Conveyer
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1. A conveyer comprising:
- a belt; and
an encoded surface attached to the belt and that can be re-encoded.
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Abstract
A conveyer has a belt and an encoded surface that moves with the belt that can be re-encoded.
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41 Claims
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1. A conveyer comprising:
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a belt; and
an encoded surface attached to the belt and that can be re-encoded. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 41)
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4. A conveyer comprising:
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a belt;
an encoded surface disposed on a roller of the conveyer around which the belt is wrapped or disposed on a disc connected to the roller.
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8. A conveyer comprising:
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a movable belt forming a continuous loop;
an encoded surface attached to the belt that can be re-encoded, the encoded surface having a plurality of encoded regions distributed around the loop;
a sensor for sensing the encoded regions as the belt moves past the sensor; and
a controller coupled to the sensor, the controller adapted to count the encoded regions. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A conveyer comprising:
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a movable belt;
an encodable surface attached to the belt;
a write head adapted to encode the encodable surface with encoded regions as the encodable surface moves past the write head; and
a sensor for sensing the encoded regions as the encoded surface moves past the sensor. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. A conveyer comprising:
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a means for moving an object from one location to another;
a means for encoding or re-encoding a surface embedded in the means for moving the object; and
a means for sensing the surface after its encoded or re-encoded. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26)
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27. A printing system comprising:
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a belt;
an encoded surface that moves with the belt and that can be re-encoded;
a marking device adapted to deposit a marking fluid on an object as the belt conveys the object past the marking device; and
a sensor for sensing the encoded surface as it moves past the sensor. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A method of re-encoding a conveyer, comprising:
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erasing an encoded surface that moves with a belt of the conveyer; and
forming encoded regions on the surface as the surface moves with the belt. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A method of calibrating a conveyer encoder, comprising:
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sensing elements of a calibration pattern disposed on a belt of the conveyer on which the calibration pattern moves; and
forming an encoded region for each sensed element on an encodable surface that moves with the belt. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40)
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