Abstract: An image stripping apparatus includes: a stripping roller which strips an image forming material from an image recording medium by contacting the image forming material on the image recording medium; a cleaning roller for removing, from the stripping roller, the image forming material which has been transferred to the stripping roller; and a cleaning blade stripping the image forming material from the cleaning roller. The stripping roller has a surface layer made of a material having affinity and releasability with respect to the image forming material and the image recording medium. Thus, the stripping roller exhibits peelability required for stripping of the image forming material from the image recording medium and releasability required for removal of a transferred image forming material from the stripping roller.

Abstract: An apparatus comprised of a charging component, a development component, a transport component, a photoconductive component, and a fusing component, and wherein the development component contains a toner comprising at least one binder in an optional amount of from about 85 to about 99 percent by weight, at least one colorant in an optional amount of from about 0.5 to about 15 percent by weight, and calcium stearate in an optional amount of from about 0.05 to about 2 percent by weight and wherein following triboelectric contact with carrier particles, the toner has a charge Q measured in femtocoulombs per particle diameter D measured in microns (Q/D) of from about ?0.1 to about ?1 fC/?m with a variation during development of from about 0 to about 0.25 fC/?m and wherein the distribution is substantially unimodal and possesses a peak width of from about 0.1 fC/?m to about 0.

Abstract: In a method for forming a light waveguide, a light waveguide forming substrate is disposed so that a photosemiconductor thin film or a conductive thin film on the substrate is in contact with an aqueous electrolyte solution containing a film forming material having a property that solubility or dispersibility to a water solution decreases according to the pH change, and a voltage is applied between the photosemiconductor thin film or the conductive thin film and a counter electrode by light irradiation.

Abstract: A belt seam treatment apparatus includes a support element with a smooth surface that supports the seam region of the belt and a heat and pressure source that heats a treatment strip and the belt seam region and that forces the treatment strip against the belt seam region. The support element can be a tube over which the belt hangs and can include a vacuum belt hold system that secures the seam region against the tube during treatment. The heat and pressure source can be a heated pressure bar engaging the entire seam region or a heated pressure wheel traversing the seam region of the entire belt width.

Abstract: A method of scheduling jobs in a printing machine includes choosing configuration and selection policies and model and store traversers from a library based on a model of the machine, traversing the model of the machine to prepare and store a list of valid itineraries based on the configuration policies and traversing the stored list of valid itineraries to locate a valid itinerary to process a job. An itinerary is a schedule of the printer modules and capabilities through which a sheet must pass to perform a print job. The step of traversing the model of the machine includes evaluating all possible itineraries to preparing the list of valid itineraries based on the configuration policies and storing the list in a memory. The step of traversing the stored list of valid itineraries to locate the valid itinerary to process a job includes evaluating the list based on the selection policies and the job description.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical element including at least; two substrates oppositely arranged; a liquid disposed between the facing surfaces of the substrates; and a chargeable polymer disposed between the facing surfaces of the substrates for swelling or contracting by absorbing or releasing the liquid when an electric field is applied, wherein (1) an area of each adhering fixing portion is smaller than a maximum sectional area of the chargeable polymer particle at the time of maximum swelling, and (2) a non-adhesive portion surrounds each adhering fixing portion, and the non-adhesive portion is disposed at least at a largest outer circumference of the chargeable polymer particle at the time of maximum swelling and extends inside the largest outer circumference of the chargeable polymer at the time of maximum swelling.

Abstract: A surfactant-free toner process including coalescing by heating in water a coagulant, a polyester resin emulsion, a wax emulsion stabilized with said polyester emulsion and a colorant dispersion stabilized by said polyester emulsion.

Abstract: Features, such as finely controlling toner response curves and properly orienting documents, provided by imaging capturing devices are accessed through a complicated graphical user interface that includes a number of tabs and large number of dropdown boxes, pop-up boxes, drop-down menus, and the like. Various displayable portions of a scanner control graphical user interface include a task-specific user instruction access button. Selecting the task-specific user instruction access button causes a pop-up menu to be displayed listing tasks that can be accomplished using, at least in part, various ones of the control elements displayed in the currently displayed portion of the scanner control graphical user interface. Upon selecting a selectable task item in the pop-up menu, a task-specific user instruction graphical user interface is displayed.

Abstract: An imageable belt includes a seam that is finished using an abrasive finishing machine. The seam comprises a seam width with adhesive material disposed thereon. The finishing process includes an abrasive finishing media with a finishing surface and a backer bar. The backer bar comprises a backer bar radius. The backer bar surface is positioned against the belt inner surface so that the belt outer surface contacts the finishing surface to define a finishing contact arc with respect to the backer bar radius. A tension, feed rate and pressure are applied to the finishing media. Using the finishing machine, the seam is then finished to remove the adhesive material. The finishing process results in a seam that is imageable. In one embodiment, the backer bar radius is adjusted so that the finishing contact arc covers the seam width.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus or method which uses plural image forming units to form visible images of different colors by making developers of different colors adhere to image holders such as photosensitive drums electrostatically. In this apparatus or method, intermediate transfer electrode members such as intermediate transfer rollers are opposite to the image holders of the image forming units with a belt transfer member between them and voltage is applied to transfer images electrostatically from the image forming units to the belt transfer member in sequence in a way that the transferred images on the belt overlap each other. Each of the intermediate transfer electrode members is located on the belt surface away from a point (transfer nip) at which a corresponding image holder contacts the belt.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus is provided which includes: an image forming part that forms an unfixed toner image on a recording sheet; a first fixing part that performs primary fixation to the recording sheet that bears the unfixed toner image; and a second fixing part that performs secondary fixation to the recording sheet fixed by the first fixing part. In the image-forming apparatus, the second fixing part exists above the image forming part.

Abstract: A transfer device for transferring an object to be transferred in a predetermined direction has a drive mechanism unit, a transfer direction displacement information acquiring unit, a skew direction displacement information acquiring unit, and a transfer processing unit. The drive mechanism unit also has roll parts which cause the object to be transferred to move in the direction with a rotational force. The transfer direction displacement information acquiring unit and the skew direction displacement information acquiring unit radiate a predetermined measuring wave toward the object, so that the units acquire the displacement information in each of the directions. Based on the displacement information, the transfer processing unit performs a predetermined processing.

Abstract: A digitally readable identifier located proximate to a physical object communicates a personality identifier. The personality identifier is automatically or manually associated with document content. The personality identifier is automatically associated with document content using context information that identifies the place of a physical object and/or the time the personality identifier is communicated. Once the personality identifier is associated with document content, a meta-document server enriches the document content in accordance with a predefined thematic set of document services identified by the personality identifier.

Abstract: A release layer is formed on a substrate, and plural thin-film patterns are formed on the release layer. The release layer is etched back at a prescribed depth at least in regions close to the circumferences of the thin-film patterns. The thin-film patterns are transferred sequentially to a counter substrate to be laminated on the counter substrate and to thereby form a micro structure. This manufacturing method is employed in a case that the combination of thin-film patterns and are lease layer is such that when a prescribed pressure is applied to each of the thin-film patterns on the release layer in the transferring, the height of a raised portion of the release layer that would be appeared in a region close to the circumference of the thin-film pattern if the release layer were not be etched back is greater than or equal to the thickness of the thin-film pattern.

Abstract: A laminated polymer optical waveguide including two or more optical waveguide films each of which includes an optical waveguide core on a light-transmissive clad film, the two or more optical waveguide films being laminated on each other by using a clad-forming curable resin having a refractive index close to that of the light-transmissive clad film. The laminated polymer optical waveguide includes, at an end thereof, plural strip-shaped structures which each include at least one optical waveguide core and which can be each independently bent in the direction along which the optical waveguide films are laminated.

Abstract: A circuit board inspection device for inspecting the operation of a circuit board having a predetermined part or wire formed therein includes a supporting substrate disposed substantially in parallel with the parts mounting surface of the circuit board, and a signal change detection unit made of a coil or a capacitor disposed in a position of the supporting substrate corresponding to the part or wire of the circuit board, with the supporting substrate being disposed substantially in parallel with the circuit board.

Abstract: An illegal communication detector that is mounted in a communication path between external devices and a protection-targeted device to monitor contents of communications delivered to the protection-targeted device, the illegal communication detector including: a recording unit that records at least part of information transmitted from the external devices to the protection-targeted device; a determination unit that regards one of the external devices as a device of interest; and a communication control unit that detects, if the determination means conclude that at least part of the recorded information complies with the predetermined illegal communication standard rule, that the contents of communication are derived from an illegal communication, and performing a predetermined process concerning the communication with the device of interest.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a polymeric optical waveguide-forming master plate, comprising: laying a thread which does not transmit rays used for subsequent exposure on a substrate for a master plate, applying a positive resist material onto the substrate to have a thickness such that, when parallel rays are vertically radiated onto the resist from a side opposite to a substrate side with respect to the thread and then the resist is developed, a layer made of the resist is formed at whole space where the rays have not been radiated; radiating parallel rays substantially vertically to the substrate to expose the resist to the rays; and developing the exposed resist on the substrate to form a convex portion corresponding to a shape of an optical waveguide core, to waveguide production methods using the same, and to the resultant waveguide.

Abstract: A holographic recording method and a holographic recording apparatus capable of selectively rewriting or erasing only desired data without degrading data other than the desired data are provided. Holograms are multiple recorded per file, and page data in one file is multiple recorded, while page data in one file and page data in another file are not multiple recorded. Therefore, only the desired file can be selectively rewritten or erased without degrading the other files.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a polymeric optical waveguide, comprising: preparing a mold having, on a surface thereof, a branched concave portion for forming a core; bringing a clad substrate into close contact with the surface of the mold having the branched concave portion; filling the branched concave portion with a core-forming curable resin by supplying and sucking the core-forming curable resin from one end of the branched concave portion into the branched concave portion toward another end of the branched concave portion which is provided opposite the one end while the remaining ends of the branched concave portion are closed, by opening the closed ends, and by sucking the core-forming curable resin into portions communicating with the opened ends; and curing the core-forming curable resin; and a production device used for the above method.