Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7697019 | Synchronous duplex printing systems using directed charged particle or aerosol toner development An imaging system may include first and second imaging assemblies for synchronously imaging on both sides of a receiver material using directed charged particle or aerosol toner printing methods. The imaging assemblies may in turn each include an imaging member and ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7554566 | Image development methods, hard imaging devices, and image members Image development methods, hard imaging devices, and image members are described. According to one embodiment, an image development method includes providing an image member comprising a surface having different portions of different electrical conductivities, where... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7391425 | Synchronous duplex printing systems using directed charged particle of aerosol toner development An imaging system may include first and second imaging assemblies for synchronously imaging on both sides of a receiver material using directed charged particle or aerosol toner printing methods. The imaging assemblies may in turn each include an imaging member and ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7363859 | Temperature detecting unit with fixing apparatus A temperature detecting unit including a temperature detecting sensor, a window member, and a frame which holds the window member. The temperature detecting sensor receives infrared rays radiated by an object, thereby detecting the temperature of the object without ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7352376 | Apparatus and method for electrophoretic printing device An electrode array with embedded thin-film transistors is fabricated with a self-aligned imprint lithography process. In an embodiment the electrode array is built over a flexible, conductive, substrate, in an alternative embodiment the electrode array is built on a... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7281779 | Apparatus and method for measuring the length change of the feed spindle in an exposer for printing originals Measuring a feed spindle length change in a printing exposer, having at least one exposure head on a carrier moved axially along the drum in a feed direction by a stepping motor and the spindle, carries out the measurement by determining the number of stepping motor... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7235123 | Particle transport and near field analytical detection Particle collection, transport, and detection systems are disclosed. The systems are uniquely adapted for collecting or concentrating particles from a flowing medium and then transporting the collected particles to a desired location or for subsequent analysis. Elec... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233102 | Field emission device with gate having cylindrical part The field emission device includes a substrate, a cathode, a gate insulating layer, an electron emitter, and a gate electrode. The cathode is formed on the substrate. The gate insulating layer is formed on the cathode and has a well exposing a portion of the cathode... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7221473 | Printing system for updating printing characteristics with a printing consumable The flexible printing system is comprised of a printer that has printing characteristics that can be updated. A printer cartridge comprises printer data memory that either stores new printing characteristics or stores a location from the Internet from which these ch... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7204583 | Control electrode for rapid initiation and termination of particle flow An electrostatic gating assembly utilizing at least three electrodes is disclosed. The assembly is particularly well suited for controlled administration of small particles. ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7188934 | Electrostatic gating Various systems and techniques are disclosed for stopping, selectively controlling, and optimizing a flow of particles in a flowing stream. The systems and techniques utilize a multi-electrode assembly and various voltage waveforms applied to those electrodes. The p... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7119875 | Apparatus for forming pattern An apparatus for forming a pattern has a scanning-time setter, a time-error detector, a scanning-time corrector, a pulse data selector, and a control pulse signal generator. The scanning-time setter sets a “fine-section scanning-time” as a pass-time of the beam ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7115983 | Multilayer, thin-film electronic devices Multilayer thin-film electronics are manufactured at high speed, even while the various component functions are manufactured separately under conditions tailored to optimize component performance and yield. Each function or group of functions is fabricated on a sepa... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7071958 | Color electrode array printer An electrode array printer has a housing, an image roller, and a plurality of developer modules. Each of the developer modules has an electrode array printhead, a toner cartridge and a developer roller. The electrode array printhead is installed on a side surface of... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7030550 | Electron emission device with multi-layered fate electrode Low-cost electron emission device and field emission display using a cold cathode electron source having a high electron beam utilization efficiency and capable of controlling the spread of the electron beam. Under the condition Ea≧Eg, the electric field strength ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7011395 | Print head energy storage The manner in which power is supplied to the firing elements of an ink jet printhead is improved by moving a power supply capacitor from the printer to the print head cartridge to improve the regulation of the supply of power to the firing elements of the print head... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6982734 | Printing on electrically writable media and electrically writable displays Apparatus and methods of printing on electrically writable media and electrically writable displays are described. In one aspect, a printer for printing on an electrically writable medium includes a source of an invisible charge species, and a charge species project... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6977033 | Method and apparatus for programmable fluidic processing A method and apparatus for microfluidic processing by programmably manipulating a packet. A material is introduced onto a reaction surface and compartmentalized to form a packet. A position of the packet is sensed with a position sensor. A programmable manipulation ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6961073 | Method and system for displaying an image on a screen A public presentation system is presented comprising a display system that can be remotely changed, so that multiple different images are successively displayed with minimal interruption. The system utilizes ionography techniques for non-contact printing and imaging... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6313925 | System, method, and program for saving toner/ink in a color printer without sacrificing image quality Toner/ink is saved while still being able to print any given color value within the full color gamut of a given printer. Combinations of varying percentages of a printer's toners/inks (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) are determined for maximum black subs... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6278470 | Energy efficient RF generator for driving an electron beam print cartridge to print a moving substrate An electron beam printer assembly for operating a standard electron beam print cartridge (such as an eighteen inch 600 DPI print cartridge) includes an RF generator which has a powdered iron core transformer, and a dual pulse width generator operatively c... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6232997 | Vacuum fluorescent color print head for photographic printing paper A vacuum fluorescent color print head for photographic printing paper having a red luminous block (32) including a plurality of luminous elements arranged in a main scanning direction, and red color filters attached to light-emitting ends of the luminous ... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6176568 | Direct printing method with improved control function The present invention relates to a direct electrostatic printing method, in which a stream of computer generated signals, defining an image information, are converted to a pattern of electrostatic fields which selectively permit or restrict the transport ... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6074045 | Printhead structure in an image recording device An image recording apparatus includes a toner particle source for delivering charged toner particles to an image receiving medium. The image recording apparatus further includes a printhead structure arranged between the toner particle source and the imag... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6069641 | Ion flow recording apparatus and liquid developing method An ion flow recording apparatus performs recording making density modulation every pixel. When developing on a fine grain toner is to be performed using a liquid developer for an electrostatic latent image, a developing unit (developing roller) is dispose... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6043830 | Apparatus for pattern generation on a dielectric substrate Apparatus for information transfer and including a dielectric element having generally opposite first and second surfaces, an information bearing voltage signal being associated with the first surface and an information bearing charge pattern being associ... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6025857 | Photosensitive member and electrostatic information recording method A photosensitive member which has an electrode provided on the front side and a photoconductive layer stacked on the electrode, the photosensitive member being disposed face-to-face with an electrostatic information recording medium that includes a charge... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6012801 | Direct printing method with improved control function The present invention relates to a direct electrostatic printing method, in which a stream of computer generated signals, defining an image information, are converted to a pattern of electrostatic fields which selectively permit or restrict the transport ... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6014155 | Printing machine with a heated imaging member A printing machine composed of: (a) an electrographic imaging member including a substrate layer and a charge accepting layer selected from the group consisting of a silicone elastomer and a grafted elastomer composed of a polyorganosiloxane bonded to a f... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6011567 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having a plurality of electron emitting devices and luminescent members are arranged into a matrix formed on one surface of a substrate. As rows of electron emitting devices are successively driven, each luminescent member emits... | 01/04/2000 |
| 6008827 | Electrographic printing A process for generating a visible image that involves forming an electrostatic latent image upon the surface of a charge receptor medium consisting of a thin dielectric layer adjacent the metallized surface of a non-conducting substrate. The latent image... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5927206 | Ferroelectric imaging member and methods of use An imagewise polarizable imaging member can be used to print the same or different images with an electrically responsive marking media. The imaging member includes a matrix-addressable microelectronic layer in proximate relationship with an imagewise pol... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5903804 | Printer and/or scanner and/or copier using a field emission array A method, device and system for utilizing a pixelized ungated linear array of field emitters and an integrated electrode-media surface to either detect the presence of charge on the surface in a given two-dimensional pattern, or to deposit charge on the s... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5886723 | Charge deposition print head and method of printing A print head has a matrix array of charge generating loci defined by crossings of a first set of electrodes which are parallel to each other and extend across the region to be printed and a second set of electrodes that extend obliquely across the first e... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5841457 | Ion stream splitting and pre-focusing An ionographic printer directs a sheet of ions from a source to a charge receptor to create an electrostatic latent image thereon. An ion sheet splitting rod is positioned between the ion source and the charge receptor that splits the ion sheet into two s... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5808892 | Line edge and size definition in e-beam exposure An e-beam processing method for improving micron and submicron line quality and resolution by selecting one of several recipes each containing recursive expressions for evaluating figure pattern fracturing and e-beam processing parameters based on the siz... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5781217 | Device for direct electrostatic printing (DEP) comprising an intermediate image receiving member A device for direct electrostatic printing is provided wherein a flow of toner particles in a electrical field from a toner source to the surface of an intermediate image receiving member is image-wise modulated by a printhead structure with printing aper... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5777576 | Apparatus and methods for non impact imaging and digital printing The present disclosure presents an apparatus for pattern generation on a dielectric substrate comprising an imaging drum including a dielectric pattern receiving and retaining substrate, a plurality of electrodes underlying the pattern receiving and retai... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5767885 | Apparatus and method for pattern generation on a dielectric substrate The present disclosure presents an apparatus for pattern generation on a dielectric substrate comprising an imaging drum including a dielectric pattern receiving and retaining substrate, a plurality of electrodes underlying the pattern receiving and retai... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5760812 | Two-input, two-output fuzzy logic print quality controller for an electrophotographic printer A control system for optimizing print quality in an electrophotographic printer uses a fuzzy-logic technique with only solid-area and half-tone density as control inputs, and only scorotron voltage and ROS laser power as outputs. The measured errors in so... | 06/02/1998 |
