Abstract:
A method and system for enabling handwritten note taking and retrieval, whereby a user is able to electronically capture, manage and search notes handwritten on paper by the user using one or more forms printed on paper and using a sensing device which senses coded data included in the printed forms.
Abstract:
A method and system for enabling handwritten note taking and retrieval, whereby a user is able to electronically capture, manage and search notes handwritten on paper by the user using one or more forms printed on paper and using a sensing device which senses coded data included in the printed forms.
Abstract:
A method of delivering a facsimile, including: providing a printed form for entering a message thereon using a sensing device adapted to read coded data on the form; receiving, in a computer system, interaction data representing interaction of the sensing device with the coded data, the interaction data allowing the message to be electronically captured in the computer system; and transmitting the message to a designated recipient address for facsimile delivery.
Abstract:
A method of distributing documents, via a communications network, to a plurality of receiving stations associated with a plurality of users. At least one document layout is pointcast to each receiving station, the document layout being associated with a predetermined user and defining one or more data objects such as text, images and graphics. Collections of shared data objects are then multicast, via the communications network, to the receiving stations on the basis of the respective users' document layouts. Each collection is only transmitted to those receiving stations whose users' document layouts include data objects in that collection.
Abstract:
A device for applying a fluid, notably a writing pen or cosmetic pencil, includes a tubular shaft, a fluid container that is positioned therein, a tip, and a conducting system for the fluid. The container ensures constant pressure equalization with the atmosphere by having its front and rear ends each being fluidically connected to the atmosphere. At the rear end of the container a ventilation opening is positioned. The ventilation opening opens into the container interior containing the fluid and is sealed by a semi-permeable membrane.
Abstract:
An ink cartridge for an inkjet printer which has a multitude of ink bladders, where the pressure of each ink is equalized to the surrounding atmosphere, and where no mechanism is included to create either a positive or negative pressure differential with respect to the ambient atmosphere. The preferred embodiment includes bladders for infrared ink, fixative, and glue.
Abstract:
An inexpensive writing pen for low viscosity liquid inks and formed with an internal ink reservoir and a capillary system for admitting air into the reservoir. The ink reservoir is formed directly by the walls of the pen body, which form an internal cavity. Transfer of heat from the writer's hand into the region of the ink reservoir is inhibited by providing projection elements and intervening air spaces, which form the effective outer surface of the pen body. Preferably, the material of the pen body extends substantially above the upper limits of the internal ink reservoir, and is provided in those upper areas with similar projections and spaces, facilitating transfer of heat from the pen body into the ambient. The arrangement minimizes variations in the pen characteristics resulting from transfer of heat from the user's hand, which can become relatively more acute as the volume of air within the ink reservoir increases as a result of ink consumption. An improved design of unitary nib and collector cartridge is also provided.
Abstract:
An ink reservoir which can allow a visual color to display a blue color without coloring the ink reservoir with a specific colorant. It is an ink reservoir for a ball point pen, in which fine particles for scattering light are contained in a resin composing the ink reservoir for a ball point pen and which makes it possible to transmit light.
Abstract:
A writing ink composition having a pseudoplasticity index value between about 0.02 and 0.18, a low-shear viscosity between about 25,000 and 120,000 cP, and a high-shear viscosity between about 6 and 26 cP can be used in a hybrid, ball-point marking instrument which combines advantageous features of both paste-ink and liquid-ink ballpens. The writing ink can be prepared using a colloid milling procedure.
Abstract:
The refill cartridge of a writing implement is retained in a hollow tubular assembly having an interior frustroconical portion at one end to receive and retain a tapered split collar portion of a cartridge retaining tip. The tapered split collar has an interior surface which may include at least one interior radial surface which along with friction between the collar interior surface and the refill cartridge locks the refill in proper position when stressed inwardly by insertion of the tapered split collar in the frustroconical portion of the tubular barrel.