Author: claimsbot

1. A method of managing color comprises the steps of:
receiving a submission from a manufacturer;
analyzing the submission by a third party by, at least, electronic means; and
communicating the analysis of said third party to a retailer.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein electronically analyzing being accomplished via a spectrophotometer coupled to a computer having color identifying software.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein analyzing further comprises:
preconditioning the submission; and
spectrally measuring the submission.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein electronically analyzing further comprises:
presenting the submission for spectral measuring.
5. The method of claim 3 wherein preconditioning the submission further comprises:
allowing the submission to come to equilibrium under standard conditions.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein said standard conditions being selected from the group consisting of temperature, humidity, light, and combinations thereof.
7. The method of claim 3 wherein spectrally measuring the submission further comprises generating a spectral measurement of the color of the submission, the spectral measurement being suitable for electronic comparison via color software.
8. The method of claim 4 wherein presenting the submission for spectrally measuring further comprises:
orienting the submission in a first position;
spectrally measuring the submission in the first position;
orienting the submission in a second position; and
spectrally measuring the submission in the second position.
9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:
repeating the spectral measurement of the submission in one of the positions a sufficient number of times to insure uniformity of the spectral measurement from the position.
10. The method of claim 2 further comprising:
calibrating the spectrophotometer coupled to the computer having the color identifying software prior to analyzing the submission.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein calibrating further comprises:
providing a standard reference having a known measurement;
measuring the standard reference in the spectrophotometer coupled to the computer having color identifying software;
comparing the measurement of the standard reference to the known measurement of the standard reference; and
adjusting, if necessary, the spectrophotometer coupled to the computer having color identifying software.
12. The method of claim 2 wherein analyzing further comprises:
spectromapping said spectrophotometer to a primary spectrophotometer.
13. The method of claim 12 wherein spectromapping further comprises defining an adjustment to said spectrophotometer so that spectral measurements of said spectrophotometer are equivalent to said primary spectrophotometer.
14. The method of claim 7 further comprising comparing the spectral measurement of the color of the submission to a spectral measurement of a specification provided by the retailer, and deciding based upon the comparison to acceptreject the submission.

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 liquid jet head comprising:
a piezoelectric body substrate on which ejection grooves penetrating from an upper surface to a lower surface and non-ejection grooves open on the lower surface are alternately arranged in a reference direction and form a groove row;
a cover plate that includes a liquid chamber communicating with the ejection grooves and is bonded on the upper surface of the piezoelectric body substrate; and
a nozzle plate that includes nozzles communicating with the ejection grooves and is bonded on the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate,
wherein common drive electrodes are installed on side surfaces of the ejection grooves, which are lower than nearly \xbd of a thickness of the piezoelectric body substrate, and individual drive electrodes are installed on side surfaces of the non-ejection grooves, which are lower than nearly \xbd of a thickness of the piezoelectric body substrate.
2. The liquid jet head according to claim 1, wherein common terminals electrically connected to the common drive electrodes and individual terminals electrically connected to the individual drive electrodes are installed on the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate.
3. The liquid jet head according to claim 2, wherein the individual terminal electrically connects two individual drive electrodes installed on ejection-groove-side side surfaces of the two non-ejection grooves holding the ejection groove to each other.
4. The liquid jet head according to claim 2, further comprising:
a flexible circuit board including a wiring pattern, wherein
the flexible circuit board is connected to the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate while the wiring pattern is electrically connected to the common terminals and the individual terminals.
5. The liquid jet head according to claim 1, wherein a groove-direction width of the common drive electrode is nearly equal to or narrower than a groove-direction width of an opening portion at which the ejection groove is open on the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate.
6. The liquid jet head according to claim 1, wherein at least one of groove-direction edge portions of an opening portion at which the non-ejection groove is open on the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate is extended to a side surface of the piezoelectric body substrate.
7. The liquid jet head according to claim 1, wherein the non-ejection groove is open at a region that is on the upper surface of the piezoelectric body substrate and that is except for a region at which the liquid chamber is formed.
8. The liquid jet head according to claim 1, wherein the piezoelectric body substrate includes a plurality of the groove rows arranged in parallel in a reference direction, and a second-groove-row-side edge portion of the ejection groove included in a first groove row among the groove rows next to each other and a first-groove-row-side edge portion of the non-ejection groove included in a second groove row are separate from each other while overlapping with each other in a thickness direction of the piezoelectric body substrate.
9. A liquid jet apparatus comprising:
the liquid jet head according to claim 1;
a movement mechanism configured to relatively move the liquid jet head and a recording medium;
a liquid supply tube configured to supply liquid to the liquid jet head; and
a liquid tank configured to supply the liquid to the liquid supply tube.
10. A method of manufacturing a liquid jet head, the method comprising:
an ejection groove forming step of forming a plurality of ejection grooves by cutting a piezoelectric body substrate from an upper surface of the piezoelectric body substrate;
a non-ejection groove forming step of forming a plurality of non-ejection grooves in parallel to a groove direction of the ejection grooves by cutting the piezoelectric body substrate from a lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate;
a cover plate bonding step of bonding a cover plate on which a liquid chamber is formed onto the upper surface of the piezoelectric body substrate while allowing the liquid chamber to communicate with the ejection grooves; and
a conductive material depositing step of depositing a conductive material on the piezoelectric body substrate from the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate.
11. The method of manufacturing a liquid jet head according to claim 10, further comprising:
a photopolymer film forming step of installing a photopolymer film on the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate before the conductive material depositing step.
12. The method of manufacturing a liquid jet head according to claim 10, further comprising:
a piezoelectric body substrate grinding step of grinding the piezoelectric body substrate to a predetermined thickness after the ejection groove forming step.
13. The method of manufacturing a liquid jet head according to claim 10, further comprising:
a nozzle plate bonding step of allowing nozzles formed on a nozzle plate to communicate with the ejection grooves by bonding the nozzle plate onto the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate.
14. The method of manufacturing a liquid jet head according to claim 10, wherein, in the ejection groove forming step and the non-ejection groove forming step, a plurality of groove rows in which the ejection grooves and the non-ejection grooves are alternately arranged in a reference direction is formed next to each other, and a second-groove-row-side edge portion of the ejection groove included in a first groove row among the groove rows next to each other and a first-groove-row-side edge portion of the non-ejection groove included in a second groove row are separate from each other while overlapping with each other in a thickness direction of the piezoelectric body substrate.
15. The method of manufacturing a liquid jet head according to claim 14, wherein, in the conductive material depositing step, a mask is installed on the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate so as to cover a second-groove-row-side edge portion of the ejection groove included in a first groove row among the groove rows next to each other and a first-groove-row-side edge portion of the non-ejection groove included in a second groove row.
16. The method of manufacturing a liquid jet head according to claim 10, further comprising:
an insulating material depositing step of depositing an insulating material on the piezoelectric body substrate from the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate while the ejection groove penetrates from the upper surface to the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate and, before the conductive material depositing step, a part of an opening portion open on the lower surface of the piezoelectric body substrate is covered.

1. A pneumatic tire comprising:
a tread portion provided with circumferential grooves extending continuously in the circumferential direction of the tire and axial grooves joining the circumferential grooves,
said circumferential grooves including a wavy circumferential groove, and
said axial grooves including first axial grooves joining the wavy circumferential groove so that
at the junction of each of the first axial grooves with the wavy circumferential groove, an acute-angled corner is formed between the first axial groove and the wavy circumferential groove, and
at said junction of each of the first axial grooves, the first axial groove has a toe-side edge intersecting a junction-side side edge of the wavy circumferential groove at a first intersecting point (P1), and a heel-side edge intersecting said junction-side side edge at a third intersecting point (P3), wherein
the first intersecting point (P1) is positioned between a second intersecting point (P2) and one of junction-side maximum amplitude points (RLO) which is positioned adjacently to the second intersecting point (P2) on the heel-side,
the second intersecting point (P2) is an intersecting point between said junction-side side edge and one of maximally-inclined tangents (Ka),
the maximally-inclined tangents (Ka) are tangents to an opposite-of-junction-side side edge of the wavy circumferential groove which are inclined, with respect to the circumferential direction, maximally to the junction-side side edge towards the toe-side,
said junction-side maximum amplitude points (RLO) are points on the junction-side side edge at which the junction-side side edge protrudes maximally towards the junction-side, and
said third intersecting point (P3) is positioned between the second intersecting point (P2) and the junction-side maximum amplitude point (RLO), wherein
said junction-side side edge and said opposite-of-junction-side side edge of the wavy circumferential groove are each formed by a curved line and are substantially parallel with each other, and
there is no groove extending from the junction-side edge other than the first axial grooves which extends axially outwardly to the tread edge while inclining to one circumferential direction at an inclination angle (\u03b1) with respect to the tire circumferential direction, which angle (\u03b1) increases as the axial distance from the wavy circumferential groove is increased, so that the first axial grooves are curved.
2. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein the angle \u03b81 of the maximally-inclined tangent (Ka) is in a range of from 5 to 25 degrees with respect to the tire circumferential direction.
3. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein the acute angle \u03b82 between the maximally-inclined tangent (Ka) and a tangent (Kb) to the toe-side edge of the first axial groove at the first intersecting point (P1) is not more than 45 degrees.
4. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein
the axial distance between the first intersecting point (P1) and an opposite-of-junction-side maximum amplitude point (RR) is in a range of from 2 to 30 mm, wherein
the opposite-of-junction-side maximum amplitude point (RR) is a point on the junction-side edge at which the junction-side edge protrudes maximally towards the opposite-of-junction-side.
5. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein the width of the first axial groove at the first intersecting point (P1) is in a range of from 50 to 100% of the width of the wavy circumferential groove at the first intersecting point (P1).
6. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein the width of the first axial groove decreases as the distance from the wavy circumferential groove is increased.
7. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein
the wavy circumferential groove is disposed on the tire equator,
the first axial grooves are disposed on both sides of the wavy circumferential groove and join both of the edges of the wavy circumferential groove, and
the first axial grooves on both sides of the wavy circumferential groove are arranged in a staggered manner.
8. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein
the wavy circumferential groove is disposed on each side of the tire equator,
the first axial grooves are disposed axially outside of the wavy circumferential grooves, and
the first axial grooves join only the axially outer edge of each of the wavy circumferential grooves.
9. The pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein said circumferential grooves include a straight circumferential groove disposed between the wavy circumferential groove and the tread edge and crossed by said first axial grooves extending from the junction-side edge to the tread edge.

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.-89. (canceled)
90. An electrochemical analyte sensor configured for implantation in vivo and for measuring an analyte concentration in a host, the sensor comprising:
at least one electrode; and
a membrane system located over an electroactive surface of the electrode, wherein the membrane system comprises an interference domain comprising a blend of at least one hydrophilic component and at least one hydrophobic component, wherein the interference domain is configured such that the sensor provides an equivalent analyte signal response, to at least one interferent, that does not substantially affect accuracy of an in vivo analyte concentration measurement, and wherein the sensor provides a linear response to analyte concentration, in vivo, within in a physiological range.
91. The sensor of claim 90, wherein an amount of the hydrophobic component is greater than an amount of the hydrophilic component.
92. The sensor of claim 90, wherein the interference domain is a uni-component domain comprising a polymer, and wherein the blend of at least one hydrophilic component and at least one hydrophobic component comprises at least one hydrophilic substituent of the polymer and at least one hydrophobic substituent of the polymer.
93. The sensor of claim 90, wherein the analyte is glucose, and wherein the sensor is configured to possess a glucose sensitivity of from about 1 nM to about 30 nM.
94. The sensor of claim 90, further comprising sensor electronics operably connected to the electrode and configured to provide a signal representative of an analyte concentration in the host, wherein the analyte is glucose.
95. A method of manufacturing an analyte sensor, comprising:
applying a membrane system to an electroactive surface, wherein the membrane system comprises an interference domain comprising a blend of at least one hydrophilic component and at least one hydrophobic component.
96. The method of claim 95, wherein the step of applying the membrane system comprises applying an electrode domain to the electroactive surface such that the electrode domain is more proximal to the electroactive surface than the interference domain.
97. The method of claim 96, wherein the step of applying the electrode domain comprises depositing at least one layer comprising at least one hydrophilic polymer over the electroactive surface.
98. The method of claim 97, wherein the step of applying the electrode domain comprises depositing at least two layers, each comprising at least one hydrophilic polymer, over the electroactive surface.
99. The method of claim 96, wherein the step of applying the electrode domain comprises depositing polyvinylimidazole or a copolymer thereof.
100. The method of claim 95, wherein the step of applying the membrane system comprises applying the interference domain over the electroactive surface.
101. The method of claim 100, wherein the interference domain possesses a symmetrical structure.
102. The method of claim 100, wherein the step of applying a membrane system comprises providing a solution of at least one hydrophilic component and at least one hydrophobic component in a single solvent, and casting the solution over the electroactive surface.