Electrophotography inventions 04/08

20080095545 - Image forming apparatus: The invention provides an image forming apparatus an image forming portion for forming an image on a sheet, a stack portion for stacking a sheet, a discharge portion for discharging the sheet, on which an image is formed by the image forming portion, to the stack portion, a sheet detection... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080095546 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming device includes: a fixing part 132 including transporting mechanisms 132a and 132b for transporting a paper on which a toner image is formed; a first paper detecting part 133a disposed on an upstream side of the fixing part 132; a second paper detecting part 133b disposed on... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20080095547 - Apparatus for image formation: An apparatus for image formation includes a slider, rotatable members, elastic members, and a waste toner box. The slider is supported by the main body of the apparatus and can reciprocate in the outward direction from the inside of the body to one side of the body and the inward... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080095548 - Flash fixing apparatus, image formation device, and image formation method: A flash fixing apparatus including a plurality of lamp groups each comprising at least one lamp, and an emission controller. The lamp groups illuminate flashes at a recording medium to fix a toner image which has been transferred to the recording medium. The emission controller causes the respective lamp groups... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080095549 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a paper cassette feeding a recording material, an image forming unit forming an image on a photosensitive member, a primary transfer roller transferring the image onto an intermediate transfer belt, a secondary transfer roller transferring the image onto the recording material, and a sensor detecting... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080095550 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus forming a preferable image without white dots caused by excessive charging when a halftone image is formed by providing a potential difference between a surface potential of a photosensitive drum immediately before charging by a charging device, and that of the drum after the charging in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080095551 - Image generating apparatus: Obtained is an image generating apparatus capable of suppressing power consumption in the overall apparatus in printing. This image generating apparatus includes a driving source for driving transport means transporting a paper printable with image data and a control portion supplying a first amount of energy to the driving source... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080095552 - Image forming apparatus, image reading apparatus and complex machine: An image forming apparatus, includes: a first rectifying circuit that is connected with an external commercial power supply and rectifies an alternating-current input; a first low-voltage power supply circuit that generates low voltages from a rectified power for power supply to respective parts of the apparatus; a first connector that... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080095554 - Developer cartridge and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprises a cartridge equipped with a toner reservoir, and an apparatus body. The cartridge is attached to the apparatus body when used and developer in the toner reservoir is used for image development. The cartridge comprises a storage unit which is provided inside the toner reservoir... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080095553 - Developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A developing unit develops a latent image on an image carrier with toner. A toner cartridge is detachably arranged in parallel with the developing unit, and supplies the toner to the developing unit. An opening is disposed between the developing unit and the toner cartridge, through which the toner passes.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080095555 - Toner layer thickness regulation member and image forming apparatus having same: There is provided according to the present invention a toner layer thickness regulation member capable of suppressing uneven density during forming an image. There is also provided an image forming apparatus capable of forming an excellent image stably by employing such a toner layer thickness regulation member. A toner layer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080095556 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprising first and second image bearing members, an intermediate transfer belt, a secondary transfer unit, a belt contacting and separating unit, a supporting member, and a separating unit, wherein, when the toner images are primarily transferred from the first and second image bearing members onto the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080095557 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device including: a fixing roller; an endless fixing; a pressing member forming a first nip portion between the fixing roller and the fixing belt; and a separating member forming a second nip portion between the fixing roller and the fixing belt; and wherein the first nip portion and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080095558 - Method for uv curing toner images applied to an image support in an electrographic printing or copying device: In a method and system for modification of at least one property of toner images applied on an image carrier in the electrographic printing and copying device, a toner material is used comprising UV-curable components for a generation of the toner images. The toner images on the image carrier are... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080095559 - Toner conveyer device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A toner conveyer device for use in an image forming apparatus includes a toner conveyer belt that conveys waste toner, a screw member that receives the waste toner from the toner conveyer belt and conveys the waste toner to a housing unit, and a scraping member that scraps waste toner... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080095560 - Adjusting a line: Embodiments of adjusting a line of an image using a determined skew of a sheet are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080095561 - Image forming device: Separation means 16, which are located downstream from a transfer roller in the sheet transport direction, apply a separation voltage to a plurality of separation needles 17 disposed in an alignment orthogonal to the direction of transport of the sheet, so as to produce a discharge between a photosensitive drum... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080095562 - Bookbinding system and bookbinding method: A bookbinding system that pastes a cover sheet on a sheet bundle, the bookbinding system includes: an image forming section which forms a toner image based on image data; a sheet storing section which stacks recording sheets on which toner images have been recorded by the image forming section, aligns... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080089701 - Apparatus and method for recognizing error of toner sensor for developing device: An apparatus and a method recognizing the error of a toner sensor that is capable of correctly recognizing the error factor of the toner sensor for sensing the amount of the toner of a developing device main body. The output value and the set value of the sensor are compared... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089703 - Systems and methods for improving belt motion and color registration in an image forming device: A method and system of correcting a medium velocity error in a photoreceptor belt of an image forming device with a controller, including measuring a velocity error of the photoreceptor belt when the medium is used in the image forming device, the velocity error comprising a velocity error due to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080089708 - System and method for determining an amount of toner mass on a photoreceptor: A system that determines an amount of toner mass present on a toner application surface, and comprises a specular reflection sensor, a diffuse reflection sensor, an output combination module, and a mass determination module. The specular reflection sensor receives electromagnetic radiation that has been specularly reflected by the toner application... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Xerox Corporation

20080089709 - Image forming apparatus: One embodiment of the present invention is provided with an image information storage unit, an image information processing unit, an actual image forming unit, an image information control unit that controls transfer of image information between each of the units, a power supply control unit, a cost information management unit... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080089702 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a pattern forming unit which forms a light amount adjustment pattern on an image carrier belt, a light amount control unit which controls the amount of light irradiating the image carrier belt and pattern, a detection sensor which detects reflected light amounts from the image... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080089704 - Image forming apparatus and color registration method thereof: An image forming apparatus, and a method for performing an auto color registration. The method includes inspecting a test pattern printed on a paper. A distance between two predetermined points in the test pattern is measured. An X offset in a horizontal direction, and a Y offset in a vertical... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080089705 - Xerographic micro-assembler: Xerographic micro-assembler systems and methods are disclosed. The systems and methods involve manipulating charge-encoded micro-objects. The charge encoding identifies each micro-object and specifies its orientation for sorting. The micro-objects are sorted in a sorting unit so that they have defined positions and orientations. The sorting unit has the capability of... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom/parc

20080089706 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of ensuring a sufficient difference between amounts of light reflected from a base such as a transfer material and from a toner pattern in the detection of the toner pattern for registration correction control by a reflective optical sensor. The image forming apparatus includes a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080089707 - Image forming apparatus capable of reducing time unable to perform image fromation due to temperature change of image bearing member: An object of the present invention is to provide an image forming apparatus using simultaneously transferring and fixing means and capable of reducing time unable to perform image formation due to temperature change of an image bearing member, the apparatus including: a rotatable image bearing member; electrostatic image forming means... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080089710 - Face-to-face printing within booklet: Method for printing pages within a booklet to improve the appearance of images on opposing pages includes sequencing images such that opposing pages are printed with the same print engine and/or fused the same number of times. Booklets include opposing pages having images fused the same number of times and/or... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080089711 - Image forming apparatus with an air supplying unit having an air opening provided in a receiving unit: An image forming apparatus of the present invention comprises an apparatus body having a document table portion on which a document is placed, a scanning unit provided inside the apparatus body to optically scan an image of the document placed on the document table portion, an image forming unit for... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080089712 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus includes: an electrophotographic photoreceptor including a conductive support and a photosensitive layer including an outermost surface layer capable of transporting a charge, the layer being farthest from the conductive support and containing a resin having a crosslinking structure; a charging unit that charges the electrophotographic photoreceptor;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080089713 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers, a drive mechanism, a plurality of drive force transmission gears, a phase difference detector, and a shift unit. The plurality of image carriers forms images of separate colors. The drive mechanism including a single drive unit for driving the plurality... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080089714 - Image forming apparatus with recording medium support member adjustable in position for desired position of uppermost recording medium on support member: An apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium is disclosed which includes: a first drive source; a photoreceptor driven for movement by a driving force applied thereto from the first drive source; a support member supporting the recording medium to be fed toward the photoreceptor, displaceable between a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080089715 - Image forming component: A component for an image forming apparatus may include a seamless knit fabric which may be applied to a shaft. Both the fabric and the shaft may be electrically conductive. The fabric and the shaft may be separated by foam. The component may be employed in an image forming apparatus... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080089716 - Color image processing method, color image forming apparatus and color image processing program: There is described a color image forming method, a color image forming apparatus, and an image forming program, which make it possible to reduce the amount of colorant consumption to a level lower than ever. The color image forming apparatus includes: a first image data converting section to replace achromatic... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080089717 - Optimization of magnetic roll speed profile in an electrophotographic printing system: A control system for use with a development process including at least one magnetic roll with a settable speed is provided. The controller is directly or indirectly responsive to a reload feedback signal, which signal is generated in response to changes in output reload performance of the development process. In... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080089718 - Toner conveying device, toner supply device and image forming apparatus using these: In a supply passage assembly having a toner passage arranged under a toner bottle for conveying toner supplied from the toner bottle to a developing unit arranged below, a toner conveying pipe for forming the toner passage is formed of an elastic material and a toner conveying pipe deforming member... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080089719 - Method, device and computer program for producing a developer mixture in an electrographic developer station: In a method for generating a developer mixture in a developer station of an electrographic printing device, magnetizable carrier particles and toner are simultaneously filled into the developer station, and in case of an error or an aborting of the filling a continuation takes place at a later time of... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080089720 - development apparatus and an image formation apparatus:

20080089721 - Developer supplying cartridge, developer receiving cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A developer supply cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus, includes a developer accommodating portion of accommodating a developer; a discharging opening for discharging the developer accommodated in the developer accommodating portion to a developer receiving opening of a developer receiving cartridge provided with developing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080089722 - Developing apparatus and process cartridge: A developing apparatus, a process cartridge and an image forming apparatus of which the image density can be maintained and the fogged image and the uneven density can be within an acceptable level even when the diameter of a developer carrying member is not more than 12 mm. The outer... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080089723 - Development apparatus and an image formation apparatus: An image formation apparatus using a hopping method is disclosed. Toner provided on a moving surface of a toner supporting object is conveyed, while the toner is hopping on the surface due to an electric field, to a position that counters a latent image supporting object by movement of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080089724 - Developing roller, and developing device and image-forming apparatus using the same:

20080089725 - Uv impeded toner: The object of the invention is achieved in that the minimum of one microwave absorber element is an irradiation device that absorbs microwave radiation and emits electromagnetic radiation, in which case said irradiation device, in accordance with the method herein, is energized by microwave radiation, applies radiation to the printing... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080089726 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus includes a charger, a developing device, a cleaning device, a protective-agent bar, and a brush. The charger uniformly charges an image carrier. The developing device develops an electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier to obtain a toner image as a visual image. The cleaning... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080089727 - Waste-toner housing device, and image forming apparatus: A waste-toner housing device that is detachably attached to an image forming apparatus for housing waste toner includes a waste-toner container and a first conveying member and a second conveying member that convey the wasted toner. The first conveying member and the second conveying member are arranged inside the waste-toner... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080089728 - Sheet moisturizing device, sheet remedying apparatus incorporating the sheet moisturizing device, and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet moisturizing device: A sheet moisturizing device, including: paired moisturizing rollers which form a nipping section to apply water onto a sheet when the sheet is conveyed through the nipping section; two water supplying rollers, each being in pressure contact to each of paired moisturizing rollers respectively; and two water supplying tanks, each... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080085129 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body; a development device that develops a latent image formed in an image retainer with toner; a toner cartridge that is detachably attached to the image forming apparatus main body and that contains toner supplied to the development device; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080085130 - Image forming apparatus: A disclosed image forming apparatus includes plural image creating units arranged along a belt surface of a transfer belt; a first electric motor for driving a fixing unit; a second electric motor for driving one of the image creating units and the transfer belt; a third electric motor for driving... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080085131 - Image forming apparatus and abnormality determination method for such an apparatus: An image forming apparatus, includes: a plurality of image forming stations each including an electrostatic latent image carrier, a static eliminator that eliminates charges on the electrostatic latent image carrier, and a charging member that is arranged to face the electrostatic latent image carrier while defining a specified gap; a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20080085132 - Image forming apparatus, computer, image forming system, computer readable medium, image forming method, and computer data signal: An image forming apparatus includes a first execution unit that executes a first function, a memory that stores one or more conditions for execution of the first function, and a second execution unit that, when executing a second function, reads the one or more conditions stored in the memory, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080085133 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and computer readable medium: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a connecting unit to connect with other image forming apparatuses via a communication line, an image forming unit to carry out an image forming in compliance with setting information regarding the image forming according to types of a recording medium, a first storage... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080085134 - Charging device: A charging device includes a long electrode, a cleaning member, a timing device, a drive source, a load measuring device, and a control device. The drive source moves the cleaning member in the outward direction for a first time period after the outward passage time and then reverses the cleaning... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080085135 - Full glass platen scan to simplex or duplex copy: A rendering method, system and program product. A single functional instruction among a plurality of functional instructions can be provided by a rendering device and selected by a user in order to scan a document platen associated with the rendering device, thereby creating via the rendering device, a representation of... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, Pllc

20080085136 - Developer recovering mechanism and image forming apparatus: A developer recovering mechanism used in a developing apparatus having a developer cartridge which houses developer, a developing unit in which the developer cartridge is installed and which can make a latent image of an image carrier visible by the developer, and a rotor at which the developing unit is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080085137 - Developing device using two-component developer and image forming apparatus equipped with the developing device: A developing device comprises a feeding and conveying path; a stirring and conveying path; and a recovering and conveying path, and capable of extending the service life of a developer and of forming an image with stable image density. In the developing device, the central position of a stirring rotary... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080085138 - Development device, and process cartridge and image forming apparatus including development device: A development device includes a developer carrying member, developer collection conveyance path, and developer supply conveyance path. The developer carrying member carries a developer to develop an image on a latent image carrier. The developer collection conveyance path disposed obliquely above the developer carrying member conveys the developer in a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080085139 - Fusing apparatus having a segmented external heater: A fusing apparatus having a segmented external heater is provided. The fusing apparatus includes a rotatable pressure roller, a rotatable heated fusing member having an external surface forming a fusing nip with the pressure roller, and a rotatable segmented external heater mounted in heating nip contact with the external surface... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080085140 - Sheet conveying device, and image forming apparatus including same: A sheet conveying device, that can be included in an image forming apparatus, includes first and second conveying units configured to hold and convey a sheet, a first sheet conveying path between the first and second conveying units, and a registration unit to change a positional condition of the sheet... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080085141 - Duplex document feeder: A duplex document feeder includes a housing unit, and a switching unit. The housing unit has a document-conveying path, an inverting path, and a switchback path. The switching unit is disposed in the switchback path, and includes a first switching gate, a second switching gate connected fixedly to the first... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, Pc

20080080873 - Systems and methods for remote diagnostics of devices: A device management system for a plurality of devices, including a data collecting device that acquires device data for one or more of the plurality of devices, and a transmission circuit that transmits the device data to a device management, wherein the device management station determines any outlying devices within... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080080874 - Imaging forming device, medium, inspection system, recording medium storing inspection program, and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave: An image forming device, which includes an inspection data storing section that stores inspection data for inspecting an inspection target for identifying a cause of a defective print, and an image forming section that forms on a medium the inspection data stored in the inspection data storing section.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080080875 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: plural cartridges; a storage unit provided in the respective cartridges; and a writing unit that writes data into the storage unit. The writing unit writes data on usage statuses of one cartridge and the other cartridges into one storage unit provided in the one cartridge.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080080877 - Color image forming apparatus: The present invention aims at performing, in a color image forming apparatus, image adjustment processes with adequate amounts of toners remaining in the developers. The color image forming apparatus of the present invention comprises: an image adjuster operable to perform an image adjustment process under a predetermined condition; and a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080080876 - Inline purge capability (purge while run) to improve system productivity during low area coverage runs: An electrostatic printing machine having a plurality of color stations having a system for maintaining a preset toner age in each of the plurality of color stations, the including: determining a toner age for each of the plurality of color stations; determining if purge while run is required based on... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080080878 - Image forming apparatus and toner supply control program for the same: A digital color copier includes: a toner concentration storage which, as to a multiple number of developer blocks into which the developer that circulates in the developer device is virtually divided across the image forming width, stores the detected toner concentration of each developer block, detected by the toner concentration... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080080879 - Charging device uniformity measurement system: A method and apparatus for accessing the uniformity of a charging subsystem with a resolution which enables one to make accurate predictions of customer acceptance of the charging device. The method and apparatus employs a scanner that scans the light emitted from a recording member such as a phosphor coated... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080080880 - Method of revising medium resistance and image forming device using the same: A method of revising a medium resistance to determine a transfer voltage and an image forming device to perform the same. The method includes supplying a medium recognition voltage to recognize a print medium, and reading medium resistances according to a predetermined reading cycle, calculating an estimated medium resistance based... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080080881 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes at least one image forming section, which includes an image bearing body, a charging unit that charges an area on a surface of the image-bearing body, and a developing unit that supplies a developer material to the charged area to form a developer image on... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080080882 - Multi-pass type color image forming apparatus: A multi-pass type color image forming apparatus. The multi-pass type color image forming apparatus includes an indicating member which is provided at a camshaft and has a plurality of indicating portions, a sensing part which detects the plurality of indicating portions, and a control unit which receives a signal from... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080080883 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes an image carrier, a developer carrier, a biasing unit disposed upstream of a developing area, and a controller configured to control the biasing unit, and a cleaning member disposed downstream of the developing area to remove the liquid developing agent remaining on the developer carrier. A... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

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20080080885 - Image forming apparatus: In the image forming apparatus, in ending an image forming operation, a bias voltage having an opposite polarity from the transfer bias voltage is applied to the primary transfer device when at least a region passes through the primary transfer portion, the region passing through the development portion in a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080080886 - Heater controller system for a fusing apparatus of a xerographic printing system: A heater controller system for a fusing apparatus configured for fusing marking material to a substrate in a printing system includes a power source for supplying power to a heating element having at least two sections. The controller system further includes at least one switch configured to selectively control at... Agent: George Likourezos, Esq. Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080080887 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of functions including a function of executing an operation involving use of a consumable, a selecting unit that selects one function from the plurality of functions, a detector that detects a remaining level of the consumable and a controller. The controller is operable... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080080888 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device containing a developer holding body for executing developing by affixing developer to an image support body, a controlling unit for thinning a layer of developer and disposed to contact the developer holding body, a support unit for supporting the controlling unit, an elastic sealing unit provided with... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080080889 - Developing apparatus, process cartridge and image forming apparatus: The sponge sealing member of the side seal is arranged on the roller opposed face of the seal arrangement portion so that the lower end face at the upstream side in the rotating direction of the developing roller is positioned to have the same face as the back end face... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080080890 - Conveyed material conveying apparatus, image forming apparatus, conveying method, and image forming method: A conveying apparatus includes: a conveying unit that comprises a conveying passage for conveying a conveyed material; a positioning and holding unit that holds the conveying unit while positioning the conveying unit, wherein the positioning and holding unit comprises a plate-shaped member having at least one protruding portion, the plate-shaped... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080080891 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same: A developing apparatus. The developing apparatus includes a mainframe to hold a photosensitive medium and includes an opened top surface and a bottom surface with a photosensitive medium opening through which some part of the photosensitive medium is exposed, the mainframe to include two spaces formed at each side of... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080080892 - Process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developing roller for developing a latent image formed on the drum while in contact with the drum, a drum unit supporting the drum, a developing unit supporting the developing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080080893 - Open-close apparatus and image forming apparatus: An open-close apparatus includes: a first member movably provided with respect to an apparatus main body; a second member movable with respect to the first member, and movably provided with respect to the apparatus main body; and a limiting section, provided between the first and second members, that limits a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080080894 - Image forming apparatus having toner replenishing features: A fixing unit as an embodiment of the present invention has a main body frame to contain a photoconductive drum and a fixing unit, a protection cover which is placed in a space to a toner drum and has a three-dimensional structure to form an air layer in a clearance... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080080895 - Photoconductor of electrophotographic image forming apparatus with short wavelength light source and electrophotographic image forming apparatus using the same: in which, R1, R2, and R3 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C30 aryl group, and a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080080896 - Charging apparatus and image forming apparatus: A charging apparatus having a corona electrode is provided which exhibits high durability against ozone and moisture in the air, which can charge a surface of a photoreceptor drum stably throughout the life of an image forming apparatus, and which can be manufactured at a low cost. In a charging... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080080897 - Electro-optical device and image forming apparatus: An electro-optical device includes a light source array having a plurality of light-emitting devices arranged on a substrate in a direction, a lens array having a plurality of lens elements arranged in the direction, each lens element forming an image on an image carrier using light from the light-emitting element,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080080898 - Exposure device and image forming apparatus: An exposure device includes a first light source column, a second light source column, and a light converger. A distance along a first direction between the center of a first light source of the first light source column and the center of a second light source of the second light... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080080899 - Image forming apparatus and cartridge: An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus includes a first casing accommodating a developing agent and having a first opening, an agitating member rotatably provided in the first casing and agitating the developing agent, a detection device outputting a signal in response to receiving of detection light... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080080900 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image holder; a developing device that develops a latent image formed on the image holder with developing material; a developing material cartridge that has a supply developing material container to contain developing material; and a developing material conveyance unit, having a connection portion connected... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080080901 - Toner conveying device, toner supply device and image forming apparatus using these: A supply passage assembly arranged under a toner bottle for conveying toner supplied from the toner bottle to a developing unit arranged below, includes: a toner passage having a toner input port at top and a toner discharge port at bottom and incorporating rotators for agitating the toner supplied from... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080080903 - Developer cartridge and image forming device: A developer cartridge detachably mounted to a device main body includes a tubular cartridge main body that houses a developer and an extending portion that communicates with the cartridge main body, which extends from an end portion in a longitudinal direction of the cartridge main body. An outside shape of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080080904 - Inner cap, developer container using the same, method for closing developer container, and method for removing inner cap: An inner cap includes: an outer circumferential portion that has a part to be inserted and fit into an opening portion formed by being surrounded by a projection portion of a space portion; a slip-off preventing projection that is formed at a part located in a downstream side in an... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080080902 - Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus: A toner cartridge includes: a cartridge main body having an opening; a toner chamber that is provided inside the cartridge main body and contains toner; an open-close member that opens/closes the opening by moving; and a regulation part that regulates movement of the open-close member in an opening/closing direction when... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080080905 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries a latent image; a charging device that charges the image carrier with a charging voltage having an AC component; and a roller that carries a developer to be supplied to the image carrier in a developing position, with a surface... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080080906 - Developing device and image forming apparatus using such developing device: A developing device comprises: a case having a developing opening; a cylindrical-shaped developer carry member disposed exposed in part to the developing opening, and rotatable for holding and carrying a developer; and a magnet member disposed fixed within the developer carry member and comprising two or more magnetic poles including... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080080907 - Second transfer area for an image forming device and methods of use: The present application is directed to second transfer areas and methods of transfer toner images from an intermediate member to a media sheet. The second transfer area comprises a second transfer nip formed between a second transfer roller and a back-up roller. The media path moves through this nip with... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080080908 - Image forming apparatus: An unit is provided with a friction member which is disposed at a position that is on a downstream side of a drive roller driving a belt and is on an immediate upstream side of a position sensor. The friction member wipes off contaminants adhering to a rear surface of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080080909 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus including fixing device: A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressure member and a separation mechanism. The pressure member presses against the fixing member to form a nip through which a toner image on a recording medium is fixed. The separation mechanism is disposed at a downstream side from the nip to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080080910 - Fixing device and image-forming apparatus: A fixing device for fixing a developed image of developer onto a recording sheet by heating and fusing the developer includes a heating roller, a pressure roller and a driving force input element. The heating roller is configured to be heated by a heat source, such as a halogen heater.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080080911 - Fixing device: A fixing device is provided with a fixing roller, a pressure roller that is in pressure contact with the fixing roller, first and second belt support rollers that are mutually spaced apart from each other, and an endless belt that is wrapped around both the first and the second belt... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080080912 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus using it: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fixing apparatus including: a heat roller that includes: a heat source that generates heat to be supplied on a toner image formed on a recording medium; a cylindrical core; a rubber layer that is formed on the cylindrical... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080080913 - Surface treatment of coated media: A cleaning agent having one or more active ingredient which may remove residual release agents from printed material and methods for using the cleaning agents are described herein.... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080080914 - Cleaning blade for use in image-forming apparatus: A cleaning blade which is brought into contact with a peripheral surface of a photoreceptor drum of an image-forming apparatus to remove toner which remains on the peripheral surface of the photoreceptor drum. In a dynamic state in which the cleaning blade contacts the photoreceptor drum with a load of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080080915 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus having a sheet support is described. Using one or more configurations, the number of parts for the sheet support may be reduced.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080080916 - Transport apparatus and image-forming apparatus: A transport apparatus includes a transport unit that includes a transport path through which a transported material is transported; and a positioning-and-holding unit that includes a positioning-and-holding member that positions constituents of the transport apparatus to each other and supports the constituents, and a plate-shaped member that works as a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP