Electrophotography inventions 01/09

20090028583 - Image forming apparatus and method: Time required for setting a print mode in a print standby state is shortened, in performing recovering operation. In an attachment state of consumable units on an image forming apparatus, information of the consumable unit memorized in nonvolatile memories of consumable units is memorized in a second nonvolatile memory, and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090028582 - Image forming apparatus and method of setting the same: An image forming apparatus can be so set as to allow or not to allow a low price consumable cartridge to operate with it. It can take a status where “00” is stored in the apparatus status recording memory thereof that allows it to be loaded with an ordinary toner... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090028584 - Device that enables blanket diagnostics and proof for web presses: Example embodiments of systems and methods for performing blanket diagnostics and proofing are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090028585 - Interactive visual card-selection process for mitigating light-area banding in a pagewide array: Preferably, test-patterns print on separate, multiple print-medium cards, each including a ramp with colors graded along a certain direction—and, superimposed on the ramp, a candidate add-on colorant. Ramps preferably are printed in so-called “customer colors”, common in snapshots and particularly snapshot regions that include sky. Positions or amounts of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090028586 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and control program therefor: An image forming apparatus, an image forming method, and a control program therefor. The apparatus includes an image processing control unit to process image information sent from an external device, a carriage to move in a main scanning direction according to a control signal sent from the image processing control... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090028587 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit configured to transfer a toner image based on image data onto a recording medium, a fixing device configured to thermally fix the toner image transferred onto the recording medium, a stack tray configured to stack a recording medium conveyed from the fixing... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090028588 - Controlling timing for starting image formation: Exemplary embodiments provide an apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of controlling a timing for starting image formation such that when forming a preceding image and a following image, a timing for starting formation of the following image is adjusted based on a timing for starting the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090028589 - Image forming apparatus: Here, D refers to a diameter of each of the photosensitive bodies, L refers to a distance between the transfer points of two adjacent photosensitive bodies, and Rj refers to a speed reduction ratio from the jth connecting gear to the reference photosensitive body shaft gear.... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090028590 - Image fixing apparatus: A fixing apparatus includes a control circuit which controls the electrifying to a first heater so that a temperature detected by a first temperature detection portion reaches a first target temperature and controls the electrifying to a second heater so that a temperature detected by a second temperature detection portion... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090028591 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member; a charging device for charging the photosensitive member; an exposure device for exposing the photosensitive member charged by the charging device in accordance with image information; a developing device for developing, with toner, an electrostatic image formed on the photosensitive member by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090028592 - Exposure device, light emitting diode head, and image forming apparatus: An exposure device includes a light emitting element; and an eccentric cam for adjusting a distance between the light emitting element and a light receiving member. The eccentric cam includes a shaft portion and a cam portion arranged eccentrically relative to the shaft portion. The cam portion includes a circumferential... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, Llc

20090028593 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a charging device to electrically charge a photosensitive member, an exposure unit to expose the charged photosensitive member to light, a development device to develop, with a developer, a latent image formed on the photosensitive member by the exposure unit, and a development bias voltage... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090028594 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image bearing members; a rotatable intermediary transfer member for carrying toner images transferred from the plurality of image bearing members in contact with the plurality of image bearing members; a transfer member for press-contacting to the intermediary transfer member to form a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090028595 - Image forming apparatus having contactless type temperature sensor: A sealing member which is compressed by a contactless temperature sensor and a cover member of a fixing unit is provided between the sensor and the cover member. An opening portion for temperature detection is shut off from a space around the fixing unit by the sealing member, thereby preventing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090028596 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a transporter for transporting a sheet; an image forming section for forming an image on the sheet being transported by the transporter with an ink; a liquid absorbent member; a cleaning liquid feeding section for feeding a cleaning liquid to the transporter via the liquid... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090028597 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main-body and a process cartridge. A female connector is arranged on a developing roller shaft in the process cartridge. The female connector has an open-ended ring-like space formed between an outer ring and an inner ring. A plurality of track grooves are arranged... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090028598 - Image forming apparatus capable of reducing noise energy radiated outside the apparatus, method of designing frame, and computer readable medium: In an image forming apparatus, a frame as an interior member is provided so as to oppose an exterior cover as an exterior member for controlling noise from an apparatus main body. An opening that is made up of a number of aperture regions is provided for allowing sound that... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090028599 - Developer cartridge and image forming apparatus having the same: A developer cartridge of an image forming apparatus includes a cartridge frame having a developer chamber holding a developer therein, and a developer discharging port, a developer conveying unit rotatably installed on the cartridge frame to agitate and move the developer towards the developer discharging port, and an elastic damper... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090028600 - Developer cartridge, developing device and image forming apparatus: A developer cartridge includes a storing portion that stores developer and has an opening, a shutter member that opens and closes the opening, and a seal member that seals between the shutter member and the storing portion. The seal member is so provided that both end portions thereof face each... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20090028601 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording material, and detachably mounts which process cartridges having photosensitive drums. The apparatus includes a main assembly, a rotatable openable member, a belt receiving an image or carrying the recording material, supporting members supporting the process cartridges at different levels and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090028602 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device includes: a main body; at least one photosensitive member; a plurality of developing units; a transferring unit; a first holding unit; and a guiding unit. The photosensitive member has a support shaft. Each developing unit has a developer-accommodating section that accommodates developer. The developer-accommodating section has an... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090028603 - Beam deflector, light scanning unit and image forming apparatus having the same: A beam deflector having a base, the beam deflector including a polygon mirror to reflect a light beam, a mirror driving unit including a rotor shaft erected from the base and a rotor to support the polygon mirror and to rotate about the rotor shaft, a friction member to contact... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090028604 - Image-forming apparatus which can eliminate static electricity: An image-forming apparatus includes an electrophotographic photoreceptor including a photosensitive layer, an exposure unit for irradiating the electrophotographic photoreceptor with light, a pressing member pressed against the photosensitive layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor to remove a deposit from the photosensitive layer, and a static eliminating unit for eliminating the static... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.c.

20090028605 - Image forming apparatus, drive mechanism of image forming apparatus and manufacturing method of a worm gear set: An image forming apparatus has a plurality of image carriers, a common drive source which drives the plurality of image carriers and a drive shaft that is connected to and driven by the drive source. It also has a plurality of worm gears that are provided corresponding to the plurality... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090028606 - Process cartridge and image forming apparatus including same: A process cartridge includes a latent image carrier, a charging unit, a latent image forming unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, a rotary brush contacting a curved surface of the latent image carrier to form a nip, and a brush housing including a first tip and a second tip,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090028607 - Color image forming apparatus and color image forming method: There is provided a tandem color image forming apparatus and the like, which is capable of suppressing the generation of black spots during a continuous image forming process, even though a non-magnetic single-component developer is used and a cleaner-less type is adopted. The color image forming apparatus is a tandem... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090028608 - Rotary developing unit and toner supply container: A rotary developing unit includes: a first developing device; a second developing device; a toner supply container that is inserted between the first developing device and the second developing device to be attached to the first developing device; a first guide formed on the toner supply container; a second guide... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090028609 - Pattern forming apparatus and pattern forming method: A pattern forming apparatus includes an intaglio having a pattern of depressions, developing units which form a first potential difference with the intaglio, supply a liquid developer containing charged phosphor particles to the pattern and develop by aggregating the phosphor particles in the depressions, and a transfer roller which forms... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090028610 - electrophotographic printing: This invention concerns an electrophotographic printing apparatus comprising an image-forming member having a surface on which a latent electrostatic image can be formed, a developer for depositing onto the surface of the image-forming member a layer of ink, the ink comprising charged ink particles and a carrier mediums a supply... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090028611 - Developing system and image forming apparatus incorporating same: A developing system includes a developing unit, a mixing container, a rotary feeder, an air pump, and an airflow regulator. The developing unit is configured to convert a latent image into visible form using a developer. The mixing container is separated from the developing unit and is configured to hold... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090028612 - Image forming apparatus: In a configuration in which a plurality of developing units is provided, an influx of air into one developing unit from another developing unit can be blocked with a simple configuration. An operation section for a developing unit that is not in operation rotates a developer roll in the reverse... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090028613 - Sleeve exchange system: The inventive step lies in the means for the transfer of the sleeves (10-19, 21), with which the sleeves (6, 6a) can be transported between the storage device and/or the transport devices (8,9) and the arbors (5, 5a) of the ink transfer rollers (4) in at least one printing machine... Agent: Jacobson Holman Pllc

20090028614 - Active station adaptive image registration: A color registration method, system, and computer program product generally includes a plurality of imaging stations and one or more MOB (Marks-On Belt) sensors. An indication is initially provided to each imaging station among the imaging stations, which colors among a plurality of colors associated with said color registration system... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, Pllc

20090028615 - Belt conveyor and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided with an image bearing member for bearing a toner image in conformity with specified image information, a transfer belt mounted on a plurality of rollers for transferring the toner image on the image bearing member to the outer surface thereof or a recording sheet... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090028616 - Fixing roller, method of manufacture thereof, and fixation assembly and image-forming apparatus employing the roller: A coil spring 60 is provided in an empty room (inside of a fixing roller 50) of a main body 52 of a roller. The coil spring 60 is in contact with an inside wall 52a surrounding the empty room of the roller main body 52 and pushes the inside... Agent: Patenttm.us

20090028617 - Fixing apparatus, heating roller, and image forming device: There is provided a fixing apparatus capable of reducing the warm-up time, improving the heating efficiency, and suppressing the temperature increase out of the sheet width by using a magnetic adjuster. In this apparatus, the Currie temperature Tc of the magnetic adjuster material heated by electromagnetic induction is set to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090028618 - Lubricant coater, image bearing unit, and image forming apparatus: The present invention provides a lubricant coater including an applying member for applying a lubricant powder on a surface of an image bearing member, wherein the lubricant powder contains paraffin as a main component, and the lubricant coatability of the applying member is controlled such that a maximum thickness of... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090028619 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section for transferring a toner image onto a sheet; a fixing section for fixing the toner image on the sheet; and a reversing section for reversing the sheet front and back. A first pair of rollers conveys a sheet to which a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090022503 - Image forming apparatus and method: When an image forming apparatus is disabled due to a cause rather than the detection of the toner empty condition, it is determined whether a recovery operation is a first recovery operation or a second recovery operation. The first recovery operation is associated with a mounting/dismounting of the toner cartridge... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090022504 - Image forming apparatus, image carrier, and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus includes a unit, a mark detector, and a controller. The unit is attachable to and detachable from the image forming apparatus and includes an information mark pattern indicating predetermined information. The mark detector detects the information mark pattern. The controller obtains the information indicated by the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090022505 - Sheet transport apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same: A sheet transport apparatus includes a pair of rollers for transporting a sheet and a sheet detection device for detecting the sheet transported by the pair of rollers. The sheet detection device includes a flag that is displaceable when urged by the sheet transported by the pair of rollers and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090022506 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrying member; a developing unit that develops an electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrying member using toner; a toner dispensing unit that dispenses the toner to the developing unit; and a toner dispense control unit that controls the toner dispensing unit... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090022507 - Liquid toner concentration detecting device, and image forming apparatus and method of controlling concentration of liquid toner: A first container is operable to accommodate a liquid toner, and provided with a window. A reflector is disposed in the first container. A light emitter is operable to emit light to the reflector through the window and the liquid toner. A light receiver is operable to receive the light... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090022508 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and method of recovering from energy saving mode: An energy-saving control unit detects a supply of power to an image forming apparatus and performs an energy saving control of an external controller. A switching unit switches a start and a stop of supply of power to an onboard circuit of the external controller. Upon detecting the supply of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090022509 - User-friendly image forming apparatus, image forming method and recording medium: An image forming apparatus includes: an intermediate transfer belt for, by rotation thereof, transferring a toner image on a surface thereof; a cleaner for removing toner particles after the transfer by rotation of a cleaning brush which touches the surface of the intermediate transfer belt and rotated during the transfer;... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090022510 - Image forming device, having an ejection tray, and a display is mounted to a cover: An ejection tray includes a container that contains a recording sheet printed by a printing unit of an image forming apparatus, and a cover mounted on the container. The cover has a display for displaying information, and the display displays an information screen corresponding to information that can be printed... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20090022511 - Image forming device, image processing device, image forming method, computer readable medium, and computer data signal: An image forming device has an imaging unit including: a rotating body; an exposure unit forming an electrostatic latent image on the rotating body; a developing unit developing the latent image using developer to form an image; and a transfer unit transferring the image to a recording medium, a memory... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090022512 - Developing apparatus, image forming apparatus having the same, and assembling method of a developing apparatus: A developing apparatus usable with an image forming apparatus includes a developer receptacle having a sidewall on which a shaft hole is formed, a rotation shaft having a length shorter than a distance between opposite sidewalls of the developer receptacle and an end on which a connection hole is formed,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090022513 - Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components: Techniques for remanufacturing an imaging cartridge include providing the imaging cartridge including a memory element storing cartridge usage data, reading from the memory element the cartridge usage data, analyzing the cartridge usage data to produce results, and determining, based on the results, if a component of the imaging cartridge needs... Agent: William L. London

20090022514 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a cover and a supporting unit. The supporting unit includes a holding member, a supporting member, a first biasing unit, and a positioning unit. The holding member holds the transferring member. The supporting member movably supports the holding member, so that the transferring member can... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090022515 - Image forming device and fixing unit: A fixing unit is disposed at a position closer to a rear side wall than to a front side wall of a casing. A top wall is formed with a depressed portion depressed toward inside the casing. The depressed portion serves as a sheet discharge tray for receiving a recording... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090022516 - Image forming apparatus and damper: In an image forming apparatus, an upper unit rotates about a first shaft provided in an image forming device for forming an image on a sheet with respect to the image forming device. A slide portion is provided on the upper unit to slide in a forward direction toward a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090022517 - Image forming apparatus: An inexpensive image forming apparatus, which can suppress a ghost to obtain an image maintaining satisfactory density and gradations for a long time. The apparatus including an electrophotographic photosensitive member, a contact charger in contact with the photosensitive member for charging the photosensitive member, a charging voltage applying device for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090022518 - Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same: A compact optical scanning apparatus capable of desirably correcting an f characteristic, a field curvature, and other aberrations, and an image forming apparatus using the same, which includes an incident optical system (LA) for guiding a beam from a light source (1) to a deflector (4) and an imaging optical... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.c. John J Torrente

20090022519 - External additive, toner, and image forming apparatus: To a toner used in an image forming apparatus is added an external additive whose main components are oxide fine particles in which dimethylsilyl groups are introduced to surfaces thereof, and whose volatilizing amount of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane in a first volatilizing test is 0.2 μg or less. Consequently, it is possible... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090022520 - Optical writing device and image forming apparatus: An optical writing device that writes electrostatic latent images on an image carrier by irradiating and scanning the image carrier with an optical beam includes an optical element, a support housing configured to support members constituting the optical writing device, a pair of optical-element holding members opposing each other in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090022521 - Method and apparatus for controlling multiple color developers using a camming mechanism: Aspects of this disclosure describe a multi-pass printer having a photoreceptor device mounted on an axis, a developer that is arranged adjacent to the photoreceptor device and is moving between a first portion and a second position, and a camming mechanism mounted on the axis that acts upon the developer... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc.

20090022522 - Toner cartridge and mechanism of installing and removing the same: In accordance with a replacing mechanism of the present invention, a toner cartridge is replaced from a main body of an image forming apparatus by performing, in a substantially same timing, an operation of closing a toner pouring opening with a cover by a levering action; and an operation of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090022523 - Development unit, process cartridge and image forming apparatus using same: A development unit includes a toner carrying device, a regulating member, and a toner leak protection member. The toner carrying device having a first electrode and a second electrode arrayed with an interval. The first and second electrodes are supplied with a given voltage to set an electric field, changing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090022524 - Method of detecting pages subject to reload artifact: A method for determining if an image to be printed is subject to reload artifact, includes providing an image (which may be a low resolution version of the image) to be printed; locating within the image a first area to be printed requiring toner of sufficient quantity to cause reload... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20090022526 - Color gamut and enhanced transfer using hybrid architecture design: A color printing machine with a hybrid development architecture is provided including a photoreceptor, a first and second set of development housings, a biased transfer belt, and a fuser. The first set of development housings are arranged in an image-on-image configuration in proximity to the photoreceptor. The biased transfer belt... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc.

20090022525 - Hybrid printing system: A hybrid printing system including (a) a machine frame; (b) a multi-color image producing module mounted within the machine frame and including color image output terminals and an endless intermediate transfer member for receiving color images from the color image output terminals to form a multi-color image; (c) a separate... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20090022527 - Replacement unit, image forming apparatus, and method of attaching replacement unit of image forming apparatus: A replacement unit having a toner bottle and a fixing liquid bottle integrated with each other is attached to a printer main body (image forming apparatus main body). Toner particles accommodated in the toner bottle are allowed to be supplied to a development device of the image forming apparatus main... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090022528 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device is provided in image forming apparatuses such as a printer and the like and performs a fixing by heating to a recording sheet on which a toner image is transferred. The fixing device includes: a heating source adapted for performing fixing of a toner image onto a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090022530 - Blade for electrophotographic apparatus, and method of producing the same: A blade for an electrophotographic apparatus is provided which is prevented from turning up, achieves wear resistance, and has excellent cleaning properties. The blade is composed of a support member and a blade member formed of a thermosetting polyurethane elastomer, which are joined together. The blade member has a structure... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090022529 - Vibration method to reduce and/or eliminate friction/noise: A small vibrator is connected to a cleaning blade or cleaning blade holder in an electrostatic marking system. This vibrator in a cycle out step moves the blade up and down and reduces thereby overall contact with the photoconductor surface; this reduces any noise caused by blade contact with the... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20090022531 - Toner cartridge, process cartridge, and method of making toner cartridge reusable: A toner cartridge is configured by integrally arranging a fresh toner storing chamber and a residual toner collection chamber. Fresh toner is filled in the fresh toner storing chamber through a fresh toner filling opening. Residual toner is conveyed in the residual toner collection chamber through a residual toner conveying... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090022532 - Waste toner collecting device and image forming apparatus loaded therewith: A waste toner collecting device includes: a waste toner collecting bag being stretchable; a toner conveyance part fitted with the waste toner collecting bag, and conveying a waste toner and also discharging the waste toner toward the waste toner collecting bag; and a holding member for the waste toner collecting... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090022533 - Closing auxiliary device and image forming apparatus therewith: A closing auxiliary device includes an automatic sheet feeder, a closing auxiliary handle, and a magnet and a metal portion. The automatic sheet feeder is provided in the apparatus main body while being openable and closable by a hinge unit. The closing auxiliary handle is rotatably provided in one side... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090022534 - Sheet transport path switching mechanism: A sheet transport path switching mechanism includes a movable guide to be moved rotatably about a support shaft parallel to the width direction of a transport path so as to selectively take either a main posture where the movable guide directs a sheet to the downstream side of a main... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090016743 - Printer consumable ordering direct from printer: A system for enabling ordering of printer supplies directly via a printer. The system provides an option for a user to request value bundled information before placing a printer supply order. By providing the option of requesting value bundled information, a customer can obtain information about printer supply promotions directly... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20090016744 - Abnormal usage detection: A method and system compare actual consumable usage (e.g., toner usage) with expected consumable usage in a xerographic machine, such as a printer or copier. Expected toner usage may be predicted from pixel count (area coverage) and actual usage is obtained from monitoring of consumable usage, such as from toner... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090016746 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes a toner bottle, a supply unit that supplies toner from the toner bottle to a downstream side, a door that is openably provided to execute toner replenishment, an opening/closing sensor that senses opening/closing of the door, and a unit that renders the supply unit inoperable... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090016745 - Rest recovery system, method and algorithm: A method and computer program for preventing excess supply of toner in an imaging device include detecting a change in a tribo-electric charge of toner after a period of inactivity of the imaging device, compensating a toner dispense control value, such as a PID (Proportional, Integral, Differential) value, based on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090016747 - Positioning apparatus for a printer: A positioning apparatus for a printer is provided. The positioning apparatus includes at least one encoder, an OPC belt, and a code strip consisting of a reference bar code region, a blank region and normal bar code region. The OPC belt is moved relatively to the encoder and has a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090016749 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, the number of components and a size of the apparatus is reduced by realizing both functions for detecting a toner patch image to perform image quality adjustment and for performing precise color adjustment depending on a sheet color with one color sensor. The color sensor... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090016748 - Method and system for estimating color ink usage for a print job element: Methods and systems for estimating the amount of color ink that will be used to print a print job element classify individual color drawing objects of the print job element in a pre-raster image process (pre-RIP) format into drawing object classes and apply predetermined rules associated with the drawing object... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20090016750 - Image forming apparatus: There is described an image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to suppress quality degradation of an image on the basis of a developing electric current profile without optically detecting density of a patch image. The image forming apparatus includes: a developing current detecting sensor to detect a developing current;... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090016752 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: A storage stores data of charging electric potentials at two or more points on a surface of an image carrier, and coordinates thereof expressed using a main-scanning position and a sub-scanning position thereof. A determination unit determines a correction value of a light power from the data of charging electric... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090016751 - Method and apparatus for cleaning attachment on transfer roller in an image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a transfer roller, and a power supply for providing a voltage signal for the transfer roller to transfer surface attachments on the transfer roller to the photoconductor. Moreover, before providing the voltage signal for the transfer roller, a surface voltage level of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090016753 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: An image forming apparatus which improves the degree of freedom for changing the shape, diameter, light intensity distribution of the section of a laser beam. Emission of the plurality of lasers provided in a light source unit is separately controlled based on image data of one pixel. The laser lights... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090016754 - Intelligent toner charging system and method: A method and apparatus for charging toner for an imaging device includes an inactivity determining section that determines one or more periods of inactivity of the printing machine, a measuring section that measures a charge of the toner, and a charging section that charges the toner to a predetermined level... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090016755 - Developing unit and density control method in electrophotography: This invention relates to a developing unit for maintaining constant density in an electrophotographic imaging process. The developing unit has a developer roll, wherein the developer roll provides a surface and a first voltage is applied to the developer roll; a skive device, wherein the skive device is positioned in... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090016756 - Image forming apparatus: In a development device which develops an electrostatic image formed on a rotating photosensitive drum by applying a development bias to a development sleeve bearing a two-component developer, the development device includes a specific pattern determination portion which determines whether or not the electrostatic image includes a specific pattern. When... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090016757 - Printing of optical elements by electography: Electrographic printing of one or more optical elements having a particular profile by electrographic techniques. Such electrographic printing comprises the steps of forming a desired print image, electrographically, on a receiver member utilizing predetermined sized marking particles; and, where desired, forming one or more final optical elements utilizing marking particles... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090016758 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes data conversion, charging, exposure, developer supply, image density calculation, determination and voltage change mechanisms. The data conversion mechanism converts image data into printing data. The charging mechanism charges an image carrier. The exposure mechanism forms an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier based on... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090016759 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling heating of fixing unit therein: When a user has performed an operation with respect to an image forming apparatus, a control mechanism communicates informs the fact that a user has performed an operation with respect to an image forming apparatus to an engine control unit through a dedicated communication line, i.e., without waiting for a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090016760 - Fixing device capable of providing stable quality of fixed image: A fixing device fixes an image on a recording medium by applying heat and pressure. In the fixing device, a belt is looped over a heating roller and a first roller provided inside a loop formed by the belt. A belt tensioner is provided outside the loop formed by the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090016761 - Image forming device and control method thereof: An image forming device includes a developer carrier for carrying a liquid developer, a latent image carrier to which a latent image is developed by the developer carrier, a charging member for charging the latent image carrier, an exposure device for exposing the latent image carrier, a latent image carrier... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090016762 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming device configured to form a toner image on an image conveying member, a detector configured to optically detect a density of the toner image on the image conveying member, a controller configured to control an image forming condition of the toner... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090016763 - Image forming apparatus, sheet finisher and image forming system: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, a sheet finisher and an image forming system; each of them including: a display for displaying a work item for a maintenance in the form of a guidance display; a detection section for detecting whether the work item is executed or not; an energization... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090016764 - Image heating device: An image forming apparatus comprising a heating rotating body which heats a toner image while nipping and conveying a recording material bearing the toner image, a fan which cools down the heating rotating body, and a duct adapted in such a manner that air which is blown by the fan... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090016765 - Image forming device and image forming method: An image forming device including: a fixing unit that fixes a toner image formed on a recording medium by heating the toner image to a temperature that is higher than the softening point of a toner that forms the toner image; and a cooling unit that cools the fixed toner... Agent: Robert C. Faber Ostrolenk, Faber, Gerb & Soffen, LLP

20090016766 - Control method of image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus: A control method of an image forming apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a latent image carrier; a development apparatus for developing a liquid developer containing a toner, a carrier liquid and a dispersant soluble in the carrier liquid therein on the latent image carrier; an intermediate transfer medium to... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090016767 - Developer storing container, developing unit, developing device and image forming apparatus: A developer storing container includes a developer storing body having a first opening, and a shutter member capable of taking a closing position and an opening position to close and open the first opening. The shutter member includes a first seal member including a seal portion provided along the first... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090016768 - Article of consumption and image forming apparatus having the same: An image forming apparatus having a consumable detachably installed in the main body is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a main body having a first opening, a consumable which is detachably installed in the main body, a door mounted on the main body to open and close the first... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090016769 - Protective layer setting unit, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus using same:

20090016770 - Arrangement for conveying toner from a toner supply container into a toner receiving container: In an arrangement to convey toner from a toner bottle of a toner reservoir into a toner receiving container, the toner bottle has a cover to close an output opening thereof. The cover has an upper cover part to accept the toner bottle and a lower cover part to close... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090016771 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus configured to effectively prevent a failure in an image is provided. The image forming apparatus of the invention includes a housing, a transport belt for transporting a sheet along a sheet transport face, an image forming portion arranged above the sheet transport face, and a fixing... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090016772 - Belt device and image forming apparatus: A belt is supported by a plurality of rollers and is driven to move in a predetermined direction. A flange member is configured to make contact with a portion of an edge surface of the belt in its width direction. A pressing member presses on a surface of the belt... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090016773 - Image-forming apparatus and image-forming method: b

20090016774 - Image forming apparatus, scanning optical apparatus, and control methods thereof: The present invention provides an image forming apparatus that adjusts the amount of light of a light-emitting unit with high accuracy and suppresses an increase in control time that is required to adjust the amount of light, a scanning optical apparatus, and control methods thereof. To accomplish this, the image... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090016775 - Development apparatus and image forming apparatus: When dynamic torques are Ts, Ti, and T2, respectively, and rotation angle speeds are Rs, R1, and R2, respectively, at the time of rotations of the developing sleeve 40 and the screws 41 and 42, the mass of the developer housed in the second agitating chamber 902 is M2, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090016776 - Printing of raised multidmensional toner by electography: Electrographic printing of raised multidimensional toner shapes having a particular profile by electrographic techniques. Such electrographic printing comprises the steps of forming a desired print image, electrographically, on a receiver member utilizing predetermined sized marking particles; and, where desired, forming a final predetermined multidimensional shape utilizing marking particles of a... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090016777 - Developer container filled with developer for image forming apparatus, and method for producing developer container filled with developer: A method for producing a low-cost developer container filled with developer, which is capable of stably preventing image density from being locally reduced even in the case where the entire replenishment developer is not dispersed uniformly, the developer container filled with developer, and a developer replenishing device and image forming... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090016778 - Development device and image forming apparatus: An aspect of the invention provides a development device including a rotatable development sleeve which supplies developer to a photosensitive drum, the development sleeve being disposed such that a rotational axis of the development sleeve is orientated toward a vertical direction; a conveying screw which conveys the developer along a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090016779 - Toner cartridge, a toner cartridge locking apparatus, and an image forming apparatus having the same: A toner cartridge locking apparatus includes a toner cartridge housing unit formed in a main body of an image forming apparatus, a locking unit to lock a toner cartridge inserted in the toner cartridge housing unit in place, and an elastic member to elastically support the toner cartridge inserted in... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090016780 - Developing blade: The blade member of the invention is composed mainly of silicone rubber and contains as an additive component at least one selected from the group consisting of ultra-high molecular-weight-polyethylene, carbon nanotube, and fullerene. It is thus possible to decrease the coefficient of friction of silicone rubber in a practical range... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090016781 - Developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A developing device comprises a latent image carrier that carries a latent image, a toner carrier opposing the latent image carrier while carrying toner to develop the latent image, and plural electrodes arranged in a prescribed direction insulated from each other on the surface of the toner carrier to create... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090016782 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: d

20090016783 - Color printer toner transfer belt system and process: A system and method to replace a transfer belt of a color laser printer transfer belt assembly without replacing the entire assembly, including one or more novel holding fixtures and a method for releasing the tension on the transfer belt prior to removal of the transfer belt from the assembly,... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20090016784 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: wherein A represents a BET specific surface area (cm2/g) of the toner; and B represents a BET specific surface area (cm2/g) of the toner after buried, and wherein one of the pressers pressing the receptor to the image bearer bearing the black toner image presses the receptor thereto at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090016785 - Use of a sense mark to control a printing system: A method of printing on a substrate includes the steps of instructing a first imaging unit to print a first image and a registration mark on a substrate contemporaneously during a production run and detecting the registration mark. The method further includes the steps of determining a position on the... Agent: Mccracken & Frank LLP

20090016786 - Transfer fixing member, transfer fixing device and image forming apparatus: A transfer fixing member containing a base, and an outermost surface layer composed of an elastic material in which a conductive material is dispersed, wherein when a pressure applied to a surface of the transfer fixing member by making a toner image bearing member in contact with the transfer fixing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090016787 - Transfer belt for electrophotography and image forming apparatus equipped therewith: a transfer member that supports a toner image transferred thereon from the latent-image supporting member and transfer the supported toner image onto an image-receiving material, comprising at least a polyphenylene sulfide resin and a conductive agent, and having a deviation in surface resistivity of 1 or less.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090016788 - Image forming method: The present invention provides a toner having a releasing agent, a binder resin and a colorant. The binder resin is contained in a form of particles, surfaces of which have 1.2 times or greater amount of a polar group-containing compound, or of a cross-linked compound, than insides thereof. A viscosity... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090016790 - Belt-type fixing device and image forming apparatus: A belt-type fixing device having therein an endless fixing belt, a pressure roller arranged inside the aforesaid fixing belt and a pressure member that presses the fixing belt against the pressure roller, wherein a toner image on a recording material is fixed in the nip portion formed between the fixing... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090016789 - Fusing device and image forming apparatus having the same: A fusing device and an image forming apparatus having the same. The fusing device can include a fusing belt, a heat source disposed in an interior of the fusing belt, a supporting member to support at least a portion of an inner peripheral surface of the fusing belt, a press... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090016791 - Fusing device and image forming apparatus having the same: A fusing device fuses an image on a printing medium, and includes a belt which is provided to rotate; a heating plate which is supported to an inner surface of the belt, a pressing roller which presses the printing medium against the heating plate, and a piezoelectric member which is... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090016792 - Image forming apparatus, fixing device, and fixing method: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism for forming a toner image on a recording medium, and a fixing device for fixing the toner image on the recording medium. The fixing device including a fixing film, a pressure member, a contact member, a heating device, a holding member,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090016793 - Waste toner collecting device and image forming apparatus provided with the same: A waste toner collecting device comprising: a waste toner removing section that removes a toner which is adhered on a surface of a member to be cleaned, as waste toner; a waste toner storing section that stores the waste toner; and a waste toner transporting section that transports the waste... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090016794 - Charge neutralization and sheet processing apparatus: A charge neutralization according to one aspect of the invention is equipped with a charge neutralization which performs charge removal as it is brought in close proximity to or into contact with a major surface of a sheet when the sheet passes it in moving in a prescribed first direction,... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090010658 - Universal smart chip cartridges for multiple printing apparatus: A printing system includes first and second printing devices operable exclusively with respective first and second consumable devices. A third consumable device is provided in the system storing identification data recognizable by both the first and second printing devices whereby the third consumable device is operable with both the first... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090010659 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a developing device for developing a latent image formed on an image bearing member on the basis of image information, into a developed image with a developer, the developing device including a developer accommodating portion for accommodating the developer and a stirring member for stirring... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090010660 - Developing device of electrographic printing apparatus, non-image-region toner removing device, electrographic printing apparatus using the same, electrographic printing method, and method of producing glass plate or ceramic plate: A developing device for an electrographic printing apparatus provided has stable performance and improved printing quality. The developing device (5) for the electrographic printing apparatus (1) includes a supplying channel (37) having at least one stirring/delivering roller (27) for stirring and delivering a carrier and a toner charged by contacting... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090010661 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of photosensitive members; a plurality of discharging units respectively facing the plurality of photosensitive members; a plurality of high-voltage power supply units which are provided for the plurality of charging units and supply power to the plurality of discharging units; a discharge detection... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090010662 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus that includes: an image forming portion for forming an image in accordance with image data contained in an input command; and a controller for controlling the image forming portion, and is constructed such that the controller includes: a mode switch for switching the image forming portion... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090010663 - Printing apparatus and printing method: The present invention provides a printing apparatus and a printing method which, even if print media of different sizes are printed, can print images in well-balanced, optimum layouts according to the size of each of the print media. Thus, the printing apparatus according to the present invention has leading end... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090010664 - Image forming apparatus: The invention provides an image forming apparatus having: an image holding member; an image holding member; a charging unit; a latent image-forming unit; a development unit; a measuring unit; and a control unit. The image holding member has a substrate having a surface having regular reflectance in a range of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090010665 - Image forming apparatus: e

20090010666 - Development apparatus, image forming apparatus and development method: The development apparatus that develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier comprises: a developer roller operable to carry toner on a circumferential surface thereof and develop the electrostatic latent image using the toner; a supply roller operable to perform toner supply to the developer roller; a voltage... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090010668 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a black image forming unit that can be used in a black monochrome mode to form supply toner images corresponding to color patches and cause the supply toner images to be carried by an intermediate transfer belt. During the black monochrome mode, a fur brush... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090010667 - Transfer apparatus, transfer method, and image forming apparatus: A transfer apparatus capable of suitably measuring the amount of electric charges transferred from a transfer member to a transfer body and performing a transfer process without degrading the image quality by supplying an amount of electric charges suitable for any type of transfer body onto which an toner image... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090010669 - Developing device, image forming apparatus including the same and developing method: The change in an output voltage when a control voltage is changed is calculated, and the change in the control voltage divided by the calculated change in the output voltage is defined as a sensitivity coefficient. The sensitivity coefficient is recalculated for each predetermined time interval or whenever a predetermined... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090010670 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: It is judged whether a sufficient time for executing all of three correction processings (a high density correction processing, a halftone correction processing, and a registration correction processing) can be secured or not. When the sufficient time cannot be secured, the high density correction processing as an essential correction processing... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090010671 - Power supply control apparatus, power supply control method, and power supply control software program: The device comprises a first power supply 204 supplying electric power in the normal mode, a second power supply 203 supplying electric power in the power-saving mode, a first switching unit 211 switching between supplying and stopping the supply of electric power from an external power supply to the first... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090010672 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a sheet, includes: an image forming section which forms the image on the sheet; a fixing device which fixes the image onto the sheet; a first duct which covers the fixing device and ventilates air heated by the fixing device; a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090010673 - Filter and method of manufacturing the same: The present invention provides a filter structure manufacturable through fewer steps and at lower cost by using inexpensive materials and general techniques for processing while maintaining accuracy of the production of clearances that determines filtering performance and a method of manufacturing the filter structure. The filter structure according to the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090010674 - Image forming device: An image forming device including: an image holding member; a charging member; a latent image-forming unit; a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image holding member with a developer including a toner and a carrier, the toner comprising an external additive having first inorganic particles... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090010675 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus has a configuration in which a secondary transfer roller guides a leading end of a recording material which enters a secondary transfer nip to be led to the secondary transfer nip and the leading end of the recording material is prevented from coming into contact with... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090010676 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A developing apparatus is provided that can reliably prevent a developer from leaking even where the developing apparatus is continuously used, and an image forming apparatus having the developing apparatus is provided. The developing apparatus has a developer container for containing a developer, a developing portion for generating a developer... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090010677 - Cover opening and closing unit, image forming apparatus having the same, and method of removing and mounting cover: A cover opening and closing unit for an image forming apparatus, includes a cover removably mounted to a main body of the image forming apparatus mounting therein a developer cartridge, a developing unit, a transferring unit and a waste-developer receptacle, and a locking device fixing the cover to the main... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090010678 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, includes: a main body frame; a process cartridge which comprises a driven gear unit which is driven to form a visible image on an image carrying body; and a bracket device which comprises a bracket main body which is coupled to the main body frame, a... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090010679 - Image forming apparatus and toner cartridge: A toner cartridge is detachably attached to an image forming apparatus and supplies toner to the image forming apparatus. The locking mechanism is positioned either at a locking position or at a non-locking position. Shortly after the toner cartridge has been attached to the image forming apparatus, the locking mechanism... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090010680 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: An engaging unit engages a housing of a fixing device with a main body of an image forming apparatus in an engaged position, and disengages the housing from the main body in a disengaged position. An operating member operates the engaging unit from the engaged position to the disengaged position... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090010681 - Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components: A drive gear for a generally cylindrical imaging component. The drive gear includes a body for engaging the generally cylindrical imaging component; a cylindrical shaft attached to the body, the cylindrical shaft having an end surface; and three prongs extending longitudinally outward from the end surface.... Agent: William L. London

20090010682 - Decorating with powder material: A method for applying a pattern (21, 57) of granular material (12, 12b, 12c, 12d) on a receiving surface (13), comprising in sequence associating said granular material (12, 12b, 12c, 12d) with a transferring surface (3) together with a liquid aggregating phase (9, 20) and according a prefiguration (10, 10b,... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090010683 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes a developing roller and a blade. The developing roller includes: a developing sleeve which rotates while holding two-component developer composed of toner and magnetic carrier on the outer surface having a plurality of grooves extending in parallel to an axis of the rotation; and a magnetic... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090010684 - Developing roller, developing assembly, process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus: d

20090010685 - Transferring method of powder toner for electrophotograph and transferring apparatus thereof, and filling method of powder toner and the filling apparatus thereof: A powder toner transferring method that fluidizes a powder toner with a gas supplied from an air supply, sucks the fluidized powder toner with a suction, and transfers the powder toner by discharging the powder toner in a toner storage container. The suction of the powder toner is performed with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090010686 - Fixing device, fixing belt, and image forming apparatus: A fixing device including: a fixing roller; an endless fixing belt which rotates with the fixing roller; a pressure member; a sliding sheet placed between the fixing belt and the pressure member; and a lubricating agent supplying section, a toner image being fixed onto a recording media at a nip... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090010687 - Fixing device, and image forming apparatus using the fixing device: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member; a charger; a light irradiator; a developing device; a transfer device; an image bearing member's cleaner; and a fixing device, wherein the fixing device includes a fixing member configured to fix a toner image upon application of heat and pressure thereto;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090010688 - Fixing device, image forming apparatus, and fixing method: When an infra-red heater is to be taken out from a fixing device for maintenance of the infra-red heater, screw-fastening is first released and one holder is extracted from a holding member. The infra-red heater is then pulled out from the side the holder was extracted from. This process is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090010689 - Image forming unit and image forming apparatus: An image forming unit includes an image bearing body, a rotating body disposed in contact with or disposed facing the image bearing body, a supporting member that supports a rotation shaft of the rotating body, an insertion hole provided on the supporting member, a bearing inserted into the insertion hole... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090010690 - Conductive roller and image forming apparatus comprising the same: This invention relates to a conductive roller having high adhesion property between an elastic layer and a coating layer, and more particularly to a conductive roller 1 comprising a shaft member 2, one or more elastic layers 3 disposed on an outside of the shaft member 2 in a radial... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090010691 - Image glossing apparatus: The present invention provides a glossing apparatus including first and second heating rotating members which contact each other to form a nip part, an toner image on a recording material being heated in the nip part; a cooling unit which cools the recording material, moved while contacting the first heating... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090010693 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of process cartridges provided for black and for another color. The process cartridges each including a set of a latent image carrier, a charging unit that charges a surface of the latent image carrier, and a lubricant applying unit that applies lubricant to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090010692 - Lubricant supplier, process cartridge including same, and image forming apparatus including same: A lubricant supplier, installable in a process cartridge or an image forming apparatus, includes a ridge line extending crosswise to a longitudinal axis of the image forming member and contacting the surface of the image forming member at a non-perpendicular angle to the longitudinal axis of the image forming member,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090010694 - Developing device, waste toner collecting device and image forming apparatus having the same: An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive medium on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, an exposure unit to irradiate light onto the photosensitive medium, a developing device to apply toner to the photosensitive medium having the electrostatic latent image formed thereon, a cleaning device to remove waste toner... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090010695 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus generates printing image data of a printing image and copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern-image data of a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image to be added to the printing image. The copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image includes a latent image and a background image. The apparatus includes a selecting unit and a printing-data generating unit.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090010696 - Image forming apparatus having contact preventing unit to prevent printing medium from contacting development cartridge: An image forming apparatus includes a printing medium feeder which feeds a printing medium a developing cartridge which forms an image on the printing medium; a fusing unit which fuses the image on the printing medium; and a contact preventing unit between the developing cartridge and the fusing unit and... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090010697 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a cover member that is capable of being opened and closed, wherein the cover member includes a discharge tray that is capable of holding printed recording medium, and an automatic document reader that is provided above the discharge tray, wherein when the cover member is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090010698 - Transfer apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped therewith: A transfer apparatus for transferring a toner image onto a sheet having: an endless belt; a plurality of rollers for supporting the endless belt around the plurality of rollers; and a discharge section for corona discharging the sheet, wherein the plurality of rollers includes a transfer roller for forming a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090003846 - Host apparatus connected to image forming apparatus and image forming method thereof: A host apparatus which is connected to an image forming apparatus, the host apparatus includes an image processor to process an image with respect to a printing data, and a controller to check a preset common printing property for two or more printing data, to set a common printing property... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090003847 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a device body, an image forming unit provided in the device body to form an image on a recording medium, a carrying unit detachably attached to the device body so as to carry a recording medium on a carrying route, a first detecting unit provided... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090003848 - Printing apparatus to prevent multifeed related printing errors and method thereof: A printing apparatus includes a multifeed sensor to detect whether printing paper sheets are multifed, a measuring unit to measure an interval between the multifed paper sheets, if the multifeed sensor detects that the printing paper sheets are multifed, and a control unit to delay printing using the measured interval... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090003849 - Motor control for paper jam at fuser unit: A developer image is formed by selectively supplying a developer based on a potential distribution corresponding to image information, the formed developer image is electrostatically attracted and transferred to a sheet material, the developer image is fixed to the sheet material by applying heat and pressure to the developer image... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090003850 - Developing apparatus: A developing apparatus including a developing container for containing developer, the developing container having an opening portion, a developer carrying member for carrying the developer at the opening portion, a detecting member for detecting a developer amount, the detecting member detecting a capacitance between the developer carrying member and the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003851 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: In an image forming apparatus provided with a rotary type image developing apparatus, during monochrome print job processing, it is judged whether the amount of toner remaining in the developing chamber of the black developer unit is equal to or less than a predetermined amount M. If the judgement is... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090003852 - Device for measuring concentration of toner in liquid developer, image forming apparatus provided therewith, and method for measuring toner concentration: Provided are a light-emitting portion 101 having a light-emitting member 104 and a light emergence surface 112a through which light from the light-emitting member 104 emerges, and a light-receiving portion 102 having a light incidence surface 122a through which the light from the light-emitting member 104 enters and a light-receiving... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090003853 - Protective layer setting unit, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus, and method of evaluating protective layer setting unit: A protective layer setting unit includes a protective agent, and an application unit for applying the protective agent on an image carrying member. An attenuated total reflection (ATR) method is used for detecting a surface condition of the image carrying member after applying the protective agent. A peak Pa at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003854 - Recording apparatus and method for controlling the recording apparatus: A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record an image on a recording medium, a roller configured to convey the recording medium, a first signal generation unit configured to generate a first period signal according to a movement of the recording medium, a second signal generation unit configured... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090003855 - Development device and image forming apparatus provided therewith: The first direct-current bias power supply applying the first direct-current bias Vdc1 and the first alternating-current bias power supply applying the first alternating-current bias Vac1 are connected to a development roller. The second direct-current bias power supply applying the second direct-current bias Vdc2 and the second alternating-current bias power supply... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090003856 - Image forming apparatus: A complex machine includes an image reading section for reading an image from a document. A determining section determines whether the read image includes a predetermined confidential pattern. A breaking pattern inserting section inserts a breaking pattern to the document image to break the document image. A printing section can... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090003857 - Recording material determination apparatus andimage forming apparatus: A recording material determination apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect a characteristic corresponding to a surface condition of a recording material based on a captured image of a surface of the recording material, a second detection unit configured to detect a characteristic corresponding to a grammage of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090003858 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, including: a photoconductor; a charging section to apply an electrical potential onto a surface of the photoconductor; a cleaning device to remove toner particles remaining on the surface of the photoconductor; a coating section to coat the surface of the photoconductor with a lubricant; an electrical... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090003859 - Charging apparatus and image forming apparatus: A charging apparatus which is excellent in charging uniformity and thus allows a to-be-charged body to be charged uniformly and in which the generation of discharge products can be reduced, is provided. In the charging apparatus, ions are generated under the difference in electrical potential between the discharge electrode and... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090003860 - Charging device, image forming apparatus, control method of charging device, control program, computer-readable storage medium recording control program: In a charging device of the present invention, with reference to a state (movement speed of a charging receiving material, operating period of charging device) in which the charging device is used which state is obtained by an image formation controlling section, a voltage controlling section sets or changes an... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090003862 - Image forming apparatus and control method: For suppressing color density unevenness due to a polygonal face tangle, laser luminance is controlled so as to maintain the color density unevenness with a spatial frequency sensitive to human visibility substantially constant.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090003861 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a light beam output unit configured to output a light beam, a deflection unit for deflection scanning in a main scanning direction of a photosensitive member by reflecting the light beam from the light beam output unit, a timing information detection unit configured to detect... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090003863 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A developing apparatus in which a toner has a volume-average particle diameter R that is in a range of 4.0 μm≦R≦6.2 μm, a developing roller has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra (μm) that is not more than 0.10 times the volume-average particle diameter R of the toner, a voltage applied... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003865 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method performed by the image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, in which an image forming method is performed, includes an image carrier, an optical writing unit, a developing unit developing a toner image including an output image and a forcible toner consumption image, a transfer unit including an endless moving member to transfer the toner image... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003864 - Transfer device and image forming apparatus including same: A transfer device, which transfers an image onto a recording medium directly or indirectly and is included in an image forming apparatus, includes an endless belt member extended between a drive roller rotated and a driven roller and configured to receive the image from the image carrier part onto either... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003866 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus including an endless belt for heating an image on a recording material; a supporting member for supporting the belt; a coil for induction heat generation in the belt; control means for controlling a position of the belt in a widthwise direction by inclining the supporting member... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003867 - Heating device, fixing apparatus, and image forming system: A heating device includes a heat applying member heated by a heat source, a pressure applying member pressure contacting the heat applying member with a prescribed pressure, and a temperature detection device that detects temperature of the heat applying member. A timing device is provided to count time elapsing from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003868 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus includes a current detection circuit for detecting an input current from the commercial power supply to the apparatus, in which: when a current detected by the current detection circuit exceeds a predetermined value, a maximum current suppliable to a fixing portion is restricted; and when a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003869 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an opening-closing lid for opening and closing an opening portion formed in an apparatus main body; a detection unit for detecting an open state of the opening-closing lid; an execution unit for executing a specific operation; a main power source for supplying power to the... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC Suite 202

20090003870 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for forming an image with developing toner on an exposed portion has a mode in which a toner image is automatically output onto a recording material without using exposure by an exposure device. When an inclination adjustment of a corona charging device is performed using an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090003871 - Belt conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a belt conveying portion having a movable endless belt provided around at least two supporting members, a cleaning member provided in contact with a surface of the belt, a lubricant supply portion provided below a contact portion between the belt and the cleaning member for... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090003872 - Sealing member, toner accommodating container and image forming apparatus: A toner container detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, includes a main body for containing toner; a sealing portion for sealing the toner discharge opening; locking projections for snap fitting engagement with holes provided in a cylindrical member of an image forming apparatus, wherein the projections receive from the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003873 - Methods of increasing printer cartridge compatibility: A method of modifying a printer cartridge, the printer cartridge being configured to be used with a first printer, the cartridge comprising a first toner hopper, a waste hopper connected to the first toner hopper, an end cap connected to the toner hopper, and a guide key connected to the... Agent: Roland Tong

20090003874 - Methods of increasing printer cartridge compatibility: A method of converting a first printer cartridge to a second printer cartridge, the second printer cartridge comprising a waste hopper, the second printer cartridge comprising a plurality of positioning pins on both sides of the waste hopper, the method comprising: determining the positions of the positioning pins of the... Agent: Roland Tong

20090003875 - Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum; developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive drum; drum frame supporting the electrophotographic photosensitive drum; a developing frame supporting the developing roller, the developing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003876 - Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum; developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive drum; drum frame supporting the electrophotographic photosensitive drum; a developing frame supporting the developing roller, the developing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003877 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on an image bearing member, an endless belt configured to transfer and carry the toner image thereon, a transfer unit configured to transfer the toner image carried by the endless belt onto a recording sheet,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090003878 - Rotary operated mechanism for retracting paper pathways of printers: An apparatus is provided for clearing paper jams in a module along a print path of a printer, the module having nip baffles and a rotatable and removable core element defining a print path therethrough. The apparatus comprises at least one cam, a rotatable handle mechanism and a ramp drive... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20090003879 - Image forming apparatus: A fixing step before smoothing by a smoothing device causes the phenomenon that a photo-medium is not properly separated from a fixing device due to a toner receiving layer of the photo-medium. Therefore, in order to prevent the occurrence of defective separation in the fixing device, a predetermined image pattern... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090003880 - Traction-drive type driving-force transmission mechanism and image forming apparatus equipped therewith: A traction-drive force transmission mechanism, includes a sun roller rotatable about a first axis and a plurality of shafts. Each is disposed on an adjacent axis inclined relative to the first axis. Planetary rollers are disposed along an outer peripheral surface of the sun roller and are supported respectively by... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090003881 - Optical member coupling device and optical scanning apparatus: An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source to generate a beam, a lens to transmit the beam generated from the light source, and a base member to which the lens is fixed, wherein the lens is fixed to the base member via a mount member having a same coefficient... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090003882 - Light emitting element, light emitting element array, method of manufacturing light emitting element and light emitting element array, and exposing apparatus: An insulator (12), which is provided between a lower electrode (11) by patterning a substrate and a counter electrode (15), defines a light emitting area by covering on ends of the lower electrode (11). The light emitting area (13) has a shape of which edges in a first direction of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090003883 - Optical scanning unit and electro-photographic image forming apparatus including the same: An optical scanning unit that deflects light in a main scanning direction to radiate the light on an exposure object. The optical scanning unit includes a light source having a signal terminal, and a circuit board having a slot-shaped inserting portion into which the signal terminal is inserted.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090003884 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same: A developing apparatus, including: a developing container which has an opening portion and contains a developer; a developer carrying member which carries the developer at the opening portion; and a rotatable developer supplying member which is in contact with the developer carrying member and has a surface of a foam... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003885 - Toner, developer, and image forming apparatus: A toner including a colorant and a binder resin is provided. The binder resin includes a first resin comprising a block X comprising a resin comprising a racemic mixture of optically active monomers of a D-form compound and an L-form compound, and a block Y comprising another resin. The weight... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003886 - Toner supply device and image forming apparatus: A toner supply device is equipped with a coupling that has a toner supply opening on the side wall, a partition wall provided in this coupling integrally with a specific space provided on the inner wall and a hole larger than a toner supply opening on the side wall. A... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090003887 - Self-cleaning electrophotographic toning roller system: An apparatus and related method for a self-cleaning toner roller device adjacent a toner roller. The cleaning device having one or more shields to capture the toner debris from the toner roller, a toner debris receptacle to collect the toner debris, and a controller to move the applicator from an... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090003888 - Developing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image forming system and image forming method: A developer carrier has concave portions regularly arranged on the surface thereof and being rotatable with a developer thereon. A contact member is made of an elastic rubber material, is in contact with the surface of the developer carrier, and vibrates with the rotation of the developer carrier. A value... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090003889 - Developer unit, process device and image forming apparatus: A developer unit according to one aspect of the invention includes: a developer accommodation member configured to accommodate a developer having charging polarity to a first polarity opposite to a second polarity; a developing roller arranged at the developer accommodation member, the developing roller being configured to carry the developer;... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090003890 - Developing unit and an image forming apparatus having the same: A developing unit which has an improved structure to limit pressure between a developing member and a regulation roller to a regular range, and an image forming apparatus having the same are provided. A developing unit includes a developing member to develop an electrostatic latent image on a photoconductive medium... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090003891 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus uses a two-component developer containing a toner and a carrier. The apparatus has a latent image bearer for bearing an electrostatic latent image. A toner bearer bears the toner to be conveyed to a development region to develop the electrostatic latent image. A developer bearer bears... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090003892 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided, which controls an appropriate developer amount for a desired image so that an image defect such as an unclear font or a white area is prevented, resulting in a stable image formation for a long term. A developer regulating member has a resistance value... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003893 - Image forming apparatus and correction method of color-misregistration in an image: An image forming apparatus that corrects color misregistration of an image including: an image forming device having an endless image carrier for carrying an image to be formed on the recording medium, wherein the image forming device forms the image in an image area that corresponds to the recording medium... Agent: Cameron Kerrigan Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090003894 - Belt assembly, and a transfer unit and an image forming apparatus having the same: A belt assembly in an image forming apparatus includes a belt which includes a guiding rail on one side, a first roller which includes a receiving part which supports the guiding rail, and a second roller which includes one end which does not interfere with the guiding rail, wherein the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090003895 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and transfer device: An image forming apparatus is provided in which an electrostatic latent image formed on a surface of a photoreceptor is developed into a toner image with a developing device, and in which a printing paper transported on a transport belt is brought into contact with the surface of the photoreceptor... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090003896 - Method and apparatus for enhanced sheet stripping: An enhanced sheet stripping method and apparatus for stripping toner image carrying copy sheets from a surface of a moving heated fusing member forming a fusing nip. The apparatus includes (a) a moving assembly for moving a cut sheet towards the fusing nip; (b) a sheet curling device positioned upstream... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20090003897 - Sheet separation device, sheet conveyance apparatus, and image forming system: A sheet separation member having a separation pick includes a substrate made of hard material, which is swingable around a support shaft connected to a stable member, and a wrapping member made of resin softer than the substrate for wrapping the substrate. A leading end of the substrate is integrally... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090003898 - Cleaning device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus: A cleaning device including a cleaning member that moves in a predetermined direction and is in contact with a cleaning target that moves in a predetermined direction and which is directly or indirectly heated by a heater, to remove toner particles on a surface of the cleaning target. A contact... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003900 - Fixing device, carrying device and image forming apparatus: The conveying device of the present invention comprises a cylindrical first roller, a cylindrical second roller that has a surface hardness higher than a surface hardness of the first roller, and a belt placed in a state surrounding either the first roller or the second roller. The conveying device moves... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090003899 - Turret fusing apparatus: A turret fusing apparatus including (a) a frame; (b) a rotatable external pressure roller mounted at a first mounting position to the frame; and (c) a rotatable turret assembly mounted at a second mounting position on the frame for selectably forming different fusing nips having different characteristics with the rotatable... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20090003901 - Fusing device and image forming apparatus having the same: A fusing device to fuse an image to a printing medium, the fusing device including: a heating roller; a first pressing roller, which presses the printing medium against the heating roller; and a second pressing roller which attached to the first pressing roller, to detach the printing medium from the... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090003902 - Image heating apparatus and pressure roller used for image heating apparatus: A pressure roller forming a nip portion for contacting to a heating member to pinch and convey and heat recording material includes: a core metal and an elastic layer containing filler, the elastic layer containing the filler including thermal conductive filler with length of not less than 0.05 mm and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003903 - Fixing device, and image forming method and image forming apparatus using the same: A fixing device, and an image forming method and an image forming apparatus using the fixing device. The fixing device includes an application unit to apply a foam-like fixing agent including a softener to particulates including a resin on a medium, the softener softening the particulates by at least partially... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003904 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit and a re-heating unit. The fixing unit fixes a toner image on a recording medium by applying heat to the toner image with a first glossiness level. The re-heating unit re-heats the toner image, fixed on the recording medium by the fixing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090003905 - Cleaning blade member: A cleaning blade member includes a cleaning layer and an elastic layer provided on the cleaning layer's back surface. Both are formed of a polyurethane member produced through curing and molding a castable polyurethane composition, the cleaning layer containing a long-chain polyol, a polyisocyanate, and a diamino compound having a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090003906 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus and a sheet cassette are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a first tray that accommodates sheets; a first transfer path; a forming unit; an arm that can be pivoted; a roller that is rotatably provided at a leading end of the arm and feeds the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090003907 - Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus: The image reading apparatus includes an original base plate on which an original is placed; an original conveying apparatus which can be opened and closed with respect to the original base plate, the original conveying apparatus pressing the original against the original base plate while closed; a reading portion which... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090003908 - Image recording device and determination method: A image recording device includes a sheet feeding unit, an image recording unit, a first feeding control unit, a determination unit, and a recording control unit. The sheet feeding unit feeds a sheet member along a sheet feeding path in a sheet feeding direction. The image recording unit records an... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090003910 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a medium guide. A toner image is formed on an image bearing body. A transfer section transfers the toner image onto a print medium. A fixing section fixes the toner image into a permanent image. A guide section is disposed along a transport path in... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090003909 - Radius profiled vacuum media handling transport: System and methods providing a plurality of fusers, and one or more radius profiled media handling transports for transporting media in a radius, in an image forming device. The system includes one or more of a plurality of fusers, and radius profiled media handling transport devices arranged in a fashion... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090003911 - Children's copying machine: The present invention comprises a children's copying machine for copying two- and three-dimensional objects. The copy machine includes a slidable art tray for receiving two dimensional objects and or creative drawing on an erasable surface. The art tray surface is supported on springs and depressible for further receiving three dimensional... Agent: Grimes & Battersby, LLP

20090003912 - Curl correcting device and image forming apparatus: A curl correcting device for correcting a curl of a sheet at a curved belt-nip portion includes an endless belt extending between a driving roller and a driven roller, and a pressing roller configured to press a belt surface of the endless belt. A stepping motor is controlled in accordance... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division