Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7874748 | Photo development apparatus and method for fabricating a color filter substrate using the same A photo development apparatus for use in fabricating a color filter substrate for a display panel is disclosed. The disclosed photo apparatus includes a development solution supplier to supply a negative development solution. The photo apparatus also includes a firs... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7435021 | Automatic development method of photosensitive lithographic printing plate and automatic development device thereof A developer replenishing method of an automatic development device of photosensitive lithographic printing plate including developing a plurality of exposed photosensitive lithographic printing plates with a developer containing an electrolyte and keeping the develo... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7387455 | Substrate processing device, substrate processing method, and developing device Rinsing nozzles 310a to 310e are moved on a wafer W while they are discharging rinsing solution 326. At that point, discharging openings 317a to 317e are contacted to developing solution 350 coate... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7364028 | Glass substrate transporting facility Glass substrates are transported to a plurality of processing devices to be processed. Certain of the processing devices have associated storage shelf for storing glass substrates and a transfer device. The transfer device is adapted to move the glass substrate betw... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361231 | System and method for mid-pressure dense phase gas and ultrasonic cleaning Workpieces are loaded into a cleaning chamber. The cleaning chamber is pressurized with a first dense-phase cleaning fluid, the temperature and pressure of the first dense-phase fluid being maintained at less than about 1500 psi using a temperature control device. T... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358199 | Method of fabricating semiconductor integrated circuits A method of fabricating semiconductor integrated circuits includes (1) providing a spin-on tool comprising a rotatable platen for holding and spinning a wafer disposed thereon, a fluid supply system for providing spin-on solution onto the wafer, and a detector fixed... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354869 | Substrate processing method, substrate processing apparatus, and semiconductor device manufacturing method A method for a substrate processing apparatus having a substrate holding mechanism and a chemical solution dispensing/sucking mechanism including a chemical solution dispensing port for supplying a first chemical solution and a chemical solution suction port, includ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349003 | Method for determining a correction value for light-emitting parts in exposure apparatus The invention is directed to the provision of an exposure apparatus that can determine a correction value for each individual light-emitting part by employing a method that detects the amount of light corresponding to one particular light-emitting part from composit... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7330189 | Information processing system for displaying image on information terminal An information display device and an information processor for performing, in the case where an image is delivered to information terminals such as a mobile phone varied in display, optimum image processing in accordance with performance of the display of each of th... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7299810 | Substrate treating apparatus with circulating and heating mechanism for removal liquid A substrate treating apparatus includes a spin chuck for supporting a substrate to be rotatable in a plane including a principal surface of the substrate, a motor for rotating the spin chuck, a circulating pump for circulating a removal liquid and transmitting the r... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7270945 | Image forming method using photothermographic material A method of forming an image using a photothermographic material containing a support having thereon an image forming layer which contains an organic silver salt, silver halide grains, a binder and a reducing agent, the method including the steps of: imagewise expos... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7264919 | Mono-sheet heat-developable photosensitive material and method of forming image A mono-sheet heat-developable photosensitive material, which comprises a layer containing a light-sensitive silver halide, a light-insensitive organic fatty acid silver salt, a thermal developer and a binder on a support, and exhibits substantially no sensitivity af... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7265868 | Controlled print size for image data The present invention enables to ensure printing the entire desired image. An image data interpreter 21 interprets the header portion of data transmitted by a digital camera to detect the number of dots indicative of height and width of an image to be printed... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262001 | Heat-developable photosensitive material and an image forming method A heat-developable photosensitive material comprising a support, providing thereon, an organic silver salt, silver halide, a binder and a reducing agent, wherein a value of Rz(E)/Rz(B) is from 0.1 to 0.7 in which Rz(E) is the ten-point average roughness of the outer... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263325 | Auger for use in an image forming device A helical auger member for transporting toner in an image forming apparatus. The auger member may be implemented as part of a waste toner removal system for removing toner from a photoconductive member of a toner cartridge. Toner that is removed by a cleaner member ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7241061 | Coating and developing system and coating and developing method A coating and developing system includes a resist film forming unit block and antireflection film forming unit blocks stacked up in layers to form a resist film and an antireflection film underlying the resist film and an antireflection film overlying the resist fil... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234592 | Photographic processing agent cartridge and container usable therein A cartridge for photographic processing agents, which is formed of containers for photographic processing agents and a storage box for housing the containers in any selected dispositions in the box, in which at least one of the containers is provided with at least o... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7229240 | Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method When the processing temperature in a heater should be changed between lots, for example, a foremost substrate in a subsequent lot is transported to a position close to the heater such as a substrate holding part, and is held in standby thereat until adjustment of a ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7219665 | Delivery device A delivery device, e.g. an inhaler, comprises a rotatable metering member adapted to dispense a measured amount of material, a material delivery passage and a material delivery orifice and at least one actuator member adapted to move the metering member form a mater... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7208263 | Method for manufacturing photosensitive resin printing plate, and developer treatment device A method for making a photosensitive resin printing plate which comprises at least (1) the exposure step of forming a latent image in an aqueous-developable photosensitive resin layer of a printing plate material by irradiating the printing plate material with a ray... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7192696 | Image forming method using photothermographic material A method of forming an image using a photothermographic material containing a support having thereon an image forming layer which contains an organic silver salt, silver halide grains, a binder and a reducing agent, the method including the steps of: imagewise expos... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7180533 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus, comprising: an exposing device for exposing an image forming material so as to form a latent image on the image forming material based on image data; a developing device for developing and visualizing the latent image on the exposed im... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173269 | Apparatus for processing photosensitive material and area measurement method A plurality of microswitches are arranged in a photosensitive material receiving section in a row, in a direction perpendicular to the travel direction of a printing plate. The printing plate is carried while being centered with respect to a center of a transport pa... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167769 | Inline connection setting method and device and substrate processing devices and substrate processing system It at least includes a step at which a coating and developing apparatus requests an exposure apparatus, connected inline thereto, to transfer profile information which is information relating to the exposure apparatus, a step at which the coating and developing appa... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7160674 | Photographic chemicals bundle A bundle for simultaneous refilling of chemicals for processing color photography silver halide materials in an automatic processing apparatus, wherein the bundle comprises at least one bottle with the refilling solution for a color developer and at least two bottle... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7135274 | Image forming method using photothermographic material An image forming method for forming an image by exposing a photothermographic material to a laser beam, the laser beam being a laser diode beam having a peak light-emission intensity at a wavelength of 350 nm to 450 nm. The photothermographic material comprises at l... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7129030 | Image forming method using photothermographic material A method of forming an image using a photothermographic material containing a support having thereon an image forming layer which contains an organic silver salt, silver halide grains, a binder and a reducing agent, the method including the steps of: imagewise expos... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7107999 | Substrate processing apparatus for removing organic matter by removal liquid An indexer part, removal processing part, interface, and dry processing part are disposed adjacent to each other in a row. That is, the removal processing part that performs removal processing of an organic matter by using a removal liquid is disposed adjacent to th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7101646 | Developing method and apparatus In this developing method and apparatus, a concentration measuring unit 222 picks part of developing fluid in a blending tank 186 to measure the resist concentration by an absorption photometry and feeds the detected resist concentration to a control u... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7093761 | System and method for distributing stored-value cards A system and method for supplying communication service value is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes distributing indicia of an identifier to a merchant for distribution to a customer having a customer account. The identifier has an associated service ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7091043 | Method for measuring water concentration in ammonia Method and apparatus for measuring a water concentration in ammonia, comprising using ammonia having a water concentration of 10 ppm or less as a reference gas, introducing the ammonia at a constant flow rate into a multi-reflection long optical path gas cell, and m... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7040539 | Negotiable instrument with fraud protection A negotiable instrument with fraud protection and method of use is included. The method having the step accepting a negotiable instrument having a pre-printed bar code and photo identification, and a pre-printed signature. The method also having a step reading the b... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7033089 | Method of developing a resist film and a resist development processor The present invention provides a resist development processor consisting of a development processing chamber for storing a resist substrate having an exposed resist on the substrate and for developing the exposed resist by means of a development solvent consisting o... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7029188 | Image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus setup system, and image forming apparatus setup method The image forming apparatus includes a printer that performs image printing on the sheet members supplied at preset intervals at the first transport speed and a processor that performs development processing on the printed sheet members transported at the second tra... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7024996 | Automatic processing method of photosensitive lithographic printing plate and automatic processing apparatus thereof An automatic processing method by developing a plural number of exposed photosensitive lithographic printing plates with a developer, which comprises the previously calculating step, the measuring step and the replenishing step as defined herein, wherein during a pe... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7014373 | Photographic processing arrangement and a processing solution supply cartridge for the processing arrangement The present invention relates to a processing solution supply cartridge which utilizes a single container for a single-part developer concentrate. The single container has at least two valves or necks and is adapted to be utilized on a existing processor or processi... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7008123 | Image forming device having a brush type processing member The present invention relates to an image-forming device that comprises a roller that includes a plurality of micromembers. The micromembers are preferably hook or loop-like members made of a compliant material such as plastic or rubber. The micromembers on the roll... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7002664 | Hybrid digital photofinishing system A photofinishing system comprising: a) a digital processor, a printer and means for feeding print media to the printer; the digital processor being arranged to receive digitised data that is representative of a photographic image and to process the data in a manner ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6949331 | Method of reusing photographic processing waste solution, and photographic processing agent A method of enabling reuse of photographic processing waste solutions with ease at low cost without discharging effluents in a substantial sense, and a photographic processing agent regenerated by such a method are provided, which is a method of reusing a photograph... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6922265 | Image reading device A line CCD scanner includes a photo film passageway in which developed photo film is positioned. A light source illuminates an image in the photo film positioned in the photo film passageway. A line CCD reads the image being illuminated. A mask member is secured to ... | 07/26/2005 |
