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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7446801 | Information collection apparatus, information collection system, information collection method, program, and recording medium An information collection system including an information collection apparatus, a photographing apparatus and information acquisition apparatuses. The information collection apparatus collects information on the information acquisition apparatuses and the photograph... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443660 | Information processing apparatus in which a storage medium is removably mountable An information processing apparatus, which is capable of improving security and operationality in handling of storage media, includes a system bay and a data bay that are provided on the main body of the information processing apparatus and allow respective disks to... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7430037 | Reticle cassette and exposure apparatus using reticle cassette A reticle cassette includes a bearing portion and a cover, a reticle being disposed on the bearing portion and accommodated in a space between the bearing portion and the cover. The bearing portion includes electrodes for attracting using an electrostatic force and ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7420746 | Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus having the same A zoom lens system, which has a high zoom ratio while having a high optical performance, includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive optical power, a second lens unit having a negative optical power, a third lens unit... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7388615 | Lens apparatus allowing changing user settings to standard settings A lens apparatus includes a changing unit for changing a user-specified value in a user-specified data segment to a standard set value at any screen state of a display panel. Therefore, a setting information element for each function regarding image capture in the l... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7380921 | Liquid-feeding system A liquid-feeding system efficiently transferring liquid from a liquid storage to a liquid chamber and efficiently transferring gas from the liquid chamber to the liquid storage. The liquid-feeding system includes a liquid-using unit, the liquid storage, the liquid c... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7377628 | Ink container An ink container includes an ink containing unit having a housing which directly contains ink, an ink guide, a movable member changing the internal volume of the ink containing unit, and a buffer chamber. The buffer chamber allows changing the internal volume of the... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375843 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus converts first image data of a first resolution N to second image data of a second resolution M, which is lower than the first resolution N, so as to output the second image data. The apparatus includes a processing unit for determining... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7357690 | Method for aligning needle-like structures and alignment unit An alignment unit and an alignment method for aligning needle-like structures. The alignment unit includes a substrate having a surface and grooves defined in the surface. The grooves are sized and arranged such that when the needle-like structures are received ther... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7349658 | Image forming apparatus that has a full-color mode and a monocolor mode, and image forming apparatus that can adjust the length of a non-image forming region during mode switching state An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive drums, a plurality of developing devices, an intermediate transfer medium, primary transfer members, and a secondary transfer member for transferring toner images onto a transfer material. A full-colo... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349655 | Developing device and method of forming images A developing device configured to carry out development of an electrostatic image using color toner particles and transparent toner particles includes color and transparent developing units configured to store toner particles, carrier particles, and additive particl... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347541 | Liquid tank A liquid tank includes a liquid chamber for holding liquid and an absorption chamber containing an absorber for absorbing and holding the liquid. The liquid chamber and the absorption chamber are separated by a partition. The partition has a communication part allow... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348544 | Optical encoder with discontinuous optical grating An optical encoder includes a light-emitting unit, a scale with a discontinuous part, and a plurality of light-receiving elements arranged in relationship to a pitch of the scale. In the optical encoder, a light beam from the light-emitting unit reflects off the sca... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346298 | Developing device, process cartridge, and electrophotographic image-forming apparatus A developing device includes a developer container divided into a developing section and a mixing section in which developer is conveyed in the opposite directions. A conveying member which conveys the developer in the longitudinal direction is disposed only in the ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7331673 | Ophthalmic photography apparatus and ophthalmic photography method An ophthalmic photography apparatus includes an illumination light source operable to illuminate an eye to be examined, a light-intensity adjusting unit operable to adjust a light intensity of the illumination light source, an illumination optical system guiding lig... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333275 | Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus including the same A compact zoom lens system having excellent optical performance. The zoom lens system includes a first lens unit of negative optical power, a second lens unit of positive optical power, a third lens unit of positive optical power, and an F-number defining member. Th... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330677 | Image-forming apparatus and method for controlling the same An image-forming apparatus configured to form an image on a paper medium is connected to a plurality of auxiliary apparatuses configured to carry out predetermined processes on the paper medium ejected from the image-forming apparatus. An electrical power control un... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330212 | Drive controller of lens apparatus A drive controller of a lens apparatus including a first lens unit movable to perform manual focus and a second lens unit disposed closer to an image than the first lens unit. The drive controller includes a detection device detecting a focal state of the lens appar... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327386 | Image capture apparatus and method for transmitting captured image without predetermined additional information An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, an image processing unit, a memory, and a network interface unit. The image capture unit captures an image. The image processing unit generates an image file including the captured image and additional infor... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322104 | Method for producing an ink jet head An ink jet head includes a substrate having a flow path construction member constructing a plurality of discharge ports for discharging ink and a plurality of ink flow paths corresponding thereto, and a plurality of energy generating elements corresponding to the pl... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321418 | Stage apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method A stage apparatus includes a base, a stage movable on the base in first and second directions, a first member movable relative to the base in the first direction, and a second member movable relative to the base in the second direction. The first member is placed on... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318639 | Inkjet recording apparatus In a recording apparatus in which ink is supplied to a head from a main tank via a sub-tank, when ink is supplied to the sub tank from the main tank, the ink is first supplied to a flow path connected to the sub-tank, and then ink is supplied into an ink absorber ac... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7308181 | Method for manufacturing three-dimensional photonic crystal At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional photonic crystal including a plurality of stacked layers having periodic structures where the thickness of the periodic structures in a layer are adjusted such that the l... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7306306 | Inkjet recording method and inkjet recording apparatus An inkjet recording apparatus in which displacements of dots are reduced. In the inkjet recording apparatus, recording data is read out from a recording buffer at a period corresponding to a second resolution. The apparatus determines whether or not to delay the tim... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7300137 | Liquid-discharge recording head A liquid-discharge recording head includes large nozzles for discharging large liquid drops and medium and small nozzles for discharging medium and small liquid drops that are smaller than the large liquid drops. The large nozzles are arranged on one side of an ink-... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7290851 | Ink-jet recording apparatus An ink-jet recording apparatus capable of high-quality recording without smudging recording media and the interior of the recording apparatus even when a frameless recording operation using reactive ink that coheres with each other when mixed together is performed. ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289135 | Color image-forming apparatus controlling timing of color pattern formation A color image-forming apparatus including two drums, two scanners for forming latent images on the two drums, four developing devices for developing the latent images on the drums into toner images with four colors, an intermediate transfer belt successively passing... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287861 | Display optical system and image projector A display optical system and an image projector incorporating the same. The display optical system includes a light source operable to emit light; a plurality of reflective light-modulating devices; a plurality of optical elements; a projection optical system includ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7285084 | Folded back portion flattening device, sheet processor, and image forming apparatus A folded back portion flattening device includes a gripper and a presser. The gripper grips a sheet bundle formed into a booklet with the folded back portion protruding from the gripper. The presser presses the folded back portion of the sheet bundle gripped by the ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280751 | In-finder display device An in-finder display device includes an optical member having prisms and disposed about a position where an objective unit forms an image; an image-inverting unit receiving light from the optical member; an eyepiece unit for guiding the light from the image-invertin... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280131 | Image formation device An image formation device changes the rotational rate of a polygon motor, i.e. the main-scanning rate, and selects one of pulse width conversion tables when an image formation is performed multiple times on a single sheet of transfer paper. The changing of the main-... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280620 | Electronic device including image forming apparatus When a plurality of sub-processors are daisy chained in a loop, for example, to a main processor by a one-way bus, a command packet from the main processor addressed to itself is transmitted to the one-way bus which form a return path back to the main processor so a... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274888 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having an image forming unit for forming toner images on an image carrier, a transfer unit for transferring an image on an image carrier onto a transfer medium, a detecting unit for detecting a toner image for detection on the image carrie... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265914 | Lens device and photographing apparatus including the same In a lens device, when a lens is subjected to speed control and when initialization in which an absolute position of the lens is initialized after a power supply is turned on is completed, the lens is returned to a position before the lens is initialized. ... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265788 | Lens apparatus with changeable image-capturing function setting A lens apparatus in which setting information for each function related to image-capturing with the lens apparatus can be changed only by special operations. The lens apparatus includes an optical device, memory for storing setting data, and a controller for control... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261402 | Ink container, ink-jet recording head, and ink-jet recording apparatus An ink container for supplying ink to an ink-jet recording element. The ink container includes a container body, a gas liquid separator, and an exhaust chamber cover. The container body includes an ink chamber and an exhaust chamber through which air is exhausted fr... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7253976 | Optical apparatus An optical apparatus includes a light-quantity-adjusting unit, a first lens unit disposed closer to an object than the light-quantity-adjusting unit, a second lens unit disposed closer to an image plane than the light-quantity-adjusting unit, and a drive unit for dr... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7249824 | Liquid discharge head having inductive channel and recording device incorporating liquid discharge head An ink print head reducing ink supply errors caused by air bubbles in order to stably supply ink at larger amounts. The ink print head includes an ink container for holding ink, a recording element for discharging the ink supplied from the ink container, a duct disp... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245350 | Exposure apparatus An exposure apparatus includes a vacuum chamber, a load-lock chamber disposed between the vacuum chamber and outside the exposure apparatus, a reticle cassette configured to hold a reticle, a conveying unit configured to convey the reticle cassette between the vacuu... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7244033 | Moistureproof optical device An optical device includes a first optical element including an incidence plane on which light from an object is incident, the incidence plane being in contact with the surrounding environment; a main body having an inside and housing the first optical element such ... | 07/17/2007 |
