Abstract: A fluid ejector includes a drop size symbol that is based on the fluid ejector's drop size relative to one or more fixed drop sizes. The drop size symbol is formed by comparing the fluid ejector's drop size to the one or more fixed drop sizes. An image forming device includes a marking fluid ejector that includes a drop size symbol based on the marking fluid ejector's drop size relative to one or more fixed drop sizes. The image forming device forms an image based on the drop size symbol by determining the drop size symbol and then either selecting a marking fluid look-up table based on the drop size symbol, or forming an image correction factor based on the drop size symbol.

Abstract: A mail receiving section receives S/MIME signature mail from a host of a member. A member checking section checks the electronic signature of the signature mail for validity and determines whether or not the member belongs to a group. If the member checking section checks that the mail is from the valid member, a mail storing section requests an archive service section to archive the mail. A signature creating section uses a secret key unique to the group to create an electronic signature of the group. A mail transmitting section transmits the mail with the electronic signature of the group to the receiver.

Abstract: A method for generating a compliance rating for federally mandated accessibility standards for a consumer oriented product is disclosed wherein relevance criteria for at least one provision of said standards has already been defined. The method involves the steps of first identifying at least one configuration for the product to rate. Then, determining which rules of the standard are relevant to the identified configuration and generating a list of user functions for the configuration that a customer would be expected to perform in the normal operation of the product. Dividing each of the user task functions intended to be performed into a plurality of sub-tasks. Filtering the generated list of tasks as to appropriateness and applicability wherein appropriateness is defined as those tasks required to be reported on.

Abstract: A device for effecting motion of liquid droplets on a surface through the use of electrostatic field force includes a single substrate on which are disposed a plurality of spaced-apart electrodes. A dielectric material surrounds the electrodes on the substrate. The surface on which the liquid droplets are deposited is fabricated from a material that facilitates motion of the liquid droplets.

Abstract: A fluid ejector includes a drop size symbol that is based on the fluid ejector's drop size relative to one or more fixed drop sizes. The drop size symbol is formed by comparing the fluid ejector's drop size to the one or more fixed drop sizes. An image forming device includes a marking fluid ejector that includes a drop size symbol based on the marking fluid ejector's drop size relative to one or more fixed drop sizes. The image forming device forms an image based on the drop size symbol by determining the drop size symbol and then either selecting a marking fluid look-up table based on the drop size symbol, or forming an image correction factor based on the drop size symbol.

Abstract: A mailing list server and a mail re-sending method thereof with which, when a mail recipient has been unable to decrypt a mail, it is possible to re-send the mail compatibly encrypted in a form such that the recipient can decrypt it without fail. A mail re-send request from a member is made by HTTP, received by a web server 20, and processed by an application server 21. For example, re-send request information is sent to the web server 20 by a mailing list member, using an input form of a web page 303 from the web server 20. The application server 21 determines an encryption method on the basis of a user encryption method specification included in the mail re-send request. A sending part 101 encrypts the mail by the determined method and sends it to the member's address.

Abstract: A web page responsive to a display request from a browser 200 is prepared in a page processing section 109 in a plurality of languages for each display request. When a display request is received from the browser 200, a list preparation section 102 prepares a locale list based on the order specified in an order specification section 103, and a request processing section 108 selects a web page provided from the page processing section 109 based on the locale list.

Abstract: A method is provided for multiple target screening for drug assays utilizing a nanocalorimeter. The method includes depositing a drop containing a plurality of drug targets and another drop containing a plurality of drug candidates upon a test substrate. The drops are merged and a determination is made as to whether a reaction has occurred between the drops. If such a reaction has occurred, the reacting drug targets and drug candidates are tested individually.

Abstract: Scanning probe systems, which include scanning probe microscopes (SPMS) are disclosed that include cantilevered spring (e.g., stressy metal) probes and actuation/position sensing electrodes formed on a substrate. The actuation electrodes are used to position the spring probe relative to the substrate using electrostatic, magnetic, acoustic, or piezoelectric arrangements. An actuation signal source is switched between full on and off states to facilitate “ON/OFF” probe actuation in which the spring probe is either fully retracted against the substrate or deployed for scan operations. The position sensing electrodes are used to sense the deflected position of the spring probe relative to the substrate using resistive, magnetic, or piezoresistive arrangements. Spring probe arrays are disclosed that include multiple spring probes arranged on a single substrate.

Abstract: A process for treating an electrostatographic imaging member including providing a hollow cylindrical electrostatographic imaging member having an interior surface, a coated outer surface, a first end and a second end, the interior surface at at least the first end having a coating of adhesive material securing a first end flange to the first end, and propelling solid carbon dioxide pellets against the first end flange and coating of adhesive material with sufficient force to remove the first end flange and coating of adhesive material from the interior surface at at least the first end of the hollow cylindrical electrostatographic imaging member.

Abstract: A display array element including a substrate, a prism rotatable relative to the substrate, and a fluid conduit defined in part by the substrate. The prism has a first viewable surface having fist reflectance characteristics and a second viewable surface having second reflectance characteristics. The fluid conduit permits direction of fluid against the prism to rotate the prism to selectively allow viewing of one of the first and second viewable surfaces.

Abstract: In a tandem-type full color printer, to print monochromatic image data the resolution of which is high and the processing load of which is high at high speed and at a low cost, the operation of each component is required as follows. If a monochromatic image is printed, MB images acquired by dividing the monochromatic image by an image processor are sequentially sent to the respective image compressors for YMCK. Four image compressors are operated in parallel and the compressed data of MB images is stored in an image storage. After the data of all MB images required for an output image is stored, an MB image controller operates the respective image decompressors for YMCK in parallel and sends the stored data to the image decompressors. The decompressed MB images are coupled to one image data in an image coupler and are sent to a print unit.

Abstract: A system encodes a separate assist channel that carries only a small amount of additional information in a hardcopy document to compensate for failure of an OCR system to accurately reconstruct a scanned electronic version of the hardcopy document. The assist channel protects symbols printed on the hardcopy document by computing guard values that are derived from a hash of the character code of each character on the hardcopy document. Template match searches that are performed during decoding are limited to those interpretations that produce matching guard values.

Abstract: An e-mail option that allows a user to “cc: without attachments” any electronic mail (e-mail) message. Thus, a sender can send an e-mail message to a primary recipient that includes an attachment and, contemporaneously, send a copy of the original e-mail message to a secondary recipient without including the attachment. If there is to be more than one secondary recipient, the user can choose which, if any, of the secondary recipients are to receive the e-mail message with the attachment. In this manner, the sender can alert a secondary recipient, or designated secondary recipients, that a document has been sent, without needlessly including the attachment that is being sent to the primary recipient.

Abstract: A self-adaptive sheet feeding roll for reliably feeding, within a sheet feeding apparatus, sheets of various and different sheet weights along a sheet path. The self-adaptive sheet feeding roll includes (a) a cylindrical core having a longitudinal axis and an outer surface; (b) a compliant surface layer formed over the outer surface of the cylindrical core and having an external surface and a given layer thickness; and (c) a series of spaced apart, non-radial slots formed from the external surface into the compliant surface layer and defining a series of spaced apart blade portions within the compliant surface layer for adaptively compressing and deforming against, and responsively to, sheets of various and different sheet weights, thereby self-adjusting a normal force Fn as well as a sheet driving force Fd thereof and enabling reliable feeding, within a sheet feeding apparatus, of such sheets of various and different sheet weights.

Abstract: A method for placing nitride laser diode arrays on a thermally and electrically conducting substrate is described. The method uses an excimer laser to detach the nitride laser diode from the sapphire growth substrate after an intermediate substrate has been attached to the side opposite the sapphire substrate. A secondary layer is subsequently deposited to act as a transfer support structure and bonding interface. The membrane is released from the intermediate substrate and a thermally conducting substrate is subsequently bonded to the side where the sapphire substrate was removed. Similarly, the secondary layer may be used as the new host substrate given an appropriate thickness is deposited prior to removal of the intermediate substrate.

Abstract: A pressurizing unit for pressurizing ink filling a pressure chamber in response to an electric signal is constructed with a beam and a support portion. The support portion is preferably formed integrally with the beam and supports the beam at opposite end portions thereof. The support portion receives a bending force and a shearing force, with are generated at the opposite end portions by a buckling deformation of the beam when the beam is expanded in its longitudinal direction by an application of the electric signal.

Abstract: A method of providing support to a user of a computer peripheral includes sensing a peripheral indicia at a computer and registering the peripheral and downloading from a server additional information about the peripheral based on the peripheral indicia. The peripheral indicia includes any of a model number, a part number, a serial number, a date of manufacturer and a configuration indicia. Registering the peripheral is performed by launching a communications browser to connect to the server. The method also senses a peripheral condition at the computer where the peripheral condition includes either an error code or a code indicative of a consumable reaching a predetermined threshold or both. This method accesses the server at an address defined by the peripheral condition, and the server provides the browser with additional information about the peripheral condition.

Abstract: A display device having a memory property capable of maintaining a displayed information even in a state of being separated away from a power source as a result of decreasing the effect of external noise. The display device is detachably attached to a control unit that includes a drive circuit and a power source for driving the display device. The display device has a memory property and maintains the displayed image even in a state of being detached from the control unit. An input protection portion which is an electric load such as resistor, IC or capacitor is provided for the input portion leading to matrix electrodes from the connection terminals for electrically connecting the display device to the control unit. This prevents the infiltration of noise through the connection terminals and lowers a change in the displayed image.

Abstract: An emulsion aggregation process for the preparation of a magnetite toner, and where the magnetite can function as a negatively charged coagulant to facilitate aggregation of a basic cationic latex, a cationic carbon black dispersion and a cationic wax dispersion.