Month of March 2005

During the manufacturing process, one end of the type band is rotated through 180 degrees, then connected to the other end. This band will have only one surface. With a normal type band, a certain character is at a certain position after one revolution of the band. With the Moebius type band, a certain character...

A method for linking to potentially imported symbols in a 32-bit Windows* (NT/Intel or Windows 95*) environment is described in which annotating the imported symbols is not necessary to make the code more portable to other platforms.

Disclosed is an auto alignment mechanism of a document printer. This mechanism can prevent slant printing more precisely than before.

The disclosed invention shows: 1. A cell structure with a compensation film to spread the viewing-cone, and 2. A compensation film which is a negative uniaxis anisotropy.

Disclosed is a device for laying out free-form parts inside one or more rectangles. The free-form parts, which in practice may be plate parts to be cut out of large rectangles of material, are approximated as scanlines and expressed as run-length-code, and are sorted with respect to their similarities. The...

When removing a magazine from the Automatic Cartridge Feeder (ACF), the magazine should be locked and when the magazine is inserted into the ACF, it should be unlocked.

Disclosed is a noise reduction for bidirectional driver/receiver books, which are matched to the characteristic line impedance by a resistor. The idea is to put the serial resistor of the driver into the Bidirectional Bus (BIDI) path. If the line is quiet, the noise margin is increased due to dissipating a part of...

This article describes an ink ribbon shield that has a simple rectangular shape without any folds for ink ribbon pass stability, is installed easily and firmly, and can be made at very low cost. This ink ribbon shield is used on a ribbon cartridge for dot-impact document printers, as shown in Fig. 1.

Many Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) make use of the folder concept to represent a containment relationship between objects. Some GUIs extend this concept to show other forms of relationships, for example, the CICS* System Manager for AIX* End User Interface. In this interface, the aim is to provide the user with a...

Many laptop computers use large Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) as user display screens. Conventional wide-angle view LCD displays are readily observable by anyone nearby. This readability is undesirable, since the laptop computers are often used in public settings, and since users sometimes need to display...