Author: claimsbot

1. A method of demisting a volume of moving gas containing liquid comprising the steps of:
a. Admitting mist comprising gas containing liquid into a first space bounded by substantially circularly curved walls defining a maximal diameter, said first space having a predetermined cross sectional area;
b. Conducting the mist into a second space increasing cross sectional area relative to said first space having substantially circularly curved walls of substantially the same cross sectional area throughout;
c. Guiding said mist into a third space of further increased cross sectional area relative to said second space; and
d. Partially impeding the passage of side mist by conducting it through a semi porous baffle.
2. A method of demisting a volume of moving gas containing liquid comprising the steps of:
a. Admitting mist comprising gas containing liquid into a first space bounded by substantially circularly curved walls defining a maximal diameter, said first space having a predetermined cross sectional area;
b. Conducting the mist into a second space increasing cross sectional area relative to said first space having substantially circularly curved walls of substantially the same cross sectional area throughout;
c. Conducting said mist to traverse said first and second spaces until it has made at least a half-circle,
d. Guiding said mist into a third space of further increased cross sectional area relative to said second space;
e. Partially impeding the passage of said mist by conducting it through a semi porous baffle; and
f. Withdrawing said gas and liquids now separated through separate ports.
3. A method according to claim 2 wherein said impeding step includes positioning said baffle substantially orthogonally relative to the flow of the mist.
4. A method according to claim 2 wherein said guiding step includes guiding said mist into a chamber with an open space.
5. A method according to claim 2 wherein said guiding step includes guiding said mist toward a central exit port
6. A method of separating filament-like semi-rigid filamentary debris from a gaseous stream, comprising the steps of:
a. Conducting said combination of debris and air toward a separation tube
b. Conducting said debris through one end of the tube;
c. Changing the flow direction of the tube such that the flow angle is at least 90 degrees from the initial flow angle at the one of the tube
d. Trapping said debris at the point of said changed flow angle.
7. An apparatus for separating filament-like semi-rigid filamentary debris from a gaseous stream, comprising:
a. an inlet passage;
b. an outlet passage; and
c. an elbow passage having an angular portion connection said inlet and outlet passages, said angle being such that there is no visual line of sight from said inlet to said outlet, so that passage of said debris is blocked by the angular portion.
8. An apparatus according to claim 7 wherein said passages include an array of side by side inlet, outlet and elbow passages.
9. An apparatus according to claim 7 wherein said elbow passage includes a substantially right angle bend.
10. An apparatus according to claim 7 wherein the internal cross sectional dimension of said elbow passage is equal to or less than one-half the length of debris which it intended to trap.
11. A apparatus for demisting a volume of moving gas containing liquid comprising a fluid path and for removing semi-rigid filamentary debris comprising:
a. an inlet passage;
b. an outlet passage;
c. an elbow passage having an angular portion connection said inlet and outlet passages, said angle being such that there is no visual line of sight from said inlet to said outlet, so that passage of said debris is blocked by the angular portion,
d. a first space in communication with said outlet passage, said first space bounded by substantially circularly curved walls defining a maximal diameter, said first space having a predetermined cross sectional area;
e. A second space of increasing cross sectional area relative to said first space and in fluid communication with said first space;
f. A third space of further increased cross sectional area relative to said secondthird space in fluid communication with said third space;
g. a semi porous baffle interposed in said third space and in said fluid path; and
h. withdrawal ports for gas and liquid removal
12. An apparatus according to claim 11 wherein said apparatus includes an array of side by side elbow passages in communication with said first space.

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. An apparatus for the analysis of retinal vessels comprising:
a retinal camera for recording images of the ocular fundus;
at least one image storage;
means for detecting arterial and venous vessels in the images;
means for determining the vessel diameters of the detected arterial and venous vessels;
means for determining artery-to-vein ratios from the determined vessel diameters;
said retinal camera being connected to an image sequence control unit which carries out a control of the time intervals or times which is adapted to the period of vasomotor waves and a control of the quantity of images of a sequence of images to be recorded for which an image sequence storage is provided for storing images; and
said means for determining artery-to-vein ratios being designed to determine a mean artery-to-vein ratio from artery-to-vein ratios which are determined from at least two images of an image sequence.
2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image sequence control unit is connected to means for determining maxima and minima of the vasomotor waves as image recording times which are supplied to the retinal camera by the image sequence control unit for recording images.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the means for determining the maximum and minimum of vasomotor blood pressure waves comprise measuring devices for the continuous measurement of blood pressure or blood volume or heart rate.
4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image sequence control unit is connected to means for the continuous detection of the retinal vessel diameters or of the retinal blood volume and for determining maxima and minima of vasomotor waves of the vessel diameter or of the retinal blood volume as image recording times which are supplied to the retinal camera by the image sequence control unit for recording images.
5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the image sequence control unit is connected to means for the continuous detection of the vessel diameter of a retinal artery.
6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the means for determining the arterial central equivalent and the venous central equivalent and for determining the artery-to-vein ratio have an image evaluating device.
7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an image correction unit is provided for real-time correction of the images.
8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein means are provided for recording video sequences of the ocular fundus in continuous light.
9. A method for the analysis of retinal vessels comprising the steps of:
evaluating digital fundus images in which a ring-shaped measurement zone containing vessel portions which proceed from a central vessel, which are to be distinguished as arteries or veins, and which are to be measured;
arranging said measurement zone around the papilla at a distance therefrom;
determining a vessel diameter for each of these vessel portions;
determining a retinal arterial vessel diameter equivalent and a retinal venous vessel diameter equivalent from the determined vessel diameters of the arterial and venous vessel portions;
determining an artery-to-vein ratio is determined from the vessel diameter equivalents of the arteries and veins;
recording at least two images, as fundus images to be evaluated, successively in a timed sequence that is adapted to the period of vasomotor waves as an image sequence; and
forming a mean artery-to-vein ratio from artery-to-vein ratios that are determined based on the at least two images.
10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the at least two images are recorded at a fixed time interval corresponding to one half of the period length of the dominant vasomotor wave.
11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the dominant vasomotor wave and the period length of the wave are determined by measurement of blood pressure, by recording the arterial or venous vessel diameter, by recording the retinal or ocular blood volume, or by recording papillary redness.
12. The method according to claim 9, wherein at least two images are recorded at identical time intervals of four to six seconds.
13. The method according to claim 9, wherein at least two images are recorded at identical time intervals amounting to an odd multiple of a fixed time interval of four to six seconds.
14. The method according to claim 9, wherein at least four images are recorded at identical time intervals of four to six seconds or of an odd multiple thereof.
15. The method according to claim 9, wherein at least two images are recorded at identical time intervals of eight to twelve seconds or at an odd multiple of a fixed time interval of eight to twelve seconds.
16. The method according to claim 9, wherein a video image sequence is recorded and digitally stored.
17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the image sequence is a digital video recording with a recording duration of at least ten seconds.
18. The method according to claim 16, wherein the image sequence is a digital video recording with a recording duration of at least twenty seconds.
19. The method according to claim 9, wherein the image recordings are carried out at times at which vasomotor-dependent changes in vessel diameter, or in blood volume, or in blood pressure, or in heart rate take on maximum or minimum values.
20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the image recordings are carried out in a systole of the minimum of vasomotor waves and in a diastole of the maximum of vasomotor waves of the vessel diameter or retinal blood volume or blood pressure.
21. The method according to claim 19, wherein the image recordings are carried out in a systole of the minimum of the heart rate of vasomotor waves and in a diastole of the maximum of the heart rate of vasomotor waves.
22. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the following additional methods steps:
selecting the arterial and venous vessel portions to be measured from a first starting image and the coordinates of the selected vessel portions are stored;
adjusting the images of the image sequence with respect to one another for covering identical vessel portions to be measured, wherein the coordinates of the vessel portions of sequence images recorded successively in time after the starting image are converted to the stored coordinates of the starting image;
determining mean vessel diameters from images for the vessel portions based on the converted coordinates of the vessel portions in the sequence images,
determining the vessel diameter equivalents for the arteries and veins and the artery-to-vein ratio from the vessel diameter equivalents of the arteries and veins based on the images; and
determining a mean vessel diameter equivalent for the arteries and a mean vessel diameter equivalent for the veins from the vessel diameter equivalents of the images, and a mean artery-to-vein ratio therefrom, or calculating a mean artery-to-vein ratio from the individual artery-to-vein ratios of the images.
23. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the following additional method steps:
selecting the arterial and venous vessel portions to be measured in each image;
determining mean vessel diameters from images for the vessel portions;
based on images, determining the vessel diameter equivalents for the arteries and veins the artery-to-vein ratio from the vessel diameter equivalents of the arteries and veins; and
determining a mean vessel diameter equivalent for the arteries and a mean vessel diameter equivalent for the veins from the vessel diameter equivalents of the images, and a mean artery-to-vein ratio therefrom, or calculating a mean artery-to-vein ratio from the individual artery-to-vein ratios of the images.
24. The method according to claim 22, wherein the images in the image sequence are of an unchanged fundus section and are recorded with identical recording settings of an image recording system.
25. The method according to claim 24, wherein the images of the image sequence are subjected to a calibration check.

1. An electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprising:
a cartridge including a developer accommodating portion for accommodating portion configured to accommodate a developer;
a tray movable between a pull-out position in which said tray is outside of a main assembly of said apparatus and a push-in position in which said tray is inside of the main assembly of said apparatus, said tray including a mounting portion configured and positioned to detachably mount said cartridge in the pull-out position and a manual operating portion for facilitating pulling-out of said tray;
an urging member configured and positioned to urge said tray from the push-in position toward the pull-out position;
a regulating member configured and positioned to regulate movement of said tray toward the pull-out position when said tray is located in the push-in position; and
a releasing portion configured and positioned to release regulation by said regulating member by operation of said manual operating portion in a state in which said tray is located in the push-in position,
wherein said tray is moved toward the pull-out position by said urging member when the regulation by said regulating member is released.
2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said regulating member is locatable in a regulating position for regulating movement of said tray toward the pull out position and a retracted position in which said tray is retracted from the regulating position, and
wherein said regulating member is moved from the regulating position to the retracted position by operation of the manual operating portion in the state in which said tray is located in the push-in position.
3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said regulating member is provided to said tray and a portion to be engaged is provided to the main assembly of the apparatus, and
wherein said regulating member is engaged with the portion to be engaged in the regulating position in the state in which said tray is located in the push-in position to regulate movement of said tray.
4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said manual operating portion is provided downstream from the mounting portion with respect to a pull out direction of said tray.
5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said manual operating portion is exposed at an upper portion of said tray.
6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said manual operating portion is projected from a main body of said tray.
7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said manual operating portion includes a moving portion movable relative to a main body of said tray, and
wherein a direction in which said moving portion is moved by operation of the moving portion is substantially identical to a direction of said tray from the push-in position toward the pull-out position.
8. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the main assembly of said apparatus includes an opening through which said tray passes when said tray moves from the push-in position to the pull-out position and a door capable of closing the opening in a state in which said tray is located in the push-in position.
9. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said cartridge includes a developer carrying member configured and positioned to carry the developer in order to develop a latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive member.
10. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said cartridge includes the electrophotographic photosensitive member.
11. An apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said main assembly of said apparatus includes a transfer configured and positioned to transfer a developer image formed on said electrophotographic photosensitive member,
wherein said tray is located in a transfer contact position in which said electrophotographic photosensitive member and said transfer member contact each other and a transfer separation position, as the push-in position, in which said electrophotographic photosensitive member and said transfer member are separated from each other, and
wherein said tray is moved from the transfer contact position to the transfer separation position by opening of a door.
12. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a moving direction of said tray in which said tray moves between the push in position and the pull out position is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of said cartridge.
13. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein to the mounting portion, a plurality of cartridges is mountable.
14. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein a position of said tray moved by being urged by said urging member is a position in which only one of the plurality of cartridges is exposed.
15. An apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the one of the plurality of cartridges accommodates a black developer.
16. An apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the main assembly of said apparatus includes a tray supporting member configured and positioned to be rotatably moved by opening and closing of the door, and
wherein said tray supporting member supports said tray when said tray is located in the pull-out position.
17. An apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the tray supporting member guides said tray when said tray is moved between the push in position and the pull out position.
18. An apparatus according to claim 16 or 17, wherein said tray supporting member is a member separated from the door which is rotatably moved and has a rotation radius smaller than that of the door.
19. An electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprising:
a cartridge including a developer accommodating portion configured to accommodate a developer;
a tray movable between a pull-out position in which said tray is outside of a main assembly of said apparatus and a push-in position in which said tray is inside of the main assembly of said apparatus, said tray including a mounting portion configured and positioned to detachably mount said cartridge in the pull-out position;
an urging member configured and positioned to urge said tray from the push-in position toward the pull-out position; and
a regulating member configured and positioned to regulate movement of said tray toward the pull-out position when said tray is located in the push-in position; and
wherein said tray is moved toward the pull-out position by being urged toward the pull-out position by said urging member when said tray is located in a predetermined position, out of the push-in position, between the push-in position and the pull-out position.
20. An apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the predetermined position is a position, close to the push in position, in which said tray is contactable with said urging member.
21. An apparatus according to claim 19, wherein said regulating member is locatable in a regulating position for regulating movement of said tray toward the pull-out position and a retracted position in which said tray is retracted from the regulating position, and
wherein said regulating member is moved from the retracted position to the regulating position when said tray is pushed in from the pull-out position to the push-in position.
22. An apparatus according to claim 21, wherein said regulating member is provided to said tray and a portion to be engaged is provided to the main assembly of said apparatus, and
wherein said regulating member is engaged with said portion to be engaged in the regulating position in the state in which said tray is located in the push-in position to regulate movement of said tray.
23. An apparatus according to claim 22, wherein said regulating member is urged from the retracted position toward the regulating position,
wherein an inclined portion is provided to the main assembly of said apparatus,
wherein said tray is moved from the regulating position to the retracted position by contact of said regulating member with said inclined portion during movement of said tray from the pull-out position to the push-in position, and
wherein said regulating member is moved from the retracted position to the regulating position by being engaged with said portion to be engaged when said tray is located in the push-in position.
24. An apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the main assembly of said apparatus includes an opening through which said tray passes when said tray moves from the pull-out position to the push-in position and a door capable of closing the opening in a state in which said tray is located in the push-in position.
25. An apparatus according to claim 24, wherein the main assembly of said apparatus includes an interference member for being rotatably moved by opening and closing of the door, and
wherein said interference contacts said tray, in a state in which said tray is located in a position other than the push-in position, to disable closing of the opening by said door.
26. An apparatus according to claim 25, wherein said influence member is located inside the main assembly of the apparatus when said door closes the opening and is located outside the main assembly of said apparatus when said door opens the opening.
27. An apparatus according to claim 25, wherein said interference member supports said tray when said tray is located in the pull-out position.
28. An apparatus according to claim 25, wherein said interference member guides said tray when said tray is moved between the push in position and the pull out position.
29. An apparatus according to claim 25, wherein said interference member is a member separated from said door which is rotatably moved and has a rotation radius smaller than that of said door.
30. An apparatus according to claim 19, wherein said cartridge includes a developer carrying member configured and positioned to carry the developer in order to develop a latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive member.
31. An apparatus according to claim 30, wherein said cartridge includes said electrophotographic photosensitive member.
32. An apparatus according to claim 31, wherein said main assembly of said apparatus includes a transfer member configured and positioned to transfer a developer image formed on said electrophotographic photosensitive member,
wherein said tray is located in a transfer contact position in which said electrophotographic photosensitive member and said transfer member contact each other, and the push-in position is a position in which said electrophotographic photosensitive member and said transfer member are separated from each other, and
wherein said tray is moved from the push-in position to the transfer contact position by closing of said door.
33. An apparatus according to claim 19, wherein a moving direction of said tray in which said tray moves between the push in position and the pull out position is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of said cartridge.
34. An apparatus according to claim 19, wherein to the mounting portion, a plurality of cartridges is detachably mountable.
35. An apparatus according to claim 34, wherein the predetermined position is a position in which only one of the plurality of cartridges is exposed.
36. An apparatus according to claim 35, wherein a position of said tray moved by being urged by said urging member is a position in which only one of the plurality of cartridges is exposed.
37. An apparatus according to claim 35 or 36, wherein the one of the plurality of cartridges accommodates a black developer.

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. An electronic apparatus comprising:
a connector configured to connect an AC adapter to the electronic apparatus;
a power supply controlling unit configured to control supplying of power from the AC adapter to a system of the electronic apparatus, to thereby prevent an amount of current from the AC adapter, which is supplied through the connector, from exceeding a maximum rated current amount of the AC adapter;
a system configuration determining unit configured to determine a configuration of the system with the system configuration determining unit and the AC adapter setting unit are operated at time of starting the system; and
an AC adapter setting unit configured to temporarily select a temporary AC adapter whose maximum rated current amount is the smallest, and cause the power supply controlling unit to perform current control in accordance with a maximum rated current of the selected AC adapter, and then to judge by estimation a kind of the AC adapter connected to the electronic apparatus by the connector based on a result of determination by the system configuration determining unit, and cause the power supply controlling unit to perform current control in accordance with a maximum rated current of the judged AC adapter.
2. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the system configuration determining unit determines an operating frequency of a processor provided in the electronic apparatus.
3. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the system configuration determining unit determines a kind of an optional device provided in the electronic apparatus.
4. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the system configuration determining unit determines whether or not an optical device is provided in the electronic apparatus.
5. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the system configuration determining unit and the AC adapter setting unit are provided as functions of a Basic InputOutput System, which are to be executed by a processor provided in the electronic apparatus.
6. A power supply controlling method applied to an electronic apparatus including a power supply controlling unit which controls supplying of power from an AC adapter connected to the electronic apparatus by a connector to a system, to thereby prevent an amount of current from the AC adapter from exceeding a maximum rated current amount of the AC adapter, comprising:
determining a configuration of the system with the determining a system configuration and the determining an AC adapter are carried out at time of starting the system; and
temporarily selecting an AC adapter whose maximum rated current amount is the smallest, and causing the power supply controlling unit to perform current control in accordance with a maximum rated current of the selected AC adapter, and then judging by estimation a kind of the AC adapter connected to the connector based on determined system configuration, and causing the power supply controlling unit to perform current control in accordance with a maximum rated current of the judged AC adapter.
7. The power supply controlling method according to claim 6, wherein the determining a system configuration determines an operating frequency of a processor provided in the electronic apparatus.
8. The power supply controlling method according to claim 6, wherein the determining a system configuration determines a kind of an optional device provided in the electronic apparatus.
9. The power supply controlling method according to claim 6, wherein the determining a system configuration determines whether or not an optional device is provided in the electronic apparatus.