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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8049170 | Induction electrode, ion generation element, ion generation apparatus, and electric equipment An ion generation element includes an induction electrode and a plurality of discharge electrodes. The induction electrode is formed of one metal plate. A circumferential portion of a through hole is bent, and a thickness of a wall portion of the through hole is gre... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7759643 | Single electrode corona discharge electrochemical/electrospray ionization A single electrode electrochemical/electrospray ionization source using a corona discharge and a method of analyzing a sample using a corona discharge single electrode electrochemical/electrospray ionization source are provided. In the corona discharge single electr... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7504628 | Nanoscale corona discharge electrode An electrode for atmospheric corona discharge apparatus provide a passive conductor whose surface is decorated with nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes. The nanotubes provide for a lower corona discharge initiation voltage and raise the possibility for reduced o... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7432504 | Dicorotron wire assembly removal and storage tool A system and apparatus that removes and collects non-functional wire assemblies from dicorotron units is described. It has a removal tool mounted on the top of a storage box. The removal tool has an open top and bottom, the open bottom is aligned with an opening in ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420169 | Dicorotron wire assembly removal-insertion tool Electrostatic printing processes utilize corona-charging units. When those units wear out or become faulty, they need to be replaced. This embodiment provides a tool that can be used to remove a faulty electrode wire assembly from the unit. This same tool when loade... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7388195 | Apparatus and systems for processing samples for analysis via ion mobility spectrometry The invention provides an interface assembly for delivering an ionized analyte from an ionization apparatus into an ion mobility spectrometer. This allows analysis of biological and non-biological samples, even non-volatile solids, via differential mobility spectrom... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7354645 | Engineered glasses for metallic glass-coated wire A metallic glass-coated wire is formed by drawing a hollow glass fiber from a container in which molten alloy is entrained and solidified. Interference stresses extant between the glass coating and the alloy core of the wire are produced by systematically controllin... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342227 | Coating for the breakdown of corona effluents A plasma sprayed TiO2 coating is used to remove effluents produced during an electrical charging step using a corona charging device. The plasma spray allows for the application of TiO2 ceramic to an aluminum dicorotron housing. Plasma spray al... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7338575 | Hydrocarbon dielectric heat transfer fluids for microwave plasma generators A process and apparatus for cooling a plasma tube generally includes flowing a hydrocarbon dielectric heat transfer fluid into a space defined by the plasma tube and a concentric tube surrounding the plasma tube. In one embodiment, the hydrocarbon fluid is selected ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339778 | Corona discharge static neutralizing apparatus A corona discharge static neutralizing device includes a wire electrode retained in tension between spaced ends of a resilient support member that is positioned within a flowing air stream. Another electrode aligned with and spaced from the wire electrode promotes a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7328899 | Device for guiding sheets An apparatus for fixing a sheet on the surface of an electrically conductive cylinder of a printing machine for processing sheets, in particular, a sheet-fed offset printing machine. The apparatus includes an electrode that extends over the width of the cylinder for... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7326926 | Corona discharge ionization sources for mass spectrometric and ion mobility spectrometric analysis of gas-phase chemical species A corona discharge mass spectrometer or an ion mobility spectrometer is provided with a robust corona discharge ionization source. The corona discharge ionization source, which can be operated at atmospheric pressures or at low vacuum, includes a multi-thread electr... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327829 | Cathode assembly An improved cathode assembly, including a filament for producing an electron stream having a highly uniform cross sectional density. The cathode assembly comprises a support base, a cathode cup affixed to the support base, and a filament disposed in a slot defined o... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7302211 | Charging apparatus and image forming apparatus with plated electrode A charging apparatus having high durability, with no occurrence of rusts or the like, scarcely impaired for the controllability of the charged potential even when contaminants such as a toner are deposited more or less, capable of stably controlling the charged pote... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295793 | Electrophotographic reproduction system with a multifaceted charging mechanism A charging mechanism for an electrophotographic reproduction system has a charger cartridge inserted into a charger sleeve. The charger cartridge has multiple facets, each with a corona charger. The charger cartridge is positioned in the charger sleeve to have the c... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295797 | Charge generating device and method thereof for reducing development of nitrogen oxide species formation A charge generating device comprising a discharge electrode; and a conductive shield comprising a nonconductive substrate coated with one or more materials selected from the group including gold, platinum, lead, titanium and alloys thereof. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7264752 | Conductive coatings for corona generating devices Conductive coatings usable for coating various elements of corona generating devices and method of forming such coatings are provided. The coatings include graphite and at least one transition metal oxide catalyst. When the conductive coatings are employed in elemen... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7236723 | Shield for charging device in xerographic printing device having enhanced voltage and current uniformity A xerographic printing device, including a charging device having a shield. In some embodiments of the shield of the charging device in the xerographic printing device, three slots are provided with one slot in the upstream process direction and the other two slots ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228091 | Compact charging method and device with gas ions produced by electric field electron emission and ionization from nanotubes In accordance with the invention, there is an electrophotographic charging device comprising a first electrode, a second electrode adjacent the first electrode, a plurality of nanotubes adhering to at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode, and a ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7211923 | Rotational motion based, electrostatic power source and methods thereof A power system includes a member with two or more sections and at least one pair of electrodes. Each of the two or more sections has a stored static charge. Each of the pair of electrodes is spaced from and on substantially opposing sides of the member from the othe... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7208732 | Structure for attaching wire assembly to a dicor housing A dicorotron unit and a wire assembly of a dicorotron unit where a wire electrode is strung between two insulator anchors. The anchors are held in place by flexible grippers. The grippers have flexible tabs that snap into the dicorotron housing and allow the gripper... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7198660 | Electrostatic device for ionic air emission Ionic emission electrostatic device (1) for depositing on the surface (sp) of a multitude of aerosol particles (p1, p2, . . . , pn) within a fluid (F), a quasi-homogeneous quantity of ions (iq). This electrostatic device (1) is... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187888 | Corona generating device having a wire composite A charging device including a coronode having a wire composite including a core having a dielectric material and a coating layer of conduct material thereon. ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7170734 | Air ionization device The invention relates to an air ionization device comprising a high voltage line which can be connected to an AC voltage power source and point electrodes which are coupled capacitively to the high voltage line for generating a corona discharge. In order to develop ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7163334 | Method and apparatus for mixing fibers A method of mixing including providing a slurry (26, 126) having a first fiber (14, 114) into a container (20, 120), introducing an agitation fluid (31, 138) into the slurry to cause a mixing motion (38, 138) within the slurry, and... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161789 | Ion chip The ion chip has an ionizing structure in intimate electrical and physical contact with a conductor. The ionizing structure is either a carbon fiber layer or ionizing needles or both. The conductor may be a bare metal wire, a metal plate or a metal layer on a base i... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7157704 | Corona discharge electrode and method of operating the same A method of operating a corona discharge device includes producing a high-intensity electric field in an immediate vicinity of at least one corona electrode and continuously or periodically heating the corona electrode to a temperature sufficient to mitigate an unde... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149458 | Xerographic charging device having three pin arrays In a xerographic printing apparatus, a scorotron places a uniform charge on a photoreceptor for forming electrostatic latent images. Three conductive pin arrays are disposed in a housing defined by sidewalls and a screen adjacent the photoreceptor. There can be prov... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7136612 | Connection assembly for a xerographic charging device A scorotron used in xerography is connected to a voltage source within a printing apparatus through a pin. The pin is anchored in an insulative end block which defines channels therein, each channel enclosing a portion of a corona member which extends the length of ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7120376 | Image forming apparatus featuring a four-step image bearing member controller An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material, includes a rotatable image bearing member; a developing member for developing a latent image formed on the image bearing member; a cleaning blade for removing a developer from the image bearing... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120006 | Ion generator and air conditioning apparatus A switching transformer applies an alternating high voltage across an internal electrode and an external electrode which face each other with a glass tube as a dielectric body between them. The anode side of a diode is connected to the external electrode which is no... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7105041 | Grid type electrostatic separator/collector and method of using same An electrical type grid electrostatic collector/separator removes particles from an air stream. The apparatus includes multiple parallel grids that act as the porous material, enclosed in a sealed compartment so that the entrained air flows parallel and between one ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7075770 | Less lethal weapons and methods for halting locomotion A hand-held stun gun incapacitates a human target by generating a series of powerful electrical output pulses of pulse energy of from 0.9 Joules to 10 Joules which generate a series of output current pulses have an RMS current flow of from 100 milliamps to 500 milli... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071417 | Optically encoded glass-coated microwire A drawn glass-coated metallic member has a thermal contraction coefficient differential such that the thermal contraction coefficient of the glass is less than that of the metallic member. The thermal contraction coefficient differential is maintained within a prede... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7064320 | Mass chromatograph A mass spectrometer has an atmospheric pressure chemical ionization source that includes a first ionization portion including a needle electrode, for generating a primary ion by discharge of the needle electrode a primary ion introduction aperture, and a second ioni... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7052763 | Multi-element connector An apparatus such as a connector or circuit includes a substrate having a plurality of conductive members and a plurality of non-conductive members. The conductive members include a plurality of conductive fibers in association with a polymer material. The conductiv... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050743 | Self-regenerative xerographic coatings The invention is directed to self-regenerative, polymeric coatings and methods of using the coatings in xerography to increase the life and effectiveness of catalytic surfaces, such as, for example, charging device surfaces, by neutralizing ozone and nitrogen oxide ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039342 | Charging device and image forming apparatus where the charging device is composed of a sufficient amount of nickel to suppress oxidation A charging device has a discharging electrode, a stabilizer plate having a rectangular section and accommodating the discharging electrode, and a grid arranged in a opening of the stabilizer plate, and at least one member of the discharging electrode, the stabilizer... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035571 | Grid, scorotoron charger having the grid, process unit having the scorotoron charge, and image forming device installing the process unit A grid has a frame body in a U-shaped cross-section defining a main plate section and two side plate sections. A rectangular opening is formed at the main plate section, and a plurality of grid wires extend in a lengthwise direction of the main plate section and at ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6975227 | Method for controlling coming and going personnel, and a system thereof A coming and going personnel control system having a high security level by prohibiting a coming person who has dealt with a dangerous substance from entering a facility through a control area is disclosed. Whether a person coming into the control area carries a dan... | 12/13/2005 |
