| 21st week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 37 |
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| 20120128311 | WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING MODULE - A telecommunications module includes an optical wavelength division multiplexer/demultiplexer configured to demultiplex a first optical signal input into the telecommunications module into a plurality of different wavelengths, a fiber optic splitter configured to split a second optical signal input into the telecommunication module into a plurality of optical signals, and a plurality of optical add/drop filters, each of the optical add/drop filters configured to combine one of the optical signals that has been split by the fiber optic splitter and one of the wavelengths that has been demultiplexed by the optical wavelength division multiplexer/demultiplexer into a combination output signal that is output from the telecommunications module. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128312 | OPTICAL CABLE GRIPPING MEMBER - An optical cable gripping member which prevents the kinds of splicing devices from being diversified, thereby enabling reduction of the labor of component management and lowering of the production cost to be realized is obtained. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128313 | RADIATION CURABLE COATING FOR OPTICAL FIBER - The invention relates to radiation curable compositions. The invention provides radiation curable optical fiber primary coating compositions comprising an oligomer, a reactive diluent monomer blend comprising at least two reactive diluents monomers, and at least one photoinitiator, wherein each of said monomers in said blend has the formula (I) wherein x is an integer of from 1 to 6; n is an integer of from 1 to 5; and each Y, which may be the same or different, is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, a C | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128314 | D1451 METHODS FOR FORMULATING RADIATION CURABLE SUPERCOATINGS FOR OPTICAL FIBER - The first aspect of the instant claimed invention is a method of formulating radiation curable Supercoatings for application to an optical fiber used in a telecommunications network. A Multi-layer Film Drawdown Method useful in the Method of formulating radiation curable Supercoatings is also described and claimed. Single mode Optical fibers coated with specific radiation curable Supercoatings are also described and claimed. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128315 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND IMAGE REPRODUCTION DEVICE - Image reproduction devices ( | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128316 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS - An image editing apparatus includes a recording medium for recording an image file and a scenario file, wherein the scenario file is formed by recording a replay order or a replay condition of the image file with a predetermined file format, a scenario evaluating circuit for reading the scenario file from the recording medium and evaluating the replay order or the replay condition, an editor for editing the image file in response to an evaluation by the scenario evaluating circuit, and a recorder for recording the image file on the recording medium. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128317 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH POWER TRIGGERED BY COMPONENT ROTATION - A portable electronic device including a first component with a recording unit; and a second component is provided. The second component is placed on the first component in a rotatable manner. Besides, power supply of the recording unit is triggered when the second component rotates relatively to the first component from a first position to a second position. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128318 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS DISPLAYING INDICES OF VIDEO CONTENTS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - In order to quicken switching of indices and reduce the time required for display after switching, a mobile phone includes a video content specifying portion to specify at least one video content, an index element generating portion to generate a thumbnail for a video content when accepting a generation instruction and to stop generation of the thumbnail when accepting a cancellation instruction, an index element generation requesting portion, in response to the event that a video content is specified by the video content specifying portion, to output a generation instruction including identification information identifying the specified video content to the index element generating portion, and a cancellation instructing portion to output a cancellation instruction to stop generation of the thumbnail for the already specified video content when a new video content is specified before completion of generation of the thumbnail for the already specified video content. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128319 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, REPRODUCING METHOD, AND DISPLAY METHOD - A transport signal transmitted from a television receiver apparatus through a signal line is subjected to a separation operation by a transport-signal processor and decoded by a video-signal decoding unit and an audio-signal decoding unit. A decoded video signal is supplied through a signal line to the television receiver apparatus. Video processing time of the television receiver apparatus is obtained by a delay-information obtaining unit through a signal line. An audio-signal delaying unit delays an audio signal decoded by the audio-signal decoding unit in accordance with the video processing time obtained by the delay-information obtaining unit and outputs the audio signal to a speaker. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128320 | IMAGE RECORDING SYSTEM, IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE RECORDING METHOD - The image recording system is a system configured of first and second image recording apparatuses. The first image recording apparatus includes a device ID obtainment unit, a time information obtainment unit, a first channel information input unit, an identification information creation unit, a first image input unit, a first identification information addition unit, a first image recording unit, and an identification information sending unit. The second image recording apparatus includes an identification information receiving unit, a second channel information input unit, an identification information change unit, a second image input unit, a second identification information addition unit, and a second image recording unit. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128321 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES FROM A DVD DISC - A system and method described herein provide stereoscopic video using standard DVD video data combined with enhancement data. In various embodiments, the enhancement data may be stored on the same DVD as the standard video, or provided via downloading and/or streaming to a stereoscopic DVD player. When stored on the DVD, the enhancement data is provided in various forms, including MPEG (-1 or -2) program Stream level; or the MPEG elementary stream level. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128322 | Geographical Location Information/Signal Quality-Context Based Recording and Playback of Multimedia Data from a Conference Session - Playback of multimedia data associated with a recorded conference session is simplified, particularly for a person who participated in the conference session from a mobile device. At a recording server that is in communication with a plurality of endpoints in a conference session, multimedia received from the plurality of endpoints participating in the conference session is recorded. The recording server obtains geographical location information for at least one mobile endpoint participating in the conference session as the at least one mobile endpoint moves. The recording server temporally correlates the geographical location information for the at least one endpoint with recorded multimedia data for the conference session. The recording server stores data tags for the geographical location information for the at least one mobile endpoint in association with the recorded multimedia data for subsequent use in indexing to map data to retrieve a portion of the recorded multimedia data for playback. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128323 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RENDERING TEXT ONTO MOVING IMAGE CONTENT - A method for rendering text onto moving image content. The method comprises receiving a request to translate dialog associated with moving image content, transmitting an interface, transmitting a time-stamped transcription, and receiving a translation of the dialog. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128324 | 3D AUTHORING TOOL ENSURING NO BUFFER UNDERRUN UPON JUMPS - Systems and methods are provided to implement a technique for providing 3D content, such as on optical media like Blu-ray® discs. In one implementation, a 3D authoring tool executing on a computer system manages how to construct an image for replication where the image handles jumps without buffer underruns, the jumps caused by layer switching or by moving from or to branches in a multi-branch story line. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128325 | AUTHORING DEVICE AND AUTHORING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an authoring apparatus configured to generate writing data to be stored in an optical disc from a video content data, includes an indexing processor configured to generate face image indexing information includes face images extracted from the video content data and time stamp information representing a time point at which each extracted face image appears in the video content data, a setting module configured to set segments along with a time axis in the video content data, wherein a number of the segments is not larger than a number of chapters being able to be set in the writing data, and a generation module configured to generate menu screen data for displaying a menu screen displaying buttons on a display screen, the buttons on which face images are displayed respectively and for jumping to the segments in which the face images appearing. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128326 | Methods, Systems, and Products for Programming Guides - Methods, systems, and products generate a programming guide. An association is stored between programming events and a package of programming. The programming guide is generated as a programming grid of cells that displays a wrapper surrounding all cells in the programming grid of cells that are associated with the programming events in the package of programming. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128327 | VIDEO REPRODUCING DEVICE - A video reproducing device capable of synthesizing a first image being a stereo image and a second image and outputting a synthesized, including: an acquiring unit operable to acquire a first image and a second image to be synthesized in one frame; and a synthesizing unit operable to generate the synthesized image by synchronously synthesizing the first image and the second image acquired by the acquiring unit, and output the synthesized image, wherein, if the acquiring unit fails to acquire the second image to be synthesized in the one frame when the synthesizing unit generates the synthesized image, the synthesizing unit synthesizes a second image which is to be synthesized with a first image of a frame other than the one frame with the first image to be synthesized in the one frame. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128328 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, CONTENT RECORDING MEDIUM, CONTROL PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM - The AV data reproducing apparatus includes: (i) a reading section for reading out, from a recording medium, additional function information indicating an additional function correlated with a manipulation input; and (ii) an additional function program executing section for executing the additional function in response to the manipulation input. With this, an operation unique to the content can be carried out by executing the additional function (additional function program) indicated by the additional function information stored in the recording medium together with the AV data. This makes it possible for the AV data reproducing apparatus to carry out an operation other than an operation intrinsically corresponding to a key. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128329 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, CONTENT RECORDING MEDIUM, CONTROL PROGRAM, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM - The AV data reproducing apparatus includes: (i) a reading section for reading out, from a recording medium, additional function information indicating an additional function correlated with a manipulation input; and (ii) an additional function program executing section for executing the additional function in response to the manipulation input. With this, an operation unique to the content can be carried out by executing the additional function (additional function program) indicated by the additional function information stored in the recording medium together with the AV data. This makes it possible for the AV data reproducing apparatus to carry out an operation other than an operation intrinsically corresponding to a key. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128330 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE DETECTION - A system, apparatus and method for detection of recording device in a theater environment are provided. The seating area is illuminated with an infrared lighting source. Surface reflections generated by a lens of a recording device is received by an image capture device. An image from the image capture device is analyzed for identifying patterns associated with reflections from a lens. A seating position associated with the reflection is then identified. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128331 | COPY CONTROL METHOD - This invention enhances usability while performing copy control when recording a digital broadcast program specified as “Copy One Generation”. In this copy control method, digital contents received by a first recording apparatus are copied to a second recording apparatus via a network interface and to a third recording apparatus via a local interface according to the copy control information received by the first recording apparatus. When the received control information indicates “Copy Free with Limit of the Number” permitting a predetermined copy number of multiple copies, the received digital contents can be recorded and managed in the first recording apparatus to be copied up to the predetermined copy number. The digital contents copied to the second recording apparatus are managed as “No More Copies”, and the digital contents copied to the third recording apparatus are managed as “No More Copies and No Move”. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128332 | METHOD FOR COPY PROTECTION - A method for copy protection in which an audiovisual or audio data is divided into a plurality of portions. The plurality of portions is at least partly scrambled and prepared so as to be stored on a record carrier in the scrambled order. This is done so that a physical position on the record carrier, e.g., a sector of the record carrier, where a respective portions of the divided data is stored depends on the scrambled order. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128333 | TRANSMISSION CONTROLLER, RECEPTION CONTROLLER, TRANSMISSION CONTROL METHOD, RECEPTION CONTROL METHOD AND TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROGRAM - A transmission control device generates, based on a content stream acquired from an external source, auxiliary information necessary for at least one of recording and playback of a content in the content stream and transmits a transmission target stream to an external device. The transmission target stream includes a first stream portion based on the content stream and a second stream portion based on the generated auxiliary information. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128334 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MASHUP OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - An apparatus and method for combining multimedia data are provided. The method includes obtaining first multimedia content from a first source, obtaining second multimedia content from a second source, selectively combining the first multimedia content with the second multimedia content, and outputting the selectively combined multimedia content. According to implementations of the invention, selected portions and/or fragments of multimedia content may be mashed up rather than the entirety of the multimedia content from either or both sources. Also, the mashup of the multimedia content may be varied and adapted based on the characteristics of the device performing the mashup as well as the characteristics of the available transport mechanism. Finally, implementations of the invention provide for flexible transformation and precise synchronization among multimedia elements. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128335 | THERMAL PROCESSOR EMPLOYING RADIANT HEATER - A thermal processor including a rotatable hollow drum including a drum core having an interior surface and an exterior surface, and a radiant heater positioned within an interior of the drum and configured to provide radiant energy to heat the drum, wherein at least one radiant energy absorption characteristic of the interior of the drum varies across its longitudinal width W | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128336 | HEAT TREATMENT METHOD AND HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS FOR HEATING SUBSTRATE BY LIGHT IRRADIATION - A semiconductor wafer in which a carbon thin film is formed on a surface of a silicon substrate implanted with impurities is irradiated with flash light emitted from flash lamps. Absorbing the flash light causes the temperature of the carbon thin film to increase. The surface temperature of the silicon substrate implanted with impurities is therefore increased to be higher than that in a case where no thin film is formed, and the sheet resistance value can be thereby decreased. When the semiconductor wafer with the carbon thin film formed thereon is irradiated with flash light in high concentration oxygen atmosphere, since the carbon of the thin film is oxidized to be vaporized, removal of the thin film is performed concurrently with flash heating. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128337 | WATER HEATER TANK WITH CONVEX HEADS - A tank for a water-heating appliance including a body, a first head, and a second head. The body includes a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis. The body extends along the longitudinal axis from the first end to the second end. The first head includes multiple landings. The first head is coupled to the first end so that the first head is convex and extends away from the body. The longitudinally outermost points of the landings define a first plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The second head includes multiple landings. The second head is identical to the first head except for at least one opening through a landing. The second head is coupled to the second end so that the second head is convex and extends away from the body. The longitudinally outermost points of the landings define a second plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128338 | HEATERS - A heater for heating liquid to boiling comprises a heating element ( | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128339 | ANTI-SHAKE DEVICE AND OPTICAL SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - An anti-shake device for use in an optical system comprises a biaxial rotating element and a electromagnetic driving module. The biaxial rotating element is made by grooving a thin resilient plate to form a special multiple-frame structure. The biaxial rotating element, when driven by the electromagnetic driving module, makes limited pivotal movement about two axes so as to provide shake compensation. The electromagnetic driving module, composed of a plurality of permanent magnets and a plurality of coils, is supported and positioned by an inner support frame and an outer support frame, both of which have uniquely designed structures. The resultant anti-shake device is structurally simple, easy to assemble, compact in size, and relatively low-cost. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128340 | CAMERA-BASED MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FLASHLIGHT THEREOF - A camera-based mobile communication device includes a light sensor, a camera module, a flashlight, and a micro-processing unit (MPU). The light sensor is operable to detect a brightness value of an external light source. The camera module is operable to photograph an image. The flashlight is operable to generate a flash. The MPU is electrically connected to the light sensor, the camera module, and the flashlight. The MPU includes a comparison module, a face recognizing module, and a flashlight control module. The comparison module is operable to compare the brightness value with a threshold brightness icy value. The face recognizing module is operable to determine whether there exists a facial feature in the image. The flashlight control module is operable to turn on the flashlight when the detected brightness value is greater than the threshold brightness value and the facial feature is recognized from the image. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128341 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING PHOTOMETRIC VALUE - An image capturing apparatus comprises: a photometry unit configured to perform photometry on a subject and output a photometric value; an obtaining unit configured to obtain a plurality of photometric values from the photometry unit during a predetermined period of time; and a calculation unit configured to perform a prediction calculation to predict a luminance of the subject based on the plurality of photometric values obtained by the obtaining unit. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128342 | SINGLE-LENS REFLEX CAMERA USING PHASE DIFFERENCE DETECTION METHOD - A single-reflex camera includes a mirror box, and a focus detecting unit. The mirror box further includes a first opening on a side of the image-pickup optical system, which the light flux that has passed the image-pickup optical system enters, and a bottom plate arranged between the mirror and the focus detecting unit, the bottom plate including a plate-shaped front part that extends so as to approach to an optical axis of the image-pickup optical system from the first opening. Part of the condenser lens is located on a side of the optical axis of the image-pickup optical system with respect to a line that is made by extending, parallel to the optical axis of the image-pickup optical system, an end of the first opening on a side of the bottom plate. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128343 | IMAGING APPARATUS - After a first cam bear has unlocked a blade lever, a second cam gear is driven from a mirror-down position to a mirror-up position. Accordingly, a first blade and a second blade are driven in a direction of opening an aperture by an urging force of a blade return spring before a mirror starts a mirror-up operation. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128344 | TAILGATE OUTSIDE HANDLE ASSEMBLY - A tailgate outside handle assembly may include a housing installed in an outer panel of a tailgate, an actuator unit, a manipulating handle installed in the housing and having a manipulation portion in a front surface thereof, and a hinge shaft that may be coupled to a top end portion of a rear surface of the manipulation portion, wherein a bottom end portion of the manipulation portion may be engaged with the actuator unit and selectively rotated about the hinge shaft such that after the manipulation portion may be withdrawn to the outside of the housing by a driving force of the actuator unit when the tailgate may be to be opened, the manipulating handle works as a handle. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128345 | SHUTTER DEVICE - When a blade drive spring has been overcharged when a second cam gear has caused a drive lever to move to a position beyond a position of attraction of an armature by a yoke, a blade lever does not contact the drive lever even if the blade lever has been driven in a direction of opening an aperture by a first blade and a second blade with an urging force of a blade return spring. When the second cam gear has moved to the attraction position form the overcharged position, the blade lever contacts the drive lever before the yoke starts attracting the armature by the attractive force. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128346 | SHUTTER DEVICE - A blade lever is provided with a roller bearing portion, which extends towards a shaft around which a roller is rotatably supported to prevent falling off of the roller. The roller bearing portion is provided within a range of movement of the shaft when the blade lever is driven in a direction of opening an aperture by a first blade and a second blade with an urging force of a blade return spring. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128347 | Optical switching device, optical add device, and optical drop device - An optical switching device includes plural wavelength selective switches that respectively have a first port and a plurality of second ports; and an optical coupler that has a plurality of third ports on an input-side or an output-side, respectively optically coupled to the first ports of the wavelength selective switches. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128348 | LIGHT-EMISSION ERROR PREVENTING CIRCUIT FOR OPTICAL TRANSMITTER - A subscriber-side optical network unit (ONU) includes a control LSI for outputting a data signal and a pre-bias signal at fixed intervals, an optical transmitter-receiver for producing optical output in response to these signals, and a light-emission error preventing circuit for preventing light-emission error. First and second light-emission error detecting circuits output an abnormality detection alarm signal when no rising edge occurs in the data signal and pre-bias signal for a prescribed period of time. An OR element, when receiving the abnormality detection alarm signal from at least one of the first and second light-emission error detecting circuits, supplies the optical transmitter-receiver with a shutdown signal and halts the optical output. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128349 | PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM, STATION SIDE APPARATUS AND POWER CONSUMPTION CONTROL METHOD - In a PON system having a station side apparatus (OLT) and plural home side apparatuses (ONUs), the station side apparatus includes an uplink frame transfer processing part controlling frame transfer from the home side apparatus to the station side apparatus, a transfer database managing the destination of frame transfer from the station side apparatus to the plural home side apparatuses, a statistical counter part counting transfer data amount for each user, and a user usage state management part managing the user usage situation. The user usage state management part determines the user usage situation (used/unused) based on the state monitoring result of any one or all of parts described above, switches the operation of the uplink frame transfer control part depending on the usage situation and adjusts DBA control frame amount between the station side apparatus and the home side apparatus. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128350 | BALANCED BYPASS CIRCULATORS AND FOLDED UNIVERSALLY-BALANCED INTERFEROMETERS - The invention generally relates, in one aspect, to an interferometer system. The interferometer system includes a splitter/combiner element (SCE), a first bi-directional optical path, and a second bi-directional optical path. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128351 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MEASURING APPARATUS, TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD - A communication system including: a transmission apparatus configured to modulate a first light by using a first signal to be transferred and a second signal having a frequency different from a frequency of the first signal so as to generate a first optical signal, modulate a second light by using a third signal to be transferred and a fourth signal having a frequency different from a frequency of the third signal so as to generate a second optical signal, polarization-multiplex the first optical signal and the second optical signal, and transmit a polarization-multiplexed optical signal in which the first optical signal and the second optical signal are polarization-multiplexed, each of the first light and the second light being polarized; and a measuring apparatus configured to measure powers of the second signal and the fourth signal which are included in the polarization-multiplexed optical signal transmitted from the transmission apparatus. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128352 | OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING APPARATUS - An optical packet switching apparatus includes an optical coupler, an optical switch unit, and an optical switch control unit. The optical switch control unit includes an optical-to-electrical converter, a serial/parallel converter, an arrangement detector, a rearrangement unit, a frame synchronization unit, a route detector, a control signal generator, and an adjustment unit for adjusting the timing with which to output an optical switch control signal to the optical switch unit, based on arrangement information on a frame synchronization pattern fed from the arrangement detector. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128353 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MIGRATING SUB-NETWORK CONNECTION PROTECTION (SNCP) SERVICE - The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for migrating a Sub-Network Connection Protection (SNCP) service. The method comprises: receiving a migration request of an SNCP service, wherein the migration request comprises one of: Permanent Connection (PC) to Soft Permanent Connection (SPC) migration, SPC to PC migration; respectively setting cross status control bits of a current operation connection and a correlative connection thereof according to the received migration request, and performing collective migration of the current operation connection and the correlative connection thereof according to the set cross status control bits; respectively modifying the cross status control bits of the current connection and the correlative connection thereof according to the migration result. The consistency of cross management authorities of a working connection and a protection connection of the SNCP service migration can be ensured by the present invention. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128354 | DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING FOR AN OPTICAL SWITCH - Scheduling methods and apparatus for use with optical switches with hybrid architectures are provided. An exemplary distributed scheduling process achieves 100% throughput for any admissible Bernoulli arrival traffic. The exemplary distributed scheduling process may be easily adapted to work for any finite round trip time, without sacrificing any throughput. Simulation results also showed that this distributed scheduling process can provide very good delay performance for different traffic patterns and for different round trip times associated with current switches. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128355 | WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE OPTICAL SWITCH DEVICE - In a wavelength selective optical switch device that disperses a WDM light beam according to their wavelengths. Dispersed light beams is applied to a wavelength selecting element. Incident light beams are separately reflected in different directions according to their wavelengths by use of the multi-level optical phased array. In the optical phased array, even when the number of multi levels is small, by setting the maximum phase shift amount of the phased array to be at least 1.5 π and less than 2.0 π, wavelength dependence is reduced, thereby reducing crosstalk. In this manner, the wavelength dependence, in turn, crosstalk can be reduced. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128356 | Method for Administrating Optical Access Nodes and Optical Access Node Thereof - A method for administrating an optical access node is disclosed, the method comprises: one or more administration terminal nodes are established in the optical access node, and constitute an internal Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) domain in said administration terminal node; sends the Ethernet Operation, Administration and Maintenance message between the administration terminal nodes, and according to the attributes of the Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) of the user, said Operation, Administration and Maintenance message carries the Virtual Local Area Network identifier which corresponds to the attribute of the virtual local area network of the user. The present invention also provides an optical access node. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128357 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, STATION-SIDE OPTICAL LINE TERMINATING APPARATUS, USER-SIDE OPTICAL LINE TERMINATING APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - An optical communication system that connects a plurality of user-side optical line terminating apparatuses (hereinafter referred to as ONUs) to a station-side optical line terminating apparatus (hereinafter referred to as OLT) using a common optical fiber, wherein the ONU as at least a part of the ONUs includes a transceiver having a power saving function for inactivating a transmitting unit while supplying electric power to a receiving unit and a control apparatus that transmits support information of the power saving function to the OLT via the transceiver, and the OLT includes a control apparatus that generates transmission allowance information of upstream communication based on the support information of the power saving function and a transceiver that receives the support information of the power saving function and transmits the transmission allowance information to the ONU. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128358 | Transmission Method and Assembling Method for Physical Layer Operations, Administration and Maintenance (PLOAM) Message in a Passive Optical Network - The present invention provides a transmission method for a physical layer operations, administration and maintenance (PLOAM) message in a passive optical network. The method includes: a transmitter dividing a PLOAM message to generate more than two new PLOAM messages, each of which comprises at least a message identification (Message ID) field ( | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128359 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL COMMUNICATION - A method for bidirectional optical communication comprising the steps of:—at a first optical line terminal, directly modulating a laser source to generate a downstream optical signal which has an optical power spectrum comprising two peaks having a frequency separation and a non zero power difference at generation;—propagating said downstream optical signal at a distance along an optical line comprising at least a first optical fiber propagating said downstream optical signal to a second optical line terminal;—at the second optical line terminal: power splitting said downstream optical signal to generate a first and a second power portion of said downstream optical signal, spatially separated; passive filtering said first power portion of said downstream optical signal so as to increase in absolute value a respective power difference of said two peaks, so as to obtain a filtered optical signal which is thereafter detected; and amplitude modulating the second power portion of the downstream optical signal so as to obtain an upstream optical signal having a second amplitude modulation;—propagating back along said optical line the upstream optical signal to the first optical line terminal;—at said first optical line terminal, detecting said upstream optical signal; wherein the method further comprises the step of passive filtering said downstream optical signal and/or said second power portion of the downstream optical signal and/or said upstream optical signal, so as to lower, in absolute value, a respective non zero power difference of said two peaks. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128360 | OPEN OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORK SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an open optical access network system in which one optical access network is open to enable a plurality of service providers and a plurality of subscribers to simultaneously use the optical access network, to thereby improve the efficiency of using the optical access network, wherein each subscriber can be provided with a plurality of different services from the plurality of service providers, thereby enabling the flexible selection of services and the flexible change in services, thus improving the efficiency of using an optical infrastructure. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128361 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION TOLERANT OPTICAL HOMODYNE DETECTION SYSTEM WITH OPTIMIZED TRANSMISSION MODULATION - An optical homodyne communication system and method in which a side carrier is transmitted along with data bands in an optical data signal, and upon reception, the side carrier is boosted, shifted to the center of the data bands, and its polarization state is matched to the polarization state of the respective data bands to compensate for polarization mode dispersion during transmission. By shifting a boosted side carrier to the center of the data bands, and by simultaneously compensating for the effects of polarization mode dispersion, the provided system and method simulate the advantages of homodyne reception using a local oscillator. The deleterious effects of chromatic dispersion on the data signals within the data bands are also compensated for by applying a corrective function to the data signals which precisely counteracts the effects of chromatic dispersion. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128362 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, DISPERSION SLOPE IMPARTING SECTION, AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING - A communication system includes a transmission path through which an optical signal is propagated; and dispersion slope imparting sections provided on a transmitting side and a receiving side of the transmission path, the dispersion slope imparting sections imparting different dispersion and dispersion slope characteristics in accordance with a wavelength band of the optical signal, wherein the dispersion and dispersion slope characteristics imparted by the dispersion slope imparting section on the transmitting side is different from those on the receiving side. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128363 | Method and Device for Cross Protection - The present invention discloses an device for cross protection, including: a service unit source end, configured to map optical data unit (ODUk) signals into the same time slots of n line similar optical transport network (OTN) frame format (OTUxG) data buses, and obtain m+n line OTUxG data through protective coding and then send to a combination cross unit; the combination cross unit, configured to split and recombine the m+n line OTUxG data in the time slot, and then send to a service unit destination end; the service unit destination end, configured to protectively decode the m+n line OTUxG data, recover n line OTUxG data, and extract corresponding ODUk signals from the same time slots of n line OTUxG data. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128364 | Fiber Optic Distributed Input/Output System for Wind Turbine - An industrial control system for use in power generating plants, manufacturing plants, oil and gas processing plants, utility sub-stations, utility grid switching yards, and wind or fluid-flow turbine generating systems. A master controller such as a master control unit or turbine control unit (MCU or TCU) printed circuit board (PCB) is located in an enclosure. A plurality of input/output I/O subsystems is located at a remote points-of-control for the remote I/O subsystems. A plurality of serial analog, digital, or frequency input/output fiber optic communication ports is located at the master controller printed circuit board, one port for each of the I/O subsystems. Fiber-optic cables connect the fiber optic communication ports on the master controller printed circuit board to fiber optic communication ports on the I/O subsystems. Means are provided at the master controller to distribute serialized I/O signals to the remote I/O subsystems over the fiber-optic cables. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128365 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING COMMUNICATION USING LIGHT WAVELENGTHS IN A VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmitting apparatus includes a controller to classify data to be transmitted and to select a corresponding wavelength, a signal modulator to encode the data into an electrical signal, and a light emitting unit to emit a visual light at the selected wavelength based on the electrical signal. A receiving apparatus includes a controller to classify data to be received, and to select a corresponding wavelength, an optical filter to receive and filter a visible light, a visible light receiver to transform the filtered visible light into an electrical signal, and a signal demodulator to demodulate the electrical signal into digital data. A transmission method includes classifying transmission data, selecting corresponding wavelength, and encoding the data into an electrical signal to transmit. A receiving method includes filtering a received light, transforming the filtered light into an electrical signal, and demodulating the transformed electrical signal into digital data. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128366 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING COMMUNICATION USING CHROMINANCE INFORMATION IN VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In a transmission apparatus, a reception apparatus and a method for performing communication using chrominance information, a transmission apparatus includes a symbol converter to obtain a symbol from data; a symbol modulator to generate a chrominance value based on the symbol; a luminance controller to generate a luminance value; a color space converter to generate an RGB value based on the luminance value and the coordinate value; and a light emitting unit to emit light based on the RGB value. A reception apparatus includes a visible light receiver to receive light and to generate an electrical signal having RGB color information of the light; a color space converter to generate a luminance value and a chrominance value based on the RGB color information; a symbol demodulator to obtain a symbol based on the chrominance value; and a data converter to convert the symbol to data. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128367 | SERVER DEVICE THAT SETS SECURITY LEVELS IN ACCORDANCE WITH DISTANCES BETWEEN DEVICES, CLIENT DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR SERVER CONTROL, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR CLIENT CONTROL, SERVER PROGRAM, CLIENT PROGRAM, METHOD FOR CONNECTING TO A CLIENT DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONNECTING TO A SERVER DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CONNECTION METHOD - A server device includes an information management unit, an optical signal transmission unit, and a service provision unit. The information management unit stores and manages a plurality of types of connection information having different importance levels, respectively, in association with the respective importance levels, the connection information being necessary for connection to a service. The optical signal transmission unit modulates the stored plurality of types of connection information into optical signals, such that a type of connection information stored in association with a higher importance level has a smaller amount of change in light intensity, and transmits the optical signals using a first communication function. The service provision unit provides, when the client device has issued a connection request containing a predetermined type of connection information using a second communication function, a service to the client device using the connection information. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128368 | DIFFERENTIAL CODE OPTICAL TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION DEVICE - A differential code optical transmission and reception device including: a digital signal processing optical transceiver that converts information data into an optical signal and transmits it to a communication channel, a reception front end part that receives the optical signal from the communication channel, an O/E conversion part that converts the optical signal received from the communication channel into an electrical signal, a skew correction part that regulates or correct a skew between lanes contained in the electrical signal, a differential decoder that decodes a differential code of the skew corrected electrical signal, and a lane exchange/rotation part that rearranges the electrical signal having passed through the differential decoder into a lane state thereof at the time of transmission in cases where lane exchange has occurred in the communication channel. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128369 | TRANSCEIVER UNIT - A phase synchronized optical master-slave loop comprises at the slave-end a processor ( | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128370 | Optical Hetrodyne Devices - An optical heterodyne device includes an optical meta-material exhibiting non-linear behavior. The optical meta-material mixes an input signal and a local signal to produce a heterodyne signal. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128371 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A communication system including: a first communication device located in a first zone; a second communication device located in a second zone for generating an optical carrier signal; and at least one optical fibre connected to the first communication device for supplying power for operation of the first communication device and for supplying the optical carrier signal from said second zone, wherein the first communication device includes: a user interface for inputting information; and an optical modulator for modulating the optical carrier signal to include information input with said user interface and forwarding the modulated signal via the at least one optical fibre to the second communication device. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128372 | OPTICAL LINE TERMINATION, PON SYSTEM, AND DATA RECEPTION PROCESSING METHOD - An optical line termination includes a deserializer that parallelizes burst data received from a termination device, a fixed-pattern generating unit that generates fixed pattern data that is a predetermined fixed data, and a data selecting unit that selects either the fixed pattern data or the burst data based on a data-head instruction signal indicating a head of the burst data and a data-end instruction signal indicating an end of the burst data, and inputs the selected data to a deserializer as data to be parallelized. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128373 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PERFORMING ONT WAVELENGTH TUNING VIA A HEAT SOURCE - A method and apparatus of tuning a signal received from a first network terminal at a second network terminal is disclosed. The method may include receiving the signal at the second network terminal. The signal may be operating at a first wavelength. The method may also include determining a port used to receive the signal at the second network terminal, and identifying a predetermined port wavelength used as a basis to shift the first wavelength to the predetermined port wavelength for subsequent signals received. The method may also include transmitting the predetermined port wavelength information to the first network terminal to inform the first network terminal to tune subsequent signals to the desired wavelength for the port. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128374 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING COMMUNICATION USING POLARIZED LIGHT - In an apparatus and a method for performing communication by using polarization property of light, a transmission apparatus includes a controller to establish a first channel corresponding to a first polarization property; a signal encoder to encode data into an electrical signal; a light emitting unit to emit light based on the electrical signal; and a polarizer to polarize the light into first polarized light having the first polarization property, and to output the first polarized light. A reception apparatus includes a controller to establish a first channel corresponding to a first polarization property; an analyzer to receive light, and to extract first polarized light having the first polarization property from the light; a polarized light receiver to convert the first polarized light to an electrical signal; and a signal decoder to decode the electrical signal to digital data. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128375 | INTEGRATED SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ELEMENT, SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - An integrated semiconductor laser element includes: semiconductor lasers that oscillate at different oscillation wavelengths from one another, each laser oscillating in a single mode; an optical coupler; and a semiconductor optical amplifier. At least one of active layers of the semiconductor lasers and an active layer of the semiconductor optical amplifier have a same thickness and a same composition that is set to have a gain peak wavelength near a center of a wavelength band formed by the oscillation wavelengths. The semiconductor optical amplifier includes: an equal width portion formed on a side of the optical coupler to guide light in a single mode; and an expanded width portion formed on a light output side. The width of the expanded width portion is set according to a total thickness of well layers of the active layer of the semiconductor optical amplifier. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128376 | PMD-insensitive method of chromatic dispersion estimation for a coherent receiver - Consistent with the present disclosure, a method and system for estimating chromatic dispersion of an optical signal in a coherent receiver is provided that is insensitive to polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and other polarization effects in the optical communication system. The effects of chromatic dispersion in the optical system are estimated by first calculating a phase shift between a pair of related frequency domain data outputs of a Fourier transform circuit. The calculated phase shift includes a linear phase component that is proportional to the chromatic dispersion, a DC constant phase component, and a data spectrum component. The calculated phase shift is then averaged over a number of clock cycles to remove the data spectrum components. The time averaged result is used to normalize any effects of PMD from the received signal. A slope of the linear phase component as a function of frequency is then calculated and used to estimate the value for chromatic dispersion. The chromatic dispersion estimate is then used to determine a number of coefficients of an inverse frequency response of the chromatic dispersion in the system, and is used to compensate for the chromatic dispersion. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128377 | OPTICAL DIGITAL COHERENT RECEIVER - An ALC processing unit to adjust the signal level of outputs from an adaptive equalizer to a target value is provided in a stage later than the adaptive equalizer and earlier than a frequency offset estimation/compensation unit in an optical digital coherent receiver. The ALC processing unit generates a histogram that counts the number of samples for discrete monitored values corresponding to amplitude values of outputs from the adaptive equalizer, and determines a level adjustment coefficient that is to be multiplied by an output from the adaptive equalizer so as to multiply the determined coefficient by the output from the adaptive equalizer so that the monitored value of the peak value of the histogram is the target value. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128378 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to reduce the frequency of image defect occurrences to a level as lower as possible by detecting abnormalities generated with age on the photoreceptor member and/or in the cleaning section, so as to suppress an amount of spoiled paper sheets and material. The image forming apparatus includes: a light source that is disposed at a position located between a cleaning section and a charging section, to emit an inspection light, which is to be irradiated onto a photoreceptor member over a main-scanning direction thereof; a tight-contact type image sensor that has a line image sensor to receive the inspection light reflected from a surface of the photoreceptor member; and a control section to determine a status of a surface of the photoreceptor member, based on a result of analyzing the inspection light receive by the line image sensor. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128379 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT CORRECTS CLOCK PHASE DIFFERENCE - An image forming apparatus capable of forming a high-resolution image without complicating a circuit construction. A difference between a phase of an operation clock for a ED detection unit and a phase of an operation clock for an image processing unit is measured by a phase measurement unit of the image forming apparatus, and a timing of data delivery between the BD detection unit and the image processing unit is adjusted by a BD input timing adjuster based on a measurement result. A difference between the phase of the operation clock for the image processing unit and a phase of an operation clock for a laser drive unit is measured by the phase measurement unit, and a timing of data delivery between the image processing unit and the laser drive unit is adjusted by an image output timing adjuster based on a measurement result. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128380 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WHICH CONTROLS SETTING OF CONTRAST POTENTIAL - This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of bringing the output density close to a target density even if the charge amount of toner particles changes. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit having an image carrier and a developing unit, a storage unit having the saturation charge amount of toner particles, and a control unit. The control unit forms a patch image using the image forming unit, measures the density of the patch image to obtain a first potential that is a contrast potential corresponding to a target density, estimates the charge amount of the toner particles in the developing unit to obtain a first charge amount, obtains a second potential from the first potential, the first charge amount and the saturation charge amount, and set the second potential as the contrast potential. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128381 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable belt, a detection unit configured to detect, at a detecting position, an object on the belt, a cartridge that is attachable to and detachable from a main body of the apparatus independently of the belt, and an openable and closable member that is openable and closable relative to the body to attach and detach the cartridge to and from the body. When the detection unit is at the detecting position, at least a part of the detection unit is located in a space used for attachment and detachment of the cartridge, and, when the detection unit is at a retracted position, which is outside of a space used for attachment and detachment of the cartridge, at least a part of the detection unit is located in a space that is formed by opening the openable and closable member relative to the body. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128382 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a first photosensitive member; a second photosensitive member; a third photosensitive member; a first scorotron-type charger that is configured to charge the first photosensitive member; a second scorotron-type charger that is configured to charge the second photosensitive member; a third scorotron-type charger that is configured to charge the third photosensitive member; a first voltage applying circuit, which is connected to the first scorotron-type charger, and which is configured to apply a voltage to the first scorotron-type charger; and a second voltage applying circuit, which is commonly connected to the second scorotron-type charger and the third scorotron-type charger, and which is configured to apply a voltage to the second scorotron-type charger and the third scorotron-type charger. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128383 | IMAGING FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME - An image forming apparatus has a function for adjusting the position at which a toner image is formed on a printing material, based upon amount of light reflected from a toner image that has been formed on an image carrier. The light-emitting unit emits light that irradiates the image carrier, and the detecting unit detects an amount of substrate-light reflected from the substrate of the image carrier. The determining unit determines whether the difference between the amount of substrate-light detected at a first point in time and the amount of substrate-light detected at a second point in time later than the first point in time is greater than a predetermined threshold value. The light-power control unit increases the amount of light in the light-emitting unit if the difference is greater than the predetermined threshold value. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128384 | MOUNTING METHOD OF CLEANING BLADE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING CLEANING BLADE - A cleaning blade mounting method includes the steps of: moving a toner image carrier on which a toner layer is formed so that the toner layer reaches a cleaning position by a cleaning device; after bringing a tip of a cleaning blade into contact with the toner layer, bringing the tip into contact with the toner image carrier, mounting the cleaning blade to a temporary position with a second load lower than a first load that is a contact load at a time of an image formation; moving the cleaning blade with the second load from the temporary position to a final position at which a cleaning operation is carried out; bringing the cleaning blade with the first load into contact with the toner image carrier; and mounting the cleaning blade to the final position at the time of the image formation. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128385 | Image forming apparatus and power control method thereof - An image forming apparatus and a power control method thereof, the power control method of an image forming apparatus which includes a finisher to perform at least one of finishing jobs including arranging, sorting, grouping, folding, stapling, binding, and punching a print medium which is ejected after an image is formed thereon, the power control method including: determining whether or not a power mode of the image forming apparatus meets requirements for entering a power save mode in which power supplied to a part of elements of the image forming apparatus is shut off; determining whether or not the image forming apparatus has an ongoing job if the requirements for entering the power save mode are met; and entering the image forming apparatus in the power save mode while the power supply to the finisher is maintained if the image forming apparatus has the ongoing job. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128386 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CONTROLLING OPERATION NOISE VOLUME - An image forming apparatus has a moving part that operates for forming an image on recording paper. When an instruction to make a transition to a silent mode is input to an input unit, first control is executed so that operation noise of the moving part is reduced. When an instruction to cancel the silent mode is input to the input unit, second control is executed so that the operation noise of the moving part is increased stepwise to return to the state before the first control. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128387 | DEVELOPING CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A developing cartridge having a simplified mounting/separation configuration and an image forming apparatus having the same. The image forming apparatus includes a main body, a developing cartridge unit provided in the main body to form an image, a tray unit configured to accommodate the developing cartridge unit and movably mounted in the main body, a first link member movably coupled to the tray unit, and a second link member provided in the main body to be moved simultaneously with the first link member. The first link member includes a pressure piece to press the second link member such that the second link member does not interfere with the developing cartridge unit during movement of the first link member. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128388 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A process cartridge comprises a photosensitive drum and a developing roller. A coupling member is provided adjacent to one axial end of the developing roller. The coupling member includes a driven portion, and an intermediary portion configured and positioned to engage with the driven portion. The intermediary portion is also configured to be movable relative to the driven portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the driven portion. The coupling member further includes a driving portion configured and positioned to receive a driving force for rotating the developing roller. The driving portion is also configured to engage with the intermediary portion, and to be movable relative to the intermediary portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the intermediary portion. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128389 | CORONA DISCHARGER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A corona discharger, including a shield for generating corona discharge by applying a voltage to a charging wire, the corona discharger includes a moving portion for moving the charging wire along a stretching direction; a stretching portion for stretching the charging wire through a first charging area, a non-charging area and a second charging area and for folding the charging wire in the non-charging area back into the second charging area, the first and second charging areas being substantially parallel with each other, and a portion of the charging wire disposed in the non-charging area having a length not less than a length of the charging wire disposed in the second charging area; and a controller for controlling the moving portion such that the portion of the charging wire disposed in the non-charging area replaces the portion of said charging wire disposed in the second charging area. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128390 | CORONA DISCHARGER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A corona discharger, including a shield and a charging wire provided in the shield, for generating corona discharge by applying a voltage to the charge wire, the corona discharger includes a winding-up portion for winding up the charging wire by rotation thereof to move the charging wire in the shield; a driving portion for rotationally driving the winding-up portion; a rotation detecting portion for detecting the rotation of the winding-up portion; and a controller for controlling said driving means so that a cumulative rotation amount of the winding-up portion is counted on the basis of a detection result of said rotation detecting means and then a rotation amount of the winding-up means per unit winding-up length of the charging wire is decreased with an increase of the cumulative rotation amount. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128391 | DEVELOPER COLLECTION CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A developer collection container includes: a container body capable of containing collected developer; a developer conveyance member extending into the developer collection container and configured to convey the developer into the container body; and a guide provided in the container body and supporting the developer conveyance member from below the developer conveyance member. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128392 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING TRANSFER RESIDUAL TONER ONTO IMAGE BEARING MEMBER - A charge member charges secondary transfer remaining toner on an intermediate transfer member to a polarity opposite to a normal charge polarity. The remaining toner is moved by a transfer bias, from the intermediate transfer member onto an image bearing member. A BK station is arranged on the downstream of other stations. In a continuous BK monochromatic mode, by applying a reverse bias to transfer portions of the other stations and applying the transfer bias only to the BK station, remaining toner can be collected into the BK station (simultaneously with the transfer). In a full-color mode, remaining toner is collected into the station on the uppermost stream. Thus, the image bearing member for collecting remaining toner on the intermediate transfer member differs according to the mode, thereby suppressing the collection of remaining toner being concentrated on one image bearing member. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128393 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming method including steps of forming a clear toner layer on a photoreceptor, transferring the clear toner layer onto a transfer member, transferring the clear toner layer on the transfer member onto an image support, heating the image support having the clear toner layer, bringing the clear toner layer into close contact with a belt to cool the image support, and separating the image support from the belt are provided, in this order; and the clear toner layer is formed with a plurality of independent linear protrusion portions and the independent linear protrusion portions are formed parallel or diagonally to the conveyance direction of an image support. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128394 | CLEANING MEMBER - A cleaning member, for use in an image forming apparatus in which a developer image formed on an image bearing member is to be transferred onto a developer image receiving member to form an image, for removing a developer remaining on the image bearing member after the transfer includes an elastic blade portion, having flexibility, for removing the developer remaining on the image bearing member in contact with the image bearing member in a bent state; and a supporting portion for supporting the elastic blade portion. The elastic blade portion includes, in a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the elastic blade at a position in which the developer image is to be formed with respect to the longitudinal direction, a contact portion contacted to the image bearing member when the cleaning member is used in the image forming apparatus, a first connecting portion for connecting the contact portion and a portion of the supporting portion close to the image bearing member, and a second connecting portion for connecting the contact portion and a portion of the supporting portion remote from the image bearing member. The supporting portion, the contact portion, the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion define a hollow area. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128395 | Sheet-Fed Duplex and Sheet-Fed Duplex Multi-Color Printers - A sheet-fed duplex printer comprises a pair of impression cylinders | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128396 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus comprising an image bearing member configured to carry a toner image and a rotatable belt member stretched by a plurality of stretching members and configured to carry and convey a recording material and a transfer member configured to transfer the toner image from the image bearing member to the recording material carried by the belt member by pressing the belt member against the image bearing member and a first lifting member arranged more downstream than the transfer member in a recording material conveyance direction, to which the recording material is conveyed, and configured to locally lift the belt member from the inside thereof in a width direction orthogonal to the recording material conveyance direction and a second lifting member arranged more downstream than the first lifting member in the recording material conveyance direction, is disclosed as one of the aspects of disclosures. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128397 | SHEET DE-CURLING MECHANISM AND PRINTING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A sheet de-curling mechanism includes a passageway, a first roller and a second roller. The first roller, disposed in the passageway, transports a sheet at a first speed in a transporting direction. The second roller, disposed downstream of the first roller, transports the sheet at a second speed greater than the first speed, to stretch and flatten the sheet. A printing apparatus using the sheet de-curling mechanism is also provided. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128398 | INK RIBBON CARTRIDGE AND PRINTER - An ink ribbon cartridge holds an ink ribbon impregnated with ink. A casing includes two guide portions projecting from the casing. An ink ribbon formed in a Mobius loop, the ink ribbon including a width, the ink ribbon including a first half of the width and a second half of the width, the ink ribbon being housed in the casing and exiting the casing from a free end of one of the two guide portions and entering the casing from a free end of the other of the two guide portions. An ink supplying section supplies ink to the ink ribbon at an area in the first half of the width, the area being directly facing the casing between the two guide portions. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128399 | Applicator For Cosmetic Product - The invention concerns an applicator ( | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128400 | Margarine, and similar products, dispenser and holder - A margarine dispenser comprising a dispenser body that is shaped as a hollow tube with a top that is either partially or entirely open, and a movable top cover that functions as a piston; the bottom cover of the dispenser body has holes through which the margarine is pushed out in order to be used. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128401 | Cosmetic Multi-Layered Wiper - A multi-layered wiper for removing a product (e.g., a cosmetic product) from an applicator. The multi-layered wiper comprises a wiping body having a wiping face, an acute wiping tip, and vertical slits, formed of a first material, over-molded to a retention body, formed of another material harder than the first material. By virtue of having a multi-layered wiper comprising a wiping body, formed of a first material, over-molded to a retention body, formed of another material, harder than the first material, the multi-layered wiper is capable of providing exceptional installation characteristics, while simultaneously providing exceptional wiping characteristics. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128402 | CLICK PEN APPLICATOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A click pen applicator device that provides predetermined dosing of the formulation for precise application, and rapidly primes the formulation using the dosing click mechanism to prepare the applicator for use is disclosed. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128403 | PIN-SHAPED DEVICE FOR APPLYING A LIQUID - The invention relates to a pin-shaped device for applying a liquid to a surface, having a tank ( | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128404 | IMPLEMENT ATTACHMENT HAVING A HYDRAULICALLY CONTROLLED LOCKING FUNCTION - An implement attachment for a working machine. The implement attachment comprises lock plungers having a hydraulic actuator. The lock plungers are arranged for locking co-operation with an implement. Hydraulic medium supply means is arranged for supply of hydraulic medium to the actuator. The hydraulic supply means is provided with a measuring device arranged to measure the volume of hydraulic medium that is supplied to the actuator. A working machine provided with the implement attachment and use of the implement attachment are included. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128405 | CONSTRUCTION PROFILES CORNER ASSEMBLING SYSTEM - A corner assembling system includes at least one coupling indent ensuring not opening of the coupling curve, at least one exterior surface support indent providing resistance and support to the front exterior surface, and a grounding tab increasing the grounding integrity of aluminium corner assembling member. A vertical profile interior tightening and connecting piece fixes the vertical profile to the aluminium corner assembling member from inside. A horizontal profile interior tightening and connecting piece fixes the horizontal profiles to both aluminium corner assembling member and to one another from inside. The system provides for assembling of power distribution panels, boxes and rectangular frame construction profiles with one another without a welding. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128406 | Set for Fastening of Measuring Device, particularly Rangefinder, to Monitored Element of Building Construction, especially of the roof, Fastening Method of Measuring Device Using Such Set and Suspension for Fastening of Measuring Device - The invention relates to the set for fastening of measuring device, particularly rangefinder, to the monitored element of building construction, especially of the roof, which includes an universal joint ( | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128407 | Fastening Structure and Swarf Tray - There are provided a first member provided with a female screw hole leading from a first face to a second face; a second member in contact with the first face and provided with a through-hole corresponding to the female screw hole; a male screw that is screwed through the through-hole into the female screw hole; a swarf tray including a surface-contacting portion that is in surface contact with the second face and thus covers an opening of the female screw hole, which is located on the second-face side, and a depression formed in a place coinciding with the female screw hole of the surface-contacting portion; and a bonding material for bonding the swarf tray to the first member at a contact face between the second face and the surface-contacting portion. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128408 | COMPOSITE SANDWICH SHELL EDGE JOINT - A composite sandwich shell edge joint includes an outboard buildup pad, an inboard buildup pad spaced-apart and adjacent to the outboard buildup pad, an outboard face sheet extending from the outboard buildup pad, an inboard face sheet extending from the inboard buildup pad, bridging plies connecting the outboard buildup pad and the inboard buildup pad and at least one barrel nut installed in the buildup pads. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128409 | MOUNTING STRUCTURE OF COMPONENT TO EXHAUST PIPE - When an exhaust gas sensor is mounted to an exhaust pipe into which exhaust gas from an engine is introduced, an intermediate member is made to intervene between the exhaust gas sensor and a boss provided in an exhaust manifold, the intermediate member being fastened to the boss by bolts and the exhaust gas sensor being screwed into a screw hole formed in the intermediate member, so that a sensor portion at a front end of the exhaust gas sensor is inserted into the inside of the exhaust pipe. Though the screw hole formed in the intermediate member is to be exposed to high-temperature gas of the exhaust manifold, stainless steel, whose high-temperature strength is high, being used for the intermediate member, a female screw of the screw hole is hard to be softened and an occurrence of torque down can be suppressed. | 2012-05-24 |
| 20120128410 | CLIP - A clip includes an attaching portion and a clamp portion. An elastic member, which is formed as a separate body from the attaching portion, is attached to the attaching portion, and prevents a transmission of vibration between an attached member and a tubular object. In the elastic member, a vibration-proof portion is provided and elastically abuts against a locking piece. | 2012-05-24 |
