Eastman-kodak Company

Bayer Corporation

Boyer, Inc.

Daniel A Slater

Linn C Hoover

Thomas C Reiter

David J Revelle

Luis R Torres

Patrick Vo

Thomas Kucharski

Peter T Aylward

Jeffrey D Brehant

Thomas M Smith

Jeffrey D Brehaut

Debasis Majumdar

Hwei-Ling Yau

Donald O Bigelow

Richard C Edstrom

Mark J Devaney, Jr

Kelly Stephen Robinson

James R Kircher

Craig A Caprio

Richard N Hirst

Arunachalam T Ram

Jayson J Nelson

Herbert M Meyers

John I Kilburn

Patrick Joseph Kline

Leonard S Gates

Robert E Marowski

Geraldine Ann Pelanek

Rusty J Coleman

David O Pressler

Raymond P Chapman

William A Meredith

George T McCollough

William J Durkin

The present invention relates to a curing assembly comprising at least two light sources combined into one light path, wherein the light sources are capable of curing a material exposed to the combined light path. The invention also relates to a method of curing a material or material in contact with a heat sensitive material comprising providing a curable material or a material associated with a heat sensitive material and exposing curable material to a combined light path from the curing assembly.

UV cure equipment with combined light path

This invention relates to a method of manufacturing micro-cell arrays. Such an array may find use in a number of applications such as, for example, a video display, electronic paper, and signage. The microcell arrays find particular use in electromodulating displays.

Electro-optical modulating display and method of making the same

The present invention relates to a display comprising at least one substrate having at least one electrically modulated imaging layer thereon, at least one patterned electrically conductive layer, and at least one antistatic layer.

Antistatic layer for electrically modulated display

Disclosed is a waveguide having a light inlet surface and a viewing surface comprising stacked core layers separated by clad layers to form channels and bearing a smoothing layer on at least one of the light inlet surface or the viewing surface thereof.

Waveguide and method of smoothing optical surfaces

A process and apparatus for holding a plurality of medicaments to be coated is disclosed. A support member is provided having a receiving surface with a plurality of channels to communicate a vacuum across the receiving surface and an aperture operable to couple the plurality of channels to a vacuum source. A flexible mat having a perimeter shaped to engage the support member in a sealed relation is provided on the support member. The flexible mat includes a plurality of medicament receptacles mounted to a first surface and adapted to receive the medicaments. The medicament receptacles initially are in a first position when no vacuum is applied. In the first position, the medicament receptacles are positioned to receive a medicament. When a vacuum is applied, the medicament receptacles change to a second position in which the medicament receptacles are positioned to hold the medicament and permit coating thereof.

Process and apparatus for holding medicaments to be coated

A process and apparatus for the gelatin coating of medicaments which includes a continuous conveyer system to advance a plurality of pallets through a loading station, at least one dipping station, at least one dryer station, a reorientation station and an unloading station. Medicaments to be coated are loaded into pallets at the loading station and advanced to the first dipping station where a vacuum is applied to secure the medicament to the pallet. The pallet is inverted and a first portion of each of the medicaments is dipped into a coating mixture. The pallet is then returned to its upright position, the vacuum is removed and the coating is dried. The medicaments are then transferred from the first pallet to a second pallet by a reorientation mechanism. The second pallet is then advanced to a second dipping station which operates in the same manner as the first dipping station. The second pallet is advanced through the dryer station and the fully coated medicaments are ejected from the pallet into a container. The pallets used to hold the medicaments include a plate-like support member, on which rests a flexible mat having a rectangular array of receptacles including compliant diaphragm portions such that when a vacuum is applied to the pallet, the medicaments are secured thereto. The drying means includes air directing plates having sinusoidal rows of air directing apertures under which the medicaments to be dried are passed.

Process and apparatus for drying a plurality of dip-coated medicaments

Medicaments on a first pallet are transferred onto a second pallet, thereby reorienting the medicaments. The first pallet is received on a first lift plate and the second pallet is received on a second lift plate in vertical opposition to the first lift plate. A lift mechanism urges the first and second lift plates towards one another and the first and second lift plates are inverted so that the medicaments are transferred from said first pallet to said second pallet.

Process and apparatus for reorienting medicaments to be coated

Process for the gelatin coating of medicaments

Apparatus for the gelatin coating of medicaments

A method and apparatus for stretching and aligning film sheets to a lenticular substrate comprising supporting members for the film sheet, two actuator assemblies positioned on opposite sides of a film sheet with a rigid bar member connecting the actuator means, 'flexible' clamping members to engage the edges of the film sheet, a constraint member for the film sheet and lenticular substrate and detection means to detect errors in positioning of the film sheet image (substrate) and lenticular substrate.

Apparatus for stretching and aligning film sheets

Substrates (D) for optical recording disks are supported substantially vertically while moving through a shroud (32) through which cooling gas is drawn or pumped. The substrates may be supported by spaced, toothed rings (18, 20, 24) on a carousel or by suitable conveyors (126-132; 136-142; 144-146).

Apparatus and method for cooling hot disk-shaped objects

Immunoassay unit for analysis of biological liquid

There is disclosed a test element advancing mechanism for use in an analyzer to move such test element from station to station, and a method of doing the same. The mechanism features a support surface over which the test elements move in a predetermined direction, a test element mover for engaging and moving the test elements, means for reciprocating the mover along a surface disposed to one side of the support surface, a portion of said mover being constructed to engage the reciprocating means, and means for pivoting the mover about an axis that extends parallel to the movement direction so that the engaging means are moved into or out of contact with such test elements. The test element mover includes a lever arm emanating from one side of the reciprocating means engaging portion, constructed to interact with the pivoting means. The mover also includes test element engaging means projecting from a side of the reciprocating means engaging portion that is opposite to the side from which projects the lever arm of the mover, for engaging the test elements.

Simplified test element advancing mechanism having positive engagement

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Daniel A Slater