Epson Patente

A cellulose-based material of the present disclosure includes cellulose having a crystallinity of 50% or less, and a coating material that coats hydroxy groups on a surface of the cellulose at a coverage of 0.1% or more and 20% or less, in which the coating material is at least one selected from the group consisting of an aliphatic compound, an aromatic compound, and a higher alcohol.

A radiation-curable ink jet ink composition according to an embodiment of the present disclosure contains a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator. The polymerizable compound contains a polyfunctional polymerizable compound. The photopolymerization initiator contains (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)bis(p-tolyl)phosphine oxide. The content of (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)bis(p-tolyl)phosphine oxide is 3% by mass or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition. The content of the polyfunctional polymerizable compound is 20% by mass or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.

A relay device can be connected to at least one peripheral device related to an accounting process. Upon receiving a control request to the peripheral device from a first terminal device configured to accept input related to the accounting process, the control unit can control the peripheral device with the first terminal device as a control entity. Upon receiving a control request to the peripheral device from a second terminal device configured to accept input related to the accounting process after the control according to the control request to the peripheral device from the first terminal device is completed, the control unit can control the peripheral device with the second terminal device as a control entity.

A metallic glass powder for use in powder bed fusion type additive manufacturing contains: Cr in a content of 10.0 atomic% or more and 20.0 atomic% or less; Mo in a content of 10.0 atomic% or more and 20.0 atomic% or less; C in a content of 10.0 atomic% or more and 20.0 atomic% or less; B in a content of 5.0 atomic% or more and 15.0 atomic% or less; and P in a content of 0.001 atomic% or more and 0.500 atomic% or less, with a balance being Fe and impurities, in which the metallic glass powder has an amorphous structure, and has a difference between a crystallization temperature Tx and a glass transition temperature Tg of 50°C or more and 80°C or less.

The image reading device of the present disclosure includes a transport section a read section 5 that reads an image on the medium; a control section 6 that processes the read image 14 and that controls transport of the medium, wherein the control section performs an abnormality determination process on the abnormality determination region 13, which is set for the leading edge region of the read image of the medium. The abnormality determination process includes a first step that involves processing the pixels of the read data contained in the abnormality determination region into a state that allows distinction between pixels in an intra-medium region 20 and pixels in an extra-medium region 21, a second step that acquires the maximum distance WL from the center position in the medium width direction to the one edge 24, and the maximum distance WR to the other edge 25, and a third step that determines whether an abnormality exists in the transport state based on each of the maximum distances.

A driver includes a pixel drive circuit configured to drive a pixel of an electro-optical panel by an output voltage corresponding to gradation data via an output terminal TQj, a pre-charge switch SWP having one end electrically coupled to the output terminal TQj, a plurality of pre-charge capacitors CP1 to CP8, each having one end electrically coupled to the other end of the pre-charge switch SWP, a pre-charge capacitor drive circuit configured to drive the other end of each of the pre-charge capacitors based on pre-charge data, and a control circuit configured to output the pre-charge data to the pre-charge capacitor drive circuit. During a pre-charge period, the control circuit turns on the pre-charge switch SWP, and sets the pre-charge data to predetermined data in which the signal supply line becomes a pre-charge voltage.

A method for producing a molded product (M3) includes:a first step of molding a material containing a cellulose derivative into a molded body (M2), anda second step of performing temperature control in which a molded product (M3) is produced by maintaining the molded body (M2) produced in the first step within a predetermined temperature range for a predetermined time t,wherein, when the phase transition point of the molded body is A(°C), the temperature range in the second step is A-10°C or more and A+50°C or less.

A print system is a print system including a print apparatus and an information processing apparatus, in which the print apparatus includes a conveying portion, a print unit, and a print control unit, performs printing on a product region by printing a product image on a label based on a print job, and performs printing on an information region to be aligned with the product region in a conveying direction by printing a character string on the label based on the print job, the information processing apparatus includes an information control unit, the print job includes product image data indicating the product image, cut data indicating a cut frame, and character string data indicating the character string, and the print control unit or the information control unit determines whether the character string fits in the cut frame based on the print job, and when the character string does not fit in the cut frame, changes a print form of the character string so as to fit in the cut frame.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a display method including displaying, with a display apparatus, a first image indicating a position, on a projection surface in a first captured image, of a feature portion serving as a mark of the projection surface extracted based on the first captured image acquired by imaging the projection surface with an imaging apparatus in a first period and displaying, with the display apparatus, a second image indicating a position, on the projection surface in a second captured image, of a feature portion serving as a mark of the projection surface extracted based on the second captured image acquired by imaging the projection surface with the imaging apparatus in a second period later than the first period.

A clasp includes a coupling member having an engaged portion, and a clasp main body. The clasp main body includes an engagement member configured to move to an engagement position and a release position, an operation member configured to move the engagement member from the engagement position to the release position, and a lock device configured to move to an operation restriction position and an operation permission position. The engagement member is configured to be engaged with the engaged portion without operating the operation member in a state in which the engagement member is not engaged with the engaged portion, and the engagement is released by moving the engagement member to the release position by the operation member in a state in which the engagement member is engaged with the engaged portion. When the lock device is moved to the operation restriction position, the engagement member is restricted from moving to the release position by the operation member. The operation member includes a projection portion configured to protrude toward the engagement member side.

A piezoelectric element includes: a lower electrode; a piezoelectric layer having a perovskite structure that includes K and Na in an A-site and includes Nb in a B-site; an upper electrode; and a seed layer having a perovskite structure that includes a first element in an A-site and includes a second element in a B-site and configured to control an orientation of the piezoelectric layer, in which the lower electrode, the seed layer, the piezoelectric layer, and the upper electrode are arranged in this order along a lamination direction, in the piezoelectric layer, the first element and the second element decrease with gradients from bottom to top along the lamination direction, and a degree of the gradient of the first element in the piezoelectric layer is smaller than a degree of the gradient of the second element in the piezoelectric layer.

A strap holding mechanism includes: a strap that includes a first pin extending in a width direction, the first pin being provided at an end portion of the strap on a side on which the strap is engaged with a case; a holding member that holds the strap by being engaged with the first pin; and an intermediate member that supports the holding member and that is attached to the case or is provided to be integrated with the case. The intermediate member includes an introduction groove into which the first pin is insertable, an accommodation recess portion that accommodates the holding member, and an attachment member that attaches the holding member to the accommodation recess portion to be movable between a fixation position at which the holding member fixes the first pin to the introduction groove and an attachment and detachment position at which the holding member enables removal of the first pin inserted into the introduction groove, the first pin is engaged with the holding member when the first pin is inserted into the introduction groove, and the attachment member is disposed with respect to the intermediate member in a direction intersecting a direction of movement of the holding member between the fixation position and the attachment and detachment position.

A drying device includes a conveyance section configured to convey a medium onto which liquid has been ejected, a first heating section configured to heat the medium conveyed by the conveyance section, and a second heating section provided further upstream in a conveyance direction of the medium than the first heating section and configured to heat the medium conveyed by the conveyance section. The first heating section heats the medium with an infrared ray or a heating wire. The second heating section includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed to surround the first electrode in plan view from a first direction facing the medium, a first conductor including a coil and configured to electrically couple a transmission line capable of transmitting a high-frequency voltage and the first electrode, and a second conductor configured to electrically couple the transmission line and the second electrode.

A physical quantity sensor includes a package; a spacer; and a physical quantity sensor unit that is fixed to the package via the spacer, in which when a direction in which the spacer and the physical quantity sensor unit overlap is set as a first direction and a direction orthogonal to the first direction is set as a second direction, the physical quantity sensor unit includes a support substrate provided with a first anchor and a second anchor that are disposed to be separated in the second direction, a first movable portion fixed to the first anchor, and a second movable portion fixed to the second anchor, the spacer overlaps the first anchor and the second anchor in a plan view from the first direction, and when a width of the physical quantity sensor unit in the second direction is set as Wx1 and a width of the spacer in the second direction is set as Wx2, a relationship of 58% ≤ Wx2/Wx1 ≤ 88% is satisfied.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a data transmission method including displaying, with a display device different from a projection device and connected to a first information processing device, at least four adjustment points for adjusting a display range or a display shape of an image projected from the projection device onto a target, executing, with the first information processing device, processing of dividing a polygon in which the at least four adjustment points are connected to one another into at least two triangles, and transmitting, with the first information processing device, coordinate data indicating coordinates of vertices of each of the at least two triangles to a second information processing device different from the first information processing device and configured to control the projection device.

A dial includes a metallic base, a metal layer formed at a surface of the base, an intermediate layer disposed on a surface side of the metal layer and having light transmittance, and a first dot layer partially disposed on a surface side of the intermediate layer. The first dot layer has a plurality of first metal dots formed by ink jet printing using a metal nano ink containing a first metal, and a first metal film made of a second metal different from the first metal and formed at a surface side of the first metal dot.

A drying device includes a heating section configured to heat a medium onto which liquid is ejected and a first contact section configured to come into contact with the medium between the heating section and the medium. The heating section includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed to surround the first electrode in plan view from a first direction facing the medium, a first conductor including a coil and configured to electrically couple a transmission line capable of transmitting a high-frequency voltage and the first electrode, and a second conductor configured to electrically couple the transmission line and the second electrode. A drying method by the drying device includes a drying step of drying an image region of the medium on which an image is recorded and a preheating step of heating the first contact section before the drying step.

In a medium conveyance apparatus (1), a separation section (11) includes a second torque limiter (212) that couples a first separation roller (201) and a second separation roller (202) in a width direction, a limit torque value of the second torque limiter is a second torque value smaller than a first torque value derived from a limit torque value of a first torque limiter (211), the second separation roller can co-rotate with a second feeding roller (102) when torque larger in value than the second torque value is applied, the second torque value is larger than a torque difference between torque applied to the first separation roller and torque applied to the second separation roller generated when there is no difference in rotation speed between a first feeding roller (101) and the second feeding roller, and is smaller than a torque difference between torque applied to the first separation roller and torque applied to the second separation roller generated when there is a difference in rotation speed between the first feeding roller and the second feeding roller.

A method of manufacturing a fabric for clothes includes: a defibrating step of defibrating a raw material in a dry condition to produce fibers; a mixing step of mixing a treatment agent having elasticity with the fibers obtained in the defibrating step to produce a mixture; a depositing step of depositing the mixture in air on a fabric to be a first layer having air permeability and elasticity to produce a web to be a second layer; and a forming step of forming the laminated fabric and web by heating and pressurizing.

A projector according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a light source configured to output illumination light containing first color light and second color light, a light combiner, a light modulator configured to modulate light incident from the light combiner to generate image modulated light, a light separator configured to separate the image modulated light into image generating light and image non-generating light, an image forming unit configured to modulate the image generating light to generate image light, a projection optical apparatus configured to project the image light, a light guide system configured to guide the image non-generating light to the light combiner, and a polarization converter disposed in an optical path between the light combiner and the light modulator and configured to align polarization directions of the light incident from the light combiner, the illumination light output from the light source being light polarized in a first polarization direction with respect to the light combiner, the image non-generating light caused to be incident on the light combiner by the light guide system being light polarized in a second polarization direction perpendicular to the first polarization direction with respect to the light combiner, being combined with the illumination light at the light combiner, and being caused to be incident on the light modulator.

A method is decorating a timepiece component in which a base made of a metal is decorated by irradiating a surface of the base with a pulse laser while relatively moving a laser irradiation portion and the base. The method includes scanning the surface while irradiating the surface with the pulse laser to process a first processing region of the surface, and scanning the surface while irradiating the surface with the pulse laser to process a second processing region that overlaps a part of the first processing region when viewed from a first direction that is a vertical direction with respect to the surface. The second processing region is located on an inner side of end portions of the first processing region R1 when viewed from the first direction.

A real-time clock device includes a clocking circuit that generates time information, a memory circuit, a processing circuit that records impact log information based on a plurality of pieces of acceleration data and the time information in a retention period of an impact log in the memory circuit when it is determined that an impact event has occurred based on an acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor, and an interface circuit that outputs the impact log information recorded in the memory circuit.

A print setting device includes: a reception unit that receives print jobs for printing a print region, and a front region and a rear region adjacent to the print region on a front side and a rear side in a conveyance direction of a print medium; and a display unit that displays a collective setting unit for collectively performing settings related to both a process of changing a length of a first rear region, which is a rear region of a first print job, and a process of changing a length of a second front region, which is a front region of a second print job, with respect to the first print job and the second print job which are the print jobs continuously printed on the print medium.

A projector includes a light source; and a light modulator configured to modulate light output from the light source. The light modulator includes a liquid crystal layer, a light-incident-side substrate located on a light incident side of the liquid crystal layer, a light-exiting-side substrate located on a light exiting side of the liquid crystal layer, the light-exiting-side substrate and the light-incident-side substrate sandwiching the liquid crystal layer, a light-incident-side dustproof substrate that is a light transmissive substrate and located on a light incident side of the light-incident-side substrate, a light-exiting-side dustproof substrate that is a light transmissive substrate, and located on a light exiting side of the light-exiting-side substrate, the light-exiting-side dustproof substrate and the light-incident-side dustproof substrate sandwiching the liquid crystal layer, the light-incident-side substrate, and the light-exiting-side substrate, and a temperature control unit configured to control a temperature of the liquid crystal layer. A size of the light-incident-side dustproof substrate in a plan view is greater than a size of the light-incident-side substrate in the plan view when viewed from a light incident side of the light modulator. The temperature control unit is in contact with the light-incident-side dustproof substrate.

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a transport section that transports a medium, an ejection section that ejects liquid to the medium, a residual vibration detection circuit that acquires a residual vibration signal corresponding to residual vibration generated in the ejection section and outputs a residual vibration detection signal corresponding to the residual vibration signal, a first conversion circuit that includes a comparison circuit and outputs a comparison result signal in which a logic level changes according to a comparison result between a voltage value of the residual vibration detection signal and a reference voltage value, a second conversion circuit that includes an A/D conversion circuit and outputs a detection voltage signal obtained by converting the residual vibration detection signal into a digital signal, and a determination circuit that determines a state of the ejection section, and the determination circuit includes a first determination mode in which the state of the ejection section is determined according to the comparison result signal, and a second determination mode in which the state of the ejection section is determined according to the detection voltage signal.

A liquid receiving section of a recording device wherein assuming that a plurality of ribs provided in the first region are a first upstream rib, a first midstream rib, and a first downstream rib from upstream to downstream of a transport path, assuming that a plurality of ribs provided in the second region positioned on both sides of the first region are a second upstream rib, a second midstream rib, and a second downstream rib from upstream to downstream, a height of the first upstream rib is equal to or higher than a height of the first midstream rib and higher than a height of the first downstream rib, and a height of the second upstream rib is equal to or higher than a height of the second midstream rib and higher than a height of the second downstream rib.

There is provided a robot including: a robot arm including a first arm and a second arm that is coupled to the first arm and rotates around a first rotation axis with respect to the first arm, in which the first arm includes a shaft along the first rotation axis and a mounting portion that is disposed on the shaft and detachably coupled to the second arm, the second arm has a notch-shaped shaft insertion hole into which the shaft is inserted from a radial direction of the shaft and which positions the shaft with respect to the second arm, and the shaft is coupled to the second arm via the mounting portion and rotates with respect to at least one of the first arm and the second arm in a state in which the shaft is positioned by the shaft insertion hole.

A liquid ejection device includes a liquid storage section (40) configured to store liquid and to supply to the liquid ejection section (20); a mount section (50) on which a liquid accommodation body (30) that contains liquid is mounted; a transfer section (60) that transfers the liquid from the liquid accommodation body to the liquid storage section via the mount section; and a control section, wherein the control section is configured to execute a transfer mode when a first remaining amount, which is the amount of liquid in the liquid accommodation body, becomes equal to or less than a first threshold value, the transfer mode being a mode in which the liquid in the liquid accommodation body is transferred to the liquid storage section until a second remaining amount, which is the amount of liquid in the liquid storage section, reaches a second threshold value and re-execute the transfer mode when, after the transfer mode has been executed and before the liquid accommodation body is replaced, the second remaining amount becomes equal to or less than a third threshold value, which is smaller than the second threshold value.

A recording device 10 includes a recording section 18 that records on a medium; a head control section 90 that controls the recording section 18; a frame 101 that is located between the recording section 18 and the head control section 90 and that divides an arrangement region of the recording section 18 from an arrangement region of the head control section 90; and a first cable 111 electrically coupling the recording section 18 and the head control section 90, wherein the head control section 90 is attached to the frame 101, the head control section 90 includes a first board 91 and a second board 92, and the first board 91 and the second board 92 are arranged such that at least part of a face 93 of the first board 91 and of a face 93 of the second board 92 face each other.

A set of an ink jet composition and a cleaning liquid, for use in an ink jet textile printing recording apparatus, in which the cleaning liquid contains a glycol ether compound, a polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether compound, and water, the ink jet composition contains resin particles and water, the cleaning liquid has a surface tension of 40 mN/m or less at 25°C, and the cleaning liquid is used for cleaning a fabric transport member of the ink jet textile printing recording apparatus.

A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a sink circuit that switches, in accordance with a result of determining states of a plurality of ejection sections by a state determination circuit, an impedance value between first wiring through which a reference voltage signal to be supplied to a second end of a first piezoelectric element and a second end of a second piezoelectric element propagates and second wiring through which a signal having an electrical potential lower than an electrical potential of the reference voltage signal propagates. The sink circuit has a first mode in which the impedance value is set to a first impedance value, a second mode in which the impedance value is set to a second impedance value less than the first impedance value, and a third mode in which the impedance value is set to a third impedance value less than the second impedance value.

A watch component includes a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction including a component in the first direction and located on a first direction side with respect to the first surface, and a coupling portion which couples the first surface and the second surface, in which the first surface has a pattern formed by laser processing.

A molding management system for managing production of a product performed by an injection molding apparatus includes an information processing device, and the information processing device acquires cycle data from the injection molding apparatus for each cycle of performing injection molding, the cycle data including, for each of N types of actual values controlled by the injection molding apparatus, actual value information indicating a corresponding type of actual value as cycle-related information obtained in response to execution of the cycle by the injection molding apparatus and including first date-and-time information indicating a date and time when the cycle data is acquired from the injection molding apparatus, and in response to a first operation that is received, displays, on a display unit, an change tendency information display image for displaying, for each of one or more pieces of actual value information designated among the N pieces of actual value information included in the cycle data, any one of a plurality of types of change tendency information indicating a change tendency of the actual value indicated by a corresponding piece of the actual value information, and the actual value information in association with each other, N being an integer of two or more.

A medium transport device 1 includes a switching section 100 that switches a transport direction of a medium P in a transport path and a door section 17 that is configured to open and close with respect to an opening section 18, and that is configured to be displaced between a closed state in which the door section 17 covers the switching section 100 by closing the opening section 18 and an opened state in which the door section 17 exposes the switching section 100 as viewed from the opening section 18 by opening the opening section 18, wherein the switching section 100 is displaced to a switching position where the switching section 100 switches the transport direction of the medium P when the door section 17 is in the closed state, and is displaced to an opening position where the switching section 100 opens the transport path when the door section 17 is in the opened state and a through hole H is formed in the switching section 100.

A printing control method includes calculating a feature value for each of a plurality of target pixels included in a captured image obtained by imaging a medium on which a pattern is formed, classifying each of the plurality of target pixels into any one of a plurality of feature value clusters based on the feature value, classifying the plurality of feature value clusters into a pattern cluster or a background cluster based on a predetermined condition, acquiring a pattern region for the pattern in the captured image by comparing, based on a result of the classification into the pattern cluster or the background cluster, the captured image and a pattern image concerning the pattern formed on the medium, correcting, based on a shape of the pattern region, as a corrected print image, a print image to be printed to be superimposed on the pattern formed on the medium, and printing the corrected print image on the medium.

A control unit (30) executes causing a pretreatment liquid ejecting unit (14) to eject pretreatment liquid to a feature region of a first surface of a medium corresponding to a feature point of a first image or a feature point of a second image, causing an ink ejecting unit to eject ink onto the first surface of the medium, onto the feature region of which the pretreatment liquid has been ejected, to thereby print the first image on the first surface, causing an imaging unit to image the medium, on which the first image is printed, from a second surface that is a surface opposite to the first surface, and correcting, based on a captured image and the feature point of the first image or the feature point of the second image, the second image to be printed on the second surface.

A piezoelectric element includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the first electrode and containing potassium, sodium, and niobium, and a second electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer, wherein the piezoelectric layer includes a first layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second layer disposed on the first layer, the piezoelectric layer includes a first region including a first interface between the first layer and the second layer, and a second region located inside the first layer without including the first interface, and a molar ratio of potassium to sodium in the first region is higher than the molar ratio in the second region.

A method of manufacturing a fabric for clothes includes a defibrating step of defibrating a raw material in a dry condition to produce fibers, a mixing step of mixing an additive with the fibers obtained in the defibrating step to produce a mixture, an accumulation step of accumulating the mixture in air on a fabric to be a first layer having air permeability to produce a web to be a second layer, a forming step of stacking the fabric and the web and forming by heating and pressurizing, an attaching step of attaching a fabric to be a third layer to at least one of the first layer and the second layer, and a coating step of coating the third layer with a treatment agent for improving a warmth retaining property.

A printing apparatus includes an endless transport belt configured to transport a recording medium, a drive unit configured to circulate and rotate the transport belt, a heating unit, a printing unit configured to perform printing on the recording medium, and a control unit, in which the control unit is selectable between a first mode where an aqueous pressure-sensitive adhesive applied to the transport belt is heated by the heating unit to form a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer at the transport belt in a state where the transport belt is being circulated and rotated without holding the recording medium, and a second mode where the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is heated by the heating unit and printing is performed by the printing unit on the recording medium held by the transport belt in a state where the transport belt is being circulated and rotated.

A recording device 1 includes a transport belt that includes an adhesive layer configured to adhere a fabric and that transports the fabric adhered to the adhesive layer; a recording section that performs recording by ejecting pigment ink onto the fabric being transported; an application section that applies, to the adhesive layer, a first washing liquid having a characteristic of swelling the adhesive layer; and a washing mechanism that is arranged ahead of the application section in a traveling direction of the transport belt and that washes the adhesive layer with a second washing liquid not having the characteristic.