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| Rapid thermal treatment for coloring surgical needles | 20110108165 | 20110512 |
| An apparatus for thermally treating and coloring a plurality of curved suture needles. The apparatus includes a conveyer for transferring the plurality of curved suture needles from a source of curved suture needles to a receiver, a housing positioned adjacent the conveyer, the housing having a first end, a second end, and an opening running from the first end to the second end, the opening aligned with the conveyer to enable the plurality of curved suture needles to pass therethrough, a heat source located within the housing for heating the plurality of curved suture needles as the plurality of curved suture needles are transferred by the conveyer from the first end of the housing to the second end of the housing and a system for providing... |
| Control for an autonomous conveyer vehicle and method for operating an autonomous conveyer vehicle | 20110106362 | 20110505 |
| A sensor-based control permits an autonomous conveyor vehicle to carry out intelligent driving behavior which takes into account individual properties of the freight or cargo that is to be conveyed. For example, the acceleration and braking behavior of the autonomous conveyor vehicle can be selected as a function of the stability of the freight or cargo. A route or a parking place at which particular environmental conditions (e.g., temperature, humidity) occur can be planned using sensor measured values of a sensor network. The relatively advanced intelligence of the autonomous conveyor vehicle optimizes the handling of the freight or cargo and obviates the need for camera-based monitoring. For example, the loss of the freight or cargo from the loading surface can be detected by a sensor and... |
| Chemical mechanical planarization pad with surface characteristics | 20110105000 | 20110505 |
| A polishing pad includes a polymer matrix and polyhedral oligomeric silsequioxane (“POSS”) molecules or soluble particles and a surfactant dispersed within the polymer matrix. A polishing pad can be formed by casting a liquid polymer on a conveyer belt having a casting surface with a set of projections and curing the liquid polymer on the conveyer belt such that a polymer matrix has a surface with a second set of projections complimentary to the first set of projections.
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| Spine formation device, bookbinding system, and control method therefor | 20110103921 | 20110505 |
| An spine formation device includes a sheet conveyer that conveys the bundle of folded sheets with a folded portion of the bundle of folded sheets forming a front end portion of the bundle of folded sheets, a spine formation unit disposed downstream from the sheet conveyer in a sheet conveyance direction for forming the spine of the bundle of folded sheets by squeezing the folded portion of the bundle from a folded leading side, a front side, and a back side of the bundle, a discharge unit to discharge the bundle of folded sheets outside the spine formation device, disposed downstream form the spine formation unit in the sheet conveyance direction, and a controller to cause the spine formation unit to operate in one of multiple... |
| Spine formation device, bookbinding system, and spine formation method | 20110103919 | 20110505 |
| A spine formation device includes a sheet conveyer, a clamping unit disposed downstream from the sheet conveyer in a sheet conveyance direction, for squeezing a folded portion of a bundle of folded sheets, a contact member against which the folded portion of the bundle is pressed, disposed downstream from the clamping unit, and a controller to cause the bundle of folded sheets to bulge by stopping the sheet conveyer after the bundle of folded sheets is transported a predetermined conveyance distance from a contact position between the contact member and the folded portion of the bundle and to cause the clamping unit to squeeze a bulging portion of the bundle created between the sheet conveyer and the contact member with the folded portion pressed against the... |
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| Developer unit for an image forming apparatus | 20110103844 | 20110505 |
| A developer unit for an image forming apparatus is provided. The developer unit includes a developer device with a developer agent carrier and a developer agent supplier, and a developer agent container, which contains the developer agent and is arranged in a lower position with respect to the developer device. The developer agent container is formed to have a fitting wall, which is curved inward at a position to be adjacent to the developer device. The fitting wall is formed to have a feeding opening and a collecting opening. The developer unit is further provided with a first conveyer, which is rotated about a rotation axis to sweep an inner surface of the developer agent container and convey the developer agent toward the feeding opening, and... |
| Image forming apparatus and method for cleaning a latent image carrier | 20110103817 | 20110505 |
| An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier, a conveyer system including nipping rollers to convey a sheet to vicinity of the latent image carrier, a switching system to switch operation modes between an image forming mode and a cleaning mode, and a cleaning controller to control a cleaning operation in the cleaning mode. The cleaning operation includes activating the conveyer system to convey a cleaner sheet at least until a front end reaches a position opposite from the latent image carrier and inactivating the conveyer system to stop the cleaner sheet thereat, a cleaning behavior, in which the latent image carrier is activated whilst the cleaner sheet is maintained nipped between nipping rollers in the conveyer system, a... |
| Electron beam sterilizer | 20110101248 | 20110505 |
| There is provided an electron beam sterilizer judging, in an electron beam irradiation zone, whether an electron beam amount to be irradiated to a resin bottle is proper or improper. The sterilizer includes an electron beam irradiator for irradiating the resin bottle with an electron beam through an irradiation window and a bottle conveyer for conveying the resin bottle, and the resin bottle conveyed in front of the irradiation window is irradiated with the electron beam to thereby sterilize the bottle. A beam collector is disposed in front of the irradiation window so as to oppose thereto. The beam collector is supported in an electrically insulated manner by an insulating member. When the electron beam irradiates the beam collector, an electric current flowing the beam collector... |
| Ice conveyer | 20110094253 | 20110428 |
| An ice making conveyer producing ice cubes in any size and form designed to be utilized in household or commercial units. This conveyer having three possible shapes: triangle shape of the ice making conveyer, square shape of ice making conveyer and oval or circular shape of the ice making conveyer. Conveyer might be utilized in three types of the refrigerators: where freezer is located on the top of food section of the refrigerator, where freezer is located side by side, no matter on the right or left side of the food section of the refrigerator, where freezer is located underneath the food section of the refrigerator. Present conveyer includes a plastic frame and conveyer device that traverse between freezer and food section of the refrigerator or... |
| Document sensor | 20110090485 | 20110421 |
| A device detects multi-spectral imaging by using line scan elements. The device may include an illumination module and a detection module to detect light scattered from an object illuminated by the illumination module. The device may also include an array of light sources to produce light at a plurality of different wavelengths, and create a uniform line of illumination with each of the different wavelengths. The light detection may be applied to authenticate and validate documents, such as bank notes moving along a document conveyer.
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| Method and apparatus for transporting pellet-shaped articles | 20110089001 | 20110421 |
| A conveyer apparatus for transporting and processing pellet-shaped articles includes a conveyer and a discharge device. The conveyer includes a plurality of carrier bars to convey a plurality of articles along a predetermined conveyer path. Each carrier bar has a pocket half that cooperates with a pocket half of an adjacent carrier bar to form an article receiving pocket to receive and transport an article along the predetermined conveyer path. The discharge device is positioned with respect to the carrier bars to dislodge articles from the carrier bars.
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| Shuttle machine for machine tool | 20110083940 | 20110414 |
| A shuttle machine for transporting work pieces for a sealing press or other machine tool is disclosed. It has two conveyers for transporting work pieces. The two conveyers are supported by a frame to move back and forth in opposite directions. When the two conveyers are in a first position, a second section of the first conveyer and a first section of the second conveyer are located near the tool, while the first second of the first conveyer and the second section of the section conveyer are accessible to first and second operators, respectively. Both operators can unload and reload work pieces simultaneously while the tool operates on the already loaded work pieces. When the conveyers are moved to a second position, the sections previously operated... |
| Toner cartridge, image forming apparatus and image forming method | 20110081170 | 20110407 |
| A toner cartridge includes a container body and a screw conveyer section. The screw conveyer section includes a rotation shaft and a toner conveying blade. The toner rotation shaft includes a first rotation shaft portion and a second rotation shaft portion concentrically communicated to the first rotation shaft portion and having a diameter smaller than that of the first rotation shaft portion. The toner conveying blade includes a first blade portion formed on the first rotation shaft portion, and a second blade portion formed on the second rotation shaft portion, a period of a spiral of the second blade portion winding around the second rotation shaft portion being smaller than a period of a spiral of the first blade portion winding around the first rotation shaft... |
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| Self-propelled crushing machine and method of controlling the same | 20110077821 | 20110331 |
| A mobile crusher includes: a crusher that crushes raw material; a discharge conveyor being disposed on a downstream side of the crusher to discharge the material crushed by the crusher; an engine (49) that serves as a driving source at least for the crusher and the discharge conveyer; a fuel injection quantity controlling unit (711) that controls a speed of the engine (49); a crusher pressure sensor (57) that determines a change in a load of the crushed material in the crusher; and a pressure sensor (51) that determines presence or absence of the crushed material to be discharged on the discharge conveyor. When the crusher pressure sensor (57) determines that the load on the crusher is reduced and the pressure sensor (51) determines that the... |
| Novel fabric made of all elastomeric fiber and its applications | 20110076906 | 20110331 |
| The present patent for utility model discloses a laminable elastic fabric whose main components are 100% spandex elastic woven band and warp knitted shell fabric or weft knitted cloth, and the elastic fabric is formed through laminating processing. The laminated fabric currently used on the market does not have good elastic resilience and is thus easily deformed and is relatively thick. The new laminated elastic fabric of the present patent is relatively light and thin, and the elastic woven band is formed by interweaving 100% spandex warp threads and 100% spandex weft threads, and the elastic fabric is formed by laminating it to the inner side of the shell fabric. The fabric has a recovery of nearly 100% after many times of use. The fabric laminated... |
| Printing apparatus | 20110076076 | 20110331 |
| A printing apparatus comprising: a printing section including a conveyer, a reconveyer, and a printer; a sensor; a determination section; and a controller. The determination section determines whether a pair of the first sheet and the second sheet is eligible for the high-speed duplex printing based on the combination of the length of the first sheet and the length of the second sheet before the second sheet conveyed by the reconveyer. The controller controls the printing section to convey the first sheet and the second sheet to the reconveyer when the pair of the length of the first sheet and the second sheet is eligible for the high-speed duplex printing, and controls the printing section to eject at least one of the first and the second... |
| Sorting installation and method for sorting articles | 20110073534 | 20110331 |
| Sorting installation with a sorting area for sorting articles from source containers into target containers by means of a sorting person located in the sorting area. The sorting installation includes at least one target container revolving conveyer device adjacent to the sorting area, which is provided such that it supplies a plurality of target containers along a target container conveying circuit in a conveying circuit plane to the sorting person in the sorting area in a repeated and revolving manner until the respective target container is loaded with articles from one or a plurality of source containers up to a predetermined degree, wherein the conveying circuit plane of the target container conveying circuit of the respective target container revolving conveying device extends substantially vertically and crosses... |
| Conveyer device | 20110073436 | 20110331 |
| A production device according to the present invention includes a plurality of processing units (41 to 45) arranged so as to consecutively perform a plurality of types of processing with respect to workpieces, a transport unit (30) that successively transports the workpieces toward the plurality of processing units, a plurality of monitor operation panels (80, 90) capable of monitoring the processing in the plurality of processing units and performing an adjustment operation regarding the processing or performing an operation regarding the overall operation and stop, and a plurality of movable holding mechanisms (60, 70) that movably holds the respective monitor operation panels toward each of the plurality of processing units. Thus, by configuring the monitor operation panels (80, 90) to be movable toward the plurality of... |
| Apparatus and method for exposing edge of substrate | 20110069294 | 20110324 |
| An apparatus and method for exposing an edge of a substrate are disclosed, in which an exposure time period for exposing the edge of the substrate is reduced. The apparatus for exposing an edge of a substrate includes a loading unit loading the substrate, and an edge exposure unit exposing the edge of the substrate loaded by the loading unit using each of a long side exposure unit and a short side exposure unit. Therefore, since the edge of the substrate is exposed using each of the long side exposure unit and the short side exposure unit, it is possible to reduce the edge exposure time period, thereby improving productivity. In addition, since no rotation of the substrate is required, it is possible to reduce the... |
| Heating furnace for press hardening process | 20110068518 | 20110324 |
| A heating furnace according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a furnace body that has an inlet at the upper portion through which a steel sheet blank is inserted from a wound coil and an outlet at the lower portion through which the steel sheet blank is discharged, and has a cylindrical structure having a space for conveying the steel sheet blank; a conveyer that is spirally disposed on the inner circumference of the furnace body and sequentially conveys the steel sheet blank from the inlet at the upper portion and the outlet at the lower portion; and a clamping means that is disposed at one side of the conveyer and selectively clamps the steel sheet blank.
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| Apparatus for filling receptacles with granular material | 20110067780 | 20110324 |
| A apparatus uses a flexible belt material stretched between two roller bearings to move a granular material such as sand from near ground level to a height sufficient for filling storage receptacles such as sand bags by gravity induced flow. The motive power for the apparatus may be a drive wheel which rests on the top surface of the conveyer belt over the lower roller bearing. The drive wheel is supported by the lower roller bearing and a second support bearing. The rotational motion of the drive wheel is translated to linear motion of the conveyer belt by friction between the drive wheel and flexible belt material. The drive wheel is held in position by gravity and may be quickly removed from the apparatus so that... |
| Spine formation device, post-processing apparatus, and bookbinding system | 20110064541 | 20110317 |
| An spine formation device includes a sheet conveyer, a contact member including a first row of grooves provided in a contact surface thereof to house a projection projecting from a folded portion of a bundle of folded sheets, a driving unit to move the contact member, first and second sandwiching units to squeeze the bundle, a discharge unit, and a controller. The first row of grooves extends in parallel to the folded portion of the bundle and includes at least a first pair of grooves inclined in different directions with an interval therebetween varying in size with location of the grooves in a first direction perpendicular to a sheet conveyance direction. The contact member is moved to change the size of interval between the first pair... |
| Conveyer and image forming apparatus including the same | 20110058873 | 20110310 |
| A conveyer includes a first rotating body; a second rotating body pair; and an intermediate rotating body arranged between the first rotating body and the second rotating body pair. A curl of the recording medium is corrected by winding and bending the recording medium around and with the intermediate rotating body at a bent angle formed by a tangent line shared by the intermediate rotating body and the first rotating body, and a line on which such a tangent line of the intermediate rotating body is connected to a nip point of the second rotating body pair. The intermediate rotating body includes an escape mechanism that is capable of causing the intermediate rotating body to escape in a direction to increase the bent angle depending on... |
| Image forming apparatus having movable drawer detachably supporting a plurality of process cartridges | 20110058849 | 20110310 |
| An image forming apparatus capable of easily performing exchange in a process cartridge with a new cartridge and performing removal of a jammed sheet without detachment of a drawer from a casing. The drawer detachably holds a plurality of process cartridges, and is movable in frontward/rearward direction to one of an operable position where each photosensitive drum is in direct confrontation with a conveyer belt, a cartridge exchangeable position where all of the cartridges are positioned out of the casing, and a jammed sheet processing position ahead of the cartridge exchangeable position for removing a jammed sheet. A regulation mechanism is provided for selectively regulating the movement of the drawer dependent on detachment of a rearmost process cartridge from the drawer.
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| Sheet stack loader and sheet loading method | 20110052361 | 20110303 |
| A sheet stack loader includes a loading table to support a first folded sheet bundle, an elevator to lift the first folded sheet bundle from the loading table, and a conveyer to convey a second folded sheet bundle into a space between the loading table and the first folded sheet bundle, wherein the space is created by the elevator.
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| Apparatus and method for collecting and transporting oil well drill cuttings | 20110052353 | 20110303 |
| Sludge having drill cuttings produced while drilling an oil well are moved from a shaker screen to a holding tank. The sides of the holding tank slope toward each other and form a half circle trough at the bottom of the tank. A discharge opening is aligned with the trough, and a conveyer is located in the trough for moving sludge in the holding tank toward the discharge opening. A second incline conveyer or high suction vacuum source is coupled to the discharge opening to move sludge from the discharge opening of the holding tank into a container or drying system. A drying system is coupled between the high suction vacuum source, a container and the discharge opening to separate fluids from the sludge. A drying... |
| Manufacturing system | 20110047791 | 20110303 |
| The present invention is directed to a manufacturing system comprising a plurality of work stations having one or more tools for processing a work item, at least one carrier for moving a work item among the plurality of work stations, and a platform for connecting the plurality of work stations. In a further embodiment, at least one of the plurality of work stations is not on a line with the other work stations and may include a lift machine for raising and/or lowering the at least one carrier and the work item. The platform also may preferably comprise at least one rotator for changing the direction of movement of the at least one carrier on the platform. The system also may preferably comprise at least one... |
| Plant extracts as additives for yeast raised baked goods | 20110045129 | 20110224 |
| The present invention relates to the use of an active component for improving dough stability of yeast dough, for making baked goods, and/or for improving the volume of yeast raised baked goods, wherein the active component comprises a member selected from the group consisting of an extract of any part of a plant of the species ginseng (Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer), an extract of any part of a plant of the species notoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng), an extract of any part of a plant of the species washnut (Sapindus mucorossi), an extract of any part of a plant of the species butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus), an extract of any part of a plant of the genus yucca, an extract of any part of a plant of... |
| Conveyer device | 20110036686 | 20110217 |
| A conveyer device according to the present invention conveys a component assembly including a female screw component having a through hole defining a female screw, an assembling component to be assembled to the female screw component from above, and a bolt to be screwed to the female screw of the female screw component from above the assembling component to fix the assembling component, and the conveyer device includes a holding member (140) holding the female screw component and a screwing restriction mechanism (150) provided at the holding member for restricting the bolt held by the assembling component while unscrewed from the female screw so as not to be screwed to the female screw. Thus, when the component assembly to which the bolt is temporarily assembled from... |
| Apparatus and method for reprocessing tea leaves | 20110033590 | 20110210 |
| An apparatus for reprocessing tealeaves comprising a Mixer; a motor or hopper to run the mixer; a funnel attached to the mixer for adding the tealeaves in the mixer; a fan blender; a conveyor belt; a motor to run the conveyor belt; an infrared system and chamber; a microwave chamber; a swing type shielded doors on both ends of the microwave chamber; a vacuum packaging machine; a glass casing for housing the conveyor belt, infrared red chamber, microwave chamber and vacuum packaging; Controller power unit; supporting and storage frame; wherein the conveyor belt, is affixed laterally on the supporting frame with one side of the supporting frame supporting a wall on which the funnel, mixer, blender and motor/hopper are mounted; and the other side of the... |
