Abstract: This invention relates to a method of manufacturing micro-cell arrays. Such an array may find use in a number of applications such as, for example, a video display, electronic paper, and signage. The microcell arrays find particular use in electromodulating displays.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a curing assembly comprising at least two light sources combined into one light path, wherein the light sources are capable of curing a material exposed to the combined light path. The invention also relates to a method of curing a material or material in contact with a heat sensitive material comprising providing a curable material or a material associated with a heat sensitive material and exposing curable material to a combined light path from the curing assembly.

Abstract: An electromodulating display comprises (1) a nonconductive polymeric unitary substrate containing a plurality of patterned grooves containing an electrically-conductive material so as to form an electrical network having a switchable electric field orientation; (2) a switch for switching the electric field orientation; and (3) a medium that is optically shifted in response to the switching of the electric field orientation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display comprising at least one substrate having at least one electrically modulated imaging layer thereon, at least one patterned electrically conductive layer, and at least one antistatic layer.

Abstract: The disclosed commercial coin-operated scale-platform massager has a frame, a foot platform, and means including a weight cell for supporting the foot platform relative to the frame. The weight cell provides the primary support for the foot platform, and is distorted by the weight of a person standing on the foot platform and calibrated to determine the weight of the person. A driving vibrator in the form of an electric motor having an eccentric weight keyed to its output shaft is mounted relative to the foot platform, operable when the driving vibrator is activated to vibrate the foot platform relative to the frame. Snubber means allow limited movement of the foot platform relative to the frame. A printer may provide a readout for a permanent record of any information including the weight of the user.

Abstract: The disclosed commerical coin-operated scale-platform massager has a frame, and a foot platform supported by a weight cell movably relative to the frame. The weight cell provides the primary support for the foot platform, and is distorted by the weight of a person standing on the foot platform and calibrated to determine the weight of the person. A driving vibrator in the form of an electric motor having an eccentric weight keyed to its output shaft is mounted on snubber means relative to the frame, and linking means connect the driving vibrator and foot platform together, operable when the driving vibrator is activated to vibrate the foot platform relative to the frame, as a platform massager.

Abstract: A coin-operated TV system is disclosed that uses separate TV displays or sets, each having an individual coin acceptor, program selector and control. Centralized sources of pre-recorded and/or publicly broadcast programs are provided via TV modulators as separate channels hard wired to every TV set. A computer is also hard wired to every TV control. The computer and TV control provide that each TV set normally receives and exhibits one channel continuously, at no costs. If the program selector at any TV set is switched to another specific channel and the coin acceptor has received a suitable deposit, the computer and TV control shift that particulat TV set to the selected channel. The selected channel will operate for a predetermined duration or until the selected program has ended. Thereafter, the TV set will be shifted back to the free channel, unless a different specific channel had earlier been selected and paid for.