Electrophotography inventions 02/08

20080050129 - Method for associating a customer accessible supply item with an imaging apparatus: A method for associating a customer accessible supply item of a first type with an imaging apparatus includes communicating identification information between the customer accessible supply item of the first type and the imaging apparatus; and operationally locking the customer accessible supply item of the first type with only the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080050130 - Consumable component sorting system, information managing apparatus, component managing apparatus, control method, and program for implementing the control method: A consumable component sorting system which make it possible to prolong the service life of a consumable component and reduce cost burdened on a user. An image forming apparatus collects information on its own operational environment or operational condition. A data server estimates a change in characteristics of the consumable... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080050131 - Toner supplying device, developing device and image forming apparatus having toner supplying device: A toner supplying device which is capable of individually supplying toners of different colors. The toner supplying device can include a driving source; a plurality of toner receptacles in which different color toners are contained and respective toner discharging members are provided in order to discharge toners while being driven... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080050133 - System for initiating image-quality tests in a digital printer: A method of operating a digital printer comprises printing a machine-readable code and at least one test patch on at least one sheet. The photosensor detects the machine readable code on the moving sheet, and, in response to the detecting, initiates the photosensor reading the test patch on the moving... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080050135 - Sheet transport device and image forming apparatus: A sheet transport device and an image forming apparatus using the sheet transport device are disclosed. The sheet transport device includes a transport belt rotating around rollers that transports a sheet by attaching the sheet to the transport belt by an electrostatic force, and a charging unit that is unitized... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080050137 - Development device and process cartridge including development device: A development device configured to develop an electrostatic latent image on an image carrying member with a two-component developer having a toner and a carrier, the development device including: a developer carrying member to carry the two-component developer to a development region in which the developer carrying member faces the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080050136 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling same: A control part provides a first region in which an image is formed on an image carrier using only a dark-color toner. The control part provides a second region, which is adjacent to the first region, in which an image is formed using a dark-color toner and a light-color toner.... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080050138 - Both-sided image forming method: An image forming method of forming images on both sides of a recording sheet; comprising the steps of: fixing a first toner image on a first surface a recording sheet; and fixing a second toner image on a second surface of the recording sheet; wherein in two-component developer includes toner... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080050139 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: There are provided a fixing device and an image forming apparatus capable of reducing a sensing error of a surface temperature of a heating roller. The fixing device includes a temperature sensor for sensing the surface temperature of the heating roller, and a temperature calculation circuit. The temperature calculation circuit... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080050140 - Image forming apparatus and method: The image forming apparatus includes: a head which ejects ink droplets; an intermediate transfer body having a transfer surface on which a transfer image is formed by means of the ink droplets ejected from the head; a transfer device which performs transfer of the transfer image formed on the transfer... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080050141 - Color image forming apparatus, image forming program and color image forming method: There is described a color image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to increase the printing velocity. The apparatus includes: an image processing section to generate either first-processed image data or second-processed image data; an image forming section to form a first color image based on the first-processed image data... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080050142 - Image formation apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: A disclosed image formation apparatus includes: an operation unit allowing input of reading conditions of image data; an input unit reading the image data in accordance with the reading conditions input via the operation unit; a first storage unit storing the image data read by the input unit; a second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080050143 - Shared high voltage power supply for photoconductor charging in an electrophotographic device: A photoconductor charging system for use with an image forming device. The image forming device may include a plurality of image forming units transferring toner particles to a media substrate and each of the plurality of image forming units including a photoconductive unit and a corresponding charging unit positioned to... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20080050144 - Image-forming device having cooling mechanism: An image-forming device includes a casing, a driving roller, a conveying belt, a photosensitive unit, a fixing unit, a reading unit, a fan, and a first partition wall. The casing has a wall formed with an air inlet port and defines an inner space. The air inlet port has a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080050145 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus main body; a sheet feeding cassette attached to the apparatus main body so as to be pulled out to an outside; a cover that covers, with an internal space in between, a portion of the apparatus main body different from a portion where... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080050132 - Method and device for controlling registration: A device and a method for improving the quality of prints using a printing device and system for printing sheets whereby, for each sheet, at least one register mark per color printing unit of the multi-color printing machine is produced, assigned to said sheet and defined with respect to its... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080050134 - Image forming apparatus, method of calculating amount of toner transfer, methods of converting regular reflection output and diffuse reflection output, method of converting amount of toner transfer, apparatus for detecting amount of toner transfer, gradat: An amount of toner transfer on a reference pattern is calculated by using an optical detecting unit that detects both regular reflection light and diffuse reflection light from a detection target simultaneously, based on a relative ratio between a value obtained by subtracting a result of multiplying a “diffuse reflection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080050146 - Image forming apparatus, and processing unit and latent image writing device mounted therein: An image forming apparatus capable of suppressing drop in the write positional accuracy of the optical write while improving the maintenancability of the photosensitive bodies and the peripheral devices thereof, having a printer comprising four processing units each holding, in the inner part thereof, a photosensitive body for supporting a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080050147 - Casing for an electric circuit: An apparatus for housing an electronic circuit in a remanufactured replaceable consumable unit having unique characteristics that facilitate the removal of the casing after it has been mounted onto the replaceable consumable unit, once the replaceable consumable unit is later refurbished, the characteristics including various physical dimensional variations of the... Agent: William L. London

20080050148 - Image forming apparatus in which transfer member is movable toward and apart from image bearing member: In a constitution for detecting a position of a transfer member on the basis of a detection result of a current passing between the transfer member and an image bearing member, the positional detection is performed after a contacting and separating operation of the transfer member is carried out. By... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080050149 - Jam clearance release mechanism for printer guides: A magnetic latch for removably latching a first member to a second member includes a magnet emitting a magnetic field carried by the first member and a magnetically attractive catch plate carried by the second member. A release mechanism is provided for moving the magnet relative to the catch plate... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080050150 - Charging apparatus and image forming apparatus: A charging apparatus for charging a member to be charged by contacting magnetic particles to the member to be charged, includes a magnetic particle carrying member for magnetically carrying the magnetic particles, wherein the magnetic particle carrying member is provided at a longitudinal end portion of the magnetic particle carrying... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080050151 - Light source device and manufacturing method thereof: A light source device includes: a semiconductor laser; a coupling lens; a holder; and a photopolymerizable resin. The coupling lens converts laser light from the semiconductor laser to a light flux, the coupling lens having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, the coupling lens... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080050152 - Agitator, and developing apparatus and image forming device having the same: A developer agitator of an image forming device capable of improving the electrification rate of a developer is disclosed. The developer agitator includes a rotatable shaft and an agitating wing disposed on the circumferential surface of the shaft. The agitating wing has an uneven part formed to increase the contact... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080050153 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: There is provided a developing device including: a casing; a developing roller held by the casing and carrying a developing agent; and a layer-thickness regulating blade for regulating a layer thickness of the developing agent carried on the developing roller, in which in the state where the developing roller is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080050154 - Paper separation claw: In one embodiment, the invention provides a paper separation claw disposed near the surface of at least one of fixing rollers that fix toner on recording paper transported in a sandwiched manner, the paper separation claw being disposed in order to separate the recording paper, and a cavity portion that... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080050155 - Image heating apparatus: The image heating apparatus includes a rotary member that comes into contact with a toner image borne on a recording material, a backup member that forms a nip portion to pinch and convey the recording material with said rotary member, wherein said rotary member heats the toner image on the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080050156 - Image forming method using electrophotographic system: A method of forming an image comprising: (a) developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photoreceptor with an electrophotographic toner so as to obtain a toner image; (b) transferring the toner image on the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a recording paper; and (c) fixing the transferred toner image with... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080050157 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus having a transfer assist mechanism is disclosed. The transfer assist mechanism includes a first blade holder having a first blade, second blade holders having corresponding second blades, and a first slide engaging member and a second slide engaging member which engage the first and second blade... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080050158 - Power guiding device and image forming apparatus having power guiding device: A shutter is rotatably supported by a first powder guiding member. When the first powder guiding member and a second powder guiding member occupy powder guiding positions, the shutter takes an open position. At this moment, a rear end of an upper surface of an open/close plate of the shutter... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080050159 - Medium transport device and image forming apparatus: A medium transport device includes a transport unit for transporting a medium, and a guide member disposed on a downstream side of the transport unit in a direction that the medium is transported. The guide member includes a first portion corresponding to the transport unit and a second portion having... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20080044189 - Image forming apparatus: If, upon an occurrence of a jam, a sheet is detected by a sensor disposed downstream of a fixing portion or the leading end thereof has not reached this sensor and a coverage rate is high, the jam is judged to have occurred in the fixing portion. A number (x)... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080044190 - Developer dispense for enhanced stability in xerographic printing systems: A two dispenser system is used to replenish developer and toner in an electrostatic marking system. This two dispenser system replenishes toner and developer in a more accurate way since each of the dispensers are individually controlled and operated. Better quality prints and less waste is provided over extended usage... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20080044194 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus uses a charging roller to charge the surface of a photosensitive member to a predetermined potential. A current detector detects charging current when the charging bias is applied. A bias corrector corrects the charging bias and a storage stores a target charging current value when the... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080044195 - Image forming apparatus and wireless communication device: An image forming apparatus includes a rotating member that is rotatable, a communication medium, and a receiving unit. The communication medium that is attached to an outer circumference of the rotating member stores therein information on the rotating member and relays the information on the rotating member via wireless communication.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080044191 - Image forming system, an apparatus, and method for controlling the same: When a printing process on a first apparatus is interrupted due to an error and the printing process is resumed by a second apparatus, it is determined whether a predetermined function (for example, stapling) is selected for the printing process according to the printing mode. If the predetermined function is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080044192 - Image forming apparatus and toner adhesion amount correction method: According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a image forming unit, a measurement unit and a controller. The image carrier includes a central region on which a target image as an object of an image forming is formed and a peripheral region placed outward of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080044193 - Image-forming device preventing adverse effects on image formation and on detection of optional sensor: An image-forming device includes a photosensitive drum, a conveying unit, a transferring roller, an optical sensor, a ground connector. The photosensitive drum carries a developer image. The conveying unit includes a driving roller, and an endless belt. The endless belt is disposed in confrontation with the photosensitive drum and transferring... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080044196 - Fixing device, and method and device for heating control used in the same: A fixing device includes a pair of rotating members, a heater, a detector, a calculator, a pulse width modulation circuit, and a controller. In at least one embodiment, the pair of rotating members is configured to fix a toner image on a recording medium. The heater is configured to heat... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080044197 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus, including: a main body; a display device including an image-display screen and pivotably provided in an outer surface of the main body so as to selectively take a closed posture in which the image-display screen is opposed to the main body and an open posture in... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080044198 - Electrostatic charger: An electrostatic charger according to the present invention includes a needle electrode, a support, and a cleaning member. The needle electrode has a linear array of needles. The support can move along the linear array. The cleaning member is supported by the support rotatably on an axis perpendicular to the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080044199 - Support structure for image processing apparatus: A support structure for an image processing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus has an apparatus body, a base provided at a lower portion of the apparatus body for supporting the body, and an image processing unit disposed inside the apparatus body or attached thereto. The processing unit is capable of... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20080044200 - Method for reattaching layer thickness regulating member, developing device, image forming apparatus, image forming system and method for remanufacturing developing device: A layer thickness regulating member is reattached to a developing device by a simple method. A method for reattaching a layer thickness regulating member has a step of removing the layer thickness regulating member from a developing device provided with the layer thickness regulating member, for regulating a layer thickness... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080044201 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus has an image forming device including a plurality of image forming units each having an image bearing member and attachable to and detachable from the image forming apparatus, and an intermediate transferring member disposed above the plurality of image forming units and bearing toner images transferred... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080044202 - Base tube for electrophotographic photoconductive member, electrophotographic photoconductive member using the same, method for producing the same: Abase tube for an electrophotographic photoconductive member, is provided with a cylindrical body on which a photoconductive layer is formed; and a first slanting portion formed on a peripheral surface of an end portion of the cylindrical body, and slanting inward toward an end face of the end portion with... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080044203 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes first and second intermediate gears configured to transmit a driving force to a heat roller gear. The first and second intermediate gears are removably assembled to a body frame of the image forming apparatus in an installation space defined in the body frame. When a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080044204 - Toner supply container and image forming apparatus, for detecting the amount of remaining toner: A toner supply container detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, the toner supply container including a rotatable container body for containing toner; and a sensor, rotatable integrally with the container body, for detecting a remaining toner amount in the container body.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080044205 - Toner container, image forming apparatus, and method for identifying toner container: A toner container installed in an image forming apparatus, the toner container including a toner container main body having a predetermined length and which accommodates toner, a mixer which stirs the toner in the toner container main body, a discharge port through which the toner in the toner container main... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080044206 - Roller, apparatus for molding roller, mold for forming roller, method for producing roller, and recording apparatus: A roller for transporting a recording medium includes an inner layer having a shaft hole through which a rotating shaft passes; and an outer layer formed outside the inner layer and brought into contact with the recording medium. At least a first end surface of the inner layer in a... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080044207 - Sheet moisturizing device and image forming apparatus: A sheet moisturizing device, including a moisturizing section which applies water on a sheet carrying a formed image and moisturizes the sheet, a switching section which switches whether a moisturizing process is to be conducted onto the sheet by the moisturizing section or not, and a control section which controls... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080044208 - Image forming device: In an image forming device, on a farther end side from each paper guide of a manual paper feed tray, a pair of protruding portions are arranged such that each of the protruding portions is arranged on either side to prevent oblique movement of papers. One of the protruding portions... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080044209 - Image forming apparatus: In the image forming apparatus including a reading portion which irradiates light on an original to read original information, and an image forming portion which selectively exposes an image bearing member to form an electrostatic latent image and develops the electrostatic latent image to form an image, the reading portion... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080044210 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes an image forming device body having an image forming unit in the interior thereof, and at least one paper tray attached to the image forming device on which paper is to be mounted. The paper tray includes a paper mounting unit having a paper mounting... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080044211 - Belt conveying device, image forming apparatus provided therewith and adjustment method of belt skew controller in belt conveyance device: A belt conveying device includes: at least three rollers, about which an endless belt to convey an object, is entrained, including an oscillation roller having a rotation shaft, whose one end is fixed and another end is oscillatably supported; a belt detection sensor provided adjacent to a side edge of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080044212 - Drive switching mechanism and image forming apparatus including same: A drive switching mechanism includes a first gear, a second gear, a support member for movably supporting the first gear and the second gear, and a switching unit that moves the support member to reverse an output direction of the first gear and the second gear.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080044213 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing unit which fixes toner image on a sheet by heat; a first portion in which the sheet on which the toner image is fixed by the fixing unit is fed; a second portion in which the sheet on which the toner image is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080044214 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image former for performing an image formation by transferring a toner image onto a sheet; a fixing unit for performing a fixing operation with respect to the sheet having the transferred toner image by heating; a discharge tray for successively stacking the sheet to... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080038002 - Image formation device, information processing device, recording medium, log generation method, and computer data signal: An image formation device receives formation information having a predetermined structure and formed based on document information which is an object for image formation, executes a process of image formation based on the formation information, and sends the formation information to a transmission destination via a communication medium.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080038003 - Apparatus and method of supplying driving signals of image sensor: An apparatus and method of supplying driving signals to an image sensor are provided. The apparatus includes a driving signal generator generating two driving signals at one of a plurality of rates, a filtering unit filtering the driving signals in response to the plurality of rates, and a selector selecting... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080038004 - Image forming apparatus: An apparatus includes a position detection sensor arranged so as to detect the leading end of a sheet and a toner image formed on an intermediate transfer belt. The position detection sensor is constructed as a single component configured to detect the position of a sheet and that of a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080038005 - Abnormality detecting method and image processing method for image processor: An abnormality detecting method and an image processing method for an image processor is provided. The image processor can easily detect an abnormal rotation of a photosensitive drum without having a special detecting means but using an existing sensor, and keeps image data until a normal toner image is transferred... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080038008 - Image forming apparatus: To remove also VOC gas generated from the discharged sheets, an image forming apparatus comprises an image forming unit which forms an image on a sheet; a tray on which sheets on which images are formed by the image forming unit are stacked; a suction device which sucks air from... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080038009 - Device and method for removing image forming substance deposits: The present disclosure relates to a device and method for removal of image forming deposits between two contacting surfaces in an image forming device or image forming device cartridge. The method includes positioning an insert between the contacting surfaces which insert is capable of removing the deposits when the insert... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080038006 - Method for transfer voltage adjustment and image forming apparatus using the same: A method for transfer voltage adjustment includes the steps of: forming first and second halftone reference patterns on the toner image support under first and second toner image forming conditions; transferring the first and second halftone reference patterns to the transfer element at the saturated density with application of first... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080038007 - Diagnositc device, diagnostic system, diagonostic method, program and storage medium: A diagnostic system that effectively presents optimum products to the users by effectively using information about the use history of an image forming apparatus used by the users and other information specific to the image forming apparatus that may be stored in advance. The diagnostic system includes a management device... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080038010 - Cleaning device and image forming apparatus: A cleaning device is disclosed which includes a cleaning member to clean the surface of a charging roll that charges an image carrier. The cleaning member is fixed at one end thereof and contacts at a free end side surface with the surface of the charging roll. The free end... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20080038011 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is constituted by an image bearing member; a corona charging member including a wire; a heat generating member for generating heat by energization; a shielding member, including the heat generating member, capable of shielding a portion of the corona charging member opposing to the image bearing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080038012 - Cleaner units and methods for removing waste toner within an image forming device: The present application is directed to cleaner units and methods for removing waste toner from a transfer member within an image forming device. The device may include a blade that is positioned against the transfer member to remove the waste toner. The blade directs the waste toner into a cleaner... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20080038013 - Electrophotographic image forming device enabling to easily mount belt unit at regular position: A belt unit is provided with pressure-receiving parts, and a photosensitive unit is provided with pressing parts that applies pressing force to the pressure-receiving parts when the photosensitive unit is inserted to a main body of an image forming device along a guide groove formed in the main body. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080038014 - Developer cartridge and image forming apparatus: A developer cartridge includes: a developer chamber that contains developer supplied to a developing unit; a waste developer chamber that contains collected waste developer; and a developer supply part that supplies the developer contained in the developer chamber to the developing unit while stirring the developer.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080038015 - Apparatus and method for shifting an image-forming region of a printing device: An apparatus and method for shifting the image-forming region of a printing device is disclosed. The apparatus includes a photoconductor, an encoder, several rollers, and a controlled device. The present invention is used to shift the image-forming region in the photoconductor by the controlled device. The damage of the image-forming... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080038016 - Conductive member, process cartridge having conductive member, and image forming apparatus having process cartridge: A conductive member to be disposed so as to abut on an image carrier is provided. The conductive member includes an elongate conductive supporter, an electrical resistance adjusting layer formed on a circumferential surface of the supporter, and a pair of gap maintaining members provided respectively to the two ends... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080038017 - Method and apparatus for image forming for effectively charging an image carrier: An image forming apparatus, performing a corresponding method of image forming, includes an image carrier, a charging unit including a first charging member for discharging a given amount of bias to a portion contacting the image carrier and uniformly charging the surface of the image carrier while contacting the surface... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080038018 - Image generating apparatus: An image generating apparatus includes a side plate integrally provided with a bearing supporting a shaft of a platen roller and a U-shaped torsion spring for urging the shaft of the platen roller toward an axial first side, mounted on the side plate, in which the side plate integrally has... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080038019 - Developing device using a two-ingredient type developer and image forming apparatus including the same: A developing device of the present invention develops a latent image formed on an image carrier with a two-ingredient type developer made up of toner and carrier. The developing device includes a storing member for storing a fresh developer to be replenished. A conveying device conveys the fresh developer from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080038020 - Substrate transport device: A substrate transport device includes a chamber, a rotary wheel, a first magnet, a carrier, and a second magnet. The rotary wheel is disposed outside the chamber. The first magnet is disposed on the rotary wheel. The carrier is disposed in the chamber. The second magnet is disposed on the... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080038021 - Developing unit having effective developer transportability, and process cartridge and image forming apparatus using the same: A developing unit includes a developer carrying member, a supplying compartment, a recovery compartment, and an agitation compartment. The developer carrying member develops a latent image formed on an image carrier with a two-component developer. The supplying compartment has a developer supplying transporter to supply the two-component developer to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080038023 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a developing device, and a toner container. The toner container is attachable to and detachable from the main body, and a rotating shaft is installed in the interior thereof. A first joint is on one end of the toner container and is... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080038022 - Toner container, toner supply device using the same and image forming apparatus using the toner container and toner supply device: A toner container includes: a container body with a toner discharge aperture; and a toner container supporting structure which has a toner feed aperture and supports the container body in a rotatable manner, and discharges toner while rotating the container body. A toner feed recess 303 that is intended into... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080038024 - Displacement correction device, displacement correction method, and image forming device: Sensors detect a displacement correction pattern image-formed on a transporting belt. A timing when the sensors execute a detecting operation is preliminary set depending on a tolerance in a layout or a dimension of a portion where the displacement correction pattern is image-formed, detected. Based on the detected timing detected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080038025 - Intermediate transfer member: The present invention is an intermediate transfer member that has an endless belt of a seamed insulating material. Disposed on the endless belt is a smoothing layer that forms a continuous seamless top surface. A release layer disposed on the smoothing layer... Agent: Paul A. Leipold Patent Legal Staff

20080038026 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotatable member for heating an image on a recording material in a nip; a nip forming member for cooperating with said heating rotatable member to form the nip; a rubbing rotatable member for rubbing, by its rotation, said heating rotatable member; wherein said... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080038027 - Image heating apparatus:

20080038028 - Sheet conveying apparatus, image forming apparatus and image reading apparatus: A switch unit applies a voltage to each of a plurality of unit electrodes arranged in a matrix in a base material of a high resistance of an electrode array. A control unit controls the switch unit, changes a pattern of the voltage to be applied to the plurality of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080038029 - Duplex scanning apparatus: A duplex scanning apparatus includes a sheet feeding tray, a sheet pick-up roller and a sheet separation roller. The sheet feeding tray includes a first opening and a second opening. The sheet pick-up roller and the sheet separation roller are partially received in the first opening and the second opening... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080038030 - Conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus: A conveying apparatus has a conveying apparatus main body; and a feeding device including a placement portion that a conveyed material is placed on and a feeding portion that feeds the conveyed material into the conveying apparatus main body, the feeding device being movable between a feedable position and a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080038031 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus configured to correct a sheet curl with a curl correction unit disposed on a downstream of a fixing unit which fixes a toner image transferred onto the sheet by applying the sheet with heat and pressure, while the sheet is conveyed. A roller pair of the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080031639 - User initiated alerts in a document processing environment: A method and apparatus for processing electronic documents is provided. A request, from a first user, to issue an alert to a second user that may have submitted a print request to the printing device is received at the printing device. The printing device may be attempting to process the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080031642 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge: An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprises: an electroconductive support; and a photosensitive layer on the electroconductive support, wherein the photosensitive layer comprises a functional layer, the functional layer comprising: a compound having a triple bond and a hydroxyl group in a molecule; and a cured product of a curable resin.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080031645 - Image forming device: In an image forming device, when a transfer bias voltage is applied to a contact transfer member under a state in which a recording medium is nipped between a photoconductive drum and the contact transfer member, a toner image on a surface of the photoconductive drum is transferred onto the... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080031646 - Image forming apparatus and method of adjusting charge bias: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier configured to carry an image and a charger to which a direct current voltage overlapped with an AC voltage is applied as a charging bias to charge the image carrier. The charger is positioned in contact or contactlessly with the image carrier.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080031647 - Image forming apparatus, fixing device, and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device configured to form a toner image on a sheet and a fixing device configured to fix the toner image on the sheet. In the fixing device, a heater heats a fixing belt. A pressing roller applies a pressure to a fixing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080031649 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a photoreceptor cleaner configured to clean the photoreceptor, a belt configured to be arranged opposite to the photoreceptor, a belt cleaner configured to clean the belt, a medium supplying device configured to perform supply operation of an image forming medium at a predetermined... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080031651 - Power unit and image forming system: Present invention uses the main power source and auxiliary power source to supply power to a load, makes them take partial charge of power supply, and when the load current reaches its peak, detects a current and a voltage generated by the auxiliary power source, and when the detected values... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080031652 - Heating system and image forming apparatus adopting the same: A heating system including: a heating device including a first heat generator supplied with electric power by a commercial power source device, and a second heat generator and a third heat generator supplied with electric power by an auxiliary power source device; an electric storage device composed of a capacitor;... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080031641 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a processing unit which performs an image recording process for recording an image on a recording medium based on image data; a movement mechanism which moves the processing unit; a first control section which controls the image recording process performed by the processing unit; and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080031640 - Method of calibrating alignment section, image-drawing device with calibrated alignment section, and conveying device: An alignment section calibration system used in a device which handles elongated, flexible recording media, has an alignment section, a calibration member, and a relative moving mechanism. The alignment section is disposed so as to be able to carry out detection at a position of an area at which alignment... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031643 - Image forming apparatus, a toner counter and a calculation method of toner consumption: Based on a video signal, a toner dot counter and an off dot counter detect a size of a toner dot portion to carry an adherent toner thereto and a size of an off dot portion not to carry an adherent toner, respectively. Reference is made to a look-up table... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080031644 - Image forming apparatus, a toner counter and a calculation method of toner consumption: Based on a video signal, a toner dot counter and an off dot counter detect a size of a toner dot portion to carry an adherent toner thereto and a size of an off dot portion not to carry an adherent toner, respectively. Reference is made to a look-up table... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080031648 - Image generating apparatus: An image generating apparatus is provided which can maximize the throughput without causing thermal damage of the fusing components. It determines a sub-thermistor temperature threshold value for switching small size paper feed intervals in response to a sub-thermistor initial temperature. It supplies a heating body with current for heating, and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080031650 - Image forming apparatus having a movable operation panel: An image forming apparatus includes a housing, an operation panel movably installed at the housing via a rotary shaft and having multiple buttons provided thereon, and a position adjustment unit to move the operation panel at a predetermined angle with respect to the housing and to maintain the operation panel... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080031653 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member for bearinf a latent electrostatic image including a substrate, an intermediate layer containing a metal oxide and a photosensitive layer containing a charge transport layer and a charge generating layer containing an organic charge generating material, a charging device for charging... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080031654 - Developing recovery container: A developer collecting container detachably mountable to a rotatable member which is provided in an image forming apparatus to rotate a developing device, the developer collecting container which is rotatable while being substantially fixed to the rotatable member with the developing device, the developer collecting container includes a receiving port... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080031655 - Image recording apparatus: Comprised are a rotational drum for retaining a recording medium on the outer circumference of the drum; a head retention member, being placed opposite to the outer circumference of the drum, for retaining a print head printing on the recording medium by jetting ink from a plurality of nozzles; and... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080031656 - Image forming apparatus: The present invention provides a configuration in which an electrically connected condition can further be stabilized in electrical-connection zones between a body of an image-forming apparatus, and an image-forming unit and a plurality of image-forming cartridges. Developing electrode members 161 and wire power-feed electrodes 162 are attached to a slide... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 000449, 001701

20080031657 - Toner carrier apparatus, toner feeding apparatus, and image forming apparatus: Accumulation and coagulation of toner inside a vertically-disposed toner carrying path is properly prevented. The toner carrier apparatus includes: a toner carrier pipe which includes therein a toner carrying path through which toner is carried and is disposed so that the toner carrier path vertically extends; a pipe supporting member... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080031658 - Container for developing agent, and image forming apparatus incorporating the same: In a container is adapted to be coupled with another container, a first wall member defines a first storage space adapted to store developing agent for forming an image on a recording medium. A first coupler is adapted to be coupled with a second coupler provided with the first another... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080031659 - Transfer media transport guide mechanism for image forming device: An image forming device is disclosed that can control image blurring, image contraction, and the like when resilient transfer media such as cardboard is to be transported upward from a pair of resist rollers and guided to a transfer position, and obtain a suitable transfer image. Transfer media is transported... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080031660 - Fuser cleaning method and system in image-forming device: A fuser roller surface is cleaned immediately before and or after the fusing operation. The separate cleaning sequence assures that the fuser roller surface is substantially free from residual toner that has accumulated from previous fusing operation. A number of image-transfer sheets is counted, and the cleaning sequence is also... Agent: Knoble Yoshida & Dunleavy LLC Eight Penn Center

20080031661 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: There is described a fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image onto a recording material, which makes it possible not only to reduce the frictional resistance generated between a temperature sensor and a heating member, but also to prevent occurrences of abnormal sounds and breaking of the wire coupled to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080031664 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes a fixing member of which surface is deformable, a heating unit that heats the fixing member, a pressurizing unit having an endless member and a pressurizing member. The pressurizing member includes an elastic layer and presses the endless member against the fixing member to bring the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080031662 - Printing roll having a controllable heat-absorbing internal surface: A roll useful in fusing marking material to a print sheet includes a coating disposed on at least a portion of the inner surface thereof. A lamp disposed inside the roll supplies radiant energy to the inner surface. The coating changes its absorptivity (such as color) as desired, to obtain... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080031663 - Roller, fixing device, and image forming device: A roller includes: a columnar metal core; and a layer that covers, to a predetermined thickness, an outer circumferential surface of the metal core, the layer including bubbles inside, and being provided with one or more cuts penetrating the bubbles through each of end surfaces of the layer.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080031665 - Memory element mounting method and image forming apparatus: A memory element mounting method includes: a disposing step of disposing a memory element at a sheet of paper that is composed of plural layers including a first layer serving as a base and a second layer serving as a surface with a thermoplasticity; and a surface treatment step of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080031666 - Image forming apparatus, toner container, and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a cleaner, and a toner container. The image carrier carries a toner image to be transferred onto a sheet. The cleaner collects toner remaining on a surface of the image carrier after the toner image formed on the image carrier is transferred... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080031667 - Paper feeding mechanism: A paper feeding mechanism for carrying a paper passing through a scanning station having a scanning module includes a partition, a paper transporting device, and a switching member movably disposed corresponding to one end of the partition. A first paper feeding channel is formed between the partition and the scanning... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080031668 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a cassette attaching section, a media cassette, a loading plate and a first and second ground conducting route. The cassette attaching section includes a media supplying roller for supplying media. The media cassette is attachably and removably installed in the cassette attaching section. The loading... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20080031669 - Image forming apparatus: Provided is an image forming apparatus including: an image carrying unit on which a toner image is carried; a transfer unit that transfers a toner image carried by the image carrying unit onto a sheet at a transferring position; a sheet conveyor unit that conveys the sheet having the toner... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080031670 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, including a storing part in which a print medium is stored, an image forming part to form an image on the print medium, a discharging part to discharge the print medium to an exterior of the apparatus, and an electrostatic belt to attract the print medium... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP