Electrophotography inventions 07/08

20080181621 - Management apparatus for image forming apparatus and management method thereof: It is an object of the invention to provide a management apparatus for an image forming apparatus that can automatically determine an installation location of the image forming apparatus on the basis of individual authentication information according to an access to the image forming apparatus by a regular user even... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181622 - System for providing technical support relating to an imaging cartridge used in an imaging apparatus: A system for providing technical support to a customer relating to an imaging cartridge used in an imaging apparatus includes a memory, diagnostic software, and technical support software. The memory is associated with the imaging cartridge, and stores diagnostics data. The diagnostic software is associated with a type of the... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080181623 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus according to the invention includes an auxiliary power supply configured to detachably mountable on the image forming apparatus, a fixing device including a main heater heated by a commercial power supply and an auxiliary heater heated by the auxiliary power supply, a detector that detects mounting... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181624 - Document original size detecting device: A document original size detecting device has a plurality of sensors each including a light emitting portion and a light receiving portion and respectively disposed as corresponding to different sizes of document originals to be placed on a transparent document platen and a detecting section which determines a document original... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080181626 - Printer management apparatus and printer management method: A printer management apparatus includes a state-of-use managing unit that manages, on the basis of a history of communication with a terminal apparatus, predetermined information concerning a state of use of a printer by the terminal apparatus and a state-of-use displaying unit that transmits, in response to a printer device... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181625 - Reserve life run-on feature for customer replaceable units: A printer includes at least one replaceable module which is removable from the printer. A processor discontinues an operation of the printer when the processor determines that an end of life value for the replaceable module is reached unless an appropriate identifier is input which allows the operation of the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080181630 - Developer loading method, loaded developer accommodating container, developer replenishment device, and image forming apparatus: A method for loading a replenishment developer into a developer accommodating container such that when the replenishment of the replenishment developer inside the loaded developer accommodating container is started, the developer composed of a toner and a carrier, or a toner is discharged from a developer discharge port of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181627 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus equipped with an improved developer detecting device and agitating device to simplify an inner structure of a developing device and/or a waste developer container while reducing the number of components and costs. The image forming apparatus includes a developer storage part to store a developer, a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080181628 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same: An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same, in which a toner of another color is substituted for a toner having a remaining amount less than or equal to a minimum amount sufficient to perform remaining printing operation. A substitute toner used for the remaining printing operation... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080181629 - Image forming apparatus having function to control developer exhausting amount and image forming method thereof: An image forming apparatus to form image data on a printing medium, the apparatus includes a developing cartridge having a developer transfer body to transfer developer to an image receptor, a developer storing unit to separately store a transfer-regulated developer which has been transfer-regulated in the developer transfer body and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080181631 - Image forming device: A control device executes toner concentration control that controls an operation of a developing device such that a value of detection output detected by a concentration detecting device falls within a predetermined range. Moreover, when controlling drive of a first driving device, which drives at least an image carrier, and... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20080181632 - Image forming apparatus and method thereof: An image forming apparatus to prevent overheating of a fuser. In the image forming apparatus, a first overheating prevention unit compares the voltage detected by a temperature sensor, which senses temperature of the fuser, with a reference voltage and turns off the fuser when it overheats. A controller receives the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080181633 - Waste toner detecting device, image forming apparatus having the same, and method thereof: An image forming apparatus to check an amount of waste toner stored in a waste toner container in stages. The image forming apparatus includes a main body, a waste toner container which is installed in the main body to store waste toner, a light emitting part which emits light to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080181634 - Image forming apparatus with accurate correction of color misalignment: An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to cause a light emitting device to emit light, to cause a light receiving device to receive the light reflected by an object, and to produce a detection signal having a varying signal level responsive to an intensity of the received... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20080181635 - Image forming method and image forming apparatus: In an image forming method, an intermediate transfer body made of an endless flexible member is rotated, and an image is formed on a surface of a transfer member by undergoing a secondary transfer of a developer image onto a second transfer position from the intermediate transfer body to the... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20080181636 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus for transferring a toner image onto a sheet by applying a transfer bias voltage to the sheet through a transfer member, there is provided a technique of preventing poor transfer from occurring by suitably controlling the transfer bias voltage according to a processing condition. The... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181637 - Printing apparatus, print control apparatus, and print control method: An apparatus operable to perform printing and connected to a control apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store paper information including paper identification information and paper attribute information, an identification unit configured to identify alternate paper information corresponding to paper information from the paper information stored in the storage... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080181638 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member on which an electrostatic image is to be formed; a developing device for accommodating a developer including toner and a carrier and for developing the electrostatic image with the developer; a developer supply container, detachably mountable to a main assembly of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080181639 - Image formation device and image formation method: An image formation device, which can properly execute an image formation process even if at least any one of plural fixing units included in the image formation device cannot be used due to a breakdown or the like, is provided. In the image formation device, if a first fixing unit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080181642 - Heating device, fixing device, method of controlling temperature of heating member, and image forming apparatus: A heating device heats, by electromagnetic induction heating, a heating member disposed in a fixing device for use in an image forming apparatus. The fixing device heats and fixes an image on a recording material while nipping and transporting the recording material. The heating device includes an exciting coil that... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080181643 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing member; a pressing member abutting against the fixing member; a first temperature detection unit for detecting a temperature of the fixing member; a heating member for heating the fixing member; a power control unit for controlling power supplied to the heating member; a... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20080181644 - Image forming apparatus: A printer is provided that is capable of accurately detecting whether a recording medium is remaining even where a temperature changes rapidly. The printer has a fusing unit rotating to fuse a developer attached to a recording medium P onto the recording medium P with heat, a heater applying heat... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080181640 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device including a heater to which electric power is fed from a commercial power supply and a temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the heater, an auxiliary power supply that is charged by the commercial power supply and discharges electricity to a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181641 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus according to the invention includes an image forming apparatus main body and at least one option apparatus that is mounted on the main body when functions are extended. The main body includes a main power supply unit that converts a commercial power supply into a predetermined... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181645 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus including fixing device: A fixing device includes a fixing member, pressure member, first temperature detector, and pressure adjustment mechanism. The pressure member presses against the fixing member to form a nip though which a recording medium bearing a toner image thereon is conveyed. The first temperature detector detects a temperature of the fixing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181646 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device includes an image-forming unit, a test image memory, a test image forming unit, a density measuring unit, an abnormality determining unit, a test image re-forming unit, and a density re-measuring unit. The image-forming unit forms an image on a recording medium based on inputted image data. The... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080181647 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprising: an image bearing member; a toner image forming means forming a toner image on the image bearing member, using light toners, and dark toners which have a same hue as that of the light toners and are darker than the light toners; a transfer means... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080181648 - Image forming apparatus and image forming process controlling method: An image forming apparatus that performs a predetermined process according to a motion state of a user includes a schedule-information acquiring unit 101 that acquires information on a schedule of the user, a user estimating unit 102 that estimates, on the basis of the information acquired by the schedule-information acquiring... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181649 - Method for analyzing print/copy job: A method for analyzing a print/copy job is disclosed. In this method, an actual page count of a print/copy job is recorded, and a total toner coverage for the print/copy job is compiled. Then, a total toner coverage page count is obtained via a computation using a predetermined threshold value... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080181650 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus of the invention has a connection port to which portable storage media (USB memories), each having stored therein a different kind of identification information, are connectable and a storage device (an HDD). The storage device (the HDD) includes a management table in which user information for... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181651 - Image forming apparatus provided with function to calculate charge based on the number of sheets printed, print system including image forming apparatus, method for counting the number of sheets printed executed by image forming apparatus, and program for: In order to properly count the number of sheets printed which serves as the basis on which a charge is calculated, an MFP that acts as a designated printer includes a job accepting portion to accept a print job, a job executing portion to carry out printing based on the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080181652 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus performs prints image data. A dividing section divides the image data of a print job into a plurality of sub data areas m(i) (i=1 to n). A duty computing section computes a print duty for each of the plurality of sub data areas (m(1)-m(n)) based on... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080181653 - Integrated system for managing production of remote printing and other information distribution tasks: A system assigns a plurality of printing or other information distribution jobs to a plurality of medium units for processing. The system includes an input interface module receiving from customers, specification data files each specifying an information display job in a specification file signal. The input interface module selects for... Agent: Nawrocki, Rooney & Sivertson Suite 401, Broadway Place East

20080181654 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of maintaining cleaning performance of a cleaning brush and downsizing the apparatus main body. Transfer residual toner accumulated on the cleaning brush is transferred onto a photoreceptor by an electrostatic force, hence the cleaning brush becomes clean and the cleaning performance thereof improves. Therefore, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181655 - Image forming apparatus: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus in which the cleaning performance of a cleaning brush is preserved over time while affording a smaller apparatus main body. During a print job, toner recovered from a charging roller to a cleaning brush is transferred from the cleaning brush to a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181656 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member which carries an electrostatic latent image; a charger comprising a charging wire extended in a direction parallel to an axial direction of the photosensitive member, the charger serving to charge the photosensitive member, and a promoting... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080181657 - Methods and apparatus for remanufacturing toner cartridges: A device for manufacturing a printer cartridge, the printer cartridge having a doctor blade and a developer roller, the doctor blade being configured to regulate the amount of toner delivered to the developer roller, the device comprising: (a) first surface, the first surface lying on a first plane; and (b)... Agent: Roland Tong

20080181658 - Image forming apparatus capable of preventing damage during mounting of photosensitive-member unit: A photosensitive-member unit includes a plurality of photosensitive members arranged in a first direction. The photosensitive-member unit is movable in the first direction to be mounted to or dismounted from a mount position in an apparatus main body. A positioning member is fixed to the apparatus main body and is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080181659 - Developing cartridge and image forming apparatus including the same: A developing cartridge includes a photosensitive body, a developing unit which is disposed in parallel with the photosensitive body to develop the photosensitive body by toner, a cleaning unit to clean waste toner attached to the photosensitive body, a charging unit to charge the photosensitive body, and a supporting casing... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080181660 - Developing device: A developing device includes a developer carrier, a developing case and a toner cartridge. The toner cartridge includes a toner case including a first opening and a first blocking member. The developing case includes a second opening, a second blocking member and an opening/closing member. The opening/closing member is swingable... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080181661 - Developing device and toner cartridge: A developing device includes a developing roller that supplies developer, a developing case that supports the developing roller, a toner cartridge that houses the developer and is attachable to and detachable from the developing case in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the developing roller, an abutting member... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080181662 - Apparatus for adjusting fixing pressure and image forming apparauts having the same: An apparatus for adjusting a fixing pressure of an image forming apparatus is provided. The apparatus for adjusting the fixing pressure includes a pair of pressing members to rotatably support an axis of a first roller from both ends and to rotate about a hinge shaft to cause the first... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080181663 - Photosensitive drum unit and image forming apparatus capable of suppressing registration error: A photosensitive drum unit includes a frame and a plurality of photosensitive drums. The plurality of photosensitive drums is supported by the frame and has a shape identical with one another. Each of the plurality of photosensitive drums is rotatable about a rotational axis. The plurality of photosensitive drums is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

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20080181665 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a toner storage part which stores a conductive and magnetic toner, a developing part which is accommodated in the toner storage part and generates magnetism, a hollow imaging drum which comprises a drum shaft parallel with the developing part, and a plurality of electrodes to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080181666 - Image forming apparatus, charger, and image carrier unit: An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier that rotates; and a charging member that is provided opposingly to the image carrier, and that charges a surface of the image carrier, wherein a discharge inhibitor that suppresses a discharge in an axial end portion is interposed in a portion where... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080181667 - Line head and an image forming apparatus using the line head: A line head, includes: a lens array in which a plurality of imaging lenses whose absolute value of magnification is m are arranged in a longitudinal direction which corresponds to a main scanning direction for a surface-to-be-scanned; and a plurality of luminous element groups which are disposed in one-to-one correspondence... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080181668 - Exposing device and image forming apparatus incorporating the same: An exposing device includes a light source that emits scanning light, a polygonal rotating mirror that scans and deflects the scanning light in a specific scanning direction, a reflection mirror that reflects the scanning light that has been scanned and deflected at plural reflection points aligned in a specific direction... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080181669 - Apparatus and method of driving developing unit and image forming apparatus employing the same: A developing unit driving apparatus which drives a developing unit having a toner cartridge to accommodate a toner, a developing part disposed in the toner cartridge to develop the toner to a photosensitive body, and a toner supplying part provided in the toner cartridge to supply the toner to the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080181670 - Developing device and image forming apparatus using same: A developing device which can stably supply a developer to a latent image carrier by preventing the scattered developer from being discharged and thereby preventing the developer from being discharged despite that the amount of developer within the developing device does not increase, and an image forming apparatus using the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181671 - Liquid separator, liquid mixture supplying system adopting such liquid separator and image forming apparatus: A liquid separator is a device for separating and extracting a dispersoid and a dispersion medium from a liquid sample containing the dispersoid and the dispersion medium. The liquid separator has a liquid storage container capable of storing the liquid sample; an electrode roller including a rotary shaft, arranged to... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080181672 - Development apparatus and image forming apparatus: There is provided a development apparatus which enables stable agitation and discharge of a developer from a developer discharge port, and an image forming apparatus including this development apparatus. The development apparatus which supplies the developer to a development roller and conveys the developer while agitating it, includes a developer... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181673 - Toner path opening and closing apparatus, image forming device having the same and toner path opening and closing method thereof: A toner path opening and closing apparatus of an image forming device includes a first shutter elastically supported by a first elastic member to open and close a first toner path, and a second shutter elastically supported by a second elastic member having an elastic modulus smaller than the first... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080181674 - Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus: A toner cartridge includes a toner container which contains toner, the toner container having at one end portion thereof a discharge port which discharges the toner, and a member which is attached to an outer peripheral surface of the one end portion. The member has a first part which is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080181675 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrying member, a two-component developer carrying member holding on an outer surface a developer containing carrier beads and toner particles, the two-component developer carrying member having a first magnetic element mounted therein, a toner carrying member carrying a thin toner layer on... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080181676 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device using a magnetic mono-component developing agent includes a rotary sleeve that accommodates a stationary magnet, and a toner layer thickness regulating member that regulates a thickness of a toner layer formed on the rotary sleeve. The toner layer thickness regulating member includes a blade formed of a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080181677 - Developing unit and image forming apparatus using the same: A developing unit for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the outer peripheral surface of a latent image bearer rotating in one direction utilizes an electrified developer that is prepared by mixing two components, or an electrostatically chargeable toner and magnetic carrier. The developing unit includes a developing roller... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080181678 - Developing apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A developing apparatus detachably mountable to an electrophotographic image forming apparatus having a latent image forming unit provided below a photosensitive drum in the gravitational direction, includes a first regulating member for regulating the developer from flying along an axial longitudinal of the developing roller, and a second regulating member... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080181679 - Development apparatus: A development apparatus includes a first base member which bears and conveys a developer and which develops an electrostatic image in a first developing region, a restriction member which restricts a layer thickness of the developer borne by the first basemember, and a second base member which bears and conveys... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080181680 - Digital offset printing method, electrophotographic machine and software for causing an electrophotographic machine to carry out such a method: The present invention provides a digital offset printing method for producing a composite image on a substrate wherein the image is made up of a first plurality number of component images, each being formed from a different ink. The method comprises providing a first component image on a first surface,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181681 - Locking apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same: A locking apparatus includes a lever unit disposed at an intermediate transfer belt frame to cause an intermediate transfer belt to contact a photosensitive medium; a locking unit disposed at a supporting cover to cause the supporting cover to be fixed to and separated from an engine frame; and a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080181682 - Transfer apparatus and image forming device having the same: A transfer apparatus compensates for a floating movement of the a transfer belt, and an image forming device includes the transfer apparatus. The image forming device includes an image forming device body having an image forming unit, and a transfer apparatus to transfer an image formed by the image forming... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080181683 - Transfer unit, photoconductor cartridge and image forming apparatus: A transfer unit includes a transfer roller. The transfer roller includes an electrically conductive rotation shaft, a conductive elastic layer for covering a periphery of the rotation shaft, and a semiconductive cover layer provided between the rotation shaft and the elastic layer at least in both end portions in an... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080181684 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing device that causes a toner image to be fixed onto a recording medium; an opposing unit that is disposed opposing the fixing device and forms a conveyance path in between the fixing device, the recording medium being conveyable on the conveyance path; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080181685 - Fixing device and fixing method: A fixing device comprising a fixing unit comprising a heat source for fixing a toner image on a sheet in a state of being out of contact with the sheet, and a contact prevention unit preventing contact of the fixing unit and the sheet.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080181687 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes a heating section, a fixing belt, a pressing section and a cooling section. The heating section includes a first layer which is partially deformed when the first layer is pressed and which is restored when the first layer is not pressed. The fixing belt includes a... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080181686 - Fuser assembly including a nip release mechanism: A fuser assembly is provided comprising first and second fuser structures, drive apparatus and nip engagement and release apparatus. The first fuser structure comprises a heated rotatable member and first structure for supporting the heated rotatable member. The second fuser structure comprises a rotatable backup member positioned adjacent the heated... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080181688 - Image forming apparatus and method of cooling recording material: An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing section that heats an image formed on a recording material to fix the image to the recording material; a first cooling section that cools the recording material to which the image is fixed; and a second cooling section that cools the recording material... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080181689 - Lubricant application device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus using the lubricant application device: A lubricant application device includes a lubricant, a lubricant supplier, a lubricant smoother, and a sealing member. The lubricant is supplied to a surface of an image carrier for carrying a toner image. The lubricant supplier is provided downstream from a cleaning blade for removing residual toner after the toner... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181690 - Cleaning device and image forming apparatus using the same: A cleaning device excellent in cleaning performance and durability and an image forming apparatus using the same are provided. The cleaning device includes an edge part coming into contact with the surface of the image carrier; the edge part is made of an elastic expanded body having an expanded cell;... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080181691 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording medium, includes: an electrophotographic photosensitive member having a photoconductive layer on a rigid base; an exposure device forming a latent image on the electrophotographic photosensitive member; a developer carrying member that carries a developer to develop the latent image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080181692 - Toner conveying device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A toner conveying device includes a toner hopper for containing unused toner, a waste-toner hopper for containing waste toner, and waste-toner conveying screws that convey waste toner in the waste-toner hopper. The waste-toner hopper is separated from the toner hopper by a flexible partition made of elastic material. The flexible... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080181693 - Hard imaging devices and hard imaging methods: Hard imaging devices and hard imaging methods are described. According to one embodiment, a hard imaging device includes an image engine configured to provide a marking agent upon media to form hard images, and a media sensing system configured to sense the media and to provide at least one signal... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080181694 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance unit that conveys plural single cut-sheet recording media arrayed along a direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction; and an image forming unit that forms an image on the plural single cut-sheet recording media conveyed by the conveyance unit.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080181695 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that includes an image reading part, an image forming part, a sheet discharge part, and a sheet stack part. The image reading part has a front surface located on a downstream side in a discharge direction of a sheet relative to a front of the sheet... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080181696 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method using the same: An image forming apparatus and an image forming method using the same. The image forming apparatus includes a discharge unit which has a driving roller rotating in forward and reverse directions and first and second driven rollers engaged with the driving roller to rotate together therewith, a duplex print unit... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080181697 - Recording material charging apparatus and image forming apparatus: A recording material charging apparatus comprises: a pre-transcription charging section arranged between a transcribing section that transcribes a toner image retained by a toner image retaining body on a recording material having concavity and convexity and a conveying section that conveys the recording material to the transcribing section and is... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080181698 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image reading part configured to read image information on an original document, an image forming part configured to form an image on a sheet according to the image information, a sheet discharge part configured to discharge the sheet on which the image is formed... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080181699 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus to form an image on a sheet media, including: a memory section which memorizes a position of holes previously punched on the sheet media; an operation section via which the sheet media to be used for image formation, a double-surface print operation and a binding direction... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080181700 - Image processing system: An image processing system has a post-processing apparatus that can perform a stapling process. The post-processing apparatus is provided with: a processing tray on which a sheet of paper to be subjected to the stapling process is temporarily placed; a stapler performing the stapling process for the sheet of paper... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080181701 - Sheet post-processing apparatus and image forming system comprising the same: A post-processing apparatus for transferring sheets from a sheet carry-in port to a first post-processing section and a second post-processing section to execute post-processing such as stapling and sheet folding on the sheets, includes a sheet carry-in path located in a substantially horizontal direction. The sheets fed to the carry-in... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080175604 - Reusable image forming medium and apparatus for reusing the image forming medium: For a sheet paper used for forming a toner image or ink image, a surface layer that can be stripped is stacked on a plastic layer. A sliding member is caused to slide in contact with the plastic layer of the used sheet paper on which a toner image or... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080175605 - Light-emitting device, image-printing device, and manufacturing method of sealing member: A light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements, an element substrate on which the plurality of light-emitting elements are disposed, a plate-shaped sealing member having a lens array in which a plurality of lenses is arranged and sealing the plurality of light-emitting elements together with the element substrate, and... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080175606 - Apparatus for discriminating the types of recording material and an apparatus for forming image: The present invention provides an apparatus for discriminating the type of recording material. The apparatus comprises a component irradiating a piece of recording material with light, a sensor picking up an image of the recording material surface by receiving light reflecting off the recording material, a component converting the picked-up... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080175607 - System prompt of dual top tray/purge tray prior to output/purged sheets being sent to the top tray: A method and system for allowing user control of tray usage policy. In the event that a system purge signal is generated, indicating a purge of existing product in the production pathway, and a system sensor indicates that a tray is not empty, production output will be delayed until a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc.

20080175608 - Image forming apparatus and method thereof: According to an aspect of the invention, an image forming apparatus having a plurality of processing velocities is characterized by a control for determining the image forming process conditions by redefining a first approximate expression for estimating the unexposed surface potential value Vo of a photoconductive drum as a continuous... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080175609 - Image forming apparatus: A ROM (18) stores image forming driver information associated with a plurality of size groups into which a plurality of sets of sheet sizes close to each other are respectively sorted. When a sheet size of an image transfer sheet designated by an operator through an operating section (19) and... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080175611 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided having a mechanism that toner density of a toner image is automatically adjusted based on a toner patch. In an image forming apparatus including a document conveying section, a document reading section, an image forming section, a sheet discharging section, a sheet feeding section,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080175610 - Reflective sensor sampling for tone reproduction control regulation: A method of monitoring one or more patches in an image-processing device comprised of photoreceptor, a controller, and a sensor, includes obtaining specular readings and diffuse readings from the one or more patches and computing values received from the readings. In addition, the one or more patches are from about... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc.

20080175612 - Motor control device and image forming apparatus: A motor control device includes a pair of rotating members, a driving motor, and a timer-controller. The pair of rotating members nips and conveys a recording medium. The driving motor drives at least one rotating member of the pair of rotating members. The timer-controller calculates a time at which the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080175613 - Fixing apparatus: A fixing apparatus comprising: a heating member; a belt that comes in contact with the heating member to form a nip portion; a pressing member that presses the belt against the heating member, wherein a sheet carrying a toner image is interposed at the nip portion formed by the heating... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080175614 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, including an image forming section, a fixing unit, a memory section and a control section having a cleaning mode, wherein after the sheet is conveyed to the image forming section, the control section controls the image forming section not to form an image on the sheet,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080175616 - Printing system, printing method and printer driver: There is described a printing system in which a computer terminal device and an image forming apparatus are coupled to each other through a communication network. The computer terminal device includes: an apparatus information acquiring section to acquire apparatus information that includes information in regard to a kind of paper-sheet... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080175615 - System and method for generating a user customizable default user interface for a document processing device: The subject application is directed to a system and method for generating a user customizable default user interface for a document processing device. First, screen data representing each of a plurality of different user interfaces is stored. Each user interface includes visual representations of a unique subset of controls associated... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080175617 - Cleaning device: A cleaning device includes: a first shaft; a cleaning roller which is operable to come into contact with a surface of a photosensitive drum, and is integrally rotated with the first shaft; a pressing member for pressing the cleaning roller against the surface of the photosensitive drum; a second shaft;... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080175618 - Cleaning apparatus and image forming apparatus: There is provided a cleaning apparatus capable of preventing counter-bending of a stripper blade in a more reliable manner. The cleaning apparatus removes toner from a circulation mechanism having a circulating surface that circulates in a two-dimensional manner around one pivotal shaft or two or more pivotal shafts parallel to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080175619 - Transfer assembly and image forming apparatus including same: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers and a transfer assembly. The transfer assembly includes a plurality of transferees, a supporter, and a plurality of transferee holders. The plurality of transferers is each configured to electrostatically transfer a toner image carried on one of the image carriers... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080175620 - Upper frame opening and closing mechanism, and image forming apparatus using the same: An upper frame opening and closing mechanism, including an upper frame pivotally attached to a main body, which may include an image forming device, so as to open and close on a hinge, which receives a moment in an opening direction due to gravity when the upper frame is opened... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080175621 - Belt driving device and image forming apparatus: A plurality of supporting rollers over which the endless belt member is supported includes at least a driving roller that drives the endless belt member and a driven roller that is driven by a rotation of the endless belt member. A detecting unit detects a plurality of marks provided on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080175622 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus in the present invention includes an automatic document feeder (ADF) for carrying an original document, a scanner unit and a printer unit, the scanner unit includes a carriage having a light source unit for exposing and scanning the original document and is capable of operating in... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080175623 - Developing cartridge and image forming apparatus including the same: A developing cartridge includes a body frame, a photosensitive body having a shaft, a developing unit having a shaft in parallel to the photosensitive body, a driven part that is rotatably joined to the shaft of the developing unit, a transmission part that has a transmission shaft in parallel to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080175624 - Image forming apparatus having a drive source disposed in an area orthogonal to a rotation axis of a developing device: An image forming apparatus includes a rotary developing device having a developing device main body rotatably disposed and a plurality of developing units arranged along a rotation direction of the developing device main body, a frame for supporting the rotary developing device in free rotation, and a drive source for... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080175625 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing apparatus for visualizing an electrostatic latent image on an electrostatic latent image bearing member by using a developer including toner and carrier particles, has a developer including toner and carrier particles, a first transport member, a second transport member positioned to oppose to the first transport member across... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080175626 - Developing device, process unit, and image forming apparatus: A developing device that prevents the formation of agglomerated masses of developing agent in the bottom of the developing agent housing chamber near the developing roller and the supply roller, and that maintains the fluidity of the developing agent in the bottom of the developing agent housing chamber, while minimizing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080175627 - Image-forming device capable of positioning developing unit and developer cartridge precisely: An image-forming device includes a casing, a process unit, a first shutter, a toner cartridge, a second shutter, and a wall. The process unit is detachably mounted in the casing and formed with a first opening, the process unit having a developer roller carrying a toner. The first shutter opens... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080175628 - Powder filling method, powder container, developer replenishing device, developer replenishing method, and image forming apparatus: A powder filling method, which fills at least two kinds of powders with different specific gravities into a powder container, and by which a region having only a powder with the highest specific gravity out of the at least two kinds of powders is prevented from being generated in the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080175629 - Toner container, developer replenishing device, and image forming apparatus: A toner container adapted for containing toner includes a first side wall and a second side wall opposed to each other. The toner container longitudinally extends between the first side wall and the second side wall and includes a handle to be held when the container is attached to or... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080175631 - Contact pressure setting method and image forming apparatus: A contact pressure setting method of setting a contact pressure between contact members of an image forming apparatus. A film member is inserted into a gap between the contact members and the contact pressure is set so that a pulling force to pull out the film member lies within a... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080175630 - Developing device, and image forming method and process cartridge using the developing device: A developing device including a developing roller facing an image bearing member and a toner layer thickness control member to control an amount of a toner adhered to the developing roller, so that an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member is developed with the toner to form... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080175632 - Fixing unit and image forming apparatus using the same: There is provided an image forming apparatus in which abrasion powder produced from a resin bush of a heat roller of a fixing unit is prevented from flying onto the heat roller and the like, an image defect is not caused, and its life is long. A fixing unit 100... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080175633 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the fixing device: A fixing device and an image forming apparatus including the fixing device. The fixing device includes a heat source, an endless, flexible fixing member to fix a toner image by heating and melting the toner image onto a recording medium, a pressure member to press against the fixing member, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080175634 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive medium to be charged with a predetermined potential by a charging member, an exposing unit to expose the photosensitive medium to vary a charging level of the photosensitive medium, a developing unit to form an image for one or more colors on the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080175635 - Method and apparatus for image forming and effectively applying lubricant to an image bearing member: A lubricant supplying device including a molded lubricant having a Martens hardness of about 40 N/mm2 to about 70 N/mm2 measured with a test force of 50 mN and a load-applying period of 30 seconds, a rotative member including a fibrous brush of a thickness of about 5 deniers to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080175636 - Computer readable recording medium stored with control program for controlling image forming apparatus, image forming apparatus, and method executed in the image forming apparatus: The invention provides the user a first insertion page position setting part that allows a user to designate insertion page positions that respectively indicate pages at which first tab sheets are to be inserted, and a second insertion page position setting part that allows the user to designate insertion page... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080175637 - Image forming apparatus: In a printer, a scanner unit is formed into a taper shape having a thinner thickness on a side of a pick-up roller in a removing direction of a process unit, to allow the process unit to be removed from the printer. A part of a sheet feeding path is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080175638 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for preventing sheet jams and displacement of image formation when forming images on both front and rear sides is provided. The apparatus includes first and second width regulation mechanisms, a reverse transport mechanism, and a link mechanism. The first width regulation mechanism is provided within a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080175639 - Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: The object of the present invention is to provide a sheet processing apparatus for passing sheets between an upper jaw and a lower jaw of a binder that is fixed on a intermediate stacking portion and stapling the ends of the sheet, wherein binding processing is possible for a large... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080175640 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided with a box-shaped apparatus main body internally including an image forming assembly; an image reader arranged atop the apparatus main body; an operation unit arranged before the image reader for giving specified operation information on an image forming operation; a discharge unit arranged between... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080170866 - System and methods for universal imaging components: A universal cartridge chip for use with an imaging process cartridge installed in an imaging device is disclosed. The universal cartridge chip includes a memory storing imaging process cartridge data. The universal cartridge chip may be installed on the imaging process cartridge in a first orientation or a second orientation.... Agent: William L. London

20080170867 - Image forming apparatus and power supplying method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming part that forms an image on a recording medium and includes a plurality of photoconductors, a plurality of charging parts that charges the photoconductors, a plurality of developing parts that develops the charged photoconductors, and a plurality of static electricity erasing parts... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080170868 - Image forming method, image forming apparatus and toner image pattern: An image forming method exposes image bearing members by simultaneously reflecting light beams from light sources, corresponding to different colors, by different reflection surfaces of a polygon mirror which has reflection surfaces and is rotated in one direction, transforms electrostatic latent images formed on each of the image bearing members... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20080170870 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor, a charging unit which charges the photoreceptor; an exposing unit which forms a latent image onto the photoreceptor; a developing unit which develops the latent image to a toner image; a sensor which detects a line width of a toner patch formed on... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080170869 - Mass-based sensing of charging knee for active control of charger settings: A xerographic marking engine adjusts a charging actuator, such as an AC peak-to-peak voltage or an AC peak-to-peak AC current, based upon toner patch density measurements made using, e.g., a toner patch density sensor. The sensor is used to detect a knee in a toner mass density curve obtained by... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080170871 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: Image forming apparatus in which surface electric potentials of a plurality of surface areas are detected by charging a photoconductor with a different applied bias for each predetermined timing and exposing a plurality of surface areas of the photoconductor by scanning the photoconductor with an optical beam, while changing an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080170872 - Image forming apparatus: In order to simultaneously prevent both curl generation and fixation performance deterioration upon both-surface image formation of a recording medium P, a fixation temperature control means which subjects a transporting-direction trailing end region of a first surface (front surface) of the recording medium P to fixation at a low heating... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20080170873 - Original conveying apparatus, original conveying program, and original conveying method: The present invention provides an original conveying apparatus, an original conveying program, and an original conveying method that can change a conveying angle of an original with respect to a scanning point of a scanning apparatus to an angle suitable for removing a foreign matter on the scanning point and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080170874 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and computer readable recording medium storing program: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which registers jobs in an order of acceptance of the jobs and which carries out an image forming process and a post-processing for a recording medium according to a content of the registered jobs comprising a comparing unit to compare a time needed for... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080170875 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a main frame having a first driving force transmitting part, and a first electrode to supply power, a developing cartridge mounted to the main frame, and having a second driving force transmitting part engaged to the first driving force transmitting part to receive a driving... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080170876 - Developing unit and image forming apparatus using the same: A developing unit for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the outer peripheral surface of a latent image bearing member rotating in one direction with a developer by mixing electrostatically chargeable toner and magnetic carrier, includes: a developing roller; a carrier collecting roller; a cooling portion including a forced... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080170877 - Printer dynamically monitoring printer environment contamination: An printer, such as a state of the art a high performance, electro-photographic printer. The printer includes at least one smart material sensor enclosed in the printer enclosure that monitors for the presence of a contaminant (e.g., toner or developer) above a selected threshold. Each smart material sensor is coupled... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. - Infoprint

20080170878 - Cleaning device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A cleaning device including a polarity control unit to control a charge polarity of residual toner particles, a cleaning member, a surface of which is movable, to electrostatically remove the residual toner particles, provided on a downstream side from the polarity control unit relative to a surface moving direction of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080170879 - Seal and seal assembly for an image forming apparatus: A seal assembly may be used to seal an interface between a roller and a frame in an image forming apparatus. The seal assembly may include an end seal configured to seal an end of a doctor blade in contact with the roller and a roll seal configured to seal... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20080170880 - Developing apparatus, process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus: A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of the electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The main assembly includes first and second transmitters, a cartridge positioner, a movable member, and a lock. The cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a drum coupler transmitting a first driving force... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080170881 - Developing-transferring module and image forming apparatus having the same: A developing-transferring module includes a sub frame which is detachably mounted to a main frame, a plurality of photosensitive units which are disposed inside the sub frame with a predetermined interval and includes a photosensitive body to which a developer is attached, and a intermediate transferring unit which are provided... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080170882 - Photosensitive member cartridge, developer cartridge and process cartridge: A developer cartridge including a frame, a developer housing section, a developer supplying section, a developer electrode, and an input gear is provided. The frame includes a first side wall and a second side wall, and the first side wall and the second side wall extend substantially in a length... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080170883 - Image-forming device and developing method thereof: A developing method improves the printed image quality of an image-forming device by removing surplus charge potential to make the surface potential of a photoreceptor charged during first and second charging steps be the same for next developing, or by inputting different voltages to the developing units. An image-forming device... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080170884 - Belt driving controller, belt rotating device, and image forming apparatus: A belt driving controller is disclosed. The belt driving controller controls driving of a belt that is wound around plural sustaining rollers by controlling a driving sustaining roller that transmits a driving force to the belt. In two sustaining rollers, a calculating method for recognizing a PLD (pitch line distance)... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080170885 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device in which a developer is supplied to a developing roller and the developer is carried while it is stirred, includes: a developer passage through which the developer can be carried; a carrying member which is provided in the developer passage and has a rotary shaft and a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080170886 - Image forming unit and image forming apparatus: An image forming unit includes an image forming unit main body; and a developer storage unit detachably attached to the image forming unit main body. The image forming unit main body includes a developer retaining space for retaining developer and a supply opening for supplying developer to the developer retaining... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20080170887 - Toner container, developer replenishing device, and image forming apparatus: A toner container for containing toner includes a toner discharge hole, a toner conveyance screw for conveying the toner within the container toward the toner discharge hole, a driving force transmitting portion for transmitting a driving force to the toner conveying screw, and a plurality of supporting legs for supporting... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080170888 - Toner container and developer replenishing device: A toner container for containing toner includes a first side wall and a second side wall opposite to each other; a toner discharge hole; an agitator for agitating the toner, the agitator rotatable around an agitating shaft bridged between the first side wall and the second side wall; a bearing... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080170889 - Toner container and developer replenishing device: A toner container contains toner and includes: a container having a toner discharge hole; a toner conveyance screw for conveying the toner within the container toward the toner discharge hole; and a shutter cylinder including a peripheral wall formed with a toner discharge opening at a position corresponding to the... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080170890 - Toner container and developer replenishing device: A toner container for containing toner includes a toner discharge hole, a toner conveyance screw for conveying toner within the container toward the toner discharge hole, an agitator with an agitating blade for agitating the toner, and a recessed screw accommodation portion recessed in a bottom of the container for... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080170891 - Magnetic particle carrying device, and developing unit, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus using the same, and surface treatment method of the same: A magnetic particle carrying device includes a magnetic field generator and a hollow cylindrical structure. The magnetic field generator generates a magnetic field. The hollow cylindrical structure encases the magnetic field generator and attracts magnetic particles on an external surface of the hollow structure using the magnetic field. The external... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170892 - Auto color registration apparatus and method thereof: An auto color registration apparatus and a method thereof capable of improving the precision of a color registration operation, the auto color registration apparatus includes: a color image sensing module to sense color image patterns printed on a transfer belt; a first correction value calculating module to calculate a first... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080170893 - Image forming apparatus and toner manufacturing method: An image forming apparatus comprises toner with a coloring agent including magnetic powder as a nucleus arranged on a surface of one side of each toner particle, a toner image forming medium on which a toner image is formed using the toner, and a magnetic substance arranged at an opposite... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080170894 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus equipped with the same: A fixing device for image forming apparatus includes: a first nip member in a shape of an endless belt and a second nip member that rotates while pressed against the first nip member. A heat source heats at least one of the nip members. A pressure receiver receives pressure applied... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080170895 - Fusing roller and method of manufacturing the same, fusing unit employing the fusing roller, and image forming apparatus employing the fusing unit: A fusing roller which is heated by a heat source, includes: a core member; a first primer which is formed on a circumference of the core member; an elastic layer which is formed on a circumference of the first primer, and adhered on the circumference of the core member by... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080170896 - Release-promoting agent, fixing device, and image forming apparatus: f

20080170897 - Lubricant applicator, process cartridge and image forming apparatus including the same: An image forming apparatus includes a lubricant applicator and a process cartridge using the same. The lubricant applicator includes a solid lubricant, a lubricant retainer, a lubricant holder, a lubricant application mechanism, a pressure mechanism, a friction resistance reduction mechanism. The lubricant retainer holds the solid lubricant. The lubricant holder... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080170898 - Powder conveyance device, toner conveyance device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A powder conveyance device capable of removing toner (powder) stuck to a conveyor belt easily and reliably comprises a powder conveyor belt having a plurality of concavo-convex portions formed continuously on a conveyance surface thereof, driving means for driving the conveyor belt, and a scraping member that contacts the conveyor... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080166139 - Consumable supplying member and toner container: A toner container is detachably mountable into an apparatus main body of an image forming apparatus provided with a window for enabling the interior of a casing to be seen and is provided with a container main body for storing toner particles, a visual confirmation portion constituting a part of... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080166137 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus acquires a type of consumable material possessed by the image forming apparatus using a library provided in an application platform, displays forms capable of printing using the type of consumable material acquired, and forms an image using one or more forms designated from among the displayed... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080166138 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus and method for setting printing function: Disclosed is an image forming system, which comprises an image forming apparatus, and a toner container mountable to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a control section, and an information acquisition section which acquires the toner-quality information about a toner container which is demountably mounted thereto. The... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080166140 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof having main scan length correcting feature: To detect differences in the main-scanning length of each beam on a photosensitive member, patterns for correction are formed on the photosensitive member using only beams (L1, LN) at both ends among a plurality of beams aligned in a sub-scanning direction. The patterns are transferred onto an intermediate transfer belt... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080166141 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has a main body with a casing and performs an image forming operation. A sheet receiving surface constitutes part of the casing and can receive a sheet discharged after an image forming process is performed. A window is provided on the sheet receiving surface for enabling... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080166142 - Control device and method for controlling an electrophotographic printer or copier: In a method or system for controlling an electrophotographic printer or copier that has at least one developer station, a toner discharge from the developer station is detected during the print operation and a developer regeneration process is started when the detected toner discharge fulfills a predetermined first regeneration criterion.... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080166143 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A technology for controlling the generation of damages of a photoconductive surface caused due to the attachment of a carrier to a photoconductor in an image forming apparatus using a two-component developing agent is provided. An image forming apparatus is configured to include an intermediate transfer body having prescribed elasticity... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080166144 - Method and apparatus to store information on amount of toner used, and image forming device using the same: A method and apparatus to store information on an amount of toner used. The method includes determining whether a customer replaceable unit monitor (CRUM) memory to store information on an amount of used toner is included in a cartridge of an image forming device; storing the information on the amount... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080166145 - Image forming apparatus and apparatus for receiving consumable supplying member: An image forming apparatus is provided with an apparatus main body having a casing structure and adapted to perform an image forming operation, a window provided on a casing of the apparatus main body for enabling the interior of the apparatus main body to be seen, and an indicator provided... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080166146 - Image forming apparatus and transfer method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a moving unit including a conveyer belt which moves a printing medium, an attraction unit to attract the printing medium to the conveyer belt, a transferring unit to transfer developer onto the printing medium, a power supply which supplies transfer power and attraction power to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080166147 - Image forming device to perform auto color registration and method thereof: An image forming device to perform an auto color registration. The image forming device includes a print unit capable of performing a print job in accordance with a plurality of print modes, a color registration processing unit to perform an auto color registration (ACR), a storage unit to store color... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080166148 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus in which a reduction in image density when continuous sheet supply endurance is effected under a low-humidity environment is prevented, and under a high-humidity environment, an image deletion is prevented. A photosensitive member has an undercoat layer, a charge generating layer and a charge transport... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080166149 - Drive device, led array, led head, and image forming apparatus provided therewith: A drive device for outputting a drive signal for driving a plurality of light emitting elements time-divisionally, the drive device includes a plurality of input terminals receiving input of a drive control signal for the light emitting elements, and a plurality of output terminals connected to the light emitting elements,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080166150 - Image forming apparatus and method of preventing color misregister therein: Provided is an image forming apparatus (1) having polygon mirrors (82) each forming an electrostatic latent image by scanning a photoconductive drum provided in an image forming unit (50a, 50b); and polygon motors (80) each driving and rotating the polygon mirror, the image forming apparatus (1) forming an image by... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080166151 - Cleaning apparatus, and transfer unit and image forming apparatus including the same: A transfer unit of an image forming apparatus includes a belt to receive an image developed on a photosensitive medium while rotating in a regular cycle and in contact with an outer circumference of at least one photosensitive medium. A blade arm, which is installed adjacent to the belt, moves... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080166152 - Image forming apparatus and toner collection method: There is provided a technique in which in a four-rotation intermediate transfer system image forming apparatus, even in a state where a large amount of transfer residual toner is generated, the occurrence of color mixture of toners can be effectively suppressed. The image forming apparatus of a cleanerless process includes... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080166153 - Image forming apparatus: After detecting a speed fluctuation pattern per rotation of a photosensitive drum, a process that forms an image based on image data while causing the photosensitive drum to rotate at a nonstandard linear speed is executed as an image forming process by driving a process driving motor that drives the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080166154 - Charging device, image forming apparatus and charging method: A technology capable of realizing a stable charging performance in an image forming apparatus employing a contact charging system is provided. A charging device is configured to have a charging member to which a prescribed bias voltage is applied and which comes into contact with an image carrying surface of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080166155 - Electro-optical device, image-forming apparatus, and method for producing electro-optical device: An electro-optical device includes an electro-optical panel including a substrate and a plurality of electro-optical elements arranged on the substrate, a converging lens that converges a light beam emitted from the electro-optical panel, and a light-transmitting member interposed between the electro-optical panel and the converging lens. A first surface of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080166156 - Toner and method of manufacturing the same, two-component developer, developing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A toner excellent in temporal stability is provided which toner is capable of maintaining good cleaning property stably for a long period of time and whose surface is provided with a coating layer having an effect of preventing toner aggregation. There are also provided a method of manufacturing the toner,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080166157 - Covering layer for electrophotographic printing rollers: The invention relates to a novel covering layer for electrophotographic printing rollers with improved scratch resistance. Said covering layer consists of between 50 and 75 wt. % of cycloaliphatic epoxides, between 20 and 60 wt. % of aminofunctional silica nanoparticles, and between 0 and 2 wt. % of perfluoroalkyltrialkoxysilanes. The... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080166158 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus adopting a cleanerless process, there is provided a technique of preventing deterioration of picture quality due to photoreceptor filming or color mixture. An image forming apparatus of a cleanerless process in which a toner image is formed on an image bearing body by a developing... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080166159 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A technology capable of suppressing the generation of transfer scattering of a toner image on an intermediate transfer body and contributing to an improvement in image quality in an image forming apparatus employing an intermediate transfer system is provided. An image forming apparatus is configured to include an intermediate transfer... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080166160 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device has a heating roller and a pressure belt, each of which includes a gripping portion at both width-directional ends thereof. The gripping portion corresponds to outside of a range in which a recording material passes. The gripping portion has a friction coefficient greater than that of the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080166161 - Fixing apparatus, post-processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus includes: a first fixing unit; and a second fixing unit, the first fixing unit including: a first heating member; a first fixing belt, a first pressure member; a first separation member; and a first cooling member, the second fixing unit provided in a downstream of a sheet... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080166162 - Image forming apparatus: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus has an electrostatic latent image bearing members, developing device each including developers and capable of developing corresponding electrostatinc latent images on the electrostatic latent image bearing members into visualized developer images, transfer device capable of transferring the developer images to a sheet, a first collecting... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080166164 - Image forming apparatus and method to convey printing medium: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus body, a printing engine installed in the image forming apparatus body to print an image on a printing medium supplied to the printing engine, a printing medium supply device coupled to the image forming apparatus body to load the printing medium... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080166165 - Image forming apparatus, print control method, and computer product: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a conveyor unit, a printing unit, a data acquiring unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit forms an image based on image data. The conveyor unit conveys a transfer medium onto which the image is to be transferred. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080166163 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes: image forming unit that controls illumination of light sources based on image data and forms electrostatic latent image, develops the electrostatic latent image to form an image, and transfers the image to a recording medium; a case that houses the image forming units; and a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080159759 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a heat radiation unit to emit heat by an operating power supplied to the heat radiation unit, a switching unit to supply the heat radiation unit with the operating power, a relay unit to control the operating power to be supplied to the switching unit,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080159760 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit; a containing unit; two detecting units; a counting unit; and a determining unit. The image forming unit is configured to form a toner image. The containing unit is configured to contain waste that is generated when the image forming unit forms... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080159761 - Image forming apparatus: where V1 is a moving speed [mm/s] of a surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member; and V2 is a moving speed [mm/s] of a surface of the intermediate transfer member in a moving direction of the surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member, wherein the electrophotographic photosensitive member comprises a surface... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080159762 - Image forming apparatus, image adjusting method: An image forming apparatus that forms a gradation pattern on a sheet and performs predetermined image adjustment processing on the basis of a print state of the gradation pattern formed includes a fluctuation-information acquiring unit configured to acquire information on a degree of fluctuation in a predetermined characteristic affecting an... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080159763 - Image forming apparatus, image adjusting method: An image forming apparatus that forms, on a sheet, a test pattern formed by a color obtained by mixing colors of toners of plural colors, reads a test pattern image formed on the sheet with a color sensor, and performs predetermined image adjustment processing on the basis of information read... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080159764 - Image forming apparatus and transfer method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a moving unit which includes a conveyer belt to move a recording medium, an attraction unit which is disposed at a front head in a moving direction of the recording medium and attracts the recording medium to the conveyer belt, a plurality of transferring units... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080159765 - Image forming apparatus and cleaning method: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of image carrying members; a plurality of rotation cleaning members disposed for the respective image carrying members and cleaning surfaces of the respective image carrying members through rotation; and a controller that rotates the plurality of rotation cleaning members at different rotation speeds... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080159766 - Image forming apparatus and density adjusting method: An apparatus prohibits an unfair copying of a document by forming a latent image region and a background region on the document in a manner that prevents detection of their existence. The apparatus has a controller that detects background region densities and latent image region densities. The controller extracts only... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080159768 - Appropriate printer selection simulation system, ink consumption amount simulation device, and cost server: An appropriate printer selection simulation system for selecting an appropriate printer providing more expressive output with lower running cost is disclosed. The system includes a user terminal, a printer, and a server connected to each other via a network. The printer includes an e-mail generating unit extracting printer information including... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159767 - Image forming apparatus and an accounting method therein: An image forming apparatus (10) for forming an image on a recording medium (30) such as a recording paper by applying ink is disclosed. The apparatus includes an ink discharging unit (20) that applies ink onto the recording medium to form the image; a sensor (6) that detects that a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159769 - Print managing apparatus, system, and program: A management server is connected to an MFP and a client PC through LAN. The management server includes a leaving information acquiring portion that acquires leaving information related to recording paper sheets left unremoved for each print job accepted by the MFP, a leaving information count portion that counts the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080159770 - Image forming apparatus: Toners of the same color but with different characteristics are stored in the toner cartridges. For example, toners for high image quality (High Grade) with small particle diameter are stored in some toner cartridges and toners for low image quality (Low Grade) are stored in other toner cartridges. In this... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20080159771 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a scanner unit to read an original document, an image data storage unit to store read image data, a print unit to print out the image data, a sheet insertion designation unit to perform a sheet insertion processing and a sheet insertion control unit. The... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080159773 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus including a main assembly of the apparatus to which a process cartridge is detachably mountable, the apparatus includes a movable member which movable from an outside toward an inside of the main assembly of the apparatus while supporting the process cartridge; an output contact provided... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080159772 - Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus: A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including a movable member movable from an outside of the main assembly of the apparatus to an inside thereof while carrying the process cartridge. The cartridge includes a drum, charging and developing rollers, rotatably... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080159775 - Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus: p

20080159774 - Process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of the apparatus of an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus including a main assembly urging member and a main assembly positioning portion, the cartridge includes a photosensitive drum; a portion-to-be-positioned for positioning the cartridge by engaging with the main... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080159776 - Charging device and image forming apparatus: A charging device includes: a charged body; a charging member that extends parallel to the surface of the charged body, a charging voltage being applied between the charging member and the charged body; a cleaning member that is in contact with the charging member, and that moves in an extending... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080159778 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus may include a developing unit installed above a photosensitive drum, a pickup roller installed above a photosensitive drum to draw a sheet of paper from a paper feed cassette, and a paper transportation path extended below from the pickup roller. An exposure unit and the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080159777 - Full-color toner kit, process cartridge, and image forming method: A full-color toner kit including yellow, magenta, and cyan toners each including a benzimidazolone, a naphthol, and a copper phthalocyanine colorants, respectively, and resins (A) and (B) each of which having a polyester skeleton and containing a wax, and a resin (C) having a polyester skeleton and containing no wax.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080159779 - Pin driver: A device for driving a pin that fastens a printer cartridge drum to a printer cartridge at least on one end of the printer cartridge drum, the device comprising a device body defining a device body recess and a shaft configured to be inserted in the device body recess and... Agent: Roland Tong

20080159780 - Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components: Systems and methods of remanufacturing an imaging cartridge including the replacement an organic photo conductor (OPC) drum in the imaging cartridge having end caps which are fixedly secured to the waste bin or other portion of the toner cartridge. In one aspect, the method involves removing the existing OPC drum... Agent: William L. London

20080159781 - Electrophotographic color image forming apparatus: A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus having a main assembly, to which a process cartridge is detachably mountable, for forming a color image on a recording material, wherein the process cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum and process means actable on the electrophotographic photosensitive drum, the apparatus includes an opening... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080159782 - 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

20080159783 - Developing unit and image forming apparatus having the same: An image forming apparatus including: a plurality of photosensitive members on which electrostatic latent images are formed; a plurality of charge units to charge the respective photosensitive members with an electric potential; at least one exposure unit which irradiates light to the respective photosensitive members; a plurality of developer supply... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080159784 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a rotating member, a driving force transmission unit configured to transmit drive force to the rotating member, a drive unit configured to rotationally drive the rotating member via the driving force transmission unit, a detecting unit configured to detect a velocity of the rotating member... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080159785 - Light beam scanning apparatus: There is provided a light beam scanning apparatus which deflects a light beam from a light source by using a deflector and scans the surface of a photosensitive member with a focused light beam. The light beam scanning apparatus includes a first electro-optical element placed on the optical axis of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080159786 - Selective printing of raised information by electrography: Electrographic printing wherein raised information, with a distinct tactile feel, can be printed by electrographic techniques. Such electrographic printing comprises the steps of forming a desired print image, electrographically, on a receiver member utilizing standard size marking particles; and in an area of the formed print image, where desired tactile... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080159787 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus having transparent toner and method thereof: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus and method thereof. The apparatus includes a photosensitive body, an exposing unit to form an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive body charged to a uniform electric potential, and a developing unit to develop the electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive body, wherein a color... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080159788 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming structure including an image carrier that carries an image and an optical writing device that writes a latent image onto the image carrier in an integral arrangement; plural development devices that develop a latent image carried by the image carrier; a shifting... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080159789 - Developing unit and image forming apparatus using the same: A developing unit for visualizing an electrostatic latent image formed on a photoreceptor drum with a toner, includes: a hopper for storing a developer; a developing roller for supplying the toner to a photoreceptor drum on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; and an agitating and conveying portion. In... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080159790 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus that incorporates the developing apparatus: A developing apparatus is incorporated in an image forming apparatus. An electrostatic latent image is formed on an image bearing body. A developing member supplies a developer material to the electrostatic latent image. A supplying member supplies the developer material to the developing member. A developer material chamber holds the... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080159791 - Conductive rubber roller and transfer roller: A conductive rubber roller having a rubber layer on a conductive core material. The rubber composition constituting the rubber layer contains a rubber component and a filler. The rubber component contains an epichlorohydrin rubber. The filler includes carbon black (A) having a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area (N2SA) of 20... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080159792 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device has a heating rotary (30) with a nonconductive surface that contacts a press (33) to form a nip (N). A sheet passes through the nip (N) to fix a toner image on the sheet. An electrically conductive base (50) is positioned near the heating rotary. A separator... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080159793 - Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same: An image reading apparatus and an image forming apparatus including the same to improve a transferring path of a document to prevent curl from being generated in the document and to prevent interference between a document having both surfaces scanned and a previously discharged document. The image reading apparatus includes... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080159794 - Conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus: A conveyance apparatus includes: a conveyance member that conveys images formed by plural image forming parts or a recording medium on which the images formed by the plural image forming parts are transferred; and a driving unit that drives the conveyance member via a frictional force in at least two... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080159795 - Curling device and image forming apparatus: A curling device includes a first curling unit configured to curl a sheet in a first direction and a second curling unit. The second curling unit is for curling a sheet which has passed the first curling unit in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction. The... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080159796 - Sheet processing apparatus: There are provided a sheet inlet, a saddle-stitch compilation tray for aligning and accommodating plural sheets that are input through the sheet inlet, and a rotary cutter unit for cutting a saddle-stitched sheaf of sheets accommodated in the saddle-stitch compilation tray. In the rotary cutter unit, a sheaf of sheets... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP