Abstract: A data terminal of a network is used for printing information retrieved from the network, by use of a printer connectable to or incorporated into the data terminal. Along with the information, ad data selected from among those periodically downloaded and stored in the data terminal is printed on the same recording sheet. The user chooses which side of the recording sheet the ad data is to be printed, on the same side as the information or on the opposite side from the information. The data terminal automatically selects those ad data which relates to the category of the information, or the user may designate categories of the ad data to print with the information. A charge modification data producer of the data terminal produces charge modification data and sends it to a provider of the information, for modifying charge for the provision of the information depending upon the amount of ad data printed with the information.

Abstract: The present invention provides a printer which can efficiently find the desired image printed before and which can print the image quickly. The printer of the present invention has a memory installed, and the information related to the image printed before is recorded in the memory as job information. For example, a thumbnail image, a number of image files, an ID number for the SSFDC in which the image file is recorded, and so forth, are recorded as the job information. Referring to the job information, a user can efficiently find the image desired to be reprinted and the file in which the image is recorded, and quickly reprint the image.

Abstract: A light and heat sensitive recording material passes through an accommodating section and a heat-development section and reaches an optical recording section. At the optical recording section, optical recording is effected, at the heat-development section, development is effected and at the photo-fixing section, fixing is effected upon the light and heat sensitive recording material. Finally, the light and heat sensitive recording material is discharged from a discharge section to the outside. At the photo-fixing section, white light from the optical recording section is used and irradiated onto the light and heat sensitive recording material. Thus, by using the same light source, a latent image can be appropriately recorded on the light and heat sensitive recording material and the heat-developed image can be reliably fixed.

Abstract: An image-recording system with a first conveying path along which a light and heat sensitive recording material is conveyed from an accommodating cassette at an accommodating section toward a pair of conveying rollers, a second conveying path along which the recording material is conveyed forward and backward through an optical recording section and a heat-developing section, and a third conveying path along which the recording material, after development of an image thereon, is conveyed to an optical fixing section.

Abstract: The consultant server and the consultation method are provided for fixing a user's fee and a rating for each service, notifying the user of the information, and allocating the user's fee among service providers based on the rating when a user obtains a service via the Internet. The consultant server includes a sending/receiving device by which evaluation information input by a user who has obtained a service, a information-processing device which fixes a user's fee and a rating for each service based on the evaluation information, a sending/receiving device which sends information about the above described user's fee and rating for each service to a user's personal computer and the like, an information-processing device which allocates user's fees for services among service providers based on the rating.

Abstract: An image-recording system with a first conveying path along which a light and heat sensitive recording material is conveyed from an accommodating cassette at an accommodating section toward a pair of conveying rollers, a second conveying path along which the recording material is conveyed forward and backward through an optical recording section and a heat-developing section, and a third conveying path along which the recording material, after development of an image thereon, is conveyed to an optical fixing section.

Abstract: A light and heat sensitive recording material passes through an accommodating section and a heat-development section and reaches an optical recording section. At the optical recording section, optical recording is effected, at the heat-development section, development is effected and at the photo-fixing section, fixing is effected upon the light and heat sensitive recording material. Finally, the light and heat sensitive recording material is discharged from a discharge section to the outside. At the photo-fixing section, white light from the optical recording section is used and irradiated onto the light and heat sensitive recording material. Thus, by using the same light source, a latent image can be appropriately recorded on the light and heat sensitive recording material and the heat-developed image can be reliably fixed.

Abstract: A thermal printer includes a conveyor for conveying thermosensitive recording material in a predetermined conveying direction. A thermal head applies heat to the recording material being conveyed, to record an image to the recording material. The thermal head incorporates plural heating elements, which are arranged in an array crosswise to the conveying direction, and generate the heat. The thermal head includes a contact region predetermined for pressing the recording material. A center of the contact region is positioned downstream from a center of the heating elements with reference to the conveying direction.

Abstract: A thermal printer has a thermal head for image recording to a thermosensitive recording sheet while applying pressure to the recording sheet. A plate-shaped platen supports the recording sheet during the pressure application of the thermal head to the recording sheet. The platen includes first, second and third plates serially laid on one another and secured to one another. The first plate is rigid. The second plate is resilient. The third plate has higher rigidity than the second plate, and has a smooth surface contacting the recording sheet.

Abstract: A soft magnetic thin film having a compositional formula FeaBbNc, wherein a, b and c each denote atomic percent and B denotes at least one of Co, Ni and Ru, and wherein the compositional range is given by 0<b≦5, and 0<c≦5. The film may exhibit uniaxial anisotropy with a uniaxial anisotropy field strength of 1-5 Oe. The film has a coercivity 2.5-4 Oe or less and a saturated magnetic flux density B25 of at least 16 kG measured at a magnetic field of 25 Oe. The film is produced by subjecting a deposited thin film of the compositional formula to heat treatment at a temperature of 220 to 450° C., within or without magnetic field and, has an average crystal grain size of not more than 50 nm.

Abstract: A soft magnetic thin micro-crystalline film of FeaTbNc (at %) wherein T is at least one of Zr, Hf, Ti, Nb, Ta, V, Mo, and W and 0<b≦20, and 0<c≦22 except the range of b≦7.5 and c≦5, shows low coercivity Hc of 80-400 Am−1 (1-5 Oe) which is stable upon heating at elevated temperatures for glass bonding. This film is produced by crystallizing an amorphous alloy film of the similar composition at 350-650° C. to a crystal grain size up to 30 nm to provide uniaxial anisotropy and increased magnetic permeability at a higher frequency. It can also provide low magnetostriction around &lgr;s=0. A composite magnetic head is made using this thin film. A diffusion preventive SiO2 layer is disposed between ferrite cores, and this thin film in the magnetic head prevents an interdiffusion layer and suppresses beat in the output signal.

Abstract: A soft magnetic thin micro-crystalline film of FeaBbNc (at %) wherein B is at least one of Zr, Hf, Ti, Nb, Ta, V, Mo and W, and 0<b≦20 and 0<c≦22 except the range of b≦7.5 and c≦5, shows low coercivity Hc of 80-400 Am−1 (1-5 Oe) which is stable upon heating at elevated temperature for glass bonding. This film is produced by crystallizing an amorphous alloy film of the similar composition at 350-650° C. to a crystal grain size up to 30 nm to provide uniaxial anisotropy and increased magnetic permeability at higher frequency. It can also provide low magnetostriction around &lgr;s=0. Composite magnetic head is made using this thin film. Diffusion preventive SiO2 layer disposed between ferrite core and this thin film in the magnetic head prevents an interdiffusion layer and suppress beat in the output signal.

Abstract: There is disclosed a color thermosensitive printer which has a thermal head mounted on a carriage to scan the thermal head in opposite directions across a width of a color thermosensitive recording the recording paper. Yellow and magenta fixing members have linear tube lamps that are disposed across the width of the recording paper along the scanning directions of the thermal head. First and second exposure openings are formed through the carriage before and behind the thermal head with respect to a forward scanning direction. As the carriage moves in the forward scanning direction, the thermal head records yellow pixels on a yellow thermosensitive color layer of the recording paper, and the yellow fixing rays are projected onto the recording paper through the second exposure opening that follows behind the thermal head in the forward scanning direction.

Abstract: A sticker sheet includes support paper. An obverse and a reverse laminate layers are disposed on respectively surfaces of the support paper. Three thermosensitive coloring layers are disposed on the obverse laminate layer, constitute a recording medium with the support paper, and adapted to direct thermal recording. An adhesive layer is disposed on the reverse laminate layer. Release paper is secured to the recording medium by the adhesive layer in a peelable manner. Cut lines are formed in the recording medium by cutting the reverse laminate layer and the support paper with the coloring layers and the obverse laminate layer kept uncut at least partially, and partition the recording medium into plural sticker chips. After the thermal recording, the coloring layers and the obverse laminate layer are tearable along the cut lines, and the sticker chips are separable with the adhesive layer.

Abstract: A soft magnetic thin micro-crystalline film of FeT.sub.b N.sub.c (at %) wherein T is at least one of Zr, Hf, Ti, Nb, Ta, V, Mo and W, and 0<b<20 and 0<c<22 except the range of b.ltoreq.7.5 and c.ltoreq.5, shows low coercivity Hc of 80-400 Am.sup.-1 (1-5 Oe) which is stable upon heating at elevated temperature for glass bonding.This film is produced by crystallizing an amorphous alloy film of the similar composition at 350.degree.-650.degree. C. to a crystal grain size up to 30 nm to provide uniaxial anisotropy and increased magnetic permeability at higher frequency. It can also provide low magnetostriction around .gamma.s=0.Composite magnetic head is made using this thin film. Diffusion preventive SiO.sub.2 layer disposed between ferrite core and this thin film in the magnetic head prevents an interdiffusion layer and suppress beat in the output signal.

Abstract: A soft magnetic thin film represented by the formula Fe.sub.a X.sub.b Zr.sub.c B.sub.d, wherein a, b, c and d stand for atomic percents for respective components and X indicates at least one of Co, Ni, Cr and V. The proportions of the components is such that 86.ltoreq.a+b.ltoreq.93, 0<b.ltoreq.10, 4.ltoreq.c.ltoreq.9 and 1.ltoreq.d.ltoreq.8. The thin film exhibits satisfactory soft magnetic properties even when it is formed by thin film forming methods through vapor deposition, such as sputtering.

Abstract: A soft magnetic thin micro-crystalline film of FeT.sub.b N.sub.c (at %) wherein T is at least one of Zr, Hf, Ti, Nb, Ta, V, Mo and W, and 0<b.ltoreq.20 and 0<c.ltoreq.22 except the range of b.ltoreq.7.5 and c.ltoreq.5, exhibits low coercivity Hc of 80-400 Am.sup.-1 (1-5 Oe) which is stable upon heating at elevated temperature for glass bonding.This film is produced by crystallizing an amorphous alloy film of the similar composition at 350.degree.-650.degree. C. to a crystal grain size up to 30 nm to provide uniaxial anisotropy and increased magnetic permeability at higher frequency. It can also provide low magnetostriction around .lambda.s=0.Composite magnetic head is made using this thin film. Diffusion preventive SiO.sub.2 layer disposed between ferrite core and this thin film in the magnetic head prevents an interdiffusion layer and suppress beat in the output signal.

Abstract: A composite magnetic head comprises a pair of magnetic core halves each including a core block formed of an oxide magnetic material and a soft magnetic thin film disposed on said core block interposed with a reaction inhibiting layer, said core halves abutting to each other so that a magnetic gap is defined between the ends of said soft magnetic thin films. The magnetic head has a size relation bcd/a.ltoreq.0.2.times.10.sup.-10 m.sup.2 wherein a is a gap length, measured along the proceeding direction of a magnetic recording medium, c a gap depth, d a gap width as measured along the track width and b is a thickness of said reaction inhibiting layer. Wavy (beat) noise of output signal due to the psuedo gap produced by the reaction inhibiting layer is effectively suppressed.

Abstract: A soft magnetic thin micro-crystalline film of Fe.sub.a B.sub.b N.sub.c (at %) wherein B is at least one of Zr, Hf, Ti, Nb, Ta, V, Mo and W, and O<b.ltoreq.20 and O<c.ltoreq.22 except the range of b.ltoreq.7.5 and c.ltoreq.5, shows low coercivity Hc of 80-400 Am.sup.-1 (1-5 Oe) which is stable upon heating at elevated temperature for glass bonding.This film is produced by crystallizing an amorphous alloy film of the similar composition of 350.degree.-650.degree. C. to a crystal grain size up to 30 nm to provide uniaxial anisotropy and increased magnetic permeability at higher frequency. It can also provide low magnetostriction around .lambda.s= .Composite magnetic head is made using this thin film. Diffusion preventive SiO.sub.2 layer disposed between ferrite core and this thin film in the magnetic head prevents an interdiffusion layer and suppress beat in the output signal.

Abstract: Uniaxially oriented soft magnetic thin film consists essentially of 1 to 15 atomic percent of Co and/or Ni, and the balance being Fe, and has a crystal structure of a body-centered cubic system, wherein the film is oriented substantially in the [111] direction and the absolute value of the saturation magnetostriction .lambda..sub.f of the film is not more than 5.times.10.sup.-6. The film has low coercivity 1 Oe or less and high magnetic permeability maintaining high saturation magnetic flux density of 18 kG or more. .lambda..sub.f reaches zero and is adjustable. Addition of 0.2 to 20 atomic percent of Ru, Mn, Cr and/or V increases wear resistance. The film is formed by deposition on {111} plane of GaAs substrate, or on c-plane of hexagonal B.sub.8 stracture.