42nd week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 37 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130272678 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONCEALING PORTIONS OF A VIDEO SCREEN - A simple, cost-effective, and robust method and system to obstruct crawls, logos, and other annoying and distracting images overlaid on a video signal and displayed on a TV set or monitor is provided. The method and system may detect the presence of the unwanted images and block them automatically, or they may accept manual input from the user via a handheld control device to block or obstruct these images. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272679 | Video Generator System - A computer implemented method and a video generator system (VGS) for generating a video are provided. The VGS acquires video templates from one or more sources and identifies one or more customizable elements in each video template. The VGS presents the video templates to a user device via an interactive interface for enabling selection and individual customization of each video template. The VGS acquires a selection of one or more video templates from the user device and renders the identified customizable elements of the selected video templates to the user device via the interactive interface. The VGS acquires media content for each rendered customizable element of the selected video templates from the user device via the interactive interface. The VGS generates the video by modifying each rendered customizable element of the selected video template using the acquired media content and collating the modified customizable elements of the selected video template. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272680 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING, TRANSMITTING, EDITING AND INTEGRATING, BROADCASTING, AND RECEIVING SIGNAL - Embodiments of present invention provide a method and system for collecting, transmitting, editing and integrating, broadcasting, and receiving signals. The method comprises acquiring one and/or more audio signals and one and/or more video signals of the same program collected by one and/or more audio and video collection terminals; editing and integrating the one and/or more audio signals and the one and/or more video signals of the same program on a network platform, and then broadcasting; selecting among the one and/or more audio signals and the one and/or more video signals of the same program at a receiving terminal, and receiving the selected audio signal and video signal. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272681 | PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDER FUNCTIONALITY FOR PLACESHIFTING SYSTEMS - PVR functionality is enabled on a media player of a placeshifting system, which allows a user to record media programs from locations that are physically remote from a source of the media programs. The media player may receive program schedule information and present the program schedule information to the user. Based on user input, the media player identifies a media program and associated schedule information. When the media program is scheduled to play, the placeshifting device directs a media recording device to receive the media program and to store the program. The placeshifting device may digitize, transcode, and/or transrate the media program, if necessary, and transmit the media program to the remote device for playback. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272682 | Server-Based Program Recording Scheduling - A DVR sends, over the Internet, to a server, information that indicates a set of programs. The information also may indicate a ranking of the programs in the set relative to each other. In response to receiving the information from the DVR, the server determines a “to do” list of programs that the DVR should record as those programs are broadcasted in the future. The “to do” list indicates recording times and channels for each program. The server sends the “to do” list back to the DVR over the Internet. The DVR receives the “to do” list over the Internet and stores the “to do” list. As the programs on the “to do” list are broadcasted, the DVR automatically records those programs at the list-specified times and on the list-specified channels. The DVR stores those programs on the DVR's hard disk drive for later viewing by the DVR user. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272683 | ADJUSTING RECORDER TIMING - A portion of audio content of a multimedia program, such as a television program, is captured from a network. An audio fingerprint is generated based on the portion of audio content, and the audio fingerprint is matched to one of multiple theme song fingerprints stored in a database. An expected theme song time offset associated with the matched theme song fingerprint is retrieved from the database. It is determined whether the program is running on-schedule, based on the time the portion of audio content occurred, a scheduled start time of the program, and/or the expected theme song time offset. If it is determined that the program is running off-schedule, an adjusted start time and/or an adjusted end time of the program are calculated. The program is recorded by a recorder based on the adjusted start time and/or the adjusted end time. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272684 | NETWORK SYSTEM, CONTROLLER, RECORDING DEVICE, SERVICE SERVER, METHOD OF ACQUIRING RESOURCE STATUS OF RECORDING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A network system including: a terminal unit; one or more recording devices; a service server; and a controller is disclosed. The controller includes: a resource status acquiring unit that, upon receiving a resource status acquisition request to request acquisition of information on resource status of the one or more recording devices, the resource status acquisition request being transmitted from the service server that received the remote recording reservation request from the terminal unit, transmits a resource status acquisition instruction to the one or more recording devices via the local area network and receives a result of determination on remote recording reservation depending on the resource status, as the resource status information, from the one or more recording devices. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272685 | HEATING APPARATUS - Heating apparatus includes an air inlet, a plurality of air outlets, an impeller, a motor for rotating the impeller to draw air through the air inlet, a user interface for allowing a user to select a rotational speed of the motor from a user selectable range of values, and a plurality of heater assemblies each comprising at least one positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heating element for heating air passing from the air inlet to a respective air outlet. The magnitude of a current drawn by the heater assemblies is detected, and the rotational speed of the motor is controlled independently from the rotational speed selected by the user depending on a characteristic of the current drawn by the heater assemblies. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272686 | SUBSTRATE HEAT TREATMENT APPARATUS - The present invention provides a substrate heat treatment apparatus capable of uniformly heat a substrate at high speed with less breakage of constituent members due to thermal expansion even at high temperature. An embodiment of the present invention is a substrate heat treatment apparatus to perform heat treatment for a substrate and includes: a peripheral ring capable of supporting the substrate; a connection ring; a lifting device to raise and lower the peripheral ring balls having a lower heat conductivity than that of the peripheral ring; and a lamp to heat the substrate supported by the peripheral ring. The balls are different members from both of the peripheral ring and the connection ring. The lifting device raises and lowers the peripheral ring between a first position close to the lamp and a second position distant from the lamp. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272687 | FRAME FOR MOUNTING REFLECTING PLATE AND BACKGROUND SHEET FOR PICTURE AND VIDEO SHOOTING THEREON - A frame for mounting a reflecting plate and a background sheet for picture and video shooting thereon includes: a body having a plurality of edge pipes coupled to each other to form a structure of a plane figure, each edge pipe being coupled at the end portions thereof to the edge pipe adjacent thereto; and a coupling string disposed inside the edge pipes in such a manner as to be connected at both ends thereof to maintain an integral structure even in a state where the edge pipes are separated from each other, the coupling string having given expandability. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272688 | FLASH DRIVER TO LIMIT A LOAD CURRENT OF A FLASH AND METHOD TO LIMIT A LOAD CURRENT OF A FLASH DRIVER - A flash driver to limit a load current for a flash comprises a dc/dc converter (DCDC) having a first input (IN1) to receive an input voltage (Vin) and an output (OUT) to supply an output voltage (Vout). The dc/dc converter is designed to convert the input voltage (Vin) to the output voltage (Vout). Furthermore the flash driver has an adjustable current source (Iadj) connected between the output (OUT) and a load terminal (LT). A first control unit (CTRL | 2013-10-17 |
20130272689 | CAMERA MATTE BOX - A matte box system for a camera is presented, including one or more filter rings each capable of accommodating a filter or filter holder, the filter rings each having a substantially planar forward face and a substantially planar rear face, one face having one or more bearing elements and the other face having a corresponding bearing surface adapted to engage with the bearing element. The bearing surface includes one or more circular or arcuate channels, and the bearing element including a spring-loaded or otherwise biased surface that protrudes from the face and is urged in a generally axial direction to engage with the bearing surface such that the bearing surface and bearing element of consecutive filter rings allow the filter rings to independently rotate about the optical axis, while resisting radial movement of the filter rings. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272690 | DOME-TYPE CAMERA AND APERTURE CONTROL METHOD - A dome-type camera includes a camera lens capable of rotating in a tilt direction, a dome cover for covering the camera lens, and an aperture control unit for controlling the amount of aperture of the camera lens. The amount of aperture is set to become smaller from an open value toward a closed value in accordance with the tilt angle of the camera lens becoming smaller from a zenith direction of the dome cover toward a horizontal direction. According to this dome-type camera, a desirable low tilt angle image with a reduced blur may be obtained even with a megapixel dome camera. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272691 | POWER SOURCE SWITCHING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPLIANCE - A power source switching device includes a first switch circuit provided between a first power source and a load section, a second switch circuit provided between a second power source and the load section, a third switch circuit provided between the first power source and the load section in series with the first switch circuit, a fourth switch circuit provided between the second power source and the load section in series with the second switch circuit, a logic circuit that controls the third and the fourth switch circuits to prevent at least one of the third and fourth switch circuits from turning on while both of the first and second switch circuits are in an on state, and a control circuit that controls the first switch circuit, the second switch circuit, and the logic circuit. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272692 | PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS FOR RECOGNIZING TYPE OF EXTERNAL DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, AND THE EXTERNAL DEVICE - A photographing apparatus is provided that includes: a connector including a first terminal that is electrically connected to an external device; a first resistor that is electrically connected to the first terminal via a first node; and an external device recognizing unit that recognizes a type of the external device according to a voltage level of the first node, wherein a voltage level of the first node is determined according to a voltage distribution of the first resistor and a second resistor included in the external device. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272693 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARED MESH RESTORATION IN OPTICAL NETWORKS - A method for shared mesh restoration includes configuring a switch to allow sharing of a plurality of backup line cards across a plurality of node degrees associated with a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM). The switch is communicatively coupled to the ROADM. The method further includes configuring a number of backup line cards coupled to the switch. The number of backup line cards is based on determining a number of active backup lightpaths for each of a plurality of network failures associated with each of the plurality of node degrees of the ROADM, identifying which node degree and failure has the largest number of active backup lightpaths for all of the plurality of node degrees of the ROADM and for each of the plurality of network failures, and determining the number of backup line cards to configure based on the identified largest number of active backup lightpaths. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272694 | OPTICAL COMMUNICATION DEVICES HAVING OPTICAL TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETERS - A small form factor pluggable (SFP) device has an embedded optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) for detecting anomalies along an optical fiber. The SFP device has a plurality of optical subassemblies (OSAs) that are used to transmit an optical data signal at a first wavelength, transmit an optical OTDR signal at a second wavelength, and receive an optical data signal at a third wavelength. The OTDR signal is effectively isolated from the data signals based on wavelength, and samples of returns of the OTDR signal are analyzed to detect at least one anomaly along the optical fiber. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272695 | Curved Grating Spectrometer and Wavelength Multiplexer or Demultiplexer with Very High Wavelength Resolution - The present application discloses a system comprising a compact curved grating (CCG) and its associated compact curved grating spectrometer (CCGS) or compact curved grating wavelength multiplexer/demultiplexer (WMDM) module and a method for making the same. The system is capable of achieving a very small (resolution vs. size) RS factor. In the invention, the location of the entrance slit and detector can be adjusted in order to have the best performance for a particular design goal. The initial groove spacing is calculated using a prescribed formula dependent on operation wavelength. The location of the grooves is calculated based on two conditions. The first one being that the path-difference between adjacent grooves should be an integral multiple of the wavelength in the medium to achieve aberration-free grating focusing at the detector or output slit (or output waveguide) even with large beam diffraction angle from the entrance slit or input slit (or input waveguide). The second one being specific for a particular design goal of a curved-grating spectrometer. In an embodiment, elliptical mirrors each with focal points at the slit and detector are used for each groove to obtain aberration-free curved mirrors. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272696 | OPTICAL FIBER-BASED DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEMS, COMPONENTS, AND RELATED METHODS FOR CALIBRATION THEREOF - Optical fiber-based wireless systems and related components and methods are disclosed. The systems support radio frequency (RF) communications with clients over optical fiber, including Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) communications. The systems may be provided as part of an indoor distributed antenna system (IDAS) to provide wireless communication services to clients inside a building or other facility. The communications can be distributed between a head end unit (HEU) that receives carrier signals from one or more service or carrier providers and converts the signals to RoF signals for distribution over optical fibers to end points, which may be remote antenna units (RAUs). In one embodiment, calibration of communication downlinks and communication uplinks is performed to compensate for signal strength losses in the system. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272697 | OSNR Model For Optical Engineering Rules Used In A Planning Tool - Increasing data rates in next-generation optical networks requires a change in the type of optical modulation used to encode optical signals carried by the optical networks. Different types of optical modulation incur different optical impairments, which may degrade the fidelity of the optical signals by reducing the optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR). A method or corresponding apparatus in an example embodiment of the present invention provides a planning tool for deploying an optical network in a manner based on the optical modulation that reduces the cost and complexity of the deployed network. In one embodiment, the disclosed planning tool may adjust a model of the optical network to be deployed by changing the topology and/or the number and/or type of optical network elements in response to optical impairments for a given optical modulation. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272698 | ADAPTIVE BIT OR POWER LOADING IN OPTICAL ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TRANSCEIVERS - The present invention discloses a method for real time optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OOFDM) transceivers by adaptively utilising available channel spectral characteristics. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272699 | RANGING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a ranging method for a passive optical network, including: allocating ranging bandwidth to at least two optical network terminals ONTs and providing ranging bandwidth information for the at least two ONTs by using a same downlink frame; opening a quiet window for suspending uplink sending of other ONTs in a ranging process of the at least two ONTs; and receiving ranging responses of the at least two ONTs in the quiet window and calculating ranging results of the at least two ONTs according to the ranging responses of the at least two ONTs. The embodiments of the present disclosure further provide a ranging apparatus for a passive optical network and a passive optical network system. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272700 | OPTICAL SIGNAL CONTROL DEVICE AND OPTICAL SIGNAL CONTROL METHOD - An optical signal control device includes an optical signal control unit and a drive circuit. The optical signal control unit includes m number of optical waveguides for propagating carrier light and (m×n) number of interaction regions, n number of interaction regions formed on each of the optical waveguides. The drive circuit includes (m×n) number of phase control units. The (m×n) number of phase control unit output a data signal for controlling the action of the (m×n) number of interaction regions to each of the (m×n) number of interaction regions. Each of the (m×n) number of phase control units outputs the data signal so that timing when the carrier light propagates to the interaction region to output the data signal and timing when the data signal arrives at the interaction region are synchronized. One of m and n is two or more. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272701 | OPTICAL ACCESS SYSTEM - An optical access system is provided that enables subscriber terminals or termination devices to be interconnected via dedicated lines as needed, with respect to subscriber terminals or termination devices participating in an optical network. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272702 | OPTICAL SIGNAL REGENERATION AND AMPLIFICATION OF M-PSK AND M-QAM MODULATION FORMATS USING RECONFIGURABLE WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE PROCESSORS AND PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS - A method for regenerating optical signal includes determining a source optical signal to be regenerated, adding a first pump optical signal and a second pump optical signal to the source optical signal to yield an intermediate optical signal, creating a first conjugate optical signal and a second conjugate optical signal from the intermediate optical signal, and performing degenerate phase-sensitive amplification utilizing the first conjugate optical signal, the second conjugate optical signal and the source optical signal to yield an output optical signal. The source optical signal is modulated with a multilevel modulation format. Each conjugate optical signal has a phase that is a conjugate of a multiple of the phase of the source optical signal. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272703 | Method and Apparatus of Delivering Upstream Data in Ethernet Passive Optical Network Over Coaxial Network - An apparatus for interconnecting a fiber-optic network and a coax network comprising a coax line terminal (CLT) configured to couple to an optical line terminal (OLT) at the fiber-optic network and a plurality of coax network units (CNUs) at the coax network and to cache data received from the CNUs and forward the cached data to the OLT upon receiving a message from the OLT that assigns a transmission cycle for a specified CNU, wherein the CLT forwards the cached data to the OLT upon receiving the message regardless of whether the cached data corresponds to the specified CNU. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272704 | Linear Dispersion Polarization-Time Codes and Equalization in Polarization Multiplexed Coherent Optical System - A method of optical communication comprising encoding four modulated symbols to generate four encoded symbols in two orthogonal polarizations and transmitting the four encoded symbols in two successive time slots. An optical communication apparatus comprising a processor configured to receive two sequences of digital symbols in a plurality of time slots, wherein the two sequences correspond to two components of two orthogonal polarizations, wherein one digital symbol per polarization is received in each of the plurality of time slots, divide each of the two sequences into a plurality of groups using a modulo operation of time, wherein each group comprises two digital symbols received in two consecutive time slots, and adaptively equalize the four digital symbols of the two consecutive time slots using a 4×4 matrix to generate four modulated symbols, wherein the 4×4 matrix comprises 16 tap-vectors. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272705 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WDM TRANSMISSION WITH CHROMATO-TEMPORAL ENCODING - A transmitter and a receiver for an optical telecommunication system of the WDM type are disclosed. In one aspect, the transmitter uses a chromato-temporal encoder which, with each block of symbols to be transmitted, associates a code matrix, where each element of the matrix corresponds to a wavelength and a use of the channel. The transmitter includes multiple modulators, where each modulator modulates a laser beam at a wavelength during a use of the channel by an element corresponding to the code matrix. The beams modulated in this manner are multiplexed in an optical fiber. Another embodiment using both a wavelength and a polarization encoding is also proposed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272706 | Header Error Control Protected Ten Gigabit Passive Optical Network Downstream Frame Synchronization Pattern - An apparatus comprising an optical line terminal (OLT) configured to couple to a plurality of optical network units (ONUs) and transmit a plurality of downstream frames to the ONUs, wherein each of the downstream frames comprises a plurality of forward error correction (FEC) codewords and a plurality of additional non-FEC encoded bytes that comprise synchronization information that is protected by Header Error Control (HEC) code. An apparatus comprising a processing unit configured to arrange control data, user data, or both into a plurality of FEC codewords in a downstream frame and arrange a physical synchronization sequence (PSync), a superframe structure, and a Passive Optical Network-identifier (PON-ID) structure in a plurality of additional non-FEC encoded bytes in the downstream frame, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the FEC codewords and the additional non-FEC encoded bytes in the downstream frame within a 125 microsecond window. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272707 | OPTICAL NETWORK - An optical network includes a first passive optical network optical line terminal that transmits a first optical signal at a first wavelength, coupled to a first port of a first optical filter arrangement, and a second passive optical network optical line terminal that transmits a second optical signal at a second, different wavelength, coupled to a second port of the first optical filter arrangement. An optical coupler, connected between the second terminal and the second port of the first optical filter, couples optical signals at a predetermined set of wavelengths from a third optical line terminal into the second port. A passive optical distribution node connects to optical network terminations and distributes optical signals between the optical line terminals and the optical network terminations. A method of provisioning an optical network is also described. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272708 | SUBSCRIBER-SIDE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND POWER-SAVING CONTROL METHOD - An ONU includes a CDR that regenerates a clock based on a signal from an OLT, an oscillator that generates an internal clock, a time stamp counter that manages a time of the ONU based on the clock in a period in which the CDR regenerates the clock and manages the time of the ONU based on the internal clock in a period in which the CDR does not regenerate the clock, an MPCP control unit that decides, when a Cyclic Sleep mode is set, a receiver-time synchronization time that is a period in which the receiver is normally operated within a sleep time, based on a difference between a time stamp value included in the signal transmitted from the OLT and a time stamp managed by the time stamp counter, and a power-saving control unit that controls the receiver to be normally operated in the receiver-time synchronization time. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272709 | OPTICAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXER, OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND OPTICAL FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING METHOD - An optical frequency-division multiplexer includes: a first optical coupler configured to receive a first wavelength-division multiplexed light obtained by wavelength-division multiplexing a first carrier light and a first monitor light and split the first carrier light and the first monitor light from each other; an optical modulator configured to optically modulate the split first carrier light using a signal including a first data signal so as to multiplex the first data signal with the first carrier light; a receiver configured to receive a branched part of the split first monitor light and demodulate a second data signal from the first monitor light; and a second optical coupler configured to couple a remaining part of the split first monitor light and the first carrier light with which the first data signal has been multiplexed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272710 | DEFRAGMENTATION OF OPTICAL NETWORKS - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of spectrum defragmentation in an optical network may include assigning an optical signal within an optical network to a first frequency slot that spans a first portion of an optical spectrum of the optical network. The method may also include constructing a frequency slot dependency map based on the assignation of the optical signal to the frequency slot. The method may also include reassigning, as a result of an optical signal departure event, the optical signal to a second frequency slot based on the frequency slot dependency map. The second frequency slot may span a second portion of the optical spectrum of the optical network. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272711 | Light-Tree Provisioning for Multicast Traffic in Flexible Optical WDM Networks - Hybrid application of the generic evolution and simulated annealing methods are used to solve routing, wavelength assignment, and spectrum allocation sub-problems of a light-tree establishment problem in a flexible wavelength division multiplexing FWDM optical network. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272712 | INFRARED REMOTELY CONTROLLED CIRCUIT - An infrared remotely controlled circuit employed in an electronic device which includes a display panel and a host machine. The infrared remotely controlled circuitry includes a first remotely controlled circuit, a second remotely controlled circuit, and a microprogrammed control unit (MCU). The first remotely controlled circuit includes a first infrared receiver for mounting in the display panel and a first diode with the cathode connected to a first port of the first infrared receiver. The second remotely controlled circuit includes a second infrared receiver for mounting in the host machine and a second diode with the cathode connected to a first port of the second infrared receiver. The MCU is connected to the anode of the first diode to form a first signal input port and the anode of the second diode to form a second signal input port. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272713 | SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT - A signal processing circuit includes an infrared signal processing circuit, a button signal processing circuit, and an MCU. The infrared signal processing circuit includes an infrared receiver. The button signal processing circuit includes a first button and at least one second button. The MCU includes a power input port, an infrared signal detecting port, and at least one button signal detecting port. A first terminal of the infrared receiver and a first terminal of the first button are connected to the infrared signal detecting port. A first terminal of the at least one second button is connected to the power input port via a first resistor, and further connected to the at least one button signal detecting port, a second terminal of the first button and a second terminal of the at least one second button are grounded. Thus a more effective infrared detector is available. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272714 | State Control System and State Control Method - A state control system comprises a portable terminal and a control apparatus. The portable terminal sends a signal including identification information to an external. The control apparatus controls a controlled object in either one of a locked state and an unlocked state based on the signal sent from the portable terminal. The portable terminal sends a first signal, in a case where a event detector has not detected the event, and sends a second signal having a data length longer than a data length of the first signal, in a case where the event detector has detected the event. The control apparatus controls a controlled object to the unlocked state in a case where the controlled object is in the locked state and the controlled apparatus receives the second signal. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272715 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPENSATING INFRARED NOISE IN AN ELECTRONIC SYSTEM - Remote control signal detection systems and methods are operable to compensate detected infrared energy to identify an infrared energy communication signal emitted by a remote control. An exemplary embodiment detects first infrared energy, wherein the infrared energy communication signal is absent in the first infrared energy; determines compensation based on the first infrared energy; detects second infrared energy, wherein the infrared energy communication signal is present in the second infrared energy; and compensates the second infrared energy based on the determined compensation. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272716 | CODED LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE - The invention relates to an illumination device for embedding data symbols of a data signal into a luminance output of the illumination device. The device includes a LED comprising at least two segments which have a common electrode and are individually controllable. The LED is configured to generate the luminance output in response to a drive signal. The device further includes a controller configured for switching one of the segments on or off in response to the data signal to embed data symbols of the data signal into the light output of the device. One advantage of such an approach is that the proposed device is compatible with conventional LED drivers since no additional electronics for modulating the drive signal are necessary, which enables simple implementation and reduced costs. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272717 | TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER - According to one embodiment, a transmission system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a modulator configured to modulate transmission data at a chip rate to generate a modulation signal, and one or a plurality of light sources configured to emit visible light according to the modulation signal. The receiver includes a light receiver having one or more lines of light receiving elements to receive light in a first range including the visible light; and a demodulator configured to demodulate image data generated according to the light received by the light receiver to generate reception data corresponding to the transmission data. A following equation is satisfied ff2013-10-17 | |
20130272718 | System And Method For Nonlinear Self-Filtering Via Dynamical Stochastic Resonance - A system and method for filtering and enhancing signals from a noise background based on the nonlinear interaction of waves. The system and method amplify low-level signals, hide information in the signals, and then nonlinearly recover the signals. With the present invention, this can be performed for both spatial beams and temporal pulses. The signal self-filters and self-amplifies at the expense of the surrounding noise via the nonlinear medium. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272719 | Method and Apparatus for Compensating Nonlinear Distortions in Intensity Modulation-Direct Detection System - The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for compensating nonlinear distortions in an intensity modulation-direct detection (IM-DD) system; wherein the method comprises: calculating, according to nonlinear coefficients and differences between values of an input signal at different time, nonlinear distortions of the input signal, so as to eliminate the nonlinearity distortions. By applying the method and the apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present invention, nonlinear cost of the IM-DD system can be effectively reduced, thereby improving the system capacity. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272720 | INTEGRATED ILLUMINATOR - An optical device comprising a sealed/closed housing; a light source and/or a detector within the housing; a window through the housing that is transparent to light transmitted from the light source or to the detector and a fixing for fixing an optical fiber or bundle of such fibers into a coupling position adjacent to the window to allow light to pass between the housing and the fiber or fiber bundle, wherein the fixing is adapted to allow connection and/or disconnection of the fiber or fiber bundle without opening or breaking a seal of the sealed housing. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272721 | OPTICAL NETWORK DEVICE EMPLOYING THREE-LEVEL DUOBINARY MODULATION AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF - Introduced herein is an optical network device employing three-level duobinary modulation and a method of use thereof. One embodiment of an optical network receiver module includes: (1) an optical input configured to receive an optical non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal having a data rate, and (2) an encoder having a maximum bandwidth, coupled to the optical input and configured to receive and encode the optical NRZ signal into an electrical three-level duobinary signal, the maximum bandwidth being related to, but substantially less than, the data rate. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272722 | ELECTRONIC COMPENSATION OF NONLINEARITY IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION - In various embodiments, electronic apparatus, systems, and methods include electronic compensation of nonlinearity in optical communication. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272723 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS MAINTENANCE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management apparatus communicates, via a communication network, with image forming apparatuses, and includes an information reception device that receives, from each of the image forming apparatuses via the network, prediction-use information useful for predicting a latent image carrier surface contamination level due to discharge products generated during charging, a contamination level prediction device that, on the basis of the received prediction-use information, predicts the latent image carrier surface contamination level of the image forming apparatus corresponding to the prediction-use information, and an instruction transmission device that, if the predicted latent image carrier surface contamination level exceeds a predetermined allowable range, transmits an execution instruction to execute a contamination reduction operation of reducing the contamination of the surface of the latent image carrier due to the discharge products to the image forming apparatus corresponding to the latent image carrier surface contamination level via the network. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272724 | CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cartridge detachably attachable to an image forming apparatus which includes a main body, a driving unit and a detecting unit, includes: a housing that is configured to accommodate a developer therein, and includes a first side wail and a second side wall opposed to the first side wall in a longitudinal direction; a passive unit that is configured to receive a driving force from the driving unit, is mounted on the first side wall, and is rotatable around a first axis line parallel to the longitudinal direction; and a detected body mounted on the first side wall and including a detected part which is detected by the detecting unit. The detected body advances outwards in the longitudinal direction with respect to the first side wall and retracts inwards in the longitudinal direction with respect to the first side wall by the driving force received by the passive unit. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272725 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - According to embodiments, an image forming apparatus has a cassette section for holding sheets, a conveying section for conveying the sheet, an image forming section that forms the image on the sheet conveyed by the conveying section, a determining section that determines the type of the sheet fed from the cassette, and a display section that displays different messages corresponding to the type of the sheet if a jam of the sheet has occurred while the sheet is conveyed in the conveying section. The source of a sheet for printing thereon may be changed if a threshold number of paper jams occur using paper fed from a particular cassette. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272726 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, including a control portion configured to control a process condition for image formation, wherein the control portion changes the process condition for image formation when, in a case where a developing unit having a developer amount smaller than a predetermined amount is removed from a main body of the image forming apparatus, the developing unit removed is remounted to the main body of the image forming apparatus. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272727 | DEVELOPER ACCOMMODATING UNIT, DEVELOPING CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer accommodating unit includes a developer accommodating unit formed by a developer accommodating frame and includes an integrally formed light guide member. The light guide member is mounted through the developer accommodating frame in a state in which an incident portion and an emergent portion are exposed through an incident side opening and an emergent side opening, respectively, and is connected with the developer accommodating frame in a sealed state so that an outside and inside of the developer accommodating chamber are prevented from communicating with each other via the incident side opening and the emergent side opening. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272728 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An apparatus includes an image formation unit including a photosensitive drum and a motor for driving the image formation unit. The apparatus acquires a frequency generator signal, which is phase information output from the motor as the motor rotates. In addition, the apparatus corrects unevenness of the density that may occur due to the rotation of the motor according to the acquired phase information. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272729 | MARKING APPARATUS - In accordance with an embodiment, a marking apparatus, configured in an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet by using a fadable record material which is faded when the heat with a specified fading temperature is applied, and to mark a marker at a specified position of the sheet comprises a marking record material configured to color when the heat in a first temperature range is applied, fade the color when the heat in a second temperature range lower than the first temperature range is applied, and have the reversibility of alternately carrying out color-fading and coloring, a marker printing unit configured to print the marker at the specified position of the sheet by using the marking record material and a heating unit configured to heat the marker in the second temperature range. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272730 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus, while an image forming mode is executed, during a period from start of the image forming mode until a toner image to be transferred onto a recording material is primarily transferred onto an intermediate transfer member from one of the plurality of image bearing members, which is positioned on the uppermost stream in a rotation direction of the intermediate transfer member, a toner patch (T) is formed on at least one image bearing member and the toner patch (T) is provided to a primary transfer portion. Thus, without using waste toner as a lubricant, fluctuations in circumferential surface speed, which are generated in the intermediate transfer member during the image forming operation, may be reduced. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272731 | COLOR-IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus that forms an electrostatic latent image for detection on a photosensitive member by light irradiation and performs color-misregistration correction control on the basis of detection of a change in detection current due to the detecting electrostatic latent image passing through a processing unit disposed close to the periphery of the photosensitive member, the intensity of at least one of the apply voltage of the processing unit and the output of the light irradiation unit is set higher than that during normal image formation. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272732 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a fixing member configured to fix an image to a medium by heating the medium, a heating member configured to heat the fixing member, a pressure member pressed against the fixing member so as to presses the medium against the fixing member, a first temperature detection unit for detecting a temperature of the fixing member, a second temperature detection unit for detecting a temperature of the pressure member, and a control unit that controls a rotation speed of the fixing member. The control unit controls the rotation speed of the fixing member based on a temperature difference between the temperature detected by the first temperature detection unit and the temperature detected by the second temperature detection unit. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272733 | METHOD TO OPERATE A DIGITAL PRINTER TO PRINT A RECORDING MATERIAL, AND ASSOCIATED DIGITAL PRINTER WITH MIXING CONTAINER - In a method to operate a digital printer having multiple developer stations operated with liquid developer, and wherein a number of the developer stations participating in printing is dependent on a respective print operating mode, liquid developer is supplied from a mixing container to at least one of the developer stations. With a regulatory device a fill level of liquid developer in the mixing container is kept substantially constant depending on the print operating mode. A desired different operating value is provided for the fill level for the regulatory device depending on the operating mode. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272734 | METHOD TO OPERATE A DIGITAL PRINTER AND DETERMINE THE TONER CONCENTRATION, AS WELL AS AN ASSOCIATED DIGITAL PRINTER - In a method or digital printer to print a recording material with toner particles applied with a liquid developer, toner concentration of the liquid developer is determined via measurement with aid of ultrasonic pulses. At least one ultrasonic pulse is generated by discharging an ultrasound emitter charged with a charge voltage. The ultrasonic pulse permeates the liquid developer and is received by an ultrasound receiver which generates a reception signal corresponding to the received ultrasonic pulse. With a control device, the charge voltage is regulated to a value such that a representative value of the reception signal corresponds to a predetermined desired value. The toner concentration is determined from the regulated charge voltage. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272735 | CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL OF NIP WIDTH AND TRANSFER FIELD UNIFORMITY IN CONFORMABLE BIASED TRANSFER SYSTEMS - Disclosed is a closed-loop control method and system to control the nip width and transfer field uniformity associated with an image marking apparatus. According to an exemplary embodiment, a closed-loop control system senses the uniformity of the image transfer field and applies forces to a transfer nip based on the sensed field to provide a more uniform field. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272736 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus is provided that includes: a heating member that heats a recording sheet; a pressure member that presses the recording sheet between the heating member and the pressure member; an adjustment mechanism that causes the heating member and the pressure member to contact or to separate; and a control section that, at a time of a warm-up operation or an idling operation, based on a predetermined condition, controls the adjustment mechanism so as to cause the heating member and the pressure member to contact at a contact pressure that is lower than a contact pressure between the heating member and the pressure member at a time of image formation or is approximately identical to the contact pressure at a time of image formation. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272737 | HEATING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, there is provided a heating device that includes a heating source, a non-contact thermistor, a contact thermistor and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control the heating source on the basis of the detected temperature of the non-contact thermistor and the detected temperature of the contact thermistor and control the heating member to a predetermined temperature. The control unit performs the temperature control using the detected temperature of the contact thermistor for temperature control from startup time to a target temperature and using the detected temperature of the non-contact thermistor if the temperature exceeds the target temperature. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272738 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - One disclosed aspect of the embodiments relates to power control of a heater in a fixing unit. A plurality of control tables having different ratios of phase control waveforms and wave number control waveforms in one control cycle have been set, and a control table is selected depending on a set target temperature. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272739 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image forming apparatus has an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet using a decolorable toner, a fixing unit configured to fix the image on the sheet by heating, a cooling unit for cooling the fixing unit, and a control section for controlling the cooling unit. The control section turns on the cooling unit if the control section determines that the temperature of the fixing unit is at or above a predetermined temperature. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272740 | OPTICAL SENSOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The optical sensor includes a light-emitting element configured to emit light to a light emitted surface, a light-receiving element configured to receive reflection light from the light emitted surface, the reflection light including light emitted from the light-emitting element and reflected at the light emitted surface, a circuit board including a mounting surface on which the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element are mounted, and a housing fixed to the circuit board. The housing includes a light shielding portion provided between the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element, and the light shielding portion is engaged with a hole formed in the circuit board at a position between the light-emitting element and the light-receiving element. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272741 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Provided is an image forming system including an image forming unit to print an image on a sheet based on a job, a postprocessing unit to carry out postprocessing to the sheet based on the job, and a control unit to manage the job, and to control the print and the postprocessing, the control unit can determine whether the postprocessing execution job includes an applying prohibition sheet or not, and if a predetermined condition such as a page other than first and last pages is satisfied in predetermined postprocessing such as bundle processing, permits the job for the predetermined postprocessing to carry out an output such as insertion of the applying prohibition sheet, for which the postprocessing is prohibited in applying due to a difference in sheet size from a prescribed size and the like, into a bundle of applying permission sheets. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272742 | DC/DC CONVERTER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A converter includes a switching unit configured to switch a voltage to be input, an inductor connected to the switching unit, a conversion unit configured to convert the voltage switched by the switching unit to be supplied to the inductor into a direct current voltage, a detection unit configured to detect the direct current voltage converted by the conversion unit, and a correction unit configured to correct the detected voltage detected by the detection unit, wherein an operation of the switching unit is controlled based on the voltage corrected by the correction unit. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272743 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier configured to carry an electrostatic latent image thereon; a developing device to render the electrostatic latent image visible with a developer including toner and a carrier; a developer container to contain the developer collected from the developing device; a developer conveyance path through which the developer discharged from the developer container is conveyed to the developing device; a coolant conveyance path to convey a coolant; and a cooling device to cool the developer contained in the developer container when the coolant is contacted to an external surface of the developer container, in which the developer container and the coolant conveyance path are made of different materials and a thermal conductivity of the developer container is higher than that of the coolant conveyance path. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272744 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprising: a fixing unit comprising a heating rotational body, and configured to perform heat-fixing by putting a sheet having an unfixed-image formed thereon in contact with the heating rotational body; and a mechanism comprising a plate-like water droplet guiding member and a condensation collection container, and configured to receive water droplets at an upper surface of the water droplet guiding member, guide the water droplets towards the condensation collection container, and collect the water droplets at the condensation collection container, the water droplets generated above the fixing unit by condensation of water vapor that rises from the sheet during the heat-fixing and falling therefrom. When viewing the image forming apparatus from above in a vertical direction, the condensation collection container is disposed outside a sheet passing region in a sheet width direction. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272745 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus includes a bearing member provided to a secondary transfer unit, the bearing member being configured to engage with a main body unit of the apparatus, a hooking-receiving member provided so as to be rotatable in the main body unit of the apparatus and opposed to the bearing member, and a rotation regulation member provided to the main body unit of the apparatus, the rotation regulation member being configured to regulate rotation of the hooking-receiving member, in which the hooking-receiving member contacts the rotation regulation member when the secondary transfer unit is closed with respect to the main body unit of the apparatus, and the hooking-receiving member rotates in a direction away from the rotation regulation member when the secondary transfer unit is opened with respect to the main body unit of the apparatus. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272746 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY-BASED ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SYSTEM WITH TRANSFER-MEDIUM SERVICE LOOPS - An additive manufacturing system for printing a three-dimensional part using electrophotography, the additive manufacturing system comprising a rotatable photoconductor component, a development station configured to develop layers of a material on a surface of the rotatable photoconductor component, a rotatable transfer medium configured to receive the developed layers from the surface of the rotatable photoconductor component, and a platen configured to receive the developed layers from the rotatable transfer medium in a layer-by-layer manner. The additive manufacturing system also comprises a plurality of service loops configured to move portions of the rotatable transfer medium at different line speeds while maintaining a net rotational rate of full rotations of the rotatable transfer medium at a substantially steady state. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272747 | CHARGING MEMBER, PROCESS FOR ITS PRODUCTION, AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - To provide a charging member that can not easily cause faulty cleaning on a photosensitive member while having a flexibility high enough to form a nip between it and the photosensitive member in a sufficient width. The charging member has an electro-conductive support and an elastic layer that is a surface layer, which elastic layer has at its surface a region having been cured by irradiation with electron rays, where this region supports spherical polyethylene particles in such a state that the spherical polyethylene particles are exposed to the surface of the elastic layer, thereby making the surface roughened. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272748 | DIGITAL PRINTER TO PRINT TO A RECORDING MEDIUM - In a digital printer comprising a developer station using liquid developer, the developer station has an application unit via which liquid developer is transported to a charge image carrier. The supply system adjacent and lateral to the application unit supplies liquid developer to the application unit. A pre-chamber and an electrode segment are provided, the pre-chamber being filled with liquid developer and open towards the application unit. The pre-chamber is open at a top such that a compensation volume of liquid developer with an open surface is created past which the application unit passes. The electrode segment is arranged adjacent to the pre-chamber and to a side of the application unit such that it forms a gap with the application unit through which the liquid developer is directed, the electrode segment being at an electrical potential such that toner of the liquid developer transfers to the application unit in the gap. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272749 | METHOD TO OPERATE A DIGITAL PRINTER WHILE CHARGING A RECORDING MEDIUM WITH IONS, AS WELL AS ASSOCIATED DIGITAL PRINTER - In a method or system to operate a digital printer for double-side printing to a recording medium with toner particles applied with a liquid developer, the digital printer prints first and second sides of the recording medium in succession. Electrophoretic mobility of toner particles of a first toner image on the first side is reduced after application of said first toner image and before application of the second toner image on the second side of the recording medium. The electrophoretic mobility is reduced by drying the first toner image along a drying route in an airflow generated by a blower such that carrier fluid is thus removed from the first toner image. After the application of the second toner image on the second side of the recording medium, both the first and second toner images are simultaneously fixed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272750 | POWDER CONTAINER, POWDER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a powder container having a new structure capable of stable discharge and transport of a powder contained in a container by enabling the powder to be reliably discharged to the outside of the package while preventing the powder from spilling and flying out of the container. The powder container has a container body ( | 2013-10-17 |
20130272751 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a controller that controls rotational driving of a magnetic roller and rotational driving of a developing roller. The controller is capable of performing a toner collecting mode when no image formation is performed. In the toner collecting mode, the magnetic roller and the developing roller are intermittently rotated in a direction reverse to a direction in which the magnetic roller and the developing roller are rotated during image formation, then the magnetic roller is made to rotate in a forward direction, and then, the magnetic roller is rotated in a backward direction. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272752 | IMAGE FORMING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming unit includes an image carrier carrying an electrostatic latent image on a surface thereof; a developer supply member supplying developer; a developer carrier carrying the developer supplied by the developer supply member on a surface thereof; and a developer layer forming member that includes a curvature part having a predetermined curvature radius, abutting the curvature part on the surface of the developer carrier to form a developer layer on the surface. The developer carrier attaches the developer layer to the electrostatic latent image to form a developer image on the surface of the image carrier, and a pressing parameter is within a range of 9.3×10 | 2013-10-17 |
20130272753 | DEVELOPING UNIT, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing unit for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a developing roller, having a shaft member, for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum using a developer; and a bearing for rotatably supporting the shaft member, the bearing including a bearing base portion of a first resin molded material and a bearing portion of a second resin molded material different from the first resin molded material, the bearing portion having a through-hole, wherein the bearing portion includes a contact portion contacting a stepped abutting portion of the shaft member, and a retaining portion overlapping with the bearing base portion in a direction crossing with an axial direction of the shaft member. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272754 | DEVELOPING DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a developing device includes a developer carrier arranged opposite to an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed and configured to supply toner for the electrostatic latent image and a toner layer regulating member configured to be pressed against the developer carrier to regulate the thickness of a toner layer on the developer carrier and the pressured surface of the developer carrier can be moved. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272755 | Developing Roller, Development Apparatus, and Image-Forming Device - Provided are a developing roller having an elastic layer formed on an outer circumferential face of a shaft and a coating layer formed on an outer circumferential face of the elastic layer, wherein the coating layer is composed of first coating layers that are formed at respective edges across the elastic layer, and a second coating layer formed between the first coating layers, and wherein the first coating layers contain a resin obtained through a reaction of a polyol with a silane-coupling agent, fluororesin particles, and an electric conductivity agent; and the second coating layer contains a urethane resin, an ionic liquid, an electric conductivity agent, and filler particles; and a development apparatus and an image-forming device having the developing roller. The provided are capable of keeping the image quality high and of arresting leakage of the toner satisfactorily. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272756 | FIXING APPARATUS - A fixing apparatus includes a fixing belt configured to fix a toner image on a sheet at a nip portion, a rotating member configured to convey the sheet cooperatively with the fixing belt at the nip portion, a supporting roller configured to rotatably support the fixing belt and to press the fixing belt toward the rotating member, a separation pad provided in a position which is downstream of the supporting roller in a sheet conveyance direction and configured to press the fixing belt toward the rotating member to separate the sheet from the fixing belt, a holder configured to hold the separation pad, the holder being swingable around a center which is further away from the rotating member than the nip portion and which is downstream of the supporting roller, and an urging member configured to urge the holder in a rotational direction of the fixing belt. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272757 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a rotatable endless belt, a heating source that heats the belt, a pad member having a sliding surface abutting on an inner surface of the belt, and a pressure roller that presses an outer surface of the belt toward the sliding surface and rotates to rotate the belt. The pressure roller works together with the belt to fix an unfixed toner image onto a medium that bears the unfixed toner image by allowing the medium to enter between the roller and the belt. Assuming that the sliding surface is divided into upstream and downstream regions in a moving direction of the belt, the upstream and downstream regions both have recessed curved surfaces in the moving direction. A first curved surface corresponding to the upstream region has an average curvature that is larger than that of a second curved surface corresponding to the downstream region. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272758 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a heating member heating a recording medium to fix a developer image thereto; an endless heating belt rotatably wrapped around the heating member and heating the medium; a rotating member around which the belt is wrapped and having a fixed first axial end; a position detecting unit detecting a position of the belt when moved in first and second opposite directions parallel to an axial direction of the rotating member; and a controller controlling a rotational movement angle by which a second axial end of the rotating member is rotationally moved about the first end in an axis-intersecting direction based on information from the position detecting unit when the belt is moved in the first and second directions so that first and second speeds for respectively moving the belt in the first and second directions are made equal to or close to each other. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272759 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An inner heating member is disposed in contact with an inner circumferential surface of a heating belt and an outer heating member is disposed in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the heating belt to heat the heating belt. A restricting member configured to restrict an orbit of the heating belt is disposed between the inner and outer heating members. Then, at least either one of an area of contact between the inner circumferential surface of the heating belt and the inner heating member and an area of contact between the outer circumferential surface of the heating belt and the outer heating member is changed to quickly change a quantity of heat applied to the outer circumferential surface or inner circumferential surface of the heating belt. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272760 | FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE FIXING DEVICE - A fixing device including an endless belt; a pressing pad located inside the endless belt; a pressing roller pressed toward the pressing pad with the endless belt therebetween to form a fixing nip; an internal guide to position the endless belt; and an external guide, which is contacted with an outer surface of the endless belt at the exit side of the fixing nip to deform the endless belt. The pressing roller drives the endless belt to rotate. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272761 | FIXING APPARATUS - With a fixing apparatus, a shape of a folded portion on the side of a pressure roller of a sliding contact sheet is folded along a shape of the pressure roller, thereby uniformizing a longitudinal pressure distribution and preventing an uneven-gloss image due to pressure reduction. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272762 | IMAGE HEATING APPARATUS - The image heating apparatus includes an endless belt, a roller which contacts an outer face of the belt, a nip portion forming unit which contacts an inner face of the belt, and forms a nip portion with the roller, for nipping and conveying a recording material, the nip portion forming unit including a component which is longer than the belt in a generatrix direction of the belt; and a regulation portion provided to oppose an end face of the belt, for regulating a shift movement of the belt to the generatrix direction of the belt, wherein the regulation portion is integrally-molded with the component. Thereby, a damage of the end of the endless belt can be reduced. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272763 | BIONANOCOMPOSITE FUSER TOPCOATS COMPRISING NANOSIZED CELLULOSIC PARTICLES - Exemplary embodiments provide materials and methods for a fuser member used in electrophotographic devices, wherein the fuser member can include an outermost layer containing a plurality of nanosized cellulosic particles dispersed in and/or bonded to a fluoropolymer matrix. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272764 | TONER TRANSPORTATION DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH THE SAME - A toner transportation device according to the present disclosure includes a transportation screw that has a rotational shaft and a transportation fin formed on an outer circumferential surface of the rotational shaft and a toner transportation pipe that has a circular shape in cross section. The transportation screw is rotatably positioned in the toner transportation pipe. A support member is attached to the rotational shaft that has a bearing portion having an annular shape and rotatably fitted onto the rotational shaft and that has a plurality of leg portions radially protruding outward from an outer circumferential surface of the bearing portion. A distance between an axis of the rotational shaft and a tip of each leg portion is greater than a radius of the transportation fin and equal to or less than a radius of an inner circumferential surface of the toner transportation pipe. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272765 | PRINTING CONTROL DEVICE, PRINTING CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing control device includes a data acquiring unit configured to acquire gloss-control plane data that indicates a plurality of types of surface effects to be applied to one page of a recording medium and areas to which the respective types of surface effects are to be applied in the one page of the recording medium. The types of surface effects correspond respectively to a plurality of types of post-processing that are incapable of being simultaneously performed on the one page of the recording medium by a post-processing device that performs post-processing for a clear toner transferred onto the recording medium. The printing control device also includes a determining unit configured to determine one of the types of post-processing to be preferentially performed on the one page of the recording medium, based on priority information that indicates which type of post-processing is to be preferentially performed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272766 | CORE HOLDING STRUCTURE AND PRINTER - A core holding structure includes a shaft portion in which a core for winding thereon a strip-shaped material is inserted and by which the core is rotationally driven. A roller is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft portion. The roller is configured to make contact with an inner circumferential surface of the core inserted in the shaft portion and rotate in a direction in which the core is attached to or detached from the shaft portion. The core holding structure further includes an elastic member configured to hold the roller and bias the roller radially outwards from the shaft portion when pressed toward the surface of the shaft portion. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272767 | PRINTER AND ROLL HOLDER - A roll holder includes a shaft portion configured to hold a roll member formed by winding a strip-shaped material. A pair of wall portions is configured to restrain axial movement of the roll member held by the shaft portion. Also, a reduction unit is provided in the roll holder to reduce frictional resistance against a force by which the strip-shaped material is drawn from the roll member whose axial movement is restrained by the wall portions. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272768 | PRINTER APPARATUS - A printer apparatus includes a print unit that prints an object on recording paper, a platen roller that conveys the recording paper, a cutter that cuts the recording paper, a mainframe that accommodates the print unit and the cutter, a cover that is attached to the mainframe and is configured to open and close with respect to the mainframe, the cover having the platen roller arranged thereon. The cover includes a lock member having a lock pin, and when the cover is closed, the lock pin of the lock member is moved towards the platen roller and is inserted into a lock pin fixing part that is arranged at the mainframe. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272769 | STATIONARY BLADE SUPPORT DEVICE CONFIGURED SO THAT STATIONARY BLADE IS NOT DEFORMED, PAPER CUTTING DEVICE WITH STATIONARY BLADE SUPPORT DEVICE, AND PRINTER WITH PAPER CUTTING DEVICE - A fixed blade support device includes biasing means and a fixed blade support member ( | 2013-10-17 |
20130272770 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - An image recording apparatus includes a particular tray, a sheet feeder configured to feed a sheet from the particular tray to a first conveying path in a feed direction, a recording unit positioned along the first conveying path, and a driving roller positioned along a second conveying path and configured to convey the sheet, after the sheet passes the recording unit, along the second conveying path and back to the first conveying path. The particular tray includes a side guide configured to position the sheets in a widthwise direction perpendicular to the feeding direction. The side guide includes a guide member that defines at least a portion of the second conveying path and is configured to guide the sheet along the second conveying path, and a driven roller rotatably supported on the guide member and configured to pinch the sheet against the driving roller as the sheet is conveyed along the second conveying path. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272771 | TextBook Study Tool - This invention is a non-obvious combination and improvement of existing office tools. It consists of a six inch straight edge with a molded clasp to be used as a grasping bookmark. The end of the molded clasp will be hollowed (as a locking receptacle) to accept and secure a slim and short writing instrument. The writing instrument can be an ink pen, mechanical pencil or a highlighter. All writing instruments will be interchangeable and replacement writing instruments will be separately available. This non-obvious combination and improvement of existing tools produces a novel, unique and patentable product. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272772 | WRITING INSTRUMENT WITH A MOVABLE ORNAMENT MOUNTED THEREON - An amusement writing instrument with a mechanical toy consists of an elongated pen body having a seat mounted on an end, a toy housing said seat and a working piece passing through said seat. The working piece comprises of a rod, pluralities of driving elements driven by the rod and pluralities of resilient devices for providing reciprocal movement. The ornament composes of a frontal and rear casings and a decorating object is further attached to the seat. The working piece is driven as the user propels the cartridge to disengage the frontal casings from the rear casing, creating a slit for allowing the decorating object to be extended and exposed. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272773 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Clamping - A protective mechanism for use when gripping a medical device to a rack is provided. A related system and method are also provided. The protective mechanism includes a guide member, a connector, an actuation member configured to have a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion of the actuation member is pivotally coupled to the guide member. The cover member is pivotally coupled to the guide member and is configured to interact with the actuation member so as to pivot to uncover the connector when the actuation member pivots in a first direction and to pivot to cover the connector when the actuation member pivots in a second direction. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272774 | BARIUM- AND STRONTIUM-FREE VITREOUS OR GLASS-CERAMIC JOINTING MATERIAL AND ITS USE - A vitreous or glass-ceramic jointing material, which has a coefficient of thermal expansion α | 2013-10-17 |
20130272775 | FASTENER - A fastener arrangement includes a main body that is made of a gas-tight and liquid-tight material to hold an object. The main body defines a cavity and is fixable to a support surface. A hydrophilic insert is attached to the main body inside of the cavity for facing the support surface and is adapted to receive a metered amount of moisture. An aerobic adhesive is applied to the hydrophilic insert so that the aerobic adhesive is encapsulated gas-tight and liquid-tight together with the hydrophilic insert in the cavity enclosed by the support surface and the main body when the main body is fixed on the support surface. | 2013-10-17 |
20130272776 | BALL JOINT - Provided is a ball joint having excellent wear resistance, corrosion resistance, and stability of sliding characteristics. A ball joint ( | 2013-10-17 |
20130272777 | FRAME CONNECTION - Described is a frame connection for connecting members of a frame without visible fixings. The frame connection comprises first and second elongate members, each having first and second channels. First and second connection members are provided, each having a first end portion comprising a first planar member and a second end portion comprising a second planar member. The end portions each include one or more holes therein. The first end portions of the first and second connection members are received in the first and second channels, respectively, of the first elongate member, and the second end portions are received in the first and second channels, respectively, of the second elongate member. Fasteners are received through the holes to secure the first and second connection members to the first and second elongate members and side cover members are then secured across the first and second channels. | 2013-10-17 |