Abstract: A continuous web substrate printing system which can utilize a single otherwise conventional or existing xerographic print engine (normally printing conventional cut sheet print substrates) having an endless photoreceptor belt with a belt seam requiring a section of that belt to be unimaged in each belt rotation, yet provide continuous directly abutting images on the printed web, to avoid paper scrap. A special simplex or duplex continuous web printing substrate supply module may be docked with the cut sheet print engine to form an integral web printing system. It has a web feeding and image transfer system for appropriately feeding the continuous web printing substrate uncut into the print engine for image transfers to one or both sides of the web from the imaging surface of the print engine.

Abstract: An ink tank has a main ink chamber which is hermetically sealed and communicated with an ink jet head connected to a lower portion of the main ink chamber, through a communicating passage, and in which ink is to be contained, and an auxiliary ink chamber which is communicated with a lower space of the main ink chamber through a communicating passage. A porous member is packed in the auxiliary ink chamber.

Abstract: A composition having a) a haloelastomer with halogenated monomers, polyorganosiloxane monomers, or both halogenated and polyorganosiloxane monomers, and b) a doped metal oxide, preferably antimony doped tin oxide, dispersed or contained therein, wherein the composition can be formed into films or outer layers of components useful in xerographic processes.

Abstract: A shaft assembly comprising an elongated member having at least a portion which is hollow, tubular, shell like having an inside surface defining a shaft core and an outside surface defining a shaft functional surface, the shaft core being filled with a hardened, moldable material, and the shaft functional surface having at least one functional feature thereon, which is of hardened, moldable material integrally molded with the hardened, moldable material in the shaft core. In a preferred embodiment the shaft assembly is rotatable and has at least one molding aperture gate extending through the shaft from the inside surface to the outside surface which is filled with hardened, moldable material which connects the hardened material in the shaft core and functional feature.

Abstract: A graphic processing apparatus is described which is capable of controlling the highlighting states of regions of an image by providing differences in color and hatching densities and the like to the regions in accordance with the area and the degree of importance of the region. This allows high quality coloring and hatching to be easily performed. The graphic processing apparatus has a memory for temporarily storing the image; a region extractor that extracts a plurality of regions to be painted with a color from the stored image; a region color determiner that determines region colors to be applied to the extracted regions; and an output image generator that generates an image having the color attributes applied to the extracted regions of the stored image. The region colors are differentiated from each other by differences in color attributes from among the regions in accordance with the areas of the individual regions each to be painted with a color.

Abstract: A ring-shaped magnet (19) is bonded on or secured to the outer peripheral side of a rotor (21) which is borne by a rotary shaft (13) which constitutes a radial pneumatic dynamic pressure bearing. A ring-shaped magnet (23) is disposed so that it is spaced at a given distance from the ring-shaped magnet (19). The rotor (21) is restricted from moving in the axial direction and is rotatably supported in the radial direction by the magnetic attracting forces of two ring-shaped magnets (19, 23). The rotor (21) is eccentric by 0.5 relative to the axis of rotation by the difference in magnetic balance between the ring-shaped magnets (19, 23). Accordingly, the radial pneumatic dynamic pressure bearing generates a high dynamic pressure. The herringbone pneumatic dynamic pressure generating grooves (15a, 15b) generate a high dynamic pressure. They provide a very high radial load bearing ability to enhance the accuracy of rotation.

Abstract: The present invention includes a method and apparatus for extruding viscoelastic polymers. Specifically, the invention is directed to an extrusion die for manufacturing viscoelastic and similar polymers while reducing or eliminating die swell. These polymers typically exhibit Deborah numbers that are in the range of 20 to 30 as compared to 1 to 5 of styrene butadiene, as well as high elasticity or elastic modulus. The method and apparatus can be used to manufacture xerographic toner that has a relatively low melting temperature, which can cause a reduction in the power consumption of a printer or copier, and can increase the life of some of the fuser components contained within the machine. More importantly, use of toner particles created using the present invention can reduce or eliminate the phenomenon known as "vinyl off set," which causes the transfer of a hard copy image onto a vinyl material.

Abstract: A plural mode printing system utilizing a cut sheet print engine for printing conventional cut sheet print substrates, in which page print images are generated and transferred to the cut sheets at an image transfer station. This plural mode printing system selectively provides printing onto either the cut sheets or onto an uncut continuous web printing substrate, in the same cut sheet print engine. An independently moveable continuous web printing substrate supply module is selectively operatively docked with the cut sheet print engine. That web printing module has a web feeding and image transfer assistance system for feeding the continuous web uncut into the cut sheet printing engine for transferring the page print images onto the web instead of onto cut sheets when the print engine is operatively docked with the web printing substrate module. The web printing module does not itself need to print.

Abstract: An internal clock generates time stamps indicating an order of occurrence of operation events in a drawing communication apparatus. Data of operation events that occurred in another apparatus are transmitted to the drawing communication apparatus together with time stamps. The data of the operation events that have been input to the drawing communication apparatus or transmitted from the other apparatus are stored together with the time stamps. When a contradiction is detected between an order of receptions of the operation events and an order of the time stamps, the processing order of contradiction-detected operation events are corrected based on their time stamps.

Abstract: This invention provides a document database management system that reduces time to retrieve a structured document and improves precision of a result of the retrieving. Query input unit inputs a query including structural elements and a relationship between them. Document type retriever retrieves at least one document type that matches to the structural elements and the relationships between them included in the inputted query. Document type display displays the at least one retrieved document type on the screen of the display device. Document type input unit selects a document type from the at least one document type displayed on the screen. Document retriever retrieves a document satisfying the inputted query from prospective documents, each of which is created according to the document type inputted by the document type input unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is an imaging member which comprises a conductive substrate, a photogenerating material, a charge transport material, and a polymeric binder comprising (a) a first polymer comprising a polycarbonate, and (b) a second polymer of the formulae I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, or X as further defined herein.

Abstract: A photoconductive imaging member comprised of a supporting substrate, a hole blocking layer thereover, a photogenerating layer and a charge transport layer, and wherein the hole blocking layer is comprised of a crosslinked siloxane polymer schematically represented by ##STR1## wherein A, B, and C are the repeating units on the polymer backbone; D and E are divalent linkages; R' and P" are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, cyano, nitro, alkyl, alkoxy, acyl, alkoxycarbonyl, and aryloxycarbonyl; and x, y, and z are the molar fractions of the repeating monomer units such that the sum of x+y+z equal to about 1.

Abstract: A broadband reflective display has improved reflectivity as well as a lack of haze or opaqueness when viewed from various viewing angles, a reduced drive voltage compared to conventional devices and an improved peak photopic reflectance. The broadband reflective display includes a plurality of pairs of substrates, a plurality of groups of alternating liquid crystal and polymer layers formed between each of the pairs of substrates, each of the groups of liquid crystal and polymer layers being reflective of different wavelengths of light.

Abstract: A heat and pressure fuser and Release Agent Management (RAM) systems therefor. The RAM system deposits release agent material on toner images on a substrate such as plain paper. The RAM system includes a rigid metering roll and a pressure roll supported for pressure engagement to form a nip through which a substrate carrying the toner images passes with the toner images contacting the metering roll. Release agent material is applied to the metering roll from a supply with subsequent transfer primarily to the toner images on the substrate.

Abstract: An image analyzing and expression adding apparatus for presenting an operator with image impressions displayed in terms of sensitive language and for allowing the operator to use stored design know-how in adding expressions to the image on display. An image segmenting unit segments an input image into a plurality of areas. An image feature storing unit stores the physical feature quantities of each of the segmented areas. The physical feature quantities are processed by an image analyzing unit preparing visual feature quantities about the entire image. A sensitive influence quantity computing unit receives the visual feature quantities thus prepared and, based on information from a design know-how storing unit, computes factors of the terms representing sensitivity. The operator is presented with the factors of the sensitivity-expressing terms. In response, the operator instructs desired expressions using the sensitivity-expressing terms through an expression instructing unit.

Abstract: A system, with a screen display, and an application server, is provided. Preferably, the application server registers one of a plurality of metaphor elements with a set of device attributes. A status indicating metaphor or a control metaphor is developed for use with the one of the plurality of metaphor elements. When displaying a metaphorical template, including the one of the plurality of metaphors on the screen display, the status indicating or control metaphor is associated with the one of the plurality of metaphor elements for facilitating the programming of a job or controlling an output of the job.

Abstract: In a light control element whose reflection factor or transmission factor varies in response to an external stimulus such as voltage by having layer structure in which the refractive index varies periodically, design is made such that the difference in refractive index between adjacent layers in a reflected state becomes sufficiently great and the halfamplitude level of reflection spectrum becomes sufficiently high. A light control layer is interposed between supporting plates, and the light control layer is obtained by alternately laminating a nonsensitive layer and a sensitive layer in the Z-axis direction. In the nonsensitive layer, the oriented direction of the liquid crystal is fixed in the X-axis direction, while in the sensitive layer, the liquid crystal is oriented in the X-axis direction. On the supporting plate, a pair of electrodes and facing to each other in the Y-direction are so formed as to extend in a striped shape in the X-axis direction respectively.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of altering the electrical characteristics of a material through a laser ablation process. It can achieve high doping levels and shallow junctions at low temperatures, which are desirable in the fabrication of thin film transistors.

Abstract: A guide for leveling the flow of a coating from a nozzle onto a generally cylindrical substrate of a polymeric printing component in a printing machine is provided. The substrate is rotated about its longitudinal axis by a turning apparatus having a axially movable slide for mounting the nozzle to the slide. The coating is spirally applied to the substrate. The guide includes a member operably associated with the slide and moves with the slide. The member has a surface parallel to and slightly spaced from the periphery of the substrate so as to assist in evenly distributing the coating on the periphery of the substrate.

Abstract: A ROM stores density conversion tables appropriate for a present apparatus to execute recording and standard density conversion tables. As a command is entered on a control panel, a CPU sets the optimum density conversion table in a RAM and again converts image data of 256 levels of gradation for a density adjustment. Resultant image data undergoes false halftone processing in an error diffusion circuit and is transmitted to the present apparatus or a destination recorder. When the record characteristic of the destination recorder is unknown, the standard density conversion table is used, so that no large difference occurs for recording.