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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5478631 | Ink jet recording sheet An ink jet recording sheet which absorbs water-base ink well, gives high-grade images, and ensures excellent water resistance of printed images. The ink jet recording sheet comprises a substrate and an ink receptive layer disposed on the substrate, the in... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5401708 | Heat-sensitive recording material In the heat-sensitive recording material which has on a base sheet a heat-sensitive recording layer containing a colorless or pale colored chromogenic material and a color developer forming a color by reacting with the chromogenic material and a protectiv... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5371838 | Dot printer with a reduced average number of dot-expansion operations This invention relates to a dot printer of the type in which received printing data are converted into dot-patterns to be printed. A printer of this type mainly comprises: a main memory which stores the printing data as either fixed part data and variable... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5320897 | Ink jet recording paper and method of producing it An ink jet recording paper ensuring high image qualities and a method of producing the same. The paper has excellent ink receptivity, ink dryness, image density, color reproduction and image brightness. The paper is free from the strike through of Ink. Th... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5316621 | Method of pulping waste pressure-sensitive adhesive paper A method of obtaining an excellent recycled pulp from waste pressure-sensitive adhesive paper which has previously been discarded. This method being characterized in that the waste paper is defiberized, then a defiberized suspension thereof is diluted, th... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5314132 | Method for changing spools and apparatus therefor A method for changing spools in which a sheet continuously supplied to a reel drum is wound onto a new spool, comprising the steps of bringing the new spool held on an arm at a waiting position into contact with the reel drum; cutting the center part of t... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5302576 | Image-receiving paper for thermal transfer recording system and method of producing it An image-receiving paper for a thermal transfer recording system and a method of producing the same. The paper ensures excellent transfer, reproduction and fixability of ink dots as well as satisfactory image clearness, etc. A substrate contains a porous ... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5284396 | Ribbon feeder for a printer having a tension mechanism An object of the present invention is to provide a ribbon feeder to prevent a ribbon from slackening when a sheet is back-fed in a thermal printer. When a ribbon is fed from a ribbon feed roller, resistance is imparted to the rotation of the ribbon feed r... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5275846 | Method of producing a cast coated paper The present invention provides a method of producing a cast coated paper including the steps of providing a pigment coating layer for casting on a base paper, plasticizing the coating layer by means of a rewet liquid, and drying the coating layer by press... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5248597 | Method and apparatus for analyzing starch and related carbohydrates A method and apparatus for the determination of the average molecular weight, average chain length or dextrose equivalent of starch and related carbohydrates containing glucose units. The starch is analyzed by determining the free glucose amount (Gf) cont... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5233365 | Dot-matrix printer having interchangeable line head and moving head technologies A dot-matrix printer which operates as a line head printer and is capable of reading line head printer print data and moving head printer print data. A memory stores print data. A series of clock pulses are generated and a shift register reads a portion o... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5221521 | Sample liquid dilution system for analytical measurements A liquid dilution system which dilutes a sample to be analyzed with a carrier to supply a diluted sample-containing liquid to an analytical measurement apparatus of flow type. The inventive dilution system features simplicity and versatility as compared t... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5217791 | Printed film sheet A printed film sheet in which an image printed on a transparent film sheet can be seen from both the printed side and the non-printed side of said film sheet. The transparent film sheet is provided with a coating composition containing one or more pigment... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5212499 | Pressing mechanism for thermal printer A thermal printer of the present invention includes a platen for pressing a thermal head onto a print sheet through a print ribbon at the time of printing, the head is fixed, and a device for resiliently pressing the platen and the head and a device for s... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5190872 | Immobilized alcohol utidase for use in an alcohol measuring apparatus Alcohol oxidase is immobilized by bonding an aminosilane coupling agent to a carrier, bonding a multifunctional aldehyde such as glutaraldehyde to an amino group of the aminosilane, washing the carrier to remove free multifunctional aldehyde and bonding a... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5179064 | Heat-sensitive recording material A heat-sensitive recording material which has a high recording density, ensures recorded images of high quality and allows printing on the reverse side. A base paper for the recording material is subjected to multilayer paper making by means of a paper ma... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5093306 | Image-receiving sheet for thermal sublimable dye-transfer recording An image-receiving sheet for thermal sublimable dye-transfer recording is disclosed, comprising a base paper; a layer provided on said base paper, said layer being prepared by extrusion coating a molten thermoplastic polymer; and an image-receiving layer ... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5081015 | Enzyme electrode and method for determination of alcohol content using the same An enzyme electrode possessing an immobilized enzyme membrane or an immobilized enzyme layer composed by applying a solution containing alcohol oxidase and a crosslinking agent, in which the solution further contains reduced glutathione. According to the ... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5081037 | Enzyme electrode for measuring malto-oligosaccharide An enzyme electrode for measuring malto-oligosaccharides having a co-immobilized enzyme membrane containing glucoamylase and a glucose oxidizing enzyme such as glucose oxidase or pyranose oxidase. The glucoamylase and glucose oxidizing enzyme are immobilized a... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5073786 | Thermal head breakage detecting circuit A detection circuit for determining whether heating members within a thermal head are broken is disclosed. The circuit comprises a voltage source connected in series with a resistor, wherein the voltage source and resistor are connected in parallel with a... | 12/17/1991 |
| 5070067 | Heat-sensitive recording material A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support and a recording layer provided on the support, said recording layer containing a colorless or pale-colored basic dye and a color developer capable of forming a color upon application of heat, wherei... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5037527 | Reference electrode and a measuring apparatus using the same A reference electrode for use in a flow type measuring apparatus incorporating an immobilized enzyme working electrode, wherein a hydrophilic gel layer is provided on a silver chloride containing layer in order to prevent flow-out of silver ions that are ... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5037696 | Substrate for heat-sensitive recording material A substrate for heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed, comprising a film-like substrate made mainly of a synthetic resin and a sheet-like substrate made mainly of a fibrous materials laminated each other with an electron beam-curable adhesive. A ... | 08/06/1991 |
| 5034330 | Preparation of a selectively permeable membrane for an enzyme electrode A selectively permeable membrane for an enzyme electrode is prepared by forming a mixture of an emulsion of resin containing at least one prepolymer or monomer having ethylenic unsaturation, and a water-soluble polymer material, and subjecting the mixture... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5032225 | Temperature controlled method of coating a paper web When a paper web is coated on paper machine the surface temperature is controlled at or below a temperature determined by an equation (1) given below, in order to obtain a coated paper having an evenly coated layer. ##EQU1## where T: surface temperat... | 07/16/1991 |
| 5030325 | Method of manufacturing gloss paper A method of manufacturing gloss coated paper by applying a coating composition containing a pigment and an adhesive on base paper. The pigment contains 5 to 40% by weight of satin white with an average particle diameter of 0.8 μm or below and an organic ... | 07/09/1991 |
| 5023227 | Heat-sensitive recording material A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support and a recording layer provided on the support, said recording layer containing a colorless or pale-colored basic dye and a color developer capable of forming a color upon application of heat, wherei... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4997807 | Image-receiving sheet for thermal dye-transfer recording An image-receiving sheet for thermal dye-transfer recording using a sublimable dye is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon an image-receiving layer for receiving a transferred image from a coloring material-transferring sheet, wherein said image... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4954477 | Heat-sensitive recording materials A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support, a heat-sensitive recording layer containing a color former and a color developer forming color by the contact with the color former formed on the support, an interlayer containing a water-soluble r... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4904636 | Heat-sensitive recording material A heat-sensitive recording material comprising a support and a recording layer provided on the support, said recording layer containing a colorless or pale-colored basic dye and a color developer capable of forming a color upon application of heat, wherei... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4900583 | Method of producing cast coated paper using near-infrared radiation In a method of producing cast coated paper in which a wet coating layer containing as its main components, pigment and adhesive, is heated to permit a gel state to be formed in the layer, or is dried and then rewetted, and then is pressed against a highly... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4853255 | Process for controlling curl in coated papers A process for controlling curl in coated papers in which the paper web is coated on one side and is wetted with water on the opposite side by a roll-type water applying apparatus, the water applying operation being carried out under such conditions that t... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4833116 | Heat-sensitive recording material A heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed, comprising a plastic film or a synthetic paper or a laminate of a plastic film or a synthetic film with a paper; a heat-sensitive recording layer formed on said plastic film or synthetic paper or said lami... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4826333 | Form overlay type printing apparatus A form overlay type document printing apparatus includes a format memory for storing form data, a repetition data memory for storing common data to be printed on successive documents, and a variable data buffer for storing data which is unique to such doc... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4812438 | Heat-sensitive recording material A heat-sensitive recording material is disclosed, comprising a support; a heat-sensitive recording layer formed on the support, which contains a color former and a color developer which forms a color upon contact with said color former; an interlayer with... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4731355 | Image-receiving sheet for thermal dye-transfer recording A thermal dye-transfer recording, image-receiving sheet, comprising a support having thereon an image-receiving layer containing a butyral resin for receiving a transferred image from a coloring material-transferring sheet, is disclosed. In this image-rec... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4713364 | Heat-sensitive recording material A heat-sensitive recording material excellent in stability of recorded images is disclosed, which comprises a support having formed thereon a heat-sensitive recording layer comprising a colorless or pale-colored basic dye and a color developer capable of ... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4685569 | Method of detecting and sorting pieces of insulating materials admixed in small pieces of conductive materials A method of detecting and sorting pieces of insulating materials admixed in small pieces of conductive materials, which comprises detecting and amplifying the surface potentials of the conductive materials and the insulating materials by a surface potenti... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4686119 | Method of producing cast coated paper A method of producing cast coated paper in which a rewetted or gelled coating layer is pressed at a linear pressure of above 120 kg/cm against the highly polished finishing surface of a cast coating drum having a surface temperature of above 90° C. Impro... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4639751 | Image-receiving sheet for heat transfer recording system An image-receiving sheet for a heat transfer recording system. The sheet comprises a substrate coated with an image-receiving layer comprised mainly of non-plate-shaped inorganic pigment and a binder. The smoothness of the image-receiving surface as deter... | 01/27/1987 |
