Abstract: A polymerization process comprising: heating a mixture comprised of a free radical initiator, a stable free radical agent, at least one polymerizable monomer compound, and optionally a solvent, to form a polymer with a high monomer to polymer conversion and a narrow polydispersity, wherein said polymer is comprised of a covalently bound free radical initiator fragment at one end and a covalently bound stable free radical compound at the other end of the polymer, and wherein said stable free radical agent has high thermal, acidic, and photochemical stability.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning a charge retentive surface of a photoreceptor which includes a cleaning blade for removing debris from the charge retentive surface of a photoreceptor. In the environment of a xerographic copier and/or printer, corona effluents are emitted by the high voltage charging devices. These effluents, which are strong oxidizing agents, may be adsorbed by or otherwise attach a cleaning blade polymer matrix. Thereafter, such corona species outgassing from a blade may chemically and/or otherwise attack the photoreceptor during prolonged blade/photoreceptor contact, resulting in print/copy defects, as well as permanent damage to the photoreceptor and/or cleaning blade. The present invention relates to impregnating or otherwise treating the cleaning blade with an antioxidant such that its presence in the blade polymer matrix can prevent corona species penetration or accumulation by chemically neutralizing and destroying the species upon exposure.

Abstract: The printing of an image by a thermal ink jet printer is controlled based on an internal temperature of the printer adjacent the printhead and the density of the printed image. Prior to printing, the temperature of the printhead is estimated, and the density of the image is determined from stored print data. Based on the temperature and density, either a single-pass 100% coverage print mode or a double-pass checkerboard print mode is selected. Also based on the temperature and density, the printhead droplet ejection rate is set. Such control provides a printed image with high quality and prevents misfiring of the ink jets when temperatures and density are high.

Abstract: The present invention describes a method for superimposing prespecified locational, environmental, and contextual controls on user interactions, including interactions of mobile users, with computational resources. A system is described for electronically monitoring contextual information concerning users and machines, including state and locational information including proximity. Interaction policies, including user specified interaction policies, may be registered on an identifiable address path. Methods are described for detecting, selecting and controlling computercontrolled devices, based on the proximity of the device to the user, the current context of the user, the location of other nearby users and devices, and the current state of the devices. Temporary transfer of control, including exclusive control, of particular computers and computer controlled devices to individual users based on the context and environment in proximity to those computing devices is also described.

Abstract: An eductor liner article comprising: a flexible and substantially cylindrically shaped sleeve member with upstream and downstream ends; and a flange collar member adjacent and perpendicularly attached at an internal edge or surface to the up stream end of the sleeve member, wherein the flange collar member anchors the liner in an eductor joint, and wherein the liner eliminates or substantially reduces the deposition and accumulation of particulate material contained in a process stream educing through an eductor member in the vicinity of the eductor joint.

Abstract: In a sheet stacking system for stacking plural sheets from a printed sheets output path into at least one sheet stacking tray, including a stack height sensor for detecting the height of the stack of sheets in the tray and controlling a stacking control system; the stack height sensor has an elongated maximum stack height sensing bar, and a sensing bar movement system for intermittently moving the maximum stack height sensing bar into the tray in an operative measurement position on top of the stack of sheets in the tray at a position transversely of the sheet entrance path, with a normal force pressing downwardly against the top of the stack. The stack height sensing bar in this position extends across the top of the stack at the height of the highest level of any portion of the stack, in particular, overlying the sets stapling area.

Abstract: A fluid application device and method transfers fluid to a substrate from a fluid applicator having a plurality of ejectors. The substrate is partitioned into a matrix of cells covering the substrate and each cell includes a plurality of fluid-receiving sites. Each of the ejectors on the fluid applicator is associated with a respective one of the cells on the substrate. As fluid is ejected from the ejectors of the fluid applicator toward the substrate, the fluid applicator and substrate are moved relative to each other to cause the ejectors to scan back and forth across all of the fluid-receiving sites of each cell of the substrate. In a typical application, the fluid applicator is a printhead that ejects ink droplets toward a sheet, the printhead being approximately as large as the sheet.

Abstract: A document preparation support system which enables a document preparer to easily prepare a good-looking document meeting his purpose and application while eliminating the need for having any editorial design knowledge and which also enables the document preparer to easily prepare a document having a good result satisfying his intention and application even when the document preparer has no knowledge about how to reflect his intention and application on the document. To this end, in the document preparation support system, inferring operation is carried out with use of such document data as document contents and attributes and such document design knowledge data as evaluation words and document design elements to decide the optimum document design. Further, inferring operation is carried out with use of such document data as document contents and attributes and improper point indication data indicative of improper points in a document being prepared to indicate the improper points in the document.

Abstract: A transfer material detecting device contains a transfer material carrier that detachably carries a transfer material to transport the transfer material to a transfer region where a toner image of an image carrier is transferred to the transfer material; and transfer material sensors that are disposed in a moving path of the transfer material carrier and detect the existence of the transfer material carried by the transfer material carrier. The device contains at least two transfer material sensors arranged in a moving direction of the transfer material carrier at intervals that are shorter than the minimum size of the transfer material to be detected; and a device for outputting a transfer material detection signal when at least two of the transfer material sensors simultaneously detect the existence of the transfer material.

Abstract: Toners comprised of a mixture of a cyan toner, a magenta toner, a yellow toner, and an optional black toner, each of said toners being comprised of resin and pigment, and wherein the pigment for the cyan toner is a .beta. type copper phthalocyanine, the pigment for the magenta toner is a monoazo lithol rubine, the pigment for the yellow toner is an isoindoline, and the pigment for the black toner is carbon black.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of liquid developers which comprises contacting said developers with supercritical carbon dioxide.

Abstract: Circuitry formed at a surface of a substrate includes first and second lines in first and second layers of the circuitry. The first line includes semiconductor material and extends between first and second connecting points at which it connects electrically to other components. The second line is connected to receive a gate signal, and crosses the first line in two or more channel regions. The first line includes a channel in each channel region, and the channels are in series. The second line conducts the gate signal to all of the channel regions. The first line includes charge carrier sources and destinations positioned so that conductivity of the first line between the first and second connecting points is controlled by the gate signal. The first layer can be polysilicon, and the second layer can be polysilicon or metal. The first line can be undoped in the channel regions but heavily doped in other areas. Each of the first and second lines can include an angle of approximately 90.degree.

Abstract: A prefuser vacuum transport apparatus that increases the latitude of sheet acquisition includes at least one perforated belt entrained around a vacuum plenum to provide a limited drive force on sheets being driven by the vacuum transport apparatus. The vacuum plenum includes a vacuum port surface having a profile that is contoured to follow the profile of the stiffest sheet to be transported with the maximum specified curl. The belt follows the port surface contour.

Abstract: An ink jet recording method uses a plurality of recording heads, each of which jets droplets of ink of water-soluble dye of different color to record an image on a recording medium. The recording method includes the steps of: jetting a first ink from one of the plurality of recording heads to print on the recording medium, the first ink having an absorption coefficient (Ka) of 0.5 ml/m.sup.2 .multidot.ms.sup.1/2 or less and a wetting time (Tw) of 50 to 200 msec; and jetting a second ink from one of the plurality of recording heads to print on the recording medium, the second ink having an absorption coefficient (Ka) of 1.0 ml/m.sup.2 .multidot.ms.sup.1/2 or larger and a wetting time (Tw) of 20 msec or less.

Abstract: An electrophotographic imaging member having an imaging surface adapted to accept a negative electrical charge, the electrophotographic imaging member having a two electrically conductive ground plane layers including a layer including zirconium over a layer including titanium, a siloxane hole blocking layer, an adhesive layer including a polyarylate film forming resin, an intermediate layer over and in contact with the adhesive layer, the intermediate layer including a carbazole polymer, a charge generation layer comprising benzimidazole perylene particles dispersed in a film forming resin binder of poly(4,4'-diphenyl-1,1'-cyclohexane carbonate), and a hole transport layer, the hole transport layer being substantially non-absorbing in the spectral region at which the charge generation layer generates and injects photogenerated holes but being capable of supporting the injection of photogenerated holes from the charge generation layer and transporting the holes through the charge transport layer.

Abstract: The present invention consists of an electroluminescent structure and method of fabrication of that structure in materials which have an indirect bandgap in their bulk form. The processing steps can all be standard VLSI methods. Quantum columns, quantum wires or quantum dots may be formed, for example in an array, by masking, reactive ion etching and oxidation. When the semiconductor core is sufficiently thin, quantum mechanical confinement effects raise the energy and the radiative recombination efficiency of injected carriers. Tuning the core diameters allows selection of individual or multiple wavelength emission bands.

Abstract: An image coding apparatus wherein coding processing is performed efficiently and the generated code amount is controlled to a substantially fixed level is disclosed.

Abstract: A method and system implements a high addressability characteristic into an error diffusion process. A grey level value representing a pixel is received: The grey level value has a first resolution which corresponds to an original input resolution. The grey level value is interpolated to generate subpixel grey level values which correspond to a second resolution. The second resolution is higher than the first resolution and corresponds to the high addressability characteristic. A threshold circuit thresholds the interpolated grey level value and generates an error value as a result of the threshold. The error value has a resolution corresponding to the first resolution. A portion of the error value is diffused to adjacent pixels on a next scanline.

Abstract: Novel semiconductor devices are monolithically defined with p-type and n-type wide bandgap material formed by impurity induced layer disordering of selected regions of multiple semiconductor layers. The devices are beneficially fabricated by simultaneously forming the n-type and p-type layer disordered regions with sufficiently abrupt transitions from disordered to as-grown material. The novel devices include a heterojunction bipolar transistor monolithically integrated with an edge emitting heterostructure laser or a surface emitting laser, a heterostructure surface emitting laser, a heterostructure surface emitting laser having active distributed feedback, devices containing multiple buried layers which are individually contacted such as p-n junction surface emitting lasers, carrier channeling devices, and "n-i-p-i" or hetero "n-i-p-i" devices, and novel interdigitated structures, such as optical detectors and distributed feedback lasers.

Abstract: A polymerization process for the preparation of thermoplastic resin or resins comprising heating a mixture comprised of a free radical initiator, a stable free radical agent, at least one polymerizable monomer compound, and a sulfonic acid salt polymerization rate enhancing compound, to form a thermoplastic resin or resins with a high monomer to polymer conversion and a narrow polydispersity.