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Electrophotography April category listing, related patent applications 04/09

20090110410 - Methods for moving a media sheet within an image forming device: The present application is directed to methods for determining the location and movement of a media sheet within an image forming device. In one embodiment, the media sheet is positioned within an input area of the device. A pick roller is rotated to move the sheet from the input area... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090110411 - Printing system and method for purging print media: In a printing system having multiple document finishing assemblies, it is sometimes necessary to purge the system of print media which, as a result of a jam or other operational malfunction, remain within the printing system in an unfinished, unprinted, or otherwise undesirable condition. These “purge sheets” can be delivered... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20090110412 - Image forming apparatus: A color image forming apparatus of an electrophotographic type, includes a toner container containing a toner therein, arranged on an upper portion of an outside of a main frame of the apparatus in which an imagewise exposure section, a developing section and a fixing section are housed.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090110413 - Image forming apparatus and image density control method: An image forming apparatus and an image density control method for controlling image density in the image forming apparatus, involving adjusting a toner concentration control reference value in accordance with an amount of the toner replaced in a developing device so as to adjust the image density to maintain a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110414 - Image stabilizing apparatus and image forming apparatus: There is provided an image stabilizing apparatus which is capable of keeping a toner concentration and a printing density constant when, toner consumption is small, and further which is systematically simple. The image stabilizing apparatus comprises a control portion for controlling a toner replenishment amount in a toner replenishing apparatus... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090110415 - Control to detect air knife blockage: A system for detecting stripper device blockage in a printing system is disclosed. The system includes a fusing member which during operation contacts a sheet of printer media to fuse a marking material to the sheet, a stripping device configured to apply pressurized air from an air supply through at... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090110416 - Long life cleaning system with replacement blades: Systems and methods are described that facilitate replacing cleaning blades employed to chisel excess toner from a photoreceptor surface. For example, a cleaning unit can comprise a blade holder with a plurality of cleaning blades attached thereto, which is rotated (e.g., by an actuator) to remove a used cleaning blade... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090110417 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus mounted with a toner cartridge having a memory unit includes a toner cartridge which stores a plurality of control data depending on toner in the memory unit, an acquisition unit which selects one of the plurality of control data in the memory unit and acquires image... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090110418 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus, such as a printer, includes an image forming unit forming a toner image on an image carrier, a transfer unit for transferring the toner image onto a recording medium, a pair of a fusing rotating body and a pressure rotating body, a fusing unit for fusing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090110419 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus and method which can take a countermeasure against a tail or the like in consideration of differences of various conditions such as a kind of transfer paper and the like is provided. The apparatus has an image processing portion for extracting an image pattern whose image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090110420 - Method and system for improved control patch measurement in printing system: Printing systems, control systems, and methods are presented for controlling customer image creation in which process control patches are laterally offset from a lateral customer image boundary to mitigate adverse interaction of control patches and customer images and to improve print engine process control.... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090110421 - Photographic plotting process and arrangement for tracing a computer-stored grid image on a flat photosensitive carrier: The grid image T (overall image) is traced in dots by a computer program as a sequence of image sections (R1, R2, R3, R4, . . . ) on a tracing carrier (1) moving through an exposure station in direction v. All the dots in an image section are traced... Agent: Woodling, Krost And Rust

20090110422 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a density detector to detect a density of an image to be printed, and an image density controller to adjust a toner supply amount and a developing bias based on a detection result of the density detector to thereby adjust a density of the image.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090110423 - Liquid developer collecting system and image forming apparatus including the same: A liquid developer collecting system includes a developing roller cleaning unit that collects liquid developer on a developing roller; a developer storage unit that stores the liquid developer collected by the developing roller cleaning unit; and a concentration control unit that stores the liquid developer fed from the developer storage... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090110424 - Liquid developer collecting system and image forming apparatus including the same: A liquid developer collecting system. A developing unit has a developing roller. A developing roller cleaning unit collects liquid developer on the developing roller. A concentration control unit stores liquid developer collected by the developing roller cleaning unit and controls the concentration of the liquid developer. A first feed unit... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090110425 - Image forming apparatus and developer replenishing method: A switching controller is provided to switch from a developer replenishment prohibition mode to a developer replenishment permission mode when the replenishment detection device detects that the developer containing section does not store the developer, and from the developer replenishment permission mode to the developer replenishment prohibition mode when a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110426 - Inter-document zone gloss defect eliminator: A method for reducing gloss variation in prints, in an electrostatic printing system having a fuser for fusing sheets having marking particles thereon, the method including transporting a first sheet to the fuser; transporting a second sheet to the fuser; and abutting a trailing edge of the first sheet to... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20090110427 - Printing apparatus: An aspect of the invention provides a printing apparatus having a plurality of operation modes that comprises: a storage unit configured to store power consumption values per unit time for each operation mode and a standard power consumption value indicating an energy-saving standard power consumption during a determined period of... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090110428 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus, includes: an image carrier that carries an electrostatic latent image; a toner carrier roller that is provided, on a surface thereof, with a plurality of convex sections and a concave section which surrounds the convex sections, is shaped approximately like a cylinder, is arranged opposed to... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090110429 - Powder conveyance unit and image forming apparatus including same: A powder conveyance unit, providable to an image forming apparatus, includes a path forming member configured to form a powder conveyance path including an inner wall to convey powder therethrough and connect first and second powder containers, and a substantially planar plate-like powder remover configured to remove powder adhering to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110430 - Seal member, developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A seal member covers a space between a developing roller and a casing of a developing device. The seal member includes a flexible sheet and a reinforcing member fixed to the sheet. The reinforcing member is fixed to the casing. Notches are provided in the reinforcing member in a direction... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110431 - Laser printer toner cartridge seal and method: A reassembled laser printer toner cartridge and method of manufacture including a cartridge seal assembly in which the remains of an OEM laser printer toner cartridge's toner hopper pull seal strip(s) is left in position, or a substitute conductive strip is put in the same position to simulate the OEM... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20090110432 - Image forming apparatus: When a lever is pulled upwards, an engaging member comes into contact with a retracted contacting member. An optical writing device rotates with a hooking member at a center and is lifted. As a result, positions of a first reference position component and a second reference position component switches from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090110433 - Excess toner evacuation process: A system and process for emptying excess toner from repaired or remanufactured laser printer toner cartridges, for use in both magnetic toner and non-magnetic toner after the cartridge has been assembled and post-assembly tested. The removal of excess toner from the cartridge prevents the cartridge from “sweating”, i.e., leaking toner... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20090110434 - Process cartridge remanufacturing method: A remanufacturing method includes dismounting, from one end of a drum frame, a supporting member while rotatably supporting one end of a drum and a developing device frame; separating the two frames; dismounting the drum; mounting one end of a fresh drum to the other end of the drum frame;... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090110435 - Belt installation tool: A tool for installation of intermediate belts by a customer includes a lightweight frame structure that is collapsible for handling and ease of belt loading onto the tool itself. The frame structure includes linkage such that when a handle connected to the frame structure is rotated; the framework will expand... Agent: Williams A. Henry , Ii

20090110436 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a rotatable belt member configured to contact the image bearing member, a belt unit configured to support the belt member and removably mounted on the image forming apparatus, an operation unit disposed on the belt unit, a belt unit moving mechanism... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090110437 - Duplex document feeder: A duplex document feeder defines a feeding path. A charging means, a guiding plate equipped with elastic force and a feeding means are located along the feeding path. A driver means provides drive source to the charging means and the inverting means. The guiding plate blocks up the feeding path... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090110438 - Photosensitive body, image forming apparatus having the same and assembly method of photosensitive body: A photosensitive body to stably maintain an electric connection between a photosensitive drum and a shaft includes a photosensitive drum, a shaft serving as a rotational center of the photosensitive drum, and a grounding device to electrically connect the photosensitive drum and the shaft. The grounding device includes a shaft... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090110439 - Skirt for toner cartridge: A skirt for a toner cartridge comprises a body having a pair of parallel edges, a plurality of beams extending along the body in the direction of the pair of parallel edges, the beams having a first end dimension B, the beams having a second end dimension b, the plurality... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090110440 - Toner cartridge: A toner cartridge includes a recording unit that records a deterioration table in which a reference value of a deterioration degree is specified for each of constituent members and a load characteristic table in which the deterioration degree corresponding to an operation state of an image forming apparatus in which... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090110441 - Magnetic roller, development device, and image forming method: A development device configured to develop a latent image with developer including toner and carrier includes a development roller configured to carry the developer. The development roller includes a stationary magnet-fixing member, a plurality of magnets fixed to an interior of the stationary magnet-fixing member to form a plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110442 - Developer apparatus, image forming apparatus and developing method: A developer apparatus, includes: a container which houses toner; a toner carrier roller which is provided, on a surface thereof, with a plurality of convex sections which are regularly arranged and a concave section which surrounds the convex sections, is shaped approximately like a cylinder, and rotates while carrying a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090110443 - Developer apparatus, image forming apparatus and developing method: A developer apparatus, includes: a container which houses toner; a toner carrier roller that is provided, on a surface thereof, with a plurality of convex sections which are regularly arranged and a concave section which surrounds the convex sections, is shaped approximately like a cylinder, and rotates while carrying a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090110445 - Developer apparatus, image forming apparatus and developing method: A developer apparatus, includes: a container which houses toner; a toner carrier roller that is provided, on a surface thereof, with a plurality of convex sections which are regularly arranged and a concave section which surrounds the convex sections, is shaped approximately like a cylinder, and rotates while carrying a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090110444 - Developer apparatus, image forming apparatus and image forming method: A developer apparatus, includes: a toner carrier roller which rotates while carrying a toner layer of charged toner on its surface, the toner carrier being shaped approximately like a cylinder and being provided, on a surface thereof, with a plurality of convex sections, which are regularly arranged along a width... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090110446 - Development device and image forming apparatus having same: A development device 4a is separated into a toner agitating portion 21 and a toner supply portion 22 by a boundary wall 23 in which a first opening 28 and a second opening 29 are formed. Inside the toner agitating portion 21, an agitation paddle 24 is rotatably supported, and... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090110447 - Image forming apparatus and electric discharge device: An image forming apparatus includes a diode for restraining deterioration of an electric discharge device caused when a voltage applied to a discharge electrode and a shield electrode is switched. By switching the voltage at only one position using the diode, both of the voltage applied to the discharge electrode... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090110448 - Fixing unit and image forming apparatus having the same: A fixing unit where an operating force for releasing a nip can be reduced with a small-sized configuration. The fixing unit has a heating roller including a heating element, a pressure belt, pressure arms, pressure springs, and nip load releasing units. The pressure belt is supported in an intermediate position... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090110449 - Separating member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes a fixing roller and a pressing roller that are in pressure contact with each other. A separating plate is placed opposite to the fixing roller with a certain gap in between them. Positioning portions are installed on the separating plate to be in contact with width-direction... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110450 - Fuser belt assembly: A fuser belt assembly of a xerographic marking device is provided with an endless fuser belt having an inner side and an outer side, a pressure pad movable between a cammed-in position in which the pressure pad contacts an inner side of the fuser belt to press an outer side... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090110451 - Fusing device and image forming apparatus having the same: A fusing device includes a pressure unit, a belt unit to rotate in outer contact with the pressure unit, a nip forming unit to form a nip over a contact portion between the pressure unit and the belt unit, a heating unit to heat the nip forming unit and the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090110452 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A disclosed fixing device includes a fixing member configured to heat and melt a toner image to fix it onto a recording medium; a pressure member abutting the fixing member to form a nip into which the recording medium is fed; a separating member disposed on the downstream side in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090110453 - Fuser member with nano-sized filler: A fuser member suited to use in a fusing apparatus of an electrostatographic image rendering device includes a substrate and an outer layer over the substrate. The outer layer includes a matrix material and filler particles dispersed in the matrix material. an outer layer comprising a halopolymer and filler particles.... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090110454 - Image formig apparatus: A sheet conveying apparatus includes a pair of first guides formed with a first opening; a pair of second guides; and a pair of third guides, wherein an air which has passed through a first opening of the pair of first guides is deflected to one pair of guides of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090110456 - Image forming unit and image forming apparatus: In an image forming unit or an image forming apparatus, there is an image carrying body, then, a cleaning member is furnished along the image carrying body to remove developer remaining on the surface of the image carrying body after transferring; a first conveying member conveys the developer removed by... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090110455 - Waste toner solidification apparatus for a printing device: A waste toner solidification apparatus for a printing device includes a nozzle configured to receive waste toner from a hopper. A heater is configured to heat the waste toner in a manner sufficient to liquefy the waste toner within the nozzle. Substantially when exiting the nozzle, the liquefied waste toner... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090110457 - Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus: A sheet conveying apparatus includes a reference guide, a sheet introducing portion, a passage portion, a sheet guide portion, and an upstream side guide. The upstream side guide is provided at a position away from a sheet conveyed in a thickness direction of the sheet rather than the sheet guide... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090110459 - Image forming device: An image forming device is disclosed. The device includes a toner-image forming unit which forms a toner image; a transfer unit; a fixing unit; a paper-output unit; a drive unit; a first drive-power transmission gear; a second drive-power transmission gear; a gear housing; a first positioning unit which positions the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090110458 - Post-processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A post-processing apparatus is provided, in which a sheet to be post-processed is substantially vertically dropped in a sequence from a first stage to a second stage, and from the second stage to a third stage, the sheet is temporarily stored in the first stage, a bundle of sheets is... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090110460 - Sheet moisturizing device and image forming apparatus provided therewith: A sheet moisturizing device having a moisturizing section that moisturizes a sheet and a guide which guides the sheet that has been moisturized by the moisturizing section, the guide includes a first guide member made of resin having a plurality of ribs, arranged immediately downstream of the moisturizing section in... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090103933 - Apparatus and method for image forming: An image forming apparatus is provided with a process cartridge that is removable from the image forming apparatus. When the process cartridge is installed, the image forming apparatus automatically searches a print job that matches the process cartridge that is currently installed onto the image forming apparatus.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090103934 - Image forming apparatus and printing method therefor: An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an apparatus main body, an image creating unit that is provided in the apparatus main body and creates an image to be printed on recording paper, a paper feeding mechanism on which plural pieces of the recording... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090103935 - Image forming apparatus and developer supply method therefor: An image forming apparatus includes an latent image carrier configured to carry a latent image thereon, a developing unit disposed facing the latent image carrier to develop the latent image with developer, a developer container containing the developer and attachable to the image forming apparatus, a developer detector configured to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090103936 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes: a high voltage generating circuit for applying an oscillating voltage to a charging member disposed in contact with or proximity to an image carrier, the oscillating voltage having a DC voltage Vdc and an AC voltage Vac superimposed thereon; a current detecting portion for detecting... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090103937 - Image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which forms an image on a sheet, including: an image forming section to form an image; a display section to display an operation procedure for maintenance associated with a maintenance object; a first input section to input identification information to identify a user; a... Agent: Cameron Kerrigan Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090103938 - Image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which forms an image on a paper including an image forming unit to form the image, a plurality of paper feeding trays to store the paper, a storage unit to store information of a paper direction of the paper for each of the paper... Agent: Cameron Kerrigan Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090103939 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on sheets, includes: a storage unit for storing the number of jobs in which a discharge position of the sheets is switched; a switching unit for switching the discharge position of the sheets; a sheet discharge unit for stacking the sheets; and... Agent: Cameron Kerrigan Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090103940 - Image forming device: A tandem image forming device includes: a high voltage generating circuit for applying an oscillating voltage to a charging member disposed in contact with or proximity to an image carrier, the oscillating voltage having a DC voltage and an AC voltage superimposed thereon; a voltage control portion for controlling the... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090103941 - Image formation apparatus: An image formation apparatus which includes a rotating image-bearing body, a charging section, an exposure section, a developing section, a transfer section, and a residue toner-charging section. The charging section charges the image-bearing body. The exposure section forms an electrostatic latent image on the image-bearing body that has been charged.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090103942 - Fluid based decommissioning and recycling of printer toner cartridges: Disclosed is a system to mechanically destroy printer toner cartridges and reclaim their constituent materials under a water shielded environment provides a safer and more environmentally friendly recycling system. The present invention is an economical system that provides greater protection from possible fire or explosion and releases less irritating or... Agent: Michael Ries

20090103943 - Developer, developing device, image forming apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming method: A two-component developer used in an image forming apparatus including a latent image bearing member and a developing device includes a magnetic carrier and a toner. The toner includes a toner base and inorganic fine particles as an external additive. A loose apparent density of the toner is not greater... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090103944 - Lubricating device, lubricant applicator, and priming agent used therewith: A lubricating device operable to lubricate a moving imaging surface subsequent to removal of residual toner by a cleaning device includes a lubricant applicator, a metering blade, and a priming agent. The lubricant applicator is located downstream of the cleaning device in a direction of movement of the imaging surface,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090103945 - Toner cartridge: The present invention provides an exchangeable toner cartridge which can be attached to or detached from an apparatus main body. The toner cartridge includes the toner transfer member which is provided along a longitudinal direction of the toner cartridge and which can rotate. At the first range of the upstream... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090103947 - Exposure head, an image forming apparatus and an image forming method: An image forming apparatus, includes: a latent image carrier that moves in a moving direction; and an exposure head that includes a light emitting element which emits a light and an imaging optical system which images the light emitted from the light emitting element, and is adapted to form a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090103946 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprises: a holding unit that holds a medium on which an image is formed by irradiation of image-bearing light, the medium having a liquid crystal layer, a photoconductor layer that changes a resistance in response to irradiation of light, and a pair of electrode layers provided... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090103948 - Developing device and image forming apparatus using the same: The invention provides a developing device employing a liquid developer which is capable of effectively cleaning a development roller or the like having an elastic outer layer. The developing device of the invention is provided with an elastic roller such as a development roller for developing a latent image formed... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090103949 - Liquid developer collection apparatus and image forming apparatus: A liquid developer collection apparatus and an image forming apparatus can prevent image disturbances and also disturbances of the toner particles on the image section that can be produced by squeezing. The liquid developer collection apparatus includes a first squeezing section 113aY that squeeze a liquid developer on an image... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090103950 - Toner, image forming apparatus, image forming method, and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus including: a latent electrostatic image bearing member, a charging unit, an exposing unit, a developing unit, a transfer unit, and a fixing unit, wherein the toner contains at least a binder resin and a colorant, the binder resin contains a polyester resin obtained by polycondensation of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090103951 - Development device, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge having compact structure for discharging developer: In a development device for containing a developer and developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier, a supplier supplies fresh developer to the development device. A developer carrier carries the developer to be supplied to the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier. A plurality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090103952 - Developing device and image forming apparatus having the same: A developing device includes a developer holding member that carries a developer; an upper developer housing section that houses the developer; a lower developer housing section that has a bottom surface lower than a bottom surface of the upper developer housing section and houses the developer; a toner supply section... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090103953 - Image forming method and image forming apparatus: An objective is to provide an Image forming method and an image forming apparatus exhibiting neither failure in lack of line image nor image defect in halftone images, together with extremely high image quality and longer lifetime. Disclosed is an image forming method possessing the steps of evenly charging an... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20090103954 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device that can suitably discharge developer from the developing device by the amount of developer in the developing device increased by carrier supplemented into the developing device, including: a supply transport screw and a receiving transport screw, the rotational axes of which are mutually parallel in relation to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090103955 - Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus for mounting the same: A toner cartridge in a bottle shape for storing toner is composed of a first cylindrical portion having a blocked bottom wall at one end and an opening at the other end and a second cylindrical portion in which one end thereof is connected to the opening, and an opening... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090103956 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus provided therewith: A developing apparatus is provided with: a developing roller; and a recovering roller that is arranged so as to oppose the developing roller, recovers scattered toner, and stores negatively chargeable toner, wherein the recovering roller has its surface coated with a fluorine resin or a silicone resin, and is provided... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090103957 - Image forming apparatus and method for developing electrostatic latent image: Provided are an image forming apparatus equipped with a hybrid developing apparatus including a toner-collecting developer-carrying member and a method for developing an electrostatic latent image, which apparatus is capable of stably forming high definition images without occurrence of a leakage current even under a high-humidity environment. In the apparatus,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090103958 - Induction heating fixing device for image forming apparatus: In an embodiment of the present invention, one side of first and second side coils formed by winding a Litz wire plural times are formed by bending the Litz wire and the other sides thereof are formed by simply winding the Litz wire without bending the same. The bent one... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090103959 - Recording material cooling apparatus, and image forming apparatus including the same: A recording material cooling apparatus includes: a cooling belt that is in contact with a toner-image surface of a recording material on which a toner image is heated by a fixing device to be in a fusing state, to cool the recording material while conveying the recording material; and an... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090103960 - Developing apparatus: A developing apparatus disclosed includes a spin chuck for spinnably holding a substrate, a developer nozzle having a plurality of exhaust ports arranged in a row for discharging a developer, the developer nozzle causing the developer discharged from the exhaust ports to impinge in separate streams on the substrate, a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090103961 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method thereof: An image forming apparatus and an image forming method thereof. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming part which forms a color image on a printing medium, a pickup roller which picks up the printing medium, and a controller which controls the pickup roller to try to pick up... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090103962 - Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A sheet processing apparatus includes a folding apparatus 556 which folds a sheet bundle, a switching portion which switches a nipping pressure by the folding apparatus 556 against the sheet bundle, and a flattening apparatus 700 which presses and flattens a folded-back portion of the folded sheet bundle, and the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090097868 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes cartridges mounted to the main body of the image forming apparatus and including at least developing devices that develop latent images, formed on image bearing members, into toner images. The image forming apparatus forms an image onto a recording material. In the apparatus, for the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090097869 - Image forming apparatus, toner consumption calculation method and method of deriving toner consumption base data for use therein: An image forming apparatus comprises: a photosensitive member that revolvably moves in a moving direction; an exposure device that exposes a surface of the photosensitive member to a light beam which is controllably activated according to an image signal and scanned on the surface of the photosensitive member in a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090097870 - Abnormal sound diagnostic apparatus, abnormal sound diagnostic method, recording medium storing abnormal sound diagnostic program and data signal: An abnormal sound diagnostic apparatus for an image formation device, which includes: a specification section that specifies an independently operable drive section; an operation section that selectively operates the drive section specified by the specification section; a receiving section that receives an abnormal sound confirmation input which is inputted in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090097871 - Image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which forms an image on a paper including a detection unit to detect a present temperature of one component or a plurality of components to be replaced among components constituting the image forming apparatus and a control unit to determine whether the component is... Agent: Cameron Kerrigan Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090097872 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for developing an electrostatic image formed on a photosensitive drum 1 with a developer, so as to form an image includes: a rotatable developing sleeve 44; a developing blade 46 for restricting a layer of a developer borne on the developing sleeve 44; developing means for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090097873 - Intermediate roller for sensing temperature of passing surfaces: A temperature sensing system for use in an electrographic printing machine senses temperature on a surface of a moving member. An intermediate roller is placed in operative contact with the surface of the moving member at a first location. A temperature sensor is then placed in operative connection with the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20090097874 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: It is determined whether a low density area in which pixels having density less than a predetermined density exist in succession is included in an image signal or not, and if the low density area exists, an image is formed by irradiating the laser light in a first condition for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090097875 - Sheet post-processing apparatus and image formation apparatus: In one embodiment of the present invention, a sheet post-processing apparatus includes an ejection path that successively feed sheets each with an image found thereon from an ejection outlet. A processing tray is disposed under the ejection outlet to temporarily store sheets fed from the ejection path. A port processing... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20090097876 - Liquid developing apparatus and image forming apparatus: Provided are a liquid developing apparatus and an image forming apparatus, wherein a high-viscosity liquid developer layer is transferred sequentially from a developer supply member to a developer coating member and to the developer carrying member among rollers, and the developer supply width of the developer supply member is made... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090097877 - Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus: A toner cartridge includes a toner container which contains toner, the toner container having at one end portion thereof a discharge port which discharges the toner, and a member which is attached to an outer peripheral surface of the one end portion. The member has a first part which is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090097878 - Developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A premixed developing system developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus, in which a developing agent thrown up by a transport member is not discharged from a discharge aperture, variation in the quantity of the developing agent discharged to the outside does not occur, and the image quality of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090097879 - Waste toner storage unit and image forming apparatus using same: A waste toner storage unit detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus includes a waste toner container and an inner cover integrally attached to the waste toner container. The waste toner container stores waste toner recovered after an image forming process. The inner cover is located at a region of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090097880 - Light irradiation element, image forming structure, and image forming apparatus: A light irradiation element includes a cavity through which light passes and a translucent light conduit bordering the cavity, allowing light to pass therethrough and transmitting the light passed through the cavity, the light irradiation element being disposed along a longitudinal direction of an image bearing body on which an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090097881 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor containing triamine compound and image forming apparatus having the same, as well as triamine compound and method for producing the same: To provide a novel triamine compound usable for providing an electrophotographic photoreceptor having excellent in effect of an ozone resistance, and causing no adverse effect in other characteristic aspects, and a method for producing the same, as well as an electrophotographic photoreceptor using the triamine compound, and an image forming... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090097882 - Production apparatus and production method of wired member using electrophotographic method: Disclosed is a production apparatus of a wired member, including: a mask forming unit that forms a mask on a transfer substrate by using a toner in accordance with an electrophotographic method so as to be transferable to a member to be wired, the mask corresponding to a wiring pattern... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090097883 - Liquid electro-photography printing device binary ink developer having suction cavities: A binary ink developer (BID) for a liquid electro-photography (LEP) printing device includes a sponge roller to absorb unused ink. The BID includes a squeezer roller to release the unused ink absorbed by the sponge roller for reuse. The squeezer roller releases the unused ink absorbed by the sponge roller... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090097884 - Developer cartridge, developing device and image forming apparatus: A developer cartridge constructed in a structure in which an overload is not applied to stirring units to stir a developer even when the developer is lump includes a housing having a developer storage chamber, a first stirring unit rotatably mounted in the housing, and a second stirring unit rotatably... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090097885 - Powder-delivering device for toner cartridge: A powder-delivering device includes a tapered shell received in a toner cartridge near an outlet of the toner cartridge. The tapered shell has a transection area becoming smaller gradually toward the outlet of the toner cartridge. The tapered shell has an outer surface having at least one projection or at... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20090097886 - Toner cartridge: There is provided a toner cartridge capable of suppressing the use of the toner cartridge beyond its lifetime due to excessive refilling of toner, the toner cartridge including a housing 2 which forms an internal space for housing toner to be fed to an image forming apparatus and which has... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090097887 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of vibration members configured to vibrate a regulating member that regulates a developer layer thickness on a developer bearing member, and a control unit that can execute a vibration mode which vibrates the plurality of vibration members during different periods so that the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090097888 - Transfer belt unit and image forming apparatus using the same: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt unit which has an intermediate transfer belt for supporting toner images and primary transfer rollers for pressing the intermediate transfer belt against corresponding photoreceptor drums and moves the intermediate transfer belt along the surface of each photoreceptor drum to transfer the toner... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090097889 - Image forming apparatus, image forming control method, and recording medium recording image forming control program: An image forming apparatus that includes an image forming component, a flash fixing component and a control component is provided. The image forming component forms toner images using at least two toners respectively having different colors and transfers the formed toner images onto a recording medium. The flash fixing component... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090097890 - Fluororesin tube and method for producing the same: A fluororesin tube 30 of the present invention has a tensile strength of 80 N/mm2 or more in both of the circumferential direction and the axial direction. The fluororesin tube 30 is produced by winding with two or more turn of a fluororesin film 20 having a thickness T of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090097891 - Fusing device and image forming apparatus having the same: A fusing device is provided for use in an image forming apparatus to fuse a toner image having a polarity on a printable medium. Such a fusing device comprises: a heating roller which comprises a heat source; a driving roller which is spaced apart from the heating roller; a fusing... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090097892 - Image removing device, image removing method, and image forming/removing system: A disclosed image removing device includes a roller peeling member onto which a recording material with the image forming substance having thermoplastic properties is superposed; a heating unit configured to heat the image forming substance; a pressurizing unit configured to apply pressure to the roller peeling member and the recording... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090097893 - Cleaning device and image forming apparatus: A cleaning device includes a cleaning blade that contacts an image carrier and cleans residual toner remaining on the image carrier; a toner pool forming member that is disposed on an upstream side of the cleaning blade in a rotational direction of the image carrier, collects the residual toner that... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090097894 - Image forming apparatus having lowered image forming position and recessed sheet stacking portion: In a printer, a scanner unit is formed into a taper shape having a thinner thickness on a side of a pick-up roller in a removing direction of a process unit, to allow the process unit to be removed from the printer. A part of a sheet feeding path is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090092403 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus having a toner density sensor which emits light to a developer carried on a developing sleeve and which detects developer density by a reflection output value from the developer, when a reflection output value when the developer is initially set with respect to the illumination... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090092402 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus which forms an image and exchanges information to and from an external apparatus includes a replacement detection unit to detect that a consumable constituting the image forming apparatus is replaced, a temporary information storage unit to store, when the replacement detection unit detects that the consumable... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090092404 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A sensor reciprocates in a main scanning direction to detect lateral end portions of a sheet conveyed in a sub-scanning direction. A print head is mounted on a carriage reciprocating in the main scanning direction. A sheet-information acquiring unit acquires sheet information including a type and a size of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090092405 - Image forming system and image forming method: An image forming system includes: an obtaining unit that obtains image information including a grey-level value of a pixel; a modifying unit that modifies the grey-level value of the pixel included in the image information obtained by the obtaining unit; a color image forming unit that forms on a recording... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090092406 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: An image forming apparatus in which surplus tabbed sheets produced in one set of output can be utilized for the next set of output, without requiring a user to perform a laborious task. In the image forming apparatus, a CPU calculates the number of tabbed sheet groups which will be... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090092407 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a carrier; a forming unit which forms an image on a carrier; a cleaning unit which cleans the carrier; a detection unit which detects a correction pattern formed on the carrier; and a control unit which performs a correction... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090092408 - Measurement of engine response curve in the presence of process direction noise: Disclosed is a method and system for compensating for printer cross-process nonuniformity. The method and system provide a means to offset a cross-process uniformity profile associated with an image output device, such as a printer, where process direction noise is measured and the cross-process uniformity profile is adjusted accordingly to... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090092409 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of executing a mode for decelerating a rotation speed of a fixing member and a pressure member between sheets in a continuous print than that during a fixing operation.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090092410 - Corona charging device cleaner: A device that improves the effectiveness of a corona charging element cleaner by forcing it to travel to the end-limits of the outboard end of the corona charging element to ensure that the corona charging element is completely wiped clean. The device uses a pawl and rack to affect a... Agent: Williams A. Henry , Ii

20090092411 - Developer container, process cartridge, image forming apparatus and manufacturing method for developer container: A developer container for an image forming apparatus, said developer container including a rotatable member; a container body for containing a developer; a sealing member, provided in the container body, for preventing leakage of the developer out of the container body; a sheet, provided in the container body, for contacting... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090092412 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus to which a process cartridge is detachably mountable, the process cartridge can be positioned with high accuracy in a simple construction in an apparatus main body. The process cartridge is put on a cartridge tray, and the process cartridge is replaced by a front access.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090092413 - Photosensitive member cartridge: The invention provides a photosensitive member cartridge, that has, for example, a case including a bottom wall, an upper wall, and side walls. A photosensitive drum and a transfer roller are rotatably disposed in a space surrounded by the bottom wall, the upper wall, and the side walls. The bottom... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090092414 - Support member for rotary member: A method is for manufacturing a support member for supporting a rotary member having a shaft. The support member is detachably assembled in an image-forming device. The support member has a pair of side plates opposed to each other through the rotary member. Each of the side plate receives the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090092415 - Developer supply container: m

20090092416 - Image forming apparatus, recording medium, and image forming method: The present invention teaches and claims an image forming apparatus comprising a printing engine that secondarily supplies a sheet primarily supplied from a sheet storage unit, transfers and fixes image data to the sheet thereby printing an image on the sheet. The apparatus of the present invention comprises a print... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090092417 - Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same: e

20090092418 - Developing method, image forming method and image forming apparatus: A developing method includes a step of driving a developing roller to rotate and supplying liquid developer stored in a liquid developer container to the developing roller, a step of applying a bias to a toner charger to electrically charge the liquid developer supplied to the developing roller, a step... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090092419 - Member for agitating and conveying developer, developing device, and image forming apparatus having the same: A member for agitating and conveying a developer, includes: a rotation shaft that rotates in a given direction; a spiral-shaped conveying member that is disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the rotation shaft; and conveys a developer in a shaft direction of the rotation shaft; a protruded agitation section... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090092420 - Toner mass control by surface roughness and voids: The present disclosure relates to controlling a performance characteristic of an image forming device component having a surface which may include removal of a portion of the surface to expose a plurality of voids and a surface between the voids. The surface between the voids may have a surface roughness... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090092421 - Development device and image forming apparatus: A development device includes a developer carrier supplying developer to an electrostatic latent image carrier being rotatable. The developer carrier includes a conductive metal core and a conductive elastic layer that is disposed outside circumference of the conductive metal core and includes a surface having roughness formed thereon. The surface... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090092422 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus having same: A fixing apparatus includes a pair of fixing members composed of a fixing roller and a pressure roller that make pressure-contact with each other; an external heating belt for heating a surface of the fixing roller externally; and first and second external heating rollers having a heat source, for allowing... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090092424 - Fixing unit and image forming apparatus including the same: An image forming apparatus capable of quickly heating a fixing belt with a simple configuration and stably maintaining the temperature of the fixing belt includes a fixing unit having a fixing belt, a fixing roller which supports a portion of the fixing belt and has a first heat source disposed... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090092423 - Fusing device and image forming apparatus having the same: A fusing device includes a rotatable pressing roller, a fusing belt to rotate by a rotational force transmitted from the rotatable pressing roller, a nip forming member to contact an inner surface of the fusing belt to form a nip on a contact area between the rotatable pressing roller and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090092425 - Image heating apparatus and recording material conveyance apparatus: A fixing apparatus which fixes a toner image at a nip portion formed by a belt member and a rotating member controls a deviation of a belt by changing an inclination of a belt supporting member during a fixing operation. During a standby operation in which the belt member and... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090092426 - Fixing apparatus, roller for the fixing apparatus, flexible sleeve for the fixing apparatus, and methods of manufacturing the roller for the fixing apparatus and the flexible sleeve for the fixing apparatus: A fixing apparatus, a roller for a fixing apparatus, and a flexible sleeve for a fixing apparatus are a roller for the fixing apparatus (1) having a rubber layer (1b) and a fluororesin tube as a surface layer (1c) covered thereon. A thickness of the fluororesin tube is 20 microns... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090092427 - Cooling device and cooling method for a printing substrate in an electrographic printer or copier: In a cooling device for a printing substrate after passage through a fixing station, a transport path is provided for the printing substrate. A first cooling unit is provided along one side of the transport path. The first cooling unit has a first perforated plate facing towards the printing substrate,... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090092428 - Cleaning unit, image carrier unit including same, and image forming apparatus including same: A cleaning unit, providable to an image carrier unit or an image forming apparatus, includes a cleaning member disposed in contact with a target member to electrically remove residual toner from the target member, an elastic blade disposed in contact with the target member upstream from the cleaning member, a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090092429 - Image forming apparatus having collection box: An image forming apparatus is provided with a cassette configured to accommodate printing sheets, a casing of the image forming apparatus, a belt member which circularly moves inside the casing, a cleaning device configured to remove particles adhering on the belt member, and a collection box in which the particles... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090092430 - Sheet carrying unit and sheet cooling device using the same, and image forming apparatus: A sheet carrying unit, includes: a first belt stretched by a plurality of rollers, the first belt carrying a sheet while putting the sheet on a surface of the first belt; a first driving roller that drives the first belt; a second belt stretched by a plurality of rollers, the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090092432 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a housing; a sheet discharging tray; a discharge unit, provided within the housing, the discharge unit configured to discharge a sheet into the sheet discharging tray; a pressing member, provided at a position downstream of the discharge unit in... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090092431 - Image forming system and image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an image forming system comprising: an instruction section to perform an instruction for an image formation; an image forming section to form the image for paper based on the instruction; a first post-processing apparatus to perform first post-processing for the image formed paper based on the instruction; a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090087198 - Consumable cartridge and image forming apparatus using the same: Both the user of an image forming apparatus and the image forming apparatus can determine if the consumable cartridge supplied to the apparatus is a refilled product or not at a glance. The consumable cartridge is for supplying a consumable to be used in the image forming process of an... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090087199 - Image forming apparatus, analysis information management method: An image forming apparatus that forms, on a sheet, a test pattern formed by a color obtained by mixing toners of plural colors, scans a test pattern image formed on the sheet with a color sensor, and performs predetermined image quality control processing on the basis of information scanned, the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090087200 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a print engine; a fixing unit; a medium sensor that outputs a detection signal when a recording medium passes said medium sensor; and a controller that determines from the detection signal whether an abnormal transportation of the recording medium has occurred... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090087201 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus having a both-side printing function for ejecting ink to record images on a first face and a second face of a recording medium is provided. The image recording apparatus includes: a conveying unit which conveys the recording medium; a driving unit which drives the conveying unit;... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090087203 - Image forming apparatus: A controller controls transportation of the recording medium such that a first distance between a trailing edge of an image area of a preceding page of the two successive pages and a leading edge of an image area of a following page is equal to or longer than a second... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090087204 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling thereof: An image forming apparatus is capable of executing an auto paper selection function for automatically selecting a paper size corresponding to a paper size of an input document from a plurality of paper cassettes, and an auto magnification selection function for automatically magnifying an image of the input document to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090087202 - Roller fuser system with fusing member temperature control for printing: Internally-heated external rollers transfer heat rapidly to a fuser roller in an electrostatographic printer. Stored media process set points, input image content and input media type data are used to regulate the heat transfer rate by varying the nip width between the heated external rollers and the fuser roller. The... Agent: David A. Novais, Patent Legal Staff

20090087205 - Image forming apparatus: A development device configured to develop an electrostatic image formed on an image bearing member by applying a developing bias in a development operation includes a developer bearing member configured to bear a developer, a bias applying unit configured to apply an input waveform bias including an alternating component to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090087206 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes: an image holding body that is rotatable, and holds a first toner image and a second toner image; an image forming unit that forms the first toner image and the second toner image on the image holding body; a transfer unit that transfers the first... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090087207 - Image-forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image-forming apparatus sets a DAC output voltage 1602, a VI conversion5 current ID 1603, and a laser current IL 1604 using a correction profile 1601, and performs density nonuniformity correction that addresses various factors contributing to density nonuniformity.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090087208 - Image forming method, image forming apparatus and computer-readable medium: Disclosed is an image forming method for forming a combined image by combining a first image and a second image to be combined, the first image including an inserting area in which an inserting image is to be inserted and the second image including the inserting image to be inserted... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20090087209 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a first device body, a second device body having a first side end and a second side end opposite to the first side end, the first side end being rotatably joined with the first device body, the second side end turning around the first side... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087210 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a first device body, a second device body attached to the first device body, a photoconductive body provided in the first device body, an exposure unit provided to the second device body, the exposure unit having an exposure surface that exposes the photoconductive body and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087211 - Liquid removal apparatus, image forming apparatus and liquid removal method: A liquid removal apparatus which removes liquid on a base material, has: an absorbing member which absorbs and removes the liquid on the base material by making contact with or by approaching to the liquid; an internal rotating body which is disposed inside a hollow portion of the absorbing member... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090087212 - Charging device: A charging device includes a charging roller for electrically charging a photosensitive member. The charging roller alternately has pits and projections along a circumferential direction thereof. The projections project in an inclined direction in which the projections are inclined with respect to a radial direction of the charging roller. The... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090087213 - Charging device including charging roller and cleaning roller: A charging device, a process cartridge, and an image forming apparatus are provided. The charging device includes a charging roller configured to charge an image carrier and a cleaning roller configured to clean the charging roller while making contact with a surface of the charging roller. The charging device further... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090087214 - Toner supply device and image forming apparatus: A toner supply device includes a toner container, a transport-path forming member, an opening, a shutter member, and a first seal member. The opening is provided at a side wall of the transport-path forming member. The shutter member is movable between a closed position to close the transport path by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090087215 - Developer cartridge and developing unit: A developing unit includes a developer cartridge for accommodating developer and including a first opening for enabling communication between an inside of the developer cartridge and an outside of the developer cartridge, a housing including a cartridge housing part and a second opening provided in a position opposite to the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087216 - Developer cartridge, developing device and image forming apparatus: A developer cartridge includes an outside frame, an inside frame, a first sealing member and a second sealing member. The outside frame includes an outside supply opening and an outside return opening. The inside frame includes a developer chamber for accommodating a developer, an inside supply opening and an inside... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087217 - Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components: Systems and methods of remanufacturing an imaging cartridge include providing the imaging cartridge comprising a developer material supplying roller, a developer roller, a developer blade which regulates a layer of thickness of the developer material on the outer surface of the developer roller, the developer blade held in a first... Agent: William L. London

20090087218 - Developing cartridge, image forming apparatus, and method of mounting/demounting developing cartridge to/from image forming apparatus: A developing unit usable with an image forming apparatus includes a first frame to support a photoconductive medium, a second frame to support a developing member to apply a developer to the photoconductive medium, the second frame movable between a first position in which the photoconductive medium is at a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090087219 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: The image forming apparatus including: a photoconductor provided with a charge generation layer and an overcoat layer; a first charging unit charging the photoconductor when an image is formed; an exposure unit irradiating the photoconductor with light having a wavelength to which a relative sensitivity of the charge generation layer... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090087220 - Conductive rubber member: The conductive rubber member of the invention has a conductive elastic layer to which conductivity has been imparted and which serves as an outermost layer, and a surface-treated layer formed through impregnating a surface of the conductive elastic layer with a surface-treatment liquid containing at least an isocyanate component and... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090087221 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units for forming a developer image on an image supporting member; a transfer unit for transferring and overlapping the developer image on a medium to form a developer laminated portion; and a fixing unit for fixing the developer laminated portion.... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20090087222 - Developer cartridge, developing device, and process cartridge: A developer cartridge includes a housing for accommodating developer, a rotation shaft rotatably supported by the housing and passing across an inside of the housing, a supply opening formed in a wall of the housing opposite in a diameter direction of the rotation shaft, a return opening formed in the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087223 - Developer conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus: A developer conveying apparatus includes a first developer storing portion, a second developer storing portion, and a conveying pipe that connects the first and second developer storing portions. The conveying pipe includes a tubular main body and a conveying member rotatably provided in the main body. A groove is formed... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090087225 - Developing device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes: a first conveying unit that is provided within a developing agent storage chamber and that is configured to convey a developing agent from one end of the developing agent storage chamber to another end of the developing agent storage chamber in a longitudinal direction of a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087224 - Developing unit: A developing unit includes a developer cartridge for accommodating developer and including a first opening, a first elastic member including a first through hole surrounding the first opening, a housing including a cartridge housing part and a second opening provided in a position opposite to the first opening, a second... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087227 - Developer cartridge, developing device, and process cartridge: A developer cartridge includes a housing for accommodating developer, a rotation shaft rotatably supported by the housing and passing across an inside of the housing, a supply opening formed in a wall of the housing opposite in a diameter direction of the rotation shaft, a return opening formed in a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087226 - Developer cartridge, developing device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A developer cartridge includes a housing attachable to and detachable from a developing device and accommodating developer and an agitator agitating the developer in the housing and supplying the developer to the developing device through a supply opening of the housing. The agitator includes a rotation shaft, a support plate,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087228 - Developer transportation device and image forming apparatus: A developer transportation device includes a storage portion for storing developer; a transportation member formed of an elastic material and disposed in the storage portion to be freely rotatable for transporting the developer upon rotating; and a rotation transmission member for transmitting a rotation to the transportation member. The transportation... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20090087229 - Developing device and process cartridge: A developing device including a flexible agitating blade attached to an agitating member is described. The developing device may receive developer from a developer cartridge via a replenishing port. The replenishing port may be configured to prevent the flexible agitating blade from flinging toner outside of the developing device. In... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087230 - Developing apparatus: A developing apparatus for developing a latent image formed on an image bearing member with a developer includes a first developer carrying member for carrying and feeding the developer by rotation thereof about a rotation axis which is at a fixed position; a second developer carrying member for carrying and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090087231 - Endless member drive apparatus and image forming apparatus: An endless member drive apparatus includes: an endless member that has plane surfaces and rotates by receiving a drive force; a drive support member that supports and drives the endless member; a rotatable support member that includes a rotation shaft, and that supports the endless member; a bearing member that... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090087233 - Belt unit and image forming apparatus using the same: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a belt unit including: a belt that is formed in an endless shape; a first roller that supports the belt from an inner side of the belt; a second roller that supports the belt from the inner side of... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090087232 - Image forming apparatus and belt transporting apparatus: The image forming apparatus is provided with: an image carrier that holds an image; an endless transfer belt that is rotated while sandwiching a recording medium therebetween, and transfers the image on the image carrier to the recording medium; a first roll member that holds the transfer belt and brings... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090087234 - Enhanced fuser stripping system: An improved fuser includes a fuser member, a pressure member that forms a nip with the fuser member through which copy sheets pass to have images fused thereon and an air knife to assist in peeling copy sheets from the fuser member. The air knife has a device connected to... Agent: Williams A. Henry , Ii

20090087235 - Fixing unit and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, such as a laser printer, may use high levels of heat to form images, and some elements may expand and contract with changing temperatures. An apparatus may include a heat roller disposed against a pressure roller, with an endless belt member enclosing the pressure roller. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087236 - Paper route switching apparatus: A disk having one or more indentations is configured at one end of a driving shaft and has interaction with an extension arm configured at a corresponding end of a switch shaft for switching the medium conveying route in an image system. When the driving shaft drives the disk to... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090087237 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided and includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording sheet at an image forming position; a regulating roller that conveys the recording sheet; a supply path from the regulating roller to the image forming position; an inversion path that is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090087238 - Medium conveying device and image forming apparatus: A medium conveying device includes a conveyance path that is used for conveying medium; a medium guide that is furnished on the conveyance path and has at least one swing supporting portion; and a supporting section that supports the swing supporting portion to swing along a separation direction separating from... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090087239 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus which records images on front and back surfaces of a sheet, including: a head which ejects ink onto the sheet for recording; a sheet-supply roller which contacts the sheet to transfer the sheet for supplying to the head; sheet-transfer rollers which are disposed on a downstream... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090087240 - Paper discharge device and image forming apparatus: A paper discharge device includes a discharge member, a paper carry portion, a first moving section, a pair of paper side end register sections, a second moving section, and a discharge paper control section. The paper carry portion carries thereon paper discharged by the discharge member. The first moving section... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090087241 - Paper discharge device and image forming apparatus having the same: A paper discharge device and an image forming apparatus having the same are provided. In the paper discharge device, the paper discharge roller has a non-uniform diameter extending in a longitudinal direction and the idle roller contacts with the paper discharge roller in the longitudinal direction of the paper discharge... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20090087242 - Printing system, job processing method, storage medium, and printing apparatus: In response to a predetermined user's instruction, predetermined post-processing is separated from a job adapted to cause a predetermined post-processor to perform the predetermined post-processing together with performance of print-processing.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division