389results about "Mechanical recording" patented technology

Provided are an image display medium which satisfies, a safety and a high-speed response and which is capable of repetitive rewriting, an image-forming method in which an image can be formed on the image display medium, and an image-forming apparatus. An image display medium is formed by interposing black particles and white particles between a display substrate and a non-display substrate made of a dielectric. A printing electrode first applies an AC voltage to frictionally charge the black and white particles, and then applies a DC voltage adapted to an image between the substrates. The black particles adhered to a portion (non-image portion) to which the voltage of the display substrate is applied are moved to the non-display substrate.

A phase change memory device with improve thermal isolation. The device includes an electrode stack, including a first and second electrode elements, generally planar in form, separated by and in mutual contact with a dielectric spacer element, wherein the electrode stack includes a side surface; a phase change element having a bottom surface in contact with the electrode stack side surface, including electrical contact with the first and second electrode elements; and dielectric fill material surrounding and encasing the memory device, wherein the dielectric fill material is spaced from the phase change element, such that the phase change element and the dielectric fill material define a cavity adjacent the phase change element, and wherein the cavity contains a low pressure environment.

In an optical disc having an RFID tag, disc control information needed for control of reproduction of the content recorded in the disc body of the optical disc is stored in the RFID tag. Thereby, even if the content recorded in the disc body is illegally copied in some way, common optical disc apparatus incapable of reading RFID tags cannot read and copy the disc control information stored in the RFID tag. Accordingly, unauthorized copying of the content recorded on the optical disc can be reliably prevented without the use of special cryptographic technology.

A device for controlling or altering the temperature of a liquid at the point of dispensing. A temperature-altering device is thermally coupled to a dispensing device to compensate for heat dissipated into the liquid as it passes through the dispensing device during dispensing. The dispensing device may be for example, a miniature solenoid valve (microvalve), a piezoelectric printhead, or the like. According to aspects of the invention, a temperature-altering device provides or reduces heat at the point of dispensing in order to alter, control or maintain a constant temperature of the dispensed liquid. As a result, improvement is obtained in the consistency of the fluid regime of the dispensed droplet stream. The temperature-altering device may be a thermoelectric device capable of moving heat either from or to the dispensing structure, or may be a heater. This device may be used beneficially even when the dispensing is performed near room temperature and the liquid does not require heating to maintain its liquid state.

A process for printing images by means of an electrographic or electrostatic device using a toner that is cured by multiple applications of energy. The toner has energy-activated reactive components such as radiation-curable sites and reactive functional groups. An image is formed on a substrate by the toner without materially activating the reactive components. The reactive components are subsequently activated by applying a first energy source to adhere the image to the substrate by cross-linking and bonding the image permanently to the substrate, or by transferring the image to a second substrate. A second energy source is applied simultaneously with, or subsequently to, the first energy source, to promote cohesive strength of the image by cross-linking within the toner particles that form the image. The resulting image is permanently bonded to the substrate, yielding substantially enhanced image durability and fastnesses.

An air conditioning system includes a first chamber having a plurality of first sectors, a second chamber having a plurality of second sectors, a first airflow device forming a first airflow through the first chamber, a second airflow device forming a second airflow through the second chamber, and a heat and mass transfer substance flowing in a plurality of the first and second sectors, the substance interacting with the first and second airflows through the first and second chambers. Thermal inducement apparatus thermally interacts with the substance establishing a thermal gradient between the first sectors and a thermal gradient between the second sectors providing a heat and mass energy gradient for the first airflow through the first sectors and a reversed heat and mass energy gradient for the second airflow through the second sectors. Plumbing is provided, which moves the substance throughout the system.

A lens driving apparatus 1 of the present invention includes a substantially cylindrical yoke 3; a base 5 to which the yoke 3 is attached; a carrier 7 having a lens; a coil 10; and a magnet 13, wherein the carrier 7 is moved in a direction of an optical axis of a lens by electromagnetic force generated by passing current through the coil 10, the base 5 is substantially square-shaped as viewed from a plane, the yoke 3 is placed at an inner position of the base 5, the yoke 3 has an outer peripheral wall 3a and an annular inner peripheral wall 3b to be spaced to each other, each magnet is placed between the outer peripheral wall and the inner peripheral wall and at a position corresponding to a base corner portion of the base 5, and a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at a base side portion 3e is made narrower than a space between the outer peripheral wall 3a and the inner peripheral wall 3b positioned at the base corner portion.

A method of imprinting a microstructure comprising: contacting a stamper comprising a pattern layer with the microstructure of the order of from micrometers to nanometers in one face of the pattern layer and a substrate supporting the pattern layer with an imprinting member having a deformable layer to which the microstructure is imprinted, wherein the pattern layer is supported on a round surface having a prescribed radius of curvature of the substrate, the center of the round surface protruding towards the rear face of the pattern layer; causing the deformable layer on the imprinting member; and separating the stamper from the cured deformable layer.

Optically variable water-based inks, methods of providing security information, and documents are provided. The optically variable water-based inks are suitable for flexographic printing processes, and the optically variable water-based inks display a viewing angle dependent color shift between at least a first color and at least a second color. The optically variable water-based inks may be used to provide security information and to flexographically print documents.

A system and method for generating power. The system has a first electrode member comprising a first region and a second electrode member comprising a second region. Preferably, the second electrode member is coupled to the first electrode member. An electret is coupled between the first electrode member and the second electrode member. The system has a spatial region provided between the first region of the first electrode member and the second region of the second electrode member. A volume of fluid (e.g., liquid, liquid and solids, gas and liquid, solids and gases) is provided between the first region and the second region and is adapted to move between the first region and the second region to cause a change in an electric field characteristic within a portion of the spatial region by the movement of at least a portion of the fluid within the portion of the spatial region to generate a change in voltage potential between the first electrode and the second electrode.

An information recording apparatus and method can prevent an information recording medium having a plurality of recording layers from being incompatible with a reproduction-only information recording medium due to an unrecorded area, which is produced by completion of recording in a middle of a data area of the recording layer. The recording layers include at least a first recording layer and a second recording layer, the first recording layer providing a reference with respect to a position of said data area in each of the recording layers. The user data is recorded in response to a recording request. After recording the user data, predetermined data is recorded in a predetermined unrecorded area in the second recording layer.

A method for illuminating a liquid crystal display device, a back-light assembly for performing the same and a liquid crystal display device using the same can improve the front luminance and production yield. Lights from a lamp is incident to a LCD panel side, which are then primarily diffused for a uniformity of the luminous flux of the incident lights. The luminous flux of the primarily diffused lights is condensed with respect to a first orientation component on a plane in parallel with the LCD panel, and then partially and secondarily diffused for extending a view angle of pixels of the LCD panel. After the luminous flux of the secondarily diffused lights is condensed with respect to a second orientation component perpendicular to the first orientation on the parallel plane, the condensed lights are illuminated onto the LCD panel. A diffusion sheet for secondarily diffusing the luminous flux and a condensing sheet for condensing the second orientation component are formed by a single sheet to reduce the manufacturing process of the liquid crystal display device. Also, a defect produced from respective sheets is minimized to enhance the yield.

The present invention relates to materials, methods and apparatuses for performing imprint lithography using amorphous metallic materials. The amorphous metallic materials can be employed as imprint media and thermoplastic forming processes are applied during the pattern transfer procedure to produce micron scale and nanoscale patterns in the amorphous metallic layer. The pattern transfer is in the form of direct mask embossing or through a serial nano-indentation process. A rewriting process is also disclosed, which involves an erasing mechanism that is accomplished by means of a second thermoplastic forming process. The amorphous metallic materials may also be used directly as an embossing mold in imprint lithography to allow high volume imprint nano-manufacturing. This invention also comprises of a method of smoothening surfaces under the action of the surface tension alone.

The present invention discloses a voice coil motor apparatus, especially one applied to an auto-focus or variable-focus lens module of a miniaturized camera. The voice coil motor apparatus of the present invention comprises: a voice coil motor, a plurality of steel guidance shafts, a lens holder, and a base. The voice coil motor includes a magnetic part, which further comprises magnets and yokes, and an electrical part, which further comprises a coil winding. The magnetic part is rigidly coupled to the lens holder to form the moving member of the apparatus. The electrical part and the steel guidance shafts are fixed on the base to form the non-moving member. The voice coil motor apparatus of the present invention is characterized in that the pre-loaded force due to the interaction between the leakage flux of the magnetic part and the steel guidance shafts eliminates the free-play resulting from the tolerance gap between the moving and the non-moving members in order to achieve a high repeatability of motion performance, and that the magnets and the yokes form a non-circular magnetic structure having a rectangular contour in order to minimize the overall dimension of the voice coil motor apparatus.

A touch panel includes a substrate, a transparent conductive layer, and a number of electrodes. The substrate includes a first surface. The transparent conductive layer is formed on the first surface. The transparent conductive layer includes a number of carbon nanotube wires. Opposite ends of each carbon nanotube wire are electrically connected to electrodes. Furthermore, a display device using the touch panel is also provided.

Reactive toners are printed by electrophotographic and electrographic printers. One or more of the toners may include reactive components. An additional toner, which may be a colorless toner, comprises reactive components. The toners comprising one or more colorants are used to from an image on a substrate. The additional toner is used to cover the entire image, although the additional toner may be printed over, or under, the image, to cover the image as the image is printed on the substrate. The reactive components of the additional toner provide a base that covers at least the entire image to improve adhesion of the image layer with the final substrate, particularly where substrates having rough surfaces, such as textiles, are used as the final substrate.

An optical read / write apparatus causes a read / write light beam from illuminating means to strike only one side of an optical storage medium including stacked data storage layers each of which is readable / writeable separately from the other layers. In this case, the optical read / write apparatus operates so that data is read / written from / into a second data storage layer after fully recording a recordable area of a first data storage layer. Thus, light can be shone with uniform intensity across the substantially entire recordable area of the second data storage layer without using a complex read / write system even under such conditions that the transmittance to light of the first data storage layer in the recordable area may vary depending on whether any data is recorded in the recordable area.

A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a recording head having a nozzle capable of ejecting inductive ink including water, a first intermediate transfer body having a conductive surface on which an ink image is to be formed by temporarily forming a liquid-column bridge between the conductive surface and the nozzle, the liquid-column bridge being made of the inductive ink, a voltage application unit applying a voltage between the inductive ink and the conductive surface so that water included in the liquid-column bridge is electrolyzed, and a transfer unit transferring an ink image formed on the first intermediate transfer body to a recording medium.

The present invention relates generally to an optical disk device that records and reproduces information on and from an optical recording medium, such as a compact disk or a digital versatile disk. The optical disk device includes a measurement means and a calculation means.

A reactive toner that is energy-activated is printed by means of an electrographic device such as a laser printer. The reactive toner is printed onto a substrate. Toner components that cross-link and bond the printed toner permanently onto the substrate, or another substrate through a transfer process, are activated by the application of energy to react after printing. Reaction of the energy-activated components may be inhibited with blocking or protecting agents. The image is permanently bonded onto the substrate when the protection provided by the protecting agents is removed by the application of energy to the printed toner. The toner may comprise energy-activated components, colorants, color enhancing polymeric materials, binder resins, internal and external additives such as waxes and charge control agents. The energy-activated components have multiple functional groups that react with active hydrogen, components that contain active hydrogen, or components that are capable of conversion to active hydrogen containing groups.

An ink jet apparatus electrifies ink (2) in a nozzle (4), and ejects the ink (2) from an ink ejecting hole (4b) onto a printing medium (8) by a first electric field generated between the nozzle (4) and the printing medium (8). The ink jet apparatus includes an ink catching device which includes an ink catching portion (14) provided at a position adjacent to the nozzle (4) and catches an ejected substance ejected from the nozzle (4). In addition, between the nozzle (4) and the ink catching portion (14), the ink jet apparatus applies a voltage for generating a second electric field which (i) causes the ejected substance, which is formed from the ink (2) or the ink (2) whose viscosity is changed, to be ejected from the nozzle (4) and (ii) causes the ink catching portion to attract the ejected substance. With this, in a configuration which utilizes an electrostatic force to eject fluid, it is possible to promptly remove a clogging of an ejection head at any position, and it is also possible to realize less initial ejection fluctuation and improve the reliability of ejection.

The invention is a heated thermal probe suitable for use in micro- thermal analysis or other high resolution thermal measurements and actions. The probe is, in the preferred embodiment, a microfabricated cantilever with a sharp probe tip of a type used in Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPM's) which further includes an integral resistive heating element. The heating element is formed by doping regions of the cantilever with an ion implant process to make lower resistance connections and a higher resistance heating element. There is no spatial overlap between the base of the probe tip and the heating element or conductors.

A disk image is generated, stored in at least one persistent storage device, comprises at least one software application, and is a root disk image. An inheritance tree comprising a root node associated with the root disk image is created. A new disk image of a disk is generated based on a previously generated disk image associated with a node of the inheritance tree. The new disk image is stored in at least one persistent storage device, and comprises at least one software application of the previously generated disk image and at least one new software application. The new disk image shares at least one data block of the previously generated disk image. A new node is added to the inheritance tree, and is associated with the new disk image. The new node is a child node of the node that is associated with the previously generated disk image.

A voice coil motor apparatus applied to an auto-focus or variable-focus lens module of a miniaturized camera includes: a voice coil motor, a plurality of steel guidance shafts, a lens holder, and a base. The voice coil motor also includes a magnetic part including magnets and yokes, and an electrical part including a coil winding. The magnetic part is rigidly coupled to the lens holder to form the moving member. The electrical part and the steel guidance shafts are fixed on the base to form the non-moving member. The pre-loaded force due to the interaction between the leakage flux of the magnetic part and the steel guidance shafts eliminates the free-play resulting from the tolerance gap between the moving and the non-moving members, and that the magnets and the yokes form a non-circular magnetic structure having a rectangular contour in order to minimize the overall dimension.

This invention has as its object to provide an image forming apparatus in which the number of beam detectors is decreased and which is low in cost and high in the accuracy of the registration position of an image of each color as well as high in quality. To this end, The image forming apparatus is provided with a plurality of image bearing members, an optical system having a plurality of light emitting elements suitable for generating light beams for scanning the image bearing members, a single polygon mirror suitable for deflecting the light beams generated from the plurality of light emitting elements onto the image bearing members, and a beam detector corresponding to at least one of the plurality of image bearing members, and for receiving the light beams scanned by the polygon mirror and producing a first synchronizing signal for recording an image on the relevant image bearing member, a storing portion suitable for storing therein information regarding the error of each side of the polygon mirror, and a producing unit suitable for producing a second synchronizing signal for recording an image on the image bearing member not provided with the beam detector, by delaying the first synchronizing signal outputted from the beam detector, on the basis of the value of the storing portion.

The present invention relates to ink-jet inks in combination with a clear, dry toner to produce a permanent ink-jet image. In particular, this invention relates to an ink system that utilizes the addition of specific toner / developers, typically found in the laser printer field, with aqueous based in-jet inks. These dual systems produce a permanent image that is resistant to image degradation factors such as mechanical abrasion, light, water, and solvents such as the ones used in highlighter markers.

The invention describes techniques for the electrostatic printing of functional materials configured as liquid toners (45) on glass substrates (26) in a non-contact mode. The toners are patterned by a sensitized electrostatic printing plate (11) of fixed image configuration. Toner images (50) are transferred by an electric field (33) across a fluid filled mechanical gap (42) to the glass substrate (26). Techniques for optimizing the imaging and transfer processes are also disclosed. Two other techniques in which partially finished pieces are manipulated to "self-part" themselves, are described. In both cases defects in the pieces will over print the defect in the "self-healing" mode.

A communication system including a first apparatus having a first storage medium, and a second apparatus for transmitting data to the first apparatus. The second apparatus has a second storage medium for storing management information of data to be transferred to the first storage medium, a communicator for communicating data with the first apparatus, an editor capable of editing the management information and a controller for making a control to transfer data stored in the second storage medium to the first storage medium by way of the communicator based on the management information edited by the editor.

A high-density multi-layer optical disc, a method for recording data thereon on a layer-by-layer basis, and a method for managing spare areas thereof. In a high-density multi-layer optical disc, having a plurality of recording layers formed thereon, such as a Blu-ray disc rewritable (BD-RE) dual layer, management information is recorded and managed appropriately to the multiple layers so that data can be recorded in a state where the recording layers are linked to each other or the recording layers are separated from each other. Inner and outer spare areas are separately assigned to each of the recording layers formed on the high-density multi-layer optical disc. The management information is recorded and managed appropriately to the multiple layers so that the data can be recorded in a state where the spare areas of the recording layers or used together irrespective of the recording layers or used separately on the layer-by-layer basis. The recording layers can be effectively used and managed, and the spare areas separately assigned to the respective recording layers can be effectively used and managed.