Electrophotography inventions 02/07

20070041737 - Method for the control of a transport medium and a sensor device for a printing machine: An object of the invention is to determine the position of a transport medium in a printing machine in a simple manner. Provided is a method for the control of a transport medium for a printing machine, whereby at least one mark is applied to the transport medium and whereby... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070041738 - Developing device and image forming apparatus using the developing device: A developing device includes a developing housing which faces an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is carried and stores a developer which contains toner and magnetic carrier; a developer carrier that is disposed apart from the image carrier in the developing housing and carries and transports the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070041739 - Drive motor control method and printer: A method of controlling a drive motor that is provided to a printer to apply a driving force to a predetermined operation section that operates in an image printing operation of printing on a printing sheet. The method includes steps of: measuring, in a no-image-printing operation of not printing on... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070041740 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a motor, a photoconductive drum, a charging unit, an abrasion tool, a timer, and a controller. The charging unit is provided at a periphery of the photoconductive drum, and charges the photoconductive drum by a corona discharge method. The abrasion tool is provided at the... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20070041741 - Apparatus for the rapid development of photosensitive printing elements: This invention pertains to a system for thermally treating a photosensitive element to form a relief structure suitable for flexographic printing. The system of the invention comprises a plurality of consecutively arranged blotting stations for removing uncured photopolymer from the imaged surface of the photosensitive printing element. The flexographic plates... Agent: John L. Cordani Carmody & Torrance LLP

20070041742 - Image forming apparatus and fixing apparatus thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a heating roller part to fix developer to a printing medium, a heating part to heat the heating roller part, a power supplying part to supply electric power to the heating part, and a controlling part to control the heating roller part to have a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070041743 - Treating transport mechanism in a printing press: Treating a transport mechanism (5) for transporting print material (2) in a printing press (1) that uses toner in which oil-bearing substances (27) adhere to the transport mechanism (5). A cleaning device (30) is provided with at least one cleaning element (33) movable relative to the surface of the transport... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070041744 - Electrophotographic process unit and image forming apparatus: According to the present invention, when inserting and removing EPUs from an image forming unit, a support leg of a casing can swing, is inclined, and avoids easily a structural body on a path. Further, when putting the EPUs outside the main body of the image forming apparatus, the support... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070041745 - Modular marking architecture for wide media printing platform: In one embodiment, a printing platform is illustrated which includes two or more marking modules offset perpendicular to a process direction to create an aggregate imageable area that is wider than an imageable area of any of the individual marking modules.... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070041746 - Image forming device: An image forming device comprises; an endless-belt shaped image carrier that circulates along a predetermined locus of movement and is trained around a plurality of rollers, the plurality of rollers being structured by at least one driving roller that receives driving force from a drive source and drives, and driven... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070041747 - Image forming apparatus having vibration reducing member: An image forming apparatus having a vibration reducing member is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a developing roller, an axis of the developing roller, and a gear train for driving the developing roller. Accordingly, the quality of print image is improved by providing the vibration reducing... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070041748 - Developer apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus according to the prevent invention collects toner remaining on a photoconductive drum after a toner image is transferred to paper, and collects the impurities (paper dust) included in the toner collected in an image forming apparatus which reuses the collected toner by a mixer provided in... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070041749 - Image forming substance engaging device: The present invention relates to engagement or transfer of an image forming substance within a reservoir of an image forming apparatus. This may be achieved by a device such as a paddle that may include an additional component for engagement or transfer of the image forming substance. The component may... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070041750 - Developer apparatus, image forming apparatus and developer collecting method: An image forming apparatus according to the present invention has a resin sheet 20 contacting a collecting roller 18 between a developing unit casing 11 and a collecting roller 18, wherein a scraper 18a which is provided on the collecting roller and projected over the total length scrapes toner adhered... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070041751 - Toner metering device: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method that is capable of adjusting the position of a developing agent metering device. Developing agent may therefore be metered in an image forming device.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070041752 - Semiconductive roller: A semiconductive roller comprising a toner-transporting portion whose outermost layer is formed essentially of resin or rubber, wherein the resin or the rubber includes resin or rubber having chlorine atoms and 3 to 60 parts by mass of titanium oxide for 100 parts by mass of the resin or the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070041753 - Image forming apparatus: The color offset is reduced with a simple system by relative removal of speed variation components between drums of a tandem color image forming apparatus. Assuming that the speed variation of a magenta photosensitive drum is the largest, the speed variation components of various colors are subtracted from the speed... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070041754 - Belt unit and image forming apparatus: The present invention provides support rollers on both sides of a first tension roller having a small roller diameter and an acute winding angle of an intermediate transfer belt. Ribs installed at both ends of an inner peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt are supported by the support rollers... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070041755 - Device and method for charging a media transport belt conveyor in a printer or copier: A device and a method are provided for recharging a belt conveyor which is used for transporting a printing medium in the transfer area of an electrophotographic printer or a copying machine. The device includes a blade-like contacting element which is adjacent to the belt conveyor and arranged transversally with... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070041756 - Image recording device: An image forming device which transfers a toner image carried on an image carrying body from the image carrying body to a transfer receiving body in a transfer section, the device including a charge producing section provided at an upstream side, in a moving direction of the transfer receiving body,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070041759 - Fuser for a laser printer: A fuser for a laser printer. A heating lamp is disposed in a reflective hood. A heating roller is disposed under the heating lamp and adjacent to the reflective hood. The heating roller is separated from the heating lamp by a predetermined distance. An axial axis of the heating roller... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070041757 - Heating apparatus: A heating apparatus that enables an abnormally high temperature detection section that detects, when a heating element heated by means of electromagnetic induction reaches an abnormally high temperature, this abnormally high temperature, to operate speedily and reliably irrespective of the material and temperature characteristic of the heating element in a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070041758 - Multiple pressure roll fuser: A fuser system of a xerographic device provides a fuser roll, and first and second pressure rolls supported for selective engagement with the fuser roll. The fuser system further provides a repositioner which cooperates with the first and second pressure rolls for operatively selectively engaging one of the first and... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070041760 - Laser printer and perfume device thereof: A laser printer comprises a supporting roller, a fusing roller, and a solid perfume. The fusing roller is disposed opposite the supporting roller. The supporting roller and the fusing roller are rotated synchronously to heat, and press against two sides of a sheet medium carrying a patterned toner, so that... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070041761 - Process cartridge for image forming apparatus: A process cartridge for an image forming apparatus includes a cleaning unit for removing waste toner remaining on a surface of a photosensitive drum, and a cleaning frame for storing the waste toner removed by the cleaning unit. The cleaning unit includes a bent portion adapted to bend in a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070041762 - Image printing apparatus: The present invention provides an image printing apparatus which comprises registration roller unit which convey an image recording sheet toward an image transfer position at which the toner image is transferred onto the image recording sheet, a sensor which is provided between the registration roller unit and the image transfer... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070041763 - Sheet cassette: A sheet cassette is provided with a sheet accommodating portion capable of accommodating a plurality of sizes of sheets, a side-fence member movable in conformity with the size of sheets to be accommodated into the sheet accommodating portion so as to be brought into contact with the sheets at a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070041764 - Imprinting first side/back side of sheets: More even utilization of a printing machine, whereby a closed turnover loop that is used has the capacity to handle only a certain number of sheets. For one loading, the turnover loop is loaded as a sequence with a group Gs of a number x of sheets to be imprinted... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070041765 - Image forming unit and image forming apparatus having the same: An image forming unit includes an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium disposed at a lower portion thereof, a device frame that supports the image forming device at the lower portion, having a first attaching portion to which to attach a first storage frame and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070036558 - System and method for notifying a user of a document left at a xerographic apparatus: A system and method are provided for notifying a user of a document left at a xerographic apparatus, such as a printer or copier. The system includes a sensor module for sensing the document and determining whether the user is within a predetermined distance of the xerographic apparatus. The system... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20070036559 - System and method for ordering components and services for a machine: A machine comprises a processor and at least one other component. The processor determines if the other component needs service, and sends an electronic message addressed to a remote communication device accessible by a user of the machine. The service includes at least one of: repair, replacement and replenishment of... Agent: Timothy J. Olson Wiggin And Dana

20070036560 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of image carriers on each surface of which an electrostatic latent image is formed, each of the image carriers being attachable and detachable; a plurality of development units each adhering a toner to the electrostatic latent image carried on corresponding one of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070036562 - Image forming apparatus having dismountable units necessary for image forming: An image forming apparatus reads the amount of use of each unit from a first storage section which stores the amount of use of each unit. The image forming apparatus reads a condition, set to enable each unit to execute an optimal operation, from a second storage section which stores... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070036561 - Optional apparatuses each displaying unique identifier and image forming apparatus containing same: Each of a plurality of connected optional apparatuses includes a sliding member slidable in a direction of connection, and a display provided in the sliding member, the display having a plurality of unique identifiers. The sliding member is movable while contacting a sliding member of an adjacent one of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070036564 - Apparatus, a system and a method for testing a cartridge: An apparatus, a system and a method are provided for testing a cartridge. The apparatus and/or the system is attached and/or is connected to the printer containing the cartridge via a port of the printer. The apparatus and/or the system communicates with and/or controls the printer. The apparatus and/or the... Agent: Patents+tms A Professional Corporation

20070036565 - Developer supply container and image forming apparatus: A developer supply container detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus including remaining amount detecting means for detecting an amount of remaining developer by receiving light from a light emitting portion by a light receiving portion, the container includes a container body for containing a developer;... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070036566 - Image forming apparatus and toner concentration controlling method: The image forming apparatus includes a developing device that holds a two-component developer to develop an image, a detecting unit that outputs a reference output value and a second output value when the two-component developer is stirred and carried at a stirring/carrying speed corresponding to a second image forming mode,... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036563 - Method and device for adjusting to a minimum value the toner supply to a developing station of an electrographic printing unit or copying unit: In a method to adjust the toner supply to a minimum value in a developer station of an electrographic printing or copying device in which charge images are generated on an intermediate carrier, the charge images being inked with toner at the developer station, a toner concentration is measured in... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070036567 - Sheet information output apparatus, sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A sheet information output apparatus comprising an application member for applying external force to a sheet, a receiving member in opposition to the application member for receiving the external force, and an output unit for outputting a signal corresponding to the application of the external force. The receiving member has... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070036569 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus comprises: a latent image carrier which carries an electrostatic latent image; a developing unit which visualizes with toner the electrostatic latent image carried by the latent image carrier and forms a toner image; an intermediate transfer medium to which the toner image is transferred from the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070036568 - Image-forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus includes an optical sensor including a light-receiving element that receives light reflected by a belt-like moving medium to produce an output corresponding to the amount of light received. This image-forming apparatus determines the density of a toner patch image formed by an image-forming unit by correcting an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070036572 - Fixing apparatus: An embodiment of a fixing apparatus according to the present invention is a fixing apparatus provided with a roller for fixing and a plurality of heat sources that heat a surface of the roller, in which a surface temperature of the roller is detected and controlled at a prescribed temperature... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070036571 - Fixing deviceand fixing method and image forming device: A fixing device (23) of the present invention includes a fixing roller (131) contacting a toner image surface, and a pressure roller (132) contacting a surface opposite to the toner image surface. In the fixing device (23), a printing sheet (P) on which unfixed toner image is formed passes through... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070036573 - Fixing unit having a plurality of heaters, image forming apparatus and method of determining temperature detecting position of temperature sensor: A fixing unit thermally fixes a toner on a recording medium by a fixing member having a plurality of internal heaters and an outer peripheral surface, and a temperature sensor detects a surface temperature of the fixing member at a temperature detecting position. At least one first heater, of the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036570 - Image heating: An image heating apparatus is provided that enables the temperature of an image heating element to be maintained stably at a target temperature even when the fixing speed varies, and that enables lower cost and higher efficiency to be achieved. In this apparatus, with a calorific value control section 300... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070036575 - Image forming apparatus: A technique for reducing downtime that accompanies the execution independently of adjustment processing for maintaining image quality and the execution of finishing processing relating to a printing medium. In order to apply the finishing processing to the printing medium in a finishing processing unit, an image forming apparatus to which... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070036574 - Image forming system and image forming apparatus: An image forming system including: an image forming apparatus which executes a print job to form an image on a recording medium; and a post processing apparatus which carries out a post processing to the medium on which the image has been formed; wherein, the image forming apparatus includes a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070036576 - High voltage power supply with digital control and method of generating high voltage: A high voltage power supply (HVPS) with digital control and a method of generating high voltage. The HVPS may include switching units to intermit a current flowing in a primary side coil of a transformer and to control a voltage induced into a secondary side coil of the transformer, digital... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070036577 - Image forming apparatus enabling user to directly clean discharge wire: A charger includes a frame and a cover member, together defining an internal space. A discharge wire for producing a discharge for a photosensitive drum is disposed within the internal space. A cleaner for cleaning the discharge wire is also disposed within the internal space. When the cover member is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070036578 - Image forming device: An image forming device is provided with a photoreceptor, a belt, a back member, a first front member, and a first voltage change device. The belt faces the photoreceptor. The back member is disposed on a back side of the belt. The first front member is disposed on a front... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070036579 - Two-station type color image forming apparatus with separately replaceable components: A two-station type color image forming apparatus of the present invention includes intermediate members configured to support only a developing device or the developing device and image forming means other than an image carrier. The intermediate members are selectively locked to or unlocked from the body of the image forming... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036580 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a main frame; a developing unit, the developing unit including a photosensitive drum to form an electrostatic latent image on an outer surface thereof, a developing roller installed at one side of the photosensitive drum to develop the formed electrostatic latent image, and a developer... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070036583 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming cartridges removably mounted to an apparatus body one above the other is disclosed. Structural members each partition off a space between nearby image forming cartridges mounted to the apparatus body. The apparatus is capable of obviating banding ascribable to the... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036582 - Tandem photosensitive-member unit for image-forming device: The tandem photosensitive-member unit includes a plurality of photosensitive-member and a pair of side plates. The plurality of photosensitive-member holding units each extends in a first direction. The plurality of photosensitive-member holding units is arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The pair of side plates each... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070036581 - Tandem photosensitive-member unit having grip part: An image-forming device includes a main body and a tandem photosensitive-member unit. The tandem photosensitive-member unit includes a unit frame, a plurality of photosensitive members, a front-side grip part, and a rear-side grip. The unit frame is configured to be slidably installed to and removed from the main body in... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070036584 - Image forming apparatus and image transferring unit for use in the same: In an image forming apparatus configured to form a toner image on a photoconductive element and transfer it to a recording medium of the present invention, the photoconductive element and an image transferring member pressed thereagainst are constructed into an image transferring unit. The image transferring unit is removable from... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036585 - Image forming apparatus: A transfer unit is movable between a first position adjacent to an image forming device and a second position for exposing the image forming device, in which when an door panel is opened. The transfer unit moves to the second position together with the door panel, and when the door... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070036586 - Driven unit installable in an image forming apparatus with a reduced force: An image forming apparatus includes a driver unit, a driver control unit, a drive gear, a drive-force output gear, and a driven unit. The drive gear is driven by the driver unit. The drive-force output gear is driven with the drive gear. The driven unit, detachable from the image forming... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036587 - Image forming apparatus and method of sensing printing medium jam therein: An image forming apparatus and a method of sensing a printing medium jam in the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a developing unit, a transfer unit, a fixing unit, a feed-out unit, a lower cover to come in contact with a printing medium when the printing medium... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070036588 - Print-result display method, layout-editing method, and print control device: A print-result display method comprising the step of displaying an image element laid out in a first area of a page to be printed on a print sheet and an image element laid out in a second area of a page not to be printed on the print sheet in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070036589 - Image forming apparatus including controller driving image carriers: An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes image carriers arranged side by side in a preselected direction, developing means each for forming a toner image on one of the image carriers, a drive mechanism for driving in the preselected direction a member to which toner images are to... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036590 - Magnet compound material to be compression molded, a molded elongate magnetic, a magnet roller, a developing agent-carrying body, a developing apparatus and an image-forming apparatus: A magnet compound material to be compression molded, said magnet compound material comprising a magnetic powder and a binder resin particles, wherein a ratio of Dv to Dn is in a range of 1.1 to 1.3, Dv and Dn of the binder resin particles denote the volume average particle diameter... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070036591 - Image-forming device and developing unit used therein: In an image-forming device including an image-carrying member, a developer-carrying member, and a casing having an inner space in which developer is accommodated and the developer-carrying member is supported, both a pushing force and a separating force are not applied to the casing so that the thickness of the casing... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070036592 - Multicolor image forming apparatus and image making device: An image forming apparatus, includes: a plurality of image carriers each carrying a developer image; a primary transfer belt opposed to the plurality of image carriers and configured to carry a multicolor developer image; a secondary transfer unit opposed to the primary transfer belt and configured to transfer the multicolor... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070036593 - Transfer of a media sheet within an image forming device: Devices and methods for directing a media sheet along a media path within an image forming apparatus. The media path comprises rollers that form a media nip, one or more deflectors, and a transport belt. The media nip conveys the media sheet along the media path into one or more... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20070036594 - Fixing method, fixing device, and image forming apparatus: A fixing device (14) includes a fixing roller (31) which is in contact with an unfixed image formed on a printing medium (91) with toner (93) and a pressure roller (32) which is in contact with the fixing roller (31). The fixing device (14) causes the fixing roller (31) and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070036595 - Cleaning unit, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and toner: A cleaning unit includes a cleaning blade that cleans toner on an image carrier and a brush-shaped roller that applies a lubricant of a molded lubricant on the image carrier. The brush-shaped roller is insulative, and delivers the toner cleaned by the cleaning blade to inside of the cleaning unit.... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070036596 - Multifunction machine system and paper feed control method in the multifunction machine system: The present invention is directed to a multifunction machine system which is provided with, a scanner section which executes a reading process to read an original document and generate image data, a memory section in which the image data thus obtained is stored temporarily, a printer section which executes a... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070036597 - Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: An object of this invention is to provide a sheet processing apparatus capable of cutting a sheet and recording information on the back surface of the sheet without enlarging the size of the apparatus and dropping productivity. The sheet processing apparatus which executes a predetermined processing on a sheet in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070031158 - Image forming apparatus, image forming unit and developer cartridge: When a developer cartridge is mounted together with a drum unit in a main body casing, a detection gear is rotated by driving of a motor, and an abutment projection of the detection gear is brought into abutment against a lever of a drum subunit to move the lever. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070031159 - Heating device, fixing device and image forming apparatus: A heating device, a fixing device and an image forming device are disclosed for making the life-span of a capacitor thereof longer. The heating device includes a heating part having at least one heat generation part generating heat, an electricity storage device supplying electric power at a variable output voltage... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070031160 - Image processing apparatus capable of carrying out image processing such that charged amount does not exceed upper limit: In a printing apparatus, a charged amount to be charged when printing is carried out under a predetermined condition is calculated in advance. If the charged amount is lower than an upper limit of the charged amount set by a user, printing is performed. Meanwhile, if the charged amount exceeds... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070031161 - Contoured capacitive touch control panel: A method of manufacturing a contoured capacitive touch screen control panel includes printing control indicia on at least one of a front surface and a back surface of a flexible film. The method also includes printing conductive ink pads on a back surface of the film with each pad being... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20070031162 - Printer media definition: A printer includes a first paper tray carrying a selected print medium and a user interface having a control associated with a selected attribute of the set of attributes defining all print media. The control has a first input device providing a control system input selectively associating a range of... Agent: Clifford P. Kelly Alix, Yale & Ristas, LLP

20070031163 - Image forming apparatus: A partition is provided to isolate a space from outside thereof, the space encompassing a space where an image holding member, a developing device, a charging device, a transfer device, and a fixing device. The isolated space is under reduced pressure. This allows the image forming apparatus to avoid negative... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070031164 - Developer cartridge, print process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A developer cartridge holds developer that is supplied into a print process cartridge of an image forming apparatus. The he developer cartridge includes a fresh developer chamber and a waste developer chamber. The fresh developer chamber holds fresh developer in it. The waste developer chamber holds waste developer in it.... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070031165 - Image forming apparatus having printing medium feeding unit: An image forming apparatus having a printing medium feeding unit is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a driving roller and an idle roller which engage with each other and which feed a printing medium, an elastic member which elastically biases the driving roller toward the idle roller, and a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070031166 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes plurality of image bearing members for forming toner images, plurality of driven members respectively acting on the plurality of image bearing members, wherein, the plurality of image bearing members including plural first image bearing members and a second image bearing member which is different from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070031167 - Multicolor image forming apparatus: A multicolor image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive belt unit comprising; a driving roller; a driven roller; a photosensitive belt having a joint, and a charger charging a surface of the photosensitive belt; an exposure device forming an electrostatic latent image, based on image information of each color, on the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070031168 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes a developer bearing body that partially faces the inside of a developer storing chamber, a first developer carrying member disposed in the developer storing chamber together with the developer bearing body, and a second developer carrying member disposed in the developer storing chamber together with the... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070031169 - Methods and apparatus for developing an electrostatic latent image using conductive particles: Methods and apparatus to develop an electrostatic latent image using conductive particles, such as carbon and metal particles with a low resistance value, without treating the surface with insulation membrane or other insulators that generate impurities in the conductive material printed by the imaging system.... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070031170 - Printing system with inverter disposed for media velocity buffering and registration: Parallel printing systems and methods incorporate inverter assemblies for not only inverting media during transport through the system but also to register the media or provide a velocity buffer transports with different drive velocities. The inverter assemblies can include the capability to optionally deskew the media and provide lateral registration... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20070025741 - Fixing member with toner releasing layer, and fixing apparatus with the same: A fixing member having a toner releasing layer superior in toner releasability and a fixing apparatus provided with the fixing member are provided. The toner releasing layer is composed of fluororubber having an ether linkage in its molecule and a polysiloxane-type surface-active agent having a polyether structure.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070025740 - Intermediate transfer belt, production method thereof, and image-forming device using the intermediate transfer belt: The present invention provides an intermediate transfer belt comprising a polyimide resin comprising polyaniline, wherein the absolute maximum length of the largest particle of the polyaniline is approximately 10.0 μm or less, a preparation thereof, and an image-forming device comprising the intermediate transfer belt.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070025742 - Light modifier with spiral optical forms: Improvements to light equipment are disclosed, including modular constructions of both lighting fixtures and of units for distribution and, if desired, dimming.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070025743 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same: An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a device information storage unit, a determiner and a controller. The device information storage unit is included in a replaceable device of the image forming apparatus and stores device-related information. The determiner... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070025745 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: In an image forming apparatus identifying recording materials to decide printing conditions, information concerning the type of the recording materials identified by a recording material identification unit is stored for each paper feed port. In a subsequent print job to be printed, the use of the information having been stored... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070025744 - Image forming apparatus including a sensor actuator to which toner does not stick: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including a body in which toner is applied to a printed side of a print medium during a printing operation. The apparatus includes a medium transferring path defined in the body, along which the print medium is transferred during the printing operation, a sensor... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070025746 - Sheet identification machine: The invention provides a sheet identification machine in which a sensor portion and a facing portion can be easily and accurately positioned regardless of a level of skill of a worker. Accordingly, a sheet identification machine (10) is provided with a magnetic sensor portion (40) having a magnetic sensor (45)... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070025747 - Image forming apparatus and method: Good images are formed without density irregularity even if an image supporting body varies with time. Potentials at developing locations after exposing the surface of an a-Si photoconductive body, which are recorded in a potential attenuation characteristic map, are compared with seven ranges A-G obtained by dividing the surface of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070025748 - Image forming apparatus capable of reducing a lengthy duration of an adjustment control: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, an image forming mechanism, an optical sensor, and a controller. The image forming mechanism performs an image forming operation for forming a reference toner image on the image carrying member under a specific setting associated with the image forming mechanism. The... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025749 - Transfer control unit of an image forming apparatus: A transfer control unit of image forming apparatus is structured such that any one of the computation formulae each allocated to every range of each use environment divided by threshold voltages Vw established in advance corresponding to use environments is selected, representative values Vspa1, Vspa2, and Vspa0 of sampling voltages... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070025750 - Image fixing apparatus: A fixing apparatus is provided, in which a problem such as the melting of a heater retaining member does not occur when a fixing nip portion performs a fixing processing in a reduced pressure state. In a fixing apparatus of an image forming apparatus capable of feeding a paper by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070025751 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus comprises: a fixing rotary body; a rotary body provided with an interval from the fixing rotary body; an endless belt rotating in a condition in which it is wound around the fixing rotary body and the rotary body; a pressure rotary body which makes a pressure contact... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070025752 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided with a document size detecting section 24 for detecting the size of a document to be read, a document size changing section 23 for changing the size of a document image based on a magnification set by a user, and a mode setting section... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070025754 - Heating apparatus, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A disclosed heating apparatus comprises: a heat generator for receiving electric power supply from a main power source and an auxiliary power unit and generating heat; a heating unit heated by the heat generator; a charging unit for charging the auxiliary power unit with electric power from the main power... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025753 - Image forming apparatus and power supply: An image forming apparatus includes a high-voltage power supply having a piezoelectric transformer. The power supply includes a positive output voltage generation circuit and a negative output voltage generation circuit. Each of the positive output voltage generation circuit and the negative output voltage generation circuit includes a piezoelectric transformer, a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070025755 - Device for forming image and image forming unit: An image forming device includes an image carrier, a cleaning device, a charging device and a shielding member. The image carrier carries a toner image thereon. The cleaning device removes a toner on the image carrier. The charging device charges the image carrier. The shielding member is disposed between the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070025757 - Development apparatus, process cartridge and image formation apparatus: A development apparatus has a casing, a regulation plate, a smoky dust prevention sheet and a backup member which are fixed together onto the casing with a screw. The backup member sandwiches a fixed end portion of the smoky dust prevention sheet with the regulation plate. Therefore, the backup member... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070025756 - Sealing member for image forming device: A sealing member for an image forming device as well as an apparatus and method of locating components within a printing device. The image forming device may include laser printers, ink-jet printers, copiers, faxes, all-in-one devices or multifunctional devices.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070025758 - Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components: Systems and methods of remanufacturing an imaging cartridge including the replacement an organic photo conductor (OPC) drum in the imaging cartridge having end caps which are fixedly secured to the waste bin or other portion of the toner cartridge. In one aspect, the method involves removing the existing OPC drum... Agent: William L. London

20070025759 - Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components: Systems and methods of remanufacturing an imaging cartridge including the replacement an organic photo conductor (OPC) drum in the imaging cartridge having end caps which are fixedly secured to the waste bin or other portion of the toner cartridge. In one aspect, the method involves removing the existing OPC drum... Agent: William L. London

20070025760 - Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components: Systems and methods of remanufacturing an imaging cartridge including the replacement a rotatable member, such as an organic photo conductor (OPC) drum or toner adder roller, for example, in the imaging cartridge without detaching the rotatable member retaining elements, such as end caps, for example, and installing a replacement rotatable... Agent: William L. London

20070025761 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a developing part having a developing process roller and a position restricting protrusion; a main body having an installation part to install the developing part and a roller driving part driving the developing part; a position restricting groove part to engage the position restricting protrusion... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070025762 - Image forming apparatus: An image formation apparatus is provided that prevents a belt from becoming displaced or detached from a belt unit. When a belt unit is detached from a main body casing, a tension roller is fixed in an outwardly protruding position by a fixing member. Thereby, the conveyor belt is stretched... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070025763 - Fixing device: A fixing device is provided with a fixing roller and a pressure roller that presses against the fixing roller, and is configured such that an endless belt that is wound around a plurality of belt support rollers presses against the fixing roller and the fixing roller is heated via the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070025764 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a main body; a unit withdrawably mounted in the main body; an exterior cover attached on a front face of the unit; a rail carrying the unit, the rail being withdrawable outwardly from the main body; a rail guide member for supporting the rail slidably;... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070025765 - Line head and image-forming apparatus: A line head includes: a first substrate having a plurality of organic electroluminescent devices; a bonding layer disposed on the first substrate and having optical transparency; a second substrate bonded to the first substrate with the bonding layer therebetween and having a reflective film that covers at least a part... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070025766 - Charging roller and image forming apparatus with the same: An image forming apparatus comprises: at least an image carrier of which rotary shafts extending from both ends thereof are rotatably supported on an apparatus body by bearings; and a charging roller having gap members fixed to both end portions thereof, respectively, wherein the gap members are brought in contact... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070025767 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image supporting member; a charge member for charging a surface of the image supporting member; an exposure member for forming a latent image on the surface of the image supporting member charged by the charge roller; a developer supporting member for developing the latent... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20070025768 - Imprinting apparatus and an image formation apparatus: An imprinting unit is disclosed where a driving current provided to a driving motor is temporarily increased from normal operations in sync with a shock generated when a recording medium enters and leaves a nip.... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025769 - Discharge device, image forming unit and apparatus:

20070025770 - Shield for charging device in xerographic printing device having enhanced voltage and current uniformity: A xerographic printing device, including a charging device having a shield. In some embodiments of the shield of the charging device in the xerographic printing device, three slots are provided with one slot in the upstream process direction and the other two slots sharing a common axis in downstream process... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070025771 - Shield for charging device in xerographic printing device having reduced rate of contamination: A xerographic printing device, including a charging device having a shield. In some embodiments of the shield of the charging device in the xerographic printing device, a plurality of holes are provided in an evenly spaced linear fashion extending nearly a full length of the charging device shield on a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070025772 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device including a plurality of supporting rollers, a photosensitive belt, a pressing roller, an intermediate roller, and a charging roller. The plurality of supporting rollers includes a preselected supporting roller The photosensitive belt is circularly movably supported on the plurality of supporting rollers The pressing roller is disposed... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070025773 - Developing device in image-forming device: A developing device includes first-third sections, a developing roller, a partitioning wall and a toner concentration detector. The first-third sections have first-third screw augers respectively. The partitioning wall isolates the third section from the first section and the second section. A supply opening is formed in a portion of the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070025774 - Filter for replenisher toner particles: An electrographic printer is disclosed including a replenisher system for replenishing developer material in a development chamber by transferring replenisher from a replenisher supply source through an opening into a transporter in communication with the replenisher supply source and the chamber having a filter disposed between the replenisher supply source... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20070025775 - Powder transferring device capable of detecting an amount of the powder: A powder transferring apparatus provided with a powder electrostatic transferring device includes a plurality of transferring electrodes configured to generate an electric field for transferring the powder by an electrostatic force including a powder transferring amount detecting device to detect an amount of powder on a surface of the powder... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025776 - Developing unit having improved agent recovery and supply system and image forming apparatus using the same: A developing unit for an image forming apparatus including an agent carrying member, a supply compartment, a supply screw, a recovery compartment, a recovery screw, an agitation compartment, and an agitation screw. The agent carrying member carries and supplies developing agent to an image carrying member. The supply screw in... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025777 - Developing device and image forming device: A device including a developing roller having a magnet roller for transporting developer, and developing an electrostatic latent image, a regulating member regulating transportation amount of the developer transported to the electrostatic latent image with the development roller, and a reflux plate refluxing excess developer regulated by the regulating member... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070025778 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus having: a rotatable first image bearing member of bearing images; a rotatable second image bearing member of bearing images; and a transferring device for transferring images respectively born by the first image bearing member and the second image bearing member onto a recording material; wherein a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070025779 - Color image forming device: A color image forming device comprises a plurality of first image support mediums, a scanning exposure unit, a second image support medium, a second-image-support-medium transport unit, a transfer unit, a correction-pattern-image forming unit, a pattern measurement unit, and a control unit. The correction-pattern-image forming unit is configured to form one... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025780 - Image forming apparatus: where A: a length of an extended portion that the toner image residing on the image bearing member is extended from the edge of the recording medium; and B: a length of a distance from the edge of the recording medium to a position at which the transferring member and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070025782 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus in which a sheet on which a toner image is fixed in a first heating portion is conveyed to a second heating portion through a first conveying path, the conveyed sheet is re-fixed in the second heating portion, and the re-fixed sheet is conveyed through a second... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070025781 - Fixing device and image formation apparatus: This fixing device has a fixing portion coming into contact with one face of a sheet, a plurality of drive portions coming into contact with the other face of the sheet to nip the sheet with the fixing portion, and a control portion for driving a plurality of the drive... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070025783 - Fixing unit and image forming apparatus having the same: A fixing unit, and an image forming apparatus having the fixing unit. The fixing unit includes a heat roller including a heat source therein, one or more pressing rollers in close contact with the heat roller, an elastic body to elastically apply pressure on both ends of the one or... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070025784 - Fixing device: A fixing device comprises a thermally fixing roller, a belt, and pushing means which pushes the belt toward the thermally fixing roller. A nipping region is formed between the belt and the thermally fixing roller. A maximum pressure is produced in an upstream end region of the thermally fixing roller... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070025785 - Cleaning member for photosensitive drum: A cleaning member is for use in contact with a photosensitive member in an electrophotographic process to remove a paper dust adhered to the photosensitive member. The cleaning member includes: a base fabric; and fibers electrostatically implanted on a surface of the base fabric and lying substantially flat along the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070025786 - Image forming apparatus including a cleaning mechanism capable of effective cleaning without damage: An image forming apparatus which includes an image carrier configured to form a toner image, a transfer roller configured to transfer the toner image to a recording medium, a gap controlling member configured to keep a predetermined distance between the image carrier and the transfer roller and a cleaning member... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070025787 - Image processing apparatus, image processing apparatus control method, and computer-readable storage medium: There is provided a technique of reflecting the state of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern (CFIP) of a paper document on various operations when the paper document with the CFIP is converted into an electronic document. For this purpose, an image processing apparatus includes a first determination unit which determines whether a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070025788 - Method and system of paper registration for two-sided imaging: A registration and measurement system for a printing machine includes two drive rollers and two opposing idler rollers. Each drive roller and idle roller combination respectively form a drive nip. A single servo or stepper motor is operably connected to the drive rollers through a gear train, allowing the motor... Agent: David M. Lockman Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP