Abstract: An apparatus housing includes: a housing frame that contains an image forming element therein; and an exterior cover fixed to an exterior of the housing frame, wherein the exterior cover has a specified-color exterior cover different in lightness from the housing frame, the specified-color exterior cover has a plurality of cover members that are adjacent to each other and disposed on at least one surface of the housing frame, and a blind portion for blinding the surface of the housing frame with a color whose lightness is more similar to that of the specified-color exterior cover than the housing frame is provided at an adjacent area between the plurality of cover members so that the surface of the housing frame is not exposed through a gap between the plurality of cover members, and wherein the blind portion is provided to at least one of the plurality of cover members, and the blind portion extends to cover the entire adjacent area of the other cover members.
Abstract: A method for forming an arcuate surface on at least one key feature part of an apparatus defining an arcuate surface extending from one end of the key feature part to another end of the key feature part.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 29, 1999
Date of Patent:
April 16, 2002
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation
Inventors:
James B. Smith, Donald A. Brown, Kenneth J. Rieck
Abstract: The stamp (10) for a lithographic process, such as patterning a surface layer, of the invention has a stamp body (5) with at least a first recess (11) formed therein, which recess defines a first aperture (15) in the printing face (3) of the stamp (10). The first recess (11) narrows with increasing distance to the printing face, while any cross-section of the first recess, when perpendicularly projected on the printing face (3), will lie within the aperture (15). The printing face may comprise small (11, 12) and large apertures (13) as well as small surfaces (14) in between apertures, while it is nevertheless able to produce prints which are accurate replicas of the printing face. Even details on a submicron scale can be adequately printed. The stamp (10) can be manufactured by a method which comprises anisotropic etching of a first body to make a mold and replicating the mold in the printing face (3) of the stamp (10).
Inventors:
Mark S. Penke, Kenneth J. Rieck, William Theodore Clark, III, Donald A. Brown, David M. Parsons, Shu Watanabe, Hidetoshi Kimura, Hiroshi Nakada
Inventors:
Mark S. Penke, Kenneth J. Rieck, William Theodore Clark, III, Donald A. Brown, David M. Parsons, Shu Watanabe, Hidetoshi Kimura, Hiroshi Nakada