Patents Issued in May 15, 2007
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Patent number: 7216936Abstract: A method of manufacturing a seating unit, such as a chair, includes manufacturing a cushion made from a non-woven fibrous material, and attaching the cushion to the seating unit for comfortable support. The cushion is made by cutting a blank from non-woven fibrous sheet material, steam-forming the blank into a pre-formed cushion shaped to support a user, and attaching a stiffener panel to the pre-formed cushion to provide a stiffened cushion assembly. The cushion assembly is aesthetically covered and assembled to seating unit. Advantageously, trimmings from the fibrous material can be recycled.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Steelcase Development CorporationInventor: Gordon J. Peterson
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Patent number: 7216937Abstract: Headrest-mounting-tubes are attached into the seatframe of an automotive seat. Headrest-posts engage the mounting-tubes, and support the headrest. The headrest-posts need to be orientated correctly, and so have a key that engages a keyway in the mounting-tube. The keyway is formed as a keyway-pocket, being punched from the open end of the tube. Preferably, the keyway-pocket is punched after the mounting-tube has been attached into the seatframe.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2002Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Bend All Automotive IncorporatedInventors: Arthur A. Key, Jeffrey John Thomas, Matthew Richard Gleiser, Alfred D. Napolitano, Jr.
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Patent number: 7216938Abstract: A wheel-balancing weight mounts to a wheel with a flange. The weight has a weighted body and a clip securely attached thereto. The body defines a recess therein, and the clip has a securing portion formed to be securely positioned within the recess defined in the body and a grasping portion for securely grasping the flange. The recess of the body allows the clip to be axially positioned with respect to such body so that the body is axially shifted toward the mounted-to wheel to achieve a proper fit to the wheel. The securing portion of the clip is secured within the recess by flowing a portion of the body adjacent such clip into contact therewith.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Perfect Equipment Inc.Inventor: Shelah Phillips
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Patent number: 7216939Abstract: This brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus adopts, as the pressure-increasing valve, a normally-open linear solenoid valve that can linearly adjust the actual differential pressure. This apparatus repeatedly executes, in principle, a control cycle in which a pressure-reducing control, holding control and linear pressure-increasing control make one set, after ABS control start conditions are satisfied (after time t1). In this case, a pulse pressure-increasing control is executed instead of the linear pressure-increasing control only in the first-time control cycle (time t3 to t6).Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Katsuo Obai
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Patent number: 7216940Abstract: An apparatus engageable with a railway vehicle truck-mounted braking system for compensating for truck bolster movement which includes at least one force transmitting wedge member movable in a reciprocating motion by a pneumatic actuator. The at least one force transmitting wedge member engage rollers rotateably attached to a return push rod member disposed within the truck-mounted braking system for extending the return push rod member to reduce brake shoe clearance prior to brake shoe application. A method for compensating for truck bolster movement also includes fully pressurizing a wedge actuator prior to pressurizing the main brake apparatus actuator. Depressurization of the system returns the force transmitting wedges and return push rod to their original positions upon completion of brake application, subsequently increasing brake shoe clearance for allowable truck bolster movement.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Wabtec Holding Corp.Inventor: Howard Sommerfeld
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Patent number: 7216941Abstract: A parking brake system for motor vehicle air brakes provides automatic engagement of the parking brakes when a gearshift lever is moved to park, but requires manual disengagement of the parking brakes. The effect is achieved in part by controlling the discharge conditions of two piloted latch valves connected to feed air to a cab mounted push pull double check valve.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLCInventor: James A. Thomas
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Patent number: 7216942Abstract: This device is applied to a vehicle having a dual circuit brake conduit (so-called X-conduit) comprising a circuit for a front-right wheel and a rear-left wheel and a circuit for a front-left wheel and a rear-right wheel. This device obtains basic control volume Gb based upon a vehicle body speed and a road friction coefficient during an understeer restraining control or oversteer restraining control, and obtains yaw control volume Gd based upon a deviation between a target yaw rate and actual yaw rate. Then, it exerts braking force according to the basic control volume Gb respectively on two wheels of one circuit to which front wheel at the outer side of the turning direction and the rear wheel at the inner side of the turning direction belong, to thereby decelerate the vehicle, and further exerts braking force according to the yaw control volume Gd on either one wheel of the same circuit, thereby producing a yawing moment for making the turning state close to the target state.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Yasutake, Kazuhiro Kato
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Patent number: 7216943Abstract: A hybrid vehicle is capable of performing regenerative operations of generator-motors disposed adjacently to front wheels and/or rear wheels of the vehicle so as to achieve efficient conversion of kinetic energy of the vehicle into electric energy as much as possible when the vehicle slows down, thereby permitting higher use efficiency of energy. When the vehicle decelerates, a target deceleration force or a target deceleration torque of the vehicle is set, and a permissible maximum value of the braking torque to be imparted to rear wheels from a second generator-motor is set, and the permissible maximum value and the target deceleration torque of the vehicle, whichever is smaller, is set as a target braking torque to be imparted from the second generator-motor to the rear wheels.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Nishikawa, Hirokatsu Amanuma, Kazuhisa Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7216944Abstract: An outer door panel for an appliance door assembly is provided which includes a frame comprising opposite lateral sides, an outer surface extending from the frame and bowed between the lateral sides, and a recessed control mounting surface extending from the outer surface between the lateral sides.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2001Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Max Douglas Oyler, Jeffrey Thomas Kiesler, Deryl Craig York, Lance Alan Wolf
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Patent number: 7216945Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit for effecting recording on a recording medium, and a conveying unit for conveying the recording medium. The recording apparatus further includes a power input terminal adapted to be switched ON/OFF by the ignition key switch of an automobile, and a controller for executing the operation sequence of the recording apparatus in accordance with the ON/OFF state of the power input terminal. In addition, a method of controlling the above-described recording apparatus includes executing the operation sequence of the recording apparatus in accordance with the ON/OFF state of the power input terminal switched ON/OFF by the ignition key switch of an automobile.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Nojima, Osamu Sato, Atsuhiro Tsuchiya, Akio Kato, Masahiko Kubota, Koichi Kuno, Hiroyuki Tamaki, Taku Higashiyama
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Patent number: 7216946Abstract: An ink feeding rate control method for a printing machine includes a step of determining, from image data used in recording images, an average of image area ratios of images in areas on prints corresponding to ink keys, a step of determining, from the image data, an average of image area ratios of images in positions aligned in a printing direction with the detecting patches (i.e. rectangular areas having substantially the same width as the detecting patches and extending in the printing direction) printed in the areas on the prints corresponding to the ink keys, and a step of correcting the reference information based on the average of image area ratios of the images in the areas on the prints corresponding to the ink keys, and the average of image area ratios of the images in the positions aligned in the printing direction with the detecting patches printed on the prints.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takaharu Yamamoto, Kazuya Takeda, Kazuki Fukui
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Patent number: 7216947Abstract: The image forming apparatus comprises: a recording head which ejects droplets of a liquid onto a recording medium; a droplet ejection control device which controls a droplet ejection timing of the recording head; and a conveyance device which relatively moves the recording medium and the recording head in a relative conveyance direction, wherein when the recording head performs ejection of a first droplet to form a first dot on the recording medium and then performs ejection of a second droplet to form a second dot overlapping with the first dot on the recording medium, the droplet ejection control device controls the droplet ejection timing of the recording head by taking a droplet diameter change time until a diameter of the first droplet deposited on a surface of the recording medium reaches D1b satisfying the following inequality as a droplet ejection time interval between the ejection of the first droplet and the ejection of the second droplet: D1b<2×Pt?D2a, where Pt is an interval between the first dType: GrantFiled: September 23, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Fujifilm CorporationInventor: Naoki Kusunoki
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Patent number: 7216948Abstract: An image forming apparatus has: a recording head having plural unit recording heads divided in a direction orthogonal to a moving direction of a recording medium; a detecting section detecting at least offset of an image recorded by a vicinity of an end portion, in the direction orthogonal to the moving direction of the recording medium, of the plural unit recording heads; and a correcting section correcting recording offset of the recording head on the basis of results of detection of the detecting section.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiki Matsuzaki, Kozo Tagawa, Ryo Ando, Takeshi Kato, Tsutomu Udaka, Toshiyuki Kazama, Osamu Goto, Kenichi Kawauchi
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Patent number: 7216949Abstract: An ink jet printer has: a vibration detection section to receive ink jetted from the nozzles and output a detection signal having an amplitude corresponding to a vibration generated when the ink lands; a sampling section to sample an amplitude value of the detection signal by a predetermined sampling clock signal; a storing section to store an amplitude value data of the detection signal sampled by the sampling section; a judging section to judge a jet failure of the nozzles based on the amplitude value data of the detection signal in the storing section; and a control section to control to jet the ink continuously a plurality of times with a jet drive cycle which is set by multiplying a standard drive waveform time of an ink jet signal from the nozzles by an odd number not less than five when detecting a jet failure of the nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Takashi Hasebe, Saburo Shimizu, Tetsu Sekine, Shuta Hamada
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Patent number: 7216950Abstract: A density-adjusting method of a liquid-discharging apparatus having a head including a plurality of juxtaposed liquid-discharging units having respective nozzles, forming dots by landing droplets discharged from the nozzles onto a droplet-landing object, and providing half tones by arranging a dot array is provided. A density-measuring pattern including all pixel trains lying in the main scanning direction with a constant density is formed, the density of the pattern is scanned so as to obtain density information and the relationship between the number and the density of droplets with respect to each pixel train. Upon receipt of a discharge command signal, based on the obtained data with respect to each pixel train, the density of the pixel train corresponding to the discharge command signal is adjusted by making the number of droplets to be actually discharged from the nozzles different from that of droplets discharged according to the discharge command signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takeo Eguchi, Kazuyasu Takenaka, Takanori Takahashi, Ichiro Ujiie
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Patent number: 7216951Abstract: A method for automatically ordering printer consumables which includes determining when a printer consumable is close to depletion and automatically ordering a replacement to the printer consumable based upon a plurality of criteria. The criteria includes the amount of consecutive time a consumer has been a member of a printer consumable subscription service and the number of printer consumables ordered by a consumer.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Henry N. Garrana, Bay Anthon, John Hale, Gary Lerhaupt, Carol Truman, Jeremy Staadeker
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Patent number: 7216952Abstract: A multicolor-printer has at least a first and a second print station, first and second optical sensors and a surface recordings comparator. The first and second print stations are arranged to print images on a surface of a moving recording medium. The first and second optical sensors view, at the first and second print stations, an area of the recording medium surface to obtain at least one first surface recording, in a manner related to the first print station's image printing, and second surface recordings, respectively. A storage is arranged to store the first surface recording. The surface recordings comparator is arranged to test, during the recording medium movement, for correspondence of second surface recordings with the stored first surface recording.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: David Claramunt, Carles Flotats, Jose M Rio Doval, Rodrigo Ruiz, Francesc Subirada, Marc Jansa, Xavier Soler, Fernando Juan
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Patent number: 7216953Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes a head assembly in which a plurality of head chips, each having multiple nozzles arranged therein for discharging ink, are disposed in the arrangement direction of the nozzles. The discharge of ink from the nozzles of each head chip in band-boundary regions in which bands recorded by the head chips overlap each other is adjusted in accordance with the detection result of the temperature of each head chip.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Wada, Hiromitsu Yamaguchi, Hitoshi Yoshino
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Patent number: 7216954Abstract: A postage meter includes a print head, a purge unit for removing waste ink from the print head, an ink tray for receiving the waste ink, and a mechanism for heating the ink tray to promote evaporation of the waste ink.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.Inventors: Walter J. Kulpa, Norman Barrigas
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Patent number: 7216955Abstract: An inkjet printer capable of inhibiting color tone change on a recording-finished image with an easy structure. The inkjet printer has: a plurality of recording heads for jetting ink having different colors from each other, wherein an image is recorded by moving the plurality of the recording heads over a recording medium conveyed along a conveyance direction, along a direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction; each recording head has a plurality of nozzles for jetting the ink as minute liquid drops; the plurality of nozzles are arrayed at intervals of predetermined number of pixels along the conveyance direction in each recording head; and each nozzle of one recording head is arranged at a position shifted from each nozzle of the other recording head along the conveyance direction so as to dispose each nozzle of the one recording head within the interval between the nozzles of the other recording head.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Yukihiro Niekawa
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Patent number: 7216956Abstract: A printhead assembly with an elongate printhead and a plurality of power supply points and ground supply points spaced along its length. The assembly also has an elongate power busbar and an elongate ground busbar with an interconnect means 470 connecting said power supply points 553 to the power busbar and the ground supply points to said ground busbar; wherein, the interconnect means 470 attaches to the printhead along a single longitudinal edge 554 thereof. By attaching to one edge of the printhead IC only, the assembly design is less complex and more compact.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty LtdInventor: Kia Silverbrook
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Patent number: 7216957Abstract: A micro-electromechanical ink ejection mechanism for a printer includes a substrate that defines an ink inlet. A drive circuitry layer is positioned on the substrate. An elongate thermal bend actuator is connected at a fixed end to the drive circuitry layer and is configured to be displaced reciprocally with respect to the substrate on receipt of a signal from the drive circuitry layer. An ink ejection member spans the ink inlet and is operatively connected to the bend actuator to be reciprocally displaceable with respect to the substrate upon reciprocal displacement of the bend actuator. A motion transfer structure is interposed between the actuator and the ink ejection member to transfer movement of the actuator to the ink ejection member.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty LtdInventor: Kia Silverbrook
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Patent number: 7216958Abstract: A method of expelling a fluid includes filling a nozzle with a fluid using a capillary force, generating an ion wind by ionizing air near an outlet of the nozzle, and expelling the fluid from the nozzle as the ion wind decreases a pressure around the outlet of the nozzle. An ink-jet printhead utilizing the method includes a manifold formed in a passageway plate to supply ink, a nozzle to be supplied with ink formed in a nozzle plate provided on the passageway plate, and a ground electrode and a source electrode arranged near an outlet of the nozzle, the ground electrode and the source electrode forming an electric field due to an application of a voltage thereto and ionizing air near the outlet of the nozzle to produce an ion wind to decrease a pressure near the outlet of the nozzle to expel the ink contained in the nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: You-seop Lee, Yong-soo Oh, Seung-joo Shin
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Patent number: 7216959Abstract: An apparatus and method for driving an ink-jet printhead in which current is applied to a heater to heat ink to be supplied in an ink chamber to generate a bubble to eject ink from the ink chamber, the apparatus including a circuit that alternately applies current to the heater to alternate a direction of current flowing through the heater.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ji-hyuk Lim, Young-jae Kim, Yong-soo Oh, Seog-soon Baek, You-seop Lee, Hyung-taek Lim, Chang-seung Lee
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Patent number: 7216960Abstract: This invention relates to a printhead substrate capable of suppressing an increase in wiring width and an increase in the size of a substrate formed by a film forming process while increasing the number of simultaneously driven printing elements in order to improve the printing performance, a printhead using the substrate, and a printing apparatus using the printhead. The wiring lines of the substrate are formed into a common wiring line, and energy applied to a heating resistance element is prevented from deviating from a stable ink discharge range owing to the difference in the number of simultaneously driven heating resistance elements. For this purpose, a driving element is greatly downsized in comparison with a conventional one, and the operation region of a MOS transistor is shifted from the non-saturation region to the saturation region.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiyuki Imanaka, Teruo Ozaki, Takuya Hatsui, Takaaki Yamaguchi, Ichiro Saito, Muga Mochizuki, Toshiyasu Sakai
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Patent number: 7216961Abstract: A base member for an ink jet head in which a heat accumulation layer, a heat generating member generating heat energy used to discharge ink, and protection film for protecting the heat generating member are formed in succession on a substrate, characterized in that the heat resistance value of a portion of the heat accumulation layer which is under the heat generating member is two times or greater and less than five times as great as the heat resistance value of a portion of the protection film which is on the heat generating member.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masaki Oikawa, Mineo Kaneko
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Patent number: 7216962Abstract: A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric material film made of BiFeO3. The piezoelectric element can be used in an ink jet recording head which includes a cavity with a variable internal volume, wherein the internal volume of the cavity changes depending on deformation of the piezoelectric material film included in the piezoelectric element.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hiromu Miyazawa, Takamitsu Higuchi, Setsuya Iwashita
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Patent number: 7216963Abstract: An ink cartridge being vertically mounted comprises a housing that is provided with an ink discharge port, an ink pack that is disposed within the housing, and a pressing mechanism that presses the ink pack. The pressing mechanism includes a contact and a biasing member. The contact is movably disposed within the housing and in contact with at least a part of the ink pack lower than the ink discharge port. The biasing member biases the contact toward the ink pack in a direction at an angle to a vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Osamu Takagi
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Patent number: 7216964Abstract: An ink jet cartridge for use in a continuous cartridge refill system has a top side, a front side, and a handle at the juncture therebetween. A flexible ink supply tube for connecting the cartridge with an ink reservoir extends through openings in the handle of the cartridge and is connected to a fitting on the top side of the cartridge which communicates the supply tube with the ink chamber of the cartridge. Routing of the tube through the handle provides strain relief for restraining the application of a pulling force on the tubing at the point of connection thereof with the coupling.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Nu-Kote International, Inc.Inventors: Carl W. Holland, William A. Putman, Graham Anthony
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Patent number: 7216965Abstract: A water-based inkjet printer ink contains at least a colorant and a resin. The resin is a block copolymer, which contains at least one hydrophilic block and at least one hydrophobic block. Each of the blocks is a vinyl ether polymer, wherein said block copolymer is obtained by polymerizing vinyl ethers as monomer by using at least one aluminum compound selected from the group consisting of tripropylaluminum, triisopropylaluminum and aluminum compounds as Ziegler-Natta catalysts.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Canon Finetech Inc.Inventors: Junko Morioka, Takayuki Ookawa, Tomoya Yamamoto, Yukiko Tachibana, Hitoshi Inoue
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Patent number: 7216966Abstract: A water base ink set for ink-jet recording includes a water base ink which contains an acid dye, and a water base ink which contains a basic dye. The water base ink contains a polymer which has an average molecular weight of 3,000 to 20,000 and which is represented by the following formula (1): wherein X represents H or COONa, and Y represents H, COONa, SO3Na, or CH2OR in the formula (1). R represents a substituted group having SO3Na with carbon atom or atoms of a number of 1 to 5. When the ink containing the acid dye and the ink containing the basic dye are mixed with each other, then the head discharge section is prevented from any clog-up, and it is possible to perform the stable jetting operation.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ryuji Kato, Masashi Tsuda, Noriaki Satoh, Shunichi Higashiyama
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Patent number: 7216967Abstract: An inkjet recording method includes: forming a color image with color inks by while scanning a recording head multiple times on a same recording area, forming a thinned-out image, the recording head having a plurality of nozzle sections for jetting the color inks, wherein a nozzle pitch is from 10 to 50 ?m, the color inks comprise C, M, Y and BK inks and at least one special color ink, the color inks contain pigments, at least one organic solvent with high boiling point and water, a dot formed by the color inks has a size of 10 to 50 ?m, the recording medium has a transferred amount at 0.04 seconds of absorption time of 10 ml/m2 or more, the recording medium comprises a micro-porous layer containing inorganic fine particles and a hydrophilic binder; and a 20-degree specular gloss of the recording medium is 20 to 45%.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Takahiro Matsuzawa, Atsushi Tomotake, Kenzo Nakazawa, Miyako Sugihara
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Patent number: 7216968Abstract: A media hold down and heating assembly of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that includes a dielectric against which media is positioned, a conductive heating element, and an electrostatic hold down element. The conductive heating element is to conductively heat the media through the dielectric. The electrostatic hold down element is to electrostatically hold down the media against the dielectric.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: David E. Smith, Robert M. Yraceburu, Stephen McNally
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Patent number: 7216969Abstract: An image recording method for causing an ink to adhere on a recording medium, which provides with at least one ink-receiving layer on a base material to form an image. The ink is an inkjet recording ink, which composed of a high molecular dispersant, a water-insoluble colorant, a water-soluble organic solvent and water. The high molecular dispersant contains at least one hydrophobic block and at least one hydrophilic block. The ink receiving layer contains fine inorganic particles and a water soluble resin or water dispersible resin, and a surface pH of the ink receiving layer is controlled within a range of from 3.0 to 6.5, wherein said fine inorganic particles are made of at least one selected from the group consisting of aluminum hydrate of boehmite structure and aluminum hydrate of the pseudo-boehmite structure each of which has an average particle size of from 100 to 300 nm.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Canon Finetech Inc.Inventor: Kenichi Kawano
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Patent number: 7216970Abstract: An ink jet printer includes a printer housing, an imaging drum, a drum frame connected to the printer housing and the imaging drum, a print head frame movably mounted in the printer housing, at least two print heads mounted to the print head frame, a first alignment pin connected to the print head frame, and a second alignment pin connected to the print head frame. The imaging drum includes first and second ends. The drum frame includes a first support connected to the first end of the imaging drum and a second support connected to the second end of the imaging drum. The first support includes a first docking station and the second support includes a second docking station. The print head is movable between a printing position and a cleaning position. Each alignment pin connects to the print head frame and extends generally towards the drum frame. The first alignment pin is adapted to be received by the first docking station when the print head frame is moved into the printing position.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Daniel W. Costanza, Michael F. Leo, Alexander J. Fioravanti
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Patent number: 7216971Abstract: A pair of eyeglasses with lens fastening arrangement includes a frame having two sets of one or more through holes formed on an outer top and/or bottom edge of each of a pair of openings. The through holes communicate with grooves of the openings. A pair of lenses each includes one or more projections formed on an outer top and/or a bottom edge of each lens. The projection is adapted to lockingly engage with the through hole with peripheral edges of the lenses being inserted into the grooves of the openings of the frame when the lenses are firmly fitted in the openings of the frame. Thereby, loosening of the lenses by bending temples of the eyeglasses is substantially impossible.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Inventor: Jun-Wei Chen
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Patent number: 7216972Abstract: Glasses adapted to be mounted on caps having an interior band such that terminal temple connecting portions are mounted on such band at two circumferentially-spaced positions, and the glasses so mounted are further adapted to upwardly pivot such that the glasses are easily utilized with caps worn in both the brim rearward and forward positions.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2006Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Inventor: Russell Gelfuso
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Patent number: 7216973Abstract: An eyeglass can have a digital audio file storage and playback device and earphones supported by the eyeglass frame so as to provide a personal and portable audio player integrated into eyeglasses.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Oakley, Inc.Inventors: James Jannard, Davin Saderholm, Carlos Reyes, Colin Baden, Samner Lane Bruns, Michael Webb, Eric Bernard Daniels
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Patent number: 7216974Abstract: The present invention is directed to a contact lens design and methods of manufacturing, fitting and using such lenses. As an example, the contact lens may be designed to be used in an orthokeratology treatment program. The contact lens according to the invention overcomes the deficiencies of the prior art, and provides a design which allows proper fitting of a patient, whether for corrective contact lenses or for use in an orthokeratology treatment program. The ability to properly fit a patient will alleviate, at least to a great degree, corneal abrasions from poorly distributed bearing, corneal warpage from decentered lenses, edema from tight fitting lenses and discomfort. The design allows a great deal of flexibility to the fitter to enhance the functionality of the lens. The lens of the present invention includes a central zone and first annular zone located adjacent to and concentrically around the central zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2006Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: CRT Technologies Inc.Inventors: William E. Meyers, Jerome A. Legerton
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Patent number: 7216975Abstract: A method for preparing the tinted contact lens with the covalently bonded novel reactive tinting compound is disclosed. The reactive tinting compound with mono vinyl functionality is prepared by reacting the reactive dye with a hydrophilic monomer containing both pendent hydroxyl and vinyl groups under an alkaline condition. The water soluble reactive dyes containing either difluoro-chloropyrimidine or ?-sulphatoethylsulphone reactive groups are used for synthesis of the reactive tinting dye. The lens forming materials are photo-polymerized in the presence of the reactive tinting compound to prepare a tinted contact lens. The reactive tinting compound is copolymerized with the lens forming monomers in a single photo-polymerization step that requires no subsequently alkaline soaking or developing step as used in the prior art. In addition, the covalently bonded dye is stable and durable in the lens and does not fade or leach out after multiple high-pressure thermal sterilizations.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Inventor: Shinn-Gwo Hong
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Patent number: 7216976Abstract: An impact strength synthetic resin lens is provided in which transparency of a synthetic resin lens material of a polyurethane and releasability are improved to improve productivity and no stria are produced. The impact strength synthetic resin lens is manufactured by casting and curing a polyurethane resin composition which a polyurethane resin composition for molding optical lenses, comprising, as essential components, a prepolymer obtained by reacting an alicyclic polyisocyanate having two or more isocyanate groups with a polyol having two or more hydroxy groups, an internal mold lubricant and a decolored aromatic diamine.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Talex Optical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kanichi Tamura, Shoichi Mitsuuchi, Chung-Tang Chang
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Patent number: 7216977Abstract: The lens presents horizontal prismatic refractive power that varies progressively along the main progression meridian (MM?) with the addition of horizontal prismatic power being greater than 2 prismatic diopters in absolute value, this addition of horizontal prismatic power being defined by the difference between the horizontal prismatic refractive power at the reference point (L) of the far vision zone and the horizontal prismatic refractive power at the projection point (P?) of the reference point (P) of the near vision zone (VP) on the vertical line passing through the reference point (L) of the far vision zone.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d' O{circumflex over (p)}tique)Inventors: Isabelle Poulain, Björn Drobe, Clotilde Haro, Pascal Allione, Francoise Ahsbahs
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Patent number: 7216978Abstract: A method for designing contact lenses is provided in which direct correlation is made between an individual's subjective assessment of the lens' performance with the objective measurement of one or both of on-eye lens position and eyelid movement. The method permits generation of lens designs that have enhanced on-eye stability in less time than conventional design methods.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.Inventors: Jose L. Perez, Daoud Robert Iskander, Michael Collins
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Patent number: 7216979Abstract: There is provided an ophthalmologic image pickup apparatus in which a pattern of an image resulting from unnecessary reflected light generated in an optical system by illumination of an illumination unit is stored in a storage unit and the image resulting from the unnecessary reflected light is eliminated using a correction pattern in accordance with an image pickup condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuhiro Matsumoto
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Patent number: 7216980Abstract: The aberration and refraction power data of an eye to be examined obtained from a first light reception unit and cornea data of the eye to be examined are correlated with each other so as to be overlaid accurately. A first signal and a second signal are concurrently captured, and the optical characteristics and cornea shape of the eye to be examined are measured concurrently or almost concurrently. A measuring unit (111) measures dioptrical characteristics based on a first light reception signal from the first light reception unit (23), and measures a corneal topography based on a second light reception signal from the second light reception unit (35). A coordinates setting unit (112) converts signal in first and second coordinate systems, corresponding to the eye to be examined, included in the first and second reception signal into signal in reference coordinate systems respectively.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2002Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TopconInventors: Toshifumi Mihashi, Yoko Hirohara
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Patent number: 7216981Abstract: There is provided an ophthalmologic apparatus that prevents ghost light from generating. In the ophthalmologic apparatus, on an optical path commonly used for an eye fundus illumination optical system and an image taking optical system including an image taking diaphragm, an objective lens for forming an image of the image taking diaphragm onto an anterior ocular segment of an eye to be examined is provided. The objective lens is formed such that the entire light beam from the center of the image taking diaphragm is substantially perpendicularly incident thereon. The objective lens is a refractive index distributed lens in which a refractive index is high in a vicinity of an optical axis and reduces as a distance from the optical axis increases.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kazuhiro Matsumoto
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Patent number: 7216982Abstract: An eye image taking device comprises: an imaging unit for taking the eye of a person to be authenticated, as an eye image; an illumination unit for illuminating the eye of the person to be authenticated; an eyeglass reflection detecting unit for detecting an eyeglass reflection from the eye image; and an instruction unit for instructing the person to be authenticated the movement of the imaging unit or the direction of the face of the person to be authenticated, in case an eyeglass reflection detecting portion detects the eyeglass reflection.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Fujimatsu, Masahiro Wakamori
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Patent number: 7216983Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided an ophthalmologic apparatus in which identifying power for the index or an index indicating state is improved to eliminate the confusion of a person to be examined, so that an eye examination time period can be shortened and the reliability of an eye examination can be improved. The ophthalmologic apparatus includes an index plate that displays an index, an index projecting optical system that projects the index to an eye to be examined, a variable cross cylinder that produces a pair of index indicating states of the index used for a cross cylinder test, a lamp and a liquid crystal screen that generate identifiers serving as identification information, and a dichroic mirror that combines the identifiers with the pair of index indicating states to be indicated to the eye to be examined.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha TopconInventor: Takefumi Hayashi
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Patent number: 7216984Abstract: An optometric apparatus for a subjective examination of a visual function of an eye of an examinee includes a pair of right and left lens chamber units, each including, a test window and a rotating disk on which a plurality of optical elements are mounted in a circumferential arrangement to be changeably placed in the test window, the optical elements including a green filter and an aperture.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Nidek Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshinobu Hosoi
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Patent number: 7216985Abstract: An ophthalmic examination system comprising a headrest with a detection element, and an ophthalmic instrument (OI) having a microprocessor and a sensor in communication with the microprocessor. The sensor is configured to detect the presence of the detection element, and the headrest is configured for coupling to the OI.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Inventors: Kamran Siminou, Jeffrey Oliver