Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to color compositions and methods of making a printed layer using the color composition as well as an article that can include the printed layer.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to color compositions and methods of making a printed layer using the color composition as well as an article that can include the printed layer.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to color compositions and methods of making a printed layer using the color composition as well as an article that can include the printed layer.

Abstract: A car dog seat having a cantilever support that engages the rear surface of the seat back and a frame that abuts the front surface of that seat back. The frame supports a basket which can support a small to medium-sized dog. The support may be removable, either to reorient as a handle for extra-vehicular activities or to convert the car dog seat into a dog bed at home or at a travel destination. Alternatively, the support may be reconfigurable as a handle. The frame and support are covered with a plurality of fabric coverings. A short leash is supplied, attached to the frame, to retain the dog in the car dog seat.

Abstract: An ultraviolet protective panel having two layers of woven fabric that have UV transmissibility properties and combine to make an ultraviolet protective panel with a transmissibility to UVA and UVB radiation that is less than 1%. Muga silk or a flexible fabric treated with aluminum powder and impregnatable oil is preferably one of the two layers, and preferably the top or outer layer. Synthetic polymers are avoided. The panels are shaped to have multiple uses in producing articles of manufacture, including umbrellas, sleeves, awnings, tents, sheets, and garments. Each layers weave is different or the two weave orientations are not parallel. Garment sleeves may have straps for fastening and retaining and may have elastic panels.

Abstract: The present invention relates to ink compositions including ink additives for controlling the color of the ink composition to provide media independence, improve black dye neutrality, and improve individual dye selection for a dye set, methods for producing the ink compositions, and methods using the ink compositions having the ink additives are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention is drawn to ink sets ink-jet imaging, including ink sets having six ink-jet inks. In one embodiment, the ink set can comprise a black ink including a first organic solvent system, a cyan ink including a second organic solvent system, a magenta ink including a third organic solvent system, and a yellow ink including a fourth organic solvent system. In this embodiment, at least two of the organic solvent systems are different. The first organic solvent system can include a first organic solvent and a second organic solvent. The second and third organic solvent systems can include the first organic solvent and a third organic solvent. The fourth organic solvent system can include the second organic solvent and a fourth organic solvent. These solvent systems, and others, can also be used to prepare various dye sets that are dye specific.

Abstract: An ink includes a jettable vehicle, a plurality of pigment solids dispersed in the jettable vehicle, and a styrene-maleimide copolymer dispersed in the jettable vehicle. Additionally, a method of rapidly printing an ink-jet image including ink-jetting an ink-jet ink onto a media substrate at a firing frequency from 12 kHz to 25 kHz, wherein the ink-jet ink includes a jettable vehicle, a plurality of non-acid-functionalized pigment solids dispersed in the jettable vehicle, and a styerene-maleimide copolymer dispersed in the jettable vehicle.

Abstract: Compositions, systems, and methods of printing an ink-jet image are provided. The composition can include a liquid vehicle including water, a liquid vehicle having from 5 wt % to 35 wt % of total organic solvent content; from 1 wt % to 6 wt % of acid-functionalized pigment solids; and from 0.001 wt % to 6 wt % of styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer, said styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer having a weight average molecular weight from about 400 Mw to 15,000 Mw.

Abstract: Anti-bronzing agents are added to ink-jet inks to prevent bronzing of the inks when printed on various types of photographic media. The additive can include one or more anti-bronzing agents comprising certain planar aliphatic or planar aromatic ring structures. The planar ring-containing anti-bronzing agent can be present in an effective concentration to reduce bronzing of the ink-jet ink printed on the ink-receiving layer.

Abstract: Anti-bronzing compounds are added to inkjet inks to prevent bronzing of the inks when printed on specialty quick-dry inkjet photographic media. These compounds inhibit bronzing by the proper buffering of the dyes relative to the media of interest.

Abstract: A welding system includes an imaging system that takes frame by frame pictures of a weld puddle. The imaging system is located in the weld torch. From the images puddle length and width are determined. The length and width are applied against stored membership functions that cover a range of different weld current characteristics and the degree of membership of each dimension in those functions is determined, producing an alpha factor for each membership function. This provides a fuzzy current requirement. Stored values for moment and area for each membership function are multiplied by the alpha for the respective function. The total of the moments is divided by the total of the areas to produce a desired weld current. The weld head includes a weld wire feeder that is driven by a servo by which the wire can be feed along either side of the weld joint. The wire feeder is gear driven in such a way that it does not interfere with the optics in the weld torch. The optics include a strobe to illuminate the puddle.

Abstract: A welding system includes an imaging system that takes frame by frame pictures of a weld puddle. The imaging system is located in the weld torch. From the images puddle length and width are determined. The length and width are applied against stored membership functions that cover a range of different weld current characteristics and the degree of membership of each dimension in those functions is determined, producing an alpha factor for each membership function. This provides a fuzzy current requirement. Stored values for moment and area for each membership function are multiplied by the alpha for the respective function. The total of the moments is divided by the total of the areas to produce a desired weld current. The weld head includes a weld wire feeder that is driven by a servo by which the wire can be feed along either side of the weld joint. The wire feeder is gear driven in such a way that it does not interfere with the optics in the weld torch. The optics include a strobe to illuminate the puddle.