Abstract: A bicycle hub has an axle and a hub shell rotatably disposed about the axle with a plurality of fixing portions disposed at opposite ends of the hub shell. Each of the fixing elements has a pair of spoke attachment structures to attach a pair of inner ends of a pair of spokes to the hub shell. The fixing elements are removably coupled to the fixing portions of the hub shell.

Abstract: A tone ring of a vehicle anti-lock braking system of the type that is integrated into a disc brake rotor. The tone ring has a protective layer which enables it to withstand the combination of extreme heat and harsh environmental conditions to which it is exposed during operation of the vehicle. The protective layer is applied by thermally spraying a selected one of a plurality of materials, such as a nickel-based alloy, a high-chrome stainless steel, or non-ferrous materials such as an aluminum, copper-based alloys or a ceramic, on teeth of the tone ring, and without causing the protective layer to be deposited on the rotor braking surfaces. The protective layer generally prevents the formation of oxidation and corrosion byproduct layers on the teeth, to thereby maintain sensitivity for detection of teeth movement by the anti-lock braking system sensor during operation of the system.

Abstract: A release graduating valve for freight brake control is provided for a railcar having a pneumatic control valve, emergency and auxiliary reservoirs each normally charged with pressurized fluid from a brake pipe and a fluid pressure activated brake cylinder device for applying the brakes on the railcar. A selectively operable release graduating valve can include a graduated release valve and a changeover valve which selectively interposes the graduated release valve to exhaust brake cylinder pressure in a graduated manner responsive to brake pipe pressure. Alternatively, the changeover valve can isolate the graduated release valve and direct the pneumatic control valve to exhaust brake cylinder pressure in a conventional manner. The changeover valve can be operated responsive to the pressure in an air pipe supplied with pressurized fluid from a remote source.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pump system for parking brakes for a rail vehicle. The pump system includes at least one actuator, at least one pump and a reservoir as a fluid source. Also included is a manifold in fluid communication with the reservoir and the actuator. Further included are a plurality of valves and fluid paths internal to the manifold to allow fluid flow among the at least one pump and the reservoir.

Abstract: A failure check apparatus for a control apparatus of a vehicle such as ABS. When the failure check apparatus performs initial check for the ABS, it successively activates each of solenoid valves and a motor provided in the ABS, one at a time, for a predetermined time so as to determine whether a failure has occurred in the ABS. At that time, activation of the motor is started when a certain delay time elapses after the end of activation of the last solenoid valve. The delay time is a time which the vibration generated in the control apparatus upon activation of the last solenoid valve converges. Thus, interference between a vibration wave (sound wave) generated upon actuation of the solenoid valves and a vibration wave (sound wave) generated upon actuation of the motor, which differ in nature of vibration, is prevented.

Abstract: An apparatus for the safe storage and transport of nail technician implements. The invention comprises: a body having a rear panel, left and right sides and a base. A handle formed at the top and connected to the left and right sides. A cavity is defined by said rear panel, base, and said left and front sides, and upper and lower panels hingedly attached to said left and right sides.

Abstract: A flat panel assembly for a drawer tower includes a left panel including a left rail adapted to slidably receive a rim of a drawer, a right panel including a right rail adapted to slidably receive a rim of a drawer, and a back panel foldably integral with the left panel along a first joint, and foldably integral with the right panel along a second joint.

Abstract: A semi-frameless cabinet system including a top panel, bottom panel, two side panels, and a back panel. The cabinet may also include one or more middle shelves, drawers, or doors. Each of the forward facing sides of the cabinet include a grooved surface, wherein edging is secured to each panels such that the panels and edging form an interior space within the cabinet. The edging overlaps the outer edge of the cabinet panels, but not the inner edge, such that the edging and panels are flush within the interior space of the cabinet. As such, the cabinet employs the advantages of both framed and frameless cabinets.

Abstract: A cabinet runner side wall extension includes a wall with opposite sides, a flange extending from the wall, and a tab extending from the wall. The flange extends substantially normal from one side of the wall. The tab includes a first portion extending away from a second opposite side of the wall and a second portion spaced from and approximately parallel to the wall.

Abstract: A drawer slide system providing access and stability for side access drawers has a base including an outside pair of vertical webs and a centrally situated elevated portion. Vertically oriented drawer slides are coupled to each of the vertical webs and a horizontally oriented drawer slide is coupled to the centrally situated portion of the base. The vertically oriented drawer slides are coupled to outside margins of a side access drawer adjacent to a bottom of the drawer. The horizontally oriented drawer slide is coupled to a central portion of the bottom of the drawer. The base can be fixed to a bottom surface of a cabinet to position the side access drawer within a suitable drawer receiving opening in the cabinet.

Abstract: A storage compartment for a refrigerator door has a box-shaped body and a compartment divider. The compartment divider can be attached to a longitudinal wall of the box-shaped body and extends over more than half of a depth of the box-shaped body. A space for holding small items is provided by the compartment divider.

Abstract: A shelf assembly is provided. The shelf assembly includes a plate having a shaft flange extending substantially perpendicular therefrom, and a shaft mounted to the shaft flange. The shaft extends from the shaft flange along a first axis. The shelf assembly further includes a shelf slidably mounted to the shaft such that the shelf is movable on the shaft along the first axis.

Abstract: A refrigerator shelf includes a glass sheet and upper and lower frames disposed at the edge of the glass sheet. The upper frame has latch parts formed at the lower surface thereof and the lower frame has flanges formed at the upper surface thereof so that the flanges are fitted to the latch parts at both sides of the upper and lower frames. The upper frame is further provided with holes and protrusions formed at the front and rear ends thereof, respectively, and the lower frame is further provided with protrusions and holes formed at the front and rear ends of the lower frame, respectively, so that the holes and protrusions of the upper frame are correspondingly engaged with the protrusions and holes of the lower frame at the front and rear ends of the upper and lower frames.

Abstract: A digital camera comprises an image sensor device for sensing an image. A processor processes the sensed image. A pagewidth printhead prints the sensed image. An ink supply arrangement supplies ink to the print head and the image is printed on print media from a supply of print media. The supply of print media is pre-marked with tokens designating that postage has been paid so that each image printed out on the print media has one such token associated with it.

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus in which displacements of dots are reduced. In the inkjet recording apparatus, recording data is read out from a recording buffer at a period corresponding to a second resolution. The apparatus determines whether or not to delay the timing at which the readout is performed by an interval corresponding to one-half of the period corresponding to a first resolution. The apparatus also selects whether to drive an inkjet head in a front half or a last half of the period corresponding to the first resolution.

Abstract: A processing apparatus for an inkjet printer includes a bus. A processor runs a control program of the apparatus. A DMA controller is connected to the data bus to control address transfers in a number of channels. A control program memory is connected to the data bus to store the control program for access by the processor. A random access memory interface is connected to the data bus for access to image data for printing. Image processing circuitry is connected to the data bus to process the image data for printing. A printhead interface communicates with a printhead.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of controlling an ink jet recording apparatus on which a liquid container is to be detachably mounted, the liquid container having a piezoelectric device for detecting the liquid. The method includes the steps of: detecting a characteristic value of the piezoelectric device by a detection section provided inside or outside of the ink jet recording apparatus; judging whether or not the characteristic value satisfies a predetermined condition by a judging section provided inside or outside of the ink jet recording apparatus; and controlling the ink jet recording apparatus so that the ink jet recording apparatus is set in an operable or a non-operable state based on a result of the judging step.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus having heads with liquid dischargers including nozzles aligned in parallel in a row. Each liquid discharger has a main controlling unit for discharging ink droplets from the nozzles of the liquid discharger, a secondary controlling unit for controlling the discharge of a droplet so that the droplet is discharged along at least one trajectory different from the trajectories of the droplets discharged from a liquid discharger controlled by the main controlling unit, and a secondary-control executing unit for individually setting whether or not the secondary controlling unit for each liquid discharger is operated. The liquid dischargers controlled by the secondary controlling unit discharge ink droplets along different trajectories compared to the ink droplets discharged by other liquid dischargers.

Abstract: This specification discloses a computer program product for creating print data utilized by an ink jet printer. The ink jet printer comprises an ink jet head moving in a predetermined direction with respect to a print medium. The computer program product includes instructions for ordering a computer to perform a reading step of reading image data that includes a plurality of first combinations. Each first combination comprises a position and information concerning whether a dot is to be formed at the position. The computer program product includes instructions for ordering the computer to further perform a print data creating step of creating the print data by creating a second combination for each position at which the dot is to be formed. Each second combination comprises the position at which the dot is to be formed and one nozzle randomly selected from the nozzles of the nozzle unit which corresponds to the position.

Abstract: A method determines a color ink deposition order when inks of a plurality of colors are overlapped on one another to form an image on a recording medium. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining information on OD_?(?) concerning an ink of a first color ? and OD_?(?) concerning an ink of a second color ?, where OD_?(?) is a reflection density in a range of a color complementary to the second color ? in a deposition sample obtained when only the ink of the first color ? is deposited, and OD_?(?) is a reflection density in a range of a color complementary to the first color ? in a deposition sample obtained when only the ink of the second color ? is deposited; and determining the color ink deposition order so that of one of the inks of the first color ? and the second color ? which one corresponds to smaller one of OD_?(?) and OD_?(?) is first deposited and the other of the inks of the first color ? and the second color ? is subsequently deposited.

Abstract: The image forming apparatus forms an image on a prescribed recording medium by carrying out digital halftoning using a threshold value matrix. The image forming apparatus comprises: a plurality of nozzles which eject ink toward the recording medium to form an image; an ejection characteristics determination device which determines ejection characteristics of each of the nozzles; and a threshold value correction device which performs first threshold value correction to reduce density non-uniformity occurring in the image due to error in the ejection characteristics of the nozzles, by correcting the threshold value matrix according to the error in the ejection characteristics of the nozzles, and performs second threshold value correction to reduce granularity in the image by correcting the threshold value matrix having undergone the first threshold value correction, according to threshold values in the threshold value matrix.

Abstract: A plurality of first base images are formed from a base color output in accordance with a predetermined adjustment value. A plurality of first correction images are formed on the first base images from a correction color to be a subject for correction output in accordance with a predetermined adjustment value. The first correction images are displaced within a predetermined range. The first adjustment value is determined from changed adjustment values. The second base images are formed from the base color output in accordance with the predetermined adjustment value, and the second correction images are formed from the correction color output in accordance with a plurality of adjustment values determined based on the first adjustment value. The second adjustment value having an extreme is determined from a plurality of adjustment value candidates. Finally, the adjustment value for the correction color is corrected to the determined second adjustment value.

Abstract: A recording apparatus performs recording with a recording head having a number of recording elements divided into blocks. The recording apparatus includes a signal generation unit to generate first enabling signals based on inclination information associated with each of the blocks of the recording elements. The first enabling signals are used to enable a data generating unit to generate recording data on a block-by-block basis. The signal generation unit further generates second enabling signals that correspond to the respective first enabling signals delayed by a time interval and enable the recording elements to be driven on a block-by-block basis.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of coating an inkjet print head using a UV curable coating composition containing a (methyl)acryloxy or vinyl functionalized silane, silica and acrylate oligomer containing at least two acrylate groups.

Abstract: A non-direct contact ink-jet style printer is disclosed herein, which uses a superfluid cryogenic fluid such as superfluid helium as the ink medium. Superfluid helium is non-viscous thus enabling the print head of the present invention to print nanoscale characters onto a substrate. In one exemplary embodiment, dopants are injected into the ink droplets to load the droplets with dopants, which then deliver the dopants onto the substrate. Multiple nozzles and different dopants may be used with the embodiments disclosed herein to provide different outputs on the substrate. Spent or un-used droplets and dopants may be educted away and discarded or scrubbed for reuse. Methods for printing using superfluid helium are also discussed herein.

Abstract: An inkjet printer comprising a printhead assembly is provided. The printhead assembly comprises a printhead module configured for ejecting ink in a first direction and a capping device. The capping device is reciprocally movable between an open position in which the printhead module may eject ink onto a print medium, and a closed position in which a blocking part of the capping device blocks the printhead module from ejecting ink onto a print medium. The capping device comprises a first surface for engagement with a second surface of the assembly, the first and second surfaces being configured to move the blocking part of the capping device away from the printhead module in the first direction during movement from the open to the closed position.

Abstract: There is provided an inkjet printing device, which is provided with an inkjet head and an ejection restoring system configured to restore ejection performance of the inkjet head. The ejection restoring system includes a wiping member used to wipe residual ink off a nozzle surface of the inkjet head, a wiper driving system that moves the wiping member relative to the nozzle surface, and a wiper maintenance unit that removes ink adhered to the wiping member. The wiper maintenance unit includes a cassette having an absorbent member therein. The absorbent member absorbs ink adhered to the wiping member. The wiper maintenance unit further includes a cassette holder to which the cassette is detachably attached.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object creation system is provided. The system comprises: (i) a first printhead layer group comprising a plurality of first printheads configured for printing a first layer of the object; (ii) a second printhead layer group comprising a plurality of second printheads configured for printing a second layer on the first layer, the second layer group being downstream of the first layer group; (iii) a conveyor for conveying a partially-formed object past the layer groups; (iv) a fault-detection system for detecting a malfunctioning layer group; and (iv) a control system for dynamically reconfiguring at least one second printhead to print at least part of the first layer in the event that the first layer group is malfunctioning.

Abstract: An printer unit is provided comprising a body having a media input assembly for supporting media for printing, a media output assembly for collecting printed media and a print engine adapted to be mounted to said body and having a printhead for printing an image on a surface of the media. The printhead being a pagewidth printhead that is removable from the print engine.

Abstract: A modular printing device includes a chassis that defines a print media feed path. A housing encloses the chassis and defines feed and discharge openings to and from the print media feed path. The chassis and the housing are elongate and pen-like in size. A feed mechanism is mounted on the chassis to feed sheets of print media along the print media feed path. A pagewidth inkjet printhead is mounted on the chassis to carry out a printing operation on the sheets of print media. A controller is mounted on the chassis and is configured to control operation of the printing device. At least one connector is mounted on a respective end of the chassis to permit peripherals to be connected to the chassis. A bus interconnects the, or each, connector and the controller to permit communication between the controller and a peripheral mounted on the, or each, connector.

Abstract: A printhead assembly includes elongate, printhead integrated circuits having a plurality of micro-electromechanical ink ejection mechanisms configured to eject ink. An ink distribution assembly, to which the, or each, printhead integrated circuit can be mounted, defines a plurality of converging ink passages in fluid communication with respective ink ejection mechanisms. An ink reservoir is mounted to the ink distribution assembly and defines a plurality of parallel ink channels in fluid communication with respective groups of the passages, such that inks can be fed from the channels to respective groups of the ink ejection mechanisms.

Abstract: A three-dimensional object creation system is provided. The system comprises a plurality of stationary printhead layer groups, each layer group comprising at least one printhead for printing a respective layer of the object; and a conveyor for conveying a partially-formed object past the layer groups. The printheads are configured to print simultaneously such that a plurality of different layers are printed simultaneously by the layer groups.

Abstract: A printhead assembly is provided having at least one printhead module of at least two printhead integrated circuits having nozzles for delivering printing fluid onto the surface of print media and a support member supporting and carrying the printing fluid to the printhead integrated circuits, a support frame supporting the printhead module, a controller for processing print data and controlling the printhead integrated circuits to print the processed print data, electrical conductors for providing power to the controller and the printhead integrated circuits, and a mounting element mounting the controller and the electrical conductors to the support frame. The mounting element has a clamping arrangement for clamping the support member to the support frame.

Abstract: An inkjet printer is provided having at least one printhead module removably mounted to a body of the printer. The printhead module has at least two printhead integrated circuits mounted to a support member via respective ink distribution members which distribute ink from the support member to inkjet nozzles of the printhead integrated circuits. A lower surface of each of the ink distribution members is attached to an upper surface of the support member by an adhesive material. Each of the ink distribution members incorporates a laminated stack of layers, each layer having apertures for distributing the ink from the support member to the associated printhead integrated circuit, the apertures of each layer from the support member to the associated printhead integrated circuit being of successively smaller diameter.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ink jet printhead which comprises a plurality of nozzles and one or more heater elements (10) corresponding to each nozzle. Each heater element (10) is configured to heat a bubble forming liquid in the printhead to a temperature above its boiling point to form a gas bubble therein. The generation of the bubble causes the ejection of a drop of an ejectable liquid (such as ink) through the respective corresponding nozzle (3), to effect printing. Each heater element includes solid material and is configured so that, when heated, a mass of less than 10 nanograms of that solid material is heated for heating the bubble forming liquid.

Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate for ink jet including a heating resistor generating thermal energy for discharging an ink from an ink discharge port and an upper protective layer which is formed above the heating resistor and has a contacting surface with the ink. Furthermore, the upper protective layer is made of an amorphous alloy consisting of Ta and Cr in which the content of Ta is more than that of Cr. This constitution allows for the substrate excellent in cavitation resistance and corrosion resistance, and capable of high durability while having similar discharge performance to that of a conventional protective layer made of a Ta film. The present invention further provides an ink jet head comprising the above-mentioned substrate, and a manufacturing method thereof.

Abstract: An ink jet printer head including a cavity unit having a plurality of ink ejection nozzles. The cavity unit and an actuator are stacked on each other. The cavity unit is constituted by a plurality of sheet members which are stacked on each other. A spacer sheet is provided which is interposed between a base sheet and at least one manifold sheet. The spacer sheet is more rigid than each of sheet members other than at least one spacer sheet. The spacer sheet has a thickness of from about 800 ?m to about 500 ?m and each of at least the base sheet and the manifold sheet has a thickness of about 50 ?m and about 150 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inkjet recording device capable of reducing the pressure fluctuation such as the bending or twisting of the ink supplying tube caused by the movement of the carriage. The ink stored in the ink cartridge housing unit is supplied to the inkjet head via the ink supplying tubes. In the course of the ink supplying tubes from the ink cartridge housing unit to the inkjet head, a guide member supports the ink supplying tubes. In the guide member, retaining members for respectively retaining the ink supplying tubes are housed rotatably in the housing units formed with an upper member and a lower member. Further, the guide member is rotatably installed in the case of the inkjet printer by a bolt.

Abstract: An inkjet printer has an inkjet head, a carriage and a movable ink tank mounted, together with the inkjet head, on the carriage. The movable tank having an ink storing chamber which is divided in the horizontal direction, into a plurality of rooms. The plurality of rooms communicate with each other at upper portions which are above an upper end of at least one wall extending vertically. A horizontal cross-sectional area of at least one room, which is not provided with an ink introducing channel, within a predetermined vertical range from the upper end of the at least one wall is equal to or smaller than that of a room provided with the ink introducing channel.

Abstract: A vision enhancement and protection device for night time driving of automobiles where the driver is subjected to the high intensity light of the headlights of oncoming vehicles and the reflected light from the rear view mirror of the headlights of automobiles following the driver's automobile. The device is a light attenuation device applied to normal eyeglass lenses, or a separate set of lenses which may be clipped on to a set of normal eyeglasses, in a particular location and orientation relative to the location of the driver's pupils behind the eyeglasses.

Abstract: Here we present an eyewear temple assembly that provides the flexibility to add thermal regulation to eyewear in an integrated and concealed manner. Our eyewear temple assembly is comprised of a temple tip, temple, cartridge compartment(s), detachable cover(s), and removable cartridge(s). The presented eyewear temple assembly also 1) accommodates, secures, and conceals said cartridge(s), 2) exchanges heat between said cartridge(s) and the wearer and/or environment, and 3) modulates the rate of thermal exchange between said cartridge(s) and the user or environment.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a colored contact lens designed for enhancing a wearer's eye color while giving the wearer's eyes a very natural appearance. A colored contact lens of the invention comprises a colored central zone which includes a colored substantially-circular pattern composed of non-opaque colored dots. Sizes of the dots and/or amounts of space between the dots are varied in a radially-controlled manner so that local colored dot coverage increases in a radial direction from the center to the peripheral edge or a position near the peripheral edge of the substantially-circular pattern.

Abstract: In a method for the parallax-free centering of an optical element, in particular a semifinished product of a future spectacle lens, on a holder of a centering or mounting device, the optical element is provided with engravings. The centering of the optical element is performed with the aid of the engravings.

Abstract: In a visual training device and a visual training method, different targets are displayed for right and left eyes, respectively, and refractivities of the right and left eyes are measured. Based on the measured refractivities of the eyes, positions of the targets displayed for the right and left eyes are moved in the directions of the respective optical axes. At the same time, the targets are moved so that the visual axes of the right and left eyes incline outward toward the end. The directions of the visual axes of the right and left eyes incline outward toward the end, so that it is possible to relax the strain of musculus ciliaris and relieve visual fatigue through short, effective training.

Abstract: An apparatus for observing a fundus of an eye of an examinee has an observation optical system having an image-pickup element which obtains a time-series fundus image, a display part which displays the obtained fundus image on its monitor as a moving image, a determination part which determines a standard fundus image based on the displayed image, a memory part which stores the determined image, a calculation part which digitizes the image based on a threshold luminance level to obtain a digitized image thereof, digitizes a present fundus image obtained after the determination of the standard image based on the threshold luminance level to obtain a digitized image thereof and compares the obtained digitized images two-dimensionally to obtain their positional difference, and a display control part for correcting a display position of the present fundus image based on the obtained positional difference to display the corrected image on the monitor.

Abstract: A method and computer system for tracking eye gaze. A camera is focused on an eye of subject viewing a gaze point on a screen while directing light toward the eye. Eye gaze data pertaining to a glint and pupil image of the eye in an image plane of the camera is sampled. Eye gaze parameters are determined from the eye gaze data. The determined eye gaze parameters include: orthogonal projections of a pupil-glint displacement vector, a ratio of a major semi-axis dimension to a minor semi-axis dimension of an ellipse that is fitted to the pupil image in the image plane, an angular orientation of the major semi-axis dimension in the image plane, and mutually orthogonal coordinates of the center of the glint in the image plane. The gaze point is estimated from the eye gaze parameters.

Abstract: An image projection system has a wire grid polarizing beam splitter which functions as both the polarizer and the analyzer in the system. A light source produces a source light beam directed at the beam splitter which reflects one polarization and transmits the other. A liquid crystal array is disposed in either the reflected or transmitted beam. The array modulates the polarization of the beam, encoding image information thereon, and directs the modulated beam back to the beam splitter. The beam splitter again reflects one polarization and transmits the other so that the encoded image is either reflected or transmitted to a screen. The wire grid polarizing beam splitter is capable of being oriented at various incident angles with respect to the source light beam and modulated beam, and accepts relatively divergent light.

Abstract: A laser projection system scans an output laser light beam onto an object to detect features. A high-sensitivity optical feedback system receives and detects a feedback beam of the output beam light diffusely reflected from the object. The feedback light and projected output beam share the same beam path between beam-steering mirrors of the projector and the object. The laser projection system has light suppression components to control stray scattered light, including ambient light, from being detected. A computer of the laser projection system calculates fiducial points on the object from detected features to align the projection system with the object without using targets. This feature detection is used in a process to guide assembly and fabrication on or to the object, and to verify the accurate placement of parts and fabrication steps in place after they are assembled or processed. In one form, the detected feature is a light spot on the object produced by a second light source.

Abstract: This invention provides a method of operating a projection system wherein light emitted from a high-pressure discharge lamp being lit with d.c. lamp current is passed through color segments of a color filter sequentially and then reflected by an optical element to project an image on a screen, the color segments of the color filter including red, green and blue color segments and a color segment comprising a green ND filter having a relatively low lightness. The method includes making lower a crest value of the d.c. lamp current fed to the high-pressure discharge lamp for a first illumination period during which the color segment comprising the green ND filter is illuminated than a crest value of the d.c. lamp current fed to the high-pressure discharge lamp for a second illumination period during which any one of the other color segments is illuminated, in synchronism with the first illumination period.

Abstract: In one aspect, a first sequence of patterns of light symbols that spatio-temporally encode two-dimensional position information in a first projection plane is projected onto a scene. A second sequence of patterns of light symbols that spatio-temporally encode two-dimensional position information in a second projection plane is projected onto the scene. Light patterns corresponding to the first and second sequences of patterns of light symbols reflected from the scene are captured at a capture plane. Captured light symbol sequence codes are determined from the captured light patterns. A correspondence mapping of the first projector plane and the second projector plane with respect to a reference coordinate system is generated based at least in part on correspondence between the captured light symbol sequence codes and the first and second sequences of light symbol patterns.