| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6750608 |
Organic electroluminescence element and display |
June 15, 2004 |
| An organic electroluminescence element is disclosed which comprises a cathode, a light emission layer containing a host compound and a dopant compound, and at least one first layer provided between the cathode and the light emission layer, wherein the dopant compound is a phosphorescent |
| 6749981 |
Ink sheet, recording medium and recording method for laser thermal transfer recording |
June 15, 2004 |
| A laser thermal transfer recording method is disclosed. The method employs an ink sheet having a light-heat conversion layer an a laser thermal transfer image receiving sheet having an image receiving layer in which Vicat softening point of the resin composing the thermoplastic layer of |
| 6747812 |
Objective lens for optical pick-up apparatus and optical pick-up apparatus |
June 8, 2004 |
| An objective lens for use in an optical pickup apparatus in which first and second light sources are provided on a same flat surface, converges each of the light fluxes from the first and second light sources onto an information recording plane through each of transparent substrates of a |
| 6744849 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and storage medium |
June 1, 2004 |
| An image processing apparatus for processing a target radiation image generated by radiation transmitted through a radiographic object, which has an image data transforming device for practicing image processing in such a manner that image characteristics of the target radiation image |
| 6738202 |
Optical element, metal die, and cutting tool |
May 18, 2004 |
| An optical element has diffractive grooves. Each diffractive groove includes a first surface approximated by a predetermined optical function; a second surface extending in a direction to cross the first surface and being parallel to the optical axis; and a third surface to connect the |
| 6737220 |
Printing method and printing press |
May 18, 2004 |
| A method of printing an image with a printing plate prepared from a printing plate precursor, which comprises a support having thereon an image forming layer A containing a water-soluble material, the method comprising the steps of: (a) imagewise exposing the layer A of the printing |
| 6737209 |
Color image forming method using flattened toner |
May 18, 2004 |
| A color image forming method in which a color toner image is formed through superposing toner images of three color toners of yellow, magenta, and cyan and a black toner, wherein each of the color toners is a flattened toner composed of particles each having an equivalent circle diameter |
| 6734892 |
Optical deflection device and image forming apparatus equipped therewith |
May 11, 2004 |
| An optical deflection device having a rotary body that is fixed on a bearing and is structured rotatably by a magnet arranged to face a coil provided on a base side, wherein the rotary body is made of a magnet and a polygon mirror is fixed on the rotary body. |
| 6733113 |
Ink-jet recording method and ink-jet recording apparatus |
May 11, 2004 |
| An ink-jet recording method of forming an image with an ink-jet head, wherein the ink-jet head includes an ink chamber, an electric actuator provided in the ink chamber and an insulating layer covering the electric actuator, including steps of: feeding an ink containing a coloring ma |
| 6731357 |
Cellulose ester film, production method of the same, film employed in liquid crystal display mem |
May 4, 2004 |
| A film employed in a liquid crystal display member is disclosed. The film has film thickness of 20 to 60 .mu.m and variation in the film thickness within .+-.3.0 percent of the standard film thickness. |
| 6730919 |
Radiation image conversion panel |
May 4, 2004 |
| A radiation image conversion panel comprising a phosphor sheet having a support and a stimulable phosphor layer provided on the support and a protective film covering the stimulable phosphor layer, wherein a transmittance of the protective film for stimulating light is not larger tha |
| 6730455 |
Method of preparing planographic printing plate |
May 4, 2004 |
| A planographic printing plate manufacturing method is disclosed which comprises the step of developing a presensitized planographic printing plate with a developer with a pH of from 11.5 to less than 12.5 which does not substantially contain an organic solvent, wherein the presensitized |
| 6729654 |
Print producing system and prints |
May 4, 2004 |
| There is described a system for producing prints based on digital image data and for packing the prints. The system includes an inputting section to input a plurality of print-order information including customer-identifying information for identifying each of customers and a print-p |
| 6728508 |
Image forming apparatus with blade and brush cleaning section |
April 27, 2004 |
| An image forming apparatus having a photoreceptor, a developing section, a transferring section, and a cleaning section, wherein the toner is manufactured by a polymerization method, particle diameter is 3-8 .mu.m, and a shape factor of the toner is 0.940-0.985. The cleaning section has |
| 6728499 |
Image forming apparatus with left time informing function and left time calculating method |
April 27, 2004 |
| An image forming apparatus with a left time informing function, which can accurately predict time required for finishing forming an image. The image forming apparatus with a left time informing function, has: a storage for storing data of various types of basic operation time for forming |
| 6728172 |
Objective lens and optical pickup apparatus |
April 27, 2004 |
| In an objective lens for use in an optical pickup device, when NA1 and N2 (NA2<NA1) represent a needed numerical aperture of the objective lens on an image side, a first spot and a second spot represent a spot formed by the light flux having passed through the central region, a m.sup. |
| 6728047 |
Compact photographing lens |
April 27, 2004 |
| This invention is related to a compact photographing lens wherein an aperture stop is arranged at a position closest to an object, a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group are arranged sequentially from the object side, the first lens group is formed by arrangi |
| 6728042 |
Optical pick-up device and objective lens used therein |
April 27, 2004 |
| An optical pickup apparatus comprises two light sources having two wavelengths (.lambda.1<.lambda.2) and a converging optical system having an objective lens. The objective lens comprises a central region; a peripheral region provided at an outside of the central region on at least |
| 6726318 |
Microscopic droplet detecting device and ink-jet recording apparatus |
April 27, 2004 |
| A microscopic droplet detecting device for detecting a passage of droplets jetted from a nozzle of an ink jetting device, including a droplet detecting section including a paired light emitting and receiving elements, a jet control section to control the ink jetting device to jet dro |
| 6725005 |
Drive control method of photoreceptor drum and image forming apparatus |
April 20, 2004 |
| There is described a method of controlling the rotational peripheral speed of the rotating photoreceptor drum to make it constant. The method includes the steps of: detecting angular velocity signals by means of angular velocity detecting device disposed on an axis of the photoreceptor |
| 6724410 |
Multicolor image forming apparatus having a controller for controlling press-contact and separat |
April 20, 2004 |
| A multicolor image forming apparatus comprises a first image forming unit, and a second image forming unit, having respectively an image forming member, an intermediate transfer member, and a secondary transfer section for transferring the toner image from the intermediate transfer membe |
| 6724161 |
Image forming apparatus and control method of motor therein |
April 20, 2004 |
| The invention concerns an improvement of a drive system of a color image forming apparatus. The color image-forming apparatus includes a plurality of image-forming elements; a plurality of first driving motors, each of which corresponds to each of the image-forming elements, to drive the |
| 6721533 |
Toner cleaning device, image forming method using the device, and image forming apparatus using |
April 13, 2004 |
| A toner cleaning device for removing toner which remains on an organic photoreceptor is provided. The toner cleaning device can include a cleaning blade, a support member of the cleaning blade and a damping material. An image forming method is also provided. The method includes remov |
| 6715860 |
Ink-jet head and the preparation method thereof, and a coating layer and the preparation method |
April 6, 2004 |
| An ink-jet head with a substrate forming an ink channel having an electrode provided on an inner surface of the ink channel. A coating layer covers the electrode and is formed of poly-p-xylylene admixed with a silane coupling agent or a derivative of poly-p-xylylene admixed with a silane |
| 6714730 |
Lens barrel and photographing apparatus therewith |
March 30, 2004 |
| A lens barrel includes an outer cylinder having a guide section and an inner cylinder for holding a lens and having a guided section, which is engaged with the guide section and moved in an optical axis direction in response to a rotation of the outer cylinder. The guide section has a |
| 6714314 |
Photographic print producing system |
March 30, 2004 |
| In a print system provided with a printer and a first inputting device to input image data and first print service dealing information into the printer; there is further provided a second inputting device to input image data and second print service dealing information different from the |
| 6713531 |
Water-based pigmented ink for ink jet printing and ink jet recording method |
March 30, 2004 |
| A water-based pigmented ink for use in ink jet printing is disclosed, comprising a pigment and a latex, wherein the average particle size of the pigment (a) and the average particle size of the latex (b) are 10 to 150 nm and 10 to 100 nm, respectively, and satisfying the following re |
| 6710939 |
Objective lens for optical pick-up device and optical pick-up device |
March 23, 2004 |
| An objective lens is provided with plural optical functional regions including an inside optical functional region, an outside optical functional region and an intermediate optical functional region provided between the inside and outside optical functional regions. The absolute valu |
| 6707999 |
Electronic image transmission service system |
March 16, 2004 |
| A method for accomplishing an electronic image information transmitting service, comprising steps of: selecting by a second party whether or not to receive the electronic image information transmitting service; inputting by a first party with an inputting means information regarding |
| 6706964 |
Electronic device and method for manufacturing the same, and method for shielding printed circui |
March 16, 2004 |
| An electronic device having a printed circuit board having a ground, an electrically insulating layer provided on a face of the printed circuit board, and an electromagnetic shielding layer adhered to the face of the printed circuit board through the electrically insulating layer. The |
| 6703177 |
Image forming method using a toner for developing a static image |
March 9, 2004 |
| An electrophotographic image forming method is disclosed. The method comprises forming a latent image on a static image carrier, developing the static image by a developer containing a toner, transferring the toner image onto another image carrier, transferring the toner image on the |
| 6702487 |
Photographic processor for silver halide photographic material and remote control system for the |
March 9, 2004 |
| A photographic processor for a silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a means for supplying a replenisher or water in accordance with processing amount information, wherein the processor further comprises a correction means for correcting the replenisher- or wat |
| 6701124 |
Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, image reading method and image forming method |
March 2, 2004 |
| An image reading apparatus includes: a detecting section for detecting a size of an original sheet; an image reading section for reading an image described in the original sheet; and a storage medium for storing the read image which is read by the image reading section; wherein before th |
| 6701099 |
Image forming apparatus capable of forming images on recording materials of various types and si |
March 2, 2004 |
| An image forming apparatus is provided which is capable of forming images on recording materials of various types and sizes. The image forming apparatus includes a storing member for storing recording materials having an arbitrary size, a size-information input device for inputting size |
| 6699649 |
Silver salt photothermographic imaging material, and image recording method and image forming me |
March 2, 2004 |
| A photothermographic imaging material comprising a support having thereon a photosensitive layer comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a light-insensitive organic silver salt, a binder, and a reducing agent for silver ions, wherein the reducing agent is represented by the followi |
| 6698859 |
Image data processing method for ink jet printer |
March 2, 2004 |
| An image data processing method for ink jet printer comprising the steps of obtaining an allowable amount of ink in accordance with inputted image data and characteristics of a medium for forming an image; selecting and ink jetting domain and fixing the amount of ink in the selected ink |
| 6693752 |
Image forming apparatus |
February 17, 2004 |
| An image forming apparatus includes: a pattern generator for generating pattern data for recording a set of test patterns at respective specified positions thereof on the recording sheet; a positional deviation detector for detecting a positional deviation at each characteristic point in |
| 6692105 |
Ink jet recording head and ink jet recording apparatus employing the same |
February 17, 2004 |
| An ink jet recording head comprises an ink jetting nozzle and a peripheral area of the ink jetting nozzle, the peripheral area having been coated with a coating composition comprising a graft copolymer and a hardener, and having been hardened to provide a hardened coat layer, wherein the |
| 6689548 |
Silver salt photothermographic dry imaging material, an image recording method and an image form |
February 10, 2004 |
| A photothermographic imaging material comprising a support having thereon a photosensitive layer, wherein the photosensitive layer has a silver coverage of 0.8 to 2.5 g/m.sup.2 and comprises a compound represented by Formula (A) or Formula (B): ##STR1## wherein each R.sup.3, R.sup |
| 6689524 |
Toner for developing a static latent image and image forming apparatus |
February 10, 2004 |
| The present invention relates to a toner for developing a static latent image, wherein a smell of the toner has a cos .theta. of from 0.990 to 0.998 as to the smell of styrene and a cos .theta. of from 0.986 to 0.994 as to the smell of n-butyl acrylate in the smell space formed by styren |
| 6687471 |
Image forming apparatus |
February 3, 2004 |
| There is described an image-forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording medium, a size of which is larger than that of the toner image being a fixed form size, based on image data corresponding to the fixed form size. The image-forming apparatus includes an image-forming s |
| 6687028 |
Image exposure apparatus |
February 3, 2004 |
| An image exposing apparatus for exposing an image onto a light sensitive material, is provided with a plurality of light beam emitting element arrays, each light beam emitting element array emitting aligned-light beams which are aligned in at least a single line; a light mixing device |
| 6686965 |
Image display and image storage for electronic camera |
February 3, 2004 |
| An electronic camera which photographs images of an object, outputs image signals corresponding to the images, and stores the image signals with an assigned file name. A display on the electronic camera displays images corresponding to the stored image signals. Along with each displayed |
| 6685311 |
Ink-jet ink, ink-jet cartridge, ink-jet recording unit and ink-jet recording apparatus |
February 3, 2004 |
| An ink-jet ink comprising a photopolymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator and a colorant, wherein the ink has a viscosity of 500 to 50,000 mPa.multidot.s at 25.degree. C. and a viscosity of 3 to 30 mPa.multidot.s at 80.degree. C. |
| 6682880 |
METHOD FOR PREPARING KIT PART FOR BLEACH-FIXING SOLUTION AND KIT FOR BLEACHING SOLUTION FOR USE |
January 27, 2004 |
| A method for preparing a kit part of a bleach-fixing solution or a kit of a bleaching solution for use in silver halide color photographic materials is disclosed, comprising (a) adding a [S,S]-alkylenediamine-N,N'-disuccinic acid or its salt into a mixing tank to form a solution, and |
| 6677973 |
Image forming apparatus |
January 13, 2004 |
| In a scanning optical system provided with a plurality of scanning optical devices, each scanning optical device including a light source to emit a light beam, a collimator lens into which the light beam emitted from the light source enters, a deflector to deflect the light beam passing |
| 6673527 |
Color developer solution, concentrated composition thereof for use in silver halide color photog |
January 6, 2004 |
| A color developer solution capable of inhibiting precipitation or tar-staining occurring in the processing tank or the roller rack, even when being processed rapidly or at low replenishing rate and a concentrated composition thereof is disclosed, comprising at least one selected from |
| 6672719 |
Thermal developing apparatus and assembling method thereof |
January 6, 2004 |
| A thermal developing apparatus in which a photothermographic element having a latent image is interposed between a heated member and a plurality of guiding rollers and when the photothermographic element is conveyed and heated while the guiding rollers are rotated, the thermal developing |
| 6671475 |
Drive power transmission device, image forming apparatus and process cartridge |
December 30, 2003 |
| A transmission mechanism for transmitting rotation of a driving source in a main body to an object mounted on the main body for receiving the rotation, the transmission mechanism comprising a plurality of couplings provided at different positions along an axial direction of a rotating |
| 6671247 |
Optical pick-up apparatus, optical element, and objective lens having diffracting section |
December 30, 2003 |
| An optical pickup apparatus for a first optical medium including a first transparent base plate having a thickness of t1 and a second optical medium including a second transparent base plate having a thickness of t2 (t2>t1), comprises a first light source to emit a first light flux |
