Electrophotography inventions 07/09

20090190935 - Systems and methods for universal imaging components: A universal cartridge chip for use with an imaging process cartridge installed in an imaging device is disclosed. The universal cartridge chip includes a memory storing imaging process cartridge data. The universal cartridge chip may be installed on the imaging process cartridge in a first orientation or a second orientation.... Agent: William L. London

20090190936 - Image forming device, printing medium supplying method, and computer-readable recording medium: In an image forming device including a control unit to control the image forming device to perform a job of image formation, the control unit is arranged so that, when a size of a printing medium detected by a detection unit is not in agreement with a printing medium size... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090190938 - Developer stirring unit, developing device and image forming apparatus: A developer stirring unit, a developing device containing the developer stirring unit and an image forming apparatus comprising the developing device are supplied capable of correctly judging a remainder amount of developer in accommodating tank. In the developer stirring unit, a accommodating tank accommodates developer; a stirring member has at... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090190937 - Document processing system and method for adjustable print consumable refill level: Document processing systems and methods are presented in which a graphical user interface is used to set a user-selectable refill level for a print engine consumable, such as toner, replenisher, paper, etc. Once the user-selectable level has been reached, the user is notified and is prompted to either refill the... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090190939 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, a cleaning blade cleans residual toner adhered on the surface of an image carrier and a sound sensor collects a sound generated inside a casing of the image forming apparatus. A determining unit determines, based on the sound collected by the sound sensor, whether cleaning... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090190940 - Deviation amount detecting device, deviation amount detecting method, and computer- readable recording medium: A deviation amount detecting device for use in an electrophotographic color image forming device is configured to detect whether a deviation for each of toner images of different colors on a transporting member takes place, based on position information which is stored as a result of reading of a first... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090190941 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is disclosed in which a guide member configured to guide a sheet to a nip section between a heating roller and a pressing roller is disposed close to the upstream side of the rollers and on the pressing roller side. A downstream end of the guide... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090190942 - Humidity detecting device, and image forming apparatus provided therewith: The humidity detecting device includes a detection unit and a controller. The detection unit includes a humidity sensor for producing a humidity detection signal by detecting a humidity, a temperature sensor for producing a temperature detection signal by detecting a temperature surrounding the humidity sensor, and a common power supply... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090190945 - Apparatus for forming latent image using line head and control method for such apparatus: An apparatus includes: a latent image carrier which is freely rotatable in a predetermined sub scanning direction; a latent image carrier gear which is attached to an end portion of the latent image carrier; a drive motor which applies drive rotation force upon the latent image carrier via the latent... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090190943 - Method and apparatus for forming image: An image forming apparatus includes a light source that emits a laser beam; a separating unit that separates the laser beam emitted from the light source into a first laser beam for measuring a light intensity and a second laser beam for scanning a photosensitive element to form image data;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090190944 - Optical scanner, image forming apparatus, and image forming method: The emission intensity of a laser beam source, at a time when a laser beam emitted from the laser beam source and scanned by an optical scanning device becomes incident to a laser beam detector provided in a predetermined position on the scanning path of the laser beam in order... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090190946 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, a control portion forms a restoring toner image (restoring toner band) at a position, in which the refreshing toner image overlaps with a control image with respect to a longitudinal direction of a secondary transfer roller, during post-rotation after image formation in an image forming... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090190947 - Image formation device: There is provided an image formation device, comprising: an image forming unit configured to execute image formation to form an image on a recording medium; a holding body configured to move relatively with respect to the image forming unit and to hold an image formed thereon by the image forming... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090190948 - Imaging device with click count fragmentation: An imaging device utilizes click count fragmentation to provide separate click counts for service and billing purposes. Click count fragmentation maintains uninterrupted service counts and derives from service counts billing counts that more accurately reflect the number of pages generated that are usable by a customer. Billing counts may be... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc.

20090190949 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus enables a high-quality double-side printing of a transfer medium by one-pass method using a simple structure. A latent image is formed and developed on an image carrier (drum) in a process cartridge. A resultant toner image is transferred by a first transfer unit (roller) onto either... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090190950 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, when backside contamination of a recording material occurs, a control portion carries out control so that a plurality of restoring toner bands having a length L1 longer than a circumference L3 of a secondary transfer roller is formed at an interval L2 at positions in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090190951 - Image forming apparatus: When a switch displayed on an operation panel is operated, a control portion starts aging control in which image formation is stopped and yellow toner is applied onto an intermediary transfer belt and a secondary transfer roller. A toner band is formed, on full circumference of the intermediary transfer belt... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090190952 - Developing device: A developing device is provided. The developing device includes a housing, a developing agent carrier, and a developing agent leakage prevention member. The developing agent leakage prevention member has a first layer that is configured to contact an outer circumferential surface of a longitudinal end of the developing agent carrier;... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090190953 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, a support frame configured to support a plurality of cartridges each including a photoconductor is allowed to be pulled out from a casing of the apparatus. A plurality of light-emitting parts configured to expose a corresponding photoconductor to light are arranged in each exposure unit... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090190954 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, a plurality of photoconductors arranged in the apparatus is supported by a support frame which is allowed to be pulled out from a body of the apparatus; and an endless intermediate transfer belt looped around a first roller and a second roller is in contact... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090190955 - Image forming apparatus and image forming unit: Image forming apparatuses include: a casing; an image forming unit removable from the casing in a first direction; and plural developer cartridges. The cartridges may be attached and detached with respect to the image forming unit in a second direction that is inclined toward the first direction. Other image forming... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090190956 - Drive system with multiple motor-and-gear-train configurations for jitter and noise reduction and color developer preservation: A color electrophotographic printing machine has a drive system which includes a frame and first, second and third motor-and-gear-train configurations mounted thereon at a common location and respectively drivingly coupled to first, second and third combinations of multiple color developer drive assemblies, multiple color photoconductive drum drive assemblies, a black... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090190957 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of developing devices. Each developing devices performs an electrophotographic process to form an image. The image forming apparatus comprises a first developing device and a second developing device. The first developing device holds a black developer containing a first black coloring agent. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090190958 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body; a plurality of image carrying members; a plurality of developing members; a translation member that reciprocates in a straight line in a direction in which the image carrying members are aligned to move the developing... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090190959 - Developer and image forming apparatus: A developer including a toner containing the cylindrical toner particles obtained by melting toner raw materials including binder resins, pigments, and waxes, forming a fibrous intermediate from the melted toner raw materials and cutting the fibrous intermediate, wherein the cylindrical toner particles have a ratio (L/D) of the cylindrical length... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090190960 - Process cartridge including developing unit and incorporated in image forming apparatus: A process cartridge for use in an image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member and a developing unit. The developing unit includes a developer bearing member to bear developer including toner and carrier, a casing forming a developer container containing the developer, a screw having a shaft with a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090190961 - Electrographic distributed replenishment apparatus and method: A developer station and related method for distributed replenishment of toner as well as powder coatings and related materials. The developer station is divided into a first space adjacent or within a second space, the first space located adjacent a toner supply and the second space including a developer sump.... Agent: Andrew J. Anderson Patent Legal Staff

20090190962 - Developing device and image-forming apparatus: A developing device includes a housing having inner walls, a toner container disposed in the housing, a supply roller disposed in the toner container so as to oppose one of the inner walls and rotating to move a toner, and a development roller to which the toner is supplied from... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090190963 - Developer storing container and image forming apparatus: A developer storing container includes outer and inner cases. The outer case includes first and second hollow portions. The first hollow portion includes a surrounding wall so shaped as to surround a center axis. The surrounding wall has both ends in a cross-section perpendicular to the center axis, and has... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090190965 - Active image state control with distributed actuators and sensors on development rolls: Exemplary embodiments provide a roll member that includes one or more controllable cells and methods for making and using the roll member to control an image (or toner) state thereon. The controllable cells can be disposed on a roll substrate and configured in a manner that each controllable cell can... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20090190966 - Active image state control with linear distributed actuators on development rolls: Exemplary embodiments provide a roll member that includes one or more linear arrays of actuator cells and methods for making and using the roll member. In one embodiment, each linear array of the roll member can be controllably actuated as a group by, e.g., an oscillating voltage, to release toner... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20090190967 - Addressable actuators for a digital development system: Exemplary embodiments provide a digital development system and methods for making and using the system. Specifically, the digital development system can utilize a roll member that includes a plurality of actuator cells arranged in a 2-dimensional array with each actuator cell having an actuator membrane individually addressable to eject one... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20090190969 - Direct imaging system with addressable actuators on a development belt: Exemplary embodiments provide a direct imaging system and methods for direct marking an image using the system. The disclosed direct imaging system can eliminate the creation of a latent image and can be used in an electrophotographic machine and related processes. Specifically, the direct imaging system can include a direct... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20090190968 - Direct imaging system with addressable actuators on a development roll: Exemplary embodiments provide a direct imaging system and methods for direct marking an image using the system. The disclosed direct imaging system can eliminate the use of at least one of a charge, and/or exposure subsystems in an electrostatographic machine and related processes. Specifically, the direct imaging system can include... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20090190964 - Smart donor rolls using individually addressable piezoelectric actuators: Exemplary embodiments provide a roll member that includes one or more piezoelectric tape and methods for making and using the roll member. The piezoelectric tape can be flexible and include a plurality of piezoelectric elements configured in a manner that the piezoelectric elements can be addressed individually or as groups... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20090190970 - Development device and image forming apparatus using the same: A development device in which abrasion of a developing roller can be reduced to expand the life of the device, and high-speed and high-quality images can be obtained stably over a long time. The developing roller is composed of an elastic body. An intermediate roller made of metal is disposed... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090190971 - Transfer belt device and image forming apparatus provided with the same: An transfer belt device includes a roller support supporting transfer rollers, a cam driving shaft having a cam, the cam having capability of swinging the roller support to move the transfer rollers toward and apart from color photosensitive drums to thereby switch a transfer belt and the color photosensitive drums... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090190972 - Belt drive control unit, belt drive control method, belt drive control program, and image forming apparatus using same: A belt drive control unit controls a rotation of belt supported by first and second rollers. Each of rotations of the first and second rollers are detected as first and second results. A rotation of the first roller is controlled in connection with thickness fluctuation in the belt using the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090190973 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a latent image forming part configured to form a latent image on an image carrier; a developing part configured to form a toner image by developing the latent image on the image carrier; a first transferring part configured to transfer the toner image on the... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090190974 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus including a fixing member for fixing developer image on a recording medium, and a separation member separating the recording medium from the fixing member to guide the recording medium in a delivery direction of the recording medium. The separation member includes a resin member, a metal member... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090190975 - Dual blade cleaning system: A cleaning system for cleaning a moving surface of an image forming device, such as a photoreceptor. The cleaning system includes first and second links each having three pivot connections for pivotally connecting first and second cleaning blades together in mutually exclusive cooperative movement alternating between a common Cleaning Position... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090190976 - Automatic document feeder and method for duplex scanning a document utilizing the same: An automatic document feeder includes a first path extending from a feeding tray to a scanning module, a second path extending from the scanning module to a reversing roller unit, and a third path extending from the reversing roller unit to an intermediate portion of the first path. A document... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090190977 - Image processing for improving reliability of job-lock function: Whether a job-lock function is enabled is determined. Whether a current mode is a mode for outputting an image of an area on an original document onto a recording paper is determined. When the job-lock function is determined to be enabled, and when the current mode is the mode for... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090190978 - Image forming device having detachable drum unit: There is provided an image forming device that forms images on recording sheets. The image forming device includes a frame having an opening, a cover movable for opening and closing the opening, a drum unit, a belt unit and a pair of registration rollers. The drum unit is disposed in... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090190980 - Developing method, image forming method and image forming apparatus: A transfer material separating device comprises a transfer material separating gas current section for separating a transfer material being moved with a transfer material moving member from the transfer material moving member by blowing gas to the transfer material and a control section for controlling the current of gas being... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090190979 - Transfer material separating device, transfer device and image forming apparatus: A transfer material separating device includes a transfer material moving member (intermediate transfer belt) adapted to move with a transfer material held in contact with and pressed against it so as to have a liquid developer image transferred onto the transfer material and a transfer material separation/suction section (a suction... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090190981 - Transfer material separating device, transfer device and image forming apparatus: A transfer material separating device includes a transfer material separation air blower unit configured to blow air to a transfer material moving together with a transfer material moving member and separate the transfer material from the transfer material moving member, in which the transfer material separation air blower unit includes... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090190983 - Decurling mechanism: A decurling mechanism moves a decurling roller around a conveyance roller by means of a position changing roller to change the relative position of the decurling roller to the conveyance roller to a decurling position in which a piece of paper web is conveyed while being decurled and a conveyance... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090190984 - Decurling mechanism: A decurling mechanism is configured so that a position changing roller moves a decurling roller among a plurality of decurling positions from the weakest decurling position to the strong decurling position. In this manner, the decurling force applied to each piece of paper web is set large when the piece... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090190985 - Decurling mechanism: A decurling mechanism for performing a decurling process of correcting the curl of paper includes: a first roller; a second roller disposed travelably around the first roller; and a roller position changing mechanism for changing the second roller to a plurality of positions set on a traveling path of the... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090190982 - Printing system: In a printing system, a position changing element moves a decurling roller around a conveyance roller to switch the position of the decurling roller relative to the conveyance roller at least between a decurling position in which a paper web is conveyed while being decurled and a conveyance position in... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090190986 - Image forming apparatus: A stapling section staples a sheet has an opening. The opening has a first open side facing a moving direction of a recording medium moved by the medium moving section and a second open side extending along the moving direction. A shutter is near the second open side in the... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090185812 - Image forming apparatus: To provide an image forming apparatus including: a discharge tray which can moves between a first position capable of loading a discharged sheet and a second position that is separated from the first position; and a sheet loading amount detection sensor which has a sheet detection flag abutting against the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090185813 - Image forming apparatus: A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a carriage having a head for jetting droplets; a pattern forming unit configured to form, on a belt, a pattern used for detecting displacement of landing positions of the droplets; a reading unit configured to scan the belt before the pattern formation to output... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090185814 - Document processing system with configurable graphic display of print consumable level: Document processing systems and methods are presented in which the remaining amount of toner, replenisher, or other print consumable in a multi-dispenser bottle consumable supply system is determined, and a user can configure a user interface to graphically display the remaining print consumable supply levels for one or more colors... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090185815 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes an image carrier having a surface onto which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a development station including a case made of a conductive body and one or more developer rollers, which supply toner housed in the case to the surface of the image carrier,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090185816 - Deviation amount detecting device, deviation amount detecting method, and computer-readable recording medium: A deviation amount detecting device for use in an electrophotographic color image forming device is configured to correct, during an inter-cycle period in which computation of a first deviation amount using a result of reading of deviation detection patterns is held in a waiting state, a second deviation amount computed... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090185817 - Image forming apparatus having mechanism for changing pressing force between cleaning member and belt: An image forming apparatus includes a belt, a cleaning member, a backup member, a pressing-force changing mechanism, and a control unit. The cleaning member is disposed in confrontation with the belt. The backup member is disposed to pinch the belt in cooperation with the cleaning member. The pressing-force changing mechanism... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090185818 - Transfer device and image forming apparatus having the same: A transfer device has a cleaning means for preventing any leakage of the toner and the liquid carrier remaining on a transfer belt. The transfer device includes a transfer belt onto which liquid developer images are transferred, the transfer belt being wound around a roller having an axial length of... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090185819 - Developing device, an image forming apparatus and an image forming method: A developing device, includes: a housing that stores toner inside; a toner carrier roller that is shaped approximately like a cylinder, is mounted to the housing rotatably about a rotational axis, rotates while carrying the toner on a surface thereof to convey the toner to outside of the housing, and... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090185820 - Methods and apparatus for remanufacturing toner cartridges: A device for manufacturing a printer cartridge, the printer cartridge having a doctor blade and a developer roller, the doctor blade being configured to regulate the amount of toner delivered to the developer roller, the device comprising: (a) first surface, the first surface lying on a first plane; and (b)... Agent: Roland Tong

20090185821 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor, and image formihg appratus and process cartridge using same: d

20090185822 - Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus: An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive layer, an intermediate layer and a photosensitive layer in this order on a substrate, in which the conductive layer contains a binder resin and conductive particles. The conductive particles are TiO2 particles coated with oxygen-deficient SnO2, the conductive particles have an average particle... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090185823 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprises: a housing; a supporter located in the housing, a plurality of developing apparatus attachable to and detachable from the supporter; and a restricting unit that restricts movement of the supporter while at least one developing apparatus supported by the supporter is inside the housing. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090185824 - Developer supply container and developer supplying system: With inserting operation of the developer supply container 1, an inducing portion 7c of the locking member 7 is pushed and raised by a guide portion 10j provided in a groove portion of the developer receiving apparatus 10, so that locking member 7 effects its locking operation. Therefore, upon completion... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090185825 - Spring-loaded web cleaning apparatus for electrographic printer: A cleaning station for removing particulate material from a moving web in an electrographic printer/copier includes a customer-replaceable web-cleaner device with a support bracket/backup shoe assembly. A quick disconnect feature enables the cleaner cover to be de-coupled from the cleaner body to allow the debris to be easily removed with... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090185826 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same: An optical scanning device includes at least one scanning unit having a deflector for scanningly deflecting a light beam from a light source, and an imaging optical system for imaging the light beam scanningly deflected by the deflector upon a plurality of photosensitive drums, wherein, at each of a plurality... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090185827 - Charging device and image forming apparatus: A charging device is provided. A needle-like electrode for charging the surface of a photoreceptor drum is formed with a vibrating portion for vibrating the needle-like electrode by the vibration. The vibrating portion is a piezoelectric bimorph element in which two piezoelectric elements are bonded together and a base portion... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090185828 - Lens array, exposure head, and image forming apparatus: A lens array includes a light-transmissive substrate that satisfies the condition W1>W2, where W1 is the length of the light-transmissive substrate in a first direction and W2 is the length of the light-transmissive substrate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a first lens that is provided on... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090185829 - Line head and image forming apparatus using the same: A line head includes: a first substrate that includes light-emitting elements formed thereon; and a second substrate that includes focusing lenses, which are inverted optical systems, focusing light emitted from the light-emitting elements, and has a linear expansion coefficient that is smaller than that of the first substrate.... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090185830 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes: an image receptor; a developing member which develops a latent image on the image receptor with a toner; an anti-spattering member collecting free toner particles, a driver which drives the developing member and the anti-spattering member; and a controller which controls the driver not to... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090185831 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device is provided with a developing roller arranged to face a photoconductor for forming an electrostatic latent image and adapted to supply a toner to the photoconductor, an agitating member for agitating a developer, a supply roller that holds the developer agitated by the agitating member, and supplies... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090185832 - Image forming apparatus including a developer replenishing device for a two-ingredient type developer: An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a developing unit for developing a latent image formed on an image carrier with a two-ingredient type developer, i.e., a toner and carrier mixture. A toner replenishing device replenishes toner stored in a toner storing portion to the developing unit. A... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090185833 - Developer holding apparatus, developing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A developer holding apparatus holds developer therein. The developer is discharged through a discharging opening. An agitator includes shaft portions and an agitating portion. A bearing member includes a bearing hole formed therein. One of the shaft portions is rotatably received in the bearing hole. The bearing hole has a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090185834 - Image forming apparatus: A toner supply apparatus 6 is configured to be able to supply a charged toner T to a latent image forming surface LS of a photoconductor drum 3. The toner supply apparatus 6 houses a toner electric field transport body 62. The toner electric field transport body 62 has first... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090185835 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive body, a magnetic roller disposed at a predetermined distance from the photosensitive body, and a donor roller disposed between the photosensitive body and the magnetic roller. The donor roller has a diameter larger than the closest distance... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090185836 - Developer, developer storage unit, developing device, and image forming apparatus: Developer includes toner formed of base particles containing at least a binder resin. The base particles have surfaces coated with an additive agent, and the toner has a volume average particle size between 3.9 μm and 6.1 μm. The developer further includes agglomerates in an amount between 0.01 wt %... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20090185837 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: where A1 is a weight ratio (%) of the acrylic resin relative to a total weight of the acrylic resin and the polyether type urethane resin, F is an Asker F hardness (degree) of a surface of the supply member, and N is an overlap amount (mm) representing a biting... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20090185838 - Method of manufacturing toner carrier roller, developer apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A method of manufacturing a toner carrier roller that is shaped like a cylinder on an outer circumferential surface of which concave and convex sections for carrying toner are provided, includes: preparing a roller base member which is shaped like a cylinder; forming helix-like first grooves on the outer circumferential... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090185839 - Transfer device and image forming apparatus including the same: A transfer device includes: a first transfer belt; a first and second roller on which the first transfer belt is wound; a second transfer belt which makes contact with the first transfer belt; a third roller on which the second transfer belt is wound, and which makes contact with the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090185840 - Fusing device and image forming apparatus using the same: A fusing unit is comprised of a pair of rollers, a fusing roller and a pressing roller, having an elastic layer on their outer peripheral surface and a pressing spring for pressing the fusing roller against the pressing roller, and causes a sheet of paper with an unfixed toner image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090185841 - Toner-fixer apparatus and electronic photograph printer: A toner-fixer apparatus 1 used in an electronic photograph printer includes: an apparatus main unit extending along a web fed in the electronic photograph printer; a hot-air-blower section having air ejection ports for blowing hot air onto the web; and an air-exhaust section for suctioning air into air exhaust ports... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090185842 - Cleaning device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus including same: A cleaning device for cleaning a surface of a rotatable image carrier includes a cleaning blade disposed to contact the image carrier and configured to remove toner on the surface of the image carrier, a lubricant applicator unit disposed above the cleaning blade, downstream from the cleaning blade in a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090185843 - Image forming device and cleaning device: An image forming device includes a development section provided with a developer carrier adapted to perform development using a liquid developer including a carrier liquid and toner particles, an image carrier adapted to carry an image developed by the development section, an cleaning roller of the image carrier having contact... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090185844 - Double-sided image forming apparatus and method: A double-sided image forming apparatus includes front-side and rear-side image forming units arranged in the transporting direction in which a recording medium is transported. Each of the image forming units includes an endless belt that transports the recording medium and a recording section that records on the recording medium. The... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090185845 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a main body having; a recording sheet storing section capable of storing a recording sheet therein and being drawn from the main body, and an image forming section, which forms an image onto a recording sheet which is disposed above the recording sheet storing section,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090185846 - Sheet transfer apparatus and image forming apparatus: A disclosed apparatus includes a first unit upstream of a first path to transfer a sheet; a second unit upstream of a second path to transfer another sheet from opposite side of the first path; a third unit on a combined path of the first and second paths to transfer... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090180787 - Systems and methods for modifying feed timing for image receiving media in an image forming device: A system and method for avoiding paper jams and possible shutdown in an image forming device by automatically executing a series of re-feed cycles for a sheet of image receiving media in a multi pass image forming device. The sheet transport section of the image forming device includes a hold... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090180788 - Image forming apparatus, and image forming method: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member bearing an electrostatic latent image thereon, a charging device charging the image bearing member, a light irradiating device irradiating the charged image bearing member with light to form the electrostatic latent image, and a developing device developing the electrostatic latent image... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090180789 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus appropriately adjusts an image forming conditions even if a halftone-processed image data is inputted. The image forming apparatus forms a patch image by applying a halftone process which is substantially equivalent to the halftone process which has been previously performed for the inputted image data. The... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090180791 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method capable of effectively transferring toner images: A first degradation degree detector detects a first degradation degree of one of a plurality of image forming devices for forming toner images, respectively, which is provided at an extreme downstream position in a direction of rotation of an intermediate transfer member. A first degradation degree judgment device judges whether... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090180790 - Real time transfer efficiency estimation: A method for identifying transfer efficiency in a xerographic print engine utilizes customer images, thereby avoiding the use of specialized images and the corresponding loss of productivity and paper waste. The method includes electronically sensing a two-dimensional residual mass structure on a substantial portion of a substrate surface within the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090180792 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes: a fixing portion including a nip that is formed between a heat roller and a back-up roller pressurized by a pressurizing mechanism and holds and conveys a toner-bearing sheet; a pressure switching mechanism for changing a pressurizing force of the pressurizing mechanism; and a sheet... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20090180793 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotatable member and a belt cooperative with the heating rotatable member to form a nip in which an image on a recording material is heated. The apparatus further comprises control means that rotates the heating rotatable member and the belt when changing means... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090180795 - Charging device capable of efficiently charging image carrier: A charging device includes a charging roller, a drive transmission device, and a charging roller cleaner. The charging roller opposes an image carrier driven to rotate and rotates to charge the image carrier. The charging roller cleaner contacts the charging roller to clean the charging roller. The drive transmission device... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090180794 - Charging device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A charging device includes a charging roller and a cleaning roller configured to make contact with the charging roller. The cleaning roller is rotated following the charging roller. A dynamic friction coefficient of a surface of the charging roller measured by an oiler belt method is equal to or larger... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090180796 - Image forming apparatus, a developing device and an image forming method: An image forming apparatus, includes: a latent image carrier that carries an electrostatic latent image; a housing that stores toner inside; a toner carrier roller that is shaped approximately like a cylinder, is mounted to the housing rotatably about a rotational axis, rotates while carrying toner on a surface thereof... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090180797 - Image forming apparatus and cartridge: An image forming apparatus includes a belt unit, a plurality of photosensitive drums, a cartridge, a casing, a cartridge holding unit and a first guide unit. The looped belt has a first surface outside of the loop, and is stretched to form a substantially straight portion on the loop that... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090180800 - Electrophotographic photosensitive member, method of manufacturing electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus: An electrophotographic photosensitive member having excellent electrophotographic properties while being prevented from the generation of blade turn-up, a method of manufacturing the electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having the electrophotographic photosensitive member are provided. The surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member contains... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090180798 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: process units arranged along a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction, each process unit including a photoconductor; exposure members arranged such that the exposure members and the process units are alternately arranged along the first and second directions; a support... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090180799 - Process cartridge having cartridge positioning portion and image forming apparatus mounting said process cartridge: A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a process device actable on the drum, a cartridge positioning portion for engaging a main assembly positioning portion to position the cartridge with respect to a direction crossing the direction... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090180801 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor, photoreceptor supporting device, imaging device and process cartridge: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes, a cylindrical photoreceptor pipe; at least one flange which is attached to an opening of one end of the photoreceptor pipe, and which is provided with a shaft part projecting outward from the one end at a shaft center position of the photoreceptor pipe; and an... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090180802 - Image forming device, toner cartridge, developer cartridge, and image bearing member cartridge: A photosensitive member cartridge 20, a developing cartridge 40, and a toner cartridge 60 can be mounted in and removed from a common mounting/removing opening 2a through a common path without enlarging the device. The mounting/removing opening 2a also can be made comparatively small. Thus, a configuration is simplified. The... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090180803 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a controller for detecting the opening and closing of a shutter from the output from an optical sensor and controlling the opening and closing operation of the shutter based on the detected result. The controller determines that if the optical sensor is turned “ON” within... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090180804 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: In the Chemical Structure (1), and the Chemical Formulae (1) and (2), R1, R2, R3, R4 and R9 each, independently, represent a substituted or non-substituted alkyl group or a substituted or non-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, R5, R6, R7 and R8 each, independently, represent hydrogen atom, a substituted or non-substituted alkyl... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090180805 - Belt device and image forming apparatus: A belt member is supported by a plurality of rollers and moves in a predetermined moving direction. A detecting unit detects a displacement of the belt member in its width direction. A correcting unit moves a second end of a first roller from among the rollers in either one of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090180806 - Conductive member, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A conductive member includes a conductive support and an electrical resistance adjusting layer formed on the conductive support. The electrical resistance adjusting layer includes a thermoplastic resin, a polymeric ion conductive material, and a graft copolymer which is compatible with both of the thermoplastic resin and the polymeric ion conductive... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090180807 - Image forming apparatus: c

20090180808 - Power transmission apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same: A power transmission apparatus and an image forming apparatus are provided. The a power transmission apparatus of transmitting driving power to first and second movable members includes: a driving unit which receives the driving power from a driving power source, and which rotates in forward and backward directions; a first... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090180810 - Image forming apparatus: In the image forming apparatus by: visualizing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrostatic charge carrying member; transferring a toner image, which is thus visualized, to a recording medium, or to a recording medium through an intermediate transfer material; and fixing the toner image, which is thus transferred to... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090180809 - Toner and producing method thereof, developer, two-component developer, developing device and image forming apparatus: A toner is so configured as to satisfy the following conditions: (b)/(a) is from 0.90 to 1.02, (a) is from 140 to 150 and the average value in the entire toner particles of a shape factor SF-2 of the toner particles is larger than 140, where (a) represents a shape... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090180812 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes: a first screw provided in a first carrying path, the first screw rotating so as to simultaneously stir the developer and carry the developer in the first carrying path in a predetermined direction; a second screw provided in a second carrying path, the second screw rotating... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090180811 - Developing device, toner cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A developing device including a developer container configured to store a developer and a developing unit provided below the developer container. The developer container includes a first developer agitation member, and a developer guide member extending along a rotation path of the first developer agitation member, configured to conform to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090180813 - Developer supplier, image forming apparatus, developer supplying method and image forming method: A developer supplier for supplying a developer to each of a plurality of developing devices, includes a plurality of developer supplying units each configured to supply a developer in which a toner and a carrier are preliminarily dispersed at a given concentration to each of the plurality of developing devices.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090180814 - Fluid container device and image forming apparatus: A toner supply container according to this invention includes a toner containing portion, a support member and a container holding member. The toner containing portion is a cylindrical container having a magnet at an outer periphery thereof and configured to discharge fluid contained therein. The support member supports the toner... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090180815 - Image forming unit and image forming apparatus: An image forming unit and an image forming apparatus comprising the image forming unit are supplied capable of preventing toner in bottom part of toner accommodating room from accumulating so as to obtain toner image with good quality. In the image forming unit, a developer accommodating section that accommodates developer;... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090180816 - Delevoping cartridge and image forming apparatus: A developing cartridge includes a first frame including a first wall at one end thereof, a second frame including a pair of second walls facing with each other and a third wall that connects the pair of second walls, an opening that is formed by the first wall, the pair... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090180817 - Method and toner bottle for image forming apparatus capable of effectively supplying toner to image forming apparatus: The toner bottle exchangeably used in an image forming apparatus. The toner bottle includes a bottle body having a substantially cylindrical shape and configured to contain toner, a gear configured to rotate a part of the toner bottle, a cap attached to the bottle body and including an opening arranged... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090180818 - Developing unit and image forming device: A developing unit includes a developing roller which rotates about a rotational axis to supply toner to a photoreceptor, the developing roller including: a cylindrical core portion which includes an electric conductor; a first resistive layer which covers a cylindrical surface of the core portion; a second resistive layer which... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090180819 - Self adjusting metal stripper fingers: A plurality of stripper fingers in a fuser assembly are provided to assist in preventing damage to the fuser roll caused by prior art fingers. In the present invention, skiis are positioned away back from the tip of the stripper finger. These skiis extend beyond the lower surface of the... Agent: James J. Ralabate

20090180820 - Fuser device: A fuser device used with an imaging system for setting toner on a recording media is disclosed. The fuser device includes a heating element; a rolling piece for exerting pressure on the toner adhered on the recording media; a film for clamping the recording media with the rolling piece, the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090180821 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the same: A fixing device of the present invention is arranged so that: (i) at least both ends of a planar heat-generating member come close to or touch an outer surface of a fixing roller, said both ends being in a circumferential direction when viewed in an axial direction of the fixing... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090180822 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a plurality of medium feed units configured to feed a recording medium on respective carrying routes, an image forming unit configured to form an image on the recording medium fed from one of the plurality of medium feed units, a first roller provided on a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090175632 - Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the same: An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same, the image forming apparatus including: a toner cartridge including a memory to provide first authentication information, and an authentication key circuit to provide a second authentication information; and a controller to authenticate the toner cartridge when the first authentication... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090175633 - Image forming apparatus, tray id management method, and computer-readable recording medium: An image forming apparatus includes an accumulating unit that accumulates therein a correspondence of tray classification information that represents a classification of each of sheet trays and tray identifiers that are information for identifying each of the sheet trays; a determining unit that determines whether there are overlapping tray identifiers... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090175634 - Method for controlling image forming apparatus: A method for controlling an image forming apparatus is disclosed. An image pattern is developed both by a DC developing process using a developing bias voltage of only a DC voltage and by an AC+DC developing process using a developing bias voltage of a DC voltage overlapped with an AC... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090175635 - Image forming apparatus and drive control method of the same: An image forming apparatus capable of performing monochrome printing and color printing in which all the developing units share a single development transformer is constructed such that at the time of monochrome printing the photoreceptor drums for colors are stopped rotating while all the developing units are constantly applied with... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090175636 - Image forming apparatus: To prevent image defects such as fog and irregularities caused by the accumulation of the oppositely charged toner by flying the toner toward a photoreceptor to compulsorily consume the toner even though the toner is oppositely charged toner having a small charged amount. A potential difference between the photoreceptor and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090175638 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of shortening the user's print waiting time as much as possible when it is determined that image adjustment is necessary during the image forming operation, and a control method therefor. To accomplish this, in a color image forming apparatus including a plurality... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090175637 - Image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus control method: An image forming apparatus includes a first image carrier that carries a first latent image. A first charging section charges the first image carrier. A first exposure section exposes the first image carrier charged by the first charging section. A first developing section develops the first latent image formed on... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090175639 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus and an image forming method, which are capable of forming images at stable image quality by executing adjustment of operating conditions at appropriate timings, are provided. When a Vsync count corresponding to an integrated value of a rotation count of an intermediate transfer belt reaches a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090175640 - Apparatus for forming multi-color image with control of unintended reverse-transfer of developer image onto photoconductor: An apparatus for forming a multi-color is disclosed which includes a controller that performs an anti reverse-transfer control such that a surface potential of a previously-formed separated-developer-image subset of a plurality of single-color separated-developer-images which has been previously transferred onto an image transferred medium is reduced, prior to a subsequent... Agent: Oliff & Berridge

20090175641 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprising: an image carrier that carries an image; a charging section that electrically charges the image carrier; an exposure section that forms a latent image on the image carrier electrically charged by the charging section; a development section that develops the latent image formed by the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090175642 - Toner supplier apparatus: A toner supplier apparatus 1 is provided for stabilizing the concentration of toner reserved in a main tank. A concentration sensor for measuring the concentration of the toner is provided in a toner-feeding pipeway for supplying liquid toner from a main tank for adjusting the concentration to the developer apparatus.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090175643 - Apparatus for reducing flash for thermal transfer printers: The present disclosure is directed to a printing assembly that includes an image transfer station and a blower configured to intermittently provide a cooling stream of air to a product being printed upon. The blower may include a centrifugal fan and may have a single plenum providing air to two... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090175644 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has an image forming station and a fixing unit. The fixing unit includes a coil for generating a magnetic field for induction heating the heating member. A first core made of a magnetic material is arranged fixedly around the coil. A second core made of a... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090175645 - Image forming apparatus, fusing device thereof and method of controlling fusing device: An image forming apparatus that is capable of preventing a damage to a fusing belt or hazardous conditions due to the overheating of the fusing belt and a fusing device thereof are disclosed. The image forming apparatus has a fusing device including a fusing belt, a heat source disposed in... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090175646 - Fixing device of image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus of an image forming apparatus of the present invention, in arrival timing of a temperature falling area of a heat roller passing a nip at opposite position γ of an induction heating coil from temperature detection position β by an infrared temperature sensor around the heat roller,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090175647 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus is provided and includes: an image formation unit that forms an image on a recording medium with a color material; a color material container that contains the color material; and a cooling air passage that a cooling air for cooling the color material container flows through,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090175648 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, including: an exterior portion having a first panel and a second panel that are opened/closed when an internal mechanism for image formation is taken outside; and an opening/closing interlocking device that makes the second panel open/close in connection with an opening/closing operation of the first panel.... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090175649 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus disclosed includes a body, a cover to open and close an opening of the body, a plurality of photosensitive members provided in the body, a light scanning device to irradiate a light beam to the plurality of photosensitive members, the light scanning device including a plurality... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090175650 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor, image forming apparatus and process cartridge:

20090175651 - Image forming apparatus and photosensitive cartridge: An image forming apparatus includes a first developing cartridge and a first photosensitive cartridge. The first developing cartridge is removably mounted in the first photosensitive cartridge and includes a toner hopper, a supply roller and a developing roller. The first photosensitive cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a charger provided at... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090175652 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus is provided. An image forming apparatus includes: a drum cartridge having a photosensitive drum; a developing cartridge configured to be movably attached to the drum cartridge, the developing cartridge having: a developing roller; a bearing member; and a developing drive input member; and a spacing member... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090175653 - Process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A process cartridge is provided. The process cartridge configured to be mounted in an apparatus main body along a predetermined mounting direction, the process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a drum drive input member into which a driving force for rotating the photosensitive drum is inputted; and a frame which... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090175654 - Electrophotographic photosensitive member and electrophotographic apparatus: An electrophotographic photosensitive member has a conductive substrate, a photoconductive layer formed on the conductive substrate, and a surface layer formed on the photoconductive layer. The photoconductive layer is formed of an amorphous material having chiefly silicon atoms. The surface layer has aluminum atoms, nitrogen atoms and oxygen atoms, where... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090175655 - Charging device and image forming apparatus: In a plate-like grid electrode of a charging device that controls the charged potential of a surface of a photoreceptor drum, a vibrating portion that vibrates itself to make the plate-like grid electrode vibrate is formed. The vibrating portion is a piezoelectric bimorph element in which two piezoelectric elements are... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090175656 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus having improved arrangement of photosensitive members and configuration of a light scanning device to enable size reduction is described. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive members, a light scanning device to irradiate light beams to the plurality of photosensitive members, so as to... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090175657 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: In an optical scanning device, when pixel density is taken to be n, number of the light beams is taken to be b, and number of the deflection surfaces of a deflecting unit is taken to be p, a spatial frequency S denoted by S=1/(1/(25.4/n×b×p) is within a range of... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090175658 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and process cartridge: To provide an image forming apparatus including: a latent electrostatic image bearing member; a charging unit configured to charge the surface of the latent electrostatic image bearing member; an exposing unit configured to expose the charged surface of the latent electrostatic image to form a latent electrostatic image thereon; a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090175659 - Developing device and image forming apparatus with the same: A developing device to simplify a magnet of a developer delivery unit, and an image forming apparatus with the same. In the image forming apparatus comprising a photosensitive member and a developing device that includes a developing roller to supply a developer to the photosensitive member, the developing device includes... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090175660 - Developer container, developer supplying device, and image forming apparatus: A developer container has a main part accommodating a developer therein and is detachably attached to a main part of an image forming apparatus. The developer container comprises an outlet provided at a side of the developer container to discharge the developer from the developer container. An input unit is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090175661 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: In addition, this invention, by a spike-height restricting member, restricts a spike height of the developer caused to project like spikes on the peripheral surface of the developer bearing member, at a predetermined position upstream of a proximal position at which an electrostatic latent image bearing member and the developer... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090175662 - Developer supply device and image forming apparatus: An apparatus includes an upstream transport surface TSa which, while facing a circumferential surface DS of a developing roller 33, is disposed upstream of an area (developing area) in the vicinity of a latent image forming surface LS, and a downstream transport surface TSb which, while facing the circumferential surface,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090175663 - Image fixing method, method for producing record product using such method, and image recording apparatus: To provide a method for fixing an image, wherein the image has a high fastness even immediately after being recorded, and is free from inconveniences such as thermal influence or unfavorable curing inherent to the conventional fixing device, as well as safety problems. To achieve such an object, in a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090175664 - Image forming apparatus: A fixing unit (14) of an image forming apparatus (1) includes a heating member (48) having a first area where a sheet does not come into contact with the heating member (48) and a second area where the sheet comes into contact with the heating member (48). The fixing unit... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090175665 - System and method for recycling cleaning liquid in a printer: A system for recycling a liquid in a printer comprises a first reservoir configured for collecting possibly polluted liquid to be recycled from the printer, a filtration system configured for purifying the liquid received from the first reservoir, and a second reservoir configured for collecting the liquid from the filtration... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090175666 - Magnetic field generating member and manufacturing method thereof, magnetic particle support body, image development device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus: A magnetic field generating member with high stiffness and small size, an image development device, a process cartridge and an image forming apparatus including the magnetic field generating member as well as a manufacturing method of the magnetic field generating member are provided where the magnetic field generating member includes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090175667 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus and program: Based on the image size and folding setting, a recording medium storing device is selected among a plurality of the recording medium storing devices, an image is formed on a recording medium in the selected recording medium storing device based on image information, and the recording medium on which the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.

20090169222 - Image forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus includes a recording head configured to eject ink droplets, a transport belt disposed facing the recording head and configured to transport a sheet, a suction mechanism to suctionally attract the sheet to the transport belt, a release mechanism configured to change a position of the transport belt... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090169223 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of appropriately cleaning an image carrier is provided. An image forming apparatus 1 including toner cartridges 11Y, 11M, 11C, and 11K, a developing section which forms toner images, an image carrier 4 which carries the toner images formed by the developing section, a transfer member... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090169224 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus has a discharge device, an air blow device and a detection device, wherein an amount of blown air by the air blow device when the height of the recording materials detected by the detection device is higher than a preset first detection position is smaller than... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090169225 - Driving control device and image forming apparatus including the same: A driving control device for use in an image forming apparatus includes a control unit that analyzes any one of a speed variation pattern and a thickness variation pattern of an endless belt member of the image forming apparatus per at least one rotation of the endless belt member while... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090169226 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus capable of observing toner amount limitation with reliability even when two types of developers which have the same have and have different densities is provided. After an inputted image signal is subjected to color conversion processing to make the toner amount limitation, at least one color... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090169227 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a standard exposure device (1) adjusted to emit light of a predetermined light quantity, and a control device configured to determine light quantity of the pre-charge exposure device in an image-forming period based on the first and the second charging current values, wherein first charging... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090169228 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a lower body including a plurality of photosensitive members and having an opening; an upper body which is configured to open and cover the opening; a plurality of exposure units which are supported by the upper body and which are opposed to the photosensitive members... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169229 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, image forming computer program, and computer readable storage medium containing the program: The image forming apparatus include: a resistance detection section (14) for measuring a volume resistivity of a two component developer (11) on a surface of a developer bearing member (12); a resistance memory section (16) for storing therein a preset volume resistivity; a resistance comparison section (15) for comparing the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090169230 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus 1 has a transfer unit, a power supply unit that takes a value of a current imparted to the transfer unit as a control target and that supplies power conforming to the value of the control target to the transfer unit; and a determination unit that... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169231 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus of the present invention includes a heating element which has an NTC characteristic in which an electric resistance value decreases as a temperature increases, which extends (i) in a direction parallel to a recording paper and (ii) in a width direction perpendicular to a carrying direction of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090169232 - Image forming apparatus, and method of controlling warming-up time of image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit and a fixing process managing system. The fixing process managing system, including a mode switchover unit, controls a time mode and a temperature mode for heating a fixing member. In the time mode, the fixing unit is determined to be ready for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090169233 - Image formation device: An electrophotographic image formation device comprises an image transfer unit (including an image transfer member) attached to a main body in a detachable manner, a density detecting unit including a detector unit and thereby detecting density of a developing agent transferred to the image transfer member, a protective cover which... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169235 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus body including a driving force transmitting portion and a process cartridge. The process cartridge includes a housing, a photosensitive drum disposed in the housing, a first bearing rotatably supporting an axial end portion of the photosensitive drum, a driving force input... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169234 - Photosensitive cartridge: A photosensitive cartridge includes a housing comprising an opening; a photosensitive drum supported by the housing, an electrostatic latent image being formed on the photosensitive drum; a charger that is supported by the housing and charges the photosensitive drum; a cleaning member that is supported by the housing and catches... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169236 - Lubricant applying device and image forming apparatus: In a lubricant applying device, a position adjusting member adjusts relative positions of a lubricant and a rotating member. The rotating member rotates while in contact with the lubricant, receives the lubricant, and applies the lubricant to an image carrier in an image forming apparatus.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090169237 - Cleaning roller for cleaning charging roller and image forming apparatus: A cleaning roller for cleaning a charging roller in an image forming apparatus is disposed in contact with an outer peripheral surface of a charging roller to remove foreign matters attached to the outer peripheral surface of the charging roller. The cleaning roller has a metal core and a polyurethane... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090169239 - Cleaner blade lubrication for a printer belt component: The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for removing contaminants from a belt in a printer. A blade is provided that contacts with the belt surface to form a nip where the belt is configured to either receive an image for transfer to a sheet of media or... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090169238 - Electrophotographic printer: e

20090169240 - Developing device, image forming apparatus using the same, and method for peeling off sealing member of the developing device: A developing device includes a developer reservoir having developer stored therein, a developing roller for carrying developer, a sealing member which is brought into close contact with the developer portion so as to cover a communication port in communication with inside of the developer reservoir, and a sealing passing member... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090169241 - Image forming apparatus and toner cartridge used for the same: An image forming apparatus including an image forming section for forming an image, and a toner cartridge for supplying a toner to the image forming section, the toner cartridge being detachably loaded into the image forming section. The toner cartridge includes a toner discharging port for discharging the toner when... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090169243 - Frame structure for an image forming device and frame assembly method: A frame structure includes a base plate 70, and a pair of side plates 72, 73. The base plate 70 has a bottom surface 70a, and an attachment edge 70b formed by drawing the edge of the base place downward around the entire periphery of the bottom surface 70a. The... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090169242 - Internal output type image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a main apparatus body, an image reading block located above the main apparatus body, a sheet output portion provided with a sheet output tray onto which each sheet is ejected upon completion of image forming operation, the sheet output portion being located between the main... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090169244 - Systems and methods to control access to an interior of an image forming device: The present application is directed to systems and methods to control access to an interior of an image forming device. The image forming device may include a body with a door that is movable between open and closed positions. In the open position, access is gained to an interior of... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20090169246 - Developing device, process unit, and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes a main body that is arranged between a pair of supporting members and includes a developing roller. Both end portions of the developing roller are supported by the supporting members in a first direction in which the developing roller is movable toward and away from an... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090169245 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a process unit including a photosensitive element; an exposure member exposing the photosensitive element to light to form an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive element; a main body casing accommodating the process unit and the exposure member; and a developer cartridge supplying developer to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169247 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus comprises an apparatus main body; a process unit having a drive input member; and a drive transmission member, wherein, the drive transmission member comprises: a guide core member having a distal end core portion which has a first outside diameter;... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169248 - Photosensitive member cartridge, developer cartridge and process cartridge: A developer cartridge including a frame, a developer supplying section, a developer housing section, and an extension portion is provided. The frame includes a first side wall and a second side wall, and the first side wall and the second side wall extend substantially in a length direction. The developer... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090169249 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a housing including a photosensitive member and having an opening at an upper portion of the housing; an upper cover connected to the housing at one end of the upper cover via a hinge and configured to move between an opened state and a closed... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169250 - Process cartridge: A process cartridge includes a photosensitive member, a charger, a frame and a block member. The charger charges the photosensitive member and includes a charging wire and a grid electrode, which is provided between the charging wire and the photosensitive member, and which has an opening area in a surface... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169251 - Process cartridge: A process cartridge includes a photosensitive member, a charger, which charges the photo sensitive member, and a process frame, which supports the photo sensitive member and the charger. The charger includes a charged wire, a grid that is interposed between the charged wire and the photosensitive member, a wire-side connecting... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169252 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, a support frame is configured to support a plurality of photoconductors arranged in the apparatus, the support frame being allowed to be pulled out from a casing of the apparatus, and an intermediate transfer belt is disposed above the plurality of photoconductors and configured to... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169254 - Electrophotographic printer: An electrophotographic printer in which a photoconductor drum and a transfer drum can be supported in a simple component construction and in the makeup free from misalignment and development of thrust load. To this end, an electrophotographic printer comprising a photoconductor drum (1) and a transfer drum (2) is provided... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090169253 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: The image forming apparatus includes a drum cartridge having a photosensitive drum and a drum drive input member; a developing cartridge configured to be movably mounted to the drum cartridge, the developing cartridge comprising a developing roller disposed so as to face the photosensitive drum and a developing drive input... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169255 - Developing cartridge: A developing cartridge is provided. The developing cartridge includes an input gear which receives an external driving force; a developing roller which carries developer; a supply roller that is in contact with the developing roller and supplies the developer to the developing roller; a supply roller gear that is meshed... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169256 - Process cartridge, image forming apparatus and developing cartridge: A process cartridge, which includes a developing cartridge and a photosensitive cartridge for use with an image forming apparatus including a driving force output part and a feeding part, is provided. The developing cartridge includes a developer carrier, a first electrode provided at one side thereof, and a driving force... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169257 - Process cartridge, image forming apparatus and developing cartridge: A process cartridge includes a developing cartridge including a developer carrier, a fitting part, and a pressed part, and a photosensitive cartridge, to which the developing cartridge is removably mounted. The photosensitive cartridge includes a photosensitive member, a positioning part which is fitted into the fitting part for positioning the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169258 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive members which are aligned along a conveying direction of a transfer medium and on each of which an electrostatic latent image is to be formed; a plurality of developing units which supply a plurality of colors of developing agent to the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169259 - Driving-force transmission device and image forming apparatus: A driving-force transmitting member is formed of a material having a linear expansion coefficient larger than that of a sleeve bearing, and Δx1>r1×Δt×a−R1×Δt×b is satisfied, where R1 is inner radius of the sleeve bearing, r1 is outer radius of a rotary shaft unit, Δx1 is difference between the inner radius... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090169260 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive member; an exposing unit which is opposed to the photosensitive member, and which includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in an arrangement direction to expose the photosensitive member; and a body frame which is provided... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169261 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: plural photosensitive members; plural exposing units opposed to the photosensitive members, respectively, each of the exposing units including a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a first direction; and a body frame which is provided at both sides... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169262 - Developing device, image forming apparatus and developer cartridge: A developing device includes: a developer carrying member that supplies developer to an image carrying member; plural developer supply members,.containing different color developers, that supply the developers to the developer carrying member in a developer supply position; a conveyance member that sequentially conveys the plural developer supply members to the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090169263 - Carrier particles for developer, developer, and image forming apparatus: Carrier particles for a developer used in an image forming apparatus, in which the carrier particles contain a core material containing magnetic particles, and a coating layer formed on a surface of the core material, and the coating layer contains diamond fine particles or diamond-like carbon exposed on a surface... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090169264 - Developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus, method of developing latent image: A developing device includes a first screw that supplies a developer to a developing roller while agitating/conveying the developer in a first direction, and a screw that collects residual developer from the developing roller, agitates/conveys the residual developer in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and delivers the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090169265 - Powder transport screw, and development device, process unit and image-forming apparatus comprising this powder transport screw: A toner transport screw that is capable of maintaining a smooth and stable transport function. The toner transport screw, in which a helical blade is disposed on the circumference of a rotating shaft, has at least one spiral direction reversal part formed by connecting the respective ends of a first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090169266 - Powder transporting apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same: A powder transporting apparatus is made up of: a powder container containing therein powder; a transportation tank having an inlet for supplying the powder from the powder container, and an outlet for discharging the powder to an outside; a conveying device disposed in the transportation tank and rotated about an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090169267 - Image formation apparatus and developer cartridge: The invention provides an image formation apparatus, to which developing devices, each having an opening, and developer cartridges for respectively supplying a developing agent to the openings of the developing devices are mountable. The apparatus includes: developing device shutters, each configured to open and close a respective one of the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169268 - Rotary mounting structure for toner cartridge: A toner cartridge comprising a rotary 2 provided with an agitator 3 that agitates a toner, and a bearing that rotatably supports a shaft tip 6 of the rotary 2, comprises a retainer 10 at the shaft tip 6 of the rotary 2 and at the bearing 7 that inhibits... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090169269 - Developing unit, developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing unit includes: a developer carrying member that visualizes an electrostatic latent image held on an image carrying member using magnetic developer; a peeling member that peels off the magnetic developer held on the developer carrying member by a magnetic force; and a movement controller that controls movement of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090169271 - Electronic photograph printer: An electronic photograph printer is provided for elastically biasing the developer apparatus having the photosensitive drum by the pressing mechanism and for pressing the developer roll onto the photosensitive drum. In this configuration, quality in the developed image can be ensured by the trackable movement of the developer roll relative... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090169270 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: Provided is an image forming apparatus including at least a latent image bearing member, a latent electrostatic image forming unit, a developing unit which includes at least a developing roller and a supply roller, and a transfer unit, wherein both of a diameter R (mm) of the developing roller and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090169272 - Developing device and blade assembly: A developing device includes: a developing roller, a casing which rotatably supports the developing roller; a thickness regulation blade; and first and second holding members which fix the thickness regulation blade on the casing. The first holding member includes: a first nipping surface which contacts the thickness regulation blade; and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090169273 - Doctor blade surface energy modification: The present disclosure relates to a surface energy reduction material in the form of a topcoat or additive to a coating that may be applied to a toner regulating member such as a doctor blade which may reduce toner build-up about a nip region, pre-nip region, and/or post-nip region. The... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090169274 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a rotating belt which rotates around a roller; a drive section which rotates the belt; a detection section which detects a position of the belt in a width direction; a moving section which moves the belt in the width direction; a control section which corrects... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090169275 - Transfer member in image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus: The transfer member in an image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention is a transfer member in an image forming apparatus for transferring a toner image obtained by developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier onto a material to be transferred, wherein the transfer... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090169276 - Fixing device: A fixing device 6 according to the present invention has an endless-shaped heating belt 8, a first and a second roller 9 and 10 for stretching the heating belt 8, and a pressure roller 11 for nipping paper 2, together with the heating belt 8. The first roller 9 is... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090169277 - On-demand print finishing system using surface detection and replication: An on-demand printing system and more specifically to a printing system that includes both scanner and printer functionality in one integrated unit. The printing system further including both image and gloss detection devices in the one integrated unit as well as a finishing system that is capable of printing with... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090169278 - Photoconductor drum cleaning apparatus in an electrophotographic printer: A photoconductor drum cleaning apparatus in an electrophotographic printer is disclosed which is simple in makeup, which allows a wiping roll to be rotated to follow rotation of the photoconductor drum is rotated and to be serviced for a prolonged life and is capable of performing an improved cleaning operation.... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090169279 - Electrographic printing apparatus, electrographic printing method, and method of producing glass plate: An electrographic printing apparatus and an electrographic printing method that prevent base fogging and maintain high quality are provided. The provided electrographic printing apparatus includes a OPC photoreceptor to which a developing device adheres charged toner to an image region of an electrostatic latent image formed on a moving surface;... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090169280 - Image recording apparatus: The image recording apparatus includes: a recording head; a re-feeding roller configured to re-feed a one-side recorded medium toward the recording head; and a flap provided on an upstream side of the re-feeding roller in a conveying direction of the one-side recorded medium. The flap extends from an upstream end... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090169281 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a first image processing unit for performing a first image processing; a discharge unit disposed above the first image processing unit for discharging a medium after the first image processing is performed on the medium; a medium placing unit for placing the medium thus discharged;... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC