Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes a cap member contacting an ejection opening surface of a liquid ejection unit and covering the ejection opening surface, and a drive motor configured to cause the ejection opening surface and the cap member to contact or separate from each other. Furthermore, the liquid ejection apparatus includes a negative pressure generation unit configured to bring a space surrounded by the ejection opening surface and the cap member into a negative pressure state, and a control unit configured to drive the negative pressure generation unit to bring the space into a negative pressure state under a separation instruction to separate the cap member and the liquid ejection unit, and subsequently cause the drive motor to separate the liquid ejection unit and the cap member.

Abstract: An ADB lamp unit of a vehicle headlamp includes a light source constituted by a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements that can be turned on/off individually, and a reflector having a reflective surface that is based on a paraboloid of revolution. The reflector is constituted by a perpendicularly split plurality of partial reflectors, with the reflective surface of each partial reflector being configured such that the horizontal spread of reflected light reflected by each partial reflectors is approximately equal in a predetermined projection plane.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes a print head configured to perform a print operation, the print head having an ejection opening surface on which a plurality of ejection openings for ejecting ink are arrayed along a width direction, and a moving unit configured to move the print head between a printing position, in which the print operation is performed, and a standby position, in which the print operation is not performed. The moving unit moves the print head between the printing position and the standby position by simultaneously performing rotational movement, in which the print head is rotated around a rotation axis that is parallel to the width direction, and linear movement in the gravitational direction, of the print head.

Abstract: A first lamp unit includes a plurality of first light-emitting elements arranged in a vehicle width direction. A second lamp unit includes a plurality of second light-emitting elements arranged in the vehicle width direction. A wiring channel of a first type lights at least one of the first light-emitting elements by supplying power thereto, thereby forming a light distribution pattern of a first type. A wiring channel of a second type connects at least one of the first light-emitting elements in series with at least one of the second light-emitting elements, and lights these by supplying power thereto, thereby forming a light distribution pattern of a second type. The position of a light-dark boundary that extends vertically in the light distribution pattern of the first type is different from the position of a light-dark boundary that extends vertically in the light distribution pattern of the second type.

Abstract: A lamp unit includes a light-emitting element array composed by a plurality of light-emitting elements, having respective individual irradiation regions constituting a high-beam light-distribution pattern and configured to be capable of being turned on individually, mounted in array on a substrate, a projection lens disposed in front of the light-emitting element array, and a reflector disposed below the light-emitting element array. Inter-light-emitting-element spacing within the light-emitting element array widens the more separated the elements are from the projection lens' optical axis.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicular headlamp including an excitation light source, a phosphor excited by the excitation light source, a projection lens, and a scanning mechanism configured to receive light generated by an excitation light source array on a reflective surface of a reflector and scan the light toward the phosphor. The excitation light source is formed as the excitation light source array having a plurality of light emitting portions. Between the excitation light source array and the scanning mechanism, a lens array having a plurality of light condensing portions is provided. The plurality of light condensing portions are arranged to respectively face the plurality of light emitting portions, and configured to condense lights emitted from respective light emitting portions on the reflective surface, respectively, and arrange respective optical images of reflected lights on the phosphor.

Abstract: A vehicular headlamp includes a plurality of excitation light sources; a fluorescent body; a scanning mechanism configured to perform scanning by directing lights emitted from the excitation light sources toward the fluorescent body; and a projection lens through which the lights emitted from the fluorescent body pass such that a light distribution pattern is formed. Irradiation areas of the lights emitted from the excitation light sources and incident on the fluorescent body are different from each other.

Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus having a configuration of capping and sucking an ejection opening surface for ejecting a plurality of types of inks by using one cap member, in which the inks in the cap member can be sucked and removed evenly. To achieved this, a cap member is provided with a suction opening for externally discharging ink absorbed by an absorber in the cap member. The suction opening is formed in a position where the suction opening does not face first ejection openings for ejecting ink that may not easily stagnate and faces the second ejection openings for ejecting ink that may easily stagnate in a case where the cap member caps an ejection opening surface.

Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus including: a print head having an ejection opening surface on which a first ejection opening array capable of ejecting a first ink and a second ejection opening array capable of ejecting a second ink are arranged; a cap member; and a print controller configured to cause the first and the second ejection opening arrays to perform preliminary ejection to an inside of the cap member, and to cause the first ejection opening array to perform preliminary ejection in a first relative position and cause the second ejection opening array to perform preliminary ejection in a second relative position, wherein, on the cap member, a position in which the second ink lands by the preliminary ejection overlaps with an area where the first ink lands by the preliminary ejection.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a print head having an ejection opening surface on which an ejection opening array for ejecting a liquid is provided in a first direction; a cap unit for protecting the ejection opening array; a moving unit configured to relatively move the print head and the cap unit; a first positioning portion for locating the print head and the cap unit in a first relative position where the print head and the cap unit come into contact with each other; and a second positioning portion for locating the print head and the cap unit in a second relative position where the print head and the cap unit come into contact with each other, the second relative position being different from the first relative position.

Abstract: A road surface drawing lamp unit includes a light source module and an optical system. In the light source module, a plurality of light sources which correspond individually to drawing patterns, each of which is long in a first direction which is a width direction of a road and short in a second direction which intersects the width direction of the road and an emitting axis of the light sources, are arranged so that the drawing patterns are drawn at a plurality of locations on the road along the second direction, and the light sources are formed so as to be turned on and off independently. The optical system emits light emitted from the light sources to the front.

Abstract: A road surface drawing lamp unit includes a light source module and an optical system. In the light source module, a plurality of light sources which correspond individually to drawing patterns, each of which is long in a first direction which is a width direction of a road and short in a second direction which intersects the width direction of the road and an emitting axis of the light sources, are arranged so that the drawing patterns are drawn at a plurality of locations on the road along the second direction, and the light sources are formed so as to be turned on and off independently. The optical system emits light emitted from the light sources to the front.

Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus including: a print head having an ejection opening surface on which a plurality of ejection units each provided with an ejection opening for ejecting ink are arrayed in a first direction; a wiping member configured to wipe the ejection opening surface; and a moving unit configured to move the wiping member in a second direction crossing the first direction, wherein a longitudinal direction of the wiping member is inclined with respect to an edge of the print head located downstream in the second direction and is substantially in parallel with a direction defined by an edge of the ejection unit.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes: a print head having an ejection opening surface on which an ejection opening for ejecting ink is provided; a wiping unit configured to wipe the ejection opening surface; a moving unit configured to move the wiping unit in a first direction; and a treatment liquid holding portion having a holding member for holding a treatment liquid and an applying member for applying the treatment liquid to the wiping unit by coming into contact with the wiping unit, wherein a plurality of treatment liquid holding portions are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction such that adjacent treatment liquid holding portions are not in contact with each other.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicular headlamp including: an excitation light source; a scanning mechanism configured to scan light emitted by the excitation light source toward a predetermined direction; a projection lens; and a phosphor provided between the scanning mechanism and the projection lens and configured to transmit light scanned by the scanning mechanism toward the projection lens. The phosphor is formed as a curved body that is curved in a direction opposite to a curved image plane of the projection lens.

Abstract: It is shown that CD25-targeted near-infrared photo-immunotherapy causes a unique, rapid and spatially selective depletion of Tregs leading to regression of the treated tumor and inducing systemic immunologic responses in untreated tumors. Based on these observations, provided are compositions and methods of killing immune suppressor cells, for example to treat cancer. Reducing the number of suppressor cells in a subject can remove suppression of effector T cells, for example, to treat cancer using the subject's own immune system. In particular examples, the method includes contacting suppressor cells having a suppressor cell surface protein with an antibody-IR700 molecule, wherein the antibody specifically binds to the suppressor cell surface protein, and in some examples the antibody does not have a functional Fc region. The cell is subsequently irradiated, such as at a wavelength of 660 to 740 nm, for example at a dose of at least 4 J cm?2.

Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus capable of moving a print head in a short time using a simpler configuration. To this purpose, the print head is moved while simultaneously performing rotational movement and linear movement between a printing position and a maintenance position in the printing apparatus.

Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus capable of stably outputting high quality images in a configuration of feeding a print medium that is kept horizontal, performing printing by the use of a print head, and conveying the print medium vertically upward. To this purpose, a platen that supports the back side of the print medium in a position facing a printing part of the print head is located to support the print medium at an angle greater than 0° and less than 90° with respect to the horizontal direction, thereby reducing a contact pressure from roller pairs on the printed side immediately after printing.

Abstract: A first lamp unit includes a plurality of first light-emitting elements arranged in a vehicle width direction. A second lamp unit includes a plurality of second light-emitting elements arranged in the vehicle width direction. A wiring channel of a first type lights at least one of the first light-emitting elements by supplying power thereto, thereby forming a light distribution pattern of a first type. A wiring channel of a second type connects at least one of the first light-emitting elements in series with at least one of the second light-emitting elements, and lights these by supplying power thereto, thereby forming a light distribution pattern of a second type. The position of a light-dark boundary that extends vertically in the light distribution pattern of the first type is different from the position of a light-dark boundary that extends vertically in the light distribution pattern of the second type.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicular headlamp including an excitation light source, a phosphor excited by the excitation light source, a projection lens, and a scanning mechanism configured to receive light generated by an excitation light source array on a reflective surface of a reflector and scan the light toward the phosphor. The excitation light source is formed as the excitation light source array having a plurality of light emitting portions. Between the excitation light source array and the scanning mechanism, a lens array having a plurality of light condensing portions is provided. The plurality of light condensing portions are arranged to respectively face the plurality of light emitting portions, and configured to condense lights emitted from respective light emitting portions on the reflective surface, respectively, and arrange respective optical images of reflected lights on the phosphor.