Electrophotography inventions 09/09

20090238583 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: In an image forming apparatus, a timer unit measures a time interval between a current time and a time point when previous supply of toner to a developing unit ended and an adjusting unit adjusts an amount of toner to be supplied to the developing unit based on the time... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090238584 - Image forming apparatus, image quality management method and image quality management program: A technique is provided which enables keeping color developers of yellow, magenta and cyan in developing devices in a satisfactory state even in a circumstance where a black toner is mainly used, in an image forming apparatus which is capable of executing image quality maintenance control and the like and... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090238585 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, forming a color image by successively superposing color images, formed on image carriers of corresponding image forming parts arranged along a rotational direction of an endless moving member, onto the endless moving member or a recording medium conveyed thereby, includes a first part causing a color... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238586 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a control section which controls a forming section and a detection section to form an image patterns at a non-image area between image areas on an image carrier, to detect the image patterns as required, and to execute various types of compensation operations for correcting... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090238588 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a control unit to control a latent image support with a target rate; a first unit to detect patterns; plural parts to be detected revolving with the support; a second unit to detect passing of the part; a first generating unit to obtain an amplitude... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090238587 - Test print, color image printer using the test print and method for adjusting the color image printer using the test print: A color image printer includes a print engine (13) for effecting a laser scanning exposure and a test print managing section (51) for managing control for outputting a test print through the print engine for use in image quality adjustment. The test print (TP) includes a plurality of sets of... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20090238589 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling toner supply: The image forming apparatus includes: a photoconductor including a photoconductive layer and an overcoat layer containing electroconductive particles; a charging unit charging the photoconductor to first potential; an exposure unit setting an exposure region to have second potential smaller than the first potential in absolute values; a development unit including... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090238590 - Toner-density calculating method, reflective optical sensor, reflective optical sensor device, and image forming apparatus: A toner density is calculated from outputs of light-receiving elements based on a difference between a reflection property of a supporting member and a reflection property of a toner pattern. Light-emitting elements aligned in one direction that is inclined to a sub-direction emit a detection light in such a manner... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090238591 - Image forming condition adjustment control for image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a charge unit, an exposure unit, an exposure voltage detector, a development unit, and a concentration detector. The exposure voltage detector detects a potential of latent image formed as a test pattern on an image carrier. The concentration detector detects concentration of developed test pattern.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090238592 - Printing on conductive substrate material: An electrophotographic printing control apparatus serves for transferring an image via an electrically biasable ITM drum to a conductive substrate. The electrically biasable ITM drum is in contact with the conductive substrate over a contact period during which the image is transferred to the conductive substrate. The printing control apparatus... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090238593 - Heating apparatus and induction heating control method: A fixing device of an image forming apparatus of the present invention enables induction heating coils for a 100 V power source to set a ratio of inductance L to load resistance R of a heat roller to L/R<35×10−6 (H/Ω) and coil impedance ZΩ to Z<10Ω and supplies a drive... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090238596 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes a non-contacting thermistor (54) disposed in the vicinity of the surface of a heat roller (21) and an upper cover temperature thermistor (60) for detecting the temperature of a pressure roller (22). The calculated surface temperature (T) of the heat roller 21 is calculated based on... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090238595 - Fixing device, image forming apparatus, and fixing-device control method: In a fixing device, a fixing unit fixes a toner image transferred onto a recording medium by a heating target unit heated by a plurality of heating units each of which is grouped as a first heating unit to which power is selectively supplied or a second heating unit to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090238594 - Fuser with gloss feedback control: A method of controlling gloss in a printing system having a fuser is provided. The method comprises: creating a gloss look-up table for temperature settings; using the look-up table for temperature settings to determine a desired gloss range; measuring an actual gloss range on a substrate continuously with an in-line... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090238597 - Color belt fuser warm-up time minimization: A belt fuser assembly for a color EP printer that quickly warms up the fusing belt before allowing a first sheet of print media to run through the printing stations at the fuser assembly. The warm-up cycle includes: (1) a preheat mode, (2) a first portion of a belt temperature... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090238598 - Method and apparatus to control cooling fan to cool fusing unit of image forming apparatus: To control a cooling fan to cool a fusing unit of an image forming apparatus, it is determined whether the fusing unit is turned on or off. If the fusing unit is determined to be turned on or off, it is determined whether a condition to turn the cooling fan... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090238599 - Terminal device, printing charging system, and method for charging printing costs: A method of charging printing costs using a printing charging system that is connected to an image forming apparatus, the method including: setting printing costs for each of a plurality of people; generating print data for each person, of the plurality of people, based on the set printing costs; and... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090238600 - Developing apparatus, process cartridge, image forming device, and developer cartridge: A developing apparatus includes: a housing having an opening that opens towards an image carrier onto which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a developer accommodating unit in which a developer is accommodated, and a connecting hole connecting with the developer accommodating unit; a developer carrier that carries the developer... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090238601 - Charging member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus: A charging member is provided in which a toner, an additive for use in the toner, or the like is hard to adhere to the surface even under repeated use for a long time, and hence the charging and image output are made stable for a long time even if... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090238602 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge and image forming apparatus: An electrophotographic photoreceptor including a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer provided on a surface of the conductive substrate, an outermost layer of the photosensitive layer containing a crosslinked product formed from at least one charge transporting material having at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of —OH,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090238603 - Process cartridge, supporting member, process cartridge assembling method, and process cartridge disassembling method: A process cartridge detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, the process cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member; a developer carrying member for carrying a developer to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive member; a development frame member rotatably supporting first and second longitudinal ends of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090238604 - Toner cartridge having magnetic coupling: A toner cartridge having a magnetically coupled drive apparatus is provided. The cartridge provides a first toner holding member that houses toner and a second toner holding member adjacent to the first member that houses toner. A dividing wall separates the first toner holding member from the second toner holding... Agent: Media Sciences, Inc.

20090238605 - Laser exposure device and optical axis adjustment method in laser exposure device: In a laser exposure device according to the present invention, a positioning pin, which is formed in a lens holder supporting a lens system, is inserted through an elongated hole for restriction of a board holder supporting a laser diode. An eccentric cam is inserted into an elongated hole for... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090238606 - Liquid developer and image forming apparatus: wherein in the chemical formula (I) R1 represents an alkyl group or alkenyl group having a carbon number in the range of 8 to 22, and R2 represents a hydroxyalkyl group. The liquid developer has both superior dispersibility and a charge characteristic of toner particles. Further, an image forming apparatus... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090238607 - Development device and image forming apparatus: A development device includes a developer reservoir that stores liquid developer containing toner and carrier liquid, a supply port that is arranged at the developer reservoir to supply the liquid developer to the developer reservoir, a supply roller that has helical grooves and supplies the liquid developer stored in the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090238609 - Powder developer holding apparatus, developing apparatus, and image forming apparatus: A powder developer holding apparatus prevents developer leakage. A housing holds powder developer, and includes a discharging opening through which the powder developer is discharged. A shutter is mounted to the housing and is rotatable relative to the housing to an opening position where the discharging opening is opened or... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090238608 - Storage container and image forming apparatus: A storage container includes: a storage container main body; a flow-out opening; a shutter; a seal member; a restricting portion; and an open-close movement restricting portion.... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090238610 - Developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A first carrying member supplies a developer to a developer carrier at the position of a developer attracting magnetic pole H4 while longitudinally carrying the developer, and a second carrying member carries the developer released from the developer carrier at the position of a developer releasing magnetic pole H3. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238611 - Image formation device and developer supply device: There is provided an image formation device, comprising: a holding body configured to hold thereon developer and to have a center axis extending in a main scanning direction; and a developer supply unit configured to supply the developer to the holding body through a traveling electric field, the developer supply... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090238612 - Image formation device: There is provided an image formation device comprising an electrostatic latent image holding body having an latent image formation surface on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a developer supply unit to supply developer to the electrostatic latent image holding body to form, on the latent image formation surface,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090238613 - Belt drive control device, belt device, image forming apparatus, and belt drive control method: A belt drive control device includes: first and second detection devices which detect the angular displacement or velocity of a driven rotary member and the angular displacement or velocity of a drive rotary member, respectively; an extraction device which extracts, from the difference between the detection results of the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238614 - Image formation apparatus belt, belt stretching unit and image formation apparatus: An image formation apparatus belt, includes: a belt that includes a belt main body, the belt having a recess; and a detected part for position detection that is located in a side margin of the belt, the detected part being placed in the recess provided in the belt.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090238615 - Separating plate, fixing device having the separating plate, method for producing the separating plate and image forming apparatus: A fixing device (55) including a fixing member (6), a pressure member (7) forcibly contacting with the fixing member, and a separating plate (1) for separating a transfer paper (9) ejected from a nipping part (8) formed by the fixing member and the pressure member contacting with the fixing member,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090238616 - Ultra-low color density print finishing system with high gloss for image highlighting: A printing system and more specifically a printing system with a finishing system that is capable of printing with some specified level of gloss with a color hue in one or more areas of a final product using a clear toner in combination with a very low color density pigmented... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20090238617 - Waste-toner conveying device, cleaning device, and process cartridge: A waste-toner conveying device includes a conveying unit that conveys foreign matter accumulated inside a container in a conveying path and that includes a coil unit, and a driving unit that drives the conveying unit to rotate. The coil unit includes a first coil on an upstream side and a... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090238620 - Document feeder and image forming apparatus: A document feeder for transporting a document to a predetermined reading position at which image reading is performed by an image reading portion, including: a document transport portion for transporting the document to a reading standby position upstream of the reading position; and a control portion for controlling the document... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090238618 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus main body; a cover provided openably/closably with respect to the image forming apparatus main body; a conveyance passage, formed in the image forming apparatus main body, on which a recording medium is conveyed; a detection device that detects movement of the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090238619 - Medium transport apparatus, image forming apparatus and medium transport method: The medium transport apparatus is provided with: a transport unit that transports a recording medium continuing in a direction, in the direction where the recording medium continues; a detection unit that detects a mark formed on the recording medium transported by the transport unit, by using a detection effective range... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090238621 - Image forming apparatus: This invention provides an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes: a carrier, a power unit, a switch, and a controller. The carrier is configured to carry a recording medium. The power unit is configured to provide a drive power to the carrier. The switch is configured to switch... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090238622 - Image forming apparatus, control method and control program thereof: The present invention improves print performance in image forming apparatuses capable of roller feeding and air feeding. To accomplish this, an image forming apparatus having an air feeding unit that carries out air feeding and a roller feeding unit that carries out roller feeding is provided with a determination unit... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090238623 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image reader, an image forming unit, a sheet discharge device, a sheet receiver, and a sheet moving mechanism. The image reader provided substantially at an upper portion of the image forming apparatus reads an image of a document. The image forming unit disposed substantially... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090238624 - Sheet material information detection apparatus, sheet material processing apparatus, and sheet material information detection method: A motion member (1) urged by an application spring 4 is made to collide with a surface of a sheet material supported by a support member (14) so as to be deflectable and deformable. The velocity of the motion member (1) during the collision process is detected every second by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090232520 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes image forming means receiving at least MICR print data and forming an image of the data to be printed, determination means determining whether received data are authentication-requiring MICR print data that require performing a password authentication process or normal MICR print data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090232521 - Image forming apparatus, method of controlling the image forming apparatus, and storage medium: An image forming apparatus which enables even a user who is not well informed about the mechanism of the image forming apparatus to easily perform operation check on a component roller. The image forming apparatus is provided with a sheet conveying mechanism including a plurality of component rollers. A CPU... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090232522 - Printing system, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor: A printing system enabling a less wasteful and rapid printing restart for both cases where an interrupted job utilizes an ordered sheet, and where such a job utilizes a disordered sheet. A job processing unit executes a job outputting at least one sheet included in a set of a plurality... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090232523 - Image forming apparatus and paper-jam clearing method: A paper conveying path extends from a paper feeding tray to an image forming unit, a branch conveying path extends from a branching point in the paper conveying path to a paper container, a first paper sensor and a second paper sensor are arranged in the paper conveying path upstream... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090232524 - Developer supply device, developer supply control method, and developer supply control program: An image forming device in which the toner density of a two-component developing device can be stably controlled in printing a one-page image and the frequency of interruption of even printing a series of pages can be decreased as less as possible. The number of pixels of the image relevant... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090232525 - Image forming apparatus, method of determining deterioration degree of development agent, and program of determining deterioration degree of development agent: An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes a stirring information obtaining section configured to obtain information of a stirring time of the development agent in the development device, a supply information obtaining section configured to obtain information of an amount of the carrier supplied into the development... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090232526 - Developer cartridge and image formation apparatus: A developer cartridge is provided, which contains developer made of toner and carrier and is detachably mounted in a body of an image formation apparatus. The developer cartridge is configured to include an ID chip in which a carrier content rate of the developer contained in an inner container of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090232527 - Paper coloring apparatus and image forming system: A paper coloring apparatus includes a coating apparatus which coats colored water on both faces of a paper sheet where an image has been formed by an electrophotographic image forming apparatus.... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.

20090232528 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer program product: An image forming apparatus includes a sheet-type determining unit that determines a sheet type of a recording sheet; a sheet-characteristic measuring unit that measures a sheet characteristic of the recording sheet; an image processing unit that performs an image processing on image data of an image for adjusting a consumption... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090232529 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprising: a sensor which detects a density of a patch image formed on an image carrier; an image quality control section which controls an image forming condition based on a detection value of the sensor; and a judging section which judges if the detection value has... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090232530 - Image forming apparatus: An apparatus includes an image bearing member for carrying an image; an intermediary transfer member for receiving the image; a primary transfer member for transfer of the image onto the intermediary transfer member in a primary transfer station; a secondary transfer member for transfer of the image onto a transfer... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090232531 - Developing apparatus of image forming apparatus and supplying method of toner: A developing unit that includes a stirring roller stirring a developer and a developing roller and develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier to form a toner image; a drive source that rotationally drives the developing roller and the stirring roller; and a control unit that switches... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090232532 - Developing device, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge: Provided is a developing device containing a two-component developer including a magnetic carrier and a toner; a developer bearing member containing a nonmagnetic developing sleeve configured to bear the two-component developer on a surface thereof while rotating; a magnetic field generating unit fixed inside of the nonmagnetic developing sleeve; and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232533 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes an image carrier, a charging section that electrically charges the image carrier, an exposure section that exposes the image carrier to light to form a latent image, a development section that develops the latent image by means of a liquid... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090232535 - Fixing apparatus: In a fixing device according to the present invention including a first roller; a second roller configured to rotate with respect to a rotational axis parallel to a rotational axis of the first roller; a belt configured to have a conductive layer and be rolled on the first roller and... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090232534 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus includes a magnetic-field generating part that generates a magnetic field, a fixing rotating body having a heat generating layer that generates heat by an electromagnetic induction action of the magnetic field, a pressurizing member that applies pressure to an outer circumferential surface of the fixing rotating body,... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090232536 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developing section which develops the electrostatic latent image using a liquid developer, forming an image on the latent image carrier; a transfer medium to which the image on the latent image carrier... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090232537 - Display device and image forming apparatus: A display device and an image forming apparatus capable of reducing discomfort of a worker during maintenance work and improving the work efficiency, are provided. In a copier, an orientation of a display screen of a display device is detected and when the display screen changes its orientation, an image... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090232538 - Methods for determining when to transition between color printing and black-only printing in an image forming device: The present application is directed to methods for determining when to transition between printing color images and printing black-only images in an image forming device. A variety of factors may be evaluated in order to select a trigger value. An examined portion of a print history and an examined portion... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20090232539 - Image forming apparatus with contact/separation mechanism to/from intermediate transfer body: In a printer, three toner patches are primary-transferred successively to an intermediate transfer belt. Here, after the first toner patch passes through a belt cleaner and before the second toner patch reaches the belt cleaner, and after the second toner patch passes through the belt cleaner and before the third... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090232540 - Laser toner cartridge toner scatter prevention system and process: Systems and methods for preventing and/or inhibiting toner scatter inside of laser printer toner cartridges including a shield that is adjacent to the toner regulating member, extends over and adjacent the developing roller, includes triboelectric material of a polarity corresponding to the polarity of the laser printer cartridge during operation... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20090232541 - Image forming apparatus, protectant applicator and process cartridge: s

20090232542 - Toner, and process cartridge and image forming apparatus using the same: A toner containing a binder resin including a unit of a polyester resin I having an amino group and another unit of a polyester resin II having an anion functional group and a coloring agent, wherein the toner is manufactured by dissolving or dispersing the polyester resin I, the polyester... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232543 - Developing device of image forming apparatus: An embodiment of the invention provides a magnet facing between a first separating magnetic pole and a second separating magnetic pole on an outer wall of a case. By the rotation of a developing sleeve, a blocking brush is formed between an inner wall of a supply part and the... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090232544 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units arranged in parallel, each image forming unit having an image carrying member and a charging roller disposed face to face with the image carrying member for electrically charging the image carrying member, and a shifting mechanism for selectively shifting... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090232546 - Developer supplying apparatus and developer supplying system: A developer supply system including a developer supply apparatus and a developer supply container which is detachably mountable to the apparatus, the system includes the developer supply container including a rotatable container body having an inner space configured and positioned to contain a developer; a feeding portion configured and positioned... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090232545 - Devices and methods for retracting a cartridge in an image forming device: The present application is directed to methods and devices for moving a cartridge between engaged and disengaged positions in an image forming device. The image forming device may include a bias control arm movable between first and second positions. When the bias control arm is in one of the first... Agent: John J. Mcardie, Jr. Lexmark International, Inc.

20090232547 - Toner cartridge, and shutter structure for the same: A toner cartridge includes a container main body includes a toner outlet, a shutter mechanism for opening and closing the toner outlet, a lever for operating the shutter mechanism, a lever locking mechanism, a lock releasing mechanism, and a prevention mechanism. The lever locking mechanism locks the lever so as... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090232548 - Waste toner recovery system and method: A toner bottle for use in a marking device with a feed mechanism. The toner bottle includes first and second compartments for holding fresh and waste toner, respectively. The feed mechanism allows fresh toner to be delivered to the marking engine from the bottle and waste toner to be returned... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090232549 - Fuser assembly including a nip release bias spring: A fuser assembly includes first and second fuser structures, drive apparatus and nip engagement and release apparatus. The nip engagement and release apparatus includes nip-loading structure, a bias spring for engaging the nip-loading structure, a nip release cam for engaging the bias spring, a swing arm assembly and nip release... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090232550 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus main body; a fixing unit detachably attached to the image forming apparatus main body, the fixing unit including a unit-side connector that electrically connects with a main body-side connector of the image forming apparatus main body when the fixing unit is... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090232552 - Coating liquid for forming undercoat layer, photoreceptor having undercoat layer formed of the coating liquid, image-forming apparatus including the photoreceptor, and electrophotographic cartridge including the photoreceptor: Provided are a coating liquid for forming an undercoat layer exhibiting high stability, a process for forming the coating liquid, a high-performance electrophotographic photoreceptor that is capable of forming a high-quality image under various use environments and exhibiting reduced image defects such as black spots and color spots, and an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232551 - Electrophotographic photosensitive member, image forming device using same, and electrophotographic photosensitive member cartridge: o

20090232553 - Image reading device and image forming device: A copy machine is provided which includes: a fluorescent lamp; a mirror group having a plurality of mirrors that forms a light path by reflecting luminous flux from an original once on each of the plurality of mirrors, and is configured so that an imaging-side mirror, which is disposed most... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090232555 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a detaching and pressing mechanism for releasing developing rollers of developer cartridges mounted in a drum unit from photosensitive drums and pressing the developing rollers on the photosensitive drums. The detaching and pressing mechanism includes a pair of translation cam members, intermediate members provided on... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090232554 - Methods to control transitions between color printing and black-only printing in an image forming device: The present application is directed to methods for transitioning between color printing and black-only printing in an image forming device. A cartridge is moved between a first position in which color printing may occur and a second position in which black-only printing may occur. In the first position, a color... Agent: John J. Mcardle, Jr. Lexmark International , Inc.

20090232556 - Counting method of mixing time of developer: A driving time count is obtained by accumulating a multiplication value which is obtained by multiplying a driving time of a mixer by a coefficient corresponding to an operation of a developing roller. When the driving time count reaches a life threshold for judgment of a life of a developer,... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090232557 - Toner, method of manufacturing toner, developer, two-component developer, developing device, and image forming apparatus: The toner includes a plurality of toner particles containing a binder resin and a colorant. In toner particles, according to measurement by a flow particle image analyzer, the content of small size particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.5 to 2.0 μm is 5% by number or less based on... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090232558 - Developing device and image forming apparatus including same: A developing device including a developer container casing, a developer bearing member to supply toner to a latent image, a supply path to convey developer in an axial direction of the developer bearing member, a supply conveyance member to apply a force to the developer in the supply path to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232559 - Cleaning device and image forming device: A cleaning device includes a cleaning member for removing developer attached to a developer attaching member; a rotation carrying member which is rotatably configured to carry the developer that is removed by the cleaning member; a housing member for housing the developer that is removed by the cleaning member and... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090232560 - Image formation device and developer supplying device: There is provided an image formation device comprising an developer holding body having a holding surface parallel with a main scanning direction and holding thereon developer; an developer supplying unit to carry developer along a carrying path, wherein the developer supplying unit comprises first carrying electrodes arranged along the carrying... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090232562 - 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

20090232561 - Method and system for non-contact powder image development: An improved method and system for non-contact powder image development are provided. The present technique implements a 5-stage jumping development cycle where the initial stage is a momentary over-voltage condition to release the majority of the toner on a donor substrate and the final stage includes the implementation of a... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20090232563 - Magnetic roller, developer carrier, developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A magnetic roller includes a cylindrical magnetic field generation part (140), a cylindrical support part (143) that contacts both of the edges of the magnetic field generation part (140), further has a smaller diameter than the magnetic field generation part (140), and which is installed upon a common axis thereof... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090232564 - Method of producing oa apparatus roller and oa apparatus roller: The invention offers a method of producing an OA apparatus roller that can increase the thermal conductivity of the surface layer composed of a fluororesin layer by decreasing its thickness, that has an excellent parting ability, that can prevent the rubber layer from deteriorating, and that is free from foreign... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20090232565 - Heating apparatus: A heating apparatus which can increase the temperature of a heating element to a target temperature in a short time and ensures temperature uniformity of the heating element. In the heating apparatus, when the specific resistance of a material of a heat generating layer (212) of a heating roller (210)... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090232566 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording sheet by transferring electrophotographic developer onto the recording sheet is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a heat roller to thermally fix the transferred developer onto the recording sheet, a rotating member to convey rotation force to the heat... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090232568 - Fixing apparatus and developer fixing method for the fixing apparatus: A fixing apparatus includes: a pressing roller having a heating device therein; a metal roller having a core bar of metal; and a fixing roller that is set in contact with the pressing roller across a fixing belt wound around the fixing roller and the metal roller, has the width... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090232567 - Fixing device, cylindrical heat fixing roll and image forming device: A fixing device includes: a magnetic field generating unit that generates a magnetic field; a cylindrical fixing member that is disposed to face the magnetic field generating unit, generates heat due to electromagnetic induction of the magnetic field, and includes a heat generating layer that has a thickness thinner than... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090232569 - Fixing device, image forming apparatus, heat fixing member for fixing device, cylindrical roatating member and medium transporting device: A cylindrical rotating member rotatably supported in a device in state where it is configured to contact a medium and that is heated in state where it is supported in the device, including: an elastically deformable base body that is a metal cylinder extending in a width direction of the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090232570 - Waste toner conveying device and image forming apparatus: A waste toner conveying device includes a first conveying path configured to convey waste toner having paper powder at a low mixed ratio, which is stored in a first cleaning device, outside the first cleaning device, a second conveying path configured to convey second waste toner having a paper powder... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090226191 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and control method therefor: A control method for an image forming system capable of preventing reduction of the ability of the system even if a shift transportation function becomes an abnormal condition. An image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet. A first sheet process apparatus has a first moving unit receiving the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090226190 - Image forming device: An image forming device includes a main body unit; an image forming device disposed in the main body unit; a first structural member capable of dividing and moving relative to a third structural member; a second structural member capable of dividing and moving relative to the third structural member and... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC Suite 202

20090226192 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an original, an image forming unit configured to form an image of the original read by the reading unit on a sheet, a detecting unit configured to detect whether or not the image of the original read by the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090226193 - Image forming apparatus, sheet state determining method, and sheet state determining program: To provide, in an image forming apparatus in which a part of a sheet conveying path for reversing a sheet is formed as a unit to be extractable to the outside of the apparatus, a technique for preventing damage to the sheet involved in extracting operation for the extractable unit.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090226194 - Image forming apparatus, method of determining amount of developer supply, and program of determining amount of developer supply: To provide a technology that can realize appropriate developer supply processing according to conditions within a developing unit by a simple method. In an image forming apparatus that visualizes an electrostatic latent image formed on a photoconductor with a developing unit, information on an amount of consumption of a developer... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090226195 - Sensor system and apparatus for identifying recording medium: A sensor system includes an LED configured to emit light to a recording medium and a light-receiving sensor configured to receive a transmitted light that has passed through the recording medium after having been emitted from the LED to the recording medium. An emitting optical axis of the LED is... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090226196 - Image forming apparatus: A main controller controls drive of an LSU for irradiating laser light onto a charged photoreceptor, based on control data read from a non-volatile memory. The main controller causes the LSU to irradiate a beam of light onto the photoreceptor so as to form on the photoreceptor an electrostatic latent... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090226197 - Image forming device: An image-forming device includes an image acquiring unit, an image forming unit, a determining unit, and a controller. The image acquiring unit acquires image data for one page. The image forming unit forms an image based on the image data. The image forming unit includes a developing roller, a supply... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090226198 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes an image bearing member for carrying a toner image, a rotatable endless belt, a transfer member for transferring a toner image from the image bearing member onto the endless belt electrostatically, a detecting device to detect a distance from the endless... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090226199 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit having a rotary heating member and a rotary pressure member forming a nip therebetween, a guide wall positioned immediately downstream of the fixing unit and on the side of the rotary heating member with respect to a boundary defined by the transfer... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090226201 - Fixing device and temperature controlling method: To provide a temperature control technique that can keep temperature distribution in a rotation axis direction of a heating member such as a belt or a heating roller substantially constant more easily than in the past. A fixing device includes: plural heaters that heat plural areas different from one another... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090226200 - Fixing device, image forming apparatus, fixing method and image forming method: The fixing device is provided with: a fixing member that has a rotating member which rotates and a heat source which heats the rotating member; a pressure member that is driven to rotate while pressing the fixing member, and that forms a nip portion where a recording medium passes, between... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090226202 - Fixing device, temperature controlling method and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes: a heat member; a press member; a plurality of heat source members; temperature detectors; temperature control units that control outputs from the respective heat source members so that detected temperatures that the respective temperature detectors detect become preset controlled temperature; a processing target determining unit that... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090226203 - Method and apparatus for cleaning: Aspects of the disclosure provided a method to improve performance of a cleaning device to extend a usage life of the cleaning device. The method can include obtaining a performance characteristic of an electrostatic brush that degrades operations of the electrostatic brush, determining at least one parameter that compensates for... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090226204 - Recording material processing apparatus: A recording material processing apparatus includes an image forming apparatus, a post-processing device, a recording material judging section and a recording material transport controlling section. The recording material judging section judges whether the recording material used in the image forming apparatus has post-processing permissible size and thickness or not. And... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090226205 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit having a plurality of photoconductor drums arranged in tandem; an intermediate transfer belt arranged opposite to the photoconductor drums and configured to receive developer images formed on the photoconductor drums and to transfer the developer images onto a recording sheet; a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090226206 - Developing cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus: A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus and which is transportable in a state of being mounted to the main assembly of the apparatus. The cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member, a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090226207 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device according to an aspect of the invention includes: a housing; a developing roller comprising a roller main body having a circumferential surface, the developing roller being rotatably supported to the housing; and seal members respectively disposed to face both end portions of the circumferential surface of the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090226208 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge and image forming apparatus: wherein in Formulae A and B, l, m and n each independently represent a integer number of 1 or more; p, q, r and s each independently represent 0 or an integer of 1 or more; t represents an integer of from 1 to 7; R1, R2, R3, and R4... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090226209 - Process unit: A process unit includes a drum frame supporting a photoconductor drum and a development frame supporting a development roller. The development cartridge is swingably supported by the drum frame at a coupling joint provided at a first side of the development frame and a support portion provided at a second... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090226210 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device includes a body frame, a belt unit, and a process cartridge. The belt unit includes a belt unit main frame having a first main end portion and a second main end portion in a first direction, a first roller disposed at the first main end portion, a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090226211 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the same: A fixing device including a heating member, a pressing member that presses the heating member, a switching unit that switches a press contact force of the pressing member and a container body that accommodates the heating member, the pressing member, and the switching unit, wherein the switching unit, includes a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090226212 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device includes a body frame having a first contacting part and a second contacting part; and a belt unit detachably mounted in the body frame. The belt unit includes a belt unit main frame, a first roller, a second roller, a belt, a belt unit side frame, a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090226213 - Optical scanning apparatus: A scanning optical apparatus includes an optical box accommodating a deflection device for scanningly deflecting a laser beam emitted by a light source and an optical part for directing the laser beam toward a member-to-be-scanned; a cap mounted to the optical box; a sealing member extending from the cap, wherein... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090226214 - Photosensitive body having electrical connection arrangement: A photosensitive body for electro-photography includes an electrically conductive photosensitive drum, an electrically conductive shaft, and an electrically conductive contact member. The photosensitive drum is rotatable relative to the shaft. The shaft includes a cylindrical shaft body and a metal coating formed on the outer surface of the shaft body... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090226215 - Photosensitive body having electrical connection arrangement: A photosensitive body for electro-photography includes an electrically conductive photosensitive drum, an electrically conductive shaft, and an electrically conductive contact member. The photosensitive drum is rotatable relative to the shaft. The shaft includes a cylindrical shaft body and a metal coating formed on the outer surface of the shaft body... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090226216 - Photosensitive body having electrical connection arrangement: A photosensitive body for electro-photography includes a photosensitive drum, a shaft aligned with a center axis of the photosensitive drum, and a contact member. The photosensitive drum is rotatable relative to the shaft, and the shaft includes a cylindrical shaft body made from an electrically conductive metal, and an electrically... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090226217 - Image forming apparatus: Disclosed an image forming apparatus including: an image forming section to form an image on a sheet based on an input image data; an additional information position instruction section to instruct a position of an additional image indicating additional information to be formed with the image data; a sheet-cutting position... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090226218 - Carrier, two-component developer using the same, and image-forming apparatus using said developer: The present invention provides a carrier for a two-component electrophotographic developer, comprising a core particle and a thermoset silicone resin layer coated thereon, wherein said layer comprises a charge control agent and is formed by heat-treatment at a temperature below the melting point of said charge control agent.... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090226219 - Developer supplying cartridge, developer receiving cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: A developer supply cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus, includes a developer accommodating portion of accommodating a developer; a discharging opening for discharging the developer accommodated in the developer accommodating portion to a developer receiving opening of a developer receiving cartridge provided with developing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090226220 - Development apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same: One embodiment of a development apparatus includes a developer carrier that transports a two-component developer and a scraper that detaches the two-component developer transported by the developer carrier from a surface of the developer carrier. Also, a front end of the scraper is formed so as not to have an... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090226221 - Developer carrier, developing device, image forming apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming method: A developer carrier which holds a developer on a surface and is rotatable includes: a plurality of grooves which is formed on the surface, wherein each of the grooves is wavy-lined, an inclination direction of the grooves to an axis of the developer carrier is cyclically changed in an opposite... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090226222 - Redistributing unit, developing device and image forming apparatus having the same: A developing device includes a photosensitive member having a surface on which a visible image is formed and a developing member to feed a developer to the photosensitive member, and an image forming apparatus having the developing device. The photosensitive member includes a developing region, to which the developer is... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090226223 - Transfer device, conveying device and image forming apparatus including these devices: A transfer device is configured to include a drive roller, a driven roller and a transfer belt supported between these rollers and provided with first and second guide ribs extending circumferentially at both side edges on the undersurface thereof and a drive roller, so as to prevent the transfer belt... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090226225 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including a movable belt member; rotatable first and second image bearings; first and second transfer members for electrostatically transferring the toner image from the first and second image bearing members, respectively, onto the belt member in contact with the belt member. The first and the second... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090226224 - Image forming apparatus and transfer belt turning method for image forming apparatus: The surface of at least one driven roller, installed on an inner side of a transfer belt for carrying a developer in such a manner that the driven roller contacts the transfer belt, and rotating by following a turn of the transfer belt, is covered with a material having releasability... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090226227 - Fixing device and image forming device: A fixing device includes a heating rotating body that is heated by a heater and rotates, a pressurizing rotating body that is in contact with a surface portion of the heating rotating body and rotates, and that forms a fixing portion, a pressing mechanism that presses the pressurizing rotating body... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090226226 - Image forming apparatus: In the image forming apparatus, an image forming section forms an image onto medium by using developer; and a fixing section has a fixing member which fixes the image onto medium at a predetermined temperature and has a pressing member which is in contact with and presses the fixing member... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090226228 - fuser and fixing members: An image fixing member includes a substrate; an optional intermediate layer over the substrate; and an outermost layer over the intermediate layer; wherein at least one of the intermediate layer and the outermost layer comprises a healing material encapsulated within nano- or micro-capsules, wherein the healing material is capable of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20090226229 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units for forming a developer image on a recording medium, and a fixing device for fixing the developer image to the recording medium. Each of the image forming units includes an image bearing body that bears the developer image, and... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090226230 - Post-processing apparatus: The present invention provides a post-processing apparatus that can handle recording sheets set to be stapled and recording sheets not set to be stapled in a single job and reliably prevent post-processed recording sheets from falling off a tray. The post-processing apparatus includes a post-processing section 5 that performs stapling... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090226231 - Post-processing apparatus: An image processing apparatus is provided which simultaneously processes a plurality of modes of image formation and reliably prevents post-processed recording sheets from falling off a tray. An image processing apparatus 1 is provided with a post-processing section 5 that performs stapling processing based on an input condition. The post-processing... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090220250 - Image forming apparatus and development cartridge: An image forming apparatus is provided. A development cartridge having a first memory storing therein cartridge information is detachably mountable to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus casing and an exposure unit having plural light emitting portions. The exposure unit is supported by the apparatus... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220251 - Image forming apparatus and method of determining update of identification information: An image forming apparatus includes a developing rotary unit configured to attach a plurality of developing cartridges, the developing cartridges respectively having cartridge storage portions for respectively storing identification information about the corresponding developing cartridges, a communicating unit that communicates with the cartridge storage portions, a storage unit configured to... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090220253 - Image forming apparatus: There is provided an image forming apparatus that is capable of reducing work burdens imposed on a user in terms of toner cartridge replacement. When a cartridge detection sensor detects that at least one of toner cartridges is emptied, a specified amount of toner is forcibly supplied from another toner... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090220252 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A control unit separately drives an image carrier driving unit that drives an image carrier motor, a developing roller driving unit that drives a developing roller motor, a developer stirring member driving unit that drives a developer stirring member motor, and a fan driving unit that drives a fan motor.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090220254 - Image forming apparatus and density correction method: When a two-component developer stored in a developer tank has been replaced, an image forming apparatus performs (a) a first formation step of forming a reference toner image on a photoreceptor, (b) a detection step of detecting an amount of toner of the reference toner image, and (c) a supply... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090220255 - Maintenance unit and maintenance method of image forming apparatus: A maintenance method of an image forming apparatus includes: obtaining information for a use state of each of a plurality of maintenance-oriented components; obtaining maintenance information for a state of needing maintenance, the state being preset for each of the plurality of maintenance-oriented components; determining whether or not the plurality... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090220256 - Electrostatic latent image measuring device: An electrostatic latent image measuring device includes a charged particle optical system which irradiates an electron beam and charges a photoconductor sample, an exposure optical system which forms an electrostatic latent image on a surface of the photoconductor sample, and a scanning unit which scans the surface of the photoconductor... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090220257 - Waste collection device and image forming apparatus: A waste collecting device includes a first box including a top surface having a first opening, a bottom surface opposed to the top surface, and side surfaces connecting the top surface and the bottom surface and having a second opening, wherein the top surface, the bottom surface, and the side... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220258 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. When a user inputs a print request, life count values stored in a life management section are read out. A table of correlation between the life count values and a rotating speed of a driving roller is looked up, a rotating speed of the... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090220259 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image forming program: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms multicolor toner images superposed on a transfer belt. A sensor is disposed in an image formation region and detects a pattern on the transfer belt. A controller determines, when image data is received, whether or not a region of... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20090220264 - Electrophotography apparatus: An electrophotography apparatus prevents the edge effect without causing the blurring or loss of a single-dot image or a single-dot-width line. Based on a measurement of a testing patch, two templates with different sizes are generated. Image data to be printed is subjected to template matching using the templates to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090220262 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units, a patch forming unit which actuates the respective image forming units to form density detection patches of the respective colors, a density detecting unit that detects a density of the density detecting patches, a condition correcting unit that controls... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220261 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus is provided that uses a table generated in advance to correct a gradation characteristic of an image to be formed when carrying out image forming using an image carrier. A patch is formed in an area where an image is not formed on the image carrier.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090220263 - Image-forming device: A patch mark-forming unit forms a first patch mark at a first density on a surface. A light emitting unit emits an incident light onto the surface moving. The incident light reflected by the surface is divided into a mirror-reflected light and a diffusion-reflected light on the surface. A first... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090220260 - Ir fluorescent toner compositions: A toner patch including a toner having a given excitation wavelength and a given emission wavelength may be deposited onto a control surface. Light may be provided onto the toner patch and at least a portion of emitted light may be detected from the toner patch at the given emission... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090220265 - Developing bias control device capable of properly controlling developing bias voltage: Upon receiving a request to control developing bias voltage, first and second square-wave signal output units output first and second square-wave signals, respectively. When a rising edge of the first square-wave signal coincides with a rising edge of the second square-wave signal, the rising edge of the second square-wave signal... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20090220266 - Developing unit, image forming apparatus incorporating same, and method of controlling amounts of toner: A developing unit, which is incorporated in an image forming apparatus, includes a developer case to accommodate a two-component developer including toner and carrier, a developer bearing member bearing the two-component developer to supply the developer to an image, a developer supply path formed inside the developer case to supply... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090220267 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus can include an image carrier, a transfer device, and an applying circuit, and a controller. The image carrier carries a developer image developed by developer. The transfer device transfers the developer image to a recording media. The applying circuit has an active device and applies a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220268 - Image input/output apparatus and operating device: An image input/output apparatus includes an image input/output section, an operation section, a cover member, and an electrostatic eliminating device. The image input/output section can perform at least one of an image input operation and an image output operation. The image input/output section includes a movable member capable of being... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220269 - Developer cartridge: A developer cartridge is provided, which includes a toner cartridge, a developer stirring device located in the toner cartridge, a supply roller for supplying a developer to a developer roller, a developer roller for developing an electrostatic latent image on a photoconductor, and a power receptor for driving only one... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090220270 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus having a normal mode and a standby mode includes an image forming unit to form an image, a switching unit which selectively allows power to be supplied to the image forming unit, a controller to control the switching unit based on a phase signal of the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090220271 - Image forming device: An image forming device is provided to be able to make efficient use of an internal space while improving the detection accuracy, with which a detected body is detected. The image forming device according to the invention comprises a housing, a duct, through which an air in the housing is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220272 - Image formation device: An image formation device, which includes: an exposure head in which a screw having an axis directed to a focus direction for a photoreceptor is fixed in the vicinity of each side of the exposure head; a housing to which the exposure head is attached; a nut attached to the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090220273 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a main body; a tandem type photosensitive unit, integrally retaining a plurality of photosensitive drums in a parallelly arranged state, mounted in the main body to be movable along the direction of the arrangement of the photosensitive drums; a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220274 - Tandem type photosensitive unit and image forming apparatus: A tandem type photosensitive unit detachably mounted in a main body of an image forming apparatus is provided. The tandem type photosensitive unit includes a plurality of parallelly arranged photosensitive drums; developer cartridges mounted on respective cartridge mounting positions having a constant positional relationship to photosensitive drums respectively; a pair... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220275 - Tandem type photosensitive unit and image forming apparatus: A tandem type photosensitive unit detachably mounted in a main body of an image forming apparatus is provided. The tandem type photosensitive unit includes: a plurality of parallelly arranged photosensitive drums; a first end-side shaft receiving member engaged with a first end portion of each photosensitive drum in the axial... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220276 - Optical writing device and image forming apparatus: A first beam separation device is arranged either to allow the light beams to enter and pass or to reflect the light beams in accordance with a direction of entrance of the light beams. A second beam separation device is provided either to allow or to reflect the light beams... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090220277 - Image forming apparatus: An image-carrier driving unit drives an image carrier. An image forming unit forms an image on the image carrier. A moving-member driving unit drives a moving member that is movable towards and away from the image carrier. A detecting unit detects a position of the moving member at predetermined sampling... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090220278 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of photosensitive bodies disposed along a moving direction of a recording medium; a drive mechanism for driving and rotating the plurality of photosensitive bodies; a plurality of exposure units, each exposure unit being associated with a respective one of the photosensitive bodies, the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220279 - Ion generating element, charging device and image forming apparatus: An ion generating element of the present invention includes a discharge electrode and an inductive electrode, both of which are provided so as to face each other with a dielectric body sandwiched therebetween, and a heater electrode which warms the ion generating element by Joule heat produced because of a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090220280 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same: An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductive medium electrified by an electrifying apparatus to a predetermined electric potential, a plurality of color developing apparatuses which are fixed around the photoconductive medium, each color developing apparatus having a developing roller to adhere a predetermined color toner to an electrostatic latent image... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090220281 - Image-forming device: An image forming device with a liquid developer containing a developing agent and a liquid carrier, the image-forming device includes a casing, an accumulation unit, a supply inlet, a cover, and a support part. The accumulation unit is provided in the casing for accumulating therein the liquid developer and the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220282 - Liquid developer cartridge and image-forming device: A liquid developer cartridge detachably mounted in an image forming device includes a first accumulating section and a second accumulating section. The first accumulating section accumulates therein first liquid developer to be supplied to the image forming device. The liquid developer contains developing agent and carrier liquid. The second accumulating... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090220283 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes: a developer carrying body that carries liquid developer containing toner and carrier liquid; a developer supplying member adapted to rotate in a first sense of rotation to supply liquid developer to the developer carrying body; a contact member arranged at a first side relative to a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090220284 - Image forming apparatus and developer container therefor: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of developing units respectively including developer inlets, the developing units are arranged side by side in a first direction, a plurality of developer containers to contain developers to be supplied to the plurality of developing units and respectively including developer outlets, the developer... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090220285 - Toner cartridge, developing device and image forming apparatus allowing accurate control of toner replenish amount: A toner cartridge includes: a toner holding container having an outlet formed thereon; a partition wall separating the inside of toner holding container to a toner discharging portion in which the outlet is formed and a toner stirring portion other than the toner discharging portion; a toner discharging member axially... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090220286 - Cleaning device and image forming apparatus: A cleaning device includes a blade disposed so as to contact an image bearing body that bears a developer image. The blade scrapes off a developer adhering to the image bearing body. The blade has an edge portion including first and second surfaces, and is configured so that a distance... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090220287 - Image forming apparatus and recording media conveying method for image forming apparatus: An inlet guide having, on a recording media contact surface thereof, plural ribs inclining to a further inner side farther toward a recording media conveying direction is arranged upstream in a recording media conveying direction of a nip formed by a fixing roller and a pressing roller for heating and... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090220288 - Image heating apparatus and heater for use in image heating apparatus: The heater includes an elongated substrate, two electrodes disposed along a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and a heat generation resistive member connected between the two electrodes. The heat generation resistive member is formed on the substrate by one of a sputtering method and a vapor deposition method. The uniform... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090220289 - High speed duplex printer: Apparatus and a method is disclosed for duplex printing of a document or a book block in which two printers operating in a simplex printing mode are used on both faces of a plurality of sheets forming a document or book block. The first printer prints an image on a... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20090220290 - Document feeding device: document feeding device comprises a document input tray, a document output tray, a feeding mechanism provided for a feeding path connecting the document input tray and the document output tray via a scanning position to feed each document from the document input tray to the scanning position and to the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689