| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6180213 |
Heat sensitive planographic printing plate, its manufacturing method and image forming method em |
January 30, 2001 |
| Disclosed is a heat sensitive planographic printing plate material comprising a support and provided thereon, a heat sensitive layer containing 10 to 98 weight % of at least one hydrophilic resin selected from the group consisting of gelatin, polyvinyl alcohol and carboxymethyl cellu |
| 6177030 |
Stimulable phosphor and radiation image conversion panel by use thereof |
January 23, 2001 |
| A method for preparing a stimulable phosphor is disclosed, comprising forming a stimulable phosphor and coating the formed stimulable phosphor with a metal oxide and a silane coupling agent, or a metal oxide and a metal alkoxide. Another method is also disclosed, comprising forming a |
| 6174660 |
Silver halide photographic light-sensitive material |
January 16, 2001 |
| A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion and at least a nonlight-sensitive layer, wherein said silver halide photographic light |
| 6174654 |
Method for processing silver halide photographic light-sensitive material |
January 16, 2001 |
| A method for processing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The method comprises the step of supplying a photographic processing solution on the image forming surface of the silver halide photographic material by a processing solution supplying means, |
| 6171768 |
Image forming method |
January 9, 2001 |
| An image forming method is disclosed, comprising:exposing a photosensitive functional element having a red-sensitive function, a green-sensitive function, a blue-sensitive function and an invisible light-sensitive function to obtain an R image information, a G image information, a B imag |
| 6169563 |
Image recording apparatus having a plurality of laser diodes |
January 2, 2001 |
| In an image recording apparatus provided with an optical unit having a plurality of laser diodes; a driving circuit is provided to drive the plurality of laser diodes in accordance with image output signals applied with a predetermined first bias; and a beam intensity measuring element i |
| 6168892 |
Method for forming color image |
January 2, 2001 |
| A color image forming method is disclosed, comprising applying additive color mixing to a subtractive color mixture to perform color correction. Specifically, a fluorescent substance exhibiting emission in the visible light wavelength region, which is used for the additive color mixing, |
| 6168730 |
Stimulable phosphor, preparation method thereof and radiation image conversion panel |
January 2, 2001 |
| A preparation method of an oxygen-introduced stimulable phosphor including a rare earth activated alkaline earth metal fluorohalide stimulable phosphor is disclosed, comprising the steps of heating a precursor of a stimulable phosphor in an atmosphere containing oxygen, and further h |
| 6167209 |
Copying system having plural copying machines |
December 26, 2000 |
| A copying system includes a plurality of copying apparatuses, a communication line interconnecting the plurality of copying apparatuses with each other such that the plurality of copying apparatuses can communicate image data therebetween, and a controller. The controller controls th |
| 6165698 |
Method for forming image having protective layer thereon |
December 26, 2000 |
| A method for forming an image having a protective layer is disclosed. The method comprises the steps offorming an image comprising a support having thereon an image comprising a layer comprising a binder and a colorant having a thickness of t.sub.1,providing a protective layer on the surface |
| 6165676 |
Light sensitive composition, image forming material and image forming material manufacturing met |
December 26, 2000 |
| Disclosed is a light sensitive composition containing a compound capable of generating an acid on exposure of an actinic light, a compound having a chemical bond capable of being decomposed by an acid or a compound having a group cross-linking by an acid, an infrared absorber, and a solv |
| 6165606 |
Ink jet recording paper and ink jet recording method |
December 26, 2000 |
| An ink-jet recording sheet has a recording layer comprising a hydrophilic binder, fine inorganic particles having an average primary particle diameter of 30 nm or less, and a cation type water-soluble mordant having an average molecular weight of 50,000 or less. An ink-jet recording meth |
| 6160670 |
Camera |
December 12, 2000 |
| A zoom lens barrel in which a zoom lens is switched to a plurality of focal lengths by a moving member by which a plurality of lens groups are moved in the direction of optical axis. After a desired focal length has been selected, a focusing operation is conducted by the moving member. A |
| 6154292 |
Multi-beam scanning method and control apparatus for the same |
November 28, 2000 |
| An apparatus for scanning with multiple beams emitted from a semiconductor laser by a polygonal mirror, wherein an image is written for each scanning line by each beam of the multiple beams. The apparatus includes an automatic light amount control circuit having: (i) a light amount d |
| 6148172 |
Image forming apparatus having means for enhancing accuracy of conveyance of recording sheets |
November 14, 2000 |
| An image forming apparatus is provided with a plurality of storing units for storing respective recording materials of various sizes; a plurality of feeding members for feeding out the recording materials from each of the storing units; a conveyance path along which the recording materia |
| 6147771 |
Method of image density adjustment and apparatus using the method |
November 14, 2000 |
| An image density adjusting apparatus in which density of an image signal is adjusted, which performs: a first converting operation for converting an image signal having n-bit into a signal having m-bit larger than n-bit so as to change the number of gray-level; a gradation gamma converti |
| 6147697 |
Image forming apparatus |
November 14, 2000 |
| An image recording apparatus having therein an image recording section includes: a light emitting dot row provided on a base plate and having thereon anodes arranged in a form of an array of a single row or a plurality of rows and having phosphors provided on the anodes; a cathode pr |
| 6145834 |
Automatic document feeder having a document shunting path |
November 14, 2000 |
| 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 |
| 6141030 |
Laser exposure unit including plural laser beam sources differing in wavelength |
October 31, 2000 |
| An exposing apparatus is provided with a first laser beam source for being directly modulated in terms of light amount and for emitting a first laser beam having a first wavelength; a second laser beam source for emitting a second laser beam having a second wavelength different from the |
| 6136425 |
Support for printing material, printing material employing the same and manufacturing method the |
October 24, 2000 |
| Disclosed is a printing material comprising a support comprising a void layer with voids, and a light sensitive layer or a heat sensitive layer provided on the void layer, wherein the void volume of the void layer is not less than 0.01 ml/m.sup.2. |
| 6134403 |
Color image forming apparatus having developing devices located within a central angle of 180.de |
October 17, 2000 |
| A color image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor drum having an outer diameter of 50 mm to 100 mm and a rotational axis, four charging devices for charging the photoreceptor drum, and four exposure devices, provided inside the photoreceptor drum, for imagewise exposing an inner |
| 6133984 |
Image forming apparatus |
October 17, 2000 |
| There is described an image recording apparatus, which includes an input device for inputting image data, a recording element to record images on an image recording medium in accordance with the image data, a memory device for storing a plurality of information groups having relationship |
| 6132951 |
Photographic support and photographic material |
October 17, 2000 |
| Provided is a photographic support which is excellent in mechanical strength and is less liable to get into roll set curl and which is excellent in cutting property and flatness, and a photographic material using the same. The support for photographic material comprises a polyester f |
| 6126339 |
Automatic processor for silver halide photosensitive photographic material |
October 3, 2000 |
| In an apparatus for automatically processing a silver halide photographic light sensitive material by plural processes, provided with a conveyor for relatively conveying the material to the plural processes; and a processing solution supplying device for supplying a processing solution |
| 6124078 |
Photo-decoloring dye, a binder resin composition containing the same and photo-recording materia |
September 26, 2000 |
| A photo-decoloring dye represented by the following Formula (1), ##STR1## wherein Z.sub.1, Z.sub.2 and Z.sub.3 each represents a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each represents a hydrogen atom and substituents, Z.sub.2 and Z.sub.3 may form a condensed rin |
| 6123994 |
Ink-jet recording head and a production method of the same |
September 26, 2000 |
| An ink-jet recording head employed in an ink-jet recording apparatus is disclosed. A part of the channel is composed of resin material which comprises a base resin and a highly cationic resin attached on the surface of the base resin through reaction, the resulting surface being reacted |
| 6121993 |
Apparatus for forming an image by a plurality of light emitting elements |
September 19, 2000 |
| An apparatus for forming an image comprises a plurality of light emitting elements each emitting light having substanitially the same peak wavelength as those of others; a conveyor to convey a recording medium to receive light emitted from the plurality of light emitting elements rel |
| 6118972 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method |
September 12, 2000 |
| An image forming apparatus includes: a tray on which documents are stacked; a first document size detector for detecting a size of the documents stacked on the tray; a second document size detector for detecting a size of each of the documents conveyed from the tray; an automatic documen |
| 6118749 |
Method for recording/reproducing optical information recording medium, optical pickup apparatus, |
September 12, 2000 |
| 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 |
| 6117627 |
Silver halide light sensitive photographic material |
September 12, 2000 |
| A silver halide light sensitive photographic material is disclosed, comprising a transparent support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer, and the photographic material further having a color filter layer comprising picture elements comprised of a colored resin and randomly |
| 6117611 |
Image forming method of a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material |
September 12, 2000 |
| An image forming method of a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is exposed to a laser beam light, while said silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is conveyed with rollers at 15 to 10 |
| 6115103 |
Scanning-exposure apparatus |
September 5, 2000 |
| An exposing apparatus including a conveying device, a scanning device and an exposure device. The conveying device conveys a photographic film reciprocatingly during a first stroke and a second stroke opposite to the first stroke. The scanning device scans an image on the photographic fi |
| 6113091 |
Automatic document feeder |
September 5, 2000 |
| An automatic document feeder for use with an image forming apparatus, for conveying a document on a platen of the apparatus, includes a rotating conveyance belt for pressing the document to the platen thereby conveying the document along the platen; a pressing roller for applying pressur |
| 6112872 |
Electromagnetic clutch |
September 5, 2000 |
| A clutch is provided with an input section for inputting driving force in to the clutch, an output section for outputting driving force from the clutch, a shifting device for shifting one of the input section and the output section against the other one between an engaging position where |
| 6109605 |
Sheet finishing apparatus |
August 29, 2000 |
| In an sheet finishing apparatus for receiving a sheet on which an image has been formed by an image forming apparatus, and for ejecting the sheet after a front side thereof is reversed, the sheet finishing apparatus includes: a sheet conveyor for conveying the sheet fed from the image |
| 6106598 |
Ink set for ink-jet image formation |
August 22, 2000 |
| An ink set for jet-printing is disclosed. The ink set comprises an ink liquid containing a colorant and a substantially colorless liquid composition containing an anionic metal oxide colloid, which are to be mixed with the ink liquid after jetted, wherein a viscosity A cp of the ink |
| 6104534 |
Antireflection coating with electromagnetic wave shielding effect and optical member having the |
August 15, 2000 |
| In an optical member having a coating for reducing a ray reflecting on the coating and for reducing an electromagnetic wave incident on the coating, the optical member includes: a transparent substrate; and the coating including, and formed on the transparent substrate in the order named |
| 6103087 |
Method of manufacturing support for planographic printing plate and presensitized planographic p |
August 15, 2000 |
| Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a presensitized planographic printing plate comprising a support, and provided thereon, a light sensitive layer, the support having small pits with an average opening size of 0.2 to 0.8 .mu.m and a depth to size ratio of 0.2 or less, and large |
| 6102586 |
Photosensitive material processing apparatus |
August 15, 2000 |
| There is described a photosensitive material processing apparatus which automatically develops pieces of film being longer in the longitudinal direction than in the width direction like a piece of photographic film for consumer use. The photosensitive material processing apparatus, e |
| 6102386 |
Image forming apparatus |
August 15, 2000 |
| An image forming apparatus is provided which includes a first paper cassette provided in a lower portion of a main body of the image forming apparatus for housing recording papers therein and for feeding the recording papers to the main body through a first paper feeding path, and a |
| 6100018 |
Silver halide light sensitive color photographic material |
August 8, 2000 |
| A silver halide color photographic material, which is superior in color reproduction as well as its stability, is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer conta |
| 6099998 |
Electrophotographic photoreceptor and a production method of the same |
August 8, 2000 |
| An electrophotographic photoreceptor is disclosed. The topmost layer comprises a binder comprising a crosslinked resin having, as a recurring unit, (a) a portion comprising a constituent having a fluorine or silicon atom at the side chain, (b) a portion having an aromatic group in the ma |
| 6096490 |
Silver halide light sensitive color photographic material and process for preparing color proof |
August 1, 2000 |
| A silver halide light sensitive color photographic material is disclosed, comprising a reflective support having on one side of the support a hydrophilic colloid layer containing a white pigment and one or more silver halide emulsion layers, wherein at least one of the silver halide |
| 6094552 |
Image forming apparatus for printing images in accordance with at least one of first information |
July 25, 2000 |
| An image forming apparatus includes a reversing unit for reversing a two-sided document and placing the document on a platen, a reading unit for reading image data of either a front or back side of the document placed on the platen by the reversing unit, and at least one of: (i) a fi |
| 6093527 |
Benzimidazolocarbocyanine dye, and silver halide emulsion and silver halide light-sensitive phot |
July 25, 2000 |
| A noble benzimidazolocarbocyanine dye represented by the following formulas is disclosed. A silver halide emulsion and a silver halide photographic material containing the dye are also disclosed. ##STR1## |
| 6091929 |
Image forming apparatus having stapling position controller |
July 18, 2000 |
| In an image forming apparatus provided with an image reader to read an image on an image surface of a document and to output image data corresponding to the image; an image processor to process the image data; an image forming device to successively form images on sheets on the basis |
| 6088081 |
Image recording apparatus |
July 11, 2000 |
| In an image recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording sheet wound around a circumferential surface of a drum rotatable while retaining the recording sheet wound around the circumferential surface thereof, the drum is provided with a plurality of through holes to suck the |
| 6085064 |
Image forming apparatus |
July 4, 2000 |
| An image forming apparatus includes: a first image carrier for carrying a toner image formed by an toner image forming device; a second image carrier for carrying thereon the toner image transferred from the first image carrier, and for transferring a transfer sheet thereon; a first |
| 6081317 |
Image reproducing method |
June 27, 2000 |
| An image reproducing method includes a step of obtaining a print reproducing an object based on image information obtained by photographing the object, wherein logarithm E of object brightness satisfies formula (1) and formula (2) is effected with the logarithm E,wherein D(E) represents |
| 6079884 |
Photographic processing apparatus |
June 27, 2000 |
| An apparatus for processing a silver halide light sensitive photographic material is disclosed, comprising a first processing tank and a second processing tank adjacent to the first tank, wherein the value represented by RxL1/S is from 0.05 to 0.4, in which R represents a radius (cm) of |
