Author: claimsbot

1. A system for solidifying ink printed on a moving web of paper comprising:
a structure means for directing an airflow across a plurality of elongated and perforated hollow tubes at a high negative electrical potential,
said tubes also containing flammable gas under pressure, so disposed as to emit flames along the length of said tubes,
said tubes thereby becoming sufficiently heated so as to initiate thermionic-emission of ions from said tubes into said airstream, and
charge bars so disposed that said web is interposed between said charge bars and said tubes,
the ionized airstream being thereby attracted to the web interposed in the electrostatic field created between said tubes and said charge-bars, thereby causing ionization of gasses, vapors and fumes as they are emitted from said web, and
means for collecting said ionized gasses, fumes and vapors.
2. The system in claim 1 wherein the voltage on the charge tubes is sufficient to cause a corona on the surface of the web, the ultraviolet energy causing the inks and coatings to become solidified.
3. The system in claim 1 wherein the voltage on the charge tubes is sufficient to create an ozone atmosphere at the surface of the web, thereby causing the inks and coatings to become solidified.
4. A system for solidifying ink printed on a moving web of paper comprising:
a structure means for directing an airflow across a plurality of elongated tubes,
said elongated tubes being maintained at a sufficiently high temperature and electrical positive voltage potential to cause a stream of ions to be released from said tubes and said flames, thereby ionizing said airstream wherein
said elongated tubes contain a mixture of fuel and air and being so disposed as to support flames along their length, and
said flames being spaced from the web being treated , and
charge bars so disposed that said web is interposed between said charge bars and said elongated tubes, whereby an electrostatic field is created causing ionization of said vapors gasses and fumes as they are repelled from said web.
5. A system for solidifying a coating on a moving web comprising: blower and duct structures for directing an airflow across a plurality of heated high-voltage structures so disposed as to provide thermionic emission, the heated and ionized airflow then being attracted towards a plurality of elongated charge bars,
said moving web being interposed between said heated high-voltage structures and said charge bars and
said ionized airstream being thereby attracted to the web interposed in the electrostatic field created between said wires and said charge-bars,
thereby causing ionization of the emitted effluent consisting of condensing vapors, fumes and nascent gasses as they leave said web,
said web then moving into a second position wherein said emitted effluent is repelled from the web by a second charge bar and attracted to a collection structure.
6. The system in claim 5 wherein said coating is ink on the surface of a moving web of paper.
7. The system in claim 5 wherein said heated high-voltage structures are perforated hollow tubes containing flammable gas under pressure.
8. The system in claim 5 wherein said heated high-voltage structures are coated with material that facilitates thermionic-emission, alkaline earth oxides being exemplary of said materials.
9. The system in claim 5 wherein said collection structure consists of a cooled, moving endless band, said band being continuously cleaned for collection of said emitted effluent adhered thereto.

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 differential assembly for a vehicle including:
a differential housing containing a gear support element on which are rotatably mounted a number of planet bevel gears which rotatably engage complementary bevel gears which are mounted on a pair of drive output shafts, said drive output shafts for connection to road wheels of a vehicle,
a drive input gear mounted on the differential housing,
a drive input shaft having an input for connection to an engine of the vehicle and an output driveably connected to the drive input gear on the differential housing by means of a drive transmission assembly,
an axis of the drive input shaft and an axis of the gear support element being spaced-apart and parallel,
said drive transmission assembly being adapted to offset the axis of the drive input shaft and the axis of the gear support element by a preset desired amount greater than 150 mm.
2. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the drive input gear mounted on the differential housing comprises a crown wheel bevel gear which meshes with a complementary bevel gear of the drive transmission assembly mounted at the output of the drive input shaft, said crown wheel bevel gear having a rotational axis which is perpendicular to the axis of the gear support element, said crown wheel bevel gear being mounted on the differential housing spaced-apart from the gear support element, and said crown wheel bevel gear having gear teeth which face away from said gear support element.
3. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein said crown wheel bevel gear is adjustably mounted on the differential housing for axial movement of the crown wheel bevel gear on the differential housing for adjustment of the distance between the gear teeth of the crown wheel bevel gear and the axis of the gear support element.
4. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein the crown wheel bevel gear has a bore which is slidably engageable with a complementary gear mounting portion of an exterior of the differential housing, said gear mounting portion having at its inner end an outwardly projecting gear locating ring having an outer mounting face parallel to the axis of the gear support element and engagable by the crown wheel bevel gear to position the crown wheel bevel gear on the differential housing.
5. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 4, wherein the bore of the crown wheel bevel gear is stepped having a socket at its inner end for reception of the gear locating ring.
6. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein the drive transmission assembly is a gear train.
7. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein the drive input gear mounted on the differential housing comprises a crown wheel bevel gear which meshes with a complementary bevel gear of the drive transmission assembly mounted at the output of the drive input shaft, said crown wheel bevel gear having a rotational axis which is perpendicular to the axis of the gear support element, the drive transmission assembly comprising a first spur gear wheel mounted on the drive input shaft and driveably connected to a second spur gear wheel, said second spur gear wheel connected by means of a drive shaft to a coaxial drive input bevel gear meshed with the crown wheel bevel gear.
8. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 7, wherein one or more intermediate spur gear wheels are mounted in the gear train between the first spur gear and the second spur gear.
9. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 7 wherein the crown wheel bevel gear has gear teeth which face towards the gear support element mounted in the differential housing.
10. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 7 wherein the crown wheel bevel gear has gear teeth which face away from the gear support element mounted in the differential housing.
11. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the drive input gear mounted on the differential housing is a spur gear, and the drive transmission assembly comprises a drive input spur gear driveably engaged with the spur gear on the differential housing, said drive input spur gear connected by means of an intermediate drive shaft to a coaxial bevel gear, said bevel gear driveably engaging a complementary drive input bevel gear mounted at the output of the drive input shaft.
12. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein the drive transmission assembly comprises a toothed chain drive.
13. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein the drive transmission assembly comprises a sprocket chain drive.
14. The differential assembly as claimed in claim 1 wherein the drive input gear is integrally formed with the differential housing.

What is claimed is:

1. A computer accessory deviceUSB sharer is comprised of:
a multiplexer, of which the input side is connected to a host, and of which the output side is connected to an input side of another multiplexer;
a human interface device (HID) chip, which is connected to one output side of the multiplexer; and
a busyness detection circuit, which is connected to the middle of the human interface device chip and the device output side.
2. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 1, wherein the human interface device (HID) chip makes a switching order to the multiplexer to execute the switching order for the host.
3. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 1, wherein, when the busyness detection circuit detects a busy state, the busy signal through the human interface device chip is transferred to the host and is displayed on the screen to show a busy state.
4. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 1, wherein, when the busyness detection circuit detects an idle state, the switching order through the human interface device chip is made to the multiplexer for executing a switching action.
5. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 1, wherein the output side of the multiplexer is connected to the data input side of the human interface device chip.
6. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 1, wherein the multiplexer through an output side executes a switching action.
7. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 1, wherein the human interface device chip is a standardized universal serial bus device.
8. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 1, wherein the SEL side of the human interface device chip is controlled by the signals of nB0 and nB1.
9. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 1, wherein the nB0 and the nB1 interruption signals are in triggering-on state at different time periods.
10. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 1, wherein the nB0 and the nB1 are restored automatically back to 0 after a predetermined time period for the nB0 and the nB1 side signal transferring a witching order.
11. A computer accessory deviceUSB sharer achieves a 4 to 1 sharer with two sets of 2 to 1 sharer and another 2 to 1 sharer, wherein the output side of the two sets of 2 to 1 sharer is the input side of another 2 to 1 sharer, and an output side of another 2 to 1 sharer is connected to the device output side.
12. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 11, wherein the 2 to 1 sharer is comprised of: a multiplexer, a human interface device chip, a device output side, and a busyness detection circuit, which is connected to the middle of the human interface device chip and the device output side.
13. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 11, wherein the human interface device (HID) chip makes a switching order to the multiplexer to execute the switching order for the host.
14. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 11, wherein, when the busyness detection circuit detects a busy state, the busy signal through the human interface device chip is transferred to the host and is displayed on the screen to show a busy state.
15. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 11, wherein, when the busyness detection circuit detects an idle state, the switching order through the human interface device chip is made to the multiplexer for executing a switching action.
16. A computer accessory deviceUSB sharer achieves a N to 1 sharer with N1 sets of 2 to 1 sharer, wherein an output side of at least one 2 to 1 sharer is connected to the device output side, and the other N2 sets of 2 to 1 sharer have an output side connected to the input side of another 2 to 1 sharer, wherein N is a positive integer that is larger or equal to 2.
17. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 16, wherein the 2 to 1 sharer is comprised of: a multiplexer, a human interface device chip, a device output side, and a busyness detection circuit, which is connected to the middle of the human interface device chip and the device output side.
18. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 16, wherein the human interface device (HID) chip makes a switching order to the multiplexer to execute the switching order for the host.
19. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 16, wherein, when the busyness detection circuit detects a busy state, the busy signal through the human interface device chip is transferred to the host and is displayed on the screen to show a busy state.
20. The computer accessory deviceUSB sharer according to claim 16, wherein, when the busyness detection circuit detects an idle state, the switching order through the human interface device chip is made to the multiplexer for executing a switching action.

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

What is claimed is:

1. An organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel in which water (C) is contained in a three-dimensional network formed by hybridization of: a water soluble polymer (A) and a water swelling clay mineral (B) which can be homogeneously dispersed in water.
2. An organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 1, wherein said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel is obtained by polymerization of a monomer (A) which is a constituent of the water soluble polymer (A) in the presence of the water swelling clay mineral (B) and water (C).
3. An organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 1 and claim 2, wherein the weight ratio of the water swelling clay mineral (B) to the water soluble polymer (A) is within a range of 0.01 to 10.
4. An organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 1 and claim 2, wherein said water soluble polymer (A) includes polymers obtained by polymerization of acrylamide derivatives andor methacrylamide derivatives.
5. An organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 1, wherein said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel has a critical temperature (Tc) and the state of said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel is reversibly changeable between the transparent andor a volume swollen state below the critical temperature, and the opaque and the volume shrunken state above the critical temperature.
6. An organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 5, wherein the ratio of the volume of said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel in water below the critical temperature is more than 10 times larger to that above the critical temperature.
7. An organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 1, wherein the tensile load at break is equal to or more than 0.1N the tensile elongation at break is equal to or more than 100%, and the load when the tensile elongation is 100% is more than 0.01N in the case that said organic inorganic hybrid hydrogel has a water content defined by C(AB) of 600 to 1000 weight % and whose initial sectional area is 0.237 cm2.
8. An organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 1, wherein the water content of Cmax(AB) at the equilibrium swollen state is equal to or more than 2000 weight %.
9. An organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 1, wherein a total transmission in the visible light range is equal to or more than 80% in the case of using a 25 mm thick sample of said organicinorganic hydrogel containing water (C) at 10 times (weight basis) higher than the content of an organic polymer (A).
10. A dry gel body of an organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel obtained by drying said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 1.
11. An electrophoresis medium comprised of an organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 1.
12. An aqueous solution absorbent material comprised of said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 1 andor said dry gel body of the organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 10.
13. A manufacturing method for an organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel comprising the steps of:
preparing a homogeneous solution containing (A) which corresponds to a monomer of a water soluble polymer (A), a water swelling clay mineral (B) which can be homogeneously dispersed in water, and water (C); and
polymerizing the monomer (A) under the presence of the clay mineral (B).
14. A manufacturing method for an organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 12, wherein said homogeneous solution containing (A), (B), and (C) further comprises an organic solvent which is miscible with water.
15. A manufacturing method for an organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 13, wherein the weigh ratio of the water swelling clay mineral (B) to the monomer (A) of the water soluble polymer (A) is within a range of 0.01 to 10.
16. A manufacturing method for an organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 13, wherein said monomer (A) of the water soluble polymer (A) includes acrylamide derivatives andor methacrylamide derivatives.
17. A manufacturing method for an organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 13, wherein said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel has a critical temperature (Tc), at which the organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel changes reversibly between the transparent and swollen state at a lower temperature of the critical temperature and an opaque and shrunken state at a higher temperature of the critical temperature.
18. A manufacturing method for an organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 17, wherein the volume ratio of said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel in water below the critical temperature to that above the critical temperature is equal to 10 or more.
19. A manufacturing method for an organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 13, wherein said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel provided by said manufacturing method has a tensile load at break of more than 0.1N, a tensile elongation at break of more than 100%, and a load at a tensile elongation of 100% is more than 0.01N in the case of using said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel, having a water content defined by C(AB) is 600 to 1000 weight %, for a sample which has an initial sectional area is 0.237 cm2.
20. A manufacturing method for an organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 13, wherein the water content defined by Cmax(AB) of said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel in the equilibrium swollen state is equal to or more than 2000 weight %.
21. A manufacturing method for an organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel according to claim 13, wherein a total transmission in the visible range of said organicinorganic hybrid hydrogel is more than 80%, when a 25 mm thick sample of said organicinorganic hydrogel containing water (C) at 10 times (weight basis) higher than the content of an polymer (A) is used.