Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to efficiently manufacture a lithium battery having improved conductivity. Provided is a lithium battery including a substrate; a positive electrode material layer formed on one surface of the substrate; an electrolyte layer formed on the surface of the positive electrode material layer opposite to the surface facing the substrate; a buffer layer formed on the surface of the electrolyte layer opposite to the surface facing the substrate; a negative electrode layer containing lithium, which is formed on the surface of the buffer layer opposite to the surface facing the substrate. The electrolyte layer has a recessed part that is recessed toward the substrate in a portion of the surface facing the negative electrode layer, and the buffer layer is formed such that the buffer layer fills the recessed part.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a color display including a color filter and a black matrix, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: forming a film of zinc oxide on a transparent substrate; forming the the color filter on the said film of zinc oxide; and thereafter, applying a deposit of electroless copper plating on an area of the said film of zinc oxide on which the said color filter is not formed, the said deposit having a thickness which is substantially equal to a thickness of the said color filter and constituting an element of said black matrix. Thus, a color display may be provided with a black matrix that is of high optical density and a low reflectivity. The black matrix can also be commensurate with film thickness with the color matrix. No photo lithographic process is required in preparing the color filter and black matrix. Various modified forms of embodiments of the method of manufacturing a color display are also disclosed.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a color display including a color filter and a black matrix, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: forming a film of zinc oxide on a transparent substrate; forming the the color filter on the said film of zinc oxide; and thereafter, applying a deposit of electroless copper plating on an area of the said film of zinc oxide on which the said color filter is not formed, the said deposit having a thickness which is substantially equal to a thickness of the said color filter and constituting an element of said black matrix. Thus, a color display may be provided with a black matrix that is of high optical density and a low reflectivity. The black matrix can also be commensurate with film thickness with the color matrix. No photo lithographic process is required in preparing the color filter and black matrix. Various modified forms of embodiments of the method of manufacturing a color display are also disclosed.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an image forming apparatus uses a photoconductive member in which microcapsules with a liquid crystal material sealed therein are dispersed inside of a photoconductive layer thereof and comprises a charger for uniformly charging the photoconductive member and an LED head for forming an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductive member, and furthermore, comprises a voltage applying device for applying an alternating electric field to the photoconductive member so as to make the electrostatic latent image visible by the phase transition of the liquid crystal material, and a toner sticking device for sticking toner to the photoconductive member so as to make the electrostatic latent image visible. Therefore, it is possible to easily obtain both a display image and a printed image having high resolution.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrophotographic apparatus, in which an optical writing head is disposed in the neighborhood of a photosensitive body on the inner side thereof. The photosensitive body is located in a cartridge, which can be freely inserted and drawn out with respect to the main body of the apparatus and a guiding member is disposed in the cartridge, which member guides one end portion of the optical writing head, the other end portion of which is held by the main body of the apparatus to effect the positioning of the optical writing head. By constructing it in this way it is possible to effect the exchange operation of the cartridge, in which the photosensitive body is located, without dismounting the optical writing head and no position adjusting work therefor is necessary.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for displaying letters, images, etc. as well as a displaying medium used therefor, by which a display medium obtained by superposing a photoconductive layer, in which microcapsules are dispersed on a substrate. The microcapsules enclose a liquid crystal material which transitions between a transparent state and an opaque state by the application of an electric field. The substrate has a conductive surface so that charging of the surface causes the microcapsules to become transparent. An electrostatic latent image is formed on the surface of the displaying medium by irradiating selectively the surface with light. An AC electric field is applied to the displaying medium in order to make the microcapsules opaque at the position corresponding to the place, where the electric field is made disappear thereby making the latent image visible.

Abstract: An image forming method and apparatus using an electronic photographic technology to form an image on a recording medium is configured to deposit toner on the entire surface of a toner carrier then reduce the adhesion corresponding to an image to be formed among toner deposited on the toner carrier before transferring the toner corresponding to the image to the recording medium.

Abstract: A fixing device wherein a toner image on a paper sheet passing either of two paper paths can be fixed by means of a single heat roll. The fixing device comprises a single heat roll, a pair of pressure rolls for contacting under pressure with the heat roll, and a pair of paper passing means for individually passing a paper sheet to a pair of contact positions at which the heat roll normally contacts with the pressure rolls. By selectively passing a paper sheet having a toner image thereon to one of the contact positions with the toner image opposed to the heat roll, the toner image is fixed to the paper sheet by heat and mechanical pressure of the heat roll and the pressure rolls.

Abstract: A printer according to this invention comprises a latent image supporter having an endless belt shape and provided with separate image-forming regions, and a developing unit capable of independently supplying toners of different colors onto latent images formed on the latent image supporter. With the above arrangement, latent images for different colors are formed in the respective image-forming regions of the latent image supporter. Toners of the individual colors are then supplied to the respective latent images, thereby forming toner images of the respective colors. The toner images are transferred onto a sheet to provide an intended color mixing, and are then fixed by a fixing unit. The charges and toners remaining on the surface of the latent image supporter are removed by a static eliminator and a cleaner, respectively, so that the belt becomes ready for the next printing cycle.

Abstract: Disclosed is here an LED array head in which a light emitting section thereof is selectively caused to emit light to expose an object to the light wherein a fiber bundle constituted with a plurality of optical fibers is arranged with an end portion thereof to be located at a position in the vicinity of the light emitting section and another end portion of the fiber bundle is formed to have a curved surface, which is brought into contact with the object.

Abstract: Disclosed is here an LED array head in which a light emitting section thereof is selectively caused to emit light wherein a fiber bundle constituted with a plurality of optical fibers is arranged with an end portion thereof to be located at a position in the vicinity of the light emitting section. The base member for retaining fiber bundle is a protection member to protect the LED array.

Abstract: A double-side printer having a printer body including a print head disposed oppositely to a platen, a sheet conveying unit mounted in the printer body and including a sheet supplying unit for sequentially supplying sheets stacked on a sheet supply tray one by one to a printing position between the print head of the printer body and the platen, and a sheet exhausting unit for stacking and exhausting the sheet from the printing position to an exhausted sheet tray comprising belt-like latent image forming means narrower than the width of the sheet, a pair of transferring units for transferring toner image formed on the latent image forming means reversely to one another to the sheet, and an electrophotographic processing unit having a pair of sheet passages for inserting the sheet to pass the sheet through the transferring units, arranged between the sheet supplying unit and the sheet exhausting unit of the sheet conveying unit, a fixing unit disposed out of the electrostatic processing unit for fixing the toner

Abstract: Disclosed is a thermal head in which an oxidation proof layer and an abrasion resisting layer are formed on a heating resistor layer and an electric conductor layer, the abrasion resisting layer being a metal layer in which abrasion resisting particles are mixed and dispersed and being partially formed about a heating portion. A method of manufacturing the thermal head of the kind as described above in which the abrasion resisting layer is formed by applying non-electrolytic plating at the portion about the heating portion on the oxidation proof layer with a mother metal material into which abrasion resisting particles are mixed and dispersed.

Abstract: A printer wherein impact printing and non-impact printing can be effected selectively as required. The printer comprises a print head of the impact type and a platen located in an opposing relationship to define a print position in a printer body. A paper transport device is mounted on the printer body and includes a paper supply section for supplying a paper sheet from a supply paper tray to the print position, and a paper discharging section for discharging a paper sheet from the print position onto a discharge paper tray. A developing unit is located between the paper supply and discharging stations and includes a latent image forming belt, and a transfer station for transferring a toner image formed on the belt to a paper sheet. A paper path for passing a paper sheet through the transfer station is formed in the developing unit. A fixing device is located outside the developing unit for fixing a toner image on a paper sheet discharged from the developing unit to a surface of the paper sheet.

Abstract: Disclosed is a thermal head and a method of manufacturing the same, in which a heating portion provided with at least a heating resistor film, a conductor film and a protection film and formed on a substrate having a center-raised stripe and made of an electrically insulating material having anisotropy or selectivity with respect to etching is integrated with a lead wire portion separate from the heating portion and having lead wires formed on an electrically insulating substrate by connecting conductors of the heating portion with respective and corresponding ones of the lead wires of the lead wire portion.

Abstract: In a moving object, such as automobile, having a steering gear which determines a traveling course, and a traveling distance detector which detects a traveling distance; a direction detection apparatus comprising a steering position detector detecting an amount of displacement of the steering gear, and an arithmetic unit which calculates a traveling direction of the moving object from a steering position signal proportional to the amount of displacement and a traveling distance signal proportional to the traveling distance, thereby to detect the traveling direction of the moving object. The apparatus can detect the traveling direction without being affected by a magnetic deviation, an abnormal magnetic field, etc.

Abstract: A course guidance apparatus for vehicles has a direction sensor and a speed sensor carried on the vehicle and a traveling locus corresponding to detection signals from the direction sensor and the speed sensor is plotted in a manner to be superposed on a map film and displayed on a projection screen. The traveling locus is traced by a laser beam on a trace plate having electrooptic, optomagnetic, or incoherent-to-coherent light conversion properties. The superposed picture is clearly viewed, and the misregistration between the map and the traveling locus is avoided.

Abstract: A direction detection apparatus comprising a magnetic sensor which senses a geomagnetic azimuth, a turning-angle sensor which senses a turning angle dynamically, a magnetic-disturbance detector which detects a magnetic disturbance on the basis of the output of the magnetic sensor, and a signal switching device which transmits either the magnetic sensor output or the turning-angle sensor output to a display device in accordance with a signal from the magnetic-disturbance detector. The traveling direction of a moving object can be detected as a precise geographic azimuth even when the moving object lies in a place subject to the magnetic disturbance.

Abstract: A direction detection apparatus which detects the traveling direction of a moving object on the basis of the movement of a weight. It comprises a centrifugal force detector, a clock signal generator, and a velocity detector, and also a detection device which receives signals from the detectors and the generator to provide a directional angle.