Abstract: This invention decreases deformation of a plastic substrate caused by thermal expansion and contraction in an evaporation process of forming a multi-layered film of an ND filter, thus helping prevent wrinkles. The plastic substrate serving as the base of the ND filter is made of a polyimide-based plastic material having a glass transition temperature of 200° C. or more, has a total transmittance of light of 90% or more, and has a haze factor of 0.5% or less. As the multi-layered film, Al2O3 films for reduction of the reflectance and TiOx films for reduction of the transmittance are alternately formed on the substrate.

Abstract: A steel material that has on its surface a non-hexavalent-chromium type corrosion-resistant coating film formed by a composite of a metal layer and a resin layer. The steel material having or not having a copper layer is formed with 1) a Zn and/or Zn-based alloy layer, 2) a Zn/Ni alloy layer which is on this Zn and/or Zn-based alloy layer, 3) a de-Zn layer which is on the Zn/Ni alloy layer and is obtained by chemically treating the surface of the Zn/Ni alloy layer, and 4) at least one resin covering layer which is on this de-Zn layer, which are successively formed to make a corrosion-resistant coating film, the corrosion-resistant coating film, which is superior in adhesion between the metal layer and resin layer, being obtained by way of taking into account the use of a trivalent chromium type chromate layer instead of a hexavalent chromium type chromate layer (which is a substance that places a burden on the environment).

Abstract: The image quality deterioration due to the collection of dots of low-lightness by the preliminary ejection is prevented, in the case of performing the ink ejection for preliminary ejection during the printing onto printing paper. More specifically, the preliminary ejection pattern is set as a pattern in which the distance between a cyan dot of relatively low-lightness and a magenta dot is longer than a distance between a yellow dot of relatively high-lightness and a cyan dot nearest the yellow dot among low-lightness colors. Closely forming dots of low-lightness that would be perceived as a group of collected dots can be prevented, thereby performing printing that will not deteriorate the printing quality due to the paper preliminary ejection.

Abstract: In an ink jet printer in which preliminary ejection is performed onto printing paper, unnecessary ink consumption due to the preliminary ejection is suppressed. More specifically, the paper preliminary ejection is designed to be performed only for a printing head of cyan ink. For this cyan ink the longest duration of its non-ejection state, in which the printer can attain high printing quality when restarting printing after continuation of the non-ejection state in the case of not performing the paper preliminary ejection, is shorter than 1.6 seconds of the duration which is necessary for the reciprocal printing. This eliminates the paper preliminary ejection for the printing heads of the other colors of ink, thereby avoiding unnecessary ink consumption due to the paper preliminary ejection performed uniformly for every color of ink.

Abstract: A display driver for evenly display the screen driven by a plurality of driver circuits is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel driven by data lines and driver units. Each of the data lines is driven by the corresponding driver unit. Each of the driver units has a resistance division unit for generating grayscale voltages, an operational amplifier unit for supplying voltages to the terminals of the resistance division unit in response to a bias control signal. The corresponding terminals of the resistance division unit of the plurality of driver circuits are commonly connected. The bias control signal is supplied when each of the driver circuit drives the corresponding data line.

Abstract: In a data creating method for creating image data corresponding to each of a plurality of color inks applied to a black image area formed on the basis of image data on a black ink, with the plurality of color inks being a cyan ink, a magenta ink, and a yellow ink, an image data creating step creates image data corresponding to each of the plurality of color inks on the basis of the image data on the black ink. The image data creating step creates the image data on each of the plurality of color inks so that the rate of areas in which all the plurality of color inks are applied, in the black image area, is higher than that of areas to which only some of the plurality of color inks are applied. At least one of the cyan ink, the magenta ink, and the yellow ink contains a component that coagulates a color material of the black ink.

Abstract: A medicament comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable anion exchange resin as an active ingredient is provided which exhibits an insulin resistance-improving action regardless of volume of meal or glucose absorption from the gastrointestinal tract.

Abstract: A hinge includes first hinge connectors having first shaft holes drilled and which are disposed at a rear of a synthetic resin case body that may contain a cosmetic material; a second hinge connector having a second shaft hole drilled and which is disposed at a rear of a synthetic resin lid that opens or closes with respect to the case body. The hinge also includes synthetic resin hinge shafts inserted through the first shaft holes, the second shaft hole, and two protruded fitting parts with a shape of a short cylinder disposed so as to project from end faces of the first hinge connectors and come in abutment with two U-shaped, recessed fitting parts disposed on end faces of the second hinge connector.

Abstract: A hinge includes first hinge connectors having first shaft holes drilled and which are disposed at a rear of a synthetic resin case body that may contain a cosmetic material; a second hinge connector having a second shaft hole drilled and which is disposed at a rear of a synthetic resin lid that opens or closes with respect to the case body. The hinge also includes synthetic resin hinge shafts inserted through the first shaft holes, the second shaft hole, and two protruded fitting parts with a shape of a short cylinder disposed so as to project from end faces of the first hinge connectors and come in abutment with two U-shaped, recessed fitting parts disposed on end faces of the second hinge connector.

Abstract: This invention decreases deformation of a plastic substrate caused by thermal expansion and contraction in an evaporation process of forming a multi-layered film of an ND filter, thus arising of wrinkles is prevented. The plastic substrate serving as the base of the ND filter is made of a polyimide-based plastic material having a glass transition temperature of 200° C. or more, and has a total transmittance of light of 90% or more and has a haze factor, which represents the haze of 0.5% or less. As the multi-layered film, Al2O3 films for reduction of the reflectance and TiOx films for reduction of the transmittance are alternately formed on the substrate. An MgF2 film made of a low-refraction material is formed as the uppermost layer to further reduce the reflection. In the evaporation process, even when the temperature of the plastic substrate reaches almost 200° C.

Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus includes an edge detecting unit adapted to detect an edge portion or a non-edge portion in the image data a memory adapted to store a plurality of edge reducing masks used to reduce image data in the edge portion and a plurality of non-edge reducing masks used to reduce image data in the non-edge portion; a reduced data generating unit adapted to generate multiple sets of edge reduced data from image data in the edge portion using the plurality of edge reducing masks and to generate multiple sets of non-edge reduced data from image data in the non-edge portion using the plurality of non-edge reducing masks; and a printing data generating unit adapted to generate multiple sets of printing data by combining the multiple sets of edge reduced data and the multiple sets of non-edge reduced data.

Abstract: Disclosed is an inkjet print apparatus in which a printhead capable of printing utilizing ink of at least one color is mounted on a carriage and the carriage is caused to move across a printing medium to print an image on the printing medium, comprising: a head temperature detector for detecting temperature of the printhead; a dot counter for counting number of dots, which are formed in divided areas, per each divided area obtained by dividing an area of the printing medium into a plurality of areas in prescribed units; a comparator for comparing a threshold value, which corresponds to printhead temperature information that has been detected by the head temperature detector, and a count value representing the number of dots counted by the dot counter; and a decision unit for deciding, based upon result of the comparison performed by the comparator, a drive frequency for driving the printhead and a moving speed of the carriage; wherein printing of an image on the printing medium is performed at the drive frequ

Abstract: Antiobestic agents and health foods containing as the active ingredient substances having an effect of adsorbing bile acid in the digestive tract, an effect of inhibiting intestinal circulation or an effect of inhibiting the absorption of exogenous lipids typified by pharmaceutically acceptable anion exchange resins. In particular, antiobestic agents and health foods characterized by lowering body weight and/or visceral fat content without reducing food intake.

Abstract: For a serial inkjet printing apparatus that performs printing by employing ink having different properties, the occurrence of smear is prevented without the printing speed being deteriorated more than necessarily. Therefore, a high duty area, i.e., a unit area for which a large amount of ink is applied, is detected in a preceding printing medium. Then, while taking into account the scanning direction (ink application order) in which the detected high duty area has been printed, the period until the following printing medium is permitted to contact the high duty area is determined. Then, during printing of the following printing medium, the printing operation is delayed, so that, within the determined period of time, the following printing medium does not contact the high duty area of the preceding printing medium.

Abstract: In a serial inkjet printing apparatus mounting a plurality of kinds of inks which have different properties and are arranged in parallel, high-speed bidirectional printing is realized without causing an influence of fixing period to prolong output time more than necessary. In order to realize the high-speed bidirectional printing, an order of executing forward print scanning and backward print scanning is controlled so as to further reduce a sum of time required to form an image and time required to wait for the formed image to be fixed. Thus, also in the bidirectional printing, between a forward direction and a backward direction, print scanning in a direction having shorter fixing period is set prior to that in the other direction. Consequently, total time required for image output can be further reduced.

Abstract: An azimuth meter using spin-valve giant magneto-resistive elements, which is simple in manufacturing process, can be made compact in size and contribute to power saving, is disclosed. The azimuth meter comprises a quadrilateral plane coil having two pairs of parallel opposed sides and four spin-valve giant magneto-resistive element pairs, each pair of the elements disposed on a plane parallel to the coil. The longitudinal directions of two elements of each pair orthogonally cross each other, and cross only a respective side or only the same side of a pair of the opposed sides of the plane coil at substantially 45 degrees. The pinned layer of one of the two elements is magnetized in its longitudinal direction, and that of the other element is magnetized in the same direction as the pinned layer of that one element. The paired elements are connected to each other at one end.

Abstract: In consideration of that burning a PVC-based tape causes occurrence of dioxine, a nonhalogenated tape having physical properties and electric properties, which are comparable to a PVC-based tacking tape, and replaceable to the PVC-based tacking tape is desired. Simple replacement of PVC to a polyethylene-based synthetic resin causes a bad hand cutting performance. Hence, the composition of the synthetic resin composition is improved to have 100 weight parts of a polypropylene-based resin, 1 to 70 weight parts of a polyethylene-based resin, 1 to 200 weight parts of an inorganic filler with a range from 0.5 ?m to 10 ?m of an average grain size, and 0.1 to 50 weight parts of an compatibilizer to form a film. In addition, the film is drawn 1.05 to 3 times in an MD and thickness of the film is kept to 0.03 to 0.5 mm.

Abstract: The first and second check valve mechanisms, which are applicable to a small-size double-layered container, are created while maintaining high productivity. The discharge container provided with these check valve mechanisms comprises an outer container, which has the flexibility to make this outer container squeezable and recoverable to its original shape and which is provided with a cylindrical outer neck on top thereof. This discharge container also comprises an inner container, which is deformable with the decrease in the content and is disposed inside the outer container under the condition that cylindrical inner neck has been directly engaged with, and tightly fitted to, the outer neck. The first check valve mechanism is engaged with, and tightly fitted to, the inside of the inner neck and is used to open or close the opening of the inner neck while preventing outside air from creeping in the inner container.

Abstract: Image data supplied to an image forming apparatus are converted into image data linearly correlated with the image density, and the image ratio is calculated by dividing the number of pixels in which the toner is deposited during image formation based on the thus-converted image, with a value obtained by multiplying the total pixel number corresponding to the size of the print medium with the number of gradation levels per pixel. Then the toner amount consumed in the image formation based on the entered image data is determined by multiplying the image ratio, the size of the print medium to be used and the toner amount consumed per unit area in a solid image formation.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of setting anti-forgery information addition level while taking an apparatus individual difference into consideration. The method is employed by a data processing system including: an image processing apparatus 100 for processing an image; and a maintenance apparatus 120, connected with the image processing apparatus through a network 110, for setting a processing function of the image processing apparatus 100. The maintenance apparatus 120 determines an anti-forgery information addition level depending on an individual difference of apparatuses, such as an exhaustion level of the image processing apparatus 100. The addition level determined by the maintenance apparatus 120 is transmitted to the image processing apparatus 100. The image processing apparatus 100 adds anti-forgery information to an inputted image at the addition level transmitted by the maintenance apparatus 120.