1. A method for the surface treatment of titanium dioxide TiO2 pigment particles, comprising the steps:
a) adding an aluminium component and a phosphorus component to a TiO2 suspension while the pH value of the suspension is maintained at a value greater than or equal to 10; and then
b) adding an acid component to the suspension until the the pH value is less than 9 and then;
c) adding an alkaline aluminium compound to the suspension, wherein an acid compound is added in parallel to keep the pH value of the suspension relatively constant in the range from 4 to 9 during the addition of the alkaline aluminum compound.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein in Step a), water-soluble aluminium Compounds are used as the aluminium component and inorganic phosphate compounds or phosphoric acid are used as the phosphorus component.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein in step b), an acid or an acid-reacting salt is used as the acid component.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein a pH value of at least 10.5 is maintained during step a).
5. The method of claim 4, wherein a pH value of at least 11 is maintained during step a).
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising,
d) adding a mixture to the suspension in a final step, the addition of the mixture resulting in a pH value of roughly 6 to 7 of the suspension.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein pigment particles resulting from steps a through c consist of from 2.0% to 9.0% by weight of aluminum component, wherein the weight of the aluminum component is calculated as weight of Al2O3.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein pigment particles resulting from steps a through c consist of from 4.0% to 6.0% by weight of aluminum component, wherein the weight of the aluminum component is calculated as weight of Al2O3.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein an inorganic layer is applied to the surface of particles in the suspension after step c).
10. The method of claim 1 wherein pigment particles resulting from steps a through b, consist of from 2.0% to 9.0% by weight of aluminum component wherein the weight of the aluminum component is calculated as weight of Al2O3.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein pigment particles resulting from steps a through b consist of from 4.0% to 6.0% by weight of aluminum component, wherein the weight of the aluminum component is calculated as weight of Al2O3.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein pigment particles resulting from steps a through b consist of from 1.0% to 5.0% by weight of phosphorous component, wherein the weight of the phosphorous component is calculated as weight of P2O5.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein pigment particles resulting from steps a through b consist of from 1.5% to 3.5% by weight of phosphorous component, wherein the weight of the phosphorous component is calculated as weight of P2O5.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein pigment particles resulting from steps a through b consist of from 2% to 3% by weight of phosphorous component, wherein the weight of the phosphorous component is calculated as weight of P2O5.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein metal salt solutions selected from the group consisting of Ce, Ti, Si, Zr and Zn are added to the suspension in step a) together with the Al component and the P component.
16. The method of claim 1, wherein an inorganic layer is applied after step b).
17. The method of claim 1, wherein the pigment particles resulting from steps a through c are treated with nitrate in so that finished pigment particles contain up to 1.0% by weight NO3.
18. The method of claim 1, further comprising applying an organic substance to the surface of pigment particles produced in steps a through c during a final milling step.
19. The method of claim 1, wherein the acid compound added in step c) is aluminum sulfate.
20. The method of claim 1, wherein a first inorganic layer is applied to the surface of particles in the suspension alter step b), and wherein a second inorganic layer is applied to the surface after step c).
21. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
d) adding the suspension to a suspension of fibers for providing a decorative laminating paper.
22. A method for the surface treatment of titanium dioxide TiO2 pigment particles, comprising the steps of:
a) adding an aluminium component and a phosphorus component to a TiO2 pigment suspension while the pH value of the suspension is maintained at a value greater than or equal to 10; and then
b) adding aluminum sulphate to the suspension until the the pH value of the suspension is less than 9; then,
c) adding an alkaline aluminium compound to the suspension, wherein an acid is added in parallel to keep the pH value of the suspension relatively constant in the range from 4 to 9 during the addition of the alkaline aluminum compound; then
d) adding a sodium aluminatealuminium sulphate mixture to the suspension to bring the pH value to roughly 6 to 7; then
e) separating solid pigment particle components from the suspension and washing away water soluble salts; then
f) treating the separated and washed pigment particle components with nitrate in so that finished pigment particles contain up to 1.0% by weight NO3.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. An electronic apparatus which is capable of communicating with at least one external apparatus, and for which maximum power consumption by all of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus is determined in advance, comprising:
a storage unit configured to store a list indicating jobs planned to be executed by respective ones of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus, and indicating that an order in which the jobs planned to be executed are executed is an order in which the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus have received the jobs;
an order determination unit configured to, based on the list stored in said storage unit, determine whether the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list;
a receiving unit configured to receive, from any one of the at least one external apparatus, a completion notification indicating that the job executed by the external apparatus has been completed;
an obtaining unit configured to obtain power consumption from all of the at least one external apparatus when said order determination unit determines that the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list, and said receiving unit receives the completion notification; and
an execution unit configured to execute the job planned to be executed when a sum of total power consumption of the at least one external apparatus obtained by said obtaining unit and power consumed when the electronic apparatus executes the job planned to be executed is smaller than the maximum power consumption.
2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the list is updated when the electronic apparatus receives the job, and upon receiving notification that any one of the at least one external apparatus has received the job from this external apparatus.
3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the list includes status information indicating statuses of the jobs planned to be executed and indicating that the jobs are being currently executed, and
the status information in the list is updated when the electronic apparatus starts executing the job planned to be executed, and upon receiving notification that any one of the at least one external apparatus starts executing another job planned to be executed from this external apparatus.
4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein when the electronic apparatus receives the job, the at least one external apparatus is notified that the job has been received, and when the electronic apparatus starts executing the job planned to be executed, the at least one external apparatus is notified that execution of the job planned to be executed has been started.
5. A control method for an electronic apparatus which is capable of communicating with at least one external apparatus, and for which maximum power consumable by all of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus is determined in advance, and has a storage unit that stores a list indicating jobs planned to be executed by respective ones of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus, and indicating that an order in which the jobs planned to be executed are executed is an order in which the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus have received the jobs, comprising:
an order determination step of, based on the list stored in the storage unit, determining whether the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list;
a receiving step of receiving, from any one of the at least one external apparatus, a completion notification indicating that the job executed by the external apparatus has been completed;
an obtaining step of obtaining power consumption from all of the at least one external apparatus when it is determined in said order determination step that the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list, and the completion notification is received in said receiving step; and
an execution step of executing the job planned to be executed when a sum of total power consumption of the at least one external apparatus obtained in said obtaining step and power consumed when the electronic apparatus executes the job planned to be executed is smaller than the maximum power consumption.
6. The control method according to claim 5, wherein the list is updated when the electronic apparatus receives the job, and upon receiving notification that any one of the at least one external apparatus has received the job from this external apparatus.
7. The control method according to claim 6, wherein the list includes status information indicating statuses of the jobs planned to be executed and indicating that the jobs are being currently executed, and
the status information in the list is updated when the electronic apparatus starts executing the job planned to be executed, and upon receiving notification that any one of the at least one external apparatus starts executing another job planned to be executed from this external apparatus.
8. The control method according to claim 7, wherein when the electronic apparatus receives the job, the at least one external apparatus is notified that the job has been received, and when the electronic apparatus starts executing the job planned to be executed, the at least one external apparatus is notified that execution of the job planned to be executed has been started.
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a control method for an electronic apparatus which is capable of communicating with at least one external apparatus, and for which maximum power consumable by all of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus is determined in advance, and has a storage unit that stores a list indicating jobs planned to be executed by respective ones of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus, and indicating that an order in which the jobs planned to be executed are executed is an order in which the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus have received the jobs, the control method comprising:
an order determination step of, based on the list stored in the storage unit, determining whether the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list;
a receiving step of receiving, from any one of the at least one external apparatus, a completion notification indicating that the job executed by the external apparatus has been completed;
an obtaining step of obtaining power consumption from all of the at least one external apparatus when it is determined in the order determination step that the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list, and the completion notification is received in the receiving step; and
an execution step of executing the job planned to be executed when a sum of total power consumption of the at least one external apparatus obtained in the obtaining step and power consumed when the electronic apparatus executes the job planned to be executed is smaller than the maximum power consumption.
10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9, wherein the list is updated when the electronic apparatus receives the job, and upon receiving notification that any one of the at least one external apparatus has received the job from this external apparatus.
11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 10, wherein the list includes status information indicating statuses of the jobs planned to be executed and indicating that the jobs are being currently executed, and
the status information in the list is updated when the electronic apparatus starts executing the job planned to be executed, and upon receiving notification that any one of the at least one external apparatus starts executing another job planned to be executed from this external apparatus.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein when the electronic apparatus receives the job, the at least one external apparatus is notified that the job has been received, and when the electronic apparatus starts executing the job planned to be executed, the at least one external apparatus is notified that execution of the job planned to be executed has been started.