Abstract: A method for plastic sheet manufacturing whereby a layered body including a film is made to pass through a nip portion formed by a pair of belts, each having a joint portion, causing the layered body to be integrated to manufacture a plastic sheet. Before integration, the position of each of the joint portions is detected and the timing at which the layered body enters the nip portion is controlled in accordance with the detected positions. A plastic sheet manufacturing apparatus implements the plastic sheet manufacturing method.

Abstract: A charged particles cleaning apparatus for cleaning and removing charged particles from a surface includes (a) a housing; (b) a surface scrubbing member mounted within the housing for contacting the surface and frictionally removing charged particles therefrom; (c) an air blower for pulling an air stream out of the housing; (d) a manifold connecting the housing to the air blower for directing the air stream and charged particles therein out of the housing, the manifold including manifold walls having inside surfaces defining a duct passage for the air stream; and (e) at least one biasing source connected to the inside surfaces of the manifold walls for biasing the inside surfaces to prevent build up of charged particles on the inside surfaces, thereby reducing costs of periodic cleaning of the manifold walls.

Abstract: A method for halftoning an image, including receiving image data including a plurality of color separations and comparing image data for first, second, third, and fourth separations to first, second, third, and fourth halftone screens. The screens are characterized by first, second, third, and fourth pairs of frequency vectors, respectively. The fourth pair of frequency vectors is identical to one of the first, second, and third pairs of frequency vectors. Further, the first, second, third, and fourth screens have an associated fill-in sequence, where the fill-in sequence of the fourth screen is such that overlap between the separation corresponding to the fourth screen and the separation corresponding to the one of the first, second, and third screens to which the fourth screen has an identical pair of frequency vectors does not occur until a combined dot area coverage of the separations is greater than 100%.

Abstract: In an image forming apparatus such as a color laser printer wherein a toner image is transferred onto a continuous paper, one or more of a exposure timing of each exposure device, a rotation speed of each image carrier device, a transfer bias voltage applied to each transfer device, and a wrap amount of each wrap device are controlled based on a coverage of a toner image formed on each image carrier device, thereby preventing a color-to-color registration state which tends to be caused due to a variation in the transport speed of the continuous paper in a transfer process.

Abstract: A driver management method for managing a driver that is used when an output apparatus is used from a terminal apparatus, includes monitoring a state of the output apparatus, and restricting availability of the driver according to the state of the output apparatus.

Abstract: A substantially straight beam in an unbuckled state is compressed to cause the beam to buckle using an adjustable compressor. The adjustable compressor applies force to one or both ends of the beam and limits compression on the beam to allow the beam to move between a first buckled state and a second buckled state. The first buckled state and the second buckled state comprise substantially equal magnitude and opposite direction buckling movements from the unbuckled state.

Abstract: According to various embodiments, exemplary interconnects and methods for interconnection are provided that can include contacts formed by fiber bundles. The exemplary interconnects can be used to form separable or non-separable electro-mechanical connections between one or more of the generally accepted six levels of interconnection. In various embodiments, the exemplary interconnects can allow management of the thermal properties of the electronic devices. Exemplary interconnects can also provided reduced thickness allowing redundancy and additional compliance as desired.

Abstract: A download method comprises an auxiliary downloader storing step for storing an auxiliary downloader 38 in a storage unit by executing a downloader 22 stored in the storage unit, a new software storing step for storing new software 40 in a region of the storage unit other than the storage region where the auxiliary downloader 38 is stored, and a downloader starting step for executing the auxiliary downloader 38 in the event of failure of the storage of the new software 40.

Abstract: A module for an optical wavelength division multiplexing communication includes semiconductor lasers emitting lights of wavelengths, a support member on which the semiconductor lasers are mounted, an optical fiber to which the lights emitted from the semiconductor lasers are incident, and a component that positions the optical fiber with respect to the support member and fixes the optical fiber thereto.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image-forming device that can record an image onto a rewritable image recording medium. Prior to recording a predetermined image, the medium is set and a test image for measuring the density is recorded thereon. When the density is determined to be within an allowable range, the predetermined image is recorded under certain image recording conditions and then discharged to a discharging tray. However, should the density be outside the allowable range, the conditions are changed and another test image is recorded to the medium. If after repeated density measurements the density is not within an allowable range, the device determines that the medium is defective and discharges it to an error tray.

Abstract: A toner composition includes a resin substantially free of cross linking and having a weight average molecular weight of from about 50,000 to about 1,000,000, a wax, a colorant, and a coagulant.

Abstract: In a printing machine having at least one transfer device driven in response to an electrical signal and operable to transfer a medium onto a sheet, a method of controlling the magnitude of the electrical signal driving the transfer device comprises assigning a magnitude of the electrical signal for driving the transfer device to each of at least two transfer stress conditions, evaluating at least one operating parameter of the printing machine relative to a corresponding pre-determined threshold value, selecting one of the at least two transfer stress conditions based on the evaluation of the at least one operating parameter, and applying the magnitude of the electrical signal corresponding to the selected stress condition to the electrically-driven transfer device. The operating parameters may include environmental parameters, such as altitude and humidity, sheet properties, such as paper weight, and machine parameters, such as transfer device life.

Abstract: A method and system reconstructs a contone image from a binary image by first tagging pixels to identify one of a multiplicity of image content types. The tag information and the pattern of bits surrounding the pixel to be converted to a contone value are used to reconstruct a contone image from a binary image. The pattern of bits in the neighborhood is used to generate a unique identifier. The unique identifier is used as the address for a lookup table with the contone value to be used. A filter also generates a contone value. A selector selects between the look-up table contone value and the filter contone value based an image context type.

Abstract: A toner composition includes a reactive resin substantially free of cross linking, a wax, and a colorant. The reactive resin can include reactive epoxy and carboxylic acid functional groups.

Abstract: Wear of the photoreceptor drum can be suppressed, and degradation of image quality of recorded images can be suppressed. When instruction information (image information and control information) for instructing formation of a developed image on a plurality of recording sheets S is inputted, driving of the photoreceptor drum 50, the developing device 52 and the transfer roller 56 is controlled such that formation of the developed image on a plurality of the recording sheets S according to the instruction information is continuously performed, and driving of the photoreceptor drum 50, the developing device 52 or the transfer roller 56 is controlled such that, in the course of the continuous image formation, driving of the photoreceptor drum 50, the developing device 52 or the transfer roller 56 is halted at least once.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a judgement section and a generation section. A latent image, which would be retained or eliminated by photocopying, is to be superposed with machine-readable code images, which are encoded supplementary information, to generate a superposed image. The judgement section judges overlapping of the latent image with the machine-readable code images. The generation section, on the basis of judgement results from the judgement section, determines an arrangement of the machine-readable code images and generates the superposed image.

Abstract: A link relationship display apparatus for displaying a link relationship between first and second node groups, each of which includes at least one node, the link relationship display apparatus includes: a unit to set one of the first and second node groups as a master node group, and another one as a slave node group; a unit to extract a node of an abbreviated display target node group from the slave node group, the node having a degree of link coincidence which exceeds a predetermined threshold, the degree of link coincidence indicating a ratio of a common node to be linked in the master node group; a unit to determine a representative position coordinate of the node of the abbreviated display target node group; and a display unit to display a corresponding abbreviated display target node group in a vicinity of the representative position coordinate.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ink jet ink composition containing at least water, a colorant and a water soluble organic solvent. The ink jet ink composition contains at least one amine compound represented by the following formula (1) in a range of 10 to 30% by mass: wherein the amine compound represented by the formula (1) is any one of primary to tertiary amine compounds; at least one of three substituents represented by R1, R2 and R3 in the formula (1) includes a hydrocarbon group having a hydroxyl group; and none of the three substituents contain an alkyl group having at its terminal either one of —CO2M and —SO3M in which M represents an atom or an atomic group selected from hydrogen, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, an ammonium group and an organic amine group.

Abstract: An image reading device compares pixel values of an image data, which is output when a document is not at a reading position, with a threshold and generates a first dust detection data; compares a image data, which is output while the document is passing the reading position, with a threshold and generates a second dust detection data; when dust is indicated as being present at a matching position in a main scanning direction in both the first dust detection data and the second dust detection data, generates a third dust detection data; and judges that noise is present when the third dust detection data indicates that dust is continuously present for at least a prescribed length in a sub scanning line direction.

Abstract: A printer controller includes a driver module which controls operation of a control subject printer to be controlled, and an application module. The driver module includes: a conversion table referencing section which refers to a conversion table that correlates, for a prescribed printer control item, a control parameter suitable for the control subject printer and a control parameter suitable for a conversion subject printer that is different from the control subject printer; a control parameter acquiring section which acquires the control parameter that is output from the application module, is corresponding to the printer control item, and is suitable for the conversion subject printer; and a control parameter converting section which converts the acquired control parameter into the control parameter suitable for the control subject printer according to the conversion table, and outputs the resulting control parameter.