Abstract:
A pellicle mask assembly includes a mask, a pellicle frame, and a pellicle membrane. The pellicle frame has a bottom side attached to the mask, and a top side covered by the pellicle membrane. The pellicle frame includes a coating on its inner surface and the coating is configured to monitor a change of environment inside the pellicle mask assembly. In embodiments, the change of environment includes increased humidity and/or increased chemical ion density inside the pellicle mask assembly. Methods of making and using the pellicle mask assembly are also disclosed.
Abstract:
The invention provides a sheet conveyance apparatus for conveying an original document sheet onto a platen glass through which the sheet is irradiated by light. The sheet conveyance apparatus having a driving means capable of moving conveyor belt in both directions so that, by moving the conveyor belt to the first-moving direction, the sheet is fed onto through the first side and carried away from through the second side of the platen glass. A delivery tray is mounted above the platen glass so that the sheet is delivered through first turning passage from the second side of the platen glass to the delivery tray. Between the conveyor belt and the delivery tray is provided a second turning passage so that the sheet is returned through the second turning passage from the first turning passage to the second side of the platen glass.
Abstract:
A board copying apparatus comprising a writing board unit carrying a sheet which enables an image to be written thereon, a copying unit capable of forming, on a recording material, a copy image of an image carried by an original, and also capable of forming, on the recording material, a copy image of the image written on the sheet of the board means, a first density setting device for setting the density of the copy image of the image on the board unit, and a second density setting device for setting the density of the copy image of the image on the original. This arrangement eliminates the necessity for troublesome work for adjusting the copying density each time the copying unit is used in board copying mode for copying the image on the board unit.
Abstract:
There is disclosed an automatic original feeder of an improved structure capable of functioning in a first mode in which the original is ejected after exposure and in a second mode in which the original is reversed between exposures of both sides before ejection.
Abstract:
In an automatic document handling system for a copier, with a system for feeding and registering document sheets, including a platen transport system, wherein the platen transport system includes a document belt system and a vacuum system for retaining documents against the document belt, there is provided common document input and path systems for feeding either conventional document sheets or computer form or other web (CF) documents, the document belt system relatively low friction belt material, the vacuum system automatically maintaining a first vacuum level high enough to retain the conventional document sheets against the document belt system with sufficient force to resist slippage and function as their primary platen transport system, and a vacuum reduction system for automatically reducing the vacuum to a substantially lower level for CF documents which provides for slippage of CF documents relative to the document belt system, and a separate deskewing and driving system for the CF documents in cooperation with the platen transport system, for deskewing the CF web upstream of the platen and pulling through the platen transport system from downstream thereof, to provide a dual mode system in which the platen transport system provides for low frictional relative movement and an imaging background surface for CF documents, but is not their primary transport. There is a system for automatically sensing the acquisition of CF documents and in response automatically reducing the vacuum level and disengaging additional roller drive systems in the path which normally engage conventionally document sheets.
Abstract:
An automatic document feeder includes a separating roller disposed adjacent to one end of a table on which a stack of documents to be fed is placed for separating the bottom-most document from the stack. The feeder also includes a feed roller which is fixedly mounted on a first shaft on which the separating roller is fixedly mounted. A friction roller is rotatably supported as being pressed against the separating roller and a transport roller is rotatably provided as being pressed against the feed roller. The separating and feed rollers are provided coaxially, but they are comprised of different materials to provide a stable document feeding operation. The separating roller is preferably comprised of a rubber material having a hardness ranging from 25 to 30 degrees, and the feed roller is preferably comprised of a chloroprene material having a hardness on the order of 60 degrees. If the separating roller is split into two sub-rollers spaced apart axially, the feeder is preferably provided with an auxiliary roller in the space between the sub-rollers and coaxially with the transport roller so as to provide a smooth feed operation irrespective of the thickness of the document.
Abstract:
A multi-mode copying apparatus includes a contact glass on which an original is placed facing downward, a scanning unit for scanning along the contact glass, a photosensitive drum, imaging unit for forming a copy image on the drum, at least one cassette for storing therein a quantity of copy sheets, a size detector for detecting the length of the copy sheets stored in the cassette, and a control system for controlling the operation of the apparatus in accordance with the length information detected by the size detector. In one mode of operation, the control system divides the original surface into two original surface sections, i.e., left and right half sections, based on the length information supplied from the size detector, and copies are produced from at least one of the left and right half sections using a home position of the scanning unit as a reference for each copying operation.
Abstract:
A stop-mechanism is disclosed for use with a document feeder which itself supplies documents to-be-copied onto a glass top. The stop-mechanism includes a flag which is disposed in contact with the glass top of the copy machine and which is actuated by the document to-be-copied as it is discharged onto the glass top of the copier by the document feeder.
Abstract:
In a conveyor device for conveying sheet material in sheet or web form, two pairs of conveyor rollers are spaced apart with their axes parallel to one another, each pair including a deformable roller cooperating with a substantially non-deformable conveyor roller, and the two pairs of rollers are driven by a non-deformable drive roller which is mounted for rotation about a fixed axis disposed between them, with the deformable conveyor roller of each pair pressed against its cooperating non-deformable conveyor roller and also against the drive roller so that compensating differences of peripheral speed occur at the two pressure nips of each deformable conveyor roller. Each deformable roller is pressed in a direction located in or at least proximate to the plane of the bisector of the dihedral angle between a plane through the axes of the drive roller and the deformable roller and a plane through the axes of the deformable roller and its cooperating non-deformable conveyor roller. As a result, the speed of conveyance by the pairs of rollers is not changed by variations of the pressure applied or of the hardness of the roller surfaces and is practically independent of the diameters of the rollers.
Abstract:
A device for positioning an original in sheet form on an exposure table comprising a ruler and a means for moving the ruler between a position in which an edge of the ruler extends upwardly from the exposure table for positioning and retaining a sheet original arriving along the exposure table and a position in which the original is released so that it may be displaced in the direction of and past the ruler. The exposure table has a recessed part such that when the ruler occupies the retaining position the part of the ruler bearing the retaining edge rests partly in the recessed part such that it lies against the upright wall of the recessed part and partly projects above the surface of the exposure table.