Electrophotography inventions 03/07

20070071458 - Image formation device for detecting unconfirmed quality consumable cartridge and consumable cartridge thereof: An image formation device for detecting an unconfirmed quality consumable cartridge, of which quality is not assured, and the consumable cartridge thereof are provided. A consumable cartridge that is replaceably attached to an image formation device, has a consumable storage section for replenishably storing a consumable, and a memory for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070071459 - Image formation device for detecting unconfirmed quality consumable cartridge and consumable cartridge thereof: A consumable cartridge that is replacably attached to an image formation device, has a consumable storage section for replenishably storing a consumable, and a memory for unrewritably storing identification data and rewritably storing attribute data of the consumable cartridge. The memory can be read by the image formation device and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070071460 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: An image forming apparatus includes a position detection circuit which detects the registration error amount between a recording medium conveyance unit and an image forming unit positioned by a positioning mechanism, on the basis of reading of a reference pattern arranged on either unit, and a controller which calculates a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070071461 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus prints on a medium at a first transport speed or a second transport speed lower than the first transport speed. The printing apparatus includes: an image forming unit for forming a developer image on the medium according to a print job sent from a host device; a... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20070071462 - Image forming apparatus: The goal of the present invention is, while waiting for the reserved printing, even in a case where new printing is executed, to compare the remaining amount of consumable material to the amount of consumable material necessary for the designated reserved printing, and to notify the terminal apparatus, which sent... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070071463 - Marking device and methods: A portion of a replaceable component of an imaging device is selectively deformed or melted.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070071464 - Developer accommodating apparatus, developing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A developer accommodating apparatus, a developing apparatus and an image forming apparatus are provided capable of obtaining detection stability of irregular reflection light. The developing apparatus 4a of the present invention comprises an accommodating section to accommodate developer of predetermined quantity, a light emitting section to emit light toward outside;... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070071467 - Image formation apparatus: An image formation apparatus is disclosed. The image formation apparatus includes a fixing unit whose heater temperature is controlled to be in a non-offsetting range so that no offset is produced, the non-offsetting range being defined for each different paper thickness. Nip time remains constant even when the thickness of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070071468 - Image forming apparatus, recording material conveying method, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program: An image forming apparatus which can prevent a temperature increase at predetermined locations of a fixing unit and also realize the fastest printing with respect to each continuous printing number. The image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit that fixes an image supported on a recording material passing through the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070071465 - Printing system: A printing system includes first and second marking engines in series which each include an image applying component for applying an image to print media and a fixing device for at least partially fixing the applied image. One or both marking engines are operable in first and second modes of... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070071466 - Variable nip pressure fusing system: A fuser system of a xerographic device provides a fuser member, and a pressure member supported for pressure engagement with the fuser member. The pressure member includes an inner layer and an outer layer. The inner layer is variably pressurized for controlled change of the effective hardness of the outer... Agent: Karl W. Hauber, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070071469 - Background energy density control in an electrophotographic device: Control circuitry associated with an electrophotographic imaging device is adapted to manage bias levels of components in an image forming unit. A photoconductive surface is charged to a first bias level, a developer member is charged to a second bias level, and an imaging unit selectively discharges image feature locations... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr.

20070071471 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus appropriately adjusts an image forming conditions even if a halftone-processed image data is inputted. The image forming apparatus forms a patch image by applying a halftone process which is substantially equivalent to the halftone process which has been previously performed for the inputted image data. The... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070071470 - Method and device for determining one or more operating points in an image forming device: Methods and devices for setting an operating point within an image forming device. The operating point for one or more image forming stations may be determined without performing a toner patch sensing procedure. The operating points are determined based on other information, such as the operating points of one or... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr.IPLaw Department

20070071472 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, having a capacitance per unit area of 1.7×10−6 (F/M2) or larger; an exposure device, which exposes the photosensitive member in order to form thereon an electrostatic image according to image information; a developing device, which develops the electrostatic image with a toner... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070071473 - Image forming apparatus: where Q/M (C/g): an electric charge quantity per unit weight of the toner image, Vcont: a potential difference between a surface potential of the image bearing member and a direct current component of the development voltage, M/S (g/m2): a toner weight per unit area of the maximum density portion, Lt... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070071474 - Image forming apparatus and gloss level control method: An image forming apparatus which can facilitate acquisition of an image output bundle that has a uniform and optimal gloss level as a whole. An image forming apparatus 10 fixes a toner image on a plurality of sheets. An image ratio calculation unit 233 calculates a composition ratio of image... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070071475 - Method of controlling throughput of media in a printer: A method of controlling throughput of media passing through a heat fixing device includes the steps of initially conveying media to the heat fixing device at a nominal interpage gap, and counting a number of substrates conveyed through the heat fixing device. After a predetermined number of substrates have been... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070071476 - Electrical apparatus fitted with operation panel and such operation panel: An electrical apparatus has an apparatus main body and an operation panel with operation buttons for the apparatus main body. The operation panel includes a panel base portion having the operation buttons provided on the outer surface thereof, a first sheet written with the function names of the operable buttons... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070071477 - Image forming apparatus, and control method and program for same: An image forming apparatus, and a control method and program for same, whereby processing efficiency can be improved by permitting processing in respect of other print requests, even when paper has not been loaded in a manual paper supply unit after a manual print request has been made. When a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070071478 - High power supply to control an abnormal load: A high power supply to control an abnormal load includes a high voltage power processor to amplify a supplied DC power and to output the amplified DC power, a trans/rectifier to transform the DC power to a high voltage power and to rectify the high voltage power, a load detector... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070071479 - Image forming apparatus with a supplemental power supply unit: An image forming apparatus having (1) a main power supply unit (PSU), which converts an AC power source into an AC power and a first DC power, provides the AC power to a fusing unit, and provides the first DC power to a plurality of DC-powered units in the image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070071480 - Developing cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A developing cartridge is attachable to and detachable from an image forming apparatus and is received by a developing cartridge receiving member. The developing cartridge includes: a developer carrier including a rotational shaft; a case that rotatably supports the developer carrier, the case being capable of being supported by the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071483 - Developing cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: Developing cartridges for use in image forming apparatuses having an image carrier, include: (a) a case; (b) a developer carrier supported by the case (for holding developer thereon); and (c) a conductive member engaged with or provided on the case and being electrically connected to the developer carrier. The case... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071482 - Image forming apparatus, image forming cartridge supporter, and image forming unit: An image forming apparatus has a body frame and a slide frame. The slide frame is configured to be pulled out from the body frame along a sliding direction. A plurality of image forming cartridges is detachably mounted on the slide frame. A plurality of electrode members is mounted on... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071481 - Image-forming apparatus, process cartridge, and developing cartridge: The pressed area mounted on the developer cartridge case is pressed towards a developer cartridge pressing direction. The developer roller and the photosensitive drum are in contact at a contact position. Power is supplied to the developer cartridge when the power supply protrusion connected electrically to the developer roller rotation... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071484 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided which includes a process unit including image formation units, each of the image formation units having an image carrier, a charger, and a developing device, a scanner unit disposed facing the process unit and configured to expose the image carrier in each of the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071485 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms a toner image. A transferring section transfers the toner image formed onto a recording medium. A fixing unit is located adjacent the image forming section such that a first space is defined between the fixing unit and the image... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070071486 - Image forming apparatus and an image forming method for the apparatus: An image forming method using an image forming apparatus which includes: a driving roller; a blade opposing roller which is a follower roller biased by a biasing member in a bias direction to be moved away from the driving roller and free to reciprocate in the bias direction; a transfer... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070071487 - Cleaning device: A cleaning device is provided with a cleaning unit (35) disposed downstream from a position at which a toner image is transferred to a paper. The cleaning unit (35) is provided with a cleaning blade (35c) for scraping off residual toner attached to an image bearing member and a toner... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070071489 - Developing device: A developing device is provided with a case main body, a developing roller capable of rotating and supporting developer housed in the case man body, an adjustment member extending along a rotation axis direction of the developing roller, and a side seal member. The side seal member comprises a first... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071490 - Developing device: A developing device is provided with a case main body, a developing roller coupled with the case main body, an axis direction seal member coupled with the case main body, and a side seal member coupled with the case main body. The axis direction seal member and the side seal... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071491 - Image forming apparatus, image formation process unit, and developing unit: An image forming apparatus includes a main body, image formation units disposed in the main body, a moving member disposed in the main body, the moving member including a surface facing each image formation unit, a pair of first stoppers disposed in each image formation unit, and a pair of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071488 - Image-forming device and developer cartridge provided therein: An image-forming device includes a plurality of developer cartridges, a developer moving member and a conveying belt. Each of the developer cartridges includes a casing, a developing roller and a leakage restraining member. A plurality of rotational shafts of the plurality of developer cartridges is arranged in parallel with one... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071492 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; an image reading unit that reads the image entered on an original and is disposed upwardly of the image forming unit; a joint member that connects the image forming unit and the image... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071493 - Image processing apparatus and adjusting member of position of center of gravity: A closable member is arranged in an upper portion of an apparatus main body. A center of gravity is shifted by opening the closable member. The apparatus has an adjusting member of the position of the center of gravity which is arranged out of the apparatus main body so as... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070071494 - Image-forming device and process cartridge: The drawer is equipped with an extending portion at the rear of the housing and a projecting portion behind and above the extending portion. The first support and the second support can be positioned on the extending portion and the projecting portion. Inside a main unit casing is a pair... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071496 - Cartridge, image forming apparatus, and method for mounting and dismounting the cartridge in and from a main body of the image forming apparatus: A process cartridge, an image forming apparatus having the cartridge, and a method for mounting and dismounting the process cartridge in and from an image forming apparatus body are provided. The process cartridge of an image forming apparatus includes at least one of a photosensitive body on which an electrostatic... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070071497 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus of a tandem system includes a main body and a drum unit attachable to and detachable from the main body. The drum unit includes photosensitive drums, a housing for rotatably supporting the photosensitive drums, and for each photosensitive drum, a drum gear arranged at an end... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071499 - Image forming apparatus, process cartridge, developing unit, and image forming method: A carrier and a dummy toner are stored in a developing unit of a process cartridge in a brand new status. A plurality of process cartridges corresponding to a plurality of color toners is used in common. The color toners are respectively supplied to the developing unit from toner supply... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070071498 - Image recording apparatus: A supporting apparatus for supporting a movable member such that the movable member is movable along a predetermined path. The apparatus includes a main frame which defines a reference plane parallel to the predetermined path; at least one base member which is supported by the main frame and which supports... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070071495 - Process cartridge and image forming apparatus usable therewith: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The apparatus includes a movable first engageable member and a movable second engageable member. The cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a first frame supporting the drum, a second frame supporting the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070071500 - Dicorotron wire assembly removal and storage tool: A system and apparatus that removes and collects non-functional wire assemblies from dicorotron units is described. It has a removal tool mounted on the top of a storage box. The removal tool has an open top and bottom, the open bottom is aligned with an opening in the top of... Agent: James J. Ralabate, Esq.

20070071501 - Image forming apparatus and method for forming an image on a recording medium: An image forming apparatus which forms an image onto a recording medium using a liquid developer which contains an insulation liquid and toner particles dispersed in the insulation liquid is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a liquid developer storage section for storing the liquid developer therein; a developing section... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070071502 - Image forming apparatus and developer supplier capable of supplying developer at increased speed: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism configured to contain a developer and to form an image with the developer and a developer supplier configured to supply the developer to the image forming mechanism. The developer supplier includes a developer container, a conveyer, a sensor, an agitator, and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070071504 - Image forming apparatus and developer transporting apparatus therefor: An image forming apparatus having an image forming part to apply developer to a recording medium to form an image, the image forming apparatus including a developer transporting pipe through which developer is transported to the image forming part, a first storing part to store a first amount of the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070071503 - Image forming device, developing device and toner cartridge: An image forming device has: an image carrying member, a developing cartridge, a toner cartridge, and a transfer unit. The image carrying member has a surface on which an electrostatic latent image is provided. The developing cartridge contains a developing roller and a single auger. The developing roller has a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070071505 - Hybrid development apparatus and development method therefor: A hybrid development apparatus and a development method therefor are provided. The hybrid development apparatus includes a magnetic roller, a donor roller, and a collecting roller. A supply bias voltage, a development bias voltage, and a collecting bias voltage are respectively applied to the three rollers. The three bias voltages... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070071506 - Developing device and image-forming apparatus: A developing device 2a, which is provided with: a developer tank 16 that houses a developer 24 containing a toner, a carrier for charging the toner and reverse polarity particles that are charged with a polarity reversed to the electrostatic charge polarity of the toner by the carrier; a developer-supporting... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070071507 - Developing device and image forming device: A developing device comprises a stirring roller 7 having stirring blades 7a for stirring a developer, a developing roller 3 for transferring the developer to an electrostatic latent image, a control member 4 for controlling the amount of developer transferred from the developing roller 3 to the electrostatic latent image,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070071508 - Developing roller comprising pigment having opposite polarity to toner and method for manufacturing the same: A developing roller for an electrophotographic image forming device and a method for manufacturing the same, the developing roller may include a central shaft and a roller body, the roller body may be made of a rubber-based elastic material, and the roller body may include a pigment having an opposite... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070071509 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus for enhancing color registration is provided. The electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a developing unit including a photosensitive medium, an image transferring device, and a paper feeding device. The image transferring device includes a pair of conveying rollers, a conveying belt, and a plurality of... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070071510 - Image forming apparatus and image forming adjustment method: Multiple photoconductive drums on which images with different color components are formed respectively are rotated using individual motors, multiple adjustment images are formed at a predetermined interval along the cycle length of one rotation of each photoconductive drum, the reference phases for the rotation of the respective photoconductive drums are... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070071511 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus equipped with an image bearing member, a latent electrostatic image forming unit which forms a latent electrostatic image on the image bearing member, a developing unit which develops the latent electrostatic image by using a toner to form a toner image, a transfer fixing member 13... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070071512 - Non-gouging sheet stripper assembly: A non-gouging sheet stripper assembly is disclosed for stripping copy sheets from a surface of a moving fusing member. The non-gouging sheet stripper assembly includes (a) at least one baffle forming part of a sheet path; (b) a finger shaft having a first end attached to the at least one... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070071513 - Sheet wrapping avoidable fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus includes a fixing member to be heated and a pressure-contacting member for pressure contacting the fixing member. The fixing apparatus directs and conveys a recording member through a nip formed between the fixing member and pressure applying member in such a manner that a toner image carried... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070071514 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: In a fixing apparatus including heating member having an elastic layer and a heat source and pressing member having an endless shape member and a pressing member for transporting a record medium in a cut sheet shape while being adhered with an unfixed toner image to pass a nip portion... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070071515 - Heat reflective layer for a fixing unit: A fixing unit includes a heating roller having a heating part, and a pressing roller disposed corresponding to the heating roller. A frame surrounds the heating and pressing rollers and allows a recording medium to pass between the rollers. The frame is mounted with a heat reflective layer on an... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070071516 - Fixing device: A fixing device of the present invention supports rotatably a fixing belt heated by a heating member using a separation roller having hollow pipes arranged between a core roller and an outer peripheral roller and producing a high heat insulating effect though it is light in weight and inexpensive and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070071519 - Fixing device and an image forming apparatus having the same: A fixing device for fixing a toner image onto a recording medium, and an image forming apparatus having the same are provided. The fixing device includes a fixing roller heated by a heating source, and a pressing unit disposed opposite the fixing roller to bias a recording medium towards the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070071518 - Fusing system including a backup belt assembly: In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, a system is provided for fusing an unfixed toner image to a substrate comprising a rotatable hot fusing roll and a backup belt assembly. The belt assembly may comprise a backup belt and a housing structure including a nip forming... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070071517 - Fusing system including a tensioned belt with crowned roller: In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, a system is provided for fusing an unfixed toner image to a substrate including a rotatable hot fusing roll and a backup belt assembly. The belt assembly may include a backup belt and a housing structure having a nip forming... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070071520 - Image heating apparatus: Is satisfied, where y is the product of young's modulus of the base material of the fixing belt and thickness (Mpa·mm), and x is the product of length of gap between the pressure pad and the roller in moving direction of the fixing belt and pressure per unit area at... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070071522 - Image heating apparatus:

20070071523 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt for heating an image on a recording material at a nip; magnetic flux generating means, disposed opposed to an outer surface of the endless belt, for generating a magnetic flux to cause the belt to generate heat; a metal member disposed inside... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070071521 - Variable tension belt type fusing unit usable with image forming apparatus and driving method thereof: A variable tension type belt fusing unit includes a main roller, a pair of belt driving rollers which is disposed near the outer circumferential surface of the main roller and is pressurized towards the main roller, and a fusing belt having a nip portion and a non-tension portion. At least... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070071524 - Printer and image forming method: A printer includes a image recording section for recording an image on a recording medium at a predetermined recording position, a surface treatment section for performing surface treatment on one surface of the recording medium, a first reversing section for reversing the recording medium after the image has been recorded... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070071525 - Cleaning device, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge: A cleaning device that cleans the surface of an image carrier, include a cleaning blade that contacts the surface of the image carrier, a lubricant-applying brush roller that applies a lubricant to the surface of the image carrier, a cleaning brush roller that removes residual transfer toner from the surface... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070071526 - Cleaning unit and image forming device: A cleaning unit includes a traveling belt and a belt cleaning member. The traveling belt is formed in a loop and travels via the vicinity of the contact point between an image support member and an image support member cleaning member, and comes into contact with liquid developer stored in... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070071527 - Auto document feeder, document feeding method and computer usable medium: An auto document feeder that includes: a document delivering unit that delivers a document along a document delivery path including a reading position; a switchback delivering unit that returns the document from a downstream side of the reading position to an upstream side of the reading position with a leading... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070071528 - Image recording apparatus: The image recording apparatus includes an image allocating section allocating the plural images with respect to each recording medium, an image recording section recording the plural images on each recording medium, a cutting section cutting the one recording medium on which the plural images are recorded into the plural prints,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070071529 - Electrophotographic device capable of performing an imaging operation and a fusing operation at different speeds: An electrophotographic imaging device comprises generally, an image transfer station configured to transfer a toned image to a substrate, a fuser assembly configured to fuse the toned image to the substrate and a transport device configured to transfer the substrate from the image transfer station to the fuser assembly. The... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070065164 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus a developing device develops an electrostatic latent image on an image carrier with a developer that contains toner to obtain a toner image, a toner-amount detecting unit detects amount of toner attached to the toner image, and a toner-density detecting unit detects a density of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070065163 - Method and device for transporting toner material, preferably in an electrophotographic- printer or copier: In a method and system for determination of a fill state of a transport reservoir for toner material, toner material is transported from a transport reservoir into a developer station with aid of a toner transport system of a printer or copier. At least a toner material quantity supplied to... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070065165 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus, which comprises a heating roller having a heating unit and a press roller that is in contact with the heating roller with pressure and fixes an image of developer onto a sheet holding the image by heating and supporting the sheet with the heating roller and the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070065166 - Image forming apparatus and waste toner warning method: An image forming apparatus for executing image forming process on a page by page basis including: a toner image forming section for producing a visible image formed of toner as a toner image on an image carrier; a transfer section which performs a transfer process for transferring the formed toner... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070065167 - Development apparatus and image forming apparatus: A development apparatus is provided that can quickly form high quality printing material by steadily supplying developer charged and thinned to a uniform thickness and can also prevent the decrease in the quality of the printing material in a case where the developer carrier and developer supply unit are operated... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070065168 - Thermally conditioned image forming apparatus: The present invention relates to an article, system and method for thermally conditioning an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus may incorporate a heating device and a component that includes a lubricant. The component including the lubricant may be preheated before movement and then rotated at reduced speeds prior... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070065169 - Electric potential measuring apparatus electrostatic capacitance measuring apparatus, electric potential measuring method, electrostatic capacitance measuring method, and image forming apparatus: An electric potential measuring apparatus includes a detecting electrode, a modulator for changing an electrostatic capacitance between a measurement object and the detecting electrode by mechanical vibration, a charge detector for detecting the amount of charges electrostatically induced in the detecting electrode by the modulator, and a vibration generating-detecting unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070065170 - Image forming apparatus: There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of reducing the number of cooling fans placed and of preventing air polluted inside the apparatus from being exhausted out of the apparatus. The image forming apparatus comprises: a branch section 101a that branches a cooling wind from a cooling fan into... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070065171 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a developing unit which develops a latent image formed by a writing unit on an image carrier which has been uniformly charged by a charger; and a developer sucking section, the developer sucking section comprising a ventilation duct having a sucking opening provided in the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070065173 - Cleaning system for a charging device in a xerographic printer: In a xerographic printing apparatus, a charge device is used to apply a charge to a photoreceptor. The shuttle includes a wiper that cleans a sidewall of the charge device. A tab is disposed adjacent the sidewall to retain toner or dirt accumulated by the scraper. The tab is electrically... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070065172 - Cleaning system for removing dendrites from a charging device in a xerographic printer: In a xerographic printing apparatus, a charge device is used to apply a charge to a photoreceptor. The charge device includes a wire. A shuttle moves along the charge device, and includes a brush wherein the sides of the bristles contact the wire. When the brush moves along the wire,... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070065175 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus body, a first unit detachably attached to the image forming apparatus body, a second unit detachably attached to the image forming apparatus body; and a movement mechanism that moves at least one of the first unit and the second unit to... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070065174 - Securing mechanism for an image forming device module: An image forming device with one or more door assemblies that engage locking mechanisms to secure a module in an operating position. The module may be coupled to one of the one or more door assemblies. A first locking mechanism may secure the module to the image forming device body... Agent: Mr. John H. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20070065176 - Developing unit and an image forming apparatus including the developing unit: A developing unit and an image forming apparatus having the developing unit are disclosed. The developing unit includes a developing unit main body having a supporting groove that contacts and is supported by the supporting protrusion of a frame when the developing unit is mounted on the mounting frame. A... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070065177 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that rotates in a predetermined direction so as to carry a toner image, a charging member that charges the image carrier by a discharge operation, a toner holding member that is disposed to be in contact with the image carrier so as... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070065178 - Conductive member, and charging roller, process cartridge and image forming apparatus using same: A conductive member forming a charging roller having high durability which maintains a stable gap with respect to an abutting member, comprising a long conductive supporting body, an electrical resistance adjusting layer, and gap maintaining members, wherein, taking X2 to be the thickness of the portions of the gap maintaining... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070065179 - Image forming apparatus having a charging brush capable of effectively removing contaminants including residual fine toner: An image forming apparatus may include a photoreceptor, a cleaner and a charging mechanism. The cleaner may have a blade-like shape and may remove contaminants including residual toner from the photoreceptor. The charging mechanism may include a charging brush which may have a pile length not greater than 3 mm... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070065180 - Organic electroluminescence element, exposure device and image forming apparatus: In applying organic electroluminescence elements as a light source which is required to exhibit the high brightness such as an exposure device, it is necessary to increase light emission efficiency as high as possible to decrease the heat generation and to enhance the reliability of the light source. For this... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070065181 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprises: a photosensitive member; a plurality of development devices attachable to and detachable from a main body of the image forming apparatus, a motor; and a drive transmission member. Each development device comprises a development roller for forming a toner image on a surface of the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070065182 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit having a developer accepting part accepting supplied developer and a developer supply unit having a developer supply part supplying the developer to the developer accepting part, wherein the developer accepting part is provided near one end in the longitudinal direction of... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070065183 - Image-forming apparatus, process cartridge and image-forming method:

20070065184 - Toner cartridge for developing device: A toner cartridge includes: a casing; a partitioning wall; and an operation member. The casing is configured to accommodate toner therein. The casing is formed with a first casing opening. The partitioning wall is configured to be rotatable relative to the casing around a predetermined rotational axis. The partitioning wall... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070065185 - Developer regulating member and developing apparatus: where Sm is a mean spacing [mm] of profile irregularities prescribed by JIS-B0601-1994, Rp is a maximum profile peak height [μm] prescribed by ISO4287-1997, Rpk is an initial wear height [μm] prescribed by DIN4776, Rvk is an oil retaining depth [μm] prescribed by DIN4776, and Mr2 is a profile bearing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070065186 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that a plurality of toner images of differing colors are formed on a surface, and an intermediate transfer belt positioned opposite the image carrier, the toner images formed on the image carrier being primarily transferred onto an intermediate transfer belt in a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070065187 - Image-forming method and image-forming apparatus: An image-forming method including: forming a toner image on the surface of an image carrier; transferring the toner image from the surface of the image carrier onto the image-receiving layer of a belt-shaped intermediate transfer film having the image-receiving layer provided on a surface of a base material; superimposing the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070065188 - Transferring apparatus and image forming apparatus: A first guide member and a second guide member guide a recording medium into a nip between a transfer member and a nip-forming member. The first guide member and the second guide member are arranged so as to form a substantial V-shape with tip of the V-shape being toward the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070065189 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device which fixes a toner image borne on a recording medium includes a rotatable fixing roll member, a rotatable tension roll member, a rotating fixing belt member stretched between the fixing roll member and the tension roll member, a heater which heats the fixing belt member, a pressing... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070065190 - Heating device and fixing apparatus having the same: A heating device suitable for use in an image forming apparatus and a fixing apparatus having the same. The heating device comprises heating roller having a double-layered structure of a magnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer; a heat generation unit installed on the inner peripheral surface of the heating roller;... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070065191 - Image heating apparatus: The image heating apparatus includes a cylindrical film, a heating member, and a drive roller, wherein a recording material bearing an image is heated while the recording material is bound and conveyed by the nip portion, and a distance between a contact position between the film and the recording material... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070065193 - Fixing device having pressure member and image forming apparatus including the same: A fixing device includes a pressure member, a heat roller, a pressure roller disposed opposite to the heat roller and pressing the heat roller, and a fixing belt driven between the heat roller and the pressure roller. The pressure member is positioned upstream of the pressure roller in a direction... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070065194 - Fixing device including fixing belt: A fixing device includes a heating roller, a pressing roller, a fixing belt for forming a fixing nip, and a belt pressing member which slidably supports and presses the inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt in the entire fixing nip. Since a fixing nip can sufficiently expand and a... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070065192 - Fixing method, fixing apparatus using the same, and image forming apparatus: The invention provides a fixing method including conveying a recording medium on which a toner image has been formed using a fixing belt, in a state in which the fixing belt contacts with a surface of the recording medium on which the toner image is formed, at least from a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070065195 - Apparatus and method for cleaning residual toner with a scraper blade periodically held in contact with a toner transfer surface: A cleaning station for removing residual toner from a moving toner transfer surface includes a rotating brush and a scraper blade that is held away from the toner transfer surface when toner images are being transferred to recording media, such as sheets of paper. On a periodic basis, when toner... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070065196 - Device for moving toner within an image forming device: Embodiments of a device to move waste toner within an image forming device. In one embodiment, waste toner is formed during the image formation process. The waste toner is captured and moved through a first conduit. The conduit includes an outlet for passing the waste toner to a second conduit.... Agent: John J. McardleIPLaw Department

20070065197 - Automatic document feeder: An automatic document feeder includes a feeding unit that feeds an original sheet set at a predetermined position; and a conveying unit that conveys the original sheet fed by the feeding unit to a first reading position of a first reading unit that reads one face of the original sheet.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070065198 - Document restraint arrangement for reproduction apparatus and method of using: One or more strips along the platen of a scanner, copier, or the like include a clip portion that holds documents in place for reproduction. Embodiments include indicia on the clip portion to assist with document placement. A tongue of the clip portion engages the platen to hold the documents.... Agent: Shlesinger & Fitzsimmons

20070065199 - Image forming apparatus: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including: a drive roller; an image forming unit; a fixing unit; a sub drive roller provided at the downstream side of the fixing unit, nipping and conveying a continuous-form-paper, on which the toner image is fixed, to the downstream side, a rotational... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070065200 - Image forming apparatus with image registration adjustment: An image forming apparatus for double-sided image forming includes an image forming mechanism configured to form an image on a recording medium, a re-feeding mechanism configured to re-feed a recording medium having an image formed on a first side thereof to the image forming mechanism, an adjustment mechanism configured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070065201 - Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus: A paper delivering roller has a shaft member made of resin to which two rubber rollers are attached. A housing that supports the paper delivering roller has side surface members, a lower guide member, an upper guide member, and a vertical guide surface that are integrally molded with resin. Because... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070065202 - Sheet alignment apparatus and sheet post-processing apparatus: A sheet alignment apparatus comprises: a feeding section that feeds a sheet to a predetermined alignment position; a stopper against which the downstream side edge in the feeding direction of the sheet that has been fed by the feeding section is butted in order for the sheet to be stopped... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070065203 - Sheet cutting apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A sheet cutting apparatus including: an information obtaining device, which obtains information on the thickness of a sheet bundle to be cut; a sheet presser movable between a standby position for receiving the sheet bundle at a predetermined position and a pressing position for pressing the sheet bundle at the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070065204 - Sheet processing apparatus and sheet processing method: A sheet processing apparatus having a sheet post-processing unit for performing a post process such as aligning or binding sheets. The sheet processing apparatus is composed of a tray for supporting a sheet bundle, an auxiliary conveying unit including a first arm for hooking an end of the sheet bundle... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070058990 - Packaging detection and removal for an image forming device: Upon initialization of an image-forming device, a sensor generates a signal to indicate the presence of packaging material at a location within the image-forming device. The image-forming device displays a message to a user responsive to this signal. The message may include a graphical representation of the image-forming device that... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr.IPLaw Department

20070058991 - Apparatus and method for adapting a machine to communicate with customer replaceable unit monitors having different interface formats: An adapter suitable for installation in a machine in place of a customer replaceable unit monitor having a first interface format is described herein. Upon installation of the adapter in the machine, the adapter enables data communication between the machine and a customer replaceable unit monitor having a second interface... Agent: Timothy J. Olson Wiggin And Dana

20070058992 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus includes a rotary belt member; a detector for detecting a position in a rotating direction of the belt member; a toner image forming device for forming a toner image at a predetermined position on the belt member based on a detection signal of the detecting means;... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070058993 - Developing cartridge, image carrier cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: Several different apparatuses are provided that can be configured to detect whether a developing cartridge, an image carrier cartridge, and a process cartridge are installed in an image forming apparatus. A shielding member is configured to move between a blocking position where the shielding member blocks light emitted from a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070058994 - Image processing apparatus: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which not only judges the occurrence of multiple feeding with a high accuracy, but also can identify later the location of occurrence of the multiple feeding even if the document reading operation is continued after detecting the occurrence of a multiple feeding.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070058995 - Development method and development apparatus: e

20070058997 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided, which is capable of using such a toner cartridge preferentially without interrupting an image forming action as is desired for an early use and as has a less toner remaining amount. When a toner density in a developer container to be supplied with the... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070058998 - Image forming apparatus and a method of effectively detecting toner state in the same: An image forming apparatus includes an optical sensor configured to optically detect a density of a reference pattern image, a toner density sensor configured to detect a density of toner i.n a developing unit, a storing unit configured to store an image area coverage of an output image, a determining... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070058996 - Image forming apparatus and method for detecting amount of remaining toner: The image forming apparatus according to the present invention detects the amount of remaining toner by using (i) the result of calculation carried out by a toner supply amount calculation section based on an accumulated rotational time measurement section in a region where the amount of remaining toner is not... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070058999 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a printing unit for carrying out a print job, a calibration unit for calibrating the printing unit, a control unit for making the calibration unit calibrate after the end of the print job under the condition that the number of printed pages since the latest... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070059000 - Image forming apparatus: A printer 20 includes a photosensitive drum 1, a charge roller 2 for electrically charging the photosensitive drum 1, a developing device 4 for developing an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive drum 1 into a toner image, a transfer roller 5 for transferring the toner image onto a recording... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059004 - Heating roller and image forming apparatus having the same: A heating roller and an image forming apparatus including the heating roller. The image forming apparatus can include: an image forming part to apply a developer selectively on a paper to form an image; a paper sensing part to sense the size of the paper fed to the image forming... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070059003 - Image fixing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image fixing method capable of effectively controlling an image fixing temperature: An image forming apparatus, an image fixing apparatus, and an image fixing method that fix a toner image onto an recording medium in an electrophotographic process capable of effectively controlling an image fixing temperature. In one example, when a narrower recording medium, narrower than a maximum allowable size, is continuously... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059001 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, wherein a heating member heats a toner image formed on a sheet by an image forming portion, including: a first detector detecting a temperature of a first area of a contact area, which is contactable with the sheet, of the heating member, when a set width... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059002 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus includes n image forming apparatus including image forming device for forming an image on a recording material, an image heating member which heats the image on the recording material at a nip portion, temperature detecting device for detecting a temperature of the image heating member, control... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059005 - Image-forming apparatus with inertial means selectively connected to fixing drive: An image forming apparatus has an image forming unit together with a fixing unit which uses two rotating members to form a nip in which the recording material with an unfixed image is fed. A driving unit drives the rotatable fixing members and a flywheel is used for increasing an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059006 - Color correction data acquiring system, image processing system, color correction data acquiring method, image processing method, and program: A color correction data acquiring system includes: an analysis unit that analyzes a data uniform part in an input image; and an area setting unit that sets a patch data acquiring area based on an analysis result of the analysis unit. The color correction data acquiring system acquires color correction... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070059007 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus has an image bearing member, a detecting member, a toner image forming apparatus, a transfer member and a collecting member for collecting toner of a toner image for detection attached to the transfer member rotating while contacting with the transfer member, and removing member for removing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059008 - Image generating apparatus: An image generating apparatus is provided which can maximize the throughput without causing thermal damage of the fusing components. It determines a sub-thermistor temperature threshold value for switching small size paper feed intervals in response to a sub-thermistor initial temperature. It supplies a heating body with current for heating, and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059011 - Image fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus capable of effectively controlling an image fixing temperature: An image fixing apparatus controls temperature of a rotating member for fixing with compensation for delay by using a Smith predictor with a controlled object model to reduce temperature ripple effectively. In one example, the image fixing apparatus includes a pair of rotating members to form a nip portion, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059013 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus including a fixing device that uses a pressure belt as at least one of two pressing members, a warm-up time and time for shifting to a standby state are reduced with simple control without increasing power consumption. The two pressing members are brought into a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070059009 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotatable member for heating, in a nip, an image on a recording material; a heater for heating the image heating member; a cooling device for cooling the image heating member, wherein when a target temperature of the image heating member is changed to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059010 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus including: a heating rotary member, which heats an image on a recording material in a nip portion; an air blowing unit, which blows air toward an air blowing port to cool a predetermined area of the heating rotary member; and a shutter, which opens and closes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059012 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus including: an image heating member, which heats an image on a recording material in a nip portion; an air blower, which blows air toward an air blowing port to cool a predetermined area of the image heating member; and a shutter, which opens and closes the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059014 - Image forming apparatus and setting method: In an image forming apparatus, a controller acquires data such as operation start time and operation end time of the image forming apparatus, and records it in an acquisition database. The controller fetches data recorded in the acquisition database to calculate a frequency of use. The controller creates each transition... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070059015 - Monitoring device for image forming device, control method and control program of monitoring device, and computer-readable storage medium: Provided is a coverage monitor for monitoring a utilization scale of an MFP which forms an image on a sheet with color toner. The coverage monitor comprises: (i) a periodic coverage updating section for generating a periodic coverage which denotes a coverage from a certain time point, which is specified... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070059016 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes a power storage unit. The power storage unit includes a constant voltage generation part configured to generate a constant voltage from a commercial power supply, the constant voltage generation part being connected to an external apparatus operating by consuming power; a voltage... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059017 - Image forming apparatus, fixing unit, and heating system capable of heating at increased speed with reduced power: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism configured to form a toner image on a recording medium with a toner according to image data and a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image on the recording medium. The fixing unit includes first and second heating members and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059018 - Developer cartridges, process cartridges, and image formation devices: When a developer cartridge is not attached to an image formation apparatus body frame, a developer electrode included with the cartridge is disposed at a retract position at which the developer electrode does not protrude outside the cartridge. This protects the developer electrode from damage possibly caused by interference or... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070059020 - Electrophotographic apparatus capable of effectively reducing volatile organic compound: An electrophotographic apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording medium including an image fixing apparatus and a member for reducing a harmful volatile organic compound (VOC) generated by heat of the image fixing apparatus. The image fixing apparatus is configured to fix the toner image onto the recording... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059019 - Image-forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus comprises: a transfer part that transfers a toner image to a sheet; a fixing part that heats a sheet to which a toner image is transferred by the transfer part to a temperature at which the toner on the sheet melts, and ejects the sheet; a vibrating... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070059023 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has: a rotary member which conveys a sheet; a blowing device which blows a cooling air to cool the rotary member; and a blow-off member which blows the cooling air from the blowing device toward the rotary member. The cooling air is blown toward the portion... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059024 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprises an image forming unit for forming a toner image on a sheet, a fixing unit for fixing the toner image transferred on the sheet by heat, a cooling fan for cooling the sheet by supplying air to the sheet fixed by the fixing unit and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059021 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus including: an image heating member for heating an image formed on a sheet at a nip portion; a temperature detector for detecting temperature of a predetermined region of the image heating member; a cooler for cooling the predetermined region; and an activating device for activating the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059022 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus including an image heater for heating an image on a recording material in a nip portion, an air blower for blowing air toward an air blowing port to cool a predetermined area of the image heater, and a shutter for opening an closing the air blowing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059025 - Image forming apparatus which can prevent toner from scattering: An image forming apparatus includes a structure which can prevent a toner from scattering. The image forming apparatus includes a collecting fan and a blocking device to collect a toner which scatters when a photosensitive body and a developing roller rotate. Air current and air curtain generated by the collecting... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070059026 - Corona device grid cleaner: This is a device for cleaning a corona grid used in electrostatic printing or copying machines. This device has a cleaner pad that cleans the outer surface of the grid, that is the surface closest to the photoreceptor surface. This pad is located between the outer surface of the grid... Agent: James J. Ralabate, Esq.

20070059027 - Cleaning device and image forming apparatus using the same: A cleaning device, comprises: a plurality of brush rolls being contact with a surface of the image carrier that a toner is attached; and a biasing unit applying bias voltages having different polarities from each other to at least two of the brush rolls, the plurality of brush rolls including... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070059028 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member which bears developing-agent images; a first removing member which removes a developing agent from the image bearing member, wherein the first removing member is contacted with the image bearing member while a bias is applied to the first removing member; a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059029 - Image-forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus includes an image-bearing member supporting a toner image; a transfer roller that rotates in contact with the image-bearing member so as to transfer the toner image to a recording material; first and second cleaning rollers, each having a brush provided on a circumferential surface thereof so as... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070059030 - Image formation apparatus: Toner remaining on a photosensitive drum may be prevented from being given out after a toner image is transferred, by causing a seal member to abut on both a photosensitive portion of the photosensitive drum and a flange disposed on each of ends of the photosensitive portion and having less... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059031 - Developing apparatus, process cartridge, developer cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A developing agent leakage preventing member is provided that is attached to the developer housing and that has a housing attaching face which contacts with the developer housing, a front side face which opposes the housing attaching face, and two side faces each of which connects to each other end... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070059032 - Angular position adjusting apparatus, angular position adjusting method, and computer-readable recording medium for angular position adjustment: An angular position adjusting apparatus for adjusting the angular position of a control panel of an image processing apparatus is disclosed that includes a rotary member attached to the control panel, an input part for generating an input signal indicative of changing the angular position of the control panel, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059033 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including an image bearing member; an intermediary transfer member onto which an image formed on the image bearing member is transferred, the intermediary transfer member being disposed at an upper portion of the image forming unit; a first housing for supporting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059034 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge employed in same: An image forming apparatus and process cartridge employed in same which, when contact charging processing is implemented employing a brush roller, suppresses the generation of localized excessive discharge and suppresses a state of localized excessive discharge on a photosensitive drum surface. Charging means is configured from a brush roller in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059035 - Process cartridge with image carrier supporting structure for use in an image forming apparatus: A process cartridge and an image carrier supporter for use in an image forming apparatus. The image carrier supporter temporarily fixes an image carrier inside a process cartridge of an image forming apparatus. The image carrier supporter includes a penetration shaft, and first and second fixing members. The penetration shaft... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059036 - Image forming device and unit position adjustment method: The present invention provides an image forming device capable of forming high-quality images and affording high-precision rotating shaft parallelism between surface mobile bodies, and a unit position adjustment method for adjusting the position of a surface mobile body unit relative to the main body of the image forming device. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059038 - Developer cartridge for image-forming device: A developer cartridge is detachably mountable in an image-forming device having a driving rotator. The developer cartridge includes a developing roller and a driven rotator. The driven rotator is movable in an advancing direction parallel to an axial direction of the developing roller toward the driving rotator and in a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070059037 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has a developing device and a feeding device. At least a part of the feeding device is supported so that it can be horizontally pulled out by a pulling-out member. The pulling-out member can hold at least a part of the feeding device at a first... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059039 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus, including a photoreceptor, a charger charging the surface of the photoreceptor, an irradiator irradiating the surface of the photoreceptor with imagewise light to form an electrostatic latent image thereon, an image developer developing the electrostatic latent image with a developer including a toner to form... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059041 - Image forming apparatus and method for controlling image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers, a driving unit that rotationally drives the image carriers in an individual manner, and a phase adjusting unit that adjusts, based on a reference rotation position on one of the image carriers, phase of rotational fluctuation of the other image... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070059040 - Image forming apparatus and method of transferring image to intermediate transfer body: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including: a photosensitive body; a drive unit of the photosensitive body; an intermediate transfer body which is wound around the photosensitive body and is driven by the movement of the photosensitive body; a latent image forming unit; plural development units which develop... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070059042 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A digital copying machine includes a CPU that executes an overall control, a scanner section, a printer section, and an image processing section that executes image processes including image-process magnification alteration. The CPU adjusts a main-scan magnification of the scanner section at 90.9%, sets the image-process magnification alteration in the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070059043 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is formed by imagewise exposure; a rotatable member; a developing device carried on said rotatable member and movable, by rotation of said rotatable member, to a developing position where said developing device is opposed to said... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059044 - Trickle collection system and method, and electrophotographic system using the same: A trickle collection system including a trickle port formed in a developer housing and communicating with the interior of the developer housing, and a trickle port housing communicating the trickle port with an external vacuum collection source. The trickle port may include an aperture having a variable cross-section, for controlling... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070059045 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus: In the developing apparatus including a developing bath and a toner transport pipe for supplying toner to the developing bath, a toner supply portion opening/closing mechanism is provided, that includes a shutter member for opening and closing a toner supply port of the toner transport pipe that is contained in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070059046 - Developer container: A developer container includes a cylindrical container main body, a supporting member, a sheet-like developer guiding member, and an adhesion eliminating portion. The container main body has a concavity forming a storage space, has a discharge hole, and conveys the stored developer toward the discharge hole by rotating about its... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070059047 - Development roller, surface treatment device and wire member: A development roller, including a development sleeve disposed near a photo conductive drum, a magnetic roller disposed in the development sleeve, and a supplying device configured to supply a developer including a toner and a magnetic carrier to the photo conducive drum uniformly, the development sleeve having an outer surface... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059048 - Developing unit and an image forming apparatus: A developing unit includes a developing unit body having a toner inlet and a developing roller mounted in the developing unit body. A toner feeding unit for feeding is provided to feed the toner from the toner inlet to the developing roller. A doctor blade is integrally formed with the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070059049 - Image forming method and process cartridge: An image forming method having the steps of controlling the layer thickness of a toner on a toner bearing member by means of a toner regulating blade, and developing with the toner an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrostatic latent image bearing member, the toner regulating blade has, at... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059050 - Image forming apparatus: A color image forming apparatus comprising: a first development device which develops an electrostatic image on a first image bearing member with toner of color other than black; a first transfer member which forms a nip portion for nipping an image receiving member with the first image bearing member; a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059051 - Image forming apparatus: A transfer roller drive unit sets an all-separate mode after setting a full-color mode, sets a monochrome mode after setting the all-separate mode, and sets a full-color mode after setting the monochrome mode. Namely, a transfer belt 25 comes into contact with the photosensitive drum 24 first, and then the... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070059052 - Printing medium transferring apparatus: According to detection results obtained by a plurality of printing medium detection device, a printing medium is carried in while controlling an operation of pressing a pinch roller to be in contact with a conveying roller and of separating the pinch roller from the conveying roller and an operation of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059053 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming parts that form toner images having colors different from each other, the plurality of image forming parts disposed in series to multiply-transfer the toner images of the colors directly to a recording medium to form a color image; a detecting... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070059054 - Image forming apparatus: Rotation of photosensitive drums 21, 22, 23 and 24 is started and a full-color mode by a transfer roller drive unit is set for the exposing by an exposing unit 11. When the full-color mode is set, a transfer belt 25 contacts all the photosensitive drums 21, 22, 23 and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070059055 - Image-forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus includes an image-carrying belt that is rotated while carrying toner images on an outer circumferential surface thereof; a movable tensioner applying tension to the image-carrying belt, a position of the tensioner being changed while being in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the image-carrying belt, the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070059056 - Image-forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus includes: a first image carrier for carrying a light toner image which is formed with a light toner; a first transfer member for electrostatically transferring the light toner onto an intermediate transfer body; a second image carrier for carrying a dark toner image which is formed with... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070059057 - Image forming apparatus and sheet heating apparatus: When an abnormality factor occurs in a second heating device, a sheet located upstream of a branch portion is discharged onto a discharge tray through a second conveying path. After the abnormality factor in the second heating device is removed and the sheet discharged to the discharge tray through the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059058 - Image forming apparatus and image printing system: An image forming apparatus includes a determining unit, an image forming unit, a fixing member, a pressing member, a separating member and a release agent applying member. The determining unit determines whether to print a borderless image or not. The image forming unit forms a developer image on a recording... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070059063 - Image forming method and image forming apparatus: To provide an image forming method including forming a latent electrostatic image on a latent electrostatic image bearing member, developing the latent electrostatic image using a toner to form a visible image, transferring the visible image to a recording medium, and fixing a transfer image transferred on the recording medium,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059059 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotatable member for heating, in a nip, an image on a recording material; a belt cooperative with the heating rotatable member to form the nip, the belt being movable between a contact position in which the belt is in contact with the heating... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059060 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotatable member for heating an image on a recording material at a nip; an endless belt cooperative with the heating rotatable member to form the nip; a pressing pad for pressing the belt at the nip; and a lubricant application member for applying... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059061 - Image heating apparatus: An apparatus for inclining a roller on which a pressure belt is suspended to perform a deviation control of the pressure belt, which can well perform the deviation control of the pressure belt even when the pressure belt has been spaced apart from a fixing roller. A fixing device is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059062 - Image heating apparatus: In a fixing apparatus capable of reducing unevenness in temperature distribution in an axial direction while reducing heat loss at an end portion, a fixing belt 11 extended around a fixation roller 13 and a fixation tension roller 14 is heated by a coil unit 28 for effecting induction heating.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059065 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes a first belt contactable to an image on a recording material to heat the image; a second belt for forming a nip with the first belt; a first pressing pad for pressing the first belt in the nip; a second pressing pad for pressing the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059064 - Image heating apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt for heating an image on a recording material at a nip; a pressing pad for pressing the belt at the nip; a supporting member for supporting the belt at an inner surface thereof, the supporting member being displaceable to move the belt... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059066 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus that causes a recording material carrying a fixed toner image to be in close contact with a belt and improves gloss level of an image surface is provided. A decrease in the separability of the recording material from the belt can be suppressed by control of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070059067 - Lubricant applicator, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge using the lubricant applicator, and method for assembling the process cartridge: A process cartridge including an image bearing member; a lubricant applicator, which includes a lubricant application member configured to apply a solid lubricant to the surface of the image bearing member; and a smoothing member configured to smooth the applied solid lubricant, and at least one of a charging device,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070059068 - Automatic document handler guidance graphic: A document handler (10) including a document receptacle (12) receiving document sheets for processing, and a user guidance graphic (50, 150, 250) disposed on the document receptacle (12). The user guidance graphic (50, 150, 250) includes at least one guidance graphic element (51, 52, 53, 54, 151, 152, 153, 154,... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070059069 - Cutting device and image forming apparatus: A cutting device cuts and discharges a recording material on which a plurality of images is formed, and includes cutting portion and a container. The cutting portion cuts the recording material. The container contains a remaining part generated from the cut recording material and a blank sheet portion the recording... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070059070 - Apparatus for precisely adjusting the position of workstations in a document printer/copier: Apparatus for precisely positioning one or more of the workstations of a document printer/copier relative to an internal drum, including a first member, attached to either a workstation or the internal drum, having two sections, each section having a reference surface forming an angle therebetween, an actuator for changing the... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070059071 - Image forming apparatus reducing an occurrence of disturbing an image: An image forming apparatus forming an image on a transfer sheet includes a transfer unit including a transfer nip, a fixing unit including a fixing nip and driven by a drive source, and a registration unit driven by the drive source. A formula (Vtc+Vth)=(2Lp−Lmin−Lmax)/Tr is satisfied or expressions Vtc>(Lp−Lmax)/Tr and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070053700 - Image forming system and control method for the same: An image forming system that has an apparatus that receives recording media from an apparatus upstream from it, executes image formation processing, and conveys the recording media to an apparatus positioned downstream from it. The apparatus controls whether to continue conveyance of recording media, change their discharger, and accept recording... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070053701 - Image forming apparatus, controlling method of the same: An image forming apparatus determines process items needed as exchanged components and an order of executing the process items needed for a plurality of kinds of exchanged components based on priority order information of the process items and causes a display unit to control a display for ordering to execute... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070053702 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is to be formed; a rotary development unit having a plurality of developer carriers that carry a developer used for developing the electrostatic latent image, the developer including toner, the plurality of the developer carriers being... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070053703 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a developer container that holds a two-component developer, a toner concentration detector that detects toner concentration in the developer, a toner supplying unit configured to supply new toner to the developing unit, a toner supply controlling unit that compares an output of the toner concentration... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070053705 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, in each of a cyan image forming unit, a magenta image forming unit, a yellow image forming unit, and a black image forming unit, during a non-development period during which no toner is discharged out of a development unit, when toner in the development unit... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070053704 - Image forming apparatus capable controlling toner supply: An image forming apparatus, including a toner supplying unit to supply toner, a toner transporting unit to transport the toner supplied from the toner supplying unit, a sensor to sense a density of the toner transported by the toner transporting unit, a compensating signal generating unit to compensate for amounts... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070053706 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes: a moving speed ratio change section which changes a circumferential speed ratio between a surface of a developer bearing member and a surface of an image carrier; and a memory section which stores a target value of fog toner. After the circumferential speed ratio has... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070053707 - Periodic doctor element field reversal in an electrophotographic device: A method and apparatus to clear the accumulation of toner particles from a doctor element by periodically reversing a bias field between a doctor element and a developer member. The developer member may be biased to a first electrical potential while the doctor element may be biased to a second... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20070053708 - Image forming apparatus including a plurality of heating devices for heating recording sheet: A first heating device heats a recording sheet having a developer image formed thereon, and a cooling device cools the recording sheet having been heated. A second heating device heats the recording sheet having been cooled, thereby giving gloss to the image on the recording sheet. A cooling capability of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070053709 - Image forming apparatus: The present invention can print out operating instructions, HELP documents, the latest image forming apparatus information, support and maintenance information, advertisements about new models and services, and the like without incrementing a charging counter. Without caring about the charging, users can print out operating instructions, HELP documents, the latest image... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070053710 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including an adjustment unit adapted to adjust an image to be formed by an image forming unit advises the next adjustment execution timing on the basis of cumulative use information obtained by the image forming unit, and changes the advised adjustment timing on the basis of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070053711 - Automated duplex printing of heavyweight sheets in special simplex mode: In a duplex printer with automatic duplex printing by recirculating the sheets printed on their first sides through a duplex path for printing their second sides before feeding them to the output path, electronic information corresponding to a pre-set maximum level of acceptable sheet weight for that printer is compared... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070053712 - Image forming apparatus and fixing device: A fixing unit mounting section is formed to a main body frame. A fixing unit is mounted to the fixing unit mounting section by inserting the fixing unit into the main body along a predetermined inserting direction. An electric power supply section configured to supply electric power to the fixing... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070053713 - Developing device and image forming device: A regulating member includes a protrusion protruding from a supporting member toward a developing roller. The length of the supporting member in the longitudinal direction is longer than the length of the protrusion in the longitudinal direction. A seal member includes an extending portion extending from a space for carrying... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20070053714 - Method for repairing used fuser member: A process for renewing an outer surface of a used fuser roller by removing debris particles from the surface including contacting the outer surface with a first finishing paper while simultaneously rotating the used fuser roller so that the first finishing paper completes a first superfinishing of the outer layer;... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070053715 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has a configuration in which a plurality of subsystems, each having a specific function, are interchangeably connected to a base platform. Each of the subsystems includes a plurality of units having a variety of different performances. A control unit is capable of control each of the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070053716 - Image forming device: An image forming device is provided that may have a housing with an opening, a drawer component that may be drawn out in a substantially horizontal direction through the opening, a holding portion on the housing to be held at a time when the drawer component is drawn out, and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070053717 - Process cartridge and an image forming apparatus having the same: A process cartridge and an image forming apparatus including the same, the process cartridge comprising a side plate; a developing roller rotatably supported at the side plate; a photoconductive body having a center axle rotatably supported at the side plate so as to be located adjacent to the developing roller;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070053718 - Roller spacing apparatus and image forming device having the same: A roller spacing apparatus and an image forming device including the same. The roller spacing apparatus includes a first roller member that is rotatable, a second roller member that is rotatable in a close contact with the first roller member under a predetermined pressure, and at least one spacing part... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070053719 - Image forming apparatus and drive unit of image forming unit: A swinging gear is constructed to be swingable in accordance with the rotational direction of a main gear. A first gear train is arranged to drive a black developing unit by meshing with the swinging gear when the main gear is rotated in a first direction. A second gear train... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070053720 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus: In a developing apparatus provided with a developer container containing a developer, a rotary member holding the developer container and rotatively moving it relative to a developing position, an opening portion provided in the developer container and through which the developer is supplied or discharged, a valve swingable to open... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070053722 - Developer feeding member, developing apparatus, process cartridge and developer feeding member mounting method: A developer feeding member for use with an electrophotographic image forming apparatus to feed a developer accommodated in a developer accommodating portion, includes a shaft for receiving a driving force to rotate when the shaft is mounted in the developer accommodating portion; a flexible sheet for feeding the developer accommodated... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070053721 - Stress-reduceable transport unit and image forming apparatus using the same: An agent transport unit for transporting an agent from a first container to a second container includes a transport route and a pump. The transport route connects the first container and second container, and includes at least one of a first route, a second route, and a third route. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070053723 - Image forming apparatus having an improved developer conveying system: An image forming apparatus includes a conveying pipe configured to convey a developer and a magnetic field generation mechanism configured to generate a magnetic field inside the conveying pipe to affect the developer. The magnet is formed to have lower magnetic intensities at positions upstream and downstream from a middle... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20070053724 - Developing apparatus: A developing apparatus in which a first magnet of a first developing sleeve includes a first magnetic pole near a potion opposing to an image bearing member, and a second magnetic pole being downstream of the first magnetic pole; and a second magnet of a second developing sleeve includes a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070053725 - Developing apparatus: A developing apparatus including a first development sleeve carrying a developer toward a first development area, a second development sleeve carrying the developer from the first sleeve toward a second development area, a first magnet roller disposed in the first sleeve and having a first magnetic pole, a second magnet... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070053726 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a first image bearing member; a first developing means forming a toner image of transparent toner on an electrostatic latent image formed on the first image bearing member; a second image bearing member having an electrostatic capacity per unit area which is smaller than an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070053727 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same: A pattern image for registration correction is formed in a reference color and an arbitrary color to be corrected. The pattern image for registration correction is formed a number or times n1 or a number of times n2. If the total number of image forming sections is S; the length... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070053728 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: p

20070053729 - Fixing device: A fixing device for heating and pressing a recording medium carrying an unfixed toner image or an unfixed ink image to fix the unfixed toner image or the unfixed ink image on the recording medium, includes a heating roller which has a heating source and has an endless peripheral surface... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070053730 - Image forming apparatus and fixing device: A pressure roller support member that rotatably supports a pressure roller is supported to a fixing unit case so as to be capable of swaying. A spacer member is supported to the pressure roller support member so as to be capable of swaying. A spacer section is formed at an... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070053731 - Image forming apparatus having a plurality of heating devices for heating recording sheet: An image forming apparatus has: a first heating device which heats recording sheet formed with a developer image; a cooling device which cools the recording sheet passing through the first heating device; a second heating device which heats the recording sheet cooled by the cooling device and gives a gloss... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070053732 - Image forming device: An image forming device is disclosed which can easily and promptly execute a copy restriction process that restricts the copying of an original document based on a background pattern included in the original document image that is obtained by scanning the original document. In the restriction process, when an original... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20070053733 - Image forming system and control method for the same: An image forming system comprises a selection unit for selecting a post-processing apparatus that executes post-processing to a recording medium on which an image is formed from among a plurality of post-processing apparatuses, and a selection limitation unit for determining an insertion apparatus whose supply of the insertion medium to... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070047975 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on both surfaces of a recording medium; and a control unit that controls the image forming unit to form an image so that the image expresses information of a user who uses the image forming apparatus or... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070047973 - Method and apparatus for managing history in image forming apparatus: A method and apparatus for managing a history of operations performed in an image forming apparatus that is controlled by an external connection are provided. The apparatus includes an interface unit via which an external device is connected to the image forming apparatus to control the image forming apparatus, a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070047974 - Network system comprising customer replaceable unit: A network system including a customer replaceable unit (CRU) having an excellent security function for operation information which system can realize improvement of the use efficiency of operation information for making the CRU operate, and reduction in costs, is provided. An apparatus main body of a multifunction printer, a server,... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070047976 - Consumable selection in a printing system: A marking engine includes a plurality of components which each perform a portion of a marking operation. A processing component receives information on a replacement module, such as a toner cartridge selected from a set of different toner carridges, which is to be incorporated into the marking engine. The processing... Agent: Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070047977 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a developing device configured to develop an electrostatic image on an image carrier with developer, and a developer container detachably attachable to the image forming apparatus and configured to store developer to be supplied to the developing device. A developer supply unit is configured to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070047978 - Sheet transport apparatus and image forming apparatus: A sheet transport apparatus of the present invention includes sheet transport means that transports a sheet, an actual position detecting device that detects an actual position of the sheet based on the rotation of a rotating member that is driven to rotate by the sheet transported by the sheet transport... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070047979 - Image forming apparatus and control method of the image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including a plurality of container units containing sheets, a sheet feeding device provided for each of the plurality of container units and configured to feed the sheets; and a controller switching between modes including a first mode and a second mode in order to automatically switch... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070047980 - Machine vision counting system apparatus and method: A machine-vision-based counter includes an image acquisition component (imager), wherein light provides discrimination between a background field and imageable units located away from the imager The imager outputs data representing the field and units; an image processor receiving imager data finds countable units therein. An operator interface accepts command inputs... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070047981 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a first developing device for developing an electrostatic image with a developer including toner and carrier; a second developing device for developing an electrostatic image with a developer including toner which is different from the toner and carrier; first supplying means for supplying the toner... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070047982 - Image forming apparatus, method for forming an image, computer-readable storage medium, and computer system: An image forming apparatus comprises an image bearing member on which a latent image is formed, a plurality of developing devices for developing the latent image, each of the developing devices containing developer, and a turnable turning member on which the plurality of developing devices are mounted. The turning member... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047983 - Heating apparatus and fixing apparatus: A heating apparatus includes: an exciting coil provided in close vicinity of a heated body having a conductive layer; a capacitor connected serially or in parallel with the exciting coil; a switching element that generates a high frequency current by turning on/off a direct current and that supplies the high... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070047984 - Image forming apparatus: In the image forming apparatus, a thermostat is arranged in a housing of the fixing device, and the terminals on both ends are arranged slanted with respect to the longitudinal direction. A non-contact type temperature sensor is arranged adjacent to the thermostat. The discharge rollers are arranged at equidistance from... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070047985 - Development system and image forming apparatus using the same: A development system comprises: an image forming section including a development roller for carrying developer, a developer supplying roller for supplying the developer to the development roller, a developer container for supplying the developer to the developer supplying roller, a photoconductor on which a developed image is formed with the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070047986 - Image forming apparatus and density adjusting method thereof: The present invention performs density adjustment (ATR process) and transfer voltage control (ATVC) in parallel; the ATR process transfers and forms a patch image on an intermediate transfer member and detects and adjusts the density of the patch image, and the ATVC gradually raises a transfer voltage to measure a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070047987 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of developing portions capable of developing electrostatic latent images formed on an image bearing member, and a control portion for executing preparation operations for developing operations with respect to each of the plurality of developing portions. The image forming apparatus has a first... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070047988 - Transfer bias adjustment based on component life: An electrophotographic image forming device may use a feedback loop to determine environmental conditions and accordingly set one or more operating parameters. The device may detect a resistance/capacitance characteristic of a feedback loop comprising an interface between a first component and a second component of an image forming unit. The... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc.IPLaw Department

20070047989 - Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, fixing apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image onto a recording medium by applying pressure and heat to toner provided on the surface of the recording medium. The fixing apparatus includes a fixing member, a pressing member for pressing against the fixing member, a temperature... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070047991 - Fixing apparatus, image forming apparatus and fixing apparatus heating method: A fixing apparatus for fixing an unfixed image on a recording material includes: a heating member having a conductive layer, that is rotatably provided; a pressure member that is rotatably provided and that is brought into press-contact with the heating member, thereby forms a fixing nip part to pass the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070047990 - Method for minimizing temperature droop in a fuser: A method of controlling a fuser assembly within an image forming apparatus having a fuser assembly including a heating member and a backup member cooperating with the heating member to form a nip therebetween for fusing images onto substrates passing through the nip. The method is provided to minimize or... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070047992 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming station including an image bearing member, developing means for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with toner, wherein the toner remaining on the image bearing member after a developed image is transferred, is collected by the developing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070047994 - Image forming apparatus including chip having engine processor and basic processor: An image forming apparatus including a chip having an engine processor and a basic processor includes an image forming unit which has an image forming engine and forms an image of given image data, an engine processor to control a driving of the image forming engine, and a basic processor... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070047993 - System for managing a digital printer having active and inactive operational modes: A digital printer is operable in an inactive mode, such as a sleep mode or a cycle-in mode, and an active mode. In response to receiving a first print request, the digital printer delays beginning switching from the inactive mode to the active mode, for a delay period of predetermined... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070047995 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and control program of the same: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a dedicated operation input section having various function keys provided with the image forming apparatus; a connection section to connect an external operation input section having various keys with the image forming apparatus; a memory section to memorize a correspondence information table for... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070047996 - Image forming apparatus for designating sheet post-processing functions: An image forming apparatus including: a stapling device which applies staple processing to a portion assuming a trailing end of a sheet with respect to a transport direction of the sheet; a first punch device which applies punch processing to a portion assuming a leading end of the sheet in... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070047997 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus and program: Based on the image size and folding setting, a recording medium storing device is selected among a plurality of the recording medium storing devices, an image is formed on a recording medium in the selected recording medium storing device based on image information, and the recording medium on which the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070047998 - Sheet post-processing apparatus, image forming system and power saving control method: A sheet post-processing apparatus has a sheet conveying portion which receives and conveys a sheet discharged from an apparatus on an upstream side, and discharges it to an apparatus on a downstream side or a discharge tray, a sheet post-processing portion which carried out post-processing on the sheet, and a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070047999 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided which is capable of preventing the heat radiated from a high-voltage power source board from raising the temperature around the high-voltage power source board to a high temperature. A cooling fan is disposed opposite to the side of the high-voltage power source board where... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070048000 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided which includes a rotating image carrier including a central portion and tip portions, and a rotating developing element for contacting the rotating image carrier and applying a developer to a latent image, wherein an axial direction is parallel to an axial direction of the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070048001 - Image forming apparatus: Provided is an image forming apparatus including: an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a transfer device for transferring the toner image onto a sheet from the image bearing member; a fixing device for fixing on the sheet the toner image which has been transferred onto the sheet;... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070048002 - Image forming device: A development apparatus for use in an image forming device includes a developer storage chamber for storing developer, a developer carrier having a film of the developer formed thereon, wherein a visible image is formed when the film interacts with an electrostatic latent image, and a developer feed member arranged... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070048003 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus of the present invention, although an upper cover is rotated when a body frame is opened, a free end of a base for fixing a paper receiving tray makes contact with a side of the frame, thus an inclination angle of the paper receiving tray... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070048005 - Image forming apparatus: A laser printer is detachably provided with a carrier belt, support rollers for supporting the carrier belt, and a belt unit provided with a belt frame. A unit support portion for supporting a bearing portion of the support roller and a unit support portion for supporting a bearing portion of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070048006 - Image-forming device facilitating resolution of paper jam: A feeding unit is disposed near the lower edge of an access opening formed in a front cover of a main casing. The feeding unit includes a pair of registration rollers and a pair of guide parts. One of the registration rollers and one of the guide parts are retained... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070048004 - Robust door panel breakaway mechanism for an image forming device: A breakaway device and method that may be used in conjunction with a door panel on an image forming device. The door panel may be a multipurpose feed door or otherwise provide access to the interior of the image forming device. The door panel may be movable between a closed... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20070048007 - Image forming apparatus, process unit, and developing cartridge: When the drum axis of a photosensitive drum cartridge is engaged with an image forming apparatus, the developing roller axis of a developing cartridge is engaged with an engagement provided in the photosensitive drum cartridge. Then, after this, a positioning component of the developing cartridge engages with a developing cartridge... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070048008 - Photosensitive-member cartridge, developing cartridge, and image-forming device: A photosensitive-member cartridge has an upper registration roller, and both ends of the upper registration roller are rotatably supported on respective side walls of a casing by roller support members. Torsion coil springs are engaged with the roller support members and the side walls, and urge the upper registration roller... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070048009 - Developing unit and image forming device: A developing unit is disclosed which is configured to supply toner to a photosensitive drum in the body of an image forming device, and can be detachably mounted to the body of the image forming device. The developing includes a first developing roller and a roller contacting/retracting mechanism. The first... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070048010 - Image forming apparatus: A laser printer has an opening formed at its front surface side and a front cover for opening and closing the opening. A belt unit is attachably and detachably provided with respect to a body casing via the opening in a state where the front cover is opened. A guide... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070048011 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a movable image bearing member; a charging device for electrically charging the image bearing member at a charging position; a transferring device for contacting the image bearing member at the transfer position and for transferring a toner image from the image bearing member onto a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070048012 - Portable photocopy apparatus and method of use: An apparatus and methods for copying documents, especially to a personal, portable and foldable document copier that can identify the presence of a new document such as a book, a page, a business card, an ID card, a passport and the like documents, adapt to its size, automatically synchronize with... Agent: Cssn Inc. Card Scanning Solutions

20070048013 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and image forming unit: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus, comprises an electrophotographic photoreceptor; an image forming section for forming a toner image on a surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor; an intermediate transfer member; a first transferring section for transferring the toner image formed on the surface of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a surface of... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070048014 - Image forming device: A shift regulating member projecting from an inner circumferential side of a belt that engages an engaging member on a roller, and a pressing member that presses the belt are described. The pressing member may press the belt between the roller with the engaging member and another roller. In some... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070048017 - Drive control unit, drive control method and image forming apparatus: A drive control unit for controlling speeds of driving parts based on a target speed, includes a detecting part to detect speed fluctuations of each of the driving parts when the speeds of the driving parts are controlled based on a common target speed, a storage part to store speed... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070048015 - Helically splined drive member for an image forming device: Embodiments for driving a removable element within an image forming device. An output member positioned within the image forming device mates with an input member of the removable element. The members include ribs that mate together such that rotational force from the output member is transferred to the input member.... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International Inc.

20070048016 - Process cartridge and image forming device having the same: A process cartridge of an image forming device has a photosensitive body unit including a photosensitive body and a photosensitive body driving part. The photosensitive body driving unit has a photosensitive body gear formed on a photosensitive body shaft. An electrostatic latent image is formed on the photosensitive body. A... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070048019 - Coupling structure usable with image forming apparatus: A coupling structure usable with an image forming apparatus which includes a hopper frame to accommodate toner and an agitator, a development frame coupled to the hopper frame and installed with a developing roller and a supply roller to supply the toner to the developing roller, a plurality of gears... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070048018 - Power transmitting device for developing device and image forming apparatus with the same: A power restricting device for a developing device of an image forming apparatus and an image forming apparatus with the same are disclosed. The power restricting device for a developing device of an image forming apparatus includes a driving section with at least one rotational member which is rotated by... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070048020 - Color order fulfilment method: The disclosure is directed to a method of offering colors within a color system for use in xerography. The method includes providing at least a first toner of a first color. The first toner is selected from a set of pre-qualified colors. A customer request for a second toner is... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070048021 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a developing apparatus for developing an electrostatic image with a developer comprising at least a toner and a first external additive, the developing apparatus including a plurality of developing devices, containing toners different in color or lightness from each other, in which at least two... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070048022 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that inhibits malfunctions therein via control such that respective developing devices change positions at predetermined timings. In a color laser printer, a first position is a position on a photosensitive drum facing a developing roller established when a developing roller moves to a developing position. A... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070048024 - Developing cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus including the same: A developing cartridge includes an agitator including a pair of ribs to effectively force a toner to a center of a flexible agitator film. In the developing cartridge of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including a housing containing the toner, a developing roller disposed such that a portion thereof is... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070048023 - Electrographic developer mixing apparatus and process: A developer mixing apparatus, comprising: a housing including a chamber that holds developer; a first ribbon blender disposed within the chamber and elongate along a first longitudinal axis; and, a second ribbon blender disposed within the chamber and elongate along a second longitudinal axis, wherein the first and second ribbon... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070048025 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus having a plurality of image forming stations each provided with an image bearing member, a developing device for collecting any untransferred toner on the image bearing member and at the same time, developing an electrostatic image with a toner, and a transfer device for transferring the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070048028 - Developer and electrophotographic image forming apparatus including the same: An improved developer for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus is provided. The developer includes a developer frame, a plurality of developing cartridges that are sequentially mounted in the developer frame and have a plurality of toner feeding units for receiving respective toners. A plurality of toner cartridges feed the respective... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070048027 - Developer container and developer supply device and image forming apparatus including the developing container: A developer container for a developer supply device and an image forming apparatus include: a container main body which contains developer therein and is provided with at least one developer outlet formed at one side thereof. A shutter unit is rotatably installed in the container main body to open the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070048026 - Developing unit: A developing unit is provided with developers, toner supply pipes, a drive mechanism, a position holding mechanism, and a retraction mechanism. Each of the plurality of developers has a development roller that corresponds to a color. Each toner supply pipe has a toner supply port and supplies toner to one... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070048029 - Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus for mounting the same: A toner cartridge in a bottle shape for storing toner is composed of a first cylindrical portion having a blocked bottom wall at one end and an opening at the other end and a second cylindrical portion in which one end thereof is connected to the opening, and an opening... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070048030 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for a color print having an intermediate transfer belt and a plurality of image forming devices, wherein each image forming device has a photoreceptor and a developing device, and toner images formed on photoreceptors by the developing devices are primarily transferred onto the intermediate transfer belt... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070048031 - Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively correcting a misregistration of an image: An image forming apparatus forming a color image with color toners includes a plurality of image forming members, an image transfer member, a plurality of sensors, a calculator, an edge extractor, a counter, and a misregistration corrector. The plurality of image forming members forms a plurality of test patches. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070048032 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same: An image forming apparatus having a transfer device transferring a toner image from an intermediate transfer member to a sheet, a sheet feeder feeding the sheet to the transfer device, a sheet re-feeder, which reverses the front side and back side of the sheet to re-feed the sheet to the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070048033 - Systems and methods to assist in stripping a substrate from an image transfer unit: A method for assisting in stripping a substrate from a charge receptor that is operable to transfer marking material to the substrate at a transfer zone, comprising determining the solid area coverage of the transfer marking material at a leading region of the substrate at the leading edge thereof, moving... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20070048034 - Transfer assist blade dwell correction: An apparatus for assisting in the transfer of an image from an image bearing member onto a copy substrate, comprises an image bearing member carrying an image to be transferred, a feed mechanism for feeding a copy substrate to the image bearing member, and a transfer assist mechanism movable to... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20070048035 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device for fixing a toner image on a recording material, includes a rotatable endless belt member, a pressure member provided to press into contact and form a nip portion with the belt member, through which the recording material passes, and a peeling member provided downstream of the nip... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070048036 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes a fixing roller for fixing a toner image transferred onto a sheet and conveying the sheet along a conveyance path, and a separating mechanism for separating the sheet from the fixing roller. The separating mechanism includes a claw member having a tip portion in contact with... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070048037 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section which transfers toner onto a latent image due to a difference of electrostatic potential to form a toner image, a transfer section which transfers the toner image onto a recording material directly or via an intermediate transfer body, a fixing section... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070048038 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a developing device for forming a developer image containing at least a colorant, a releasing agent, and a binder resin; a transfer member for transferring the developer image to a recoding medium; and a oil-less fixing unit having a first rotational member for heating the... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP Suite 202

20070048040 - Cleaning member and image forming apparatus using the same: A cleaning member for cleaning the toner remaining on the outer peripheral surface of a heat roller that fixes an unfixed developer image formed on a sheet of paper onto the paper by heating under pressure, includes: a mesh portion having a predetermined mesh in the area abutting the heat... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070048039 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section which transfers toner onto a latent image to form a toner image, a transfer section which transfers the toner image onto a recording material directly or via an intermediate transfer body, a fixing section which has a pair of rotatable members... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070048041 - Heating device for fixing: In a heating device for fixing, an incandescent lamp having a filament along the axis of a tubular container is provided. The heating device has a reflective mirror having an opening on a light emitting side thereof, which is provided along the axis of the incandescent lamp, and a condenser... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070048043 - Fixing apparatus of image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus for an image forming apparatus including a fixing roller, a fixing belt moving endlessly while being in contact with an outer surface of the fixing roller, and an anti-serpentine unit selectively in contact with both lateral outer edges of the fixing belt, which biases the fixing belt... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070048044 - Fixing device and image formation apparatus: A fixing device includes a cylindrical fixing roller, an endless belt and a pressure member. The endless belt rotates along with the fixing roller. The endless belt is disposed at a position facing the fixing roller. The pressure member is disposed inside the endless belt. The pressure member pressurizes the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070048045 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus using the same: A ratio of a radius of curvature of a pressure applying member with an elastic layer, which pushes an endless belt wound around an endless heating member with pressure, in a transferring direction to a radius of curvature of an outer diameter of the heating roller is set to 1.1... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070048042 - Fixing unit and image forming apparatus: A fixing unit for fixing a toner image on a recording material includes: a rotatable fixing roll; a fixing belt stretched on the fixing roll; at least one tension roll stretching the fixing belt with the fixing roll; a pressurization member disposed to give a pressure to the fixing roll;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070048047 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device is provided in image forming apparatuses such as a printer and the like and performs a fixing by heating to a recording sheet on which a toner image is transferred. The fixing device includes: a heating source adapted for performing fixing of a toner image onto a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070048046 - Fluorocarbon resin-coated member, manufacturing method thereof, fixing device using the member, and image forming apparatus using the device: The invention provides a fluorocarbon resin-coated member which has at least a base material and a releasing layer formed thereon, wherein the releasing layer is a film obtained by sintering fluorocarbon resin particles, and the relative film density of the releasing layer is 98% or more. The invention fiher provides... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070048048 - Image forming apparatus and moisture feeding device provided therewith: An image forming apparatus includes: a moisture feeding unit which supplies moisture to a sheet when the sheet passes through a nip portion of a pair of porous rollers, which has a lower roller absorbing water and an upper roller absorbing water in contact with the lower roller, and comprises... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070048049 - Cleaning blade control apparatus and method: An apparatus includes a xerographic cleaning blade, an actuator member operatively connected to the cleaning blade and movable over a first stroke from a first actuator position to a second actuator position, and a damper operatively connected to the actuator member. As the actuator member moves over the first stroke... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck LLP

20070048050 - Developing agent transport and storage: An apparatus and method for the transport and/or storage of developing agent in an image forming apparatus. A cartridge may be employed having a reservoir for developing agent and a component, such as a drum, which may include an interior region capable of storing developing agent. A transport device may... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070048051 - Image forming apparatus: There is described an image forming apparatus, in which the recording medium and the insertion recording medium are conveyed in a state that they overlap each other. The image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section to form an image on a recording medium; a sheet tray on which an... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070048052 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus includes first to fifth transport paths. The first path transports a sheet from a sheet feeding section to a sheet output section through a first confluence, an image recording section, a first bifurcation, and a second confluence in that order. The second path transports a sheet... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070048053 - Systems and methods for medium registration: Embodiments according to the present disclosure provide methods and systems of determining nip velocity profiles in a medium registration system, including parameterizing a set of equations into a set of standard parameters, the set of equations representing an analytic form of the nip velocity profiles; determining values of the parameters... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070048054 - Systems and methods for medium registration: Embodiments according to the present disclosure provide methods and systems of determining nip velocity profiles in a medium registration system, including parameterizing a set of equations into a set of standard parameters, the set of equations representing an analytic form of the nip velocity profiles; determining values of the parameters... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070048055 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of properly discharging a medium has a first medium stacking unit, a second medium stacking unit, and a guiding member for guiding the medium to the second medium stacking unit in a case that the second medium stacking unit is set in an opened state... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070048056 - Image forming apparatus: When a job cancellation instruction has been specified, if the number of the recording sheets loaded on the stacker device of a post-processing apparatus is not greater than the predetermined number of sheets, the aforementioned recording sheets are ejected without being subjected to the process of stapling and if it... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC