Abstract: Actuator units independently dedicated to nozzles divided into a plurality of groups are fixed to a common flow path unit having the nozzles formed therein with through holes aligned with one another. Heads of various types can be formed by using the actuator units of the same design only by changing the mode of arrangement of the nozzles in accordance with the purpose.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel unit comprising an LCD panel having a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the substrates and a holding substrate for holding the LCD panel by rigidly securing one of the substrates thereto is characterized in that a plurality of protuberances are formed on the surface of the holding substrate at a side thereof and the one of the substrates is rigidly secured to the holding substrate with the side carrying the protuberances facing inside.

Abstract: A sucking device having a fixed material transportation surface including plural sucking holes, a decompression chamber connecting to the plural sucking holes, and a sucking device sucking air in the decompression chamber is set at discharging side of the fixed material. The fixed material is fed on the fixed material transportation surface of the sucking device by the delivering device, and is stuck on the fixed material transportation surface through the sucking holes by the sucking device. The fixed material is fixed by a fixing head at the state being stuck and is transported gradually to a downstream side from an upstream side by the delivering device on the fixed material transportation surface. After that, when fixing is finished, the fixed material separates from surface of the fixed material transportation surface and rises slightly by blowing air from the sucking holes by a blowing device so as to move to discharging direction, that is, the downstream side by an auxiliary transporting device.

Abstract: To prevent cockling occurring in a fixed material in a liquid fixing apparatus more effectively and make a paper gap small thereby to improve print quality. On a fixed material transporting surface, a through hole corresponding to a sucking hole is formed, further a recess functioning as a suction chamber is formed, and a through hole is formed in this recess. When intake is performed by the suction unit, and a fixed material is transported on a fixed material transporting surface, the fixed material is sucked and supported on the transporting surface. Sequentially, when the fixed material is fixed, cockling of the fixed material is sucked into the recess by the sucking hole of the suction chamber that is the recess, so that paper rising is prevented.

Abstract: There are provided a sucking unit having a recording medium delivery surface including a plurality of sucking holes, a decompression chamber communicating with the sucking holes and a sucking device for sucking air in the decompression chamber, and a delivering device for adsorbing a recording medium supplied onto the recording medium delivery surface of the sucking unit onto the recording medium delivery surface through the sucking hole by the sucking device, and delivering the recording medium from an upstream side of the sucking unit to a downstream side thereof. Each sucking hole of the sucking unit is formed by a through hole section communicating with the decompression chamber and a sucking chamber having a larger area of a sucking surface opposed to the recording medium than a sectional area of the through hole section.

Abstract: A fixed material transportation surface of the fixed material transportation apparatus is formed inclining so as to become higher toward a downstream side from an upstream side of transportation direction of the fixed material, and is transported while sucking the fixed material supplied on the fixed material transportation surface. Thus, since the cockling is drawn when the fixed material is transported while being raised to transportation direction on the fixed material transportation surface even if cockling extending to transportation direction generates on the fixed material after fixing, growth of the cockling can be prevented.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording head can be formed in a small size to use an increased number of kinds of inks. The ink-jet recording head has an actuator unit (1) including a pressure chamber forming plate (10) provided with a plurality of pressure chambers (2), and a plurality of pressure generators (6) that produce pressure in the plurality of pressure chambers (2), respectively, to jet ink; and a passage unit (5) stacked on the actuator unit (1) and including two or more ink storage chamber forming plates (16A, 16B and 16C), each provided with at least one ink storage chamber (4A, 4B, 4C). The pressure chambers are grouped into two or more pressure chamber groups that correspond to two or more kinds of inks, respectively. The ink storage chambers (4A, 4B, 4C) store inks to be supplied to the pressure chamber groups (2A, 2B, 2C), respectively.

Abstract: Actuator independently dedicated to nozzles divided into a plurality of groups are fixed to a common flow path unit having the nozzles formed therein with through holes aligned with one another. Heads of various types can be formed by using the actuator units of the same design only by changing the mode of arrangement of the nozzles in accordance with the purpose.

Abstract: For enabling a liquid display drive with a low voltage and a high speed, each pixel is provided with a liquid crystal cell 5, a switching transistor 7 and an additional capacitance 9, and the additional capacitances are electrically commonly connected for a block of plural pixels. After the image signal is supplied to the pixels corresponding to the block, the potential of desired one of the common electrode lines 52, 52′, to which the additional capacitances 9 corresponding to the block are connected, is varied and retained at thus varied value.

Abstract: A sample preparation method is provided where chipping of and damage to a film at an observed location does not occur when cutting with a machining blade is carried out in advance in order to prepare a sample for use with a transmission electronic microscope. The surroundings of an observed location are grooved using a focussed ion beam prior to performing cutting with a machining blade so that the observed location can be isolated from the film composing the sample in a floating island shape. A thin-film for embedding may then be deposited with respect to the grooving, using a focussed ion beam. If necessary, a protective film can also be prepared at the surface of the observed location using a focussed ion beam.

Abstract: A liquid crystal apparatus is constituted by a liquid crystal panel, illumination means for illuminating the liquid crystal panel, a heat dissipation member disposed with a spacing from the liquid crystal panel, and a heat conductive member. The apparatus further includes a heat deformation member which is disposed contactable to the heat conductive member and is deformable on receiving heat from the liquid crystal panel, so as to have the heat conductive member contact both the liquid crystal panel and the heat dissipation member thereby forming a heat conductive path between the liquid crystal panel and the heat dissipation member in a first position at a temperature of at least a prescribed temperature of the liquid crystal panel and to have the heat conductive member be separated from at least one of the liquid crystal panel and the heat dissipation member in a second position at a temperature below the prescribed temperature.

Abstract: A liquid crystal panel unit comprising an LCD panel having a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal layer arranged between the substrates and a holding substrate for holding the LCD panel by rigidly securing one of the substrates thereto is characterized in that a plurality of protuberances are formed on the surface of the holding substrate at a side thereof and the one of the substrates is rigidly secured to the holding substrate with the side carrying the protuberances facing inside.

Abstract: A display panel, such as a liquid crystal panel, fixed onto a holder plate is aligned with other optical members, and while the alignment is maintained, the holder plate is fixed onto a panel-fixing frame with solder. At least one of the holder plate and the panel-fixing frame at the fixing region is provided with an opening or a cut, whereby the scattering of the solder around the fixing region is prevented and an improved fixing strength is attained.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording head can be formed in a small size to use an increased number of kinds of inks. The ink-jet recording head has an actuator unit (1) including a pressure chamber forming plate (10) provided with a plurality of pressure chambers (2), and a plurality of pressure generators (6) that produce pressure in the plurality of pressure chambers (2), respectively, to jet ink; and a passage unit (5) stacked on the actuator unit (1) and including two or more ink storage chamber forming plates (16A, 16B and 16C), each provided with at least one ink storage chamber (4A, 4B, 4C). The pressure chambers are grouped into two or more pressure chamber groups that correspond to two or more kinds of inks, respectively. The ink storage chambers (4A, 4B, 4C) store inks to be supplied to the pressure chamber groups (2A, 2B, 2C), respectively.

Abstract: An ink jet recording head that is formed by laminating a plurality of thin plate members, each having a plurality of holes. The holes of the adjacently stacked thin plate members cooperate to form ink flow paths each continuously extending to communicate a nozzle opening with a respective pressure producing chamber, which is connected to an ink supply section. In such ink jet recording head, the holes can be aligned or shifted with respect to each other, and allow ink to flow smoothly, thus preventing stagnation of air bubbles contained in the ink within the print head. Further, the nozzles openings are arranged in arrays in an auxiliary scanning direction. The nozzle opening arrays are divided into three groups spaced apart from each other at a predetermined interval in a main scanning direction. Nozzle openings belonging to groups arranged on both sides of the middle group are positioned vertically between adjacent nozzle openings of the middle group.

Abstract: A liquid crystal display is disclosed having switching devices corresponding to pixel electrodes formed on the same semiconductor layer that has a drive circuit therein. The drive circuit is formed on the semiconductor layer in a single crystal semiconductor region and the switching devices are formed either in a second single crystal semiconductor region or in a non-single crystal semiconductor region. The second single crystal semiconductor region or the non-single crystal semiconductor region bearing the switching devices has a higher density of defects than the first semiconductor region.

Abstract: In an enclosed control device including a casing enclosing an electronic circuit in a closed state, a centrifugal fan is also enclosed in the casing for enhancing the cooling of the electronic circuit. With a smoothing capacitor and a semiconductor element heating up, a temperature in the casing increases. Air flows to the side of the centrifugal fan. After passing through the centrifugal fan, the air disperses in the directions along the inner wall of the casing. This flow of air enhances heat transmission from the heated up smoothing capacitor and the semiconductor element to the air, and heat transmission from the air to the casing.

Abstract: An image sensor includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge storage unit, a switch unit, and a wiring unit, all of which are formed on a single substrate. A capacitor of the charge storage unit is formed at the same substrate position as that of a pattern of said wiring unit.

Abstract: For enabling a liquid display drive with a low voltage and a high speed, each pixel is provided with a liquid crystal cell 5, a switching transistor 7 and an additional capacitance 9, and the additional capacitances are electrically commonly connected for a block of plural pixels. After the image signal is supplied to the pixels corresponding to the block, the potential of desired one of the common electrode lines 52, 52', to which the additional capacitances 9 corresponding to the block are connected, is varied and retained at thus varied value.

Abstract: A glycoside represented by formula (I), wherein dexamethasone or betamethasone is the aglycon and the 21-position is substituted by a simple sugar or an acylated sugar selected from the group consisting of glucose, galactose, mannose, rhamnose, fucose, N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylgalactosamine, galacturonic acid, glucuronic acid and sialic acid.