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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8130107 | Leak detection and control system and method A system and method for detecting leaks using sensors to report the leak and communicate with a control unit to turn off the source of the leak once detected. A valve can be turned off in the event of a leak and embodiments employing battery power can function durin... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8105125 | Body surfing method and apparatus A buoyant device that enhances water activities and surfing by providing increased thrust from incident waves through utilization of a surface or volume to propel the buoyant device. A buoyant enclosure with an internal hand grip has surfaces that promote hydroplani... | 01/31/2012 |
| 6567641 | Sleeved rollers for use in a fusing station employing an externally heated fuser roller A conformable roller for use in a fusing station of an electrostatographic machine, the fusing station being provided with a pressure roller and a fuser roller for fusing a toner image on a receiver, the fuser roller made from a plurality of layers surrou... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6553906 | Method and apparatus for sensing a register discrepancy in a multi-color printed item, and register control system and register marks A method for sensing a register discrepancy (r) in a multi-color printed item, the position of at least one register mark (1, 1') that is associated with one color being sensed with respect to the position of at least one register mark (2, 2') that is ass... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6522421 | Method and apparatus for automatically communicating returning status and information from a printer using electronic mail (email). A method and apparatus automatically communicating status information relative to a document production job by a printer. An application file is provided that includes information to be reproduced as a document reproduction job. Preferably, the applicatio... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6490430 | Externally heated roller for a toner fusing station A conformable roller for use in a fusing station of an electrostatographic machine, said fusing station being provided with a pressure roller for fusing a toner image on a receiver, said fuser roller made from a plurality of layers surrounding an axis of ... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6484002 | Document printer/copier with decoupleable drum-support member A document printer/copier comprises a pair of drum-support members for rotatably supporting an image-recording drum and, optionally, an intermediate image-transfer drum. At least one of such drum-support members is adapted to be decoupled from the drum(s)... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6463250 | Externally heated deformable fuser roller A deformable toner fuser roller, for use in a fusing station of an electrostatographic machine comprising a rigid cylindrical core member; an overdrive-controlling, elastically deformable structure surrounding the core member; and wherein the fuser roller... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6456816 | Method and apparatus for an intermediate image transfer member An intermediate transfer roller that functions as an image receiving member within a reproduction apparatus having a rigid cylindrical core member and at least one layer of an elastically deformable structure surrounding the core member, the elastically d... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6453147 | Dust control in conductive-core fiber brush cleaning systems using self-generated air flow A method and apparatus of forming a cleaning system for an electrostatographic reproduction system having a photoconductive drum partially within a cleaning system housing and a cleaning brush having conductive core fibers within the cleaning system housi... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6453134 | Web-cleaning apparatus for electrostatic printer/copier Apparatus for cleaning particulate material from the surface of a moving web comprises: (i) a customer-replaceable cleaning cartridge including a pair of spaced, parallel cleaning blades supported by a sump housing having a removable lid assembly with a n... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6393247 | Toner fusing station having an internally heated fuser roller A product and process for forming an internally heated roller configuration for use in an electrostatographic machine that employs a fuser roller and a pressure roller. One of the rollers is a conformable roller having a rigid cylindrical core member cent... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6308030 | Method and apparatus for supporting a drum for loading and unloading from a copier and/or printer apparatus A roller assembly used for printing is loaded into a printing apparatus by supporting the roller assembly in a loading tool having a first carriage with top and bottom rows of rollers, the rollers engaging rails on the roller assembly and the first carria... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6259873 | Cantilever drum mount for document printer/copier A cantilever drum-mounting apparatus adapted for use in a document printer/copier comprises: (i) a housing having an opening therein; (ii) a carriage movably mounted within the opening and adapted to receive, retain and rotatably support an axle of a drum... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6243555 | Reproduction method and apparatus for post-transfer image conditioning A reproduction apparatus and method provides first and second toner image bearing members (TIBMs). Each of the TIBMs has a respective toner image that is moved through a respective transfer nip with a web that has or supports a toner image receiving surfa... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6241404 | Method for controlling the flow of paper objects in a paper processing system A method for controlling the flow of paper objects in a paper processing system (PPS), having a main copier and/or printer unit with an output accessory manager (OAM) and at least one paper object processing device (POPD1, POPD2, . .... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6225618 | Digital densitometer with auto-ranging An auto-ranging densitometer is disclosed for determining the density of a test sample, wherein the densitometer includes a photodetector and an amplifier circuit adapted to produce an output signal proportional to intensity of light on the photodetector.... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6222636 | Disk-based image storage system invention disclosure A printer apparatus includes a marking engine subsystem that records information on an image recording member. An image storage subsystem buffers image data for output to the marking engine subsystem. The image storage subsystem includes an input for rece... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6222176 | Digital densitometer with lut output summation to yield density value An auto-ranging densitometer includes a photodetector and an amplifier circuit adapted to produce an output signal proportional to intensity of light on the photodetector. The amplifier circuit has multiple gains that successively increase. An analog to d... | 04/24/2001 |
| 6195527 | Web cleaning device for removing contaminants from a moving surface in a printer apparatus A web cleaning device for cleaning contaminants from a moving surface in a printer apparatus. The cleaning device includes a nesting structure having a longitudinally extending internal surface for supporting a coil of a web fabric extending in a longitud... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6184928 | Method and apparatus for split shift register addressing An addressing circuit designed for implementation within the device being addressed that uses less silicon space by selecting the desired address with shift register outputs. A fast shift register is coupled to a slow shift register by a combinatorial cir... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6181886 | Toner replenishment and collection apparatus and method An apparatus and method for replenishing toner and collecting used toner in an electrostatographic machine. The apparatus includes a replenishment hopper having a supply of fresh toner. A development device feeds toner onto a recording member having an el... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6169430 | CMOS imager column buffer gain compensation circuit A CMOS imager is arranged in a plurality of rows and columns with a gain compensation circuit supplied for each of the column. The gain compensation circuit has a first source follower circuit that employs majority carriers of a first polarity yielding a ... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6160281 | Active pixel sensor with inter-pixel function sharing An image sensor having a plurality of pixels comprising a semiconductor material of a first conductivity type with at least two adjacent pixels, each of the pixels has a photodetector formed within the substrate and an electrical function that is shared b... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6154755 | Index imaging system An index imaging system includes: a scanner for scanning a plurality of photographic images to produce a corresponding plurality of digital images; a computer connected to the scanner for receiving the digital images and generating a corresponding plurali... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6151071 | Circuit for generating control signals A method and apparatus of correlated double sampling is disclosed by creating sampled and clamped signals from CCD imager outputs that are in phase with the CCD imager outputs comprising: providing an image sensor having an analog output; sensing the outp... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6139203 | Device for opening and closing a film cartridge closure The invention refers to a device (30) for opening and closing a film cartridge closure (311) of a film cartridge (31), with which opening and closing of the film cartridge closure can be made possible independently of active drive or power transfer elemen... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6141048 | Compact image capture device The image capture device incorporates an array of photodetectors, utilizing an integral current mirror formed at each photodetector location to increase photodetector current output. A correlated double sampling circuit is also formed at each photodetecto... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6137535 | Compact digital camera with segmented fields of view A compact digital camera is formed with a lenslet array comprised of a plurality of lenslets, each lenslet has a decentration corresponding to its radial position in the lenslet array so that the axial ray of each lenslet views a different segment of a to... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6127697 | CMOS image sensor An active pixel sensor comprising: a substrate of a first conductivity type having a surface containing PMOS and NMOS implants that are indicative of a sub-micron CMOS process; a photodetector formed at a first depth from an implant of a second conductivi... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6123362 | System and method of constructing a photo collage A method of constructing a photo collage wherein a plurality of digital images are provided in a low resolution format on sticker sheets that have a unique identifier that cross references the reduced resolution images digital images with a high resolutio... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6107655 | Active pixel image sensor with shared amplifier read-out An image sensor having a plurality of pixels arranged in a series of row and columns comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of pixels formed in rows and columns with at least two row adjacent pixels and at least two column adjacent pixel... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6108104 | Image handling method and system An image handling method and system for executing the method wherein hardcopy images are scanned at a scanner station, to obtain a corresponding set of digital image signals. Each of the digital sets of image signals is assigned an associated unique ident... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6100551 | Active pixel sensor integrated with a pinned photodiode The optimization of two technologies (CMOS and CCD) wherein a pinned photodiode is integrated into the image sensing element of an active pixel sensor. Pinned photodiodes are fabricated with CCD process steps into the active pixel architecture. Charge int... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6075237 | Image sensor cover with integral light shield An image sensor package cover with an opaque epoxy silk-screened into it. This epoxy is patterned to the appropriate size, for a particular sensor, to form an integral light shield on the cover, while simultaneously covering to the package. This masks the... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6072603 | Multiple output CCD image block balancing A CCD imager which employs multiple outputs to increase frame rates suffers from imbalances between the signal processing electronics of each output. The imbalances may result in an image of unacceptable quality. A method for eliminating image imbalances ... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6069712 | Image handling method and system incorporating coded instructions System components provide for a method of: processing an exposed photographic film at a processor-scanner station which has both a scanner and a processor at the same location, to produce one or more hardcopy images at the processor-scanner location; read... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6069377 | Image sensor incorporating saturation time measurement to increase dynamic range A semiconductor based image sensor having a timer that is associated with each photosite in the image sensor; and measuring the integration period of that photosite using the timer. Additionally, an imager sensor that does not require an A/D converter but... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6051852 | Self aligned LOD antiblooming structure for solid-state imagers A self aligned, lateral-overflow drain antiblooming structure that is insensitive to drain bias voltages and therefore has improved insensitivity to process variations. The length of the antiblooming barrier regions are easily adjusted and determined by p... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6051447 | Partially pinned photodiode for solid state image sensors A pixelated image sensor having comprising a partially pinned photodiode which is formed a semiconductor of a first conductivity type formed on a surface of the sensor with at least one photodiode formed, within the semiconductor near the surface, the pho... | 04/18/2000 |
