Electrophotography inventions 08/09

20090214227 - Developing cartridge, image forming apparatus having the same, and printing method for an image forming apparatus: A developing cartridge usable with an image forming apparatus includes a housing having a developing member, a developer storing portion storing developer supplied to the developing member, and a mounting portion allowing at least one developer cartridge storing supplementary developer to be detachably mounted. Printing operations can be performed using... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090214228 - Recording apparatus and method of controlling recording apparatus: A recording apparatus having a transporting unit to transport a target, a recording unit recording on the target transported, a fluid supply adjusting unit to switch an operation between supply and non-supply of fluid from a fluid supply source, a drive source for the transporting unit and the fluid supply... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090214230 - Developer cartridge, developing unit and image forming apparatus having the same: A developer cartridge includes a cartridge body comprising a developer discharge port, a remaining developer detecting unit arranged in the proximity to the developer discharge port, and an agitating unit rotatably arranged inside the cartridge body to convey the developer accommodated in the cartridge body toward the developer discharge port.... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090214229 - Image forming apparatus and controlling method of the same: An image forming apparatus, a developing agent container and a controlling method of the same that improves a supply rate of developing agent from a developing agent container to a developing device that provides the developing agent to an image carrier.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090214231 - Image forming apparatus, method of controlling image forming apparatus, program, and storage medium: An image forming apparatus having a development unit which develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier to form a visible image, the apparatus has an input unit adapted to accept input of a print job; an analysis unit adapted to analyze contents of image data included in... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090214233 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: The present invention provides a developing device and an image forming apparatus capable of carrying out excellent image formation for a long period by making the fluctuations in the toner concentration and the volume level of the developer inside a trickle developing device that uses a two-component developer as small... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090214232 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: The present invention provides a developing device and an image forming apparatus capable of carrying out excellent image formation for a long period by making the fluctuations in the toner concentration and the volume level of the developer inside a trickle developing device that uses a two-component developer as small... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090214234 - Fixing device, image forming apparatus, and method of detecting an abnormality of a fixing device: A fixing device according to this invention includes a heating roller, a heater driver, a thermistor, and a CPU. The heating roller has a heater and heats a recording sheet. The heater driver drives the heater. The thermistor detects a surface temperature of the heating roller. The CPU stops an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090214235 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes; a main body; a detachable member; a cover; a displacement member movable between a preventing position and a permitting position; a one-way link mechanism provided for displacing the displacement member from the preventing position to the permitting position when the cover is opened from a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20090214236 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A tandem-type image forming apparatus includes a toner mark pattern forming unit configured to form a toner mark pattern; a sensor configured to detect the toner mark pattern; a first determining unit configured to determine presence or absence of color misregistration based on the detected result; and a color misregistration... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090214237 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus forms images. A developer bearing body receives a first voltage and supplies developer to the electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing body. A supplying member receives a second voltage and supplies the developer to said developer bearing body. A detector detects at least one... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20090214239 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a phase calculation portion, a pattern recognition portion, and a correction coefficient output portion. The phase calculation portion calculates a shift amount of the scanning lines as phase information and, from the phase information, outputs a first set of coefficients. The pattern recognition portion outputs... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090214238 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and image forming program product: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image; a status conversion unit for converting the multi-value pixel data into status values; plural reference look-up tables each indicating an association between an arrangement of the status values of a target pixel and adjacent pixels in a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090214240 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device capable of improving the image density and the dot reproducibility, and an image forming apparatus including the same are provided. A developing device applies an alternating voltage superimposed on a direct current voltage to a developing roller to thereby develop an electrostatic latent image formed on a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090214241 - Image forming apparatus: In the case where a peripheral velocity of photosensitive drums differs from a peripheral velocity of an intermediate transfer belt, the peripheral velocity of the intermediate transfer belt or the peripheral velocity of the photosensitive drums is corrected. The velocity of the intermediate transfer belt is transiently varied in an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090214242 - Image forming device: An image forming device, configured to form an image on a sheet in an electrophotographic method, includes a fixing roller thermally fixing a developer image on the sheet, a driving unit generating a driving force, a first rotating body configured to be driven by the driving force and rotate the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090214243 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device has: (a) an electromagnetic coil placed with a gap from a member of a magnetic material to be heated; a switching device that supplies electronic power to the electromagnetic coil; (b) a switching control unit that controls duty ratio for the switching device under a condition that... Agent: Von Simson & Chin

20090214246 - Heating device and image forming apparatus: A controller outputs a heater control signal in synchronization with a rise in a zero-cross signal. In response to the heater control signal, a switching device of a heater driving circuit switches ON/OFF. However, a noise occurs in an output voltage of an AC power source at the time of... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090214244 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a body casing, a fixing part, an inlet terminal and an interfering member. The fixing part is removably mounted inside the body casing and fixes a developer image onto a recording medium. The inlet terminal is provided inside the body casing, and a power cord... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090214245 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a body frame defining an opening configured to receive a cartridge installed in an installation direction, and a power supply terminal disposed on the body frame. The power supply terminal can be configured to supply power to an installed cartridge by making contact with a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090214247 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a case to accommodate a main body of the image forming apparatus and having a bottom portion; and a power source unit provided with at least an AC filter unit and a DC output circuit unit, and a reactor space disposed in the bottom portion... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20090214248 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus having a mounting/demounting structure between a main body and an image carrying unit. The image forming apparatus includes a main body provided with a first electrical connecting part, an image carrying unit removably mounted in the main body and provided with a second electrical connecting part,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090214249 - Memory, toner cartridge, developing device and image forming apparatus having the same: A toner cartridge, a developing device, and an image forming apparatus, in which a memory is provided in the cartridge to be accessible by an image forming apparatus are disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a developing device detachably attached to the body the image forming apparatus, and a toner... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090214250 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a first fan and a second fan that are configured to generate air in a main body of the apparatus, a controller configured to control operations of the fans, and a detector configured to detect a malfunction of a first fan. When the detector detects... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090214251 - Image forming apparatus and frame unit thereof: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, an exposure unit to form a latent image on the image carrier by light, and a particle entering prevention device to prevent particles from entering an optical path between the exposure unit and the image carrier. The particle entering prevention device includes... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090214252 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a secondary transfer roller that is supported by a secondary-transfer-unit supporting unit and transfers a toner image onto a recording medium, a lubricant applying brush that comes into contact with the secondary transfer roller and applies a lubricant to the secondary transfer roller, a lubricant-applying-brush... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20090214253 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a secondary transfer roller that is supported by a secondary-transfer-unit supporting unit and transfers a toner image onto a recording medium, a lubricant applying brush that comes into contact with the secondary transfer roller and applies a lubricant to the secondary transfer roller, a solid... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20090214255 - Imaging cartridge and image forming apparatus: The present invention provides an imaging cartridge in which a handle, which is used for mounting the imaging cartridge to either one of two image forming apparatuses in which the attachment/detachment directions of the imaging cartridge are different, does not obstruct the mounting operation of the imaging cartridge to the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090214254 - Photosensitive body unit and image forming apparatus having the same: An image forming apparatus having an improved photosensitive body unit capable of efficiently utilizing an inner space of the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive body unit having a photosensitive body housing and a photosensitive body mounted in the photosensitive body housing. The photosensitive body housing... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090214256 - Preset case, development apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A developing apparatus has: a developer container including a developer transportation unit that transports, while mixing, a developer containing a toner and a carrier along an axis of rotation by a rotatable mixing transportation member; and a cover member provided in part of the developer transportation unit so as to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090214257 - Cover member, developing cartridge and developing unit for image forming apparatus: A developing unit includes a developer cartridge containing developer and a developing cartridge with a developing cartridge body comprising a mounting portion and a cover member. The mounting portion accepts the developer cartridge for replenishing developer consumed by the developing cartridge. The cover member closes an opening of the mounting... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090214258 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a swing body attached to a main body swingably around a first axis between a first state away from the main body and a second state close to the main body, an arm having a first end attached to one of the main body and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090214259 - Optical scanning apparatus: In an optical scanning apparatus, when air flow from a deflecting device is suppressed by a shielding member such as a transparent member, an image of a light beam is not formed at a predetermined position. In view of this, a first wall portion having a wall surface shaped concentrically... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090214260 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor and image formation apparatus: An objective is to provide an organic photoreceptor exhibiting high sensitivity, suitable for exposure to a semiconductor laser having an emission wavelength of 350-500 nm or a light emitting diode, with which generation of memory images as well as image defects caused by very small charge leakage is inhibited, and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090214261 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: An optical scanning device that scans a scanning surface with a light beam includes a light source that emits the light beam and a pre-deflector optical system that includes at least one diffractive optical element including a diffraction surface having no power at room temperature. The diffraction surface has a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090214262 - Image forming apparatus and developing unit thereof: An image forming apparatus to enhance a user's convenience by adequately designing developer storage capacities of developing devices in consideration of an amount of consumed developer includes an image carrier, and plural developing devices arranged along a rotational direction of the image carrier to supply a developer to the image... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090214263 - Image forming apparatus, and developing device and developing unit thereof: An image forming apparatus includes developing units designed to have an appropriate developer storage capacity in consideration of developer consumption, and improved convenience of use. The image forming apparatus also includes an image carrier, and plural developing units arranged along a rotating direction of the image carrier to supply developers... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090214264 - Toner, method of manufacturing toner, developer, two-component developer, developing device, and image forming apparatus: A toner, a developer, a two-component developer, a developing device and an image forming apparatus are provided. In the image forming apparatus, images are formed with a developer that fills a developing tank of the developing device. The developer includes the toner containing at least a binder resin, a colorant,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090214265 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes: a container that contains a developer including toner; a partition that forms a plurality of chambers by partitioning an interior space of the container; an agitation mechanism that agitates the developer in the interior space and moves the developer between the plurality of chambers; a transport... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090214266 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: The present invention provides a developing device and an image forming apparatus capable of preventing a developer from being discharged excessively using simple configurations in the case that a trickle developing device that uses a two-component developer is in a tilted state. The developing device having stirring members for conveying... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090214267 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method capable of automatically collecting developer from development device: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a development device, a developer collection device, a detector, and a controller. The image carrier carries a latent image. The development device develops the latent image into a toner image, and includes a developer carrier opposing the image carrier and carrying a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090214269 - Developer cartridge, developing device, and image forming apparatus having the same: A developing cartridge and a developing device capable of preventing developer leak which may occur during replacement of a developer containing unit, and an image forming apparatus having the same are provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus body where a transfer path for a printing medium... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090214268 - Developing apparatus, image forming apparatus having the same, and developer supplying method for a developing appparatus: A developing apparatus usable with an image forming apparatus includes a developer cartridge having an outlet through which developer is discharged, a developing cartridge, in which the developer cartridge is detachably disposed, has an inlet, through which the developer discharged from the outlet of the developer cartridge enters, and a... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090214270 - Electrophotographic image forming apparatus: An electrophotographic image forming apparatus is disclosed. The electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor body, a donor roller which develops an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the photoconductor body by using charged toners, and a development nip section formed between the photoconductor body and the donor roller... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090214271 - Development roller, development device, image forming apparatus, and method of manufacturing development roller: A development roller includes a base unit having a base recess and a base projection that are formed in a predetermined area of a circumference surface of the base unit, and a surface layer formed on the circumference surface of the base unit and having on the circumference thereof a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090214272 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes a developer supporting member for supporting developer and a developer charging member disposed to face the developer supporting member for charging and supplying the developer to the developer supporting member. The developer supporting member has a surface having a calculated average surface roughness Ra between 0.1... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, Llc

20090214273 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt having an insulating substrate layer, an electrode layer provided on the insulating substrate layer, and a semiconductor layer provided on the electrode layer; a transfer-voltage applying device that applies a predetermined bias voltage to the electrode layer of the intermediate transfer... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090214274 - Image forming apparatus: A belt unit having a belt stretched by a plurality of rollers is removably mounted in an image forming apparatus. A pressure removing member moves a tension roller for applying tension to the belt from a first position to apply the tension to the belt to a second position to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090214275 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped therewith: A fixing apparatus includes a pair of fixing sections pressed against each other and including a fixing roller having a heater lamp incorporated therein and a pressure roller; an endless belt for heating the surface of the fixing roller by bringing a heating nip portion into contact with the fixing... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090214276 - Cleaning device and image forming device: A cleaning device for cleaning residual toner that, in an image forming device of an intermediate transfer type, remains on an outer circumferential surface of an intermediate transfer member after a transfer. The cleaning device includes: a charging brush operable to contact with and charge the residual toner; and a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090214277 - Developer storage device and image forming apparatus having the same: A developer storage device and an image forming apparatus having the same include a developer storage part including a first storage part and a second storage part having widths different from each other, and a first developer conveying member to convey a developer stored in the first storage part to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090214278 - Sheet conveying apparatus: A sheet conveying apparatus is provided with a decurling mechanism to correct a curl formed on a sheet; a pair of guides including a first guide member and a second guide member arranged to oppose to the first guide member, the pair of guides constituting a conveyance passage to guide... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090214279 - Medium ejection apparatus and image forming apparatus: A medium ejection apparatus is provided which may be part of an image forming apparatus. The medium ejection apparatus may include an ejection roller configured to eject a recording medium and a pinch roller disposed opposite to the ejection roller. The pinch roller is configured to move toward and away... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090208228 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus and an image forming method are provided, which can reduce time and effort needed by consistency examination between a printed code data and a paper fingerprint data. In the present invention, paper fingerprint information before starting of the printing of the paper for output on which... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090208229 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an endless belt which is wound around a plural rollers and conveys a recording medium in a conveying direction; a plurality of image forming units which sequentially form images on the recording medium conveyed by the endless belt in an overlap manner; a fixing unit... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090208230 - Image forming apparatus: High quality images are provided by controlling development conditions based on the proportion of the toner layer potential difference, which a difference between the toner layer potential and electrostatic latent image potential, to the development contrast potential difference, which is a difference between the development bias potential and electrostatic latent... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090208231 - Electronic photograph printer: A electronic photograph printer includes a density-measurement section and a density controller section. The density-measurement section includes a density sensor 31 for measuring densities of images printed on a web by electronic-photograph-printing units. The density controller section adjusts densities of images which are about to be printed on the web... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090208232 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor drum, a developing roller, and a control section. The photoreceptor drum is configured to form an electrostatic latent image on a surface thereof in accordance with image data. The developing roller has a surface for bearing a two-component developer at least a partial... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090208233 - Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, program and recording medium: An image forming apparatus is provided which is of an electrophotographic type, and is capable of setting a gradation number of a patch pattern to be formed corresponding to various factor information, and to perform a process control. The image forming apparatus includes a patch pattern forming part to form... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090208234 - Magnetic material detecting device: A magnetic material detecting device, in which a concentration of magnetic material can be correctly detected, even when the magnetic material with unevenness in its density distribution flows. A magnetic field generating device is arranged in a two-component developer composed of magnetic carrier and non-magnetic toner and generates a magnetic... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090208235 - Terminal device, image forming apparatus, and printing system having the same, and printing method thereof: A printing method using a terminal device connected to an image forming apparatus includes analyzing an object of an initial page of a medium to be printed and setting fusing conditions if a print command is input, and transmitting the set fusing conditions and print data to the image forming... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090208236 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: In a fixing unit, a fixing roller is rotated under driving force transmitted from a paper discharge unit-side gear of a driving section via a fixing roller driving gear, and holds and conveys a recording medium in cooperation with a pressure roller in a nip region. When a control section... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090208237 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main unit; a detected unit that is placed in the apparatus main unit; a temperature detection member that is provided out of contact with the detected unit in the apparatus main unit for detecting a temperature of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090208238 - Image forming device and method: An image forming device that uses only one temperature sensor to detect temperatures of the recording sheet and a rotation member for fixing, and can perform the temperature adjustment control carefully in detail during the image forming operation. The CPU 61 performs the temperature adjustment control 1 by executing the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090208239 - Charging roller and image forming apparatus: A charging roller, adapted to face an image carrier at a predetermined charging gap and charge the image carrier in a non-contact state, including: a conductive shaft, provided with a pair of annular concave portions formed on an outer circumferential surface at both ends thereof; a conductive layer, formed on... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090208241 - Belt carrying device, intermediate transfer device, and image forming apparatus: A belt carrying device includes supporting rollers, an endless belt supported by the supporting rollers, and guiding members provided on the endless belt. The endless belt is rotated by rotation of the supporting rollers. An outer peripheral surface of the endless belt is in contact with a cleaning member. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090208242 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an endless belt that is rotated, an image forming device configured to form an image on a recording medium which fed on the endless belt, a cleaning roller configured to be rotated and clean the endless belt, a pair of registration rollers configured to be... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090208243 - Image forming apparatus with cleaning device and cleaning method: In an image forming apparatus including a cleaning device having a cleaning blade arranged so as to make contact with and separate from a cleaned surface, an occurrence of excessive cutting when the cleaning blade makes contact with the cleaned surface is prevented. The image forming apparatus includes the cleaning... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090208240 - Transfer device and image forming apparatus: A transfer device includes: a transfer belt hung around a roller; and a transfer belt sealing member in contact with a transfer surface and a circumferential end surface of the transfer belt and in contact with the circumferential end surface of the transfer belt diagonally relative to a thickness direction... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090208244 - Methods and apparatus for remanufacturing toner cartridges: A cutting device for use in detaching a drum from a printer cartridge, the drum defining a hollow interior, the hollow interior being surrounded by an interior wall of the drum, the cutting device comprising a shaft and a pointed edge protruding from the shaft, the pointed edge being configured... Agent: Roland Tong, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP Suite 1200

20090208247 - Electrophotographic photosensitive member, method of producing electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge, and electrophotographic apparatus: An electrophotographic photosensitive member is provided in which both a potential variation over a long time period and a potential variation within a short time period are suppressed. A method of producing the electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus each having the electrophotographic photosensitive member... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090208245 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: The invention provides an image forming apparatus including a casing, a process cartridge, and a toner box. The process cartridge includes: a first housing which supports an electrostatic latent image carrier and which has a first opening and a first edge portion; and a second housing which supports a toner... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090208246 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member which has an electroconductive substrate, a photosensitive layer overlying the electroconductive substrate and a cross-linked resin surface layer overlying the photosensitive layer and bears a latent electrostatic image on the surface thereof, an application device to apply a solid lubricant to... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090208248 - Image forming apparatus and attaching method of charger unit in image forming apparatus: In this invention, the charging units are in the separate construction for the main chargers and for the ozone ducts. When installing the process units, the ozone ducts are placed on the elastic sheets of the duct cases that are fixed to the main frame. The process units are slid... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090208249 - Coating liquid for forming undercoat layer, method for preparing coating liquid for forming undercoat layer, electrophotographic photoreceptor, image-forming apparatus, and electrophotographic cartridge:

20090208250 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor, image-forming apparatus, and electrophotographic cartridge: An electrophotographic photoreceptor having high sensitivity and hardly affected by the transfer in an electrophotographic process is provided. The electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an undercoat layer containing metal oxide particles and a binder resin and a photosensitive layer disposed on the undercoat layer, wherein the metal oxide particles have a volume... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090208251 - Image forming apparatus: A conductive drum flange is provided in a cylindrical member of a photoconductive drum. A first gear is formed on an outer circumferential surface of the drum flange. A nonconductive gear member is provided in a shaft member of a transfer roller. A second gear to which driving force is... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090208252 - Developing device for image forming apparatus and process cartridge having the same: A developing device that can reliably supply toner from a toner supply roller to a developing roller and that does not generate scraping irregularities in the toner thin layer on the developing roller, and a process cartridge and an image forming apparatus having the same. The developing device has: a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090208253 - Toner bottle and image forming apparatus: A toner bottle includes a bottle main body for discharging toner contained therein by rotation of the bottle main body and a scraping member disposed inside the bottle main body for rubbing the inner wall surface of the bottle main body 20 by rotation of the bottle main body. A... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090208254 - Developing unit, image forming apparatus, and floating developer collecting method for developing unit: A suction duct that sucks air is provided downstream from a magnet roller that applies a developer to a photoconductor while rotating, in a direction of rotation of the photoconductor, and upstream of a surface potential sensor that measures surface potential of the photoconductor. Moreover, ribs for adjusting an air... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090208255 - Development roller, development device, and image forming apparatus: A development roller includes a base unit having a base recess and a base projection formed in a predetermined area of a circumference surface of the base unit, and a surface layer formed on the circumference surface of the base unit and having a recess and a projection formed respectively... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090208256 - Development roller, development device, and image forming apparatus: A development roller includes a base unit having a base recess and a base projection that are formed in a predetermined area of a circumference surface of the base unit by pressing a regular pattern in pressure machining, and a surface layer formed on the circumference surface of the base... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090208257 - Image forming apparatus: One end of a sheet guiding member on a transfer nip side is located on a straight line connecting an exit of a registration nip formed between a pair of registration rollers and an entrance of the transfer nip or on an opposite side of an intermediate transfer belt across... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090208258 - Intermediate transfer medium, and image forming apparatus using the intermediate transfer medium: An intermediate transfer belt, which receives plural color toner images from one or more image bearing members and then transfers the plural color toner images onto a receiving material. The intermediate transfer belt includes a substrate; and an outermost layer located overlying the substrate and including an epoxy-silicone copolymer. An... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20090208259 - Transfer apparatus and image forming device: A transfer apparatus includes a transfer belt that conveys a toner image which has been transferred to an outer periphery face thereof; a transfer member that, at a contact portion, causes the toner image to be transferred from the outer periphery face of the transfer belt to a recording medium;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090208260 - Conveyor-belt apparatus and image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus including: an endless belt; a heating rotary member for heating a toner image on a sheet at a heating nip between the belt and the rotary member; a pressure member provided slidably on an inner surface of the belt at the heating nip, for bringing the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090208261 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: In a fixing device, a heat roller and a fixing gear for rotating the heat roller are arranged concentrically, and coupled to each other by inserting a key formed in the fixing gear into a keyway formed in the heat roller. The keyway is designed such that the key is... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090208263 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes: a heating section; and a press section which presses the heating section and thereby forms a fixing nip section, wherein at least one of the heating section and the press section comprises, an endless fixing belt; a press member which presses the fixing belt to the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090208264 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus including same: A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressure member, a contact member, and a heater. The fixing member is provided in a width direction of a recording medium and to heat and fuse a toner image on the recording medium. The pressure member is to press against the fixing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090208262 - Image heating apparatus: In an image heating apparatus, outer peripheral surfaces of two endless belts are held in contact with each other to form a nip portion, and a recording material bearing a toner image is heated at the nip portion while being pinched and conveyed. In the image heating apparatus, the nip... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090208265 - Image heating device: The present invention relates to an image heating device comprising, a first belt which heats an image on a recording material at a nip, a second belt which forms the nip with the first belt, a first pressure member and a first rotating member which press the first belt at... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090208266 - Fusing device and image forming apparatus using the same: A fusing unit is comprised of a fusing roller and a pressing roller, having an elastic layer on their outer peripheral surface and a pressing structure for pressing the fusing roller against the pressing roller, and causes a sheet of paper with an unfixed toner image to pass through the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090208267 - Image-forming device and image-forming method: An image-forming device includes: a tension applying unit that applies tension to a recording medium; an image carrier that holds a toner image; a transfer unit that transfers the toner image held by the image carrier to the recording medium while tension is applied to the recording medium; a fixing... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090202260 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a charging device for charging a photoreceptor drum, a developing device for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the photoreceptor drum, a developing bias applying device for applying a developing bias voltage to the developing device, a toner image density sensor for... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090202261 - Image forming apparatus having a toner concentration sensor: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a rotary developing device having N developer carriers, where N defines a total number of developer carriers, the N developer carriers carrying developers to develop the electrostatic latent image, and the rotary developing device... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090202262 - Method and assembly for generating a given revolving speed of an endless band-shaped image support: In a method to determine a curve of revolution speed of a continuous belt-shaped image substrate, at least two color separations are generated on the image substrate and transferred from the image substrate onto a substrate material to generate a print image. A first offset in a transport direction of... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090202263 - Image forming apparatus and image density control method: An image forming apparatus includes a control device that calculates a developing ability of the developing device based on a detection value detected by an optical detection device from the plural toner patches. The control device adjusts an image formation condition based on the calculated developing ability. A factor detection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090202264 - Toner concentration field measurement tool: A tool used in the TC measurement in the field includes a venturi shaped container that when connected to vacuum pressure from a portable vacuum cleaner takes advantage of cyclone separator functionality to assist in separation of fine toner from carrier beads with the toner being caught in the vacuum... Agent: Williams A. Henry , Ii

20090202265 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier for carrying developer image, a transfer device configured to transfer the developer image to a recording media, a forward bias applying circuit configured to apply a forward bias voltage to the transfer device, and a reverse bias applying circuit configured to apply... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090202266 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus, in the case where image forming is performed on a recording medium whose size covers a position of a second temperature detection element perpendicularly disposed to the recording medium conveyance direction, when the detected temperature rises to a predetermined temperature during execution of the first power... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202270 - Air duct and toner cartridge using same: The present disclosure relates to a cartridge for containing toner material used in an image-forming device. The cartridge comprises a developer roll, two J-seals that provide interfaces with the developer roll at the ends thereof, and an air duct that conducts airflow across the interfaces to cool the developer roll... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090202267 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, having: an image carrier to carry a toner image; a transfer unit to transfer the toner image on the image carrier onto a sheet through a rotating member disposed to face the image carrier; a fixing unit to heat and fix the transferred toner image onto... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090202268 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image formation unit such as a process section for forming an image on a recording sheet. The apparatus may include a fixing unit for fixing the image formed by the image formation unit on the recording sheet, a reversible roller configured to receive the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090202269 - Image heating appartus: An image heating apparatus including: an image heating member, which heats an image on a recording material in a nip portion; an air blower, which blows air toward an air blowing port to cool a predetermined area of the image heating member; and a shutter, which opens and closes the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202271 - Photosensitive-member unit and image forming apparatus: A pressing member applies a pressing force to a trailing end in a direction which intersects a predetermined reference direction, allowing the pressing force to have both a first component in the predetermined reference direction and a second component perpendicular to the predetermined reference direction. A trailing end is pressed... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090202272 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device includes a first frame, and a first supporting unit. The first frame includes a first plate-shaped part having a surface orthogonal to the first direction and supports a first image-bearing member. The first plate-shaped part is formed with at least two first positioning holes. Each of the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090202273 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same: An optical scanning device includes two scanning units each having an input optical system for making, in a sub-scan section, a light beam from a light source be incident at a finite angle on a deflecting surface of a deflector, and an imaging optical system for imaging, on a scan... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202274 - Coating fluid for photosensitive-layer formation, process for producing the same, photoreceptor produced with the coating fluid, image-forming apparatus employing the photoreceptor, and electrophotographic cartridge employing the photoreceptor: A coating fluid for photosensitive-layer formation having high productivity and stability and a process thereof are provided. Also provided are a high-performance electrophotographic photoreceptor and an image-forming apparatus which are capable of forming high-quality images even in various use environments and are less apt to cause image defects such as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090202275 - Belt rotating apparatus and recording apparatus: A belt rotating apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes a circular belt; plural rollers about which the belt is entrained, the plural rollers including a drive roller which rotates the belt and an inclination change roller which can change an inclination thereof; a belt side edge... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20090202276 - Toner replenishing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A toner replenishing apparatus capable of, without increasing a drive torque for rotating the toner replenishing container, scraping toner adhered in a toner replenishing container to reduce the quantity of residual toner that remains unfed from the toner replenishing container, is provided. The toner replenishing apparatus includes a toner replenishing... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090202277 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device facing an image carrier and including a developer carrier, a developer flying control member, and a development-noise control member. The developing device develops an electrostatic image formed on the image carrier by causing the developer to fly from the developer carrier to the image carrier upon an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090202278 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image supporting member; a developing belt for supporting and transporting developer to develop a static latent image formed on the image supporting member; a developer supply member disposed to abut against the developing belt to form a specific nip portion for supplying the developer... Agent: Kubotera & Associates. LLC Suite 202

20090202280 - Endless belt, transfer unit, and image forming apparatus: An aspect of the invention provides an endless belt in which a ten-point mean roughness of a surface of the endless belt is measured with scanning probe and is in a range from not less than 2.1 nm to not more than 11.0 nm. Thereby, poor transfer does not occur,... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090202279 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus operates in a marginless print mode in which the toner image is formed on a first region on a first image bearing member corresponding to a sheet size and a second region on the first image bearing member outside the first region. Reverse-transfer efficiency TR1 and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202281 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a belt for conveying the toner image; and a transfer device for rubbing the belt, and a surface of the transfer device, which is brought into contact with the belt includes linear concave portions or linear... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202282 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a printer body having a developing portion and a fixing portion therein; a plurality of sheet feeding rollers successively disposed along a sheet discharge path of the printer body and driven to discharge a sheet from fixing portion to an upper portion of the printer... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090202260 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: Provided is an image forming apparatus including a charging device for charging a photoreceptor drum, a developing device for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the photoreceptor drum, a developing bias applying device for applying a developing bias voltage to the developing device, a toner image density sensor for... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090202261 - Image forming apparatus having a toner concentration sensor: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a rotary developing device having N developer carriers, where N defines a total number of developer carriers, the N developer carriers carrying developers to develop the electrostatic latent image, and the rotary developing device... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090202262 - Method and assembly for generating a given revolving speed of an endless band-shaped image support: In a method to determine a curve of revolution speed of a continuous belt-shaped image substrate, at least two color separations are generated on the image substrate and transferred from the image substrate onto a substrate material to generate a print image. A first offset in a transport direction of... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090202263 - Image forming apparatus and image density control method: An image forming apparatus includes a control device that calculates a developing ability of the developing device based on a detection value detected by an optical detection device from the plural toner patches. The control device adjusts an image formation condition based on the calculated developing ability. A factor detection... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090202264 - Toner concentration field measurement tool: A tool used in the TC measurement in the field includes a venturi shaped container that when connected to vacuum pressure from a portable vacuum cleaner takes advantage of cyclone separator functionality to assist in separation of fine toner from carrier beads with the toner being caught in the vacuum... Agent: Williams A. Henry , Ii

20090202265 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier for carrying developer image, a transfer device configured to transfer the developer image to a recording media, a forward bias applying circuit configured to apply a forward bias voltage to the transfer device, and a reverse bias applying circuit configured to apply... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090202266 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus, in the case where image forming is performed on a recording medium whose size covers a position of a second temperature detection element perpendicularly disposed to the recording medium conveyance direction, when the detected temperature rises to a predetermined temperature during execution of the first power... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202270 - Air duct and toner cartridge using same: The present disclosure relates to a cartridge for containing toner material used in an image-forming device. The cartridge comprises a developer roll, two J-seals that provide interfaces with the developer roll at the ends thereof, and an air duct that conducts airflow across the interfaces to cool the developer roll... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090202267 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, having: an image carrier to carry a toner image; a transfer unit to transfer the toner image on the image carrier onto a sheet through a rotating member disposed to face the image carrier; a fixing unit to heat and fix the transferred toner image onto... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090202268 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image formation unit such as a process section for forming an image on a recording sheet. The apparatus may include a fixing unit for fixing the image formed by the image formation unit on the recording sheet, a reversible roller configured to receive the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090202269 - Image heating appartus: An image heating apparatus including: an image heating member, which heats an image on a recording material in a nip portion; an air blower, which blows air toward an air blowing port to cool a predetermined area of the image heating member; and a shutter, which opens and closes the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202271 - Photosensitive-member unit and image forming apparatus: A pressing member applies a pressing force to a trailing end in a direction which intersects a predetermined reference direction, allowing the pressing force to have both a first component in the predetermined reference direction and a second component perpendicular to the predetermined reference direction. A trailing end is pressed... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090202272 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device includes a first frame, and a first supporting unit. The first frame includes a first plate-shaped part having a surface orthogonal to the first direction and supports a first image-bearing member. The first plate-shaped part is formed with at least two first positioning holes. Each of the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090202273 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same: An optical scanning device includes two scanning units each having an input optical system for making, in a sub-scan section, a light beam from a light source be incident at a finite angle on a deflecting surface of a deflector, and an imaging optical system for imaging, on a scan... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202274 - Coating fluid for photosensitive-layer formation, process for producing the same, photoreceptor produced with the coating fluid, image-forming apparatus employing the photoreceptor, and electrophotographic cartridge employing the photoreceptor: A coating fluid for photosensitive-layer formation having high productivity and stability and a process thereof are provided. Also provided are a high-performance electrophotographic photoreceptor and an image-forming apparatus which are capable of forming high-quality images even in various use environments and are less apt to cause image defects such as... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090202275 - Belt rotating apparatus and recording apparatus: A belt rotating apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes a circular belt; plural rollers about which the belt is entrained, the plural rollers including a drive roller which rotates the belt and an inclination change roller which can change an inclination thereof; a belt side edge... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20090202276 - Toner replenishing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A toner replenishing apparatus capable of, without increasing a drive torque for rotating the toner replenishing container, scraping toner adhered in a toner replenishing container to reduce the quantity of residual toner that remains unfed from the toner replenishing container, is provided. The toner replenishing apparatus includes a toner replenishing... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090202277 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device facing an image carrier and including a developer carrier, a developer flying control member, and a development-noise control member. The developing device develops an electrostatic image formed on the image carrier by causing the developer to fly from the developer carrier to the image carrier upon an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090202278 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image supporting member; a developing belt for supporting and transporting developer to develop a static latent image formed on the image supporting member; a developer supply member disposed to abut against the developing belt to form a specific nip portion for supplying the developer... Agent: Kubotera & Associates. LLC Suite 202

20090202280 - Endless belt, transfer unit, and image forming apparatus: An aspect of the invention provides an endless belt in which a ten-point mean roughness of a surface of the endless belt is measured with scanning probe and is in a range from not less than 2.1 nm to not more than 11.0 nm. Thereby, poor transfer does not occur,... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090202279 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus operates in a marginless print mode in which the toner image is formed on a first region on a first image bearing member corresponding to a sheet size and a second region on the first image bearing member outside the first region. Reverse-transfer efficiency TR1 and... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202281 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a belt for conveying the toner image; and a transfer device for rubbing the belt, and a surface of the transfer device, which is brought into contact with the belt includes linear concave portions or linear... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090202282 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a printer body having a developing portion and a fixing portion therein; a plurality of sheet feeding rollers successively disposed along a sheet discharge path of the printer body and driven to discharge a sheet from fixing portion to an upper portion of the printer... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090196633 - Image formation apparatus, image formation system and component: An image formation apparatus includes a receiving unit that is removably receiving a component, a determination unit that determines the acceptability of the component received in the receiving unit, and a control unit that, if the determination unit does not confirm the acceptability of the component, provides a notification and... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090196634 - Image forming apparatus: An area calculating unit calculates an image area of a toner image formed on a sheet recording member. A behavior detecting unit detects behavior of the recording member fed out of a conveying nip formed by a pair of conveying members. A thickness obtaining unit obtains thickness information of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090196635 - Sheet conveying device: A sheet conveying device having conveyer rollers for conveying sheets one by one, a jam treater having a space and sheet guides for regulating a front side and a back side of a conveyed sheet. In the space of the jam treater, a sheet is guided, and the jam treater... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090196636 - Misregistration amount detector, misregistration amount detecting method, and storage medium: A misregistration amount detector in a tandem image forming apparatus having a conveying body configured to convey paper on which a color image is to be printed is disclosed. The misregistration amount detector includes an image creating part configured to create, on the conveying body, a first pattern for detecting... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20090196637 - Fuser unit for image forming apparatus: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a fuser unit including first and second temperature detecting mechanisms that detect the temperature at the center in an axial direction of a first roller member in non-contact with the first roller member, a third temperature detecting mechanism that detects the temperature... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090196638 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer device, a voltage applicator, a current sensor, and a discharge detector. The transfer device transfers a toner image from one surface to another by developing an electrical field across a transfer gap when provided with a transfer bias. The voltage applicator applies a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090196639 - Image forming apparatus, developing device, and method of adjusting developer: An image forming apparatus includes an image supporting member; a developer supporting member for attaching developer to the image supporting member to form a developer image; a regulation member for forming a thin layer of the developer on the developer supporting member; a charge adjustment member for receiving a charge... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20090196640 - Transfer device and image forming apparatus using the same: A transfer device includes a transfer device controller for controlling the whole transfer device, a storage for storing various kinds of data etc. necessary for control, an intermediate transfer unit including a primary transfer power supply and its driver, a secondary transfer unit including a secondary transfer power supply and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090196641 - Use of customer documents for gloss measurements: An image printing system for adjusting gloss on printed documents includes a marking engine constructed to print images, which have gloss, on a document; a gloss measurement device, includes a linear array sensor to detect a generally specular and diffuse reflectance in the first direction produced by one or more... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Xerox Corporation

20090196642 - Electrophotographic apparatus having web fuser and corresponding methods: Disclosed are an electrophotographic apparatus for forming images on sheets, and corresponding methods. The electrophotographic apparatus includes a fuser web for fusing toner particles to the sheets to form the images, a sensor for detecting a defect position of at least one defect in the fuser web, and a controller... Agent: Prass LLP

20090196643 - Fusing device and image forming apparatus: A disclosed fusing device includes a fusing part; a pressing part rotatably pressed against the fusing part to form a fusing nip for fusing a toner image onto a sheet; a capacitor; a center heater for heating a center portion of the fusing part; an edge heater for heating edge... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090196644 - Image forming apparatus and image forming system: An image forming apparatus having a fixing unit fixing a developer image formed based on image data received onto a medium includes a target fixing temperature determination unit, a fixable temperature range computing unit, and a fixing temperature control unit. The target fixing temperature determination unit determines fixing temperature arranged... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090196645 - Method and apparatus for dynamic power management in marking devices: A method and apparatus for operating a fuser in a marking device is disclosed. The method may include determining a total power available for warm-up of fuser elements in a fuser, determining power constraints of the fuser elements, selecting a power allocation to be applied to the fuser elements, calculating... Agent: Prass LLP

20090196646 - Image forming apparatus and method of supporting cleaner: A technique of easily detaching a cleaner with a simple configuration is provided. At the time of drawing out a drawing unit, an elastic supporting section is allowed to move against the pressing force of the elastic supporting section to a position where the elastic supporting of the cleaner is... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090196647 - Image forming apparatus and cartridge therefor: An image forming apparatus including a main assembly to which a cartridge having a storing element for storing information, a cartridge electrical contact electrically connected with the storing element, and a first contact portion, the image forming apparatus includes a movable member including a first shaft, a second shaft, a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090196648 - Image forming apparatus, transfer unit, and cleaning unit: A transfer unit includes: a plurality of rollers; an image forming section which performs formation of a toner image in accordance image information and transfer of the toner image; an intermediate transferring belt to which the toner image is transferred from the image forming section; and a contact member which... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090196649 - Transfer unit and image forming apparatus: There are provided: a transfer belt which extends between a plurality of rollers so as to be capable of running in an endless manner, the transfer belt receiving on its front surface or a recording sheet placed on the front surface a toner image which is bore on an image... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090196650 - Toner cartridge having control board mounted therein and electrophotographic image forming apparatus using the same: A toner cartridge has a control board mounted therein and an electrophotographic image forming apparatus using the same. The toner cartridge includes a toner tube having a mounting part on which a control board is mounted, a control board cover for covering the mounting part to mount the control board... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20090196651 - Transfer apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same: A transfer apparatus of the invention includes a primary transfer unit, and a secondary transfer unit that includes a transfer roller having a bearing and being capable of contacting with and separating from the primary transfer unit, the primary transfer unit includes a guide member receiving the bearing at a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090196652 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit having a plurality of photoconductor drums arranged in tandem; a conveyor belt arranged opposite to the plurality of photoconductor drums and configured to convey a recording sheet; a cleaning unit having a cleaning member positioned in contact with the conveyor belt... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090196653 - Method for commonly using scanning/printing path of a multifunction office machine and a device thereof: A method for commonly using scanning/printing path of a multifunction office machine and a device thereof. The device has a first and a second feeder slots adjacent to each other, whereby documents to be scanned and sheets to be printed can be respectively placed into the first and second feeder... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090196654 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor containing mixture of bisphthalocyanine-based compound and phthalocyanine-based compound and electrophotographic imaging apparatus employing the electrophotographic photoreceptor: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an electrically conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer formed on the electrically conductive substrate, in which the photosensitive layer includes a mixture of a bisphthalocyanine compound represented by a formula and a phthalocyanine compound represented by another formula. The mixture of the bisphthalocyanine compound represented by... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090196655 - Coupling device, and image forming apparatus: A coupling unit includes two constant velocity joints arranged in series in the shaft direction. The coupling unit couples a driven shaft and a drive shaft. Each constant velocity joint includes a ball non-retaining member and a ball retaining member. The ball non-retaining member has an annular space with one... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090196656 - System and methods for reducing ghosting: The presently disclosed embodiments are directed to imaging members useful in electrostatography. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to an improved development systems for electrophotographic imaging and printing apparatuses and machines in which ghosting print defects are reduced, and more particularly, is directed to a method for reducing positive ghosting in... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Xerox Corporation

20090196657 - Developing device, image forming apparatus, and image forming method: A developing device includes: a developer carrier which carries liquid developer containing toner and carrier liquid; a developer carrier contact member which contacts the developer carrier; and a developer carrier contact control unit which controls the condition where the developer carrier and the developer carrier contact member contact each other... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090196658 - Toner, developer, image forming method, image forming apparatus and process cartridge: A toner having a weight-average particle diameter of from 2 to 7 μm and a circularity of from 0.95 to 1.00, including a colorant; a binder resin; and at least one oxidized particulate material, comprising a silicon element, wherein the oxidized particulate material has a number-average particle diameter (Dn) of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090196659 - Image forming apparatus and developing apparatus: A casing of a developing apparatus defines a developing chamber and a developer accommodating chamber, that accommodates developer, therein. The developing chamber and the developer accommodating chamber are arranged side by side. The casing is formed with a replenishing port for supplying new developer from a developer replenishing unit into... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090196660 - Developing apparatus capable of conveying developer uniformly and developer conveyer thereof: A developer conveyer for conveying developer includes a shaft, and a plate structure connected to the shaft. Flexural rigidity of a central part of the plate structure is less than flexural rigidity of a lateral part of the plate structure. Deformation of the central part of the plate structure is... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090196661 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: wherein A represents a BET specific surface area (cm2/g) of the toner; and B represents a BET specific surface area (cm2/g) of the toner after buried, and wherein one of the pressers pressing the receptor to the image bearer bearing the black toner image presses the receptor thereto at a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090196662 - Method of measuring a correct lateral registration setting and printing machine suitable therefor: The invention relates to a method of ensuring a correct lateral registration setting, in a digital multi-color electrographic sheet-printing machine, which the sheets adhere to a support, preferably a transport belt, are transported past printing units.... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20090196663 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a movable belt; a transfer member opposed to the image bearing member with the belt therebetween; wherein the transfer member has a contact surface substantially parallel with a surface of the belt and contacted to the belt, and wherein when the belt is moving, the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090196664 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes a contact-sliding member parallel to a generatrix of a heating roller and brought into contact with the heating roller configured to heat a toner image on a recording material. An inlet space and an outlet space are formed at the upstream and downstream ends, respectively,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090196665 - Protective agent for image bearing member, protective layer setting unit, and process cartridge: A protective agent for an image bearing member of an image forming apparatus. The protective agent is applied onto a surface of the image bearing member and includes a hydrophobic organic compound (A), an inorganic fine particle (B), and an inorganic lubricant (C).... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090196666 - Waste toner recovering mechanism and image forming apparatus: A technique is provided which allows an agitation paddle, which flattens waste toner in a waste toner container, to rotate at a sufficiently low rotation speed and contributing to a decrease in cost with the saving of space and a simple configuration. A waste toner recovering mechanism includes a first... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090196667 - Printing system for printing banner media and method thereof: A printing system for duplex printing of a banner media is disclosed. The printing system includes a drive roll, a pair of nipping rolls abuttingly coupled to the drive roll forming a first nip and a second nip with the drive roll, a media path including a printing region and... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090196668 - Image forming system including finisher applying punching processing and staple processing to printed papers, and image forming apparatus having mechanism for printing on both surfaces of paper: An image forming system is given, in advance, unique setting as a behavior to be performed when an error occurs regarding postprocessing. In a case where the postprocessing becomes inexecutable during the operation of the system, the system either cancels the postprocessing to continue printing (Steps S20, S22) or stops... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.