35th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 28 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100220998 | Network management system, repeater, and repeating method - A repeater includes a reception part configured to receive an optical signal transmitted by wavelength division multiplexing from a preceding repeater in a path from a source to a destination; a determination part configured to determine the channel allocation of the signal received by the reception part by determining a bit rate and a modulation technique with respect to each of channels in the received signal; and a detection part configured to detect a prohibited channel not to be included in the optical signal to be transmitted from the repeater, based on the channel allocation and a predetermined criterion. | 2010-09-02 |
20100220999 | Encoding of Wavelength Converter Systems - An apparatus comprising a path computation element (PCE) configured to perform a path computation using a wavelength converter (WC) pool information based on a dynamic WC pool model, wherein the dynamic WC pool model comprises information regarding WC pool usage state represented using a WC pool usage state vector, and wherein the information regarding WC pool usage state is communicated to the PCE using a WC usage state Type-Length-Value (TLV) that indicates an available WC in a WC pool, a used WC in the WC pool, or both. Also disclosed is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising receiving a WC usage state TLV comprising information regarding WC pool usage state, establishing a WC pool usage state vector using the information in the WC usage state TLV, and calculating a WC pool connectivity matrix based on the WC usage state vector. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221000 | METHOD AND DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR MEASURING OPTICAL POWER - A method for measuring an optical power includes: acquiring code type information in an optical signal of a communication system, in which the optical signal includes an optical signal of burst emission and/or an optical signal of burst reception; measuring the optical signal of the communication system, and acquiring an optical power value of the optical signal; and correcting the optical power value according to the code type information. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221001 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SYSTEM FRAMING SYNCHRONIZATION CONTROL FOR A FRAMER/MAPPER/MULTIPLEXOR DEVICE WITH 1+1 AND EQUIPMENT PROTECTION - Methods and apparatus are provided for framing synchronization control for a framer/mapper/multiplexor (FMM) device with 1+1 and equipment protection. FMM device are disclosed that synchronize one or more internal signals by changing a phase of the one or more internal signals without changing a frequency of the one or more internal signals based on a desired phase at a destination of each of the one or more internal signals. A programmable synchronization signal may optionally be employed for the synchronization. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221002 | Optical signal processing apparatus - An OADM in a wavelength division multiplexing transmission system includes a wavelength selection switch that selects a predetermined wavelength from a multiple optical signal obtained by multiplexing a phase modulated signal and an intensity modulated signal and outputs the selected wavelength signal to a predetermined output port. The wavelength selection switch has a different delay for each wavelength of the multiple optical signal. For example, the wavelength selection switch includes a mirror array. Optical paths from the surfaces of mirrors arranged on the mirror array to the diffraction grating are different in the case of adjacent mirrors. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221003 | Open Shortest Path First Extensions in Support of Wavelength Switched Optical Networks - A network component comprising a generalized multiprotocol label switching (GMPLS) control plane controller configured to implement a method comprising transmitting a message to at least one adjacent control plane controller, wherein the message comprises a Type-Length-Value (TLV) indicating Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) information, wherein the TLV comprises a Node Attribute TLV, a Link Set TLV, or both, and wherein the TLV further comprises at least one sub-TLV indicating additional RWA information. A method comprising communicating an open shortest path first (OSPF) link state advertisement (LSA) message comprising a TLV with at least one sub-TLV to a GMPLS control plane controller, wherein the TLV comprises a Node Attribute TLV, a Link Set TLV, or both, and wherein the TLV further comprises at least one sub-TLV indicating RWA information. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221004 | METHOD FOR AUTO-CONFIGURATION OF A WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH IN AN OPTICAL NETWORK - The invention relates to a method for auto-configuring a wavelength selective switch (WSS) device having an output port and a plurality of input ports and coupled to a WSS controller. When connected to a WDM optical network, the WSS controller is programmed to utilize one or more optical channel monitors (OCM) coupled to the input and/or output ports to detect which of the wavelengths are present at the input ports. Wavelengths that are not detected on any input port are blocked by the WSS. Any wavelength detected as present at one and only one input port is switched by the WSS to the output port. If a wavelength is detected at two or more input ports, it is either blocked by the WSS at each of the input ports until user intervention, or is blocked at all but one of the input ports as defined by assigned port priorities. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221005 | METHOD FOR REALIZING TIME SLOT PARTITION AND SPENDING PROCESS OF AN OPTICAL PAYLOAD UNIT IN AN OPTICAL TRANSMISSION NETWORK - A method of time slot partitioning and overhead processing of an optical channel payload unit in OTN comprises: A. determining the number of time slots to be partitioned and mapping modes for the OPU based on properties of service signals; B. assigning reserved values of payload structure identification bytes in OPU overhead based on the partitioning of the time slots; and C. assigning values for reserved bits | 2010-09-02 |
20100221006 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION ON TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS-BASED PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK (TDMA-PON) - Provided are an apparatus and method for efficiently and dynamically allocating a bandwidth on a Time Division Multiple Access-based Passive Optical Network (TDMA PON). The dynamic bandwidth allocation apparatus for uplink data transmission of a plurality of Optical Network Units (ONUs) including a plurality of class queues corresponding to Transmission Container (T-CONT) types, the plurality of ONUs connected to an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) on a Passive Optical Network (PON), includes: a class queue information storage unit storing information regarding a bandwidth allocation period and an allocatable bandwidth amount for each T-CONT type; an allocation check table unit checking the bandwidth allocation period for the T-CONT type received from the class queue information storage unit, and determining an allocatable bandwidth amount for the T-CONT type; and a bandwidth allocation unit allocating an uplink bandwidth to the T-CONT type with reference to the bandwidth allocation period and the allocatable bandwidth amount for the T-CONT type, and re-allocating to each ONU an uplink bandwidth remaining after allocating a total uplink bandwidths to all T-CONT types. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221007 | PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM, OPTICAL LINE TERMINAL, AND OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT - In a PON system by WDM, IP broadcast can be received without oppressing a band used by a user for Internet communication. An OLT provides a first wavelength received in common by respective ONUs and plural second wavelengths by which the OLT and the respective ONUs perform communication individually. With respect to signals in the downstream direction, each of the OLTs includes a transmitter to transmit the first wavelength and plural transmitters to transmit the second wavelengths used for the individual communication with the respective ONUs. Each of the ONUs includes a receiver to receive the first wavelength and a receiver to receive the second wavelength used in the ONU itself. The OLT transmits data of the IP broadcast by the first wavelength and transmits individual data of each of the ONUs by the second wavelength corresponding to the ONU. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221008 | Wavelength-Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Network for Reducing Degradation in Noise Characteristic of Wavelength-Locked Fabry-Perot Laser Diodes - The present invention relates to a wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) for reducing degradation in noise characteristic of a wavelength-locked Fabry-Perot Laser Diode (F-P LD). A WDM-PON for reducing degradation in a noise characteristic of a wavelength-locked F-P LD in accordance with the present invention comprises a central office (CO); a remote node (RN) being connected to the CO by a single mode fiber; and one or more optical network terminations (ONTs) being connected to the RN by one or more single mode fibers, respectively, wherein the CO comprises: a broadband light source (BLS) for generating light to be injected; a first wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) filter for filtering for the injected light generated from the BLS and having a bandwidth wider than a bandwidth of the injected light in order to minimize a filtering effect; and one or more optical transceiver having one or more F-P LDs into which light being filtered by the first WDM filter is injected; and wherein the RN filters the injected light generated from the BLS and injects the filtered light into the one or more ONTs; and wherein the RN comprises a second WDM filter having a bandwidth wider than a bandwidth of the injected light in order to minimize a filtering effect. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221009 | Phase Chip Frequency-Bins Optical Code Division Multiple Access - Apparatus and system for transmitting and receiving optical code division multiple access data over an optical network. The apparatus comprises a spectral phase decoder for decoding the encoded optical signal to produce a decoded signal, a time gate for temporally extracting a user signal from the decoded signal, and a demodulator that is operable to extract user data from the user signal. The system preferably comprises a source for generating a sequence of optical pulses, each optical pulse comprising a plurality of spectral lines uniformly spaced in frequency so as to define a frequency bin, a data modulator associated with a subscriber and operable to modulate the sequence of pulses using subscriber data to produce a modulated data signals and a Hadamard encoder associated with the data modulator and operable to spectrally encode the modulated data signal to produce an encoded data signal. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221010 | Encoding-decoding method, optical pulse time spreading apparatus, optical add-drop-multiplexer, and optical communication system - An optical pulse time spreading apparatus wherein an optical splitter divides an input optical pulse into first to U-th input optical pulses; first to U-th optical pulse time spreaders respectively have the first to U-th input optical pulses input thereto and output first to U-th chip pulse sequences each consisting of N chip pulses from a first to an N-th chip pulse arranged in order on a time axis into which the input optical pulse is time-spread; and an interval between adjacent ones of unit FBGs arranged in a p-th optical pulse time spreader and a Bragg reflection wavelength of the unit FBGs in the p-th optical pulse time spreader are set such that spectra of the first to U-th chip pulse sequences are different from each other. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221011 | Optical Transmission Between a Central Terminal and a Plurality of Client Terminals via an Optical Network - A system and an associated method of bidirectional optical transmission between a central terminal ( | 2010-09-02 |
20100221012 | BURST MODE RARE EARTH-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER - It is an object of the present invention to provide a rare earth doped fiber whose transient response is suppressed and an optical amplifier for optical packet communication having a good characteristic even if there is little traffic. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221013 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION METHOD - An optical transmission apparatus for suppressing deterioration of transmission quality due to XPM in a wavelength division multiplexing optical communication system in which an intensity modulation optical signal and a phase modulation optical signal exist in a mixed form. The apparatus has an intensity inversion signal light output section which outputs light having an intensity pattern obtained by inverting intensity changes of the intensity modulation optical signal near a wavelength of the intensity modulation optical signal in arrangement on wavelength axis of optical wavelengths that can be multiplexed as a wavelength division multiplexed signal as intensity inversion signal light, and a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal output unit which wavelength-division-multiplexes the intensity modulation optical signal, the phase modulation optical signal and light from the intensity inversion signal light output section and outputs a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221014 | OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD - An optical fiber transmission system including: a first transmission-line optical fiber to input first wavelength signal light output from a transmitter, and to change a waveform of the signal light; an optical coupler to combine the first wavelength signal light that has been propagated through the first transmission-line optical fiber with second wavelength pumping light; an optical limiter to input coupled light output from the optical coupler, saturating a gain as power of the coupled light increases using a nonlinear optical medium, thereby suppressing an optical noise component included in the coupled light, and to output signal light including the first wavelength optical component obtained from the nonlinear optical medium; and a second transmission-line optical fiber to input to a receiver after signal light output from the optical limiter is input and a waveform change by the first transmission-line optical fiber in the signal light is compensated for. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221015 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING BY MODULATION OF AN OPTICAL SIGNAL WITH A MULTICHANNEL RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL - A signal processing system is disclosed having a detector for detecting an RF signal, wherein the detector has plural detection channels. A modulator modulates an optical signal with the detected RF signal and a processor processes the modulated optical signal to determine an azimuth or an elevation of the detected RF signal. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221016 | OPTICAL TRANSMISSION MODULE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A light transmission module has a light transmission path for transmitting light, an optical element including a light emitting and receiving surface for emitting or receiving an optical signal transmitted by the light transmission path, and having a light emitting and receiving point with a function of photoelectric conversion and an electrode pad formed on the light emitting and receiving surface, a substrate mounted with the optical element and an electrical wiring, a bonding wiring for electrically connecting the electrode pad and the electrical wiring, and a sealing portion for sealing the optical element. The electrical wiring and the electrode pad are reverse wire-bonded by the bonding wiring. The sealing portion includes an inclined part where a liquid sealing resin material is raised and solidified along a side wall of the optical element by surface tension, and a flat part where the liquid sealing resin material is spread in parallel and solidified along the light emitting and receiving surface, the inclined part and the flat part being coupled. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221017 | Method and System for Optimum Channel Equalization From a SERDES to an Optical Module - Certain aspects of a method and system for optimum channel equalization between a host Serializer-Deserializer (SerDes) and an optical module may compensate and reduce dispersion loss along an electrical transmit path of a transmitter and an optical transmit path coupled to the transmitter via pre-emphasis. The data degradation as a result of the dispersion loss along the electrical transmit path of the transmitter and the optical transmit path coupled to the transmitter may be recovered by equalizing signals received via an electrical receive path of a receiver communicatively coupled to the transmitter. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221018 | Polarization mode dispersion suppressing method and polarization mode dispersion suppressing apparatus - A polarization mode dispersion (PMD) suppressing apparatus wherein a first polarization controller adjusts a polarization of an input signal, thereby generating a first polarization adjusted signal; a variable DGD compensator gives a DGD to the first polarization adjusted signal, thereby generating a first PMD compensated signal; a second polarization controller adjusts a polarization of the first PMD compensated signal, thereby generating a second polarization adjusted signal; a polarization beam splitter produces a higher-order PMD suppressed signal forming one of two orthogonal components of the second polarization adjusted signal and a monitor signal forming the other component; an intensity detector generates an optical carrier intensity signal reflecting the intensity of an optical carrier wavelength component; and a control signal generator controls the first polarization controller, etc., based on the optical carrier intensity signal such that the optical carrier wavelength component intensity becomes minimal. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221019 | Low-noise parallel cascade of optical receivers - A method includes cascading outputs from a plurality of photodiodes connected in parallel; and amplifying the cascaded outputs. An apparatus, includes a plurality of photodiodes cascaded in parallel; and an amplifier coupled to the plurality of photodiodes. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221020 | Adaptive Polarization Tracking And Equalization In Coherent Optical Receivers - A method for operating an optical receiver includes at each of a sequence of sampling times, producing a first 2D complex digital signal vector whose first component is indicative of a phase and amplitude of one polarization component of a modulated optical carrier and whose second component is indicative of a phase and amplitude of another polarization component of the carrier. For each one of the sampling times, the method includes constructing a second 2D complex digital signal vector that is a rotation of the first 2D complex digital vector for the one of sampling times. The rotation compensates a polarization rotation produced by transmission of the modulated optical carrier between an optical transmitter and the optical receiver. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221021 | OPTICAL RECEIVER AND CONTROL APPARATUS - An optical receiver that can receive WDM signal light in which first and second wavelength bands are combined. Within optical reception units corresponding to each channel is respectively provided tunable dispersion compensator (TDC) modules in which one wavelength band is made a design standard. When known, based on signal light channel information (wavelength, frequency, channel number) notified from outside, that signal light of the second wavelength band is being input to the receiver, then in the TDC module that performed chromatic dispersion compensation of the signal light, control is performed to shift the center frequency of the dispersion compensation range by a predetermined amount corresponding to the wavelength of the signal light. When the signal light of the first wavelength band is input, shift control of the dispersion compensation range is not performed, and the dispersion compensation range at the time of designing is maintained. As a result, chromatic dispersion compensation of signal light of respective wavelength bands can be performed with high accuracy by one type of TDC. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221022 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDUCING SUBSTRATE TRANSPORT FAULTS IN IMAGE FORMING MACHINES - A method of inducing a substrate transport fault in an image forming apparatus having a substrate transport assembly includes prompting a user to provide one or more substrate transport fault conditions, starting an image forming job, and inducing a substrate transport fault during the image forming job in accordance with the one or more fault conditions. An image forming machine is described having a substrate transport assembly for moving substrate sheets through the image forming apparatus for forming images thereon, a User Interface for prompting a user to provide one or more substrate transport fault conditions, and a controller for inducing a substrate transport fault in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the one or more substrate transport fault conditions. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221023 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus and an image forming method in the invention include a scanner unit, an image forming unit, and a discarding unit. When time during which a recording medium having an image formed thereon is discharged to a paper discharge tray has exceeded a set time set in advance, the recording medium is discarded to the discarding unit to prevent the recording medium from being inspected by a third party and secure confidentiality. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221024 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes an image formation unit, a conveying unit and controller. The image formation unit includes a rotating photoreceptor, a latent image formation unit, a developing unit, a first transfer unit, and a second transfer unit. Regardless of forming or not forming on the photoreceptor a belt-shaped image which is not being transferred onto a recording medium, the controller controls the image forming unit such that formation of an image quality adjusting image that is not transferred to the recording medium starts from a predetermined position in a rotational direction of the photoreceptor, and such that the recorded image is formed further downstream in the rotational direction of the photoreceptor than an image quality adjusting image region. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221025 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes, a carrier element, an image forming unit, a patch mark generation unit, a specular reflected light detection unit that detects light irradiated onto the carrier element by the irradiation unit and specularly-reflected by the carrier element or patch marks, and a diffuse reflected light detection unit that detects the light irradiated onto the carrier element by the irradiation unit and diffusely-reflected by the carrier element or the patch marks. Additionally, the image forming apparatus includes, a correction unit that corrects at least one of a value detected by the specular reflected light detection unit and the diffuse reflected light detection unit, a correction condition determination unit that determines correction conditions for the correction unit, and a density calculation unit that calculates a density of a patch mark. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221026 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FEATURING A CHARGING DEVICE FOR CHARGING A PHOTOSENTIVE MEMBER - The present invention provides an image forming apparatus which includes a rotatable photosensitive member, a charging device which charges the photosensitive member, an applying unit which applies an alternating current voltage to the charging device, a processing portion which extracts a discharge current component by removing an alternating current component corresponding to the alternating current voltage from a current flowing between the photosensitive member and the charging device, and a control unit which controls a peak-to-peak value of the alternating current voltage based on the discharge current component extracted by the processing portion. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221027 | Light Output Device and Image Forming Apparatus Including the Same - A light output device comprises a controller configured to generate a set signal that sets a reference voltage for determining a predetermined value of an output power of the light in a case of power adjustment wherein the output power is changed to a power different from in a case of power accuracy requirement, and a reference voltage generating section configured to generate the reference voltage according to the set signal. The controller in the case of power accuracy requirement puts a set-signal output port in a high-impedance state, while in the case of power adjustment generates the set signal using a predetermined voltage, the set signal alternating between a high level and a low level. The reference voltage generating section in the case of power accuracy requirement generates the reference voltage on a basis of a level shift voltage generated by level shifting the predetermined voltage. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221028 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly thereof. The cartridge includes a developer carrying member for carrying a developer to develop with the developer a latent image formed on an image bearing member, an conductive member contactable to the carrying member, a developing chamber for holding the carrying member and the conductive member, a developer accommodating chamber for accommodating the developer, and a seal member for sealing an opening for permitting communication between the developing chamber and the developer accommodating chamber. The apparatus further includes a seal member removing device for removing the seal member, and a control device. The control device executes control for concurrently performing seal member removal and drive of the carrying member in a state in which the cartridge is mounted to the main assembly of the apparatus and then sends a detection signal relating to failure in removal of the seal member when a potential difference is provided between the carrying member and said conductive member during the execution of the control and then a value of current passing between the carrying member and the conductive member is not a threshold or less in a time from start of the control. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221029 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide an image forming apparatus capable of increasing the life of a rotating cam while preventing the occurrence of a shock jitter and transfer failure. The image forming apparatus is configured to execute a forced movement process for rotating the rotating cam to forcibly move a secondary transfer roller against a biasing force of a bias coil spring at a pre-entry timing prior to the entry of the front edge of a recording sheet into a secondary transfer position, and a pressure intensifying process for rotating the rotating cam to increase transfer pressure at a timing immediately after the entry of the front edge of the recording sheet into the secondary transfer position. As the forced movement process, the image forming apparatus executes, alternately, a first forced movement process for normally driving and rotating the rotating cam, and a second forced movement process for inversely driving and rotating the rotating cam, at a predetermined timing. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221030 | Sheet material identifying apparatus, sheet material treating apparatus and sheet material identifying Method - To provide a sheet material identifying apparatus for identifying the kind of a sheet material, including an adjusting assembly for dehumidifying or humidifying a predetermined region of the sheet material and adjusting the moisture content of the predetermined region, external force applying means for applying an external force to the predetermined region of the sheet material whose moisture content is adjusted and detecting means for detecting an external force propagated through the sheet while the external force is applied by the external force applying means; wherein an external force is applied to the predetermined region whose moisture content is adjusted through the adjusting assembly by the external force applying means and the kind of a sheet material is identified in accordance with the external force propagated through the sheet detected by the detecting means. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221031 | MULTI-ARRANGEABLE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided an image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes, an image forming unit configured to fix a developer image on a sheet medium and output the sheet medium, and an output-image storing unit configured to store, on the inner side of a door involving a lock mechanism, the sheet medium on which the developer image is fixed by the image forming unit. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221032 | MULTI-ARRANGEABLE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided an image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes, an image forming unit configured to fix a developer image on a sheet medium and output the sheet medium, and an output-image storing unit configured to store, on the inner side of a door involving a lock mechanism, the sheet medium on which the developer image is fixed by the image forming unit. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221033 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, MEMORY UNIT THEREOF, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device to prevent damage of a memory unit and poor connection between terminals of the memory unit and a main body of an image forming apparatus, by improving a mounting position of the memory unit. The developing device is removably mounted to a main body of the image forming apparatus. The memory unit includes terminals exposed through a rear side of the developing device. The memory unit is disposed closer to a power reception unit formed at one side of the developing device than to a driving force reception unit formed at an other side of the developing device. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221034 | CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning device includes: a first scraping member that scrapes off a developer on a surface of a moving body that circularly moves; a second scraping member that is disposed downstream from the first scraping member in a moving direction of the moving body, and that scrapes off residuals remaining on the surface of the moving body; a container having: a first housing portion that houses the developer scraped off by the first scraping member, as a recovered material; and a second housing portion that houses the residuals scraped off by the second scraping member; a discharge port that is disposed in the first housing portion, wherein the developer in the first housing portion is discharged to an outside of the container through the discharge port; and a conveying member that conveys the recovered material housed in the first housing portion to the discharge port. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221035 | Method of Remanufacturing an Imaging Cartridge - A method of remanufacturing an imaging cartridge includes providing a consumed imaging cartridge having an outer housing that fits in a first imaging cartridge receiving cavity of a first imaging machine; removing the outer housing from the imaging cartridge; and replacing the outer housing with a second outer housing that fits in a second imaging cartridge receiving cavity of a second imaging machine. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221036 | CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cartridge mountable and dismountable by moving in the direction crossing with an axial direction of the drive shaft of a main assembly of the apparatus, includes a rotatable member rotatable by receiving a rotational force from the apparatus; a coupling engageable with the rotational force applying portion to receive a force for rotating said rotatable member, said coupling including a coupling member rotatable about an axis, a first rotational force receiving portion, provided at one end portion of said coupling member, for receiving the rotational force from the driving shaft, a rotational force transmission member engaged with the other end portion of said coupling member and having opposite ends projected out in a crossing wherein said coupling member is pivotable between a transmitting angular position for transmitting the rotational force from the driving shaft to said rotatable member and a mounting-and-dismounting angular position which is inclined relative to the axis of said rotatable member; a flange mounted to said rotatable member and rotatable about an axis, said flange including an opening accommodating said transmission member with a gap, a regulating portion, provided in said opening, for regulating movement of said transmission member in the crossing direction when said coupling takes the transmitting angular position, a second rotational force receiving portion for being abutted by said transmission member to receive the rotational force from said coupling, an opposing portion opposing to said second receiving portion, wherein in a state that said coupling is in the transmitting angular position and that one end of said transmission member contacts to said regulating portion to be confined in movement, when said coupling inclines relative to said flange such that a side in which a projection distance of said rotational force transmission member is relatively smaller moves away from said first receiving portion, an engagement depth between said side of said transmission member and said second receiving portion and an engagement depth between said side of said transmission member and said opposing portion are larger than zero. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221037 | COLOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus for forming a color image on a recording material includes a plurality of cartridge mounting portions for demountably mounting cartridges; a single intermediary transfer member provided opposed to the electrophotographic photosensitive member drums, wherein developed images formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive member drums are to be transferred; an image forming unit including the cartridge mounting portions and the intermediary transfer member, wherein the image forming unit is movable between a transfer position for transferring to the recording material a developed image transferred onto the intermediary transfer member from the electrophotographic photosensitive member drums and a mounting and demounting position for mounting and demounting the cartridge relative to the cartridge mounting portion; and a mounting and demounting position locking member for locking the image forming unit to the mounting and demounting position relative to a main assembly of the color electrophotographic image forming apparatus when at least one of the cartridges mounted to the cartridge mounting portions is removed in a state in which image forming unit is placed in the mounting and demounting position. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221038 | CLEANING DEVICE, DEVELOPING DEVICE, CARTRIDGE, CLEANING BLADE SECURING METHOD, AND DEVELOPING BLADE SECURING METHOD - A cleaning device includes a cleaning blade for removing toner remaining on a surface of an image bearing member for carrying a toner image; a supporting member for supporting the cleaning blade; a mounting hole provided in one of the cleaning blade and the supporting member; a projection which is provided on the other of the cleaning blade and the supporting member and which is inserted in the mounting hole; and a recess provided in the projection and extended from a free end portion of the projection toward a base portion of the projection, wherein the cleaning blade and the supporting member are secured to each other by the projection deformed such that the recess expands outwardly of the mounting hole by resin material in the recess. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221039 | COLOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes cartridge mounting portions for dismountably mounting cartridges; an intermediary transfer member onto which developed images formed on electrophotographic photosensitive drums are transferred, the intermediary transfer member being provided opposed to the drums; an image forming unit comprising the cartridge mounting portions and the intermediary transfer member, the unit being movable between a transfer position for transferring, onto a sheet, the developed images transferred onto the intermediary transfer member from drums, a cartridge mounting and dismounting position for mounting and dismounting the cartridges relative to the cartridge mounting portions, and an intermediary transfer member mounting and dismounting position for mounting and dismounting the intermediary transfer member relative to a main assembly; and a unit movement preventing means for permitting the unit to move the intermediary transfer member mounting and dismounting position when no cartridge is mounted to any of the cartridge mounting portions, and for preventing the unit from moving to the intermediary transfer member mounting and dismounting position when the cartridge is mounted to at least one of the cartridge mounting portions. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221040 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE FORMATION - To provide an electrophotographic photoreceptor which is excellent in electrical characteristics and image characteristics even at a low content of a charge transport material and which is less susceptible to a change in characteristics due to a change in the environment and has high durability with little deterioration, and an image forming apparatus having such an electrophotographic photoreceptor. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221041 | PHOTOCONDUCTIVE DRUM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A disclosed photoconductive drum includes a mechanism where, when the sleeve inner circumferential surface pressing member is in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the photoconductive sleeve member, a displacement of the first end surface member with respect to the photoconductive sleeve member in the center line direction leads to increasing a pressing force applied from the sleeve inner circumferential surface pressing member to the inner circumferential surface of the photoconductive sleeve member. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221042 | ENDLESS BELT WITH MEANDERING PREVENTIVE GUIDE - The present invention provides an endless belt with a meandering preventive guide, which includes an endless belt made of resin, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, a meandering preventive guide member attached to the endless belt through the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a primer layer provided on both surfaces of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221043 | SCREEN-CONTROLLED SCOROTRON CHARGING DEVICE - A scorotron charging device is disposed in an image forming apparatus and for charging a surface of a photoconductor, which is driven to rotate in a rotational direction. This device includes a discharging electrode and a grid electrode, which are aligned to a longitudinal direction of the photoconductor. The grid electrode is disposed between the discharging electrode and the photoconductor and determines the charging of the surface of the photoconductor. The grid electrode includes a first section, which has a plurality of first apertures and a first opening ratio, and a second section, which has a plurality of second apertures and a second opening ratio. The first opening ratio is greater than the second opening ratio. Aperture areas along any two parallel lines, drawn across the first section and the second section and being substantially transverse to the longitudinal direction, are in equal measure. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221044 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SUPPRESSING PHOTORECEPTOR IMAGE GHOST - The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to charging devices which produce a negative corona. The present embodiments pertain to the use of a positive charging device, such as a scorotron, after the erase lamp and before negative charging station in the xerographic cyclic to mitigate the undesirable changes in charge transport layer electrical properties that result from exposure to corona while negatively charging the photoreceptor during latent image formation. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221045 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus body that includes a container attaching portion to which a developer container is removably attached; a container put-on member on which the developer container is put; and a support member to which the container put-on member is attached, the support member supporting the container put-on member to perform a movement between a first position in which the container put-on member is at the container attaching portion and a second position in which the container put-on member is pulled out from the container attaching portion, wherein at the second position, at least a part of the container put-on member is displaced downward through a rotating shaft provided on the support member to a lower position than a height of the container put-on member at the second position in the direction of gravity. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221046 | APPARATUSES USEFUL FOR PRINTING AND METHODS OF STRIPPING MEDIA FROM SURFACES IN APPARATUSES USEFUL FOR PRINTING - Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of stripping media from surfaces in apparatuses useful for printing are provided. An exemplary embodiment of an apparatus useful for printing includes a first member including a first surface; a second member including a second surface forming a nip with the first surface; a gas source; a rotary valve including a gas inlet in fluid communication with the gas source, a gas outlet and a rotor including a gas passage; a gas knife in fluid communication with the gas outlet of the rotary valve, the gas knife being adapted to emit gas onto the second surface downstream from the nip; and a motor coupled to the rotor. The motor is operable to rotate the rotor to selectively position the rotary valve in at least a first open position in which the gas passage is in fluid communication with the gas inlet and gas outlet, gas is supplied from the rotary valve to the gas knife which emits the gas having a first pressure onto the second surface, and a closed position in which the gas passage is not in fluid communication with the gas inlet and gas outlet and gas is not supplied from the rotary valve to the gas knife. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221047 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME - A separation mechanism of a fixing device includes a separation member extending in a direction orthogonal to the paper convey direction and arranged opposite the fixing member in a state apart from the fixing member by a predetermined gap, a support shaft member extending in a direction orthogonal to the paper convey direction and rotatably supporting the separation member, a first gap adjustment unit capable of rotating the separation member around the support shaft member to adjust the predetermined gap in the rotation direction, and a second gap adjustment unit capable of moving the separation member in a direction in which an imaginary surface from the support shaft member towards the fixing member extends, to adjust the predetermined gap in the surface direction. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221048 | IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM, SMOOTHING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming system includes image forming means for forming toner images on toner receiving resin layers of respective sides of a recording material; fixing means for heat fixing the toner images on the recording material in a fixing nip; and smoothing means for smoothing the toner receiving resin layers of the recording material having the toner images formed by the fixing means; wherein the system is operable in an image formation mode in which the toner images formed on the respective sides of the recording material are fixed by the fixing means sequentially, and then the toner receiving resin layers of the recording material are smoothed by the smoothing means sequentially. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221049 | CLEANSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A cleansing apparatus includes a blade, a gathering tank and a residual material transportation module for cleansing a photoconductor drum. The blade contacts the photoconductor drum, and scrapes off residual materials adhered to a surface of the photoconductor drum. The gathering tank gathers the residual materials. The residual material transportation module includes a transportation component, a cleansing component, and a path, for cleansing the photoconductor drum and transporting the residual materials to the gathering tank. The transportation component is disposed at an upstream position towards the blade on a rotating direction of the photoconductor drum. The cleansing component is disposed on the transportation component and in contact with the photoconductor drum, for cleansing the photoconductor drum. The path is formed by the transportation component and the cleansing component. The residual material transportation module transports residual materials of the photoconductor drum to the gathering tank through the path. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221050 | SHEET SIZE DETECTING APPARATUS - A sheet size detecting apparatus having a first arm moved by a moving sheet contacting therewith, a second arm moved by the moving sheet contacting therewith, the second arm being disposed at a location differing from that of the first arm in a direction orthogonal to the movement direction of the sheet, and a sensor, wherein the output level of the sensor when only one of the first arm and the second arm has been moved is the same as the output level thereof when neither of the first arm and the second arm is moved, and the output level of the sensor when both of the first arm and the second arm have been moved differs from the output level thereof when neither of the first arm and the second arm is not moved. Thereby, the cost can be suppressed and yet, the wrong detection of the sheet size can be prevented. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221051 | Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus incorporating same - A sheet feeding device includes a sheet feed cassette, a bottom plate and an end wall mechanism. When the number of recording media sheets decreases, the bottom plate hinged at a trailing edge thereof rises about the hinged end to keep the top sheet of the recording media sheets in contact with a sheet feed roller. The end wall mechanism includes a first urging member, a first pressing member, a support member, and a second pressing member, and aligns and presses the trailing edge of the recording medium. The first pressing member urged by the first urging member and supported by the support member presses the trailing edge of the recording medium. The second pressing member urged by the second urging member moves down due to the weight of the recording medium on the second pressing member and moves up when the number of the recording media sheets decreases. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221052 | RECORDING SHEET DE-CURLING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A sheet de-curling device: including a first de-curling roller, structured of a round axial shaft and a long bar-shaped member, wherein the long bar-shaped member is spiraled on the round axial shaft clockwise from a predetermined portion of a center of the round axial shaft toward a left end of the round axial shaft, and counterclockwise from the predetermined portion of the center of the round axial shaft toward a right end of the round axial shaft with the same spiraling pitch; a second de-curling roller, structured of a round axial shaft and a long bar-shaped member, wherein the long bar-shaped member is spiraled on the round axial shaft in opposite spiraling directions against the first de-curling roller; and a driving mechanism which rotates the paired first and second de-curling rollers. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221053 | PRINTER AND PRINTING CONTROL METHOD - A printer includes a print head moving in printing and shifting regions, a carriage connecting the print head and the print head transport mechanism, and a ribbon cassette mounting mechanism that drives a multicolor ribbon cassette to swing. A ribbon cassette supporting mechanism in the shifting region correspondingly supports the ribbon cassette mounting mechanism to different levels to shift color of the ink ribbon while the ribbon cassette supporting mechanism rotates. A ribbon cassette shifting mechanism fixed on the carriage is used, in the shifting region, to lift the ribbon cassette mounting mechanism to a position disengaged from the ribbon cassette supporting mechanism and move the ribbon cassette supporting mechanism to rotate. A resetting mechanism fixed on the ribbon cassette supporting mechanism resets the ribbon cassette supporting mechanism when the ribbon cassette supporting mechanism no longer contacts the ribbon cassette mounting mechanism and the ribbon cassette shifting mechanism. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221054 | ROLL PAPER SUPPLY MECHANISM AND ROLL PAPER PRINTER - A roll paper supply mechanism reliably prevents roll paper from rising from a desired position. The roll paper supply mechanism | 2010-09-02 |
20100221055 | CUTTER AND PRINTER WITH CUTTER - A printer with a cutter is provided that can discharge cut-offs in a stable condition. A printer includes a transportation path, a transportation mechanism that conveys a recording medium along the transportation path, a fixed knife having a cutting edge, a movable knife having a cutting edge and moving between a standby position and a cutting-completed position, and an exit disposed along the transportation path. The exit includes a narrow opening defined by a first elongated side offset from the transportation path beyond the movable-knife cutting edge in the cutting-completed position, and a second elongated side opposite the first elongated side and offset from the transportation path opposite to the first elongated side. The second elongated side can be located immediately adjacent to the transportation path, for example, by less than or equal to 2 mm. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221056 | CUTTER AND PRINTER WITH CUTTER - A printer with a cutter does not have cutting problems caused by adhesive squeezed from label paper. In a scissor type automatic cutter | 2010-09-02 |
20100221057 | CUTTER AND PRINTER WITH CUTTER - A cutter and a printer having a cutter prevent the paper pieces cut off by the cutter from collecting at the paper exit from which the cut-off pieces are discharged. A stage surface | 2010-09-02 |
20100221058 | Printer - A printer enables setting fanfold paper inserted from a paper inlet to a horizontal transportation path that passes the printing position without paper jams occurring. The horizontal paper transportation path is positioned downstream of a first transportation path that extends from the paper inlet and a second transportation path that extends from a roll paper compartment, all of which are formed inside the printer. An attachment of an access cover to the roll paper compartment forms an intermediate paper path that renders the first and horizontal paper paths continuous at a junction near the convergence of the first and second paper transportation paths. The intermediate paper transportation path not only renders a continuous path for the fanfold paper from the paper inlet to the printing position, it smoothes the flow of the fanfold paper to the horizontal paper transportation path. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221059 | Cosmetic Container with Mirrored Element - A cosmetic container for retaining and dispensing a cosmetic material is provided. The cosmetic container includes a first portion including an applicator, a second portion releasably coupled to the first portion and configured to move between a first position in which the applicator is exposed and a second position in which the applicator is concealed and a mirrored element coupled to the first portion. The mirrored element is positionable behind the applicator when the second portion is moved to the first position to assist a user in applying the cosmetic material. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221060 | Pen featuring as a USB memory device - The present invention relates to a pen featuring as a USB memory device, which includes a penholder having an upper penholder and a lower penholder, in which the upper penholder has an accommodation room whose one end communicates with the outer periphery of the upper penholder, and the lower penholder is provided to house a pen body; a foldable connection plug housed in the accommodation room of the upper penholder and having a support seat, at least a first connection part, at least a second connection part, and metal contacts being compatible with a USB transmission interface; and a main body housed in the accommodation room of the upper penholder and having at least an electronic component. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221061 | JOINT ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE - A joint arrangement, for a vehicle, is provided with a joint ( | 2010-09-02 |
20100221062 | Ball and Socket Connectors With Substructure - A ball and socket connector with a contact surface of a material selected for a first property, such as a frictional property, with a substructure of a second material selected for a second property, such as its elastic property. A chain of ball and socket connectors of connectors with a substructure. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221063 | WELD MEDIUM FOR DISSIMILAR MATERIALS - An example of a door curtain having pieces comprised of different thermoplastic materials includes a weld medium that facilitates the welding of two thermoplastics that are otherwise not readily welded together. In some examples, the weld medium comprises two outer layers that are joined to each other, wherein one layer is of the same polymer as one of the curtain pieces, and the other opposite layer is made of the same polymeric material as that of the other curtain piece. The weld medium is sandwiched between the two curtain pieces such that matching materials of the curtain and weld medium face each other. The two curtain pieces, with the weld medium between the two, are then thermally or ultrasonically welded together. The weld medium can be made by coating a fabric sheet with the two different plastic layers bonded to opposite sides of the fabric sheet. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221064 | FASTENER JOINT WITH SEALING GASKET - A joint comprising: a first component having a face and a bore defined by a bore wall; a second component; a fastener joining the first component to the second component, the fastener comprising a head and a shaft protruding from the head; and a polysulphide gasket comprising a ring which is compressed between the head of the fastener and the face of the first component; and a collar between the shaft of the fastener and the bore wall. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221065 | HANDLE CONNECTOR FOR HAND TOOL OR UTENSIL - Handle junction for manual implement or tool, where the implement ( | 2010-09-02 |
20100221066 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISABLING A GROUND ENGAGING TRACTION DEVICE OF A LAND VEHICLE - An apparatus and a method for disabling a ground engaging traction device of a land vehicle includes at least one penetrator configured to breach the traction device, an articulated strap configured to move a plurality of times between a retracted arrangement and an extended arrangement, an inflatable bladder configured to deploy the articulated strip to the extended arrangement, and a retractor configured to retract the articulated strip to the retracted arrangement. The articulated strip includes a plurality of plates coupled to the penetrators and a plurality of joints, wherein individual joint couples individual adjacent plates. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221067 | POWERED SCREED AND METHOD OF OPERATING - A lightweight, powered screed machine for screeding the surface of a quantity of concrete having a pair of rails extending to either side, includes a frame having a handle arrangement, for manual engagement by an operator, and an elongated screed blade extending between the support rails. The machine further includes a powered vibration mechanism mounted on the frame. A pair of posts or masts are provided with one of the pair of posts attached to the frame adjacent each end of the blade and extending upward. Each of a pair of supports is positioned adjacent an associated end of the blade. Each support has rollers for engaging and riding on one of the pair of support rails, and each of the supports is attached to the frame so as to support the frame over the concrete. Each of the supports includes a linear actuator for raising and lowering the frame adjacent the rail. A pair of laser receivers is provided with each of the pair of laser receivers mounted on an associated one of the pair of posts. A control controls the linear actuators such that the screed blade is maintained at a desired height as the screed blade is moved over the concrete. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221068 | Method And Apparatus For Fluid Retention or Detention - In a system and method for retaining or detaining a fluid beneath a ground surface, a plurality of modules, each having at least one vertically disposed side portion supporting a horizontally disposed roof are provided. The plurality of modules, each being in fluid communication, either directly or indirectly, with each of the other modules, are arranged in an assembly having a plurality of rows and columns. Each of the rows and columns contain at least one flow obstructer such that fluid flow through each of said rows and columns is circuitous. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221069 | Mobile, Year-Round Arctic Drilling System - A mobile, year-round drilling system (MYADS) for drilling offshore wells and/or performing other offshore activities at multiple, successive locations in an arctic or sub-arctic environment is provided. The present invention combines the ability to move to different locations and the strength to resist ice loading when on location and when ice-covering is present in the arctic or sub-arctic environment. The MYADS applies a multiple leg “jack-up” concept in which supporting legs are lowered through a hull to touch down on the seabed and elevate the hull out of the water. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221070 | TOPSIDES LOAD-OUT TO BARGE CATAMARAN FOR FLOAT-OVER INSTALLATION - The present invention provides an improved method and system for load-out of a topsides onto at least two float-over barges without requiring an intermediate transportation barge. The topsides and float-over barges create a catamaran system that can be used to install the topsides to an offshore structure, such as a Spar hull, using a float-over method. The load-out process offers several advantages and can be less time-consuming and less expensive than a typical procedure using the intermediate transportation barge. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221071 | REMOTELY CONTROLLED MINING MACHINES, CONTROL SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS - In one aspect, a system assists an operator in controlling a machine, such as a bolter including a drill head for drilling a borehole in a mine passage having a face and installing a bolt therein, as well as possibly a miner for advancing the mine passage. A controller controls the operation of the machine, and a transmitter transmits to the controller control signals from the operator at a remote location from the borehole. A sensor causes the controller to take action, such as by providing a warning signal or disabling one or more aspects of the machine, if the operator is within a predetermined proximity of the drilling, bolting, or mining operation. Systems and methods pertain to other related aspects of the invention. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221072 | BOLT ANCHOR - A bolt anchor is comprised of a body and sleeve. The body is generally wedge shaped with a threaded bore along its axis and at least one stop near its smaller end. The sleeve has a round collar with leaves extending from the collar parallel to the axis of the collar and each other. The at least one stop maintains the assembly of the body and sleeve. Prongs on the sleeve prevent the retraction or turning of the bolt anchor when a bolt is installed in a hole using the bolt anchor. Reduced material thickness associated with the leaves on the sleeve produces hinges which allow the leaves to be more easily deformed outwardly to engage the sides of a hole. Inserting a bolt and bolt anchor assembly into the hole and then turning the bolt pulls the body into the sleeve and creates a wedging effect in the hole. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221073 | Engineered composite wooden crib for use as a mine support - This invention provides improvements through 1) a composite, engineered wooden support element for construction of cribs in mines to provide support between two surfaces, 2) use of support elements to construct cribs, and 3) a wedge system to provide substantial sustained preload on a crib. The wooden support element consists of a center elongate element wherein the wood grain runs transversely to the crib element loading direction, and at least two outer plate elements wherein the wood grain runs axially with the crib element loading direction. Each outer plate element is attached to a surface of the center elongate element using fastening means and the outer plate element wood grain direction is aligned transversely to the grain direction in the center elongate element. The crib structure may be constructed by superimposing only these support elements in 2×2 layers or in conjunction with solid prismatic wooden elements. A wooden wedge system with relatively low angle surface and with wood grain running axially is utilized to apply vertical preload. Due to high stiffness of the wedge in the axial direction, a substantial vertical preload can be applied and sustained to make cribbing structure a more efficient load carrying structure. The wooden support elements are lightweight, have controllable higher stiffness and load carrying capacity than current cribs, engineered yielding characteristics and allow much lower resistance to air flow in underground mine roadways. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221074 | VARIABLE DIAMETER PNEUMATIC TUBE BRAKE - A braking device and method is provided that is operative to selectively slow and/or stop a pneumatic carrier within a pneumatic carrier system. Generally, the device includes a pneumatic tube that is sized to permit the passage of pneumatic carriers. The pneumatic tube includes at least one braking element that may be disposed into the bore of the pneumatic tube to at least partially impede the passage of a pneumatic carrier through the bore. In one embodiment, the braking element is formed as a variable diameter section of the pneumatic tube that may be selectively constricted to change the diameter of the bore of the pneumatic tube. Such constriction may slow and/or stop the passage of a pneumatic carrier through the bore of the pneumatic tube. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221075 | Conveyor to Transport Air - The invention relates to a pneumatic conveyor essentially comprising a tubular channel ( | 2010-09-02 |
20100221076 | CUTTING TOOL AND CUTTING INSERT - A cutting tool is provided with a tool body which rotates about an axis thereof, and a cutting insert mounted removably on the outer periphery at the tip of the tool body, wherein: the cutting insert has a front/back-reversal symmetric substantially regular heptagonal plane shape having two heptagonal faces parallel with each other, a side face continuous with each of the heptagonal faces at right angles, and a cutting edge provided on each ridge line between the heptagonal face and the side face; the cutting edge includes a main cutting edge projected onto the side of the regular heptagon, and sub-cutting edges that extend from opposite ends of the main cutting edge so as to incline toward the center of the heptagonal face and connect the adjacent main cutting edges, and the tool body is equipped with a mounting seat that retains the cutting insert such that one of the main cutting edge is directed toward the tip side of the tool body and in a radial-outer direction in order to make it to work in cutting, and a corner angle α between one of the main cutting edges and the axis satisfy a relation 40°≦α≦44°. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221077 | TAP WITH CHIP BREAKING CHAMFER - The tap comprises a shank portion and a threaded portion connected to the shank portion. The threaded portion includes a plurality of lands separated by flutes where each of the lands has threads formed thereon. Each of the plurality of lands including a chamfer formed at an end thereof where the chamfer is formed with a cutting edge and a heel edge. The cutting edge is formed with a first positive relief angle and the heel edge is formed with a second positive relief angle. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221078 | Drilling Tool and Method for Drilling - A drilling tool extends in a longitudinal direction and has a drill point and first and second major cutting edges, which extend approximately radially outward. The drill point is arranged eccentrically relative to a central axis, which is the same as the axis of rotation. The second major cutting edge is arranged by a cutting-height difference higher than the first major cutting edge. The first major cutting edge has a shorter radial edge length than the second major cutting edge. A method of utilizing the tool is also disclosed. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221079 | MACHINE TOOL AND PROCESS FOR MACHINING A WORKPIECE - The present invention relates to a machine tool and a corresponding process for machining a workpiece by means of one or more tools controlled by means of control data, the machine tool comprising at least 5 simultaneously controllable axes. A control device being suited to control the tool supported in a support means by means of the control data along a tool path to remove material from the workpiece clamped in a clamping means. The machine tool being suited to machine a first workpiece to provide the first workpiece with a first gearing, the first workpiece being a counter piece to a second workpiece having a second gearing. The machine tool also comprising a test system suited to determine after and/or during the machining of the first workpiece on the machine tool whether a current geometry, in particular a current tooth flank geometry and/or current tooth gap geometry, of the first gearing of the first workpiece differs from a target gearing geometry, in particular from a target tooth flank geometry and/or target tooth gap geometry, of the first gearing of the first workpiece. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221080 | DEVICE FOR GENERATION MACHINING A WORKPIECE CLAMPED IN A MACHINE TOOL AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A WORKPIECE HAVING A GEARING - The present invention relates to a device, a method and a machine tool for machining a workpiece clamped in the machine tool, the device comprising a hobbing tool for removing material of the workpiece for shaping a rollable profile, in particular a gearing, on the workpiece by hob milling, and a hobbing tool receiving means for receiving the hobbing tool, the device particularly comprising a milling head fixing means which is suitable to fix the device in a receiving means of the milling head of the machine tool, the machine tool comprising at least 5 axes. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221081 | SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATION OF FLUCTUATION AND LEVELING OF TOP ROLLERS OF SUGARCANE MILLS - A system for automation of fluctuation and leveling of top rollers of sugarcane mills for use in the automation of the systems of regulation of the pressing elements contained in the milling, preferably but not only, the top rollers of the mills used in distilleries and sugar mills and alcohol, from the implementation of electro-electronic devices that allow monitor and manage the pressure exercised on such rollers. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221082 | MACHINE TOOL DEVICE, MACHINE TOOL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A MACHINE TOOL DEVICE - In order to improve a machine tool device, comprising a machine bed with at least one receiving area for receiving chips produced during the machining of a workpiece, and at least one discharging device for discharging the chips from the receiving area, so that it is usable with flexibility, it is proposed that the at least one discharging device comprise at least one conveying device for conveying the chips from the receiving area and/or at least one flushing device for flushing the chips out of the receiving area and/or at least one suction device for evacuating the chips from the receiving area by suction, and that the machine bed comprise at least one first machine bed section for the arrangement of the conveying device, at least one second machine bed section for the arrangement of the flushing device and at least one third machine bed section for the arrangement of the suction device, so that the machine bed is adapted for selective equipment with the conveying device and/or the flushing device and/or the suction device. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221083 | CONTROL OF WHITE-ETCHED LAYER DURING MACHINING - A machining system includes a support configured to retain an article, such as a rotor disk, having an area, such as a surface of a slot in the disk. A cutting tool, for example, a broach, is movable relative to the support to cut the area. A heating member, such as a laser, is configured to locally heat the area of the article. In one example, the cutting tool includes a body having a cutting edge. The heating member is supported by the body and is configured to provide heat adjacent to the cutting edge. The cutting edge cuts the locally heated area while the area is still heated. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221084 | TRANSPORT VEHICLE FOR A ROTOR BLADE OF A WIND-ENERGY TURBINE - The invention is relative to a transport vehicle with a tractor and a trailer that are connected to one another during the transport of cargo by the cargo itself. The invention has the problem of making a transport vehicle available that also makes possible the transport on highways of very bulky material, especially such material that exceeds the usual profile height of underpasses and bridges (freeway bridges, etc.). A transport vehicle for a rotor blade of a wind power system with a tractor and a trailer that are connected to one another during the transport of the rotor blade by the rotor blade and that respectively comprise a holding device and/or receiving device for the rotor blade which holding device and/or receiving device is/are designed in such a manner that it/they permit(s) a rotation of the rotor blade about its longitudinal axis and that a drive for rotating the rotor blade is provided on the tractor and/or the trailer. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221085 | Monarch anchor - The Monarch anchor is a nut & bolt system specially designed to be pushed through a hole wide enough to allow the bolt with collapsed wings fitted at its back end through, but not wide enough to let the bolt with stretched wings slip back. It is designed to be firmly placed on the wall with the front end of the outer nut locked at the front surface of the wall by a flange and the stretched wings locked at the back surface of the wall. Thus it can act as a firm support on the wall when an item is bolted through the inner nut of the anchor. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221086 | Self-Drilling Fastener - A self-drilling fastener from which objects may be hung, for use in a friable material with or without an underlying member at the point of use or in a semi-rigid material such as a hollow core door comprises an elongated body having a threaded exterior with separate threads for drilling into the member, gripping the member, gripping the friable material and/or gripping the semi-rigid material. The fastener may further have a thread having a relatively small-diametered solid portion from which objects hang and an axially expanding angled portion for biasing the object toward the solid portion to stabilize and prevent the object from dislodging from the fastener. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221087 | Preload locking Wire Insert - A preload locking wire insert comprised of a unitary, coiled wire having a particular polygonal cross-section for use in combination with a threaded fastener and a complementary threaded bore in a work piece, wherein the wire insert provides a ramping surface which locks the threads of the fastener into place against the inner threaded wall of the bore in the work piece. A further embodiment provides for the wire insert to be threaded into the bore in either direction, with no regard to orientation, while still retaining the definitive locking aspect. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221088 | System and Method for a Flexible Pin - An autonomous flexible pin and a method is introduced for connecting a pin to a material or for connecting together materials using a single action from one side of the materials, possibly using a single hand. The preferred embodiment comprises a U-shaped pin with two sharp-pointed ends. For insertion into the material, the user's fingers are presented with a wider surface area than in the common pin. The ends are bent slightly inward to produce a spring action so that the pin would remain in place until the user will use some force to remove it, without deforming the material. Safety is enhanced relative to the common pin since when this pin is in place, the sharp ends point downwards, parallel to the fabric and slightly towards it in a limp manner. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221089 | SUBSTRATE SUPPORT APPARATUS, SUBSTRATE TRANSPORT APPARATUS, AND ELECTRICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURING METHOD - A substrate support apparatus which inserts a substrate holding portion into a center hole formed in a substrate, and supports the substrate in a vertical orientation by the substrate holding portion, comprises a first connecting plate connected to the substrate holding portion, a second connecting plate which faces the first connecting plate and is connected to a transport robot that transports the substrate to a substrate holder, at least three linear support members configured to connect the first connecting plate to the second connecting plate, and an elastic shock absorbing member inserted between the first connecting plate and the second connecting plate. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221090 | CUTTER DOME FOR RECLAIM SYSTEM - A cutter dome for use with a reclaimer includes a sidewall that at least partially encircles a central axis and that extends from a lower end to an upper end, the sidewall having a lower portion that bounds a first chamber and an upper portion that bounds a second chamber, a collection opening being formed on the lower portion of the sidewall so that a reclaimer, such as an auger, can pass through the collection opening and communicate with the first chamber. A roof is disposed on the upper end of the sidewall so as to cover second chamber, the roof having a first inlet formed thereon. A first passageway is disposed within the second chamber and extends from the first inlet to a first outlet, the first outlet communicating with the first chamber. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221091 | HINGED BASE FOR POSITIONING HEAVY COMPONENTS - According to one embodiment, an apparatus for tilting objects includes a lower portion which comprises at least one foot plate and at least three supporting walls. A height of the top of the lower portion is about the height of a supporting structure. The apparatus also includes an upper portion which comprises a substantially flat surface and at least one connector for coupling a node carrier to the upper portion. The upper portion is coupled to the lower portion, and the upper portion tilts relative to the lower portion between an angle about horizontal to an angle about vertical. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221092 | HAY BALE LIFTER - The present invention provides an apparatus for lifting and transporting a hay bale. The apparatus may include a hitch attachment for insertion into a receiver attached to a truck. The hitch attachment is coupled to an attachment slide which may be adjusted to match the height of the truck bed. The attachment slide is coupled to a bale spike which may be pivoted from a horizontal position to a vertical position. The attachment slide is coupled to a fifth wheel slide and coupler support, which is coupled to a fifth wheel ball hitch or other attachment point. A hydraulic cylinder or other power transfer means is attached at one end to the fifth wheel slide, and at the other end to the bale spike. A power source energizes a hydraulic pump to actuate the hydraulic cylinder. The apparatus may be assembled and installed by one person in a relatively short period of time, and likewise may be removed quickly. Once the apparatus is set for a particular vehicle, then no further adjustments are necessary the next time the apparatus is used. Accordingly, installation time is significantly reduced for subsequent uses. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221093 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STABILISING AN EGG TRAY - The invention relates to an automated method for positioning eggs on a tray that comprises the automated detection of the presence/absence of eggs in the cells of a tray, and the picking-up of eggs from a supply and the placement thereof in the empty cells of a tray. The invention also relates to a system or positioning eggs on a stabilizing tray, the tray including evenly distributed cells in which the eggs are placed, one or more cells being likely not to contain eggs, this information being stored in an information processing unit, wherein said system includes a means in the form of a robot having an egg pick-up head that are driven by the information processing unit in order to pick up eggs from a supply tray and to place them in the empty cells of the stabilizing tray. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221094 | METHOD AND AUTOMATED MANIPULATOR SYSTEM FOR PALLETIZING PACKAGES DEPENDENT ON A GRIP POSITION OF THE PACKAGES - In a method for palletizing packages using an automated manipulator, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with programming instructions for implementing the method, a sequence of grip positions is designated for accepting packages with the automated manipulator, and a supply of provided packages is automatically checked with regard to the grip positions of the packages in the supply. The supplied packages are palletized according to a predetermined initial palletizing pattern as long as the packages are supplied in the grip positions in the sequence. The packages are palletized by the manipulator according to an alternate palletizing pattern, different from the initial palletizing pattern, in the event that a package is not supplied to the manipulator in a grip position in the sequence. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221095 | STEAM TURBINE AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING MOISTURE FROM A STEAM TURBINE - A steam turbine is disclosed which includes a casing containing a plurality of expansion stages, each including stator and rotor airfoils. Downstream of the stator airfoils of one or more expansion stages, the casing includes a slot arranged to receive moisture that concentrates on an end wall of the stator airfoils and discharge it to the outside. Each end wall has a side portion facing the slot having a variable radial obstruction in a tangential direction, in order to define with the slot a passage through which the moisture may pass that is smaller or closed at the suction side and larger at the pressure side of the stator blades, to at least partially prevent the dry steam from entering the slot at the suction side of the blade. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221096 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING VIBRATIONS - The computer programmable system and program product include first program instructions for actively driving a first imbalance mass concentration rotor and a second imbalance mass concentration rotor at a vibration canceling rotation frequency while controlling the rotational position of the first imbalance mass concentration and the second imbalance mass concentration to produce a rotating net force vector to inhibit periodic vibrations. The program product includes second program instructions to opposingly orient the first imbalance mass concentration relative to the second imbalance mass concentration during a starting stopping rotation speed less than the vibration canceling rotation frequency. The system includes a fault mode control protocol for controlling a rotation of the rotors during a sensed failure of the rotating assembly vibration control system. | 2010-09-02 |
20100221097 | SIDE CHANNEL COMPRESSOR - The invention concerns a side channel compressor for compressing a gas, the side channel compressor comprising a housing ( | 2010-09-02 |