Illumina Corporation

Zamtec Limited

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Memjet Technology Limited

John Bailey

Stanley S Hong

Chunhong Zhou

Andy Bound

Dustin W Blair

Chunhong (Allen) Zhou

Simon Prince

Merek C Siu

Danilo Condello

Bob Yraceburu

Xiangling (Steve) Chen

Petrica Dorinel Balcan

William H Schwiebert

Jon Lucas

Ryan Root

Richard Alan Kelley

Jinsong Gao

Jeffrey D Lueschen

Ashkan Arianpour

Greg Williams

Jeffrey Johnson

Paul Fishbein

Jon Olson

Paul Weiskopf

Gerhard Koon

Chunhong (allen) Zhou

Xiangling (steve) Chen

Xiangling Chen

Kent Benjamen Kwan

Edward Ellis Esdaile-Watts

An imaging system may include a sample stage comprising a surface to support a sample container, the sample container including a sample having a plurality of sample locations; an optical stage to image the sample at the plurality of sample locations; one or more actuators physically coupled to at least one of the sample stage and the optical stage to move the sample stage relative to the optical stage to focus the optical stage onto a current sample location of the plurality of sample locations; a first light source to illuminate the current sample location; a second light source to project a pair of spots on a next sample location of the plurality of sample locations; and a controller to determine, based on an image of the pair of spots projected on the next sample location, a focus setting for the next sample location.

Predictive focus tracking apparatus and methods

An imaging system may include a sample stage having a surface to support a sample to be scanned by the imaging system; an optical stage having an objective lens, the optical stage being positionable relative to the sample stage; an actuator physically coupled to at least one of the sample stage and the optical stage to move the sample stage relative to the optical stage; a servo circuit to control the actuator; a first set of control parameters to control the servo circuit; a second set of control parameters to control the servo circuit; and a servo control circuit to apply the first set of control parameters to the servo circuit when the imaging system is operating in a first mode of operation and to apply the second set of control parameters to the servo circuit when the imaging system is operating in a second mode of operation.

Real time controller switching

An imaging system may include a sample stage comprising a surface to support a sample container, the sample container having a plurality of sample locations; an optical stage having an objective lens, the optical stage being positionable relative to the sample stage to image samples at the sample locations; an actuator physically coupled to at least one of the sample stage and the optical stage to move the sample stage relative to the optical stage to focus the optical stage onto a current sample location; and a drive circuit to determine a focus setting for a next sample location and to provide a drive signal to the actuator before the optical stage is positioned to image a sample at the next sample location, wherein at least one parameter of the drive signal is determined using a difference between a focus setting for the current sample location and the determined focus setting for the next sample location.

A system for aligning driven and idler rollers in a printer is provided having a housing of the printer which has a first housing portion hingedly mounted to a second housing portion such that the second housing portion is movable with respect to the first housing portion between open and closed positions, a driven roller rotatably mounted to the first housing portion for transporting media through the printer, an idler roller rotatably supported within the second housing portion for contact with the driven roller so as to provide pinched contact on the transported media, and an alignment adjustment mechanism for aligning the idler roller with the driven roller as the second housing portion is hinged into the closed position with the first housing portion.

System for aligning driven and idler rollers in printer

A pinch roller apparatus for a printer is provided having a support plate securely mounted to a housing of the printer, a pinch housing movably supported by the support plate, and a series of pinch rollers rotatably held within the pinch housing. The pinch housing has alignment pins for engagement with the housing of the printer through movement of the pinch housing relative to the support plate. The engagement aligns the pinch rollers with a driven roller rotatably mounted to the housing to provide pinched contact for media being transported through the printer.

Pinch roller apparatus for printer

A system for transporting media in a printer is provided having a media roller rotatably mounted to the printer housing, a motor, a drive belt looped about the motor drive shaft and the roller so as to impart the motor rotational driving force to the roller, a tensioning member pivotally mounted to the housing for contacting and thereby tensioning the drive belt about the motor drive shaft and roller, a brace member mounted to the housing about a slotted arm of the tensioning member, and a locking screw fixed to the housing through the brace member and slotted arm. The pivoted position of the tensioning member relative determines the tension imparted on the drive belt. The locking screw locks the pivoted position and the brace member is fixedly mounted so that rotation of the locking screw is not imparted to the slotted arm during fixing of the locking screw.

System for transporting media in printer

Several embodiments of apparatus and methods are disclosed. One or more of the disclosed example devices includes a flexible member having first and second tensioning members.

Flexible member having tensioning members

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San Diego, CA, United States of America

John Bailey