Abstract: Disclosed is a near-infrared absorbing composition, including: a near-infrared absorbing agent; and a solvent, wherein the near-infrared absorbing agent includes at least one of the following Component (A) and Component (B): Component (A): a component composed of a compound having a structure of the following general formula (I) and a metal ion; Component (B): a component composed of a metal complex that is obtainable by a reaction of the compound having the structure of the following general formula (I) and a metal compound.

Abstract: A lubricant for powder metallurgy which includes a polyhydroxycarboxylic acid amide. The lubricant improves both flowability and lubricity, irrespective of a presence or absence of any complicated pretreatment step.

Abstract: A lubricant for powder metallurgy which includes a polyhydroxycarboxylic acid amide. The lubricant improves both flowability and lubricity, irrespective of a presence or absence of any complicated pretreatment step.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer medium comprises a heat-resistant base sheet and provided thereon a release layer and an image-receiving adhesive layer on which an image pattern is formed by a sublimation transfer means in accordance with image data, said image-receiving adhesive layer, on which said image pattern has been formed, being transferred to a transfer substrate together with said release layer to produce an image-recorded article, wherein said image-receiving adhesive layer is comprised of a thermoplastic resin having a glass transition point of 50.degree. C. or above and a filler added to the thermoplastic resin and selected from the group consisting of an inorganic filler having a melting point of 200.degree. C. or above and an organic filler having a softening point or decomposition point of 200.degree. C. or above.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus including a plurality of recording modules for substantially simultaneously recording on recording sheets images according to image data supplied thereto, an image data supplier for supplying images to the recording modules, a sheet supplier for supplying the recording sheets to the recording modules, and sheet distributors for distributing the recording sheets thus supplied successively by the sheet supplier to the recording modules.

Abstract: The present invention relates to system for reading an optical recording medium having a data region formed by arranging, in parallel, a plurality of data tracks each of which is constituted by a plurality of bits along a reference line positioned perpendicular to the data tracks enabling the recording capacity of the optical recording medium to be enlarged. A bit included in the data track and positioned adjacently to the reference line is arranged to be a clock bit.

Abstract: A writing device for an optical memory card is disclosed. In this writing device, tracking correction is performed by moving a mobile objective lens of an optical system in the transverse direction of a track in accordance with a tracking error of the optical system relative to the optical memory card, and the range in which tracking correcting can be performed is enlarged by moving a retaining portion of the objective lens by a moving device when first comparison device has determined that tracking error information was outside a predetermined first standard range. The writing device includes a writing stoppage device for stopping writing data on the optical memory card when a second comparison device has determined that the tracking error information exceeded a second standard range which is wider than the first standard range.

Abstract: A card type optical recording medium according to the present invention relates to a card type optical recording medium arranged in such a manner that a plurality of tracks are formed on a recording region provided on a card type substrate and the tracks are divided into a plurality of blocks so that data is optically recorded to each of the blocks. The card type optical recording medium according to the present invention is characterized in that a portion of the recording region is provided with a defective block information region for determining a good or bad condition of the block to which the data is recorded. As a result, the defective block information can be read prior to the reading of data. Therefore, the necessity of accessing the defective block can be eliminated, causing a good reading efficiency to be realized.

Abstract: An optical recording medium having at least one data track and at least one clock track including clock bits provided in a predetermined optical pattern, in which the clock track comprises regular, periodical clock bits arranged regularly in a line and at least one irregular clock bit disposed in the line, breaking the regularity of the periodical clock bits. When a PLL circuit is reinstated into a locked state after it has been unlocked, a leading word can be identified by the irregular clock bit provided in the clock track. This enables data reading thereafter to be accurate.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical recording medium having a plurality of guide lines (1) and data regions (5) which are defined between adjacent guide lines and in which data is optically recorded. Each guide line (1) includes a start guide (2) indicating the leading end of the data region, clock guides (3) arranged at a predetermined interval to follow the start guide (2) and enabling synchronization during reading and writing, and sector marks (4) arranged at a predetermined interval so as to divide the data region (5) into a plurality of sectors. The clock guides (3) on adjacent guide lines are arranged in such a staggered manner that the clock guides (3) appear alternatingly in both guide lines. The data region having sector number writing portion (5a) provided in the vicinity of each sector mark (4) for writing a sector identification number to be written therein.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a read error of an optical recording medium is provided with a reading device which reads data recorded on a data track of an optical recording medium to thereby store the read data in memory therein. This apparatus includes a PLL circuit responsive to a read clock from the optical recording medium for generating a clock synchronized with the read clock, and address updating circuit for updating a write address of the memory to store the read data therein in synchronization with the output clock from said PLL circuit. Also, included are out-of-locking detection circuit for detecting the out-of-locked state of the PLL circuit in response to the read clock and the output clock from the PLL circuit, and address-updating suppression circuit responsive to a detection signal from the out-of-locking detection circuit for suppressing the address updating of the address updating circuit.

Abstract: In an image read method and device for reading an image on an original, more particularly large size original, pairs of transfer rollers are detachably provided on the insert side and the original discharge side of a platen roller, which is detachably disposed facing a platen glass. Sensors for sensing positions of an original transferred by the transfer roller pairs and the platen roller are provided. Touching and detaching between the transfer roller pairs and the platen roller are sequentially controlled according to the positions of the original as sensed by the sensor.

Abstract: An image forming method of the present invention comprises: a first toner image formation process for forming a first toner image by forming, on a latent image carrier, a first latent image which corresponds to a first image and developing the first latent image by a first toner charged to one polarity through a development process selected from normal and reverse development process selected from normal and reverse development processes so as to correspond to the polarity of the first toner; a second toner image formation process for forming a second toner image by forming, on the latent image carrier, a second latent image which correspond to a second image and developing the second latent image by a second toner charged to the other polarity by the other development process while applying a developing bias; and a transfer treatment process for simultaneously transferring said first and second toner images to a transfer medium; wherein said developing bias VB2 satisfies the following equations:.vertline.

Abstract: An error signal generating circuit which generates an error signal based on a read signal from an optical recording medium, which circuit comprises an error detection means responsive to the read signal to output the error signal; a disorder detection means responsive to the read signal to detect disorder; a signal hold means holding an output from the error detection means just before the disorderly state has occurred, during a period when the output from the disorder detection means represents the disorderly state; and a switching means responsive to the output from the error detection means and the output from the signal hold means to selectively supply the output from the hold means when the output from the disorder detection means represents the disorderly state and selectively supply the output from the error detection means when the output from the disorder detection means does not represent the disorderly state.

Abstract: A reading apparatus for reading an optical recording medium having a clock track, data tracks and a tracking guide line.The apparatus comprises a photodetector which receives light images of the clock track, data tracks and tracking guide line; a clock detecting circuit which is responsive to a signal from the clock track by the photodetector to output a clock signal; data detecting circuit which encodes data read from the data tracks by the photodetector into a binary code in response to the clock signal; a focus error detecting circuit for detecting a focus error and a tracking error circuit for detecting a tracking error in response to a signal from the tracking guide line by the photodetector. The photodetector comprises first to fourth light-sensitive elements which receive a light image of the tracking guide line, a fifth light-sensitive element which receives a light image of the clock track and a sixth light-sensitive element which receives a light image of the data track.

Abstract: A thermal ink-transfer recording medium of the present invention comprises: an anisotropically electroconductive layer formed by dispersing an electroconductive powder with an average particle size of 10 .mu.m to 2 mm in a thermosetting resin, shaping the blend into sheet form, and heat-curing the sheet while being compressed in the direction of its thickness; a heat-generating resistive layer; a pickup electrode layer; an ink release layer; and a heat-fusible ink layer that is capable of being fused by the heat generated from said heat-generating resistive layer.

Abstract: A print storage medium comprises a heat-generating layer for generating heat with an electrical signal input in accordance with a picture, the signal being supplied from a printing signal applying electrode to which the heat-generating layer is in pressure contact, an electrically conductive layer, an ink layer provided on the heat generated layer. The print storage medium is further provided with a plurality of microscopic electrodes on the storage medium with which the printing signal-applying electrode is in pressure contact, each of the microscopic electrodes being isolated from others. The electrically conductive layer may be formed of striped electrodes. The isolated microscopic patterns may be formed of electrically conductive ceramics or of electrically conductive resin.

Abstract: An image forming method of the present invention comprises: a first toner image formation process for forming a first toner image by forming, on a latent image carrier, a first latent image which corresponds to a first image and developing the first latent image by a first toner charged to one polarity through a development process selected from normal and reverse development process selected from normal and reverse development processes so as to correspond to the polarity of the first toner; a second toner image formation process for forming a second toner image by forming, on the latent image carrier, a second latent image which correspond to a second image and developing the second latent image by a second toner charged to the other polarity by the other development process while applying a developing bias; and a transfer treatment process for simultaneously transferring said first and second toner images to a transfer medium; wherein said developing bias VB2 satisfies the following equations:.vertline.

Abstract: A current-conducting thermosensitive recording media used for non-impact recording which attains better energy efficiency and higher printing speeds through a thermosensitive recording ink medium comprising: a stratified ink support in which electrical conductivity in the direction of the thickness is greater than the electrical conductivity in the direction of the surface; a thermogenetic resistor layer for producing heat; a return electrode layer; a thermally melting ink layer; and an ink separating layer. The thermogenetic resistor layer, the electrode layer, the ink separating layer, and the thermally melting ink layer are laminated on the ink support in that order.

Abstract: An optical recording medium having a plurality of tracks juxtaposed each other and capable of easily and rapidly detecting a desired track. An optical recording medium includes a data recording region in which the tracks are juxtaposed each other and a track detecting region provided at a part of the data recording region. The track detecting region includes track guides juxtaposed along respective tracks and track number guides corresponding to a locus of the movement of an optical head in the access to a desired track, the track number guides intersecting the track guides.