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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7699680 | Method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescent element Disclosed is a method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescent element comprising a substrate and provided thereon, a light emission layer and at least one layer of a hole injecting layer, a hole transporting layer, an electron injecting layer, and an electron... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7651741 | Processes for forming a support and organic electroluminescence element including the support A support that includes a flexible substrate and provided thereon, one or two or more polymer layers and one or two or more sealing layers, wherein at least one of the polymer layers and the sealing layers is formed by a process including exciting a reactive gas at ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7600187 | Image forming apparatus and image forming system An image forming apparatus for communicating with a management apparatus for storing a plurality of electronic prepaid information and authentication information related to the plurality of electronic prepaid information, and replaying to inquiry request for electro... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7592075 | Organic electroluminescence element An organic electroluminescence element is disclosed which comprises a hole transporting layer containing a hole transporting material, a light emission layer containing a host compound and a phosphorescent compound, a hole blocking layer, and an electron transportin... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7574475 | Work flow system and client in work flow system A work flow system for circulating a digital document file to plural clients through a network, including: a transmission client for initially issuing a document file for circulation, circulation clients for sequentially circulating the document file, transmitted by... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7496848 | Image forming apparatus and image forming system An image forming apparatus providing services for general users, capable of getting rid of trouble to collect use charges. The image forming apparatus has: a connector to which a portable communication terminal is connected; a communication section for controlling t... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7453592 | Image processing system There is described a network system for processing image data and printing an image based on the image data. The system includes image-processing apparatus and an image printing apparatus coupled to each other in a network. Each of the image-processing apparatus inc... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7402613 | Colored fine particle dispersion and a water-based ink for an ink-jet system A water-based ink for ink-jet printing, comprising colored particles containing: (a) a core particle having a colorant; and (b) a shell having a resin and encapsulating the core particle, wherein the resin comprises a monomer unit having a hydroxyl group in an amoun... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7385217 | Radiation image photographing system A radiation image photographing system with high convenience, efficiency, reliability and expandability wherein when a part of components is broken down, another component can substitute. In the radiation image photographing system, a controller has an operation con... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7374847 | Toner and developer for developing electrostatic image and image forming method A toner for developing an electrostatic image is disclosed. The toner contains an amount of not less than 0.1% by weight of an element selected from elements of the Groups of 1B, 2B, 4B, 5B, 6B, 7B, 8, 3A and 4A of the fourth and fifth periodic of the long periodic ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374829 | Organic electroluminescent element and full color display A organic electroluminescent element is disclosed which comprises a light emission layer containing a fluorescent compound and a phosphorescent compound, the fluorescent compound having a nitrogen atom number to carbon atom number ratio in the molecule (N/C) of from... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7316470 | Inkjet recording head An inkjet recording head for ejecting ink in ink channels by deformation of the piezoelectric element, comprising: a partition wall, formed by making grooves in an actuator substrate made of a polarized piezoelectric element, for forming longitudinal side surface of... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315987 | Image administration method, image administration apparatus and image administration program An image administration method, apparatus or program for storing image data and for making contents of the image data to be browsed from outside of an image administration apparatus. The image administration method, apparatus or program comprising the steps or means... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7281491 | Dielectric-coated electrode, plasma discharge treatment apparatus and method for forming thin film A dielectric-coated electrode having a conductive base material coated with a dielectric on a surface thereof, the dielectric including a first metal atom and a second metal atom. As for an ionic strength of the first metal atom and an ionic strength of the second m... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7265165 | Colored minute particles dispersion, aqueous ink, and image forming method using the same A dispersion of colored particles is disclosed. The dispersion is prepared by emulsifying a mixture comprising a colorant and polymer, employing a reactive emulsifier, and subsequently copolymerizing the resulting mixture, employing polymerizable monomer. An ink emp... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7258960 | Production apparatus of toner for developing electrostatic images, production method thereof, and toner for developing electrostatic images An apparatus for producing toner for developing an electrostatic latent image, is provided with an inlet section to receive a slurry containing toner particles, impure fine particles having a specific gravity smaller than that of the toner particles and aqueous medi... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7231072 | Image processing method and image converting apparatus There is described an image processing method and an image converting apparatus for performing the image processing for recording the medical image information. The apparatus includes an image converting section to convert the image in respect to the original image ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7229167 | Ink jet recording apparatus, ink-jet recording method and ink jet recording medium A recording method comprising the steps in the following order of: correcting a curl of a recording medium by applying heat and pressure to the recording medium; and forming an image on the recording medium by jetting ink onto the recording medium. ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7217743 | Curable white ink A curable ink for jet-ink recording comprising a white pigment and a polymerizable compound, wherein the polymerizable compound is a compound selected from the group consisting of: (a) oxetane compounds; (b) pyrrole or substituted pyrroles; (c) aniline or substitute... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210103 | Printed book publishing system and management method for printed book publishing Printed book publishing system and method, for loading down data on a network according to a request from a terminal and for outputting the loaded data for publishing the printed book, comprising a management server which performs making a data server storing book c... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7190761 | X-ray image radiographing method and radiographing apparatus A X-ray image radiographing method of detecting a X-ray image passing an object irradiated with X-ray emitted from a X-ray tube by a X-ray detector, includes a step of increasing a sharpness of an image lowered due to penumbra by enhancing an edge of the image with ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184516 | Digital phase contrast X-ray radiographing system An X-ray image radiographing system for radiographing a subject is provided with an X-ray source to emit X-rays; a digital X-ray detector to detect a digital X-ray image of the subject, wherein the subject is placed between the X-ray source and the digital X-ray det... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7168802 | Ink composition and a method for ink jet recording A white ink composition for ink jet recording characterized in including at least a white pigment, a polymerizable compound, and a polymerization initiator and having a viscosity of 10 to 500 Pa·s at 30° C. A method for ink jet recording including the steps... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162067 | Image reading system and method for radiography with preregistration and post-registration options The invention is designed to help coordinate the processing of radiographic images for a lab, hospital, office, or other locations for example. The image reading system may have a reading device for reading image information from a containing member in which a recor... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7157153 | Support and organic electroluminescence element comprising the support Disclosed is a support which comprises a flexible substrate and provided thereon, one or two or more polymer layers and one or two or more sealing layers, wherein at least one of the polymer layers and the sealing layers is formed by a process comprising the steps o... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7147746 | Preparing method of IC card and IC card A method of preparing an IC card, which comprises a first sheet material and a second sheet material and an adhesive agent layer between the first sheet material and the second sheet material, the adhesive agent layer having therein an IC module fixed with a moistur... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142710 | Color image processing method and color image processing apparatus An image processing method for subjecting image signals from an image input apparatus to a color transform and an image processing for an output apparatus, including the steps of conducting a first color transform process to practice color transform from data for a ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7133157 | Image processing method and apparatus An image processing method for obtaining processed color image signals from image signals on a silver halide photosensitive material, having the following steps: transforming color image signals into a luminance signal and color information signals; applying a high-... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7128982 | Organic electroluminescence element An organic electroluminescence element is disclosed which comprises a hole transporting layer containing a hole transporting material, a light emission layer containing a host compound and a phosphorescent compound, a hole blocking layer, and an electron transportin... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7130460 | Medical-use image recording apparatus and medical-use imaging system An image recording method for visualizing an image signal of medical diagnosis, which has the steps of: inputting the image signal of medical diagnosis; processing the image signal of medical diagnosis to get correct sharpness in visualized image by applying a frequ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7125918 | Protective film of a polarizing plate A protective film of a polarizing plate comprising a cellulose ester film, wherein a variation in a weight of the cellulose ester film is 0 to 2% under a keeping condition of 80±5° C. and 90±10% RH for 48 hours. ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7117523 | Book on-demand system A book on-demand system having reading data for reading book contents and printing and bookbinding data for printing and bookbinding on the server thereof and also having a function to transmit the reading data to a reading device via a network at a user's request a... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7101648 | Image forming method and image forming apparatus An image forming method is disclosed, in which a toner image on an organic photoreceptor developed by a two-component is primarily transferred to an intermediate transferring member, and secondarily transferred to a recording material, and a toner remained on the or... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7084419 | Image inputting apparatus and image inputting method There is described an image inputting apparatus for inputting a radiation image that is formed on a radiation sensitive panel by projecting radial rays penetrated through a subject. The apparatus includes a detector to detect the radiation image projected onto the r... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7052005 | Sheet postprocessing apparatus for use with image forming apparatus and folding method This invention relates to a sheet postprocessing apparatus for executing postprocessing including a punching process, folding process, binding process, and the like, midway along a sheet convey path, for sheets discharged from an image forming apparatus, and a foldi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053955 | Electronic still camera An electronic still camera, comprises a lens to form an image of a subject; a distant measuring section to measure a distance to a subject and to output a distance signal; an image capturing focusing section having a driving section to shift the lens within a scanni... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7037957 | Water-based ink comprising colored particles and image forming method using the same A water-based ink comprising water and at least one kind of colored particles selected from the group consisting of: (a) colored particles comprising a polymer containing a colorant; (b) colored particles comprising a core forming colorant ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7022450 | Image forming method and image forming apparatus An electrophotographic image forming method is disclosed. A latent image on a photoreceptor is developed to form a toner image on the photoreceptor by a developer and the toner image is transferred to a recording material or an intermediate transfer element, and the... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7021550 | Preparing method of IC card and IC card A method for preparing an IC card, the IC card has an IC module within an adhesive layer between first substrate and second substrate. In the method, an adhesive containing diphenylmethanediisocyanate an amount of less than percent by weight based on the whole amoun... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7018872 | Organic thin-film transistor, organic thin-film transistor sheet and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing an organic thin-film transistor, comprising a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate insulation layer, an organic semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, is disclosed, wherein the method comprises the steps of forming t... | 03/28/2006 |
