Author: claimsbot

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a rotatable image bearing member;
a charging roller, contacting said image bearing member, for electrically charging said image bearing member;
a developing device for developing a latent image formed on said image bearing member into a developer image;
a cleaning device for removing a developer remaining on said image bearing member after the developer image is transferred from said image bearing member onto a developer image receiving member,
wherein said cleaning device includes a cleaning blade contacting said image bearing member and having a fixed end and a free end which is located upstream of the fixed end with respect to a rotational direction of said image bearing member; and
a control device for controlling a rotating operation of said image bearing member,
wherein said control device is capable of performing an operation for rotating said image bearing member, in a direction identical to a rotational direction of said image bearing member during image formation, effected by rotating said image bearing member after a lapse, without next instruction of image formation, of a predetermined period from a stop of rotation of said image bearing member made after completion of the image formation, and
wherein the predetermined period is longer with a larger number of sheets subjected to the image formation in an image forming job before the rotation of said image bearing member is stopped.
2. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising environment detecting means for detecting an environment,
wherein the predetermined period is changed depending on the environment.
3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the environment is a temperature and the predetermined period is made longer with an increasing temperature.
4. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the environment is a humidity and the predetermined period is made longer with an increasing humidity.
5. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising storing means for storing an operation history,
wherein the predetermined period is made longer with an increasing operation history.
6. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a rotatable image bearing member;
a charging roller, contacting said image bearing member, for electrically charging said image bearing member;
a developing device for developing a latent image formed on said image bearing member into a developer image;
a cleaning device for removing a developer remaining on said image bearing member after the developer image is transferred from said image bearing member onto a developer image receiving member,
wherein said cleaning device includes a cleaning blade contacting said image bearing member and having a fixed end and a free end which is located upstream of the fixed end with respect to a rotational direction of said image bearing member; and
a control device for controlling a rotating operation of said image bearing member,
wherein said control device is capable of performing multiple times of: (1) a rotation of said image bearing member in a direction identical to a rotational direction of said image bearing member during image formation, effected by rotating said image bearing member, and (2) a stop of the rotation, in a period from a stop of rotation of said image bearing member made after completion of the image formation until a subsequent image forming job is input, and
wherein a number of the multiple times is larger with a larger number of sheets subjected to the image formation in an image forming job before the rotation of said image bearing member is stopped.
7. An apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising environment detecting means for detecting an environment,
wherein the number of the multiple times is changed depending on the environment.
8. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the environment is a temperature and the number of the multiple times is made larger with an increasing temperature.
9. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the environment is a humidity and the number of the multiple times is made larger with an increasing humidity.
10. An apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising storing means for storing an operation history,
wherein the number of the multiple times is made larger with an increasing operation history.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A plant of corn variety CV024124, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11924.
2. A plant part of the plant of claim 1.
3. The plant part of claim 2, further defined as pollen, an ovule or a cell.
4. A seed of corn variety CV024124, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11924.
5. The seed of claim 4, further comprising a transgene.
6. A corn plant that expresses all of the physiological and morphological characteristics of the corn variety CV024124, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11924.
7. A composition comprising a seed of corn variety CV024124 comprised in plant seed growth media, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11924.
8. The composition of claim 7, wherein the growth media is soil or a synthetic cultivation medium.
9. An F1 hybrid seed produced by crossing a plant of corn variety CV024124 according to claim 1 with a second, distinct corn plant.
10. The F1 hybrid seed of claim 9, wherein said plant of corn variety CV024124 comprises a transgene that is inherited by the seed.
11. An F1 hybrid plant grown from the seed of claim 9.
12. A plant produced by introducing a single locus conversion into corn variety CV024124, or a selfed progeny thereof, wherein the single locus was introduced into corn variety CV024124 by backcrossing or genetic transformation and wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No PTA-11924.
13. The plant of claim 12, wherein the single locus conversion comprises a transgene.
14. A seed that produces the plant of claim 12.
15. The seed of claim 14, wherein the single locus confers a trait selected from the group consisting of male sterility, herbicide tolerance, insect or pest resistance, disease resistance, modified fatty acid metabolism, abiotic stress resistance, altered seed amino acid composition, site-specific genetic recombination, and modified carbohydrate metabolism.
16. The seed of claim 15, wherein the herbicide tolerance trait is tolerance to an herbicide selected from the group consisting of glyphosate, sulfonylurea, imidazalinone, dicamba, glufosinate, phenoxy proprionic acid, cycloshexone, triazine, benzonitrile, PPO-inhibitor herbicides and broxynil.
17. A method of producing a seed of a progeny plant derived from the corn variety CV024124, the method comprising crossing a plant of the corn variety CV024124 with a corn plant of a second variety to produce at least a first seed, wherein a sample of seed of corn variety CV024124 has been deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-11924.
18. The method of claim 17, further comprising the steps of
(a) crossing a plant grown from said seed with itself or a second plant to produce a seed of a progeny plant of a subsequent generation;
(b) growing a progeny plant of a subsequent generation from said seed and crossing the progeny plant of a subsequent generation with itself or a second plant; and
(c) repeating steps (a) and (b) with sufficient inbreeding until a seed of an inbred corn plant derived from the corn variety CV024124 is produced.
19. The method of claim 18, further comprising crossing said inbred corn plant derived from the corn variety CV024124 with a corn plant of a different genotype to produce seed of a hybrid plant derived from the corn variety CV024124.
20. A method of producing a commodity plant product, the method comprising obtaining the plant of claim 11 or a part thereof and producing said commodity plant product therefrom.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein the commodity plant product is grain, starch, seed oil, corn syrup or protein.

1. A receiver for receiving and processing digital satellite radio signals, comprising:
a first antenna configured to receive digital satellite radio signals in a first frequency band;
a first processing circuit coupled to said first antenna for receiving digital satellite radio signals in the first frequency band from said first antenna and converting said digital satellite radio signals into first IF signals;
a second antenna configured to receive digital satellite radio signals in a second frequency band and output digital satellite radio signals in a third frequency band;
a second processing circuit coupled to said second antenna for receiving the digital satellite radio signals in the third frequency band from said second antenna and converting the digital satellite radio signals in the third frequency band into second IF signals;
decoder circuitry for extracting at least one of audio and data;
diversity signal processing circuitry coupled to the decoder circuitry and to said first processing circuit and said second processing circuit, wherein said diversity signal processing circuitry receives the first and second IF signals from said first and second processing circuits, selects at least one of the first and second IF signals for processing, and provides the selected IF signals to the decoder circuitry for processing to extract at least one of audio and data; and
a switch configured to control power consumption of each of said first and second processing circuits based on the state of said switch, said switch having a plurality of states, wherein the power consumption of said first processing circuit is reduced relative to the power consumption of said second processing circuit in a first state of said switch, and the power consumption of said second processing circuit is reduced relative to the power consumption of said first processing circuit in a second state of said switch.
2. The receiver of claim 1, wherein said first frequency band is a digital satellite frequency band.
3. The receiver of claim 2, further comprising a receiver housing, wherein said first antenna, and at least one of said first processing circuit, second processing circuit, decoder circuitry, and diversity signal processing circuitry are located within said housing.
4. The receiver of claim 3, wherein said second frequency band is an industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency band.
5. The receiver of claim 4, wherein said second antenna is located within said housing.
6. The receiver of claim 5, further comprising an antenna switch coupled to said second processing circuit, said second antenna, and a third antenna located external to said housing and configured to receive digital satellite radio signals in a fourth frequency band, wherein said antenna switch is configured to evaluate the quality of signals provided by said second and third antennas to determine which of the signals has a higher quality, and provide the signal having higher quality to said second processing circuit.
7. The receiver of claim 4, wherein said second antenna is located external to said housing.
8. The receiver of claim 3, wherein said second antenna is located external to said housing.
9. The receiver of claim 8, further comprising a connector mechanism coupled to the second antenna and the second processing circuit, and wherein said second antenna is removably coupled to said second processing circuit by said connector mechanism.
10. The receiver of claim 3, wherein said second processing circuit is configured to be turned off when no digital satellite radio signal in a third frequency band is provided by said second antenna.
11. The receiver of claim 3, wherein said second antenna is located within said housing.
12. The receiver of claim 1, wherein the switch comprises a user selectable switch, and the power of said first and second processing circuits is not reduced in a third state of said switch.
13. The receiver of claim 1, wherein the first and third frequency bands are approximately the same.
14. A method for receiving data in a digital satellite receiver by switching among multiple antenna sources, comprising the steps of:
receiving digital satellite radio signals in a first frequency band via a first antenna;
providing the received digital satellite signals in the first frequency band to a first processing circuit;
converting the received digital satellite signals in the first processing circuit into first IF signals;
providing the first IF signals to diversity processing circuitry;
receiving digital satellite radio signals in a second frequency band via a second antenna;
converting the digital satellite radio signals in the second frequency band into digital satellite radio signals in a third frequency band;
providing the digital satellite radio signals in the third frequency band to a second processing circuit;
converting the received digital satellite radio signals in the third frequency band into second IF signals in the second processing circuit;
providing the second IF signals to the diversity processing circuitry;
evaluating the received first and second IF signals in the diversity processing circuitry to determine which of the received first and second IF signals has a higher signal quality:
providing at least one of the first and second IF signals having a higher signal quality to audio processing circuitry, wherein the audio processing circuitry further processes the provided at least one of the first and second IF signals to extract at least one of audio and data; and
controlling the power Consumption of each of the first and second processing circuits based on the state of a switch, said switch having a plurality of states, wherein the power consumption of said first processing circuit is reduced relative to the power consumption of said second processing circuit in a first state of said switch, and the power consumption of said second processing circuit is reduced relative to the power consumption of said first processing circuit in a second state of said switch.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the first frequency band is a digital satellite frequency band.
16. The method of claim 14, wherein the second frequency band is an industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency band.
17. The method of claim 14, wherein the third frequency band is a digital satellite frequency band.
18. The method of claim 14, further including the step of reducing the power provided to the second processing circuit when no digital satellite radio signals in a third frequency band are provided to the second processing circuit.
19. The method of claim 14, wherein the second antenna is removably coupled to the second processing circuit via a connector mechanism.
20. The method of claim 14, wherein the power consumption is altered based on a user selectable switch, and the power of said first and second processing circuits is not reduced in a third state of said switch.
21. The method of claim 14, further including the steps of receiving a digital satellite radio signal in a digital satellite radio frequency band in a third antenna removably coupled to the digital satellite receiver, comparing the signal quality of the signal received from the third antenna to the signal quality of the signal received from the second antenna, and providing the signal having a higher signal quality to the second processing circuit.
22. A receiver for receiving and processing digital satellite radio signals, comprising:
a receiver housing for containing receiver circuitry;
a first antenna located within said receiver housing and configured to receive digital satellite radio signals in a satellite-band;
a first processing circuit located within said receiver housing and coupled to said first antenna, said first processing circuit being configured to receive digital satellite radio signals in a satellite-band from said first antenna and convert said digital satellite radio signals into first IF signals;
a second processing circuit located within said receiver housing and coupled to a connector mechanism, said second processing circuit being configured to receive digital satellite radio signals in a satellite-band via said connector mechanism and convert the digital satellite radio signals into second IF signals;
decoder circuitry for extracting at least one of audio and data;
diversity signal processing circuitry coupled to the decoder circuitry and to said first processing circuit and said second processing circuit, wherein said diversity signal processing circuitry receives the first and second IF signals from said first and second processing circuits, selects at least one of the first and second IF signals for processing, and provides the selected IF signals to the decoder circuitry for processing to extract at least one of audio and data; and
a user switch configured to control power consumption of each of said first and second processing circuits based on the state of said switch, said switch having at least three states, wherein the power consumption of said first processing circuit is reduced relative to the power consumption of said second processing circuit in a first state of said switch, the power consumption of said second processing circuit is reduced relative to the power consumption of said first processing circuit in a second state of said switch, and the power of said first and second processing circuits is not reduced in a third state of said switch.
23. The receiver of claim 22, further comprising a second antenna located external to said receiver housing and removably coupled to said connector mechanism, wherein said second antenna is configured to receive digital satellite radio signals in an industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) frequency band, convert the digital satellite radio signals in the ISM frequency band into a satellite-band, and provide the digital satellite radio signals in a satellite-band to said second processing circuit via the connector mechanism.
24. The receiver of claim 22, further comprising a second antenna located external to said receiver housing and removably coupled to said connector mechanism, wherein said second antenna is configured to receive digital satellite radio signals in a satellite-band and provide the digital satellite radio signals in the satellite-band to said second processing circuit via the connector mechanism.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A process for producing a phosphorescent body containing at least a phosphorescent material and a glass material, comprising:
preparing a mixture by mixing at least the phosphorescent material and the glass material without a resin adhesive agent in a manner that the mixture has a paste consistency;
forming a granular laminate by stacking a plurality of layers of the mixture with at least one layer of the mixture stacked on top of another layer of the mixture to form a first granular laminate shape; and
heating the granular laminate so that the granular laminate melts and deforms the first granular laminate shape into a second granular laminate shape being different from the first granular laminate shape by an action of a-surface tension of the melting granular laminate.
2. The process for producing a phosphorescent body according to claim 1, wherein the granular laminate formed is moved into a furnace by means of a resin support layer having adhesion to one surface of the granular laminate, to be heated therein.
3. The process for producing a phosphorescent body according to claim 2, wherein the granular laminate is formed by sequentially stacking the layers on a support layer surface of the support layer and being subjected to the heating while being oriented on the support layer.
4. The process for producing a phosphorescent body according to claim 3, wherein the support layer is a transfer layer of a transfer paper, the transfer layer of the transfer paper is provided on a mount via an adhesion layer made of a water-soluble material, the adhesion layer dissolves when the transfer paper is immersed in water, and the transfer layer is separated from the mount and moved into the furnace while holding the granular laminate.
5. The process for producing a phosphorescent body according to claim 1, wherein the mixture is prepared by blending 1% by weight or more and 40% by weight or less of the phosphorescent material with respect to a total amount of the phosphorescent material and the glass material.
6. The process for producing a phosphorescent body according to claim 1, wherein the granular laminate is formed from a plurality of kinds of mixtures different in blending amounts of the phosphorescent material.
7. The process for producing a phosphorescent body according to claim 1, wherein the granular laminate is composed of a plurality of kinds of layers different in areas of the layers.
8. The process for producing a phosphorescent body according to claim 1, wherein a coat layer made of the glass material is provided beneath a lowermost layer andor on top of an uppermost layer of the granular laminate.
9. The process for producing a phosphorescent body according to claim 8, wherein a thickness of the coat layer is made different from that of the other layers.
10. The process for producing a phosphorescent body according to claim 1, wherein the granular laminate is formed by performing screen printing several times.
11. The process for producing a phosphorescent body according to claim 1, wherein the mixture includes a medium, and the medium is dried every time each layer is formed.
12. A phosphorescent body article of manufacture, comprising:
a phosphorescent body containing at least a phosphorescent material and a glass material,
the phosphorescent body obtained by forming a granular laminate from a mixture by mixing at least a phosphorescent material and a glass material without a resin adhesive agent into a paste consistency and stacking a plurality of layers of the mixture one on top of another to form a first granular laminate shape, and heating the granular laminate so that the granular laminate in the first granular laminate shape melts and deforms the first granular laminate shape into a second granular laminate shape being different from the first granular laminate shape by an action of a surface tension of the melting granular laminate.
13. A nail stone including the phosphorescent body article of manufacture according to claim 12.