Abstract: A ink composition comprised of (1) a liquid cyclic vehicle (2) a cyclic compound, (3) a liquid crystalline nitrile compound, (4) a lightfastness UV absorber, (5) a lightfastness antioxidant, and (6) a colorant.

Abstract: An optical scanning device for deflecting a plurality of light beams is disclosed. The device includes a plurality of deflection means for deflecting each of the plurality of light beams. The means are formed in a thin film waveguide, and distributes a refractive index of the waveguide by an electro-optic effect according to input signals to cause diffraction due to the distributed refractive index, thereby deflecting a plurality of light beams.

Abstract: The invention provides a workflow support system and a method of the same that enables to refer to and to trace the history and progress state of the control information, as to a workflow transferring into a different system and an atypical task. The data base contains a task control information for executing a workflow, and the conversion unit converts a task information into a task sheet being an electronic document, which is stored in the document data base or the open document server. The task control information contains a relation between the tasks and a pointer indicating a storage location of a task sheet corresponding to the task, and the pointer is contained also in the task sheet. The task sheets are linked by this pointer. Tracing this pointer makes it possible to refer to the task sheets of the tasks involved, to grasp the progress state, and further to trace the task sheets involved.

Abstract: An apparatus including: a conduit operably connected to a source and extending downwardly therefrom, the conduit being adapted to permit a flow of particulate material from the source through the conduit; a fluidizing nozzle operably connected to the conduit and extending downwardly therefrom, the nozzle defining an inlet for receiving material from the conduit and defining an outlet for dispensing material from the nozzle to a receiver, the inlet defining an inlet cross sectional area perpendicular to the flow the material and outlet defining an outlet cross sectional area perpendicular to the flow the material, the inlet cross sectional area being larger than the outlet cross sectional area; the nozzle being adapted with a plenum including an inlet port for receiving compressed gas and a chamber adapted to communicate the gas to the porous walls of the nozzle, and an outlet port for engaging a vacuum source to continuously evacuate the receiver while the nozzle is engaged with the receiver; a conveyor locat

Abstract: An image is formed by a process comprising the steps of: preparing a substrate comprising a transparent substrate having formed thereon a transparent electroconductive film and a semiconductor thin film in this order; preparing in a vessel, which can hold an liquid, an aqueous liquid containing a coloring material and an electrodepositable material capable of chemically dissolving or sedimanting/precipitating depending on the change in the pH; connecting a device than can supply an electric current or an electric field in accordance with an image pattern to the transparent electroconductive film of the substrate; fixing the substrate so that the semiconductor thin film is immersed in the aqueous liquid; disposing a counter electrode as another member of an electrode pair in the vessel; disposing a prescribed photomask on the transparent substrate of the substrate; and carrying out light irradiation at the transparent substrate through the photomask so that an electrodeposited film containing the electrodeposi

Abstract: A printing system for automatically print-filling in an original form includes a scanner, a printer unit, an operator input unit, a display unit, a main processor and unit controllers. The original form is scanned to create a bitmap thereof that is stored in a first memory area as a first document including fill-in areas. A second blank document is created and stored in a second memory area. The first and second documents are displayed with the second document overlaying the first document. Required fill-in information is operator inputted onto the second document in areas thereof overlaying the fill-in areas in the first document. The original form is then loaded into the printer unit and the second document is selectively printed automatically onto the loaded original form.

Abstract: A post-printer open-architecture device includes a document input region for receiving documents from a document printing apparatus and a document output region for outputting post-processed documents. An open-architecture document post-processing region is located intermediate the document input and output regions and includes a transport surface for conveying documents from the document input region to the document output region. A module mounting assembly releasably receives and secures at least one document post-processing module in an operative position to perform one or more post-processing operations on a document conveyed on the transport surface.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for extracting contaminants from the ground using a vacuum extraction process. Specifically, the invention discloses a circuit that can control the flow of atmospheric air into a vacuum extraction well. By controlling the air flow into the well, the air flow circuit serves to regulate the vacuum that is applied to sub-surface contaminants. This vacuum lifts the contaminated effluent from the ground, so it can be subjected to further processing.

Abstract: A flexible electrophotographic imaging member including a supporting substrate coated with at least one imaging layer comprising charge transport material free of long chain alkyl carboxylate groups and a small amount of a different second hole transporting material containing at least two long chain alkyl carboxylate groups dissolved or molecularly dispersed in a film forming binder and coated from a mixture of solvents containing low boiling component and a small concentration of high boiling solvent.

Abstract: An image detection method is disclosed wherein local edge information within an image is utilized for accurately detecting lines and curves of the images. The method can more accurately determine the location and orientation of a pattern and thus provides more reliable image match for pattern detection. A detector is trained off-line with example images resulting in a stored template generated by recording a test pattern similar to a pattern to be tested; anchor lines are identified within said template. Long lines are detected in subsequent test patterns using the disclosed method. The template is rotated and shifted before matching it to the test pattern so that anchor lines align with long lines detected within the test pattern. The template and test pattern are then compared to determine whether there is a match.

Abstract: An ink for ink jet printing includes particles of an emulsifiable dye-polymer resin dispersed in a liquid vehicle, wherein the emulsifiable dye-polymer resin includes a dye chemically attached to the polymer resin. The polymer resin contains a base chain, such as polyester, having attached thereto hydrophilic groups, such as alkali sulfonated groups, for emulsifying the resin in water. The dye may be attached within the base chain itself, or attached to the base chain as a side chain component.

Abstract: A document processing system is provided in which a first document processing related device, having a set of document processing related settings or settings, is disposed remotely of a second document processing related device on a network. A browser is used to get an electronic page for the first document processing related device and information regarding a location of the second document processing on the network is written in the electronic page with the browser. The electronic page with the written information is posted to the first document processing related device and a server provides the electronic page with a subset of the set of document processing related settings or settings. The browser then submits the electronic page with the subset of the set of document processing related settings to the second document processing related device for programming the second document processing related device with the subset of the set of document processing related settings.

Abstract: A bushing mountable in a housing for supporting a rotating member and for providing a bias force to the rotating member in a first direction is disclosed. The bushing includes a body defining an aperture therein and a mounting member for mounting the bushing to the housing. The bushing also includes a biasing member operably associated with said body and said mounting member. At least two of said biasing member, said mounting member and said body are integral with each other.

Abstract: A toner composition comprised of substituted polyoxazolines resin particles, pigment particles, and optional charge enhancing additives.

Abstract: An improved sheet folder for flimsy printed sheets with an automatic fold position correction system. The folder may have an input sheet feeder, a fold chute with a chute entrance, reversible sheet feeding rollers in the fold chute adjacent to the chute entrance, fold rollers, a folded sheets output path, and a sensor system for sensing the length of folded sheets in the folded sheets output path. A sheet to be folded is may be partially fed into the fold chute, engaged by the reversible rollers, and fed thereby further into the chute by a selected distance corresponding to a desired folding position along the sheet. Then, the reversible rollers are stopped at a selected sheet stopping position and reversed to feed the sheet into the fold rollers, cooperatively with the input sheet feeder. The fold rollers feed the folded sheet into the folded sheets output path.

Abstract: A support mounting supports the corona generating electrode of a corona generating device. A corona generating assembly includes a corona generating electrode member having an elongated length defining a plurality of support openings spaced along the length of the corona generating electrode member, a primary support member having integral, outwardly extending support projections for supporting the corona generating electrode member, with the integral support projections arranged on the primary support member at positions corresponding to the support openings formed in the corona generating electrode member for cooperative engagement therewith, and a secondary support member adapted to define support projection receiving openings corresponding to the support projections of the primary support member for interlocking engagement therewith, such that said corona generating electrode member is sandwiched between the primary support member and the secondary support member.

Abstract: Electron repulsion integrals are classified according to atomic nucleus coordinates, etc., coefficients are generated and are stored in a data memory, multiplication with addition operation is executed according to a product sum procedure of auxiliary integrals of recursive order 1 or less, and the result is stored in the data memory. Next, density matrix element is stored in the data memory, a multiplication with addition operation procedure of an electron repulsion integral of recursive order 2 not containing any procedure of recursive order 1 or less is generated, and an instruction memory is updated. Multiplication with addition operation is executed while data is read from the data memory, and the result is stored in the data memory. At the termination of the product sum procedure, calculation of electron repulsion integral gRstu is complete and the Fock matrix element value is updated.

Abstract: An apparatus for developing a latent image recorded on an imaging surface, including a housing defining a reservoir storing a supply of developer material including toner. A mag roll loads a toner layer onto a region of said outer surface of said donor member. A donor member, spaced from the imaging surface, moves toner on an outer surface of said donor member to a development zone opposed from the imaging surface. A shield, adjacent to said donor member and said development zone, said shield being electrical biased to generate a toner cloud between said shield and said donor member which said toner cloud releases to the development zone to develop the latent image, in response to the movement of toner on the outer surface of said donor member.

Abstract: A processor implemented method of modifying a string of a regular language, which includes at least two symbols and at least two predetermined substrings. Upon receipt of the string, the processor determines an initial position within the string of a substring matching one of the preselected substrings. To make this determination, the processor either matches symbols of the string starting from the left and proceeding to the right or by starting from the right and proceeding to the left. After identifying the initial position, the processor then selects either the longest or the shortest of the preselected substrings. The processor then replaces the matching substring with the string of the lower language associated with the selected preselected substring and outputs the modified string.