Abstract: Provided is an aqueous ink that has excellent ejection stability and that can be used to record an image with excellent abrasion resistance and an ink cartridge and an ink jet recording method that use the aqueous ink. The aqueous ink is an aqueous ink for ink jet containing a pigment, an organic solvent and a resin particle formed of a polyester resin or a urethane resin. The organic solvent includes a carbonate compound and the like. The ink cartridge includes an ink container configured to contain the aqueous ink and the ink jet recording method records an image on a recording medium by ejecting the aqueous ink from an ink jet recording head.

Abstract: Provided is a cooker with a steam generating function without leakage of water and having excellent reliability and durability. A connecting member is formed of a soft material, and is guided by a convex-shaped guide portion having a rounded tip when it is inserted into an opening concave portion of a water tank (FIG. 4), and a convex-shaped seal portion for ensuring a seal can uniformly contact the opening concave portion. Moreover, the convex-shaped seal portion for ensuring the seal is integrally formed with a connection portion 3. Therefore, the durability and the reliability for slipping-off prevention can be enhanced, and the number of components can also be reduced.

Abstract: A chlorella extract-containing product of excellent safety and storage stability is provided without using a benzoate, which is a common preservative. A chlorella extract-containing product containing a capsicum extract at 0.020-1.63% by weight on a dry weight basis relative to a chlorella extract in an aqueous liquid for drinking having the chlorella extract as an principal ingredient. This chlorella extract-containing product is to be used as a chlorella-containing beverage or a chlorella-containing food additive. A method for improving the storage stability of a chlorella extract-containing product, comprising adding a capsicum extract to a chlorella extract at 0.020-1.63% by weight on a dry weight basis in an aqueous liquid for drinking having the chlorella extract as an principal ingredient.

Abstract: The invention provides provide an ink jet ink exhibiting such an excellent ejection property that when an ink containing a polymer capable of improving the scratch resistance of a recorded article is used, the deviation of the ink-droplet impact point on a recording medium is prevented. The ink jet ink contains a polymer and a surfactant, wherein the acid value of the polymer is from 100 mg KOH/g or more to 220 mg KOH/g or less, the weight-average molecular weight of the polymer is from 3,000 or more to 10,000 or less, and the surfactant has a structure represented by the following formula (1) wherein n is a numerical value of from 3 or more to 27 or less, and m is a numerical value of from 16 or more to 31 or less.

Abstract: Provided is a pigment particle suitable for an ink capable of recording an image that is excellent in color developability and lightfastness, and has a yellow hue. The pigment particle is a pigment particle having a structure represented by the following formula (1), in which a maximum absorption wavelength of an absorption spectrum in a wavelength region of 200 nm or more and 800 nm or less is present in a range of 340 nm or more and 360 nm or less.

Abstract: An ink includes a plurality of pigments, a plurality of water-soluble polymers, a surfactant, and a water-soluble organic solvent. The surfactant includes a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether having an HLB value of 13.0 or more as a value determined by a Griffin method, the plurality of pigments include C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 and C.I. Pigment Yellow 128, the plurality of water-soluble polymers include an acrylic polymer and a urethane polymer, and the water-soluble organic solvent includes a compound represented by the following Formula (1): HO—(CH2CH2O)n—H, wherein n is an integer of 1 to 4.

Abstract: Provided are an ink suitable for ink jet recording with which a color image excellent in both color developability and glossiness can be recorded, and an ink cartridge and an ink jet recording method in each of which the ink is utilized. Specifically, provided are an ink including: an organic pigment; a resin for dispersing the organic pigment; and a resin fine particle, in which an average particle diameter of the resin fine particle is 0.60 time or more and 1.2 times or less as large as an average particle diameter of the organic pigment, and an ink cartridge and an ink jet recording method in each of which the ink is utilized.

Abstract: Provided are an ink with which an image excellent in both black density and glossiness can be recorded, and an ink cartridge and an ink jet recording method each using the ink. The ink includes: a carbon black; a resin for dispersing the carbon black; a resin fine particle; and a water-soluble organic solvent, in which: the resin fine particle contains at least a unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer, and a unit derived from a monomer selected from an ethylenically unsaturated acid monomer and a salt thereof, and a ratio of a unit derived from a saturated alkyl group-containing monomer to the unit derived from the ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer is 95.0 mass % or more; and the water-soluble organic solvent contains a water-soluble organic solvent having a dielectric constant at 20° C. of 18.0 or more and less than 30.0.

Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus which can restrict each of coloring of reflected light and image clarity within an allowable range required in each of a color mode and a monochromatic mode in any of the modes to output an image with a high grade. For this end, a print duty of each of the first image improving liquid and the second image improving liquid is set in such a manner that a ratio of the print duty of the first image improving liquid having low penetratability to the print duty of the second image improving liquid having high penetratability is higher in the monochromatic mode than that in the color mode. Thereby, an appropriate ratio and an appropriate amount of appropriate kinds of the image improving liquids are applied to each of the color mode and the monochromatic mode.

Abstract: Provided is an ink jet clear ink containing a polymer fine particle. The polymer fine particle has a core-shell structure obtained by polymerizing an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer (b) as a core polymer in the presence of a shell polymer that is a copolymer having at least a unit derived from an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer (a) and a unit derived from a monomer selected from an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated acid monomer and a salt thereof. The ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer (b) includes at least a monomer containing a chain structure saturated alkyl group.

Abstract: Provided is a pigment particle suitable for an ink capable of recording an image that is excellent in color developability and lightfastness, and has a yellow hue. The pigment particle is a pigment particle having a structure represented by the following formula (1), in which a maximum absorption wavelength of an absorption spectrum in a wavelength region of 200 nm or more and 800 nm or less is present in a range of 340 nm or more and 360 nm or less.

Abstract: Provided is a cooker with a steam generating function without leakage of water and having excellent reliability and durability. A connecting member is formed of a soft material, and is guided by a convex-shaped guide portion having a rounded tip when it is inserted into an opening concave portion of a water tank (FIG. 4), and a convex-shaped seal portion for ensuring a seal can uniformly contact the opening concave portion. Moreover, the convex-shaped seal portion for ensuring the seal is integrally formed with a connection portion 3. Therefore, the durability and the reliability for slipping-off prevention can be enhanced, and the number of components can also be reduced.

Abstract: A chlorella extract-containing product of excellent safety and storage stability is provided without using a benzoate, which is a common preservative. A chlorella extract-containing product containing a capsicum extract at 0.020-1.63% by weight on a dry weight basis relative to a chlorella extract in an aqueous liquid for drinking having the chlorella extract as an principal ingredient. This chlorella extract-containing product is to be used as a chlorella-containing beverage or a chlorella-containing food additive. A method for improving the storage stability of a chlorella extract-containing product, comprising adding a capsicum extract to a chlorella extract at 0.020-1.63% by weight on a dry weight basis in an aqueous liquid for drinking having the chlorella extract as an principal ingredient.

Abstract: A chlorella extract-containing product of excellent safety and storage stability is provided without using a benzoate, which is a common preservative. A chlorella extract-containing product containing a capsicum extract at 0.020-1.63% by weight on a dry weight basis relative to a chlorella extract in an aqueous liquid for drinking having the chlorella extract as an principal ingredient. This chlorella extract-containing product is to be used as a chlorella-containing beverage or a chlorella-containing food additive. A method for improving the storage stability of a chlorella extract-containing product, comprising adding a capsicum extract to a chlorella extract at 0.020-1.63% by weight on a dry weight basis in an aqueous liquid for drinking having the chlorella extract as an principal ingredient.

Abstract: Provided are an ink with which an image excellent in both black density and glossiness can be recorded, and an ink cartridge and an ink jet recording method each using the ink. The ink includes: a carbon black; a resin for dispersing the carbon black; a resin fine particle; and a water-soluble organic solvent, in which: the resin fine particle contains at least a unit derived from an ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer, and a unit derived from a monomer selected from an ethylenically unsaturated acid monomer and a salt thereof, and a ratio of a unit derived from a saturated alkyl group-containing monomer to the unit derived from the ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer is 95.0 mass % or more; and the water-soluble organic solvent contains a water-soluble organic solvent having a dielectric constant at 20° C. of 18.0 or more and less than 30.0.

Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing apparatus which can restrict each of coloring of reflected light and image clarity within an allowable range required in each of a color mode and a monochromatic mode in any of the modes to output an image with a high grade. For this end, a print duty of each of the first image improving liquid and the second image improving liquid is set in such a manner that a ratio of the print duty of the first image improving liquid having low penetratability to the print duty of the second image improving liquid having high penetratability is higher in the monochromatic mode than that in the color mode. Thereby, an appropriate ratio and an appropriate amount of appropriate kinds of the image improving liquids are applied to each of the color mode and the monochromatic mode.

Abstract: Provided are an ink suitable for ink jet recording with which a color image excellent in both color developability and glossiness can be recorded, and an ink cartridge and an ink jet recording method in each of which the ink is utilized. Specifically, provided are an ink including: an organic pigment; a resin for dispersing the organic pigment; and a resin fine particle, in which an average particle diameter of the resin fine particle is 0.60 time or more and 1.2 times or less as large as an average particle diameter of the organic pigment, and an ink cartridge and an ink jet recording method in each of which the ink is utilized.

Abstract: An ink includes a plurality of pigments, a plurality of water-soluble polymers, a surfactant, and a water-soluble organic solvent. The surfactant includes a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether having an HLB value of 13.0 or more as a value determined by a Griffin method, the plurality of pigments include C.I. Pigment Yellow 74 and C.I. Pigment Yellow 128, the plurality of water-soluble polymers include an acrylic polymer and a urethane polymer, and the water-soluble organic solvent includes a compound represented by the following Formula (1): HO—(CH2CH2O)n—H, wherein n is an integer of 1 to 4.

Abstract: Provided is an ink jet clear ink containing a polymer fine particle. The polymer fine particle has a core-shell structure obtained by polymerizing an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer (b) as a core polymer in the presence of a shell polymer that is a copolymer having at least a unit derived from an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer (a) and a unit derived from a monomer selected from an ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated acid monomer and a salt thereof. The ?,?-ethylenically unsaturated hydrophobic monomer (b) includes at least a monomer containing a chain structure saturated alkyl group.

Abstract: A chlorella extract-containing product of excellent safety and storage stability is provided without using a benzoate, which is a common preservative. A chlorella extract-containing product containing a capsicum extract at 0.020-1.63% by weight on a dry weight basis relative to a chlorella extract in an aqueous liquid for drinking having the chlorella extract as an principal ingredient. This chlorella extract-containing product is to be used as a chlorella-containing beverage or a chlorella-containing food additive. A method for improving the storage stability of a chlorella extract-containing product, comprising adding a capsicum extract to a chlorella extract at 0.020-1.63% by weight on a dry weight basis in an aqueous liquid for drinking having the chlorella extract as an principal ingredient.