Eastman-kodak Company

Gary W Shope

Jeffrey J Yaskow

Russell L Godshalk

Jeffrey Alan Small

John C Boutet

James D Lattimore

Shahram Hejazi

Thomas D Baker

Darryl D DeWolff

Wayne J Arsenault

Carl A Swanson

Michael J Epner

In an apparatus for storing and automatically delivering cassette and/or pallets containing cassettes to a reader. The apparatus includes a plurality of cassette retaining sites. A door assembly is provided adjacent the portal for allowing access to the plurality of cassette retaining sites. The door assembly has at least one door slideably mounted to the apparatus for movement between a closed position and an open position. A door safety system is provided.

Door safety system for storage phosphor cassette autoloader

In an apparatus for storing and automatically delivering cassettes and/or pallets containing cassettes to a reader. The apparatus includes a plurality of cassette retaining sites. A door assembly is provided adjacent the portal for allowing access to the plurality of cassette retaining sites. The door assembly has at least one panel slideably mounted to the apparatus for movement between a closed position and an open position. Sensors are provided for determining if a foreign object is in the closure path of the at least one panel.

Door assembly for cassette autoloader

An image recording apparatus with inexpensive data line resequencing circuitry for formatting image signals to a print head. The circuitry includes a resequencing line store device connectable to a data link and a control link for resequencing at least one first line of sequentially ordered data bits carried by the data link according to control signals carried by the control link. The resequencing line store device includes a plurality of interconnected memory cells operable for storage and selectable transfer of the data bits in response to the control signals, whereby the plurality of cells are arranged in a plurality of cell groups and a plurality of cell subgroups corresponding respectively to groups and subgroups of the bits. The bits may be shifted into the plurality of groups in sequential order and shifted from the plurality of cell subgroups in a non-sequential order corresponding to the first and second partitions.

Resequencing line store device

An electronic printer receives multi-page documents as character code signals which are applied to a raster image processor for rasterization. The rasterized signals are electronically stored so that a plurality of electronically collated, multi-page sets can be printed without re-rasterization.

Electronic collation

A printer/copier which stores job image data in memory before reproduction has a 'refresh period' after which data stored therein will degrade if the device is not refreshed. Upon completion of a 'security' job, DRAM refresh and normal read or write operations are disabled for a time period sufficient to allow the data resident in the DRAM to degrade.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Gary W Shope