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PURPOSE:To produce a urethane-modified polysaccharide which has new properties, functions, and applications. CONSTITUTION:A urethane-modified polysaccharide is produced by reacting a polysaccharide or its deriv. with an isocyanate compd. in a polar aprotic solvent in the presence of a catalyst at 50-200 deg.C, pref. 60-150 deg.C, for 1-30hr, pref. 2-20hr, to thereby react at least part of the hydroxyl groups of the polysaccharide or its deriv. with the isocyanate compd. The solvent must carefully be selected, and dimethylformamide, hexamethylphosphoric triamide, and N- methylpyrrolidone are usable. Pref. catalysts are dibytyltin dilaurate and a mixture thereof with triethylenediamine. The reaction temp. and time are determined by the types of solvent and catalyst.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the file size of updated firmware not limited to the case of the size being less than the storage capacity of a nonvolatile memory, and also to make the version of firmware which can be updated may not limited to the version of the firmware stored in the nonvolatile memory. SOLUTION: An electronic equipment operating with loading exchangeable consumables is loaded with: (a) a consumables version information holding part for holding the version information of firmware read from an information medium of the consumables loaded in the self equipment; (b) a self-equipment version information holding part for holding the version information of the firmware used now by the self equipment; (c) a version information comparison part for comparing the version information of the consumables with the version information of the self equipment; and (d) an update message notice part for making the message for urging the update of the firmware indicated in the information display of the self equipment or other one. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent unevenness on a print surface from being generated owing to a density difference when an image is formed, and to improve a surface state when an image protective layer is formed so as to improve image quality. SOLUTION: A dye of a thermal transfer sheet 15 is thermal-transferred to a recording medium 14, and an protective layer 15f is formed on an formed image. In this step, a carrying speed at a time when the dye of the thermal transfer sheet 15 is transferred to the recording medium 14, is made higher than that when the protective layer of the thermal transfer sheet is transferred to the recording medium 14. An amount of thermal energy applied when the protective layer is formed is thereby made larger than that when the image is formed. Hence, the unevenness on the print surface is prevented from being generated owing to the density difference when the image is formed, and the surface state when the image protective layer is formed is improved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a recording liquid excellent in discharge stability and having high optical density, free from bleeding of boundaries and unevenness of mixed color and enabling high-quality recording even if multi-color recording of characters, images, etc., is carried out on a plain paper and provide a recording method using the recording liquid. SOLUTION: The recording liquid comprises water, a coloring material, an organic solvent and a surface active agent. The surface active agent is composed of specific ethylene oxide/propylene oxide/ethylene oxide block copolymer, ethylene oxide/butylene oxide/ethylene oxide block copolymer or propylene oxide/ethylene oxide/propylene oxide block copolymer. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the various problems caused by contamination by ink remaining on a surface of the recording head of an inkjet recorder. SOLUTION: This inkjet recorder is equipped with an inkjet recording head 3 having a nozzle sheet 2 including a plurality of ink ejection nozzles 1 formed thereon. A hydrophilic layer 2a is formed on the surface of the nozzle sheet 2 and a liquid-absorptive cleaning means 4 adapted to clean the surface of the nozzle sheet 2 is provided to the inkjet recorder. The hydrophilic layer is of an ultra hydrophilic layer, such as a TiO 2 layer having a photocatalyst function. The inkjet recorder has a light emitting device for emitting a light on the surface of the nozzle sheet 2. The liquid absorptive cleaning means 4 is preferably in a type of a liquid absorptive cleaning roll. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively conduct advertisement by correlating a printer with advertisement. SOLUTION: A printer 30 is selectively installed with at least a first ink cartridge 50 having a standard price, and a second ink cartridge 60 having a low price. The type of the installed ink cartridge is discriminated. A license key which allows to use the printer 30 during a predetermine period, and advertisement information are obtained by accessing a server 10. When the installation of the second ink cartridge 60 is detected and the license key allows to use printer 30, the printer 30 prints the information. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To indicate correctly the residual amount of an ink ribbon and also to prevent printing with a faulty ink ribbon. SOLUTION: A magnetic layer 12 is formed on a thermal transfer ink ribbon 4 held in an ink ribbon cassette, by applying magnetic coating on the ribbon, and the printable number of times by the ink ribbon 4 is recorded magnetically in the magnetic layer 12 beforehand. In every execution of printing, a microcomputer 22 acquires the previous executed number of times of printing recorded in the magnetic layer 12 of the ink ribbon cassette 8, through a magnetic head 18 and a reproduction circuit 23, and after adding 1 to the executed number of times of printing, records the number in the magnetic layer 12 through a recording circuit 20 and the magnetic head 18. Besides, it reads the printable number of times from the magnetic layer 12 likewise and indicates the difference of this number from the executed number of times of printing in a liquid crystal display device 25, as the residual amount of the ink ribbon 4. Printing is not conducted when the executed number of times of printing reaches the printable number of times.
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PURPOSE: To obtain the subject dye having specifically combined substituent groups, having good magenta color hue and excellent light resistance and useful for image formation due to sublimation type thermal transfer recording. CONSTITUTION: This diazahemicyanine-based hydrophobic cation dye is expressed by the formula (R to R are each a lower alkyl; R is a lower alkyl or a lower a alkoxy-lower alkyl; Z is a counter ion having a hydrophobic cation dye). The dye is obtained by diazotizing 3-aminotrizole to afford a diazonium salt, carrying out coupling of the diazonium salt with an aniline derivative under ice cooling and alkylating the coupling product, reacting the alkylated product with a salt to exchange the counter ion with the hydrophobic group. Furthermore, this thermal transfer ink ribbon comprising a substrate and an ink layer laminated thereon can be obtained by including the dye into an ink layer.
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PURPOSE: To improve the light resistance of an obtained dye image by conducting sublimation thermal transfer recording using a thermal transfer ink sheet which uses a hydrophobic cationic dye as a sublimation dye and a thermal transfer image receiving sheet having a dye accepting layer containing an interlayer compound which can hold the hydrophobic cationic dye by intercalation. CONSTITUTION: In a thermal transfer image receiving sheet in which a dye accepting layer 2 containing an interlayer compound which can hold a hydrophobic cationic dye by intercalation and a binder polymer is formed on a support 1, a multivalent metal salt of a salicylic acid derivative is contained in the dye accepting layer, or in a thermal transfer ink sheet in which an ink layer containing a hydrophobic cationic dye is formed on a base material, a multivalent metal salt of a salicylic acid derivative is contained in an ink layer.
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PURPOSE: To prevent strike-through at the time of preservation and background staining at the time of thermal transfer in a thermal transfer ink sheet using a hydrophobic cation dye in its ink layer. CONSTITUTION: In a thermal transfer ink sheet wherein an ink layer 3 containing hydrophobic cation dye is provided on a sheet like base material 2, an adsorbing and holding agent of the hydrophobic dye is added to the ink layer 3. As the adsorbing and holding agent of the hydrophobic cation dye, spherical silicone, clayey mineral, Al2 O3 , SiO2 or TiO2 is used.