Electrophotography inventions 03/08

20080075486 - Image adjusting method and image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus which forms an image by transferring, onto sheets fed by a feeding unit at the first feeding interval, a toner image formed on a photoconductor or intermediate transfer member, if the temperature of a fixing unit which fixes an image transferred onto a sheet falls... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080075487 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet-feeder for feeding a recording sheet from a sheet cassette. Image forming devices are provided for forming a toner image. An image bearer bears a toner image formed by the image forming devices; and a transferring device transfers the toner image on the image... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080075491 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided that selects a paper feeding stage forcibly continued through an operating section when a paper error occurs (step S11). Here, when a user selects the paper feeding stage forcibly continued (Yes), the image forming apparatus sets “FORCED CONTINUATION SCREEN” (step S12), in order to... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080075489 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of adjusting the image sync signal output timing in the subscanning direction and the speed of a primary transfer process so as to obtain a proper throughput of a printer engine when successively forming images, and a control method therefor. To accomplish... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080075496 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of shortening the user's print waiting time as much as possible when it is determined that image adjustment is necessary during the image forming operation, and a control method therefor. To accomplish this, in a color image forming apparatus including a plurality... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080075497 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image forming apparatus having a main body unit for forming an image on a recording medium, connectable to at least one post-processing unit for performing post-processing for the recording medium on which the image is formed, the image forming apparatus includes, a current value acquiring portion for acquiring at... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080075498 - Color image forming device: Provided is a color image forming device which includes a power control part 150 which controls switching of a mode from a normal power supply mode to a power saving mode when a power-saving shift time T1 or T2 has passed during a standby state; a printing mode switching part... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080075488 - Image formation apparatus: An image formation apparatus comprises: an automatic adjustment unit for automatic adjustment of the apparatus; a job queuing unit for queuing image formation jobs; a counting unit for counting the number of pages from the previous automatic adjustment, for each automatic adjustment item; a determining unit for determining whether the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080069575 - Smoke detecting device, flash fusing device, image forming device and smoke detecting method: A smoke detecting device including: a light-emitting portion that emits light; a light-receiving portion that receives scattered light resulting from the light which the light-emitting portion emits being scattered by smoke generated from a recording medium on which flash-light is irradiated from a flash fusing device; and a judging section... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20080069576 - Capacitive toner level sensor and methods of use: A capacitive sensor to detect toner volume levels in a toner container within an image forming device includes opposed electrodes disposed within the interior of the toner container. The opposed electrodes form a capacitor characterized by an inherent capacitance that varies in response to an amount of toner that exists... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20080069578 - Image forming apparatus: A CMOS sensor scans an image that is either on a transfer material carrier or on a transfer material that is placed on the transfer material carrier. A sampling timing controller samples an image signal at a predetermined sampling rate and computes a position of a predetermined pattern contained within... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080069579 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprising: a section for obtaining a property of a recording material; an adjusting section for adjusting a toner amount of a toner image formed by development depending on the property of the recording material; a charging section for charging the toner image before transfer; and a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080069580 - Developer transferring device, developing device, process unit, and image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus capable of reducing the number of toner concentration detection errors caused by variation in the volume of a toner below that of the related art, a reverse vane for transferring K developer in an opposite direction to a screw vane as a rotary shaft member... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069581 - Fixing device, fixing device temperature control method and image forming apparatus: A fixing device has a heating roller and a pressurizing belt which convey the a recording material in mutual contact while fixing a toner on the recording material, a heater which heats the heating roller, a noncontact first thermister which detects a surface temperature of the heating roller in a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080069582 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus has a heater that includes a magnetic shunt alloy whose Curie temperature is set higher than a fixing temperature; an induction heater that generates an alternating magnetic field applied to the magnetic shunt alloy and performs electromagnetic-induction heating on the heater; and a body controller that controls... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080069583 - Printer control method and computer program product: A printer control method for controlling, by means of a computer equipped with a display screen, a printer having a plurality of feed ports for feeding a printing medium. The printer control method comprises the steps of (a) through (d). The step (a) is a step of displaying on the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080069584 - Image forming apparatus and power control method: A plurality of heating units generates a heat by an alternating-current power supplied from a corresponding alternating-current power supply unit through a corresponding input terminal and supplying the heat to a fixing unit that fixes a toner image transformed on a recording paper by heating. A plurality of power control... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080069585 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: An optical scanning device includes a plurality of stations, each of which includes an light source, a deflector (polygon scan), a scanning optical element, and a housing. The light source emits a light beam to a plurality of surfaces to be scanned. The deflector deflects light beams emitted from the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069577 - Grid wire cleaning mechanism: A grid wire cleaning mechanism is provided to prevent a reduction in image quality due to the surface of the electrostatic latent image carrier not being uniformly charged as a result of corona products adhering unevenly to the surface of the grid wires to extend the life of the grid... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080069586 - Charge corotron auto-cleaner device: High torque causing machine failures and motor damage are corrected by the embodiments of this invention. Springs are put on both ends of the lead shaft and the windings around the lead shaft are reduced to substantially reduce the torque created during a power on-power off situation in addition to... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20080069587 - Locking feature for use in cartridge insertion guide applications: A guide is used to protect a corona cartridge during shipping and during insertion into an electrostatic marking apparatus. The guide has dimensions that will permit the cartridge to fit therein and has a locking mechanism that securely holds the cartridge in place during shipment or movement. When the cartridge... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20080069588 - Image forming apparatus and image forming process: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including a photoconductor, a charging unit configured to charge the photoconductor, a writing unit configured to form a latent electrostatic image, a toner image forming unit configured to form a toner image by developing the latent electrostatic image, the toner image forming... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069589 - Fusing device and image forming apparatus having the same: A fusing device of an image forming apparatus which applies principles of leverage, and an image forming apparatus containing such a device. The fusing device includes a fusing unit having a heating roller and a pressure roller facing each other and which rotate together, a cover which opens and closes... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080069590 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an exposure device for exposing an electrically charged surface of an image bearing member to light to form an electrostatic image; a developing device capable of collecting a transfer residual developer remaining on the image bearing member; a transferring device for transferring a developer image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080069591 - Gap controlling structure for image forming apparatus: A gap controlling structure for image forming apparatus for maintaining a development gap between a photoconductor of an image-receiving module and a developer roller of a developer unit includes a image-receiving module frame, and at least a photoconductor support bar. The photoconductor support bars are combined on the image-receiving module... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080069592 - Charging device and image forming apparatus using the charging device: A charging device and an image forming apparatus using the charging device. The charging device includes a charging member to uniformly charge a surface of a latent image bearing member in contact therewith, a charge bias application unit to apply a charge bias to the charging member, a conductive member... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069593 - Rotary developer and image formation apparatus having rotary developer: The invention provides a rotary developer that includes: a rotary unit that accommodates a plurality of development cartridges each of which has at least a development roller, each of the plurality of development cartridges being inserted into the rotary unit in the axial direction thereof so as to be attached... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080069594 - Developer, and image forming apparatus and image forming method using the developer: e

20080069595 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of development units having developing-agent carriers which are provided in correspondence to three or more developing agents, and developing electrostatic latent images on surfaces of image carriers to form developing-agent images on the image carriers; and a recovery unit that recovers the developing... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080069596 - Image forming apparatus, powder supplying unit, toner container, powder container, and method of recycling the powder container: A part of a toner supply path is formed in a setting unit (100), and a nozzle (110) coupled to a toner container (20) is provided, wherein the fitting direction of the toner container (20) to the setting unit (100) and the coupling direction of the nozzle (110) to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069598 - Toner for developing electrostatic image, and image forming method and apparatus and process cartridge using the toner: A toner including toner particles including a binder resin, and a colorant, and an external additive present on a surface of the toner particles, wherein the external additive includes a silica having an average primary particle diameter of from 100 to 500 nm and a BET specific surface area of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069597 - Developer-controlling member, manufacturing method thereof, developing machine using the developer-controlling member, image forming apparatus or printer using the developing machine, and jointed plate: A developer-controlling member includes a first plate (36) and a second plate (35) attached to the first plate (36), the first and second plates (36, 35) being formed to extend in a longitudinal direction of a developing roller (30) including a magnet roller; a half blanking fitting projection (38) is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069599 - Image forming method, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge: d

20080069600 - Developing member, developing assembly and electrophotographic image forming apparatus: A developing member is disclosed which can lessen the occurring of banding. The developing member has a shaft member, an elastic layer provided on the shaft member, and a resin layer provided on the surface, wherein the resin layer contains a urethane resin and a non-reactive silicone compound, and the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080069601 - Developing roller and developing apparatus: A developing roller comprising: a shaft comprising an aluminum alloy; and a coating layer directly formed on a periphery of the shaft, the coating layer comprising a conducting agent and a binder comprising a resin, wherein the aluminum alloy comprises 0.2 to 0.8% by mass of silicon and 0.05 to... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080069602 - Device and method for correcting misregistration, and image forming apparatus: A misregistration correcting device includes an image forming unit, a sensor, a reading unit, and a determining unit. The image forming unit form a set of misregistration correcting patterns that includes a reference pattern. The sensors start detecting the set when a predetermined time has elapsed after start of image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069603 - Image forming apparatus and control method: An image forming apparatus includes a first registration mark detection unit, second registration mark detection unit, CPU, and first registration mark time difference storage. If the width (tp) of the first registration mark signal detected by the second registration mark detection unit is equal to or smaller than a set... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080069604 - Method of detecting a phase difference of image bearing members and an image forming apparatus using the method: An image forming apparatus uses a method of detecting a phase difference of the image bearing members such that an image transferring member receives a reference toner mark and a reference image pattern carried by and a reference image bearing member and corresponding image patterns carried by respective corresponding image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069605 - Image forming method and image forming apparatus:

20080069606 - Image forming method and image forming apparatus: An image forming method is provided including: charging an image bearing member; irradiating the image bearing member with a light beam to form an electrostatic latent image thereon; developing the electrostatic latent image with a toner to form a toner image on the image bearing member; primarily transferring the toner... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069607 - Color image forming apparatus: There is described a color image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to prevent the intermediate transfer belt from slacking. The apparatus includes a plurality of image bearing members; an intermediate transfer belt onto which a full color toner image is formed; a driving roller to drive the intermediate transfer... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080069608 - Toner, developer including the toner, and image forming method and apparatus using the toner: A toner including toner particles including a resin, a colorant, a wax, and a charge controlling agent, and an external additive, wherein the toner satisfies the relationships (1) 0.15×Q−2≦T≦0.15×Q−0.15, and (2) 1.0≦T≦2.5, wherein Q represents the charge of the toner in units of μC/g, and T represents the torque of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069609 - Fluoroelastomer fuser members having fluoropolymer filler: A fuser member comprising a) a substrate, and having thereon; b) an intermediate conformable layer comprising a silicone rubber, and having thereon; and c) an outer layer comprising a fluoroelastomer and a fluoropolymer filler.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center Xerox Corporation

20080069610 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier for bearing a visible image thereon, an endless transfer-fixing belt stretchedly disposed between a plurality of spanning members, a pressure member for pressing the transfer-fixing belt to the image carrier while contacting a backside of the transfer-fixing belt at the transfer nip,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069611 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: The fixing device includes a fixing unit, a pressure unit that comes into pressure-contact with the fixing unit to form a nip, and control guides. The fixing unit includes a heat roller. The pressure unit includes a pressure belt, and a pressure pad. The pressure pad is attached to a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069612 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A disclosed fixing device fixes unfixed toner onto a recording sheet with the use of toner fixing liquid including a softening agent for softening toner. The fixing device includes a sprayer configured to spray the toner fixing liquid as liquid droplets and an electrode configured to apply an electric charge... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080069613 - Inline coatings process for xerographically prepared micr checks: A process of MICR and non-MICR electrostatic magnetic imaging of two independent electrostatic latent images including (a) forming a first electrostatic latent image in a MICR printing apparatus; (b) developing the first electrostatic latent image by contacting the first electrostatic latent image with a MICR toner to produce a developed... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080069614 - Cleaning device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging member, an electrostatic latent image forming member, a developing member, a transferring member, and a cleaning device. The cleaning device includes a cleaning brush contacting with a photosensitive member to remove residual toner on the surface of the photosensitive member... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069615 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming devices each including a photosensitive member, a charging device to charge a surface of the photosensitive member, and a lubricant supplying device to supply a lubricant to the surface of the photosensitive member, respectively. At least one of the plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069616 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member to bear a latent electrostatic image, a charging member to charge a surface of the image bearing member, an irradiation member to irradiate the image bearing member to write the latent electrostatic image, a development member to develop the latent electrostatic... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069617 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and toner for developing electrostatic image for use in the image forming apparatus and method: To provide an image forming apparatus using a toner having inorganic fine particles externally added thereto, wherein a detached ratio R1 of the inorganic fine particles from the non-transferred toner is from 0% to 20%, a detached ratio R2 of the inorganic fine particles from toner passed through the collecting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080069618 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: The invention provides an image forming apparatus that, even when a dynamic friction coefficient of a latent image carrier has a value more than a predetermined value, can prevent a toner in the cleaning device from excessively charging and an air gap from occurring while efficiently recovering a residual toner... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20080063414 - Image forming apparatus and method of determining state of sheet handling apparatus disconnectably connected thereto: An image forming apparatus which is capable of judging whether or not a sheet handling apparatus is connected or faulty without provision of a sheet handling apparatus mechanical connection-detecting section, and reducing the size and manufacturing costs of the apparatus. To an image forming apparatus, a sheet handling apparatus is... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080063415 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming units each including a charging device and a development device using a developer including a mixture of toner and carrier, a transfer device for serially transferring toner images onto a transfer medium, a replenishment device for replenishing a replenishing developer... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080063416 - Image forming apparatus, control method therefor, and program: In an image forming apparatus, a type of paper conveyed through a conveying path is determined based on combination of sensing signals obtained from a plurality of sensing units. Each of the sensing units is movable between an actuating position and a retracting position as a paper is conveyed through... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080063417 - System for predicting erasure of test patches in a printing apparatus: In a printing apparatus having a rotatable imaging member, a test patch is created in a predetermined area of the imaging member. A density of the test patch is measured at least a first time, corresponding to a first rotation of the imaging member. Based at least partially on the... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080063418 - Image transfer device, image forming apparatus having the image transfer device, and method of measuring resistance of a printing medium or an endless track belt of the image forming apparatus: An image transfer device to accurately measure a resistance of a printing medium or a transfer belt, an image forming apparatus having the image transfer device, and a method of measuring the resistance of the printing medium. The image transfer device includes a conveyance unit, to which a reference voltage... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080063419 - Roller temperature control method of image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus: In one embodiment, an operation state, standby state or installation environment of an image forming apparatus is detected or determined, and details of heating control of the surface temperature of rollers of a fixing apparatus are changed in accordance with the detected or determined state or environment. For example, when... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080063420 - Scheduling system for placing test patches in a printing apparatus: A method of operating a printing apparatus, the apparatus having a rotatable imaging member and an imaging station useful in creating printable images and test patches on the rotatable imaging member. Data is obtained relating to images desired to be printed in a time-frame corresponding to a predetermined number of... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080063421 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming station for forming, on the basis of an input signal indicative of an image, a toner image on a recording material with such a toner of toners having the same hue and different lightness as has a predetermined color and a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080063423 - Work flow management apparatus and work flow management method: An apparatus manages a usage amount associated with each of a plurality of functions included in a work flow. The work flow is executed after it is determined whether an operation of each step included in the work flow can be executed or not.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080063424 - Image forming apparatus, print control apparatus, and print control method: In a print control system including image forming apparatus equipped with print device, sheet supply device with sheet supply counters and sheet ejection device with a sheet ejection counter, sheet number information including the number of supplied sheets from each tray based on values of respective sheet supply counters or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080063425 - Process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A process cartridge includes a photoconductor driven by gears, a developing roller, an agitator. The process cartridge is mounted on an image forming apparatus that forms an image with toner. The process cartridge includes an air inlet and an air outlet on a side plate thereof. The gears are arranged... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063413 - Methods for calibrating a virtual printer: Methods are described for calibrating a virtual printer including a plurality of color marking engines. The methods include printing a test pattern on one of the marking engines, the test pattern including a plurality of test patches, each test patch including corresponding expected colorimetric values, measuring the test pattern to... Agent: Law Office Of James Trosino

20080063422 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image forming system which makes clear the point in time at which initial information transmission for all peripheral devices connected to an image forming apparatus serving as the main device is complete, even when the peripheral devices are attached in various combinations, to thereby reduce the time until it... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080063426 - Apparatus and method for detecting surface defects on a workpiece such as a rolled/drawn metal bar: The present invention is directed to solving the problems associated with the detection of surface defects on metal bars as well as the problems associated with applying metal flat inspection systems to metal bars for non-destructive surface defects detection. A specially designed imaging system, which is comprised of a computing... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20080063427 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a process unit, a toner containing portion, and a trapping member. The toner containing portion is arranged in relation to the process unit and connected to the process unit so as to define a toner transporting mechanism. The toner transporting mechanism includes a toner receiving/supplying... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080063428 - Developing unit and image forming apparatus: A developing unit and an image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a developer container to contain a developer, a developer carrier to transfer the developer of the developer container to the image carrier, support brackets, fixed to the developer container, to rotatably support the developer carrier, frames to rotatably... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080063429 - Coupling part, photosensitive drum, process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, wherein the main assembly includes a motor, a main assembly side gear for receiving driving force from the motor, a hole defined by twisted surfaces, the hole being substantially coaxial with the gear, and a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080063430 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus main body that includes an image forming unit and a sheet conveyance unit; a unit that is at least a part of the image forming unit or the sheet conveyance unit and is openably/closably provided with respect to the image forming... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080063431 - Semiconductor device, light emitting diode head, and image forming apparatus: A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a first conductive type semiconductor layer disposed on a main surface of the substrate; a second conductive type semiconductor layer disposed on the first conductive type semiconductor layer; a plurality of light emitting elements; and a second conductive side wiring pattern for commonly connecting... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20080063432 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of development units having developing-agent carriers which are provided in correspondence to three or more developing agents, and developing electrostatic latent images on surfaces of image carriers to form developing-agent images on the image carriers; and a recovery unit that recovers the developing... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080063433 - Developing device and image forming apparatus comprising the same: A developing device and image forming apparatus that can satisfy stability over time in relation to amount of developer carried, and prevent developer retention, deterioration of developer and developing sleeve adhesion, wherein the amount of developer carried per unit area on the developer carrier in the developing region is 30... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063434 - Developing-agent container, method of manufacturing developing-agent container, developing-agent supplying device, and image forming apparatus: A developing-agent container contains a developing agent to be supplied to a developing unit. The developing agent contains toner and carrier. The developing-agent container is filled with the developing agent with the toner and the carrier evenly distributed in a highly air-containing state. After filling the developing-agent container with the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063435 - Conveyor device and image forming apparatus: A toner-conveying device includes a movable plate. The movable plate is movable between a holding position such as to couple a cap of a toner container to a nozzle when the toner container is supported by a container holder, and a retreating position such as not to hinder loading and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063436 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of development units having developing-agent carriers which are provided in correspondence to three or more developing agents, and developing electrostatic latent images on surfaces of image carriers to form developing-agent images on the image carriers; and a recovery unit that recovers the developing... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080063439 - Developer amount regulation blade structure: A developer amount regulation blade structure that effectively reduces assembly cost and improves image quality configured to form a layer of a developer on a developer bearer includes a regulation blade configured to regulate a thickness of the developer on the developer bearer, a first supporting member configured to support... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063437 - Developer layer-regulating method and apparatus and developing unit and image forming apparatus having the same: A developer layer-regulating method and apparatus and a developing unit and image forming apparatus having the same. The developing unit includes a developing cartridge detachably mounted in a main body of the image forming device and accommodating a developer, a developing member disposed in the developing cartridge to rotate facing... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080063438 - Developer regulating apparatus and developing unit and image forming apparatus having the same: A developer regulating apparatus and a developing unit and image forming apparatus having the same. The developing unit includes a developing cartridge to accommodate a developer, a developing member disposed in the developing cartridge to face a photoconductor, and a developer regulating apparatus to regulate the developer of the developer... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080063440 - Image forming apparatus and method: An image forming method and apparatus to form visible images on a printing medium. The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive medium on which electrostatic latent images are formed, and a toner-conveying member configured to follow an endless loop apart from the photosensitive medium to convey toner to the photosensitive... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080063441 - Rotatable air knife: Embodiments herein include an apparatus that can comprise any heating device, such as one having an outer surface adapted to contact items, such as sheets of print media, and a rotatable air outlet (vent, jet, blower, etc.) positioned next to the heating device. The air outlet can be, in one... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb I.p. Law Firm, LLC

20080063442 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A roller member includes a cylindrical core bar. The roller member is rotatably supported at both ends, and forms a nip, to which a recording medium is conveyed, by making a contact with another member. The core bar satisfies 1.0≦ΔD/D1×100≦3.0, where D1 is an outer diameter of the core bar... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063443 - Fixing unit and image forming apparatus using the same: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit for fixing a toner image on a recording medium. In at least one embodiment, the fixing unit includes a fixing member configured to heat and melt a toner. Further, in at least one embodiment, the fixing member has a surface contacting the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080063444 - Fixing member and image forming apparatus using the same: In a fixing member having an elastic layer of heat resistance rubber provided on a substrate and a separation layer of fluorocarbon resin provided on the elastic layer, the fluorocarbon resin is that a tensile strength of a 30 μm coating film burned at 340° C. is equal or greater... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063445 - Heat generating roller, fixing equipment, and image forming apparatus: A heat generating roller, fixing equipment and an image forming apparatus in which warm-up time is shortened while preventing excessive temperature rise and good fixing performance is realized by preventing occurrence of offset. In the heat generating roller, fixing equipment and image forming apparatus, the heat generating roller is formed... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080063446 - Fixation device, fixation method, image forming apparatus, image forming method and fixation fluid: A fixation device configured to fix on a medium a resin fine particle that contains a resin, by providing a fixation fluid on the resin fine particle on the medium which fixation fluid contains a softening agent that softens the resin fine particle by dissolving or swelling at least one... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080063447 - Image forming apparatus and process unit for effectively applying lubricant and cleaning an image carrier: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier configured to carry an image on a surface thereof, a cleaning unit including a cleaning blade and configured to remove residual toner remaining on the surface of the image carrier with the cleaning blade, and an application unit including a brush roller... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063448 - Cleaning device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A blade of a cleaning device includes two surfaces: an upstream side surface and a downstream side surface. The two surfaces adjoin each other with respect to a contact edge of the blade. The upstream side surface has a longer dimension in the direction orthogonal to the contact edge than... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080063449 - Recording apparatus and medium transporting method: Disclosed herein is a recording apparatus including a control device which controls a transportation of a medium by controlling a feeding device and a transporting device; under the control of the control device, the feeding device is stopped or decelerated when a previous medium is transported to a predetermined position,... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080063450 - Image forming apparatus having a compact size: An image forming apparatus having a compact size includes a printing medium supplying unit to hold printing media and to supply a printing medium, an image forming unit disposed above the printing medium supplying unit to form images on a printing medium, and a printing medium feeding part substantially formed... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080063451 - Image forming system: In an image forming system having an image forming apparatus main body for forming an image on a sheet and a sheet processing apparatus having a processing portion for processing sheets received from the image forming apparatus main body, sheets are conveyed to the sheet processing apparatus during an operation... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080056737 - Positionable calibration target for a digital printer or image scanner: A structure for calibrating an image sensor or other photosensor includes a baffle for passage of a sheet therethrough. A photosensor is disposed to receive light reflected from a sheet passing through the baffle. A selectably-positionable target member has a target surface associated therewith, and is positionable in one position... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080056738 - System for managing paper supplies in a population of printers and copiers: A method of operating a printer comprising at least one tray for retaining print media comprises reading a code associated with a quantity of print media, and associating the code with loading the quantity of print media in the tray in a database. If the print media in the tray... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080056739 - Image forming apparatus: One aspect of the present invention can include an image forming apparatus having an image forming portion configured to form an image using developer, a recovery portion configured to recover the developer, a accommodating portion having a first chamber for accommodating developer recovered by the recovery portion, a second chamber... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080056740 - Image forming apparatus and method of checking for disconnections thereof: The present invention includes a method and apparatus for checking for a disconnection, with respect to an image forming apparatus including electrical loads and voltage generating circuits that generate voltages that are applied to the electrical loads, by determining if the voltage generating circuits and electrodes that are electrically connected... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080056742 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a casing, an image forming arrangement, a supplying control unit, a temperature detecting unit, a warm-up control unit, and an image forming control unit. The image forming arrangement is provided in the casing and includes a medium passage and a motor configured to drive in... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080056746 - Surface-potential distribution measuring apparatus, image carrier, and image forming apparatus: A surface-potential distribution measuring apparatus includes an electron gun, an electron-beam optical system, an electron-emission panel, a detector, and a control system. The electron-beam optical system is located between the electron gun and a sample, and focuses a beam of electrons emitted from the electron gun to the surface of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056747 - Developing device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A developing device, which can inhibit the increase of the rate of uncharged toner caused by long hours of operation and develop an excellent image, and a process cartridge and an image forming apparatus that use such a developing device. A developing sleeve is rotary driven, and has, as magnetic... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056748 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method capable of printing images without spaces therebetween: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming part to form a plurality of images having image areas on a printing medium, a transferring part to transfer the printing medium through the image forming part, and a controller to control the image forming part and the transferring part to stop... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080056749 - Temperature control system for a roller in an image forming apparatus: A temperature control system for a roller that is detachably mounted in a frame of an image forming apparatus includes a primary liquid circuit formed in the roller and containing a first liquid and a secondary liquid circuit formed outside of the roller and containing a second liquid. A heat... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080056751 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a power switch for turning on and off a power source. An electric power saving mode designation acceptor can accept a designation to set a power saving mode to suppress power consumption. The apparatus further has an image former for forming a toner image on... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080056752 - Multipath toner patch sensor for use in an image forming device: A toner patch sensor for use in an image forming device may be operated in different modes according to the color of the patch being sensed. The toner patch sensor may include a detector and a source adapted to transmit light that is reflected off a toner patch and towards... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080056753 - Marking system print pal: This is a method for permitting an employee (user) authority to use his employer's marking apparatus for personal reasons. The supplier (provider) of the marking apparatus for example, Xerox Corporation, makes arrangements with the employee (with employer's approval) to use the marking apparatus for an agreed upon price; the marking... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20080056755 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotatable member for heating a toner image on a recording material at a nip; an axial flow fan for cooling the heating rotatable member at a longitudinal end portion thereof; wherein an axis of the axial flow fan extends from its outlet disposed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080056756 - Cleaning device and image forming apparatus provided therewith: A cleaning device for cleaning a transfer sheet conveyance belt, includes: a first brush roll which is provided with voltage with a polarity reverse to a charging polarity of toner particles; and a second brush roll arranged downstream of the first brush roll in a moving direction of the transfer... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080056735 - Adhesive applicator, and bookbinding apparatus and image-forming system equipped with the applicator: In replenishing a glue container with hot-melt glue, to enable stable supply of the glue in solid form without it clogging the resupply path from the hopper, provided are: a sheet retaining unit for retaining a sheaf in a glue application position; a glue applier in a hot-melt-glue-receiving container, disposed... Agent: Judge Patent Associates

20080056736 - Maintenance system for image forming apparatuses and maintenance method: A maintenance system for image forming apparatuses, which make it possible to acquire appropriate maintenance information even when an exceptional trouble has occurred in an image forming apparatus, to thereby reduce maintenance time and maintenance costs. When an abnormal image occurs in an image forming apparatus connected to a host... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080056741 - Image forming device and deviation correcting method: In an image forming device, a main controller unit controls the image forming device, a motor controller unit controls individually rotational speeds of a plurality of motors rotating image carriers respectively, and a deviation detection unit detects a deviation of the color image. In the main controller unit, a speed... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080056743 - Image forming apparatus: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including a belt, a cleaning roller opposed to a surface of the belt, a voltage generating circuit generating a voltage applied to the cleaning roller, a voltage value detecting circuit detecting a voltage value applied to the cleaning roller, a control unit... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080056744 - Light amount measuring device, image forming apparatus, and toner density measuring apparatus: A light amount measuring device, according to the present invention can include, a light-receiving sensor capable of outputing a voltage corresponding to an amount of incident light, an A/D converting portion capable of converting an input voltage into a digital value, a light amount calculating portion capable of calculating the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080056745 - Image forming method and apparatus for effectively charging an image carrier: An image forming apparatus, performing a corresponding method of image forming, includes an image carrier, a writing unit, a developing unit, a charging member configured to rotate continuously with the image carrier at a portion contacting the image carrier and uniformly charge a surface of the image carrier while contacting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056750 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device thermally fixes an image developed on a recording sheet. The fixing device includes: a heating roller heated by a heat source and having a first end side and a second end side with respect to an axial direction; a power supply member for supplying the heat source... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080056754 - Coupling part, photosensitive drum, process cartridge and electrophotograhpic image forming apparatus: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, wherein the main assembly includes a motor, a main assembly side gear for receiving driving force from the motor, a hole defined by twisted surfaces, the hole being substantially coaxial with the gear, and a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080056757 - Cleaning device, process cartridge, and image forming device: A cleaning device has: a cleaning member contacting a body-to-be-cleaned at a predetermined nip width, and cleaning a surface of the body-to-be-cleaned; and a supporting member supporting a peripheral surface of the cleaning member. The cleaning member is supported with predetermined degrees of freedom by the supporting member and a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080056758 - Image holding element cleaning apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image holding element cleaning apparatus includes: an image holding element; an image holding element cleaning unit that touches and detaches from the image holding element and that cleans the image holding element when the image holding element cleaning unit touches the image holding element; a detection unit that detects... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080056759 - Developer material container, image forming unit, and image forming apparatus: A developer material container includes a holding body, a shutter member movably, an operation member, and coupling member. The holding body holds developer therein and includes a developer outlet. The shutter member movably is assembled to the holding body. The shutter member is movable either to an opening position where... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080056760 - Image forming system: An image forming system including an image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet and for ejecting the sheet, a plurality of post-processing apparatuses for receiving the ejected sheet on which an image has been formed and for applying post-processing to the sheet, and a transfer device for... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080056761 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that can improve the workability during maintenance, and the compactness and neatness of the signal line and the power source line, and moreover can lower the cost by eliminating the fall preventing member. The image forming apparatus has: an engine main body which has image forming... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056762 - Image forming apparatus to form an image using a display unit, and printing method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a display unit which outputs image data in the form of a complete image, a photosensitive medium which forms an electrostatic latent image corresponding to the image outputted from the display unit, a developing unit which develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080056763 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor and image forming apparatus having same: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a cylindrical body and a film forming layer formed on an outer surface of the cylindrical body, having a photosensitive layer. The electrophotographic photoreceptor is divided into a first region where an electrostatic latent image is formed and second regions provided at both end portions in... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080056764 - Driving assembly of photoconductive drum: A driving assembly of a photoconductive drum comprises a driving gear having a body; a post passing through a center of the body; an end surface of the post being formed with a triangular recess; the triangular recess having a helical inner surface; a driven gear including a body; an... Agent: Chin-hung Chung

20080056765 - Charge device coatings: An electrically conductive latex/antioxidant coating for a corona charging device that is capable of absorbing effluents created during the electrostatographic or xerographic process, a method for making the coating, and applying the coating are described herein.... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080056766 - Conductive foamed roller, method of producing the same, and image forming apparatus: A conductive foamed roller includes a metal shaft portion and a conductive foamed rubber portion. The conductive foamed roller has a permanent compressive strain of equal to or less than 1.75%.... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP

20080056767 - Image formation device and image formation method: When forming an image by developing a color development layer that reacts to a light, the image formation processes (color development, color erasure, and/or fixing) that can be performed simultaneously with information recording are performed in the same period as that of the information recording to reduce the time required... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080056768 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum having a predetermined rotary shaft, an exposure device conducting exposure on the photosensitive drum so as to form an electrostatic latent image on a surface of the photosensitive drum, a medium supplier that supplies the surface of the photosensitive drum with a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080056769 - Electrostatic image developing carrier, electrostatic image developing developer, electrostatic image developing developer cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: An electrostatic image developing carrier including at least a core material and a coating resin layer which coats the surface of the core material, the resin layer comprising a thermoplastic resin having an alicyclic group, a thermal reduction in accordance with the TGA method being in the range of 0.5... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080056770 - Developing device and image-forming apparatus: A developing device includes (a) a developing member; (b) a developer container; (c) a partition member that partitions an interior of the developer container into a primary chamber and a secondary chamber; and (d) a developer-conveying unit that is disposed in the primary chamber, the developing device defining a collected-toner-receiving... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080056771 - Image forming member, toner removing apparatus, developing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: An image forming member includes: an electrostatic latent image holding member that holds an electrostatic latent image; a developing unit that develops a toner image formed by a toner on a surface of the electrostatic latent image holding member; a toner removing member that removes a residual toner remaining on... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080056772 - Developer transport apparatus and image forming apparatus: A developer transport apparatus includes: a first developer-containing unit that contains a developer; a first developer transport member disposed in the first developer-containing unit, the first developer transport member transporting the developer in a first direction; a second developer transport member disposed downstream from the first developer transport member in... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080056773 - Movable metering skive for a development station of a reproduction apparatus: A magnetic brush development station for a reproduction apparatus with a movable metering skive so as to enable such metering skive to control and prevent contamination at such metering skive. A developer roller is mounted within the housing for delivering developer material to a development zone, the developer roller including... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080056775 - Toner and image forming apparatus that uses the toner: A toner includes a base toner that contains a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax. The base toner includes at least one endothermic peak specific to the wax in a range of 60 to 100° C., and a total endothermic of not less than 2 mJ/g. The base toner... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080056774 - Developing device, image carrier device, and image forming apparatus: A layer-thickness regulating member includes a thin plate member and a projection member provided on a free edge portion of the thin plate member. A leak preventing members include a first seal member and a second seal member. The first seal member includes a first downstream portion disposed adjacent to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080056776 - Pretransfer toner treatment in an electrostatographic printer: A system for reducing lead edge (LE) smearing in an electrostatographic machine is provided. The system comprises a pretransfer corotron positioned between a developing station and a transfer station in an electrostatographic imaging device. The pretransfer corotron is configured to apply a predetermined charge to at least a portion of... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20080056777 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: plural image holding members, on respective surfaces of which toner images are formed, the toner images being arrayable such that the length in the array direction and the color are different between adjacent toner images; a transfer body, onto which the toner images formed on... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080056778 - Belt-rotating mechanism, and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a belt-rotating unit, a meandering-correction unit, and an attach-detach control unit. The belt-rotating unit rotates an endless belt. The meandering-correction unit corrects meandering of the belt. The attach-detach control unit relatively moves the belt and an abutting member such that a surface of the belt... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056779 - Imaging apparatus and improved toner therefor: The invention relates to a liquid toner and imaging apparatus provided with an imaging surface having a liquid toner image formed thereon on fibrous toner particles and carrier liquid. The fibrous toner particles can be composed of a polymer portion and pigment dispersed therein, where the polymer portion comprises a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080056780 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus having: an image forming section to form a toner image on an image carrier; a transfer section to transfer onto a transfer medium the tone image formed on the image carrier; and a pair of opposing transfer guide members to guide the transfer medium into the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080056781 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has an image bearing member. A transfer member forms a nip with the image bearing member and transfers a toner image to a surface of a transfer sheet guided to the nip. A guide is immediately upstream of the nip in a sheet conveying direction. The... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080056782 - Fixing device, image forming apparatus and sheet conveying device: A fixing device is provided with a heating rotator for heating a transfer material, a pressurizing rotator held in contact with the heating rotator at a specified pressure to form a nip portion, a separating member made of a plate-like elastic body and adapted to separate the transfer material discharged... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080056783 - Pressurizing unit, fixing device, and image forming apparatus: A pressurizing unit includes a contact-pressure member for pressurizing an endless belt, a holding member that holds the contact-pressure member, and a biasing member that presses both ends of the holding member. The biasing member presses the holding member, so that a direction in which the biasing member presses the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056784 - Image forming device: An image forming device is disclosed that is able to superpose a smooth sheet on a toner image on a recording sheet after common thermal fusing, perform re-melting and solidification, and then separate the smooth sheet, thereby, forming a high-gloss image easily. The image forming device includes a first fusing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080056785 - Gloss providing sheet and image formation apparatus: A disclosed gloss-providing sheet for providing high gloss to a toner image on a recording material by being placed on a toner image surface of the recording material, heated so as to fuse toner, and then separated from the recording material after the toner is cooled and solidified includes: a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080056786 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: The invention provides an image forming apparatus that, even when a downward transfer method is adopted, can prevent a toner in a cleaning device from excessively charging and an air gap from occurring, and thereby can effectively suppress occurrence of black spots due to a leakage current from the cleaning... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20080056787 - Printing with two-side printable and one-pass printable sheets: In the system and method, a conveyor having a sequence of sheet supports is moved through a printer. During a first pass: two-side printable sheets are placed into sheet supports of a first segment of the sequence; one-pass printable sheets are excluded from a skipped second segment of sheet supports,... Agent: David A. Novais, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20080056788 - Image recording device and image recording method: An image recording device recording an image on an image-forming region of a strip-shaped flexible substrate stretched between a supply reel and a take-up reel, the device having: a stage section structured to suck the flexible substrate, and to be movable along a predetermined conveying path; an alignment section disposed... Agent: Taiyo Corporation

20080056789 - Scanner page alignment tools: This is a system to provide real time ways of aligning a paper original with a skewed image so that a right imaged reproduction is produced on subsequent copies.... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20080056790 - Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus: A sheet conveying apparatus which conveys a recording sheet fed from a sheet feeding section toward a transfer position with controlled timing, including: a pair of registration rollers; a pair of loop rollers to form a loop of the recording sheet, the loop rollers being disposed upstream of the registration... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080056791 - Bookbinding apparatus and image forming system provided therewith: In a bookbinding apparatus provided with a coating device having a coating roller to coat an adhesive onto a spine of a sheet bundle by moving relatively the coating roller and the spine in both forward and backward movement while making the coating roller and the sheet bundle to face... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080056792 - Post-processing apparatus bookbinding apparatus and image forming system: A post-processing apparatus having a conveyance device to convey a sheet, a sheet bundle storing device to load and store the sheets conveyed by the conveyance device as a sheet bundle, a moving device to enable the sheet bundle storing device to be movable, a post-processing device to carry out... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP