Eastman-Kodak Company

Gs Yuasa International Ltd.

Gs Yuasa Corporation

Yoshitaka Ishida

Hiroshi Mukai

Osamu Ushijima

Takahiro Shizuki

Hideki Masuda

Junya Ueda

Takuji Uchibori

Masaki Izumi

Kazuya Okabe

Noriyoshi Munenaga

Seishi Ohmori

Wayne F Niskala

Koichi Nishiyama

Manabu Kiri

An energy storage module according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a plurality of energy storage devices each including a case; a glass paper sheet provided between the energy storage devices, brought into contact with the case, and mainly composed of a glass fiber; and a holding member holding the plurality of energy storage devices and the glass paper sheet, wherein the glass paper sheet is compressed between the energy storage devices.

Energy storage module and energy storage device

Assembled battery

Battery

A document transport apparatus provides continuous transport of documents input with a prescribed spacing between the documents, and can rapidly detect when documents close up or overlap. Detection of close up or overlap is made by measuring a length of each document by a transported document length measuring device and comparing the measured length with a predetermined length for that document measured by an input document length measuring device positioned upstream of the transported document length measuring device. If a measured length exceeds the predetermined length, a condition of close up or overlap is deemed to exist. The document transport apparatus is described in the context of its use in an image capture apparatus or scanner.

Document transport apparatus and method

A method of reading bar codes which enables incomplete readings of bar code data produced by excessive misalignment between the bar code and the bar code scanning line to be assembled automatically into a complete reading of the bar code data. This is done by combining incomplete data obtained by multiple passes of the read scanner, using a superimposition technique.

Bar code reading method

A thermal printer for printing an output dye image in a receiver including a memory circuit for storing a matrix printing pattern of pixels. The thermal printer comprises a detector for detecting the level of pixels data read out sequentially from the memory circuit to determine if a pixel of a line in the output image is to be printed has adjacent pixels that are not to be printed. Circuitry is provided to receive a printing pattern from the memory and to be responsive to the detector and to cause the heating elements corresponding to such image pixel to be printed to be energized above a predetermined dye transfer threshold level and the heating elements corresponding to pixels not be printed to be energized below the threshold level.

System for energizing thermal printer heating elements

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshitaka Ishida