Abstract: A speed measuring apparatus includes a light source unit for generating a diverged light beam, a diffraction grating for generating diffracted light when the diverged light beam from the light source unit is made to enter the diffraction grating, an optical device for converting the diffracted light into a collimated light beam, and an optical detecting device for receiving interference light formed by projecting the collimated light on the object to be measured. The speed measuring apparatus measures the speed of the object by using signals corresponding to the frequency shift of the light obtained by the optical detecting device.

Abstract: A Doppler velocimeter includes an illuminating system for projecting a light beam for measurement onto an object to be measured at a predetermined working distance, and a light-receiving system for receiving light from the object illuminated with the light beam by the illuminating system. Information relating to a speed of the object is detected by a Doppler shift of the light received by the light-receiving system. The Doppler velocimeter further includes a changing device for changing the working distance of the illuminating system.

Abstract: A recovery method of an ink jet apparatus includes the steps of discharging ink for recovery from a plurality of discharge openings prior to recording, detecting a discharge condition for each discharge opening, and selectively discharging ink for recovery from the discharge openings detected to be unsatisfactory.

Abstract: An ink jet apparatus has an ink jet head with a heat generating resistance element, which head discharges ink droplets by causing a state change in ink using heat generated by the resistance element, conveying means for conveying a recording medium to be recorded upon in a conveyance direction so that a predetermined recording image is formed on the recording medium by ink droplets from the head, heat exchanging means for exchanging heat with the head, this exchanging means being attached to the side of the head where the element is provided, and heating means for heating the exchanging means, the heating means being part of the heat exchanging means. It also includes a cooling means for cooling the heat exchanging means, temperature detecting means for detecting the temperature of the heat exchanging means, and control means for controlling driving of the heating means and cooling means according to the temperature detected by the temperature detecting means.

Abstract: A position information detection apparatus includes a first detection system for radiating two collimated light beams onto an object to be measured at a predetermined crossing angle to form interference fringes at a predetermined interval, and detecting scattered light emanating from the object to be measured by the interference fringes at the predetermined interval, a second detection system for radiating two light beams onto the object to be measured at a predetermined crossing angle to form interference fringes having a gradient with each other in an opposing direction to the object to be measured, and detecting scattered light emanating from the object to be measured by the interference fringes having the gradient, and a detection unit for comparing output signals from the first and second detection systems, and detecting relative position information, along the opposing direction of the first and second detection systems, of the object to be measured.

Abstract: A doppler velocimeter determines the velocity of an object moving through a beam intersection area by using a doppler frequency obtained by detecting light from the beam intersecting area. The doppler velocimeter includes: a light source; a diffraction grating for diffracting light received from the light source; first and second lens systems for transmitting diffracted light from the diffraction grating to irradiate a portion of a movable object to be examined, the first and second lens systems having the same focal length F; and a detector device for receiving light from the portion of the object irradiated with the light which has been transmitted through the first and second lens systems and for obtaining a doppler signal used for velocity determination. The interval between the first and second lens systems is twice as long as the focal length F.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus records by discharging ink from plural recording heads toward a recording medium. Each of the recording heads has a heat pipe mounted thereon, and protruding therefrom so as to have a length which is greater than the recording width of the corresponding recording head. The protruding portions of each heat pipe extending from the recording heads have a heat discharging member attached thereto. That member constitutes a single blower fan for applying an air stream to the heat discharging members corresponding to the recording head, and plural air stream control means for applying the air stream produced by the blower fan to the heat discharging members individually or independently.

Abstract: A heat transfer recording device which performs recording by heating a heat transfer medium to transfer the ink possessed by the heat transfer medium onto an image-receiving medium, thereby effecting recording on the image-receiving medium. The device having: a platen; a recording head having a plurality of heat-generating elements capable of heat generating; and a pressing member for pressing the recording head against the platen under a pressing force of 800 gf/cm to 3500 gf/cm.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus with plural full-line type recording heads has a heat pipe associated with each recording head. The heat pipes are connected together at a common portion in various ways, such as by a heat-conductive block, one or more additional heat pipes or a container with a heat transferring liquid medium. Such an arrangement enables more efficient and compact temperature control of the recording heads.

Abstract: A liquid jet recording apparatus comprises a line type recording head emitting toward a recording medium a recording liquid for recording and a serial type recording head movable in the arrangement direction of the line type recording head orifices. The serial type recording head compensates for any improperly recording orifices of the line type recording head.

Abstract: This invention relates to a sheet feeding device having an endless belt for feeding a sheet; multiple rotation members bodies supporting the endless belt and including at least one crown roller, a cylindrical rotational member located between the crown roller and a first body member among the multiple rotation members from the crown roller in the endless belt moving direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting velocity of an object, includes a light source for generating light having a wavelength .lambda., a light-transmission block for receiving the light from the light source, and guiding the light onto the object, and a photosensor for detecting the light from the object on which the light from the light-transmission block is incident. The light-transmission block is integrally constituted by a diffraction grating for diffracting the light from the light source to produce two diffraction lights, and an optical element for causing the two diffraction lights from the diffraction grating to be incident onto the object at a predetermined incident angle. The diffraction grating and the optical element are arranged so as to have substantially constant sin.theta./.lambda. independently of a change in wavelength .lambda. of the light from the light source where .theta. is the incident angle of each diffraction light onto the object.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid jet recording apparatus in which a liquid discharge for recovery of a recording head is directly carried out by the conveying belt. A collecting effect of an ink mist generated at a recording area of the recording head is carried out by a charged conveying belt, a rotary member conveying the recording medium, preferably an electrostatically absorbing conveying belt.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the velocity information of an object comprises a light source; optical system for irradiating beam from the light source, which is provided with a first lens or lens group and a second lens or lens group having an identical focal distance which are arranged apart from each other substantially two times such focal distance along the direction of the optical axis, to irradiate the beam onto the measuring object through the first and second lenses or lens group, and the optical system being arranged so as to make the value of sin .theta./.lambda. substantially constant where .theta. is the incident angle of the beam irradiated onto the measuring object and .lambda. is the wavelength of the beam; and detector for detecting the scattering rays of light from the measuring object irradiated by the above-mentioned optical system to detect the velocity information of the measuring object.

Abstract: An ink jet recording apparatus for effecting recording with ink that adheres to a recording medium has an ink jet recording head unit having a recording head in which a plurality of electrothermal conversion elements available to discharge the ink are arranged, a heat exchange device having a first heat exchange portion contacting with the whole area of one side of the recording head in the lengthwise direction thereof and effecting heat exchange and a second heat exchange portion provided in continuation to the first heat exchange portion and extending on the outside far from the recording head, a heater provided near the second heat exchange portion for heating the heat exchange device, and a temperature detector provided on a portion of the first heat exchange portion; the second heat exchange portion being inclined upwardly relative to the recording head; a cooling device for acting on the second heat exchange portion of the heat exchange device and assisting the heat radiation of the second heat exchange

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the speed information of an object comprises a light source device, a frequency shifting device for shifting the frequency of a light flux from the light source device, a light-flux dividing device for dividing a light-flux whose frequency is divided by the frequency shifting device, one of the divided light fluxes divided by the light-flux dividing device being projected onto an object to be measured and the other light flux being projected in a direction other than that of the one of the light fluxes, a first detection device for detecting light from the object to be measured to which the one of the light fluxes is projected, the light detected by the first detection device having undergone a Doppler shift proportional to the speed of the object to be measured, a second detection device for detecting the other light flux, and a speed information detection device for detecting the speed information of the object to be measured on the basis of the comparison between the detection re

Abstract: A Doppler velocity meter has a radiation source for emitting a radiation beam the wavelength of which fluctuates, such as a laser; an optical system for directing the radiation beam to an object at an incident angle .theta. and a detector for detecting scattered beam generated from the object by directing the radiation beam. The optical system has a diffraction grating which serves to change the incident angle .theta. in accordance with a change in the wavelength .lambda. of the radiation beam in such a manner as to maintain the value of sin .theta./.lambda. substantially constant. The velocity meter can accurately detect the velocity of movement of the object regardless of any change in the wavelength .lambda., because the diffraction grating serves to substantially compensate for any change in the frequency of the scattered beam caused by the change in the wavelength.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the velocity information of an object comprises the irradiation optical system for performing the irradiation of beam to the predetermined position on an object to be measured; the photodetector for detecting the light from the irradiated object by the irradiation optical system, the velocity information being obtained by the detection; the detector for detecting the irradiating state for detecting the deviation of the irradiating position of the beam on the object to be measured; and the adjuster for adjusting the irradiating state of the beam on the object based on the detection result of the detector for detecting the irradiating state. With such constituents as above, the apparatus is capable of dealing with the fluctuation of the lightning to obtain a high-precision detection of the velocity information at a high speed.

Abstract: This invention is characterized in that a light beam from a light source is made to enter a diffraction grating and .+-. nth-order (n=1,2, . . . ) diffracted lights from the diffraction grating are made to enter a moving object at an angle substantially equal to the angle of intersection of the angles of diffraction of the two diffracted lights from the diffraction grating. As a result, the two diffracted lights are converged by a lens system provided between the diffraction grating and the light source on the moving object and intersect with each other. Scattered light subjected to Doppler shift by the moving object is detected by photodetector thereby detecting the velocity information of the moving object.

Abstract: The present invention provides a heat transfer recording apparatus for recording an image on a recording medium by selectively applying thermal energy by a recording head, comprises: conveying means for conveying a transfer medium, a recording head for selectively applying the energy to the transfer medium, pressing means for changing a pressing force of the recording head, tension means for changing a conveying tension on the transfer medium, peeling angle changing means for changing an angle of the transfer medium peeled from the recording medium; and control means for changing the conveying tension on the transfer medium or/and the peeling angle in response to the change in the pressing force of the recording head.