Abstract: A liquid container includes a plurality of chambers, a liquid supply port provided in one of the chambers, an air vent provided in another one of the chambers and a continuous liquid supply material. Adjacent chambers are in fluid communication with each other only through the liquid supply material.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for transferring information in a form of electron beam, an electron beam detector detects the electron beam, and emission of the electron beam from a predetermined electron beam source is controlled in accordance with a signal from the detector upon detection of the electron beam. In the method and apparatus, a deflection electrode is also used to deflect the electron beams according to an electric or magnetic field to perform charge shifting, logical additions, Logical multiplications, image formation, and the like.

Abstract: A method for producing a liquid discharging recording head including an ink discharge opening, an ink supply opening, an ink channel communicating with the ink discharge opening and the ink supply opening, and an energy generating element provided corresponding to the ink channel and adapted for generating energy to be utilized for ink discharge comprises the steps of:forming a first photosensitive material layer for ink channel formation, on a substrate bearing thereon the energy generating element;pattern exposing the first photosensitive material layer for forming the ink channel;forming a second photosensitive material layer on the first photosensitive material layer;pattern exposing the second photosensitive material layer for forming the ink discharge opening and the ink supply opening; anddeveloping the first and the second layers of photosensitive materials.

Abstract: A triboelectrically chargeable composition for use in development of electrostatic latent images. The composition comprises a positively chargeable compound and a base material carrying the positively chargeable compound. The positively chargeable compound has an oxidation potential of 750 mV or below, a whiteness W of 0.5 or above and an average particle size of 5.0 microns or smaller. The composition is embodied typically as a positively chargeable toner and also as a charge-imparting material for charging a toner. The positively chargeable toner is especially adapted for development of digital latent images, e.g., as produced by laser beam scanning.

Abstract: A transfer recording medium comprises a support and a recording layer formed thereon comprising at least a colorant and a functional component sensitive to provision of light energy and heat energy. The recording layer is composed to have a specifically high sensitivity selective to provision of both light energy and heat energy defined as follows. The adhesion force f.sub.1 between the support and the recording layer and the adhesion force f.sub.2 between the recording layer and a transfer-receiving medium such as plain paper satisfy the relations of f.sub.1 >f.sub.2 at a lower temperature and f.sub.1 <f.sub.2 at a higher heated temperature. A minimum exposure quantity is defined as a minimum quantity of light, with a wavelength to which the functional component in the recording layer is sensitive at 100.degree. C., providing f.sub.1 >f.sub.2 at the higher heated temperature when the recording layer is exposed to the light and then heated. Then, the recording layer provides f.sub.1 <f.sub.

Abstract: An image forming method, comprising: providing a recording medium including a substrate and a transfer recording layer disposed thereon, the transfer recording layer being capable of changing its transfer characteristic when provided with light and heat energies; imparting heat energy to the transfer recording layer and imparting light energy to the transfer recording layer at an elevated temperature under such a condition that at least one of the light and heat energies corresponds to a recording information signal, thereby to form a transferable image in the transfer recording layer; and transferring the transferable image in the transfer recording layer to a transfer-receiving medium wherein at least light energy is imparted to the transfer recording layer prior to the formation of the transferable image.

Abstract: A recording medium has a recording layer comprising image-forming elements (A), (B) and (C) containing at least a compound having unsaturated double bond and a photopolymerization initiator. The photopolymerization initiator in the element (A) is a compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## (wherein Ar.sub.1 and Ar.sub.2 are ech aromatic ring or heterocyclis ring). The photopolymerization initiator in the element (B) has an absorption maximum in a wavelength region of 360 to 430 nm. The photopolymerization initiator in the element (C) has an absorption maximum in a wavelength region of 430 nm or longer. The recording medium is suitably used as a transfer recording medium in a recording apparatus which includes heating means and light irradiating means to provide the recording layer with heat energy and photoenergy to change the transfer characteristic of the recording layer.

Abstract: A transfer recording medium comprises a support and a transfer recording layer formed thereon capable of charging its transferability when provided with light energy and heat energy. The transfer recording layer comprises at least a colorant and a functional component sensitive to the provision of light energy and heat energy. The functional component comprises at least a photo-initiator and a polymerizing component of a monomer, oligomer or prepolymer having an unsaturated double bond. The polymerizing component has a melting point of 40.degree.-150.degree. C. Because of the inclusion of the polymerizing component which is solid at room temperature, the transfer recording layer has an excellent storability as well as an increased sensitivity contrast to illumination between under heating and under no heating.

Abstract: A transfer recording medium comprises a substrate and a transfer recording layer disposed thereon capable of changing its transfer characteristic when provided with light energy and heat energy. The transfer recording layer comprises image forming elements which are solid at room temperature and comprise at least a colorant and a functional component sensitive to the provision of light energy and heat energy. Since the image forming elements have a mode particle size of 5-25 .mu.m and comprise 50% by number or more of those having a particle size of .+-.4 .mu.m or less from the mode particle size, the transfer recording medium affords a clear transferred image with high resolution at a high transfer rate when provided with light and heat energies, at least one of which is applied imagewise.

Abstract: An illumination apparatus adapted for illuminating a subject with light comprises a plurality of fluorescent substances each having a different spectral characteristic, a drive device for repetitively locating the fluorescent substances at a predetermined position and a light source for illuminating the fluorescent substances. The illumination apparatus further includes a slit for focusing light on a subject to be illuminated. If the illumination apparatus is incorporated as a transfer section into a recording system such as a facsimile and a copying machine, since the fluorescent substances are alternately positioned at a predetermined location to illuminate a recording sheet, it is possible to obtain a clearly recorded image with high precision and at high speed.

Abstract: A transfer recording medium comprises a support and a transfer recording layer formed thereon capable of changing its transferability when provided with light energy and heat energy. The transfer recording layer comprises at least a colorant, a binder component an a functional component sensitive to the provision of light energy and heat energy. The functional component comprises at least a photo-initiator and a polymerizing component selected from the group consisting of monomers, oligomers and prepolymers each having an unsaturated double bond. The binder component comprises a thermoplastic polymer having a glass transition temperature of 30.degree. C. or higher and a weight-average molecular weight of 5.times.10.sup.4 or larger. The thermoplastic polymer is contained in a proportion of 5-70 wt. % of the transfer recording layer.