Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a body by means of an additive production method (AM) by using metal powder, comprising the following steps: designing the body in a computer-simulated manner while taking into account at least one region of the body to be processed and transferring data to an additive production device, in particular an additive powder-bed production device, successively providing the metal powder in order to construct powder layers arranged one on the other, successively hardening parts of the powder layers in order to form at least one specified structure in the powder layers arranged one on the other, wherein the structure is at least partially filled with metal powder of the powder layers, and calibrating a body, which is created by means of the structure, in the region to be processed. The invention further relates to a corresponding device, to a body produced in such a way, and to a computer program product for performing the method.

Abstract: A system is disclosed for use in additively manufacturing a composite structure. The system may include a matrix reservoir, and a fiber guide configured to separately receive a plurality of matrix-wetted reinforcements from the matrix reservoir. The system may also include a die configured to receive the plurality of matrix-wetted reinforcements from the fiber guide and to cause the plurality of matrix-wetted reinforcements to converge into a ribbon. The system may additionally include a cure enhancer configured to cure the matrix in the composite material during discharge of the ribbon from the die, and a support configured to move the die in multiple dimensions during discharge of the ribbon.

Abstract: A dampening fluid recycling system may include a print station having an imaging member with a reimageable surface, a dampening fluid deposition subsystem for applying a layer of dampening fluid onto the reimageable surface, and a dampening fluid recovery subsystem configured to remove excess dampening fluid vapor that does not condense over the reimageable surface. The dampening fluid deposition subsystem may include a dampening fluid supply chamber, a dampening fluid supply channel, and a dampening fluid supply channel outlet. The dampening fluid supply chamber may include an inlet tube and a tube body that may be a split tube. The dampening fluid supply channel may attach to the split tube and descend towards the imaging member to deliver fluid vapor from both parts of the first split tube onto the reimageable surface of the imaging member.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a tablet printing apparatus includes: a first rotator having an inner space; a duct configured to communicate with the inner space of the first rotator; a suction pipe configured to suck inside the duct; a second rotator arranged to face the first rotator across the duct; a conveyor belt wrapped around the first rotator and the second rotator; and a print head that performs printing on a tablet held on the conveyor belt. The conveyor belt includes a plurality of suction holes which communicate with the inner space of the first rotator and that of the duct, and are arranged in the rotation direction of the first rotator. The first rotator and the duct constitutes a suction chamber that applies a suction force to those of the suction holes of the conveyor belt located around the outer periphery of the first rotator and the duct.

Abstract: An embossing apparatus includes an embossing die that includes a printed relief pattern made up of multiple layers of a deposited material. A resilient surface presses media against the embossing die such that embossed features corresponding to the embossing die are formed in the media. A method for embossing media includes forming an embossing die by depositing multiple layers of ink on a impression layer to form a relief pattern and pressing media against the embossing die to transfer the relief image to the media.

Abstract: Examples include a fluid ejection device comprising a molded panel, an ejection die molded in the molded panel, and an integrated circuit molded in the molded panel. The ejection die comprises ejection nozzles to selectively dispense printing material. The integrated circuit receives nozzle data and controls the selective dispensation of printing material by the ejection nozzles based at least in part on the nozzle data. The molded panel has a fluid communication channel formed therethrough and fluidly connected to the ejection die.

Abstract: There is a provided a drive circuit in which a first drive signal output circuit includes a first control circuit that controls an output of a first drive signal, and a first abnormality detection circuit that detects an abnormality in a first drive signal output circuit, a second drive signal output circuit includes a second control circuit that controls an output of a second drive signal, and a second abnormality detection circuit that detects an abnormality in a second drive signal output circuit, the first drive signal output circuit transmits an occurrence of abnormality to the second drive signal output circuit, when the first abnormality detection circuit detects the abnormality, and the second drive signal output circuit transmits an occurrence of abnormality to the first drive signal output circuit, when the second abnormality detection circuit detects the abnormality.

Abstract: An example printer includes an actuator selection engine. The actuator selection engine is to determine, for an array including a plurality of fluidic actuators, which fluidic actuators to fire. The printer also includes a balancing engine. The balancing engine is to analyze the determined fluidic actuators to identify a large set of fluidic actuators scheduled to fire substantially simultaneously. The balancing engine is also to schedule the large set of fluidic actuators among a plurality of fire pulse groups. Each fire pulse group may include a subset of the large set of fluidic actuators to be fired at a time distinct from another subset.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head and a pattern printer. The liquid discharge head includes a plurality of nozzles to discharge liquid. The pattern printer drives the liquid discharge head to print a plurality of adjacent rectangular patterns under different drive conditions. The adjacent rectangular patterns are a reference pattern and an adjustment pattern.

Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: an ejection module; a supply chamber connected to the ejection module and to a tank configured to store liquid; and a damper chamber connected to the supply chamber. The supply chamber has: a first opening communicating with the damper chamber; and a second opening communicating with the tank.

Abstract: A valve jet printer includes a solenoid coil and a plunger rod having a magnetically susceptible shank. A first end of the shank and at least a portion of the shank are received within a bore of the solenoid coil. The printer also includes a nozzle including an orifice extending therethrough and a spring biasing a second end of the shank toward the nozzle. The second end of the plunger rod includes a tip formed of perfluoroelastomer (FFKM). The second end of the shank includes a cup-shaped cavity having a convex bottom and a circular side. The tip includes a concave base and an annular flange. In an assembled state, the concave base of the tip contacts the convex bottom of the cup-shaped cavity, and the end of the circular side opposite the convex bottom is rolled over the annular flange thereby securing the tip in the cup-shaped cavity.

Abstract: An element substrate including heaters, drivers for each heater, and a diode, and connected to an external apparatus having a circuit for detecting a temperature based on a detection signal from the diode, comprises: a first wiring grounded, connected to one end of the diode, and serving as a reference voltage of the detection signal; a second wiring connected to the first wiring near the diode; a first pad connected to the first wiring; and a second pad connected to the second wiring. When the substrate is connected to the apparatus, a wiring serving as a reference voltage for a side where the detection signal of the circuit of the apparatus is inputted is connected to the second pad via the first pad connected to a ground serving as a reference voltage of the apparatus.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a nozzle from which a liquid is ejected; a communication passage that is in communication with the nozzle; a first pressure compartment that is connected to the communication passage through a first passage; a second pressure compartment that is connected to the communication passage through a second passage; a first drive element that changes pressure of the first pressure compartment; and a second drive element that changes pressure of the second pressure compartment.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes: individual channels; a supply channel connected to inlets of the individual channels and through which liquid is supplied to the individual channels; and a recovery channel connected to outlets of the induvial channels and through which the liquid is recovered from the individual channels. Each of the induvial channels includes: a nozzle; an upstream-side pressure chamber disposed between the nozzle and the supply channel; a downstream-side pressure chamber disposed between the nozzle and the recovery channel; an upstream-side throttle channel connecting the supply channel and the upstream-side pressure chamber; and a downstream-side throttle channel connecting the recovery channel and the downstream-side pressure chamber. A channel resistance of the upstream-side throttle channel is smaller than a channel resistance of the downstream-side throttle channel.

Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge head including: a first plate formed with an individual channel which includes a pressure chamber; a second plate; a vibration plate; and a piezoelectric element. The second plate has a pair of communicating channels arranged to sandwich an accommodating space, which accommodates the piezoelectric element, therebetween. A spacing distance between mutually close parts in a pair of inner circumferential surfaces of the pair of communicating channels, respectively, is greater on a side of one ends in the stacking direction of the pair of communicating channels than on a side of the other ends in the stacking direction of the pair of communicating channels, the one ends being close to the individual channel in the stacking direction.

Abstract: In a droplet discharge head, in an initial state in which a tip of the actuator has contact with the vibrating plate, and the actuator pushes the vibrating plate toward the first direction, based on a drive signal from the control section, the tip of the actuator displaces the vibrating plate toward the second direction in a state of having contact with the vibrating plate to thereby pull in a meniscus in the nozzle toward the liquid chamber, then, the tip of the actuator is separated from the vibrating plate to further displace the vibrating plate toward the second direction, and then, the tip of the actuator collides with the vibrating plate to thereby displace the vibrating plate toward the first direction to discharge the liquid from the nozzle.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrohydrodynamic printing apparatus including: a nozzle configured to discharge liquid toward a substrate; a voltage applier configured to form an electric field between the nozzle and the substrate; and a laser beam emitter configured to emit a laser beam toward a position to which liquid is discharged on the substrate. Thus, it is possible to accurately and stably form a microscale deposition structure.

Abstract: A fluid ejection device is described. The fluid ejection device has a set of coding elements and a trap element. Each coding element is movable between an initial position and a coded position. The trap element is capable of trapping one or a plurality of the coding elements in the initial position when one or a plurality of other ones of the coding elements is moved from the initial position to the coded position.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head, including: a first head unit; a second head unit shifted with respect to the first head unit in both of a first direction in which nozzles of the head units are arranged and a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and disposed so as to overlap the first head unit in the second direction; and a first wiring member having flexibility and drawn from the second head unit in the second direction toward the first head unit, wherein the first wiring member includes a large-width portion on which a drive circuit is mounted and a small-width portion having a width in the first direction smaller than a width of the large-width portion in the first direction, and wherein the small-width portion passes through a space existing next to the first head unit in the first direction and extends in the second direction.

Abstract: A MEMS chip assembly including: a support structure having a chip mounting surface; a MEMS chip mounted on the chip mounting surface, each MEMS chip having an active surface including one or more MEMS devices and a plurality of bond pads disposed alongside a connection edge of the MEMS chip; electrical connectors connected to the bond pads; and an encapsulant material covering the electrical connectors. The MEMS chip has encapsulant-retaining trenches defined in the active surface extending alongside the connection edge, each encapsulant-retaining trench being disposed between the bond pads and the MEMS devices.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an inkjet head achieving excellent landing accuracy and an inkjet printer including such an inkjet head are provided. An inkjet head according to one embodiment includes a nozzle plate provided with a nozzle that ejects an ink having a surface tension within a range of 20 to 30 mN/m to a recording medium. The nozzle plate includes a nozzle plate substrate and a fluid repellent film provided on a face opposed to the recording medium of the nozzle plate substrate, and the fluid repellent film contains a fluorine-based compound having a terminal perfluoroalkyl group with 7 or less carbon atoms, and has a static contact angle with pure water within a range of 100° to 120°.

Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes: individual passages; supply liquid passages; return liquid passages; a supply coupling liquid passage; and a return coupling liquid passage. The supply liquid passages and the return liquid passages extend in an extending direction and are arranged in an arrangement direction. The supply coupling liquid passage and the return coupling liquid passage extend in the arrangement direction, are located on one side of the supply liquid passages and the return liquid passages in the extending direction, and include an overlapping portion at which the supply coupling liquid passage and the return coupling liquid passage overlap each other when viewed in an orthogonal direction. A damper film is provided between the supply coupling liquid passage and the return coupling liquid passage in the orthogonal direction at at least a portion of the overlapping portion.

Abstract: A liquid discharge device includes a channel member, a nozzle plate, a flexible film, a support, and a lid. The channel member has a storage chamber that stores liquid. The nozzle plate has a nozzle through which the liquid stored in the storage chamber is discharged. The flexible film forms part of walling of the storage chamber. The support has an opening that surrounds a space where the flexible film is exposed at a side of the flexible film opposite the storage chamber. The lid is configured to cover the flexible film across the space, and is bonded, by an adhesive, to a surface of the support. The support has a groove provided in the surface bonded to the lid. The adhesive is also disposed in the groove.

Abstract: Inkjet head cleaning and storage includes cleaning an orifice plate by inserting a tip of a shaped wiper into a slit of a printing mask, such that one or more shoulders of a handling end of the shaped wiper are in contact with respectively one or more edges of the slit. The shoulders of the shaped wiper facilitate the tip applying a predetermined pressure to an orifice surface during wiping. Preventing sediment buildup during extended periods of non-printing includes placing at least the orifice plate of the printing head in a protecting liquid that avoids evaporation of the volatile liquid from the nozzles. An innovative “night plate” can be used to seal the slit of a printing mask and ink purged from the printing head used to fill a gap between the printing head and the mask, thereby covering at least the orifice plate with purged ink.

Abstract: A printer may comprise a printhead comprising a number of nozzles, an immiscible fluid applicator, and a processor to instruct the immiscible fluid applicator to apply immiscible fluid onto the surface of the printhead to cap the number of nozzles. A printer subassembly may comprise an immiscible fluid applicator to wipe a layer of immiscible fluid onto a surface of a printhead. A printer may comprise a page wide array printhead, an immiscible fluid applicator to wipe a layer of immiscible fluid over a printhead to cap nozzles over the width of the printhead, and a controller to instruct the printhead to print after the layer of immiscible fluid has been applied over the printhead so that ink ejects through the immiscible fluid while non-used nozzles remain capped by the immiscible fluid layer.

Abstract: A liquid discharge head includes an individual channel, a supply channel in communication with an inlet of the individual channel, and a return channel in communication with an outlet of the individual channel. The supply channel extends in a channel longitudinal direction, and communicates with a retaining chamber for retaining liquid via a supply port provided at one side with respect to the individual channel in the channel longitudinal direction. The return channel extends in the channel longitudinal direction, and communicates with the retaining chamber via a return port provided at the one side with respect to the individual channel in the channel longitudinal direction. The inlet and the outlet are located at the same position in the channel longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A fluid interconnect system including a mating component having an inlet port and a liquid outlet, the inlet port configured to support an interconnector and the liquid outlet configured to engage with a print cartridge so that liquid flows from a liquid source, through the interconnector and the inlet port, and out of the liquid outlet into the print cartridge.

Abstract: A liquid-consuming apparatus includes: a tank including a liquid chamber, an upstanding wall facing a particular direction, and an inlet formed in a surface of the tank; a liquid-consuming unit consuming liquid stored in the liquid chamber; a cover rotatable between a covering position where the upstanding wall is covered with the cover and an exposure position where the upstanding wall is exposed, around a rotation axis extending in a further direction; and a casing including an engaging target part which holds the cover in the covering position, and supporting the tank, liquid-consuming unit, and cover. The cover includes: an engaging part to engage with the engaging target part in the state that the cover is in the covering position; and a tab which is subjected to an operation for releasing an engagement between the engaging part and the engaging target part.

Abstract: An information-processing apparatus for managing a print executing unit includes a controller configured to: generate screen data representing a settings screen and output the generated screen data. The settings screen contains: an indication of a specific range of possible values for an index value concerning a total residual quantity of: a residual quantity of printing agent in the print executing unit; and a residual quantity of printing agent in a cartridge; an indication of a value designated from the specific range as a reference value for the index value; and an indication of a boundary value within the specific range. The boundary value corresponds to the total residual quantity at the time of transition from a state where the printing agent remains in both the cartridge and the print executing unit to a state where the printing agent vanishes from the cartridge but remains in the print executing unit.

Abstract: A liquid discharge apparatus includes a case receiving a cartridge having a first chamber, a tank having a second chamber, a head, and a controller to: calculate outflow amount Qa flowed from the second chamber for a time period ?t based on discharge amount Dh; calculate outflow amount Qc flowed from the first chamber toward the second chamber for the time period ?t based on the outflow amount Qa and flow path resistances; read liquid amounts Vc and Vs of the first and second chambers from a memory; subtract the outflow amount Qc from the read liquid amount Vc to calculate new liquid amount Vc; subtract the outflow amount Qa from the read liquid amount Vs and add the outflow amount Qc to calculate new liquid amount Vs; and store the calculated liquid amounts Vc and Vs in the memory.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head configured to eject liquid contained in a liquid container; a display portion configured to display information; a remaining amount detection portion configured to detect that a remaining amount of the liquid contained in the liquid container becomes less than a threshold value; and a control portion configured to control display of the display portion, in which the control portion causes the display portion to display a calculation remaining amount calculated based on an initial amount of storage of the liquid contained in the liquid container, a total discharge amount of the liquid discharged from the liquid ejecting head, and a correction amount corresponding to a use environment.

Abstract: A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejection portion and a circuit. The ejection portion has a plurality of ejection ports configured to eject liquid supplied from a liquid storage portion defining a liquid storage space configured to store liquid. The circuit is electrically connected to at least one of a bottom electrode and a side electrode. The circuit is configured to detect a capacitance between the bottom electrode and the side electrode. The bottom electrode is provided at a bottom surface of the liquid storage portion. The side electrode is provided at one side surface of the liquid storage portion and electrically isolated from the bottom electrode.

Abstract: A liquid circulating apparatus includes a circulation route configured to circulate liquid through a liquid ejecting head, the circulation route including: a supply-side tank leading to a supply port of the liquid ejecting head; and a discharge-side tank leading to a discharge port of the liquid ejecting head, wherein the liquid is circulated by setting pressure in the supply-side tank higher than pressure in the discharge-side tank, and a sum of the pressure in the supply-side tank and the pressure in the discharge-side tank is set smaller when initial filling for filling the circulation route with the liquid is performed than when the liquid is circulated.

Abstract: The ink jet recording method using an ink jet recording apparatus including: a first ink and a second ink; and a recording head including a plurality of recording element substrates in which a first ejection orifice array for ejecting the first ink and a second ejection orifice array for ejecting the second ink are sequentially arranged in a predetermined direction, wherein the plurality of recording element substrates are arranged to be adjacent to each other in a predetermined direction, includes: a recording step of ejecting the ink from the recording head disposed so that an angle formed between the ejection orifice surface of the recording head and the direction of gravity is 0° or more to less than 90° to record an image on the recording medium, wherein a brightness of the first ink is lower than a brightness of the second ink.

Abstract: An image recording method including the steps of applying an ink containing a coloring material and anionic resin particles to a recording medium, and applying a liquid composition to the recording medium so as to at least partly overlap with an area where the ink is applied, the liquid composition destabilizing a dispersion state of the coloring material or of the anionic resin particles in the ink. The ink contains a trihydric or higher polyhydric alcohol compound having a group formed by substituting a hydrogen atom of a hydroxyl group by a structure represented by —Rn—H, where R is an alkyleneoxy group including an ethyleneoxy group, and the number of Rs per molecule is 40 or more and 120 or less when the polyhydric alcohol is a trihydric alcohol and is 12 or more and 400 or less when the polyhydric alcohol is a tetrahydric or higher polyhydric alcohol.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a thermal print head includes a heat sink; a head substrate placed on the heat sink and having a plurality of heat generating elements arranged in a primary scanning direction; a circuit board placed on the heat sink so as to be adjacent to the head substrate in an auxiliary scanning direction and provided with a connection circuit; and a control element electrically connected to the heat generating element via a first bonding wire and electrically connected to the connection circuit via a second bonding wire, in which at least one of the first bonding wire and the second bonding wire includes any of a copper wire, a copper alloy wire, and a wire mainly made of copper and coated with a metal different from copper.

Abstract: Herein described is a machine (100) for the ink-jet printing of three-dimensional objects (A), comprising: a plurality of spindles individually suitable to carry and drive an object (A) to be printed in rotation around a pre-set rotational axis of the spindle, and a first support and displacement system suitable to displace the spindles in succession along a pre-set loop path, stopping them one after the other in a plurality of operating stations; wherein said operating stations comprise: at least one input station (150) wherein the spindle receives an object (A) to be printed, a plurality of printing stations wherein the object (A) is ink-jet printed, and at least one output station wherein the printed object (A) is removed from the spindle; wherein each printing station comprises: a printing unit suitable for the ink-jet printing of the object (A) carried by the spindle found in the printing station, and a second support and displacement system suitable to vary the relative position of said printing unit wi

Abstract: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an image forming section, a roller, a heat source, a calculator, a determination section, and a controller. The determination section determines to activate the heat source when an ink ejection amount calculated by the calculator is larger than a specific reference amount. When the determination section determines to activate the heat source, the controller activates the heat source. When temperature of the roller is equal to or higher than a specific temperature, the controller controls the image forming section to form the image on the sheet.

Abstract: A printing device is described. The printing device comprises a fluid flow generator to cause a heating fluid to flow towards a curing zone that is downstream of a print zone in terms of an advance direction of the print medium. The printing device comprises an impingement device arranged upstream of the curing zone in terms of the heating fluid flow. The impingement device is to modify a flow rate of the heating fluid towards the curing zone along the advance direction.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for printing energy curable ink and coating compositions comprising high amounts of monofunctional monomers that exhibit both good adhesion to plastic substrates, and good solvent resistance. The method of the present invention employs electron beam curing of the ink and coating compositions, at accelerating voltages greater than or equal to 70 keV, and electron beam doses greater than or equal to 30 kGy, and preferably greater than or equal to 40 kGy.

Abstract: A recording medium support device includes a recording medium support, a holder, and a support heater. The recording medium support supports a recording medium on which liquid is discharged. The holder holds the recording medium support, the holder including an air chamber and a duct. The support heater heats the recording medium support. A linear expansion coefficient of a bottom surface of the air chamber or a bottom surface of the duct away from the recording medium support is larger than a linear expansion coefficient of the recording medium support.

Abstract: A printer includes a feeding roller, a sheet conveyer, and a handle. The feeding roller is configured to feed a single slip and a continuous sheet conveyed through first and second conveyance paths, respectively, to a printing head. The sheet conveyer is at the second conveyance path. The handle is mechanically engaged with a shaft of the feeding roller and configured to rotate the shaft. The handle is manually movable along an axis direction of the shaft between first and second positions. At the first position, the handle is mechanically disengaged with a driving mechanism of the sheet conveyer. At the second position, the handle is mechanically engaged with the driving mechanism and capable of moving the sheet conveyer. An urging mechanism is urging the handle toward the first position. A stopper is configured to prevent the handle at the second position from moving toward the first position.

Abstract: A mark mitigating device for a printing device has a protector sheet to cover ribs of a printer platen of the printer device to prevent the ribs from causing marks on print media. The mark mitigating device further has a fixing system to fixate the mark mitigating device relative to the printer platen. The protector sheet has an opening to pass through vacuum applied by the printer platen to attract print media.

Abstract: In a printer, a medium transporting apparatus includes a straight path through which a medium on which recording has been performed with the recording head is output, an inversion path through which the recording medium on which recording has been performed with the recording head is output to an output destination different from an output destination of the straight path, a switching member provided downstream of the recording head in a medium transport direction and configured to switch between a first state in which the switching member constitutes a portion of the straight path and a second state in which the switching member constitutes a portion of the inversion path, a motor that drives a pair of transport rollers that transports the medium, and a switching mechanism that switches between a first state and a second state with motive power of the motor.

Abstract: A recording head unit includes a line-head module including a plurality of recording heads to discharge a liquid, and a main plate to which the line-head module is mounted. The line-head module includes a first adjustment portion to adjust a position of the line-head module relative to the main plate in a longitudinal direction of the line-head module, and a second adjustment portion to adjust a position of the line-head module relative to the main plate in a rotational direction of the line-head module.

Abstract: A method of printing is disclosed. The printing may involve printing on a printable medium using a print head having a plurality of nozzles, the printable medium having a leading edge and a defined zone adjacent to the leading edge. The print head may be to deposit print agent onto the printable medium via the plurality of nozzles during successive printing passes. The method may comprise: during a first printing pass, depositing print agent from a subset of the plurality of nozzles onto the printable medium outside the defined zone. The method may further comprise: advancing the printable medium by a defined distance. The method may further comprise: during a second printing pass, depositing print agent from a subset of the plurality of nozzles onto the printable medium within the defined zone.

Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a feeding unit that feeds a medium placed on a medium placing unit located on a back side (?Y) of the apparatus; a transport unit that transports the medium fed from the feeding unit; a recording unit that performs recording on the medium transported from the transport unit; a reverse path that transports the medium in a reverse direction after recording is performed by the recording unit to turn over the medium; and a feed driving motor that drives the feeding unit, wherein the feed driving motor is disposed above the reverse path.

Abstract: A glass plate with an identification mark and a process for forming an identification mark on a glass plate are configured such that the identification mark includes a plurality of first openings, each of the first openings further includes a plurality of second openings, each of which has a smaller area than each of the first openings, and each of the second openings is formed in a substantially circular shape having a radius of at least 0.05 mm and at most 0.3 mm.

Abstract: A security device includes an array of image icon elements and an array of image icon focusing elements, wherein the array of image icon elements and the array of image icon focusing elements are disposed relative to each other such that the security device projects a synthetic image along a viewing angle and wherein the security device is configured to physically degrade when exposed to temperatures above an anti-harvesting temperature, the anti-harvesting temperature being lower than a harvesting temperature of a coupling between the security device and a substrate.

Abstract: An auxiliary board for a clipboard system. The auxiliary board comprises a first auxiliary face and a second auxiliary face, a top edge, a bottom edge, a first side edge, a second side edge, and a clipping apparatus affixed near the top edge of the second auxiliary face, an auxiliary board clipping apparatus proximate the top edge and which enables the auxiliary board to pivotally attach to the clipboard, a mating supplemental attachment apparatus on the first auxiliary face which enables attachment of the auxiliary board to the clipboard, and an attachment mechanism on the second auxiliary face that enables attachment of a case for a computing device to the second auxiliary face. An auxiliary board clipping apparatus is located proximate the top edge and which enables the auxiliary board to pivotally attach to the clipboard and pivot upward for a different view of the computing device.