Abstract: A single mode laser beam output from a single mode semiconductor laser and a multimode laser beam output from a multimode semiconductor laser are combined with each other by a polarization beam splitter, the combined laser beam is used by a deflection scanning mechanism to perform main scanning, and an image of the combined laser beam is formed on a surface of a thermal recording medium by a scanning lens.

Abstract: A multicolor thermosensitive recording medium having thermosensitive coloring layers which are formed by printing water-dispersion thermosensitive inks or water-dispersion inks on an ink receptive layer using a printing plate. The recording medium comprises an ink receptive layer formed on a surface of a substrate, thermosensitive coloring layers developing different colors, which are integrated with the ink receptive layer by impregnating the ink receptive layer with a water-dispersion thermosensitive ink that is prepared by dispersing in water a pigment component including at least an electron-accepting compound and electron-donating compound. The color density and coloring sensitivity of the thermosensitive coloring layers have been improved by providing over the thermosensitive coloring layers an auxiliary coloring layer containing at least one of an electron-accepting compound and a sensitizer.

Abstract: A single mode laser beam output from a single mode semiconductor laser and a multimode laser beam output from a multimode semiconductor laser are combined with each other by a polarization beam splitter, the combined laser beam is used by a deflection scanning mechanism to perform main scanning, and an image of the combined laser beam is formed on a surface of a thermal recording medium by a scanning lens.

Abstract: A document sheet issuing system suitable for manufacturing a product based on an ordering by a retailer issues a plurality of documents, e.g., guarantee card, user registration card, on which data including a name of retailer is printed during manufacturing. The issued documents are attached to a carton box in which manufactured product is packed before the product is delivered to thereby reduce troublesome operation by the retailer. The system uses a laminated medium including a lower document sheet and an upper document sheet peelably laminated on the lower sheet. A first data is printed firstly on the lower sheet through the upper sheet and a second data different from the first data is then printed on the upper sheet.

Abstract: A reversible heat-sensitive recording medium is provided, which includes a heat-sensitive portion, and a light-transmitting heat-insulating layer disposed to contact the heat-sensitive portion. The heat-sensitive portion contains a light-heat conversion material and a heat-sensitive reversible layer. The light-heat conversion material is enabled to absorb light having a specific wavelength and to convert the light into heat energy. The heat-sensitive reversible layer contains an electron-donating coloring compound and an electron-accepting compound and is enabled to change from a decolorized state to a color-developed state and vice versa, depending on difference in heating temperature and/or cooling temperature to be effected after heating. The light-transmitting heat-insulating is capable of transmitting light having the specific wavelength which the light-heat conversion material is enabled to absorb and also capable of insulating the heat to be emitted from the light-heat conversion material.

Abstract: A recording apparatus for recording information in a thermosensitive medium which has a photothermal conversion layer having a light wavelength absorption property and a coloring layer colored by the heat generated by the photothermal conversion layer comprises a first light source that emits a light beam for writing information to a scanning position in a main scanning direction in the thermosensitive medium, and a second light source that emits a light of lower energy density than the light beam emitted by the first light source to the scanning position in the main scanning direction in the thermosensitive medium or to the vicinity thereof. The first light source and the second light source emit lights having wavelengths within the range of the absorption property of the photothermal conversion layer respectively to form recording dots of one line in the main scanning direction in a noncontact manner with the thermosensitive medium.

Abstract: A layered piezoelectric element includes a plurality of driving parts divided by grooves and non-driving parts formed at both ends of the array of the driving parts. The driving parts and the non-driving parts include the alternate layers of piezoelectric layers and internal electrodes. The common electrode of the driving parts is extended from the non-driving parts. The capacitance C (F) of each driving part, the number of the driving parts n, and the resistance R (?) between the non-driving parts satisfy R?8×10?6/n/C.

Abstract: A scratch card printer has a conveying section to convey a card, for example, by a plurality of conveying roller pairs, a first printing mechanism to have a thermal head, printing control means to control a printing head of the first printing mechanism to allow information, to be printed on a card, a second printing mechanism configured to have a thermal head located more on a downstream side in a direction of conveying of the card by the conveying section than the first printing mechanism, and a thermal transfer control section which, in order to cover the information printed by the first printing mechanism, controls the thermal head of the second printing mechanism to allow an ink to be transferred to the card from a thermal transfer ribbon for concealment.

Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a thermal paper from a thermal recording medium having a thermal color developing layer on a recording surface thereof. The method includes developing at least one color on one portion of the thermal color developing layer, and cutting off a portion of the thermal recording medium at the one portion.

Abstract: An optical write apparatus includes a plurality of substrates each having a large number of light emitting diodes aligned in one direction. Every two adjacent substrates are shifted from each other in the aligning direction of the light emitting diodes, and are fixed to each other directly or via a connecting member.

Abstract: There is provided a thermosensitive recording medium in which a first thermosensitive coloring layer that develops a first hue and a second thermosensitive coloring layer that develops a second hue different from the first hue, wherein the first and second thermosensitive coloring layers having the respective widths are continuously formed in stripes in a longitudinal direction of a substrate. There is also described a method of manufacturing a number of the thermosensitive recording mediums from a substrate in that, after a multiplicity of the thermosensitive coloring layers are formed by repetitively coating a plurality of water-dispersion thermosensitive inks on the substrate having an ink receptive layer thereon, the respective inks having different coloring hues, the substrate is slit into multiple thermosensitive recording mediums along a line or lines provided over any of the thermosensitive coloring layer or layers.

Abstract: A thermosensitive recording medium 1 is produced by printing a first water-dispersion thermosensitive ink by a printing method that uses a printing plate on a substrate on a surface of which an ink receptive layer impregnating the first water-dispersion thermosensitive ink is provided, and then printing a second water-dispersion thermosensitive ink using the same printing method. The first water-dispersion thermosensitive ink is prepared by dispersing a pigment that contains at least an electron-donating compound in water, and the second water-dispersion thermosensitive ink contains one or both of at least an electron-accepting compound and a sensitizer that enhances thermosensitive sensitivity. This simplifies a process for manufacturing a thermosensitive recording medium using a printing plate and reduces the manufacturing costs.

Abstract: A multicolor thermosensitive recording medium having thermosensitive coloring layers which are formed by printing water-dispersion thermosensitive inks or water-dispersion inks on an ink receptive layer using a printing plate. The recording medium comprises an ink receptive layer formed on a surface of a substrate, thermosensitive coloring layers developing different colors, which are integrated with the ink receptive layer by impregnating the ink receptive layer with a water-dispersion thermosensitive ink that is prepared by dispersing in water a pigment component including at least an electron-accepting compound and electron-donating compound. The color density and coloring sensitivity of the thermosensitive coloring layers have been improved by providing over the thermosensitive coloring layers an auxiliary coloring layer containing at least one of an electron-accepting compound and a sensitizer.

Abstract: A scratch card printer has a conveying section to convey a card, for example, by a plurality of conveying roller pairs, a first printing mechanism to have a thermal head, printing control means to control a printing head of the first printing mechanism to allow information, to be printed on a card, a second printing mechanism configured to have a thermal head located more on a downstream side in a direction of conveying of the card by the conveying section than the first printing mechanism, and a thermal transfer control section which, in order to cover the information printed by the first printing mechanism, controls the thermal head of the second printing mechanism to allow an ink to be transferred to the card from a thermal transfer ribbon for concealment.

Abstract: A layered piezoelectric element includes a plurality of driving parts divided by grooves and non-driving parts formed at both ends of the array of the driving parts. The driving parts and the non-driving parts include the alternate layers of piezoelectric layers and internal electrodes. The common electrode of the driving parts is extended from the non-driving parts. The capacitance C (F) of each driving part, the number of the driving parts n, and the resistance R (?) between the non-driving parts satisfy R?8×10?6/n/C.

Abstract: A temperature indicating material of the present invention includes at least an electron donating compound, an electron accepting compound, a reversible material causing reversible transformation between crystal and amorphous states, or reversible transformation between phase separation and non-phase-separation, with respect to a part or all of the composition system; and a temperature characteristic controller having a solid-state in room temperature and at least a part of the temperature characteristic controller dissolves in the electron accepting compound, the reversible material, or the electron accepting compound and the reversible material so as to change the speed of the reversible transformation between crystal and amorphous, or speed of the reversible transformation between phase separation and non-phase-separation, with respect to the composition system, by its reversible transformation between crystal and amorphous states, or the speed of the reversible transformation between phase separation and

Abstract: A liquid drop jet head includes a nozzle, a liquid room, a vibration board forming a wall surface of the liquid room, driving element, a support substrate to which an end part of the driving element is connected without connecting to the vibration board, and a gap between the support substrate and the vibration board at a position corresponding to a partition of the liquid room, wherein the vibration board includes a thin part and a thick part and the area of the thin part is divided by the thick part with which the driving element comes in contact.

Abstract: A multicolor thermosensitive recording medium according to the present invention comprises a first thermosensitive coloring layer which develops by the application of coloring energy, and a second thermosensitive coloring layer which develops in a different color from the first thermosensitive coloring layer by the application of coloring energy. At least one of a region wherein only the monochrome color of the first thermosensitive coloring layer is obtained without coloring the second thermosensitive coloring layer, and a region wherein only the monochrome color of the second thermosensitive coloring layer is obtained without coloring the first thermosensitive coloring layer, is provided in a printing region of the multicolor thermosensitive recording medium of the present invention.

Abstract: A document sheet issuing system suitable for manufacturing a product based on an ordering by a retailer issues a plurality of documents, e.g., guarantee card, user registration card, on which data including a name of retailer is printed during manufacturing. The issued documents are attached to a carton box in which manufactured product is packed before the product is delivered to thereby reduce troublesome operation by the retailer. The system uses a laminated medium including a lower document sheet and an upper document sheet peelably laminated on the lower sheet. A first data is printed firstly on the lower sheet through the upper sheet and a second data different from the first data is then printed on the upper sheet.

Abstract: A multicolor thermosensitive recording medium according to the present invention comprises a first thermosensitive coloring layer which develops by the application of coloring energy, and a second thermosensitive coloring layer which develops in a different color from the first thermosensitive coloring layer by the application of coloring energy. At least one of a region wherein only the monochrome color of the first thermosensitive coloring layer is obtained without coloring the second thermosensitive coloring layer, and a region wherein only the monochrome color of the second thermosensitive coloring layer is obtained without coloring the first thermosensitive coloring layer, is provided in a printing region of the multicolor thermosensitive recording medium of the present invention.