Electrophotography inventions 06/07

20070147857 - Apparatus for detecting developer level in developing unit: An apparatus to detect the remaining amount of developer in a developing unit is provided. The apparatus includes a light emitting prism and a light receiving prism placed opposite to each other in a developer store space of the developing unit and forming a light emitting path and a light... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070147858 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that includes: plural photosensitive members; plural charging units respectively opposed to the plurality of photosensitive members; a high-voltage power supply unit which applies a voltage to the charging unit; and a discharge detecting unit which detects discharge of the charging unit and detects abnormality of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070147867 - Image recording system and program: An image recording system is provided which includes two image recording apparatuses that can independently record images and can sequentially start up the two image recording apparatuses one by one rather than starting up at the same time. A bypass transporting path apparatus is disposed on a color image recording... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070147872 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprising an image bearing member, a transfer mechanism that transfers a developer image formed on the image bearing member, a charger that charges the image bearing member, a first high voltage power supply substrate that applies a first voltage to the transfer mechanism, and a second... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147875 - Image forming apparatus having paper dust collecting roller: An image forming apparatus includes a main casing, a paper-dust collecting roller, a paper-dust removing member, a conveying roller, and an urging member. The paper-dust collecting roller is rotatably supported at a fixed position in the main casing so as to confront a conveying path of a recording medium. The... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070147851 - Marking id for document identification: In accordance with one aspect of the present exemplary embodiment, a system marks a document that comprises a processing component that at least one of copies, prints, faxes, configures imaging, staples, collates and hole punches a document. A marking component produces one or more marks on a document received from... Agent: Kevin M. Dunn Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070147852 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a developing unit; a housing section; a detecting unit; a protective member; and a displacement mechanism. The developing unit that houses a developer. The housing section removably houses the developing unit. The detecting unit is disposed in the housing section and detects developing unit information... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070147853 - Microchip and method for repairing cartridge: A microchip for making a cartridge to be compatible with an imaging device is disclosed. The microchip can be used for various cartridges such as toner cartridges, ink cartridges, and so on, and includes a pair of electrodes which receive electronic signal from an imaging device, wherein the electronic signal... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070147854 - Monitoring apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image forming system: A monitoring apparatus includes a determining unit that determines in advance a first target amount, which is determined as a target of consumption amount of a colorant at a first timing, at which a first predetermined period from start of use of the colorant in image formation has elapsed, a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070147855 - Image forming system, control method therefor, image forming apparatus, control method therefor, and storage media storing programs for executing these control methods: An image forming system is provided, which, if a jam occurs, enables the next fed sheet to be properly fed correctly. The image forming system can use an inserter. To allow an interrupted job to be properly processed, whether or not a recovery operation is to be carried out for... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070147856 - Image forming apparatus and layer thickness calculating method: An image forming apparatus, includes: an image carrier that carries a developer image by a charge layer provided on a surface of the image carrier; a charger that charges the image carrier; a feeder that feeds the charger with a charge; a total charge amount detector that detects the total... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070147859 - Power container, toner container, and image forming apparatus: A powder container is configured to be installed in a substantially horizontal manner in an apparatus in which the powder container is used. A powder inlet is provided, through which a powder enters into the powder container. A powder detecting unit includes a powder detector for detecting a full of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147860 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is operable to form an image on a recording medium. An image carrier is adapted such that a toner image is formed thereon by developing an electrostatic latent image. An intermediate transfer member is adapted such that the toner image is primarily transferred thereto. In a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070147862 - Developing device, image forming apparatus having the same, and image forming method: The invention provides a developing device which can determine and set the suitable amount of toner on a development roller, the suitable voltage to be applied to a compaction roller, and the number of rotations of the compaction roller according to the type of paper, thereby providing a high quality... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070147861 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member for bearing a toner image and a contact transfer member. The contact transfer member has a temperature-dependent resistance value and contacts the image bearing member. The contract transfer member is applied with a voltage so as to transfer the toner image... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070147863 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes; an image forming unit; an annular belt that moves circularly; a detection unit that detects a state of a surface of the belt; and a tension increase 5 unit that increases a tension of the belt, at a detection position by the detection unit, when... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070147864 - Methods and devices for removing latent image ghosts photoreceptors: A ghost removing device for a marking apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a primary charging device, an erase light generating device to generate an erase light when activated, a voltage source to supply a charge voltage to the primary charging device, and a controller configured to control the at least one... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070147865 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of obtaining an image of a desired quality by a simple method is provided with an image forming device for forming a toner image on a recording material, a plurality of pairs of fixing rollers provided to fix the toner image, a glossiness detecting sensor... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147866 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A cleanerless cartridge in which a photoconductor body and a charger are integrated, and a cleaner-equipped cartridge in which a photoconductor body, a charger and a cleaner are integrated are prepared. An image forming apparatus body is configured such that the cartridges are attachable to first- to fourth-stage image forming... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070147868 - Image forming apparatus: A printer in which, while achieving a stabilization of image quality by process control processing, the generation of unnecessary wait time to the user, shortening of lifespan of the apparatus and needless consumption of toner caused by unnecessary execution of the process control processing can be better suppressed than in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147869 - Image processing unit: A image processing unit A has a unit main body 2 and a panel 1 that is supported movably with respect to the unit main body 2 and is equipped with a control component 5 and/or a display component 6, and has a panel support mechanism C that supports the... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070147870 - Printing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A printing apparatus receives a plurality of print jobs containing print data from a host computer connected thereto through a network. The printing apparatus temporarily stores the print job in a storage unit to print the print data. The printing apparatus receives a request to pause or restart printing of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147871 - Image forming method and image forming device having profile read from radio ic chip: An image forming method for forming an image on a paper supplied from a paper storage part of an image forming device includes the steps of reading paper information recorded in a radio IC chip attached to a paper provided in the paper storage part, recording information of a reading... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070147873 - Discharge method for electrophotographic process unit detachable from imaging apparatus and image forming apparatus thereof: When a sheet jams in an image forming machine with a detachable unit having at least an image carrier device, it is necessary to detach the unit to remove the sheet when the image carrier device is charged with electric charge. When the unit is detached and re-attached, spark discharging... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070147874 - Method and apparatus for removing waste sheets from a sheet feed apparatus: An apparatus and method for removing waste sheets from a sheet feed apparatus, removes waste sheets in a ergonomic manner. The bottom sheet or sheets from a stack of sheets is moved from an input hopper to a waste hopper. An accumulation of sheets in the waste hopper are rotated... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070147877 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that can prevent a transfer belt from being polluted by used developer on a belt cleaning member is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least one photoconductor on which a developer image is formed, a transfer belt, a belt cleaning member, and a first pollution control unit.... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070147878 - Belt cleaning device and image forming apparatus including the same: Negative polarity bias is applied to a cleaning part, and a conductive member positioned proximate to the cleaning part is at approximately the same potential as the cleaning roller.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147876 - Cleaning device and image forming apparatus having the same: There is provided a cleaning device capable of maintaining a sufficient cleaning effect by preventing creep deformation of a cleaning member. The cleaning device of the present invention for cleaning a transfer body in an image forming apparatus includes a first cleaning member whose top end is brought into pressure... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070147879 - Molded resin complex and method of producing the molded resin complex, and cartridge and method of producing the cartridge: A molded resin complex is provided including a first resin molded product and a second resin molded product engaged with each other so as to be separable. The first resin molded product is obtained by molding a first resin having transparency with respect to laser light, the second resin molded... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147880 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus body, a photosensitive member, an intermediate transfer belt, and a developing device placed on a side opposite to the intermediate transfer belt across the photosensitive member and provided with a detachable toner cartridge. The intermediate transfer belt is disposed such that... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070147882 - Image forming apparatus: A door main body of a door unit is swingably supported at a casing main body by a hinge mechanism. A conveying guide part is configured to guide conveying of a recording medium. A positioning contact part is configured to be in contact with a main-body-side contact part when the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147881 - Image forming apparatus and developing cartridge: A system that provides a compact and functional image forming device that can securely supply a driving force to the developing cartridge is described. A developing cartridge is described that can be mounted to the image forming device in an insertable/removable manner. A passive coupling gear and cylinder externally project... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147884 - Functional unit and image forming apparatus including the functional unit: After a functional unit is pushed into the innermost position within the image forming apparatus main body, the unit is locked to the image forming apparatus main body by engaging a first locking member pivotally attached to a casing of the unit with a second locking member held by the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147883 - Image forming apparatus, process unit, and developing cartridge: An image forming apparatus that includes: a process unit; a driving source; a first driving unit that rotates when a rotation driving force generated by the driving source is transmitted; and a connection switching unit that switches between a transmission state in which the rotation driving force is transmitted to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147885 - Photosensitive-member unit and image forming apparatus: A pressing member applies a pressing force to a trailing end in a direction which intersects a predetermined reference direction, allowing the pressing force to have both a first component in the predetermined reference direction and a second component perpendicular to the predetermined reference direction. A trailing end is pressed... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070147886 - Toner, method for forming image using the toner, and process cartridge: A toner exhibits excellent image characteristics, and also has an excellent charging property even if the toner is used in a cleaning-simultaneous-with-developing system having a direct injection charging mechanism. The toner includes toner particles and non-magnetic metallic-compound fine particles. The weight average particle diameter of the toner is 3.0 μm... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147889 - Developer unit and image forming device: A developing unit and image formation device in which a developer carrier is reliably pressed towards and separated from an image carrier is described. A separation and pressing mechanism is provided for separating and pressing the developer carriers of developing cartridges installed in a drum unit onto image carriers. This... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147888 - Developing cartridge and image forming device: A developing cartridge that maintains a pressing condition to press a developer carrier against the image carrier is described. The developing cartridge may include a coil spring that presses the developer carrier against the image carrier. The coil spring may include a handle that transmits a pressing force to the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147890 - Developing unit and image forming device: A developing unit is to be attachable to and detachable from an image forming device main body. The developing unit is provided with a developer case, a developing roller coupled with the developer case, and a movement member coupled with the developer case. The movement member is capable of moving... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070147887 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that includes: an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developing agent carrier which supplies developing agent to the image carrier; a linear movement member which reciprocally and substantially linearly moves between a pressing position for pressing the developing agent carrier against... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147891 - Image forming apparatus: A belt driven roller having a belt guide that positions a conveying belt in a width direction is supported in an axial direction relative to a belt frame, and positioned in the axial direction relative to a body casing. This can increases positional accuracy of the conveying belt relative to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147892 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit which forms an image on a recording sheet, a casing which houses the image forming unit and holds the image forming unit, a conveying roller which contacts the recording sheet to be conveyed in the casing, conveys the recording sheet, and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147893 - Image forming device, processing unit, and image forming method: An image forming device in which even if spherical toner made by the polymerization method is used, the toner can be preferably cleaned with a cleaning blade. The image forming device includes a process unit having a photoconductive member and a drum cleaning device that removes toner remaining after transfer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147894 - Oblique movement preventing device for endless belt and image forming apparatus with it: An oblique movement preventing device for an endless belt, the inner surface of the belt supported by rollers, and at least one roller circulating the belt on the rollers, includes a contact angle changing unit. The changing unit selectively presses either side part of the outer surface of the belt... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147895 - Gear unit and image forming device: A gear unit is provided with a shaft, a gear, a first shaft support member, a second shaft support member, and a stopper. The gear is supported by the shaft. The gear is capable of rotating and moving along the shaft. The first shaft support member supports one end of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070147896 - 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 frame, a first rotatable roller member having a first shaft, a second rotatable roller member having a second shaft and being rotatable in a close contact with the first roller member under... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070147897 - Developer feeder for wet developing apparatus: A developer feeder for wet developing apparatus having a developing roller rotationally engaged with a photoconductor drum and a feed roll in part immersed in a liquid developer and rotationally engaged with the developing roller for supplying the liquid developer onto the developing roller can be made to furnish the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070147898 - Developing device and image forming apparatus using the same: A developing device that forms a toner image on an image carrier, including: a cleaning device that recovers a toner that remains on the image carrier; a recovered toner supply port to which a recovered toner is returned; a toner transporting section that transports the toner supplied from the recovered... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070147899 - Toner supply device and developing unit using the same: A toner supply device includes: toner supply assembly for holding toner; and a toner supply assembly mounting mechanism having a housing for reserving toner supplied from the toner supply assembly and rotary parts for agitating the toner reserved in the housing. In this toner supply device, toner supplied from the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070147901 - Toner supply device and developing unit using the same: A toner supply device includes: a toner supply assembly having a toner bottle for holding toner; and a toner supply assembly mounting mechanism having the toner bottle mounted, for feeding toner supplied from the toner bottle to a developing unit. In this toner supply device, toner supplied from the toner... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070147900 - Toner container and image forming apparatus: A toner container detachably attached to a toner-container holder of a main body of an image forming apparatus includes a container body that includes an opening, and discharges toner contained in the container body, from the opening; and a held portion that is held by the toner-container holder in a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147902 - Toner container and image forming apparatus: A toner container includes a longitudinal container body, a held portion, and a standing inhibiting unit. The container body has a first end and a second end distal to the first end in length direction of the container body. The held portion is attached to the first end and has... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147903 - Image forming apparatus: The belt cleaning unit receives a biasing force, receives a rotating force of an output gear connected to an input gear, and further receives a reaction force from a cleaning roller rotationally driven to be opposed to a transfer belt while in contact with it during a cleaning operation, thus... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147904 - Developer conveying device and image forming apparatus: A developer conveying device includes a first guide member, a second guide member, and a plurality of electrodes arranged on the first guide member and the second guide member. The first guide member forms a first section of a conveying path of a charged developer. The second guide member forms... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147905 - Developer level control blade, process for its manufacture, and developing assembly: To provide a developer level control blade which ensures uniform wear of its blade member, enables well precise control of the touch pressure against the developer carrying member to achieve a proper pressure against the developer, and can keep the toner melt adhesion from occurring even in long-term service, a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147907 - Developing roller and developing method thereof: Provided are a developing roller for non-magnetic single component development and a developing method employing the developing, by which toner can be stably conveyed in any external environment, and the stable toner conveyance and charging amount can also be acquired. Also disclosed is a developing roller possessing a spindle and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070147906 - Developing agent carrier manufacturing method, developing agent carrier, developing device and image forming apparatus: A method for manufacturing a developing agent carrier of a hollow or solid cylindrical shape having an outer peripheral surface and an irregularity section formed on the outer peripheral surface to carry a developing agent is provided. The method comprises a step of preparing a base material of a hollow... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070147908 - Color image forming apparatus: A color image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of image carriers each on which a toner image having a color different from each other is formed; an intermediate transfer member to which each of the image carriers is transferred; a plurality of a primary transfer units each which transfers a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070147909 - Rotation driving apparatus, transfer unit, and image forming apparatus: A rotation driving apparatus is employed in a transfer unit for transferring and superimposing different color images formed on a plurality of image formation sections arranged side by side on a recordation medium carried on a belt transfer member. The rotation driving apparatus includes a plurality of rollers winding the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070147910 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, toner primarily transferred to an intermediate transfer belt is secondarily transferred at a first nip area formed by a secondary transfer roller and a transfuse roller, onto the transfuse roller, at pressure of 5.3 N/cm2 to 20 N/cm2 and at a driving speed ratio of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070147911 - Image forming apparatus: Provided is an image forming apparatus for preventing a paper sheet such as a plain paper or a tracing paper from being waved immediately after fixation. Between a fixing roller (17) of a fixing roller pair in a fixing unit and a delivery roller (19) in a delivery unit, there... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070147912 - Image forming apparatus having fixing device for fixing toner image on a recording material: An image forming apparatus having a fixing device for fixing toner image on a recording material, the fixing device includes: a heating member which heats a recording material; a pressing member which comes into contact with the heating member with pressure; and an air separator which separates the recording material... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070147913 - Fixing liquid, toner fixing method, toner fixing device, image forming method, and image forming apparatus: A fixing liquid is provided which fixes a toner comprising a resin on a recording medium, in which a fluid particle comprising a component which dissolves or swells at least a portion of the resin comprised in the toner is dispersed in a dispersive medium, as a micro-emulsion.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070147915 - Endless metal belt, fixing belt and heat fixing device: Objects of the present invention are to provide an endless metal belt superior in flexing resistance and durability, to provide a fixing belt using the endless metal belt, and to provide a heat fixing device with high durability and high reliability. The objects are achieved by the endless metal belt... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147914 - Metal belt, fixing belt and heat fixing device: j

20070147917 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has a first recording mode of outputting the recording material without passing thru the glossiness applying device after fixing and a second recording mode using the glossiness applying device, and then outputting the recording material. In the latter recording mode (B), when a void ratio G... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070147916 - Image receiver sheet surface characteristics for optimum sheet handling: A receiver member is provided suitable for having an ultra-gloss, image print formed thereon, the receiver member having at least one planar surface, a plurality of standoffs protruding from the planar surface, the plurality of standoffs providing a coefficient of friction for the planar surface for substantially preventing similar stacked... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070147918 - Used toner collecting device and an image forming apparatus having the same: A used toner collecting device for an image forming apparatus includes a used toner receiver for receiving used toner remaining on a surface of a photoconductive medium, a used toner conveying member for conveying the used toner received in the used toner receiver, and a used toner receptacle for storing... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070147919 - Image forming apparatus including shutter arm unit: An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit and a shutter arm unit. The shutter arm unit includes a shutter arm that swings to first and second positions, and a stopper arm, connected to the shutter arm, which protrudes toward a transportation path when the shutter arm swings to the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070147920 - Image-forming apparatus: A guide body for guiding the back surface of toner-image-bearing paper is formed from an insulating material and is disposed so as to face a paper transport path. A paper-transport-path-facing portion of the guide body, which faces the paper transport path, has guide ribs projecting upward toward the paper. A... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147921 - Duplex image forming apparatus and duplex image forming method: A duplex image forming apparatus including a main body, a recording medium receiving unit disposed on one side of the main body to receive at least first and second recording media, a recording medium supplying unit to feed the first recording medium to a recording medium supplying path, an image... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070147922 - Image forming apparatus and method: A copy machine achieves a reduction in power consumption when performing a saddle-stitching operation. An image forming unit forms visible images on recording sheets in accordance with image data stored in a memory device. A post-processing unit collects the recording media on an individual copy basis to prepare a bundle... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070147923 - Image forming apparatus and uncurling device for image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a discharge wall including a discharge port that discharges a sheet; a first roller; a second roller, the first roller and the second roller transferring the sheet toward the discharge port; a discharge tray including a stacking plate that receives the sheet discharged from the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070147924 - Sheet post-processing apparatus: A sheet post-processing apparatus according to the present invention has a standby tray for making a sheet at the position above a processing tray. The sheet on the standby tray is dropped and supplied onto the processing tray. This configuration reduces the sheet feeding path from the standby tray to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070147925 - Sheet post-processing apparatus, and image forming system including the same: A sheet post-processing apparatus, e.g., that is included in an image forming system, includes: a sheet stacking unit configured to stack a plurality of sheets of one or more printable media; a sheet alignment unit configured to align the plurality of sheets stacked in the sheet stacking unit; a pressing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070140709 - State detection mechanism: A state detection mechanism includes a movable member, a spring member, a fringe section, and a stopper member. The spring member displaces the movable member arranged at the first predetermined position to a second predetermined position by applying restoration force in a D direction to the movable member. The fringe... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070140714 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging device, a developing device, a thickness detecting unit and a parameter setting unit. A photosensitive layer is formed on a surface of the photosensitive member. The charging device charges the photosensitive member. The developing device forms a toner image on... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070140715 - Method of controlling driving of developing roller in image forming apparatus: A method to control the driving of a developing roller includes controlling a driving stop point of the developing roller which is independently driven, wherein the driving stop point of the developing roller is determined by adding the print medium feed time from a virtual print medium start point to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070140708 - Image forming apparatus and associated methodology of indicating an available level of imaging resources: An image forming apparatus such as an ink jet printer or a laser beam printer include an ink or toner cartridge loading portion and a display portion to show the remaining amount of the ink or the toner. The ink or toner cartridge loaded in the ink or toner cartridge... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140707 - Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus: A toner cartridge includes a toner container which contains toner, the toner container having at one end portion thereof a discharge port which discharges the toner, and a member which is attached to an outer peripheral surface of the one end portion. The member has a first part which is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070140710 - Color image forming device utilizing toner sensors to detect withdrawal amount of drawer section: In a color laser printer, four toner cartridges are juxtaposed in a straight line in a process unit. When the process unit is withdrawn from the laser printer to a position at which the toner cartridge nearest the front of the laser printer can be removed, an out-of-toner sensor farthest... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070140711 - Media path diagnostics with hyper module elements: A system for handling media sheets is provided which comprises a plurality of hardware components including a first image marking engine operative to mark media sheets, and a second image marking engine operative to mark media sheets. In addition, the plurality of hardware components can include a first object delivery... Agent: Karl W. Hauber, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070140712 - Sheet remainder detecting device and image forming apparatus: A sheet remainder detecting device for detecting the remaining amount of sheets in a sheet stack is provided with a displacing member displaceable according to the thickness of the sheet stack; a first and a second optical sensors each having a light emitting element for emitting light toward the displacing... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070140713 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, an electrifying member, a high voltage applying unit for applying to the electrifying member a high voltage in which a DC component of a constant voltage on an AC component of a constant current are superposed, a DC current measuring unit for measuring... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070140716 - Image forming apparatus and method: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device for forming a multi-color image using achromatic toner and chromatic toner; an image heating device for heating the multi-color image formed on a recording material; a setting device for setting a glossiness difference between an achromatic image portion and a color... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070140719 - Image forming apparatus: The aim of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus that accurately detects surface temperature of a rotating body using a noncontact temperature detection section and corrects the detected temperature according to the temperature of the surrounding area. The present invention detects the temperature of a thermal... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070140717 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes image forming means for forming an image on a recording material; a plurality of image heating means for sequentially heating an image on the recording material ; and switching means for switching a number of the image heating means to be used for heating the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070140718 - Multivariate predictive control of fuser temperatures: A fusing apparatus includes a fuser roll and a pressure roll which define a nip therebetween. Two heating elements heat the fuser roll. One of the heating elements is configured for heating a first portion of the fuser roll while a second of the heating elements is configured for heating... Agent: Ann M. Skerry, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070140720 - Method for operating a cleaning station: A method for operating a cleaning device having a preclean charging device for improved cleaning latitude on an imageable surface, comprising: moving imageable surface in a process direction through a cleaning zone, selecting a portion of said of the imageable surface moving through the cleaning zone; providing an initial pre-clean... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070140721 - Method and apparatus for color image forming capable of effectively forming a quality color image: A maintenance pattern forming method includes conveying, generating, and forming. The conveying conveys a transfer member on a surface of a conveying member such that there is a spacing area between two adjacent transfer members on the surface of the conveying member. The generating generates a timing signal for at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140722 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: There is disclosed an image forming method for use in an image forming apparatus which includes an image forming unit that generates image data from a manuscript and forms an image, an input unit that inputs a command for operating the image forming apparatus, and a control unit that controls... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070140723 - Image forming apparatus: Sample image data are stored beforehand in a storage unit. A first generation unit generates temporary finishing information by making setting processing on the sample image data based on setting information, and a second generation unit generates input screen information including setting processing items to accept various setting inputs to... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070140724 - Image forming apparatus having storage battery: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit; a fixing device; a main power circuit configured to supply electric power; an auxiliary power circuit configured to store and supply the electric power; a switching device configured to switch between a charge and discharge mode for the auxiliary power circuit;... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070140725 - Developing cartridge, process carriage, and image forming apparatus: A developing cartridge that includes: a developing roller having a developing roller gear and a driving force transmitting unit; and an electrode member for applying a bias to a developing roller shaft. A direction of a driving force applied to the developing roller gear at an engagement portion between the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070140726 - Drive device used in image forming device: A drive device 1 includes a planetary roller type power transmission unit, a temperature sensor 5b, a delay time determination unit 103, and an image processing control unit 104. The planetary roller type power transmission unit includes a plurality of planetary rollers at least a part thereof made from an... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070140727 - Image forming apparatus and recovery roller: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which comprises an image bearing member on which a toner image is formed, a sweep roller for removing residual toner particles from the image bearing member, and a recovery roller for recovering the toner particles from the sweep roller. The recovery roller has a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070140728 - Tandem image forming device and image forming apparatus including the same: A tandem image forming device for an image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of image forming means arranged side by side along an intermediate image transfer belt. The image forming means each include a developing device and a cleaning device arranged around an image carrier. One... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140729 - Dynamic seal for component surfaces: The present invention relates to seals which may be used in an image forming apparatus. The seals may prevent the leakage of image forming materials, e.g. as between a blade or a roll and an image forming apparatus housing.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070140730 - Toner cartridge seal assembly: A seal assembly for use in an imaging cartridge includes a gasket having first and second sides, a removable handle attached to an end of the gasket, a removable seal having a first side adhered to the first side of the gasket by an adhesive, a seal tail attached to... Agent: William L. London

20070140731 - Image forming apparatus capable of allowing easy maintenance: An image forming apparatus includes a door which is disposed on a rear surface of the image forming apparatus that allows a portion of the rear side thereof to open. The image forming apparatus further includes an image forming unit. The door is disposed at a position accessible to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140732 - Methods for printer cartridge modification: Techniques are provided for modifying a printer cartridge intended for installation in one type of printer to be installed in another type of printer or a plurality of printers. In one aspect, a method of modifying a toner cartridge may include modifying one or more end caps of the toner... Agent: William L. London

20070140733 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming device, a toner image conveyer unit, a control device, and a moving device. The toner image conveyer unit includes a toner image conveyer, a supporting member that detachably supports the toner image conveyer, and a detecting member that detects a toner... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070140734 - Apparatus and method for cleaning residual toner from drums in an image forming apparatus: An apparatus and method for cleaning a plurality of drums in an image forming apparatus includes applying a first bias to each of a plurality of disturbing members, each disturbing member associated with a corresponding drum of a plurality of drums. While performing an image forming operation wherein at least... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070140736 - Image forming apparatus having enhanced controlling method for reducing deviation of superimposed images: An image forming apparatus is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers to carry an image; a plurality of drivers to drive the image carriers; a plurality of drive-force transmitting members to transmit a driving-force from the drivers to image carriers; a developing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070140735 - Material supply module drive shaft: A drive shaft for coupling with a drive gear having a gear shaft extending outwardly therefrom. The gear shaft includes a twisted triangular coupling hole having defined vertices. The drive shaft includes a cylinder flange joined to one end of a drive shaft cylinder, the cylinder flange having a concentric... Agent: Anthony P. Gangemi Wiggin And Dana

20070140738 - Developing system and image forming apparatus using the same: A developing system comprises: a plurality of image carriers; a plurality of developing devices for developing electrostatic latent images, formed on the plurality of image carriers, with respective liquid developers of different colors of which carrier is nonvolatile solvent; and developer collecting means which are disposed at a plurality of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070140737 - Development system, image forming apparatus and image forming method: There is provided a development system comprising a developer carrier member that carries a developer, a developer supply roller that supplies the developer carrier member with the developer, a developer container that stores the developer, a toner compression roller that contacts with the developer carrier member and presses toner against... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070140739 - Developer collection system and image forming apparatus using the same: A developer collection system comprises a plurality of image carrier members, a plurality of development sections for developing the electrostatic latent images formed respectively on the plurality of image carrier members by means of liquid developers of different colors containing a non-volatile solvent as carrier, an intermediate transfer member for... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070140740 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that may be easily and inexpensively manufactured is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a toner supply unit; an image forming element to which toner is adsorbed from the toner supply unit; an image developing unit disposed on an outer side of the image forming element,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070140741 - Addition of liquid charge control agents to toner in toner development stations of electrographic reproduction apparatus: Controlling the charge on toner in a development station of an electrographic reproduction apparatus, wherein data relative to latent image charge carrying member voltage and image density control patches are sensed and development potential to achieve an aim density is calculated therefrom. A delta from an optimum development potential range... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070140742 - Addition of liquid charge control agents to toner in toner development stations of electrographic reproduction apparatus: Controlling the charge on toner in a development station of an electrographic reproduction apparatus, wherein data relative to latent image charge carrying member voltage and image density control patches are sensed and development potential to achieve an aim density is calculated therefrom. A delta from an optimum development potential range... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti, Patent Legal Staff, Eastman Kodak Company

20070140744 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same: The developing apparatus includes a developing container in which a developer containing a toner and a carrier is stored, a developing roller which carries the developer, and agitating transporting members which circulate and transport the developer along a rotary axis line of a developing roller while mixing and agitating the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070140743 - Developing cartridge and image forming apparatus: A developing cartridge that includes: a developer container that contains a developer; a developer carrier that carries the developer; an agitation member that comprises a rotary shaft, agitates the developer in the developer container and supplies the developer to the developer carrier; a drive member that is provided at one... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070140745 - Method and apparatus for directly transferring powder toner, and method and apparatus for filling with powder toner: Methods of transferring powder toner and filling a toner container or a development mechanism of an electronographic image forming apparatus with powder toner include the steps of providing a toner fluidization mechanism on a surface of deposit of the powder toner stored in a toner storage container, burying the toner... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140746 - Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus: A toner cartridge includes a toner container which contains toner, the toner container having at one end portion thereof a discharge port which discharges the toner, and a member which is attached to an outer peripheral surface of the one end portion. The member has a first part which is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070140747 - Toner container, toner supply device and image forming apparatus: A toner container for installation in a toner supply device is provided. The toner container includes a toner accommodation member and a cap member freely attachable to and detachable from the toner accommodation member. The toner accommodation member includes a bag member having an opening, and a connection member attached... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140749 - Developing device for developing a latent image using a two-component developer: t

20070140748 - Image forming apparatus, and carrier, toner and developer used therein: An image forming apparatus including an image bearer a magnetic field generator, a two-component developer bearer, a developing electric field generator, and an image developer. The two-component developer has at least a current speed index (25FRI) of from 0 to 2.0, which is determined by the following formula: 25FRI=(total energy... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140750 - Image forming apparatus and image forming control method: An image forming apparatus that is capable of carrying out image formation on a recording medium such as plain paper without increasing the FCOT (First Copy Out Time) and is also capable of carrying out optimal image formation on a recording medium, such as thick paper, for which the processing... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070140751 - Fusing member temperature uniformity enhancement system: A fusing system for use in a printing system is provided. In practice, a print media sheet having a size parameter value is transmitted to the fusing system along a first direction. Additionally, the print media sheet is provided with developer material prior to being delivered to the fusing system.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070140752 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus using same: The present invention provides a fixing apparatus which effectively prevents a recording medium from coiling around the surface of a fixing member and also prevents damage to the surface of the fixing member, and an image forming apparatus comprising this fixing apparatus. A gap between the tip end of separating... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140753 - Charge control for fuser roll to prevent print history related marks on copy: The magnitude and polarity of the voltage on the fuser roll surface is controlled by either electronic charge application means or by applying charge control agents to the fuser. For negative toner, the fuser roll voltage must also be negative (and visa versa). This will repel the negative toner at... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20070140757 - Axially translating web cleaning system for a fuser: A web cleaning system for a fuser system includes a web which is biased into contact with a rotating cylindrical member, such as a fuser roll, as the fuser roll is rotated about its axis of rotation. A lateral displacement system displaces the web, relative to the cylindrical member, in... Agent: Ann M. Skerry, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070140756 - Cleaning system for a fuser apparatus: A fuser apparatus includes first and second rolls rotatably mounted parallel to an in contact with each other to form a nip through which print media with a toner image thereon is passed to fuse the image to the print media. A cleaning system is provided for cleaning one of... Agent: Ann M. Skerry, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070140754 - Reusable web cleaning system for a fuser: A fuser system includes first and second nip rolls, rotably mounted parallel to and in contact with each other to form a nip through which print media with a toner image thereon is passed to fuse the image to the print media. A cleaning web system is provided for cleaning... Agent: Ann M. Skerry, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070140755 - System to prevent print history on a fuser roll: Provided herein is a system for using a cleaning web in an electrostatic printing process to provide a uniform and thin wax layer on the fuser roll and thereby minimize print history effects, reduce triboelectric voltages on the fuser roll and provide uniform and improved release of the toner from... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20070140759 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device configured to fix a toner image onto a recording medium includes a coil for generating a magnetic flux and a heat generation member for generating heat by the magnetic flux; the heat generation member includes a hollow cylinder shape, the coil has a loop-shaped coil disposed in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140758 - Image fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus that maintains high efficiency in heat generation and reduces loss in power consumption: An image fixing apparatus stably maintains high efficiency in heat generation and reduces loss of electric power consumption for fixing an image, which includes a coil member to generate a magnetic flux, a heat member to generate heat with the magnetic flux, and a support member to support the coil... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140760 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus comprising first and second belts for forming a nip for heating an image on a recording material; a first pressing pad for pressing the first belt at the nip; a first roller, provided spaced from the first pressing pad with a gap therebetween, for pressing the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070140761 - Cleaning blade for use in image-forming apparatus: A cleaning blade, for use in an image-forming apparatus, which is formed by molding a thermosetting elastomer composition containing a rubber component consisting of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, natural rubber, butadiene rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, isoprene rubber, butyl rubber, chloroprene rubber, acrylic rubber, epichlorohydrin rubber, ethylene propylene rubber, and ethylene-propylene-diene copolymer rubber or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070140762 - Cleaning blade member: c

20070140764 - Image forming apparatus: In a toner collecting device of the cyclone separator type that collects toner separated from air, exhaust of the air including unseparated toner to outside the cyclone separator, which is caused by an unstable sucking operation of a cyclone blower, can be prevented. The toner collecting device includes a blocking... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070140763 - Toner recovery device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A toner recovery device, capable of preventing toner from spilling out of the space between protruding sections and an inner wall of a toner-conveying pipe, and process cartridge and image forming apparatus having this device. Residual toner after transfer, which is carried into a carry-in section of the toner-conveying pipe,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070140765 - Image reading apparatus and image reading method: There is disclosed an image reading apparatus including an automatic document feeder, a reading section which reads image data from an original document, and a memory which stores the image data of the original. A control section has a first mode of determining a size of the original, securing a... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070140766 - Rotatable connection apparatus for fixing position of object to be rotated via friction adjustment: A rotatable connection apparatus is disclosed including: a roller coupled to an object to be rotated, wherein the roller rotates with the rotation of the object; a frictional component for contacting a surface of the roller to provide a friction for fixing the object in a first position when the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070140767 - Printing system architecture with center cross-over and interposer by-pass path: A printing system comprises a paper path architecture for parallel printing using multiple marking engines. The media path configuration enables all the media feed trays to be located in one place, relative to the marking engines. A cross-over module is located between marking engines. The cross-over module can interleave media... Agent: Patrick R. Roche, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070140768 - Image forming apparatus and conveyance device: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming part; a first conveyance roller that conveys a recording medium to the image forming part; a forward/reverse-rotatable second conveyance roller, located between the first conveyance roller and the image forming part in a conveyance direction of the recording medium; a contact member,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070134007 - Printed circuit board and an image forming apparatus having the printed circuit board: Disclosed is a printed circuit board comprising a contact terminal, which prevents a poor contact and reduces a manufacturing cost, and an image forming apparatus having the same. The printed circuit board comprises a circuit part for controlling and processing an operation of electronic appliance, and a large-area contact terminal... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070134008 - Media jam and bent corner detector: This invention relates to a media jam and media bent corner detector, comprising: a carriage; a transducer operatively connected to or adjacent to the carriage; and a piezoelectric film beam operatively connected to the transducer such that a portion of the beam substantially extends into a media path to detect... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070134009 - Fusing unit of image forming apparatus and method for preventing defecting fusing of image: A fusing unit of an image forming apparatus and method for preventing defective fusing of an image are provided, in which a heating roller includes a heat source and is rotatably installed on a frame, a pressing roller presses a sheet of paper toward the heating roller to fuse a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070134010 - Image forming apparatus and control method: This invention has an object to process color balance adjustment at high speed in an image forming apparatus without depending on different feeding speeds for different printing materials. To accomplish this, an image forming apparatus of the invention detects color balances while a printing material on which toner patches are... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070134011 - Color image forming apparatus and color image forming method having overlapping toners: In a digital copying machine according to an image forming apparatus of the invention, when a “thick paper” mode is set through an operation panel, a main CPU sets a gradient of γ for “thick paper” in a γ correction unit of an image processing unit. Thus, a toner attachment... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070134014 - Apparatus for detecting amount of toner deposit and controlling density of image, method of forming misalignment correction pattern, and apparatus for detecting and correcting misalignment of image: An image forming apparatus includes a reference-pattern detecting transfer-body, a reference-pattern detecting unit, and a condition changing unit. The reference-pattern detecting transfer-body directly transfers a reference pattern image formed on an intermediate transfer body without a recording material. The reference-pattern detecting unit detects an optical reference pattern with respect to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070134012 - Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same: An image forming apparatus comprises an image forming part and a density calibration control part. The image forming part forms an image in any one of a plurality of image forming modes with respectively different processing speeds. The density calibration control part performs image density control for the image forming... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070134013 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same: An image forming apparatus which can improve image formation capability to a satisfactory degree while curbing the rise in running cost. An image forming device forms adjustment images having different densities on an image support member having a higher optical reflectivity than an optical reflectivity of the adjustment images. A... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070134015 - Developing apparatus and imaging apparatus: The developing apparatus of the present invention is a developing apparatus that develops an electrostatic latent image using a two-component developer containing a toner and a carrier; wherein the developing apparatus has a developing roller that rotates with a developer adhering to the peripheral surface thereof in order to transfer... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070134016 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A color image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer member, a first forming portion having a first transfer unit, a second forming portion provided downstream from the first forming portion, a third forming portion provided downstream from the second forming portion, a fourth forming portion provided downstream from the third... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070134017 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes a pressure thermister for detecting temperature of a pressure roller. The fixing device also includes a thermal coating member on the opposite side of the pressure roller with respect to the pressure thermister. The thermal coating member has a thermal conductivity of 10 W/m·K or more.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070134018 - Fuser apparatus, image forming apparatus including the fuser apparatus, and fuser controlling method: A fuser apparatus including: a fuser member having an endless contact surface to be brought into contact with each of successively transported recording media and a non-contact surface and being arranged to apply heat to the recording medium from the contact surface to fix a toner on the recording medium;... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070134019 - Cleaning device and image forming device: The present invention provides an image forming device. The image forming device includes a photosensitive body, a charging roller, a cleaning member, and a controller. The charging roller, while rotating in a first direction, charges the photosensitive body for image formation. The cleaning member, formed by an elastic body, contacts... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070134020 - Developing device having improved sealing structure: A developing device has a sealing unit that seals a gap between an inner wall of a housing that stores developer and a blade that controls a thickness of developer attached on a developing roller. The sealing unit of the developing device includes a first sealing member inserted into a... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070134021 - Sealing member, toner accommodating container and image forming apparatus: A sealing member for sealing a toner discharge opening of a toner accommodating container detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, the sealing member includes a locking portion for being locked with a portion to be locked provided in the image forming apparatus, the locking portion being adapted to displace... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070134022 - Method and device for detection of the speed difference between an image carrier and a carrier material: In a method and a system for generation of print images on a carrier material, an actual speed difference is generated in a transfer printing region between an image carrier and the carrier material. A deviation of the actual speed difference from a desired speed difference is determined with aid... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070134023 - Image processing apparatus having enhanced controlling process for optical scanning unit: An optical scanning unit of an image forming apparatus may include: an optical housing configured to include at least one optical part and to have a light-beam emitting aperture through which a light beam can emanate from the optical housing; a shutter configured to cover the light-beam emitting aperture; and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070134024 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus employs a liquid toner having nonvolatile high-viscosity silicon oil as a carrier fluid to form a toner image. The image forming apparatus includes a removing unit that removes a predetermined amount of carrier fluid contained in the toner image to thereby obtaining a carrier-fluid removed toner-image,... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070134025 - Developing device: A developing device includes a developer-bearing member supporting developer for developing electrostatic images, a first chamber supplying the developer to the developer-bearing member, a second chamber below the first chamber, first and second communicating portions connecting the first and second chambers, a first carrying member carrying the developer in the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070134026 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a belt, plural photosensitive drums that face the belt, plural developing devices that develop plural latent images formed on the plural photosensitive drums using a developing agent, where the developing devices are disposed around the respective photosensitive drums, and plural image forming devices, where each... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070134027 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a belt disposed diagonally with respect to a horizontal direction of the image forming apparatus, and plural image forming units disposed along the belt. Each of the plural image forming units includes a photosensitive drum that faces at least the belt and an exposing device... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070134028 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus such as a tandem type color image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt that rotates in a rotating direction in which a toner image is transferred. A plurality of color latent image carrying members are arranged successively along the rotating... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070134029 - image forming apparatus capable of preventing generation of residual images and transfer failure: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, supporting rollers, a belt-like-shaped medium, a primary transfer member, secondary transfer rollers, and a grounded conductive roller. The image bearing member forms a toner image at a predetermined process speed. The belt-shaped medium has a charge voltage. The primary transfer member... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070134030 - Ink heating on blanket by contact of a rotating hot surface: A method of heating toner of an image on a moving surface of an intermediate transfer member in order to transfer the image to a printing medium of a printing system comprising: providing a toner image on an intermediate transfer member; and placing a surface of a heated member in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070134031 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus using the same: A fixing device for fixing an unfixed toner image by heating and pressurizing a recording material by which the unfixed toner image is carried includes a heating member having a heat source, a pressurizing member that faces the heating member and that forms a fixing nip region between the heating... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070134033 - Fuser arranged for braking and an image forming device including the same: A fuser assembly includes a pressure member motion speed reduction device which slows the pressure member speed when the printed paper lead edge exits the nip. The temporarily slower pressure member speed stretches or retards the surface of the fusing member elastomer enough to assist in peeling the lead edge... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070134032 - Fusing apparatus having heated stripper fingers: A heated stripper finger assembly is provided for stripping toner image carrying copy sheets from a surface of a moving heated fusing member. The heated stripper finger assembly includes (a) at least one baffle forming part of a sheet path; (b) a finger shaft having a first end attached to... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070134034 - Fusing device and image forming apparatus: A fusing device includes a pressure member, a heating member, and an external heating member. The heating member has an outer surface in contact with an outer surface of the pressure member. The heating member heats a sheet that is being passed in a first direction through a contact area... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070134035 - Cleaning device and image forming apparatus including same: A cleaning device of the present invention includes (i) a blade, which has an edge portion to be pressed against a surface of a photoreceptor, so as to scrape toner and (ii) a brush roller, which has bristle whose ends make contact with the surface of the photoreceptor, so as... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070134036 - Image forming apparatus having image reading function: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body and an original reading device disposed on top of the apparatus main body. A sheet supply cassette, a sheet discharge tray, an original feed tray, and the original discharge tray are oriented such that their lengthwise directions are aligned with the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070134037 - Document handler systems and methods: Embodiments herein observe the backing of the document handler to determine if a document was left on the platen and would block the scan head from scanning the documents as they are moved by the document handler. An embodiment herein comprises a transparent platen and a document handler on a... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070127934 - Abnormality determining method, abnormality determining apparatus, and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is capable of specifying the type of an occurring abnormality to a certain extent while avoiding the increasingly complicated control that is caused when a plurality of abnormalities is detected individually according to the presence of their respective causes. A normal group data set, which is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127935 - Image forming apparatus to which cartridges are detachably mountable: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member including a first photosensitive layer having a first thickness provided in a first cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of the image forming apparatus or including a second photosensitive layer having a second thickness provided in a second cartridge detachably... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070127936 - Multiple region printer chip: A toner cartridge having a microcontroller configured to store data necessary to create a message authentication code required by the printer. The microcontroller contains data values capable of generating acceptable MACs for a plurality of printers used in a plurality of geographic regions. The microcontroller recognizes a variety of unique... Agent: Smith Hopen, Pa

20070127937 - Image forming apparatus and image density correction device: An image forming apparatus, having a submodule that causes non-uniformity in density in a slow-scanning direction in accordance with rotation, includes a correction image forming unit that forms an image for density correction, in cooperation with the submodule, a density detector that detects a density of the image for density... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070127939 - Charging apparatus and image forming apparatus: A surface of a photosensitive drum is electrically charged by a charging roller disposed in contact with or close to the photosensitive drum. A relationship between a voltage and a current is measured by applying peak-to-peak voltages to the charging roller in a discharged area and an undischarged area during... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070127938 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member; a charging member contacted to the image bearing member to charge the image bearing member; toner image forming means for forming a toner image on the image bearing member; an intermediary transfer member for carrying a toner image transferred from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070127940 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including toner image forming means for forming a having chromatic toner image a transparent toner image; fixing means for heating and fixing the non-transparent toner image and the transparent toner image on recording material; glossiness detecting means for detecting a glossiness of an area in which... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070127941 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus in which a visible image is transferred to a transfer material includes a pre-transfer exposing unit that makes only a portion of a latent image carrier that corresponds to a leading edge of the transfer material expose, and a transfer-bias applying unit that applies a bias... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127942 - Reprographic device providing collated and uncollated subset finishing selections at the local graphical user interface to allow reprographic device users to program different document finishing types within a single printed job to construct a mixed subse: Reprographic device provides collated and uncollated subset finishing selections at the local Graphical User Interface to allow the user to program different types of finishing within a single job to construct mixed subset finished output. Subset finishing provides a user with the ability to select different finishing options, stapling/folding/offset/hole-punching to... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20070127943 - Image forming system: An image forming system includes a first device having a power unit that generates a drive voltage and an image forming portion, and a second device for controlling the image forming portion. The power unit generates a first drive voltage as the drive voltage and a second drive voltage higher... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070127944 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member for bearing an electrostatic image; charging means for applying electric charge of a predetermined polarity to toner on the image bearing member; a developing device for electrostatically collecting the toner of the polarity on the image bearing member, while forming... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070127946 - Desktop color image forming apparatus and method of making the same: The present invention relates to an electrophotographic color image forming apparatus using a tandem-drum development, an indirect image-transfer method, and a vertical sheet supply path. An intermediate image-transfer member is angled relative to a horizontal line such that a rear side of the intermediate image-transfer member away from a recording... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127945 - Modular media registration systems and methods: Embodiments herein comprise registrations module(s) positioned between image output terminal(s), feeder module(s), and/or finisher module(s). Each registration module comprises a casing having first mounting points that correspond to second mounting points on an adjacent module. The first mounting points and the second mounting points allow the registration module to be... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070127947 - Image forming apparatus capable of effectively performing a maintenance operation: A roller device that can be exchangeably used in an image forming apparatus includes a roller, a shaft, and two grip members. The roller is configured to cover the shaft along the rotation axis and have two roller ends from which the two shaft end portions of the shaft are... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127948 - Motor control device, image forming apparatus, and motor control method: A motor control device includes a velocity detection unit, a motor control unit, a phase difference detection unit, and a correction value calculation unit. The velocity detection unit detects each velocity of a plurality of driven bodies or of a plurality of motors which independently drives a corresponding one of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070127949 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member: charging means, including magnetic particles contacted to the image bearing member and a magnetic particle carrying member for carrying the magnetic particles, for charging a surface of the image bearing member; developing means for developing an electrostatic latent image on... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070127950 - Apparatus for charging an image transfer surface: An apparatus for charging an image transfer surface in an image transfer device includes a support member and a conductive polymer material surrounding an outer periphery of the support member. An inner portion of the conductive polymer material is loaded with a supplemental conducting agent, and an outer portion of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070127951 - A developing device, a developing method, a process cartridge and an image forming apparatus: A developing device includes a developer bearing member, a developer supplying conveyer, a developer receiving conveyer and a developer agitating conveyer. The developer supplying conveyer or the developer receiving conveyer has at least one dividing position. The dividing position is a position at which the conveying direction of the developer... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070127952 - Development device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A development device including a developer carrier including a cylindrical magnetic field-generation member having a surface portion provided with a plurality of magnetic poles and a rotatable hollow member which is disposed inside the magnetic field-generation member and formed of a non-magnetic material, a developer control member configured to control... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

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