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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189022 | Thermal head, thermal printer, and manufacturing method for thermal head To improve print quality, a plurality of heating resistors (14) are arranged with spaces therebetween on a heat storage layer (13) laminated on a surface of a supporting substrate (11) via an adhesive layer (12) made of an elastic materia... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8189021 | Thermal head manufacturing method, thermal head, and printer A thermal head manufacturing method comprises a concave portion forming step of forming a concave portion on one surface of a supporting substrate, a bonding step of bonding a thin plate glass to the one surface of the supporting substrate where the concave portion ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8169452 | Thermal head and printer A thermal head has a heat storage layer bonded onto a surface of the substrate, a heating resistor provided on the heat storage layer, and a pair of electrode portions connected to the heating resistor. The heating resistor has a heating portion which does not overl... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8098268 | Thermal head and printing device A thermal head includes a glass layer provided with a groove section formed inside the glass layer, a heat generating resistor disposed outside the glass layer, and a pair of electrodes provided to both sides of the heat generating resistor, wherein a part of the he... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7852361 | Heating resistance element component and printer Provided is a heating resistance element component, including: a supporting substrate; an insulating film laminated on the supporting substrate; a plurality of heating resistors formed on the insulating film, the plurality of heating resistors being arranged in a zi... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7352381 | Thermal print head A thermal print head (A1) has main heat producing resistor sections (31) formed on a substrate (1) and arranged in the main scan direction (X) at predetermined intervals; auxiliary heat producing resistor sections (32) provided with a pre... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7324126 | Thermal head including bonding pads having irregular surfaces formed by forming irregularities on underlayer A thermal head includes a large number of heating resistors disposed at a regular interval, individual conductors individually connected to each of the heating resistors, and common conductors connected to each of the heating resistors in common, the individual cond... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7278351 | Plate-making method and plate-making apparatus for stencil printing and stencil printing machine A plate-making method for stencil printing in which heat-sensitive stencil plate material for stencil printing consisting of a thermoplastic resin film is melted by heating of a thermal head to perforate an ink permeable openings includes forming recesses on one sid... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7164104 | In-line heater for use in semiconductor wet chemical processing and method of manufacturing the same An in-line heater for use in semiconductor wet chemical processing comprises a single crystal alumina substrate, a resistive heating element disposed on the single crystal alumina substrate, and a protective layer disposed over the resistive heating element. The sin... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7110015 | Thermal printing device and methods for manufacturing the same A thermal printing device includes a substrate, an insulation layer on the substrate, and a plurality of microheaters on the insulation layer. Two adjacent ones of the microheaters are separated by a trench. Each of the microheaters includes a body having a heating ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7009778 | Imaging optical system, image display apparatus and imaging optical apparatus An imaging optical system images a one-dimensional image on an image surface by regarding as an object a light modulator element which has light modulator parts arranged one-dimensionally in a first direction, and regarding a bundle of rays from the light modulator ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003248 | Liquid image formation apparatus and liquid developing device An excess toner removal area is made broader over the whole area with respect to a developer applied area that is broader than an image effective area. Thereby a liquid developer, that tends to spread slightly broader than the applied area after being applied to a p... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6947700 | Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus Since a fluorine treatment or the like is applied on a surface of an intermediate transfer belt (10), and thus, the surface bears water repelling property, when fixer (92) is supplied from a fixing apparatus (90) to surface parts of the intermed... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6753893 | Thermal head and method for manufacturing the same A thermal head has a longitudinal substrate; a heat-retention layer made of a heat-retaining material, having at least a sticking-out section lying on one main surface of the substrate in a longitudinal direction at a constant width; a heating-resistor member made o... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6744454 | Method and apparatus for reducing uneven use of heating elements on thermal print head A method of reducing uneven use of a series of heating elements a color image print smaller than the size of the receiver medium and leave a non-image non-color margin area along at least one side of the color image print; and using other ones of the heating element... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6549690 | Resistor array with position dependent heat dissipation A thermally actuated fluidic optical switching circuit that includes a heater substructure having heater resistors and thermally conductive regions associated with the heater resistors and configured to tailor the thermal characteristics of the heater sub... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6485129 | Thermal head and ink transfer printer using same Thermal line head includes an electrically-insulated base member, plural sets of at least two electric resistance elements formed on a surface of the base member and aligned with each other, and a driver circuit that selectively and electrically energizes... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6460454 | System for making heat-sensitive stencil master A heat-sensitive stencil master making system includes a thermal head having an array of a number of heater elements which extends in a main scanning direction substantially perpendicular to a sub-scanning direction in which the thermal head is moved rela... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6448992 | Voltage programmable power dissipater Apparatus herein provides for a chosen level of power dissipation of a resistor, for example, the heating element of a thermal head assembly. The resistance of the resistor changes upon a change in temperature thereof, for example, due to increased flow o... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6366305 | Thermal stencil making method A stencil is made by thermally perforating a stencil material by the use of a thick film thermal head. The thermal head includes an electrical insulating substrate and a glaze layer superposed on a heat radiating plate in this order, a resistance heater f... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6362846 | Thermal stencil making apparatus A stencil is made by thermally perforating a stencil material by the use of a thick film thermal head. The thermal head includes an electrical insulating substrate and a glaze layer superposed on a heat radiating plate in this order, a resistance heater f... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6320604 | Multi power type thermal head A multi power type thermal head which has a heating element for producing heat with different energies, an added resistor being connected to the heating element, first switch element for controlling the heating element in an operation state or a nonoperat... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6278430 | Thermosensitive display device A thermosensitive display device including a thermosensitive material applied in a thin layer, and an array of resistors arranged on a thin flexible film. Each one of said resistors has a thin planar configuration and extends in the plane of said flexible... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6276272 | Stamp plate producing apparatus for producing stamp plate used in a stamp device Disclosed is the stamp device 11 in which the average pore diameter of the porous base plate used for the stamp plate 1 and the processed stamp plate 10 is set in a range of 10 μm-40 μm, the hardness of the stamp surface 2 is set in a range of 20°-50°... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6215510 | Thick film type thermal head A thick film type thermal head for thermally perforating a stencil material in an imagewise pattern to make a stencil is moved along the stencil material in a sub-scanning direction while energizing a plurality of heater elements arranged in an array exte... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6133929 | Melting type thermal transfer recording device and melting type thermal transfer recording method A melting type thermal transfer recording system capable of providing multi-gradation images of high resolution and high image quality comparable to those of ink jet recording system or sublimation type thermal transfer recording system is disclosed which... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6130698 | Heat transfer printer A heat transfer printer which produces an image on a sheet by heating an ink member in accordance with image data and thereafter transfers a transparent overcoat material on the image formed. The heat transfer printer is provided with a thermal head havin... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6130697 | Thermal master making device A thermal master making device includes a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements arranged in an array in the main scanning direction. The thermal head is caused to contact a stencil including a thermoplastic resin film. While the master is fe... | 10/10/2000 |
| 5969743 | Thermal head A thermal head comprises a number of heating elements arranged on an electrically insulating substrate as a straight line and a plurality of driver ICs which are electrically connected to the heating elements so as to control generation of heat at the res... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5933166 | Ink-jet printhead allowing selectable droplet size A thermal ink-jet printhead includes ejectors wherein a heating surface is disposed within a channel retaining liquid ink. The heating element within each ejector includes a converter for converting applied electrical energy to heat energy, and a distribu... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5825395 | Thermal head A thermal head having an array of a predetermined number of heating elements, wherein the length of the heating elements in the feed direction is set at a value which is in the range of from 2 to 3.5 times the feed pitch in the feed direction. Thus, when ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5685222 | Control device for a thermosensitive stencil printer A control device for a thermosensitive stencil printer which is capable of perforating a stencil in an optimal configuration matching a desired resolution in the subscanning direction and thereby producing desirable images. The device allows perforations ... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5652611 | Optical scanning system and image forming apparatus employing same for electrophoto graphically forming images An optical scanning system includes a first lens for receiving a light beam from a light source and allowing the light beam to pass therethrough, and a polygon mirror having at least one reflection surface for deflecting the light beam from the first lens... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5592209 | Device and method for dot-matrix thermal recording Provided is a device which can form favorable perforated images corresponding to the resolution of the thermal head, reproduce faithful printed images for all kinds of original picture images, avoid ink transfer, and adapt itself to different environmenta... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5485193 | Thermal head including at least one paralellogrammatic resistor A thermal head comprises a plurality of parallelogrammatic resistors for generating heat formed on an insulated substrate made of, such as ceramics or alumina. The resistors are aligned at regular intervals, and one pair of opposite sides of each resistor... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5483274 | Thermal head and thermal transfer apparatus A thermal head is used on a thermal transfer recording apparatus which can record a continuous, fine line or curve by recording many dots, by a thermal transfer system, on a recording sheet. The thermal head comprises a one-dimensional array of heat gener... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5481287 | Liquid jet recording head having a plurality of heating elements and liquid jet recording apparatus having the same A liquid jet recording head includes a liquid path communicating with a discharge opening through which a liquid is discharged; a plurality of heating elements disposed in the liquid path, each of the heating elements having a different minimum power requ... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5415090 | Method for manufacturing a printing master using thermosensitive stencil paper A method of manufacturing a printing master by forming perforations in a thermosensitive stencil paper. Thermal energy is applied by a thermal head to the stencil paper, the other side of the paper being free from contact with any other element at a locat... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5384585 | Thermal stenciling device A thermal stenciling device in which the heat generating elements are sized to create optimal perforations based upon the type of stencil paper such that the ink does not bleed, produce back images or incompletely dry upon use and a method for determining... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5289203 | Thermal head A thermal head comprising a plurality of heating resistor elements disposed in a row. Each of the resistor element has a rectangular window formed in a center portion of the element. A slit is formed in the resistor element along a direction perpendicular... | 02/22/1994 |
