Xerox Corporation

Werner E Haas

James E Adams

Gary A Dir

Bela Mechlowitz

John Richard Andrews

Bela Richter

Michael D Rainsdon

Santokh Singh Badesha

William H Wayman

Joel A Kubby

James D Rees

Fred W Schmidlin

Henry R Till

Merlin E Scharfe

Joseph F Stephany

Jean-Michel Guerin

Rasin Moser

Anthony M Wallace

Eugene C Faucz

Richard C Keezer

Raymond P Mileski

George A Muller

John L Havranek

Kirk A Blakesley

Andrew P Yesul, Jr

Leon E Kawacz

An apparatus for forming an image comprising a substrate with a plurality of high voltage transistors on the substrate. The transistors include a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode. Each transistor switches a marking potential of several hundred volts between the source and drain by a gate potential of at least an order of magnitude lower than the source to drain potential. There are a plurality of high voltage capacitors on the substrate. One of each capacitor is connected to one of the drain electrodes and each capacitor stores a charge potential approximately equal to the marking potential. The charge potential on each capacitor controls the forming of the image. A first data input on the substrate selectively loads a gate potential on gate the electrodes. A second data input located on the periphery of the substrate selectively loads a source potential on the source electrodes. The high voltage capacitors, the high voltage transistors, and the first data input are thin film elements integrally formed on the substrate.

Matrix addressable array for digital xerography

Printing machines which incorporate a transfusing station having a transfusing member with a resistive heater layer, a substrate, and a release layer. The transfusing station is entrained between at least two electrically conductive contact members, such as rollers, which electrically contact the heater layer. An electrical source sends current through the conductive rollers and the heater layer, heating that layer, the substrate, the release layer, and any toner on the release layer. A backup roller adjacent the transfusing member and the conductive rollers induces pressure on marking substrates which pass between the backup roller and the transfusing member. The combination of heat from the heater layer and pressure induced by the backup roller causes any toner image on the transfusing member to fuse onto the marking substrate. The release layer assists in transferring the toner onto the marking substrate.

Transfuser

A printing machine in which a recording medium has a latent image recorded thereon. A housing stores a supply of liquid developer material therein. The housing is operatively associated with a donor member for substantially uniformly coating liquid developer material thereon. The donor member is spaced from the recording medium. As the donor member moves, it transports the developer material to a development zone wherein the latent image recorded on the recording medium attracts at least the toner thereto to form a developed image thereon. A multicolor image may be formed by repeating this process for different developer materials.

Color printer

A light valve comprising a first transparent electrically insulating layer, a first transparent electrically conductive layer, an electro-optic imaging medium layer, a first dielectric mirror, a light separating layer comprising an organic dye, organic pigment, or a semiconductor selected from the group consisting of As, Se, Te, Bi, Sb, Fe, Si, S or alloys thereof, a second dielectric mirror layer, a photoconductor layer, a second transparent electrically conductive layer and a second transparent layer. This light valve may be utilized in systems which include an imaging light source and a read-out light source.

Optically addressed light valve system with two dielectric mirrors

A light valve comprising a first transparent electrically insulating layer, a first transparent electrically conductive layer, an electro-optic imaging medium layer, a dielectric mirror, a light blocking layer comprising an organic dye or organic pigment, a photoconductor layer comprising selenium, a second transparent electrically conductive layer and a second transparent layer. This light valve may be utilized in systems which include an imaging light source and a read-out light source.

Optically addressed light valve system

A holographic display includes 'segmented' images configured as if positioned in separate viewing 'cells' corresponding spatially to preselected subareas of a desired display area with invisible segmenting cell sides. In one embodiment, a polarized conjugate reference light source projects the segmented hologram images form a light-transmissive recording medium into the display area, a multi-element nematic 90.degree. twisted shutter assembly changes the polarization of light emanating from subareas corresponding to the images to be blocked while keeping unchanged the polarization of the segmented images to be displayed, and a sheet polarizer positioned between the multi-element shutter and the viewer blocks from view images from those subareas which the polarization direction has been changed by the multi-element shutter. In other embodiments, light-reflective recording mediums and multi-element nematic shutters having an appropriate guest-host dyes are used. Constantly viewable unsegmented holographic images recorded in the same recording medium as the segmented images or on a separate recording medium can be multiplexed into the display area using a conjugate light source of a different frequency or having a different polarization condition (e.g., unpolarized) from the conjugate light source used to project the segmented images to be selectively displayed/blocked.

Segmented hologram for multi-image display

A variable attenuator for controlling scanning beam intensity having a twisted nematic liquid crystal for rotating the beam, a polarization analyzer for detecting the degree of alteration in the polarization of the beam by the crystal comprising a polarizing beam splitting plate separating the beam into primary and secondary beams, a photocell providing a signal reflecting the intensity of the secondary beam, a control for adjusting power to the crystal in response to the signal, a glass plate at an angle of incidence equal to but opposite from that of the beam splitting plate for correcting aberrations to the primary beam, and an anti-reflective coating on the optical surfaces of the crystal. In a second embodiment, the plates are replaced by a polarizing cube. In a third embodiment, to obviate fluctuations in the attenuator output, the glass plate instead serves as the source of the beam component to the photocell.

Liquid crystal dynamic attenuator for laser printers

A holographic display module is incorporated into a machine with independently operating subsystems, and used to provide an indication of the status or location of the machine subsystems. In one embodiment, a xerographic copier incorporates a holographic display incorporating an outline of the machine. A liquid crystal panel is aligned with the holographic display and selectively addressed in conjunction with signals from the copier subsystems. An illumination subsystem is optimized to provide diffuse illumination of the display.

Holographic display module for displaying machine status

A voltage sensing device having a liquid crystal cell electrically connected to a charged surface and having a light transmissivity varying with applied voltage. A light source is directed through the liquid crystal cell, and a light detector, detects changes in the intensity of light directed through the cell and providing an output indicative of variations in voltage on the charged surface. Polarizers, which polarize light from the light source directed through the liquid crystal cell, and analyze light exiting the cell, convert electro-optically induced phase changes into intensity changes. A saturation level biasing voltage is periodically applied to the liquid crystal cell to set the cell to a reference level, clearing the cell of transient polarization effects. A second reference liquid crystal cell may be provided, electrically coupled to a reference voltage. Signals from the charged surface derived by the liquid crystal cell connected to the surface are compared with reference signals derived by the reference cell prior to output of the signal to eliminate a time-based drift component from the output.

Liquid crystal electrostatic voltmeter

A multi-mode imaging system provides the capability of reproducing documents in a conventional COPY mode wherein a document is placed on a platen and scanned to create an exposed latent image on a photosensitive member. The system is adapted to operate in a second, print (WRITE) mode wherein an image bar, such as a light-emitting diode (LED) array or a liquid crystal shutter (LCS), is placed into optical alignment with a fixed optical system including a linear lens array. The image bar is electrically addressed to create a light output in an image-wise pattern (LCD) or to change the state of the LCS. The image output is optically coupled into the lens array which projects the image onto the photosensitive member. In one embodiment, the image bar is partially within the end portion of a movable plate.

Multi-mode imaging system

An imaging system wherein a migration-type imaging member comprising a softenable layer containing agglomerable migration marking material is provided, and the member is exposed to an image pattern of electromagnetic radiation of sufficient energy to cause a simultaneous imagewise migration at least in depth in the softenable layer and agglomeration of the agglomerable migration marking material in the imagewise exposed areas of the imaging member. In another embodiment, a microscopically discontinuous layer of imaging material on a stable substrate is agglomeration or evaporation imaged by the inventive system.

Imaging system which agglomerates particulate material

An imaging system wherein a migration-type imaging member comprising a softenable layer containing agglomerable migration marking material is provided, and the member is exposed to an image pattern of electromagnetic radiation of sufficient energy to cause a simultaneous imagewise migration at least in depth in the softenable layer and agglomeration of the agglomerable migration marking material in the imagewise exposed areas of the imaging member. In another embodiment, a microscopically discontinuous layer of imaging material in a stable substrate is agglomeration or evaporation imaged by the inventive system.

Imaging system of discontinuous layer of migration material

Alignment films provided on a supportive substrate in accordance with the Janning technique exhibit birefringence wherein plane polarized light in passing through the alignment film becomes elliptically polarized. Birefringence compensation is provided by depositing a second alignment film on the other side of the supportive substrate in a direction substantially orthogonal to the deposition direction of the first alignment film, the second alignment film having a thickness substantially equal to that of the first alignment film.

Liquid crystal alignment film birefringence compensation

An imaging member comprising an agglomerable layer on a substrate is agglomerated in image configuration to cause the formation of larger agglomerates in the agglomerated areas which usually produces a relative transparentizing or a color change in the agglomerated areas. This imaging process is followed by contacting the imaged member, usually uniformly, with a solvent for the agglomerable material or a chemical reactant for the agglomerable material to dissolve away agglomerable material in the unagglomerated (which herein includes relatively unagglomerated compared to the agglomerated areas) areas or chemically react with agglomerable material in the unagglomerated areas, respectively at a faster rate than in the agglomerated areas.

Agglomeration imaging method

A composition responsive to magnetic fields and comprising a ferrofluid and metal flakes. The metal flakes align with the ferrofluid in response to magnetic lines of force and along the magnetic lines of force. Excellent contrast is provided between portions of the composition wherein the metal flakes are seen along edges or ends and portions of the composition wherein the broad surface area of the flakes are presented to view.

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Webster, NY, United States of America

Werner E Haas