Electrophotography inventions 12/07

20070297814 - Image forming apparatus and method for distinguishing suitable parts in the same: An image forming apparatus that can provide notification, so that maintenance personnel of a manufacturer or the like can be made aware of a usage condition in a case where an unsuitable toner cartridge is intermittently used. The image forming apparatus is equipped with a primary storage section storing specific... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070297816 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: In a control method of an image forming apparatus having an image forming section which forms an image on a sheet, and an ejecting section which ejects, as a print set unit, a plurality print sets of sheets on each of which an image has been formed by the image... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070297817 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of development units each using a developer including a toner and a carrier, a density detection unit configured to perform a density detection operation for detecting a density of a detection toner image formed by each of the plurality of development units, and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297818 - Image-forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus includes a first unit configured to form an image on a recording medium, a second unit configured to open/close relative to the first unit, and an instructing unit configured to perform an instruction for causing the image-forming apparatus to execute a predetermined operation, wherein the image-forming apparatus... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297819 - Charging device, image forming apparatus using the same and charging controlling method: A charging device includes a charging member disposed so as to rotate in contact with a surface of an image carrier to charge the image carrier surface, a bias voltage applying unit that applies a bias voltage to the charging member, the bias voltage having an AC voltage superimposed on... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070297820 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing belt configured to bear a toner image, a driving roller configured to rotationally drive the image bearing belt, first and second image forming units configured to form toner images on the image bearing belt. To correct color misregistration, the image forming apparatus... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297821 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, which includes: an image forming section to form an image on a transfer sheet conveyed to the image forming section; an edge detecting sensor which detects an edge position of the transfer sheet in a main scanning direction while the transfer sheet is conveyed to the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070297825 - System for control of fusing member temperature: A fuser control system and method are provided for improving the image control of printing systems, including digital front-end processors, color printers and post-finishing system. This automatic image control system, including measurement and calibration, by registering the thermal load measurements.... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070297826 - Fuser unit and imaging forming apparatus having the same: A fuser unit including: a set of a heat roller and a pressure roller for sandwiching and conveying a printing sheet while heating the printing sheet by the heat roller; a peripheral surface contact member which is in contact with the peripheral surface of the heat roller; an external heater... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070297827 - Developer roll shield to reduce toner dusting: A shield may be provided over a printer developer roll, adjacent to a doctor blade, to reduce toner dusting and toner accumulations. The shield may slightly conform to the curvature of the developer roll in some embodiments. As a result, toner accumulations on surfaces which the customer must touch may... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070297815 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus comprises a replaceable consumable, a determination unit for determining whether the consumable is non-genuine (S12), a first image-quality adjustment unit, and a second image-quality adjustment unit. When the determination unit determines that the consumable is non-genuine (YES in S12), the first image-quality adjustment unit performs an... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070297822 - Image forming method: and a ratio of a mass average particle size (d50, μm) of the developer to a surface roughness (Ra, μm), d50/Ra being in a range of 0.5 to 3.0 and an average spacing (Sm) between protruding peaks of the developer bearing body being in a range of 20 to 200... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070297823 - Image forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus has: a transfer belt transferring a sheet; an encoder outputting a pulse signal in response to a rotational motion of the transfer belt; a belt reference sensor detecting a belt reference mark provided on the transfer belt; a first accumulator measuring a rotational position of the transfer... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20070297824 - Image forming apparatus adjusting color taste of toner image: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, first toner image forming device of forming a first toner image by a first toner, second toner image forming device of forming a second toner image by a second toner, transferring device of transferring the first toner image on the image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070297828 - Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components: Techniques for attaching a replacement chip to an imaging cartridge are described. An exemplary method of modifying a toner hopper assembly for use in a toner cartridge consists of providing the toner hopper assembly having a generally cylindrical shape and an at least partially non-functioning electronic chip with electrical contacts... Agent: William L. London

20070297829 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprising: a transfer section for transferring a toner image on an image bearing member onto a transfer material; a conveyor for conveying the transfer material to a transfer position; a first guide for forming a guiding surface in said image bearing member side on a conveyance... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070297830 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus include an image bearer, a charger, and a discharger. The image bearer is configured to bear an electrostatic latent image. The charger is configured to charge the image bearer. The discharger is configured to discharge the image bearer with a discharge light. The amount of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070297831 - Image-reading apparatus and image-forming apparatus: An image-reading apparatus, including a housing, a document table placed on the housing for receiving document, a movable optical unit placed on the document table for reading the image information on the document, the movable optical unit being placed reciprocally movably in the housing in directions parallel to the document... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070297832 - Developing apparatus and method for developing: In an image forming apparatus, a developer agitation member has a mechanism to vary its driving force, and the driving force of the developer agitation member is changed by a control unit according to the information of the number of times of image formation from a counter.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070297834 - Developing apparatus: An amount-of-developer regulating apparatus configured to restrict the amount of developer carried on a developer bearing member. The amount-of-developer regulating apparatus includes a flexible developer amount regulation member having a contact portion configured to contact with a developer bearing member, and first and second holding portions configured to hold the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297833 - Developing apparatus, processing cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A sheet-shaped regulation member is supported by a supporting unit with an elastic force occurring by bending a sheet-shaped regulation member in the longitudinal direction thereof, and a force received as a result of being pressed by a developing roller. Thus, direct contact can be securely made onto a developer... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297835 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a vibration detecting sensor. If the vibration detecting sensor detects a vibration at or above a defined level, a toner image for detection is formed, and image forming conditions are controlled based on detection results of the formed toner image.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070297836 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and process cartridge: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus which is equipped with at least a latent electrostatic image forming unit, a developing unit, a transferring unit, and a fixing unit, wherein the transferring unit is configured to apply a positive electric potential to a visible image formed on the latent... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070297837 - Fixing device for use in an image forming device: A fixing roller 30, which has an internal heating device and is supported to rotate around a cylindrical shaft 40, and a pressure roller 81 whose circumferential face presses against the fixing roller 30, and which is supported to rotate around the pressure roller axle 82, are mounted in a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070297838 - Fixing apparatus: A fixing apparatus according to the present invention ensures a nip width larger than a certain value by a heating roller which has a thin film metal conductive layer, and a foamed rubber layer which is bonded to the end part of the metal conductive layer, formed with a gap... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070297839 - Glossy image forming system and copy surface smoothing apparatus: A glossy image forming system for forming a glossy image on a recording material having a surface resin material layer, the glossy image forming system includes a fixing device for fixing an unfixed toner image formed on a surface of the recording material; a heaterless pressing device for pressing the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070297840 - Image forming apparatus with a toner flow prevention feature effective during removal of a toner colecting container: The image forming apparatus includes image forming device for forming a toner image on a recording material, a residual toner collecting container detachably provided on a main body of said image forming apparatus and adapted to collect residual toner discharged from said image forming means, said residual toner collecting container... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070297841 - Continuous feed printing system: A continuous feed (CF) printing module, printing system, and method is provided. The CF printing module comprising an image transfer system configured to selectively mark a media web, and a media web transport system configured to selectively advance a media web without image marking by the image transfer system at... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070292146 - Image forming apparatus executing calibration and service person call: An image forming apparatus includes a condition determining device that calculates a deviation amount of image data from a normal condition and determines if the image forming apparatus is in an abnormal condition. An abnormal section specifying device specifies an abnormal section in the image forming apparatus based on a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070292148 - Print quality maintenance method and system: An system and related method for maintaining print quality based on development potential measurements that include comparing the current process measurements to a toner concentration related set-point; calculating a quality adjustment range based on current process measurements and the toner concentration related set-point, or a derivative thereof, indicative of print... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070292149 - Print quality maintenance method and system: An system and related method for maintaining print quality based on development potential measurements that include comparing the current process measurements to a toner concentration related set-point; calculating a quality adjustment range based on current process measurements and the toner concentration related set-point, or a derivative thereof, indicative of print... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070292150 - Cleaner subsystem fault detection: A method for detecting a stress condition in a cleaning system of an imaging device is provided. The method comprises receiving a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal. The PWM signal has a duty cycle for driving a PWM servo motor of a cleaning system. A determination is then made whether the... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070292154 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing section that fixes an image formed on a recording medium, a drive section that drives the fixing section in rotation. When the recording medium is passing through the fixing section, the controller controls the drive section such that the drive section drives the... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070292155 - Fixing device and fixing method: Two heater lamps for heating a heat roller 10 are provided inside the heat roller 10. One is a heater lamp 11 for mainly heating the center area of the heat roller 10, and the other is a heater lamp 12 having heat supply characteristics to mainly heat both end... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070292157 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus and controlling device for the image forming apparatus: An image forming system is provided with a setting inputting section to set a tandem mode and a control section. When the tandem mode is set by the setting inputting section, the control section assigns an image formation from a leading page to a first page in a predetermined page... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070292145 - Services management system for equipment: An equipment maintenance and monitoring system and method is disclosed for, e.g., efficiently performing servicing and parts replacement in such equipment and thereby reducing service calls. In particular, the equipment maintenance and monitoring system and method preemptively prevents certain equipment failures by performing servicing and/or parts replacement on such equipment... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070292147 - Image forming apparatus, component, component checking method, control program, and storage medium: With this invention, compatibility between an image forming apparatus and a component mounted on the image forming apparatus is precisely checked. A cartridge as the component stores its ID (first information) and an ID (second information) of the image forming apparatus that can use the cartridge. The image forming apparatus... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070292151 - Method for adjusting a fusing device of a digital printing machine by determining the humidity of printing material and measuring device to detect the reflectance of microwave signals at a print material: It is an object of the present invention to provide a high-quality printed image in a printing machine. To achieve this, a method for adjusting a fusing device 100 of a digital printing machine has been provided, in which case microwave signals of a specific frequency or frequency range are... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20070292152 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is constituted by a rotatable image bearing member; a charging member for electrically charging the image bearing member in contact with the image bearing member; developing member, containing polishing particles, for collecting toner from the image bearing member and effecting development on the basis of an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070292153 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus of a tandem developing type is designed so that each of toners has an average circularity Cn of 0.89 or more (Cn indicates an average circularity of the toner in a developer to be transferred in the n-th time, where n is an integer of 1... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070292156 - Image forming apparatus and image processing method: An image forming apparatus comprises an operation unit which performs an operation for calculating amount data of a printing material which indicates an amount of a printing material required to form the image, a reduction processing unit which changes, when it is determined that the amount of a printing material... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070292158 - Image forming device: An image forming device is disclosed which has: an image holding member which rotates; a charging roller press-contacting and being rotated by the image holding member, and charging the image holding member; and a cleaning roller press-contacting and being rotated by the charging roller, and cleaning the charging roller. The... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070292159 - Opening and closing assembly, and multifunction device including the assembly: An opening and closing assembly includes: (a) a first casing body; (b) a second casing body pivotable to be selectively placed in open and closed positions relative to the first casing body; and (c) a support stand for supporting the second casing body to maintain the open position. The support... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070292160 - Rotation member driving apparatus, photoconductive member unit, and image forming apparatus: A rotation member driving apparatus for driving a printing member includes a printing member shaft attached to the printing member, a driving motor that drives the printing member, and a driving motor shaft attached to the driving motor. A first gear is attached to the driving motor shaft. A drive... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070292161 - Charging device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: Toner having spindle-shaped particles is used to form images in an image forming apparatus. Each spindle-shaped particle has a ratio of a length in a minor axis to a length in a major axis in a range from 0.5 to 0.8 and a ratio of a thickness to the length... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070292162 - Systems, methods, and compositions for reducing ink foam: A method for reducing foam associated with an ink reservoir of a printing press is provided. The method can include printing a plurality of printed images with a nonaqueous ink delivered from an ink reservoir, periodically delivering a defoaming agent into the ink reservoir to reduce foam formation in the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070292163 - Development sub-system in-line cleaning system: An electrophotographic printing machine of the type in which an electrostatic latent image recorded on a charge retentive surface is developed with toner particles to form a visible image thereof, including: a toner dispenser; a donor member for transporting toner from the housing to a development zone; and a cyclone... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070292164 - Development sub-system in-line cleaning system: An electrophotographic printing machine of the type in which an electrostatic latent image recorded on a charge retentive surface is developed with toner particles to form a visible image thereof, including: a housing having a supply of toner and developer therein; a donor member for transporting toner from the housing... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070292165 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A compact development apparatus using a two-component developer and an image forming apparatus wherein carrier deterioration is prevented to ensure formation of a high-quality image for a long time. The development apparatus uses the developer made up of a mixture of toner, carrier, and opposite polarity particles to be charged... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20070292166 - Electrostatographic developer unit having multiple magnetic brush rolls with a magnetic restrictor for carrier particle emission control: A development station in an electrostatographic imaging machine impedes the flow of carrier particles out of the development station as the developer moves from an upper to a lower magnetic roll. The development station includes a developer housing, for retaining a quantity of developer having semi-conductive carrier particles and toner... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070292167 - Composite trim bar for developer system: A device for metering toner to a predefined toner bed height on a donor member, including a composite trim bar having a support portion and a cutting portion, adjacent to the donor member, attached to the support portion.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070292168 - Elastic roller for electrophotography: Disclosed is an elastic roller for electrophotography wherein bleeding of an unreacted material, a plasticizer and an additive from the elastic layer to the roller surface is suppressed. Also disclosed is an elastic roller for electrophotography having excellent durability for long use. Specifically disclosed is (1) an elastic roller for... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070292169 - Color image forming method and color image forming apparatus: There is provided a color image forming apparatus which is capable of preventing fogging, and decrease of a transfer efficiency of a toner image onto a recording medium when forming a color image, and stably forming a high-definition color image excellent in a color reproducibility. In a color image forming... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070292170 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: plural image carriers that are disposed at intervals and in a line, and that are driven to rotate while carrying images; an intermediate transfer belt that have an endless shape, and that is disposed to be laid on plural rolls so as to be able... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070292171 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus capable of carrying out color misregistration correction at an appropriate time and providing a high-quality image free from color misregistration. A toner image is formed on the basis of an input image information signal. A width of the toner image is determined on the basis of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070292172 - Image forming device and image forming method: An image forming device that transfers a plurality of toner images of different colors in layers, onto an intermediate transfer member by controlling a timing of forming each of the plurality of toner images, based on a reference position on a surface of the intermediate transfer member, the image forming... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070292173 - Transfer belt for image forming apparatus: The invention provides a multi-layered transfer belt for image forming apparatus including a base layer, an elastic layer (intermediate layer) and a surface layer, having a high surface resistivity, an excellent toner releasing property and an excellent non-contaminating property. The transfer belt for image forming apparatus is characterized in including,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070292174 - Chemically-treated cleaning web: A fuser debris inhibiting system and apparatus using an impregnated cleaning web. This web is impregnated with EDTA or its salts. The web can contact the fuser member directly or can contact external heat rolls which in turn contact the fuser roll. The delivery of EDTA to the surface of... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20070292175 - Image forming apparatus and fixing device: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device for forming a toner image on a recording medium and a fixing device for fixing the toner image formed on the recording medium by applying heat and pressure to the recording medium. In the fixing device, an endless belt, having flexibility,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070292176 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: The present invention has as its object to provide an image forming apparatus which can well perform both-side image forming for forming an image of high gloss on one side of a recording sheet and forming an image of non-gloss or low gloss on the other side thereof, and for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

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20070292178 - Image forming apparatus and cleaning device: An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that carries an image; a developing unit that develops the image on the image carrier into a toner image; a transfer unit that transfers the toner image carried on the image carrier onto a transfer medium; and a cleaning unit that cleans... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070292179 - Cleaning apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus having a high toner containing efficiency of a waste toner-collecting container is provided. Piled toner is broken by an vibrating imparting operation and at the same time, a toner feeding member such as a feeding screw disposed inside the toner-collecting container is rotated by changing a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070292180 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device for fixing a toner image formed on a recording material by heat and an outer cover, and the outer cover is configured to be the multi-layer of an intermediate layer having a metal made wall and an acoustic absorption member for absorbing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070292181 - Image holding member and image forming apparatus: The invention provides an image holding member including at least a surface that has, after a predetermined discharge stress that is conditioned so that a sine-wave alternating-current bias of a peak-to-peak bias having 1.5 KV and a frequency 8 time S (Hz) is applied to the surface of the image... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070292182 - Cover assembly of image capturing device: A cover assembly of an image capturing device is provided. The image capturing device includes a housing having a platen for supporting the document. The cover assembly includes a buffer, a background sheet and a stretching-compressing mechanism. The cover is pivotally connected to the housing and has an inner surface... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070292183 - Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A sheet processing apparatus is coupled to an image forming apparatus having a first print mode and a second print mode in which an interval between sheets is larger than that in the first print mode when images are formed on sheets. The sheet processing apparatus includes a stapling unit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070286614 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus to which a paper handling unit is connected thereto is provided. The image forming apparatus detects the size of a sheet in a direction in which the sheet is conveyed for image formation. The image forming apparatus outputs sheet size mismatch information indicating that the size... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070286615 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus forms an image by fixing, on a recording medium, a toner image formed by an image forming unit. The image forming apparatus includes a determination unit which determines whether a delay has occurred during conveyance of a recording medium, based on the detection result of the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070286617 - Developing device, and process unit and image forming apparatus using the developing device: A developing device including a developer bearing member configured to configured to bear thereon a developer including a toner and a magnetic carrier to develop an electrostatic image on an image bearing member with the developer; a developer container configured to contain and feed the developer to the developer bearing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070286618 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: There is provided a technique in which a paper jam in a fixing unit can be prevented without adding a special part or the like, and without causing a damage of a pressure roller and distortion of an image due to adhesion of toner or paper powder to a peeling... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070286619 - Digital printing apparatus having substantially equal output rates for various sheet sizes and orientations: A digital printing apparatus is controlled to provide a roughly consistent output rate, of printed sheets per minute, regardless of the size and orientation of the output print sheets. In one embodiment, the printer outputs short-edge-fed legal or A3 sheets within 25% of the rate it can output long-edge-fed letter... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070286622 - Image forming apparatus and method for controlling image density thereof: An image forming apparatus for stabilizing image densities of a high-density image by devising shapes of test patches is provided. A test pattern image is created by adhering toner to a plurality of test patches having respectively different line area rates of 100% or less. An amount of adhering toner... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070286620 - Image forming device and image forming method: An image forming device including: an image carrier, being an endless belt, on which a toner image is to be formed; a resistance measuring unit operable to measure a distribution of electric resistances on a surface of the image carrier; a toner patch forming position determining unit operable to determine... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070286623 - Image forming apparatus, control method for image forming apparatus and storage medium storing control program: The image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording sheet based on an input image signal includes a halftone processor that applies a halftone process to an input image signal with a predetermined halftone processing period, and an add-on processor that attaches, to the image signal subjected to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070286624 - Optical scanning apparatus: An optical scanning apparatus forms a latent image by scanning a laser beam emitted from a light source on an image bearing member. The apparatus includes first and second laser beam detectors for detecting the laser beam and a scanning-line slope detector for detecting a slope of a scanning line... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070286625 - Image forming device and image forming device control method: An image forming device in which, on a photosensitive surface of a photoreceptor, a first region electrified by a charger is set to be positioned at an inner side of a second region to which a predetermined potential difference is applied by a developing device in order to develop an... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070286626 - Solid-concentration measuring apparatus and method thereof, and solid-concentration system: A solid-concentration measuring apparatus includes an ultrasonic transmitter, an ultrasonic receiver, and a response-time integrator. The ultrasonic transmitter transmits a single-pulse ultrasonic wave to a liquid toner. The ultrasonic receiver receives the single-pulse ultrasonic wave. The ultrasonic transmitter transmits again a single-pulse ultrasonic wave after a predetermined time has passed... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070286627 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member which bears a toner image; a transfer unit which transfers the toner image on the image bearing member to a transfer portion when applied with transfer voltage; a recording material feeding unit which includes a stacking portion where recording materials are... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070286628 - Transfer device and image forming apparatus: A transfer device is provided for an image forming apparatus designed such that toner images formed on a plurality of image bearing members are transferred one over another on a transfer body disposed in contact with each of the image bearing members with predetermined pressure and thus a toner image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070286629 - Lamp fixing unit, backlight assembly having the same and display device having the same: A lamp fixing unit capable of simplifying the manufacture of a backlight assembly by eliminating the need for manual procedures is presented. The lamp fixing unit includes a fixing member and a lamp holder. The fixing member includes a fixing body and at least one receiving portion. The lamp holder... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070286630 - Power-saving control method of image forming device, and image forming device: In a power-saving control method of an image forming device, the image forming device is set in a power saving state when an input operation is not performed by a user over a predetermined time. The image forming device in the power saving state is shifted to a minimum power... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070286634 - Developer roll shield to reduce toner dusting: A shield may be provided over a printer developer roll, adjacent to a doctor blade, to reduce toner dusting and toner accumulations. The shield may slightly conform to the curvature of the developer roll in some embodiments. As a result, toner accumulations on surface which the customer must touch may... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070286613 - Universal smart chip cartridges for multiple printing apparatus: A printing system includes first and second printing devices operable exclusively with respective first and second consumable devices. A third consumable device is provided in the system storing identification data recognizable by both the first and second printing devices whereby the third consumable device is operable with both the first... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070286616 - Image forming apparatus and management system: An image forming apparatus includes a developing device for developing an electrostatic latent image, formed on an image-bearing member, with toner; a developer supply container which contains developer containing toner and a carrier and is detachably mountable to a main assembly of the image forming apparatus; developer supply means for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070286621 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member for carrying a toner image; toner image forming means for forming the toner image on the image bearing member; transferring means for transferring the toner image from the image bearing member onto a recording material; a cleaning member for removing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070286631 - Power supply device, method thereof, and image forming device: A power supply device is disclosed that is able to satisfy requirements of a device in connection and has high efficiency. The power supply device includes a first power supply; a voltage step-up unit that steps up an output voltage of the first power supply; a voltage step-down unit that... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070286632 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus may include an apparatus body, and a photosensitive-member unit slidably attached the apparatus body and retaining a plurality of photosensitive members. The apparatus body includes side wall portions opposing each other with a unit receiving section sandwiched therebetween, and a plurality of apparatus-body-side electrode members provided... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070286633 - Image forming apparatus: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a charging unit, an exposure unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, a fixing unit, an environment detecting unit and a control unit. The charging unit includes a charger and a static eliminator. The charger contacts with a surface... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070286635 - Cleaning device and image forming device: A cleaning device includes a cleaning roller, a supporting portion and a guiding portion. The cleaning roller has a core and a cleaning member provided around the core, the cleaning member contacting and cleaning a charging roller by rotation of the cleaning roller, the charging roller charging an image carrier... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070286636 - Image forming device and image forming method: An image forming device including a cleaning member that is made of an elastic material and cleans the surface of the image carrier by contacting with the surface. The drive unit rotates the image carrier in a reverse direction while the cleaning member is contacting with the surface of the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070286637 - Device for helping toner cartridge recharging for printers: Device for helping toner cartridge recharging for printers, comprising a supporting cable (4), perpendicularly engaged to a supporting structure (14) having in one of its ends a vibration head (23), having inside and being stuck by a clamp (7) a motor (3) in which axis (6) there is a nylon... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070286638 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a development cartridge, a placement tray, an apparatus body, and a cover member. The development cartridge contains developer to be applied onto a recording sheet. The placement tray is configured so as to place recording sheets thereon. In the apparatus body, the development cartridge and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070286639 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus may include a main body casing, a reference shaft, a photosensitive unit, developing units and a pressing member. The photosensitive unit is detachably attachable to the main body casing along an attachment/detachment direction, holds photosensitive members, and has an engaging... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070286640 - Transfer unit and image forming apparatus: A transfer belt is driven by a plurality of supporting rollers. A unit frame supports the supporting rollers in a rotatable manner. At least one of the supporting rollers includes a cylindrical member having a substantially same outer diameter over an entire length thereof. Each end portion of the cylindrical... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070286641 - Attaching construction for pressing roller in fixing device: In a fixing device of an image processing apparatus having the fixing roller for fixing a toner image on a paper sheet and the pressing roller which forms a nip for allowing passage of the paper sheet in cooperation with the fixing roller. The attaching construction for attaching the pressing... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070286642 - Method for fabricating a contact cleaning roller or belt: A contact cleaning roller or belt fabricated by attaching a polymer-coated flexible substrate cut from flexible sheet stock to the surface of a structural core or a structural belt of a desired length. For either a CCR or CCB, an adhesive and/or resilient layer may be inserted between the flexible... Agent: Ronald J. Kisicki, Esq. Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel, LLP

20070286643 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an auxiliary charging member contacting an image bearing member and for being supplied with a bias of an identical polarity to a normal charge polarity of toner at a position downstream from a transfer portion where a transfer member is located and upstream from a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070286644 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a latent image-forming unit that forms an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the photoreceptor with light, a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image using a toner to form a toner image, a color data-applying unit that applies the color... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070286646 - Detachable cartridge and image forming apparatus: A detachable cartridge includes: a buffer portion that contacts with a contacted portion when the detachable cartridge is attached to an image forming apparatus body, the contacted portion being provided on the image forming apparatus body, and that buffers impact, the detachable cartridge being detachable from the image forming apparatus... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070286645 - Toner container and image forming apparatus provided with toner container: A toner container adapted to be detachably attached to a developer provided in an apparatus body of an image forming apparatus includes a casing for loading a toner therein. The casing has a bottom wall formed with a replenishing port for replenishing the toner to the developer. A sheet member... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070286648 - Image forming apparatus with developer supply roller: An image forming apparatus has an electrostatic latent image bearing member capable of bearing an electrostatic latent image thereon, and a developer apparatus having a developer material for visualizing the electrostatic latent image into a visualized image. The developer apparatus includes a developer material bearing member, a housing adapted to... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070286647 - Image forming apparatus with toner supplying roller: A developing device has a developer bearing member, a housing adapted to accommodate a developer, and a supply roller adapted to supply the developer within the housing for the developer bearing member. The supply roller has an outer circumferencial foam layer made of resin or rubber. The foam layer has... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070286649 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus of this invention comprises: an image bearing member bearing a toner image to be transferred to a recording material; a unit including the image bearing member and capable of being pulled out from an apparatus main body; a transfer member which contacts the image bearing member... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070286650 - Color image forming apparatus and image forming method: A color image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that is configured to adopt an intermediate transfer system for three colors of cyan, magenta and yellow, and a direct transfer system for black. A transfer medium is conveyed to a transfer medium convey belt. Cyan, magenta and yellow are... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070286651 - Transfer belt unit and method of supporting handle of the same: The transfer belt unit comprises a frame unit that is composed of a plurality of frame members and supports rollers around which a transfer belt is wound, a connecting unit that connects the plurality of frame members of the frame unit to one another relatively rotatably on a plane including... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070286652 - Image forming method and image forming apparatus for same: An image forming apparatus comprising: a latent image support for supporting a latent image and a developing device configured to us toner to develop the latent image on said latent image support, the estimated average halftone granularity of the toner imager after developing being 0.25 or less.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070286653 - Cleaning apparatus and image forming apparatus: The cleaning apparatus according to the invention is concerned with a cleaning apparatus provided with a cleaning blade which removes a developer remaining on the surface of an image carrier, which is characterized in that the cleaning blade is made of a resinous matrix in which at least one of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070286654 - Cleaning device and image forming apparatus: A cleaning device includes a first cleaning portion provided at a position where a belt transfer body is moved after transfer, and includes a second cleaning portion having a cleaning member which contacts the belt transfer body, which is located at an end of the belt transfer body in the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070286655 - Apparatus for providing delay signals to perform print scan line synchronization within a laser printer: An apparatus for providing delay signals to perform print scan line synchronizations within a laser printer is disclosed. The apparatus includes a voltage-control oscillator, a frequency divider and multiple output control modules. The voltage-control oscillator converts a clock signal to a higher frequency signal. The frequency divider then reduces the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20070286656 - Image forming apparatus and conveyance malfunction decision method: Preventing a paper jam as much as possible when actual paper size differs from designated paper size with increasing throughput by starting conveyance of a second sheet before detecting the length of a first sheet. Unless a register sensor has detected the rear edge (step S303), start of feeding the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070286657 - Paper discharge structure and image forming apparatus using the same: A paper discharge structure includes: a paper discharge roller for discharging paper with an image from a discharge port; a paper output tray located below the paper discharge roller for holding sheets of paper P discharged by the paper discharge roller; and a side-wall surface formed extending from the vicinity... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070286658 - Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A sheet processing apparatus having a laser processing unit, a collecting portion, and a detecting portion. The collecting portion is disposed below a laser processing position of the laser processing unit. The collecting portion collects a scrap of the sheet produced when the sheet is processed by the laser processing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070280706 - Failure prevention diagnosis support system, failure prevention diagnosis support method, and program product of failure prevention diagnosis support: A failure prevention diagnosis support system includes: an acquiring portion that acquires internal information about an internal state of an image forming apparatus; a storage portion that stores one or a plurality of logistic regression models that define an estimate value of a regression coefficient through a logistic regression analysis... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070280707 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a charging member, a voltage applying unit that applies at least one of voltage of a DC component and voltage of an AC component to the charging member, a capacitance unit connected to a superposition point for the DC component and the AC... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070280708 - Electric-power management system and method of controlling the system: Power consumption P of a building where plural image forming apparatuses 1 are installed is detected. When this detection result reaches an upper limit value Pa, power consumption of each of the image forming apparatuses 1 is reduced.... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070280709 - Image forming system, image forming device and information processing device: Provides is an image forming system, comprising an image forming device and an information processing device connected to the image forming device, further comprising a function-detecting unit detecting that a second function is added to the image forming device having a first function, and a notification unit notifying the user... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070280711 - Image forming apparatus for forming image on pre-processed sheet: An image forming apparatus includes: a recording section which records therein image data, and processing position information of a sheet; an image forming section which forms an image on the sheet on the basis of the image data recorded in the recording section; a position detector which detects a pre-processed... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070280712 - Apparatus and method for monitoring marking liquid: A method and apparatus for monitoring marking liquid including a carrier liquid having solid particles therein. A transmitter emits an ultrasonic signal into the marking liquid. The ultrasonic signal is received by a receiver and processed by a controller to determine at least one of the temperature of the marking... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070280713 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus of the present invention includes a heating roller 2 that is a cylindrical member having a center axis, a pressurizing roller 3 that exerts pressure on the heating roller 2, and a temperature detecting element 6 that detects the temperature of the heating roller 2. The outer... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070280715 - Image forming apparatus having mechanism for changing pressing force between cleaning member and belt: An image forming apparatus includes a belt, a cleaning member, a backup member, a pressing-force changing mechanism, and a control unit. The cleaning member is disposed in confrontation with the belt. The backup member is disposed to pinch the belt in cooperation with the cleaning member. The pressing-force changing mechanism... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070280717 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the apparatus: When an adjustment mode is set, a designation screen A is displayed on a liquid crystal display part 12. A part as an object of adjustment is designated by a touch operation to the designation screen A. Subsequently to this designation, an input screen B for inputting data for adjustment... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070280718 - Printing device: A printing device which receives and prints job-data which includes: a printing unit which prints the job-data; a memory which stores the job-data; a first cassette which feeds paper to the printing unit; a second cassette which feeds paper of different size from paper fed by the first cassette to... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20070280719 - Duplex printer: A duplex printer, in which when a first thermal head prints information on a front side as an information printing side of a printing medium, a second thermal head repeatedly prints a previously registered and selected fixed pattern or notice information on a back side as an information non-printing side... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070280720 - Power supply apparatus and image forming apparatus: A circuit unit connects outputs from a first power supply and a second power supply in parallel, and simultaneously supplies powers from both power supplies to a load. A control unit controls an output current from the first power supply to an upper-limit value or lower, and controls an output... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070280722 - Liquid storage apparatus and image forming apparatus: The liquid storage apparatus includes: a liquid storage chamber which is constituted by a flexible bag member and stores liquid; an exterior container which has walls constituted by a shape memory member and has a hermetically sealed space in which the liquid storage chamber is disposed, the shape memory member... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070280723 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including an image forming section that forms an image with a recording material on a recording medium to an edge thereof, and a cleaning section that cleans off the recording material adhering to an edge surface of the recording medium after the image forming section forms... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070280710 - Thermal or density management of imaging device: A multi-media printer includes an engine controller, a printhead controller, and a pulse activation table. The engine controller transmits a row of energy values. The printhead controller receives the row of energy values and transmits an activation signal. The activation signal is transmitted based on a comparison of an activating... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070280714 - Image forming apparatus, power supply control method, and power supply control program: An image forming apparatus for forming an image with a fixing member, which fixing member includes a first heating member and a plurality of second heating members is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a capacitor, a charging part for charging the capacitor, a first drive part for lighting on/off... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070280716 - Fixing apparatus: There is disclosed a fixing apparatus of the present invention, including a cleaning web 51, first and second take-up shafts 53, 54 which support opposite ends of the cleaning web, respectively, and a web pressing member 52 which presses the supported cleaning web 51 against a heating roller 1, and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070280721 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing member for fixing toner images on a sheet by heat, a first blowing device for blowing air for cooling the fixing member, and a second blowing device for blowing air for cooling the sheet on which toner images are fixed by the fixing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070280724 - Charging roller cleaning device and image forming apparatus including the same: A charging roller cleaning device is provided for removing impurities attached on a charging roller that charges a photosensitive medium to a uniform electric potential. Such a cleaning device includes: a cleaning roller arranged to rotate, while contacting the charging roller to remove the impurities attached on the charging roller;... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070280726 - Developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: Gap among a leaf spring member of a layer-thickness regulating blade, a back-side member of a blade holder and a blade opposed portion of an upper seal is filled with grease. An internal seal is disposed laterally inward of the grease with a portion thereof sandwiched between the back surface... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070280725 - Image forming apparatus: A development device that has communication port sealing means for sealing a communication port communicating a developer supporter container with a developer container. The development device is advantageous in cost reduction, easy manufacturing, and formation of high-quality images. In the development device which has a developing roller container for containing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070280728 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a body; a transport belt that includes a transport face, and that transports the sheet while supporting the sheet on a transport face; a developer-image forming portion that forms a developer image on the sheet transported by transport belt; and a fixing device that includes... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070280729 - Image forming apparatus having a plurality of photosensitive drums: An image forming apparatus including an outer frame, a photosensitive unit, a drum drive gear, a first positioning portion, and a second positioning portion. The photosensitive unit includes a plurality of photosensitive drums, a first supporting shaft, a second supporting shaft, and a drum gear. Each of the plurality of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070280731 - Photoconductor unit and image-forming apparatus: A drum unit includes a photoconductor drum, a charger, a cleaning brush, and a drum unit case. The charger and the cleaning brush are disposed in such a manner as to face the circumferential surface of the photoconductor drum. The charger and the cleaning brush are fixed to a charger... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070280730 - Photosensitive unit and image forming apparatus: A photosensitive unit is described. The photosensitive unit may include a developer cartridge including a developing agent carrier and a casing, a photosensitive member, and a side wall. The casing is provided with a pivoting member including a pressuring portion applied with an external pressing force and a fitting projection... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070280727 - Process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of the image forming apparatus, the process cartridge includes an image bearing member; a developing device for developing an electrostatic image formed on the image bearing member with a developer; an image bearing member driving force input portion for receiving a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070280732 - Image formation apparatus, image formation unit, methods of assembling and disassembling image formation apparatus, and temporarily tacking member used for image formation apparatus: An image formation apparatus includes; a drum; a first housing provided around the drum; a second housing provided around the first housing; a temporarily tacking section that temporarily tacks two members selected out of three members of the drum, the first housing and the second housing; and a supporting member... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070280733 - Photosensitive unit and developer cartridge: A photosensitive unit is described. A photosensitive unit may include a developer cartridge including a developing agent carrier and a casing for supporting the developer carrier; a photosensitive body disposed so that the developing agent carrier is brought into contact therewith by pressing; and a cartridge attaching portion to which... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

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20070280735 - Charging unit, process unit including the same, and image forming apparatus including the same: A charging unit available in a process unit detachably attached to an image forming apparatus includes a charging member configured to uniformly charge a surface of an image carrying member while contacting the image carrying member, and a charge bias applying unit configured to apply a charge bias superimposing a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070280736 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus (100) includes a photoreceptor drum (1), a development unit (2), a pressing member (7), and a vibration absorption member (8). The development unit (2) is disposed adjacent to the photoreceptor drum (1), and supported movably toward and away from the photoreceptor drum (1). The pressing member... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070280737 - Device and method for developing potential images previously created on a potential image support and containing the images that are to be printed in an electrographic printing or copying apparatus: In a method or device for development of potential images previously generated on a potential image carrier, the potential images comprising images to be printed as image locations, in an electrophotographic printing or copying device, an applicator roller directs a liquid developer comprising carrier fluid and toner particles onto the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070280738 - Image forming apparatus: A developing unit using a two-component developer intended to provide an image forming apparatus capable of forming a high-quality image for a long period of time. A developing unit using a developer contains toner, carrier and opposite polarity particles having a polarity opposite to the charging polarity of toner includes... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070280740 - Development device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: The present invention provides a development device which does not accumulate the developer at the corners on the internal walls, the process cartridge having such a development device, and the image forming apparatus, without increasing the size of the device or complicating its structure. A curving surface section is provided... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070280739 - Powder supply unit, manufacturing method of the powder supply unit, and recycling method of the powder supply unit: A powder supply unit is disclosed, which includes a housing accommodating powder, a rotating member rotatably provided in the housing, a sheet-like transporting member fixed to the rotating member and having a free end at a side different from the fixed portion side and slidingly moved on an inner wall... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070280742 - Developer supply device and image forming apparatus comprising same: The invention provides a developer supply device, a developer container, a developer and an image forming apparatus such that the developer is discharged stably from the developer container with a stable toner concentration in the developer, without damaging the developer, and in a relatively simple and small-size device having a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070280741 - Powder supplying device, method of filling powder into powder supply device, and method of reusing powder supplying device: The present invention provides a method of filling a powder into a powder supplying device including: a housing that accommodates the powder; a rotating member disposed rotatably within the housing; a sheet-shaped conveying member fixed to the rotating member, whose free end side region, which is different from a fixed... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070280743 - Developer supply container: If a user is not familiar with the operation for the developer supply container, the rotating operation for the developer supply container may be insufficient, so that developer supply container does not reach a predetermined operating position, with the result of abnormal developer supply. by increasing a rotation load of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070280744 - Development apparatus and image forming apparatus: A development apparatus includes a first developer chamber configured to store and supply the developer, a first developer bearer configured to convey the developer supplied from the first developer chamber to a first development domain, defined by a portion of the first developer bearer facing a latent image bearer, to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070280745 - Developing apparatus: A developing apparatus including: a developer carrying member carrying a developer with which an electrostatic image on an image bearing member is developed; a developer supplying/removing member having a conductive member and an insulating member on the surface thereof, and provided apart from the developer carrying member to supply and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070280746 - Image forming apparatus for recycling toner: In a tandem type color image forming apparatus having a function which collects a residual toner for recycle, a particle diameter distribution of a carrier is expressed as that a ratio of the number of carrier particles whose particle diameter is not smaller than φ40 μm is not greater than... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070280747 - Belt and image forming device using the same: The invention provides a belt including a belt base having elasticity and a projection member having elasticity which is provided along at least one edge of the belt base so as to project from the belt base, and an adhesive layer which bonds the belt base and the projection member,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070280748 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries toner images, and an intermediate transfer member onto which the toner images are primarily transferred, sequentially from a first toner image, from the image carrier. A primary transfer bias applied upon primary transfer of the first toner image is higher... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070280749 - Transfer device, image forming apparatus and method for evaluating electric property: A transfer device including a first combination including an intermediate transfer medium and a transfer member applying a transfer bias, and/or a second combination including an intermediate transfer medium, a second transfer member applying a second transfer bias, and an opposing member configured to transfer the toner image on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070280750 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus which forms a toner image on a transfer material, including: an image carrier which carries a toner image; a transfer section which transfers the toner images carried on the image carrier onto a transfer material; and a guide section having paired guide surfaces whose guide surfaces... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070280751 - Method and arrangement for fusing toner images to a printing material: An object of the present invention is to produce a suitable printed image in a printing machine and provide efficient cooling of the printing material following a fusing operation. To do so, a method for fusing toner to a printing material (5) is provided, in which case the printing material... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20070280752 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes a fixing roller that heats a toner image. A pressure roller forms a nip with the fixing roller by contacting and pressing the fixing roller. Separation claws are disposed side by side along a shaft center of the fixing roller within a sheet passing region of... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070280753 - Fuser unit with cleaning mechanism and image forming apparatus having the same: A fuser unit with a cleaning mechanism, including: a set of a heat roller and a pressure roller for sandwiching a recording sheet while heating the recording sheet by the heat roller; a feed roller for feeding a band-shaped cleaning member which is windable; a press roller for pressing the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070280754 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes a fixing sleeve, a cylindrical fixing roller, and a pressure roller. The fixing sleeve includes a heating layer that generates heat to fuse and fix toner. The fixing roller has a surface covered with the fixing sleeve. The pressure roller presses the fixing roller via the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070280757 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus includes an endless belt, a fixing roller, a pressure roller, a sheet heating element, and a support. The fixing roller and support are positioned on the inside of the endless belt. The endless belt is entrained about the fixing roller and the support. The support supports the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070280755 - Fixing belt, fixing device and image forming apparatus: There is described a fixing device provided with a fixing belt, including a belt-shaped fixing member, which makes it possible to obtain a good image quality and an appropriate driving torque, by considering not only heights of the protrusions and depths of the depressions, but also widths of the protrusions... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070280756 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: In a fixing device which fixes toner image on a recording material while using a nipping section which is formed between a fixing roller heated by a heating section and a fixing belt which is formed to be endless and rotated by the fixing roller, wherein the fixing device includes... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070280758 - Chilled finish roller system and method: An apparatus for fixing of toner onto a receiver, including: a non-contact fuser capable of fusing one or more layers of toner on a receiver such that one or more toner layers reach a fusing temperature above a glass transition temperature. The apparatus also includes one or more cooling finish... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070280760 - Image forming system: An image forming system which is capable of causing a clear coating apparatus to discharge processed sheets in proper page order, and improving usability and operability of the system by users. An image forming apparatus is set to perform single-sided image formation or double-sided image formation. A clear coating apparatus... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070280759 - Image forming system and clear coating apparatus: An image forming system which is capable of performing double-sided clear coating. The image forming system comprises an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet, and a clear coating apparatus configured to perform clear coating on the sheet using clear toner. The image forming apparatus is... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070280761 - Image-forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including: a toner cartridge to store toner; a developer to develop an image on a printing medium using the toner from the toner cartridge; and a waste toner container to store waste toner removed from the developer, wherein the waste toner container includes: a first transporting... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070280762 - Automatic document feeder for duplex scanning: An automatic document feeder for duplex scanning includes a scanning module, a pickup roller assembly, a first discharging roller assembly, a second discharging roller assembly, a first path, a second path, a third path, a sheet feeding tray, a first discharging tray and a second discharging tray. The first discharging... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20070280763 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus having a registration roller that aligns the leading edge of the sheet and feeds it to the image forming section, a plurality of loop forming rollers that convey the sheet, and a loop forming space for forming a loop in the sheet are placed on... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070280764 - Image forming apparatus: One embodiment of an image forming apparatus according to the present invention is an image forming apparatus in which registration rollers are arranged immediately before an electrostatic latent bearing member and, after a carried paper is caused to temporarily stop by the registration rollers, carrying of the paper recommences with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070280765 - Decurl device and image forming apparatus provided therewith: A decurl device includes: a curl detecting section having a plurality of toothed wheels each which detects a curling amount and a curling direction of a sheet having a curl; and a plurality of uncurling sections each arranged downstream of the curl detecting section in a conveyance direction of the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP