Abstract: A method of producing a polymer optical waveguide, the method including preparing a core-forming mold having a concave portion corresponding to at least one optical waveguide core, bringing a concave side of the core-forming mold into close contact with a flat substrate, filling a core-forming curable resin into the concave portion by suction and/or by utilizing a capillary phenomenon, curing the core-forming curable resin to form an optical waveguide core, and removing the optical waveguide core from the core-forming mold and the flat substrate.

Abstract: A power supply for a hybrid scavengeless development (HSD) image forming system which generates three voltages, a mag voltage, a donor voltage and a wire electrode voltage. The power supply outputs square waveforms for generating the toner clouds to maximize the voltage push-pull on the toner without increasing the peak voltage level. The power supply also generates asymmetric waveforms for the mag AC, donor Ac and wire electrode voltage signals to avoid air breakdown at the wire electrode to donor interface while allowing maximum use of the voltage space. Finally, the power supply uses frequency modulation of the AC signals to suppress harmonic strobing of the wire electrodes.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing device carrying out image processing on one of image data and an image-drawing command inputted from an image processing terminal. The image processing device has: an extracting section that extracts finished dimension information according to the one of the image data and the image-drawing command; and an image-drawing section that draws a finish line on a page layout which corresponds to the one of the image data and the image-drawing command, on the basis of the finished dimension information extracted by the extracting section.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device for changing instruction description. The device includes: a receiving unit that receives an instruction description instructing a processing to be executed by an executing unit and a location of the executing unit; a judging unit that judges whether or not the location instructed by the instruction description indicates a location of a predetermined utilizable executing unit; and a changing unit that changes the location instructed by the instruction description to the location of the predetermined utilizable executing unit which can execute the processing instructed by the instruction description, when the location instructed by the instruction description is not judged to indicate the location of the predetermined utilizable executing unit.

Abstract: In order to that there is no region in which an ink pools, a particle made from the ink is hardly generated, and high reliability is archived, an ink jet recording head comprising a substrate; a resin body, which defines an ink discharge section, formed on the substrate; and a heating resistor provided on the substrate, an ink chamber being formed between the heating resistor and the ink discharge section, resin parts being positioned in the resin body along the ink chamber, a material of the resin part being the same as that of the resin body, is provided.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an image supporting body that supports a toner image and an exposure part that exposes the image supporting body. The image forming apparatus also has a transfer part for transferring the toner image formed on the image supporting body onto a recording medium and a fixing device that fixes the toner image transferred onto the recording medium to the recording medium. Moreover a control part and a power supply part and a blowing unit are held by the image forming apparatus and the blowing unit generates an air flow. The control part, the power supply part, and the exposure part are disposed at an upstream side of the air flow generated by the blowing unit, and the fixing device is disposed at a downstream side.

Abstract: A metering blade suspension system utilizes a leaf spring that performs multiple combined functions such as supporting a metering blade assembly, controlling the angle, position and/or load of the blade assembly while allowing the assembly to pivot in a quasi-frictionless motion, locking the blade assembly in place, providing an electrical connection and/or bleeding static charge.

Abstract: In a problem partitioning method for problem solving in a computer system, a definition of a system to be controlled, a hierarchical control structure definition, problem definitions for a plurality of control nodes in the hierarchical control structure, and a structure evaluation function are used in partitioning the system problem. The partitioning method defines an instantiation of the hierarchical control structure by decomposing the system into a plurality of hierarchical control structure instances, with each control structure instance having a plurality of control levels. The performance of each of the hierarchical control structure instances is evaluated with the structure evaluation function and an optimal hierarchical control structure instance is selected.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photoconductive organic pigment comprising granular cores and an organic pigment having photoconductive properties which organic pigment adheres to the surfaces of the granular cores, a photoconductive organic pigment dispersion liquid comprising the photoconductive organic pigment, and an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising an electroconductive substrate laminated with a photosensitive layer containing the photoconductive organic pigment and an electrophotographic device using the electrophotographic photoreceptor.

Abstract: The toner comprises a white color toner particle and an external additive containing a hydrophobic titanium oxide particle. The absolute charge value of the toner is 20 to 50 ?C/g. The developer contains a white color toner particle and a carrier having a surface coated with a resin containing a fluororesin.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus in which respective color visible images on tandem-arrayed plural photoconductor drums are sequentially overlay-transferred onto an intermediate transfer belt by application of a primary transfer voltage by intermediate transfer rollers, then the images are transferred at a time from the belt onto a print sheet by application of a secondary transfer voltage by a paper transfer roller. The same primary transfer voltage is applied to the respective color intermediate transfer rollers from one power source. In the intermediate transfer belt, a relative dielectric constant, a surface resistance and a volume resistance are controlled such that potential charged by initial transfer is attenuated to ? or lower than the transfer voltage before a belt position of the initial transfer arrives at a next transfer position.

Abstract: Carbon nanotube structures are provided, in which the networks with a desired area and volume, where the carbon nanotubes are electrically or magnetically connected, are formed and the method for easily manufacturing the carbon nanotube structures with less carbon nanotube structures. Carbon nanotube devices are also provided, to which the useful carbon nanotube structures mentioned above are applied. A method for manufacturing carbon nanotube structures includes the steps of applying carbon nanotubes to a low-viscosity dispersion medium to obtain a high-viscosity dispersing liquid which includes carbon nanotubes, and forming a network of the carbon nanotubes having electrical and/or magnetic connections therebetween by removing the low-viscosity dispersion medium from the high-viscosity dispersed liquid.

Abstract: A liquid drop discharging head includes a matrix array head that can reduce variations in a print density without reducing a recording speed. A liquid drop discharging device provided with this liquid drop discharging head can realize compatibility between recording an image at high speed and recording the high quality image. Ejectors are disposed alternately to form dots on a recording medium that are arranged in the order of alternating ejectors such as A, E, B, F, C, G, D, and H. The dots having a relatively large diameter and the dots having a relatively small diameter are mixedly disposed in a sub-scanning direction at predetermined pitches. Mixed arrangement of dots increases space frequency variations in a print density along the sub-scanning direction, thus, making it difficult for the human eye to sense the density variations, and ensuring a high uniformity in a recorded result.

Abstract: A device and method are described for capturing an image of a document using a digital camera. The invention includes a resolution analyzer for analyzing the resolution of text characters in the image, to assess whether the resolution is suitable for OCR. In one aspect, if the resolution is too small or too large, an indicator is generated to guide the user as to the corrective movement of the camera to improve the resolution for OCR. In a second aspect, an electronic zoom control is controlled to alter the magnification of the captured image, to correct the resolution. In a third aspect, a method is described for analyzing the image to determine the resolution according to the height of text characters in the image. The method includes analyzing the run lengths of pixels in the image to identify a predominant length corresponding to the average character height (in pixels).

Abstract: A new type of high-Q variable capacitor includes a substrate, a first electrically conductive layer fixed to the substrate, a dielectric layer fixed to a portion of the electrically conductive layer, and a second electrically conductive layer having an anchor portion and a free portion. The anchor portion is fixed to the dielectric layer and the free portion is initially fixed to the dielectric layer, but is released from the dielectric layer to become separated from the dielectric layer, and wherein an inherent stress profile in the second electrically conductive layer biases the free portion away from the dielectric layer. When a bias voltage is applied between the first electrically conductive layer and the second electrically conductive layer, electrostatic forces in the free portion bend the free portion towards the first electrically conductive layer, thereby increasing the capacitance of the capacitor.

Abstract: An image-forming system such as a copying machine or a printer with electrophotography. The image-forming system includes an image-creating unit, a fixing unit, a medium conveyance path, and a surface modification unit. The image-creating unit has an image-forming region and forms an image on a medium. The fixing unit fixes the image formed by the image-creating unit on the medium. The medium conveyance path extends to the image-forming region. The surface modification unit is placed along the medium conveyance path. The surface modification unit activates a surface of the medium.

Abstract: A document service request is processed that originates from a mobile computing device and that is directed at an output device in communication with the mobile computing device over a first communications channel of the mobile computing device. A document server communicates with a transceiver to receive over a second communications channel a document service request originating from the mobile computing device. The document service request includes a first parameter identifying a document available to the document server and a second parameter identifying a type of output device available over the first communications channel. The document server transmits to the output device, via the second communications channel established by the mobile computing device, the document rendered in a format suitable for the output device.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing on a continuous basis quantities of seamed belts with imageable seams for printing systems from a continuous supply web of belt material, which seamed belts need to be manufactured to a desired circumference and width. In the disclosed embodiment the sides of the incoming supply web are cut in seam-forming mating edges and the web is fed in at an angle to a pair of rollers, at least one of which is tapered, to spirally wrap the web into a cylinder of the desired circumference of the seamed belts and providing mating engagement and gluing of the seam-forming edges. Then by sequentially transversely cutting off cylindrical segments of that spirally formed cylinder into the desired width, multiple seamed belts are formed with both the desired circumference and width.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has a cleaning blade adapted to scrape off the residual toner adhering to the surface of the image carrier, a brush arranged upstream relative to the cleaning blade in the direction of revolution of the image carrier and adapted to apply solid lubricant to the surface of the image carrier, and a support member that supports a piece of solid lubricant and adapted to generate movement and to cause the solid lubricant to come into contact with the brush due to the generated movement.