Electrophotography inventions 10/09

20090245817 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has: an image forming unit which is configured to scan a laser beam in a main scanning direction to expose a photosensitive member, and which forms an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member to form an image; a process cartridge that is detachably mounted within... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245819 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion for forming an image using developer; a transfer unit for transferring the image to a medium transported thereto; a first detection unit disposed at a specific position for detecting the image thus transferred; and a second detection unit disposed to face... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, Llc

20090245818 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming method and computer readable medium storing program: An image forming apparatus includes: a paper feeding device that supplies paper; a reception unit that receives a print instruction including output control information in which a paper type is designated by page; a setting unit that sets a priority in paper change by paper type based on the output... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090245820 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming unit includes an image supporter configured to be rotatable, and an amount detecting unit configured to rotate with a predetermined period to detect an amount of remaining developer. A rotation period of the amount detecting unit is an integral multiple of a rotation period of the image... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20090245821 - Image forming apparatus and image control method: An image forming apparatus 100 includes detection means 116 which detects an image characteristic of an image formed on an image bearing member 103; a first control means which controls a toner concentration in the developer, based on a detection result by the detection means, of an image characteristic of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090245822 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer program product: A patch-pattern forming unit causes an image forming unit to form a patch pattern including a plurality of patches on a conveying member. A detecting unit detects the patch pattern formed on the conveying member. An adjusting unit adjusts an image forming condition of the image forming unit based on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245823 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes a housing that forms a development chamber therein and a developer containing portion that forms a developer containing chamber therein and contains a one-component developer. A first transport path supplies a developer from the developer containing chamber to an upper side of the development chamber. A... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090245825 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: a detected member of which a temperature is to be detected; a temperature sensor including a contact portion provided to contact the detected member, the temperature sensor being configured to detect the temperature of the detected member; and a condition determining unit. The condition determining... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245826 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided, which includes: an image forming unit; a fixing unit having a heating part; a rotary drive unit; a driving force transmission unit including a displacement part displaceable to a transmitting position where rotation of the rotary drive unit is transmitted to the fixing unit... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245824 - Image forming device and image forming method: An image forming device that includes a first moisture amount derivation component, a drying component, a storage component, and a control component is provided. The storage component stores drying information, including information representing a pre-drying moisture amount previously derived by the first moisture amount derivation component, and a drying strength... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090245827 - Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus: In a second mode to form an image based on a pre-designated type of recording medium, a detection is performed to a recording medium which is fed, and in a first mode to form an image based on the detected type, image forming conditions are set based on a result... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090245828 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image formation control unit for forming print images on an image carrier and for forming a reference toner pattern having a predetermined size between the print images formed on the image carrier; a reference image density detecting unit for detecting a image density of... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090245829 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprises an image carrier configured to hold a developing agent image; a transfer unit that transfers the developing agent image to a recording medium; a first application unit that controls a transfer voltage applied to the transfer unit; a recovery unit that recovers the developing agent... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245830 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. A second photoconductor is disposed at a downstream side of a first photoconductor in a moving direction of a medium. First and second exposure units form first and second electrostatic latent images on the first and second photoconductors line by line at first and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245831 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including: an image carrier; an exposure section that deflects an optical beam using a rotating polygon mirror to expose a surface of the image carrier; a developing section that supplies a toner in order to visualize an electrostatic latent image formed by the exposure section on... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090245832 - Development cartridge, development unit, and image forming apparatus: A development cartridge includes: a developer carrier which carries toner; a toner supply member which supplies the toner to the developer carrier; a regulation member which regulates an amount of toner on the developer carrier; a development chamber which has the developer carrier and the toner supply member; a transport... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090245833 - Development device, image forming apparatus and image forming method: A development device includes a developer carrier 20Y that carries liquid developer containing toner liquid and carrier liquid, a developer supply member 32Y that supplies liquid developer to the developer carrier 20Y, a developer carrier cleaning member 21Y that collects liquid developer from the developer carrier 20Y, a collection reservoir... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090245834 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus includes a transfer device, an applying circuit, a computation circuit, and a controller. The applying circuit applies transfer bias voltage to the transfer device. The computation circuit derives relational expressions (a linear expression and a quadratic expression) according to control signal value calculating zones (a linear-expression... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245836 - Belt fixing device and image forming apparatus: A belt fixing device includes a fixing roller, a heating roller, a fixing belt stretched between the fixing roller and the heating roller, a pressing roller pressing the fixing roller through the fixing belt, and a temperature detection unit detecting the surface temperature of the fixing belt. In at least... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090245835 - Printer including a fuser assembly with backup member temperature sensor: A printer is provided comprising substrate transport apparatus for moving substrates along a substrate path through the printer; a fuser assembly comprising a heat transfer member including a belt and a heater to heat the belt, a backup member adapted to engage the belt so as to define a fusing... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090245840 - Digital fuser concept using micro hotplate technology: In accordance with the invention, there are printing apparatuses and methods of marking and forming an image. The printing apparatus can include one or more digital heating elements disposed in a fuser subsystem, the digital heating element can include an array of hotplates, wherein each hotplate of the array of... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20090245844 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A fixing apparatus of the present invention includes a heating roller 2 that is a cylindrical member having a center axis, a pressurizing roller 3 that exerts pressure on the heating roller 2, and a temperature detecting element 6 that detects the temperature of the heating roller 2. The outer... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090245841 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device including a heating belt stretched over heating and fixing rollers is rotated to fix a toner image of a transfer material. A first mode combines heating and rotation stop of the heating belt. A second mode combines heating and rotation of the heating belt. When returning the... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090245842 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: Provided is a fixing device including: at least a heating roller, a fixing roller, a heating belt which is stretched over the heating roller and the fixing roller, is heated by the heating roller, and is rotated by a driving unit so as to fix a toner image of a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090245839 - Fuser assembly fan control: A printer is provided including a reference edge, a fuser assembly, a cooling apparatus and a controller. The reference edge is adapted to be contacted by a substrate as the substrate moves along a substrate path through the printer. The fuser assembly includes a heat transfer member including a belt... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090245837 - Fuser assembly heater temperature control: A printer is provided comprising substrate transport apparatus for moving substrates through the printer along a substrate path; a pick mechanism for removing substrates from a storage tray and feeding the substrates to the substrate transport apparatus; a fuser assembly comprising a heat transfer member including a belt and a... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090245838 - Fuser heater temperature control: A fuser assembly is provided comprising: a heat transfer member including a belt and a heater to heat the belt; a backup member adapted to engage the belt so as to define a fusing nip with the belt; a temperature sensor associated with the backup member for sensing the temperature... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090245845 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus including: a heating rotary member, which heats an image on a recording material in a nip portion; an air blowing unit, which blows air toward an air blowing port to cool a predetermined area of the heating rotary member; and a shutter, which opens and closes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090245843 - Method of controlling belt fixing device, belt fixing device, and image forming apparatus: A method of controlling a belt fixing device, in which a fixing belt is stretched between a fixing roller and a heating roller, includes detecting a temperature of the fixing belt at the time of stoppage. On the basis of the detection result, a driving unit is rotated forward or... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090245846 - Heater controller and image forming apparatus: A heater controller is provided. The heater controller includes a switching unit which switches a conduction state of a heater with an AC power source between ON and OFF at a timing at which an AC power voltage becomes zero; and a control unit which controls the switching unit at... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245847 - Fixer driving device and fixer driving method: A voltage detecting circuit 21 detects the voltage applied to a load lamp 16, and a current detecting circuit 22 detects the current flowing in a rectifier 14. A controlling section 31 computes the power consumption of the load lamp 16 from the detected voltage and detected current in a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245849 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus with a plate having holes is described. An image forming apparatus includes image carriers, side walls, and a plate disposed below the image carriers. The plate includes a plurality of holes along the sides of the plate near the side walls. The image carriers, the side... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245848 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus includes a heating rotor which heats a toner image while nipping and conveying a recording material on which the toner image is borne, a fan which cools the heating rotor, a blowing port which is arranged facing the heating rotor and through which blowing air passes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090245850 - Image exposure apparatus, cleaning device of image exposure apparatus, and image forming apparatus: An image exposure apparatus is provided and includes: an optical unit that emits light to form an exposure image on a photosensitive material; a casing that houses the optical unit and that has an image exposure window through which the light is allowed to pass for forming the exposure image;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090245851 - Developing device frame unit, developing device, process cartridge, and manufacturing method of the developing device frame unit: A developing device frame unit supporting a regulating member regulating the layer thickness of developer on a developer carrier. The unit includes a frame having a seal forming portion, first and second end seals contactable to the carrier surface to prevent carrier-axial-direction leaking of the developer, and a blade sealer... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090245852 - Toner supply device, developing unit and toner supply device remanufacturing method: A toner supply device includes a toner storage tank for storing toner; a toner supply roller for discharging toner; a covering member for covering the top surface of the toner storage tank filled with toner; and a sealing element provided between the toner storage tank and the covering member.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090245854 - Developer cartridge, developing unit and image forming apparatus: A developer cartridge includes a first frame and a second frame that confronts the first frame. The second frame includes an opening, through which developer is passed, and which is openable and closable by the first frame in accordance with a relative movement between the second frame and the first... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245855 - Developer cartridge, developing unit and image forming apparatus: A developer cartridge includes a first frame and a second frame, which confronts the first frame. The second frame includes an opening, through which developer is passed, and which is openable and closable by the first frame in accordance with a relative movement between the second frame and the first... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245853 - Universal cartridge seal: A toner hopper seal assembly is disclosed. The toner hopper seal assembly has a gasket which has a gasket opening, a pull strip having a first and second end, the pull strip attached to a first side of the gasket and covering the gasket opening. The first end of the... Agent: William L. London

20090245857 - Cartridge assembling method and cartridge reassembling method: In a state where a gear is resting on a side cover, the gear and a shaft of a developing roller are made to engage with each other.... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090245856 - Device and method for remanufacturing printer cartridges: A printer cartridge fastener comprising a curved portion adapted to grasp a printer cartridge overhang; a main body connected to the curved portion, the main body comprising a first side connected to the curved section; and a second side positioned opposite the first side; and an elongate portion connected to... Agent: Roland Tong

20090245858 - Electrostatic charge developer, electrostatic charge image developer cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus: An electrostatic charge developer includes a carrier having a core material and a resin coating layer covering the surface of the core material, and a toner having a binder resin that contains a non-crystalline polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin. The resin coating layer contains a copolymer that contains... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090245859 - Image forming apparatus and photosensitive unit: An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus may include: a main body provided with an accommodation chamber partitioned by an inner side surface; a photosensitive unit configured to slid between an accommodated position and a drawn position; a first electrode disposed on a first outer side surface... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245860 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus with a detachable belt unit and supporting frame are described. The detachable belt unit is reliably positioned in the supporting frame. One or more mark sensors are positioned on the supporting frame and are configured to detect alignment marks deposited on an endless belt of the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245861 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a body having an opening perforated in one side thereof, a developing unit detachably mounted to the body through the opening, a body cover configured to cover a rear portion of the developing unit in a mounting direction of... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090245862 - Process cartridge, developer supply cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus: A developer supply cartridge supplies a developer into a process cartridge, and is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The process cartridge includes a drum, a developing roller, a receiving-side shutter portion opening and closing a developer receiving opening, a receiving-side movable portion to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090245863 - Developing device and image forming apparatus equipped with the developing device: A developing device includes: a replaceable toner cartridge; a development chamber; a first transport path which connects the toner cartridge to the development chamber; a first transport unit which transports toner from the toner cartridge to the development chamber through the first transport path; a second transport path which connects... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090245864 - Pressing mechanism, transfer device, and image forming apparatus: A pressing mechanism that presses a contact unit, which is brought into contact with a contact target unit against the contact target unit, includes a holding unit that holds the contact unit. The holding unit includes two first portions that are arranged at both ends of the holding unit in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245865 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes a rotatable fixing member, a pressing member, a drive input rotating body, a first frame, a support shaft, and at least one positioning member. The pressing member contacts the fixing member to form a fixing nip therebetween. The drive input rotating body receives an external driving... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090245866 - Image forming apparatus having a cleaning member that cleans a transmitting member provided in an optical device: An image forming apparatus including a cartridge that has a photosensitive drum and can be attached to and detached from a main body of the image forming apparatus, an optical device that has a cover glass through which light emitted toward the photosensitive drum passes, a cleaning member that can... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090245868 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor and image formation device provided with the same: An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising at least a photosensitive layer formed by laminating a charge generation layer containing a charge generation material and a charge transport layer containing a charge transport material in this order, on a conductive support, wherein the charge generation layer contains an oxotitanylphthalocyanine as the charge generation... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090245867 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor, electrophotographic photoreceptor cartridge, and image forming apparatus: An electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a photosensitive layer containing oxytitanium phthalocyanine showing chief diffraction peaks at Bragg angles (2θ±0.2°) of 9.6°, 24.1° and 27.2° to CuKα characteristic X-ray (wavelength: 1.541 Å) obtained by subjecting a phthalocyanine crystal precursor to chemical treatment and then bringing it into contact with an organic solvent,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245870 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a drive transmission system for driving a rotatable image carrier, a rotating status detecting section for detecting data relating to a rotating status of the image carrier, a rotating speed controller for controlling a rotating speed of the image carrier, and a rotation precision analyzer... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090245869 - Image forming apparatus, method of allowing driven member to be mounted on apparatus body in image forming apparatus and method of allowing drive force to be transmitted to belt unit in image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus body including a drive source; a driven member detachably attachable to the apparatus body; a first transmission member in the apparatus body, including a base rotatable around a rotation axis, and transmitting drive force from the drive source to the driven member; and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090245871 - Rotary member driving apparatus: A rotary member apparatus includes a main drive unit configured to apply a driving torque to a photosensitive drum through a drive transfer unit, a torque limiter configured to limit the driving torque transmitted from the main drive unit to the photosensitive drum, a compensation drive unit configured to apply... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090245872 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus having a developing rotary, when a positive direction refers to a circumferential direction of the developing rotary in which the portion of the developing rotary facing a photosensitive drum moves in the same direction as the movement of the circumference of the photosensitive drum, a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090245873 - Liquid developer: A liquid developer which has excellent preservability, storage stability for a long period of time, and fixing characteristic of toner particles and which is also harmless to the environment is provided. The liquid developer contains an insulation liquid and toner particles dispersed in the insulation liquid. The insulation liquid contains... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090245874 - Image forming device and process cartridge: An image forming device contains: a latent image holding member; a latent image forming unit; a developer storage unit that stores a liquid developer including a toner and an aqueous medium; a developer supply member that supplies the liquid developer to a latent image holding member; and a transfer unit... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.c.

20090245875 - Image forming apparatus and liquid developer holding member: An image forming apparatus includes a liquid developer holding member and a bias voltage applying unit. The liquid developer holding member includes a conductive core member and a dielectric layer provided on an outer circumference of the core member, and the dielectric layer includes a dielectric material and has at... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245876 - Electrophotographic toner and image forming apparatus: According to an embodiment of the invention, an electrophotographic toner contains 100 parts by weight of a toner resin, from 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of a cyclodextrin compound, first silica having an average particle diameter of from 20 to 40 nm, and second silica having an average particle... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090245877 - Developing unit and image forming apparatus having the same: Disclosed are a developing unit, in which a developing agent storing part is closed by an agitating member, and an image forming apparatus having the same. The developing unit includes a developing agent storing part to store a developing agent, a developing part connected to the developing agent storing part,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090245878 - Development cartridge, development unit, and image forming apparatus: A development cartridge includes a developer carrier which carries toner, a toner supply member supplying the toner to the developer carrier and a regulation member regulating an amount of toner on the developer carrier. A development chamber encloses the developer carrier and the toner supply member. A transport section is... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090245879 - Developing device, image forming apparatus and method for filling developer: In a trickle developing device that uses a two-component developer, a simple configuration is adopted to prevent carrier from being discharged without being used. The developing device having stirring members for conveying and stirring developer and a developer holder, comprises a developer replenishing tank for replenishing developer to a developer... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090245880 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes: a developer carrier that carries toner thereon; a toner supply member that supplies toner to the developer carrier; a development chamber having the developer carrier and the toner supply member; a replaceable toner cartridge that supplies toner to the development chamber and collects toner from the... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090245881 - Device and method for dosing toner material in an electrophotographic printer or copier: In a method or device for dosing toner material in an electrophotographic printer or copier, toner material is introduced into at least one bucket chamber rotatably arranged in an opening at a bottom of a toner reservoir. The bucket chamber has a paddle wheel which seals the opening of the... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090245882 - Developing unit, process cartridge including same, and image forming apparatus incorporating same: A developing unit includable in a process cartridge and in an image forming apparatus includes a developer bearing member including a magnetic field generator and a nonmagnetic hollow member, a developer container, an agitation/conveyance member, a developer regulating member to regulate the thickness of a layer of the two-component developer.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245883 - Developer material holding apparatus, process cartridge to which the developer material holding apparatus is attached,and image forming apparatus to which the process cartridge is a attached: A developer material holding apparatus holds a developer. A body holds a developer material and includes a first opening through which the developer material is discharged. A shutter is assembled to the body, and is movable either to an opening position where the developer material is discharged from the body... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20090245884 - Developing cartridge, developing device, and image forming apparatus: A developing cartridge includes: a developer carrier which carries toner; a toner supply member which supplies the toner to the developer carrier; a regulation member which regulates an amount of toner on the developer carrier; a developing chamber which has the developer carrier and the toner supply member; a transport... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090245885 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes a developing agent carrying body that carries toner, a toner supply member that supplies toner to the developing agent carrying body, a regulating member that regulates an amount of toner present on the developing agent carrying body, a developing chamber having the developing agent carrying body,... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090245886 - Developing device and image forming apparatus with the same: A first bias Vslv is applied to a development roller 22 and a second bias Vmag is applied to a magnetic roller 23 to perform development; after completion of development, without changing the setting of Vslv, of the AC component Vpp2 of Vmag, the peak voltage value Vpp2 (max) at... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090245888 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A sleeve constituting a developing roller of a developing device has a cylindrical body with three layers composed of a base layer having rigidity and formed in a mesh-like shape, a filter layer for blocking toner passage, and a conductive layer to which a developing bias voltage is applied, which... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090245887 - Developing device, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge comprising the same: To downsize a developing device in the developing carrier axial direction without generating image concentration irregularities from recirculation of developer in the magnetic roller end regions, an N2 pole and an N3 pole, which are mutually adjacent having the same polarity (N polarity), and which are for generating a magnetic... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245889 - Developing unit, image forming apparatus incorporating same, and process cartridge including same: A developing unit includable in a process cartridge and in an image forming apparatus includes a developer bearing member including a magnetic field generator and a nonmagnetic hollow member, a developer container, an agitation/conveyance member, and a developer regulating member. The magnetic field generator has first and second magnetic poles... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245890 - Image forming apparatus and developer thereof: An image forming apparatus and a developer thereof includes a developer frame to store a developing agent, a developing device rotatably mounted to the developer frame, a support member mounted to the developer frame, and a regulating member having a first end fixed to the support member, and a second... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090245892 - Developing roller: In the present invention, provided can be a developing roller through which neither fog nor contamination inside the apparatus is generated, and no insufficient image density is produced, even though printing a large number of paper sheets (5000 paper sheets, for example). Also disclosed is a developing roller possessing a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090245891 - Rolling apparatus, development roller and method for manufacturing the same, development device, and image forming apparatus: An apparatus includes: a rolling die having protruding threads and a feeding unit moving the workpiece by L1 per rotation. The rolling die includes: a straight portion maintaining a distance between a top of each protruded thread and an axial line of the rolling die nearly constant; and two tapered... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090245893 - Annular body, annular body stretching device and image forming apparatus: The invention provides an annular body provided at an image forming apparatus, the annular body has at least an outermost periphery layer and an innermost periphery layer, each of which comprise carbon black, and a content of carbon black contained per unit of volume of the outermost periphery layer being... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090245894 - Image forming apparatus belt, belt stretching device, and image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus belt includes a belt main body; a guiding member that is fixed to the belt main body along at least a side edge on one side of the belt main body; and a detected portion for position detection that is provided in a slit of the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090245895 - Circular body, circular body unit, and image forming apparatus: wherein C1 represents the content (parts by weight) of the polyaniline with respect to 100 parts by weight of the resin forming the outer layer, and C2 represents the content (parts by weight) of the carbon black with respect to 100 parts by weight of the resin forming the inner... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090245897 - Fixer, image forming apparatus including same, and fixing method: A fixer includes a fixing member provided with a rotary heat generator, a pressure member to form a nip with the fixing member to sandwich the sheet, an excitation coil disposed facing a heat generation layer of the rotary heat generator to generate magnetic flux that inductively heats the heat... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090245898 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit fixing a toner image onto a sheet. The fixing unit includes a heating member having a sheet conveyed region that is set in accordance with the size of the sheet. The fixing unit further includes a coil generating magnetic field, a fixed... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090245896 - Image forming apparatus and method: An image forming apparatus includes a first fixing device that applies heat to a non fixed toner image and a second fixing device arranged downstream of the first fixing device, which applies pressure and fixes the non-fixed toner image onto a recording member.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090245899 - Belt fixing device and image forming apparatus: A belt fixing device includes a fixing roller, a heating roller, a fixing belt stretched between the fixing roller and the heating roller, and a pressing roller pressing the fixing roller through the fixing belt. In at least one end portion of the heating roller in an axial direction, a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.l.p.

20090245900 - Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same: A planar heat-generating body 42 of a fixing apparatus of the present invention includes (i) a resistive heat-generating body 43a containing small heat-generating bodies electrically connected in parallel and aligned in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which a fixing belt 32 moves and (ii) a PTC element and... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090245901 - Thermal fixing unit having pivotally movable pressure pad and image forming device provided with the same: There is provided a thermal fixing unit that fixes a toner image on a printing medium, the fixing unit including a heat member, a pressure pad, a movable supporting assembly, and an urging member. The heat member is in contact with the printing medium, being positionally fixed and defining an... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245902 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided with an image forming station and a fixing unit including a heating member. The fixing unit includes a coil for generating a magnetic field for induction heating the heating member; a first core arranged to face the heating member with the coil located therebetween;... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090245903 - Gloss imparting method, image forming method, fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A gloss-imparting method that includes (a) applying heat and pressure to one side of a recording material having an image of toner formed on both sides, and fixing the image to the one side of the recording material; (b) cooling the one side of the recording material; (c) applying heat... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090245904 - Imaging forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus including: a rotatable image-carrier; a charging unit that contacts and charges a surface of the image-carrier; an exposing unit that exposes the surface and forms a latent-image; a developing unit that develops the latent-image with a developer; a transfer unit that transfers a developed-toner-image onto a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090245905 - Automatic document feeder and image reading device: There is provided an automatic document feeder, comprising: a document tray; an output tray; a movable ejection flap configured to be movable between a first position where the document for which the image reading is finished is sunk into a position between the output tray and a bottom of a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090245906 - Image forming device and image forming apparatus having the same: An image forming device includes a housing, a paper loading portion provided at an upper surface of the housing to load paper to be discharged and having a paper discharge hole, a fixing unit disposed in an upper region of the housing and used to fix a developer to the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090245907 - Image processing devices and sheet feeding devices: An image forming apparatus including an image forming portion that forms an image on a surface of a sheet, a feeding device that feeds the sheet in a sheet feeding direction, a sheet receiving portion, and an engagement portion selectively moves between a first position and a second position. When... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090245908 - Sheet humidification apparatus and image forming system: A sheet humidification apparatus performs a humidification process on a sheet conveyed from an image forming apparatus in which the sheet is fed from a sheet feeding tray one by one, a toner image is formed on the sheet and the formed toner image is fixed by heat on the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc