Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a transport belt, a print head, a static eliminating section, and a wiping section. The transport belt electrostatically adsorbs a medium on an outer surface thereof and transports the medium in a transport direction.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid consuming apparatus including a casing, a liquid consuming section, and a tank. The tank includes a box-shaped body having a light-transmitting property and having five walls and a partition wall; a film adhered to rear end portions of the walls; and a positioning section disposed at least on an outer surface of each of the upper and lower walls, or of each of the right and left walls. In a state that the liquid consuming apparatus is placed on a horizontal plane, the box-shaped body is positioned at a posture at which the positioning section is brought into contact with the casing to thereby allow the front wall to be exposed from a side surface of the casing which extends in a direction crossing the horizontal plane, and at which the rear end portions are located inside the casing.

Abstract: Provided are a metal nitride material for a thermistor, which exhibits high reliability and high heat resistance and can be directly deposited on a film or the like without firing, a method for producing the metal nitride material for a thermistor, and a film type thermistor sensor. The metal nitride material for a thermistor consists of a metal nitride represented by the general formula: TixAlyNz (where 0.70?y/(x+y)?0.95, 0.4?z?0.5, and x+y+z=1), and the crystal structure thereof is a hexagonal wurtzite-type single phase.

Abstract: A processing apparatus and a method capable of accurately measuring a real temperature of a workpiece contained and heated in a chamber. The processing apparatus includes a chamber containing a workpiece, a measurement piece installed in the chamber, and a measuring unit. The measurement piece is capable of thermal expansion and contraction in response to an internal temperature of the chamber. The measuring unit measures a thermal expansion and contraction amount of the measurement piece to thereby measure the real temperature of the workpiece.

Abstract: A temperature sensor includes a metal tube containing thermo-sensitive element and filled with an insulating filling material, and a housing to which the metal tube is fixed. The metal tube includes a small-diameter part and a large-diameter part. The distal end of the small-diameter part is located beyond a virtual line. The virtual line passes a center of a maximum virtual circle which is an inscribed circle that contacts at least three points on an inner surface of the pipe in a cross-section perpendicular to an axial direction of the pipe, and is perpendicular to a center axis line of the metal tube. The whole of the small-diameter part and the part of the large-diameter part filled with the filling material are located within a center virtual circle which is coaxial with the maximum virtual circle and has an inner diameter of ? of that of the maximum virtual circle.

Abstract: According to embodiments of the disclosure, a thermal needle probe is provided. The thermal needle probe may include a heater, a cooler, a temperature measuring element, a heat conduction element and a processor. The heater is configured to heat an object. The cooler is configured to cool the object. The temperature measuring element is configured to measure a temperature raising curve of the object and a temperature dropping curve of the object. The heat conduction element is configured to conduct heat between the heater and the object. The processor is configured to determine a thermal property of the object according to at least one of the temperature raising curve and the temperature dropping curve.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a device to apply a treatment liquid to a medium; a drying device to dry the treatment liquid applied to the medium; a device to apply a liquid containing a colorant to the medium on which the treatment liquid has been applied; and a control device. The control device controls a supply amount of the treatment liquid to an amount such that a surface hardness of the medium is 0.07 GPa or more as measured by nano indentation after the drying device dries a surface of the medium.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining proper placement of a substrate upon a substrate support in a process chamber are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method for detecting substrate placement in a process chamber includes placing a substrate on a support surface of a substrate support within the process chamber; modifying a pressure within the chamber to create a detection pressure within the chamber; sensing a first temperature of the substrate support; monitoring a thermal response characteristic of the substrate support after placing the substrate on the substrate support; comparing the thermal response characteristic to a predetermined response characteristic; and determining whether the substrate is placed correctly based upon the comparison of the thermal response characteristic to the predetermined response characteristic.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes: a recording section configured to record an image on a sheet conveyed in a conveyance direction in a conveyance route; and an abutment member having a plurality of abutment portions which are arranged apart from each other in a width direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction so that the plurality of abutment portions abut against the sheet convened in the conveyance route respectively, and a connecting portion connecting adjacent abutment portions among the plurality of abutment portions. The connecting portion twists so as to rotate with the width direction as a rotation axis, under a condition that the plurality of abutment portions abuts against the sheet.

Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus for assisting change-over of take-up rolls in a printing system, especially in a roll-to-roll printing system. The apparatus comprises a guide device for directing or guiding printed sheet output from the printing system along a transport path towards a take-up roll for winding or taking up a length of the printed sheet, and a first clamping device for holding a new leading edge region of the printed sheet formed after the printed sheet is cut to terminate the length of the sheet to be wound or taken up onto the take-up roll. The first clamping device is configured to hold or clamp the new leading edge region of the printed sheet against movement along the transport path towards the take-up roll.

Abstract: A ceramic body is heated to a predetermined temperature by using a furnace, and a cooling gas is ejected toward a first end face of the ceramic body so that the first end face of the ceramic body is cooled. At this time, the temperature of the first end face of the ceramic body is measured by a radiation thermometer provided on the same side from which the cooling gas is ejected, and the internal temperature is measured by a thermocouple provided in the ceramic body. Thereafter, a thermal shock resistance test in which actual use conditions are simulated is performed by obtaining the temperature gradient of the ceramic body from measurement results of the temperature of the first end face of the ceramic body and the internal temperature and checking the absence or presence of cracks that occurs to the ceramic body.

Abstract: A temperature sensor, a processor including the same, and a method of operating the same are provided. The temperature sensor includes: a reference circuit configured to receive a supply voltage provided from outside the processor and utilized by a logic block of the processor for operation of the logic block, and generate, using the supply voltage, at least one temperature information signal that varies according to a temperature of the logic block and at least one reference signal that is substantially constant relative to the temperature of the logic block; and a digital temperature generator configured to receive the at least one temperature information signal and the at least one reference signal generated by the reference circuit, and generate a digital temperature information signal indicative of the temperature of the logic block based on the at least one temperature information signal and the at least one reference signal.

Abstract: A film sealed ejection cartridge assembly is disclosed. The cartridge assembly includes a cartridge for fluidic ejection, as well as a cartridge retainer having a plurality of retainer walls and a retainer opening. The cartridge retainer receives and secures the cartridge. The cartridge assembly further includes a length of a nozzle plate seal film. A first portion of the nozzle plate seal film is removably secured to the fluidic ejection chip and a second portion of the nozzle plate seal film is secured to the cartridge retainer. Removal of the cartridge from the cartridge retainer causes the nozzle plate seal film to separate from the fluidic ejection chip.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head comprises a unit head bonded to a communication substrate. Liquid chamber forming portions are formed in the unit case, along a first direction at positions that are separated by a partition wall. Empty liquid chamber portions and supply-side communication paths are formed in the communication substrate. The supply-side communication paths include a common communication path formed in an opposite side with a thin thickness portion left in the surface side of the communication substrate, and individual communication paths. With a surface of the partition wall and a surface of the thin thickness portion bonded together, the empty liquid chamber forming portions and the empty liquid chamber portions communicate with each other so as to define common liquid chambers.

Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a carriage unit, and carries out printing on a recording medium while transporting the recording medium. The carriage unit includes a first head that discharges an ink and a second head that discharges an ink of the same color, and the second head is disposed so as to be adjacent to the first head in an x axis direction, and to overlap with the first head in a y axis direction. In an outgoing path in the reciprocation of the carriage unit, a printing density of a first image, which the first head prints, gradually decreases toward an upstream side in a transport direction of the recording medium, and the first image includes a dot group, in which at least two dots formed using the ink from the first nozzles are linked to one another in the x axis direction. In addition, in a return path in the reciprocation of the carriage unit, the second nozzles print a second image, which supplements a decrease in the printing density of the first image.

Abstract: Provided are a metal nitride material for a thermistor, which exhibits high reliability and high heat resistance and can be directly deposited on a film or the like without firing, a method for producing the metal nitride material for a thermistor, and a film type thermistor sensor. The metal nitride material for a thermistor consists of a metal nitride represented by the general formula: TixAly(N1-wOw)z (where 0.70?y/(x+y)?0.95, 0.45?z?0.55, 0<w?0.35, and x+y+z=1), and the crystal structure thereof is a hexagonal wurtzite-type single phase.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for measuring semiconductor substrate temperature using a differential acoustic time of flight measurement technique. The measurement is based on measuring the time of flight of acoustic (ultrasonic) waves across the substrate, and calculating a substrate temperature from the measured time of flight and the known temperature dependence of the speed of sound for the substrate material. The differential acoustic time of flight method eliminates most sources of interference and error, for example due to varying coupling between an ultrasonic transducer and the substrate. To further increase the accuracy of the differential acoustic time of flight measurement, a correlation waveform processing algorithm is utilized to obtain a differential acoustic time of flight measurement from two measured ultrasonic waveforms. To facilitate signal recognition and processing, a symmetric Lamb mode may be used as mode of excitation of the substrate.

Abstract: An aqueous ink composition including water; an optional co-solvent; an optional colorant; and a composite nanoparticle comprising a core and a shell; wherein the core comprises a styrene/acrylate polymer core resin, optionally comprising a metal; and wherein the shell comprises a metal. An aqueous ink composition including water; an optional co-solvent; an optional colorant; and an ionic polymer-metal composite; wherein the ionic-polymer metal composite nanoparticle acts as a reservoir for the delivery of metal ions for anti-bacterial effect, antifungal effect, antiviral biocide effect, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: A hand-held test meter includes an electrically and thermally insulating case (“ETIC”) with an outwardly facing surface, a test meter electrical component (“TMEC”) with a thermal contact portion disposed within the electrically-insulating case, and at least one thermal channel. The thermal channel includes a proximal contact portion with a proximal contact surface, a distal contact portion with a distal surface, and a channel portion connecting the proximal contact portion and the distal contact portion. The thermal channel is integrated with the ETIC such that the thermal channel extends through the ETIC from the outwardly facing surface and to the thermal contact portion of the TMEC. The extension is such that the proximal contact surface of the thermal channel is outside of the ETIC and the distal surface of the thermal channel is in contact with the thermal contact portion of the TMEC. The thermal channel is thermally conductive and electrically-insulating.

Abstract: The invention relates to rod thermometer device for detecting a temperature, including a plurality of temperature-sensitive elements and a protective sheath having an axis X in which the sensitive elements are partially inserted. The sheath is made of a metal constituting one of the two metals of a thermocouple, and the sensitive elements of a plurality of wires made of a metal other than that of the sheath and constituting the other one of the two metals of a thermocouple, one of the ends of each one of the wires being welded inside the sheath forming a junction for measuring a given thermocouple, the welded ends of the wires being distributed along a plurality of axial and azimuth positions relative to the axis X inside the sheath, each one of the wires extending out of the sheath by at least one of the ends thereof.