Eastman-Kodak Company

Nexpress Solutions, Inc.

Other

Kodak Alaris Inc.

Donald Saul Rimai

Thomas Nathaniel Tombs

Christopher J White

Alan Richard Priebe

Gary P Lawniczak

Dinesh Tyagi

Louis J Sorriero

Rodney Ray Bucks

Robert E Zeman

Alan Earl Rapkin

Paul M Borsenberger

Arun Chowdry

Muhammed Aslam

Eric C Stelter

John W May

Mark Cameron Zaretsky

Susan A Visser

Salvatore Leone

David J Quesnel

Kevin Edward Spaulding

Wayne Thomas Ferrar

William Yurich Fowlkes

Edward T Miskinis

William A Light

Mark P Hinman

Brian J Kwarta

Roland Robert Schindler, Ii

Peter S Alexandrovich

James Douglas Shifley

Nelson Adrian Blish

Bruno Primerano

Jiann-Hsing Chen

Hwai-Tzuu Tai

Jerry Alan Pickering

Suryadevara Vijayakumar Babu

Dennis R Kamp

Muhammad Aslam

James H Hurst

Catherine D Newell

Sven Sonnenberg

Chung-Hui Kuo

William B Vreeland

Michael T Regan

Kevin M Johnson

Francisco Luiz Ziegelmuller

David Steven Weiss

Kenneth Joseph Brown

Borden H Mills

W Charles Kasiske, Jr

Martin Potucek

Theodore H Morse

Douglas Edward Garman

Marie B O'Regan

William K Goebel

Donna P Suchy

M Cristina B Dejesus

John A Sinicropi

Joseph F Laukaitis

Michael Joseph Piatt

Yee S Ng

Douglas E Bugner

Michel Frantz Molaire

Patrick M Lambert

Tsang J Chen

William J Staudenmayer

Christopher B Liston

Biao Tan

Randy Dae Vandagriff

Thomas A Jadwin

Andreas Dickhoff

Charles Eugene Hewitt

David Daniel Putnam

John Patrick Spence

Diane Marie Herrick

Harsha Sanjeewa Bulathsinghalage

David F Tunmore

Andrew Ciaschi

Hal E Wright

Edward Weissberger

Ernest J Tamary

Jong S Lee

Larry K Maier

Timothy John Hawryschuk

James Hunter Anderson

Louise Granica

James Raymond Flick

Kent A Randall

Bruce R Benwood

Orville C Rodenberg

Matthew C Ezenyilimba

Paul L Nielsen

Craig M Cody

Jeffrey Allan Pitas

James C Maher

John M McCabe

Charles Herbert Hasenauer

David R Jackson

Steven O Cormier

Edward Zogg

Andrew J Mauer

A shaped electrical conductor () includes a first sheet of metal () with a first and second thermoplastic adhesive pattern (). The second pattern is justified with the first pattern. The first sheet is etched to remove metal not covered by the thermoplastic adhesive patterns so that no metal bridges remain between disconnected coated portions. A second sheet of metal () has a third and fourth thermoplastic adhesive pattern () on a second surface and the fourth pattern is justified with the third pattern. The second sheet is etched to remove metal not covered by the thermoplastic adhesive patterns so that no metal bridges remain between disconnected coated portions. First and second contact regions () in the second and third adhesive patterns are in electrical contact.

Shaped electrical conductor

A device for producing a three-dimensional structure from a receiver includes a deposition unit that deposits toner on the receiver. That unit is controlled by a controller to produce a toner pattern on the receiver. A fusing device includes first and second rotatable members having respective, different compliances and a mount that selectively retains the members with respect to each other to form a fusing nip and permits adjustment of respective forces between the members at each end. A directing unit entrains the receiver around the second member so that the receiver passes through the fusing nip. A softening device softens the toner of the toner pattern so that as the second member rotates through successive revolutions, corresponding layer areas of the receiver are defined and the softened toner in each layer area adheres to the second surface of the receiver in an adjacent layer area.

Three-dimensional-structure former

A method for forming a three-dimensional structure includes depositing a first pattern of thermoplastic toner particles onto a first surface of a receiver to form a plurality of spaced-apart stacks of toner particles that extend above the first surface of the receiver. The receiver is bent so that non-overlapping first and second portions of the receiver are defined. At least part of a surface of the receiver in the second portion is brought into contact with the deposited stacks of toner particles. The toner particles are fused to bind the second portion to the first portion and provide a selected spacing between the first portion and the second portion.

Forming three-dimensional structure from receiver

A system for making a panoramic image includes a digital camera () for capturing a first image () defining a first overlap region () and a second image () defining a second overlap region (). Two points () in the first overlap region are identified and a first vector () overlap region connecting the two points is defined. Two points () in the second overlap region which correspond to the two points in the first overlap region are identified and a second vector () of the two points is defined. If the points in the first vector match points in the second vector, determine if the first and second vectors are parallel. If the vectors are not parallel, rotate the second vector image until the second vector is parallel to the first vector.

System for making a panoramic print

A media drying system removes a moistening liquid from a moistened medium, the moistening liquid having a moistening-liquid boiling point. A liquid-supply system provides a heating liquid. A liquid-heating system warms the heating liquid to a temperature greater than the moistening-liquid boiling point. A liquid-delivery system impinges the warmed heating liquid onto a surface of the moistened medium. Heat is thus transferred from the heating liquid to the moistening liquid, vaporizing the moistening liquid and removing it from the moistened medium.

Dryer impinging heating liquid onto moistened medium

A media drying system removes a moistening liquid from a moistened medium. A heating member rotatable around an axis has a liquid-blocking layer with an inner surface and an outer surface. A backing layer affixed to the liquid-blocking layer defines a liquid cavity not including the axis. A heating liquid heated above a moistening-liquid boiling point is sealed between the liquid-blocking layer and the backing layer and in contact with the inner surface. A media-transport system transports the moistened medium so it contacts or is entrained around the liquid-blocking member. The moistened medium contacts the outer surface of the liquid-blocking layer, heat is transferred through the liquid-blocking layer from the warmed heating liquid to the moistening liquid, and the moistening liquid is vaporized and removed from the moistened medium.

Dryer with heating liquid in cavity

System for making a panoramic image

A classification of a container is identified using a mobile station including an image capture device and an RFID reader having a reader antenna. The container has two RFID tags affixed thereto at respective, different locations. Each tag has a directional antenna steered in a different direction, so that a reader location is defined in the intersection of the antenna propagation patterns. Using the image capture device, one or more images of the container are captured. A controller determines, using the captured image data, whether the mobile station is in a candidate reader location. When the mobile station is in the candidate reader location, the RFID reader attempts to read both tags. If both tags are read while the mobile station is in the candidate reader location, the controller determines the classification of the container is a classification corresponding to the candidate reader location.

Container-classification identification using directional-antenna RFID

A method for fixing toner onto a receiver medium includes depositing a pattern of toner onto a surface of the receiver medium. A liquid-blocking barrier is provided that has a first surface and a second surface that is impermeable to a heating liquid. The surface of the receiver medium is brought into contact with the first surface of the liquid-blocking barrier. The heating liquid is brought into contact with the second surface of the liquid-blocking barrier. The heating liquid is at a temperature greater than the toner glass transition temperature. Heat is transferred through the liquid-blocking barrier from the heating liquid to the toner, thereby raising the temperature of the toner to a temperature above the toner glass transition temperature.

Fixing toner using heating-liquid-blocking barrier

A method of making a panoramic image includes capturing a first image () defining a first overlap region () capturing a second image (), and defining a second overlap region (). Two points () in the first overlap region are identified and a first vector () overlap region connecting the two points is defined. Two points () in the second overlap region which correspond to the two points in the first overlap region are identified and a second vector () the two points is defined. If points in the first vector match points in the second vector, determine if the first and second vectors are parallel. If the vectors are not parallel, rotate the second vector image until the second vector is parallel to the first vector.

Method of making a panoramic print

An RFID system has an active tag with one antenna inside, and one outside, an RF-blocking enclosure having a port with a selected shortest dimension. The RFID reader is located outside the enclosure and uses a selected RF read frequency range. The RFID tag simultaneously transmits on a plurality of frequencies corresponding to respective wavelengths smaller than the selected shortest dimension, so that a respective beat frequency is defined between two of the frequencies. The beat frequency is within the selected RF uplink frequency range. The tag transmits a first signal at a first one of the plurality of frequencies using the interior antenna and a second signal at a second, different one of the plurality of frequencies using the exterior antenna.

RFID system with multiple tag transmit frequencies

An RFID system includes a reader with antenna, a first barrier, a tag with a link antenna, a second barrier, and two key antennas connected to the tag, mechanically arranged in that order. The first barrier has two or more apertures in it to produce an interference pattern of a security signal from the reader. The security signal interference pattern passes at least partly through the second barrier. One of the key antennas is at a peak of the pattern after passing through the second barrier, and one is not. The tag includes a controller responsive to a downlink signal from the reader to transmit an uplink signal using the link antenna, but only if the downlink signal is preceded by the security signal and the security signal is received more strongly by the key antenna at the peak than by the other key antenna.

RFID system with barriers and key antennas

A method for removing a moistening liquid from a moistened medium includes bringing at least one surface of the moistened medium into contact with a heating liquid. The heating liquid is warmed to a temperature greater than a moistening-liquid boiling point. Heat is transferred from the warmed heating liquid to the moistening liquid, thereby vaporizing the moistening liquid and removing it from the moistened medium.

Applying heating liquid to remove moistening liquid

Printing methods are provided. In one method, printing an inkjet image using a liquid hydrophilic inkjet ink onto a surface of a semi-absorbent recording medium generating a toner image having toner particles arranged conforming to the inkjet image and transferring the toner image onto the recording medium where an unabsorbed volume of the inkjet ink is present on the recording medium. The toner particles manage unabsorbed volumes of the inkjet ink to protect the recording medium from image artifacts that can be created by an unabsorbed volume of the inkjet ink on the surface without a liquid management toner image.

Method for printing with adaptive distortion control

Methods for operating a printing system are provided. In one method, an inkjet image is printed on a receiver using a hydrophilic ink and an image of the receiver is captured after predetermined period of absorption. Local areas of the image of the inkjet print that have reached a threshold level of non-uniform distortion and where additional ink remains for absorption are identified. A distortion estimate is determined for distortion of the receiver at a time when a second image will be printed on the receiver based upon information from the identified areas. A second print image is printed based on the distortion estimate; and, the second image is printed.

Method for printing on locally distorable mediums

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Donald Saul Rimai