| 44th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights (10-29-09/10-29-09_33) part 33 |
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| 20090269026 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEFINING ENTRY POINT IN A DATA STREAM - The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for defining entry points for a data stream, in particular a stream of audiovisual information. Entry points in the stream are defined at a predetermined interval. This may be a time interval, a byte interval or any other interval. It is an object of the invention to provide an entry point table having a limited size. This object is achieved by increasing the interval between entry points if the table exceeds a predetermined size. This size may be defined in bytes, in the number of entry points or even in the number of sub-tables. After redefinition of the interval between entry points, entry points are redefined. The invention also relates to an apparatus for defining the entry points and to a record carrier with a data stream incorporating entry points defined by the method according to the invention. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269027 | Indication of Trickplay Availability via Remote Control Device - A user is able to select a multimedia stream from a plurality of multimedia streams available at a multimedia receiver. The availability of one or more trickplay features for the selected multimedia stream is determined in response to the selection of the multimedia stream. A visual indicator, an audible indicator, or both are selectively provided for display/output based on the determined availability status of the corresponding trickplay feature. The selective provision of a trickplay indicator can include providing a first trickplay indicator when the trickplay feature is available and providing a second, different trickplay indicator when the trickplay feature is unavailable. Alternately, the selective provision of a trickplay indicator includes providing the trickplay indicator when the trickplay feature is unavailable and omitting provision of the trickplay indicator when the trickplay feature is available, or vice versa. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269028 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND PROGRAM - A playback apparatus plays back video data recorded on a recording medium such as a BD-ROM. The playback apparatus includes an interface in which a removable medium such as an SDRAM can be inserted, a detection module that detects that the removable medium is inserted, and a virtual file system. The virtual file system is used if the removable medium is detected to be inserted, if additional content such as subtitles is recorded on the removable medium, and furthermore if the additional content is associated with the video data recorded on the BD-ROM, etc. The virtual file system is used for dynamically combining the video data recorded on the BD-ROM, etc. and the additional content of the removable medium so as to play back a virtual package. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269029 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - There is provided a recording/reproducing device capable of more efficiently and reliably reproducing a scene desired by a user by adding the individual functions of receiving previously registered information from the user, detecting a match between the previously registered information and literal information, detecting a match between the previously registered information and a sound word, obtaining a feedback from the user, and the like. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269030 | STORAGE MEDIUM INCLUDING AV DATA AND APPLICATION PROGRAM, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD USING THE SAME - A storage medium including audio-video (AV) data and application programs for providing additional functions using the AV data includes: movie mode data for reproducing audio-visual (AV) data; program mode data including a plurality of application programs for providing additional functions using the AV data; system data for controlling the execution of the movie mode data and the program mode data; and management information for managing the execution of the application programs in a unit of title, wherein the system data comprises mode information indicating whether a reproduction mode of a title to be reproduced is a movie mode or a program mode. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269031 | MULTIMEDIA STREAM PROCESSING SYSTEM - A multimedia signal processing system allows a user to store selected programs while simultaneously watching or reviewing another. The system includes an input section and an output section. Across all configurations, the output section remains substantially the same, while the input section varies according to the signal type and the source. The system receives a digital stream and simultaneously processes the digital stream for display and stores the digital stream on at least one storage device. The system further simultaneously processes a previously recorded digital stream for display while processing the digital stream for display. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269032 | INFORMATION PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PLAYBACK METHOD - There are provided a first image information output unit which overlaps first sub-picture information having high resolution HD onto main image information having high resolution HD to be outputted in accordance with a required image output format, and a second image information output unit which overlaps second sub-picture information having low resolution SD onto information into which the main image information having high resolution HD has been converted to have the low resolution SD to be outputted in accordance with a required image output format. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269033 | INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD, WHEREIN INFORMATION IS STORED ON A DATA RECORDING PORTION AND A MANAGEMENT INFORMATION RECORDING PORTION - With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information storage medium. This realizes a data structure that causes the recording and deleting places on the information storage medium to correspond spuriously to places on a single tape, such as a VTR tape. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269034 | INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD, WHEREIN INFORMATION IS STORED ON A DATA RECORDING PORTION AND A MANAGEMENT INFORMATION RECORDING PORTION - With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information storage medium. This realizes a data structure that causes the recording and deleting places on the information storage medium to correspond spuriously to places on a single tape, such as a VTR tape. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269035 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WRITING AND PLAYING BACK DIGITAL BROADCASTING SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE INFORMATION AND RECORDING MEDIA THEREFOR - The present invention relates to method and apparatus of providing supplementary service information for A/V contents written in a recording medium. This method has a recording medium containing Presentation Language data, which have to be included like as in a digital television signal for supplementary service information in accordance with Advanced TV Enhancement Forum or Digital TV Application Software Environment standard, and reproduces, if a disk reproduction is requested, the Presentation Language data as well as requested A/V data and provides them for a connected external device such as a digital television. As a result, various video information and functions provided with Presentation Language data by a recording medium can be realized at a digital television set being able to accept Presentation Language data. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269036 | AUDIO OUTPUT SYSTEM CONTROL METHOD AND AUDIO OUTPUT SYSTEM - In an audio output system including a TV, an AV amplifier, a DVD player, and the like, a simple control program decides an audio output mode setting, i.e., whether to output audio from a built-in speaker of the TV or output audio from an external speaker connected to the AV amplifier by linking operations of the respective devices. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269037 | AUDIOVISUAL (AV) DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - According to one embodiment, video image and voice signals are transmitted to a plurality of electronic devices each having at least one of a video image display function and a voice reproducing function. Information indicating the fact that at least one of a video image and a voice has been set in a mute state is acquired from each of the electronic devices. Based on the information, a processing operation is applied to the video image and voice signals supplied to each of the electronic devices. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269038 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information reproducing apparatus ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269039 | RECORDING/REPRODUCING SYSTEM, RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - According to the present invention, even in the case where an external recording apparatus is designed to be small and capable of being connected to various types of video equipment and is equipped with various types of operation units, an alarm display section, and so on, if the external recording apparatus is connected to a main apparatus, a menu for the external recording apparatus is provided to the main apparatus to accept a setting for the external recording apparatus with the main apparatus. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269040 | MULTIMEDIA DATA RECORDING/PLAYING DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A multimedia data recording and playing device and a method of driving the same are provided. The multimedia data recording and playing device includes a PVR processor for controlling to store received multimedia data in an activation mode where a time shift function can be performed, a storage for storing the received multimedia data under a control of the PVR processor, and a time shift function switcher for switching from the activation mode into a deactivation mode where the time shift function cannot be performed after determining whether the time shift function is performed or not. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269041 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING A DIGITAL INFORMATION SIGNAL - Method and apparatus of contiguously recording a sequence of ordered AfV information signals, and corresponding management information signals, on a disc-like recording medium of the write-once type. The method comprises allocating a reserved area within a linear addressing space of the disc, contiguously recording the A/V information signals in a video recording area located succeeding the reserved area, recording corresponding management data in a temporary overview space succeeding the video recording area, generating a mapping table ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269042 | CPS UNIT MANAGEMENT IN THE DISC FOR DOWNLOADED DATA - An information processing device comprising: a data processing unit configured to load a disk, which stores content that is divided into content usage control units, and to execute processes for reading the content; and a local storage unit configured to store subsequential data obtained and/or generated subsequentially, wherein the data processing unit is configured to perform processes to: select a title that is an index for reading the subsequential data from dummy titles stored in advance on the disk; set the title as a title for the subsequential data; and store the subsequential data in the local storage unit. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269043 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROL OF AN ACTIVE FRONT STEERING (AFS) SYSTEM - A motor control strategy for a motor in a front steering system for a vehicle that reduces vibrations from the motor being transferred to a vehicle hand-wheel. The control strategy also includes operating the electric motor in a commutation freeze mode if a position error signal is less than a first predetermined threshold by sending signals to coils of the motor to prevent to the motor from rotating, operating the electric motor in a commutation normal mode if the position error signal is greater than a second predetermined threshold that is greater than the first predetermined threshold, and operating the electric motor in an angle step mode if the position error signal is between an intermediate threshold and the second threshold where the angle step mode provides a signal to the motor to move the motor forward or backward a predetermined number of motor steps, one step at a time. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269044 | BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION - Provided is a small-sized in-line heater which is also capable of rapid heating. This in-line heater includes a ceramic heater, and two piping blocks each including a lid member and a piping block body in which a flow pipe is formed. The piping blocks are disposed to face each other with the ceramic heater interposed in between. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269045 | PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - A method of photographing an object ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269046 | LENS BARREL WITH SHAKE DETECTION FUNCTION - A lens barrel with high shake detection accuracy includes a stationary tube that supports an imaging optical system and a shake detection sensor that detects a shake along a predetermined detection axis, the shake detection sensor being attached to the stationary tube with the detection axis substantially orthogonal to an optical axis of the imaging optical system. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269047 | Illumination device for photography and photographic device - An illumination device for photography which can photograph an image expressing a movement of the object is provided. The device comprises a light emission unit which emits, continuously and at an constant emission amount, an illumination light, and a light emission control unit which controls the emission unit and changes a light emission intensity during the acquisition of a single still image by exposing object light on an imaging unit provided in a photographic device, wherein the light emission control unit, during the acquisition of the single still image, causes the illumination light to emit continuously at a first light emission intensity in a first time period, and causes the illumination light to emit continuously at a second light emission intensity with a lower intensity than the first light emission intensity in a second time period after the elapse of the first time period. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269048 | BLADE DRIVE DEVICE AND OPTICAL DEVICE - A blade drive device includes: a board having an opening; a blade for adjusting an amount of the opening; and first and second drive rings having a support structure for commonly supporting the blade for swinging, rotating in an identical direction with a given speed difference, and being arranged in a same plane. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269049 | INTERMEDIATE ADAPTER, CAMERA BODY AND IMAGING SYSTEM - An intermediate adapter includes a first terminal operable to be electrically connected to a lens detecting terminal provided on the camera body when the intermediate adapter is attached to the camera body, a second terminal operable to be electrically connected to a terminal provided on the interchangeable lens for providing a ground potential when the interchangeable lens is attached to the intermediate adapter, and a first switch interposed between the first terminal and the second terminal. The first switch is operable to electrically connect the first terminal and the second terminal when the first switch is on, and disconnect the electrical connection between the first terminal and the second terminal when the first switch is off. While the intermediate adapter is being attached to the interchangeable lens, the first switch is off to disconnect the electrical connection between the first terminal and the second terminal. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269050 | Camera Unit - It has been problematic that in a use environment of an image processing system in which temperature fluctuation or vibration occurs, it is highly probable that the subject of image recognition would not be imaged accurately because the relative position of an imaging device and a lens could be changed due to, for example, thermal stress resulting from a difference in the coefficient of linear expansion between a structural member that abuts on the imaging device and an adhesive and between the adhesive and the imaging device, stress resulting from vibration, or peeling of the adhesive resulting from deterioration of such adhesive. In a camera unit having a lens and an imaging device, the imaging device is fixed by means of a base plate, an elastic material, and a printed circuit board. The imaging device abuts on a first plane of the base plate, and the elastic material is sandwiched between the printed circuit board and a second plane opposite to the first plane of the base plate. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269051 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPTICAL OUTPUT POWER AND PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM USING THE SAME - Provided are an optical output power control method that provides optical communication without harming the human body even when a transmission line is cut or no optical network unit (ONU) accesses a communication system, and a passive optical network (PON) system using the method. In the method, an optical signal having a predetermined period is transmitted when an optical communication system is in an abnormal state, wherein the predetermined period includes a laser-on time interval in which the optical signal has a normal power level and a laser-off time interval in which the optical signal is off or has a power level lower than the normal power level, so that the optical communication system performs optical communication without harming the human body even during the abnormal state. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269052 | PORTABLE DEVICE FOR FIBRE CHANNEL CONFIGURATION AND ANALYSIS - Apparatus, method, and computer program product embodiments for analyzing and configuring a fibre channel link and topology using a portable device are provided. A network microchip is programmed to select at least one of an available plurality of operating modes based on a first user input. The plurality of operating modes include a manual speed selection mode for manually selecting a link speed based on a second user input, an auto speed selection mode for automatically negotiating a highest supported link speed, an auto topology negotiation mode for discovering and reporting all possible port configurations, and a manual topology selection mode for selecting a fibre channel topology based on a third user input. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269053 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK FAILURES, AND PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM THEREOF - A method and apparatus for detecting Passive Optical Network (PON) failures, and a PON system are provided to obtain the monitoring information of a peer device before a PON system failure occurs. The method includes: obtaining monitoring information of an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) and an Optical Network Unit (ONU); and determining a failure of a passive ONU according to the obtained monitoring information of the OLT and the ONU. The monitoring information of the peer device is obtained before a PON system failure occurs. Thus the failure is discovered in time, quick troubleshooting is ensured, and the costs of system maintenance are reduced. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269054 | Methods and Systems for Testing a Fiber Optic Network - The present disclosure relates to a method for testing a fiber optic network including a fiber distribution hub. The method includes providing a test splitter within the fiber distribution hub to provide optical connectivity between an F1 fiber and at least a portion of an F2 fiber network. The method also includes testing sending a test signal from the F1 fiber through the test splitter to the F2 fiber network, and replacing the test splitter after testing has been completed. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269055 | Channel balancing algorithm - An algorithm is disclosed for performing channel balancing on channels between optical network elements within an optic-fiber communications system. The algorithm groups at least a portion of the channels into channel pairs, differentially adjusts the transmitter output power level of each of the channel pairs until the bit error ratio (BER) of at least one channel in each of the channel pairs exceeds a threshold, and records a respective power margin for each of the channels as the difference between the initial and final power levels. From the recorded power margins, a mean power margin is determined that is used to shift the transmitter output power level of each of the channels. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269056 | BIT ERROR RATE BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING COMMUNICATION SYSTEM PERFORMANCE | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269057 | WAVELENGTH ROUTE SELECTION SYSTEM AND WAVELENGTH ROUTE SELECTION METHOD - A wavelength route selection system includes an inhibition route setting unit determining, for each of the spans, whether or not the span reliability exceeds the upper limit value, and extracting, as second wavelength routes, routes based on spans, the span reliability of which is determined to exceed the upper limit value, from among wavelength routes from the node device as the start point to the node device as the end point. The system further includes a route reliability calculation unit adding, for each of the second wavelength routes extracted by the inhibition route setting unit, the span reliabilities of all the spans in the corresponding second wavelength route calculated so as to calculate a wavelength route reliability representing the reliability of the second wavelength route. The system further includes a route selection unit selecting a second wavelength route having a minimum wavelength route reliability calculated by the route reliability calculation unit from among the second wavelength routes as the first wavelength route. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269058 | System and Method for Self-Generation of Reference Signals - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for determining properties of optical links using the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) of integrated amplifiers. To calibrate the system, existing amplifiers in the nodes of the system can be operated in an ASE mode. A bypass switch at the mid-stage of each amplifier routes the ASE from the amplifier's first stage into one or more signal processing components, creating reference signals. Subsequently, the bypass switch routes the reference signals back into the mid-stage of the amplifier. After propagating through a link to the next node in the system, the optical parameters of the reference signals are measured and used to determine properties of the link, such as chromatic dispersion and attenuation. Tunable devices within the two nodes connected by the link may be set to compensate for specific properties of the link, thereby improving the quality of transmitted signals. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269059 | LONG-REACH PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK USING REMOTE MODULATION OF AN AMPLIFICATION OPTICAL SIGNAL - A passive optical network is provided, which includes an optical central office connected to a line termination device by a branch of the network including a passive amplification medium. The central office is adapted to send/receive a first data optical signal and has a first amplifier for sending a second amplification optical signal. The second signal exciting the amplification medium to amplify the optical power of an optical signal. The line termination device is adapted to receive the first optical signal, modulate the second amplification optical signal; and inject the modulated second signal into the network. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269060 | Providing Wavelength Connectivity Information To A Network - In particular embodiments, providing wavelength connectivity information to a network includes establishing wavelength connectivity information for a network node of the network. The network node comprises link pairs, where a link pair has an input link and an output link. The wavelength connectivity information describes a set of available wavelengths between an input link and an output link. The wavelength connectivity information is inserted into an advertisement, and the advertisement is sent to at least a subset of the network nodes of the network in real time. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269061 | Providing Signal Reachability Information To A Network - In particular embodiments, providing signal reachability information to a network includes establishing signal reachability information at a network node of the network. The signal reachability information describes attributes that affect reachability of an optical signal. The signal reachability information is inserted into an advertisement, and the advertisement is sent to network nodes of the network. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269062 | Ship with a data network - A ship includes a network, integrating services for security and control services and/or for multimedia and infotainment services on board the ship. The service-integrating network includes services for security-related systems as well as services for non-security-related systems. The conventional situation for network solutions on board cruise ships is characterised by a number of service functions and individual networks distributed over the entire ship. In at least one embodiment, the service-integrating network is embodied as a redundant ring both for services for security-relevant systems as well as for services for non-security-related systems. As such, the number of security functions and service functions and the number of individual networks can be advantageously reduced to a common high-security network. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269063 | Method and apparatus for enabling activation of services via an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) - Cell phones or other wireless devices are becoming increasingly more accessible to customers, but cell phone features are primarily focused on communications services. A system employing an example embodiment activates services for an Optical Network Terminal (ONT) in the presence of wireless devices. In particular, the ONT responds to a ranging request from an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) with an ONT Identifier (ID) and an ID of a wireless device. If the ID of the wireless device is known, the ONT may enable activate a service, such as a security service for a homeowner. If the ID of the wireless device is unknown, the system may employ security measures, such as notifying the homeowner that a person with a wireless device having an unknown ID is on the premises. Thus, the example embodiment enables or disables premises security or other security based on the ID of the wireless device. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269064 | Optical CDMA by Self Heterodyne Filtering - A new method and system for Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA) transmission, in which channel selection and rejection are based on dynamic self-heterodyne filtering using differential time delays applied to the data-modulated signals to code and decode the transmissions in each channel. Mach-Zender Interferometers having characteristic delays between their arms are a simple way of performing this coding and decoding. The technique enables the use of narrow linewidth sources and low spectrum spreading. Consequently this technique can be used in next-generation all-optical dynamic networks allowing bandwidth sharing on the one hand, while at the same time eliminating the need for network management and optical switching. Preliminary theoretical calculations predict the system support of up to 15 channels at a data rate of 1 GHz. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269065 | Setting Up A Circuit In A Network - In particular embodiments, setting up a circuit in a network includes establishing by control plane logic that planning pre-conditions for planning a circuit have been satisfied, and initiating the planning of the circuit. The control plane logic establishes that reservation pre-conditions for reservation of a resources for the circuit have been satisfied and initiates the reservation of the resources for the circuit. The control plane logic establishes that activation pre-conditions for activation of the circuit have been satisfied and initiates the activation of the circuit. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269066 | Single-Unit Integrated Transceiver Having Pump Source and Transceiver Module Using the Same - Provided are a sing-unit integrated transceiver having a pump source and a transceiver module using the transceiver. The single-unit integrated transceiver includes: an optical transmitter converting an input electric signal into a downstream optical signal; an optical receiver converting a received upstream optical signal into an electric signal; the pump source amplifying the downstream or upstream optical signal using a gain medium positioned in an optical transmission line to amplify an output optical signal; a convergence unit arranging or converging the downstream and upstream optical signals to/from the optical transmission line; and a multiplexing and/or a demultiplexing filter, the multiplexing filter positioned on an optical path between the optical transmitter/pump source and the convergence unit, and multiplexing the downstream optical signal and the amplified optical signal to pass to the convergence unit, the demultiplexing filter positioned on an optical path between the convergence unit and the optical receiver and demultiplexing the upstream optical signal to pass to the optical receiver. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269067 | BI-DIRECTION OPTICAL MODULE INSTALLING LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHT-RECEIVING DEVICE IN SIGNAL PACKAGE - A bi-directional optical module with an improved optical crosstalk between the transmitter unit and the receiver unit is disclosed. The optical module provides the LD, the PD, the WDM filter secured with the block, and the package with the co-axial shape. The block provides a slant surface, where the WDM filter is secured thereon, the bottom surface facing the PD mounted on the package, and an aperture connecting the slant surface and the bottom surface. The PD is enclosed within a space formed by the bottom surface and the primary surface, which electrically and optically isolates the PD from the LD. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269068 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A wavelength division multiplexing transmission system, the system comprising: a plurality of channels at different wavelengths, each channel comprising a transmitter, a receiver, and one or more amplifiers, the system further comprising an encoder for encoding data with a coding, and; a decoder for decoding transmitted data; prioritizing means for prioritizing the data on each channel; monitoring means for monitoring directly or indirectly, raw (uncorrected) bit errors on each channel; power adjusting means for, varying the power on a channel in response to the bit error rate. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269069 | PASSIVE WAVE DIVISION MULTIPLEXED TRANSMITTER HAVING A DIRECTLY MODULATED LASER ARRAY - An wave division multiplexed (WDM) optical transmitter is disclosed including a directly modulated laser array and a planar lightwave chip (PLC) having a plurality of OSRs that receive outputs of the laser array and increase the extinction ratio of the received light. An optical multiplexer receives the outputs of the OSRs and couples them to a single output port. The multiplexer has transmission peaks through its ports each having a 0.5 dB bandwidth including the frequency of a laser in the array. The optical multiplexer may be embodied as cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers or ring resonators. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269070 | Multiplexer with Aptical Add/Drop - A method of extracting a predetermined channel from an OTDM signal includes the steps of combining at the inlet of an SOA the OTDM signal and an impulsive signal with impulses temporally synchronized with the channel to be extracted to produce in the SOA FWM, XGM and XPM effects which shift to a length c the channel chosen for extraction with c outside the length d of the OTDM signal with the other channels outlet from the SOA and filtering the SOA outlet to extract components with c d that represent respectively the desired channel and the cleaned OTDM signal. A multiplexer in accordance with the method includes an inlet ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269071 | Operation terminal - An operation terminal includes a communication unit; an operation terminal control unit; a plurality of on-period light-emitting units provided in a one-to-one correspondence to the control switches and controlled by the operation terminal control unit; a plurality of off-period light-emitting units provided in a one-to-one correspondence to the control switches and controlled by the operation terminal control unit to emit light when the load associated with the corresponding one of the control switches by relational data is in an off-state; and a housing. At least one half of the control switches are arranged one above another in a vertical direction and each of the on-period light-emitting units is arranged in such a fashion as to transversely interpose the corresponding one of the control switches between itself and the corresponding one of the off-period light-emitting units when seen from the front side. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269072 | METHODS FOR ALLOCATING TRANSMISSION BANDWIDTHS OF A NETWORK - Methods for allocating transmission bandwidths of a network are adapted to a network including an office terminal and peripheral terminals. The peripheral terminals communicate with the office terminal by time division multiplexing during a sequence of transmitting cycles. The method includes receiving requested bandwidths from uploading messages delivered from the peripheral terminals, arranging an uploading order of the peripheral terminals based on the uploading messages to obtain a transmitting sequence, adjusting the uploading order of each of the peripheral terminals in the transmitting sequence based on a size of the requested bandwidth to obtain a modified transmitting sequence, and arranging a modified uploading order of the peripheral terminals based on the modified transmitting sequence. Therefore, the transmission bandwidth allocation is fairer, and delay is reduced. Upstream order of each terminal is transferred based on its requested bandwidth, thereby effectively reducing the average delay. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269073 | TRANSMITTER APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A transmitter apparatus to transmit information to a receiver apparatus by using visible light emitted from a plurality of light sources includes at least a first light source to transmit user data; at least a second light source to transmit a pilot signal; and at least a third light source to transmit notice information that is necessary for receiving the user data in the receiver apparatus, the third light source being placed at a position determined by the position of the second light source. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269074 | System for Free Space Optical Communication and Method for Operation Thereof - A free space optical communication system is described that comprises a receiver node and a transmitter node communicating to each other via a control data communication channel and an information data communication channel operating at a wavelength region different from the wavelength region of the control data communication channel. The receiver node includes a receiver unit configured to receive an information data signal provided by the transmitter node through the information data communication channel, and to recover information from said information data signal; an interrogator unit configured for generating and radiating an interrogation data signal through the control data communication channel in order to initiate and terminate an information data communication session between the receiver node and the transmitter node; and a receiver node controller configured for controlling operation of the receiver unit and the interrogator unit. The transmitter node includes a responder unit configured to locate the presence of the interrogator unit; a transmitter unit configured to receive the data from an information source, generate and radiate the information data signal through the information data communication channel to the receiver unit; and a notifier unit coupled to the transmitter unit and to the responder unit, and configured to control operation thereof. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269075 | ELECTRO-OPTICAL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR MAKING AN ELECTRO-OPTICAL ASSEMBLY - An electro-optical assembly (EA) is provided in which the transmitter and receiver components are integrated together on a single circuit board, which is encapsulated in a single molded EA package. Integrating the transmitter and receiver components on a single circuit board allows the size and complexity of the EA to be greatly reduced as compared to the traditional TO-can and FOT architectures. A standard semiconductor inline automation system and process may be used to manufacture the EA packages so that they may be mass produced with improved throughput, yield and quality as compared to the method currently used to manufacture and assemble the known EA used in the traditional TO-can and FOT architectures. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269076 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTICAL RECEIVER DECISION THRESHOLD OPTIMIZATION - The present invention provides systems and methods for a receiver threshold optimization loop to provide self-contained automatic adjustment in a compact module, such as a pluggable optical transceiver. The receiver threshold optimization loop utilizes a performance metric associated with the receiver, such as FEC, to optimize performance of the receiver. The receiver is optimized through a change in the receiver threshold responsive to the performance metric. Advantageously, the present invention provides improved receiver performance through a continuous adjustment that is self-contained within the receiver, such as within a pluggable optical transceiver compliant to a multi-source agreement (MSA). The receiver threshold optimization loop can include a fine and a coarse sweep of adjustment from an initial setting. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269077 | PLUGGABLE TRANSCEIVER WITH BI-DIRECTIONAL OPTICAL SUB-ASSEMBLY - An optical transceiver is disclosed, in which the transceiver installs a BOSA and has an additional heat conducting path from the BOSA to the cover and to the base independent of the path from the IC to the cover. The optical transceiver includes a heat conductor that comes in thermally contact with the BOSA, the cover and the base. The heat conductor, which is made of metal sheet, has a ceiling piece that comes in contact with the cover and a pair of legs with the bottom surface that comes in contact with the base in both sides of the BOSA. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269078 | Dispersion compensator and optical communication device having same - A dispersion compensator ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269079 | Optical signal transmission control apparatus and optical signal transmission control method - An optical signal transmission control apparatus that controls transmission of optical signals transmitted via a plurality of redundant routes. The optical signal transmission control apparatus includes a delay difference adjusting unit that adjusts a transmission delay difference between the optical signals of each route by converting a wavelength of the optical signal and making the optical signal with a converted wavelength pass through a waveguide in which a transmission delay of the optical signal changes continuously depending on the wavelength, and a waveform degradation compensating unit that compensates degradation of a waveform of the optical signal, while maintaining the transmission delay difference adjusted by the delay difference adjusting unit. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269080 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTING APPARATUS - An optical transmitting apparatus includes a modulating unit that branches an input light and performs independent phase modulation to branched optical signals of arms, a phase adjusting unit that changes a phase difference between the optical signals of respective arms according to a control signal, a combining unit that combines modulated lights having the phase difference, an acquiring unit that acquires a positive-phase signal and a negative-phase signal from the combining unit, a subtracting unit that obtains a difference between the positive-phase signal and the negative-phase signal acquired by the acquiring unit, a detecting unit detecting a power of a differential signal from subtraction by the subtracting unit, and a control unit that changes the control signal according to signal component intensity detected by the detecting unit. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269081 | Soft Decision Threshold Control in a Signal Receiver Using Soft Decision Error Correction - A soft decision threshold control system and method may be used with a forward error correction (FEC) scheme to adjust or tune one or more soft decision thresholds in response to one or more bit value averages for the threshold(s) and in response to a bit error rate (BER). The bit value average for a soft decision threshold generally refers to an average number of binary values (e.g., logic ones and/or zeros) occurring in a bit stream detected using the soft decision threshold. For different BER levels in a particular system, for example, one or more of the soft decision thresholds may have a predetermined bit value average, which has been determined to provide a certain level of performance (e.g., an optimum performance). Thus, one or more of the soft decision thresholds may be adjusted such that the bit value averages for the soft decision thresholds are adjusted as a function of the BER. The settings of the soft decision thresholds may also be adjusted in response to changes in a signal amplitude of the input signal being detected. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269082 | HETERODYNE RECEIVER USING DIFFERENTIAL TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF LASER SOURCES - A heterodyne receiver includes first and second laser sources such as laser diodes which generate optical receiver oscillator (RO) signals having respective RO frequencies. Temperature control circuitry controls a temperature difference between the operating temperatures of the sources such that the RO frequencies differ by a difference frequency corresponding to the temperature difference, the difference frequency being offset from a frequency of a modulated millimeter-wave signal by a predetermined intermediate frequency. An electro-optical nonlinear mixer such as a photodiode receives the optical RO signals and the modulated millimeter-wave signal and generates an electrical intermediate-frequency (IF) signal, which is provided to an electrical amplifier/detector to detect the output signal corresponding to the modulation of the modulated millimeter-wave signal. The receiver may be used as part of a heterodyne transceiver which includes a transmitter, and the transmitter may also employ an optical heterodyne structure for generating a millimeter-wave signal for transmission. There may be sharing of some components between transmitter and receiver by dividing operation into separate transmit and receive intervals. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269083 | SPACE DIVERSITY RECEIVER FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS - An optical beam combiner is provided, which allows efficient collection of light for various applications: non-line of sight and free-space optical communications, remote sensing, optical imaging and others. A multitude of transverse scattered optical beam portions is captured by the multi-aperture array positioned perpendicular to the beam projection direction. These beam portions are combined first into a single optical waveguide with modulating the beam portions phase and coupling ratio of directional couplers in the optical beam combiner tuned to maximize the final output power. A portion of the output beam is used for the power detection and forming a feedback signal for the phases and coupling ratios adjustment. The data is recovered from the received optical beam using coherent detection. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269084 | LIGHT RECEIVING CIRCUIT AND DIGITAL SYSTEM - A light receiving circuit ( | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269085 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided. In the image forming apparatus, a contact portion that contacts a detection gear of a development cartridge and to which information about the development cartridge is transmitted is positioned inside of a path for attachment and detachment of a process cartridge. At both times of attachment and detachment of the process cartridge to and from a main unit casing, when the process cartridge contacts the contact portion, the contact portion can be swayed in a single direction while a pivot extending in a direction parallel to the direction of attachment and detachment of the process cartridge is taken as a fulcrum for swaying action. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269086 | Image Forming Apparatus and Process Cartridge - An image forming apparatus has: a photosensitive cartridge; a development cartridge detachably mounted to the photosensitive cartridge; a main body in which the photosensitive cartridge is detachably mounted; a first sensor; a second sensor; and a control unit. Where the second sensor is brought into a second state after being temporarily brought into a first state, it is determined that the development cartridge is a new one. Where the second sensor is in the first state and the first sensor receives light within a predetermined period of time, it is determined that both the development cartridge and the photosensitive cartridge are not mounted Where the second sensor is in the first state, and the first sensor does not continuously receive the light for a predetermined period of time, it is determined that the photosensitive cartridge is mounted and the development cartridge is not mounted. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269087 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus transfers a toner image, which has been formed onto an image carrying member, to a printing medium. The image forming apparatus includes a sub-scan distance measuring part configured to measure a distance along a sub-scan direction from a predetermined position on the printing medium to a position at which the toner image is transferred to the printing medium; and a toner supplying amount control part configured to control, according to the distance measured by the sub-scan distance measuring part, a toner supplying amount used when the toner image is formed onto the image carrying member. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269088 | REMAINING TONER QUANTITY DETECTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A remaining toner quantity detector includes a detector to detect a projection formed on a toner bottle which is rotated, a counter configured to count the number of rotations of the toner bottle by the detector and integrate the count, and a discriminator configured to discriminate the toner quantity in the toner bottle on the basis of the integrated value by the counter. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269089 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING REGISTRATION MARKS - In an image forming apparatus for forming a color image by superposing component color images, a control device obtains position data representing a forming position of each of plural registration mark images for the component color images with respect to a positional reference value arbitrarily determined, divides the position data into each of a unit reference range representing a range in which one mark image is formed, converts the position data divided for each unit reference range into those based on respective reference values representing the front edge of the unit reference ranges, extracts the position data representing ranges common to the mutually overlapping ranges each of which is represented by a couple of position data corresponding to the rising and falling edges of a passage timing pulse as read position data of the mark image of the component color, and calculates the amounts of positional deviations of the component color images from one another on the basis of the position data extracted. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269090 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an apparatus main body, an operation panel that is provided in the apparatus main body and used for instructing printing of a formed image, plural paper feeding cassettes that store paper for color printing or paper for monochrome printing on which the image is printed, and a cassette-paper-correspondence recognizing unit that is provided in the apparatus main body and recognizes whether the paper stored in the plural paper feeding cassettes is the paper for color printing or the paper for monochrome printing. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269091 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD THEREOF - An image forming device includes a first measuring unit to measure a size of the recording medium when the image is formed on the first surface by the image forming unit, and a second measuring unit to measure the size of the recording medium prior to an image being formed on the second surface of the recording medium, and a control unit configured to change the size of printing range based upon the image data that is used to form the image on the second surface of the recording medium in accordance with a medium ratio of the size of the recording medium measured by the first measuring unit to the size of the recording medium measured by the second measuring unit. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269092 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including an image carrier that includes a photoconductive layer on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a charging member that comes in contact with the image carrier and charges the photoconductive layer, and a feeding section that supplies a current to the charging member by applying a vibration voltage with an alternate current component superposed on a direct current component, wherein the alternate current component may contain a first amplitude that eliminates charging non-uniformity when the vibration voltage is applied with a uniform amplitude and a second amplitude that is smaller than the first amplitude. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269093 | ELECTROGRAPHIC PRINTING DEVICE COMPRISED OF AT LEAST ONE PRINTER WITH A PLURALITY OF DEVELOPER STATIONS - In an electrographic printing device a plurality of printing groups each have a respective plurality of developer stations. A plurality of toner reservoirs are each connected via a respective toner transport channel with one or more of the developer stations. Each of the toner reservoirs outside of the printing groups is stored in a respective toner transport unit. Each of the toner reservoirs is provided with a first circuit having a memory in which is stored at least a color filled into the respective toner reservoir. A respective second circuit with a memory is associated with each of the toner transport units. These memories have stored therein at least the respective toner color filled into the respective stored toner reservoir. A respective third circuit with a memory is provided for each developer station, the respective third circuit memory having stored therein at least a toner color filled into the respective developer station. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269094 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus include an image bearing member, a developing container receiving a developer, a developer carrying member for carrying and conveying the developer, a developer feed member for supplying the developer to the developer carrying member, a detection device for detecting an amount of developer in the developing container by detecting an electrostatic capacitance between the developer carrying member and the developer feed member, and a control device for changing a rotational speed of the developer feed member into a plurality of speeds corresponding to the plurality of image forming speeds. The control unit controls the rotational speed of the developer feed member prior to the execution of a detection operation of the detection device so as to be faster than the slowest speed of said plurality of speeds. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269095 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The speed at which transfer-material enters a transfer region is controlled to prevent a phenomenon in which a toner image on an intermediate transfer belt is scraped by the leading edge of the transfer-material when the toner image is transferred onto the transfer-material. While the conveying speed of the transfer-material in a transfer nip coincides with the speed of the intermediate transfer belt, the transfer-material is conveyed at a speed lower than the peripheral speed of the intermediate transfer belt when the leading edge of the transfer-material comes into contact with the intermediate transfer belt, and the conveying speed of the transfer-material is increased by the time when the transfer-material enters the transfer nip. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269096 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF THE SAME - An image forming apparatus | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269097 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: plural photosensitive members aligned in a first direction; plural developing units for the photosensitive members, respectively, each of the developing units including a developer supplier, and a housing which holds the developer supplier; a translation member which moves the developing units between a contact position in which the developer suppliers contact the photosensitive members and a separated position in which the developer suppliers are separated from the photosensitive members by a linear reciprocating movement in the first direction; plural memory chips provided on the housings of the developing units, respectively; plural contacts provided on the translation member, each of the contacts configured to contact the corresponding memory chips; and a wiring provided on the translation member and electrically connected to each of the contacts. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269098 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A developing device according to the present invention includes a developer storing section storing a developer, a stirring member disposed in the developer storing section and transporting the developer while stirring the developer, a developer carrier receiving the developer from the developer storing section and carrying the developer, a developer regulating member regulating the amount of the developer received by the developer carrier from the developer storing section, and a heat-dissipating member disposed at a position in contact with the developer and capable of dissipating heat of the developer. The heat-dissipating member has a surface in contact with the developer and the contact surface of the heat-dissipating member has an arithmetic surface roughness Ra | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269099 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING COOLING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus comprising a main body, a cooling device, and a coupling assembly. The cooling device cools a cooling target such as a heat generator, and includes a heat-receiving section forming a heat-receiving-section channel through which a coolant flows to absorb heat from the cooling target, a cooling section to cool the coolant, and a circulation path to circulate the coolant between the heat-receiving section and the cooling section, cooling the coolant at the heat-receiving section, and transporting the coolant back to the heat-receiving section. The cooling target is detachable from the main body together with the heat-receiving section. The cooling section is provided at the main body. The coupling assembly connects the heat-receiving-section channel and the circulation path to circulate the coolant between the heat-receiving section and the cooling section whether with the cooling target installed in or detached from the main body. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269100 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a casing, a photosensitive unit removably mountable in the casing, and a protective member. The photosensitive unit includes a plurality of photosensitive members. The protective member is removably attached to the photosensitive unit and includes: a covering plate which opposes the plurality of photosensitive members to cover the plurality of photosensitive members when protecting the photosensitive members; a written part arranged on the covering plate, and including operation information related to the image forming apparatus written thereon; and a support part which supports the photosensitive unit so that the photosensitive members and the covering plate are separated by an interval when protecting the photosensitive members. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269101 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a main body having an opening; a photoconductor unit including a photoconductor and removably mountable to the main body through the opening by moving the photoconductor unit in a first direction; an exposure member; and a moving mechanism configured to move the exposure member to and away from the photoconductor The moving mechanism includes: a fixed shaft having an axial line thereof fixed relative to the main body; a first arm comprising one end portion thereof which is supported rotatably around the axial line of the fixed shaft; a movable shaft having an axial line thereof which is movable relative to the main body; and a second arm comprising: one end portion supporting the exposure member; and another end portion connected to the first arm via the movable shaft, and the second arm being swingable around the axial line of the movable shaft. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269102 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING A CLEANING MEMBER CONFIGURED TO CLEAN A TRANSPARENT MEMBER OF AN OPTICAL DEVICE - An image forming apparatus including a laser scanner configured to irradiate a photoconductive drum with light and having a cover glass transmitting the light, a laser shutter movable between a closed position, where the laser shutter blocks an optical path of the light emitted from the laser scanner through the cover glass toward the photoconductive drum, and an open position, where the laser shutter opens the optical path, and a cleaning member with which the cover glass is cleaned, the cleaning member being supported by the laser shutter in such a manner as to be movable along the laser shutter. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269103 | Photoreceptor, process cartridge and image forming apparatus - A photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate, an undercoating layer provided overlying the electroconductive substrate that includes a compound comprising an epoxy group and a straight chain alkyl skeleton, a cross-linked resin, and a hydrophilic particulate; and a photosensitive layer provided overlying the undercoating layer. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269104 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes first and second rotatable image bearing members, a rotatable belt member which can abut on the first and second image bearing members, a drive mechanism to attach or separate the second image bearing member to or from the belt member, a rotation drive mechanism, and a controller controlling a rotational speed of the second image beating member so that the second image bearing member rotates with a predetermined circumferential speed difference with respect to the belt member at least when image formation is performed by the second image bearing member. When the second image bearing member abuts on or separates from the belt member, the controller controls the rotational speed of the second image bearing member so that a circumferential speed difference between rotational speeds of the second image bearing member and the belt member is smaller than the predetermined circumferential speed difference. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269105 | CORONA CHARGER AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - A corona charger includes a charging wire and a plate grid. The plate grid comprises a stainless steel base and a surface layer formed of tetrahedral amorphous carbon on the base. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269106 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a spacer roller that contacts a photosensitive drum outside a running region of a transfer member. The spacer roller forms a gap between a developing roller and the photosensitive drum. A cleaning device is positioned at downstream side of a nip position formed between the photosensitive drum and the transfer member. A toner removing blade is disposed between the downstream side of the nip and an upstream side of the cleaning device. The toner removing blade has a contact portion that contacts a contact region between the photosensitive drum and the spacer roller. The rotation axis of the photosensitive drum extends along an inner end of the contact portion. This inner end of the contact portion is positioned within a toner collecting region in which toner is scraped off by the cleaning device. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269107 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method - If a velocity calculated by a velocity calculating unit deviates from a normal range, a target velocity is used as a feedback amount, an actuation amount corresponding to a deviation Ve=0 between the feedback amount Vf=Vt and the target velocity Vt is calculated, and a driving power corresponding to this actuation amount is supplied to a motor. A conveyor belt can be driven stably without causing irregularity in a speed of the conveyor belt. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269108 | FUSER ASSEMBLIES, XEROGRAPHIC APPARATUSES AND METHODS OF FUSING TONER ON COPY SHEETS - Fuser assemblies for fusing toner on copy sheets, xerographic apparatuses, and methods of fusing toner on copy sheets in xerographic apparatuses are disclosed. An embodiment of the fuser assemblies includes a continuous fuser belt including an inner surface and an outer surface opposite the inner surface; at least a first roll and a second roll which support the fuser belt, at least one of the first roll and second roll being adapted to heat the fuser belt; a heater including an outer heating surface facing the inner surface of the fuser belt; and a mechanism operatively connected to the heater for moving the heater to bring the heating surface into contact with the inner surface of the fuser belt. The heater is operable to supply heat from the heating surface to the inner surface to increase the temperature of the outer surface of the fuser belt adjacent the inner surface heated by the heating surface. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269109 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit and a fixing unit. The fixing unit includes a heating member; a coil arranged along an outer surface of the heating member for generating a magnetic field for induction heating the heating member; a core arranged to face the heating member with the coil located therebetween in order to form a magnetic path around the coil and made of a magnetic material; a shielding member arranged near the magnetic path generated by the coil, including a closed frame portion and made of a nonmagnetic metal; and a magnetic shielding portion for displacing the shielding member between a retracted position for permitting a magnetic flux to pass along a frame surface virtually formed inside the closed frame portion and a shielding position for shielding magnetism by the penetration of a magnetic flux inside the frame surface. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269110 | TONER BRUSH WITH SUPERIMPOSED BRUSHES FOR AN ELECTRO-PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTER AND PRINTER WITH THE TONER BRUSH - A toner brush for a printer and a printer including the toner brush. The toner brush includes a substrate (e.g. a core cylinder) with a cleaning brush and a residual toner brush superimposed over one another. During printing the printer holds the residual toner brush against a photoconductor or photoconductive surface, e.g., a photoconductive drum. For deep cleaning, the printer moves the cleaning brush closer to the photoconductor surface and holds it against the surface during deep cleaning. Deep cleaning may be automatically or manually (e.g., by an operator) initiated. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269111 | WASTE-TONER COLLECTION SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A waste-toner collection system includes a waste toner container that accumulate waste toner from a transport section. A tray has an upward opening for replacing the waste toner container and can be movable between a retracted position where the tray has been pushed horizontally into the apparatus body from a first side of the apparatus body, and a drawn-out position where the tray has been drawn horizontally out of the apparatus body from the first side, while holding the waste toner container. The waste toner container can be set in a collection position corresponding to the retracted position of the tray for allowing the waste toner container to receive waste toner discharged from the transport section, and a replacement position corresponding to the drawn-out position of the holder tray for allowing replacement to be performed through the container-replacement opening from above the tray. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269112 | WASTE TONER CONTAINER, WASTE TONER-ACCUMULATING STRUCTURE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EQUIPPED THEREWITH - Disclosed is a waste toner container for collecting waste toner removed from an image bearing member. The waste toner container includes a receiving section adapted to introduce the waste toner from an inlet port provided in an upper region thereof, and receive therein the waste toner dropped down through the inlet port, an accumulation section arranged to extend from the receiving section in a lateral direction approximately perpendicular to a dropping direction of the waste toner and rotatably coupled to the receiving section, and a rotary member adapted to allow for rotation of the accumulation section. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269113 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including an image carrier carrying a developer image to form an image by transferring the developer image onto a recording sheet at an image forming position, a recording sheet accommodating unit, a feeding path, a conveyance roller provided in the feeding path for conveying the recording sheet to the image forming position, a discharge path that guides the recording sheet to an outside, a discharge roller being rotatable normally and reversely and discharging the recording sheet to the outside by rotating normally, and a reverse feeding path, by which the recording sheet is guided when the discharge roller reversely rotates, and which reverses the recording sheet so as to guide the recording sheet to be joined again with the feeding path. The reverse feeding path is joined with the feeding path between the image carrier and the conveyance roller. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269114 | PROTECTIVE CLAW, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A protective claw provided on an upstream side of a cleaning device in a rotational direction of an image carrying member includes a main body, a recording material receiving portion formed on the main body so as to receive a recording material from a leading end thereof, and a rotating shaft, when receiving the recording material by the recording material receiving portion, to support the main body so as to make the recording material receiving portion rotate in a direction separating from the image carrying member. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269115 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a developing device that supplies one of plural color developers to the image carrier and forms a developer image; a transfer unit that transfers the developer image to a recording medium; a fixing unit that fixes the developer image; a transport path for transporting the recording medium from a supply position to an exit port; a return path for transporting the recording medium subjected to the fixing process to a position upstream of the transfer unit for performing subsequent processes on a developer image of another color developer; and a plane, including a junction of the transport path and the return path and a center of rotation of the developing device, being provided at a 90°—or wider angle with respect to a plane including a transfer position and the center of rotation of the developing device, on an upstream side of the another plane in a transport direction of the recording medium. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269116 | RECORDING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a recording head, a holding tray on which a first recording material is set and which is configured to be advanced and retracted in a linear path between a first position wherein it opposes the recording head and a second position wherein it is retracted from the first position, a reverse transporting portion for transporting a second recording material which is set under the second position while reversing the second recording material in a U shape, and a path forming member for guiding the reversed, another recording material to the linear path after the recording material is bypassed above the second position. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269117 | PAGE IDING FOR POST PROCESSING PRINTING - A system and method for implementing identification tags for print projects is disclosed. The method includes programming variable unique identification tags in each image of a job and subset of the job and printing the job on a form of media with the identification tag where the identification tag contains information capable of linking the form of media to the job. The identification tag may be implemented to microprinting, visual encoding, or infrared watermarking. The identification tag enables re-feeding the job for an update without the job needing to be fed in any certain type of order. Furthermore, even if the wrong job is fed into a printer/finisher, the update will not be implemented unless it is specifically programmed into the printer/finisher. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269118 | APPARATUS FOR ERGONOMIC TYPING - The subject matter described herein includes an apparatus for ergonomic typing. The apparatus includes a first surface having first set of keys including a plurality of alphabetic keys, where the first set of keys is operable by a user's thumbs. The apparatus includes a second surface having a second set of keys including a plurality of alphabetic keys, where the second set of keys is operable by the user's fingers. The second surface includes first structures for home positioning of fingers of the user's left and right hands and second structures for positioning of the fingers of the user's left and right hands when moving to and from home position keys during typing. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269119 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD - A printing apparatus including: a first motor configured to provide a drive force for rotating a roll member that is a wound medium; a second motor configured to provide a drive force for driving a transporting drive roller provided on a downstream side of the roll member along a feeding direction of the medium for transporting the medium; and a control unit configured to drive at least one of the first motor and the second motor to cancel the slackness of the medium generated between the roll member and the transporting drive roller. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269120 | Cosmetic container - The present invention relates to a cosmetic container, wherein a proper amount of a liquid cosmetic is dispensed to a brush and then used by opening an outlet through separation of an outer cap and subsequent rise of a lift cap when a user applies make-up by dispensing the liquid cosmetic contained in the cosmetic container and the outflow of the liquid cosmetic is shut off by closing the outlet through coupling of the outer cap and subsequent lowering of the lift cap after the use of the liquid cosmetic. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269121 | DISPENSING AND APPLICATOR DEVICES - Dispensing and applicator devices of the present invention provide delivery and application of a desired composition, generally in a single application volume and dosage, to a desired application location or surface. The devices generally comprise a combination of a flexible reservoir that is fillable or pre-filled with a treatment composition and an applicator component that accesses the treatment composition in the reservoir and delivers it to a desired tissue surface through a porous applicator. The reservoir and applicator components, and the treatment composition, may be sterilized and packaged in sterile format, or may be packaged to meet other “clean” or “sanitary” specifications short of sterility. Many uses are described, including applications of various compositions, including cosmetics, oral hygiene compositions, treatment agents and other substances to skin and tissue surfaces; industrial and household applications involving compositions such as cleaning agents, bonding agents, and the like to various types of surfaces, and food service applications involving compositions such as condiments, oils, and the like. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269122 | INK REPLENISHMENT CARTRIDGE AND ENCAPSULATED FIBER TYPE WRITING INSTRUMENT USING INK REPLENISHMENT CARTRIDGE - The invention provides an ink replenishment cartridge and a writing instrument using the ink replenishment cartridge where new ink can be easily replenished in the writing instrument in which ink has been spent completely. The invention has a characteristic that the ink replenishment cartridge is provided with an ink tank having an ink discharge port, ink filled in the ink tank and a closing cap detachably mounted on the ink tank to close the ink discharge port and the ink tank is installed with the ink discharge port communicating with an opening at a rear end of a stem of the writing instrument from which a detachable tail cotter is removed. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269123 | ELECTRIC PAINT TRAY APPARATUS - Liquids in general, and paint in particular, can be evenly distributed by a paint transfer drum having a friction-creating surface that is placed in contact with a friction-receiving surface of an endless belt that is driven (by the drum as it rotates) into and out of a container for the liquid. A scraper removes a portion of the lifted liquid from the endless belt. The scraped liquid falls upon a liquid distribution device that serves to evenly distribute said liquid laterally so that it will be evenly applied along the exterior surface of the paint transfer drum. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269124 | FLUID DISPENSER FOR FLOORS - The fluid dispenser for application of solutions applied to floors, includes a frame for supporting a container, the frame includes at least three legs supported by wheels mounted on a bottom end of each leg such that the frame can roll along the surface of a floor. The container is for holding solutions. A mop assembly is for fluidly communicating by gravity feed, the solution from the container to the mop head and bristles and for manually manipulating the mop head. The dispenser further includes a harness attached to the frame for securely attaching the fluid dispenser to the back side of a person such that the frame is always positioned behind the person. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090269125 | CLEANING TOOL WITH FLUID DELIVERY DEVICE - A fluid delivery system for a cleaning tool. In one embodiment, the fluid delivery system includes a reservoir, a first conduit and a second conduit coupled to the reservoir and adapted to selectively dispense fluid from the reservoir, wherein an end of the second conduit is moveable relative to the first conduit to dispense fluid in a plurality of directions. In another embodiment, the fluid delivery system includes a reservoir adapted to contain at least one fluid, a first conduit coupled to the reservoir adapted to selectively dispense fluid from the reservoir, and a second conduit coupled to the reservoir adapted to selectively dispense fluid from the reservoir independent of the first conduit. In another embodiment, the fluid delivery system has a reservoir with a first and second outlet wherein the second outlet selectively dispenses fluid from the reservoir independent of the first outlet. | 10-29-2009 |
