Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus may include a conveying device configured to move a conveying belt including a conveying surface to convey a recording medium. The ink jet recording apparatus may include a recording head configured to discharge ink onto the recording medium. The ink jet recording apparatus may include an attraction device including first and second electrodes facing a surface opposite the conveying surface and configured to apply a voltage between the first and second electrodes. The ink jet recording apparatus may include a contact member which comes into contact with the conveying surface. The first and second electrodes may be disposed at a distance from each other in the width direction of the conveying belt. A contacting area of the conveying surface with which the contact member comes into contact may not extend over the first and second electrodes in the width direction.

Abstract: A recording apparatus, includes: a record head having an image formation surface which forms an image on a recording medium; a conveyance belt which conveys the recording medium to a position to face the image formation surface; a media attracting platen having a pair of electrodes, which is disposed in such a manner that the conveyance belt is sandwiched between the media attracting platen and the image formation surface; a voltage supply unit which applies a voltage to the pair of electrodes so as to attract the recording medium to the conveyance belt; and a transport unit which moves at least one of the conveyance belt and the media attracting platen so that a spacing distance between the conveyance belt and the media attracting platen is selectively switched between a first distance and a second distance longer than the first distance.

Abstract: An RFID tag information communicating apparatus includes a feeding roller driving shaft that is provided within a housing constituting a shell of an apparatus main body and feeds a base tape, and an antenna for label production and an antenna for information transmission and reception, which are capable of transmitting and receiving information with an RFID circuit element for label production included in a base tape and an RFID circuit element for information transmission and reception located outside the housing. Each of the RFID circuit elements has an IC circuit part that stores information and an antenna that transmits and receives information. The apparatus is configured capable of performing both of the information reading and information writing with the RFID circuit element for label production and the RFID circuit element for information transmission and reception via the antennas.

Abstract: A recording apparatus including: a head having an ejection surface; and a recording-medium conveyor device having a conveyor member with a conveyor surface, wherein the apparatus further includes a first and a second attraction device each for permitting the medium on the conveyor surface to be attracted thereto. The first device includes: a first and a second electrode each being opposed to one surface of the medium opposite to another surface thereof facing the ejection surface; and a first voltage applicator to apply a voltage between the first and second electrodes. The second device includes: an electrifying body and a third electrode between which at least one of the medium and the conveyor member is sandwiched; and a second voltage applicator to apply a voltage between the electrifying body and the third electrode. The second device is for electrifying the at least one of the medium and the conveyor member.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes at least one inkjet head having an ejection surface, a feeding mechanism which includes a feed member having a feed surface that is opposed to the ejection surface and which drives the feed member to feed a recording medium on the feed surface in a feeding direction, a wiper blade which removes ink that is adhered to the feed surface by contacting the feed surface, a judging portion which judges whether cleaning of the feed surface is necessary, and a controller which controls the at least one inkjet head and the feeding mechanism, in a case where the judging portion judges that the cleaning of the feed surface is necessary, to perform a first operation in which ink is ejected to the feed surface and a second operation in which the feed member is driven.

Abstract: A recording apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium, including: a recording head; a conveyor belt for conveying the medium in a conveyance direction; an attraction device including: a base; a first electrode having first extending portions and a first connecting portion; a second electrode having second extending portions and a second connecting portion; and a protective film provided on the base to cover the electrodes, the attraction device being configured to permit the belt to generate an attractive force to attract the medium to the belt. The first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are located respectively on an upstream side and on a downstream side, of the head, in the conveyance direction. The first electrode and the protective film are bent such that the first connecting portion is located distant from the head by a distance larger than a distance by which the first extending portions are distant from the head.

Abstract: A recording apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium, including: a recording head; a conveyor belt to convey the medium in a conveyance direction; an attraction device including a first electrode having first extending portions and a second electrode having second extending portions and configured to permit the belt to generate an attractive force to attract the medium to the belt by giving mutually different potentials to the first and second electrodes; and, a pressing device including a contact member having electrical conductivity and disposed at a position where the contact member is opposed to respective upstream sections of the first and second extending portions, which upstream sections are located on an upstream side of the head in the conveyance direction, the contact member being configured to contact the medium placed on the belt, the pressing device being configured to press the medium onto the belt by the contact member.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording apparatus, including: an ink-jet head having an ejection surface; a conveyor mechanism having a conveyor belt with a conveyor surface and a belt drive mechanism for moving the conveyor belt and configured to convey a recording medium; a pair of comb electrodes disposed so as to be opposed to the ejection surface, each comb electrode including a plurality of electrode portions, the electrode portions of one and the other of the comb electrodes being alternately arranged; a voltage-application power source for applying a voltage between the comb electrodes; and a controller having an attraction control portion for controlling the power source so as to attract the medium to the conveyor surface, wherein the attraction control portion is configured to control the power source such that the voltage is applied between the comb electrodes after initiation of the movement of the conveyor belt by the belt drive mechanism.

Abstract: A method of detecting a defect in a porous body (1) includes applying a light beam (13) to fine particles (12) discharged from the porous body (1), and detecting the light and shade of scattered light caused by the fine particles (12) to detect the position of a defect, wherein the light and shade of the scattered light is detected at a position facing the light beam (13).

Abstract: A base tape includes: a plurality of RFID circuit elements each including an IC circuit part for storing information and a loop antenna connected to the IC circuit part; and an adhesive layer, a base film, an adhesive layer, an adhesive layer, and a separation sheet that are arranged so as to sandwich each of the RFID circuit elements from both sides in the thickness direction. The base tape is formed such that the ratio c of the sum of the thickness dimensions of the adhesive layer, base film, adhesive layer, adhesive layer, and separation sheet to the thickness dimension of the RFID circuit element is 0.8?c?9.8.

Abstract: An interferometer of the present invention includes a PBS2 which splits light into reference light and measurement light, a reference mirror 4a which reflects the reference light entering the reference mirror from a first direction, a measurement mirror 4b which reflects the measurement light entering the measurement mirror from a second direction, a lens system 6 which reflected lights from the reference mirror 4a and the measurement light 4b enter, a reflective device 5 which reflects light from the lens system 6, and a light receiving device 16 which receives multiplexed light, wherein the reference mirror 4a and the measurement mirror 4b are in a conjugate relation with respect to the reflective device 5, and at least one of the reference mirror 4a and the measurement mirror 4b is tilted so that its normal direction differs from the first and the second direction.

Abstract: A rubber injection molding device comprising: a mold having a molding cavity therein; an injecting machine including an injection cylinder having an injection chamber for storing a rubber therein, and an injection plunger for injecting the rubber from the injection chamber into the molding cavity by means of an advancement of the injection plunger; a feed machine having a feed cylinder with a feed aperture formed at a tip end thereof and connected with the injection chamber through a feed duct, and being adapted to feed into the injection chamber, through the feed duct the rubber in a mixed state, and a pushing assembly which pushes into the injection chamber the rubber that remains within the feed duct after a feed operation of the rubber by the feed machine. A manufacturing method of a rubber product by using the molding device is also disclosed.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus may include at least one inkjet head configured to eject ink onto a recording medium. The inkjet recording apparatus may also include a conveying device configured to convey the recording medium in a conveying direction, the conveying device including a recording-medium support surface that opposes the inkjet head and includes a plurality of holes. The inkjet recording apparatus may further include a suction device configured to suck air through the holes to attach the recording medium to the recording-medium support surface. The inkjet recording apparatus may yet further include a duct including an opposing opening that opposes the suction device via the recording-medium support surface, and a non-opposing opening that does not oppose the suction device.

Abstract: There is provided a nondestructive method for inspecting ceramic structures, the method which not only easily detects the position and size of an internal defect in a ceramic structure in a short time, but also accurately identifies the position, shape, and size of the internal defect. In the method, the distribution of X-ray absorption coefficients (CT numbers) at fault planes of the ceramic structure is measured by irradiating the periphery of the ceramic structure with X rays along the periphery of the ceramic structure so that the X rays scan the entire periphery. The X rays are emitted from an X-ray tube at a tube voltage in the range of 80 to 400 kV and a tube current in the range of 2 to 400 mA.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inkjet recording apparatus includes an inkjet head, a conveyor, a printing controller, an image sensor, a blocking object determining unit, and a blocking object dealing unit. The inkjet head has an ejection surface in which plural ejection outlets ejecting ink are formed. The conveyor has a placing member on which a recording medium is placed and conveys the placing member to a position opposing the ejection surface. The printing controller causes the conveyor to convey the placing member to the opposing position and causes the inkjet head to eject the ink towards the opposing position. The image sensor captures an image of at least one of (i) a surface of the recording medium placed on the placing member, (ii) a surface of the placing member, and (iii) the ejection surface.

Abstract: A first beam having high coherence and a second beam having low coherence and having a central wavelength difference from that of the first beam are multiplexed onto the same optical axis. First and second multiplexed beams obtained by beam splitting are emitted at a measurement reflection plane and a reference plane, respectively. The reflected first and second multiplexed beams are multiplexed and interfere with each other. The interference generates a first interference signal that is obtained from the first beams at the interference unit and that relates to information on the distance to the measurement reflection plane and a second interference signal that is obtained from the second beams. The first and second interference signals are used to carry out calculations for determining the position of a measurement origin for the measurement reflection plane.

Abstract: A first beam having high coherence and a second beam having low coherence are multiplexed onto the same optical axis. This multiplexed beam is split into first and second multiplexed beams. The first multiplexed beam is directed towards a measurement reflection plane of an object to be measured, and the second multiplexed beam is directed towards a reference plane. The first and second multiplexed beams that are reflected from the measurement reflection plane and the reference plane, respectively, are multiplexed to cause the first beams to interfere with each other and the second beams to interfere with each other. Calculations are carried out to determine a measurement origin on the basis of the first and second interference signals obtained from the first and second beams, respectively.

Abstract: A method of detecting a defect in a porous body (1) includes applying a light beam (13) to fine particles (12) discharged from the porous body (1), and detecting the light and shade of scattered light caused by the fine particles (12) to detect the position of a defect, wherein the light and shade of the scattered light is detected at a position facing the light beam (13).

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes a recording head that records an image on a recording medium. A conveyor supports the recording medium on an outer surface thereof so as to convey the recording medium in a conveying direction, and has an attachment region and a non-attachment region on its outer surface. The recording medium is attachable to the attachment region with a first attachment force greater than a second attachment force of the non-attachment region. A medium feeder is configured to feed the recording medium to the conveyor so that at least a part of a leading edge of the recording medium in the conveying direction is positioned on the non-attachment region.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus improves the operating efficiency while preventing trouble due to the contact of a recording medium with a discharging surface of a recording head. A distance sensor for detecting the distance of the leading edge of a sheet from a conveying surface is provided upstream from the inkjet head in the conveying direction of the sheet. A gap control unit controls a frame moving mechanism to move the inkjet head up so that a gap between the discharging surface and the conveying surface increases when the distance detected by the distance sensor is above a first distance, and the gap distance may be increased by different amounts depending on the distance detected by the distance sensor. A discharging control unit controls the inkjet head to discharge ink droplets after the gap is increased.