14th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 18 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110081092 | METHOD OF STORING DATA ON A PHOTOGRAPH - A method of storing data on a photograph containing an image includes the steps of: delimiting a plurality of data block regions on the photograph; compressing data representing the image contained in the photograph with a compression technique; redundantly encoding the compressed data using Reed-Solomon encoding techniques; shuffling the redundantly encoded compressed data in a deterministic manner to reduce potential effects of localized encoded data damage to the image of said photograph; and printing the shuffled data as dots within the data block regions on the photograph. The printing of the shuffled data is performed simultaneously with a printing out of the image of the photograph. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081093 | IMAGE CODING METHOD WITH TEXTURE SYNTHESIS - Method for coding using a technique for synthesis of images and image regions exploiting a synthesis algorithm that operates on a set of patches, this operation carried out through the intermediary of a low resolution image, comprising the following steps:
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20110081094 | IMAGE RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT - The invention relates to upscaling of images such as upscaling of video images from standard definition to high definition. An input image is upscaled to a resolution enhanced image ( | 2011-04-07 |
20110081095 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A characteristic image detection interpolation unit performs interpolation processing for increasing the luminance value in low-luminance area which is partly present in an input image. A minimum value filter unit executes minimum value filter processing on an image subjected to the interpolation processing, and a lowpass filter performs lowpass filter processing on the image subjected to the minimum value filter processing, thereby generating a low-frequency component image. A subtracter generates a high-frequency component image by subtracting the low-frequency component image from the input image. Coefficient multiplier adds the luminance value of the high-frequency component image to the input image by a preset ratio K | 2011-04-07 |
20110081096 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE NOISE REDUCTION - A device and method for removing noise in image are disclosed. A device for removing noise in image includes a signal delay part outputting arrangement of image delay signals generated by delaying input image signals in a predetermined time period, a pixel difference calculating part calculating pixel difference between the input image signal and the image delay signal and calculating a weighing factor applied to the pixel difference based on the calculated pixel difference by a non-linear function, a signal to noise ratio (SNR) measuring part converting the input image signals into frequency signals and calculating a weighing factor for each of the converted frequency signals to output a parameter of signal to noise ratio, and a pixel difference weighing factor generating part generating a weighing factor applied to a final pixel difference to remove noise by applying a range of the weighing factors calculated by the pixel difference calculating part to the weighing factor of the signal to noise ratio output by the SNR measuring part. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081097 | IMAGE PRODUCTION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, IMAGE PRODUCTION METHOD, AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - An image production device includes a flash determination section, a frame information adder and an addition controller. The flash determination section is configured to determine whether or not image data included in an image data group are affected by flash. The frame information adder is configured to add frame information used for identifying the image data affected by flash to the image data. The addition controller is configured to control the frame information adder to add the frame information to the image data affected by flash, on the basis of the determination result of the flash determination section. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081098 | METHOD OF CORRECTING DISTORTION OF SCANNED IMAGE - A method of correcting distortion of a scanned image, the method including; providing a reference chip wherein positions of a plurality of spots and a gap region between the plurality of spots are defined, scanning the reference chip to obtaining a scanned image of the reference chip by scanning the reference chip, measuring distortion in the scanned image of the reference chip, preparing a biochip where a second plurality of spots are arrayed in a complementary form to the distortion and obtaining a scanned image of the biochip. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081099 | Personnel Security Screening System with Enhanced Privacy - The present invention is directed towards processing security images of people subjected to X-ray radiation. The present invention processes a generated image by dividing the generated image into at least two regions or mask images, separately processing the at least two regions of the image, and viewing the resultant processed region images either alone or as a combined image. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081100 | USING A PIXEL OFFSET FOR EVALUATING A PLANE EQUATION - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique controlling the pixel location at which the plane equation is evaluated. Multiple pixel offsets (dx, dy) may be specified that each define to a sub-pixel sample position. Attributes are then calculated for each sub-pixel sample position that is covered by a geometric primitive. One advantage of the technique is that anti-aliasing quality may be improved since high frequency color components may be selectively supersampled for particular geometric primitives. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081101 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DISPLAYING MULTIMEDIA DATA - A method and a device for displaying multimedia data are provided. According to the method, the device can operate in a music priority mode and a picture priority mode to simultaneously play music and display pictures according to human emotional feelings. In the music priority mode, a display effect and a display speed for displaying pictures matches with a played type of music. In the picture priority mode, a display effect and a display speed for displaying pictures match with picture content, and a played type of music matching with the picture content is selected and played while the pictures are being displayed. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081102 | RECYCLING BAG - A recycling bag includes a bag body having a top open side, two cover flaps extended from the bag body at two opposite sides relative to the top open side of the bag body, each cover flap having a hand hole, and two magnetic rings respectively fixedly fastened to the cover flaps around the hand hole of each cover flaps and attractable to each other by means of magnetic attraction. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081103 | Drawstring Trash Bag - The present invention is directed toward a drawstring trash bag. The drawstring trash bag features an upper opening with a first and second hem extending along the upper opening of the bag. A first drawstring is disposed within the first hem while a second drawstring is disposed within the second hem of the bag. The first drawstring and the second drawstring have different elastic properties. Both drawstrings may be pulled through cut-outs that are centrally located on the respective first and second panels along the upper opening. The elastic drawstring preferably has an elastic recovery percentage that is at least 10 points greater than the elastic recovery percentage of the non-elastic drawstring. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081104 | SLIDE ASSEMBLY - A slide assembly includes first and second slides and a ball bearing device mounted between the first and second slides to allow smooth sliding movement of the first slide in the second slide. The first slide includes a vertical wall and upper and lower, first rails extending horizontally from upper and lower ends of the vertical wall of the first slide in the same direction. Each of two ends of the vertical wall of the first slide includes an actuation piece extending toward the second slide. The second slide includes a vertical wall and upper and lower, second rails extending horizontally from upper and lower ends of the vertical wall of the second slide toward the first slide. A protrusion is formed on each of two ends of each of the upper and lower, second rails and extends toward the upper and lower, first rails of the first slide. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081105 | CYLINDRICAL ROLLER BEARING - A guide piece | 2011-04-07 |
20110081106 | MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THIN COMPONENT, BEARING RING, THRUST NEEDLE ROLLER BEARING, MANUFACTURING METHOD OF ROLLING BEARING RING, ROLLING BEARING RING, AND ROLLING BEARING - A manufacturing method of a thin component is characterized by heating a thin component, and thereafter, while sizing with molds and using molds as cooling media, performing one of quenching and isothermal transformation processes on thin component. Thus, a manufacturing method of a thin component without warping or deformation in heat treatment with even and high hardness, a bearing ring, a thrust needle roller bearing, a manufacturing method of a rolling bearing ring, a rolling bearing ring, and a rolling bearing can be obtained. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081107 | OPTICAL MODULATOR AND OPTICAL TRANSMITTER - An optical modulator including: a substrate which has electro-optic effect; a Mach-Zehnder optical interferometer which is formed in the substrate and which includes a first waveguide and a second waveguide; a signal electrode which applies an electrical field to the Mach-Zehnder optical interferometer through being supplied with an electric signal corresponding to a signal for optical modulation; a ground electrode formed apart from the signal electrode; and a conductor section which is narrow in a middle thereof along the light propagating direction and which gradually becomes wider towards the starting end and the terminating ends thereof along the light propagating direction in an interacting portion at which the electric field applied by the signal electrode interacts with light propagating through the first waveguide and the second waveguide. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081108 | Wavelength Interleaver - The present invention provides a wavelength interleaver comprising a first interleaving unit, a second interleaving unit and an adapting waveguide coupled between the first interleaving unit and the second interleaving unit; both the first interleaving unit and the second interleaving unit including an input waveguide, an output waveguide and a filter coupled between the input waveguide and the output waveguide, the input waveguide of the first interleaving unit receiving an optical input signal with a particular wavelength for coupling to the filter of the first interleaving unit and outputting a first interleaving signal from the output waveguide of the first interleaving unit; the input waveguide of the second interleaving unit receiving the optical input signal through the adapting waveguide for coupling to the filter of the second interleaving unit and outputting a second interleaving signal from the output waveguide of the second interleaving unit. The gap width between the input waveguide and the filter of the first interleaving unit is a first gap width and the gap width between the filter and the output waveguide of the first interleaving unit is a second gap width, wherein one of the first gap width and the second gap width is greater than a jumping threshold gap width, and the other one of the first gap width and the second gap width is less than the jumping threshold gap width. The gap width between the input waveguide and the filter of the second interleaving unit is a third gap width and the gap width between the filter and the output waveguide of the second interleaving unit is a forth gap width, wherein both the third and forth gap widths are greater or less than the jumping threshold gap width. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081109 | NANOPARTICLE ARRAY PHOTONIC WAVEGUIDE - A nanoparticle array photonic waveguide, a photonic transmission system and a method of photonic transmission compensate for optical loss in an optical signal through stimulated emission using an optical gain material in a core of composite nanoparticles. The nanoparticle array photonic waveguide includes a plurality of the composite nanoparticles arranged adjacent to one another in a row. A composite nanoparticle of the plurality includes a shell and a core. The shell includes a negative dielectric constant material that is capable of supporting an optical signal on a surface of the shell. The core is adjacent to a side of the shell opposite to the shell surface. The core includes an optical gain material (OGM) that is capable of providing optical gain to the optical signal through stimulated emission within the OGM. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081110 | Fiber Spectroscopic Probe Mountable On a Microscope - A fiber spectroscopic probe that can be mounted directly above the objective lens of a standard microscope to add a spectroscopic function to the microscope. The fiber spectroscopic probe only consists of a minimum number of optical components and is compact enough to induce minimum alteration to the optical path of the microscope. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081111 | Fiber Spectroscopic Probe Mountable On a Microscope - A fiber spectroscopic probe that can be mounted directly above the objective lens of a standard microscope to add a spectroscopic function to the microscope. The constructed microscope with fiber spectroscopic probe is suitable for micro-sampling, Raman analysis, as well as fluorescence analysis and can be easily reconfigured for different excitation/detection wavelengths. The fiber spectroscopic probe only consists of a minimum number of optical components and is compact enough to induce minimum alteration to the optical path of the microscope. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081112 | OPTICAL MODULE - In an optical module, an optical element array is an array of optical elements. Further, a lens array is an array of a plurality of lenses. An output point of a light beam of each optical element of the optical element array is caused to coincide with a central line of a corresponding lens of the lens array, and the light beam is made incident on the lens and a parallel beam is output from the lens. When the output point of the light beam of the optical element coincides with an optical axis of the lens, an optical path within the optical element and the optical axis of the lens fail to coincide with each other. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081113 | Fiber Optic Connector Assembly and Methods Therefor - A fiber optic connector assembly includes two connectors on fiber optic cables joined together by a clip having a trigger arm and a clip body. The trigger arm extends from the clip body at a shallow angle. The shallow angle of the trigger arm effectively reduces an amount of normal force required to activate latch mechanisms on the connectors. The clip is sandwiched between a connector housing and a boot, inhibiting the clip from axially translating relative to the connector assembly. The clip further includes an anti-rotation system to inhibit rotation of the connector assembly relative to the clip. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081114 | COMMUNICATIONS MODULE INTEGRATED BOOT AND RELEASE SLIDE - One embodiment includes an integrated boot and release slide having a release slide and a boot. The release slide includes a main body, a plurality of arms, and a plurality of coupling structures. The arms extend from a first end of the main body. The coupling structures extend from a second end of the main body opposite the first end. The boot is overmolded over the coupling structures of the release slide and defines a cavity configured to slidably receive a communications cable. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081115 | METHOD TO ASSEMBLE AND POLISH A CONNECTOR WITH OPTICAL FIBER THAT HAS AIR-GAPS OR "VOIDS" IN ITS CLADDING - A method for assembling a fiber optic connector that includes heating an end of a cleaved fiber, inserting the end of the cleaved fiber into a ferrule until the end protrudes from the ferrule, wherein a first portion of the heated end protrudes from the ferrule and a second portion of the heated end remains in the ferrule, fixing the fiber in place in the ferrule, and polishing the end of the cleaved fiber. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081116 | OPTICAL-FIBER CONNECTION UNIT, AND OPTICAL CONNECTOR AND OPTICAL ADAPTER USED THEREIN - Provided is an optical-fiber connection unit in which a split sleeve ( | 2011-04-07 |
20110081117 | Fiber Optic Light Source Adapter - A light source adapter to mechanically interconnect a light box and a fiber optic cable. The adapter engages the light box and defines an interior cavity to receive a ferruled fiber optic cable. The exterior surface of the ferrule comprises a circumferential ridge and groove that reversibly interacts with a spring inside the adapter cavity. The spring is biased to require sufficient force to insert or remove the ferrule. The geometry of the circumferential ridge or groove can optionally be modified to increase or decrease the amount of force required to effect insertion or removal of the ferrule inside the cavity. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081118 | OPTOELECTRONIC INTERCONNECTION MODULE - An optoelectronic interconnection module capable of performing optical signal transmission and electrical signal transmission, including a flexible optoelectronic interconnection board including an optical interconnection path, electrical wires and electrical connection terminals used for electrically connecting the electrical wires to an exterior at an end portion thereof, an optical semiconductor device mounted on a portion near one-end of the flexible optoelectronic interconnection board, and a bend portion provided in a lengthwise direction of the flexible optoelectronic interconnection board in parallel to a mounting region of the optical semiconductor device. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081119 | SIMPLIFIED AND SHORTENED PARALLEL CABLE - One embodiment includes a connector comprising a connector housing, a ferrule, and a crimp ring. The connector housing has inner and outer surfaces extending between forward and rear ends of the connector housing. The inner surfaces defined a passageway extending lengthwise between the forward and rear ends. The connector housing includes at least one protrusion formed on one of the outer surfaces that is configured to engage a corresponding connector engaging structure of an alignment guide to secure the connector housing within the alignment guide. The ferrule is configured to mount upon end portions of a plurality of optical fibers of a multi-fiber communication cable. The ferrule is disposed partially within the passageway. The crimp ring encompasses the rear end of the connector housing and is configured to secure the connector to the multi-fiber communication cable. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081120 | OPTICAL SUBASSEMBLY GROUNDING IN AN OPTOELECTRONIC MODULE - Optical subassembly grounding in an optoelectronic module. In one example embodiment, a conductive OSA grounding gasket assembly includes a top gasket and a bottom gasket. The top gasket includes a top shell surface and a top OSA surface. The top shell surface is configured to be in direct physical contact with a conductive top shell of an optoelectronic module. The top OSA surface is configured to make direct physical contact with a conductive housing of an OSA. The bottom gasket includes a bottom OSA surface and a bottom shell surface. The bottom OSA surface is configured to be in direct physical contact with the conductive housing of the OSA. The bottom shell surface is configured to make direct physical contact with a conductive bottom shell of the optoelectronic module. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081121 | METHOD OF CONNECTING USER DEVICES TO OPTICAL FIBRE UNITS CONTAINED IN AN OPTICAL CABLE - A method for connecting user devices to optical fiber units contained in an optical cable includes: providing an opening in a sheath of the optical cable to access the optical fiber units contained in the optical cable; extracting a segment of at least one optical fiber unit from the optical cable through the opening; inserting a free end of the extracted segment of optical fiber unit into a protection tube; making the protection tube slide on the extracted segment of optical fiber unit to insert an end portion of the protection tube, distal from the free end of the extract segment of the optical fiber unit, into the optical cable through the opening; positioning a closure element on the optical cable in correspondence of the opening so as to substantially realize a closure thereof; securing in a removable way the closure element to the optical cable and bringing the free end of the extracted segment of optical fiber unit in correspondence of a connection point of a user device. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081122 | OPTICAL FIBER CABLE WITH IMPROVED WATERPROOF PERFORMANCE - The present invention relates to an optical fiber cable with improved waterproof performance comprising: at least one tensile members; optical fiber units including at least one optical fiber cores; at least one buffer tube surrounding the optical fiber units; sheath covering the buffer tube and the tensile member to form a outer jacket of the cable, wherein a waterproof yarn is inserted longitudinally in the buffer tube with the optical fiber unit, and the thickness of the waterproof yarn is from 300 to 3,000 deniers, and tensile strength of the waterproof yarn is from 3 N to 150 N, and elongation rate of the waterproof yarn is from 5% to 45%, and water absorption rate of the waterproof yarn is at least 20 g/g. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081123 | MULTI-CLADDING FIBER - Multi-cladding optical fibers to be used in the context of fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers are described herein. Embodiments of optical fibers include a rare-earth doped core into which the signal field is to be amplified. The doped core is surrounded by multiple claddings that guide the pump field to be absorbed by the reactive core material. The first cladding has a depressed refractive index to improve high-order mode bending losses without incurring significant fundamental mode bending losses. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081124 | FIBER OPTIC SPLITTER MODULE - A telecommunications assembly includes a chassis and a plurality of fiber optic splitter modules mounted within the chassis. Each splitter module includes at least one fiber optic connector. Within an interior of the chassis are positioned at least one fiber optic adapter. Inserting the splitter module through a front opening of the chassis at a mounting location positions the connector of the splitter module for insertion into and mating with the adapter of the chassis. The adapters mounted within the interior of the chassis are integrally formed as part of a removable adapter assembly. A method of mounting a fiber optic splitter module within a telecommunications chassis is also disclosed. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081125 | EXCHANGE CABLING STORAGE APPARATUS - Please substitute the following amended Abstract for the Abstract as currently pending (deleted matter is shown by strikethrough and added matter is shown by underlining): | 2011-04-07 |
20110081126 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a drawing reading unit configured to read a drawn line on a display, an extraction target still image determination unit configured to determine a point for extracting a still image from moving image data according to a locus read by the drawing reading unit, a still image extraction unit configured to extract a still image from the moving image data based on a point determined by the extraction target still image determination unit, and a still image display unit configured to display a still image extracted by the still image extraction unit, on the locus of the display. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081127 | SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY FOR UTILIZING A PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYER CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS - A low-cost portable digital video player receives proprietary compressed data from a source such as a personal video recorder (PVR), and displays the data on an integral display. A rewritable non-volatile memory of the player stores the data and a media decoder of the player transforms and decompresses the data. According to one embodiment the decoder transforms the data to a non-proprietary format, prior to storing the data. According to a second embodiment, the memory stores the data in the proprietary format, and decoder transforms and decompresses the data in response to an instruction from a user input device, and transfers the decoded data to a display. A cradle for the player provides communications to the PVR, a power supply and optionally further storage capacity. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081128 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MOVING-IMAGE DATA THAT INCLUDES MODE INFORMATION, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD - A method of reproducing moving-image information recorded on a storage medium, including: reading mode information from the storage medium including an object of a first type for reproducing the moving-image information, an object of a second type for providing additional functions related to the moving-image information, and system data for controlling the reproduction of the object of the first and second types, including: information indicating an object to be automatically reproduced when the storage medium is loaded, menu information for displaying a menu, and title information for each object of the first type and the object of the second type, the title information including identification information of the corresponding object, the mode information indicating the type of the corresponding object, determining the type of an object to be reproduced based on the read mode information, and reproducing the object based on the result of the determination. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081129 | BROADBAND RECORDING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO AND/OR AUDIO PROGRAMS - A more efficient method of recording programs simultaneously is provided in one embodiment by translating certain bands of the RF spectrum and translating and or reordering the channel allocation into a (analog) spectrum of one or more lower intermediate frequency band(s). A recorder records the analog RF spectrum, which then is available for playback from the recorder. Programs contained in the played back RF spectrum are selectively extracted by means of a tuner and or demodulator for subsequent viewing, listening, or distribution. Alternatively, an RF signal is supplied to a recorder for recording or storage without translation. The recorder then plays back the RF signal to a tuner and or demodulator for display and or distribution. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081130 | OBSCURING DATA IN AN AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCT - Access to an audiovisual product is controlled by obscuring data. Cells | 2011-04-07 |
20110081131 | RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, PLAYBACK DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a recording device, a recording method, a playback device, a playback method, a recording medium, and a program that enable a recording medium, such as a BD, storing a stream of base image and a stream of extended image obtained by encoding video data of a plurality of viewpoints using a predetermined encoding method to be played in a device incompatible with playback of video data of a plurality of viewpoints. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081132 | VIDEO PROCESSOR, VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR VIDEO PROCESSING, VIDEO PLAYBACK DEVICE - A video processing apparatus acquires audio-visual environment information that indicates an audio-visual environment of a viewer that views video. The audio-visual environment information includes information of a display size of the video that is being viewed, information of brightness around a display apparatus that displays the video, and information of a distance between the viewer and the display apparatus. The video processing apparatus corrects, depending on information indicated by the audio-visual environment information, a basic reduction amount to reduce a quantity of motion of the video that is being played back, and processes the video with use of a corrected reduction amount. In the case where the display size is large, in the case where it is dark around, or in the case where the distance from the viewer to the display apparatus is short, the reduction amount to reduce a motion is set to be large. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081133 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A FAST CHANNEL CHANGE IN 3D VIDEO - Receiver receives a compressed 3D video comprising a base view video and an enhancement view video. The video receiver determines a random access that occurs at a two-view misaligned base view RAP to start decoding activities on the received compressed 3D video based on a corresponding two-view aligned random access point (RAP). The corresponding two-view aligned RAP is adjacent to the two-view misaligned base view RAP. Pictures in the received compressed 3D video are buffered for the two-view misaligned base view RAP to be decoded staring from the corresponding two-view aligned RAP. One or more pictures in the enhancement view video are interpolated based on the two-view misaligned base view RAP. The video receiver selects a portion of the buffered pictures to be decoded to facilitate a trick mode in personal video recording (PVR) operations for random access at the two-view misaligned RAP. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081134 | WATER HEATING UNIT WITH INTEGRAL THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE - A water heater is provided which includes a heat exchange unit including heat exchange pipes filled with a phase change material. The phase change material has a freezing/melting temperature from about 58° C. to about 62° C. The water heater provides significantly greater thermal energy storage than conventional water heaters, and the excess heating capacity may be used for residential heating applications by using the water heater in combination with a liquid to air heat exchanger. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081135 | Far Infrared Panel for Humid and Dry Environments - A far infrared panel for humid and dry environments includes a frame, a thin layer, a grounding circuit board, a cloth layer and a second layer. The thin layer includes a carbon membrane and a printed circuit board. Two wires are used to connect the carbon membrane with a control device. The grounding circuit board includes a grounding layer, a circuit board and a wire. The wire is used to connect the grounding circuit board with the ground. The second layer which has a crisscross pattern and a plurality of fixing devices are used to fixedly hold the thin layer, grounding circuit board and cloth layer in the frame. Therefore, the far infrared panel of the present invention may be used to raise the temperature of a sauna room swiftly and evenly and then can make users to sweat heavily. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081136 | COMBINED THERMAL DEVICES FOR THERMAL CYCLING - The invention relates to systems and methods including a combination of thermal generating device technologies to achieve more efficiency and accuracy in PCR temperature cycling of nucleic samples undergoing amplification. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081137 | MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD - There are provided a manufacturing apparatus and a manufacturing method for manufacturing a substrate having a dielectric film, including a heat treatment apparatus that subjects a substrate on which a raw material containing composite oxide is applied, to heat treatment and crystallization in an atmosphere containing oxygen in a volume ratio of 20% or above under pressure of an atmospheric pressure or above. The manufacturing apparatus may manufacture a substrate having a ferroelectric film used as an optical control device. The heat treatment apparatus may include: a chamber that keeps, in the atmosphere, the substrate on which the raw material is applied; and a pressure adjusting section that adjusts a pressure of the atmosphere in the chamber to a predetermined value for a predetermined time period during heat treatment. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081138 | HEATING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MICROFLUIDIC AND MICROMECHANICAL APPLICATIONS - An integrated semiconductor heating assembly includes a semiconductor substrate, a chamber formed therein, and an exit port in fluid communication with the chamber, allowing fluid to exit the chamber in response to heating the chamber. The integrated heating assembly includes a first heating element adjacent the chamber, which can generate heat above a selected threshold and bias fluid in the chamber toward the exit port. A second heating element is positioned adjacent the exit port to generate heat above a selected threshold, facilitating movement of the fluid through the exit port away from the chamber. Addition of the second heating element reduces the amount of heat emitted per heating element and minimizes thickness of a heat absorption material toward an open end of the exit port. Since such material is expensive, this reduces the manufacturing cost and retail price of the assembly while improving efficiency and longevity thereof. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081139 | HEATING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a heating apparatus. In the present invention, carbon nanotube heating elements for heat fluid flowing through a flow channel in a heating chamber are disposed at a heat transfer part and the contact area of the carbon nanotube heating elements and the heat transfer part is 50% or more of the contact area of the heat transfer part and the fluid. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to more efficiently heat the fluid. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081140 | PHOTO BOOTH AND IMPROVEMENTS THERETO - The present invention relates to a photo booth. The photo booth comprises a frame defining support members for a plurality of adjacent standing walls. The photo booth further comprises a plurality of flexible panels. Each panel is adapted to be affixed to corresponding support members of one of the plurality of walls. One side of each panel is adapted to reflect light. In an aspect, the photo booth further comprises photographic equipment including at least one light for installing in an aperture defined in one of the panels. In another aspect, at least one of the panels is translucent and comprises a marketing graphic on an opposite side, and upon actuation of the light, the marketing graphic is illuminated. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081141 | FOCUS ADJUSTING DEVICE, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, AND FOCUS ADJUSTMENT METHOD - A focus adjusting device in which, when a detecting unit that detects an object image to be focused from a picked up image is capable of detecting the object image to be focused, a setting unit that sets a focus detection area when a focused state of an image pickup optical system is detected sets a second focus detection area after setting a first focus detection area and in accordance with the position of the first focus detection area, corresponding to the object image that is detected by the detecting unit and that is to be focused. Then, on the basis of signal outputs at the set focus detection area, the image pickup optical system is driven to perform focus adjustment. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081142 | PULSED CONTROL OF CAMERA FLASH - Input from a user is received, to take a picture. A camera flash is signaled to produce multiple flash pulses during a single shutter cycle of the picture. The amplitudes of at least two of the flash pulses are different relative to each other. The picture is stored, including in its metadata information that describes the variable amplitude of the flash pulses that illuminated the scene when taking the picture. The information describing the variable amplitude of the flash pulses is used to deblur the picture. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081143 | ENHANCED CAMERA TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND METHOD - An enhanced camera transport system and method includes a strap and coupler. The coupler is configured to engage with an attachment point on a camera otherwise reserved by engagement with a camera stand such as a tripod, monopod, or the like. Following general camera construction, the attachment point is found on the bottom of the camera. In some implementations, the coupler is slideably attached to the strap to assist with repositioning of the camera from a transport position to a picture taking position. Other implementations include an enclosure for storage of the camera while not being used. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081144 | OPTICAL ELEMENT MODULE, OPTICAL NODE,OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - An optical element module, an optical node, an optical distribution system, and a management method are disclosed. The optical element module includes: at least one passive optical element, at least one fiber adapter, a power interface, and a state detecting unit, where the passive optical element is configured to distribute and/or process an optical signal that can proceed even without power supply; the fiber adapter is configured to connect a fiber connector and provide a fiber port to couple a fiber; the power interface is connected to a power cable or a power bus and configured to feed power from the power cable or power bus to the state detecting unit; and the state detecting unit, if powered, is configured to respond to a connection state change of the fiber in the fiber adapter and output a state indication that indicates the state of the fiber port. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081145 | DEVICE AND METHOD TO ALLOW FOR UNI-DIRECTIONAL TRAFFIC ON LOCAL AREA NETWORKS - A communication network access device is adapted for duplex communication and provides transmit and receive signal paths. A controllable socket is coupled to the transmit and receive signal paths and linked to a control interface for activating/deactivating the control interface. A pluggable module is coupled to the transmit and receive signal paths via the controllable socket in an activated status and to a transmission path carrying uni-directional signals. The module includes a first optical device and a splitter in the transmission path and is coupled to a second optical device via the splitter. The second optical device responds to a portion of uni-directional signals provided by the splitter for placing the communication access device in a link up condition for uni-directional signals provided by the first optical device to the transmission path serving an optical local area network. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081146 | OPTICAL MONITOR DEVICE - An optical monitor device includes a band pass filter configured to transmit a light of a band of a first input light, an optical switch configured to select between a second input light and the first input light transmitted through the band pass filter based on a switch signal, and output the selected light, a tunable filter configured to input a selected light from the optical switch and to transmit a specified wavelength based on a drive signal, a photodetector configured to output an electric signal according to a power level of transmitted light from the tunable filter, and a control unit configured to output the switch signal and the drive signal based on the electric signal. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081147 | Method for Characterizing Wavelength Switched Optical Network Signal Characteristics and Network Element compatibility Constraints for Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching - An apparatus comprising a path computation element (PCE) configured to perform a path computation using signal compatibility constraints information for a network element (NE) in a wavelength switched optical network (WSON), wherein the signal constraints information are communicated at a Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) control plane layer and comprise a plurality of signal attributes and a plurality of NE compatibility constraints. A network component comprising a transmitter unit configured to transmit signal compatibility constraints via GMPLS signaling, wherein the signal compatibility constraints define the signal compatibility constraints for a NE in a WSON. A method comprising receiving signal compatibility constraints for a NE in a WSON, performing a path calculation based on the signal compatibility constraints for the NE, and sending signal compatibility constraints associated with a computed path. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081148 | Method for Routing and Wavelength Assignment Information Encoding for Wavelength Switched Optical Networks - An apparatus comprising a network element (NE) configured to communicate at least one of signal constraints and processing capabilities for a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) associated with a network node in a wavelength switched optical network (WSON) node Type-Length-Value (TLV) and signal constraints and processing capabilities associated with a link in a WSON link TLV, wherein the WSON node TLV comprises a node identifier (ID), one or more Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) TLVs, a connectivity matrix TLV, and a resource pool TLV, and wherein the WSON link TLV comprises a link ID, one or more GMPLS TLVs, and a port wavelength restriction TLV. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081149 | PHOTONIC NETWORK PACKET ROUTING METHOD AND PACKET ROUTER FOR PHOTONIC NETWORK - A photonic network packet routing method includes the steps of optically encoding destination address information attached to an IP packet using light attributes, discriminating the encoded address information of the IP packet by optical correlation processing, switching to an output path for the IP packet based on a result of the discrimination, and outputting the IP packet labeled with prescribed address information on the output path selected by the switching step. A packet router for a photonic network includes a device for encoding by use of light attributes destination address information attached to an IP packet, a branching device for sending the IP packet having the encoded destination address information onto two paths, an address processing device for subjecting one IP packet received from the branching device to optical correlation processing and outputting a switch control signal based on a result of the discrimination, and a switch device for selectively outputting the packet by switching an output path of the other packet received from the branching device based on the address control signal from the address control device. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081150 | Clock Recovery Method for Polarization Multiplexed Coherent Optical Communications - An apparatus comprising a plurality of receivers each configured to receive a plurality of polarized signals, a voltage control oscillator (VCO) coupled to the receivers and configured to control timing and sampling frequency of the polarized signals, and a signal processing component coupled to the receivers and configured to update a plurality of weighted linear factors, wherein the polarized signals and the weighted linear factors are used to obtain a combined signal, and wherein the weighted linear factors are updated using a real part or an imaginary part of the combined signal. Included is a method comprising using a linear factor to combine a plurality of polarized optical signals to provide time recovery information, and updating the linear factor using a combination of the polarized optical signals. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081151 | Generation and Coherent Detection of High-Speed Orthogonal DWDM Optical Signal - A high speed orthogonal dense wavelength division multiplexing DWDM signal generator includes a multi-peak continuous wave signal generator responsive to a light source, an optical filter for separating multi-peaks of lightwaves from the generator; and a polarization multiplexing stage responsive to the multi-peaks of lightwaves from the optical filter for providing a polarization multiplexing optical signal. The generator includes a cascaded phase modulator and intensity modulator driven by a repetitive frequency (I) to generate multiple spectral peaks, each peak being modulated by an optical modulator driven by a respective baud rate (f baud/s) electrical signal. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081152 | High-Speed Receiver Architecture - A receiver (e.g., for a 10G fiber communications link) includes an interleaved ADC coupled to a multi-channel equalizer that can provide different equalization for different ADC channels within the interleaved ADC. That is, the multi-channel equalizer can compensate for channel-dependent impairments. In one approach, the multi-channel equalizer is a feedforward equalizer (FFE) coupled to a Viterbi decoder, for example a sliding block Viterbi decoder (SBVD); and the FFE and/or the channel estimator for the Viterbi decoder are adapted using the LMS algorithm. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081153 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING OPTICAL SIGNALS - The method includes: receiving a first Non Return to Zero (NRZ) data signal and a synchronous clock signal, and performing Return to Zero (RZ) processing to generate a first complementary RZ data signal pair; receiving a second NRZ data signal and a synchronous clock signal, and performing RZ processing to generate a second complementary RZ data signal pair; and modulating the first complementary RZ data signal pair and the second complementary RZ data signal pair on light to generate an RZ-Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (RZ-DQPSK) optical signal. Through the method and device, RZ processing are performed on the NRZ data signals to generate the complementary RZ data signal pairs, and the complementary RZ data signal pairs are modulated on the light, thereby reducing the cost and the insertion loss of the entire device, lowering the requirements for input optical power and reducing the complexity of loop circuit control. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081154 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING CONNECTOR CONNECTION STATE - An apparatus detecting connection states of connectors includes plural resistors having resistance values different from each other and connected in series to each other, in which sums of at least two resistance values selected from the plural resistance values are different from each other in all combinations of the plural resistance values, and are different from the resistance value of each of the resistors, plural first connectors provided correspondingly to the respective resistors, plural second connectors connected to the first connectors and including bypass lines which bypass the respective resistors when the second connectors are connected to the first connectors, and a controller to detect connection states of the second connectors to the first connectors based on a voltage value of a detection signal flowing through the resistors and the bypass lines. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081155 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable drum; charging means for charging the drum, the charging means including a first carrying member for carrying electroconductive magnetic particles and a second carrying member for carrying the magnetic particles, the second carrying member being disposed at a downstreammost position with respect to a rotational direction of the drum, wherein the magnetic particle is in contact with the drum while charging the drum; latent image forming means, disposed at a position downstream of the charging means, for forming a latent image on the drum; potential detecting means for detecting a surface potential of the drum, the potential detecting means being disposed downstream of the charging means and upstream of the latent image forming means; phase detecting means for detecting information relates to a rotational phase of the second carrying member; control means for controlling voltages applied to the first carrying member and to the second carrying member; and wherein the control means is capable of executing an operation in a control mode for controlling the voltages applied to the first carrying member and to the second carrying member, on the basis of a result of detection by the potential detecting means and a result of detection by the phase detecting means. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081156 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND FUSER UNIT - According to one embodiment, a fuser including, a first endless member into which fluid, which retains heat, can flow, a second endless member configured to apply pressure to the first endless member, a fluid moving mechanism configured to move the fluid to the first endless member and move the fluid from the first endless member, and a heat source configured to raise temperature of the first endless member to a predetermined temperature. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081157 | FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONNECTING WIRES IN FIXING DEVICE - A fixing device of belt fixing type is provided. A fixing device includes a connector to be connected to wires provided therein. The connector includes integrally primary-side wiring connector terminals to be connected to primary-side wires each leading to a heat generating resistor, and secondary-side wiring connector terminals to be connected to secondary-side wires including wires each leading to a heat generating element-side thermistor, the secondary-side wires flowing current smaller than the primary-side wires. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081158 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device fusing a developer transferred to a recording medium surface based on inputted print data includes a heat source, a fusion member supported in a freely rotatable manner and heated by the heat source, a pressure application member positioned to face the fusion member and pressing against the fusion member, a temperature detection device positioned to face the pressure application member and detecting a surface temperature of the pressure application member, and a temperature control part controlling a heating temperature by the heat source based on a detection result by the temperature detection device. The temperature control part selects a second set temperature that is lower than a preset first set temperature when the surface temperature of the pressure application member detected by the temperature detection device is less than a predetermined temperature, to control a temperature of the fusion member. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081159 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier member, an intermediate transfer member, a transfer unit, a cleaning unit, and a driving controller. The image carrier member carries a toner image. The toner image carried on the image carrier member is first-transferred to the intermediate transfer member. The transfer unit second-transfers the toner image first-transferred to the intermediate transfer member onto a recording medium. The cleaning unit removes residual toner on the intermediate transfer member after the second transfer. The driving controller changes a driving time of the intermediate transfer member after completion of image formation in accordance with information about a life of the intermediate transfer member. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081160 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER THEREOF - An image forming apparatus includes a power supply unit to generate DC power, a plurality of function units to perform the functions of the image forming apparatus, a control unit to control the operation of a plurality of function units, a switching unit to receive DC power of the power supply unit and switch power provided to the control unit and each of a plurality of function units, and a power management unit to receive DC power of the power supply unit and to control a switching operation of the switching unit according to an operation mode of the image forming apparatus. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081161 | CHARGING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A charging device is provided. A charging device includes a charging section and a discharge product adsorption removal section. The charging section includes a shield case having a shield opening, a discharge electrode, and a rotation shaft which is parallel to a rotation axis of a photoreceptor. The discharge product adsorption removal section has an adsorption layer that adsorbs a discharge product and is disposed downward in a vertical direction of the photoreceptor. The charging section is displaceable about an axial line of the rotation shaft from a position where the shield opening opposes to the photoreceptor to a position where the shield opening opposes to the discharge product adsorption removal section. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081162 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet, includes: a pair of panels which constitute a main body skeletal structure of the image forming apparatus and face each other; a main body skeletal structure shaft which connects between the pair of panels and is fixed to each of the pair of panels; and a unit which is installed between the pair of panels and needs positioning based on the main body skeletal structure shaft, wherein an exposed section which is provided on the main body skeletal structure shaft and serves as a measuring reference position for a measuring instrument when a positional relationship between the main body skeletal structure shaft and the unit is measured by use of the measuring instrument after completing assembling of the image forming apparatus. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081163 | Image forming apparatus - An image forming apparatus to achieve stable attachment/detachment of a developing device and stable power transmission while preventing contamination of the surroundings due to leakage of developer. The image forming apparatus includes a cover to be opened away from or closed to an upper surface of a body, and a drive device provided at a side of the developing device so as to be coupled with or released from the developing device and be moved in linkage with opening/closing of the cover. The developing device includes driven coupling members to be rotated upon receiving drive power from the drive device. The drive device includes driving coupling members engaged with the driven coupling members, and a moving member to horizontally move the driving coupling members according to the opening/closing of the cover and to control the engagement/disengagement of the driving coupling members and the driven coupling members. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081164 | Image Forming Apparatus and Developing Agent Cartridge - An image forming apparatus may include a casing, and a plurality of image carriers parallelly arranged along one direction in the casing and formed with an electrostatic latent image. The apparatus can further include a plurality of developing agent carriers opposed to the image carriers, for visualizing the electrostatic latent image by feeding a developing agent to the image carriers, and a plurality of developing agent cartridges, parallelly arranged in the one direction to be opposed to the developing agent carriers in the longitudinal direction of the developing agent carriers, and configured to be together attachable/detachable to/from the casing along the one direction, for accommodating the developing agent fed to the developing agent carriers. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081165 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus may includes an image carrying body, a intermediate transferring unit which includes an intermediate transferring belt to which a visible image on the image carrying body is transferred, a driving roller to drive the intermediate transferring belt, and a first roller support unit to support a rotation shaft of the driving roller. The image-forming apparatus also includes a medium transferring unit to transfer a visible image on the intermediate transferring belt to a printing medium and includes a transferring roller to move between a pressing position pressing the driving roller to interpose the intermediate transferring belt therebetween and a separated position separated from the pressing position, and a second roller support unit to support a rotation shaft of the transferring roller. The pressing position of the transferring roller can be regulated by a contact of the first roller support unit and the second roller support unit. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081166 | CONSTANT-VELOCITY JOINT AND IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE - A constant-velocity joint includes an outer ring having an annular space therein and an opening at one axial end thereof. The annular space is defined by a radially outer wall and a radially inner wall of the outer ring. At least one of the radially outer wall and the radially inner wall has three axially extending track grooves circumferentially spaced apart from each other by 120 degrees. A cage is inserted in the annular space. The cage has pockets at positions corresponding to the track grooves, respectively. A ball is received in each of the pockets so as to roll along one of the track grooves. A pair of diametrically opposed protrusions is formed at radially inner and outer open ends of the pockets of the cage to prevent the balls from coming out of the pockets of the cage. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081167 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TONER CONTAINER - An image forming apparatus includes: a cylindrically-shaped feed portion that is fed with toner from above; a transport path including an inlet through which the toner transported from the feed portion enters and transporting the toner therethrough; and a transporting member including a rotary shaft provided to extend from the feed portion to the transport path, the rotary shaft being provided with a small-diameter portion on an upstream side thereof and a large-diameter portion on a downstream side thereof in the toner transport direction, and transports the toner along the transport path, the large-diameter portion being provided inside the transport path, the large-diameter portion having an end portion on the upstream side thereof in the toner transport direction to be connected to the small-diameter portion, the end portion being provided on a side of the feed portion of the inlet of the transport path in the toner transport direction. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081168 | POWDER CONVEYANCE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING SAME - A powder conveyance device includes a powder container, a conveyance pipe extending downward and including first, second, and third conveyance portions disposed in that order, a first bent portion connecting together the first and second conveyance portions, bent in a direction to increase a horizontal gradient of the second conveyance portion from that of the first conveyance portion, and a second bent portion connecting together the second and third conveyance portions, bent in a direction to reduce a horizontal gradient of the third conveyance portion from that of the second conveyance portion, a powder conveyance member disposed inside the conveyance pipe, and a first powder regulator movably disposed inside the third conveyance portion of the conveyance pipe, to restrict an amount of powder discharged through the discharge port by varying a cross sectional area of a space present above a discharge port in the conveyance pipe. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081169 | TONER SUPPLYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner supplying device and an image forming apparatus that supply toner stably and do not impose a stress on toner, regardless of a remaining amount of toner stored in a storage container of the toner supplying device are provided. Two flexible sheets constituting a toner scooping blade are bonded to each other with a double-sided adhesive tape that functions as a spacer and an adhesive member sandwiched therebetween at an end fixed to a blade support neck and the other end in contact with an inner wall of the toner storage container. Whereby, a gap is formed between the two flexible sheets. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081170 | TONER CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A toner cartridge includes a container body and a screw conveyer section. The screw conveyer section includes a rotation shaft and a toner conveying blade. The toner rotation shaft includes a first rotation shaft portion and a second rotation shaft portion concentrically communicated to the first rotation shaft portion and having a diameter smaller than that of the first rotation shaft portion. The toner conveying blade includes a first blade portion formed on the first rotation shaft portion, and a second blade portion formed on the second rotation shaft portion, a period of a spiral of the second blade portion winding around the second rotation shaft portion being smaller than a period of a spiral of the first blade portion winding around the first rotation shaft portion. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081171 | TONER CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A toner cartridge includes a toner container that contains a toner, an auger screw, a toner discharge port, a shutter, an internal opening/closing valve and a stirring paddle. The internal opening/closing valve is provided as a member for closing the toner discharge port, in addition to the shutter. The shutter is fixed to a position at which the toner discharge port is always opened in a state where the toner cartridge is mounted in the image forming apparatus. The internal opening/closing valve is provided at a position facing the toner discharge port of a driving side end of a rotation shaft of the auger screw. The internal opening/closing valve is composed of a rectangular sheet member having flexibility, and closes the toner discharge port by blocking the entire toner discharge port. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081172 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member that bears an image; and a transfer roller, having a concave portion in its circumferential surface and rotating central to a rotational axis, whose circumferential surface aside from the concave portion makes contact with the image bearing member and transfers the image onto a recording material. The circumferential surface of the transfer roller aside from the concave portion makes contact with the image bearing member due to rotation of the transfer roller while the rotational axis of the transfer roller moves away from the image bearing member. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081173 | SEPARATION UNIT, FIXING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A separation unit is provided on a downstream side of a contact area between a belt-like rotating body and a pressure rotating body. The separation unit includes a pressure member, a guide portion and a pressure portion. The pressure member extends along a width direction of the belt-like rotating body, and presses the belt-like rotating body to deform the belt-like rotating body into a bent shape changing a course away from a surface of the pressure rotating body. The guide portion is on the pressure rotating body side of the pressure member to guide the belt-like rotating body so that an angle portion of the bent shape bites into the pressure rotating body. The pressure portion is on the surface in the pressure rotating body side, and the surface separates sequentially from the pressure rotating body in the extending direction from a center portion to an end portion. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081174 | ENDLESS METALLIC BELT, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC ENDLESS BELT, FIXING ASSEMBLY, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic endless metallic belt is provided that has been kept from coming to crack and from further cracking on as a result of its repeated bend and rubbing with a member coming into touch therewith, and has been improved in durability. Each edge face of the metallic belt is so shaped as to have a ridge between an outer-surface edge and an inner-surface edge of the metallic belt. Thus, it follows that the metallic belt comes into touch with the part that may cause a small internal stress by bending, at the part rubbing with the member coming into touch with the belt. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081175 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND FUSER UNIT - According to one embodiment, a fuser including, a first endless member including a gel-like silicone material and configured to apply heat to an object, a second endless member configured to apply pressure to the first endless member, and a heat source configured to raise temperature of the first endless member to predetermined temperature. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081176 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion that forms an image on a recording medium, a fixing portion that heats and fixes an image on a recording medium after forming the image, a feed path that conveys a recording medium after heating and fixing by the fixing portion, a first pair of feed rollers composed of two feed rollers provided in the feed path, and a cooling mechanism that sends cooling air to a nip portion of the pair of feed rollers or to the vicinity thereof. The cooling mechanism increases a cooling air volume when a recording medium is held between the first pair of feed rollers in comparison to the time when the recording medium is not held between the first pair of feed rollers. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081177 | CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning device, including, a first blade to slidably contact with a surface of an image carrier to which a toner including an external additive adheres, a second blade to slidably contact with the surface of the image carrier and to be provided downstream of the first blade in a rotation direction of the image carrier, and a lubricant applying mechanism section to apply a lubricant to the surface of the image carrier, wherein hardness of the first blade is equal to or more than hardness of the second blade. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081178 | Waste Cyclone Dispense System with Controlled Rotating Cylinder Gate - This is a waste cyclone toner dispense system with a controlled gate and a collection bag below the gate. The controlled gate prevents pressure from entering the bag thereby permitting the use of relatively inexpensive bags for collection of toner debris. The gate has rotating blades tightly pushed against a sealing wall, such as rubber or the like. The wall must prevent pressure from reaching the bag and remaining only above the bag. The rotating blades convey waste toner from an upper collection to the collection bag. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081179 | Waste Cyclone Dispense System With a Controlled Gate - This is a waste cyclone toner dispense system with a controlled gate and a collection bag below the gate. The controlled gate is configured to be opened and closed at a predetermined time thereby permitting the use of relatively inexpensive bags for collection of toner debris. The gate is hinged to permit easy opening by a controller and motor. The controller turns off any pressure while the gate is open. The drop gate conveys when open waste toner from an upper waste collection funnel to the collection bag. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081180 | WASTE DRY INK SYSTEM WITH PRESSURE EQUALIZING HERMETICALLY SEALED OUTER BOX - This is a novel xerographic marking system having a novel toner waste dispensing assembly. The assembly comprises a hermetically sealed outer box that houses a disposable waste toner container. The container is a biodegradable carton or bag that can be removed from the outer box when filled with waste toner. A feature of this invention is that the dispensing assembly can easily be retrofitted into existing marking systems. Also because the containers are inexpensive and biodegradable, the expensive prior art non-degradable waste containers and their adverse effect on the landfills can be avoided. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081181 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND SHEET CONVEYING METHOD THAT CORRECT FOR SKEW OF SHEET CONVEYED TO IMAGE FORMING UNIT - An image forming apparatus that can reliably correct for skew of a sheet being conveyed. The amount of skew of the sheet is detected, and the amount of toner used for an image formed on a first surface of the sheet is determined. When the sheet with the image formed on the first surface thereof is conveyed so as to form an image on a second surface of the sheet, a skew correction roller unit is controlled so as to correct for the skew of the sheet based on the detected amount of skew and the determined amount of toner used. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081182 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus according to the present invention comprises a cylindrical photosensitive body, a transfer unit, a fixing unit and a paper guide. The photosensitive body carries an image on it. The transfer unit includes a transfer roller in compressive contact with the photosensitive body. The fixing unit includes a heating roller and a pressing roller. The paper guide is positioned between the transfer and fixing units. The photosensitive body and the transfer roller are so arranged that the nip tangent between this body and this roller inclines toward the paper guide away from a line connecting the nip between this body and this roller and the nip between the heating and pressing rollers. The paper guide has a recess formed nearer the nip between the is photosensitive body and the transfer roller than the midpoint on the line connecting the two nips. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081183 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes a holding portion that nips and holds a booklet, which includes folded sheets, by a pair of holding members opposite to each other, and a pressing portion that enters a gap between the pair of holding members to press a spine of the booklet held by the holding portion while moving along the spine of the booklet so as to deform the spine of the booklet, wherein the pressing portion changes its moving direction along the spine of the booklet and changes the pressing position thereof in the thickness direction of the booklet held between the pair of holding members, when the pressing portion deforms the spine of the booklet. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081184 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes a holding portion that nips and holds a booklet, which includes folded sheets, by a pair of holding members opposite to each other; and a pressing portion that enters a gap between the pair of holding members, wherein the pressing portion presses the spine of the held booklet so as to deform the spine of the booklet; wherein the pressing portion has plurality of pressing members, each having a different thickness in the thickness direction of the booklet, and the pressing member capable of entering the gap between the pair of holding members, and having the thickness closest to the thickness of the booklet which is nipped and held by the pair of holding members is selected among the plurality of pressing members so as to perform the deforming process. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081185 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There are provided a sheet processing apparatus which can perform a punching process while suppressing decrease in productivity, and an image forming apparatus including the sheet processing apparatus. In a third carry-in route R | 2011-04-07 |
20110081186 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes a holding portion that holds a booklet, which includes folded sheets, by a pair of holding members, a pressing portion having a first pressing member, which is brought into contact with a spine of a booklet held by the holding portion so as to perform a deforming process to the spine, and a second pressing member having a thickness, in the thickness direction of the booklet, greater than that of the first pressing member, a moving portion that moves the pressing member along the spine, and a controlling portion that changes the first pressing member to the second pressing member, and increases a deformation amount from the spine before the deformation to a pressing position in the pressing direction where the second pressing member presses the spine, when the thickness of the booklet held by the holding portion exceeds a predetermined thickness. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081187 | PRINTING DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE - Provided is a printing device including: a transport unit configured to transport a sheet-shape printing medium; a printing unit configured to print an image on the printing medium transported by the transport unit; a shape detection unit configured to detect the shape of edges of the printing medium; a position detection unit configured to detect the positions of the edges when an image is printed on the printing medium by the printing unit; and a first determination unit configured to determine the attitude of the printing medium based on the shape of the edges detected by the shape detection unit and the positions of the edges detected by the position detection unit, | 2011-04-07 |
20110081188 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a first transportation unit for transporting a medium; a second transportation unit including a first transportation member and a second transportation member disposed on both sides of a transportation path of the medium on a downstream side of the first transportation unit in a transportation direction of the medium for transporting the sheet supplied from the first transportation unit; and a medium guiding portion disposed between the first transportation unit and the second transportation unit for guiding the medium supplied from the first transportation unit toward the second transportation unit. The medium guiding portion includes a guide surface formed to face the transportation path for guiding the medium toward the first transportation member of the second transportation unit. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081189 | PRINTER AND PRINTING METHOD - A printer is provided that includes a conveyance unit configured to nip and simultaneously convey the roll recording medium; a print unit configured to print an image by sequentially transferring a plurality of color inks on the recording medium while nipping the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit; a decurling unit disposed between the conveyance unit and the print unit, and configured to include a raised portion that decurls the recording medium by contacting the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit; and a control unit configured to control the conveyance unit to convey the recording medium to a waiting position after ending the transfer of one color ink, wherein the waiting position is a position where an area on a leading edge side of the recording medium is in contact with the raised portion. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081190 | Recording media transportation control method and printer - In a printer that prints to continuous paper, starting to backfeed the recording paper for printing the next print job before the user cuts the previously printed page can be prevented. The printer prints while conveying recording paper delivered from fanfold paper through a transportation path, and after printing cuts the recording paper using a cutter disposed near the paper exit. When printing ends, the control unit positions the perforation at the trailing end of the printed page to a cutting position, and sets a tear-off state holding the recording paper where positioning was completed. When new print data is received while in the tear-off state, the recording paper transportation operation is prohibited and the tear-off state is continued until a preset delay time passes. When the delay time has passed, the recording paper is immediately fed back and indexed for the next print job. | 2011-04-07 |
20110081191 | ILLUMINATED MARKING DEVICE AND APPARATUS - An illuminated marking device is described for use with colorless marking materials. The marking materials remain colorless until being transferred to a marking surface having a developer material disposed thereon that causes the marking material to develop a colored appearance. The marking material is contained within a marking device having a clear or translucent barrel and a lens integrated into a first end. The lens is tinted in a color similar to that of the developed color of the marking material. The first end of the marker is inserted into a light housing having a light source therein. Light from the light source is filtered by the lens and thereby illuminates the barrel of the marker in a color similar to that of the developed color of the marker. The glowing marker indicates the marking color of the marker and provides an enjoyable glowing experience. | 2011-04-07 |