Abstract: A document retaining section retains a structured document in which a logical structure and a layout structure are correlated with each other by using embedding nodes each being inserted between a unit logical node and a logical node immediately above the unit logical node and representing a corresponding relationship between the unit logical node and a unit layout node, and mold nodes provided in place of respective unit layout nodes. A document processing section is capable of processing a partial logical structure of the document retained by the document retaining section together with a partial layout structure corresponding to the partial logical structure.

Abstract: A paper feeder is suitable for use in an image forming apparatus such as a copier, a printer or the like and is capable of suitably correcting the direction of a sheet of paper conveyed from a registration device to a transfer unit. A paper conveying path is provided in curve form between a resist roller pair and a conveying roller pair provided on the upstream side of the resist roller pair as seen in a paper feeding direction. A fixed guide member is provided on the concave side of the paper conveying path. A movable guide member rotatably supported by a rotatable shaft with the rotatable shaft taken as the center, is provided on the convex side of the paper conveying path. The movable guide member is urged toward the fixed guide member by a torsion spring. A film-shaped elastic member which extends toward the downstream side as seen in the paper conveying direction, is mounted on a leading end portion of the movable guide member.

Abstract: The disclosed rotatable disks type sheet inverting, registration and stacking system has finger units, with sheet carrying slots, which are mounted to the disk units for variable radial movement. These finger units automatically adjust their radius to release sheets from their respective slots closely adjacent to the top of the output stack of sheets at their registration position to automatically compensate for variations in the height of said stack of sheets, preferably by limited force engagement of the ends of the fingers with the top of the stack. Preferably the finger units are radially pivotally outwardly lightly spring loaded to provide a transporting and inverting position for the sheets in the sheet slots which is at a substantially greater radius than the reduced radius thereof in releasing the sheets at the stacking registration position.

Abstract: A system, including a printing system and a remote diagnostic facility, is provided for performing a diagnostic operation relative to the printing system by reference to electronic data corresponding with one or more dialog screens stored in a memory of the printing system. In practice, a telecommunication link is formed between a facsimile transmission system of the printing system and a facsimile receiving system of the remote diagnostic facility, and the electronic data corresponding with the one of the one or more dialog screens is specified for transmission thereof across the communication link. When an event occurs, the electronic data corresponding with the one of the one or more dialog screens is transmitted from the facsimile transmission system to the facsimile receiving system, a print is produced, at the remote diagnostic facility, with the transmitted electronic data, and a diagnostic operation is performed with the print.

Abstract: A process of producing a product such as an x-ray sensor array performs two etching operations on an insulating layer to expose different parts of a conductive layer. One etch exposes part of the conductive layer in each unit of cell circuitry in the array without exposing the contact pads at the array's periphery. Then, a conductive layer including ITO is deposited over the insulating layer and patterned to form a conductive element for each unit, with the conductive element contacting the exposed part of the conductive layer. Afterward, a second etch exposes contact pads at the periphery of the array. As a result, the contact pads have high quality surfaces, facilitating testing and wire bonding.

Abstract: A testing device tests devices having a matrix of signal generators or sensors. The testing device uses a test plate having a plurality of signal generators or sensors arranged in a pattern matching the matrix of sensors or signal generators on the device to be tested. Individual signal generators or sensors on the test plate are electromagnetically coupled to a corresponding signal generator or sensor on the device to be tested. The signal generators or sensors on the test plate produce a pattern of signals or sense signals output by the device to be tested. Comparison of the signals output or sensed by the testing device to the signals output or sensed by the device to be tested indicates if the device to be tested is operating properly. A particular testing device is provided for testing the matrix of display electrodes in an active matrix liquid crystal display before liquid crystal processing of the display is completed.

Abstract: An optical scanning device having: a beam diameter shaping optical system which shapes a diameter of a light beam from a light source and focuses the light beam as a line image which is long in a direction corresponding to a main scanning direction; polygon mirror having a reflecting surface at one of a focusing position and a vicinity of the focusing position of the line image, the polygon mirror deflecting a light beam, which is incident on the polygon mirror, at a uniform angular speed in the direction corresponding to the main scanning direction; a cylindrical mirror disposed at a light beam reflecting side of the polygon mirror, the cylindrical mirror having power to converge a light beam in only a subscanning direction which is orthogonal to the main scanning direction, and converging a light beam on a surface-to-be-scanned; and an f .theta.

Abstract: In a black mode, image data for each color corresponding to the printing width of a black head are pre-read. If there is no color data, all the pre-read black data are printed. If there is some color data, black data are printed up to data just before the color data and then the mode is switched over to a color mode. In the color mode, image data corresponding to the printing width of each color in a color head are pre-read. If there is no color data, data are further pre-read up to data corresponding to the printing width of the black head. If there is further no color data, all data up to the current position of the head are printed in the color mode and then the mode is switched over to the black mode. Otherwise, printing by the printing width of each color in the color mode is continued.

Abstract: An ink composition comprised of a colorant and a reversible crosslinked component vehicle obtained from the reaction product of an anhydride and an organoamine, and which ink possesses a viscosity of from about 1 centipoise to about 25 centipoise at a temperature of from about 125.degree. C. to about 185.degree. C.

Abstract: A process for dip coating drums comprising providing a drum having an outer surface to be coated, an upper end and a lower end, providing at least one coating vessel having a bottom, an open top and a cylindrically shaped vertical interior wall having a diameter greater than the diameter of the drum, flowing liquid coating material from the bottom of the vessel to the top of the vessel, immersing the drum in the flowing liquid coating material while maintaining the axis of the drum in a vertical orientation, maintaining the outer surface of the drum in a concentric relationship with the vertical interior wall of the cylindrical coating vessel while the drum is immersed in the coating material, the outer surface of the drum being radially spaced from the vertical interior wall of the cylindrical coating vessel, maintaining laminar flow motion of the coating material as it passes between the outer surface of the drum and the vertical interior wall of the vessel, maintaining the radial spacing between the outer

Abstract: Simulated photographic-quality prints are created using non-photographic imaging such as xerography and ink jet. Reverse reading toner images are formed on a transparent substrate which is adhered to a coated backing sheet. One side of the backing sheet is adhered to a transparent substrate containing a reverse reading image. The opposite surface of the backing sheet is coated with a composition including a hydrophobic material and a percentage of colloidal particle material which enables writing on that surface with pen or pencil and printing thereon using xerography or ink jet.

Abstract: An method and apparatus for eliminating residual charge potential in a multicolor electrostatographic system is disclosed, wherein a transparent conductive solution is applied to a developed image for neutralizing any charge potential therein prior to subsequent development of a superimposed electrostatic latent image. An apparatus for applying a thin layer of charge neutralizing material to the developed image is provided. In addition, various solutions have been described which may be advantageously utilized to provide a charge neutralizing material in the context of the present invention.

Abstract: A system is provided to allow for automatic configuration of print engine scheduling software in accordance with descriptions of print engine modules. Each point engine module contains a description of itself in a form of module capabilities. When a print engine is formed from such modules, the system composes module capabilities to capabilities of a complete print engine. More particularly, inputs and outputs of capabilities are unified and constraints on their attributes are propagated. This enables derivation of potential outputs of the print engine. The resultant print engine capabilities are directly usable to configure scheduling software. Optionally, the resulting print engine capabilities may be compiled further.

Abstract: A conductive line in a thin-film structure such as an AMLCD array includes molybdenum and chromium so that it can be processed in a manner similar to chromium but has a greater conductivity than chromium due to the molybdenum. The conductive line can be produced by physical vapor deposition of a layer of a molybdenum-chromium (MoCr) alloy, which can then be masked and etched using photolithographic techniques in a manner similar to chromium. Proportions between 15 and 85 atomic percent of molybdenum can be processed more easily than pure molybdenum and are more conductive than pure chromium. Lines with between 40 and 60 atomic percent molybdenum can be used with a margin of error. To produce a tapered conductive line, sublayers of MoCr alloys with different etch rates can be produced and etched.

Abstract: To facilitate the recovery data from an embedded data pattern through the use of a appropriately sized capture window that is randomly positioned within the data pattern, the embedded data pattern is composed of a plurality of identical, one dimensionally or two dimensionally regularly tiled embedded data blocks which contain sufficient spatial addressing information to permit the logical reconstruction of a complete data block from any set of fragments that collectively provide a full cover for the surface area of any one tile. To this end, the capture window is sized to include a shape which is completely registered with the data pattern in which is capable of tiling the recording medium in accordance with the tiling vectors.

Abstract: An ink jet ink composition comprises water; a colorant selected from the group consisting of a dye, a pigment, and a mixture of a dye and pigment; and a material selected from the group consisting of (1) a hydroxyamide derivative having at least one hydroxyl group and at least one amide group; (2) a mercaptoamide derivative having at least one mercaptol group and at least one amide group; (3) a hydroxythioamide derivative having at least one hydroxyl group and at least one thioamide group; (4) a mercaptothioamide derivative having at least one mercaptol group and at least one thioamide group; (5) an oxyalkylene(alkyleneoxide) reaction product of the above said derivatives; (6) a thioalkylene(alkylenesulfide) reaction product of the above said derivatives; and (7) mixtures thereof. The inks comprising the said ink jet ink composition exhibit good latency especially in a high resolution thermal ink jet printhead (e.g.

Abstract: A transparency comprised of a supporting substrate, and thereover two coatings, a first coating layer which comprises a binder having a melting point of 100.degree. to 275.degree. C. and a heat dissipating and a fire retardant component, a second dye immobilizing light resistant, water resistant ink receiving coating layer situated so that the first coating layer is between the second dye immobilizing light resistant, water resistant ink receiving coating layer, and the substrate, said second dye immobilizing light resistant, water resistant coating layer comprising a blend of a hydrophilic polymer, an ink spreading agent, cationic component monomeric or polymeric capable of complexing with the ink dyes used to develop the transparency, a lightfastness inducing agent, and/or mixtures thereof, a filler and a biocide, and preferably wherein the two coatings are present on each surface of the supporting substrate.

Abstract: A low profile interconnect is used for electronic connections to segmented electrode donor rolls in which at least 78 interconnections between the segmented donor roll and a commutator can be made with a profile of approximately 10-15 mils, which retains reliability in an approximately 600 rpm rotational environment and which withstands 2000 volts between adjacent lines.

Abstract: An electrostatic-image developer which comprises a toner and a carrier comprising core particles coated with a coating resin, wherein the toner comprises toner particles having a volume-average particle diameter of from 3 to 9 .mu.m and having a specific particle diameter distribution, at least 20% of the total surface area of the toner particles is covered with (a) an external additive having an average particle diameter of from 20 nm to 100 nm, and at least 40% of the total surface area of the toner particles is covered with (b) an external additive having an average particle diameter of from 7 nm to 20 nm, and wherein the core particles of the carrier are magnetic particles formed from a composition comprising 100 parts by weight of a ferrite component represented by the following formula (3):(M.sub.y O).sub.100-x (Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3).sub.x (3)(wherein M is a metal atom selected from the group consisting of Li, Mg, Ca and Mn; x is from 45 to 95 mol %; and y is 1 or 2) and from 0.

Abstract: In a transmitting section, image data, voice data and screen data indicating situations of a sender are produced, and converted to generalized situation data by, for instance, thinning those data. Upon request from a receiver, the generalized situation data are transmitted to the receiving section via a network, and output, for instance, in a sequential manner, to allow the receiver to recognize the situations of the sender.