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| Mig-6 knockout mice and elucidation of association of mig-6 with early onset degenerative joint disease and role as a tumor suppressor | 20110099644 | 20110428 |
| The molecular mechanism underlying degenerative joint disease, also known as osteoarthritis (OA), is not fully understood. Disruption of mitogen inducible gene 6 (Mig-6) in mice by homologous recombination (KO mice) led to early onset OA as revealed by simultaneous enlargement and deformity of multiple joints, degradation of articular cartilage and the development of bony outgrowths or osteophytes within the joint space. The latter appeared to be derived from proliferation of mesenchymal progenitor cells followed by differentiation into chondrocytes. Because of the striking similarity to human OA, Mig-6 KO mice are a useful animal model for studying the mechanism of this disease and for testing new drugs or therapies for treating OA. These KO mice also developed epithelial hyperplasia, adenoma, and adenocarcinoma in organs such as lung,... |
| Various methods and apparatuses for completing a transaction order through an order proxy system | 20110099088 | 20110428 |
| A method, apparatus, and system for an order proxy are provided. In an embodiment, an example order proxy system implemented in software, hardware logic, or a combination of both, may be configured to allow an e-commerce digital shopping cart to submit and complete transaction orders. An embodiment uses various necessary information and steps for completing a transaction into an e-commerce system without there being any prior software integration between fields and transaction processing steps coded into the shopping cart. A first commerce system may complete a transaction order through the order proxy system. Additionally, the order proxy system may have a merchant cart configuration map module to map the shopping cart information into a merchant server's shopping cart process.
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| Intraocular lens insertion device | 20110098717 | 20110428 |
| There is provided an intraocular lens insertion device capable of easily positioning a circumference of an optical portion of an intraocular lens with respect to a distal end of a plunger. An intraocular lens insertion device 1 comprises: a cartridge 3 having a lens placement section 16 in which an intraocular lens 2 is to be placed; an insertion device main body 4 having a plunger 5 for pushing out the intraocular lens 2 with the cartridge 3 being attached to the insertion device main body 4; and a deforming means 6 for deforming the lens placement section 16. A slit 21 is formed on the lens placement section 16, and the deforming means 6 deforms the lens placement section 16 in a diameter-decreasing direction thereof... |
| Devices and methods for storing, loading, and delivering an intraocular lens | 20110098716 | 20110428 |
| A cartridge for delivering an intraocular lens into the eye of a subject that comprises a body disposed along a longitudinal axis having a distal end and a proximal end, and a tapered lumen disposed along the longitudinal axis having an aperture at the distal end of the body. The aperture and at least a portion of the tapered lumen each consist of an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portions of the aperture and lumen each have a first width and a cross-section that is generally arcuate. The lower portions of the aperture and lumen each have a cross-section that is generally horizontally disposed and have a second width that is greater than the first width of the aperture and lumen. The cartridge... |
| Disposable injection device | 20110098641 | 20110428 |
| An injection device is provided. The device includes a housing having a first end defining a first opening. A plunger is received within the first opening of the housing to move between first and second positions. A cartridge is disposed in the housing and has an interior serving as a reservoir for a drug. A delivery needle is disposed within the housing and is in fluid communication with the reservoir via an interruptible fluid channel. A locking mechanism is disposed in the housing. In the first position of the plunger the delivery needle is enclosed by the plunger and in the second position of the plunger the delivery needle is placed in an injection position and the plunger activates the locking mechanism whereby when the plunger... |
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| Method and apparatus for penetrating tissue | 20110098541 | 20110428 |
| These and other objects of the present invention are achieved in a body fluid sampling system for use on a tissue site that includes an electrically powered drive force generator. A penetrating member is operatively coupled to the force generator. The force generator moves the member along a path out of a housing having a penetrating member exit, into the tissue site, stops in the tissue site, and withdraws out of the tissue site. A cartridge houses the penetrating member. The cartridge has first and second seals coupled to the penetrating member to maintain a sterile environment around a portion of the penetration member prior to penetrating member actuation. A user interface is configured to relay at least one of, penetrating member performance or a penetrating... |
| Corrugated cardboard box with open-work flaps and assembly of blanks for obtaining same | 20110098167 | 20110428 |
| The invention concerns a generally parallelepiped corrugated box for packaging and transporting objects, the box comprising a lid formed by a lateral can-band carton including a front wall, a rear wall, and side walls and a top, and a tray forming a base including a central panel comprising four main sides each respectively provided with a first flap. The front and rear flaps are U-shaped and define each with the top a central recess enabling an object in the box to be gripped manually by a user from the side and/or from above. One or several partly precut portions and/or one or several bonding points enable the walls of the lid to be detached from the first flaps of the tray by manual separation resulting from... |
| Mobile phone with retractable stylus | 20110098084 | 20110428 |
| A mobile phone includes: a phone body having a stylus holder; a retractable stylus slidably mounted in the holder, the stylus being slidable between a retracted position and an extended writing position, the stylus having a nib including an inkjet printhead; an ink cartridge, housed in the phone body, for supplying ink to the inkjet printhead of the stylus; and a flexible conduit linking the cartridge to the stylus. The flexible conduit is configured for carrying data, power and ink.
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| Sensor-dispensing instruments | 20110097808 | 20110428 |
| A sensor-dispensing instrument is adapted to determine an analyte concentration of a fluid and comprises a body, a cap, a cartridge, a test-sensor receptacle, and a sensor-advancement mechanism. The cap is adapted to move between an open position and a closed position. The cap and body are adapted to correspond with each other to form the closed position. The cartridge contains a plurality of test sensors. The cartridge is located substantially within the cap. The sensor-advancement mechanism is adapted to advance the plurality of test sensors, one at a time, to a position that allows a user to manually remove the test sensor and place the test sensor in the test-sensor receptacle. The sensor-dispensing instrument may also include a lancing device including a lancet.
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| Method of heating and heating apparatus | 20110097678 | 20110428 |
| Method of heating and heating apparatus. According to one embodiment, the heating apparatus is designed for warming infusion fluids and includes a pair of catalytic heaters positioned around a cartridge containing the infusion fluid. Each catalytic heater includes a pair of frames jointly defining a cavity. One of the frames per heater is positioned proximate to the cartridge and includes an input port for receiving a liquid solution of methanol. The other frame per heater is positioned distal to the cartridge and includes an input port for receiving oxygen gas and an output port for exhaust gases. A first fluid diffusion medium is positioned within the methanol frame, and a second fluid diffusion medium is positioned within the oxygen frame. Sandwiched between the two diffusion media... |
| Methods and compositions for retaining ecm materials in hydrogels | 20110097406 | 20110428 |
| The present invention provides cell-laden and/or extracellular matrix material laden hydrogels for use in tissue engineering and methods for producing such hydrogels. In some particular embodiments, hydrogels comprise chondrocytes, which are typically encapsulated within the hydrogels. In many instances, such hydrogels are subjected to dynamic loading prior to being administered to a subject to treat a clinical condition that is helped by tissue engineering, including, but not limited to, cosmetic surgery such as craniofacial reconstruction surgery, and cartilage regeneration.
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| Centrifuge cartridge | 20110097249 | 20110428 |
| The invention relates to a centrifuge cartridge (1) for a centrifuge (2) for the separation of a mixture (3) into a solid cake (4) and into a liquid phase 5), with the centrifuge cartridge (1) being rotatably supported around an axis of rotation (6) of the centrifuge (2) in the installed state. The centrifuge cartridge (1) is releasably installed in the centrifuge (2), in particular in a centrifuge drum (21) of the centrifuge (2).
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| Cutting tool and cartridge for the same | 20110097165 | 20110428 |
| A cutting tool for machining metallic materials has at least one cutting portion having a cartridge and a cartridge pocket for mounting cutting inserts to the cutting tool. The cartridge pocket has a top surface, a rear supporting surface and a bottom supporting surface. The top surface of the cartridge pocket has one or more serrated projecting portions. The cartridge has an insert pocket, a top surface, a first side surface and a bottom surface. The insert pocket of the cartridge receives a cutting insert. The top surface of the cartridge has one or more outwardly sloped surfaces and one or more inwardly sloped surfaces. The outwardly sloped surfaces mate with the serrated projecting portions. The inwardly sloped surfaces have a gap with respect to the... |
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| Waste-toner collecting device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus | 20110097124 | 20110428 |
| A waste-toner collecting device includes a waste toner collector that collects and stores therein non-transferred toner as waste toner conveyed from a cleaning unit via the conveying path; and a leveling member that levels waste toner accumulated inside the waste toner collector, and drive of which is controlled so that driving conditions thereof are varied based on information of an image formed on the image carrier. The switching of the driving conditions of the leveling member is controlled so as to be performed after a delay time during which the non-transferred toner collected in the cleaning unit reaches the waste-toner collector via the conveying path.
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| Developing cartridge and image forming device | 20110097109 | 20110428 |
| A developing cartridge that maintains a pressing condition to press a developer carrier against the image carrier is described. The developing cartridge may include a coil spring that presses the developer carrier against the image carrier. The coil spring may include a handle that transmits a pressing force to the coil spring via the contacting member. By doing so, every time the developing cartridge is replaced, a new coil spring and handle can be provided for the color laser printer with the developing cartridge attached. Therefore, a constant pressure by the coil spring can be continuously maintained. Thus, a preferable pressure condition of the developer carrier against the image carrier can be continuously maintained.
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| Process cartridge and image forming apparatus | 20110097108 | 20110428 |
| A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, wherein the main assembly includes a first rotatable main assembly drive transmission member, and a second rotatable main assembly drive transmission member, the process cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum; a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive drum with a developer; a drum coupling member, provided on one axial end of the electrophotographic photosensitive drum, for engaging with the first main assembly drive transmission member and transmitting a first rotational driving force to the electrophotographic photosensitive drum, when the process cartridge is mounted to the main assembly of the apparatus along an axial direction of the electrophotographic photosensitive drum; and a shaft coupling member,... |
| Systems and methods for immobilization using pulse series | 20110096459 | 20110428 |
| A cartridge for a system that uses a stimulus signal for immobilizing a human or animal target includes a propellant and a projectile propelled away from about the cartridge by the propellant. The projectile includes a power supply, a waveform generator, and several electrodes. The waveform generator is powered by the power supply. The waveform generator includes a processor. The electrodes complete a stimulus delivery circuit to conduct a current through the target. The waveform generator generates the current to include a first series of pulses and a second series of pulses. The second series begins after the first series is completed. The first series has a first pulse repetition rate determined by the processor. Each pulse of the first series has a first pulse width... |
| Inkjet printer cradle with shaped recess for receiving a printer cartridge | 20110096123 | 20110428 |
| An inkjet printer system including a plurality of inkjet printer cartridges; and a number of inkjet printer cradles each including a body defining a recess and arranged to receive and operate each of a set of supported inkjet printer cartridges of the plurality of inkjet printer cartridges;wherein those inkjet cartridges of said plurality not belonging to the set of supported inkjet printer cartridges, in respect of a particular one of said number of inkjet printer cradles, are shaped to prevent their reception into the recess of said particular inkjet printer cradle.
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| Inkjet printer | 20110096109 | 20110428 |
| An inkjet printer includes an inkjet cartridge, an inkjet head, a controller, a viscosity adjustment device and a viscometer. The inkjet cartridge is filled with ink. The inkjet head is connected to the inkjet cartridge. The catcher plate is opposite to the inkjet head, and connected to the cartridge. The viscometer is configured for determining a viscosity of ink in the inkjet cartridge. The viscosity adjustment device is configured for adjusting viscosity of ink in the inkjet cartridge. The controller is electrically connected to the inkjet head, the viscometer, and the viscosity adjustment device, respectively.
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| Non-cartesian caipirinha | 20110096092 | 20110428 |
| Example systems, methods, and apparatus concern non-Cartesian CAIPIRINHA (Controlled Aliasing In Parallel Imaging Results IN Higher Acceleration). One example parallel magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI) apparatus includes a radio frequency (RF) manipulation logic configured to control the pMRI apparatus to perform a non-Cartesian CAIPIRINHA acquisition process in which under-sampled data is acquired using a non-Cartesian (e.g., radial) pattern. The apparatus also includes a reconstruction logic configured to reconstruct the under-sampled data as a function of phase shift applied by the non-Cartesian CAIPIRINHA acquisition process and coil sensitivities acquired during the non-Cartesian CAIPIRINHA acquisition process.
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| Sealing structure for sealing multiple sections and a drawer of a medical emergency cart | 20110095661 | 20110428 |
| An emergency crash cart includes a sealing structure that enables multiple storage sections of the cart to be locked and sealed simultaneously. The locking structure enables one of the storage sections to be unlocked and unsealed without unlocking or unsealing the other storage sections. The locking structure also can be actuated to unlock and unseal all storage sections simultaneously for rapid access to the contents of all storage sections of the cart.
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| Carton with differently shaped ends | 20110095075 | 20110428 |
| A blank is erected into a tubular structure having opposite end openings. One of the end openings is substantially rectangular. The other end opening is generally rectangular with substantially rounded corners. The erected blank includes an end panel that is substantially rectangular and obstructs the substantially rectangular end opening. The erected blank includes an end panel that is generally rectangular with rounded corners. The generally rectangular end panel with rounded corners obstructs the end opening that is generally rectangular with rounded corners.
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| Cylindrical spout for disposable cartons | 20110095059 | 20110428 |
| A gable top or other container having a spout fitment is disclosed. The spout includes a base, a chute, a closure, and a tear line. The base is adapted to be joined to a wall of a container, and defines an opening. The chute communicates with the opening. The chute has a first end at least partially surrounding the opening and a second end spaced from the first end. The closure is positioned to close the chute. The tear line defines a seal of the closure. The tear line is adapted to be broken readily, without relative rotation between the closure and the chute of the spout about an axis generally perpendicular to the base, to open the spout. The base, spout, closure, and tear line... |
| Plunger | 20110095054 | 20110428 |
| A plunger for a dispenser for cartridges containing materials to be dispensed, for example viscous materials, is disclosed, the plunger having three plunger portions which define empty spaces therebetween so that cartridges, for example two-component concentric cartridges, of a plurality of dimensions and configurations can operatively mate with the plunger. A dispenser having a plunger as described can be used with a multitude of different cartridge types, including concentric two component cartridges or cylindrical single component cartridges, of varying overall dimensions and configurations. Also disclosed is a plunger for assisting the alignment of a cartridge in the dispenser. Corresponding dispensers and methods of loading cartridges are further disclosed.
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| Method of mixing and extruding viscous materials and gearbox for dispensing the same | 20110095048 | 20110428 |
| The present invention relates to a method of mixing and dispensing viscous materials, comprising the steps of: inserting a cartridge containing one or more viscous materials in a chamber; activating a first motor (1) to move a plunger from a first position to a second position within the cartridge and activating a second motor (2) to move the plunger from the second position further within the cartridge to dispense the material.
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| Cartridge with integrated closure cap | 20110095026 | 20110428 |
| The cartridge includes a storage chamber for the reception of one or more filler materials and a neck which contains a discharge passage for each filler material. A shock absorbing element extends about the neck and is connected at one end to the neck. A closure cap is connected to the shock absorbing element or cartridge by a hinge to selectively open and close the discharge passage(s). When in the closure position over the discharge passage(s), the closure cap is recessed within and spaced from the shock absorbing element to avoid being loosened by an impact force.
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| Sensor cartridge and measuring device | 20110094881 | 20110428 |
| A sensor cartridge for supplying a sensor is used. The sensor cartridge includes a casing within which the plurality of sensors can be arranged, and that allows a sample to be introduced to a sensor located at a preset location, and a connection structure. The connection structure electrically connects an external device and a sensor electrode of the sensor located at the preset location. The casing is formed so as to be held by the external device when the external device and the sensor electrode of the sensor are electrically connected via the connection structure.
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| Electric drive unit with modular motor assembly | 20110094806 | 20110428 |
| An electric drive module for a motor vehicle includes an electric motor assembly having a cartridge housing containing a stator, a rotor, and a rotor shaft. The rotor shaft is supported by the cartridge housing. The electric motor assembly is positioned within an axle housing. A reduction unit includes an input member being driven by the rotor shaft and includes an output member driven at a reduced speed relative to the input member. A differential assembly includes an input driven by the output member, a first differential output driving a first output shaft, and a second differential output driving a second output shaft.
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| Portable brushfire protection system | 20110094761 | 20110428 |
| A portable fire fighting cart. A plurality of wheels are attached to the cart. A handle is also attached to the cart and is used for positioning the cart. A water pump is connected to the cart. A pump section inlet is connected to the pump and receives water from a water source. A hand held hose outlet is attached to the pump and allows an operator to connect a hand held hose to the pump. A rotatable sprinkler is attached to the cart and is connected to the pump via a sprinkler outlet. The fire fighting cart is positionable next to a water source and the sprinkler is adjustable so that it can be easily aimed in the direction of an approaching fire. In a... |
| Subsea grease system and method of operating said system | 20110094731 | 20110428 |
| The present invention is a method and system for supplying grease to maintain a sealed well during deployment of line, in particular braided electrical wire. The subsea grease cartridge system includes a subsea assembly; first and second grease containers filled with grease; a pump; a switch; and a restoring device to replenish grease containers. The method of operating the grease cartridge system includes: attaching first and second grease containers to the subsea assembly; applying hydraulic pressure to the first grease container; pumping the grease of the first grease container to a grease head; switching hydraulic pressure from the first grease container to the second grease container instantaneously when the first grease container becomes unable to supply grease properly; and pumping the grease of the second grease... |
| System and method for interactive shopping | 20110016023 | 20110120 |
| A method and associated system is provided for providing an interactive checklist and collaborative shopping session. The method includes displaying desired items on an interactive checklist. A primary user may designate which users can view specific items and should purchase specific items. The method also includes the option for the primary user to send an email to a secondary user with information, extracted from a checklist or registry, with a wish list of items that the recipient can buy with a click to a shopping cart. The primary user may also initiate a real-time or static collaborative shopping session where multiple users can suggest, comment on and purchase items. The primary user may “return” a gift item before the item is shipped and receive credit or... |
| Data cartridge and tape library including flash memory | 20110015778 | 20110120 |
| A data storage system for use with a plurality of tape cartridges is provided. Each tape cartridge includes a length of tape media and an amount of flash memory. The data storage system includes a tape cartridge library having a plurality of storage cells. Each storage cell is configured to store a tape cartridge. The tape cartridge library further includes a plurality of tape drives. Each tape drive is configured to access a tape cartridge when the tape cartridge is received in the tape drive. The system further includes a robotic tape mover and a flash memory access mechanism. The robotic tape mover moves tape cartridges between the plurality of storage cells and the plurality of tape drives. The flash memory access mechanism is configured in... |
| Puncture device | 20110015662 | 20110120 |
| A puncture device capable of preventing needle stick accidents and of reducing the burden on patients during operation. In this puncture device, a puncture needle cartridge comprises: a lancet body having a puncture needle at one end with the other end being to be held by a puncture instrument body; a protective cap; and a puncture needle holder engaged with the lancet body to rotate together with the lancet body about a rotation axis P. A mounting member rotates together with the puncture needle holder with a boss guided by a slit through being pressed by the puncture needle cartridge in a direction of mounting in a case, and is mounted in the case. The protective cap, formed integrally with the lancet body, is prevented from... |
| Mri biopsy device localization fixture | 20110015517 | 20110120 |
| A localization mechanism, or fixture, is used in conjunction with a breast coil for breast compression and for guiding a core biopsy instrument during prone biopsy procedures in both open and closed Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines. The localization fixture includes a three-dimensional Cartesian positionable guide for supporting and orienting an MRI-compatible biopsy instrument, and, in particular, a sleeve to a biopsy site of suspicious tissues or lesions. A z-stop enhances accurate insertion, prevents over-insertion or inadvertent retraction of the sleeve. The sleeve receives a probe of the MRI-compatible biopsy instrument and may contain various features to enhance its imagability, to enhance vacuum and pressure assist therethrough, etc.
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| Transportable digital autonomous unit to perform anthropometric measurements, of tactile manual localization, geometrically based on the projection of points in a cartesian (virtual) plane, incorporating technology of sensors and software | 20110015513 | 20110120 |
| A systematic procedure and device able to measure the body dimensions of persons, both young and adult, relating to anthropometry, and more concrete methods for anthropometric studies. The device includes an autonomous, transportable digital system to carry out the anthropometric measurements, which permits and facilitates the location and collection of the anthropometric points that are extracted of the individual (8) to be measured. Specifically, the device includes a posture correction element (3), a Cartesian framework (4), data transmitters (4.3 and 4.4), operating software (5), and an information processing component that is preferably a notebook type of computer (5.1).
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| Assay modules having assay reagents and methods of making and using same | 20110015091 | 20110120 |
| We describe assay modules (e.g., assay plates, cartridges, multi-well assay plates, reaction vessels, etc.), processes for their preparation, and method of their use for conducting assays. Reagents may be present in free form or supported on solid phases including the surfaces of compartments (e.g., chambers, channels, flow cells, wells, etc.) in the assay modules or the surface of colloids, beads, or other particulate supports. In particular, dry reagents can be incorporated into the compartments of these assay modules and reconstituted prior to their use in accordance with the assay methods. A desiccant material may be used to maintain and stabilize these reagents in a dry state.
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| Cartridge for assays with magnetic particles | 20110014719 | 20110120 |
| The invention relates to a cartridge (100) and a corresponding sensor device for the detection of target components in a liquid sample. The cartridge (100) comprises a sample chamber(SC), at least two reservoirs(131, 132) that can be furnished with magnetic particles(MP, MP′), and at least two corresponding sensitive zones (121, 122) in which solved magnetic particles and/or target components can be detected. When a magnetic actuation field(B) of a given configuration is established in the sample chamber, the magnetic particles of different reservoirs migrate predominantly to different sensitive zones. Thus a mixing of magnetic particles can be avoided.
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| Biosynthetic cartilaginous matrix and methods for their production | 20110014267 | 20110120 |
| An isolated, acellular biosynthetic cartilaginous matrix substantially devoid of synthetic biodegradable scaffold structure is provided. Through a method with the steps of a) contacting in vitro a population of chondrogenic cells with a synthetic biodegradable scaffold; b) culturing in vitro for a period of time said chondrogenic cells within said synthetic biodegradable scaffold so that the chondrogenic cells produce a biosynthetic cartilaginous matrix; c) substantially removing any antigen derived from said chondrogenic cells a matrix suitable of implantation into a living individual mammal, such as a human being is obtained.
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| Method and apparatus for transporting mail | 20110014023 | 20110120 |
| A method for transporting sorted mail including sorting flat mail pieces from a sorting machine into a series of bins mounted on a rack; removing the series of bins from the rack toto shelves of an extraction cart; moving the loaded cart onto a delivery vehicle; removing the bins from the cart into positions for delivery; removing the mail from the bins and delivering the mail to the recipient.
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| Method and system for transferring a load | 20110014021 | 20110120 |
| An apparatus for transferring a load is described. The apparatus employs a rack, which is vertically movable between a loading position and a rack transfer position. The rack has a ribbed structure. Further, a horizontally movable cart in the apparatus can shift between a cart transfer position and an unloading position. The cart, like the rack, is also a ribbed structure including a number of ribs. The rack ribs and the cart ribs are positioned to intercalate in the respective rack and cart transfer positions. The apparatus also includes a pusher for moving the cart from the transfer position to the unloading position.
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| Redi brush | 20110013969 | 20110120 |
| The Redi Brush is a specially designed portable toothbrush with an attachable cartridge that is pre-filled with toothpaste. A series of small circular openings are positioned within the rows of bristles, serving as the egress for toothpaste. In addition, the cylindrical handle of the brush serves as a receptacle for the toothpaste stored inside the unit. This portion of the unit features a thumb-operated button mechanism to permit the dispensation of toothpaste from within the brush onto the bristles.
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| Conveyance member, developer cartridge, and image-forming apparatus | 20110013946 | 20110120 |
| A conveyance member includes: a rotating shaft; a plurality of support members that extend from the rotating shaft in a direction crossing an axial direction of the rotating shaft; and a plurality of arcuate members each having one end supported respectively by one of the support members, and having another end extending in a direction other than the axial direction so as to form an arc, wherein: when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction, there are a plurality of overlapping areas in which adjacent arcuate members overlap in the axial direction; and a length of at least one of the plurality of overlapping areas close to one end of the rotating shaft is greater than a length of each of the overlapping areas... |
| Conductive member, charging device, process cartridge, and image forming device | 20110013939 | 20110120 |
| A conductive member includes a substrate, an elastic layer provided on the substrate and a surface layer provided on the elastic layer, in which the surface layer has a sea/island structure includes a sea portion containing a first resin and an island portion containing a second resin, and at least the island portion contains carbon black.
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| Process cartridge and image forming apparatus | 20110013933 | 20110120 |
| A process cartridge that is provided with an image bearing member and a development device and is detachably attached to an apparatus body includes a developer carrying member that carries a developer, a magnetic member housed inside, an interval defining member that defines an interval between the surface of the developer carrying member and the surface of the image bearing member, and a support member that can support the magnetic member at a first position, at which a developing operation is performed, and a second position, at which a nearest distance between the surface of the developer carrying member and the surface of the magnetic member is greater than that at the first position.
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| Image forming apparatus | 20110013932 | 20110120 |
| An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly; a cartridge, detachably mountable to the main assembly, for being operated so as to form a toner image on a sheet material in a state in which the cartridge is mounted in the main assembly; a fixing unit, detachably mountable to the main assembly, for fixing the toner image on the sheet material; and an opening for exposing an inside of the main assembly. The fixing unit and the cartridge are mountable into and demountable from the main assembly in a mounting and demounting direction in which the fixing unit and the cartridge are disposed side by side. When the fixing unit and the cartridge are mounted into and demounted from the main assembly, the fixing unit passes... |
| Charging unit, manufacturing method for charging unit, process cartridge and image forming device | 20110013928 | 20110120 |
| A charging unit is provided, the charging unit including: a charging member; and a charging member clean-up member having an elastic layer, the elastic layer containing a silicon oil, wherein a silicone concentration in analyzing the charging member by an x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy satisfies following condition: about 1 atm %≦(difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the silicone concentration in Si2p detected by the x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy above the charging member)≦about 3 atm %.
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| Image forming apparatus, process unit cartridge, and method of managing replacement life of process unit cartridge | 20110013916 | 20110120 |
| An image forming apparatus includes: a process unit cartridge including an IC chip memory configured to store a set value table in which a set value as the replacement life of a process unit cartridge and a present value as the number of times of reuse are stored; a reader writer configured to read data from and write data in the IC chip memory; and a control unit configured to compare the set value and the present value readout from the IC chip memory and cause, when the present value exceeds the set value, a display unit to display indication that replacement is necessary.
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| Printing apparatus and method of controlling the same | 20110012979 | 20110120 |
| A printing apparatus which is capable of performing excellent printing without leaving a conveying roller mark on roll paper for printing of a next image even when the operation of the apparatus is stopped for cooling. A thermal head performs printing by sequentially transferring a plurality of color inks coated on an ink ribbon onto the roll paper drawn out from a cartridge, in superimposed relation. The roll paper is conveyed in a state nipped by a conveying roller pair. A thermistor detects a temperature within the apparatus. After completion of printing in one color, the roll paper is conveyed to a print start position at a first conveying speed, for execution of printing in another color. When the detected temperature is higher than a predetermined... |
| Connector holder unit, carriage, recording apparatus, and liquid ejecting apparatus | 20110012962 | 20110120 |
| A connector holder unit that is formed separately from a carriage capable of housing an ink cartridge and can be attached to the inside of the carriage includes a connector holder, a connector having a plurality of contact arms that is installed to the connector holder, and a circuit substrate having a plurality of conductive connection portions that is installed to the connector holder, wherein contact terminals of the plurality of contact arms of the connector are configured to elastically contact the conductive connection portions of the circuit substrate and conductive connection portions of the ink cartridge so as to electrically conduct between the circuit substrate and the ink cartridge when the connector holder unit is attached to the carriage.
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| Liquid supply devices | 20110012953 | 20110120 |
| A liquid supply device includes a liquid cartridge having a liquid chamber that stores a liquid, a cartridge mounting portion, and a level detector that detects a position of a liquid surface of the liquid stored in the liquid chamber. The position of the liquid surface of the liquid is detected to be at one of at least three liquid surface levels. The liquid supply device also includes a determiner that determines that the liquid supply device is in an abnormal state when the position of the liquid surface of the liquid moves up by two or more liquid surface levels and determines that the liquid supply device is not in the abnormal state when the liquid surface of the liquid moves up by one or... |
| Ink refill kit | 20110012944 | 20110120 |
| The present disclosure provides a compact and easy-to-use ink refill device that is configured to refill empty ink cartridges. The device includes an ink reservoir that stores ink, a cartridge holder that secures the cartridge during refilling, and an ink delivery system that allows ink to flow from the ink reservoir to the spent cartridge. The ink delivery system is configured to avoid ink from leaking from the reservoir before, during, and after refilling. The ink delivery system of the present disclosure is also configured to avoid overfilling or under filling.
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| Bracket for the equipment of a rolling cart, particularly a shopping cart | 20110011995 | 20110120 |
| The invention relates to a bracket (30) of the type that comprises a transverse platen (36) extending in the vicinity of the handle bar (12) of the cart, and two flanges (40) for bearing and attaching the bracket (30), characterised in that each side flange (40) includes a housing (44) that has a shape complementary to the outer outline of the associated part (13) for assembling the handle bar (12) and is open transversally towards the inside, and a plate (54) for closing the housing, that can be attached to the side flange (40) in order to enclose the assembling part (13) transversally in the housing (44) and to immobilise the side flange (40) on the assembling part (13).
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| Carton with insert | 20110011924 | 20110120 |
| A carton for containing a plurality of articles. The carton has panels that extend at least partially around an interior of the carton. The panels comprise a top panel, a bottom panel, a first side panel, and a second side panel. The carton comprises an insert attached to at least one of the panels for restraining the articles in the carton.
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| Carton with product holding compartments | 20110011923 | 20110120 |
| A carton for containing a product. The carton comprises a back panel, a front panel, a bottom panel, and a top flap. A first compartment is foldably connected to the back panel, and a second compartment is foldably connected to the front panel. The top flap is operable to overlap the first and second compartments of the carton.
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| Automotive body shop flexible framing gate changing system | 20110011918 | 20110120 |
| An automotive body framing system includes a setter supported by parallel spaced tracks for movement from a work position to a standby position and to a gate change position and driven by corresponding racks and synchronized pinion drive units. Opposing gate storage belt shuttles are located at the gate change position for receiving the setter therebetween, and a gate staging cart is supported in back of the setter by parallel tracks and is also moved between opposing gate storage belt shuttles by synchronized rack and pinion drive units. Power operated registration units are positioned on the setter to register each gate received at precise horizontal and vertical positions, and the setter, staging cart and gate storage belt shuttles each have a series of resilient guide and... |
| Motor driven surgical fastener device with mechanisms for adjusting a tissue gap within the end effector | 20110011915 | 20110120 |
| A surgical fastener apparatus having a handle, an elongated shaft having a proximal end attached to the handle and a distal end extending therefrom. An end effector including a pair of jaws pivoted at a proximal end thereof and movable between an open and closed position. A cartridge containing a plurality of surgical fasteners, the cartridge attached to the end effector. An electrically powered actuator for deploying the surgical fasteners, the actuator including a power source and a motor. Means for electrically adjusting the amount of spacing between the jaws when the end effector is in the closed position.
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| Disposable cartridge for an electrolytic cell | 20110011736 | 20110120 |
| Illustrative embodiments of the present invention are directed to a cartridge for use with an electrolytic cell having an interface. The cartridge includes a reservoir for containing a catholyte solution. The reservoir is removably coupleable with the cell. The cartridge also includes at least one cartridge port that is removably coupleable to an interface on the electrolytic cell. The port of the cartridge is also configured to cycle a catholyte solution between the reservoir and the electrolytic cell when the cartridge port is coupled to the interface of the electrolytic cell.
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| Pulse jet air cleaner system; components; and, methods | 20110011042 | 20110120 |
| Pulse jet air cleaner systems components and methods are described. The features relate to air cleaner housings that include a cartridge receiving section. Features described relate to a possible two-stage construction, a pulse jet accumulator section, pulse jet equipment for cleaning a filter cartridge positioned within the air cleaner; evacuation valve arrangements for projection of dust from the air cleaners; and other example features. Methods of assembly and use are also provided.
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| Drain cartridge having removable valved system | 20110010833 | 20110120 |
| Various embodiments of a cartridge for regulating a fluid flow are described that include an upper housing, and an insert that is user-removable from the upper housing. The cartridge can include one or more valves that are biased in a closed position to prevent odors from escaping the cartridge. The cartridge can also include a fluid trap that is at least partially disposed within the cartridge or fluidly coupled thereto. An ultraviolet light can be inserted within the cartridge to disinfect a fluid passageway of the cartridge.
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| Apparatus and method for storing key data, library unit, and storage device | 20110010565 | 20110113 |
| A key data recording device includes a key data recording medium section which stores key data of the encrypted data; and a reading/writing section which reads and writes the key data from and into the key data recording medium section, which sections are contained in a cartridge casing accommodatable in a library unit. When the cartridge casing is irregularly ejected from the library unit, the key data recorded in the key data recording medium section is deleted. This configuration can enhance the confidentiality of encrypted data because the key data is not leaked even when the recording medium in which key data of the encrypted data is recorded is carried away.
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| Intense pulsed light device | 20090326618 | 20091231 |
| A replaceable cartridge (10) for an intense pulsed light (IPL) device (100), comprises a discrete housing (11) allowing replacement of the cartridge in the IPL device, the housing including: a fluid inlet (12) for cooling fluid, a fluid outlet (14) for said fluid and a fluid cooling path (16) in fluid communication with said inlet and outlet; an electric lamp (20) within the housing adjacent said cooling path; and an electrical connection (18) for connecting to an electrical supply (118), said connection being in electrical communication with said lamp.
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| Transabdominal needle introducer | 20090326566 | 20091231 |
| A transabdominal needle introducer for the repair of large ventral incisional hernias comprises a handle connected to a long tubular shaft and a disposable needle cartridge at its distal end. The handle has a round knob or head, and a needle pusher to extrude the needles out. The long tubular shaft contains two metal rods disposed inside thereof, one to change the angle of the cartridge, and the other one to extrude the needles. At the proximal end of the tubular shaft there is a rotatable cylindrical control provided with a spiral groove that moves a metal rod destined to pivot the needle cartridge. The second metal rod inside the shaft is assigned to extrude the needles and is connected to a flexible resilient wire that... |
| Apparatus to inject fluids into bone marrow and other target sites | 20090326486 | 20091231 |
| Apparatus for delivering a quantity of fluid to bone marrow of a bone or providing access to remove fluids from a target site is provided. The apparatus may include a driver, a plunger operating and cartridge assembly mechanism, a cartridge assembly having a fluid reservoir and a bone penetrating needle.
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| Stimulation of cartilage formation using reduced pressure treatment | 20090326423 | 20091231 |
| Provided is a method of stimulating cartilage formation at a tissue site in a mammal. Also provided is a biocompatible scaffold. Additionally, a system for stimulating cartilage formation at a tissue site is provided. Further provided is the use of a manifold, a chondrocyte, and a reduced-pressure source to stimulate cartilage formation at a tissue site of a mammal.
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| Cartilage regeneration-promoting agent | 20090325891 | 20091231 |
| An object of the present invention is to provide an excellent cartilage regeneration-promoting agent that can promote regeneration of cartilage efficiently and is highly safe, and a medicine and a food that utilizes the cartilage regeneration-promoting agent. Thus, the present invention relates to a cartilage regeneration-promoting agent that includes at least one of hydroxytyrosol and a precursor of hydroxytyrosol, and to a medicine and a food that includes the cartilage regeneration-promoting agent.
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| Novel protein and process for preparing the same | 20090325864 | 20091231 |
| The homodimer protein described above is useful as a pharmaceutical composition for treating cartilage and bone diseases.
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| Electrospun electroactive polymers for regenerative medicine applications | 20090325296 | 20091231 |
| Due to the size and complexity of tissues such as the spinal cord and articular cartilage, specialized constructs incorporating cells as well as smart materials may be a promising strategy for achieving functional recovery. Aspects of the present invention describe the use of an electroactive, or piezoelectric, material that will act as a scaffold for stem cell induced tissue repair. Embodiments of the inventive material can also act alone as an electroactive scaffold for repairing tissues. The piezoelectric material of the present invention acts as a highly sensitive mechanoelectrical transducer that will generate charges in response to minute vibrational forces.
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| In-vitro mechanical loading of musculoskeletal tissues | 20090325295 | 20091231 |
| Musculoskeletal tissues produced in vitro are optimized in response to an externally applied mechanical load. The load applied may vary from tissue to tissue, depending upon the response desired, and may include intermittent axial, torsional, and bending loads to produce cortical structures. Compression alone is preferably applied to produce cancellous bone. A method according to the invention for culturing bone in vitro comprises: providing a culture vessel providing a scaffold material, supporting the scaffold material within the tissue culture vessel so as to be exposed to a tissue culture medium, and exerting a force on the scaffold material during growth of a bone construct (a cultured bone growth) around the scaffold material. Applicable apparatus preferably includes a culture vessel, holders for holding a scaffold within the... |
| Toner, image forming method, and process cartridge | 20090325099 | 20091231 |
| A toner produced by a method including dissolving or dispersing toner components comprising a colorant and at least one of a binder resin and a precursor thereof in an organic solvent to prepare a toner components liquid, dispersing the toner components liquid in an aqueous medium including a surfactant, a particulate resin A having the same polarity as the surfactant and a volume average particle diameter of from 5 to 50 nm, and a particulate resin B having a volume average particle diameter of from 10 to 500 nm to form liquid droplets, and removing the organic solvent from the liquid droplets. The particulate resin B is incompatible with the binder resin and swells in the organic solvent.
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| Electric power supply apparatus and portable electronic device having the same | 20090325009 | 20091231 |
| An electric power supply apparatus and a portable electronic device equipped with the electric power supply apparatus are disclosed. The electric power supply apparatus can include: a replaceable cartridge that supplies hydrogen or electrical power; a housing that forms a cavity, in which the cartridge may be inserted; a stack connected with the cartridge and configured, if the cartridge is supplying hydrogen, to receive the hydrogen from the cartridge and generate electrical power; and a circuit unit electrically connected with the cartridge and the stack that determines the type of the cartridge and supplies electrical power to the electronic device. With certain embodiments of the invention, a device can be recharged using replaceable cartridges. Also, various types of cartridges can be used in a single system,... |
| Cartilage filling device | 20090324722 | 20091231 |
| Compositions and methods for treating a tissue defect.
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| Osteogenic enhancer composition | 20090324669 | 20091231 |
| An osteogenic enhancer composition for bone and cartilage repair and methods of using the same are described.
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| Method for preparation of cartilage cell | 20090324560 | 20091231 |
| The present invention provides a cell derived from a perichondrial tissue, the cell being capable of differentiating into a chondrocyte. The present invention also provides a method of preparing the above-described cell and a composition comprising the same. A method of preparing a chondrocyte and a medium for use in the method are also provided.
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| Air cooled bucket for a turbine | 20090324424 | 20091231 |
| A bucket for a turbine is provided. The bucket includes an airfoil having a root portion, a tip portion, an airfoil shape, and a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in Table I, wherein Z is a distance from a platform on which the airfoil extends outwardly from, and X and Y are coordinates defining the profile at each distance Z from the platform. The bucket also includes a plurality of cooling passages extending between the root portion and tip portion of the airfoil, each of the plurality of cooling passages exiting at the tip portion, the plurality of cooling passages positioned in a camber line pattern.
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| Airfoil core shape for a turbine nozzle | 20090324415 | 20091231 |
| An article of manufacture includes an object having an airfoil core shape. The airfoil core shape has a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in TABLE 1 where X and Y are distances in inches which, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z in inches. The profile sections at the Z distances are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil core shape.
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| Cartridge and printer | 20090324314 | 20091231 |
| A cartridge detachable from a printer has a roll paper unit including roll paper, a roller, and flanges, and a separation member used to pull out the roll paper from the roll paper unit. Upon rotating the roll paper unit in a direction to feed out the roll paper, the roll paper is brought into contact with the separation member, thereby pulling out the roll paper from the roll paper unit and feeding out the roll paper to outside the cartridge.
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| Toner cartridge, and process unit and image forming apparatus using the same | 20090324297 | 20091231 |
| A toner cartridge, and a process unit and image forming apparatus using the same. Toner contained in an outer chamber is scooped with a toner scooping member by rotation of a toner container and slides down toward a communication port along an upper surface of a partition, and falls down to an inner chamber from the communication port. Then, the toner that has fallen down into the inner chamber from the communication port slides down toward a toner discharging port along the inner surface of the partition, and is discharged from the toner discharging port. Furthermore, toner discharged form the toner discharging port is discharged from a toner through hole provided in a toner container supporting member to the outside of the toner cartridge.
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| Method and device for the refilling of toner powder | 20090324295 | 20091231 |
| A method for filling a toner cartridge, intended for duplication apparatus, with toner powder includes the steps of; placing the toner cartridge in relation to a device for refilling, inserting a hollow supply element through the passage in the cartridge and into the interior of the toner cartridge, which supply element is applied to a container containing toner powder and in flow communication with the interior of the container, and by feed element feed the powder from the container through the supply element and into the toner cartridge.
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| Discharger and process cartridge | 20090324286 | 20091231 |
| A discharger is provided, which can eliminate charge from a surface of a photoconductor. The discharger includes: a light source; a light guide member; a cover which covers the light guide member to expose at least an opposed surface of the light guide member to the photoconductor; and an adhesive tape which uses nonwoven fabric as a substrate, which is disposed between the light guide member and the cover so that the opposed surface of the light guide member is disposed between the tape and the photoconductor, and which bonds the light guide member and the cover to each other.
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| Discharger and process cartridge | 20090324287 | 20091231 |
| A discharger is provided, which can eliminate charge from a surface of a photoconductor. The discharger includes: a light source; and a light guide member which extends in a first direction to be opposed to the surface of the photoconductor in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction. The light guide member has a plurality of holes, each defined by a hole surface. At least a portion of the hole surface is curved. The hole extends in an orthogonal direction substantially orthogonal to the first and second directions.
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| Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus | 20090324282 | 20091231 |
| An object of the present invention is to provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member having high durability and hardly causing sensitivity decrease even if short wavelength light, particularly light having a wavelength of 380 to 450 nm is used as exposure light, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The present invention includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member comprising a support and a photosensitive layer which is provided on the support and contains a charge generation material and a charge transport material, characterized in that the surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid polyester resin with a weight average molecular weight of 80,000 or more having a specific repeating structural unit, and a process cartridge and an... |
| Tandem-type process unit removably loaded in image forming device | 20090324275 | 20091231 |
| A tandem type of process unit removably loaded in an image forming device has a plurality of process cartridges, a pair of lower supporting plates, and a pair of upper supporting plates. Each of the plurality of process cartridges has a photosensitive drum rotatably about an axis extending in a first direction. Each of the plurality of process cartridges has two side faces facing each other in the first direction and a cartridge electrode provided on the side face. The plurality of process cartridges is aligned in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the lower supporting plates supports a lower part of the side face of each of the plurality of process cartridges. The pair of upper supporting plates is positioned upward... |
| Fiber optic shape sensor | 20090324161 | 20091231 |
| A shape sensing system to determine the position and orientation of one link with respect to another link in a kinematic chain. An optical fiber is coupled to two or more links in a kinematic chain. A shape sensing segment is defined to start at a proximal link and to end at a distal link, crossing one or more joints. A reference frame is defined at the start of the shape sensing segment. As the joints move, an interrogator senses strain in the shape sensing segment. The sensed strain is used to output a Cartesian position and orientation of the end of the shape sensing segment with respect to the reference frame defined at the start of the shape sensing segment. The pose of the kinematic... |
| Method of correcting digital image distortion caused by a sheet-fed scanner | 20090324119 | 20091231 |
| A novel and useful method of processing digital images to correct distortion caused by a sheet-fed scanner. The method of the present invention derives a model which estimates the distortion. Match points are detected in the digital image and compared to match points of pre-defined templates. Treating the relative locations of the detected match points as polar coordinates (as opposed to Cartesian coordinates) enables a model to be derived to correct the distortion. In the event that there are multiple distortions to the digital image the digital image is partitioned into segments, with a separate model derived for each segment.
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| Access records on tape medium auxiliary memory device | 20090323218 | 20091231 |
| Described is a tape library which can generally include a tape drive, a tape cartridge that possesses a medium auxiliary memory device, a device for reading information retained on the medium auxiliary memory device and a program that runs on a processor capable of manipulating information received by the reading device. The tape cartridge's medium auxiliary memory device can contain at least one record of a previous access event, such as an approximate point in time when the tape cartridge is loaded in the tape drive. The program may be operable to determine how much time has elapsed from the access event. Knowledge of the elapsed time can, among other things, cause an action to be taken relative to the tape cartridge and/or the data thereon.... |
| Storage slot for data storage cartridges of differing dimensions | 20090323217 | 20091231 |
| A storage slot for removably holding and aligning data storage cartridges of differing dimensions. Two bowed leaf springs are positioned within the storage slot, at two side walls and opposite from, respectively, two opposite side walls. The bowed leaf springs extend in a direction parallel to a direction of insertion and withdrawal of a data storage cartridge, and are fixed at the end closest to the opening. A bowed portion of each bowed leaf spring forms a ramp surface towards the opening and towards a corresponding opposite side wall. The bowed leaf springs are located a distance from the corresponding opposite side wall to form an interference fit with the smallest dimensioned data storage. The bowed leaf springs thus provide compression toward a data storage cartridge,... |
| Inkjet printing system with at least one ink cartridge and an associated ink cartridge receptacle | 20090322837 | 20091231 |
| Inkjet printing system with at least one ink cartridge and an associated ink cartridge receptacle in which a special ink cartridge exchange device can be omitted, wherein the ink cartridge is modified by a guide pin that is fastened on the convexity of the ink cartridge, or between convexity and top of said ink cartridge, and projects only to one side beyond the flat side wall for the purpose of guiding the ink cartridge, and slides along in a wall of the ink cartridge receptacle; wherein, given an inserted ink cartridge, a leaf spring is pre-tensioned in each cavity of the cartridge receptacle of the ink cartridge receptacle that is provided for an ink cartridge; and via elastic force the exchange of the ink cartridge is... |
| Ink cartridges | 20090322836 | 20091231 |
| An ink cartridge includes an ink tank defining an ink chamber therein, in which the ink chamber is configured to store ink therein, and an adapter configured to be coupled to the ink tank. The adapter and the ink tank are separate members, and the adapter includes a main body having a main body opening formed therein. The main body opening is configured to receive at least a portion of the ink tank therein. The ink cartridge also includes at least one resilient member coupled to the adapter. When the adapter is coupled to the ink tank, the ink tank extends from a first face of the main body in a first direction, and the at least one resilient member extends from a second face of... |
| Ink cartridges | 20090322835 | 20091231 |
| An ink cartridge includes an ink tank defining an ink chamber therein, in which the ink chamber is configured to store ink therein, and an adapter configured to be coupled to the ink tank. The adapter and the ink tank are separate members, and the adapter includes a main body, and an operation portion extending from the main body in a particular direction. When the adapter is coupled to the ink tank, the operation portion extends toward the ink tank and extends further in the particular direction than the ink tank.
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| Liquid ejection apparatus | 20090322833 | 20091231 |
| A liquid ejection apparatus includes liquid cartridges, each of which includes a liquid container and a pressure chamber, the liquid container having a flexible portion and storing liquid therein, and the pressure chamber applying pressure to the flexible portion of the liquid container; a liquid ejection head, which ejects the liquid; liquid flow paths, which communicate the liquid containers with the liquid ejection head; and an air supply member, which supplies pressurized air to the pressure chambers for compressing the flexible portions so as to supply the liquid from the liquid containers to the liquid flow paths. The air supply member includes: a distribution member, which has an air intake portion for introducing the pressurized air, and air outlet portions for distributing the pressurized air to... |
| Rod magazine for a firearm | 20080313946 | 20081225 |
| Rod magazine for a firearm, having a channel for holding cartridges in a stack, and having a feed for feeding the stack to a channel end which is clasped by magazine lips, which hold the top cartridge in the stack back in the channel direction, but allow its movement approximately transversely with respect to the channel direction beyond the rod magazine, with the channel being equipped with guide strips, which run in the channel direction, for the shoulders of the cartridges, and with the guide strips projecting beyond the channel end and into the movement path, which is located in front of the magazine lips, of the top cartridge.
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| Electrostatic filter cartridge for a tower air cleaner | 20080314250 | 20081225 |
| The disclosed electrostatic precipitator cartridge for a tower air cleaner in accord with the present invention is low-cost, because constructed of injected molded plastics material and stamped and extruded metal components. It is easy to clean, not only because it's constitutive metal parts and plastic components are machine washable but also because the cartridge as a whole is machine washable, the pieces and components are designed and arranged to prevent intracartridge fluid buildup or retention after washing, thereby eliminating any electrical shorting or arcing or other undesirable phenomena resulting therefrom that could interfere with the operation of the electrostatic filter cartridge. It is mechanically stable and has high particulate collection efficiency because it's ionizer bars have a predetermined preferably air foil shape that provides improved ionization... |
| Wheel skid detection during mechanized cart retrieval | 20080314667 | 20081225 |
| A vehicle tracking system includes a wheel containing sensor circuitry capable of sensing various types of conditions, such as wheel rotation, wheel vibration caused by skidding, and specific electromagnetic and/or magnetic signals indicative of particular wheel locations. The sensor circuitry is coupled to an RF transceiver, which may but need not be included within the wheel. The wheel may also include a brake mechanism. In one embodiment, the wheels are placed on shopping carts and are used to collect and monitor shopping cart status and location data via a wireless network. The collected data may be used for various purposes, such as locking the wheel of an exiting cart if the customer has not paid, estimating numbers of queued carts, stopping wheel skid events that occur... |
| Carton with access feature | 20080314770 | 20081225 |
| A carton for packaging articles arranged in rows, includes a top panel (16/66), side panels (12/14, 18/20), a bottom panel (10/22) and an integral tear-open access feature (16/62/66) provided by the top panel and one of the side panels to gain access to the contents. The tear-open access feature is hingedly connected to the carton. When the carton is placed on the other side panel (18/20), the tear open access feature is foldable to be disposed in part in contact with the other side panel and in part spaced from the other side panel to provides a platform structure for enhancing the stability of the carton.
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| Product display carton | 20080314794 | 20081225 |
| A display carton includes a display box having an open top. The display box includes a bottom panel; a rear wall extending upwardly from the bottom panel; a pair of side walls extending upwardly from the bottom panel; and a pair of front walls, each front wall extending inwardly from a side wall and attached to a bottom front wall extending upwardly from the bottom panel. The pair of front walls and the bottom front wall form a substantially unobstructed center viewing area for a product displayed in the display carton. The display carton also includes a single removable insert. The insert includes a foldable sheet having at least one set of dividers extending inwardly from the side walls, upwardly from the bottom panel, and parallel... |
| Filter assembly center tube with upstream diverter | 20080314819 | 20081225 |
| A diverter module is incorporated into a filter cartridge. The module employs a radial passage which diverts fluid to be filtered to the radial periphery of a filter element. The filtered fluid flows inwardly and axially through a transfer passage for discharge from the filter cartridge.
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| Carton with hinged lid | 20080314905 | 20081225 |
| A blank capable of being formed into a carton to define a volume for receiving articles is provided. The carton includes a lid formed hingedly connected at a fold at one end and including a line of weakening to facilitate separation of the lid from the main body of the carton. The volume can accommodate introduction of ice or other substance with and/or between the articles and the lid can be hinged between open and closed positions.
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| Dispensing device for single use | 20080314929 | 20081225 |
| The dispensing device for single use includes a multicomponent cartridge (1), a mixer (8) having a mixer housing (9), as well as closure means for closing the outlets (4, 5) of the multicomponent cartridge. These closure means are connected to the mixer housing and comprise a respective closure stopper (13, 14) for each outlet that is insertable in an outlet (4, 5) of the multicomponent cartridge and is deformable such that upon rotation of the mixer housing relative to the cartridge, the closure stoppers (13, 14) are removed from the outlets (4, 5) of the multicomponent cartridge. Such an easily removable closure by means of deformable closure stoppers allows a very economical manufacture of dispensing devices that are intended to be used only once at it... |
| Driving piston maintaining structure in gas nailer | 20080314952 | 20081225 |
| A gas nailer is provided with a driving cylinder 7, a driving piston 10, a combustion chamber 8, a gas fuel cartridge 2, and a supercharging device 3. The driving piston 10 is operated in the driving cylinder 7 by a combustion pressure generated when a mixture of gas fuel and air is burned in the combustion chamber 8, and a driver hammers a fastener by an operation of the driving piston. A locking device 15 for locking the driving piston 10 is provided in the driving cylinder 7 so as not to move the driving piston 10 in accordance with a pressure increase in the combustion chamber 8 during a supercharging operation in which compressed air is supplied by the supercharging device 3.
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| Grasping jaw mechanism | 20080314958 | 20081225 |
| A surgical device is disclosed which includes a handle assembly, an elongated member and a disposable loading unit. The handle assembly includes a mode selection mechanism configured to alternate the surgical device between a first grasping mode of operation and a second clamping mode of operation. The handle assembly includes a rotation control member and an articulation lever. The rotation control member is configured to facilitate rotation of the elongated member with respect to the handle assembly. The articulation lever is configured to facilitate articulation of the tool assembly about an axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of elongated member. In one embodiment, the tool assembly includes a cartridge assembly having a plurality of staples and an anvil assembly configured to clamp and staple tissue... |
| System for enhancing use of a shopping cart | 20080315540 | 20081225 |
| A vehicle tracking system includes a wheel containing sensor circuitry capable of sensing various types of conditions, such as wheel rotation, wheel vibration caused by skidding, and specific electromagnetic and/or magnetic signals indicative of particular wheel locations. The sensor circuitry is coupled to an RF transceiver, which may but need not be included within the wheel. The wheel may also include a brake mechanism. In one embodiment, the wheels are placed on shopping carts and are used to collect and monitor shopping cart status and location data via a wireless network. The collected data may be used for various purposes, such as locking the wheel of an exiting cart if the customer has not paid, estimating numbers of queued carts, stopping wheel skid events that occur... |
| Motorized hand cart for lifting and moving large heavy objects | 20080315541 | 20081225 |
| A dual-motor handcart for lifting, steering, and transporting a heavy object, such as a snowmobile, by one person, having two motor-powered wheels or trackdrives for moving and steering attached to a width and height adjustable frame, the frame offering a handle, a pair of legs connected to the handle, lift pads for supporting the heavy object, a length adjustable lift strap for coupling the frame to the heavy object. The operatively independent motors each attached to one of the wheels providing force required for moving and steering. Thumb switches having on, off, forward, and reverse motions settings at desired speeds, control each motor providing for a single person to easily steer a cart fully loaded with a heavy object over smooth or rough terrain.
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| Tag tape, tag tape roll, rfid circuit element cartridge, and tag label producing apparatus | 20080315997 | 20081225 |
| A tag tape comprises a plurality of substantially sheet-shaped antenna base wherein an RFID circuit element is disposed, and a first tape and a second tape provided opposite each other so that the plurality of antenna base is disposed therebetween, wherein the first tape includes an print-receiving layer, the second tape or the first tape includes an affixing adhesive layer, the second tape includes a separation material layer on the affixing side of the adhesive layer, and the antenna base is provided so that at least the IC circuit part juts toward the separation material layer side.
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| Cart cluster detection and estimation | 20080316029 | 20081225 |
| A vehicle tracking system includes a wheel containing sensor circuitry capable of sensing various types of conditions, such as wheel rotation, wheel vibration caused by skidding, and specific electromagnetic and/or magnetic signals indicative of particular wheel locations. The sensor circuitry is coupled to an RF transceiver, which may but need not be included within the wheel. The wheel may also include a brake mechanism. In one embodiment, the wheels are placed on shopping carts and are used to collect and monitor shopping cart status and location data via a wireless network. The collected data may be used for various purposes, such as locking the wheel of an exiting cart if the customer has not paid, estimating numbers of queued carts, stopping wheel skid events that occur... |
| Intelligent medical material cart | 20080316045 | 20081225 |
| A method and system is disclosed for monitoring, control and containment of medical product in a healthcare facility. The physical coordinates of the intelligent medical material cart (IMMC) within the healthcare facility are determined. Based on the physical coordinates of the IMMC, the room and the identity of the patient being operated within the room are determined. The electronic medical records of the identified patient are accessed. The IMMC is accessed by the healthcare staff for the medical product stored within the IMMC. The IMMC determines the identity of the medical product that has been removed from the IMMC based on radio frequency identification (RFID) mechanism. The IMMC also determines the effect of interaction of the drugs on the patient, by referring to the medical profile... |
| Antenna-based zone creation for controlling movement of vehicles | 20080316059 | 20081225 |
| A vehicle tracking system includes a wheel containing sensor circuitry capable of sensing various types of conditions, such as wheel rotation, wheel vibration caused by skidding, and specific electromagnetic and/or magnetic signals indicative of particular wheel locations. The sensor circuitry is coupled to an RF transceiver, which may but need not be included within the wheel. The wheel may also include a brake mechanism. In one embodiment, the wheels are placed on shopping carts and are used to collect and monitor shopping cart status and location data via a wireless network. The collected data may be used for various purposes, such as locking the wheel of an exiting cart if the customer has not paid, estimating numbers of queued carts, stopping wheel skid events that occur... |
| Printer cradle for receiving an ink cartridge with a gear assembly | 20080316285 | 20081225 |
| Provided is a printer cradle for receiving an ink cartridge having a rotor element. The cradle includes a drive roller and an electrical motor having a drive shaft terminating in a worm gear that meshes with a cog affixed to the drive roller for driving said roller. The cradle also includes a flipper gear assembly that is operatively engaged with the drive roller to be driven by the drive roller between an engaged position, in which the flipper gear assembly engages the rotor element and a disengaged position in which the flipper gear assembly is disengaged from the rotor element. Further included is a controller arrangement having a controller board housing a print engine controller configured to control the motor to actuate or disengage the rotor... |
| Ink supply for a printhead cartridge with a connector assembly. | 20080316286 | 20081225 |
| Provided is an ink supply bag for a printhead cartridge. The supply bag includes two profiled panels arranged generally coplanar and co-terminally attached to form an ink holding chamber, along with a folded leaf spring biasing said chamber into an expanded position. The supply bag further includes a connector assembly operatively arranging said chamber in fluid communication with ink supply channels of the printhead cartridge.
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| Ink cartridge and method of regulating fluid flow | 20080316287 | 20081225 |
| In an ink cartridge, a negative pressure generating mechanism is disposed between an ink storage region and an ink supply port, and has a wall surface having two through-holes for ink flow, and a valve member contacted with and separated from the through-hole by receiving a pressure in an ink supply port side. Ink flowing via the through-hole is supplied via the through-hole to the ink supply port.
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| Image display and recording apparatus and a recording medium on which a category control program is recorded | 20080316340 | 20081225 |
| An image display and recording apparatus displays at least one image which belongs to a category as a heading image which shows that category. The heading images are selected from a plurality of images recorded in memory. The display of the heading images allows the content of each category to be grasped at one glance when selecting the category. The heading images may be used when displaying the categories of the images in various types of displays. Such displays include an index screen, a cartridge list screen, a category list screen, a category index screen, a story list screen, and a story index screen.
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| Method and device for moving a camera disposed on a pan/tilt head long a given trajectory | 20080316368 | 20081225 |
| The invention relates to a method for moving a camera that is disposed on a pan/tilt head along a given trajectory especially in a set or studio as well as an associated camera robot. In order to be able to move a camera with repeated accuracy along a given trajectory, an associated trajectory is determined for the spatial positions and orientations of a basic reference system of the pan/tilt head from the given trajectory for the camera, and associated control variables for shafts of a robot that can be moved in Cartesian coordinates are generated from the determined trajectory for the basic reference system of the pan/tilt head and are transmitted to the shafts, thus allowing camera movements to be made that are not possible with... |
| Magnetic tape write once overwrite protection | 20080316634 | 20081225 |
| A magnetic tape cartridge, a recording system, and a magnetic tape drive are configured to, for example, guard against tampering with a write once overwrite protection pointer which allows a rewritable magnetic tape to be treated as write once. In one embodiment, the magnetic tape cartridge comprises a magnetic tape and a cartridge memory. The magnetic tape is configured to provide at least one overwrite protection pointer, the overwrite protection pointer identifying data to be protected from being overwritten; and the cartridge memory is configured to provide the at least one overwrite protection pointer, the overwrite protection pointer identifying magnetic tape data to be protected from being overwritten.
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| Free-form lenticular optical elements and their application to condensers and headlamps | 20080316761 | 20081225 |
| Some embodiments provide an illumination optical system. The optical system can include a first surface and a second surface. Each of the first and second surfaces can further comprises a multiplicity of corresponding Cartesian-oval lenticulations such that each lenticulation of the first surface focuses a source upon a corresponding lenticulation of the second surface and each lenticulation of the second surface focuses a target upon a corresponding lenticulation of the first surface.
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| Storage medium storing an information processing program, information processing apparatus and information processing method | 20080317385 | 20081225 |
| A game apparatus includes a camera cartridge, and detects a plurality of feature points from a facial image of a user photographed by the camera cartridge. The game apparatus calculates areas of black eye regions of a left eye and a right eye by utilizing the plurality of feature points. Then, the game apparatus detects whether or not any one of the left eye and the right eye is closed on the basis of the calculated areas. The game apparatus executes game processing according to the detection result.
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| Image forming apparatus | 20080317479 | 20081225 |
| An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a body, to which a plurality of image forming cartridges containing developers are attachable; and a communication device which wirelessly communicates with a plurality of non-contact tags provided to the plurality of image forming cartridges, respectively. The communication device includes: a plurality of antennas which are provided correspondingly with the plurality of image forming cartridges; and a switching controller which switches signals from the plurality of antennas.
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| Image forming device and cartridge | 20080317480 | 20081225 |
| An image forming device includes a device body, a cartridge detachably attached to the device body so as to accommodate material which includes one of consumable material and waste material, a sensor configured to emit and receive sensing light and give a detection value corresponding to an amount of the material in the cartridge which amount is detected based upon an intensity of the sensing light received thereby, a received light changing member configured to change the intensity of the sensing light received by the sensor, and a judging unit configured to judge based upon a change of the detection value given by the sensor whether the cartridge is a new one.
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| Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus | 20080317481 | 20081225 |
| A toner cartridge counts the number of times the toner cartridge has been shaken by a counting unit. A control unit of an image forming apparatus acquires the counting result of the counting unit, and controls each unit of the apparatus such that a display unit displays a message encouraging the worker to shake the toner cartridge since the shaking of the toner cartridge is insufficient if the acquired counting result is smaller than a predetermined value, and the toner contained in the toner cartridge is supplied to a developing unit of the image forming apparatus since the toner cartridge is sufficiently shaken and the toner in the toner cartridge is stirred and dissolved if the acquired counting result is greater than or equal to a... |
| Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components | 20080317497 | 20081225 |
| Techniques for modifying an imaging cartridge includes providing the imaging cartridge including a body including a circuit holding structure sized to hold an electronic circuit and forming a modified circuit holding structure, with the modified circuit holding structure sized to hold a replacement electronic circuit. At least one dimension of the replacement electronic circuit may be greater than a corresponding dimension of the electronic circuit.
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| Image forming apparatus, developer cartridge and photosensitive unit | 20080317499 | 20081225 |
| An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus may include a developer cartridge and a photosensitive unit. The developer cartridge may include a first casing accommodating a developing agent, a developing agent carrier supported by the first casing and carrying the developing agent, a memory element storing predetermined information, and a first terminal electrically connected with the memory element. The photosensitive unit may include a second casing to which the developer cartridge is detachably attached, a photosensitive member, with which the developing agent carrier is brought into pressure contact when the developer cartridge is attached to the second casing, supported by the second casing, and a second terminal electrically connected with the first terminal when the developing agent carrier is brought into pressure contact... |
| Process cartridge unit and image forming apparatus having the same | 20080317500 | 20081225 |
| A process cartridge unit and an image forming apparatus having the same. The image forming apparatus includes a main body, a process cartridge unit removably mounted in the main body, an opening provided in the main body to permit the process cartridge unit to be installed or removed, and a cover rotatably mounted to the main body so as to expose or shield the opening. The process cartridge unit includes a container to store a developer and at least one knob coupled to the container. When the cover is closed, the knob is folded by the cover, and when the cover is opened, the knob is unfolded. Accordingly, since the position of the knob is changed, a mounting space of the process cartridge unit can be... |
| Amusing mask having composite formative variability function | 20070294802 | 20071227 |
| An amusing mask having composite formative variability function, which particularly integrates planar printed patterns with a three-dimensional form and produces variability therefrom, and is applicable for application in an air filter respirator. The present invention is configured to utilize the principle of closing and opening of the upper and lower jaws of the face of a person to actuate unitary animated simulation of the external appearance of a mouth of an animal or a cartoon figure. The present invention is primarily formed from upper and lower masks joined to mask holding members. The user can choose whether or not to combine adjoining decorations or a blow toy externally to the upper and lower masks and thereby achieve interesting and simulative dynamic amusement.
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| Detergent dispensing device | 20070295036 | 20071227 |
| A free standing detergent dispensing device removably insertable into an automatic washing machine, the device comprising a cartridge having a plurality of unsealed chambers to accommodate a detergent composition, a directing means to direct wash liquor selectively into a chamber of the cartridge to contact the detergent composition therein, each chamber having an inlet in the form of a tortuous path to obstruct unwanted flow of wash liquor into an unselected chamber.
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| Sample cartridge for air-sampling device | 20070295112 | 20071227 |
| The present invention provides a sample cartridge for use with an air and gas sampling device. The cartridge includes a body that defines an interior space, a top portion attached to the body and substantially covering the interior space, and first and second valves seated in the top portion of the cartridge. The valves automatically seal to prevent leakage from the cartridge when the cartridge is not in operable position within the air and gas sampling device.
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| Firearm cartridge reloading devices and methods | 20070295197 | 20071227 |
| Firearm cartridge loading and reloading dies, such as a die having a metallic body with a cavity extending through the body and a sleeve inserted in the cavity. The sleeve is configured to receive a firearm cartridge and reconfigure the cartridge for loading or reloading. The sleeve can be metal, non-metallic ceramic, and/or.
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| Ink composition, and ink cartridge including the ink composition | 20070295241 | 20071227 |
| An ink composition is provided which has excellent storage stability, good defoaming properties, and improved resistance to bleeding on the print paper during image forming, while preventing nozzle clogging when used in a wet-type image forming apparatus. The ink composition according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a colorant, a solvent, and a plurality of additives. The plurality of additives are of the same type and have one or more hydrophilic groups and one or more hydrophobic groups. Each of the one or more hydrophobic groups of the plurality of additives have the same structure, each of the one or more hydrophilic groups of the plurality of additives have the same structure, or each of the one or more hydrophobic groups and each... |
| Seal breaking apparatus of gas cylinder | 20070295519 | 20071227 |
| To provide a seal breaking apparatus of a gas cylinder, which is suitably used for a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher for household, office or vehicle using a cartridge type gas cylinder, can compactly house a plurality of the gas cylinder in a cylindrical body, and improve to reduce in size and weight and an appearance. Further, the seal breaking apparatus can break a seal of the gas cylinders easily and safety in one time and use large quantity of gas quickly and safety. Furthermore, the seal breaking apparatus can prevent solidifying a dry ice and closing a passage after breaking the seal of the gas cylinders to thereby obtain a stable jetting state of a gas. The apparatus comprises a gas cylinder which is filled with... |
| Package structure | 20070295634 | 20071227 |
| A package structure including a carton, a foam bag and a cushion is provided. The foam bag is disposed inside the carton for enclosing a product. The cushion is disposed between the carton and the foam bag. The package structure utilizes the foam bag around the product to provide a better protection, thereby reducing the volume of the cushion and that of the package structure.
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| Cantilever pallet cart | 20070295682 | 20071227 |
| The present invention is directed to a pallet storage system including a cart that rides on rails between an open or access position and a closed or storage position.
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| Method of manufacturing ink jet recording head, ink jet recording head, and ink jet cartridge | 20070295687 | 20071227 |
| A method of manufacturing an ink jet head which discharges ink, comprising: a step of preparing a silicon substrate; a step of forming a membrane having a layer in which a plurality of holes are disposed to constitute a filter mask, and a layer with which a first surface is coated in such a manner that the first surface is not exposed from the plurality of holes on the first surface of the substrate; a step of forming a close contact enhancing layer on the membrane formed on the substrate; a step of forming a channel constituting member on the close contact enhancing layer to constitute a plurality of discharge ports and a plurality of ink channels communicating with the plurality of discharge ports; a step... |
| Gas cartridge | 20070295727 | 20071227 |
| In a gas cartridge, inside of a metal made outer can 1 is arranged with a metal made inner bag 2 charged with a fuel gas G1. A space between the outer can 1 and the inner bag 2 is charged with a compression gas G2 for pressing to crush the inner bag 2 in accordance with consumption of the fuel gas G1. Pertinent positions on an inner side of the outer can 1 are provided with deformation introducing members P1 through P7 for producing an initial deformation for introducing a deformation of the inner bag when a press force of the compression gas G2 is received.
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| Retrofitted pouch for dispensing of plastic trash can liners | 20070295729 | 20071227 |
| A trashcan/liner dispensing system that is retrofitted to fit inside of a trashcan. The invention involves a pouch located on the upper portion of one of the sidewalls of the trashcan that contains a disposable cartridge filled with plastic liners. The pouch is attached to the sidewall of the trashcan through the use of double-sided adhesive strips. The bottom of the pouch is beveled toward the back, thereby minimizing the space usage of the pouch inside of the trashcan. By locating the dispenser on the inside upper portion of the trashcan, the size of the trashcan is not increased and the cartridge of plastic trashcan liners is not susceptible to soiling by trash that may leak from the liner that contains trash inside of the trashcan
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| Wet wipe package | 20070295744 | 20071227 |
| A wet wipes package including an outer carton having an opening. Disposed within the carton is an interior tub having a baffle and an aperture located in the baffle. A rigid flip top is disposed over the carton opening for access to the interior tub and a plurality of wet wipes is disposed within the interior tub beneath the baffle. Because the exterior of the wet wipes package is similar to a facial tissue carton, similar graphical treatments as applied to facial tissue cartons can be used to design an attractive package.
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| Beverage dispenser with display and alarm | 20070295748 | 20071227 |
| A measured quantity beverage dispenser that allows for numerous uses by using a disposable, replaceable pouch or cartridge prefilled with a specific quantity of beverage. The dispenser dispenses a unit measured quantity of beverage in response to activation of a trigger mechanism. An integrated circuit chip keeps track of the number of units dispensed and remaining and displays this information. An alarm alerts a user when the rate of dispensing falls below a certain preferred rate, e.g., 8 ounces every 20 seconds.
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| Manually driven surgical cutting and fastening instrument | 20070295780 | 20071227 |
| A surgical cutting and fastening instrument that includes an elongate channel that is attached to a handle assembly by an elongate shaft assembly. The elongate channel is configured to receive a cartridge and has a pivotally translatable anvil attached thereto and a knife bar supported therein. The anvil may be selectively opened and closed by manipulating a closure trigger supported by the handle assembly. The knife bar may be distally advanced through the elongate channel by actuating a firing trigger that cooperates with a reversible rotary drive supported by the handle assembly. The knife bar may also be retracted to its starting position by actuating the firing trigger after the reversible rotary drive has been shifted to a retraction orientation.
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| Carton having dispenser and handle | 20070295789 | 20071227 |
| A carton includes a dispenser that when opened allows dispensing of containers through a side and top panel of the carton. A handle is provided in an end of the carton.
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| Carton with dispenser | 20070295790 | 20071227 |
| A carton having a dispenser with a removable dispenser panel. The dispenser panel is configured to be easily removed and to allow access to containers in the carton.
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| Carton with dispenser | 20070295791 | 20071227 |
| A carton having a dispenser with a removable dispenser panel. The dispenser panel is configured to be easily removed and to allow access to containers in the carton.
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| Carton with dispenser | 20070295792 | 20071227 |
| A carton includes a dispenser that when opened allows dispensing of containers from the carton. An aperture located next to the dispenser provides access to the dispenser and allows the containers to be viewed from the carton exterior.
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| Carton having dispensing configurations | 20070295793 | 20071227 |
| A carton can be placed in a dispensing configuration by separating the carton into carton sections. The carton sections may be connected by a hinge that allows the carton sections to stand side-by-side.
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| Carton having dispensing configurations | 20070295796 | 20071227 |
| A carton can be placed in a dispensing configuration by separating the carton into dispenser sections. The dispenser sections may be connected by a hinge that allows the sections to stand side-by-side.
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| Sprayer for application of textured finish to surfaces | 20070295834 | 20071227 |
| A sprayer for providing a regulated flow of material to a gun wherein said material is disbursed by means of a flow of air provided by a compressor. The sprayer includes a number of features that facilitate usage. Such features include a polygonal-shaped free end of a cartridge shaft that is aligned with and coupled to thereby rotate with the augur of a pump. An aperture in a guard that overlies the free end of the shaft permits easy access with a socket-like tool for unfreezing the pump without disassembly. The rear panel of a hopper exceeds that of the side and front panels to permit tipping of the sprayer frame for manual transport without spillage of material. A hook is provided on the frame of... |
| Tape cartridge | 20070295849 | 20071227 |
| A tape cartridge according to the present invention includes a case, a reel disposed in the case, a tape that can be wound around the reel in such a manner as to be fed out freely, and a guide member for tape guidance disposed in the case. The guide member is supported by a support member, which is held at a predetermined position inside the case and supported by the reel without interfering with a rotation of the reel.
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| Gurney clamp, detachable equipment stand and associated transport cart | 20070296165 | 20071227 |
| A Gurney Clamp, Detachable Equipment Stand and Associated Transport Cart is disclosed. The combination of these devices makes the transportation of patients and health status monitoring equipment more controlled, reliable and safe. The clamp is specifically configured to be attachable to the safety rails on a conventional gurney. Once installed, the clamp will provide a secure mounting point to attach the detachable equipment stand to the gurney. The stand is configured to be capable of holding a wide variety of patient monitoring equipment in an upright manner so that the equipment data can be easily viewed. The stand can be quickly and easily shifted back and forth between its mounting location at the gurney clamp, and its mounting location on the associated transport cart. When the... |
| Caster assembly & shelf for use with collapsible cart | 20070296168 | 20071227 |
| Disclosed is a lightweight caster assembly and modular shelf system for use on an existing collapsible foldable cart with four wheels.
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| Implantation cartridge for a pipe connection designed to be fitted in a housing | 20070296214 | 20071227 |
| An implantation cartridge for a pipe connection designed to be fitted in a housing includes a body and a quick coupling, the inlet of the housing has an annular rim designed to form, with the pipe in the connection end position and when the cartridge is in an intermediate insertion position in its housing, a stop for limiting the axial travel of the push button so as to make the connection of the pipe to the cartridge irreversible.
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| Apparatus for ejecting ink, a fabrication method thereof, and ink cartridge having the apparatus for ejecting ink | 20070296770 | 20071227 |
| An apparatus for ejecting ink which can smoothly guide flow of ink, a method of fabricating the same, and an ink cartridge having the apparatus for ejecting ink are disclosed. The apparatus includes a channel unit having at least one supplying channel, and a print head having at least one nozzle and at least one supplying passage. The print head is adhered to the channel unit so that the supplying passage communicates with the supplying channel. At least one glue receiving groove is formed at a location in which the print head and the channel unit are adhered to each other.
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| Ink supplying apparatus and image forming device having the same | 20070296774 | 20071227 |
| An ink supplying apparatus of an image forming device including an ink discharging unit to discharge ink of an ink cartridge, a needle connected to the ink discharging unit to form an ink supplying passage, a blocking unit to block the needle from being exposed to the outside, and a sealing member to seal the ink discharging unit and the blocking unit. Accordingly, the apparatus can not only block the needle from being exposed to the outside, but can also prevent an ink leakage, thereby facilitating a safer use of the image forming device to safely use.
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| Ink cartridge and ink supplying apparatus of image forming device | 20070296775 | 20071227 |
| An ink cartridge and an ink supplying apparatus of an image forming device, which can prevent a deformation of a needle in an ink cartridge mounting operation, an inflow of external air in a printing operation, and an ink leakage, includes a cartridge body having an ink discharging unit, an inner cap disposed in the ink discharging unit to close or selectively seal the ink discharging unit, and having a needle seating groove formed in a shape corresponding to an end of a needle, and an outer cap disposed outside the ink discharging unit. The inner cap is movable in a direction, which opens or selectively unseals the ink discharging unit, when the needle of a needle assembly is used in a combination with the ink... |
| Carriage device and recording apparatus | 20070296776 | 20071227 |
| A carriage device includes a circuit substrate having a conductive connection portion, a connector having a plurality of contact arms, a connector holder in which the circuit substrate and the connector are installed, and a carriage in which a recording head unit is built and an ink cartridge having a conductive connection portion is housed and to which the connector holder is attached with both ends of the connector holder held, wherein contact terminals of the plurality of contact arms of the connector elastically contact the conductive connection portion of the circuit substrate and the conductive connection portion of the ink cartridge which are respectively disposed on both sides of the connector so as to electrically conduct between the circuit substrate and the ink cartridge, wherein... |
| Liquid container | 20070296777 | 20071227 |
| A multicolor-use ink cartridge has obverse surface-side ink chambers and formed on an obverse surface side of a horizontal plate portion of a rigid plastic plate and reverse surface-side ink chambers and formed on a reverse surface side thereof. Since these ink chambers are arranged in a breadthwise direction so as to be staggered in a mutually overlapping state with the horizontal plate portion interposed therebetween, it is possible to make small the dimension in a direction in which the ink chambers are arranged. The respective ink chambers are formed by joining flat portions of three-dimensionally molded flexible plastic films to obverse surface-side recesses formed on the obverse surface of the horizontal plate portion and reverse surface-side recesses formed on the reverse surface thereof, respectively. Therefore,... |
| Surface treating device with top load cartridge-based cleaning systsem | 20060288519 | 20061228 |
| A robotic surface treating device that can perform carpet sweeping, hard-surface dry sweeping/wiping, and hard-surface sweeping/mopping is disclosed. The robotic surface treating device includes a sweeper brush, a dust bin for collecting debris from the brush, a reel-to-reel sheet of cleaning material, and a fluid delivery system for delivering fluid from a fluid reservoir onto the sheet of cleaning material and/or onto the surface to be treated. The dust bin, reel-to-reel sheet of cleaning material, and the fluid reservoir are separately installed from the top of the device, and may be separately removed for replacement.
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| Dispensing wash mitt with refillable shampoo cartridges | 20060288954 | 20061228 |
| A dispensing wash mitt for pets or humans includes a hand receiving mitt having a top side and a mitt palm side providing a finger receiving cavity. A mitt scrubbing member is attached to the mitt palm side, said mitt scrubbing member having a plurality of holes disposed from one side of the mitt scrubbing member to the other side. The mitt scrubbing member, when attached to said mitt palm side, defines a pocket which receives a replaceable cartridge that is selectively insertable into the pocket for dispensing shampoo or other material through the holes in the scrubbing member for application to the pet or human.
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| Pump system for a personal care appliance | 20060289031 | 20061228 |
| A pump (10) for a personal care appliance which includes a flexible fluid cartridge member (12) having an exit opening (17) for the fluid at a forward end thereof (16), a base member (24) having a cutout portion (26) into which a fluid-filled portion (14) of the cartridge (24) can nest, and a pressing member (32) having a configuration which nests with the cutout portion over a substantial portion of its length, such that as the pressing member moves forwardly along its path, fluid in the fluid-filled portion is pressed out the exit opening and into a line connected to a workpiece element, such as a toothbrush brushhead.
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| Cartridge filling and sealing apparatus | 20060289077 | 20061228 |
| An apparatus for filling a cartridge having at least two compartments for storing fluid includes at least one reservoir of fluid; at least two metering pumps connected to the at least one reservoir of fluid; and at least two filling tubes connected to the at least two metering pumps, respectively; wherein each filling tube simultaneously fills one of the at least two compartments in the cartridge with the fluid. The apparatus preferably includes a puck which defines a substantially cylindrical cavity and a pin eccentrically disposed in the substantially cylindrical cavity whereby the cartridge may be inserted in the cavity in the puck and aligned by insertion of the pin of the puck in an eccentric through hole of the cartridge. A rotary screw engages the... |
| Apparatus for refilling inkjet cartridges and methods thereof | 20060289081 | 20061228 |
| An integrated inkjet-cartridge refilling system that is comprised of an arrangement of mechanical, electrical, electronic, pneumatic, and software elements, which is used by an operator in a retail environment to automatically connect one of many types of inkjet cartridges that are used in printing devices and refill the cartridge.
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| Carton and clip assembly for packaging and shipping a water heater or similar appliance | 20060289331 | 20061228 |
| Disclosed is a positioning and retaining assembly for securing an appliance in a carton that comprises a top cap and bottom pad. The top cap and bottom pad each includes a board and a plurality of clips secured to the board. The clips are arranged to engage the appliance at spaced apart locations around the periphery of the top and bottom of the appliance, respectively. In an alternative embodiment, one of the legs of each top clip has a ledge projecting outwardly from the top clip to engage the top of the appliance. In yet another embodiment, either the top cap or bottom pad can be replaced with a current roll-up design or molded foam, thereby only one of the top cap and bottom pad are... |
| Water circulation unit with increased throughput for swimming pools, and filter unit comprising the same | 20060289344 | 20061228 |
| A water circulation unit includes an ejector (142), a convergent, and a pipe (146) which is arranged in the extension of the convergent. The ejection axis practically merges with the symmetry axis of the convergent, the two axes forming a common axis of the unit, and the distance between the water outlet of the ejector (142) and the downstream section of the convergent is between 0.4 and 1.6 times the length of the convergent. A guiding region is located just upstream of the upstream section of the convergent following the common axis, at least up to the water outlet of the ejector (142) when the outlet is located outside the convergent, the region ensuring that the water is essentially symmetrically guided around the common axis during... |
| In-case computer charging system | 20060289444 | 20061228 |
| A case configured to enclose a portable electronic device includes a plurality of externally accessible electrical contacts, enabling electrical current to flow to or from the device while enclosed in the case. The invention is applicable to all types of portable devices, including laptop, notebook and palm-top computers, as well as telecommunications devices, video players and music players. Typically the electrical contacts allow a battery in the case or in the device to be recharged while device is enclosed. An adaptor cable may be provided between the device and the electrical contacts so that the same or similar case may be used with different model devices from different manufacturers. For greater ‘universality,’ a voltage-changing adaptor cable may be provided within the case between the device and... |
| Elevated microwaveable carton and susceptor portion and methods | 20060289516 | 20061228 |
| A carton for use in microwave ovens includes a base and a removable cover. The base has a cooking surface at least partially covered with a microwave susceptor material. The base defines an aperture arrangement. In preferred embodiments, the carton is triangular-shaped with an apex region. The apex region does not have a susceptor material, and can include a microwave shield. The removable cover can function as a cover, a platform, and a tray. A packaged food product includes a food product, such as a slice of pizza, oriented within the carton. Methods of packaging and use are provided.
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| Wearable disinfecting gel dispenser | 20060289567 | 20061228 |
| Provided is a wearable fluid dispenser including a reusable holster and a disposable cartridge containing fluid, wherein the cartridge is made of material having a flexibility higher than the flexibility of the holster, and wherein applying pressure to the cartridge allows dispensing onto the palm of the user's hand by way of increased pressure within the bottle resulting in the silicone valve opening and gel dispensing downwards.
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| Dispensing carton | 20060289616 | 20061228 |
| A carton accommodates stacked. articles. The carton has a pivoting dispenser that allows the articles to be dispensed from the front of the carton. The bottom panel can be erected using relatively simple folding operations.
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| Receipts having dual-sided thermal printing | 20060289633 | 20061228 |
| Variable information printed on both sides of a paper receipt at transaction time saves materials and provides flexibility in providing information to the recipient. Direct thermal printing on both sides of a paper receipt when issued is described. Using opposed print heads, paper receipts are printed on both sides at transaction time in a single pass. With transaction item detail printed on the front side of a double-sided thermal paper receipt, different types of information printed on the reverse side are described, including rebate information, contest information, serialized cartoons, conditions of sale, promotional information, coupon information, security features, ticket information and custom information based on recipient identity or transaction data or detail.
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| Media enabled shopping cart system with basket inventory | 20060289637 | 20061228 |
| A media enhanced shopping cart system comprises a shopping cart comprising a frame, a basket, a handle, a base tray, and a plurality of wheels, a modular computing device comprising a central processing unit, a memory and a network transceiver configured for wireless communication, the modular computing device being attached to the shopping cart, an inventory component for determining an inventory contained by the shopping cart, a shopping list component for listing one or more products of a consumer shopping list for purchase by a consumer, and a correlation component for correlating data from the inventory component with the shopping list component.
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| Rolling wire unwrap device | 20060289693 | 20061228 |
| A handcart for unrolling wire is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, one leg of the handcart is hinged to permit a roll of wire to be loaded or unloaded onto a horizontal spindle on the cart without lifting the roll. The axles of the wheels of the cart are offset from the spindle such that tipping the cart lifts the roll of wire from the surface on which it is resting and permits the wire to payout from the roll as the cart is rolled across the ground.
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| Shopping cart having improved chassis, handle, and basket construction | 20060290082 | 20061228 |
| In shopping cart comprising a chassis, a handle, and a basket, the chassis comprises a frame defining two shoulders. The handle comprises an upper portion extending generally horizontally, two lateral portions extending downwardly and frontwardly from the upper portion, and two lower portions extending rearwardly from the lateral portions, along the shoulders, to which the lower portions are welded. The basket comprises two lateral walls, each welded to one of the lateral portions of the handle, near its upper portion, and a lower member extending across the shopping cart, at a lower, rear edge of the basket, and welded to the lower portions of the handle. A brace extending between the shoulders of the frame, beneath the basket, supports the basket. Preferably, the basket is welded... |
| Cart for loading, transporting and storing an imaging media cartridge | 20060290085 | 20061228 |
| A transportable device, such as a cart, for transporting and elevating an imaging media cartridge into a press printer may include a base platform, first and second elevation members disposed thereon, a panel disposed between the first and second elevation members, and first and second elevator platforms. The panel may include a pair of opposite vertical faces along which the elevator platforms slide to mutually exchange elevations by vertically sliding the platforms in opposite directions. The device may be used for a method of transporting and elevating an imaging media cartridge into a press printer at an installation height above a floor. Additionally, the device may be used for a method of removing and storing an imaging media cartridge from a press printer at an installation... |
| Golf cart enclosure | 20060290163 | 20061228 |
| A golf cart enclosure for removable installation about a golf cart or similar vehicle to protect the occupants thereof from precipitation such as rainfall. The enclosure comprises a front, rear and/or side panels suspended about the periphery of the roof structure of the golf cart. One or more panel pockets are positioned about the periphery of the roof structure immediately above one or more of the panel(s) such that they be rolled-up into a bight and inserted into their respective panel pocket for storage.
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| Cartesian positioning system | 20060290211 | 20061228 |
| A positioning system, a robot that employs the positioning system and a method of assembling the robot. The positioning system typically includes a stator and a linear variable reluctance motor that moves along the stator, wherein the stator, besides having an electromagnetic purpose, also acts as the sole structural beam element for the motor to rest upon. The robot employs the positioning system such that subsystems can be attached directly to the motor.
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| System and method for detecting an object on a cart | 20060290494 | 20061228 |
| A system and method for detecting an object on a cart, including a support structure, a cart detector and an object detector provided to the support structure and an alert device. The cart detector including a first sensor and a second sensor that are positioned to detect predetermined cart portions as a cart transitions from the first sensor to the second sensor. The object detector including a third sensor and a fourth sensor positioned to approximately simultaneously detect an object on the cart while not detecting upright elements of the cart. Preferably, the cart sensors and object sensors also measure distances to obstructions so that the distances can also be analyzed to determine that a cart and/or object is present.
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| Ink tank holder and ink jet printing head cartridge | 20060290722 | 20061228 |
| In a configuration to inform conditions of an ink tank such as an ink residual quantity by use of a light emitting portion such as a light emitting diode, a display in a position easily viewable to a user is achieved without requiring electric wiring that hinders user visibility and operability. A display section for displaying information by letting light out is separated from a light emitting portion, and a light guiding portion for achieving optical connection between both of the constituents is provided on an ink tank holder. In this way, it is possible to dispose the light emitting portion and the display section respectively in optimum locations, and to ensure freedom of disposing the display section in a position achieving fine user visibility.
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| Wire bonding structure to electrically connect a printhead chip to a flexible printed circuit of an ink cartridge and method thereof | 20060290744 | 20061228 |
| A wire bonding structure that electrically connects a printhead chip with a flexible printed circuit (FPC) using a wire includes a ball formed on a bonding pad provided on a surface of the printhead chip, a wire having a first end connected to the ball and a second end bonded to the FPC, the first end of the wire connected to the ball has a bent portion in which a first portion of the wire is bent over a surface of the bonding pad to overlap a second portion of the wire located over the surface of the bonding pad.
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| Ink container and ink jet recording apparatus | 20060290752 | 20061228 |
| To fill the ink cartridge with the ink, a first air introduction hole of a negative pressure generator chamber is sealed up, and a pressure pump is connected to a second air introduction hole of a storage chamber, to raise pressure inside the storage chamber so as to exhaust air out of an ink bag. While keeping the storage chamber under the high pressure, the second air introduction hole is sealed up, the first air introduction hole is opened, and an ink filling pump is activated to inject the ink through an ink outlet into the negative pressure generator chamber. When a predetermined amount of ink is injected, the second air introduction hole is opened, and the ink filling pump is reactivated to fill up the... |
| Ink container and ink jet recording apparatus | 20060290753 | 20061228 |
| An ink cartridge is partitioned into a negative pressure generator chamber containing a negative pressure generator and a storage chamber containing an ink bag. The ink bag stores ink and supplies the ink to the negative pressure generator chamber through an ink port. The negative pressure generator absorbs and holds the ink by its capillary force, to keep pressure inside nozzles of a recording head negative to atmospheric pressure. Through a first air introduction hole, the air is introduced into the negative pressure generator chamber as the ink in the negative pressure generator chamber decreases. Through a second air introduction hole, the air is introduced into the storage chamber as the ink in the ink bag decreases. So variations in pressure inside the nozzles are suppressed,... |
| Liquid cartridge, contact device for contacting connection terminal portion of liquid cartridge with connector of recording apparatus, recording apparatus, and liquid consuming apparatus | 20060290754 | 20061228 |
| A holder 204 which holds a connector 203 contacting with an electrical connection terminal portion 202 and can move with respect to a recording apparatus is provided, and a relative positioning unit 210 which allows the ink cartridge 11 to contact with the holder 204 and move the holder 204 in an mounting direction (Y-axis direction) of the ink cartridge 11 to determine a relative position between the ink cartridge 11 and the holder 204 when the ink cartridge 11 is mounted is provided.
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| Ink channel unit of ink cartridge and method of manufacturing the same | 20060290755 | 20061228 |
| An ink channel unit usable in an ink cartridge and a method of manufacturing the same. After preparing a plurality of channel plates formed with ink channels through which ink passes, the plurality of channel plates are arranged and layered, and at least one adhesive sheet having a substantially uniform thickness is disposed between the plurality of channel plates. Then, the plurality of channel plates and the at least one adhesive sheet are pressed and heated at a given temperature to cure the adhesive sheet, thereby adhering the channel plates together. The adhesive sheet includes a base layer and adhesive layers formed on both surfaces of the base layer, and the adhesive layer is made of an epoxy resin. The manufacturing of the ink channel unit... |
| Printing apparatus and ink cartridge therefor | 20060290757 | 20061228 |
| To enable a coupling terminal member of an ink cartridge and a coupling terminal of a printing apparatus to be in certain and increase a degree of freedom on installation position of a coupling terminal member of the cartridge, a cartridge installed in a printing apparatus for supplying the printing apparatus with ink includes an ink cartridge body for containing ink, an ink supply section on which an ink supply opening placed on or near a first sidewall of the ink cartridge body is formed, a memory for storing information on ink in the ink cartridge body, a contact terminal member on a second sidewall of the ink cartridge body coupled to the memory and a positioning member, which protrudes from the second sidewall, for positioning... |
| Ink cartridge | 20060290758 | 20061228 |
| An ink cartridge has a housing with at least one ink container having an ink outlet extending to the outside and in which a differential pressure valve is mounted. The valve has a valve opening and a valve body which can move relative to it and which (relative to the ink chamber) sits sealed on the valve opening, loaded from the outside with a predetermined closing force, and can be moved to the outside from the valve opening against the closing force. In order to form a differential pressure valve which is stable over the long term, precise, easy to produce and install, the invention proposes that a first permanent magnet is attached to the valve body and relative to the valve opening a second permanent... |
| Ink composition, ink cartridge to store the ink composition, and inkjet recording apparatus including the ink cartridge | 20060290759 | 20061228 |
| An ink composition including a colorant, a first surfactant including at least one of an ionic surfactant and a zwitter ionic surfactant, in an amount that is less than 150 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the colorant, a second surfactant including a nonionic surfactant, in an amount that is less 20 times the amount of the first surfactant, and water; an ink cartridge including the same; and an inkjet recording apparatus including the ink cartridge. The ink composition can maintain a uniform and stable ink flow in an ink path of a print head of the cartridge by securing an optimum dynamic surface tension and minimizing generation of foam. Additionally, the ink composition can also provide uniform printing quality in continued... |
| Method of manufacturing rapid prototyping workpiece by using laser transfer printing technology | 20060290772 | 20061228 |
| The invention discloses a method of manufacturing rapid prototyping workpiece by projecting a laser beam or other light onto the photo-conductive drum to attach powder materials to form a thin layer, and then coat the thin-layer material on a working platform. A point, line or plane light source of stronger intensity is used to go with the DMD (Digital Micromirror Device) or LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) to produce a physical change or a chemical change in the selected projecting region and combine the materials to become an acceptable property. The method comprises three stages of a process and repeats the process to complete a physical workpiece. The first stage refers to evenly spreading electric charges on a photo-conductive drum, and then projects a laser beam or... |
| Media cartridge autoloader | 20060291091 | 20061228 |
| A media cartridge autoloader is disclosed. A rotary arm that operates a cartridge transporter is rotated in one direction to reach a reference position. With reference to the reference position, the rotary arm is rotated through a predetermined angle in the opposite direction to reach a position, which is defined as a home position. The rotary arm includes a flag array, and a non-flag section at an end of the flag array. A photo sensor detects the arrival of the rotary arm at the reference position in response to a detection of the non-flag section.
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