Author: claimsbot

1. A method of providing guidelines for handwriting, comprising:
displaying content;
detecting a position of a stylus proximal to the displayed content in an area that does not have guidelines for handwriting;
in response to detecting the position of the stylus proximal to the displayed content in an area that does not have guidelines for handwriting, displaying at least one guideline in the content at a location corresponding to the detected position of the stylus; and
collecting electronic ink produced by movement of the stylus; and
adding the collected electronic ink to the content at the location corresponding to the detected position of the stylus;
detecting movement of the stylus outside of an electronic ink input area corresponding to the displayed content for longer than a threshold amount of time, wherein the threshold time varies depending upon a direction of movement of the stylus; and
deleting the at least one guideline in response to detecting movement of the stylus outside of the electronic ink input area corresponding to the displayed content for longer than a threshold amount of time.
2. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one guideline is displayed only in a white space content that does not contain a text or an image.
3. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 2, wherein the at least one guideline is only rendered over one or more particular types of content closest to the detected position of the stylus.
4. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 3, wherein the at least one guideline is displayed only over one or more particular types of content having a minimum area, a minimum height, a minimum length, or a combination of minimum height and minimum length.
5. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 3, wherein the one or more particular types of content is white space content.
6. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 1, further comprising:
detecting movement of the stylus beyond a removal distance from an area corresponding to the displayed content; and
deleting the at least one guideline in response to detecting movement of the stylus beyond a removal distance from the area corresponding to the displayed content.
7. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 1, further comprising:
detecting movement of the stylus beyond a removal distance from an area corresponding to the displayed content for longer than a threshold amount of time; and
deleting the at least one guideline in response to detecting movement of the stylus beyond a removal distance from the area corresponding to the displayed content for longer than a threshold amount of time.
8. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 1, further comprising:
displaying the at least one guideline in response to detecting the stylus at a position above an electronic ink input area on a writing surface.
9. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 1, further comprising:
displaying the at least one guideline in response to detecting the stylus at a position contacting a writing surface within an electronic ink input area.
10. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 1, further comprising:
determining an angle at which the electronic ink is written; and
displaying the at least one guideline at an angle corresponding to the angle at which the electronic ink is written.
11. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 10, further comprising:
determining a height of letters written in the electronic ink; and
displaying a plurality of guidelines such that a distance between the guidelines corresponds to the height of the letters written in the electronic ink.
12. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 1, further comprising:
determining a height of letters written in the electronic ink; and
displaying a plurality of guidelines such that a distance between the guidelines corresponds to the height of the letters written in the electronic ink.
13. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one guideline has a fixed length.
14. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 13, wherein the fixed length of the at least one guideline is shorter than a length of an electronic ink input area.
15. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 1, wherein
the at least one guideline is only rendered over one or more particular types of content; and
a size of the at least one guideline corresponds to a size of the one or more particular types of content over which the at least one guideline is rendered.
16. The method of providing guidelines recited in claim 15, wherein the one or more particular types of content is white space content.

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. Stack (50) of supple and absorbent sheets (20), for example made of cellulose wadding, which comprise a longitudinal fold line (22) forming a longitudinal border (28) and at least one transverse fold line (30) perpendicular to the longitudinal fold line (22) and which are all folded identically, characterized in that the longitudinal (22) and transverse (30) fold lines of an upper folded sheet (36) in the stack are not adjacent to the respective longitudinal (22) and transverse (30) fold lines of the previous lower folded sheet (36).
2. Stack (50) according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the longitudinal fold line (22) of an upper folded sheet (36) is parallel to and transversely opposite the longitudinal fold line (22) of the previous lower folded sheet (36) and in that the transverse fold line (30) of the upper folded sheet (36) is parallel to and longitudinally opposite the transverse fold line (30) of the lower folded sheet (36).
3. Stack (50) according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that two successive folded sheets (36) are intertwined.
4. Stack (50) according to one of claims 2 and 3, characterized in that the longitudinal fold line (22) of the upper folded sheet (36) is superposed with the longitudinal edge (40) of the previous lower folded sheet (36) which edge is the edge opposite the longitudinal fold line (22) of this lower folded sheet (36).
5. Stack (50) according to one of claims 2 and 3, characterized in that the longitudinal fold line (22) of the upper folded sheet (36) is transversely offset towards the outside of the stack (50) with respect to the longitudinal edge (40) of the previous lower folded sheet (36).
6. Stack (50) according to any one of claims 2 to 5, characterized in that at least one of the transverse fold lines (30) forming a transverse border (38) of the upper folded sheet (36) is superposed with the transverse edge (42) of the lower folded sheet (36) which edge is the opposite edge to the corresponding transverse fold line (30) that forms the transverse border (38) of the lower folded sheet (36).
7. Stack (50) according to any one of claims 2 to 5, characterized in that at least one of the transverse fold lines (30) forming a transverse border (38) of the upper folded sheet (36) is longitudinally offset towards the outside of the stack with respect to the transverse edge (42) of the previous lower folded sheet (36).
8. Stack (50) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the longitudinal fold line (22) delimits two sections (24, 26), the transverse dimensions of which are roughly equal.
9. Stack (50) according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the longitudinal fold line (22) delimits two sections (24, 26), the transverse dimension of one of which is at most twice the transverse dimension of the other.
10. Stack (50) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the sheets (20) are folded about two transverse fold lines (30) so as to form a central panel and two end flaps which extend facing one same side of the central panel.
11. Stack (50) according to any one of claims 1 to 10, characterized in that the sheets (20) are folded about two transverse fold lines (30) so as to form a central panel and two end flaps, each of which extends facing one of the sides of the central panel.
12. Stack (50) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that each sheet (20) is folded in four about a longitudinal fold line (22) and about a perpendicular transverse fold line (30) so as to form a stack of square folded sheets (36), particularly folded napkins.
13. Stack (50) according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that each folded sheet (36) of the stack (50) consists of at least one ply of supple and absorbent material.
14. Method for stacking sheets (20) of supple and absorbent material, particularly cellulose wadding, of the type comprising the following successive steps:
folding two separate webs of material in the longitudinal direction about a longitudinal fold line (22);
making transverse cuts at regular intervals, so as to produce sheets (20);
folding the sheets about at least one transverse fold line (30); and
stacking (50) the folded sheets (36), characterized in that at the end of the stacking step, the longitudinal fold line (22) of the upper folded sheet (36) is roughly opposed, with respect to the lower folded sheet (36), to the longitudinal fold line (22) of the lower folded sheet (36).
15. Method according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the folding and the stacking (50) of the sheets (20) cause the folded sheets (36) to be intertwined.

1. A method of producing a film, comprising the steps of:
melt-extruding a resin in the form of film from a T-die,
powder-spraying an anti-blocking agent in an area-average spraying amount of 0.5 to 3 gm2 on the roll surface of a cooling roll, and
nip roll the melt-extruded melted resin in the form of film on the roll surface of the cooling roll on which the anti-blocking agent has been powder-sprayed.
2. The method of producing a film according to claim 1, wherein the resin is a polyolefin resin.
3. The method of producing a film according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the resin melt-extruding temperature is 150 to 340\xb0 C., and the melt-extruded melted resin in the form of film is pressure-bonded to the roll surface with a pressing roll linear pressure of 4.9 to 24.5 kNm.
4. The method of producing a film according to claim 1, wherein the anti-blocking agent is powder-sprayed on the roll surface by an electrostatic powder coating spray.
5. The method of producing a film according to claim 1, wherein the anti-blocking agent is powder-sprayed on the roll surface by a blocking-preventing powder disseminating machine.

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 nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery comprising: a negative electrode (1) which is formed by disposing on a conductive substrate a mixture layer containing a hydrogen-absorption alloy; a positive electrode employing nickel hydroxide as an active material; and a closed-end tubular container containing a spiral-shaped electrode assembly formed by winding the negative electrode and the positive electrode with a separator interposed therebetween such that an outermost periphery of the assembly is the negative electrode (1), wherein
surface roughness of an outermost peripheral portion of the mixture layer of the negative electrode (1) which contacts an inner side wall of the closed-end tubular container is 3.5 \u03bcm or more in terms of ten-point average roughness and is larger than surface roughness of the other portion of the mixture layer of the negative electrode.
2. The nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery according to claim 1, wherein the surface roughness of the outermost peripheral portion of the mixture layer of the negative electrode (1) which contacts the inner side wall of the closed-end tubular container is in a range of from 5 to 50 \u03bcm in terms of ten-point average roughness.
3. A method for manufacturing a negative electrode for a nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery, the method comprising:
a first step of producing a negative electrode hoop by applying a paste of a mixture containing a hydrogen-absorption alloy to a conductive substrate and drying the paste;
a second step of pressurizing and cutting the negative electrode hoop; and
a third step of passing the cut negative electrode (1) between a cylindrical grindstone (2) and a crimping roller (3) to grind a portion of the mixture layer with a periphery of the cylindrical grindstone (2), the portion being brought into contact with an inner side wall of a closed-end tubular container after the cut negative electrode is formed into a wound electrode assembly.
4. The method for manufacturing a negative electrode for a nickel metal hydride rechargeable battery according to claim 3, wherein in the third step a rotating direction of the cylindrical grindstone (2) is opposite to a grinding direction of the mixture layer.