Patents Issued in November 9, 2004
  • Patent number: 6814402
    Abstract: A sunroof structure has a movable lid adapted to close a sunroof opening opened in a vehicle roof panel when a sunroof is closed and to be accommodated in the interior of a roof of a vehicle when the sunroof is opened; a roof actuating unit for moving the movable lid in longitudinal directions of the vehicle; a pair of side rails disposed along both sides of a moving path of the movable lid; and, a resilient member mounted on a lower side of the movable lid along at least rear end edge thereof so as to be suspended downwardly so as to improve appearance thereof when looked from an inside of the passenger compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takumi Sugiura
  • Patent number: 6814403
    Abstract: A collapsible chair (100) with solid armrests (160) has a front leg (110), a rear leg (120), a seat support rod (130), and a back support rod (140) coupled together such that the back support rod reclines independently of the seat support rod, and that the chair collapses in a single movement in which the front legs approximate each other when the front legs pivot towards the rear legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Inventor: Edward Zheng
  • Patent number: 6814404
    Abstract: A passenger headrest is platform deployable and stowable from a passenger seat. The platform operates as a rear headrest and is pivoted to a forward position to serve as a forward leaning face-headrest. The headrest includes a headrest platform that is attached to an adjustable post made of tubular construction and having a plurality of holes. The adjustable post is concentrically dimensioned to be slidably received by a tubular bar. The tubular bar has a set of holes and is pivotably attached to the passenger seat. A first connector secures the adjustable post and tubular bar to each other. The headrest is pivotable through a range of motion adjusted by a passenger, wherein the passenger selects an inclination angle. The inclination angle used by the passenger is established via a second connector that secures the tubular bar to the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Inventor: Thomas M. Jensen
  • Patent number: 6814405
    Abstract: A car seat support comprising an elongate body portion and a head portion which extends from one end of the body portion. Extending from respective opposed sides of the head portion is an identically configured pair of elongate ear portions. The ear portions may be rolled or folded as necessary to be firmly captured between the head of an infant and the side walls of the receptacle of an infant car seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Infantino, LLC
    Inventor: Lisa C. Norman
  • Patent number: 6814406
    Abstract: A seat vertical position adjusting device includes a driving mechanism equipped to a base plate portion of a seat cushion for driving a cushion frame to be movable in the vertical direction relative to the base plate portion. The driving mechanism includes a shaft having a first axial portion and a second axial portion which is positioned on the first axial portion, and eccentrically rotated relative to the first axial portion, a first internal gear, a second internal gear, and a pinion gear is mounted on the second axial portion. The number of gear teeth of the first internal gear is less than the number of gear teeth of the second internal gear at least by one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Sadao Ito, Genta Moriyama, Naoaki Hoshihara, Hideo Nihonmatsu
  • Patent number: 6814407
    Abstract: A lumbar support device has a seat frame, a pair of brackets connected to opposite sided of the seat frame, a pair of flexible members connected to the pair of brackets in such a manner as to respectively form a pair of center sections across the seat frame, and an actuator assembly operatively connected to each one of the flexible members. Each one of the flexible members preferably has a pair of levers on opposite sides of the center sections that rotate about the brackets. In operation, the actuator assembly selectively bows the center portions of the flexible members. The actuator assembly preferably includes a reversible gear and a pair of bowden cables that move one pair of levers when the reversible gear is rotated clockwise and move the other pair of levers when the reversible gear is rotated counter-clockwise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: L & P Property Management Company
    Inventor: Donald David Mundell
  • Patent number: 6814408
    Abstract: A folding chair equipped with inflatable waist pad comprises a plurality of pedestals located on the floor and a plurality of rods connecting pivotally to the pedestals to form a chair bracket. The chair bracket has a backrest section and a seat section to hold a seat cushion. The backrest section has a housing compartment to hold an inflatable waist pad. The chair bracket has two sides each has an armrest rod. When the inflatable waist pad is inflated and held in the housing compartment, the backrest section may be in close contact with the waist of an user sitting on the chair to comfort the waist muscles of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Sportspower Limited
    Inventor: Jimmy Ching Chen
  • Patent number: 6814409
    Abstract: A hydraulic drive and fluid control system for a mechanism having at least two fluid actuated cylinder includes a bi-directional motor/gear pump. A monolithic block manifold has intersecting bores formed therein in which valving and control mechanism for the fluid circuit is mounted. The fluid control system includes a variety of elements for providing smooth action of the cylinders at start, stop, and intermediate operations. These include piston-style accumulators, self-actuating fluid flow rate control valves and cushion valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: A-Dec, Inc.
    Inventor: Henry Warn Jackson
  • Patent number: 6814410
    Abstract: The invention concerns a system for managing movements between different parts of at least one vehicle seat, which at each connection (l1, l2, l3) positioned between a first seat part and a second seat part, comprises actuators (A1, A2, A3) of the first seat part relative to the second seat part that are associated with memorization and control systems (R1; F1, R2, F2; R3, F3) of the end positions of each part and of the limit transmission forces of the actuators. In the event that the movements of several seats need to be managed, this system comprises a link bus (6) ensuring the connection between the seats and one or more central units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: PGA Electronic
    Inventors: Jen-François Piaulet, Hugues Legras, Laurent Groussin, Pascal Moulin, Alain Berthouloux
  • Patent number: 6814411
    Abstract: An electric wheelchair includes a frame, and a seat; the frame has front and rear support rods projecting upwards from it, locating parts secured to the front support rods, and fitting parts secured to the rear support rods; each locating part has opposing guide trenches; each fitting part has lateral portions formed with opposing holes; the seat has engaging elements, and fitting elements secured to the lower side; each engaging element has a slide rod; each fitting element has opposing holes on lateral portions thereof; thus, the seat can be secured to the frame by means of passing pins through the holes of the fitting parts and the fitting elements after the slide rods are passed into the guide trenches, and after the holes of the fitting elements are aligned with the holes of the fitting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Sunpex Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Samuel Lin
  • Patent number: 6814412
    Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly is provided having a seat bottom and a seat back assembly connected to the seat bottom. The seat back assembly includes a support frame having a pair of opposing substantially vertical side frame members which receive an elastomeric support webbing. The elastomeric support webbing extends between and cooperates with the opposing side frame members to provide structural support for the passenger seated in the vehicle seat. Side bolsters are attached to the elastomeric support webbing adjacent the opposing side frame members. A headrest or upper bolster is secured to the top of the seat frame adjacent the side bolsters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Dean Cramb, III, Jaron Rothkop, Ronald Louis Miotto
  • Patent number: 6814413
    Abstract: An improved hydraulically assisted braking and steering system of a vehicle having a hydraulic pump communicating with a hydraulic steering assist device and including a hydraulic brake assist device coupled in series between the pump and the steering assist device includes the provision of a flow splitter which operates to reduce the interdependence of the hydraulic brake and steering assist devices on the flow of fluid from the pump. The flow splitter communicates with the outlet of the pump and the inlet of the brake assist device and is operative when the back pressure from the brake assist device exceeds a predetermined control value to divert a fraction of the flow of fluid around the brake assist device directly to the steering assist device, thereby providing sufficient flow to operate both the brake and steering assist devices within their normal design limits, rather than having the brake assist device starve the steering assist device when under heavy load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Leroy Davison, Henry George Bean, Johnny M. Paris, Michael Alan Johnson
  • Patent number: 6814414
    Abstract: A device for preventing a rollback of a vehicle on an incline. The vehicle is equipped with a brake system, via which at least the braking pressure in the wheel brakes of a rear wheel is influenced in order to distribute the braking action between at least one front wheel and one rear wheel by actuating actuators assigned to the rear wheels so that a differential is set between the pressure of the front wheel and the rear wheel (e.g., an EBD braking). The device has a first arrangement for determining whether vehicle standstill is occurring due to braking where a differential in the braking pressure of the front wheel and the rear wheel has been set. The device also includes a second arrangement for determining whether the vehicle is rolling back from a standstill. If the second arrangement detects a vehicle rollback, the braking pressure in at least one rear wheel is increased to inhibit rollback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Schmitt, Matthäus Koch
  • Patent number: 6814415
    Abstract: A computer enclosure includes a cage (1) and a cover (5) attached on the cage. The cage is integrally formed from a single sheet of metallic material, and includes a side panel (10), a front panel (20) and a rear panel (30). The side panel has a projecting portion (12) extending outwardly from a front portion thereof. The projecting portion defines locking openings (14). The front panel includes a top flange (21), a bottom flange (22), and a side flange (23). The rear panel defines locking slots (32). The cover includes a side board (50), a top board (60), and a bottom board (70). The side board forms side hooks (52a) engaging in the locking openings, and tabs (54) engaging in the locking slots. The top board forms top hooks (52b) engaging with the top flange, and the bottom board forms bottom hooks (52c) engaging with the bottom flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yun-Lung Chen
  • Patent number: 6814416
    Abstract: A stabilizer mechanism pivotally attached to a computer casing wall includes retractable spring loaded extension arms which, in a stabilizing position, extend to increase the effective casing footprint while the retractable extension arms are in a storage position. The stabilizer is pivotable into a retraction position within the casing. The stabilizer includes a flat panel attached so its freedom of rotation is limited to support the casing in an elevated position. The retractable extension arms include a mechanism for securing them within the stabilizer. Alternatively, a removable stabilizer is stored in a recess within the casing. In the stabilizing position, the stabilizer is released from the storage recess and oriented in the stabilizing position by rotating the stabilizer until it is at right angles to its storage position. Pressing the stabilizer into the recess locks it in position to elevate the computer casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P.
    Inventors: Jacques H Helot, Gilbert Rahmouni
  • Patent number: 6814417
    Abstract: A switchgear cabinet that has a frame stand with vertical frame profiles. According to this invention, a lateral casing is attached on at least one side of the frame stand to two vertical frame profiles that are assigned to the side. A mounting wall is arranged at a distance from the lateral casing while facing the interior of the switchgear cabinet. A cable installation space is formed between the mounting wall and the lateral casing, and the mounting wall is detachably fastened to the frame stand by retaining elements. This invention increases the number of possible ways of installing cables in a switchgear cabinet of this type. Thus, according to this invention the mounting wall is arranged between the vertical frame profiles of the side of the frame stand. An edge cable feedthrough is formed between at least one of the vertical sides of the mounting wall and the assigned vertical frame profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Marc Hartel
  • Patent number: 6814418
    Abstract: A locker organizer includes one or more shelves which may be suspended from the conventional coat hooks of a wall locker or the like. The present locker organizer also includes a series of wedges adjustably extending from at least one edge of the shelf or shelves, allowing the shelf or shelves to be secured immovably between opposed walls of the locker. This precludes the banging of the shelves against the interior walls of the locker whenever the shelves are accessed, e.g., placement or removal of books and/or other articles thereon or therefrom. The shelf or shelves are adjustably suspended by suspension lines which may be formed of a stout cord, rope, or chain. The suspension lines may include index indicators to aid the user in adjusting the position of the shelf or shelves thereon, to assure that the shelf or shelves remain substantially level when installed in the locker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Inventor: Ronald D'Orso
  • Patent number: 6814419
    Abstract: Circuitry for providing a method (semi-analog) for normalization procedure of the Head Driver ASIC is disclosed. The circuitry utilizes current DAC's (Digital-to-Analog Converts) to adjust the amplitudes of the voltages across piezoelectric elements, based on predetermined normalization (calibration) data which are stored in separate latches (a different normalization data for each individual transducer). The transducers all receive their respective calibrated voltage values all at the same time by varying the current slope delivered to each. This method provides more simplicity and more accuracy for normalization procedure and results in better performance then using digital circuitry and digital counters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Mostafa R. Yazdy
  • Patent number: 6814420
    Abstract: Main actual color is reproduced unsatisfactory in some cases according to prior art. An image processing method is provided in which the component values of hue, saturation and lightness of an image represented by image data are independently changed. The hue change amount is made different at each hue angle, the saturation change amount is made different for each hue angle and each saturation value, and the lightness change amount is made different at each hue angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Fujita, Yuji Akiyama, Manabu Yamazoe, Ryosuke Iguchi
  • Patent number: 6814421
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, a printing device includes a plurality of print cartridges arranged in an array. The printing device also includes a plurality of modular cleaning units for servicing the plurality of print cartridges, the modular cleaning units being arranged to allow the plurality of print cartridges to be serviced simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Edward P. Maher
  • Patent number: 6814422
    Abstract: A method of servicing a pen comprising a printhead, having a plurality of nozzles, mounted in an inkjet printing device, comprising a servicing area and a drop detector comprising the following steps performing a drop detection on the printhead to check if any of the nozzles of the printhead are malfunctioning; storing the result of the more recent drop detection operation, together with the results of the previous drop detections to keep a history of the health status of each nozzle; deciding whether or not to execute a recovery service in the servicing area to attempt to recover the current malfunctioning nozzles, based on the more recent status of the nozzles and on the history of the health status of the nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P.
    Inventors: Xavier Bruch, Xavier Girones, Antoni Murcia, Christopher Taylor, Ramon Vega
  • Patent number: 6814423
    Abstract: A capping system for a printhead comprises a frame including first and second surfaces, said second surface inclined with respect to said first surface, and a sealing member adapted for movement on said frame between a nominal position and a sealing position in contact with the printhead, said sealing member including a first support member adapted for rotational movement with respect to said first surface of the frame, and a second support member adapted for translational movement with respect to said second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Jafar N. Jefferson, William T. Stephenson, Jeffrey K. Pew
  • Patent number: 6814424
    Abstract: A maintenance apparatus of an inkjet printer includes a housing, a capping member disposed in the housing and having two caps closing up surfaces of ink injection nozzles of two printing heads, respectively, a wiping member disposed in the housing and having a wiper wiping the surfaces of the ink injection nozzles, a transmission disposed on the housing reducing a rotation force from a driving source, a capping member mover changing the rotation force of the transmission into a vertical force to move the capping member in a capping position in a capping operation, and a wiping member mover changing the rotation force of the transmission into a horizontal force to move the wiping member in a wiping position in a wiping operation, wherein the wiping operation of the wiping member and the capping operation of the capping member, or an capping-release operation of the capping member and the wiping operation of the wiping member are successively performed in response to the rotation force of the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin-ho Park
  • Patent number: 6814425
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for placing fluid droplets onto a surface in which at least one of a group of nozzles is substantially aligned with a first of parallel line segments on the surface moving in a first direction relative to the nozzles; at least one droplet is ejected from the first nozzle onto a target on the first segment; the group of nozzles is moved in a second direction having a component orthogonal to the first direction to respectively align first and second nozzles in the group with a second segment and with the first segment; the and fluid droplets are ejected from the nozzles onto targets on the segments, the center to center spacing of the targets along the segments equaling one or a multiple of the center to center spacing of the nozzles orthogonal to the segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: James A. Mott, Mark A. Van Veen, Melissa Lee
  • Patent number: 6814426
    Abstract: A color ink-jet printer is provided, with one pen for dispensing black ink onto a print medium and at least one pen for dispensing color ink onto a print medium. The pen for dispensing black ink contains a fade resistant dye-based ink and the pen(s) for dispensing color ink(s) contain a pigment-based ink(s). Such a color ink-jet printer provides both superior color gamut with contrast and excellent fade resistance. Since the black ink does not need to be chromatic one can employ fade resistant dyes that do not decrease the lightfastness of the whole ink set. In addition, very soluble fade resistant dyes can be used reliably in high concentrations allowing the black ink to provide more optical density than current pigment-based black inks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: American Ink Jet Corp.
    Inventors: Paul F. Doll, Donald Dressler, Sean Kelly
  • Patent number: 6814427
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for measuring the amount of fluid. A fluid source is in fluid communication with a measuring system. The fluid source includes a non-collapsible walled container for dispensing or introducing fluid. The measuring system includes a sensor in fluid communication with the container that senses the volume of the gas, and a system that calculates the amount of fluid flowing through an opening of the container based on the amount of gas flowing through an opening of the container. The volume of gas entering or exiting the container is measured rather than directly measuring the amount of fluid leaving or entering the container to determine in a more accurate, less complicated and less expensive manner the volume of fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Merit Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven R. Taylor
  • Patent number: 6814428
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fluid injection head. The fluid injection head structure is formed on a substrate and has a manifold therein, bubble generators, a conductive trace, and at least two rows of chambers adjacent to the manifold in flow communication with the manifold. The conductive trace disposed on a top surface of the substrate and partially disposed between the two rows of the chambers above the manifold is used to drive the bubble generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: BenQ Corporation
    Inventors: Tsung-Wei Huang, Chih-Ching Chen
  • Patent number: 6814429
    Abstract: An ink jet printhead includes a substrate. A plurality of nozzle arrangements are arranged on the substrate. Each nozzle arrangement has side walls and a roof wall that define a nozzle chamber and an inlet in fluid communication with the nozzle chamber. An actuator is provided that includes an ink ejection mechanism. The actuator is operable to activate the ink ejection mechanism so that the ink ejection mechanism is displaceable between a quiescent condition and an operative condition such that ink is ejected from the nozzle chamber while the ink ejection mechanism is so displaced. The ink ejection mechanism is configured so that the ink ejection mechanism serves to obstruct a flow path from the nozzle chamber and into the inlet at at least one position between and including the quiescent and operative conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Kia Silverbrook
  • Patent number: 6814430
    Abstract: A fluid controlling apparatus having a multi-layer structure that includes a top layer having a yield strength of less than about 500 megapascals, a middle layer having a yield strength of greater than about 1000 megapascals, and a bottom layer having a yield strength of less than about 500 megapascals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Julie J. Cox, John A. Compton
  • Patent number: 6814431
    Abstract: The described embodiments relate to a slotted substrate for use in a fluid ejecting device. One exemplary embodiment includes a substrate having a thickness between generally opposing first and second surfaces. A slot received in the substrate. The slot has a central region joined with at least one terminal region. The central region extends between the first and second surfaces. The at least one terminal region includes, at least in part, a bowl-shaped portion that has a diameter at the first surface greater than a width of the central region at the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Shen Buswell, Deanna J. Bergstrom, Daniel Frech
  • Patent number: 6814432
    Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes an ink reservoir that stores ink, a recording head having a plurality of nozzle holes for forming recording dots on a recording medium by ejecting ink particles from the plurality of nozzle holes onto the recording medium positioned opposite the plurality of nozzle holes, an ink channel for supplying ink from the ink reservoir to the recording head, ink discharging means for discharging ink from the recording head and the ink channel, evacuating means for creating a vacuum state in the recording head and the ink channel, and ink filling means for filling the evacuated recording head and ink channel with deaerated ink. The ink discharging means divides the recording head and the ink channel into a plurality of sections and independently discharges ink from each section of the recording head and the ink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi Printing Solutions, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamada, Kunihiro Tamahashi, Akemi Ouchi, Kunio Satou, Kazuo Shimizu, Hitoshi Kida, Hidetoshi Fujii
  • Patent number: 6814433
    Abstract: An aperture provided in a bottom wall of an ink cartridge is designed to break the surface tension of the ink as the ink proceeds toward an outlet port. For example, serrated edges, tapering conformations, cruciform dividing walls, different diameter regions in the outlet passage, etc. are all designed to prevent the formation of large bubbles or preclude the migration of air bubbles to the region of the outlet passage where the print needle of an associated printer extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.
    Inventors: William A. Putman, Stephen A. Anderson
  • Patent number: 6814434
    Abstract: An ink cartridge includes a main body containing an ink absorbent body at an inside thereof and filled with ink, an ink head chip disposed at a lower portion of the main body to spray the ink onto a printing paper, an ink feeding pipe disposed at an inside of the lower portion of the main body to feed the ink in the main body to the ink head chip, and a pressure rib protruding from a bottom of the main body toward the ink absorbent body by a height higher than the ink feeding pipe to press the ink absorbent body contacting the pressure rib before coming in contact with the ink feeding pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seo-hyun Cho, Myung-song Jung, Young-su Lee, Hyung-hyu Hwang
  • Patent number: 6814435
    Abstract: An ink cartridge which is used with an inkjet recording apparatus includes a plurality of ink storage chambers. A first of the storage chambers can store light cyan ink, a second can store deep cyan ink, a third can store light magenta ink, a fourth can store deep magenta ink, and a fifth can store yellow ink. The ink storage chambers can all be accommodated integrally in a single ink cartridge. In one embodiment of the invention, the ink storage chambers are partitioned by partitioning walls which gradually increase in thickness as they approach the portion of the ink chambers having supply ports therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumichi Shimada, Hisashi Miyazawa, Takao Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6814436
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a feeder, provided in an upstream in a transfer path for transferring a medium, for feeding the medium to a downstream in the transfer path one by one, the medium being stacked at an angle; a recording head, provided in the downstream of the feeder, for performing recording for the medium; a carriage, on which the recording head is mounted, for reciprocating in a main scanning direction along a carriage guide axis; a transfer roller for transferring the medium by rotating, the transfer roller including a transfer-driving roller and a transfer-driven roller; a stacker having a medium-placed surface, the stacker being positioned at a first position allowing the medium to be substantially horizontally fed from the medium-placed surface to a position under the recording head and be substantially horizontally discharged from the position under the recording head onto the medium-placed surface, or a second position for receiving and stacking the medium fed by the feeder, the second p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Anami, Narihiro Oki, Takayuki Shiota, Kazuo Otsuka
  • Patent number: 6814437
    Abstract: An ink jet printing process, having the steps of: A) providing an ink jet printer that is responsive to digital data signals; B) loading the printer with an ink jet recording element having a support having thereon in order: i) at least one porous, ink carrier liquid receptive layer; ii) a fusible, porous dye-trapping layer of fusible polymeric particles, a binder, and a dye mordant; and iii) a fusible, porous ink-transporting layer of fusible, polymeric particles and a film-forming, hydrophobic binder; C) loading the printer with an ink jet ink compositions; and D) printing on the image-receiving layer using the ink jet ink in response to the digital data signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Allan Wexler
  • Patent number: 6814438
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for mounting a sprung joint for the frame of spectacles, comprising a step which consists in placing a spring pin in a first component and a step which consists in articulating the first component to a second component through a pivot pin enabling a bow of the frame, integral with one of the components, to pivot relative to a surface of the frame integral with the other component. The invention is characterised in that it consists in: opening the first component by elastic deformation, inserting the spring pin into the first component, and closing the later around the pin so as to retain it by elastic pinching against the spring compression. Preferably, the first component is forcefully opened with the pin. The method enables to simplify mounting a spring joint wherein the pin is permanently retained in the first component even if the pivot pin is lost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Chevassus S.A.
    Inventor: Christophe Desbiez-Piat
  • Patent number: 6814439
    Abstract: An improved opthalmic lens is disclosed which has a plurality of alternating power zones with a continuously varying power within each zone, as well as in transition from one zone to another. In other words, a plurality of concentric zones (at least two) are provided in which the variation from far to near vision correction is continuous, i.e., from near correction focal power to far correction focal power, then back to near, and again back to far, or vice versa. This change is continuous (progressive), without any abrupt correction changes, or “edges”. Two versions of the invention are disclosed. In the first version continuous, alternating power variation is accomplished by a continuously changing curvature of the lens posterior surface, thereby altering the angle of impact of light rays on the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Inventor: Valdemar Portney
  • Patent number: 6814440
    Abstract: A lens having a substrate, a metal layer uniformly covering one side of the substrate, a first dielectric layer uniformly covering the metal layer, and a second dielectric layer gradiently covering only a portion of the first dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Intercast Europe S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Iori, Graziano Marusi, Gian Giuseppe Giani
  • Patent number: 6814441
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus for measurement of a polarized distribution, a polarizing filter for use of the apparatus and a polarizing filter assembly. The apparatus for measurement of polarized distribution comprises an illuminating optical system for illuminating a subject to be examined by circularly polarized detecting light, and an image receiving optical system for receiving detected light from said subject illuminated by said circularly polarized detecting light. The image receiving optical system includes a CCD element having an imaging provided integrally with a polarizing filter. The polarizing filter is composed of repetitions of unit platelets comprising polarizing micro-plates for decomposing the detecting light into first linearly polarized light components which are mutually perpendicular and polarizing micro-plates for decomposing the detecting light into second linearly polarized light components in a direction of crossing to the first linearly polarized light components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TOPCON
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Ohnuma, Yasufumi Fukuma, Hidetaka Aeba
  • Patent number: 6814442
    Abstract: An image display apparatus includes a light source for supplying illumination light, a reflection type display device which reflects the illumination light and modulates the illumination light into image light, and an illumination optical system for guiding the illumination light to the reflection type display device. The illumination optical system includes a first optical member for directing the illumination light toward the reflection type display device, and a second optical member. The second optical member includes a part generating a secondary light source with the illumination light emitted from the light source, in which the light from the part emerges toward the first optical member, and a reflecting surface which guides illumination light which is not incident directly on the part to the part. In addition, a projection optical system guides the image light to an observer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Okuyama, Junko Kuramochi, Takashi Sudo
  • Patent number: 6814443
    Abstract: The present invention provides a projection system for the display of images in a wide range of ambient light conditions. The system comprises a system control component, two or more projectors and a screen unit. The system control component synchronizes two or more images for projection by the projectors, with the image synchronization enabling the generation of a coherent single image from multiple projected images. There are two or more projectors which project separate images and each projector projects an image onto a unique area of a screen unit. The synchronization of the projectors is also controlled by the system control component. The screen unit has one or more screens for receiving the projected images and these screens are compatible with a rear projection system. The screens incorporate a contrast enhancing component which improves the resistance of the projected image to contrast degradation due to a wide range of ambient light conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Digital Advertising Network Inc
    Inventors: Allan Safran, Warren Stelman, Trent Martin
  • Patent number: 6814444
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image projection system whereby a display position of a pointer on a projected image can be easily controlled from a location separated from the main control means. The system comprises a liquid crystal projector, a personal computer for controlling the liquid crystal projector to display a pointer on a projected image in accordance with an operation signal from a main operating section and a predetermined program, and a remote controller for the liquid crystal projector. The remote controller comprises a pointing device and a light emitting portion for wirelessly transmitting an operation signal. The liquid crystal projector comprises a light receiving portion for receiving wirelessly transmitted signals. The personal computer controls the liquid crystal projector to transfer the received signals to the personal computer and further controls the display position of the pointer according to the transferred pointing device operation signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Miyashita
  • Patent number: 6814445
    Abstract: A method for removing heat from a spatial light modulator device in a digital projection display by encapsulating the device package in a thermal conductive socket attached to a printed wiring board. The socket wraps around the device package to remove both optically generated heat from the front of the device and electrically generated heat within the device. In higher brightness projector applications, fins are added to the socket to increase the mass and surface area of the socket, thereby improving the heat dissipation properties of the system. The heat sink socket attaches to the printed wiring board using a screw attachment means, which also assures electrical connectivity to the spatial light modulator through a interposer element between the device and spatial light modulator. This approach completely eliminates conventional heat sinks, mounting studs, and fasteners, which have been failure mechanisms in these type displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Satyan Kalyandurg, Jack D. Grimmett
  • Patent number: 6814446
    Abstract: An intake opening (132L) is formed on a left lateral side (132) of a lower cabinet (13) and an exhaust opening (132R) is formed on a right lateral side (132) in a rear projector (1), where a cooling air introduced from the intake opening (132L) by a plurality of fans provided in the lower cabinet (13) flows along a front side of a screen to cool the interior of the projector to be finally discharged from the exhaust opening (132R), so that the air after cooling the interior which is discharged by the exhaust opening (132R) is prevented from entering into the intake opening (132L), thereby always introducing fresh cooling air to cool the interior efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Haruyoshi Yamada, Jun Arai
  • Patent number: 6814447
    Abstract: A real object projector having a base, a control circuit installed in the base, and an image receiving apparatus installed on the base. The base is combined with a light source module, and between the light source module and the base are different movable connection relationships according to different designs. The light source module can have a transparent film clip with an identifying mark, and different transparent film clips have different marks. When projecting with the real object projector the steps are, firstly moving the image receiving apparatus to a suitable position according to the mark on the transparent film clip, then focusing the image receiving apparatus according to the transparent film clip, and finally pressing an image receiving key to automatically identify the kind of transparent film clip and magnify the projection image with the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Microtek International Inc.
    Inventors: Jih-Ching Chang, Teng-Chou Yang, Chih-Kuang Wang
  • Patent number: 6814448
    Abstract: Image projection and display devices include a plurality of projectors, a projection screen forming a focusing plane for the projected images from the plurality of projectors, mutually overlapping regions existing between the images, a test image storing section for storing prescribed test images, and an image capturing section for acquiring projected test images in which a prescribed test image is projected. The devices further include a correction data calculating section for calculating correction data for correcting the input images for the respective projectors, on the basis of the acquired test images, in such a manner that a uniform or continuous brightness is achieved across the whole projection area including the overlapping regions, a correction data storing section for storing the correction data thus calculated, and an image correcting section for correcting the images input to the respective projectors, by using the correction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventor: Ken Ioka
  • Patent number: 6814449
    Abstract: In order to provide a rear projector capable of facilitating position adjustment of an image displayed on a screen and optimizing dispersion of the aspect ratio of the projected image caused by tolerance of components by adjusting the position of the image, a support member (200) is provided with a lateral position adjuster (202) as a planar position adjusting mechanism attached on a support plate of an interior unit in an opposing manner, an inclination adjuster (203) as an inclination position adjusting mechanism vertically provided on the lateral position adjuster (202), and a rotary position adjuster (204) as a rotary position adjusting mechanism attached to the inclination adjuster (203) slanted downward toward rear side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Haruyoshi Yamada, Jun Arai
  • Patent number: 6814450
    Abstract: A projection system includes first and second light sources, separated by a predetermined distance from each other and radiating a single white light in parallel and in the same direction, first and second spiral lens discs including cylindrical lens cells separating the single white light incident from the first and second light sources into a multi white light by converting a rotational motion of the cylindrical lens cells into a rectilinear movement, and first and second spectroscopes separating the multi white light incident from the first and second spiral lens discs into color light beams having different wavelength bands. First and second light valves modulate the color light beams incident from the first and second spectroscopes according to an image signal to form an image. First and second projection lenses project the color light beams modulated by the first and second light valves onto a screen to display the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae-hee Kim
  • Patent number: 6814451
    Abstract: In an antiglare mirror apparatus mounted inside a vehicle compartment a mirror member is an electrochromic element comprising an antiglare material including an electrochromic layer, a light transmission electrode material and a light reflective electrode material where the light transmission electrode material and the light reflective electrode material are positioned on both sides of the antiglare material and a control circuit controls a drive-electric energy to the electrochromic element based upon a driving electric signal of a signal generator wherein the mirror member is detachably mounted to a facility in a vehicle compartment so that a holder holds the mirror member and the mirror member covers a pre-mounted inner mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Nippn Oil Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinori Nishikitani, Masaaki Kobayashi, Keizo Ikai, Tsuyoshi Asano