| 31st week of 2012 patent applcation highlights part 33 |
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| 20120195532 | FILM BAG FOR PACKAGING OF POURABLE PRODUCTS - A film bag for packaging pourable products, has front and rear walls, a side fold in between the front and rear walls, and a reclosure. The side fold is laid in between elements of the reclosure, extends into a bag region above the reclosure, and is closed above the reclosure. A weakening line is provided, which proceeds from a longitudinal bag edge and delimits a head-side bag section that can be removed in order to open the bag. The reclosure consists of two closure strips that engage into one another on the inside of the bag, and have, a closure element along an upper longitudinal edge, and a connection tag. The weakening line has a section that is disposed at the level of the connection tags, so that the closure elements of the closure strips can be engaged into one another after the head-side bag section has been removed. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195533 | Container With mid-level closure and tear-off features - A snack food package employs a container bag that has an area of weakness formed at a location about one-third of the way down from the top to enable facile removal of an emptied upper section of the bag. An associated closure strip assembly is located just below the area of weakness to enable closing of the bottom section of the bag containing remaining product. Covering elements overlie the exposed surfaces of the closure strip components, to protect them against contamination by particulate matter, until the top section of the bag has been removed. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195534 | FLAT FILM BAG FOR USE IN AUTOMATED FILLING SYSTEMS - A film bag, laid flat, for use in automated filling systems has a front wall, a rear wall, side folds laid in between the front wall and the rear wall, and a reclosure consisting of a reclosure strip on the inside of the bag. The reclosure strip is disposed on the inside surface of a side fold as well as on the inside surfaces of the front wall and the rear wall, and extends all the way into a two-ply bag segment (A) formed by the front wall and the rear wall. The front wall, the rear wall, and the side fold provided with the reclosure form a four-ply bag segment whose plies are releasably connected by the reclosure strip. In contrast, the segments of the reclosure strip disposed on the front wall and the rear wall are not connected in the region of the two-ply bag segment (A). | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195535 | LINEAR MOTION GUIDE UNIT WITH LONG-LASTING LUBRICATING SYSTEM - Lubrication for rolling elements is carried out in a turnaround passage in an end cap. An applicator nose to come into touch with the rolling elements has a molding density greater than in a lubricant reservoir plate to ensure proper and steady lubrication, with accompanying sustainable maintenance-free condition for lubrication. The lubricant reservoir plate impregnated with lubricant fits into a concavity inside the end cap. The applicator nose is integral with the lubricant reservoir plate and extends through a hole cut in the end cap to reach a turnaround passage to be exposed at a leading edge thereof to the rolling element to resupply the lubricant around the rolling elements. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195536 | ROLLING BEARING, IN PARTICULAR RADIAL NEEDLE BEARING HAVING A LABYRINTH SEAL - A radial needle rolling bearing, which has a thin-walled outer sleeve with radial rims that are axially inwardly directed on both sides, a plurality of needle bearings rolling on the inner lateral area of the sleeve and on the outer lateral area of the shaft to be supported, and a cage guiding the bearing needles in the circumferential direction in an evenly spaced manner. At least on one side, in addition to the needle cage, an additional stop disc is inserted into the needle sleeve. The disc is delimits axial movability of the needle cage together with a radial rim or a further stop disc inserted into the sleeve. Between the stop disc and the other radial rim, a sealing element is arranged, which seals the bearing. The sealing element is a labyrinth seal, which can be assembled from two individual mutually engaging sealing rings that have complimentary profile cross-sections. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195537 | THERMAL COMPENSATION ELEMENT WITH WAVE SPRING - A thermal compensation element which has an inner ring, an outer ring, and a washer. The washer is arranged within the inner ring and the outer ring is mounted over the inner ring, encapsulating the washer, which can be a split wave spring. The inner ring and the outer ring each have retention features to ensure they are retained relative to each other. The thermal compensation, which is positioned between a housing or a shaft, can account for variations in loading and/or temperature that may occur to a bearing and a shaft system when the shaft and an associated component are made of different materials and have different coefficients of thermal expansion by ensuring a proper axial preload is maintained on the bearing. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195538 | SLEWING BEARING AND ROTATING SECTION SUPPORT DEVICE FOR WIND TURBINE - A slewing bearing assembly effective to suppress additional expenses such as a mold cost and to resolve the problem associated with insufficient strength brought about by voids and, also, a rotation section support apparatus for a wind powered turbine are provided. The slewing bearing assembly includes inner and outer rings having raceway grooves, and a plurality of balls interposed between the raceway grooves, and a spacer interposed between the neighboring balls. This slewing bearing assembly is a four point contact ball bearing, in which respective sectional shapes of the raceway grooves are so shaped as to represent shapes in which each balls contacts inner surfaces of the raceway grooves in the inner and outer rings at four points. The spacer is made of a resinous material having a melt viscosity within the range of 1000 to 2000 Pa·s at a temperature of 270° C. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195539 | RING-SHAPED ROLLING BEARING CAGE - A ring-shaped metal rolling bearing cage, which has cage pockets for receiving rolling elements. The cage is formed by a first and a second cage segment. Adjoining ends of the cage segments are connected to one another by suitable connection assemblies. At least one of the assemblies permits a change of the cage diameter when the cage temperature changes. The suitable assembly, on one side, is configured as a joint mechanism and, on another side, as a locking mechanism, and at least one of the assemblies has a lash. A rolling bearing cage configured with the joint mechanism and the locking mechanism can be mounted with low time expenditure in a simple and reliable manner over a shaft, particularly in the case of an idler pinion mourning. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195540 | Roller bearing backing ring assembly - A novel assembly for a railcar axle bearing is presented. The assembly includes a backing ring affixed to the fillet of the journal of an axle and a locking ring for further affixing the backing ring the journal. The locking ring has an inboard end affixed to the dust guard of the axle and an outboard end for engaging the backing ring. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195541 | ROLLING BEARING CAGE AND ROLLING BEARING - A rolling bearing cage, which has two annular elements and cage crossbars connecting the annular elements to each other so as to form pockets for receiving rolling elements arranged between every two adjacent cage crossbars and the annular elements. The cage crossbars have an elastic configuration. Also, a rolling bearing is disclosed that has a rolling bearing cage. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195542 | Oil-Sealed Mud Motor Bearing Assembly With Mud-Lubricated Off-Bottom Thrust Bearing - A bearing assembly for a mud motor has a mandrel rotatably disposed within a cylindrical housing, with a rolling-element thrust bearing disposed within an oil-sealed annular chamber between the mandrel and the housing, for resisting on-bottom axial thrust loads. Off-bottom axial thrust loads are resisted by a mud-lubricated thrust bearing assembly located above the oil-sealed chamber. The lower end of a drive shaft adapter coupled to the mandrel is used to provide an upper load-transferring shoulder for the off-bottom thrust bearing, with a lower load-transferring shoulder being provided in association with the housing. The upper and lower shoulders come into mating contact under off-bottom thrust loading, with the upper shoulder rotatable (with the mandrel) relative to the lower shoulder. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195543 | FIBER-OPTIC MODULATORS - This disclosure is directed to fiber-optic modulators that can be integrated in optical fibers to encode data in optical signals. In one aspect, a fiber-optic modulator includes a weak planar, sub-wavelength grating disposed between an end of a first optical fiber and an end of a second optical fiber. A first electrode is disposed on an edge of the grating and connected to an electronic signal source, and a second electrode is disposed on the edge of the grating opposite the first electrode and connected to the electronic signal source. The grating includes a grating pattern to reflect a channel input to the first optical fiber when a low or no current portion of an electronic signal to be generated by the electronic signal source is applied to the grating and to transmit the channel when a high current portion of the electronic signal is applied to the grating. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195544 | OPTICAL INTERFEROMETER - An optical interferometer for demodulating a differential phase shift keying optical signal includes a planar lightwave circuit and at least one free space delay line optically coupled to the planar lightwave circuit. The planar lightwave circuit has a waveguide splitter, a waveguide coupler, and a phase adjuster. In operation, the splitter splits the optical signal into equal portions, the phase adjuster adjusts the relative phase of the optical signal portions, and the free space delay line provides one-bit delay between the portions of the optical signal. The delayed signals are mixed in the waveguide coupler. The free space delay line can be made variable for adjustment of the bit delay for operation at different bit rates, and/or for optimization of the interferometer performance. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195545 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION MODULE - A photoelectric conversion module includes: a photoelectric conversion element and an IC chip mounted on a mounting surface of a substrate; and an electrode provided on a side surface of the substrate, electrically connected to the IC chip, and having a concave shape sunk deeper than other portions of the side surface of the substrate. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195546 | WAVELENGTH CONVERSION DEVICE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME - A wavelength conversion device includes a base substrate having a transparent electrode on one surface thereof and a ferroelectric single crystal substrate provided with an optical waveguide. The ferroelectric single crystal substrate has an insulating film formed on one surface and is bonded to the base substrate such that the insulating film faces the transparent electrode. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195547 | ALL-OPTICAL PHASE SHIFTER IN SILICON - A device includes a semiconductor waveguide and a control signal waveguide formed along a planar surface of a substrate. The control signal waveguide includes a segment located along and proximate a segment of the semiconductor waveguide. The control signal waveguide is configured to photo-excite charge carriers in said semiconductor waveguide. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195548 | BACKPLANES INCLUDING OPTICAL BYPASS SWITCHES, AND RELATED CIRCUIT BOARDS, COMPUTING SYSTEMS, BYPASS SWITCHES, AND METHODS - A backplane for a computing system may include a connector configured to provide a detachable mechanical coupling with a circuit board, and an optical signal path configured to carry optical signals. In addition, an optical bypass switch may be configured to couple optical signals from the optical signal path to the circuit board and to couple optical signals from the circuit board to the optical signal path responsive to an enabling signal. The optical bypass switch may be further configured to transmit optical signals therethrough to bypass the circuit board responsive to an absence of the enabling signal. Related circuit boards, computing systems, bypass switches, and methods are also discussed. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195549 | Broad-Bandwidth Optical Fiber - The present invention embraces an optical fiber that includes a central core having an alpha refractive index profile with respect to an outer optical cladding. The optical fiber also includes an inner cladding and a buried trench. The central core includes a core matrix doped with at least fluorine and a dopant element that increases refractive index. The optical fiber typically has reduced bending losses and cladding effect as well as a high bandwidth at the wavelengths of 850 nanometers and 1300 nanometers for high-data-rate applications. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195550 | METHOD OF MAKING OPTICAL MICROSTRUCTURE PATTERN ON LIGHT GUIDE PLATE, LIGHT GUIDE PLATE THEREOF AND IMPRINTING MOLD - The present invention discloses a method of making an optical microstructure patterns on a light guide plate, a light guide plate thereof and a imprinting mold. The method of making the optical microstructure patterns on the light guide plate includes a step of bombarding the surface of a substrate to form a micro notch thereon by laser, in which the periphery of the micro notch has as at least a protrusion, and a step of bombarding the protrusion to at least downsize the protrusion by another laser. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195551 | MEMS-BASED LEVERS AND THEIR USE FOR ALIGNMENT OF OPTICAL ELEMENTS - A MEMS based alignment technology based on mounting an optical component on a released micromechanical lever configuration that uses multiple flexures rather than a single spring. The optical component may be a lens. The use of multiple flexures may reduce coupling between lens rotation and lens translation, and reduce effects of lever handle warping on lens position. The device can be optimized for various geometries. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195552 | ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING TYPE OPTICAL MULTIPLEXER AND DEMULTIPLEXER - An arrayed waveguide grating type optical multiplexer and demultiplexer which achieves a low crosstalk even when temperature changes is provided, comprising, on a substrate, a waveguide chip in which an arrayed waveguide grating is formed that has a first waveguide, a first slab waveguide, an arrayed waveguide, a second slab waveguide, and a second waveguide, the waveguide chip being divided into two by any of the first and second slab waveguide, and includes a first glass plate to which one side of the arrayed waveguide grating divided into two in the waveguide chip is fixed, a second glass plate to which the other side thereof is fixed, and a compensation member compensating a temperature dependent shift of a light transmission center wavelength of the arrayed waveguide grating, wherein a part for the arrayed waveguide is not fixed to any of the first and second glass plates. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195553 | ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING TYPE OPTICAL MULTIPLEXER AND DEMULTIPLEXER - An arrayed waveguide grating type optical multiplexer and demultiplexer which reduces a package size although plural arrayed waveguide gratings are included, is provided, comprising plural arrayed waveguide gratings which are provided in parallel to one another on a substrate and each of which has a first waveguide, a first slab waveguide, an arrayed waveguide, a second slab waveguide, and a second waveguide, and also includes a waveguide chip divided into a first and second separated waveguide chip in the first or second slab waveguide in each of the arrayed waveguide gratings and a compensation member compensating a temperature dependent shift of a light transmission center wavelength in the arrayed waveguide grating by relatively moving the first and second waveguide chip when expanded or contracted according to a temperature change. The waveguide chip has a shape bending along a bending direction of the arrayed waveguide. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195554 | SPLICING AND CONNECTORIZATION OF PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS - The present invention relates to an optical fiber comprising at least a first end with an first end facet, the optical fiber comprising a core region capable of guiding light at a first wavelength λ; and a microstructured cladding region surrounding said core region. The cladding region comprises an inner cladding region and an outer cladding region. The inner cladding region comprises inner cladding features arranged in an inner cladding background material having a refractive index n | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195555 | OPTICAL CONNECTOR ADAPTER WITH SHUTTER - An optical connector adapter with shutter having a fewer number of parts and a shutter member that can easily be produced is provided. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195556 | THIN CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY THAT HAS OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL CAPABILITIES AND THAT INCLUDES A PLUG HAVING AN OPTICAL SURFACE THAT CAN BE EASILY WIPED CLEAN - A thin hybrid plug, a thin hybrid receptacle that mates with the thin hybrid plug, and a thin hybrid connector assembly comprising the thin hybrid receptacle mated with the thin hybrid plug are provided. A method for configuring a thin hybrid plug so that an optical surface of the plug is disposed for easy cleaning is also provided. An optics system of the hybrid plug has an optical surface that is substantially flush with an end face of a molded plug body of the hybrid plug to allow the optical surface to be easily wiped clean. In addition, the electrical contacts system and the optics system of the hybrid plug are arranged to enable the optical surface of the optics system to be easily wiped with a cleaning device, such as a cotton-tipped swab, for example. An optics system of the hybrid receptacle has an optical surface that is also disposed to be easily wiped with a cleaning device, such as a cotton-tipped swab, for example. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195557 | CONNECTED OPTICAL FIBER AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING SAME - Provided is a connected optical fiber that is stable and has minimal connection loss even in a high-temperature or low-temperature environment, without involving an excessive amount of labor in the optical fiber connection process, and also provided is a method for assembling a connected optical fiber. The connected optical fiber includes a first optical fiber, a second optical fiber, and a mechanical splice, an end face of the first optical fiber and an end face of the second optical fiber being placed end to end and mechanically connected in the mechanical splice. In this connected optical fiber, at least one end face among the end face of the first optical fiber and the end face of the second optical fiber is formed having a convex curved surface shape in a direction angled with respect to a surface perpendicular to an axis of the optical fiber that has the end face. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195558 | OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER - Provided is an optical transceiver with which at least a pair of printed boards disposed in parallel having respective electric connector sections and at least a pair of transmission and reception optical modules can be easily housed inside a casing whose size is standardized, and the size thereof can be reduced. The optical transceiver is formed by including: a casing; a transmission rigid board and a reception rigid board provided in parallel with a space provided therebetween inside the casing; optical modules for converting an electric signal and an optical signal, respectively, by being connected at outside positions of each of the rigid boards inside the casing via flexible boards and a module mounting board; an optical connector mounted at an end of the casing; and optical fiber arrays which connect the optical modules to the optical connector. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195559 | OPTICAL FIBER ASSEMBLIES HAVING A POWDER OR POWDER BLEND AT LEAST PARTIALLY MECHANICALLY ATTACHED - Disclosed are fiber optic assemblies having at least one optical fiber disposed within a tube and/or cavity along with a powder or powder blend that is at least partially mechanically attached thereto. In one embodiment, the powder or powder blend includes a water-swellable component that is mechanically attached to about 30 percent or less of the surface area of the tube wall while still effectively blocking the migration of water along the tube. Other embodiments may have the powder or power blend mechanically attached to the tube, cavity, or the like at relatively high percentage levels of the total powder or powder blend within the assembly, thereby inhibiting unintentional migration along the tube, cavity, or the like. Other embodiments may use powder or powder blends that may or may not include a water-swellable powder to provide other desired characteristics. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195560 | OPTICAL FIBER MODULE - An optical fiber module includes a polarization-maintaining highly-nonlinear optical fiber and a housing. The polarization-maintaining highly-nonlinear optical fiber includes a core, a cladding surrounding the core and having two stress applying portions formed to sandwich the core and extend along the core, and a coating covering the cladding. The housing houses the polarization-maintaining highly-nonlinear optical fiber which is wound in a ring coil shape. The polarization-maintaining highly-nonlinear optical fiber has a bending loss of 0.01 dB/turn or less at a wavelength of 1550 nm when bent to form a diameter of 20 mm, a nonlinear coefficient γ of 10 W | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195561 | Multimode Optical Fiber - A multimode optical fiber includes a central core having a graded-index profile with a delta value of about 1.9 percent or greater. The graded-index core profile has at least two different alpha parameter values along the core radius, namely a first value in an inner zone of the central core and a second value in an outer zone of the central core. The second alpha parameter value is typically less than the first alpha parameter value. The graded-index core profile and its first derivative are typically substantially continuous over the width of the graded-index core. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195562 | MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR AN OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE BODY USED THEREFOR - Provided is a manufacturing method for an optical waveguide in which, when the optical waveguide is cut and a contour thereof is processed, accuracy of a cut position is improved by improving visibility of an alignment mark. An undercladding layer, cores, and alignment marks are formed on a front surface of a substrate. Then, an overcladding layer is formed using a photomask so as to cover the cores with the alignment marks being exposed. After the substrate is separated to manufacture an optical waveguide body, a cut position is located with reference to the alignment marks from a rear surface side of the undercladding layer, and the undercladding layer and the overcladding layer are cut to manufacture the optical waveguide. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195563 | MULTICORE FIBER - The multicore fiber comprises 7 or more cores, wherein diameters of the adjacent cores differ from one another, wherein each of the cores performs single-mode propagation, wherein a relative refractive index difference of each of the cores is less than 1.4%, wherein a distance between the adjacent cores is less than 50 μm, wherein, in a case where a transmission wavelength of each of the cores is λ, the distance between the adjacent cores is | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195564 | WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS - A waveguide array can comprise a base portion having a metalized inner surface, an outer surface, and a clean end surface. The inner surface can include a plurality of waveguide channels that are metalized. The clean end surface can be prepared by breaking the base portion along a groove positioned on the outer surface prior to breaking, where the groove is oriented to intersect the waveguide channels. A metalized cover portion is attached to the inner surface of the base portion to close the waveguide channels. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195565 | OPTICAL CONTROL DEVICE - Disclosed is an optical delay element that makes use of a line-defect waveguide of a photonic crystal, in which long optical delay time and small group speed dispersion are rendered compatible with each other and in which waveform distortion that might otherwise be produced in processing an ultra-high speed signal is eliminated. Two line-defect waveguides 5 and 11, having different pillar diameters and group velocity dispersions of opposite signs, are interconnected by a line-defect waveguide 8, the pillar diameters of which are gradually varied from one 5 of the line-defect waveguides to the other line-defect waveguide 11, such as to compensate for group speed dispersion as well as to maintain an optical delay effect. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195566 | SEALED OPTOELECTRONIC ISOLATION CONNECTION DEVICE AND SEALED CABIN - The present invention provides a sealed optoelectronic isolation connection device which comprises an insulation cylinder, an optical fiber sealing device, and a conduit sealing device; the insulation cylinder is configured to insulate the conduit sealing device and the optical fiber sealing device; the conduit sealing device is provided with a conduit hole, which is configured to accommodate a conduit of an optical cable and sealing the conduit; the optical fiber sealing device is provided with multiple optical fiber holes, which are configured to accommodate optical fibers of the optical cable and sealing the optical fibers; and the optical fiber sealing device and the conduit sealing device are inserted in sequence into the insulation cylinder and seal the insulation cylinder. The device enhances the reliability of the sealed optoelectronic isolation connection device. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195567 | Identifying a Presentation Time Based on Rendition Periods and Presentation Rates - Techniques are provided for managing Presentation Time in a digital rendering system for presentation of temporally-ordered data when the digital rendering system includes a Variable Rate Presentation capability. In one embodiment, Presentation Time is converted to Data Time, and Data Time is reported instead of Presentation Time when only one time can be reported. In another embodiment, a predetermined one of Presentation Time and Data Time is returned in response to a request for a Current Time. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195568 | Enhancing a Rendering System to Distinguish Presentation Time from Data Time - Techniques are provided for managing Presentation Time in a digital rendering system for presentation of temporally-ordered data when the digital rendering system includes a Variable Rate Presentation capability. In one embodiment, Presentation Time is converted to Data Time, and Data Time is reported instead of Presentation Time when only one time can be reported. In another embodiment, a predetermined one of Presentation Time and Data Time is returned in response to a request for a Current Time. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195569 | MULTIMEDIA PLAYER DISPLAYING OPERATION PANEL DEPENDING ON CONTENTS - A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear content operation panel or an interactive content operation panel; and a controller which controls the user operation interface corresponding to information on the digital content which is displayed on the external device; wherein either the linear content operation panel or the interactive content operation panel is displayed alternatively as the user operation interface on the display. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195570 | Broadcast Program Processing Device, Broadcast Program Processing Method and Program Product - A broadcast program processing device is provided. The device includes a recording unit configured to record content including an advertising video and a recorded data analysis unit configured to obtain an attribute of the advertising video that is included in the recorded content. The device further includes a CM replacing unit configured to obtain an attribute of each of a plurality of advertising videos to be inserted and select one or more of the plurality of advertising videos to be inserted, based on the attribute of the advertising video that is included in the recorded content and the attribute of each of the plurality of advertising videos to be inserted, and a reproduction unit configured to insert the selected one or more of the plurality of advertising videos to be inserted into the recoded content. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195571 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a selector. A selector selects a desired frame image from among a plurality of frame images forming each of one or at least two moving images. A creator creates a still image based on the frame image selected by the selector. A first reproducer reproduces any one of one or at least two still image created by the creator, in response to a still-image reproduction instruction. A detector detects, from among one or at least two moving images, a specific moving image having a frame image which is a basis for the still image reproduced by the first reproducer when a predetermined operation for the still image reproduced by the first reproducer is accepted. A second reproducer reproduces the specific moving image detected by the detector by using the frame image noticed by the detector as a reference. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195572 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING COMPRESSED MEDIA CONTENT - A data file reproduction system has a data file supplying apparatus that extracts video data and audio data from a received data file, compresses the extracted video and audio data and produces a compressed data file containing the compressed audio and video data together with meta or navigation data determined from the data file for enabling navigation of the original data file. The compressed data file is then copy-protected. Upon request, the copy-protected compressed data file is communicated to a reproduction apparatus which decompresses the compressed audio and video data of the received copy-protected compressed data file, encodes the decompressed audio and video data and produces a copy-protected reconstituted data file containing the encoded audio and video data together with the meta or navigation data determined from the copy-protected compressed data file, so enabling navigation of the copy-protected reconstituted data file, the same as the original data file. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195573 | Video Defect Replacement - A method, system and computer-readable storage medium for defect replacement using smart transitions are disclosed. According to implementations, a video can be obtained by a video editing application, a defective portion of the video can be identified, and the defective portion can be replaced with a transition selected based on content characteristics of at least two non-defective portions of the video. The defective portion of the video can be identified and replaced automatically upon obtaining the video. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195574 | REAL-TIME VISIBLE-TALENT TRACKING SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a movie set includes a motion-picture camera and a visible-talent tracking system having several elements. Based on the camera's characteristics, items in a portion of the movie set called the view frustum will appear in focus in the film. The camera and a camera-tracking system provide camera-location, orientation, and settings information to a culling processor. The culling processor delineates the location and dimensions of the view frustum based on the received camera information. Wireless tags are attached to talent on set. A tag-locating system tracks the real-time respective locations of the wireless tags and provides real-time spatial information regarding the tags to the culling processor, which determines which tags, if any, are considered to be within the view frustum, and provides information associated with the intra-frustum tags to a track recorder for recording along with the corresponding film frames. That information is variously used after editing. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195575 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING APPRECIATION DATA, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ORDER INFORMATION, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING APPRECIATION DATA, AND PROGRAMS THEREFOR - A large amount of appreciation data such as image data exceeding capacity of a recording medium is easily managed. Image data are recorded in a recording medium by a digital camera. When a user requests storage of the image data from a DPE store, the image data are read from the recording medium and stored in a storage system. The image data are deleted from the recording medium and thumbnail image data are generated. The thumbnail image data are recorded in the recording medium and provided to the user. In this manner, free space in the recording medium can be saved. By referring to the thumbnail image data, the image data that have been stored at the DPE store can be easily confirmed, which leads to easy management of the image data. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195576 | RECORDING APPARATUS, REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD - A recording apparatus, a reproduction apparatus, and a file management method are disclosed wherein the operability in management of a large number of files recorded on a recording medium using an index file can be improved significantly further than ever. An index file is formed from a series of entries of extract information from a large number of files. Information indicative of a relationship between the files is set to the index file. The index file is used to manage a large number of files and so forth recorded on a recording medium. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195577 | HOT WATER SUPPLYING DEVICE AND REFRIGERATOR HAVING THE SAME - Disclosed are a heater and hot water supplying device having the same. A temperature stabilizing unit is formed by arranging an inlet and an outlet of a water container close to each other. Under this configuration, cool water introduced into a water path of the water container via the inlet serves to cool hot water to be discharged via the outlet of the water container. This may prevent the hot water from being overheated to temperature more than a preset value. As a result, this may prevent damage of thermal lines of a heating element, due to overheating, the overheating occurring as water inside the water container is overheated. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195578 | IMAGING SYSTEM FOR HOLLOW CONE SPRAY - An imaging system to collect image data relating to a conical liquid film and its hollow conical spray emanating from an injector with a central spray axis includes a light source for emitting light into the film and spray generated by the injector; and a detector array located downstream from the injector along the central spray axis for panoramically detecting instantaneously for the entire film and spray the emitted light which has interacted with the spray to produce the image data. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195579 | CAMERA AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING SAME - An exemplary camera includes a lens module, a rotatable board, and a number of secondary lenses. The lens module is positioned on a substrate and defines an optical axis at the central axis thereof. The rotatable board is positioned above the lens module and rotatable to a number of discrete positions. The secondary lenses are located on the rotatable board. In each discrete position, one of the secondary lenses is optically aligned with the lens module. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195580 | RANGE FINDING DEVICE, RANGE FINDING METHOD, IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, AND IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD - A range-finding device includes: a plurality of image capturing elements that are provided at a predetermined interval; a lens that forms an image of a range-finding object on each of the image capturing elements; a distance calculating unit that calculates a distance to the range-finding object for each of a plurality of range-finding areas that are set on the respective image capturing elements based on an image signal output from each of the range-finding areas according to the image that is formed; a distribution generating unit that generates a distribution of the calculated distances; and a position specifying unit that specifies a position where the range-finding object is present in the range-finding area based on the distribution of the distances. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195581 | COMPACT POP-UP CAMERA FLASHES - Example pop-up camera flashes are disclosed. A disclosed example pop-up flash of a camera includes a supporting unit; a rotating unit, which is rotatably connected to the supporting unit and is able to rotate between a first position, at which the rotating unit is adjacent to the supporting unit, and a second poison, at which the rotating unit is apart from the supporting unit; a sliding unit, which is slidably combined with the rotating unit; a light emitting unit, which is arranged at the sliding unit; a connecting unit, of which a first end is rotatably connected to the sliding unit and a second end is rotatably connected to the supporting unit; and a driving unit, which is connected to the connecting unit and provides a driving force for rotation of the connecting unit. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195582 | APERTURE CONTROL DEVICE AND CAMERA - An aperture control device includes: an aperture first driving member that controls an aperture of a diaphragm through which light flux passes; an aperture second driving member that drives the aperture first driving member; a motor that drives the aperture second driving member; a detection device that detects start of movement of the aperture first driving member caused by the aperture second driving member driven by the motor; and a motor control device that controls an aperture value of the diaphragm by controlling a rotational amount of the motor after the detection device detects the start of movement of the aperture first driving member. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195583 | Integrated 2D/3D Camera with Fixed Imaging Parameters - There is disclosed an integrated 2D/3D camera system which may include a 2D camera and a 3D camera affixed to the 2D camera. An inter-camera convergence angle between the 2D camera and the 3D camera may be preset. At least some imaging parameters of one of the 2D camera and the 3D camera may be preset. Imaging parameters of the other of the 2D camera and the 3D camera may be remotely controllable. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195584 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An imaging apparatus includes a diaphragm configured to control an amount of incident light, a variable transmittance and reflectance element configured to reflect a part of the incident light to an optical viewfinder and transmit the remainder of the incident light as imaging light, and a controller configured to increase reflectance of the variable transmittance and reflectance element as a setting value of the diaphragm increases. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195585 | Mounting Assembly and Systems for Attachment of Objects to a Tripod - A universal mounting assembly for the rapid mounting of an object to a stand device is described. The mounting assembly includes a body having a support surface, a front face and an opposed mounting surface, wherein the assembly is configured to mount to a support stand, such as a tripod. The body further includes at least two resilient, adjustable and articulating retaining arms disposed along at least two edges of the body, which allow for the sliding receipt of both the transverse width and longitudinal width, as well as the thickness dimension, of the object to be mounted. The back face of the body further defines at least two receiving ports extending from the support surface and oriented substantially perpendicular to each other. The mounting assembly is particularly useful in mounting a variety of camera phones, small cameras, and video phones to a stand device, such as a tripod. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195586 | FOCAL PLANE SHUTTER FOR CAMERAS - In a first blade unit-driving unit which is rotated by elastic force of a first blade unit-driving spring in shooting, its driving pin rotates a first brake member counterclockwise and a second brake member clockwise against the elastic force of a coil spring fitted to a fitting shaft and against friction resistance force of a friction-providing part including a plate spring or the like at the final stage of the rotation of the first blade unit-driving unit, the plate spring being fitted to the fitting shaft, so that the first blade unit-driving unit is braked, and, at this point, one end part of the first blade unit-driving spring contacts a part to be pushed of the first brake member and controls the counterclockwise rotation of the first brake member, so that braking force to the first blade unit-driving unit acts on the first blade unit-driving unit larger and more surely. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195587 | CAMERA ACCESSORY, CAMERA ACCESSORY MOUNT, CAMERA BODY AND CAMERA BODY MOUNT - A camera accessory is detachably engaged with a camera body including a camera body mount and body-side electric contact points. The camera accessory includes a camera accessory mount assuming a bayonet structure with a first tab, a second tab and a third tab. The camera accessory mount is configured to be inserted through the camera body mount without any of the first through third tabs hindered by three camera body-side tabs disposed at the camera body mount as long as the camera accessory mount is inserted at the camera body mount at a correct interlock phase. The camera accessory mount is configured such that insertion of the camera accessory mount through the camera body mount is disallowed at any phase other than the correct interlock phase with at least two tabs among the first through third tabs coming into contact with at least two of the camera body-side tabs. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195588 | OPTICAL RING NETWORKS HAVING NODE-TO-NODE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION CHANNELS FOR CARRYING DATA TRAFFIC - Techniques, apparatus and systems for optical communications, including fiber ring networks with protection switching to maintain optical communications when an optical failure occurs and to automatically revert to normal operation when the optical failure is corrected, fiber ring networks that provide a circulating optical probe signal at an optical probe wavelength within the gain spectral range of optical amplifiers used in a fiber ring network to detect an optical failure, and fiber ring networks that support broadcast-and-select optical WDM signals carrying communication traffic to the optical ring nodes without regeneration at each optical ring node and one or more overlaid in-band node-to-node optical signals carrying communication traffic with regeneration at each node. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195589 | Optical Network Automatic Protection Switching - There is described an optical terminal for use in a passive optical network. The optical terminal comprises an optical I/O module for sending and receiving optical data packets along an optical fibre, an electrical I/O module for sending and receiving electrical data packets via an electrical connection, a signal converter operatively connected to the optical and electrical I/O modules for converting the data packets between optical and electrical formats, a controller for controlling the operation of the I/O modules and the signal converter. The controller is configured to detect a failure of a primary data path in the optical network, initiate an automatic protection switch to a secondary data path for optical data packets, and generate traffic flow update messages to be sent upstream. Each traffic flow update message contains, as a source address, a MAC address of a client device downstream of the terminal. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195590 | MEASURING PHASE NOISE IN RADIO FREQUENCY, MICROWAVE OR MILLIMETER SIGNALS BASED ON PHOTONIC DELAY - Techniques and devices for measuring phase noise in radio frequency (RF), microwave, or millimeter signals based on photonic delay. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195591 | DUAL NETWORK TYPES SOLUTION FOR COMPUTER INTERCONNECTS - A computing system includes: a plurality of tightly coupled processing nodes; a plurality of circuit switched networks using a circuit switching mode, interconnecting the processing nodes, and handling data transfers that meet one or more criteria; and a plurality of electronic packet switched networks, also interconnecting the processing nodes, handling data transfers that do meet the at least one criteria. The circuit switched networks and the electronic packet switched networks operate simultaneously. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195592 | Minimizing Bandwidth Narrowing Penalties in a Wavelength Selective Switch Optical Network - This invention relates to provisioning wavelength-selective switches and reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers to minimize the bandwidth narrowing effect from the optical filters. Novel architectures and methods are disclosed that can significantly reduce bandwidth-narrowing on channels in a reconfigurable WDM network where a large number of optical filter elements are cascaded. Instead of blocking unused channels as in the prior art, unused channels are selectively provisioned depending on the state of their adjacent channels. Unused adjacent channels of an active channel are provisioned to follow the same path as the active channels. As each channels is deployed, the channel frequency is selected so as to minimize bandwidth narrowing. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195593 | SPECTRAL ALIGNMENT OF A WDM DEVICE TO A SPECIFIED FREQUENCY GRID - A WDM device having a controller that individually controls the operating parameters of tunable lasers and the temperatures of an optical multiplexer and etalon. The device employs a spectral analyzer to measure the spectral composition of the optical output signal produced by the device. Based on the analyses of the measured spectral composition, the controller sets the temperatures of the tunable lasers, optical multiplexer, and optical etalon to values that cause: (i) middle frequencies of transmission bands of the optical multiplexer to be spectrally aligned with the corresponding frequencies of the specified frequency grid, (ii) each laser line to be properly positioned within the corresponding transmission band, and (iii) transmission resonances of the optical etalon to be properly positioned with respect to the laser lines. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195594 | Optical Signal Transmission Device, Optical Signal Reception Device, Wavelength Division Multiplexing Optical Communication Device, and Wavelength Path System - Restrictions, due to wavelength paths which are non-alternative combinations of wavelengths and paths, are solved. An optical-signal-transmission device comprises M optical-output means outputting optical signals having different wavelengths; optical-switch means having M input ports respectively connected to the optical-output means and output ports, and switching connections between the input ports and the output ports; and wavelength-multiplexing means having M acceptance ports respectively connected to the output ports, N forward ports switchably connected to the acceptance ports corresponding to wavelengths of optical signals inputted to the acceptance ports and transmitting multiplexed-optical signals corresponding to the optical signals accepted by the acceptance ports, wherein when Y particular input ports of the input ports are connected to one particular output port of the output ports, the switch means combines Y optical signals inputted to the particular input ports to generate a combined signal, and outputs the combined signal to the particular output port. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195595 | IMPROVEMENTS IN EXTRACTING OPTICAL LABELS - An optical label extractor ( | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195596 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPATCHING SCHEDULING UPLINK MESSAGES BASED ON GIGABIT-CAPABLE PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (GPON) - The present invention discloses a method and a system for scheduling an uplink message based on a Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON). The method includes the following steps of: configuring a private managed entity for an 802.1p entity, and defining a mapping relationship between a priority queue and a priority of an uplink message in the private managed entity (S | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195597 | LOCATION VERIFICATION IN QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS - Methods and systems for verifying the location of a communication transceiver using quantum communication channels are described. Communications transceivers at different known locations are used having a secure channel therebetween to verify the location of the communication transceiver at a location to be verified using entangled particles transmitted using the quantum communication channels. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195598 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communications system comprising at least one light source, a side-emitting fiber light rope into which light emitted from the light source is coupled, and means for sending at least one data carrying optical signal along the light rope. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195599 | SYSTEM, LASER-ON-CMOS CHIP, AND METHOD FOR SETTING A WAVELENGTH TO BE USED BY THE LASER-ON-CMOS CHIP - A system, a Laser-on-CMOS chip, and a method are described herein in accordance with the present invention. In one embodiment, the present invention enables a conventional WDM-capable system to dictate what wavelengths a Laser-on-CMOS chip's optical ports will use by seeding each of their LoC upstream reflective light generation devices (e.g., RSOAs) with a particular wavelength. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195600 | REFERENCE-SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION IN AN OPTICAL TRANSPORT SYSTEM - An optical transport system has an optical transmitter and an optical receiver coupled to one another via an optical link having a plurality of transmission paths. The optical transmitter uses at least one of the transmission paths to transmit an optical-reference signal that enables the optical receiver to obtain (i) an optical local-oscillator signal that is phase- and frequency-locked to an optical-carrier frequency used by the transmitter for the generation of data-bearing optical signals and (ii) a clock signal that is phase- and frequency-locked to the clock signal used by the transmitter. The optical receiver then uses these signals to demodulate and decode the data-bearing optical signals in a manner that significantly reduces the complexity of digital signal processing compared to that in a comparably performing prior-art system. In various embodiments, a transmission path for the optical-reference signal can be established using any suitable dimension orthogonal to those occupied by the data-bearing signals, such as polarization, wavelength, or space. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195601 | OPTICAL TRANSMITTER WITH HYBRIDLY INTEGRATED DRIVER - An optical transmitter includes a transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) having a transistor outline (TO) package, a flexible circuit, and at least one active electronic device mounted on the flexible circuit. The active electronic device includes circuitry for processing signals communicated to and from the TOSA. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195602 | SAMPLING CLOCK SYNCHRONIZING APPARATUS, DIGITAL COHERENT RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND SAMPLING CLOCK SYNCHRONIZING METHOD - In a sampling clock synchronizing apparatus, an A/D converter converts an analog signal to a digital signal based on a sampling clock, and a processor compensates a band limitation due to spectral narrowing by filter characteristics of characteristics opposite to those of the spectral narrowing with respect to a signal produced from the A/D converter subjected to the spectral narrowing, and detects a phase shift in the sampling clock based on a signal after the compensation of the spectral narrowing and synchronizes sampling timing. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195603 | REMOTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, REMOTE SETTING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - Disclosed is a remote management system including: a first image forming device; a second image forming device which is communicable with the first image forming device by using a first communication system; and a remote management server which is communicable with the second image forming device by using a second communication system, wherein the remote management server transmits setting information for the first image forming device to the second image forming device communicable with the first image forming device by using the first communication system, by using the second communication system, the second image forming device transmits the setting information received from the remote management server, to the first image forming device by using the first communication system, and the first image forming device carries out a setting operation in accordance with the setting information received from the second image forming device. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195604 | PRINT APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM AND CARTRIDGE - A print apparatus having a photosensitive drum used for color printing. In the apparatus, the number of sheets on which color printing has been performed and the number of sheets on which monochrome printing has been performed are obtained. It is determined whether or not the lifetime of the photosensitive drum used for color printing has expired based on a threshold value determined based on the ratio between the number of sheets on which color printing has been performed and the number of sheets on which monochrome printing has been performed and the sum of the number of sheets on which the color printing has been performed and the number of sheets on which the monochrome printing has been performed. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195605 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - There is provided an image forming apparatus including a rotation member used for image forming and a detector for detecting light from the rotation member. First waveform data of an image-formed surface used to form an image on the rotation member is acquired by the detector. Second waveform data of the image-formed surface used to form an image on the rotation member is acquired. The second waveform data includes at least part of a detected section of the first waveform data. Information on the actual circumference of the rotation member is calculated based on matching between the acquired first and second waveform data. The acquired first waveform data and second waveform data are compared to determine whether or not to use the calculated information on the circumference. When it is determined not to use the calculated information on the circumference, information on the circumference of the rotation member is recalculated. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195606 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Damages on fixing members caused by paper passing through can be reduced. The registration rollers | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195607 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - An image formation apparatus includes an image carrier on which a developer image is to be formed, an image transfer device configured to transfer the developer image formed on the image carrier to a medium at an image transfer position, a controller configured to control drive of the image carrier and the image transfer device, a first medium feeder configured to feed the medium to the image transfer position along a medium conveyance path extending from the first medium feeder to the image transfer position, and a medium detector provided between the first medium feeder and the image transfer position in the medium conveyance path. The controller is configurd to control the drive of the image carrier on the basis of a medium-detection result by the medium detector. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195608 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus, a quantized amount of correction A is applied to emission timing with which each light-emitting point is to be caused to give off light emission to thereby align points of exposure to light emitted from the light-emitting points, substantially with a straight line extending in the main scanning direction on a photoconductor. The amount of correction A is adjusted by adding or subtracting one to or from one of the tentatively determined amounts of correction A | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195609 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having: a light source that emits a beam; a photoreceptor that is scanned with the beam to obtain an electrostatic latent image thereon; and a control unit that determines a light intensity of the beam to be emitted for formation of a pixel, based on a data value for the pixel in image data and data values for its surrounding pixels. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195610 | LIGHT SCANNING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A light scanning apparatus includes: a light emission unit emitting a first light beam and a second light beam; a motor; a rotary polygon mirror rotated by the motor, forming two scanning lines on a scan object at the same time; an optical sensor detecting the first light beam and the second light beam deflected by the rotary polygon mirror; a deviation measurement unit measuring a deviation amount of starting positions of the two scanning lines on the scan object based on a first detection timing at which the optical sensor detects the first light beam and a second detection timing at which the optical sensor detects the second light beam; and a motor control unit controlling rotation of the motor based on the second detection timing in a measurement non-execution period, and controls rotation of the motor without using the first detection timing in a measurement execution period. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195611 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a developing device, a detection mode execution unit, and a notice signal generating unit. The developing device supplies a toner bearing member with toner in a container by rotating a toner supply member in a contact manner with the toner bearing member. The detection mode execution unit executes a detection mode in which a predetermined period for changing a toner amount in the foam layer by rotating the toner supply member is provided, a capacitance C | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195612 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided an image forming apparatus that accurately obtains the dynamic characteristic of the apparatus when a foreign substance is adhered to a driving roller for driving an endless belt, such as a facing roller. To accomplish this, the image forming apparatus uses an optical sensor to detect information of a foreign substance on the facing roller. When it is determined that there is no foreign substance information, the image forming apparatus executes profile detection of an intermediate transfer belt using the nominal circumference of the facing roller. When the optical sensor detects foreign substance information, the image forming apparatus measures the circumference of the facing roller, and performs profile detection of the intermediate transfer belt using the measured circumference of the facing roller. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195613 | PRINTER WITH CHARGE AREA DEVELOPED TONER BALANCING - Printers are provided. In one aspect, at least one first toner image is formed and transferred onto a receiver to form a composite toner image on a receiver having a second polarity. A second development station of a toner layer balancing system creates a second development difference of potential of a first polarity between a bias member and the first toner at each location of the receiver, to cause a second toner of the second polarity to deposit at individual locations on the receiver in amounts according to the second net development difference of potential at the individual locations such that total amount of first toner and any second toner deposited at each location on the receiver is within a range that is less than a range of first toner amounts on the receiver. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195614 | ENHANCEMENT OF CHARGE AREA DEVELOPED TONER - Methods for printing are provided. In one aspect a primary imaging member having a pattern of engine pixel locations with image modulated differences of potential of a first polarity and with first toner having a first toner difference of potential of a second polarity is moved to a second development station. A second development difference of potential of the first polarity at the second development station forms a second net development difference of the second development difference of potential less any image modulated difference of potential at the individual engine pixel location and less any difference of potential relative to ground of any first toner at the individual engine pixel location. The second development difference of potential is less than the first development difference of potential so that second toner that is different from the first toner, is developed onto the first toner using the second net development difference of potential. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195615 | PRINTER WITH DISCHARGE AREA DEVELOPED TONER BALANCING - Printers are provided. In one aspect, at least one first toner image is formed and transferred onto a receiver to form a composite toner image on a receiver having a first polarity. A second development station of a toner layer balancing system creates a second development difference of potential of the first polarity between a bias member and the first toner at each location of the receiver, to cause a second toner of the first polarity to deposit at individual locations on the receiver in amounts according to the second net development difference of potential at the individual locations such that total amount of first toner and any second toner deposited at each location on the receiver is within a range that is less than a range of first toner amounts on the receiver. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195616 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes first photosensitive members, first chargers for charging the first photosensitive members, developer carriers for supplying developer to the first photosensitive members, a first charging-bias applying unit that applies charging biases to the first chargers, development-bias applying units for applying development biases to the corresponding developer carriers, a charging-current sensing unit that separately senses a charging current flowing in each of the first chargers, and a control unit that controls the development biases based on the sensed charging current. When a difference between a reference charging-current value and a detected charging-current value exceeds a predetermined value, if the detected charging-current value is larger than the reference charging-current value, the control unit increases an absolute value of a development bias applied to a developer carrier corresponding to the charger having the difference exceeding the predetermined | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195617 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is for transferring a toner image on an image carrier onto a transfer medium, and thermally fixing the toner image by a fixing device, and comprises a cleaner removing residual toner on the image carrier. The apparatus: acquires information relating to a distribution of a density of the residual toner at each position within a section on the image carrier at an end of an image forming job, the section extending from the transfer position to immediately before a cleaning position; determines, based on the information, whether or not the density of the residual toner at the transfer position exceeds a corresponding threshold density pertaining to occurrence of fusion of the residual toner; and causes, if determining negatively, the drive unit to stop when the image forming job is completed and the residual toner at the transfer position reaches a predetermined position within the section. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195618 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an image processing system, a charging process for an executed print process is executed using one of a first charging method and a second charging method. Especially, when executing a print process of an image including a plurality of pages, it is determined before the start of the print process of the image including the plurality of pages on the basis of balance information managed in advance whether execution of the print process of the image including the plurality of pages is possible. When the first charging method is selected, execution of the print process is controlled on the basis of the result of determination. When the second charging method is selected, the print process is executed without determination. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195619 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND OPERATION ACCEPTING METHOD - A disclosed image forming apparatus accepts a selecting operation of selecting a button displayed on a touch panel and performs a process corresponding to the selected button. The image forming apparatus includes a moving region display unit displaying a region mark to be selected on the touch panel and moving the region mark as time passes and a button specifying unit specifying one or more buttons based on positional information indicating a position of the region mark and positional information indicating a pressed position of the touch panel. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195620 | SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a switching power supply, a current detection resistor is connected to a switching unit to detect a current flowing through the switching unit. A diode is connected in parallel to the current detection resistor to reduce heat generated in the switching unit by back electromotive force generated by an inductance component of the current detection resistor. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195621 | Developing Cartridge Capable of Providing Stabilized Electrical Power Supply to Developing Roller - A developing cartridge having a collar member provided over an axially end portion of a developing roller shaft and movable in an axial direction thereof. The collar member includes a cap portion covering the axial end portion of the rotation shaft and electrically contacted with the rotation shaft, and a power-feed receiving portion electrically connected to the cap portion and electrically contactable with an external electrode. The power-feed receiving portion is provided integrally with the cap portion. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195622 | Paper Particle Removing Device, and Image Formation Device Provided with Paper Particle Removing Device - A paper particle removing device is provided with a paper particle removing roller configured to contact a printing sheet to capture paper particles on the printing sheet, a scraping member arranged adjacent to the paper particle removing roller and configured to contact the paper particle removing roller to scrape the paper particles, a paper particle container arranged on a scraping member side with respect to a position where the scraping member contacts the paper particle removing roller, and configured to collect the paper particles scraped by the scraping member, and a negatively-charged member arranged on the scraping member side with respect to a position where the paper particle removing roller contacts the scraping member and having a relative tendency in a triboelectric series to be negatively charged relative to the paper particles, the negatively-charged member inducing the paper particles scraped by the scraping member toward the paper particle container. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195623 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device that fixes a toner image on a recording medium while the recoding medium is conveyed by passing through a nip formed by a heating member and a pressing member includes: a cleaning unit that is provided in at least any one of the heating member and the pressing member for removing toner adhered thereto. The cleaning unit is in contact with a member to be cleaned and a rotating cleaning member is in contact with the member to be cleaned in a downstream side of the cleaning unit in a rotation direction. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195624 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image holding body that holds an electrostatic latent image; a developing device that develops the electrostatic latent image with a toner and forms a toner image on the image holding body; a transfer member having a fluorocarbon resin dispersion layer at least at a surface layer of the transfer member, fluorocarbon resin being dispersed in the fluorocarbon resin dispersion layer; a first transfer device that first-transfers the toner image, which is formed on the image holding body, on the transfer member; a second transfer device that second-transfers the toner image, which is first-transferred on the transfer member, on a recording medium; and an abrading member that is arranged to come into contact with and be separated from the transfer member and abrades part of the surface layer of the transfer member when the abrading member contacts the transfer member. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195625 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit having a plurality of photoconductor drums arranged in tandem; an intermediate transfer belt arranged opposite to the photoconductor drums and configured to receive developer images formed on the photoconductor drums and to transfer the developer images onto a recording sheet; a cleaning unit comprising a cleaning member positioned in contact with the intermediate transfer belt and configured to collect substance adhering to the intermediate transfer belt, and a receptacle configured to store the substance collected by the cleaning member, wherein the cleaning unit is arranged on the same side as the image forming unit with respect to the intermediate transfer belt; and a support member configured to support the image forming unit and the cleaning unit and to be pulled out from a main body. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195626 | SEALING MEMBER FOR USE WITH A TONER OR DEVELOPER SUPPLY CONTAINER - A sealing member for unsealably sealing a toner opening of a toner or developer container mountable to an image forming apparatus. In one embodiment, a sealing member has a base member, a first coupling engagement portion and a second coupling engagement portion protruding away from the base member axially, a central member protruding away from the base member axially, wherein the central member has a cylindrical portion defining an opening therein, and at least one supporting member projected radially outwardly from the peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion, wherein the central member is formed to be concentric with the base member axially and positioned between the first coupling engagement portion and the second coupling engagement portion. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195627 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of the apparatus, the cartridge including a photosensitive drum, a drum frame, a force receiving portion for receiving a driving force, and a regulated portion; a transfer member for transferring a developer image onto a toner image receiving member; a supporting member movable between an inside position, wherein the supporting member detachably supports the cartridge and an outer position, wherein the cartridge is mountable and demountable; a moving member capable of taking a first position, where the moving member urges the regulated portion to space the drum from the transfer member and a second position to contact the drum to the transfer member; and a regulating portion for engaging with the regulated portion to regulate rotation of the cartridge, and for permitting movement of the supporting member between the outer and inside positions. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195628 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes plural cartridges and a cartridge holder which integrally supports cartridges and is movable in an alignment direction of the cartridges between an outer position and an inner position relative to the apparatus main body. Each cartridge includes a developer carrier, a handle member which is displaceable between a protrusion position of protruding upward and a retreat position below the protrusion position, and a cover member which is displaceable between a close position of covering an upper part of the developer carrier and an open position of opening the upper part of the developer carrier. At least the cartridges are provided with an interlocking mechanism which is configured to displace each of the handle members and the cover members in conjunction with moving the cartridge holder with respect to the apparatus main body. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195629 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING INTERMEDIATE IMAGE TRANSFER ENDLESS BELT - An image forming apparatus includes an endless belt operating as an intermediate image transfer member. A plurality of process cartridges is juxtaposed along the endless belt. Each process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum confronting the endless belt and a developing agent carrying member disposed in confronting relation with the photosensitive drum for supplying toner to the photosensitive drum. A first conveying member is provided in each process cartridge. A second conveying member is provided in the housing, and the first conveying member conveys a recording sheet in cooperation with the second conveying member. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195630 | Photosensitive Cartridge - A photosensitive cartridge includes: a photosensitive member mounted to the photosensitive cartridge such that a surface thereof is movable in a first direction; an electric discharge electrode that extends in a second direction at an interval with the surface of the photosensitive member, the second direction being orthogonal to the first direction and is parallel with the surface of the photosensitive member; a frame holding the photosensitive member and the electric discharge electrode and including an opening at an opposite side of the photosensitive member across the electric discharge electrode, the opening extending in the second direction; a cleaner movable along the opening so as to clean the electric discharge electrode; and a reinforcement member, which is a separate member from the cleaner, and which is contactable the frame to reinforce a surrounding part of the opening. | 2012-08-02 |
| 20120195631 | DEVELOPING ROLLER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - A developing roller used for formation of an electrophotographic image with high quality is provided in which even in storage and use under a high temperature and high humidity environment, peel-off of a surface layer from an elastic layer is suppressed, and a toner hardly adheres to the surface of the developing roller. | 2012-08-02 |
