| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-6,516,167 |
Option apparatuses adapted to be connected to remote apparatus and image
formation apparatus An image formation apparatus has a controller which performs monitoring and control over a directly connected option apparatus by communicating with a controller... |
| US-6,516,166 |
Image fixing apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide an image fixing apparatus for fixing an image formed on a recording material, which has a heating member, a... |
| US-6,516,165 |
Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus having the fixing apparatus A fixing apparatus in which an unfixed image is fixed on a recording medium for bearing the unfixed image by pinching and conveying the recording medium by using... |
| US-6,516,164 |
Excessive temperature rising prevention device, heating apparatus and
fixing apparatus A thermostatic device has a temperature detecting portion for detecting temperature, the portion including a bimetal and a heat conductive cap for covering the... |
| US-6,516,163 |
Image forming apparatus having control for forming density and graduation
patches An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus that has an image bearing member, a moving member, transferring device for ... |
| US-6,516,162 |
Image forming apparatus with automatic density compensation The object of this invention is to provide an image forming apparatus capable of preventing decrease in image density at a rear end part of an image. A change in... |
| US-6,516,161 |
Image forming apparatus with surface potential detector An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member and an image formation unit for forming an image on the image bearing member. The image formation... |
| US-6,516,160 |
Estimation of toner usage based on pulse width count and pulse edge count The invention includes a method, a computer readable medium, and an apparatus of estimating toner usage based on pulse width count and pulse edge count. In one... |
| US-6,516,159 |
Developer amount indicating method and electrophotographic image forming
apparatus A developer amount indicating method of successively indicating a developer amount in a developer containing portion mounted on an electrophotographic image... |
| US-6,516,158 |
Image forming apparatus and process cartridge comprising a charging member
for charging an image bearing member... A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main body of an image forming apparatus, includes an image bearing member, a charging member for charging the image... |
| US-6,516,157 |
Printing system that calculates printing cost using data input via a remote
data input terminal and returns... A printing system includes a printer, a center side data processor, and a remote user side processor (input terminal) all interconnected via a network. A print... |
| US-6,516,156 |
Camera having liquid crystal display A camera including a liquid crystal display in which an image formed by a photographing lens system of the camera is indicated; an ocular viewing optical system... |
| US-6,516,155 |
Camera capable of controlling a change of setting of data peculiar to a
film to be imprinted on the film In a camera having a data setting device capable of setting data peculiar to a film to be imprinted on the film, when a film presence/absence detecting device... |
| US-6,516,154 |
Image revising camera and method In a method and camera, a scene is captured as an original electronic image. The original electronic image is stored as an archival image in memory in the... |
| US-6,516,153 |
Capacitor charging apparatus and electronic flash and apparatus containing
same A capacitor charging apparatus includes a DC/DC converter for stepping up the voltage of a battery and charging the capacitor; a detection circuit that... |
| US-6,516,152 |
Focusing screen for use in camera A focusing screen for use in a camera has a diffusive surface having a plurality of random pattern cells of one or a plurality of types arranged ... |
| US-6,516,151 |
Camera projected viewfinder The present invention relates to a camera (1) that projects a pattern of visible light (28) onto an object such as a document (10) to be photographed to indicate... |
| US-6,516,150 |
Distance measuring equipment and camera There is disclosed a distance measuring equipment capable of performing efficiently a greater accuracy of focusing without troubling an operator, and a camera... |
| US-6,516,149 |
Automatic focusing camera An automatic focusing camera has a release button (15) on a top wall of its camera body, and a release switch (32) is disposed underneath the release button such... |
| US-6,516,148 |
Barrel assembly of zoom camera A barrel assembly of a zoom camera includes a zoom ring at which a front lens group is installed and which is moved back and forth along the optical axis, a rear... |
| US-6,516,147 |
Scene recognition method and system using brightness and ranging mapping A method of controlling exposure of a scene image comprising the following steps: sensing a scene for image data; deriving values representative of a brightness... |
| US-6,516,146 |
Actuator using shape memory alloy and method for controlling the same An actuator using a novel shape memory alloy which, even when there is a large difference between a transformation start temperature of the shape memory alloy... |
| US-6,516,145 |
Waterproof type lens-equipped film unit and method of assembling the same A waterproof camera includes a camera body having an actuation member that actuates an internal mechanism when pressed. A waterproof case is arranged to contain... |
| US-6,516,144 |
Lens-fitted photo film unit and flash device In a film unit, a charge operation member is held on a fron side of a guide member to be slidable between an ON position to turn on a flash charge switch of a... |
| US-6,516,143 |
Fluid heating apparatus The fluid heating apparatus, in accordance with the present invention, developed to solve the technological problems described above is characterized by... |
| US-6,516,142 |
Internal heating element for pipes and tubes The heater includes a resistance heating element comprising a resistance heating wire having a pair of terminal ends connected to a pair of electrical connectors... |
| US-6,516,141 |
Apparatus and method for protecting a heating tank assembly of a hot water
dispenser A heating tank assembly for a hot water dispenser having a tank body, an electric heating element, a magnetic switch, and a movable float. The tank body has a... |
| US-6,516,140 |
Furnace with integral grille An electric furnace comprising an integral front panel containing a plurality of louvers. The interior of the furnace contains a flow channel to direct air... |
| US-6,516,139 |
Method and an apparatus for reproducing bitstream having non-sequential
system clock data seamlessly therebetween A system stream contiguous reproduction apparatus to which are input one or more system streams interleaving at least moving picture data and audio data, and... |
| US-6,516,138 |
Method and an apparatus for reproducing bitstream having non-sequential
system clock data seamlessly therebetween A system stream contiguous reproduction apparatus to which are input one or more system streams interleaving at least moving picture data and audio data, and... |
| US-6,516,137 |
Recording arrangement for digitally recording a received analog video
signal in data packets of an MPEG... A recording arrangement (2) includes a first receiving device (25) for receiving an analog video signal (AVS1) and a second receiving device (10) for receiving a... |
| US-6,516,136 |
Iterative decoding of concatenated codes for recording systems A data recording system employs parallel iterative decoding of soft output samples representing encoded data read from a storage medium. The iterative decoder... |
| US-6,516,135 |
Compressed video data processing with conversion of image compression
format A local server records compressed digital video data according to a first image compression format at normal and four times speeds, while a main server records... |
| US-6,516,134 |
Data recording/reproducing method and apparatus A data recording/reproducing apparatus in which speech data and video data can be recorded or reproduced separately from each other, the number of channels of... |
| US-6,516,133 |
Method for backward reproduction in a time-lapse video recorder A method for backward reproduction in a video tape recorder, includes the steps of detecting a position on a magnetic video tape where a video head contacts with... |
| US-6,516,132 |
Method and apparatus for improving the effects of color burst modifications
to a video signal In the known color stripe process for preventing recording of video signals, the color burst present on each line of active video is modified so that any... |
| US-6,516,131 |
Structures and methods for aligning fibers Presented are structures and methods by which to align fiber optics side-by-side or end-to-end; to align fiber optics to features in supporting substrates or to... |
| US-6,516,130 |
Clip that aligns a fiber optic cable with a laser diode within a fiber
optic module A clip to align a fiber optic cable with a light source within a fiber module. The clip may have a pair of sidewalls that are separated by a channel. The fiber... |
| US-6,516,129 |
Processing protective plug insert for optical modules A plug which has a plugging portion and a stem extending therefrom is formed of an elastomeric material in order to deform to create a wiping engagement and a... |
| US-6,516,128 |
Optical fiber distribution panel assembly An optical fiber distribution panel assembly wherein a panel holding fiber connector blocks is pivotably mounted to a base member about a horizontal axis. Fibers... |
| US-6,516,127 |
Microstrip line The process for the manufacture of the rib waveguide (4) is based on the process steps (a) ion implantation of high-energy light ions into a crystal, (b) the... |
| US-6,516,126 |
Element with extruded sheathing A cable wherein the sheathing contains at least two polymers, the adhesion capability of which is low when extruded in layers on to each other, and the sheathing... |
| US-6,516,125 |
Dispersion shifted optical fiber having triple clad The present invention is related to a dispersion-shifted optical fiber for use in a wavelength division multiplexing system, which comprises a core, an inner... |
| US-6,516,124 |
Fiber for enhanced energy absorption Fibers, including fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers, and systems containing such fibers are disclosed. |
| US-6,516,123 |
Optical fiber with large effective core area and high chromatic dispersion An optical fiber is disclosed having, at a wavelength of 1 550 nm, an effective core area not less than 100 .mu.m.sup.2, a chromatic dispersion from 14... |
| US-6,516,121 |
Configuring optical fibers in a multi-chip module The present invention is directed to a methodology, structure and process (200) for routing connecting, and forming optical fibers between optical ports such as... |
| US-6,516,120 |
Rib waveguide device with mode filter A silicon rib waveguide device includes a mode filter section serially connected to a curved rib section. The curved section has a width large enough to support... |
| US-6,516,119 |
Device and system for wavelength monitoring The invention relates to a device for making a comparison between N nominal wavelength values (.lambda.ei) and the wavelength values of optical signals coupled... |
| US-6,516,118 |
Optical fiber suitable for producing doped-fiber amplifier gain equalizing
filters An optical fiber for producing energy-dissipative and wavelength--selective filters is presented. The fiber includes a core and a cladding that are ... |
| US-6,516,117 |
Grating and method and apparatus for forming same A grating formation method comprises the steps of accelerating ions; causing the accelerated ions to pass through a mask having a shape corresponding to the... |