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20080198514 | Magnetoresistive device, magnetic head, magnetic storage apparatus, and magnetic memory - A CPP-type magnetoresistive device includes a magnetization pinned layer, a magnetization free layer, and a non-magnetic layer provided between the magnetization pinned layer and the magnetization free layer. At least one of the magnetization free layer and the magnetization pinned layer is formed of CoFeGe, and the CoFeGe has a composition falling within a range defined by line segments connecting coordinate points A, B, C, and D in a ternary composition diagram where the point A is (42.5, 30, 27.5), the point B is (35, 52.5, 12.5), the point C is (57.5, 30.0, 12.5), and the point D is (45.0, 27.5, 27.5), and where each of the coordinate points is represented by content percentage of (Co, Fe, Ge) expressed by atomic percent (at. %). | 08-21-2008 |
20090141410 | CURRENT-PERPENDICULAR-TO-THE-PLANE STRUCTURE MAGNETORESISTIVE ELEMENT AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME AND STORAGE APPARATUS - An electrically-conductive or insulating non-magnetic intermediate layer is inserted between a free magnetic layer and a pinned magnetic layer in a current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) structure magnetoresistive element. At least one of the free magnetic layer and the pinned magnetic layer is made of a nitrided magnetic metal alloy. This nitrided magnetic layers allows the CPP structure magnetoresistive element to enjoy an increased magnetoresistance change (ΔRA). In addition, the saturation magnetic flux density (Bs) decreases in a nitrided magnetic metal alloy. The inversion of magnetization is thus easily caused in the low Bs magnetic layer. The detection sensitivity of the CPP structure magnetoresistive element is improved. The CPP structure magnetoresistive element is thus allowed to detect magnetic bit data with higher accuracy. | 06-04-2009 |
20120149395 | MOBILE DEVICE, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A mobile device includes: a location detecting unit configured to detect a location of the mobile device; an operation instructing unit configured to instruct a user to perform a specific operation when the location detecting unit detects a specific location; an operation detecting unit configured to detect the specific operation of the user; a determining unit configured to determine whether the specific operation has been performed at the specific location; and a status changing unit configured to change a status of the mobile device when the determining unit determines that the specific operation has been performed at the specific location. | 06-14-2012 |
20130176247 | INPUT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TOUCH POSITION CALCULATION - An input device includes an acquisition unit to acquire touch region information including position coordinates of a plurality of sensors in a touch screen and a sensed value of each sensor, a first calculation unit to calculate a shape of a touch region based on the touch region information, and a second calculation unit to calculate a detected touch position detected as a touch position based on the shape. | 07-11-2013 |
20150070302 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PROGRAM - In an electronic device, a processor determines whether there is one touch region or two or more touch regions touched in a first region existing in an outer periphery portion excluding a central portion of a touch panel. Then, in a case where it is determined that there is one touch region, the processor validates the touch operation. In a case where it is determined that there are two or more touch regions, the processor invalidates the touch operation. | 03-12-2015 |
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20100238222 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printing apparatus and an inkjet printing method are realized which can improve a print quality while minimizing the volume of waste ink, running cost and throughput degradations. For this purpose, the scan width is set according to the size and position of the print medium and then, based on that scan width, a location where the preliminary ejections are to be executed and the number of times that the preliminary ejection is to be executed in a single preliminary ejection session are determined. | 09-23-2010 |
20110057973 | INK JET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INK JET PRINTING METHOD - The present invention provides an ink jet printing apparatus and an ink jet printing method in which even with a variation in ink ejection amount depending on an image print area, the ink ejection amount for preliminary ejection can be optimally set. For this purpose, a print area is divided into a plurality of areas, and the number of ink ejections through a nozzle is measured for each of the areas. Based on the number of ink ejections for each area, the number of ink ejections for the preliminary ejection is determined. | 03-10-2011 |
20110310159 | INKJET APPARATUS AND METHOD OF JUDGING REPLACEMENT TIMING FOR COMPONENTS OF THE APPARATUS - In an inkjet apparatus using an inkjet head ejecting multiple types of inks different in viscosity after evaporation of solvent, a replacement timing for a component is judged by using a consumption amount of each type of ink and a generation rate in amount of ink droplets. Accordingly, in the case of using a large amount of ink strongly susceptible to fixed adhesion and increase in viscosity, the component is replaced at an earlier timing, which prevents fixed adhesion from influencing the print performance and the printing apparatus main body. By contrast, in the case of using a large amount of ink less susceptible to fixed adhesion and increase in viscosity, the component is replaced at a later timing and thus can be used until reaching its lifetime. | 12-22-2011 |
20110310160 | INKJET APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR JUDGING REPLACEMENT TIMING FOR COMPONENTS OF THE APPARATUS - In an inkjet apparatus capable of ejecting an ink and a treatment liquid for insolubilizing or coagulating a color material in the ink, a replacement timing for a component of the apparatus is judged based on both the consumption amounts of the ink and treatment liquid measured when the two are consumed together and the consumption amount of the ink measured when the ink is consumed alone. Thus, the component is replaced at an earlier timing when the influence of fixed adhesion is great due to frequent ejection of both of the ink and treatment liquid, which prevents fixed adhesion from influencing the print performance and the printing apparatus main body. By contrast, when the fixed adhesion slowly develops because of less-frequent ejection of both of the ink and treatment liquid, the component is replaced at a later timing and thus can be used until reaching its lifetime. | 12-22-2011 |
20120026230 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS - This invention prevents a possible color mixing, that may occur more than a predetermined time after the wiping operation, by executing a pre-printing cleaning ejection while at the same time minimizing the amount of waste ink produced by the cleaning ejection. To this end, if a color mixing is determined as being likely to occur an elapsed time after the previous wiping operation, the pre-printing cleaning ejection uses a second ink volume U, which represents both the color mixing elimination ink volume and the ejection failure elimination ink volume. If it is decided that there is no likelihood of the color mixing occurring the elapsed time after the wiping operation, the pre-printing cleaning ejection uses the first ink volume D which represents only the ejection failure elimination ink volume. | 02-02-2012 |
20130050337 | INKJET PRINTING APPARATUS AND INKJET PRINTING METHOD - An inkjet printing apparatus and an inkjet printing method are realized which can improve a print quality while minimizing the volume of waste ink, running cost and throughput degradations. For this purpose, the scan width is set according to the size and position of the print medium and then, based on that scan width, a location where the preliminary ejections are to be executed and the number of times that the preliminary ejection is to be executed in a single preliminary ejection session are determined. | 02-28-2013 |
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20090247688 | THERMOPLASTIC ELASTOMER COMPOSITION - A thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising from 35 to 50 parts by mass of a hydrogenated block copolymer (a) having a weight-average molecular weight of from 70000 to 120000, from 30 to 50 parts by mass of a rubber softener (b) and from 5 to 25 parts by mass of a polystyrene-based resin (c) having a weight-average molecular weight of from 100000 to 400000 [provided that the total of (a), (b) and (c) is 100 parts by mass], wherein the hydrogenated block copolymer (a) is prepared by hydrogenating a block copolymer having at least two polymer blocks A mainly comprising a vinyl aromatic compound unit and at least one polymer block B mainly comprising a conjugated diene unit, and has a vinyl aromatic compound unit content of from 35 to 45% by mass, and at least 50% of the carbon-carbon double bonds derived from the conjugated diene in the polymer block B are hydrogenated. | 10-01-2009 |
20110245405 | HYDROGENATED BLOCK COPOLYMER AND COMPOSITION CONTAINING SAME - To provide a thermoplastic elastomer composition excellent in fluidity, compression set property, and flexibility, and a hydrogenated block copolymer that provides the composition. The hydrogenated block copolymer is obtained by hydrogenating a block copolymer which is obtained by reacting a living polymer represented by the following formula (1): | 10-06-2011 |
20120136114 | PROCESS FOR PRODUCING HYDROGENATED BLOCK COPOLYMER, HYDROGENATED BLOCK COPOLYMER OBTAINED BY THE PROCESS, AND COMPOSITION THEREOF - The present invention relates to a method for producing a hydrogenated block copolymer, including the steps of: (a) forming a block copolymer by allowing a living polymer having a specific structure to react with a tetra- or more functional silane coupling agent; (b) hydrogenating the block copolymer to form a hydrogenated block copolymer; (c) isolating the resultant hydrogenated block copolymer; and (d) deactivating a functional group in the silane coupling agent and/or an unreacted functional group present in a coupling agent residue in the block copolymer or the hydrogenated block copolymer prior to the step (c), in which the number of functional groups derived from the coupling agent in the hydrogenated block copolymer recovered in the step (c) is 1.5 or less per block copolymer molecule; a hydrogenated block copolymer obtained by the method; and a composition containing the hydrogenated block copolymer. | 05-31-2012 |
20120157615 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A HYDROGENATED BLOCK COPOLYMER, HYDROGENATED BLOCK COPOLYMER OBTAINED BY SAID PRODUCTION METHOD AND COMPOSITION THEREOF - The present invention relates to a method for producing a hydrogenated block copolymer, comprises the steps of: (a) forming a block copolymer by allowing a living polymer having a specific structure to react with a bis-silane coupling agent having a specific structure; (b) hydrogenating the block copolymer to form a hydrogenated block copolymer; and (c) isolating the resultant hydrogenated block copolymer, in which the number of functional groups derived from the coupling agent in the hydrogenated block copolymer isolated in the step (c) is 1.5 or less per block copolymer molecule; a hydrogenated block copolymer obtained by the method; and a composition containing the hydrogenated block copolymer. | 06-21-2012 |