Mail receipt terminal having deposit tracking capability

    公开(公告)号:US06925451B1

    公开(公告)日:2005-08-02

    申请号:US09645398

    申请日:2000-08-24

    IPC分类号: G07B17/00 G06F17/60

    摘要: A mail receipt terminal for accepting an envelope having evidence of postage applied thereto. The mail receipt terminal includes a controller module and an input scanner module and a printer module, both in operative communication with the controller module. The controller module includes a control system and a clock module. The input scanner module: (i) receives the envelope, (ii) scans the evidence of postage to determine its veracity, and (iii) rejects the envelope if the evidence of postage is determined to be improper. If the evidence of postage is determined to be proper, then the printer module prints a receipt including data thereon corresponding to the envelope where the receipt data includes a date/time stamp and an ID tracking number that uniquely corresponds to the envelope.

    Postage metering system having currency compatibility security feature
    2.
    发明授权
    Postage metering system having currency compatibility security feature 失效
    具有货币兼容性安全功能的邮资计费系统

    公开(公告)号:US6154734A

    公开(公告)日:2000-11-28

    申请号:US294604

    申请日:1999-04-19

    IPC分类号: G07B17/00

    摘要: A value dispensing system includes a vault that accounts for units of a currency type dispensed by the value dispensing system, the vault including a first identifier that indicates one of different first and second currency types the vault is currently accounting for and a second identifier indicative of whether the vault is pending conversion to account for the one of the first and second currency types it is not currently accounting for in lieu of the one of the first and second currency types it is currently accounting for; a printing module which prints an indicium indicative of value, the printing module having a first indicator indicative of which of the first and second currency types the printhead module is set to print as part of the indicium; and an apparatus for determining if a first predetermined relationship exists between the first indicator, the first identifier, and the second identifier and for preventing the printing of the indicium if the predetermined relationship does not exist.

    摘要翻译: 值分配系统包括存储库,其存储由价值分配系统分配的货币类型的单位,所述库包括指示保险库当前计费的不同的第一和第二货币类型之一的第一标识符,以及指示 该保险库是否正在等待转换为帐户,以代替它当前不考虑的第一种和第二种货币类型之一的第一种和第二种货币类型, 打印模块,其打印指示值的标记,所述打印模块具有第一指示符,所述第一指示符指示所述第一和第二货币类型中的哪一种,所述打印头模块被设置为作为所述标记的一部分进行打印; 以及用于确定在所述第一指示符,所述第一标识符和所述第二标识符之间是否存在第一预定关系并且用于如果所述预定关系不存在则防止所述标记的打印的装置。

    Production of negative ions of hydrogen
    3.
    发明授权
    Production of negative ions of hydrogen 失效
    生产负离子的氢气

    公开(公告)号:US4407705A

    公开(公告)日:1983-10-04

    申请号:US263629

    申请日:1981-05-14

    CPC分类号: C01B4/00 B01J19/085 C01B3/00

    摘要: A process for generating negative ions of hydrogen isotopes is described which comprises cooling the hydrogen gas below 300.degree. K., and preferably to about 200.degree. K., vibrationally exciting the molecules of the gas, and the dissociating the molecules by electron impact into neutral hydrogen atoms and negative hydrogen ions. Alternatively, the gas may first be vibrationally excited by heating or the like, and then cooled translationally, for example, by rapid expansion prior to dissociation by electron impact. The processes of this invention are characterized by control of non-equilibrium conditions to obtain large increases in dissociative attachment rates by increasing the population of hydrogen gas molecules having a higher vibrational energy state.

    摘要翻译: 描述了产生氢同位素负离子的方法,其包括将氢气冷却至低于300°K,优选至约200°K,振动地激发气体分子,并通过电子轰击将分子解离成中性 氢原子和负氢离子。 或者,气体可以首先通过加热等振动激发,然后例如通过电子轰击解离之前的快速膨胀而进行平移冷却。 本发明的方法的特征在于控制非平衡条件以通过增加具有较高振动能态的氢气分子的群体来获得解离附着率的大幅增加。

    Encoded screen records for international postage meters
    4.
    发明授权
    Encoded screen records for international postage meters 失效
    国际邮资计数器的编码屏幕记录

    公开(公告)号:US5689424A

    公开(公告)日:1997-11-18

    申请号:US702079

    申请日:1996-08-23

    IPC分类号: G07B17/00

    摘要: In a digital postage meter having a housing shell, a display screen mounted in the housing shell, and a removable printhead, a method of transmitting information from the printhead module to the display screen. The method includes: storing the information in a memory device in the printhead module; retrieving the information in a first communication device in the printhead module; transmitting the information from the first communication device to a second communication device external to the printhead module, wherein the second communication device interprets the information; and transmitting the interpreted information to the display screen.

    摘要翻译: 在具有壳体壳体的数字邮资计费器中,安装在壳体壳体中的显示屏幕和可拆卸打印头,将信息从打印头模块传送到显示屏幕的方法。 该方法包括:将信息存储在打印头模块中的存储设备中; 在打印头模块中的第一通信设备中检索信息; 将所述信息从所述第一通信设备发送到所述打印头模块外部的第二通信设备,其中所述第二通信设备解释所述信息; 并将解释的信息发送到显示屏幕。

    Multi function sensing device for printing apparatus
    6.
    发明授权
    Multi function sensing device for printing apparatus 失效
    用于打印设备的多功能感应装置

    公开(公告)号:US5842800A

    公开(公告)日:1998-12-01

    申请号:US775787

    申请日:1996-12-31

    CPC分类号: B41J29/393 B41J2/17566

    摘要: A printing apparatus is disclosed which has various operating components, and which includes a single sensing means for sensing certain operational characteristics of the operating components to monitor the operational status thereof for the purpose of either providing an operator perceptible indication that a certain operational characteristic of one of the operating components is not in a condition for normal operation of the printing apparatus. The single sensing means includes a photo detecting means mounted on the inside surface of the cover of a housing for the operating characteristics of the printing apparatus, and an actuating means mounted on an ink cartridge which is mounted on and movable with a moving print head, such that the sensing means can provided an ink dication of whether the cover is open or closed, whether the ink cartridge is present or absent, whether the print head is in a proper position for commencing a normal cycle of operation, and in one variation of an alternate embodiment of the invention, whether there is sufficient ink in the ink cartridge for normal operation of the printing apparatus, and in another variation thereof, how much ink is in the ink cartridge at all times between full and insufficient for normal operation of the printing apparatus.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种打印装置,其具有各种操作部件,并且其包括单个感测装置,用于感测操作部件的某些操作特性以监视其操作状态,以提供操作者可感知的指示,即一个操作特性 的操作部件不处于打印装置的正常操作的状态。 单个感测装置包括安装在壳体的盖的内表面上用于打印设备的操作特性的光检测装置,以及安装在可移动打印头上并可移动的墨盒上的致动装置, 使得感测装置可以提供盖子是打开还是关闭,墨盒是否存在,打印头是否处于适当位置以开始正常的操作循环的墨水分开,以及在一个变化中 本发明的替代实施例中,墨盒中是否有足够的墨水用于打印设备的正常操作,并且在其另一种变型中,墨盒中的所有墨水在充分和不足以正常操作之间存在多少墨水 打印设备

    Value dispensing mechanism, such as a postage meter, having automatic
display/printing selection
    7.
    发明授权
    Value dispensing mechanism, such as a postage meter, having automatic display/printing selection 失效
    价值分配机构,如邮资计费器,具有自动显示/打印选择

    公开(公告)号:US5787406A

    公开(公告)日:1998-07-28

    申请号:US764399

    申请日:1996-12-11

    IPC分类号: G07B17/00

    摘要: A value dispensing mechanism which prints an indication of value includes a portable accounting device which accounts for the printed indication of value; and a terminal including apparatus for printing the indication of value, a display which displays messages related to functions of the value dispensing mechanism, structure for controlling messages displayed on the display and for initiating operation of the printing means to print the indication of value, a storage device for storing a plurality of display options, and apparatus for removably receiving the portable accounting device such that at times when the portable accounting device is received in the receiving apparatus the controlling structure and the portable accounting device are in operative communication with each other to permit operation of the value dispensing mechanism; wherein the portable accounting device includes means for automatically designating at least one of the display options upon insertion of the portable accounting device into the receiving means for at least one of displaying the selected display option on the display and printing the selected display option as at least a portion of the indication of value.

    摘要翻译: 打印价值指示的价值分配机构包括考虑打印的价值指示的便携式会计装置; 以及终端,其包括用于打印价值指示的装置,显示与价值分配机构的功能有关的消息的显示器,用于控制显示在显示器上的消息的结构,以及用于启动打印装置的操作以打印价值的指示; 用于存储多个显示选项的存储设备,以及用于可移动地接收便携式会计设备的设备,使得在接收设备中接收便携式会计设备的时候,控制结构和便携式会计设备彼此可操作地通信 许可操作价值分配机构; 其中所述便携式会计装置包括用于在将所述便携式会计装置插入所述接收装置中时自动指定所述显示选项中的至少一个的装置,用于在所述显示器上显示所选择的显示选项并将所选择的显示选项打印为至少 价值指示的一部分。