Author: claimsbot

1. A suction pipe assembly of an internal combustion engine, the suction pipe assembly comprising:
a suction pipe including
a suction pipe housing having a chamber therein, the suction pipe housing including:
an first housing part having a first connecting flange circumferentially surrounding the chamber;
a second housing part having a second connecting flange circumferentially surrounding the chamber;
wherein the first and second connecting flanges have a contact surface at which the first and second connecting flanges contact each other face to face circumferentially surrounding the chamber when the suction pipe housing is in a closed state;
wherein a circumferential seal chamber is formed by and between the first connecting flange and the second connecting flange;
a cooling fluid intercooler arranged in the chamber of the suction pipe housing;
the seal chamber is delimited by the first connecting flange, the second connecting flange and a connecting plate of the cooling fluid intercooler;
a seal, disposed in the seal chamber, sealing the suction pipe relative to the cooling fluid intercooler;
the seal made of an initially flowable sealing material introduced into the seal chamber as a liquid between the first connecting flange and the first housing part and contacting second connecting flange of the second housing part into the circumferential seal chamber in an initially flowable state and subsequently cured in a curing phase in the seal chamber;
the seal chamber seal-tightly closed with the exception of at least one fill opening extending through the second connecting flange through which the liquid sealing material is introduced into the seal chamber while the first housing part and the second housing part are in the closed state.
2. The suction pipe assembly according to claim 1, wherein
the sealing material foams at the latest in the curing phase.
3. The suction pipe assembly according to claim 1, wherein
the at least one fill opening for introducing the initially flowable sealing material is accessible from an exterior of the suction pipe.
4. The suction pipe assembly according to claim 1, wherein
the at least one first section of the suction pipe is a wall of the suction pipe, and
wherein the at least one second section connected with the cooling fluid intercooler is a lateral part of the cooling fluid intercooler or a section of the cooling fluid intercooler connected with a cooling medium tank.
5. The suction pipe assembly according to claim 1, wherein
the at least second section connected with the cooling fluid intercooler is at least one web.
6. The suction pipe assembly according to claim 1, wherein
the at least second section connected with the cooling fluid intercooler is a connecting frame that connects the cooling fluid intercooler to the suction pipe.
7. The suction pipe assembly according to claim 1, wherein
the seal is enclosed by and contacts directly against the first connecting flange, the second connecting flange and the connecting plate of the cooling fluid intercooler.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1-38. (canceled)
39. A method for charging an account related to a terminal device of a subscriber to a first data network for a network session rendered to said terminal device when roaming in a second data network, comprising the steps of
registrating said terminal device to said second data network,
transmitting a network address of a first charging system related to said first data network rom said first data network to said second data network,
establishing said network session for said terminal device by said second data network,
assessing in said second data network first charge information about said network session,
transmitting said assessed charge information from said second data network to said network address of said first charging system, and
calculating a charge for said network session at said first charging system using said incoming first charge information,
wherein said step of transmitting said network address of said first charging system from said first data network to said second data network is performed before said step of registrating said terminal device to said second data network.
40. A method according to claim 1, comprising the further steps of
saving said assessed first charge information about said network session to a second charging system related to said second data network,
calculating a charge for said network session by second charging system using said saved first charge information,
charging said charge for said network session to a first operator of said first data network.
41. A method according to claim 40, in which said first charge information saved to said second charging system is marked with a flag indicating that said first charge information is related to a subscriber of said first data network.
42. A method according to claim 40, in which said charge is charged after termination of said network session.
43. A method according to claim 39, in which said first charge information is a bearer charge information.
44. A method according to claim 39, in which said step of assessing a first charge information in said second data network is performed in near real-time or in real-time.
45. A method according to claim 39, in which said step of transmitting said assessed first charge information from said second data network to said network address of said first charging system is performed in near real-time or in real-time.
46. A method according to claim 39, in which charging said account is performed in near real-time or in real-time.
47. A method according to claim 39, in which charging said account is performed online.
48. A method according to claim 39, further comprising a step of transmitting subscriber information from said first data network to said second data network before said step of establishing said network session.
49. A method according to claim 39, with the further steps of
assessing first-operator charge information related to said network session using said forwarded first charge information,
transmitting said assessed second-operator charge information to said network address of said first charging system,
and in which calculation of charge for said network session by said first charging system is performed using in addition said incoming first-operator charge information.
50. A method according to claim 49, in which the step of assessing first-operator charge information related to said network session using said forwarded first charge information is performed in near real-time or in real-time.
51. A method according to claim 49, in which the step of transmitting said assessed second-operator charge information to said network address of said first charging system is performed in near real-time or in real-time.
52. A method according to claim 39, in which said subscriber is subscribed to said first data network through a second network operator, comprising the further steps of
transmitting and saving said network address of said first charging system from said first data network to a server related to said second operator of said first data network,
forwarding from said first data network to said server said first charge information received from said second data network,
assessing second-operator charge information related to said network session using said forwarded first charge information,
transmitting said assessed second-operator charge information to said network address of said first charging system,
and in which calculation of charge for said network session by said first charging system is performed using in addition said incoming second-operator charge information.
53. A method according to claim 52, comprising the further step of transmitting said assessed operator charge information from said server to a third charging system related to said second operator.
54. A method according to claim 53, in which said operator charge is charged after termination of said session by said third charging system to said first operator of said first data network.
55. A method according to claim 39 in which said account charged is a prepaid account.
56. A method according to claim 39 in which said steps of calculation of a charge for said network session by said first charging system using said incoming first charge information and charging said account are performed in real-time.
57. A method according to claim 39 in which said network session is established between said terminal device and a station in a third data network, which station is, regarding said network session, an originating or a terminating station.
58. A method according to claim 48 comprising, before said step of establishing said network session between terminal device in said second data network and said station in said third data network, a further step of establishing a control network session between said terminal device and said station, which control network session is routed through a first network control node related to said first data network.
59. A method according to claim 49 in which said first charge information is transmitted via said control network session.
60. A method according to claim 39, in which at least one of said data networks is a radio data network.
61. A method according to claim 52, in which said data networks are packet switched radio data networks.
62. A network system comprising
a first data network,
at least one second data network,
a first-network charging system related to said first data network, and
a first terminal device subscribed to said first data network, wherein
said first data network has a first-network service assessment system communicating with a second-network service assessment system in said second data network and adapted to transmit a network address of said first-network charging system to said second-network service assessment system, and
said second-network service assessment system is adapted to assess and to transmit first charge information during said network session to said first-network charging system using said network address,
wherein said first-network service assessment system is additionally adapted to performing said step of transmitting said network address of said first charging system from said first data network to said second data network before a step of registrating said first terminal device to said second data network.
63. A network system according to claim 62, comprising in addition a second-network charging system related to said second network and communicating with said second-network service assessment system, in which said second-network service assessment system is additionally adapted to transmit said first charge information about said network session to said second-network charging system.
64. A network system according to claim 62, comprising a second-network session control system adapted to establish and maintain a network session between the first network station and a terminating or an originating second network station.
65. A network system according to claim 62, in which, to perform said transmission of said first charge information from said second-network service assessment system to said first-network charging system, said second-network session control system is additionally adapted to transmit said first charge information to said first-network session control system, and said first-network control system is additionally adapted to transmit said received first charge information to said first-network charging system.
66. A network system according to claim 62, in which the first-network charging system is adapted to transforming balance information related to the first network station, the transformation depending on the balance information and on the incoming first charge information related to said first network station.
67. A network system according to claim 66, in which the first-network charging system is adapted to perform said transformation in near real-time or real-time.
68. A network system according to claim 62, in which said second-network service assessment system is adapted to assess and to transmit in near real-time or real-time said first charge information during said network session to said first-network charging system using said network address.
69. A network system according to claim 62, in which said first charge information is a bearer charger information.
70. A network system according to claim 62, in which said first-network session control system is additionally adapted to assess during said network session and to transmit to said first-network charging system first-operator charge information depending on said received charge information, and in which said first-network charging system is adapted to transform said balance information in additional dependence of said incoming first-operator charge information.
71. A network system according to claim 62, which additionally comprises a second-operator server which is related to said first data network and communicates with said first-network call session control system, and which is adapted to assess second-operator charge information related to said network session using said first charge information and to transmit said second-operator charge information to said first-network charging system, and in which said first-network charging system is adapted to transform said balance information in additional dependence of said incoming second-operator charge information.
72. A network system according to claim 71, comprising in addition a second-operator charge system related to said first data network and communicating with said second-operator server, in which said second-operator server is additionally adapted to transmit second-operator charge information about said network session to said second-network charge system.
73. A network system according to claim 62 in which the first charging system is adapted to apply a real-time transformation algorithm to said types of incoming charge information.
74. A network system according to claim 62, in which said first and second networks are GPRS Public Land Mobile Networks.
75. A network system according to claim 74, in which said second-network session control system comprises a serving GPRS support node (SGSN), a GPRS Internet Protocol backbone, and a Gateway GPRS support node (GGSN).
76. A network system according to claim 75 in which said second-network service assessment system is integrated into said SGSN.

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image bearing body;
an image forming section to form a toner image on the image bearing body;
a transfer section to transfer the toner image on a recording material; and
a fixing apparatus having a pressure member and a heating member, which fixes the toner image on the recording material transported their between, the fixing apparatus comprising:

a cooling section to cool the pressure member; and
a controlling section to control the cooling section according to an interval between recording materials.
2. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to print modes, wherein the print modes having at least a simplex printing mode and a duplex printing mode.
3. The image forming apparatus of claim 2, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to duplex printing modes, wherein the duplex printing modes having at least a mode with magnification correction and a mode without magnification correction.
4. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to a productivity of image formed sheets.
5. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to a size of the recording material.
6. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controlling section to control the cooling section according to a ratio of the distance of the interval between recording materials to a traveling distance of a fixing member.
7. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controlling section controls an actuation of the cooling section according to the interval between recording materials.
8. The image forming apparatus of claim 1, wherein the pressure member is made as a hollow pipe and the cooling section flows air to the hollow pipe so as to cool the pressure member.
9. An image forming-apparatus comprising:
an image bearing body;
an image forming section to form a toner image on the image bearing body;
a transfer section to transfer the toner image on a recording material;
a fixing apparatus having a pressure member and a heating member, which fixes the toner image on the recording material transported their between, the fixing apparatus comprising:

a cooling section to cool the pressure member; and
a controlling section to control the cooling section according to a basic weight of the recording material.
10. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the control section controls the cooling section according to the basic weight of the recording material and an interval between recording materials.
11. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to print modes, wherein the print modes having at least a simplex printing mode and a duplex printing mode.
12. The image forming apparatus of claim 11, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to duplex printing modes, wherein the duplex printing modes having at least a mode with magnification correction and a mode without magnification correction.
13. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to a productivity of image formed sheets.
14. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the interval between recording materials is varied according to a size of the recording material.
15. The image forming apparatus of claim 9, wherein the pressure member is made as a hollow pipe and the cooling section flows air to the hollow pipe so as to cool the pressure member.
16. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image bearing body;
an image forming section to form a toner image on the image bearing body;
a transfer section to transfer the toner image on a recording material;
a fixing apparatus having a pressure member and a heating member, which fixes the toner image on the recording material transported their between, the fixing apparatus comprising:

a cooling section to cool the pressure member; and
a controlling section to control the cooling section according to print modes.
17. The image forming apparatus of claim 16, wherein the print modes having at least a simplex printing mode and a duplex printing modes.
18. The image forming apparatus of claim 17, wherein the space between recording materials is varied according to duplex printing modes, wherein the duplex printing modes having at least a mode with magnification correction and a mode without magnification correction.
19. The image forming apparatus of claim 16, wherein the pressure member is made as a hollow pipe and the cooling section flows air to the hollow pipe so as to cool the pressure member.
20. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image bearing body;
an image forming section to form a toner image on the image bearing body;
a transfer section to transfer the toner image on a recording material;
a fixing apparatus having a pressure member and a heating member, which fixes the toner image on the recording material transported their between, the fixing apparatus comprising:

a cooling section to cool the pressure member;
a temperature detecting section to detect the temperature of the pressure member; and
a controlling section to control the cooling section according to the temperature detected;
wherein the pressure member is made as a hollow pipe and the cooling section flows air to the hollow pipe so as to cool the pressure member.
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 system for reducing data entry errors, comprising:
an input component controllable to display a plurality of keys selectable by a user in accordance with a controllable viewing mode, the input component receiving input by the user;
a display component controllable to display one or more key images;
a processor operatively coupled to the input component and the display component, and programmed to:
control the display component to display a key image or images corresponding to key selection input by the user on the input component;
ascertain a subset of the keys selectable by the user based upon respective likelihoods that each of the keys follows a previously selected key or keys within a predetermined language or subset thereof;
define the controllable viewing mode so that the input component displays each of the keys within the ascertained subset of keys in a manner visually distinguishable by the user from each of the keys not within the ascertained subset of keys;
control the input component to display the plurality of keys selectable by the user in accordance with the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein a location on the input component of each of the keys selectable by the user as displayed by the input component is the same regardless of the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein the input component displays the plurality of keys in accordance with a QWERTY format.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the input component and the display component collectively are a touch sensitive display.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the input component displays a plurality of display elements and displays the plurality of keys selectable by the user within the display elements in accordance with the controllable view mode.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the input component includes a physical keyboard having a plurality of physical key switches, the input component further including a display device projecting images of the keys on an underside of each of the physical key switches in accordance with the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the input component includes a physical keyboard having a plurality of physical key switches, each of the keys selectable by the user presented on a respective one of the physical key switches, the input component further including a lighting device operative to project light on an underside of each of the physical key switches in accordance with the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein the input component displays the keys in a circular format.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the keys selectable by the user are letters in the predetermined language.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to establish a target area on the input component of each of the keys to be substantially smaller than a displayed size of the respective key as displayed by the input component, the processor recognizing a key selection input by the user by contact within the respective target area of the key on the input component.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the input component displays each of the keys selectable by the user in a manner to have a three-dimensional format in which each key is displayed to have a respective top surface and respective side surfaces, and the target area of each of the keys corresponds to the respective top surface of the key displayed by the input component.
12. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor defines the controllable viewing mode so that the input component is controlled to display each of the keys within the ascertained subset of keys in a three-dimensional format that includes a top surface and side surfaces, and to display each of the keys not within the ascertained subset of keys in a three-dimensional format that includes a bottom surface and side surfaces.
13. The system of claim 1, further comprising a proximity sensor recognizing a presence of a finger adjacent the input component, wherein the processor is programmed to control the input component to display each of the displayed keys that are proximal to the finger in a magnified format.
14. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor controls the display component to display, at a location immediately adjacent to a location of the input component, a duplicate copy of recently selected keys so that the user is able to view and verify the keys being selected without viewing a portion of the display component not adjacent to the input component.
15. A predictive text entry system, comprising:
an input component controllable to display a set of letters selectable by a user and to display a set of word selections selectable by the user, the input component receiving input by the user;
a display component controllable to display one or more letter images or words;
a processor operatively coupled to the input component and the display component, and programmed to:
control the display component to display a letter or word corresponding to an input by the user on the input component;
determine a corpus based on a location of a cursor displayed on the display component;
ascertain a set of choices within the determined corpus that are statistically the most likely choices based on a previous input of a letter by the user;
control the input component to display the choices within the ascertained set of choices as the set of word selections selectable by the user.
16. The predictive text entry system of claim 15, wherein the display component displays one or more corpuses, and the processor determines the corpus in which to ascertain a set of choices based upon the displayed corpus that is adjacent to the cursor displayed on the display.
17. A method of reducing data entry errors in a system having an input component, a display component and a processor operatively coupled to the input and display components, the method comprising:
displaying, by the input component, a plurality of keys selectable by a user in accordance with a controllable viewing mode,
receiving, by the input component, input by the user;
displaying, by the display component, one or more key images based on the input by the user;
ascertain, by the processor, a subset of the keys selectable by the user based upon respective likelihoods that each of the keys follows a previously selected key or keys within a predetermined language or subset thereof;
defining the controllable viewing mode so that the input component displays each of the keys within the ascertained subset of keys in a manner visually distinguishable by the user from each of the keys not within the ascertained subset of keys.
18. The method of claim 17, wherein a location on the input component of each of the keys selectable by the user as displayed by the input component is the same regardless of the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises displaying the plurality of keys in accordance with a QWERTY format.
20. The method of claim 17, wherein the input component and the display component collectively are a touch sensitive display.
21. The method of claim 20, wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises displaying a plurality of display elements and displaying the plurality of keys selectable by the user within the display elements in accordance with the controllable view mode.
22. The method of claim 17, wherein the input component includes a physical keyboard having a plurality of physical key switches and a display device; wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises projecting by the display device images of the keys on an underside of each of the physical key switches in accordance with the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
23. The method of claim 17, wherein the input component includes a physical keyboard having a plurality of physical key switches and a lighting device, each of the keys selectable by the user presented on a respective one of the physical key switches, wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises projecting, by the lighting device, light on an underside of each of the physical key switches in accordance with the controllable viewing mode as defined by the processor.
24. The method of claim 17, wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises displaying the keys in a circular format.
25. The method of claim 17, wherein the keys selectable by the user are letters in the predetermined language.
26. The method of claim 17, comprising establishing a target area on the input component of each of the keys to be substantially smaller than a displayed size of the respective key as displayed by the input component, and recognizing by the processor a key selection input by the user upon contact within the respective target area of the key on the input component.
27. The method of claim 26, wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises displaying each of the keys selectable by the user in a manner to have a three-dimensional format in which each key is displayed to have a respective top surface and respective side surfaces, and the target area of each of the keys corresponds to the respective top surface of the key displayed by the input component.
28. The method of claim 17, wherein defining comprises defining the controllable viewing mode so that the input component displays each of the keys within the ascertained subset of keys in a three-dimensional format that includes a top surface and side surfaces, and displays each of the keys not within the ascertained subset of keys in a three-dimensional format that includes a bottom surface and side surfaces.
29. The method of claim 17, comprising recognizing a presence of a finger adjacent the input component, and wherein displaying, by the input component, comprises displaying each of the displayed keys that are proximal to the finger in a magnified format.
30. The method of claim 17, further comprising displaying, by the display component, at a location immediately adjacent to a location of the input component a duplicate copy of recently selected keys so that the user is able to view and verify the keys being selected without viewing a portion of the display component not adjacent to the input component.
31. A method of predicting text entry in a system having an input component, a display component and a processor operatively coupled to the input and display components, the method comprising:
displaying, by the input component, a set of letters selectable by a user;
displaying, by the input component, a set of word selections selectable by the user,
receiving, by the input component, input by the user;
displaying, by the display component, one or more letter images or words based on the input by the user;
determining, by the processor, a corpus based on a location of a cursor displayed on the display component;
ascertaining, by the processor, a set of choices within the determined corpus that are statistically the most likely choices based on a previous input of a letter by the user;
controlling the input component to display the choices within the ascertained set of choices as the set of word selections selectable by the user.
32. The method of claim 31, comprising displaying, by the display component, one or more corpuses, and wherein determining comprises determining the corpus based upon the displayed corpus that is adjacent to the cursor displayed on the display component.