Abstract: An alternator system having a single voltage sensor and a half-wave controlled rectifier bridge for increasing/decreasing alternator output power is disclosed. The half-wave controlled rectifier bridge includes three diodes and three active switches. The alternator system further includes a controlled field winding coupled to a three-phase stator winding; a battery; and, a controller for controlling the active switches and the field winding for increasing/decreasing the alternator output power. The controller uses edges sensed by the single voltage sensor for determining optimum activation and deactivation times for the three active switches in the bridge, and then controlling the switches in accordance with the determined optimum switching times.

Abstract: An improved electrophoretic imaging process is provided wherein the improvement comprises the use of electrostatic charge-bearing particles having an electrically photosensitive pigment which is the reaction product of 2,3-naphthalenediol and a diazonium salt. Preferred pigments have the following structure: ##STR1## wherein: R.sup.1 is a lower alkoxy group or --OCH.sub.2 CONH.sub.2 ;R.sup.2 is H or NO.sub.2 ; andR.sup.3 is H or --SO.sub.2 NH.sub.2.

Abstract: An electrographic copier and process wherein an image-bearing support material has toner particles fused thereto by a heated pressure member, the pressure member being kept clean of contaminants by a fusible resinous powder distributed over the support material and toner particles prior to the fusing step.

Abstract: A method of photoconductivity attracting cationic resins in an imagewise fashion to a photoconductor, wherein the photoconductor in contact with the resin is biased positively. The resultant resin negative permits the resin coated photoconductor to be used as a master for electrographic copying.

Abstract: A non-continuous suspension polymerization process for the production of finely-divided, low molecular weight polymeric particles of an aryl monomer is carried out in a heated aqueous suspension media at a polymerization temperature above the glass transition temperature of the desired polymer. The monomer reactants and the polymerization initiator are substantially simultaneously introduced into the heated suspension media at a slow, substantially continuous rate over a time within the range of from 20 to about 85 percent of the total polymerization reaction time. The suspension media is subjected to high-rate shearing throughout the reaction.

Abstract: A method for preconditioning an electrographic developer comprising an unconsolidated mass of discrete particles of a carrier and of a toner which carries a charge control agent of negative or positive polarity, said method comprising repeatedly passing a flowing stream of such developer through an electrostatic field between a positive or negative electrode and a grounded electrode of opposite polarity, and attracting part of said toner particles to the electrode of sign opposite the sign of said charge control agent. The grounded electrode has an inclined surface and the stream of developer slides down such surface under the other electrode, which is parallel to the grounded electrode. The apparatus includes mixing mechanism for mixing the developer, and conveying mechanism for carrying mixed developer from the bottom of the inclined grounded electrode back to the top for repeated passage through the electrostatic field.

Abstract: A test element is provided which can detect and measure extremely low concentrations of formaldehyde in the environment. The test strip comprises a support having thereon a formaldehyde-sensitive layer comprising an inert formaldehyde-permeable binder which stabilizes sulphite ions against aerial oxidation having dispersed therein pararosaniline or an acid derivative thereof and sulphite ions. The test element requires no processing and can be fixed to obtain a permanent record.