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| US-6,493,527 |
Process cartridge A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes an electrophotographic photosensitive... |
| US-6,493,526 |
Restoration method for a charging roller, a charging roller restored by the
method and a process cartridge... A charging roller is constituted of a shaft, a conductive elastic cylinder, and a charging layer. The shaft is integrally covered with the conductive elastic... |
| US-6,493,525 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus of the present invention is capable of protecting a sheet or recording medium from defective fixation and creases and enhancing image... |
| US-6,493,524 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an image forming unit for forming an image on the image bearing member and a detector for detecting... |
| US-6,493,523 |
Capacitance and resistance monitor for image producing device An apparatus and a method for optimizing the quality of electrophotographic imaging based on the properties of the printing media are presented. In order to... |
| US-6,493,522 |
Developing device and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a developer bearing member for bearing and transporting a developer to enable development of a latent image formed on an... |
| US-6,493,521 |
Image forming apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus having a fixing device, which can obtain good fixing ability while preventing... |
| US-6,493,520 |
Image forming apparatus with overheat preventive device An image forming apparatus includes a heater for heating a recording material for fixing a transferred toner image to the recording material at a transfer... |
| US-6,493,519 |
Image forming apparatus having a plurality of image forming stations, and
unit detachably mountable on the... The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that has a plurality of image forming stations for forming an image on a recording material, each of... |
| US-6,493,518 |
Printer, and control method thereof A printer and a control method thereof. The printer includes an optical scanner for scanning light to a photosensitive medium according to image information, a... |
| US-6,493,517 |
Integration of self-determined consumable usage model in pigmentation
material low/out forecast A method of scheduling service events for a hard copy output engine includes (i) estimating when a service event is likely to occur, (ii) estimating, from a... |
| US-6,493,516 |
Toner container and method of determining abnormality of toner container A toner container is detachably mountable on an image forming apparatus and includes a container body that contains toner therein. An agitating member is... |
| US-6,493,515 |
Camera The camera has an appearance quality highly maintained, by crushing a joining portion of a metal cover. A metal cover is crushed at a joining portion to a grip... |
| US-6,493,514 |
Method and apparatus for magnetic communication via a photographic
filmstrip A method is provided for recording metadata elements using a predetermined portion of a photographic filmstrip. The method comprising the steps of recording a... |
| US-6,493,513 |
Exposure control device for camera preventing shutter release before
aperture changeover A shutter device for a camera includes a shutter blade for providing an exposure by opening/shutting a photographic light path, and a shutter drive lever for... |
| US-6,493,512 |
Step zoom lens camera A step zoom lens camera includes a rotatable cam ring, a cam groove formed on the cam ring, including step areas, a linear movement member which is connected to... |
| US-6,493,511 |
FPC (flexible printed circuit) board arrangement structure for zoom lens
barrels An FPC (flexible printed circuit) board arrangement structure for zoom lens barrels of a camera is provided. The FPC board connects a shutter block carried by... |
| US-6,493,510 |
Camera having zoom flash device A camera has a zoom optical system, which includes three lens groups disposed on an optical axis, for being set at least between a wide-angle end and a telephoto... |
| US-6,493,509 |
Camera with self-timer for delayed action shutter release A camera has a shutter release button that is depressible to initiate picture-taking, and a self-timer for automatically initiating picture-taking after a... |
| US-6,493,508 |
Fuel filter A fuel filter 10 for filtering diesel fuel, in which a heater 14 is provided which at temperatures below 0.degree. C. warms the diesel fuel in order to liquefy... |
| US-6,493,507 |
Water heating unit with integral thermal energy storage The present invention is directed to a water heater which includes a phase change material having a freezing/melting temperature from about 30.degree. C. to... |
| US-6,493,506 |
Optical disk system and method for storing disk- and user-specific settings An optical disk system is presented which stores disk- and user-specific settings, along with an associated method. The optical disk system includes a disk drive... |
| US-6,493,505 |
OPTICAL DISC, VIDEO DATA EDITING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING
MEDIUM STORING AN EDITING PROGRAM,... An optical disc includes a data area for recording a plurality of video segments and an index area for recording original type chain information and user-defined... |
| US-6,493,504 |
Storage medium, recording apparatus, playback apparatus, recording method,
and computer-readable storage medium A computer readable storage medium being capable of recording a large amount of still picture data thereon, allowing users to make a search based on recording... |
| US-6,493,503 |
Optical disc for coordinating a variable reproduction of video images A multimedia optical disc including data area and index area is provided. The data area includes objects each of which includes video data. The index area... |
| US-6,493,502 |
Dynamic gain equalizer method and associated apparatus An apparatus and associated method for altering the propagation constant of a region of equalizing propagation constant in an optical waveguide. The method... |
| US-6,493,501 |
Optical fiber interconnection closures A converting assembly and method for creating an in-line closure from a first end cap and a first support frame of a butt-type closure includes a second support... |
| US-6,493,500 |
Method for mid-span branching of optical fiber cable The present invention relates to a method for mid-span branching of optical fiber cable which makes the mid-span branching possible without excess length of the... |
| US-6,493,499 |
Waveguide window A window for a waveguide for a beam of electromagnetic radiation. The window includes a layer of a material capable of allowing electromagnetic radiation to pass... |
| US-6,493,498 |
Fiber administration system having optical fiber route tracing capabilities An improved fiber administration system and method of operation for a fiber distribution system. The fiber administration system contains at least one frame,... |
| US-6,493,497 |
Electro-optic structure and process for fabricating same High quality epitaxial layers of oxide can be grown overlying large silicon wafers by first growing an accommodating buffer layer on a silicon wafer. The... |
| US-6,493,496 |
Optical waveguide An optical waveguide has first dielectric substance region which is formed on a surface of the crystalline silicon substrate, and has second dielectric substance... |
| US-6,493,495 |
Large effective area waveguide fiber A single mode optical waveguide fiber having a segmented core designed to provide a large effective area for light transmission. The large effective area reduces... |
| US-6,493,494 |
Dispersion compensating fiber for wavelength division multiplexed optical
fiber transmission systems using... The invention concerns a monomode optical fiber having at a wavelength of 1550 nm a dispersion slope from -0.8 ps/nm.sup.2.km to -0.5 ps/nm.sup.2.km and a... |
| US-6,493,493 |
Eccentricity detect and alignment for fiberoptic bundle A method and apparatus for aligning eccentricities in optical fibers arrayed in a fiber optic bundle is disclosed. The optical fibers are initially constrained... |
| US-6,493,492 |
Fiber bundle and optical amplifier A manufacture includes a first optical fiber and a plurality of second optical fibers. The second optical fibers have cross sections with aspect ratios of two or... |
| US-6,493,491 |
Optical drop cable for aerial installation An aerial drop cable comprises a jacket surrounding a cavity containing a least one loosely housed optical fiber and a pair of reinforcing members composed of a... |
| US-6,493,490 |
Method and apparatus for receiving and aligning an optical communications
beam with an integrated An integrated optical communications receiver/alignment system and method. In one embodiment, a method and an apparatus are disclosed in which a semiconductor... |
| US-6,493,489 |
Integrated coupling modules for high-bandwidth fiber-optic systems An integrated and modular coupling module for coupling light between optical devices, such as an optical fiber connector and optoelectronic device, is presented.... |
| US-6,493,488 |
Apparatus and method for high speed optical signal processing In one aspect of the invention, an apparatus operable to facilitate optical signal processing includes a micro-electro-optic system (MEMS) device having a... |
| US-6,493,487 |
Optical waveguide transmission devices An optical waveguide device comprising a free space region, suitably provided by a slab waveguide, having optical signal ports for coupling to input and output... |
| US-6,493,486 |
Thermal compensated compact bragg grating filter Various aspects of thermal compensated Bragg grating filters are disclosed. In one disclosed aspect, an optical fiber having a Bragg grating therein is laid... |
| US-6,493,485 |
Systems and methods for aligning a laser beam with an optical fiber A system for aligning a laser beam with the end of an optical fiber includes optics for focusing the laser beam toward the end of the optical fiber. A plurality... |
| US-6,493,484 |
Optical add/drop filter for wavelength division multiplexed systems An optical add/drop filter for wavelength division multiplexed systems and construction methods are disclosed. The add/drop filter includes a first ferrule... |
| US-6,493,483 |
Integrated circuit photonic signal matrix A signal matrix provides high speed interconnections using optoelectronic elements by detecting wavelength dependent photonic signals at each element of a matrix... |
| US-6,493,482 |
Optical switch having a planar waveguide and a shutter actuator An optical switch having an input waveguide and two output waveguides separated by and disposed around a trench. The input waveguide and a first output waveguide... |
| US-6,493,481 |
Optical switch unit K.times.K optical switch unit according to the present invention is comprised of input ports 1-1, . . . 1-36, 1.times.M optical matrix switches 5-1-1, . . .... |
| US-6,493,480 |
Multistage optical cross-connect A multi-stage optical cross-connect in which sub-switches within the respective stages are spatially distributed relative to sub-switches of adjacent stages such... |
| US-6,493,479 |
Crosspoint switch protection using additional switching elements to provide
alternate paths A crosspoint switch is provided that has N inputs, M outputs, and an array of (N+X).times.(M+X) switching elements, where N, M, and X are all positive integers.... |
| US-6,493,478 |
Photothermal optical switch and variable attenuator An optical device which utilizes a photothermal optical effect to achieve switching or attenuation includes a waveguide defined by a waveguide core and a... |
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