Thomas C Iaia from 12705 Ashley Falls Dr, San Diego, CA 92130

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Thomas Iaia San Diego, CA

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Work:

Hewlett Packard Company

Director of Operations Consumer Inkjet Business
Xerox Corporation

1994 to 1994
Systems Engineering Manager

Publications

Us Patents

Fluid Cartridge For A Printing Device

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US Patent:

20120013658, Jan 19, 2012

Filed:

Feb 27, 2009

Appl. No.:

13/203413

Inventors:

David R. Otis - Corvallis OR, US
Dan Brown - Monmouth OR, US
Scott Martin - Vancouver WA, US
John A. Myers - Corvallis OR, US
Curt Gonzales - Corvallis OR, US
Ian Patrick Anderson - Portland OR, US
Marc A. Baldwin - Corvallis OR, US
Thomas C. Iaia - San Diego CA, US

International Classification:

B41J 29/38
B23P 17/00
B41J 2/175

US Classification:

347 6, 347 86, 298901

Abstract:

A fluid cartridge for a printing device includes a housing including a floor, a chamber defined in the housing and configured to store an ink therein, a capillary medium disposed in the housing and in operative communication with the chamber, and a wick disposed at least partially in an opening of the floor, the wick including a portion extending a predetermined distance into the housing such that the wick portion contacts the capillary medium. The fluid cartridge further includes an enriched pigment-confining member established inside the housing such that the confining member physically contacts the floor and surrounds at least a portion of a periphery of the wick. The confining member is configured to i) block enriched ink from the wick, and/or ii) dilute the enriched ink prior to flowing through the wick.

Document Handler Vacuum Belt Platen Transport System

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US Patent:

48252557, Apr 25, 1989

Filed:

Feb 12, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/155350

Inventors:

Thomas C. Iaia - Rochester NY
William J. McLaughlin - Fairport NY
Robert P. Siegel - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G03B 2764

US Classification:

355 76

Abstract:

A document handler 20 for presenting documents to the platen 23 of a copier 10 for copying with a vacuum belt platen transport system 23 having plural unapertured, thin, low-frictional, document transporting belts 35 with substantial exposed spaced 35a between the edges of the belts, the belts being movable under a substantially planar vacuum plenum backing and imaging background surface 33a overlying the platen, and a vacuum system 33 for applying a partial vacuum to a document sheet being transported by the movable belts; wherein the vacuum plenum surface 33a has multiple vacuum apertures 53 located under and overlaid by the edges of the belts 35, the belts extending in rows under the belt edges across the surface, but not extending into the exposed spaces between the belts. The belts are opaque and white and optically conceal the overlaid vacuum apertures 53. The surface also has multiple vacuum grooves 54 extending transversely in closely spaced parallel rows across the exposed spaces between the edges of adjacent belts but not passing under the belts.

Multiple Plane Corrugation-Vented Bottom Vacuum Corrugation Feeder

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US Patent:

48136603, Mar 21, 1989

Filed:

Oct 29, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/113856

Inventors:

Colin R. Dodd - Pittsford NY
Thomas C. Iaia - Rochester NY
William J. McLaughlin - Fairport NY

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

B65H 106
B65H 312

US Classification:

271 11

Abstract:

A bottom vacuum corrugation feeder includes a vacuum chamber with a bi-level support surface that support a plurality of apertured belts. The bi-level support surface has a series of raised members on a portion of its surface that corrugate the bottom sheet of a stack of sheets that are supported on a stacking tray. The stacking tray inclues raised members on its stack support surface that allow the venting of air from an air knife positioned in front of the sheet stack for separating the bottom sheet in the stack from the remainder of the stack. Recesses are included in the stack support surface of the stacking tray in order to reduce vacuum leak around the front edge of the sheet stack.

Document Handler Vacuum Belt Platen Transport Clamping System

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US Patent:

48314196, May 16, 1989

Filed:

Feb 12, 1988

Appl. No.:

7/155349

Inventors:

Thomas C. Iaia - Rochester NY
James A. Herley - Henrietta NY
Roger C. Male - Fairport NY
William J. McLaughlin - Fairport NY
Douglas A. McKeown - Geneseo NY
Robert W. Schaffer - Hanover NH
Robert P. Siegel - Rochester NY

Assignee:

Xerox Corporation - Stamford CT

International Classification:

G03B 2764

US Classification:

355 76

Abstract:

A document handler 20 for presenting documents to the platen 23 of a copier 10 for copying with a vacuum belt platen transport system 32 having document transporting belts 35 movable under a substantially planar vacuum plenum backing and imaging background surface 33a overlying the platen, and a vacuum system 33 for applying a partial vacuum to a document sheet being transported by the movable belts over the platen; with a clamping and unclamping system for moving the vacuum plenum backing and imaging background surface 33a against the platen 23 to flatten the belts 35 and a document thereon against the platen for copying. During unclamping the surface 33a slightly fits away from the platen, while supplying the partial vacuum to lift a document away from the platen retained on the belts, by first lifting a first side of the surface 33a up away from the platen substantially before the opposite side, and then subsequently lifting the opposite side, to generate a controlled air flow for assisting in retaining the documents to the belts, and moving the belts when the surface is lifted away from the platen. During clamping the first side of the surface 33a moves towards the platen beginning slightly before the opposite side to generate a controlled air flow expulsion of air.

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