Abstract: An inkjet head including: a head chip having; driving walls composed of piezoelectric element, wherein shear deformation is caused by applying voltage so as to jet ink, ink containing channels arranged alongside the driving walls alternatively, outlet and inlet ports respectively provided on a front and rear surface of the head chip for each channel, driving electrodes formed on surfaces of the driving walls to apply voltage to the driving walls, and connection electrodes formed on the rear surface of the head chip to connect the driving electrodes electrically; a wiring substrate, wherein wiring electrodes are formed to apply voltage to the driving electrode through the connection electrode, bonded on the rear surface of the head chip to protrude from the head chip in a direction perpendicular to a direction of a channel array exposing all the channels at the rear surface of the head chip.

Abstract: The inkjet head has a first silicon substrate 10 having ink ejection ports 11 formed, a glass substrate 20 bonded to the first silicon substrate 10, having ink channel holes 21 formed thereon, and a second silicon substrate 30 having ink chambers 31 grooved, piezoelectric elements 35 provided on the back side of the ink chambers 31 and the ink chamber forming surface bonded to the glass substrates 20. In the second silicon substrate 30, there are formed an ink flow channel 32 communicating with the ink chambers 31 and through holes 34 communicating with the ink flow channel 32 on the ink chamber forming surface, wherein an ink circulation tubes 50 made of glass tubes are bonded to the through holes 34, and the first silicon substrate 10, the glass substrate 20, the second silicon substrate 30 and an bonding surface of the ink circulation tube are anodically-bonded.

Abstract: This invention provides a process for producing an organic EL element that, in forming, by a coating method, an organic EL element comprising a substrate bearing a plurality of organic EL elements each comprising at least a first electrode, one or more organic compound layers, a second electrode, and a sealing layer, can easily form an external connection terminal forming part for external connection terminal formation and can realize high production efficiency and stable performance quality.

Abstract: Provided is a manufacturing method by which each functional layer of various types of organic electronic elements can be uniformly formed by wet process. Specifically, a method for manufacturing an organic electronic element which uniformly emits light with high emission efficiency is provided. The method for manufacturing the organic electronic element includes a step of forming a functional layer by laminating at least an organic layer (A) and an organic layer (B) in this order on a substrate. After forming at least the organic layer (A), the organic layer (B) is applied and formed on the organic layer (A) by using a fluorine-containing solvent.

Abstract: A manufacturer or the like provides consumable products used in an image forming apparatus with distribution information including a most recent license code and then markets the consumable products, and the image forming apparatus performs authentication processing by reading the distribution information from such consumable products. Receiving a connection request from an application executed by a personal computer, the image forming apparatus determines whether connection may be permitted or not by comparing the license code of the application included in the connection request with the distribution information provided to the consumable product.

Abstract: An image recording device comprising a line head including a plurality of recording element arrays arranged in one direction such that the recording elements have overlapping regions at the mutually adjoining end portions, characterized by comprising a halftone processor for subjecting multilevel image data to a halftone process in accordance with a first half tone processing rule to form the pattern of the dots to be recorded, as a recording pattern, an allocation processor for allocating which of the recording element arrays adjoining in the overlapping regions is used to record according to the recording pattern, by using a second half tone processing rule to suppress the low-frequency component of a space frequency, and a driver for driving the recording elements so that the dot data allocated to the individual recording element arrays may be recorded by the recording elements of the individual recording element arrays contained in the line head.

Abstract: Provided is an organic photoelectric conversion element having a high photoelectric conversion ratio. Provided is also a method for manufacturing an organic photoelectric conversion element which can significantly reduce the manufacturing cost by forming a transparent electrode and an organic generation layer portion by coating a material. The organic photoelectric conversion element includes on a transparent substrate, a first electrode unit having a transparent conductive layer, an organic generation unit, and a second electrode unit which are successively arranged in this order when viewed from the transparent substrate. The transparent conductive layer constituting the first electrode unit contains conductive fiber and transparent conductive material.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device having long life, while exhibiting high luminous efficiency. Also disclosed are an illuminating device and a display, each using such an organic electroluminescent device. In the organic electroluminescent device, a compound represented by the general formula (A) which is suitable as a host material for a phosphorescent metal complex is used at least in one sublayer of a light-emitting layer.

Abstract: A technique is provided which can improve the precision of a matching point search with a plurality of images taking the same object where distant and near views coexist. A plurality of first images obtained by time-sequentially imaging an object from a first viewpoint, and a plurality of second images obtained by time-sequentially imaging the object from a second viewpoint, are obtained. Reference regions including a reference point are set respectively in the first images with the same arrangement, and comparison regions corresponding to the form of the reference regions are set respectively in the second images with the same arrangement. One reference distribution of pixel values about two-or-more-dimensional space is generated from the distributions of pixel values about the plurality of reference regions, and one comparison distribution of pixel values about two-or-more-dimensional space is generated from the distributions of pixel values about the plurality of comparison regions.

Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescence element which is driven with a reduced drive voltage without deteriorating emission luminance and has a high power efficiency. The organic electroluminescence element having at least one light emitting layer is characterized in that two or more types of light emitting dopants having different emission colors are included in at least one light emitting layer, the concentration of all the light emitting dopants included in the light emitting layer is 5 Vol % or more, and the concentration of the light emitting dopant giving a main emission color among the light emitting dopants in the light emitting layer is 2 Vol % or less.

Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element having at least an anode, a cathode, and a light-emitting layer held between the anode and the cathode on a substrate and emitting white light. The light-emitting layer consists of three or less layers, the light-emitting material contained entirely in the light-emitting layer consists of at least four kinds of light-emitting material having different emission maximum wavelengths (?max). The four kinds of light emitting material have emission colors of blue, green, yellow red and red, and since one or more layers out of the three or less layers of the light-emitting layer contain two or more kinds of light-emitting material simultaneously, there is obtained an organic electroluminescent element excellent in color rendering and exhibiting high power efficiency in which variation in emission color is small even if current density varies.

Abstract: An inkjet drawing apparatus includes a head module which holds a droplet jetting head provided with a nozzle for ejecting droplets, and which is unmovable in a horizontal direction, and a drawing table which supports a recording member on an upper surface, and which is movable in the horizontal direction. The inkjet drawing apparatus executes a prescribed drawing by ejecting the droplets onto the recording member from the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit transfer mechanism is movable within a prescribed region including a position under the head module, and transfers a maintenance unit for conducting maintenance of the droplet jetting head toward the position under the head module, and executes positioning of the maintenance unit with respect to the droplet jetting head. A maintenance unit selecting/arranging mechanism selects one of a plurality of kinds of maintenance units, and places the selected maintenance unit on the maintenance unit transfer mechanism.

Abstract: A gas barrier film comprising a resin substrate provided thereon at least one layer of a ceramic film, wherein the density ratio Y (=?f/?b) satisfies 1?Y?0.95 and the ceramic film has a residual stress being a compression stress of 0.01 MPa or more and 100 Mpa or less, wherein ?f is the density of the ceramic film and ?b is the density of a comparative ceramic film being formed by thermal oxidation or thermal nitridation of a metal as a mother material of the ceramic film so as to being the same composition ratio of the ceramic film.

Abstract: An image forming device includes a development member carrying a developer for forming a toner image at an image carrier, a cleaning member abutting against the development member for removing the developer remaining on the development member, a transportation member provided in contact with the development member for transporting the developer supplied to the development member, and a driving unit controlling driving of at least one of the transportation member and the development member. The driving unit executes preliminary driving of the development member and transportation member for a given time under a state where supply of the developer to the transportation member is stopped, prior to main driving in image formation. Consumption and/or degradation of the developer in preliminary driving is suppressed while strain at the development member or transportation member formed of a resilient member is removed.

Abstract: In the present invention, a specimen is made to flow on a metal film on a prism, and excitation light (?) is emitted in a predetermined direction. By changing the position of a reflective member that reflects the excitation light (?), and adjusting the orientation of a reflective surface of the reflective member, the incident angle (?) is changed while maintaining a state in which the excitation light (?) that enters the prism is reflected at a specific position on the metal film. The intensity of light to be generated on the metal film is measured, and the reflective member is positioned to match the position of the reflective member and the orientation of the reflective surface when a maximum amount of light is measured.

Abstract: Whether or not allocation to router control is used up is determined. Whether or not CPU utilization allocated to the router control is used up is determined. If it is determined that the allocation for router control is used up, a sub-allocation changing process is executed for changing the CPU utilization. If it is determined that the allocation for router control is not used up, a router control allocation subtracting process is executed.

Abstract: [Technical Problem] It is an object to provide a microchip solution sending system that is provided with the high reaction efficiency and the high detection accuracy. [Solution of Problem] A microchip solution sending system comprises a fine flow passage that is provided with a reaction field to which an antibody that reacts with a specific antigen is fixed and a solution sending pump that is configured to send a specimen material solution that includes the specific antigen, wherein a specimen material solution passes through a reaction field of a fine flow passage in a repetitive manner in the case in which the solution sending pump sends the specimen material solution, and a flow rate of a specimen material solution that is sent by the solution sending pump is in the range of 1,000 ?l/min to 50,000 ?l/min.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic EL device element having high external quantum efficiency and long life time. A lighting device and a display device each using the organic EL device element are also disclosed. The organic EL element comprises plural organic compound layers including a light-emitting layer and at least one hole transport layer, interposed between an anode and a cathode, and a phosphorescent light-emitting compound contained in the light-emitting layer emits light. The organic EL device is characterized in that at least one hole-transport layer contains two or more polymerizable compounds represented by general Formula (1) or two or more polymer compounds having a structural unit derived from a compound. In the Formula (1) L1 represents a divalent bonding group, Ar1 through Ar4 represent an aromatic group, provided that at least one of Ar1 through Ar4 represents a polymerizable group as a substituent.

Abstract: A conventional liquid crystal display comprises a number of components, so that a manufacturing cost cannot be reduced. Furthermore, a large-area substrate has problems in shipping. According to this invention, a liquid-crystal panel is prepared by forming individual optically functional films, a TFT device and a light-emitting device on a long thin film and then laminating the film by a transfer process. A base film to be a substrate in a liquid-crystal panel preferably has a thickness of 10 ?m to 200 ?m, a curvature radius of 40 mm or less as a measure of flexibility and a coefficient of thermal expansion of 50 ppm/° C. or less. Furthermore, it more preferably gives a variation of ±5% or less in mechanical and optical properties to a thermal history at 200° C.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a recording head having three rows of nozzles which are three-phase driven and arranged in a staggered arrangement. The nozzles are arranged in the main scanning direction at an interval of L/3, where L is a pixel pitch, and each nozzle row is ejection-driven in the sequence from the last nozzle row to the forward nozzle row in the moving direction of the recording head. The recording head scans at a moving speed of 2×L×f, where f is an ejection frequency per nozzle row. After the completion of one scan, the recording medium is moved a distance of predetermined multiples of the pixel pitch in the sub-scanning direction, and in the next scan, ink is ejected onto the recording medium at pixel positions other than the pixel position on which the ink has landed in preceding scans.