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| 20090066742 | PRINTHEAD WITH INCREASING DRIVE PULSE TO COUNTER HEATER OXIDE GROWTH - An inkjet printer that has a printhead with an array of ejection devices for ejecting drops of liquid onto a media substrate. Each of the ejection devices having a chamber for holding liquid, a nozzle in fluid communication with the chamber and a heater positioned in the chamber for contact with the liquid such that resistive heating of the heater generates a vapour bubble that ejects a drop of the liquid through the nozzle. The printer also has a controller for receiving print data and generating drive pulses to energize the heaters in accordance with the print data. The controller increases the drive pulse energy during the printhead lifetime. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090078674 | Reactive Ion Etching Process for Etching Metals - A method of etching a metal by a reactive ion etching process is provided. The etchant gas chemistry for the reactive ion etching process consists essentially of NH | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090078675 | METHOD OF REMOVING PHOTORESIST - A method of photoresist removal is provided. The method employs a plasma formed from a gas chemistry comprising NH | 03-26-2009 |
| 20100097429 | INKJET PRINTHEAD WITH TITANIUM ALUMINIUM ALLOY HEATER - An inkjet printhead with a resistive heaters for vaporizing ink to eject drops through respective nozzles. The heater is formed from a TiAlX alloy where Ti contributes more than 40% by weight, Al contributes more than 40% by weight and X contributes less than 5% by weight and comprises zero or more of Ag, Cr, Mo, Nb, Si, Ta and W. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20110122183 | PRINTHEAD INCORPORATING PRESSURE PULSE DIFFUSING STRUCTURES BETWEEN INK CHAMBERS SUPPLIED BY SAME INK INLET - An inkjet printer includes a printhead having a plurality of ink chambers fed be an ink inlet, each ink chamber having a heater element for ejecting drops of ink from a nozzle aperture of each chamber; a plurality of pressure pulse diffusing structure positioned between the plurality of ink chambers fed by the ink inlet, the plurality of pressure pulse diffusing structures for retarding a propagation of pressure waves generated by each ink chamber to adjacent ink chambers; and a controller for receiving print data and generating drive pulses to energize the heater elements in accordance with the print data. The controller increases the drive pulse energy during the printhead lifetime such that the drive pulse energy is never less than that of a preceding drive pulse. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110228010 | PRINTHEAD WITH BUBBLE VENTS - An inkjet printhead includes a plurality of ink chambers fed by a common ink inlet, the plurality of ink chambers sharing a common roof structure; a plurality of heater elements respectively allocated to each of ink chambers; a plurality of nozzle apertures defined through the common roof structure and respectively aligned with the heater element of each ink chamber; and a bubble vent defined in the common roof of the ink chambers and aligned with the common ink inlet, the bubble vent sized to allow ink surface tension to restrict an egress of ink, and permit egress of gas bubbles therefrom. | 09-22-2011 |
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| 20100018813 | LEVER ASSEMBLY FEATURING BLIND CABLE ASSEMBLY - The present invention is predicated upon improved vehicle brake assemblies, parking brake assemblies, parking brake actuating mechanisms, or combinations thereof, having simplified attachment features and for assembling a brake cable within the parking assembly with substantially limited or no visual access therein. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20110100772 | CABLE END RETENTION CLIP ASSEMBLY AND METHOD - The present invention is premised upon a clip and housing plate assembly capable of (“to accommodate”) loading, unloading and retaining a cable end within the housing plate assembly. Of particular interest is the clip and housing plate assembly used in a drum brake assembly and where the cable end is part of a cable assembly for a parking brake. The clip and housing plate assembly having clip member and a housing plate member and wherein the clip member is generally disposed outside an outer surface (or inside an inside surface) of the of the housing plate member and rotatably connected thereto. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20120043168 | BRAKE SYSTEMS, CALIPER ASSEMBLIES AND PADS INCORPORATING DIFFERENTIAL ABUTMENTS - The present invention is directed to a unique solution for caliper assemblies, brake pads utilized in such caliper assemblies, support structures utilized in caliper assemblies and disc brake systems containing such caliper assemblies which utilize push pull or pull push abutment designs. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120085597 | CALIPER ASSEMBLY FOR DISC BRAKE SYSTEM - A caliper assembly comprising: a brake pad comprising a carrier plate having two opposing faces and a top edge a bottom edge and two opposing side edges, wherein on one face is friction material and on the opposing face is a projection adapted to seat in a matched hole or recess in a caliper body, the two opposing side edges each having an ear which is adapted to seat in pad locator indentations in a support structure; a support structure comprising a recess for housing at least one brake pad and at least two pad locator indentations adapted for receiving the ears located on the two opposing sides of the brake pad and at least two caliper body locator indentations for seating two ears defined by the caliper body; and a caliper body having a hole or recess adapted for seating the projection on the opposing face of the brake pad and having two ears on each opposing side which are adapted to seat in the caliper body locator indentations of the support structure; wherein the ears of the brake pad are seated in the pad locator indentations of the support structure, the projection on the opposing face of the brake pad is seated in the hole or recess located in the caliper body, and a clip which engages the opposing face of the brake pad and the caliper body and holds the brake pad in position with respect to the caliper body and the ears of the caliper body are seated in the caliper body locator indentations in the support structure. | 04-12-2012 |
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| 20110154078 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING, ASSESSING, AND MANAGING POWER SOURCE PERFORMANCE - An approach is provided for monitoring, assessing, and managing power source performance. Depletion of a power source of a mobile device caused by executing a plurality of activities is determined. A duration value is determined for executing each of the activities. The duration values are attributed to the depletion. Statistical data corresponding to performance of the power source is generated. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110154444 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING USER AUTHENTICATION BASED ON USER ACTIONS - An approach is provided for authenticating using user actions. A prompt is initiated on a display for an input to authenticate a user. The input is received as a sequence of user actions on the display. A predetermined sequence associated with the user is retrieved. The received sequence is compared with the predetermined sequence to determine a match. The user is declared to be authenticated based on the comparison. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110161123 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCURATELY DETERMINING SERVICE PROVIDER ASSETS - An approach for automatically generating system asset inventory discrepancies and matches and for identifying system asset accuracy information based on comparison of asset data in subsystems thereof, and for providing a list of actual assets based on comparison of trouble ticket information and a cumulative matching data set. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110320961 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING VIRTUAL WORKSPACES - An approach is provided for sharing the virtual workspaces of a plurality of user devices. One of the plurality of devices is designated as the only active device. The active device submits an update of the virtual workspace of the active device. Then an update of the virtual workspaces of the other devices is initiated that includes the workspace of the active device. A request from one of the other devices to become active is granted and the previously active device is undesignated as active. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120008761 | System and Method for Ring Delay on a User Agent - A system and method for ring delay on a user agent. A destination user agent may receive a request from an origination user agent to establish a session between the two user agents. The destination user agent may delay ringing according to a ring delay parameter. If the request has not been terminated by the time the ring delay parameter is met, the destination user agent may ring and a session may occur between the origination user agent and destination user agent. If the request is terminated before the ring delay parameter is met, the destination user agent may never ring. The ring delay parameter may be a ring delay time period. The ring delay parameter may be received as part of the request from the origination user agent, set by the destination user agent, or set by a service provider for the destination user agent. | 01-12-2012 |
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| 20110145340 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF PROVIDING REMOTE ACCESS TO AN EMAIL PLATFORM - A system for and method of providing remote access to an email platform. The system and method may include receiving, from a user system, authentication data that comprises an authentication code that is associated with a user of the user system via a network, receiving, from the user system, mail mimic message data that indicates at least one mail service operation to be performed by an email system, and outputting, to the email system, one or more command signals that initiate the performance of the mail service operation. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110150197 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF A LOCAL SERVICE REQUEST - A system and method for providing automatic generation of a local service request is disclosed. The system may comprise a front-end module configured to receive data associated with an order for a telecommunications service. A request generation interface may be provided to determine at least a service provider and a telecommunications service associated with the order. The request generation interface may also be configured to find a one or more matching templates in a list of templates stored in at least one data storage unit, apply the one or more matching templates to the order, and generate a local service request. A template module may be provided to generate at least one template based on the determination and match at the request generation interface. A business rules module may be provided to apply one or more business rules when generating the local service request. A back-end module may be provided to transmit the local service request to the service provider for ordering the telecommunications service. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110153443 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF AN ACCESS SERVICE REQUEST - A system and method for providing automatic generation of a access service request is disclosed. The system may comprise a front-end module configured to receive data associated with an order for a telecommunications service. A request generation interface may be provided to determine at least a service provider and a telecommunications service associated with the order. The request generation interface may also be configured to find a one or more matching templates in a list of templates stored in at least one data storage unit, apply the one or more matching templates to the order, and generate a access service request. A template module may be provided to generate at least one template based on the determination and match at the request generation interface. A business rules module may be provided to apply one or more business rules when generating the access service request. A back-end module may be provided to transmit the access service request to the service provider for ordering the telecommunications service. | 06-23-2011 |
