing method and apparatus |
April 24, 2001 |
| A method and apparatus for processing image information coming from various types of image inputting media yields an image processor for processing image information that consolidates image size irrespective of the type of image inputting medium. The apparatus is provided with a pluralit |
| 6222568 |
Image forming method and a printer |
April 24, 2001 |
| An image forming apparatus, including: a head, having plural heating elements arranged in line, for forming an image on an image forming medium by transmitting ink, which an ink ribbon has, to the image forming medium; a scanner for moving the heating element in relation to the image for |
| 6219493 |
Electronic flash device of a separate excitation oscillating type |
April 17, 2001 |
| An electronic flash charger having an electronic flash charging circuit of a separate excitation oscillating. The charger includes: a flyback transformer, having at least a primary coil and a secondly coil; a switching element for turning on or off electric power, to be supplied to t |
| 6218092 |
Processing method of silver halide light sensitive photographic material |
April 17, 2001 |
| A processing method of silver halide light sensitive photographic materials by the use of an automatic processor is disclosed, comprising the steps of developing, fixing and washing, in which a developing bath of the processor comprises a processing tank and a temperature-controlling tan |
| 6217166 |
Ink jet recording method |
April 17, 2001 |
| An ink-jet recording method is disclosed, including recording on an ink-jet recording sheet containing a non-water-absorbing support and provided thereon an ink absorbing layer containing polyvinyl alcohol, fine inorganic particles and boric acid or its salt, using an ink-jet recording |
| 6215976 |
Automatic document conveyance apparatus |
April 10, 2001 |
| An automatic document conveyance apparatus includes: a document feeding section on which a plurality of documents can be placed, for feeding documents one by one therefrom; a zigzag reversal path through which the document fed from the document feeding section is reversed with respect to |
| 6214114 |
Jet coating apparatus |
April 10, 2001 |
| A coating apparatus includes: a conveyor for conveying an object to be coated; and a coater for coating a coating liquid by jetting the coating liquid from a slit in a film shape and by causing the coating liquid to collide with the object to be coated. The coater is not in contact with |
| 6213657 |
Automatic processor for silver halide light-sensitive photographic material |
April 10, 2001 |
| An automatic processor for a silver halide light sensitive photographic material is disclosed. The automatic processor comprises at least two reservoirs storing partial processing compositions separately, and a supply means to supply each of said partial compositions to said silver h |
| 6211358 |
Method for preparing solution of cellulose acylate method for producing cellulose acylate film a |
April 3, 2001 |
| A method for preparing a solution of cellulose acylate is disclosed. The method comprises comprising the steps of (1) chilling an organic solvent containing no chlorinated organic solvent at a temperature of from -100.degree. C. to -10.degree. C., (2) mixing cellulose acylate containing |
| 6206359 |
Auto document feeder |
March 27, 2001 |
| An automatic document feeder includes a feed tray 2 on which documents are placed, a feeder 4 for feeding documents on the feed tray 2 to a conveyor path, conveying 8 for conveying the fed documents to an image reading position, a discharging 9 for discharging the read documents onto a |
| 6204932 |
Image forming apparatus |
March 20, 2001 |
| In an image forming apparatus, a document image is read by an image scanner and image data are applied with image processing and stored in a memory. An image correction device corrects the image data with a different correcting condition depending on whether the image data are used for a |
| 6204868 |
Image forming apparatus providing polygonal mirror having braking means |
March 20, 2001 |
| In an image forming apparatus in which an exposure is conducted by scanning of a laser beam, the apparatus includes a photoreceptor for forming a latent image thereon; an exposure device having a rotary polygonal mirror for exposing the photoreceptor, wherein the laser beam is deflected |
| 6204390 |
Synthesizing method for a 3-substituted-3-oxo-2-(2,4-oxazolidinedione-3-yl) propionic acid amide |
March 20, 2001 |
| A synthesizing method for a 3-substituted-3-oxo-2-(2,4 -oxazolidinedione-3-yl)propionic acid amide compound represented by the following Formula [I], by reacting a compound represented by the following Formula [II] with a compound represented by the following Formula [III], in the pr |
| 6200738 |
Image forming method |
March 13, 2001 |
| An image forming method is disclosed, wherein a photographic element comprising a support having on at least one side thereof at least a photographic component layer containing light sensitive silver halide is subjected to exposure and photographic processing to form a dye image, in |
| 6198844 |
Image processing apparatus |
March 6, 2001 |
| A method of processing an image includes steps of: obtaining data concerning the brightness of an original image; dividing the data concerning the brightness into a plurality of groups for each brightness domain on the basis of the histogram of the data concerning the brightness; pre |
| 6198799 |
X-ray image forming method and x-ray image forming system |
March 6, 2001 |
| An x-ray image forming method is disclosed. The x-ray image is captured employing a flat panel detector; from this panel detector, the x-ray image taken out in the form of image signals; employing a thermally developable photosensitive material comprising photosensitive silver halide gra |
| 6198495 |
Color image forming apparatus having means for correcting deviations between scanning light beam |
March 6, 2001 |
| An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a laser diode for generating a plurality of light beams, and a rotating polygonal mirror for simultaneously scanning the image carrier in a primary scanning direction along respective lines which are parallel to each other in a second |
| 6198494 |
Image recording apparatus with plural print heads |
March 6, 2001 |
| In a color image recording apparatus provided with plural print heads and a conveyor, each print head includes a plurality of recording elements aligned along at least a single line in a primary scanning direction and the plural print heads are arranged in parallel to each other in the |
| 6197487 |
Photographic support, silver halide photosensitive photographic material and thermally developab |
March 6, 2001 |
| A support of photographic material is disclosed. The support is composed of plastic film in which polyethylene naphthalate is the major component. The plastic film is thermally treated at a temperature of not less than its Tg of said film to no more than its Tg plus 55.degree. C. |
| 6192102 |
Method for forming radiographic image |
February 20, 2001 |
| A method for forming radiographic image is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of (1) capturing a radiographic image by a flat-panel detector, (2) reading out the radiographic image from the flat-panel detector as image signal, (3) modulating intensity of a laser light beam by the |
| 6192021 |
Optical pickup apparatus |
February 20, 2001 |
| An optical pickup apparatus for performing a reading or recording operation of information on one of different kinds of optical information recording medium, each having a transparent base board in different thickness. The optical pickup apparatus includes: a laser beam generator; a ligh |
| 6191426 |
Cassette |
February 20, 2001 |
| A cassette in which a radiographic image converting plate is accommodated, comprises a case having an opening; a tray on which the radiographic image converting plate is loaded; and a cap capable of being fitted with the opening, the cap connected with the tray so that the tray is moved |
| 6187929 |
Dye usable for photographic lightsensitive material, fine solid particle dispersion of said dye |
February 13, 2001 |
| A dye represented by the following formula (1);Formula (1) ##STR1## wherein A represents an acidic nucleus, L.sub.1, L.sub.2 and L.sub.3 represent a methine group, n represents 0, 1 or 2, Z represents a nonmetalic atom group necessary to form a heterocyclic group by bonding with a ni |
| 6185050 |
Zoom lens having two lens groups |
February 6, 2001 |
| A zoom lens includes: a first lens group having positive refracting power; and a second lens group provided on an image side of the first lens group, having negative refracting power. The zoom lens has a variable power ratio of not less than 2.5 and a field angle of not less than 70.degr |
