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Structuring systems, specifically thread-like structuring systems and/or disk-like structuring systems wherein structuring agents aggregate together to form disk-like structures that can interact with other disk-like structures to result in a structuring system, and processes for making such structuring systems, stabilized liquid compositions comprising such structuring systems, systems that utilize such structuring systems for stabilizing liquid compositions, and methods for utilizing the stabilized liquid compositions to provide a benefit, are disclosed.

A liquid droplet ejection head comprises an ejector, a liquid viscosity-increase prevention structure and a liquid viscosity-increase prevention controller. The ejector includes a nozzle for ejecting a liquid droplet, a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle through a communication path, and an actuator for applying pressure to a liquid in the pressure chamber. The liquid viscosity-increase prevention structure prevents an increase of viscosity of the liquid in the ejector. The liquid viscosity-increase prevention controller changes the operation frequency of the liquid viscosity-increase prevention structure between when the liquid droplet is ejected from the nozzle and when ejection of the liquid droplet is paused and no liquid droplet is being ejected from the nozzle.

Stable, viscous, mucoadhesive aqueous compositions which are useful for the prevention and treatment of ulcerative, inflammatory, and/or erosive disorders of mucous membranes, especially mucositis.

A compensating tank for a cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine has at least one inflow connection and one outflow connection, both of which are connected with the cooling circuit, a chamber system formed in the tank to receive the coolant, such that the individual chambers are at least partially interconnected via openings, and a coolant pipe connected with the inflow connection discharging into one of the chambers in which an impact element is provided for the inflowing coolant. The impact element is configured as a curved guiding wall along which the inflowing coolant is specifically guided. This inhibits, among other things, foaming of the coolant flowing into the compensating tank.

An apparatus and methods for airborne or gas borne chemical and biological sample collection and detection in real time using optical or chemical techniques, the apparatus comprising a chamber for delivery of said flowing gas stream containing a substance, the chamber comprising a first wall including a first wall surface and a longitudinal inlet channel disposed within the first wall and terminating at an outlet edge at the first wall surface; a second wall including a second wall surface and a longitudinal outlet channel disposed within the second wall and beginning at an outlet edge at the second wall surface, the longitudinal inlet channel aligned with the longitudinal outlet channel, and the first wall surface separated from the second wall surface by a gap; wherein the longitudinal inlet channel the longitudinal outlet channel are adapted for delivering a liquid into the inlet channel, through the chamber, and out the outlet channel such that a gas-liquid interface may be formed in the gap of the chamber.

The liquid ejection apparatus includes: a liquid ejection head including a nozzle which ejects liquid, a pressure chamber which is connected to the nozzle and is to be filled with the liquid, a pressure generating element which pressurizes the liquid in the pressure chamber, and a pressure determination element which determines a pressure inside the pressure chamber and outputs a pressure determination signal; a storage device which stores a peak value of the pressure determination signal output by the pressure determination element in a state where the nozzle ejects the liquid normally; a first ejection abnormality factor extraction device which extracts a first ejection abnormality factor by comparing the peak value stored previously in the storage device with the pressure determination signal output by the pressure determination element during a prescribed period for ejection abnormality determination; a threshold value variably setting device which sets a threshold value for extracting a second ejection abnormality factor according to a differential between the peak value stored previously in the storage device and a peak value of the pressure determination signal output by the pressure determination element during the prescribed period for ejection abnormality determination; a pulse generation device which is capable of generating pulses according to a comparison result between the threshold value set by the threshold value variably setting device and the pressure determination signal output by the pressure determination element during the prescribed period for ejection abnormality determination; and a measurement device which extracts the second ejection abnormality factor by measuring a time interval of the pulses generated by the pulse generation device.

An apparatus and method for recording an image using a transfer-type recording mechanism are such that a layer of an intermediate transfer element is removably formed on a surface of an intermediate transfer medium. The intermediate transfer element includes an ultraviolet stabilizer and a powder mixture. The intermediate transfer layer is capable of being dissolved and swelled by applying an ink liquid on the intermediate transfer medium and enables a viscosity of the ink liquid residing thereon to be increased. An image is produced on the intermediate transfer medium by supplying the ink liquid thereon. The image is then transferred to the recording medium, so that a high quality image is produced without any blurring, mixing or penetration of the ink liquid.

The liquid ejection apparatus comprises: an ejection head which has an ejection element, the ejection element including an ejection aperture through which a droplet of liquid is ejected onto an ejection receiving medium, a pressure chamber which is connected to the ejection aperture and accommodates the liquid to be ejected from the ejection aperture, and a pressurizing device which applies an ejection pressure to the liquid accommodated in the pressure chamber; a drive signal application device which applies to the pressurizing device a meniscus vibration drive signal for suppressing increase in viscosity of the liquid in vicinity of the ejection aperture by causing a meniscus surface of the liquid to vibrate and to eject no droplet from the ejection aperture; a pressure determination device which determines pressure in the pressure chamber when the meniscus surface is vibrated by the meniscus vibration drive signal; and a judgment device which judges an abnormal state of the ejection element from pressure information of the pressure chamber based on pressure determination information obtained by the pressure determination device.

A droplet ejection apparatus provided with: a drive signal generator for generating drive signals including a plurality of drive pulses; a drive pulse selector for selecting drive pulses in accordance with a print datum of each pixel; and a head for ejecting a droplet from a nozzle provided corresponding to a channel, by changing a volume of the channel according to the drive pulses selected, wherein, the drive signal includes a micro-vibration pulse as one of the drive pulses to generate a micro-vibration of meniscus in the nozzle in such a degree that the droplet is not ejected, said micro-vibration pulse being formed of rectangular waves which include at least one micro-vibration pulse having a pulse width of (2n) AL, where AL is ½ of the acoustic resonance period of the channel, and n is an integer not smaller than 1.

Disclosed is a liquid treatment agent coating device including a coating roller that coats a recording medium with a liquid treatment agent; a pressing roller that cooperates with the coating roller to nip and convey the recording medium; a first container that holds the coating roller and the liquid treatment agent, wherein the first container has an opening portion in the vicinity of a nip portion between the coating roller and the pressing roller; a second container that accommodates an amount of the liquid treatment agent held in the first container, wherein the second container has second airtightness that is greater than first airtightness of the first container; a removal channel extending from the first container to the second container; a first on-off valve disposed in the removal channel; and a return channel extending from the second container to the first container.

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head having a nozzle opening for ejecting a liquid; a heating unit disposed opposite a liquid ejecting surface of the liquid ejecting head; a transport unit that transports a liquid-ejection-target medium between the liquid ejecting head and the heating unit; a blower unit that blows air onto a liquid-ejection-target surface of the medium; and a blowing control unit. The blower unit is able to vary an amount of air blown in a plurality of regions disposed along a certain direction, the plurality of regions including a region of the liquid-ejection-target medium, and the blowing control unit controls an amount of the air blown from the blower unit in the plurality of the regions along the certain direction on the basis of a width of the medium in the certain direction.

The invention relates to a high-temperature water base fracturing fluid and a preparation method thereof. The fracturing fluid is prepared from the following additives by weight: 0.45-1.0% of a thickening agent, 0.6-1.5% of a clay stabilizer, 0.6-1.5% of an emulsion breaking cleanup additive, 0.01-0.03% of a gel breaking agent, 0.6-2.0% of a crosslinking agent and the balance of sea water, wherein the total sum weight percentages of the components is 100%. The fracturing fluid has the advantages of good sand carrying capability, good heat resistant and shearing resistant performances, good compatibility with formation fluid and small reservoir damage; seawater can be used directly to prepare the solution; and conventional liquid dispensing equipment and process are employed to solve the problem of lack of freshwater in offshore fracturing construction. The invention improves working efficiency of offshore fracturing, reduces the cost, and lays the foundation for the large-scale offshore fracturing operation.

The present invention provides a device and methods of use thereof in concentrating a species of interest and/or controlling liquid flow in a device. The methods, inter-alia, make use of a device comprising a fluidic chip comprising a planar array of channels through which a liquid comprising a species of interest can be made to pass with at least one rigid substrate connected thereto such that at least a portion of a surface of the substrate bounds the channels, and an ion-selective membrane is attached to at least a portion of the surface of the substrate, which bounds said channels, or which bounds a portion of a surface of one of said channels. The device comprises a unit to induce an electric field in the channel and a unit to induce an electrokinetic or pressure driven flow in the channel.

A silicone grease composition includes approximately 5 to 50% by weight of liquid organopolysiloxane, 45 to 94.9% by weight of a thermally conductive filler, and 0.1 to 5% by weight of a coupling agent chosen from at least one of a titanate-based coupling agent and an aluminate-based coupling agent. Due to the presence of the coupling agent, the silicone grease composition has a relatively lower viscosity and thus is capable of containing a larger amount of the filler whereby the thermally conductive efficiency of the composition is accordingly improved.

The object of the present invention is to provide the gelatinous, molten salt having a high ion-conductivity and an excellent heat resistance.

The object of the present invention can be solved by the inorganic nanofibers having a functional group which inter-molecularly interacts with the molten salt on the surface thereof, and the molten salt composition comprising molten salt; or the method for increasing a viscosity of liquid molten salt characterized in that the inorganic nanofibers having a functional group which inter-molecularly interacts with the molten salt in the surface thereof is added to the liquid molten salt.

The solid precursor is used for the preparation of a pasty bone replacement material by admixture of a liquid. The precursor comprises calcium-containing ceramic particles and a hydrogel or a substance which can be swelled into a hydrogel; whereby said precursor has been obtained by wet autoclaving and subsequent drying.

The invention particularly relates to a stable multilayer-film structural foaming agent and a preparation method of the stable multilayer-film structural foaming agent. The technical scheme is that the preparation method comprises steps as follows: getting 20 to 50wt% of main agent, 20 to 50wt% of assistant and 20 to 50wt% of foam stabilizer as the raw materials at 15 to 25 DEG C; then adding foam stabilizer of which the mass is 10 to 20 times that of the raw materials mentioned above; and agitating for 5 to 15 minutes, so as to obtain the stable multilayer-film structural foaming agent, wherein the main agent is one of sodium lauryl sulfate, sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate, sodium dodecyl sulfate, alkylphenol ethoxylates and fatty alcohol-polyoxyethylene ether; the assistant is one of dodecanol, polyethylene glycol, setanol, octadecanol and lauromacrogol; and the foam stabilizer is one of sodium carboxymethylcellulose, gelatin, sodium carboxymethyl starch, arabia gum adhesive and hydroxyethyl cellulose. The preparation method has the characteristics of being simple, convenient to operate, and short in preparation time and the like; and the prepared stable multilayer-film structural foaming agent is relatively small in dimension, uniform in distribution, full in foaming and high in stability.

The invention provides a tackifying and filtrate reducing agent for a low soil phase and high density drilling fluid, and a preparation method thereof. The tackifying and filtrate reducing agent is a polymer formed through appropriate cross-linking polymerization of an olefin monomer and a silane coupling agent. The preparation method comprises the following steps: 1, mixing acrylic acid, 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid, acrylamide, acrylonitrile, N-isopropylacrylamide and the coupling agent in water; 2, adjusting the pH value to 5-10; 3, introducing nitrogen to remove oxygen, adding an initiator at 20-90DEG C, and reacting for 1-10h to obtain a viscous product; and 4, drying the viscous product, and crushing. The tackifying and filtrate reducing agent for the low soil phase and high density drilling fluid has good temperature and salt resistance; the tackifying and filtrate reducing agent has good tackifying and shear strength improving effects in the low soil phase and high density drilling fluid, and is in favor of suspending a weighting material and carrying rock debris; and channels in mud cakes are plugged to improve the viscosity of a liquid phase, effectively reduce the filtrate loss and improve the wellbore stability.

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a recording head that ejects an ink from a plurality of nozzles, a liquid supply passage and a reservoir that supply the ink from an upstream side toward a downstream side, a maintenance pump that is able to suck and discharge the ink from and to the liquid supply passage, a filter that clarify the ink in the reservoir, and a control unit that performs a recovery process of the nozzles by controlling an operation of the pump, wherein the control unit causes the maintenance pump to perform a sucking operation to suck the ink, and then causes the pump to perform a discharging operation to discharge the ink, thereby supplying the ink clarified by the filter to the nozzle side.

A liquid ejection apparatus includes a liquid ejection head, a conveyor, a recording controller, and a flashing controller. The conveyor conveys a recording medium along a conveyance path. The recording controller causes the conveyor to convey a recording medium, and controls liquid ejection from the liquid ejection head to form an image on the recording medium based on image data. The flashing controller causes the conveyor to temporarily stop conveyance of the recording medium, and causes liquid injection from the liquid ejection head based on drive data which is unrelated to image formation. The flashing controller determines timing for executing a subsequent flashing control on that, within a print enforceable period between one flashing control and the subsequent flashing control, the number of pages subjected to image formation based on image data increases with a decrease in time interval between image formation on one page and on another page.

A liquid developer set of the present invention includes a first liquid developer including an insulating liquid and first toner particles and a second liquid developer including an insulating liquid and second toner particles, the first toner particles include carbon black and a first resin, the second toner particles include a coloring agent other than carbon black and a second resin, without including carbon black, the first resin and the second resin each include a hydrocarbon long chain which is a hydrocarbon group having a carbon number of 8 to 30, and a mass ratio of the hydrocarbon long chain to the first toner particles is higher than a mass ratio of the hydrocarbon long chain to the second toner particles.

The invention discloses hydrogel filled with nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes and a preparation method of the hydrogel, and the method comprises the following steps: mixing a hydrogen bond acceptor compound, a hydrogen bond donor compound and a cross-linking agent, and stirring in an oil bath until transparent and clear liquid is obtained, so as to obtain deep eutectic solvent liquid; successively adding an initiator and a nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube into a deep eutectic solvent liquid at a temperature above 35 DEG C, uniformly stirring to form a mixture solution, transferring the formed mixture solution into a tubular reactor, heating the reactor by using a heat source to initiate a polymerization reaction, and evacuating the heat source till the liquid in the whole reactor is completely converted into polymer gel; and soaking and washing the polymer gel with distilled water, and freeze-drying to obtain the target nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube filled hydrogel. The reaction rate of front-end polymerization is increased by filling a small amount of nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes with general applicability, so that the target hydrogel is rapidly prepared.