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  • Polythiophenes and devices thereof
    Patent number: 7132500
    Abstract: A polythiophene wherein the monomer segments thereof contain wherein A is a side chain; B is hydrogen or a side chain; and D is a divalent segment, and wherein the number of A-substituted thienylene units (I) in the monomer segments is from about 1 to about 10, the number of B-substituted thienylene units (II) is from 0 to about 5, and the number of divalent segments D is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Beng S. Ong, Ping Liu, Yiliang Wu, Yu Qi
  • Vitro model of priocidal activity
    Patent number: 7129080
    Abstract: A proteinaceous material has been found to show similar activity and treatment response to that of disease causing prions, such as CJD. A prion model which incorporates the proteinaceous material has a variety of applications. The model has an ability to be cultured either in vivo or in vitro, allowing rapid screening of potential drugs for treating animals or humans, or methods of treating food products or items which may come into contact with prions, such as medical or dental devices. Several treatment methods and materials have been developed using the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Steris Inc.
    Inventors: Kathleen M. Antloga, Gerald E. McDonnell
  • System for processing electronic documents using physical documents
    Patent number: 7131061
    Abstract: An interactive document processing system includes a display screen that is coupled to a processing device. In addition, the document processing system includes an input device for viewing all or a portion of a hardcopy document on a work surface. The input device generates signals representing the appearance of the hardcopy document from representative electronic data stored in a print memory. In one embodiment, the processing device is connected to the input device to receive the signals, determine the position of a moving indicator relative to the document, and correlate the determined position with the electronic representation of the hardcopy document. The display screen provides information related to user commands that edit and/or select portions of the electronic representation of the hardcopy document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Allan MacLean, Jean-Luc Meunier
  • Convertible fiber closure platform
    Patent number: 7130519
    Abstract: An optical fiber splice case particularly adapted for providing fiber optic links directly to a home, business, et al. is provided wherein at least one enclosure base has at least one cover member selectively sealingly engaged with at least one side of the at least one enclosure base. The at least one enclosure base includes at least one bulkhead having a selective plurality of optical fiber ports therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Preformed Line Products Company
    Inventors: Christopher S. Grubish, Randy G. Cloud, Keith A. Miller
  • Method of preparing encapsulated bichromal balls
    Patent number: 7130107
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of preparing encapsulated bichromal balls. The method involves forming capsules of electrophoretic particles encapsulated within a dielectric fluid such as a hydrocarbon solvent or siloxane oil that includes a small amount of a gelating agent. Bichromal balls are then formed by heating the capsules and applying an electric field. The capsules are then cooled while the electric field is maintained. Upon sufficient gelling, the electrophoretic particles are fixed within the gelled medium, i.e. the capsule. The bichromal gel produced detaches from the inside wall of the capsule, and thereby constitute the resulting encapsulated bichromal balls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Ping Liu, Man-Chung Tam, Peter M. Kazmaier
  • Silicon oxynitride passivated rare earth activated thioaluminate phosphors for electroluminescent displays
    Patent number: 7129633
    Abstract: A novel structure is provided to improve the operating stability of thioaluminate based phosphors used in ac thick film dielectric electroluminescent displays. The novel structure comprises a rare earth activated alkaline earth thioaluminate phosphor thin film layer and a silicon oxynitride layer provided directly adjacent the top and/or bottom of the phosphor thin film layer, wherein said silicon oxynitride layer comprises a composition of Si3NxOyHz where 2?x?4, 0<y?2 and 0?z?1. The invention is particularly applicable to phosphors used in electroluminescent displays that employ thick dielectric layers subject to high processing temperatures to form and activate the phosphor films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Ifire Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Kosyachkov
  • Ink container opener
    Patent number: 7128249
    Abstract: An ink container opener has a first portion and a second portion which are approximately perpendicular to each other. Each portion has an opening for receiving an ink container cap. The opening of the first portion comprises a plurality of ridges extending along at least one side of the opening. The first and second portions are formed of a unitary construction and form an L-shaped configuration. Force is applied to the container body to separate the cap from the body as the cap is supported by the opener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. VanDerMeid, Martin Finkle, Carl William Holland
  • Assembly for use in underground mining
    Patent number: 7127885
    Abstract: An electro-hydraulic assembly for use in underground mining is disclosed. The assembly includes a hydraulic component, such as a valve block for an underground self-advancing roof support, as well as actuators and/or sensors which have a housing and can be connected or are connected via a data-transmission system to a control unit. A function (e.g. withdrawing the support, setting, advancing, or the like) can be activated at the hydraulic component by each actuator, and/or a hydraulic state associated with a measuring point of the hydraulic component or another measured variable associated with the self-advancing roof support can be measured by each sensor. A reader unit is associated with each actuator and/or sensor in its respective housing, and an information element or transponder is associated with the hydraulic component for each function, each control valve, or each measuring point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: DBT GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian M. Mundry, Jens Titschert, Werner Reinelt, Franz-Heinrich Suilmann, Patrick Hantke, Torsten Boldt, Jurgen Romanski, Horst Wagner
  • Sample manipulator
    Patent number: 7126134
    Abstract: A sample manipulator that utilizes electrostatic traveling waves to selectively displace one or more samples deposited on its face is disclosed. The sample manipulator enables an operator to perform a wide variety of processes upon the deposited samples. Also disclosed are strategies for separating two or more samples, focusing a sample, and passing a reagent through a sample, all conducted on the face of the sample manipulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Meng H. Lean, Francisco E. Torres, Huangpin Ben Hsieh, Armin R. Völkel, Bryan Preas, Scott A. Elrod, John S. Fitch, Richard H. Bruce
  • Crimped gas riser with jacket assembly
    Patent number: 7125052
    Abstract: A riser assembly is provided for transmitting gas from a buried line to a meter manifold. The riser assembly includes an adapter having a mounting structure at one end for connection to a manifold and having an opening at an opposite end. An inner casing has a first end received through the opening and a second end extending therefrom for connection with an associated buried line. A seal assembly is interposed between the inner casing and the adapter for sealing therebetween. A gripping assembly holds the inner casing in the adapter. A protective tubular assembly is received over the inner casing. The tubular assembly has a first end received in the opening and a second end extending therefrom a dimension sufficient to cover the inner casing above ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Perfection Corporation
    Inventors: David L. Robison, Jason Knaus
  • Control arrangement for mains-operated apparatuses that are supplied with a low voltage and provided with a mains activation device
    Patent number: 7126806
    Abstract: A control arrangement for apparatuses (1) with several functional actuators operated with a low voltage and supplied by a mains-operated transformer (2) provided with a mains activation device. A manually actuated switching unit (3) consolidated into a switching panel (12) and serves to control the actuators and the mains activation device by switching contacts such as pushbuttons. Transmission paths are provided to transmit control commands to the mains activation device and to the actuators. The switching unit (3) is simplified by separate switching contacts (4, 4?) and (5, 5?) and separate transmission paths (4A) and (5A) respectively provided in the switching unit (3) for the main activation device and for the functional actuators respectively, while the control circuits of the mains activation device and of the functional actuators are permanently separated from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Cimosys AG
    Inventor: Rolf Farmont
  • Tone reproduction curve and developed mass per unit area control method and system
    Patent number: 7127187
    Abstract: A method of controlling the solid developed mass per unit area and the tone reproduction curve in a printing machine by reading data from a sensor, comparing the data to an acceptable range of data values, where the data is not within the acceptable range of data values, updating a plurality of control actuators, determining whether the discharge ratio is within an acceptable range of discharge ratio values, where the discharge ratio is within the acceptable range of discharge ratio values, applying new control actuators to a power supply in the printing machine, and where the discharge ratio is not within the acceptable range of discharge ratio values, adjusting raster output scanner exposure per an exposure formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Song-Feng Mo, Wendy K. Apton, Stephen F. Randall, Jennifer R. Wagner, David Clark Craig
  • Method and apparatus for moisture detection in exterior sheathing of residential and commercial buildings
    Patent number: 7126486
    Abstract: An automated device monitors moisture content in exterior sheathing of a building for detecting moisture intrusion into the sheathing walls. A plurality of moisture sensors are embedded in selected exterior walls of the building behind the cladding and are adapted to provide signals representative of the moisture content in the walls at each of the selected locations. A control unit is operatively connected with each of the plurality of moisture sensors for generating an alarm signal when at least one of the signals representative of the moisture content in the plurality of walls is indicative of a moisture content in excess of a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Dryvit Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E. Kroll, Todd E. Watson
  • Imaging member having a dual charge transport layer
    Patent number: 7125633
    Abstract: An imaging member having a charge transport layer with multiple regions or layers is provided. The charge transport layer includes at least two charge transport layers coated from solutions of different components and concentrations, wherein the second (top) transport layer comprises a lower concentration of different charge transport compound than the first (bottom) charge transport layer. The charge transport compound included in the second (top) charge transport layer is a high mobility hole transport compound. The charge transport compound in each layer is dissolved or molecularly dispersed in an electrically inactive film forming polymer to form a solid solution. In such a construction, the resulting dual charge transport layer exhibits enhanced cracking suppression, improves wear resistance, provides excellent imaging member electrical performance, and delivers improved print quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Satchidanand Mishra, Houy Jen Yuh, Anthony M. Horgan, Markus R. Silvestri, Robert C. Yu, Yuh Tong, Dale Renfer, Kenny-tuan Dinh, Geoff Foley, Jack Yanus, Timothy Fuller
  • Increased light extraction from a nitride LED
    Patent number: 7125734
    Abstract: In a method for fabricating a flip-chip light emitting diode device, a submount wafer is populated with a plurality of the light emitting diode dies. Each device die is flip-chip bonded to the submount. Subsequent to the flip-chip bonding, a growth substrate is removed. The entire submount is immersed in the etchant solution, exposed to the light for a prespecified period of time, removed from the solution, dried and diced into a plurality of LEDs. The LEDs are immediately packaged without any further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: GELcore, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Sackrison, Hari S. Venugopalan, Xiang Gao
  • Customizable remote order entry system and method
    Patent number: 7127677
    Abstract: A system for generating a requisition comprises a client computer system and a server computer system connected via a network. The client computer is configured to allow a plurality of users to access the server computer system. The system further includes a server application comprising a user interface running on the server computer system and having a multi-tier architecture. The multi-tier architecture includes a first tier of client application code for initiating processing by the server application in response to input by a user of the client computer system, a middle tier of object-oriented server application code, and a third tier of shared access and data code. An application programming interface is configured to allow a user, such as a system administrator or the like, to customize the user interface. In a further aspect, a method of customizing a server application is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Chien-Sheng Chou
  • Non-aqueous ink jet ink for imaging a lithographic printing plate
    Patent number: 7125448
    Abstract: A non-aqueous ink jet ink for printing lithographic printing plates. The formulation provides for ink jet printing using a solvent based ink in a drop on demand printer. The ink exhibits excellent physical properties and good stability over a range of times and temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas W. Martin, Michael J. McElligott
  • Cosmetic applicator pen
    Patent number: D530857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Bonne Bell, Inc.
    Inventor: Natalie Black
  • Extruder plate for diamond shaped extruder insert
    Patent number: D531197
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: JMP Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: James M. Pinchot
  • Label holder
    Patent number: D531227
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Fasteners for Retail, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul A. Mueller, Stephen D. Wamsley