Electrophotography inventions 09/07

20070223948 - Developer degradation detection method and image forming device using same: Light is emitted from a light emitting unit towards the surface of the developing sleeve on which magnetic brushes are formed on the surface, and the reflected light is received by a light receiving unit. Then the percentage of reflected light is measured to detect degradation of the developer. When... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070223947 - Toner supply device, image forming apparatus and toner shortage detecting method: A toner supply device including: a toner bottle filled with toner; and a toner supply assembly mounting mechanism having the toner bottle mounted thereon and feeding toner discharged from the toner bottle to a developing unit and supplying toner to the developing unit in accordance with the amount of toner... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070223949 - Image forming apparatus: The present invention is an image forming apparatus containing an image holding body, a developer holding body for holding developer that forms a developer image by being affixed to the electrostatic latent image formed on the image holding body, a transfer unit for transferring the developer image to a medium,... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070223950 - Liquid developing device and wet image forming device: When the temperature of the liquid toner has fluctuated by T1 or more (Step S3: YES), the equation obtained by measuring the liquid toner is modified (Steps S4 through S7). This equation is obtained based on the output voltage value of the concentrated toner liquid sensor 27, which has the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070223953 - Fixing apparatus, image forming apparatus including same fixing apparatus, method for controlling fixing apparatus, program for controlling fixing apparatus, computer-readable recording medium: An image forming apparatus includes a control circuit for controlling amounts of heat transfer of a fixing roller and a pressure roller such that (Q1−Q0)/Hc≦11 (more preferably, ≦0) is satisfied where Q0 represents total amounts (J) of heat that the fixing roller and the pressure roller have during standby or... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070223954 - Toner density detection apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same: A toner density detection apparatus has a sensor unit and a controller. The sensor unit irradiates a toner patch formed on an image carrier with light, splits the light reflected by the toner patch into first and second light components, receives the first and second light components, and outputs first... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070223955 - Document management method, document management system, and computer program product: The image of a document is depicted on a sheet of paper together with a background pattern image expressing a password, and the password is notified to a person having authority to duplicate the document. A requestor requesting duplication of the document is caused to enter a password (#104), and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070223956 - Image forming apparatus having tension-providing mechanism for belt: To enable not only releasing pressurization by a pressurization mechanism for pressurizing a belt thereby preventing a deformation therein but also easily and securely releasing the pressurization mechanism held in the pressure release state, thereby facilitating the installation operation of an apparatus. A pressurization mechanism for pressurizing a belt is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223941 - Supply item for laser printer including keying structure: Supply items, such as toner bottles for laser printers, include substantially identical housings amongst the many different colors of toners. To distinguish the items and prevent improper installation, a keying structure attaches per each bottle and is indexed relative to adjacent items. In one aspect, indexing includes rotating a knob... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070223942 - Universal printer chip: Provided is 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. The microcontroller recognizes a variety of unique parameters displayed by the printer's... Agent: Steven Miller

20070223944 - Developing apparatus, image forming apparatus and density detection method: To provide a technology capable of realizing high-accuracy detection of toner density. A developing apparatus includes: a partition plate provided within the developing apparatus for partitioning an interior of the developing apparatus into a plurality of space; plural transport mixers each provided in the space within the developing apparatus partitioned... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070223943 - Image forming method: When copying control (copying/printing job) is finished, the main CPU checks whether the scanner control is being executed in the scanner portion. If the scanner control is not being executed, the main CPU checks whether there is any scanner control executing request. If there is no scanner control executing request,... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070223946 - Method and apparatus for image forming capable of controlling toner concentration accurately: A toner-concentration controller includes a controller configured to control a toner supply amount in accordance with a detection result of a toner-concentration of two-component toner, and a sensor unit configured to detect the toner-concentration of two-component toner. The sensor unit includes a correction mechanism to correct an output signal of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223945 - Toner supplier, toner supply method, image forming apparatus and toner supply system: A toner supplier, including a toner container configured to contain a toner, an air discharger configured to discharge air from a bottom of the toner container to form a fluidized toner, a detector configured to detect usage information of the toner contained in the toner container, and a communicator configured... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223951 - Electrophotographic printer and method of operation so as to minimize print defects: A method is provided for operating an electrophotographic printer comprising providing an electrophotographic printer comprising a substrate transport assembly including a substrate transport member and a fuser assembly including a fuser member. The substrate transport assembly is operated such that the substrate transport member is driven at a substrate transport... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070223952 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the same: The present invention realizes a fixing device and an image forming apparatus in each of which (i) the amount of power consumption is small and (ii) a wait time from when a command for starting printing is inputted until when printing is started is short. The fixing device of the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070223957 - Color image forming apparatus and color image forming method: In an image forming apparatus of the present invention capable of forming a full-color image by superposing a black toner image formed by a black image forming unit using a developing and simultaneous cleaning type developing unit over color toner images obtained by color image forming units using developing and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070223958 - Image forming apparatus and developer cartridge: A developer cartridge includes a developer cartridge case for accommodating a developer, a developing roller, a toner layer thickness control blade, and a side sealing member. The developing roller is supported by the developer cartridge case such that a circumferential surface thereof is exposed to an outside of the developer... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070223959 - Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components: A dual-gasket seal for a toner cartridge includes a first gasket, a second gasket, a removable seal disposed between the first gasket and the second gasket, and a lubricating element attached a first end of the second gasket and adapted to aid the sliding of the removable seal when the... Agent: William L. London

20070223960 - Clamping apparatus and image processing apparatus utilizing the same: A clamping apparatus capable of fixing an object is disclosed. The clamping apparatus comprises: a carrier for holding the object; at least one flexible orientation arm with a raised rim positioned on the carrier for orientating the object; and a cover for pressing the raised rim and for clamping the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070223961 - Charging device, photoconductive drum unit, and image forming device: A photoconductive drum unit includes a frame, a photoconductive drum, and a scorotron charging unit. The charging unit includes a pair of mounting members, a discharging electrode filament, a shield casing, a grid, and a connecting member. The mounting members are mounted and fixed at both end portions of the... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20070223962 - Developer cartridge, image carrier unit, and image forming apparatus: The present invention provides a developer cartridge detachably attachable to a casing of an image carrier unit, includes a developing roller and a first rotation body that rotates the developing roller by coupling to a second rotation body provided in an image forming apparatus body with the developer cartridge attached... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070223963 - Process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A process cartridge is described. The process cartridge may include a developing unit and a toner unit detachably mountable to the developing unit. The developing unit includes a developer casing provided with an accommodating section for accommodating the toner unit. The toner unit includes a toner casing and an agitating... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070223965 - Process unit and image forming apparatus: A process unit is described. The process unit may include a unit main body being detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus main body and including a first grasp portion, and a developer carrier for supplying a developing agent to an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070223964 - Process unit, toner box and image forming apparatus: A process unit is described. The process unit may include a unit main body being detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus main body and having a developer carrier for supplying a developing agent to an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a toner box being... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070223966 - Foreign substance removing apparatus: A foreign substance removing apparatus that can provide the desired vibration amplitude to a light transmitting member, without using a large driving voltage. The foreign substance removing apparatus removes foreign substances adhered to a surface of an optical member disposed in a light ray incident path and includes a piezoelectric... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070223967 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus including a belt member having a convex portion, effecting a circular movement, a first tensioning member for tensioning said belt member and a second tensioning member for tensioning said belt member, drive receiving means for receiving force by a circular movement in a direction of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223968 - Image forming apparatus: and may exceed the CV value of the toners in other colors. The image forming apparatus contains the contaminating toner in the developing device, makes the image resistant to color mixing, and reduces image staining, even if there is leakage of a toner and contamination of the toners in different... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070223969 - Developing device and image forming device having the same: A developing device includes a casing, a first mixing conveying screw, and a developer removing unit. The casing is able to store toner. The first mixing conveying screw has a shaft arranged to be able to rotate freely in the interior of the casing, and a spiral in a spiral... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070223971 - Processing unit, toner box and image forming apparatus: A processing unit including a unit main body and a toner box detachably mountable to the unit main body is described. The toner box may include a toner casing formed with a toner ejecting port for feeding the developing agent to the unit main body, and a toner-side blocking member... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070223970 - Process cartridge, developer supply cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus: A developer supply cartridge supplies a developer into a process cartridge, and is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The process cartridge includes a drum, a developing roller, a receiving-side shutter portion opening and closing a developer receiving opening, a receiving-side movable portion to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223972 - Developer supply container: A developer supply container detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, the developer supply container includes a container body for accommodating a developer, the container body being provided with a discharge opening for permitting discharging of the developer; feeding means for feeding the developer in the container body toward the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223973 - Method for treating the surface of a cleaning roller in an electrographic printing or copying device: In a method for treatment of a surface of a cleaning roller in an electrographic printing or copying device, the cleaning roller is provided as a roller casing tube on which is applied a ceramic layer. The ceramic layer is blasted with a grit. A cleaning roller is also provided... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070223974 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus capable of correctly determining a color shift value between recording heads of different color. The image recording apparatus has each recording head print two types of patches as patterns on a conveyance belt and has a reflection intensity detection unit read reflection intensities of the two... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070223975 - Fixing device: Relates to a fixing device comprising a fixing part for fixing toner to a paper, and a separation mechanism to separate paper P from fixing body, separation mechanism has a separation member 12 with a shaft member 17 and a separation pawl 16, and a first urging mechanism 19 for... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070223977 - Image heating device capable of changing pressure applied to heating nip: An image heating device includes a pressure-changing mechanism configured to change pressure applied to a heating nip. A cam of the pressure-changing mechanism acting on a pressure-applying mechanism is attached to a rotating shaft of a conveying roller that conveys recording materials. With this, an increase in the cost of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070223978 - Belt driving apparatus: A belt driving apparatus for driving a belt has the belt hung around and between rollers, and has a meandering prevention member provided in each end part of each roller to restrict the meandering of the belt in the roller axial direction. A cut is formed to be open toward... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20070223976 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus having the same: A low-heat loss, belt nip-type fixing device achieves good recording medium separation performance without increasing the size of the device, prevents image misalignment, and achieves a high-quality image without placing a major burden on the recording medium. This fixing device comprises a heat-fixing roller having an elastic layer and a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070223979 - Endless metallic belt and fixing belt and heat fixing assembly use of the same: An endless metallic belt formed of a nickel alloy which contains at least one element selected from the first group of elements consisting of phosphorus, boron, silicon, germanium, selenium, antimony, tellurium, bismuth and astatine, and, in an X-ray diffraction pattern of which, half widths of X-ray diffraction peaks of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070223980 - Cleaning apparatus, image forming apparatus comprising the same, and cleaning method: To provide a cleaning apparatus capable of maintaining high cleaning performance even if surface roughness of an image carrier is increased due to wear and a wet image forming apparatus installing the concerned cleaning apparatus, thereby enabling to form images of a stable quality. The cleaning apparatus for removing liquid... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070223981 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a first and a second image forming sections, a paper feeding section, and a paper output section. The image forming sections form an image on paper independently. The apparatus is laterally dividable into a first and a second portions where the first and second image... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070217798 - Toner supplying method, toner supplying device, developing device, and image forming apparatus: A toner supplying device includes: a toner density sensor for detecting a density of toner contained in a developer tank; a toner hopper for supplying toner to the developer tank; a toner cartridge for supplying toner to the toner hopper; and a control section, when a request to supply toner... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070217799 - Fixing device, image forming apparatus and facsimile apparatus: A fixing device according to this invention includes an environmental temperature sensor 26 for detecting an ambient environmental temperature; a fixing temperature sensor 25 for detecting the surface of a heating roller 20; and a control unit for controlling the heating temperature of the heating roller, and is characterized in... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070217801 - Image forming apparatus and method for detecting separated state of transfer unit: An image forming apparatus has a structure in which a toner image formed in an electrophotographic process is transferred from an intermediate transfer belt to a member to be transferred. The apparatus includes a secondary transfer roller that becomes a pressure contact state with respect to the intermediate transfer belt... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070217802 - Developing device adjustment method: Provided is a method for adjusting a developing device including a magnetic roll (143) for holding a two-component developer (146) composed of a carrier and toner filled in a developing tank (142) in a brush state, and a developing roll (144) for developing an electrostatic latent image formed in an... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070217809 - Apparatus and method of controlling power supply to heating roller and phase control circuit corresponding to the apparatus and method: A method and an apparatus to control power supplied to a heating roller and a phase control circuit corresponding to the method or the apparatus. The phase control circuit may include an examination unit to compare levels of a sine wave having a predetermined first period and a switching signal... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070217804 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same: In a fixing apparatus of the present invention, an end section fixing control temperature changing section selects an end section fixing control temperature in accordance with the number of paper sheets that have been processed in one continuous printing process. A sub-heater on/off determining section turns on or off a... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070217805 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same: A fixing control section of a fixing apparatus according to the present invention includes an end section priority temperature control mode. In the end section priority temperature control mode, the fixing control section temporarily turns off a main heater heating a center section of a fixing roller among a plurarity... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070217808 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same: A fixing apparatus includes: a fixing roller which has a halogen lamp and an elastic layer therein, the elastic layer being located close to an outer surface of the fixing member; a pressure roller which is pressed against the fixing roller so that a fixing nip area is provided between... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070217807 - Fixing apparatus, image forming apparatus, temperature control method for fixing apparatus, temperature control program, and storage medium storing the program: Comparisons are made independently for a controlled target temperature and a detected temperature of an endless belt, and a controlled target temperature and a detected temperature of a fixing roller. The operation of a halogen lamp installed in an external heating section is controlled based on results of these comparisons.... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070217810 - Heating control device, fixing device, image forming apparatus, heating control method, and computer program product: A fixing device fixes an image on a recording medium by allowing the recording medium to pass through a nip between a pair of rotating members at least one of which is heated. The fixing device includes heaters that heat rotating members, temperature sensing elements that sense the temperature of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070217806 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus which uses a pressing roller and a fixing roller that are pressing and contacting each other to sandwich record medium and fixes toner image onto the record medium, in order to inhibit a temperature in non-paper passing area from extremely rising, a temperature detecting section... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070217796 - Fault isolation of visible defects with manual module shutdown options: A system for handling objects includes a first image marking engine operative to mark objects, and a second image marking engine operative to mark objects. In addition, the system includes a first object delivery path operative to transport objects presented by the first image marking engine to a first destination.... Agent: Karl W. Hauber, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070217797 - Image forming apparatus, process cartridge and developing method: Provided is a development technique of supplying a developing bias voltage having DC and AC components to a developing roller thereby to supply a developer to a photosensitive surface of a photosensitive material, which can contribute to improvement of the image quality of an image to be developed. The image... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070217800 - Method and device for measuring surface potential distribution, method and device for measuring insulation resistance, electrostatic latent image measurement device, and charging device: In a surface potential distribution measurement method and device, a sample having a surface with a surface potential distribution is scanned using a charged particle beam in a two-dimensional manner. A detection signal caused by the two-dimensional scanning is obtained to measure the surface potential distribution. Charged particles, other than... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217803 - Image heating apparatus and glossiness increasing apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes first image heating means for heating a toner image on a recording material; first temperature detecting means for detecting a temperature of the first image heating means; second image heating means for heating the toner image on the recording material heated by the first image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070217811 - Control panel for a printer or copier system with front and/or rear processing units and integrated control panel in a printer server (as amended): A printer or copier system with at least one of a pre-processing unit and a post-processing unit, comprises a printing unit that generates a print image on a carrier material. An operating unit is connected via a data line with the printing unit. The operating unit outputs at least one... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070217812 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprising a main body having a copy function of printing an image read from a document on a paper sheet, a printer function of printing an externally input image on a paper sheet, and a paper ejection port to eject a printed paper sheet. The apparatus... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070217813 - Image forming device: A photosensitive drum 18 is provided to carry electrostatic latent images. Developers 23K through 23Y supply toner to the electrostatic latent images formed on the photosensitive drum 18. Images formed on the photosensitive drum 18 are transferred to an intermediate transfer belt 12. A primary transfer roller 16 transfers toner... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070217814 - Systems and methods for imaging cartridge conversion: A method and tool for converting one imaging cartridge type to another is disclosed. The method includes providing the imaging cartridge comprising an upper half and a lower half, the imaging cartridge not having a waste bin assembly, the imaging cartridge operable in a first type of imaging device and... Agent: William L. London

20070217817 - Image forming apparatus and developer cartridge: An elastic member for urging a developer carrier in the direction of an image carrier is located in a casing of a developer cartridge. Since the elastic member will be new whenever the developer cartridge is replaced, an urging force of the elastic member will not deteriorate over time. Thus,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070217816 - Image forming apparatus and developing cartridge: A handle for a toner cartridge is described. The handle may include an opening and be constructed of one or elastically deformable materials. The handle may deform when inside of an image forming device to provide at least some force to press an image carrier against a developer carrier.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070217818 - Image forming apparatus and developing cartridge: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, an image carrier unit configured to move along a first direction between a first position and a second position in the housing and to hold image carriers, developing cartridges configured to be removably mounted in the image carrier unit, and an exposure unit... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070217815 - Suspected place identifying apparatus and processing method: A statistically added point calculation unit of the present invention statistically adds a point to a part related to a content of an anomaly in error information received by an error information receiving unit, and sets the added point in an added point table. A suspected place identifying unit refers... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070217819 - Fixing device of image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus: The fixing device of the image forming apparatus of the present invention has a cleaning pad arranged on the upper frame which supports a heat roller. An infrared temperature sensor is supported by a supporting mechanism that is capable of supporting the infrared temperature sensor at the temperature detecting position... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070217820 - Image forming method: In an image forming method including a charging step, an exposure step, a development step using a developing roll, a transfer step, a fixing step and a cleaning step of removing a toner remaining on the surface of a photosensitive member after the transfer step, the developing roll has a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20070217821 - Image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus composed of a combination of multi-layered electrophotographic photoreceptor wherein an undercoat layer is made of at least fine titanium oxide particles and a binder resin and has a thickness of 3 μm or less and the fine titanium oxide particles are surface treated with... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070217822 - Charging apparatus and image forming apparatus: There is provided a charging apparatus which has high durability and suffers from no rust etc. and of which controllability of charged potential of a photoreceptor is hardly impaired even with a some amount of contaminants such as a toner so that control of charged potential of a photoreceptor can... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070217823 - Charging member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus: An object of the present invention is to provide a charging member in which a toner, an additive for use in the toner, or the like is hard to adhere to the surface even under repeated use for a long time, and hence the charging and image output are made... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070217824 - Method for imprinting a recording medium: In a method or system for printing of a recording medium, potential images are generated on a potential image carrier. A developer liquid is used that comprises a transparent photo-polymerizable carrier liquid and charged colorant particles. The developer is transported via an applicator roller to the potential image carrier to... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070217825 - Variable energy development station: An improved development station extends the useful life of toner in the housing and increases the number of images developed by the developer supply. The improved development station includes a toner supply for providing toner to a developer sump; a mixing auger for uniformly blending and charging toner particles supplied... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070217827 - Support element, toner replenishing device, toner supply apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A support element for supporting a coil spring that rotates to transport toner, and transmitting a rotational force of driving means to the coil spring. The support element includes: an end inserting member with a recess in which an end portion of the coil spring is inserted; a first support... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070217826 - Toner container and toner supply device using the same: A toner bottle that is composed of a main body having a bottle-side toner discharge port for discharging toner and a bottle holder that encloses the bottle-side toner discharge port and rotatably holds the main part and is constructed such that the main part is rotated in its peripheral direction... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

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20070217828 - Methods and devices for reducing wear on a print cartridge: A system and method reduces wear on an image-forming device. The image-forming device includes one or more toner cartridges, each having an associated PC drum and transport member to transport toner images or media. Each of the PC drums maintain contact with a surface of the transport member regardless of... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr.IPLaw Dept., Dept. 865a/082-01

20070217831 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus, including a compensation pattern forming device to form a predetermined compensation pattern to compensate image displacement in each key color, a plurality of detectors to detect two key colors in the predetermined compensation pattern, and a compensating device to compensate the image displacement of the two... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217830 - Imaging apparatus: An imaging apparatus is disclosed that includes plural image carriers on which different-colored toner images are formed, the image carriers being driven and rotated to transfer the different-colored toner images onto one of an endless transfer member that is driven to rotate in contact with the image carriers or a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217832 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes at least one image forming unit, a primary transfer belt, and a secondary transferer. The image forming unit includes an image carrier and a primary transfer bias applicator. The secondary transferer includes a secondary transfer nip, a secondary transfer bias applicator, and a facing member... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217833 - Transfer di-chorotron (dicor) cover with constant paper current density: A sliding cover of a Di-chorotron includes an electrode connected to an external circuit that simulates the impedance of media on a photoreceptor to maintain constant current density through media on the photoreceptor while blocking transfer current from passing to uncovered portions of the photoreceptor, thus reducing or eliminating paper... Agent: Shlesinger & Fitzsimmons

20070217834 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a first and a second main conveyance path, a first and a second processing unit, a transfer unit, and a fixing unit. The first and second main conveyance paths come together after having branched apart between a paper supply unit and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070217835 - Paper jam-resistant detack corotron for use in an electrostatographic imaging apparatus: An improved detack corotron reduces the likelihood of a paper jam arising from a curled paper edge getting caught in the corotron. The detack corotron includes an electrically conductive coronode having a plurality of field emitters, each field emitter having a terminating end, the terminating ends of the field emitters... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070217837 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus includes: a fixing roller and a pressure roller which transport a recording paper while sandwiching the recording paper P therebetween so that an unfixed toner image formed on the recording paper is fixed thereon under heat and pressure; two support rollers; an endless belt which is set... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070217838 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus provided therewith: In a fixing apparatus and an image forming apparatus of the present invention, an external heating section is provided that includes: an external heating belt; two heat rollers suspending the external heating belt and pressed against a fixing roller via the external heating belt; and a release/contact mechanism for causing... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070217836 - Fixing device of image forming apparatus: The fixing device of the image forming apparatus of the present invention is provided with a heat transfer probe which contacts the heat roller and a surface temperature of the heat roller is transferred thereto. The erroneous detection of the surface temperature of the heat roller caused from materials adhered... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070217839 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same: A sheet conveying apparatus is provided which includes a first rotary member; a second rotary member configured to convey a sheet with the first rotary member and which is separable from and in contact with the first rotary member; a sheet detecting member which is movable by being pressed by... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070217840 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus including a toner image forming section, a transfer section, a recording medium supplying section, and a control unit, an image forming unit that forms, for example, a yellow toner image causes liquid-repellent particles to be adhered onto a part of a photoreceptor drum other than... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070217841 - Image forming apparatus having fixing unit: In an image forming apparatus having a fixing unit to fix a toner image onto a recording material by heating and pressing the recording material on which the toner image including a toner containing wax has been formed, at a nip portion formed among plural members, the fixing unit includes:... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070217843 - Cleaning device: A cleaning device removes a toner attached to an image carrier of an electrophotographic-type image forming apparatus. The cleaning device includes a cleaning blade, a housing and a block member. The cleaning blade is in contact with a surface of the image carrier to removes the toner. The housing stores... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070217842 - Cleaning device, image-forming apparatus, image-forming process, and process cartridge: A cleaning device equipped with an elastic blade configured to make contact with an image bearing member to remove a toner remaining on the surface of an image bearing member, wherein the toner comprises at least a releasing agent in toner particles and at least two or more external additives... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070217844 - Recording medium storage container and image forming apparatus: The invention is directed to a recording medium storage container such as a paper supply cassette and an image forming apparatus such as a copying machine. The paper supply cassette includes an interconnection mechanism for interconnecting a tray and a handle. The interconnection mechanism includes a connection portion having cylindrical... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070217845 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus main body that performs image forming processing to a recording sheet; a sheet receiving member provided on a top surface of the apparatus main body and provided with a sheet receiving surface; a sheet discharge port through which a recording sheet bearing thereon... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070217846 - Image forming system, image forming device and bookbinding device: An image forming system forms an image on body sheets and wraps, in a square shape, a stack of the body sheets having the image formed thereon with a cover to bind a book. The image forming system includes a relative-position related information input section for input of information related... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070212082 - Image forming method: A band-like developer (toner) image is formed on an image bearing member by a developing member without performing a charging operation by a charger for electrically charging the image bearing member and then is removed by a cleaner. Thereafter, the charging operation is started after an area, in which the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070212083 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image supporting member; a developer supporting member for attaching developer to the image supporting member to form a developer image; a transfer unit for transferring the developer image to a recording medium; a driving unit for driving at least one of the image supporting... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20070212087 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus in which a DC bias is applied to charge a photosensitive drum, when a charge eliminating device is in deterioration or failure, there are some cases where a proper charging is not made, and thus poor imaging occurs. A DC bias is applied to a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070212089 - Fixer and image forming apparatus including the same: A fixer configured to fix an image on an recording medium passing through a fixing nip includes a holder including an elastic layer, a fixing rotator including a heating layer, provided overlying the holder, and a pressurizer configured to pressurize the holder via the fixing rotator to form the fixing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212094 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: Support rollers suspending an endless belt are arranged so that a distance between each support roller and a fixing roller is smaller than a height of a belt regulating member provided on each side of the support roller in moving the support rollers to the second position which allows the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070212093 - Fixing apparatus, image forming apparatus, method for controlling fixing apparatus, program for controlling fixing apparatus, and recording medium storing same program: For start of rotation of a fixing roller that is not currently being rotated, a control device causes a halogen lamp to heat an endless belt until a thermistor detects that a surface temperature of the endless belt has reached a first target temperature set at a temperature at which... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070212095 - Image fixing control system and method: An image fixing control system and method are provided comprising a power supply, a power switching unit, a heating roller, in which a temperature detector detects a temperature of the heating roller, and a controller detects a temperature variation slope of the heating roller using the temperature detected by the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070212103 - Image forming apparatus, power supply device, and control method: A step-down circuit lowers a voltage outputted from a commercial power supply. A step-down-output control and charge control circuit controls a step-down voltage and charges a capacitor bank based on a step-down voltage outputted. A constant-voltage generating circuit generates a constant voltage based on an output of the capacitor bank... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212102 - Power supply unit and image forming apparatus: A first power supply of a constant-voltage output supplies a power to a load by using an external power. A signal generating unit generates a control signal for compensating a shortfall of a load current when exceeding an upper limit of an output current of the first power supply. A... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212104 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes photoconductive drums aligned side by side for toner images in colors to be formed on peripheral surfaces thereof. A transfer belt turns while stretched over rollers for the toner images to be transferred thereon by being superimposed one another as a surface thereof abuts on... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070212084 - Image forming apparatus with gamma conversion means: The invention provides an image forming apparatus and an image forming method, capable of providing an image with little deterioration, even in case the image contrast has to be adjusted not for the purpose of image adjustment, such as for reducing the toner consumption amount or for preventing the leak... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070212085 - Fixing device and electro-photographic recording apparatus using the same: An axis-to-axis distance between a heating roller and a back-up roller is expanded beforehand in inserting a thick paper to prevent a rush/exhaust impact when fixing the thick paper without changing a condition of pressing mechanism.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070212086 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus is disclosed that is able to form a full color image with high precision by correcting the adhesion quantity of an image visualizing agent and a position shift of a visible image while continuing to perform a printing process. The image forming apparatus includes an intermediate... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070212088 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and image forming system: An image forming apparatus including: an image bearing member for bearing a latent image, a developer bearing member for transporting developer to an opposing position opposing the image bearing member by rotating with developer being borne thereon, the developer bearing member having regularly-disposed concave sections formed on a surface thereof,... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20070212090 - Image forming apparatus: Power is supplied from a capacitor of an auxiliary power source to a secondary heating element of a heating unit, thereby preventing temperature drop of a fixing roller at the time of continuous paper delivery. An allowable range for starting discharge from the capacitor is set to, for example, 30... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212091 - Heating apparatus and induction heating control method: In an aspect of this invention, a fixing device includes a heating member including a first area and a second area formed of conductive members (e.g., aluminum and iron) having different magnetic permeability ratios, and an induction heating unit which generates a magnetic field from a coil to induction-heat this... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070212092 - Image forming apparatus: According to an aspect of the present invention, an image forming apparatus comprising: a heater heating unit configured to heat a heater at a first temperature or a second temperature lower than the first temperature when waiting for fixation of a formed image; and a heat control unit configured to... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070212098 - Image formig apparatus: An image forming apparatus sets photocopy processing based on setting information designated with an operation unit by a user in a state in which a setting screen of the photocopy processing is displayed in a display unit. Every time set contents of the photocopy processing are changed, a sheet state... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070212097 - Image forming apparatus: An operation device displays, in a display unit, an input screen to input setting information on an insertion sheet designated by a user, and sets the insertion sheet based on contents input in the input screen of an insertion sheet setting displayed in the display unit, in a case where... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070212099 - Image forming apparatus: In a case where a display unit displays a setting screen having a first display area to display a draft graphical image in accordance with draft setting and a second display area to display a finished graphical image in accordance with sheet setting, and a user designates a position to... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070212100 - Image forming apparatus: There is displayed, in a display section, a photocopy processing setting screen having a setting information display area to display information indicating various setting particulars of photocopy processing, a button display area to display various icons indicating the setting particulars of the photocopy processing, and a graphic to associate each... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070212101 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes an operations section that operates the image forming apparatus, the operations section being rotatably supported by an apparatus main body; an operations section holding unit that holds the operations section at a predetermined angle with respect to the apparatus... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212096 - Multifunction peripherals: In a display unit, a setting check key for checking present set contents is displayed together with a setting screen such as a basic screen for performing various basic settings. In a case where a user indicates a setting check key displayed in the setting screen, the display unit displays... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070212105 - Electrification device, and image forming apparatus: A needle electrode and a cleaning member are provided. A plurality of needles are arrayed upon the needle electrode in a straight line, and protrude towards a surface of a photoreceptor. The cleaning member is disposed movably along the array direction of the plurality of needles between the surface of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070212107 - Gang safety latching mechanism and an image producing machine including same: A gang safety latching mechanism includes (a) a torsion spring and bracket device having (i) a torsion spring subassembly (ii) a first bracket on the torsion spring subassembly having a first free position and a first loaded position, and (iii) a second bracket on the torsion spring subassembly having a... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070212106 - Image forming apparatus and additionally installable apparatus: To provide an improvement capable of simplifying an operation for installing an additionally installable apparatus. An image forming apparatus comprises a apparatus main body 11 and at least one additionally installable apparatus, in which one additionally installable apparatus is detachably disposed to a main body side device composed at least... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070212108 - Image forming device: An image forming unit 100 has a main body 1 and an opening unit 22 that can be opened and closed with respect to the main body 1. An installation unit 99 is provided to install the secondary transfer roller 20 in the opening unit 22 so that a secondary... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070212109 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording medium, capable of reducing deterioration of image bearer, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a driver to move the image bearer, a image forming device to form a visible image on the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070212111 - Electric charging device, and image forming apparatus: Ions are produced without causing any accompanying corona discharge by applying, to ion generation needles positioned so as not to contact a photoconductor drum, a voltage higher than or equal to an ion production threshold voltage and lower than a corona discharge threshold voltage. The photoconductor drum is charged by... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070212110 - Electric conductive member, process cartridge and image forming apparatus: An electrical conductive member is configured to prevent a shape distortion in gap retaining members caused by that the gap retaining members are fitted to an end surface of an electric resistance adjusting layer, and to be able to maintain a gap between the electric residence adjusting layer and an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070212112 - Rotation speed control device and image forming device: The image forming unit 100 includes a photosensitive drum 11, a rotary developing device 30, and a rotation speed control device 70. Electrostatic latent images are formed on the surface of the photosensitive drum 11. The rotary developing device 30 includes a plurality of developing apparatuses 13 having a developing... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070212113 - Device and method for electrophoretic liquid development: In a method or device for transport of liquid developer to an image carrier element for electrophoretic digital printing, a developer unit is arranged adjacent to the image carrier element, the developer unit directing a liquid developer comprising toner particles to the image carrier element, the toner particles crossing over... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070212114 - Image forming apparatus: In liquid-developing image formation, a ghost image caused by the contact between a photosensitive member and an absorbing roller to collect a surplus liquid developer is prevented by preventing occurrence of a speed difference (relative speed) between a photosensitive member and a porous member (an absorbing roller) and by keeping... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212115 - Developing unit: A developing unit including: a first agitating and conveying rotor and second agitating and conveying rotor for agitating and conveying toner inside a casing; and a developing roller for supplying the toner to a photoreceptor drum is constructed such that the first agitating and conveying rotor has a rotary shaft... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070212116 - Image forming device, powder supply device, and powder storage unit: In an image forming device including an image support object which supports an electrostatic latent image, and a developing device which turns the electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the image support object, into a visible image with toner, a powder storing unit stores powder for image formation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212117 - Powder transport device and image forming system: A powder transport device includes a powder storing unit having a powder storing part which stores powder, and a container unit having a container part in which the powder storing unit is accommodated. The powder storing unit comprises a motor part for operating the powder storing unit, an electrical wiring... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212118 - Toner cartridge, and shutter structure for the same: A toner cartridge includes a container main body includes a toner outlet, a shutter mechanism for opening and closing the toner outlet, a lever for operating the shutter mechanism, a lever locking mechanism, a lock releasing mechanism, and a prevention mechanism. The lever locking mechanism locks the lever so as... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070212120 - Toner cartridge and image forming device: In accordance with one or more aspects, a toner cartridge may be detachably attached to an image forming device. The toner cartridge may be provided with a cartridge case. This cartridge case may be provided with a toner chamber, a cartridge side feed opening for feeding a toner from the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070212119 - Toner cartridge, image forming apparatus, method of recycling toner cartridge: An insertion passage 104Y for inserting a suction nozzle 73Y fixed to an image forming apparatus is provided on a holder 102Y, and a connecting passage 114Y that connects the insertion passage 104Y and a toner storage section 106Y of the holder 102Y is provided After the toner sent from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212121 - Developing device using electrostatic transport & hopping (eth): A developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus that use ETH development, and are capable of forming good multi-color images with a simple construction, and are capable of preventing the dispersal of powder. The developing device is for developing latent images on a latent image carrying member by applying... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212122 - Development apparatus, image forming apparatus and development method: The purpose is to be provide, in a development apparatus using a two-component developer, a compact development apparatus, image forming apparatus and development method that prevents carrier deterioration and that can carry out good image formation over a long time period. In a development apparatus using a developer in which... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070212123 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member; a first rotatable developer carrying member for carrying a one component magnetic developer; a second rotatable developer carrying member, provided downstream of the first developer carrying member with respect to a rotational direction of the image bearing member, for carrying... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070212124 - Image forming unit and image forming apparatus: An image forming unit includes an image supporting member for forming a latent image; a developer supporting member for attaching developer to the latent image to develop the latent image; a developer supply member facing the developer supporting member for supplying the developer to the developer supporting member; and a... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20070212127 - Image forming apparatus: One of aspects of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer member rotating at a first circumferential speed, and an image carrier capable of having a plurality of toner images formed thereon in turn, each of the toner images having a color different... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070212125 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus increases a primary-transfer pressure contact force at the times of primarily transferring black color to a first sheet and yellow and black colors to a second sheet or subsequent sheets in order to prevent misalignment of colors. The apparatus also decreases the primary-transfer pressure contact force... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070212126 - Transfer-fixing unit and image forming apparatus for enhanced image quality: A transfer unit for use in an image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt, and a counter member. The transfer belt, having a given circumferential length, receives an un-fixed image, formed of an image developer, from an image carrier at a first nip, which is defined between the transfer belt... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212128 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a toner-image forming section, an intermediary transfer section including an intermediary transfer belt, a fixing-fluid applying section, a transferring and fixing section, a recording-medium supply section, and an ejection section. The fixing-fluid applying section includes a coating roller, an eccentric cam for moving the coating... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070212129 - Image transfer device for image forming apparatus: An image transfer device provided in an image forming apparatus in which, employing an endless belt as an intermediate transfer member, image transfer is performed at nip positions of a primary transfer portion and secondary transfer portion. Generation of warp in the transferred image resulting from transmission of fluctuations in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212130 - Image forming apparatus: According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided an image forming apparatus including: a photosensitive member; a toner image forming unit forming a toner image on a surface of the photosensitive member; a transfer unit transferring the toner image formed on the surface of the photosensitive member to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070212131 - Image heating apparatus and fixing apparatus: An image heating apparatus including a plurality of image heating devices, each of the plurality of image heating devices having: an image heating member that heats an image on a recording material; and a separation member that separates the recording material from the image heating member, wherein the recording material... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070212132 - Cleaning device, and fusing device and image forming apparatus, provided with the cleaning device: A cleaning device includes a cleaning web, a supply roller, a take-up roller, and a control section. Positioned in contact with a circumferential surface of a fuser roller, the web removes toner particles on the circumferential surface. The supply roller has the web wound thereon. The take-up roller takes up... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070212135 - Fixing apparatus and image-forming apparatus having the same: The present invention proposes a fixing apparatus which can properly adjust the fixing ability and the curvature separation ability based on sheet quality, and an image forming apparatus having the same fixing apparatus. This fixing apparatus, which forms images through fixing the toner images on the sheet, includes an endless... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070212133 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus including an endless belt for heating an image on a recording material; a supporting member for supporting the belt; a coil for induction heat generation in the belt; control means for controlling a position of the belt in a widthwise direction by inclining the supporting member... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070212134 - Image heating apparatus: A fixing apparatus 50 capable of reducing noise during a fixing operation using a fixing belt 1 having a metal layer includes the fixing belt 1 stretched between a fixation roller 2 and a fixation tension roller 3. The fixing apparatus 50 further includes a coil 4b which is disposed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070212136 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of applying an adequate amount of fixing fluid to an unfixed toner image and producing high-quality images having high resolution and high image density with stability for a longer period of time while protecting the interior thereof against fixing fluid leakage and achieving reduction in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070212137 - Cleaning blade for use in image-forming apparatus: A cleaning blade, for use in an image-forming apparatus, for removing toner which remains on a surface of a photoreceptor drum thereof, with the cleaning blade in contact with the photoreceptor drum. The cleaning blade is formed from a sheet composed of a thermosetting elastomer composition. The roughness degree of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070212138 - Component mounting structure: A component mounting structure mounting a press component with the press component in a condition of elastic pressing against a pressed article, and comprising an intermediate fixing member mounted on a fixing frame supporting the pressed article and capable of position adjustment in a direction of pressing of the press... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070212139 - Image forming apparatus, process unit, and cleaning device: An image forming apparatus including an image carrier, a charger, an electrostatic latent image forming member, a developing member, a transferor, and a cleaning device. The electrostatic latent image forming member forms an electrostatic latent image on a surface of the image carrier charged by the charger. The developing member... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070212140 - Simplex and duplex continuous automatic document feeder: A simplex and duplex continuous automatic document feeder includes a sheet input tray in which a sheet is placed before the sheet is fed, a first sheet output tray in which the sheet, after being fed, is placed, an image processing region in which the sheet is processed, a sheet... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070212141 - Image formation method and an image formation apparatus: An image formation method and an image formation apparatus are disclosed. The image formation method includes: a step of determining a specified number of sheets to be printed, a step of carrying out double-side printing by a non-inter-leaf operation if only one sheet is to be printed, steps of acquiring... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070206965 - Image forming apparatus and developer remaining amount detecting method: An image forming apparatus, which uses a developing device including: a developer carrying member developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive member with a developer; a developer containing portion containing the developer; an agitating member provided rotatably in the developer containing portion to agitate the developer; and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070206966 - Image forming apparatus and developer remaining amount detecting method: An image forming apparatus, which uses a developing device including: a developer carrying member; a developer containing portion; an agitating member agitating a developer; a developer amount detecting member outputting a signal for detecting the remaining amount of the developer contained in the developer containing portion, the image forming apparatus... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070206968 - Power supply and image fixing system using the same: A power supply for use in an image fixing system is provided. The image fixing system includes first and second fixing lamps connected in series, a power supply unit supplying electric power, a power supply control unit controlling the supply of the electric power supplied from the power supply unit,... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070206967 - Image sensor test system: An image sensor test system (10) bringing input/output terminals of an image sensor into contact with a contact (61) of a test head (60), emitting light to alight receiving surface of the image sensor from a light source (80) and, while doing so, inputting/outputting electrical signals between the contact (61)... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070206969 - Electrical discharging of image transfer assemblies: The present invention relates to an assembly or method for use with an image forming device. The device may include an image transfer device capable of receiving an extraneous electrostatic charge from a source. A discharge path may then be configured to remove all or a portion of the extraneous... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070206970 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: According to the invention, a constant current output is applied to a backup roller or a secondary transfer member, and the cleaning bias is controlled according to the measurement obtained by monitoring the voltage generated at that time. Cleaning biases of a plus polarity and a minus polarity are alternately... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070206971 - Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus usable therewith: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member; a developing roller contactable to the electrophotographic photosensitive member to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive member; a photosensitive member unit supporting the electrophotographic photosensitive member... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070206972 - Protective cover, process cartridge employing same, image forming apparatus, and method of installing process cartridge: A protective cover that includes: a cover body detachably mounted on a process cartridge to protect at least an outwardly exposed part of an electro-photographic photoreceptor; a guide part that is provided on the cover body to guide the process cartridge in a longitudinal direction of the electro-photographic photoreceptor; and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070206973 - 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

20070206974 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device and an image forming apparatus equipped with the developing device are provided to suppress the deterioration in picture quality of an image formed on a sheet due to toner-clump created in a developer vessel. The developing device, comprising: a developing roller adapted to hold toner thereon while... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070206975 - Toner container and toner loading method: A toner bottle that is composed of a main part, a toner loading portion, a bottle cap that can hermetically close and open a toner loading opening in the toner loading portion, and a bottle-side toner discharge port. This toner bottle is constructed such that the bottle cap that encloses... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

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20070206977 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes a developer tank, a developing roller, a supply roller, a stirring member, and a doctor blade. The developing device is provided with: a cleaning member detachably provided on a contact portion of the doctor blade with the developing roller, which slides to rub a surface of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070206978 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image forming program: An image forming apparatus concurrently conducts alignment of toner images of respective color components on a transfer belt and alignment control of the toner images. In the image forming apparatus of this invention, when a region occupied by a composite toner image that is to be superposed on a transfer... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070206979 - Endless belt and image forming apparatus: An endless belt including a belt main body in which a ten-point average roughness (Rz) of an inner peripheral surface thereof is in a range of 2.0 μm or higher and 10.0 μm or lower and an average distance (Sm) between projections and depressions of the inner peripheral surface is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070206980 - Apparatus and method for a printer and/or copier device with reduced thermal stressing of the carrier material: An apparatus and method for performing a second toner image fixing on a toner image on a carrier material includes a second fixing unit in the carrier material transport path. The second fixing unit is in a burn-in unit that is spaced by a cooling distance from the printer or... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070206981 - Fusing apparatus including a sheet centering stripper assembly: A sheet centering stripping assembly is provided for stripping a fused sheet exiting a fusing nip having a still malleable toner image thereon. The sheet centering stripping assembly includes (a) a first air knife device for directing a first flat stream of pressurized air at a first force to contact... Agent: Patent Documentation Center