Abstract: A method of producing a touch screen includes feeding and laminating a roll of an adhesive sheet material to bond a sheet glass, a roll of a first sheet material having first electrodes, and a roll of a second sheet material having second electrodes; pinching and pressing the laminated sheet materials between a pair of press rollers to form a laminated body of the bonded sheet materials. When being fed, the sheet materials are cut off at a predetermined length corresponding to a lateral size of a rectangular touch screen, and thus the sheet materials can be provided in a predetermined size in one cutting process. Rolling the sheet materials reduces wrinkles and folds and eliminates a protection sheet for each sheet material, which is required in a case of stacking a plurality of planar sheets, thus facilitating cost reduction.

Abstract: According to the present invention, a touch screen device includes a first electrode having a plurality of first conductor lines, inclined at a predetermined angle in clockwise and counterclockwise directions with respect to a first direction and provided at a predetermined interval to form a grid-shaped pattern; and a second electrode having a plurality of second conductor lines, inclined at the predetermined angle in clockwise and counterclockwise directions with respect to a second direction, the second direction perpendicular to the first direction and provided at the predetermined interval to form a grid-shaped pattern. The first electrode and the second electrode are superimposed to form a pattern of squares as basic shapes, and the predetermined angle is greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees. By superimposing the first electrode and the second electrode, a pattern of two different squares as basic shapes is formed due to interaction of the first electrode and the second electrode.

Abstract: The size of a pointing object is determined based on a detection result of a touch operation with a pointing object, and the number of electrodes in a group is switched according to the size of the pointing object. In particular, the size of the pointing object is categorized into three groups based on the size of an adult's finger, a child's finger, and a stylus, and the number of electrodes in a group is set to three levels. The number of electrodes in a group varies according to powers of two, such as two, four, and eight.

Abstract: An ink supplier for an ink jet recorder is provided. The ink supplier includes a recording head, a main ink reservoir, and a subsidiary ink reservoir connected to the main ink reservoir for replenishment with ink from the main ink reservoir. A position head of the ink liquid level in the subsidiary ink reservoir is maintained substantially constant relative to a printing head face of the recording head.

Abstract: It is an object to provide a layered shrink film capable of conducing fine ink printing using a water-based ink and having excellent fastness properties, a method for producing the same, a container fitted with the layered shrink film, and a method for producing the container. After forming a hydrophilic ink absorbing layer (2) on one surface of a film substrate (1) having heat shrinkability and conducting printing by a water-based ink-jet method, a thermoplastic resin layer (4) capable of shrinking in association with heat shrinkage of the film substrate and having water resistance and scratch fastness is formed on the print side of the film substrate.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus in which a UV curable ink is ejected from nozzle holes of an ink jet head. The ejected ink is attached onto a recording surface of a recording medium (recording paper), and is cured by irradiation with ultraviolet light. The ink jet head, or a moving member which moves together with the ink jet head, is provided with a plurality of ultraviolet light emitting diodes that emit the ultraviolet light to the ink attached onto the recording surface of the recording medium to cure the ink.

Abstract: There are provided a recording head for ejecting a liquid droplet from a nozzle based on an ejecting signal to form a pattern on a recording medium, a humidity detecting portion for detecting an absolute humidity in the vicinity of the nozzle, a humidifier for humidifying the vicinity of the nozzle, and a humidifying portion driving control portion (control board) for controlling the humidifier based on the absolute humidity detected by the humidity detecting portion.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus in which a UV curable ink is ejected from nozzle holes of an ink jet head. The ejected ink is attached onto a recording surface of a recording medium (recording paper), and is cured by irradiation with ultraviolet light. The ink jet head, or a moving member which moves together with the ink jet head, is provided with a plurality of ultraviolet light emitting diodes that emit the ultraviolet light to the ink attached onto the recording surface of the recording medium to cure the ink.

Abstract: In order to maintain ink supply pressure to a recording head constant while supplying the recording head with ink with an minimum of air entrained therein, the invention provides an ink supplier which comprises a main ink reservoir, a subsidiary ink reservoir connected to the main ink reservoir for replenishment with ink from the main ink reservoir and a means whereby a position head of the ink liquid level in the subsidiary ink reservoir is maintained substantially constant relative to a printing head face of the recording head. Included preferably also are a deaerator associated with the subsidiary ink reservoir for removing air from ink therein and a float floating on ink in the subsidiary ink reservoir.

Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film element D, in which a piezoelectric thin film 1 with first and second electrode films 2 and 3 respectively formed on its opposite surfaces in the thickness direction is held by a hold film 5, is fabricated by forming each film 1, 2, 3, and 5 on a film formation substrate 11 and removing the film formation substrate 11 by etching. Even when the hold film 5 is made of material such as resin and therefore exhibits relatively poor adhesion with respect to the other films, the piezoelectric thin film 1 is protected from damage by etchant because the first electrode film 2 which comes into contact with the film formation substrate 11 is formed such that the overall circumference of a peripheral edge portion of the first electrode film 2 laterally extends beyond the lateral surface of the piezoelectric thin film 1 and closely adheres to the hold film 5.