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Patent No. 5971829

Motorized Ice Cream Cone

A Receptacle for supporting, rotating and sculpting a portion of ice cream or similarly malleable food while it is being consumed.

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Attorney: John S. Zanghi, Esq.;FAY, SHARPE, FAGAN, MINNICH & McKEE, LLP


Number of applications: 12
Last date: September 27, 2007

Application No.Application TitleIssue Date
20070221610Method using monolayer etch masks in combination with printed masks
A method to pattern films into dimensions smaller than the printed pixel mask size. A printed mask is deposited on a thin film on a substrate. The second mask layer is selectively deposited onto the film, but not to the printed mask. A third mask is then printed onto th...
09/27/2007
20070221611Method of manufacturing fine features for thin film transistors
A process for fabricating fine features such as small gate electrodes on a transistor. The process involves the jet-printing of a mask and the plating of a metal to fabricate sub-pixel and standard pixel size features in one layer. Printing creates a small sub-pixel siz...
09/27/2007
20070146308Addressable brush contact array
An addressable brush contact array comprising oriented conductive fibers attached to addressing electrodes to transfer imagewise charge to or from an array of individual electrodes on a two dimensional surface. The two dimensional surface receiving this charge can be, f...
06/28/2007
20070138462Electronic device with unique encoding
An electronic device comprising a thin film transistor (TFT) array and manufacturing methods thereof according to various embodiments. Jet-printed material is deposited on selected partially formed transistors to form completed transistors. Thus, a selected number of th...
06/21/2007
20070120934Mixed output printing system
The disclosed embodiments are directed to the printing of mixed output jobs automatically as a single integrated job. More particularly, a merging module connects two print systems, for example, at approximately 90 degrees to one another, although other configurations a...
05/31/2007
20060244980Image quality adjustment method and system
An image rendering system periodically prints test patches on a duplex sheet from a plurality of marking engines, using a simple emitter-detector pair as a feedback means in image quality control. Image lightness is controlled by analyzing the test patches to determine ...
11/02/2006
20060153580Tone reproduction curve and developed mass per unit area control method and system
A method of controlling the solid developed mass per unit area and the tone reproduction curve in a printing machine by reading data from a sensor, comparing the data to an acceptable range of data values, where the data is not within the acceptable range of data values...
07/13/2006
20060012817Integrated tab and slip sheet editing and automatic printing workflow
A digital publishing and printing process comprising receiving input from a user via a graphical user interface, wherein the input includes a request to insert a plurality of document inserts within or between a plurality of source documents; generating from the input a...
01/19/2006
20060015879Cross repository copier
A cross repository copier comprising a graphical user interface (GUI) for receiving data from a user, a control module, a repository manager, and a plurality of repository adapters, wherein each repository adapter is connected to a native Application Program Interface (...
01/19/2006
20060004672Prepaid billing apparatus and method for printing systems
A method of providing prepaid billing by receiving a request for a recharge token from a customer; accepting payment information and the number of additional prints requested from the customer; receiving from the customer a unique serial number for the printing system, ...
01/05/2006
20060001902Interface converter for image processing systems
An apparatus for mutually converting signals between one or more modular printing devices and a document processing system, comprising a device controller having a network interface for communicating with a system communications channel, memory for storing data and cont...
01/05/2006
20050074267METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE VELOCITY OF COPY SUBSTRATES DURING REGISTRATION
A method of controlling the velocity of a copy substrate in an electrophotographic reproduction machine which includes a substrate registration system for transporting and registering the substrate and a toner image traveling to a toner image transfer point at a transfe...
04/07/2005
 
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