Author: claimsbot

What is claimed is:

1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
a unit detachably mountable on a main assembly, said unit having at least an image bearing member and a memory;
image writing means for writing an image on said image bearing member in accordance with an image information; and
communication means for communicating with said memory,
wherein said communication means is arranged under said image writing means; and
said image writing means has a shielding function of shielding radiant noise emitted from said communication means.
2. The image forming apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein a case of said image writing means has the shielding function.
3. The image forming apparatus as set forth in claim 2, wherein said case is at least partly made of a sheet metal.
4. The image forming apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein said apparatus further comprises a guide part arranged under said communication means for guiding a move of a recording material, and said guide part has the shielding function.

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 distributed home location register (HLR) comprising:
a personal home location register (HLR) located in a processor of a user, but not located with a telecommunication services provider;
an interface to the personal home location register for a user to select services;
a link to an operations support system of the telecommunication services provider for obtaining services;
a network home location register (HLR) coupled to the operations support system of the telecommunications service provider
a plurality of users, each user of the plurality of users having an individual HLR within the network HLR indicating said services which are available to each user, wherein the individual HLR for a particular user includes a pointer to the personal HLR.
2. An arrangement for distributing a home location register (HLR) from a telecommunications service provider, said arrangement comprising:
processor means including the home location register, said processor means operating independent of the telecommunication service provider and located with a particular subscriber, and said processor means coupled to said telecommunications service provider for communication; and
database means for storing subscriber information for a plurality of subscribers, said database means coupled to said telecommunication service provider, said telecommunication service provider operating in response to a request from said processor means to obtain said subscriber information for said Particular subscriber, wherein said database means includes a database for storing roaming information, and wherein said particular subscriber inputs change to the HLR to modify the roaming information within the distributed HLR.
3. An arrangement for a distributed home location register (HLR) comprising:
a personal home location register (HLR) located within a processor means of a particular user; and
a telecommunications service provider including a network home location register (HLR), said telecommunications service provider coupled to said processor means, said network HLR pointing to said personal HLR, wherein the telecommunications service provider includes a traditional network HLR for other users wherein the particular user is charged a first rate for the personal HLR, and wherein the other users are charged a second rate for the traditional network HLR.

1. A device for dividing a flow of lumpy material into two sub-flows comprising:
a dividing mechanism comprising a dividing edge for splitting the flow of lumpy material into two sub-flows, the dividing edge having at least one track and being moveable back and forth in a longitudinal direction of the dividing edge via the at least one track;
an apparatus to direct the flow of lumpy material to the dividing mechanism; and
an apparatus to divert the two sub-flows away from the dividing mechanism.
2. A device according to claim 1 wherein the dividing mechanism comprises at least one inclined plate or at least one chute on one or both sides of the dividing edge.
3. A device according to claim 2 wherein the at least one inclined plate or at least one chute is arranged so as to follow backward and forward movement of the dividing edge.
4. A device according to claim 2 wherein the dividing mechanism comprises a mechanism to remove clogged material from the dividing edge and the at least one inclined plate or at least one chute.
5. A device according to claim 4 wherein the mechanism to remove clogged material from the dividing edge and the at least one inclined plate or at least one chute comprises at least a stationary scraper located adjacent to the dividing edge and the at least one inclined plate or at least one chute.
6. A device according to claim 1 wherein the apparatus to direct the material flow to the dividing mechanism comprises at least a first belt conveyor and a second belt conveyor, the first and second belt conveyors being mounted substantially perpendicular relative to each other and being capable of reciprocating movement as an integral unit in the longitudinal direction of the first belt conveyor, the first belt conveyor being mounted substantially perpendicular to the dividing edge and the second belt conveyor being mounted such that the second belt conveyor is a direct extension of the dividing edge.
7. A device for dividing a flow of lumpy material into at least two sub-flows comprising:
a dividing mechanism comprising a dividing edge for splitting the flow of lumpy material into at least two sub-flows, the dividing edge having at least one track and being moveable back and forth along a path defined by the at least one track;
an apparatus to direct the flow of lumpy material to the dividing mechanism, the apparatus to direct the flow of lumpy material comprising a first conveyor belt and a second conveyor belt, the first conveyor belt being mounted such that material moved by the first conveyor belt moves in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the dividing edge and the second conveyor belt being mounted such that the second conveyor belt moves material to feed the material to the dividing edge; and
an apparatus to divert the at least two sub-flows away from the dividing mechanism.
8. The device of claim 7 wherein the first belt conveyor and second belt conveyor are mounted substantially perpendicular relative to each other and reciprocatingly move as an integral unit.
9. The device of claim 7 wherein the dividing edge of the dividing mechanism is comprised of at least one chute.
10. The device of claim 7 wherein the dividing edge of the dividing mechanism is comprised of at least one inclined plate.
11. The device of claim 7 further comprising a mechanism to remove clogged material from the dividing edge.
12. The device of claim 11 wherein the mechanism to remove clogged material from the dividing edge is comprised of at least one scraper positioned adjacent to the dividing edge.
13. The device of claim 11 wherein the at least one scraper is at least one stationary scraper positioned to scrape clogged material from the dividing edge when the dividing edge is moved along the at least one track and wherein the at least one track is comprised of a track.
14. The device of claim 13 wherein the dividing edge of the dividing mechanism is comprised of one of: at least one inclined plate and at least one chute.
15. The device of claim 7 wherein the first conveyor belt moves material in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction along which the second conveyor belt moves the material.
16. The device of claim 7 wherein the apparatus to divert the at least two sub-flows away from the dividing mechanism is comprised of at least two flow streams of material and wherein the second conveyor belt is also moveable such that material fed by the second conveyor belt is moveable in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction the material moved by the second conveyor belt moves.
17. A device for dividing a flow of lumpy material into two sub-flows comprising:
a dividing mechanism comprising a dividing edge for splitting the flow of material into two sub-flows, the dividing edge having at least one track and being moveable back and forth along a path defined by the at least one track;
an apparatus to direct the flow of material to the dividing mechanism, the apparatus to direct flow of material comprising a first conveyor belt device, the first conveyor belt device being mounted such that the conveyor belt device moves in a direction to feed the material to the dividing edge; and
an apparatus to divert the two sub-flows away from the dividing mechanism; and
wherein the first conveyor belt device is moveable to continuously vary a relationship between the two sub-flows.
18. The device of claim 17 wherein the first conveyor belt device is comprised of a first conveyor belt and a second conveyor belt, the first conveyor belt being mounted such that material moved by the first conveyor belt is fed to the second conveyor belt and the second conveyor belt being mounted such that the second conveyor belt moves material to the dividing edge, and wherein the first and second conveyor belts are also moveable such that the second conveyor belt is moveable in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction in which the material moved by the second conveyor belt moves.

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

We claim:

1. A heat sealable packaging film producing a peelable seal formed from a blend, the blend comprising:
(A) about 99 to about 75 weight percent of a copolyester comprising:
i. diacid residues of at least about 50 mole percent terephthalic acid, naphthalenedicarboxylic acid, 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid, or mixtures thereof; and
ii. diol residues of about 90 to about 35 mole percent ethylene glycol and about 10 to about 65 mole percent of at least one of diethylene glycol or 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol;
(B) about 1 to about 25 weight percent of an impact modifying polymer comprised of about 0.5 to about 20 weight percent of an epoxy-containing monomer selected from glycidyl methacrylate, glycidyl acrylate, allyl glycidyl ether, 3,4-epoxy-1-butene, or a mixture thereof of any two or more monomers;
wherein copolyester component A is based on 100 mole percent diacid residues and 100 mole percent diol residues and the weight percentages are based on the total weight of components A and B.
2. The film of claim 1 wherein the impact modifying polymer is selected from copolymers and terpolymers having the respective general formulas EY and EXY wherein:
X represents residues derived from

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wherein R1 is alkyl of up to about 8 carbon atoms and R2 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, and X constitutes about 1 to about 40 weight percent of terpolymer EXY;
Y represents residues derived from glycidyl methacrylate, glycidyl acrylate, allyl glycidyl ether or 3,4-epoxy-1-butene which constitute about 0.5 to about 20 weight percent of copolymer EY and terpolymer EXY; and
E represents ethylene residues that constitute the remainder of the composition.
3. The film of claim 1 wherein the impact modifying polymer is a copolymer comprising about 99.5 to about 90 weight percent ethylene and about 0.5 to about 10 weight percent glycidyl methacrylate or a terpolymer comprising about 98 to about 60 weight percent ethylene, about 1 to about 30 weight percent alkyl acrylate, and about 1 to about 10 weight percent glycidyl methacrylate.
4. A heat sealable packaging film producing a peelable seal formed from a blend, the blend comprising:
(A) about 99 to about 75 weight percent of a copolyester comprising:
i. diacid residues of at least 50 mole percent terephthalic acid, naphthalenedicarboxylic acid, 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid, or mixtures thereof; and
ii. diol residues of about 90 to about 35 mole percent ethylene glycol and about 10 to about 65 mole percent of at least one of diethylene glycol or 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, the diacid residues and the diol residues each based on 100 mole percent;
(B) about 1 to about 25 weight percent of a maleic anhydride-containing polymer selected from (i) a copolymer comprising about 80 to about 99 weight percent ethylene and about 1 to about 20 weight percent maleic anhydride, (ii) a grafted copolymer comprising about 1 to about 20 weight percent maleic anhydride and about 80 to about 99 weight percent olefin polymers, or (iii) a terpolymer comprising about 50 to about 98 weight percent ethylene, about 1 to about 20 weight percent maleic anhydride, and about 1 to about 30 weight percent alkyl acrylate having the formula

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wherein R1 is alkyl of up to about 8 carbon atoms and R2 is hydrogen, methyl or ethyl;
wherein copolyester component A is based on 100 mole percent diacid residues and 100 mole percent diol residues and the weight percentages are based on the total weight of components A and B.
5. The film of claim 4 wherein component B, the copolymer comprises about 90 to about 99 weight percent ethylene and about 1 to about 10 weight percent maleic anhydride, the grafted copolymer comprises about 90 to about 99 weight percent olefin polymer and about 1 to about 10 weight percent maleic anhydride, and the terpolymer comprising about 80 to about 98 weight percent ethylene, about 1 to about 10 weight percent alkyl acrylate, and about 1 to about 10 weight percent maleic anhydride.
6. The film of claims 1 or 4 wherein component A, the diacid residues comprise at least 80 mole percent terephthalic acid, naphthalene-dicarboxylic acid, 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid, or mixtures thereof.
7. The film of claim 1 or 4 wherein said film is heat sealable to a surface at temperatures from about 85 to about 200 C.
8. The film of claim 1 or 4 wherein said film is heat sealable to a surface at temperatures from about 100 to about 150 C.
9. The film of claim 1 or 4 wherein said film is heat sealable to itself and polyesters.
10. The film of claim 1 or 4 wherein component B is present in an amount of about 2 to about 10 weight percent.
11. The film of claims 2 or 4 wherein the ethylene copolymers and terpolymers have a melt index of about 1 to about 20 grams per 10 minutes measured at 190 C. with 2.16 kilogram weight according to ASTM D1238.
12. A multi-layer packaging structure comprising at least two dissimilar films, at least one of the external surfaces of the structure being made from a first film comprising the heat sealable packaging film of claim 1 or 4.
13. The packaging structure of claim 12 wherein the first film has a thickness from about 0.1 mil (0.0025 mm) to about 10 mils (0.25 mm).
14. The packaging structure of claim 12 having a total thickness of about 5 mils (0.125 mm) to about 20 mils (0.5 mm).
15. The packaging structure of claim 11 wherein a second film is selected from polyesters, polyvinyl chloride, and polyolefins.
16. The packaging structure of claim 13 wherein the first film has a thickness from about 0.1 mil (0.0025 mm) to about 10 mils (0.25 mm) and the second film has a thickness of about 0.5 mil (0.0125 mm) to about 40 mils (1.0 mm).