Abstract: An ESD monitor device may take the form of an integrated circuit with a plurality of monitor components available at each I/O site of the ESD monitor device. Each monitor component has a physical structure which provides scalable ESD robustness. The monitor components are connected in parallel to an ESD bus. An integrated circuit may be formed by processing an ESD monitor device through one or more process steps of an integrated circuit manufacturing line, and subsequently measuring the ESD monitor device. Parameters of a process step of the manufacturing line may be adjusted to reduce ESD events at the process step, based on measurement results from the ESD monitor device. The integrated circuit may subsequently be processed through the adjusted process step.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus include a door through which a tray carrying a cartridge passes, wherein in interrelation with the door closing operation, (i) movement of the tray from a movable position to an image forming position, (ii) movement of a drive transmission member, for transmitting a driving force to the cartridge from a main assembly, from a first spacing position to a drive-connecting position, (iii) movement of an urging member for urging the cartridge to the main assembly from a second spacing position to a contact position, and (iv) movement of an electric energy supply member, for supplying electric power to the cartridge from the main assembly, from a third spacing position to an electric energy supplying position, are carried out in the order named.

Abstract: A developing cartridge includes: an agitation member configured to be rotatable around a rotational shaft extending in a first direction and to agitate a developer; an agitation gear being fixed to the agitation member and including a first gear configured to receive driving force to be inputted and a second gear positioned on one side of the first gear in the first direction; a detection target unit including a detection target receiving portion configured to receive the driving force from the second gear and a detection target portion configured to be detected by an external detecting apparatus; and a gear cover configured to cover at least a part of the agitation gear and the detection target unit therewith. The detection target portion is configured to move between the second gear and the gear cover when being projected in a direction orthogonal to the first direction.

Abstract: A screen is disclosed. The screen includes an angle magnifying unit and a deflecting unit. The angle magnifying unit has a first lens assembly and a second lens assembly. The first and second lens assemblies are aligned along a first direction. The first lens assembly has a plurality of first lenses, and each of the first lenses has a first radius of curvature. The second lens assembly has a plurality of second lenses, and each of the second lenses has a second radius of curvature. The magnification of the angle enlarging unit is the ratio of the first radius of curvature to the second radius of curvature. Furthermore, the deflecting unit is disposed between the first lens assembly and the second lens assembly. The deflecting unit has a plurality of deflecting prisms that aligned along a second direction. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A projection screen apparatus having a perimeter frame and a substantially blank screen is provided.

Abstract: A kaleidoscope is made by installing a kit of parts within a beverage bottle that has been altered by cutting off the bottom of the bottle. The kit includes multiple lens systems and reflective tubes that are sized, shaped and arranged to create a dazzling composite image. In some examples, the composite image includes a multifaceted reflection of an assortment of viewable items plus a halo-distortion of the items encircling the multifaceted reflection. In addition to collecting ambient light directly from an axial direction, the kaleidoscope collects reflected light from multiple radial directions as directed by a multifaceted light-gathering reflector surrounding a transparent object container that contains the viewable items.

Abstract: An integrator circuit for a current sensor such as a Rogowski coil. The integrator circuit includes an integrator having an input for receiving a signal from a current sensor and having an output providing a voltage signal. A high-pass filter has an input coupled to the output of the integrator and substantially removes the DC content from the voltage signal. A feedback loop has an input coupled to the output of the integrator and to the high-pass filter, and has an output providing the DC content of the voltage signal back to the input of the integrator. The integrator circuit can detect large current steps in the line conductor being monitored and can be used for line fault detection.

Abstract: An image formation device includes a power controller that controls transition to an energy-saving mode to reduce power consumption in a standby state and starts up out of the energy-saving mode and a timer in which a timing schedule that starts up the device out of the energy-saving mode is set. The power controller controls the surface temperature of the fixing roller of the image generator to be a temperature lower than the fixing temperature that enables image formation when the image formation device is started up out of the energy-saving mode according to the timing schedule set in the timer.

Abstract: Solar light redirecting glazing units include light redirecting and light diffusing constructions. The solar light redirecting glazing units may include a glazing substrate, a visible light diffusing layer, and a light redirecting layer oriented such that incoming solar light contacts the visible light diffusing layer before contacting the light redirecting layer. The solar light redirecting glazing units may include a glazing substrate, a patterned visible light diffusing layer, and a light redirecting layer. The solar light redirecting glazing units may include two glazing substrates separated by an intervening space with a solar light redirecting layer disposed on one glazing substrate, and a visible light diffusing layer disposed on the other glazing substrate.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a printer, an interface through which print data includes at least one of a first setting to form a first image with a decolorable colorant and a second setting to form a second image with a non-decolorable colorant, and a controller that determines whether the print data includes a layout setting to form a plurality of images on a sheet. If the print data includes the layout setting and only one of the first and the second setting, the printer forms the images with a corresponding one of the decolorable colorant and the non-decolorable colorant on the sheet based on the layout setting. If the print data includes the layout setting, the first setting and the second setting, the printer forms each of the first image and the second image on different sheets.

Abstract: A frequency response analyzer includes a signal generator, a reference channel module, and a digital frequency response analyzer. The signal generator includes an input, a first output to provide an output signal to a unit under test, and a second output to provide a first synchronization signal. The reference channel module includes an input coupled to the first output of the signal generator, and an output to provide phase information data of the output signal. The digital frequency response analyzer includes a first input to receive the first synchronization signal, and a second input to receive digitized analog data from the unit under test. A processor of the frequency response analyzer correlates received digitized analog data to received analog data based on the phase, and determines a transfer function of the plant of the unit under test based on the correlation of received digitized analog data and received analog data.

Abstract: A measurement device includes a stage for carrying an object to be measured, an insulating board having a through hole, a probe fixed on the undersurface of the insulating board, a side wall section in a shape surrounding the probe, a pressurizing section provided on the top surface of the insulating board, the pressuring section supplying a gas below the insulating board via the through hole, and a measurement section electrically connected to the probe to control the pressurizing section, wherein the measurement section measures an electric property of the object to be measured via the probe in a state where the pressurizing section is controlled to supply a gas to a measurement space located below the insulating board to increase a pressure in the measurement space, the measurement space surrounded by the stage, the side wall section, and the insulating board.

Abstract: A display apparatus for use with a rear projection system, the apparatus including a translucent fabric substrate having a front surface and a rear surface, the front surface of the substrate including a print area which carries thereon one or more printed images and a projected image area which is substantially devoid of printed images; and a diffusion layer arranged such that the projected image area of the substrate is capable of displaying a rear projected image thereon.

Abstract: A digital camera is provided with a vertically long camera body having an approximately rectangular solid shape. An LCD panel provided in a rear surface of the camera body is arranged such that longitudinal directions of the display screen and the camera body correspond to each other. The digital camera is operated through a touch panel provided in a lower portion of the display screen. In a taking mode, an image is displayed in a small size on an upper portion of the display screen. In reproducing, the camera body is rotated sideways by 90 degree. Ina reproducing mode, display posture of the image is also rotated by 90 degree, and the image is displayed in a large size on the entire display screen.

Abstract: A roller projection screen, including a projection screen material having a reflective front surface, onto which an image may be projected, and a back surface. The projection screen material is secured to a roller at an upper edge of the material and the projection screen material can be rolled in a spiral fashion in multiple layers around the roller. A buffer material is secured to the roller or to the back surface of the projection screen material so as to be adjacent the back surface and so as the be interposed between at least some of the multiple layers of the projection screen material when the projection screen material is rolled about the roller so as to inhibit ladder marks in the projection screen material.

Abstract: An electronic component inspection apparatus includes a light source arranged in a mounting area where at least one electronic component is mounted to a board and a light-receiving sensor arranged outside the mounting area to detect an intensity of a light received from the light source. A computer executes a program to perform a process of determining a state of joining parts in the mounting area based on a result of comparison of the intensity of the light received by the light-receiving sensor with an intensity of distribution previously acquired.

Abstract: A projector system using a screen comprised of either a plurality of miniature, reflective, and concave or convex curved surfaces that are arranged in a pattern to create a screen surface for front projection, or a plurality of miniature, transparent, and curved convex or concave lenses that are arranged in a pattern to create a screen surface for rear projection, and a projector system with the pixel capacity to control the color and brightness focused onto many different subsections of each curved surface. Each curved lens or curved mirror surface is small enough so that when viewed from the viewing area, the lit and unlit areas seen within each individual curved surface blend together so that only the average brightness and color of each curved surface can be seen by a viewer.

Abstract: An electronic measuring device is described that can include first and second input inductors connected in series. A shunt inductor is connected in parallel with the second input inductor. Optionally, an additional shunt inductor may also be used in parallel with the first input inductor. The first and second input inductors are inductively coupled to first and second SQUIDs which are in turn inductively coupled to first and second feedback inductors. First and second SQUID controllers are connected, respectively, to the first and second SQUIDs as well as the first and second feedback inductors. The first and second SQUID controllers are also connected to a processor. The processor is operable to process the output of the first and second SQUID controllers to detect unlocking events in the output of the first SQUID controller.

Abstract: A GMR element includes a fixed magnetic layer in which magnetization is fixed; a free magnetic layer in which magnetization is changed by an external magnetic field; and a spacer layer which is positioned between the fixed magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer, in which the free magnetic layer is formed by laminating a CoFe alloy and a CoFeB alloy. A current sensor uses the GMR element.

Abstract: A curved back-projection screen having an angle of curvature greater than 180° is described such as a wrap-around cylindrical or dome screen. The screen includes a first layer and a second synthetic resin diffusing layer on the first layer, the second synthetic resin diffusing layer containing a light absorbing material and light diffusing particles embedded in a resin material, with the second synthetic resin diffusing layer having a value of the product of the absorption coefficient and thickness of between 0.1 and 2. The second synthetic resin diffusing layer can be applied by spraying.