Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided for viewing a pattern of fluorophors capable of fluorescing when exposed to visible light, e.g., fluorescently stained DNA, protein or other biological material. The system includes a light source emitting light in the visible spectrum, such as a fluorescent lamp used in domestic lighting, a first optical filter capable of transmitting light from the source at wavelengths capable of exciting the fluorophors and of absorbing light of other wavelengths, and a second optical filter capable of blocking substantially all the light from the source not blocked by the first filter, so that the only light reaching the viewer is light produced by fluorescence of the fluorophors.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for document imaging is disclosed. The apparatus uses a flatbed scanner with a selectively opaque/transparent liquid crystal platen. The platen is divided into controllable segments defined by an electrode pattern formed within the platen itself. These segments can each be selectively made transmissive or opaque by applying appropriate voltages to the segment electrodes. An advantage of the invention is that it can operate without a platen cover, since the area of the platen not covered by the original can be made opaque. The opaque part of the platen directs imaging light back into the system, shielding a user's eyes and helping to create a white background if the platen is imaged.

Abstract: The heatsensitive stencil sheet perforating device of this invention includes a pedestal for an original mounted thereon; a pressing body attached pivotaly on one end of the pedestal for supporting a heatsensitive stencil sheet on an area corresponding to the original mounted on the pedestal; a light irradiation device attached detachably to the pressing body in a defined state, including a light source for irradiating the heatsensitive stencil sheet; a power supply device installed inside of the pressing body, for supplying electric energy to emit light from the light source; a first contact member attached to the light irradiation device, connected to the light source; a second contact member attached to the pressing member, connected to the power source of the power supply device, so as to come into contact with the first contact member when the light irradiation device is engaged in the pressing body in a defined state; and a support member attached to the pressing body, for supporting the light irradiati

Abstract: A machine part used as a magnet roll for developing and a process for producing the same. The machine part constitutes a member of a developing machine for an electrophotographic process such as a copier and facsimile, and a laser printer as well. The machine part comprises a shaft having a resin-bonded magnet layer provided on the outer periphery thereof. The composite molding of a resin-bonded magnet is produced by molding and establishing a composition for a thermoplastic resin-bonded magnet comprising from 35 to 60 % by volume of a thermoplastic resin and from 40 to 65 % by volume of a hard ferrite powder into a cylinder of uniform thickness on the outer periphery of a shaft, obtained is a thin resin-bonded magnet layer having a surface roughness of 5 .mu.m or less and free of seams which have generated during molding, the thin resin-bonded magnet layer further having provided on the surface a plurality of magnetic poles at a small spacing.

Abstract: A contact for use in contacting a moving photoreceptor surface, is formed from a structure (preferably a pultrusion) including a plurality of continuous strand fibers of high electrical resistance, and a thermally stable insulating component between the resistive fibers. The resistive fibers are configured to form a brush extending from the insulating component for contact with the photoreceptor surface. The resistance of the fibers is sufficiently high to reduce leakage of surface charges away from the photoreceptor and to provide a high resistance between adjacent fibers. The insulating component, which serves to interface the carbon filaments from each other and from a host polymer may comprise an organic compound, such as a polyimide composition, or may comprise an inorganic compound such as Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 or water glass, and is thermally stable below about 1000.degree. C. The host polymer, on the other hand volatilizes rapidly and cleanly upon direct exposure to laser energy.

Abstract: Apparatus and method are disclosed for use in contact printing information from a master record carrier onto a replicate material of a type that emits a gas during the contact print exposure (e.g., a diazo film emulsion). Even though the master record carrier and the replicate material are pressed together by a pressure pad (e.g., a rubber diaphragm), it has been discovered that the emitted gas causes the master and replicate devices to separate slightly and that strain forces in the pressure pad are transmitted to the replicate material causing relative movement of the master record carrier and the replicate material during the contact print exposure. To limit such relative movement, a preferred embodiment of the present invention provides an isolating member disposed between the master-replicate sandwich and the pressure pad.

Abstract: In contact-printing the image of a transmission type original on a photosensitive plate material positioned on a printing stage, the original is in advance fixed to a transparent sheet which is movable between an open position and a closed position. The original is fixed to the transparent sheet at a predetermined position thereon at which the original will be registered with the plate material when the transparent sheet is moved to its closed position. In the open position, the transparent sheet is held away from the printing stage to permit change of the plate material and in the closed position, the transparent sheet sealingly covers the plate material in a predetermined positional relationship therewith and the space under the transparent sheet is evacuated to bring the transparent sheet, the original and the plate material into close contact with each other. Then, the three members are exposed to light.

Abstract: A device which may be operated in a mode of thermally perforating thermal stencils, and another mode of producing printed copies by employing the perforated thermal stencils, wherein the thermal stencils are provided as a particular type of framed assembly for employing a relatively viscous printing ink, the device having a base plate, a cushion plate, and a press plate pivotally mounted to the base plate and having an aperture covered with a transparent rigid plate and a light source unit mounted at the aperture for emitting flash light to the aperture.

Abstract: A document hold-down device in a copying apparatus includes a rectangular relatively stiff plate and a relatively stiff anchoring bar spaced from and parallel to the plate rear edge, the bar and plate being sandwiched between flexible synthetic resin sheets which envelope the bar and plate and are bonded to each other along their coinciding borders and preferrably along a hinge defining line intermediate the proximate edges of the sheet and bar. Fastening members releasably anchor the bar to the apparatus proximate the document support plate. Advantageously, to accommodate thick documents, a second bar is disposed between the anchoring bar and plate and enveloped between the flexible sheets which are bonded to each other along hinge lines along opposite sides of the second bar. A resilient sponge sheet may underlie the plate to accommodate uneven documents.

Abstract: An original document holder for application in electrophotographic copiers of the instantaneous exposure type which use high intensity xenon flash lamps. The holder is a box-shaped cover with at least one movable, spring-closed side such that extra large, thick documents such as books may be copied without danger of light leakage by virtue of light-tight engagement of the movable side with the projecting portions of such documents.