48th week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 35 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130315552 | Attachment Method to Keep Optical Fiber in Tension - A method using a capstan device and different bonding methods for minimizing undesirable time-dependent effects that occur in sensing devices that use optical fibers placed in tension. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315553 | APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL FIBER, METHOD FOR PRODUCING OPTICAL FIBER, AND OPTICAL FIBER PRODUCED BY METHOD - An apparatus produces an optical fiber by applying light to a photocurable composition and thereby curing the composition. The apparatus includes a nozzle for discharging the photocurable composition; a light irradiator for applying light to the fibrous photocurable composition discharged from the nozzle; and a controller that controls a light irradiation intensity at the nozzle orifice to 0.2 mW/cm | 2013-11-28 |
20130315554 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE MOVEMENTS OF AN OBJECT FROM A STREAM OF IMAGES - According to one aspect, the invention relates to a system for determining the movements of an object from a stream of images of said object. The system includes, in particular, a computer having a memory and a central processing unit, said central processing unit including: a reading unit ( | 2013-11-28 |
20130315555 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus for vehicles which, when image input sources correspond to two or more image input channels, includes a plurality of central processors for image control of the channels, respectively, wherein a master central processor for controlling the other central processors is selected from among the plurality of central processors and images of the channels are stored as one file under control of the master central processor, thereby enhancing video recording quality and simplifying storage and recording of the videos. An image processing method for vehicles is also disclosed herein. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315556 | VIDEO RECORDING METHOD OF RECORDING OUTPUT VIDEO SEQUENCE FOR IMAGE CAPTURE MODULE AND RELATED VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS THEREOF - An exemplary video recording method of recording an output video sequence for an image capture module includes at least the following steps: deriving a first video sequence from an input video sequence generated by the image capture module, wherein the first video sequence is composed of a plurality of video frames; calculating an image quality metric value for each of the video frames of the first video sequence; referring to the image quality metric value to select or drop each of the video frames of the first video sequence, and accordingly obtaining a second video sequence composed of selected video frames; and generating the recorded output video sequence according to the second video sequence. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315557 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TESTING DISC PLAYER - A test method tests read performance of a disc player. In the test method, a test optical disc stores data that is capable of being reproduced into a plurality of images each with a different single primary color. A storage unit stores the plurality of single primary colors. The disc player reads the test optical disc to generate video signals. Test images are displayed according to the video signals. The color of the test images are continuously detected and determining whether the currently detected color is the same as one of the single primary colors stored in the storage unit. And determining that the read performance of the disc player is not satisfactory if the currently detected color is not the same as one of the single primary colors stored in the storage unit. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315558 | 3D VIDEO REPRODUCTION DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, 3D DISPLAY DEVICE, 3D IMAGING DEVICE, AND 3D VIDEO REPRODUCTION METHOD - A stereoscopic video reproduction device comprising: a first acquisition unit; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a display size of a stereoscopic display of output destination; a decision unit configured to compare the acquired display size of the stereoscopic display and the plurality of intra-interval maximum display sizes and decides whether the display size of the stereoscopic display is larger than the plurality of intra-interval maximum display sizes; a selection unit configured to select, from the viewpoint images at N viewpoints, two viewpoint images corresponding to an intra-interval maximum display size which the decision unit decides to be equal to or smaller than the display size of the stereoscopic display among the plurality of intra-interval maximum display sizes; and an output unit configured to output a stereoscopic video formed with the two viewpoint images selected by the selection unit when outputting the acquired stereoscopic video to the stereoscopic display. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315559 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A GRAPHICS SUBSYSTEM IN THE REPRODUCTION DEVICE - A method for operating a graphics subsystem of a reproduction device for display of video information comprising auxiliary information is described. Wherein the graphics subsystem is capable of generating left and right channel data for stereoscopic 3D display of auxiliary information in a 3D mode and of generating 2D data for 2D display of auxiliary information in a 2D mode, and can be switched between the display modes. The method has the steps of: providing 3D auxiliary information in the 3D mode, receiving a signal indicative to a change of the display mode, and leaving the graphics subsystem in the 3D mode while providing 2D auxiliary information to the graphics subsystem in response to said signal so as to provide the left and right channel with identical 2D auxiliary information to provide a 2D display of the same. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315560 | Integrating Social Media with Recordation of Broadcast Data - Embodiments of the invention relate to social media and recordation of programs scheduled to be broadcast. Media content on one or more sites are gathered and characteristic data, such as associated tags, are extracted. A correlation of the media content with scheduled television programming is performed to identify any television programs that are related to the extracted content. In response to at least one match, a television program associated with the match is selected for a scheduled recording so that it may be viewed at a later point in time. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315561 | MACHINE-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A PLAYBACK INTERFACE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A machine-implemented method for establishing a playback interface for a target disc when storing contents of a plurality of original discs into the target disc includes: (A) analyzing each of the original discs for relevant disc information, and recording the disc information of the original discs in a disc information list; (B) analyzing each sequence of each of the original discs for relevant sequence information, and recording the sequence information of the original discs in a playback sequence list; and (C) establishing a playback interface for the target disc according to the disc information list and the playback sequence list. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315562 | Integrating Social Media with Recordation of Broadcast Data - Embodiments of the invention relate to social media and recordation of programs scheduled to be broadcast. Media content on one or more sites are gathered and characteristic data, such as associated tags, are extracted. A correlation of the media content with scheduled television programming is performed to identify any television programs that are related to the extracted content. In response to at least one match, a television program associated with the match is selected for a scheduled recording so that it may be viewed at a later point in time. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315563 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION PLAYBACK METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PLAYBACK APPARATUS - Various kinds of digital broadcast recording and playback are supported even when PSI (Program Specific Information) or SI (Service Information) is unknown. A management area of an information storage medium used in digital broadcast recording has management information for each broadcast station, and also management information of a type that does not specify any broadcast station. The management information of the type that does not specify any broadcast station includes information indicating invalidity of information (PSI, SI) associated with broadcast contents. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315564 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION PLAYBACK METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PLAYBACK APPARATUS - An embodiment may allow not only information management of contents which are to be recorded and played back by the user but also information management which has affinity for contents distributed by contents providers. An information storage medium may have a file structure that manages first high-definition video information which can be recorded by the user and second high-definition video information which can be provided by a contents provider. The management area is configured to include management information used to manage playback of the digital stream signal including the second high-definition video information. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315565 | TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTENT RECORDING SYSTEM, TITLE KEY RECORDING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A terminal device | 2013-11-28 |
20130315566 | Recording Activity-Triggered Computer Video Output - An application that is capable of monitoring Internet or network traffic and performing recordings of computer video output based on one or more violations of network activity policies. The recording application can be installed on the computer to be recorded or another computer or server that is connected through the network to the computer to be recorded. The monitoring application contains a configuration interface that allows a user to set thresholds for certain types of network policy violations. When the one or more violations are detected, the recording application will begin recording video of the computer's video activity. The application can be configured to include settings such as the length of the recording. In a typical environment, the application is a hardware appliance that is capable of monitoring web activity and network traffic and can connect to the computer over the network in order to perform the recording. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315567 | Methods for Efficiently Combining Partial ABR Recordings - Recording reconstruction from multiple overlapping recordings may be provided. New recorders may copy manifests from working recorders, as opposed to reconstructing from failed recorders, to construct manifests that refer to video fragments from different recorders. Origin servers may follow these reconstructed manifests to obtain any fragment in the recording, in any combination of recorder failure/take-over/restart, as long as there was at least one recorder functioning at all times. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315568 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE CREATION OF AN E-ENHANCED MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PICTOFILM PRESENTATION USING PICTOOVERLAY INTERFACE ENHANCED TRANS-SNIP TECHNOLOGY - A software application program on a computer platform transforms a structured basic concept into a pictorial interpretation in the form of an E-Enhanced Multi-Dimensional PictoFilm Presentation using PictoOverlay Interface Enhanced Technology that structures from the basic concept elements required as critical content for the location, event, actions, outcomes and characters to transform the basic concept is transformed into a series of moving pictures with special effects and enhancements, both audio and visual, that end up making the basic concept come alive visually, emotively and evocatively. More specifically, the software application program combines and layers static images and displays them dynamically and sequentially, adding audio and video enhancements to create a presentation like a film. The software program further transforms the basic concept into an infinitely variable array of pictorial elements and enhancements that extend the basic concept to intrigue, entertain and inform. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315569 | INTERACTIVE TELEVISION PROGRAM GUIDE WITH REMOTE ACCESS - An interactive television program guide with remote access is provided. The interactive television program guide is implemented on interactive television program guide equipment. A remote program guide access device is connected to the interactive television program guide equipment by a remote access link to provide a user with remote access to program guide functions. An interactive television program guide system based on multiple user television equipment devices in a single household is provided. The system provides a user with an opportunity to adjust program guide settings with a given one of the interactive television program guides. Program guide setting include features related to setting program reminders, profiles, program recording features, messaging features, favorites features, parental control features, program guide set up features (e.g., audio and video and language settings), etc. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315570 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-PLAYING VIDEOS - A method of multi-playing videos in an apparatus having a first decoder for decoding a video and a controller for controlling the decoder includes determining, by the controller, whether the first decoder is in use, generating video clips by decoding a video by the controller as a second decoder if the first decoder is in use, storing video clips in a storage unit, and simultaneously playing video clips stored in the storage unit in response to detection of a preview request event. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315571 | Method for Storing Motion Information and Method for Inducing Temporal Motion Vector Predictor Using Same - A motion information storing method and a TMVP deriving method using the motion information storing method are provided. The motion information storing method includes a step of determining a representative block out of blocks of a motion data storage unit in a co-located picture with a current picture and a step of storing motion information of the representative block as motion information of the motion data storage unit, wherein the motion information of the representative block is used as motion information of the blocks included in the motion data storage unit. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315572 | DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM AND ITS RECORDING MEDIUM - In a DVD recording/playback system, a set top box STB receives an MPEG transport stream constituted by a plurality of transport packets, and a formatter extracts support information indicating if management information included in the transport packets includes predetermined items. A disc drive that records data on a recording medium having a management area and data area records the support information in the management area. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315573 | DATA CREATION DEVICE AND PLAYBACK DEVICE FOR VIDEO PICTURE IN VIDEO STREAM - A data creation device performing compression encoding on first frame images showing a view from a first viewpoint and second frame images showing a view from a second viewpoint generates a stream in an MPEG-2 format, and base-view/dependent-view video streams in a format conforming to an MPEG-4 MVC format. The stream in the MPEG-2 format is generated by performing compression encoding on the first frame images. The base-view video stream is a stream of dummy data having the same number of frames as and a smaller data amount than the stream in the MPEG-2 format. The dependent-view video stream is obtained by performing compression encoding on each frame of the second frame images, with reference to a frame of the stream in the MPEG-2 format to be presented at the same time as a frame of the base-view video stream corresponding to the frame of the second frame images. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315574 | CONTINUOUS HEAT TREATMENT METHOD AND HEATING DEVICE FOR AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FLUID - A method is provided for heating an electrically conductive fluid, including steps of: (i) circulating the fluid in a circuit from an inlet to an outlet, through an inlet path of the circuit in which the fluid flows in a first average direction and an outlet path of the circuit in which the fluid flows in a second average direction substantially opposite to the first direction; (ii) subjecting the fluid to a specific ohmic heating while the fluid flows through the outlet path; and (iii) transferring heat from the fluid flowing through the outlet path to the fluid flowing through the inlet path by thermal conduction through an at least partially first electrically insulated partition wall. An associated heating device is also provided. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315575 | CONCENTRIC COIL INFRARED EMITTER LAMP - An infrared emitter lamp ( | 2013-11-28 |
20130315576 | HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS AND HEAT TREATMENT METHOD FOR MEASURING PARTICLE CONCENTRATION - A heat treatment apparatus includes a chamber for receiving a substrate therein, and a measurement part for measuring an air particle concentration in a processing space provided in the chamber. An air particle concentration in the processing space provided in the chamber is measured by the measurement part. The air particle concentration is correlated with the number of particles attached to a substrate received in the chamber. Accordingly, by conducting a particle test after the air particle concentration in the processing space is lowered to an air particle concentration corresponding to the number of particles existing on the substrate which can pass the particle test, the number of times the particle test should be conducted after maintenance of the heat treatment apparatus can be reduced. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315577 | CAMERA CASE - Disclosed camera cases are configured to be positioned around a camera such that the camera is retained within the case while remaining operable. The case can have a generally cuboid shape with front, rear, top, bottom, left and right sides. At least two of these sides can comprise at least one mounting feature, such as a threaded hole. The rear side can comprise a door configured to allow a camera to be inserted into the case. The rear door can comprise an adjustable portion that can be coupled to the rear door in at least two different positions, such that the case is adjustable to be used with cameras of different sizes. A trigger button on a side of the case can be configured to activate a camera button positioned on a top side of a camera within the case. The case can be dirt and moisture resistant. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315578 | METHOD OF CREATING A TIME-LAPSE LENTICULAR PRINT - The present invention provides a method for creating lenticular prints, generally for use as postcards, in which an historical photograph is interlaced with a contemporary photograph. In order to provide a more accurate illusion of morphing between photographs, the photographer determines the approximate position and orientation of the original camera lens, the approximate equivalent focal length and f-stop (i.e., lens aperture) of the original lens. He may also attempt to duplicate other parameters of the original photograph, such as the time of day and time of year, as well as other physical conditions such as cloud cover and snowfall. No matter how hard a photographer may try, some historical photographs will be impossible to simulate, as certain conditions may be impossible to replicate. Natural processes or man-made changes, such as new buildings or the destruction of old buildings may either preclude or hamper complete simulation of the original photograph. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315579 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A SHARED DEMARCATION POINT TO MONITOR NETWORK PERFORMANCE - An approach for detecting an error associated with a routing network coupled to a transport network comprising a plurality of optical communication nodes, switching, by an optical communication node, to a troubleshooting channel associated with the transport network using one or more router counterpart cards, and troubleshooting the error using the one or more router counterpart cards. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315580 | SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING PHOTONIC ROUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A network includes a plurality of interconnected nodes utilizing an all-broadcast architecture for a plurality of wavelengths therebetween; a routing protocol configured to compute a loop-free path through the plurality of interconnected nodes, wherein the loop-free path is computed for at least one wavelength of the plurality of wavelengths using routing constructs adapted to a photonic domain; and at least one blocking element configured to selectively block the at least one wavelength based on the computed loop-free path. A routing method photonic node are also disclosed. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315581 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM INCLUDING OPTICAL EMITTING DEVICE AND OPTICAL RECEIVING DEVICES - An optical transmission system includes an optical emitting device and a plurality of optical receiving devices. The optical receiving devices are optically connected in series and one of the optical receiving devices is optically connected to the optical emitting device. Each of the optical receiving devices includes a control module, an optical receiving terminal, and an optical fiber amplifier. The optical emitting device emits out first optical signals or second optical signals. The control module transmits the first optical signals to the optical receiving terminal or transmits the second optical signals to the optical fiber amplifier. The optical fiber amplifier amplifies the second optical signals and sends the amplified second optical signals to the next optical receiving device. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315582 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION MODULE, METHOD FOR RECORDING LOG OF OPTICAL COMMUNICATION MODULE, AND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION APPARATUS - An optical communication module includes a control unit and a nonvolatile memory. The control unit detects an abnormality of the optical communication module, generates log information regarding the detected abnormality, and writes the log information in the nonvolatile memory. After the number of times the log information has been written in the nonvolatile memory has reached a predetermined number of times, the control unit does not write log information in the nonvolatile memory. Accordingly, the number of times the nonvolatile memory is permitted to be written can be prevented from considerably decreasing. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315583 | OPTICAL SWITCH - An optical switch include a switch unit including a light reflection unit of which the reflection direction is changeable, the switch unit configured to optically connect an input port to an output port via the light reflection unit by changing the reflection direction of the light reflection unit; a determining light input unit configured to input into a first predetermined port a determining light for determining malfunctions in the light reflection unit; a light detection unit configured to detect the determining light from the output from a second predetermined port; and a malfunction determining unit configured to determine that abnormalities have occurred when the determining light is detected by the light detection unit. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315584 | BACKDOOR DIAGNOSTIC COMMUNICATION TO TRANSCEIVER MODULE - Exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to an optical transceiver module having a diagnostic communications link, wherein the link is configured to access diagnostic and other data contained within the transceiver controller via a backdoor interface. Controller data, including operational parameter values and module setup values, is accessible while the transceiver operates in conjunction with an external host and may be retrieved, and sometimes modified, in real time without interrupting normal transceiver operation or suspending the transmission of data over optical fibers. The data is accessed with an external user device via a backdoor interface on the outside of the transceiver module. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315585 | PASSIVE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC WAVELENGTH LOCKING AND SYSTEM THEREOF - The present invention relates to a passive wavelength division multiplexing device for automatic wavelength locking and a system thereof including an optical multiplexer, an optical filter, an integrated optical receiver monitor, and a tunable optical transmitter. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315586 | TERABIT TOP-OF-RACK SWITCH - One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a number of multi-channel optical transceivers mounted on the PCB, and a number of switch ports accessible from a front panel of the switch. The switch ports include a number of electrical interfaces that are electrically coupled to a switch chip mounted on the PCB, and a number of optical interfaces that are coupled to the switch chip via the multi-channel optical transceivers. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315587 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION-LINE SWITCHING METHOD, AND MASTER STATION DEVICE - A communication system in which a combination of redundant configurations of communication lines and a power-saving-mode operating function is incorporated, and includes a power-saving-device identification unit that identifies a slave station device in a power saving mode, and a line switching unit that switches a communication line forming a communication route from the currently used communication line to the backup communication line when a state where a master station device does not receive a signal from any of a plurality of slave station devices except for the slave station device identified by the power-saving-device identification unit as being in the power saving mode among the slave station devices continues for a predetermined time. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315588 | APPLIANCE AND ARRANGEMENT FOR OPTICAL SIGNAL TRANSMISSION BY MEANS OF OPTICAL WAVE-GUIDES - An appliance for optical signal transmission using optical waveguides in explosion-hazard areas, in particular in underground mining, includes an optical transmitter, having an optical output interface for connection of an optical waveguide transmission path and having a device for limiting the light power. An arrangement for bi-directional optical signal transmission is also provided. In order to provide an appliance for optical signal transmission as well as an arrangement for bi-directional optical signal transmission in explosion-hazard areas, complying with the requirements for intrinsically safe operation of the transmission medium when separating or decoupling the transmission medium, the device for limiting the light power is a passive optical component which is connected in the optical signal path between the optical transmitter and the optical output interface. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315589 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR WAVELENGTH SWITCHING ON MULTI-WAVELENGTH PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK - The present application provides a method for wavelength switching on a multi-wavelength passive optical network, including: duplicating, when an optical network unit needs to switch from a first wavelength channel to a second wavelength channel, downlink data to be sent to the optical network unit into multiple copies, and sending the multiple copies of the downlink data to the optical network unit separately through multiple wavelength channels, where the multiple wavelength channels include at least the first wavelength channel and the second wavelength channel; sending a downlink wavelength switching command to the optical network unit to instruct the optical network unit to switch a downlink receiving wavelength of the optical network unit to a downlink wavelength of the second wavelength channel; and stopping downlink data duplication and sending the downlink data to the optical network unit through the second wavelength channel. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315590 | Method and Apparatus for Analyzing the Spectrum of Radio-Frequency Signals Using Unamplified Fiber Optic Recirculation Loops - An apparatus for generating a frequency spectrum of an RF signal comprising a gate switch for generating a series of pulses from a laser of wavelength lambda modulated by an input RE signal, a first fiber optical loop for circulating a first percentage of a first pulse of the series of pulses from the gate switch, for a predetermined number of cycles n where each cycle takes time t | 2013-11-28 |
20130315591 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - An optical transmission apparatus according to the present invention includes: wave splitter ( | 2013-11-28 |
20130315592 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING END-TO-END LOWER ORDER ODU NETWORK TRAILS ACROSS OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK - The disclosure relates to a method of configuring end-to-end ODUj (lower order ODU) network trails across OTN (Optical Transport Network), in which the tributary port number (TPN) of the lower order ODUj inside higher order ODUk is specified. The time-slot value associated with the TPN is not to be specified by the user. The time-slots are dynamically allocated on the transmit side. On the receive side, there would be a capability in the ODUk adaptation sink function to find the set of time-slots associated with the TPN based on the received multiplex structure identifier (MSI). That is for an ODUj entity with a fixed TPN, the transmitted time-slots can change and the receive end can detect this change and based on that de-multiplex the ODUj from the ODUk. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315593 | System and Method for Applying an Extended Multipoint Protocol to Wireless Access Systems - A system and method for applying an extended multipoint control protocols to wireless access systems. A medium-to-medium adaptor can be provided in an adaptor node that can interface with an upstream optical line terminal in a PON domain and a downstream device in a non-PON wireless domain. The medium-to-medium adaptor enables an implementation of end-to-end services across multiple quality of service (QoS) domains by passing all traffic with controlled delay and without contention. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315594 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTNG OPTICAL NETWORK TERMINAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL INTERFACE MESSAGE - The present application discloses a method, a system and a related device for transmitting an OMCI message. In the method, an optical line terminal device sends configuration information to an optical network terminal device, where the configuration information is configured to instruct the optical network terminal device to configure a multicast port on the optical network terminal device to an enabled status so as to establish a multicast channel. The optical line terminal device sends an OMCI message that includes multicast information to the optical network terminal device through the multicast channel, where the multicast information includes a multicast port identifier and the multicast port identifier is configured to reflect a mapping between the OMCI message and the multicast port. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315595 | TIME DIVISION DUPLEXING FOR EPoC - A method, system and computer program for implementing TDD in an EPoC network. An OLT or CLT scheduler segregates the US traffic from the DS traffic to avoid collisions. An OLT transmits and receives payloads through an OCU. An OLT or CLT transmits downstream payloads and GATE grants destined for CNUs during the TDD downstream phases. The OLT or CLT schedules IPGs between TDD phases. The OLT or CLT schedules payloads and REPORTs to be transmitted from CNUs only during the TDD upstream phase according to the GATE grants in the DS phase. The OLT or CLT receives CNU REPORTs late in the upstream phase that inform the scheduler about pending upstream traffic to be granted in subsequent TDD phases. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315596 | OPTIMIZED DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH SCHEDULER - A method allocating timeslots for transmission of data packets and REPORT messages in a communication network including plural logical links managed by a terminal, including: implemented at each cycle by the terminal receiving at least one REPORT message from at least one logical link, the REPORT message including an updated queue length expressed in timeslots of the logical link and, upon receiving the REPORT message, updating the image queue length, based on the updated queue length; allocating to logical links having non-zero image queue length at least one timeslot in a next cycle based on a theoretical transmission time for transmitting data packets or REPORT messages and based on a fraction of overhead associated with the transmission, until all timeslots of the next cycle are allocated or all image queue lengths are zero, and incrementing the theoretical transmission time of each logical link based on its required minimum bit rate. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315597 | Photonic Compressive Sensing Receiver - A photonic implementation of the modulated wideband converter (MWC) is described. The highly scalable compressive sensing receiver architecture uses photonic components for analog front-end compression and downconversion, allowing scalable data conversion over an extremely wide instantaneous surveillance bandwidth, limited only by the peak anticipated signal occupancy and application-dependent size, weight, and power constraints. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315598 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXER - A system and method are presented for use in dense wavelength division multiplexing. According to this technique, K spatially separated broadband optical beams are produced comprising respective K arrays of spectral components arranged with certain common periodicity, P, where the spectral components present data channels and are arranged in interleaved fashion in the K arrays, with spectral components of one array being shifted with respect to the next array a value substantially equal to said periodicity divided by number of separated broadband beams, or P(K−1)/K. Spectral shaping is applied to the K arrays to convert modulated-shape of the spectral components in the K arrays to K groups of desired spectral shape of data channels. This enables to combine the K groups of the spectral channels into a combined beam comprising all the spectral channels being arranged with substantially no gap between the channels. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315599 | TUNABLE MULTI-WAVELENGTH OPTICAL TRANSMITTER AND TRANSCEIVER FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING - Techniques, devices and systems for optical communications based on wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) that use tunable multi-wavelength laser transmitter modules. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315600 | Registration of Device Characteristics with Optical Layer for Use in Establishing Connections Through an Optical Network - Disclosed are, inter alia, methods, apparatus, computer-storage media, mechanisms, and means associated with registration of optical device characteristics of optical network devices with an optical control layer of the optical network for use in establishing compatible connections through the optical network. Especially end network devices and internal network optical devices that regenerate the optical signal register their communication capabilities of their optical interfaces with the optical control layer of an optical network. This registration allows a light path to be established through the optical network which is compatible with the registered capabilities. The optical control layer may be centralized in an optical layer server and/or distributed among optical devices in the optical network, such as on control processors in multiple, optical layer devices. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315601 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE - The present invention reduces the number of amplifiers and reduces the maximum output of an optical transmission device. A wavelength selection unit selects and outputs, as a drop signal, any given wavelength of optical signal from an input optical signal. An amplifier amplifies at each wavelength the drop signal output by the wavelength selection unit. In this case, the number of amplifiers is set smaller than the number of wavelengths of the input optical signal. Also, the wavelength selection unit selects a number of wavelengths of drop signals corresponding to the number of amplifiers, and outputs the drop signals to the amplifiers at each wavelength. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315602 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE - The present invention reduces the number of amplifiers and reduces the maximum output of an optical transmission device. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315603 | Enterprise Cognitive Radio Integrated With Laser Communications - A wireless data access system is provided to ameliorate bursty traffic occurring in a radio communications link such as a WiFi, WiMAX, 3G or cellular telephone link to a wireless network access device. A data traffic event is detected relating to traffic in the link. The traffic event may be a traffic burst exceeding a predetermined threshold. Based on detecting the data traffic event, a free-space optical communications link is established to the network access device to handle the traffic burst. The established radio link may be used to set-up and coordinate the free-space optical link. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315604 | MOBILE BI-DIRECTIONAL FREE-SPACE OPTICAL NETWORK - The system provides a mobile, full bi-directional, free-space optical (FSO) network providing networkability and internet connectivity. Each mobile system has a FSO transceiver communicating via line-of-sight (LOS) with a stationary FSO transceiver. Alternatively, the mobile system communicates with a relay FSO transceiver that is in contact with another relay and/or a stationary FSO transceiver. The system has diversity of wavelengths through a multi- wavelength system operating predominately in the infrared spectrum. The network is directionally constrained by the optical components to reduce interference with other networks. Pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) of the network optical signal generator and receivers assists optical performance. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315605 | SAFETY SYSTEM - A nodal system ( | 2013-11-28 |
20130315606 | DISTRIBUTING CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION INFORMATION WITHIN AN OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - A method and system of distributing clock synchronization information within an optical communications network including a plurality of network elements, in which a first network element receives an ingress clock synchronization message, the ingress clock synchronization message including a clock synchronisation message identifier and a correction field. The first network element inserts the clock synchronisation message identifier into an optical channel frame overhead and inserts the ingress clock synchronisation message into an optical channel frame payload. The first network element transmits the optical channel frame overhead and the optical channel frame payload to a second network element, and determines a transit time of the clock synchronisation message identifier across each of the network elements. The second network element updates the correction field of the ingress clock synchronisation message with said transit times to form an egress clock synchronisation message. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315607 | LOW COST DIRECT MODULATION AND COHERENT DETECTION OPTICAL OFDM - System and method for compensating distortions introduced by an optical channel and by at least one directly modulated transmitting laser that transmits a modulated optical signal that carries data to a receiving end over the optical channel. At the receiving end, the transmitted signal is received by a coherent receiver that processes the received signal by compensating the distortions introduced by the optical channel by applying, on the received signal, an operator being capable of essentially compensating for all fiber distortions in the optical channel; compensating the non-linear phase distortions and/or statistical phase distortions introduced by the directly modulated transmitting laser by applying, on the processed signal obtained after compensating the fiber distortion, a non-linear operator being the extraction of the absolute value of the compensated signal; and extracting the data carried by the processed signal, from the absolute value of the processed signal obtained after compensating the non-linear phase distortions and/or statistical phase distortions, thereby demodulating the processed signal. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315608 | BIDIRECTIONAL AND DOUBLE-FREQUENCY OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE AND TRANSMISSION ASSEMBLY - An optical transmission assembly includes a base plate, an optical signal emitting member, an efferent optical fiber, an optical coupler, an afferent optical fiber, and an optical signal receiving member. The optical signal emitting member is mounted on or besides the base plate. The optical signal isolator is mounted on the base plate, and alignes with the optical signal emitting member. The efferent optical fiber is mounted on the base plate. The optical coupler is located besides the base plate, coupling with the optical signal isolator via the efferent optical fiber. The afferent optical fiber is mounted on the base plate. The optical signal receiving member is mounted on or besides the base plate, coupling with the optical coupler via the afferent optical fiber. The present disclosure further includes a bidirectional and double-frequency optical transmission module having the optical transmission assembly. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315609 | METHOD WITH IMPROVED PHASE ROBUSTNESS IN COHERENT DETECTED OPTICAL SYSTEM - An optical signal receiver tracks local oscillator frequency offset (LOFO) and compensates for the phase distortion introduced in the received signals as a result of utilizing the local oscillator within a coherent detection scheme. This phase distortion is basically a constant phase rotation caused by the LOFO and implementation of the receiver using coherent detection and a digital interferometer instead of a conventional (yet complex) carrier phase estimation or recovery scheme. With an optical receiver implemented in this manner, the requirement of using a precise local oscillator laser with low frequency offset is less important. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315610 | AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - According to an embodiment, an ADF includes: a sheet-feed cover unit; a switch unit to be switched on or off depending on whether the sheet-feed cover unit is open or closed and including a first terminal, to which a first voltage, by which a driving motor is driven, is input, and a second terminal connected to the driving motor; and an open/close-detection circuit unit that includes a first switch circuit and a second switch circuit. The first switch circuit is switched on or off based on a threshold voltage that is larger than a second voltage to be generated in the driving motor by a jammed-document removing motion and smaller than the first voltage. The open/close-detection circuit unit detects that the sheet-feed cover unit is closed when the second switch circuit is energized, but detects that the sheet-feed cover unit is open when the second switch circuit is de-energized. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315611 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a developer holding member that holds a developer on a surface thereof to transport the developer to a developing region in which a latent image is developed as a visible image, an accommodating section that accommodates the developer supplied to the developer holding member, a supply section that is connected to the accommodating section and disposed above the developer holding member in the direction of gravity to supply the developer to the developer holding member from above, and a first transport member that is disposed in the supply section to transport the developer, and transports a predetermined or greater amount of a developer in the developer accommodated in the supply section to the outside of a region corresponding to the developer holding member. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315612 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer belt that is stretched on a plurality of support rollers including a backup roller in a loop-like manner and has an outer surface for carrying thereon a toner image; a transfer roller that is brought into pressurized contact with the backup roller across the transfer belt and forms a transfer nip with the transfer belt; a restriction member that is placed upstream of a transfer nip in a sheet conveying direction so as to be switchable between a first state in which the restriction member is brought closer to an inner surface of the transfer belt and a second state in which a distance of the restriction member from the inner surface of the transfer belt is larger than that in the first state; and a control section that switches a state of the restriction member. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315613 | DRIVE CIRCUIT, LIGHT PRINT HEAD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A drive circuit is provided for supplying a drive current to drive a plurality of driven elements. The drive circuit includes a switch circuit having an input terminal for receiving a drive signal alternately changing between an on state and an off state, and an output terminal connected to the driven elements; and a constant current circuit connected to the switch circuit for adjusting the drive current at a constant level. The constant current circuit is formed of a depletion type MOS transistor. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315614 | POWER CONTROL SYSTEM AND POWER CONTROL METHOD - A power control system includes an image forming apparatus, a power calculating unit, and a condition controller. The image forming apparatus operates using power, forms an image corresponding to image information in a first operation mode, and enters a second operation mode in which power consumption is smaller than the first operation mode when the image forming apparatus satisfies a specific transition condition. The power calculating unit calculates power supplied from a power supplying unit. The condition controller controls the specific transition condition for the image forming apparatus in accordance with the power calculated by the power calculating unit. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315615 | CHARGING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A charging device has a charging member to charge an object, an applying unit to apply a voltage to the charging member for generating an electric discharge from the charging member, so that the object is discharged by the charging member, a detecting unit to detect an emission of light of the electric discharge, an output unit to output a detection result by the detecting unit, a cleaning unit to clean the charging member, and a controller to control the cleaning unit to clean the charging member when the detection result is out of a predetermined range. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315616 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A high-voltage power source | 2013-11-28 |
20130315617 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a belt cleaning device is provided. The belt cleaning device includes an image bearing belt having an elastic layer, a cleaning member, a cleaning facing member, and a side seal. A surface of the image bearing belt is movable. The cleaning member is in contact with the surface of the image bearing belt to remove a substance adhered thereto. The cleaning facing member is disposed on a back-surface side of the image bearing belt while facing the cleaning member with the image bearing belt therebetween. The side seal is disposed to an axial end part of the cleaning member and pressed against the surface of the image bearing belt. The cleaning facing member is out of contact with the back side of the image bearing belt within an area where the cleaning facing member faces the side seal with respect to an axial direction. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315618 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CARTRIDGE - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of cartridges, and a moving member to which the plurality of cartridges is detachably attached. Of a pair of cartridges attached to the moving member and adjacent to each other, one cartridge has a recessed portion recessed from a frame member thereof and extending in an attachment direction of the cartridge, and the other cartridge has a raised portion protruding from the frame member thereof and extending in the attachment direction. The raised portion provided on the other cartridge enters the recessed portion provided in the one cartridge when the pair of cartridges is attached to the moving member. Positions of the raised portion and the recessed portion overlap each other as viewed in an axial direction of the image bearing member. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315619 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an opening/closing member movably provided in the apparatus main body and configured to take a closing position to close a first opening and a second opening and an opening position to open the first opening and the second opening. The opening/closing member includes a first opening/closing portion configured to close the first opening at the closing position and a second opening/closing portion configured to close the second opening at the closing position and provided so as to be movable with respect to the first opening/closing portion. A cartridge support member moving, at the opening position, in a pull-out direction from an inner position to an outer position causes the second opening/closing portion to move downstream in the pull-out direction. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315620 | ELECTRO-CONDUCTIVE MEMBER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - An electro-conductive member for electrophotography, including an electro-conductive mandrel and an electro-conductive layer; and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus using the same. The layer contains a binder resin having a sulfo or a quaternary ammonium group as an ion exchange group, and an ion opposite in polarity to the ion exchange group. The resin has any one of structures represented by formulas (1)-1 and (1)-2, and any one of structures represented by formulas (2)-1 to (2)-3; and the resin has a molecular structure preventing occurrence of a matrix-domain structure. M represents an integer of 2-20, n represents an integer of 5-50, p represents an integer of 1-25, q represents an integer of 1-15, and r represents an integer of 1-12. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315621 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A process cartridge detachable to an image forming apparatus main body includes an image bearing member, a developer bearing member, a developing frame member configured to support the developer bearing member and to be capable of assuming an abutting state and a separating state, and a force receiving portion configured to allow the developing frame member to enter the separating state by being pressed by a pressing portion, in which the force receiving portion includes a first portion to abut on the pressing portion and to extend along the inserting direction of the process cartridge, and a second portion provided on each of an upstream and downstream side of the first portion in the inserting direction, extending from the first portion in a direction crossing the inserting direction, and to abut on the pressing portion, and the force receiving portion has a space formed between the two second portions. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315622 | PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a drum unit containing the drum, a developing unit containing the roller and being movable so the roller contacts and is spaced from the drum, and a first force receiver receiving a force from a main-assembly first force applier by movement of a door from open to closed positions when mounting the cartridge and a second force receiver movable from a stand-by position by movement of the first force receiver by a force received from the first force applier. The second force receiver takes a projected position receiving a force from the second force applier to move the developing unit so the roller moves out of contact with the drum, the projected position being higher than the stand-by position. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315623 | Image Forming Apparatus - A color multifunction printer as an example of an image forming apparatus includes a plurality of cartridges each containing a photoconductor; a support frame configured to support the cartridges arranged in tandem, the support frame being allowed to be pulled out horizontally from a casing of the apparatus to a position in which each of the cartridges is detachable from the support frame; and a plurality of exposure units mounted to the support frame, wherein each of the exposure units is disposed opposite to a corresponding photoconductor and is configured to expose the photoconductor to light to form an electrostatic latent image thereon. Each of the cartridges is configured to be detachable in such a direction that the photoconductor in the cartridge moves away from the corresponding exposure unit upon detachment. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315624 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit; a belt unit with a first roller, a second roller, an endless belt, and a frame; a frame positioning member arranged in the belt unit to define a position of the frame in the axial direction with respect to a body; a first roller positioning member arranged in the belt unit to define a position of the first roller in the axial direction with respect to the frame; a guiding member arranged in a position corresponding to one of axial-end sides of the first roller along the axial direction in the endless belt; and an engageable member arranged on the one of axial-end sides of the first roller in the belt unit, is provided. The frame positioning member, the first roller positioning member, and the engageable member are arranged on the same axial-end side along the axial direction. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315625 | MOVING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE MOVING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes a housing including an opening to house a plurality of latent image bearing members for bearing latent images and latent image forming devices for forming the latent images, and an openably and closable holder to hold the latent image forming devices. The holder with one end thereof pivotally supported by the housing moves the latent image forming devices from an engaged position at which the latent image forming devices form the latent images to a retracted position at which the latent image forming devices are separated from the latent image bearing members as the holder moves to an open position at which the opening of the housing is opened. As the holder is opened, at least one of the latent image forming devices, which is closest to a fulcrum of the holder, is positioned at an end of the housing pivotally supporting the holder. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315626 | STATIC ELIMINATING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A static eliminating device includes: a housing; a substrate mounted to the housing; a light-emitting part mounted on a mounting surface of the substrate; a partition member connected to the housing to cover the substrate and the light-emitting part and face a portion of the housing to which the substrate and the light-emitting part are mounted so that an opening facing the surface of the image carrier is formed in a light-emitting region across which light is delivered from the light-emitting part to the surface of the image carrier; and a restricting protrusion abutting at a distal end thereof against the partition member to support the partition member and restricting the position of the partition member to ensure the formation of the opening. A distal side portion of the restricting protrusion located within the light-emitting region has a tapered shape narrowing with approach toward the partition member. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315627 | DEVELOPMENT PROCESSING DEVICE - A slit nozzle is moved by a nozzle lifting/lowering mechanism and a nozzle sliding mechanism relative to substrates held in a substantially horizontal attitude by spin chucks. A development liquid is discharged on each substrate from a discharge port of the slit nozzle such that development processing for the substrate is performed. After the development liquid is discharged, the slit nozzle is moved to a waiting position excluding positions over the substrates held by the spin chucks. In waiting pods provided at the waiting positions, cleaning processing for the slit nozzle is performed by a cleaning liquid with gas bubbles mixed therein. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315628 | CONVEYANCE DEVICE, DEVELOPMENT DEVICE INCLUDING CONVEYANCE DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT DEVICE - A conveyance device includes a housing, a formation member, and a detection section. The housing has a first conveyance path, a second conveyance path, and a first communication path. The first and second conveyance paths each are a conveyance path for conveying a developer. The first communication path allows a first end portion of the first conveyance path and a first end portion of the second conveyance path to be in communication with each other via a communication surface. The communication surface has a first region and a second region. The formation member forms the second region of the communication surface so that a height of the second region from a bottom portion of the first communication path is lower than a height of the first region from the bottom portion of the first communication path. The detection section detects the amount of the developer. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315629 | DEVELOPER CONVEYING DEVICE, AND DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A developer conveying device includes a housing, a developer conveyance path and a conveying member. The developer conveyance path extends between a pair of wall portions. The conveying member includes a spiral member, an inner wall portion and shaft portions. The spiral member is formed by connecting spiral pieces, each forming one spiral turn, in a conveying direction of the developer and includes a hollow interior formed by the connected spiral pieces. The inner wall portion includes a plurality of planar portions which define the hollow interior of the spiral member and are connected at predetermined angles in a circumferential direction of the rotation of the conveying member. The shaft portions are arranged at opposite end parts of the spiral member, rotatably supported on the wall portions and serve as a rotary shaft for the rotation of the conveying member. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315630 | DEVELOPER CONVEYING DEVICE, AND DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A developer conveying device includes a housing, a developer conveyance path and a conveying member. The developer conveyance path extends between the pair of wall portions of the housing. The conveying member conveys developer from one wall portion toward the other. The conveying member includes a spiral member, shaft portions, a rib member, a supporting member and a projecting portion. The spiral member is formed by connecting spiral pieces in a conveying direction of the developer and includes a hollow interior formed by the connected spiral pieces. The rib member extends in the conveying direction and bridges adjacent ones of the spiral pieces of the spiral member. The supporting member connects an end part of the rib member in the conveying direction and the shaft portion. The projecting portion projects from the end part of the rib member more toward the wall portion than the supporting member. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315631 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A developing device includes a developing roller, a developer supply path, a developer conveyance path, a supply-side conveying member and an agitating-side conveying member. The developing roller is rotatably supported in the housing. The developer supply path is arranged along the developing roller. The developer conveyance path is arranged along the developer supply path. The supply-side conveying member is a conveying member arranged in the developer supply path and includes a first receiving portion arranged to face the communication path at an upstream side in the first direction and configured to receive the developer from the developer conveyance path, and has a hollow spiral shape at a side downstream of the first receiving portion. The agitating-side conveying member is a conveying member arranged in the developer conveyance path and includes a first transferring portion arranged to face the first receiving portion at a downstream side in the second direction. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315632 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SAME - A developing device includes a housing, a developing roller, a developer supply path, a developer conveyance path, a supply-side conveying member, an agitating side conveying member and first projection members. The developing roller is rotatably supported in the housing. The supply-side conveying member includes a supply-side spiral member formed by connecting spiral pieces, in the first direction and having a hollow interior formed by the connected spiral pieces and a first rib member extending in the first direction, is arranged in the developer supply path and conveys the developer in the first direction by being driven and rotated. The first projecting members extend in the first direction along an outer wall portion of the first rib member from a first area where the supply-side spiral member and the first rib member intersect and project radially outward in the rotation of the supply-side conveying member. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315633 | TONER CASE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner case includes a case main body and a shutter, a lever, a rotating member and a transmitting member attached to the case main body. The case main body includes a discharge port discharging a toner. The shutter is rotatably attached to open/close the discharge port and includes a shutter side gear. The lever is rotatably attached to operate the shutter and includes a lever main body that includes a lever side gear meshing with the shutter side gear. The rotating member is installed in a rotatable state. The transmitting member is rotatably attached to transmit the rotation to the rotating member and includes a transmitting member main body that covers the outside of the lever main body and includes an aperture. The aperture exposes a meshing part of the lever side gear and shutter side gear when the transmitting member is located to a predetermined rotational displacement. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315634 | PACKING STRUCTURE OF DEVELOPER CONTAINER - Disclosed is a packing structure of a developer container, including a developer container that contains a developer and is formed with a supply port for supply of the developer, a transport member that is provided in the developer container and transports the developer to the supply port while stirring the developer, a packing member that packs the developer container from an end portion of the transport member in an axial direction thereof to a central portion of the transport member in the axial direction, and a unit that moves the transport member by an operation of detaching the packing member from the developer container. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315635 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a first developing roller, a second developing roller, a layer regulation member, a pair of division magnetic poles that divide a developer which is held by the second developing roller after passing through the layer regulation member and transfer the developer to the first developing roller, and a transfer amount regulation member that has a plate shape, is provided in a developer transfer path formed by the pair of division magnetic poles between the first developing roller and the second developing roller so as to extend in an axial direction of the first and second developing rollers, and is provided with a slit which regulates the amount of developer passing therethrough. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315636 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A development device includes a developer bearer, a developer regulator to adjust an amount of developer on the developer bearer, a supply compartment adjacent to the developer bearer across a side wall formed monolithic with the development casing using an identical material, a developer supply member to transport developer in the supply compartment in an axial direction, and a channel forming member having higher rigidity than that of the side wall. The channel forming member defines, with the side wall, a supply route extending over an entire development range, through which developer moves from the supply compartment to the developer bearer, and defines, with an inner wall of the development casing, a collecting route through which developer blocked by the developer regulator is collected in the supply compartment. Both axial end portions of the channel forming member are supported by the development casing. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315637 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes: a fixing member that transports a recording medium on which a toner image has been transferred to fix the toner image to the recording medium; an endless belt member that rotates with a front surface of the belt member contacting the fixing member; a guide member that guides the belt member to a contact portion at which the belt member and the fixing member contact each other; plural rotational-direction projections formed on a guide surface of the guide member facing a back surface of the belt member and disposed at intervals in a rotational axis direction of the belt member, the rotational-direction projections extending in a rotational direction of the belt member and projecting toward the back surface; and an intersecting-direction projection formed on the guide surface, the intersecting-direction projection extending along an intersecting direction that intersects the rotational-direction projections and projecting toward the back surface. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315638 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a solid or hollow cylindrical heating member that heats a recording medium and has recesses or projections provided at axial ends thereof, over the entire outer circumferences; ring-shaped heat insulating members to be fitted to the axial ends of the heating member, the ring-shaped heat insulating members having, in the inner circumferences thereof, projections or recesses that fit into or receive the recesses or projections provided on the heating member; and bearings that rotatably support the axial ends of the heating member via the heat insulating members. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315639 | ROTATIONAL HEATING MEMBER, AND IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS HAVING ROTATIONAL HEATING MEMBER - An image heating rotatable member for heating an image on a recording material, comprising a base layer; a heat generation layer, provided on the base layer, for generating heat by being supplied with electric power; an electrode layer, provided outside of the heat generation layer with respect to a widthwise direction and having an electric resistance which is smaller than that of the heat generation layer, for supplying the electric power to heat generation layer; an elastic layer provided on the electrode layer and having a length longer than that of the electrode layer measured in the widthwise direction; and a parting layer provided on the elastic layer and having a length which is substantially equal to the length of the electrode layer measured in the widthwise direction; | 2013-11-28 |
20130315640 | Fixing Device - A fixing device includes: a fusing member; a heater; a nip member; a reflection member; a stay; and a backup member. The fusing member has an inner peripheral surface defining an internal space and is circularly movable. The inner peripheral surface is in sliding contact with the nip member. The reflection member reflects a radiant heat from the heater toward the nip member. The reflection member includes a reflection portion and an extending portion. The stay covers the reflection portion and supports the nip member. The extending portion extends outside of the stay. The backup member provides a nip region in cooperation with the nip member upon nipping the tubular flexible fusing member between the backup member and the nip member. The extending portion extends between the nip member and the stay. The extending portion is positioned exclusively downstream of the reflection portion in a sheet feeding direction. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315641 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording medium; a transfer unit that carries a layer of the UV-curable resin thereon and transfers a UV-curable resin to the recording medium, on which the image forming unit has formed the unfixed toner image, by making the UV-curable resin contact the recording medium; and an irradiation unit that irradiates the UV-curable resin transferred to the recording medium with UV rays. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315642 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming method including forming a latent electrostatic image borne on an image bearing member, developing the latent electrostatic image with a development agent accommodated in a development unit, the development agent containing toner, applying or attaching a protective agent to the surface of the image bearing member by a protective agent supplying device including a foam roller, and supplying particulates having a true spherical form between the surface of the image bearing member and a surface of the foam roller. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315643 | CLEANING DEVICE FOR IMAGE CARRIER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING CLEANING PORTION FOR IMAGE CARRIER - A cleaning device includes a cleaning portion and a pressing portion. The cleaning portion comes into contact with an image carrier that is adapted to carry a toner image. The pressing portion includes a clamping surface and a protruding portion and presses the cleaning portion against the image carrier. The clamping surface clamps the cleaning portion from both sides in cooperation with the image carrier. The protruding portion protrudes from the clamping surface toward the image carrier. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315644 | TAPE CASSETTE - A tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front surface and a pair of side surfaces, a tape that is a print medium housed in the housing, a tape exit that discharges, from the housing, the tape guided in the housing along a predetermined feed path, at least a part of the feed path extending parallel to the front surface, and a type indicator portion provided adjacent to the tape exit and in a specified area of the front surface on an upstream side of the tape exit in a feed direction of the tape, the type indicator portion indicating a type of the tape and including vertical information sections and an aperture formed in at least one of the vertical information sections, the vertical information sections being strip-shaped sections extending along a direction orthogonal to the feed direction. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315645 | APPLICATOR UNIT FOR A COSMETIC UNIT AND COSMETIC UNIT WITH AN APPLICATOR UNIT OF THIS TYPE - An applicator unit for a cosmetic unit comprises a substantially cylindrical applicator support body with an applicator longitudinal axis and an applicator arranged on an applicator head of the applicator support body to apply a cosmetic product, the applicator unit being configured in one piece. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315646 | COSMETIC UNIT WITH SQUEEZABLE CONTAINER - The invention relates to a cosmetic unit, in particular a mascara unit, having a reservoir for containing a cosmetic and having a cosmetic applicator for applying the cosmetic, in which the cosmetic applicator can be inserted into the reservoir so that it is loaded with the cosmetic contained in the reservoir, wherein at least one wall section of the reservoir is elastically embodied so that by exerting pressure on the above-mentioned region, a significant portion of the stored cosmetic can be pushed out of a reservoir region that is farther from the applicator into a reservoir region that is closer to the applicator; the region closer to the applicator is separated from the region farther from the applicator by means of a partition wall that has a plurality of through openings spaced apart from one another through which the cosmetic can be pushed into the region closer to the applicator. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315647 | APPLICATOR FOR APPLYING A COMPOSITION TO THE EYELASHES - The present invention relates to an applicator for applying a cosmetic composition to the eyelashes or the eyebrows, the applicator including a molded applicator member including: a core that extends along a longitudinal axis; and teeth that extend from the core, the teeth being disposed in more than four longitudinal rows along the longitudinal axis (X) of the core; the teeth presenting free ends that define an envelope surface of the applicator member, the envelope surface presenting, at least at one point along its length, a cross-section of shape that is flat, having a greatest transverse dimension lying in the range 7 mm to 2 mm and a thickness lying in the range 15 mm to 7 mm. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315648 | PAINTING APPARATUSES AND METHODS - This document discusses, among other things, an apparatus for painting a work surface including a handle housing. A disposable painting module is configured to be removably engaged with the handle housing. The painting module includes a paint applicator configured to be removably engaged with the handle housing. The paint applicator is configured to apply paint to the work surface. A paint reservoir is fluidly coupled with the paint applicator and is configured to be removably engaged with the handle housing. An urging mechanism is coupled to the handle housing and configured to interact with the paint reservoir to substantially uniformly discharge the paint from the paint reservoir and supply the paint to the paint applicator. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315650 | COSMETIC COMPOSITION FOR FACE AND THE AREA AROUND THE EYES - The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition for caring for and/or making up keratin materials, in particular the skin of the face, comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium, (i) at least one pigment in the form of a porous or non-porous, spherical or non-spherical, mineral or organic white particle having a refractive index of greater than or equal to 1.6 and a size by volume of preferably less than 30 μm, and (ii) at least one filler in the form of a porous or non-porous, spherical or non-spherical particle having a refractive index of less than or equal to 2 and a size by volume of preferably less than 30 μm, which is distinct from said pigments (i), and characterized in that the total content of filler(s) is less than or equal to 4% by weight, relative to the total weight of the composition. | 2013-11-28 |
20130315651 | FILE NOTE DEVICE - This invention relates generally to a file note device for use with a file or stack of sheets bound together by way of one or more binding members disposed through substantially aligned apertures in the sheets, the file note device comprising a planar body including a note zone; and an engagement zone located adjacent an edge portion of the planar body. The engagement zone comprises at least one pair of spaced apart teeth defining a binding member recess therebetween, wherein at least one tooth defines a retaining formation for removably retaining the binding member in the binding member recess, in use. It will be noted that the invention also relates to a bound file comprising one or more file note file note devices in accordance with the invention and a method of providing a note on a file or stack of bound sheets. | 2013-11-28 |
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