Abstract: An ink jet printer includes: an image forming section for forming an image by ejecting a pigment ink toward a recording medium in which a surficial layer includes thermoplastic fine particles, in a case; a fixing member for fixing the image by heating and pressurizing the recording medium on which the image is formed by the image forming section; a drying member for drying the ink used for forming the image before the image is fixed to the recording medium by the fixing member; a temperature detecting member for detecting a temperature in the case; a humidity detecting member for detecting a humidity in the case; and a drying member control section for controlling an operation of the drying member in accordance with the temperature detected by the temperature detecting member and the humidity detected by the humidity detecting member.

Abstract: A inkjet printer including a plurality of heads installed in a staggered arrangement, and a relay board for receiving image data, a control signal conforming to each head, and a timing signal for determining timed intervals to emit ink particles from the control unit of the inkjet printer, and for sending the received image data, control signal and timing signal to the aforementioned plurality of respective drive signal generating circuits.

Abstract: A configuration of an imaging device includes: an S/H circuit 9 which samples signal voltages read out from a plurality of charge-detecting circuits by a horizontal scanning circuit and output from an output amplifier 6, without the transfer of signal charges by a charge transfer portion; a memory 10 which stores signal voltages sampled by the S/H circuit 9 as memory voltages (Vm1 to Vm4); and a signal processing circuit 8 which executes predetermined signal processing, using signal voltages read out from the plurality of charge-detecting circuits by the horizontal scanning circuit and output from the output amplifier 6 and memory signals stored in the memory 10, with the transfer of signal charges read out from the photoelectric conversion portion to the charge transfer portion.

Abstract: A method for detecting an interval of recorded positions, including the steps of recording a first pattern group in such a way that the recording heads scan a recording medium so that recording elements record a pattern having repeatedly dark density area and light density area perpendicular to a scanning direction of the recording head, recording a second pattern group in such a way that the recording heads scan the recording medium so that recording elements record a pattern having repeatedly dark density area and light density area perpendicular to a scanning direction of the recording head and further the second pattern group is overlapped on and angled to the first pattern group, detecting interference fringes generated by overlap of the first pattern group and the second pattern group, and detecting a change of the interval of the recorded positions via a positional deviation of the interference fringes.

Abstract: An ink jet printer includes: an image forming section for forming an image by ejecting a pigment ink toward a recording medium in which a surficial layer includes thermoplastic fine particles, in a case; a fixing member for fixing the image by heating and pressurizing the recording medium on which the image is formed by the image forming section; a drying member for drying the ink used for forming the image before the image is fixed to the recording medium by the fixing member; a temperature detecting member for detecting a temperature in the case; a humidity detecting member for detecting a humidity in the case; and a drying member control section for controlling an operation of the drying member in accordance with the temperature detected by the temperature detecting member and the humidity detected by the humidity detecting member.

Abstract: An automatic exposure (AE) sensor includes a line-selecting circuit for line selection between horizontal lines and vertical lines, in addition to components of a typical AE sensor. The line-selecting circuit temporally filters a SYNC pulse for notifying a subsequent circuit about a pulse timing of an imaging signal to select a line to be read out and to cause the subsequent circuit to change an active pixel region. The number of selected lines is determined by an external input. The active pixel region is reduced when the AE sensor is incorporated in a device having a low performance CPU, thereby reducing load on the CPU. The active pixel region is increased when the AE sensor is incorporated in a device having a high performance CPU, thereby effectively using the CPU performance to achieve higher density control.

Abstract: In the vehicle-lamp lighting-on device, a body case has a connection opening formed in the front end thereof. A lighting-on transformer is disposed within the body case. The transformer includes a core housing with an iron core and a coil bobbin with a secondary coil wound thereon. The connection opening of the body case is shielded at the front end of the lighting-on transformer. A socket for receiving a vehicle discharge lamp includes a high-voltage terminal and low-voltage terminals. When the socket is inserted into the connection opening of the body case, the high-voltage terminal of the socket is connected to the high-voltage side terminal of the lighting-on transformer, and the low-voltage terminals are connected to the low-voltage side terminals. The connection opening of the body case is shielded by the front surface (made of insulating material) of the lighting-on transformer.

Abstract: A socket portion is provided to project from one side surface of a transformer receiving portion to thereby form a body case, and a lighting transformer is received in the transformer receiving portion so that a high voltage side output end of a secondary coil of the lighting transformer is electrically connected to a terminal provided in the socket portion and a primary coil of the lighting transformer is connected to an external electric path directly or through a circuit portion. Accordingly, the transformer receiving portion and the socket portion are integrally formed with each other to thereby form a unit structure.

Abstract: In a high-voltage transformer, an insulating ring is placed on and along the inner surface of the core housing, and gaps are formed between the tips of the flange-like plates of the coil bobbin and the inner side of the insulating ring. With such a construction, the gaps and the insulating ring are provided between the coil bobbin and the inner wall of the core housing, so that the flange-like plates of the coil bobbin do not come in contact with the inner surface of cylindrical wall of the core housing. Therefore, a surface distance of the coil bobbin ranges to a contact surface of the coil bobbin where it comes in contact with the front wall of the core housing. The surface distance is elongated. The voltage drop by the creepage discharge does no occur.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a solid-state image sensing device with a vertical shutter structure allowing the size of the solid-state image sensing device with ease. An electric-charge exhausting unit is provided on the same side of a sensor array comprising a plurality of sensor units arranged to form a straight line as an electric-charge transferring unit wherein the electric-charge exhausting unit comprising an electric-charge exhaust drain having a shape resembling an island and an electric-charge exhausting gate with a bent shape surrounding the electric-charge exhaust drain is provided in such a way that the electric-charge exhausting unit is in contact with a first region of a read gate, and only one electric-charge exhausting unit is provided for each pair of sensor units adjacent to each other.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus of the present invention comprises: an image processing means for compensating the color and gradation of an inputted color image; a monochromatic CRT; a display means for successively inputting color images, having a plurality of colors, into the monochromatic CRT, and for displaying a plurality of images on the monochromatic CRT as monochromatic images; an optical system for forming the monochromatic image, displayed on the monochromatic CRT, onto a color photographic paper; a plurality of color filters, which are selectively inserted between the monochromatic CRT and the color photographic paper, and convert the monochromatic image into a plurality of monochromatic color images; an exposure luminance setting means for each separation color; and an emitting luminance control means.

Abstract: A liquid pump has a DC motor and a pump in a cylindrical casing. A pair of brushes are slidably contacted with a commutator of an armature while being biased by springs. The specific resistance of the positive brush is lower than the specific resistance of the negative brush to enable the voltage drop at the brushes to be decreased and motor efficiency to be increased without increasing commutator wearing speed. The biasing force provided by the spring biasing the positive brush is lower than the biasing force provided by the spring biasing the negative brush.

Abstract: In order to reduce noise generated in a westco pump when fluid hits a finishing end of a pump channel, finishing ends of grooves formed in a side wall of a casing body and a casing cover to form a pump channel are shifted by an amount equal to 1/2 of the pitch of blade elements in relation to the rotating direction of an impeller. As a result, the timings the fluid under high pressure hits the finishing ends of the grooves are staggered, thus decreasing the collision sound.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a solid-state image sensing device with a vertical shutter structure allowing the size of the solid-state image sensing device with ease.An electric-charge exhausting unit is provided on the same side of a sensor array comprising a plurality of sensor units arranged to form a straight line as an electric-charge transferring unit wherein the electric-charge exhausting unit comprising an electric-charge exhaust drain having a shape resembling an island and an electric-charge exhausting gate with a bent shape surrounding the electric-charge exhaust drain is provided in such a way that the electric-charge exhausting unit is in contact with a first region of a read gate, and only one electric-charge exhausting unit is provided for each pair of sensor units adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A regenerative pump includes a casing which a recessed fluid flow passage interconnecting a suction port and a discharge port is formed in an arcuate shape. An impeller is provided rotatably with respect to the casing and formed with a plurality of vane members which face the recessed fluid flow passage. A recessed damping portion is formed in a terminal end portion of the recessed fluid flow passage on a discharge port side thereof to begin at a position corresponding to the discharge port and extend along a rotating direction of the impeller. The recessed damping portion has a depth which is smaller than that of a main depth of the recessed fluid flow passage and substantially constant.

Abstract: An efficient process for producing methyl methacrylate which can give a high methacrylic acid conversion even when the mole ratio of methanol to methacrylic acid is small, said process comprises using an apparatus comprising a reaction zone having plural reaction sections connected in series and containing a strongly acidic ion-exchange resin and a distillation zone, feeding methacrylic acid to the first reaction section, feeding methanol to one or more reaction sections after the first reaction section, sending the reaction mixture formed in each reaction section to a reaction section just thereafter, feeding the vapor generated in each reaction section to a reaction section just therebefore, effecting simultaneously reaction and distillation in each reaction section of the reaction zone and distilling the vapor generated in the first reaction section in the distillation zone to separate methyl methacrylate.

Abstract: There is disclosed a trochoid pump in which a friction between a rotor and its support portion is reduced, thereby reducing a drive torque and wear of these parts. An inner rotor of the trochoid-type fuel pump is rotatably supported by a bushing through a bearing. An outer rotor is rotatably received in an inner periphery of a spacer. A first groove is formed in a portion of the outer periphery of the bushing disposed close to a discharge port, and a discharge fuel is introduced into this groove. A second groove is formed in a portion of the inner periphery of the spacer disposed close to the discharge port, and the discharge fuel is introduced into this groove. Although the inner rotor is urged toward the bushing by the fuel pressure of the discharge port, the urging force to urge the inner rotor toward the bushing is weakened by the discharge fuel introduced into the first groove, thereby reducing a friction.

Abstract: A display apparatus for displaying a three-dimensional image includes an image display section for displaying an image in response to an input image signal and for displaying a three-dimensional image in response to an input three-dimensional image signal when a three-dimensional image display mode is set, and a barrier display section having a barrier display liquid crystal panel of the transmitting type, for displaying a parallax barrier onto the barrier display liquid crystal panel so that a part of the three-dimensional image which is displayed by image display means can be observed from a gap of the parallax barrier in the three-dimensional image display mode.

Abstract: A pump comprises an outer rotor and an inner rotor. A plurality of pressure chambers are defined between the outer rotor and the inner rotor to cause fluid to be sucked from a suction port and discharged to a discharge port by the movement of these pressure chambers with changing their volumes. A pressure relief passage is opened between the discharge port and the suction port and communicated directly with a fuel tank provided outside the pump. This causes the pressure in the pressure chamber to be reduced before the pressure chamber is communicated with the suction port. In consequence, it is possible to prevent the fuel of discharge pressure in the pressure chamber from being brought in the suction port, thereby preventing the generation of vapor caused due to vacuum boiling and the reduction of discharge rate.

Abstract: Two recording tracks (T1) and (T2) are formed in parallel with each other on a stereoscopic video disc record (D). Image information for a right eye and audio information are serially recorded on one recording track (T1). Image information for a left eye and audio information are serially recorded on the recording track (T2) at a synchronized timing with the image information for a right eye and the audio information recorded on the adjacent recording track T1. Information can be easily recorded on such steroscopic video disc record (D) in a manner that the image information for right and left eyes and the audio information are recorded at the same time by two recording beams. On the other hand, stereoscopic image information can be reproduced by reproducing respective recording tracks at the same time by two reproducing means. Furthermore, a normal two dimensional image information can be reproduced by reproducing either one of the recording tracks serially by one reproducing beam.