Author: claimsbot

1. A labeling system comprising: a tire data read means for reading tire data respectively on successively conveyed tires in order of conveyance in a tire producing process;
a printing means for printing the tire data on the tires on labels; and
a label attaching means for attaching the labels to the tires, respectively;
a label reading means for reading tire data printed on the labels attached to the tires; and
a collating means for collating the tire data read from the label attached to the tire by the label reading means with the tire data read by the tire data reading means.
2. (canceled)
3. The labeling system according to claim 1, wherein the printing means prints a barcode representing the tire data.
4. The labeling system according to claim 1, wherein the successively conveyed tires are green tires individually carried by carts, respectively, and
the tire data reading means is an ID card reader that reads the tire data recorded on an ID card attached to the cart.
5. A labeling method of attaching labels to tires in a tire manufacturing process comprising:
a tire data reading step of reading tire data on successively conveyed tires in order of conveyance;
a printing step of printing tire data on the tires on labels; and
a label attaching step of attaching the labels to the tires;
a label reading step of reading the tire data printed on the labels attached to the tires in the label attaching step; and
a collating step of collating the tire data read in the label reading step with the tire data read in the label reading step to determine if the tire is correctly labeled.
6. (canceled)
7. The labeling method according to claim 5, wherein different types of fires are carried individually successively in the tire data reading step.
8. A labeling method of attaching labels to fires in a fire manufacturing process comprising:
a fire data reading step of reading tire data on successively conveyed fires in order of conveyance;
a label separating step of separating labels successively mounted on a supporting strip so as to extend fully across the supporting strip and separated from each other by a slit one by one from the supporting strip while the labels are being carried by the supporting strip;
a label carrying step of carrying the label separated from the supporting strip at a label carrying speed higher than a moving speed at which the supporting strip moves;
a printing step of printing fire data on the label separated from the supporting strip; and
a label attaching step of attaching the label printed with the tire data to the fire.

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 rotary blood pump comprising:
a housing defining a pumping chamber with upper and lower interior surfaces and having a blood inlet and a tangential blood outlet;
a rotatable impeller, made from an alloy of approximately 77.6% platinum by weight and 22.4% cobalt by weight, within said pumping chamber and adapted to increase blood pressure within said pumping chamber to cause blood to move to said blood outlet, said impeller having at least one raised surface area adjacent said upper interior surface of said pumping chamber;
a first tapered region of said raised surface area having a leading portion and a trailing portion such that a gap between said first tapered region and said upper interior surface of said housing decreases from said leading portion to said trailing portion to create a hydrodynamic thrust load acting to bias said impeller axially away from said upper interior surface of said housing when said impeller is rotating, each of said first tapered regions having a shroud extending from said leading portion to said trailing portion along each of its inner and outer boundaries.
2. The rotary blood pump of claim 1 comprising at least four of said raised surface areas adjacent said upper interior surface of said pumping chamber, adjacent ones of said raised surface areas being separated by a channel extending to and defining an exit at the periphery of said impeller.
3. The rotary blood pump of claim 2 in which each of said raised surface areas is provided with one of said first tapered regions.
4. The rotary blood pump of claim 3 in which the leading portion of each of said first tapered regions comprises an entrance edge along the top of a leading sidewall of one of said channels.
5. The rotary blood pump of claim 4 in which each of said inner and outer shrouds is higher than said entrance edge and coplanar with said trailing portion of each of said first tapered regions.
6. The rotary blood pump of claim 5 in which the top surface of each of said shrouds is substantially flat and is higher than said entrance edge by approximately 0.230 inches.
7. The rotary blood pump of claim 6 in which each of said shrouds is approximately 0.020 inches wide.
8. The rotary blood pump of claim 1 in which an outer surface of each of said outer shrouds defines a portion of the periphery of said impeller.
9-18. (canceled)

1. A method for operating independent wireless communications nodes to cooperate as a synchronized network, comprising the steps of:
transmitting a sync pulse from each node upon firing of an internal pulse coupled oscillator (PCO) having a state function;
incrementing the state function in response to external sync pulses received from other nodes; providing a state machine in each node to switch between synchronized and unsynchronized operation;
first determining if any external sync pulses are received from other nodes between firings of the internal PCO except for a predetermined period after each firing; and
first selecting a synchronized, master mode of operation in response to the first determining step in the absence of any external sync pulses being received from other nodes between firings of the internal PCO except for a predetermined period after each firing.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising controlling R.F. component duty-cycling with the state machine and second selecting R.F. component duty-cycling in conjunction with the step of first selecting the master node of operation.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the steps of:
periodically deselecting R.F. component duty-cycling;
first repeating the step of first determining; and
second repeating the step of first selecting in response to the step of first repeating.
4. The method of claim 3, further comprising third selecting an unsynchronized mode of operation in response to the step of first repeating in the presence of external sync pulses being received from other nodes between firings of the internal PCO except for a predetermined period after each firing.
5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
second determining if an external sync pulse from another node is received within a predetermined period before firing of the internal PCO;
fourth selecting a synchronized, slave mode of operation in response to the step of second determining;
third determining when an external sync pulse from another node is not received in the slave mode of operation; and
providing an internal sync pulse in the selected slave mode of operation from an internal phase-locked-loop in response to the step of third determining.
6. A method for operating a wireless communications node to cooperate in a synchronized network of wireless nodes, comprising the steps of:
running an internal pulse coupled oscillator (PCO) with a state function to periodic firing for allowing synchronization with one or more other nodes;
incrementing the state function in response to external sync pulses received from other nodes; providing a state machine in each node to switch between synchronized and unsynchronized operation;
first determining if an external sync pulse from another node is received within a predetermined period before firing of the internal PCO;
selecting a synchronized, slave mode of operation in response to the step of first determining;
second determining when an external sync pulse from another node is not received in the slave mode of operation; and
providing an internal sync pulse in the selected slave mode of operation from an internal phase-locked-loop in response to the step of second determining.
7. The method of claim 6, further comprising controlling R.F. component duty-cycling with the state machine and selecting R.F. component duty-cycling, of the node in the selected slave mode of operation.
8. The method of claim 7, further comprising deselecting R.F. component duty-cycling in the selected slave mode of operation in response to the step of second determining.
9. The method of claim 8, further comprising the steps of:
third determining if an external sync pulse from another node is received within a predetermined period before tiring of the internal PCO; and
reselecting R.F. component duty-cycling of the node in the selected slave mode of operation in response to the step of third determining.
10. The method of claim 6, further comprising switching to unsynchronized operation from the slave mode in response to the step of second determining when an external sync pulse is not received over a predetermined number of PCO firings.

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, comprising:
a source of light producing light along an optical axis train;
a first optical element, located along said optical axis train and receiving said light from said source of light;
a digitally controllable element which is located along said optical axis train and optically downstream from said first optical element, and receives light which has been modified by said first optical element, said digitally controllable element receiving a command for digital control of the light passed by said digitally controllable element and responsively altering said light responsive to said command;
a second optical element, optically downstream of said digitally controllable element, receiving light from said digitally controllable element and said second optical element modifying the light that has been altered by said digitally controllable element; and
a camera device, associated with said second optical element, said camera device receiving information associated with said digitally controllable element.
2. A system as in claim 1, wherein said camera device is located in a position to receive substantially exactly what the digitally controllable element will pass as light.
3. A system as in claim 2, further comprising an optical part which obtains a part of an optical beam altered by said digitally controllable element, and directing said part to said camera.
4. A system as in claim 3, wherein said optical part includes a prism.
5. A system as in claim 3, wherein said optical part is located in a location that is in line with the spotlight and receives the same field of view as the spotlight.
6. A system as in claim 3, further comprising a structure using said optical part to reduce parallax within the system.
7. A system as in claim 1, wherein said digitally controllable element is a DMD.
8. A system as in claim 3, further comprising a zoom lens, optically along said optical train and optically downstream of said optical part.
9. A system as in claim 3, further comprising a relay lens within an optical train of the system.
10. A system as in claim 9, further comprising a cold mirror located in an area between portions of the relay lens, to reduce heat in a light beam.
11. A system as in claim 1, wherein said camera device is a CCD camera.
12. A system as in claim 1, wherein said source of light produces more than 5000 lumens of output light.
13. A system, comprising:
a source of light producing light of more than 5000 lumens of output light along an optical axis train;
a first optical element, located along said optical axis train and receiving said light from said source of light, said first optical element including at least one focusing element, and at least one light coloring element;
a digitally controllable element which is located along said optical axis train and optically downstream from said first optical element to receive focused light from said focusing element of said first optical element, said digitally controllable element which receives light which has been modified by said first optical element, said digitally controllable element receiving a command for digital control of the light passed by said digitally controllable element and responsively altering said light received by said digitally controllable element responsive to said command;
a second optical element, optically downstream of said digitally controllable element, receiving light from said digitally controllable element and said second optical element, and modifying the light that has been altered by said digitally controllable element; and
a camera device, receiving optical information associated with said digitally controllable element, and producing an output indicative thereof that is used as part of control of said digitally controllable element.
13. A system as in claim 12, wherein said camera device is located in a position to receive substantially exactly what the digitally controllable element will pass as light.
14. A system as in claim 13, further comprising an optical part which obtains a part of an optical beam altered by said digitally controllable element, and directing said part to said camera.
15. A system as in claim 14, wherein said optical part includes a prism.
16. A system as in claim 14, wherein said optical part is located in a location that is in line with the spotlight and receives a same field of view as the spotlight.
17. A system as in claim 16, further comprising a structure using said optical part to reduce parallax within the system.
18. A system as in claim 12, wherein said digitally controllable element is a DMD.
19. A system as in claim 16, wherein said second optical element includes a zoom lens, optically along said optical train and optically downstream of said optical part.
20. A system as in claim 16, wherein said second optical element includes a relay lens within an optical train of the system.
21. A system as in claim 20, further comprising a cold mirror located in an area between portions of the relay lens, to reduce heat in a light beam that is projected thereby.
22. A system as in claim 12, wherein said camera device is a CCD camera.
23. A method, comprising:
first controlling modification of a light beam of more than 5000 lumens of output light along an optical axis train using a first optical element;
second controlling characteristics of said light beam using a digitally controllable element which is located along said optical axis train and optically downstream from said first optical based on a command for digital control of the light passed by said digitally controllable element and responsively altering said light received by said digitally controllable element responsive to said command;
third controlling modification of the light that has been altered by said digitally controllable element; and
receiving optical information associated with said digitally controllable element, and producing an output indicative thereof that is used as part of control of said digitally controllable element.
24. A method as in claim 23, wherein said first controlling comprises controlling a coloring of the light.
25. A method as in claim 23, wherein said receiving comprises receiving light from a position to receive substantially exactly what the digitally controllable element will pass as light.
26. A method as in claim 23, wherein said receiving comprises using a prism for directing light to be received.
27. A method as in claim 23, further comprising using said optical information to reduce parallax within the system.
28. A method as in claim 23, wherein said digitally controllable element is a DMD.
29. A method as in claim 23, wherein said third controlling comprises using a relay lens within an optical train of the system.
30. A method as in claim 29, further comprising reducing an amount of heat within the light beam within said relay lens.
31. A system, comprising;
an optical part producing output light having an intensity greater than 5000 lm.;
a light coloring device, receiving the light and changing a color thereof;
a digital light altering device, receiving the light and digitally changing at least one shape within the;
a relay lens, optically downstream of both said light coloring device and said light shaping device, said relay lens including a first light part, a second light part, and a heat reducing element between said first and second light parts.
32. A system as in claim 31, further comprising a camera device, receiving optical information associated with said digital light altering device, and producing an output indicative thereof that is used as part of control of said digital light altering device.
33. A system as in claim 32, wherein said camera device is located in a position to receive substantially exactly what the digital light altering device will pass as light.
34. A system as in claim 32, further comprising an optical part which obtains a part of an optical beam altered by said digital light altering device, and directing said part to said camera.
35. A system as in claim 34, wherein said optical part includes a prism.
36. A system as in claim 34, wherein said optical part is located in a location that is in line with the spotlight and receives a same field of view as the spotlight.
37. A system as in claim 36, further comprising a structure using said optical part to reduce parallax within the system.
38. A system as in claim 31, wherein said digital light altering device is a DMD.
39. A system as in claim 31, further comprising a zoom lens, optically along said optical train and optically downstream of said digital light altering device.
40. A system as in claim 12, wherein said camera device is a CCD camera.