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Electrophotography December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/09

20090324258 - Electronic device: A flat surface is arranged, adjacent to an operating surface of an image forming apparatus, at a lower position than the operating surface. A small-object placing member for placing clips is arranged on the flat surface. The small-object placing member includes a slanting surface that recedes towards an inner side... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090324259 - Condition determining system, method of detecting abnormality of condition determining system, and image forming apparatus: A system abnormality determining method comprises the steps of transmitting fake abnormal information representing an abnormal condition of the target instrument from the target instrument to a condition determination device via a network during a test operation of the target instrument instead of condition information, determining if the condition determination... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090324260 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including an image forming engine for performing image forming operation, at least one RFID tag storing attribute information, a fit-in member detachably mounted in the apparatus body, the fit-in member being fitted with the RFID tag, an RFID tag interface through which... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090324261 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided with an image forming portion for forming an image according to image information; an image forming unit arranged to be detachable and integrally including the image forming portion; a developer container arranged to be detachable for supplying developer to the image forming portion; and... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20090324262 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes an image carrier, a driving source, a rotation detection unit, and a control unit that performs fluctuation pattern recognition processing, control pattern construction processing, speed fine-adjustment processing, and remaining pattern recognition processing. The control unit is configured to perform control pattern correction... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090324263 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: An image forming apparatus includes a dual purpose tray that accommodates a document and a transfer sheet, a document transport mechanism to transport the document from the dual purpose tray to an image reading position, an image reading mechanism disposed beneath the document transport mechanism, an image forming mechanism disposed... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090324264 - Method for controlling a print job: A device and a method for improving the quality of prints using a printing device and system for carrying out a print job with a digital printing machine, preferably with a printing machine that works with a toner, in particular with an electrophotographically operating printing machine, whereby the sheets (1)... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20090324265 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a control mechanism capable of selecting a plurality of print modes and a fixing device fixing an image developed based on one of the print modes selected by the control mechanism. The control mechanism selects any one of the print modes based on a successive... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090324266 - Fixing device and image forming device: A fixing device comprise an endless fixing belt; a first heater that heats a first predetermined section of the fixing belt, a second heater that heats a second predetermined section of the fixing belt, a switch that determines whether or not the second predetermined section of the fixing belt is... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20090324267 - Image forming apparatus and image-density control method: An image forming apparatus forms a plurality of tone patterns of different colors, each of which containing a plurality of toner patches having different toner densities. Some of the toner patches in each of the tone patterns are formed with a predetermined fixed developing bias and the rest of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090324268 - Image forming apparatus: A bias corrector conducts a first bias correction calculation by performing first through third calculations. The first calculation compares a stored target charging current value to a first charging current value detected when a first charging bias was applied by a bias applying device. The second calculation is performed repeatedly... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090324269 - Liquid developers with uv curable additives and methods for their preparation: A method for printing a substrate by liquid developer electrography, the method comprising: (a) developing a latent image with liquid developer comprising toner particles dispersed in a carrier liquid, said toner particles comprising UV-curable additive; (b) transferring the developed image to the substrate; (c) at least partially fixing the image... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20090324270 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, an exposure mechanism, a latent-image forming mechanism, at least one image forming mechanism including a development mechanism to develop the latent image, an intermediate transfer member disposed to contact the image carrier, a primary transfer mechanism to transfer a toner image on... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090324271 - Image forming apparatus and control method therof: An image forming apparatus according to the invention includes an auxiliary power supply configured to detachably mountable on the image forming apparatus, a fixing device including a main heater heated by a commercial power supply and an auxiliary heater heated by the auxiliary power supply, a detector that detects mounting... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090324272 - Fuser assemblies, xerographic apparatuses and methods of fusing toner on media: Fuser assemblies for fusing toner on media, xerographic apparatuses, and methods of fusing toner on media in xerographic apparatuses are disclosed. An embodiment of the fuser assemblies includes a fuser belt; a first roll supporting the fuser belt, the first roll including a first heating element and a second heating... Agent: Prass LLP

20090324273 - Fuser assemblies, xerographic apparatuses and methods of fusing toner on media: Fuser assemblies, xerographic apparatuses, and methods of fusing toner on media in xerographic apparatuses are disclosed. An embodiment of the fuser assemblies includes a fuser belt having an inner surface and an outer surface opposite the inner surface, at least a first roll and a second roll supporting the fuser... Agent: Prass LLP

20090324274 - Method and system for selecting total job time print: A system and a method in which the engine dynamically decides which process speed to warm up to based on the number & size of pages currently submitted to the engine, and thus deliver the best job time dynamically.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090324275 - Tandem-type process unit removably loaded in image forming device: A tandem type of process unit removably loaded in an image forming device has a plurality of process cartridges, a pair of lower supporting plates, and a pair of upper supporting plates. Each of the plurality of process cartridges has a photosensitive drum rotatably about an axis extending in a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090324276 - Fan drive apparatus and image forming apparatus having fan drive apparatus: A fan drive apparatus includes a first fan, a second fan configured to form an air flow space, which has an intake side and an exhaust side, in cooperation with the first fan, a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit configured to output drive voltages to drive the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090324277 - Belt unit, transfer unit and image forming apparatus: A belt unit includes an endless belt that transports a recording medium thereon. The endless belt has a Young's modulus in the range of 3.5≦Y≦7.0. The endless belt is disposed about a plurality of rollers, and runs about the rollers. The endless belt has a thickness such that 0.0025≦Y×T3≦0.007 where... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090324278 - Image forming apparatus: A compact image forming apparatus is provided in which stains on the back of a transfer material can be prevented. In particular, in a marginless print mode in which a toner image can be formed to the edge of a transfer material, a large amount of toner adheres to a... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090324279 - Image-forming apparatus: An image-forming apparatus includes an endless belt, a photosensitive member, a driving member, and a recovering member, and a cleaning member. The endless belt is circularly movable and has a surface extending in a first direction. The photosensitive member is opposed to the surface to provide the surface with a... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090324281 - Electrophotographic photoreceptor, image forming apparatus using the electrophotographic photoreceptor, and method of producing electrophotographic photoreceptor:

20090324282 - Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrophotographic photosensitive member having high durability and hardly causing sensitivity decrease even if short wavelength light, particularly light having a wavelength of 380 to 450 nm is used as exposure light, and a process cartridge and an electrophotographic apparatus having... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090324280 - Tandem type photosensitive unit and image forming apparatus: A tandem type photosensitive unit includes a plurality of drum retaining units arrayed in line in an arraying direction, and a pair of side plates arranged on both sides of the drum retaining units in an axial direction perpendicular to the arraying direction and collectively opposed to the drum retaining... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090324283 - Image-forming device: A plurality of developing units is disposed beneath photosensitive drums for supplying toner to the photosensitive drums. A mounting member detachably mounts the developing units and is configured to be pulled out from the main casing. A supporting member has an upstream end portion in a pulling direction that the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090324284 - Development device and image forming apparatus: A development device includes a plurality of development units and a waste substance container or containers storing the waste substance removed by the cleaning member. Each of the plural development units includes an image carrier carrying a developer image formed by developer and a cleaning member cleaning the image carrier... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090324285 - Intermediate coupling unit and image forming apparatus adaptable thereto: Provided are intermediate coupling unit that can maintain universal applicability of image forming apparatus so it can singly form images/be installed in small offices, but can also couple two apparatuses if necessary, and image forming apparatus adaptable to this unit. Intermediate coupling unit includes carry-in port at lower surface right... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20090324286 - Discharger and process cartridge: A discharger is provided, which can eliminate charge from a surface of a photoconductor. The discharger includes: a light source; a light guide member; a cover which covers the light guide member to expose at least an opposed surface of the light guide member to the photoconductor; and an adhesive... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090324287 - Discharger and process cartridge: A discharger is provided, which can eliminate charge from a surface of a photoconductor. The discharger includes: a light source; and a light guide member which extends in a first direction to be opposed to the surface of the photoconductor in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction.... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090324288 - Photoreceptor and image forming apparatus including the same: According to an embodiment of the invention, a photoreceptor comprises a conductive substrate; a first semiconductor layer over the conductive substrate; a second semiconductor layer over the first semiconductor layer; and a third semiconductor layer over the second semiconductor layer. Each of the first and the third semiconductor layers comprises... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090324289 - Micro-tip array as a xerographic charging device: According to various embodiments, there is a charging device including a first conductive layer disposed over a first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer disposed over a first conductive layer, the second dielectric layer including a plurality of cavities, wherein each of the plurality of cavities exposes a portion of... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20090324290 - Charging apparatus, print engine that incorporates the charging apparatus, and image forming apparatus that incorporates the print engine: A charging apparatus includes a charging member and at least one projection formed on the charging member. The charging member includes a surface that faces the surface of a photoconductive body. The at least one projection is formed on the first surface to extend in a direction parallel to the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090324291 - Charging device, development device, and image forming apparatus: A charging device includes a charging member and a charging power source portion. The charging member, in a sheet shape, is secured by contacting a region of an electrostatic latent image to be formed on a rotatable image carrier. The charging power source portion applies charging voltage to the charging... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090324292 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: In an optical scanning device having a lens within a housing, the attachment of the lens to the housing is facilitated. The occurrence of lens distortion and warpage is prevented when the lens is formed by an injection molding apparatus. The lens is a long lens elongated in the main... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090324293 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes photosensitive drums including one for black, light source devices, a rotary polygonal mirror having deflecting surfaces with chamfers, input optical systems, imaging optical systems and a synchronism detecting system for detecting a synchronizing light beam for determining the timing for scanning each of the photosensitive... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090324295 - Method and device for the refilling of toner powder: A method for filling a toner cartridge, intended for duplication apparatus, with toner powder includes the steps of; placing the toner cartridge in relation to a device for refilling, inserting a hollow supply element through the passage in the cartridge and into the interior of the toner cartridge, which supply... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090324294 - Powder transporting device and image forming apparatus: A powder transporting device includes: a dropping path through which developer drops; a loosening member that is arranged in the dropping path, and loosens the developer applied on an inner wall of the dropping path; a supporting portion that is provided on the inner wall of the developing path, and... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090324296 - Electrophotographic toner and method of preparing the same: p

20090324298 - Image forming apparatus, powder supplying unit, toner container, powder container, and method of recycling the powder container: A part of a toner supply path is formed in a setting unit (100), and a nozzle (110) coupled to a toner container (20) is provided, wherein the fitting direction of the toner container (20) to the setting unit (100) and the coupling direction of the nozzle (110) to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090324297 - Toner cartridge, and process unit and image forming apparatus using the same: A toner cartridge, and a process unit and image forming apparatus using the same. Toner contained in an outer chamber is scooped with a toner scooping member by rotation of a toner container and slides down toward a communication port along an upper surface of a partition, and falls down... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090324299 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an photoreceptor drum with a dual-component developer, includes: a developing hopper for storing the developer; an agitation roller for conveying the developer while agitating; a developing roller which supplies the developer to a developing area located opposing the photoreceptor... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090324300 - Electrophotographic carrier and use thereof: The present invention provides an electrophotographic carrier which includes a core particle, a first resin layer containing a charge-generating material for coating the core particle, and a second resin layer containing a hole-transporting material for coating the first resin layer. The invention also provides a two-component developer comprising said carrier,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090324301 - Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus: A developing apparatus performs image visualization processing by electrostatically adhering toner carried on a developer carrying member onto an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrying member. In the developing apparatus, the toner to be supplied to the developer carrying member is directly injected onto the developer carrying members... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090324302 - Developing unit and image forming apparatus: An aspect of the invention provides a developing unit that comprises: a developer; an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a first developer carrier configured to develop the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier by causing the developer to attract to the electrostatic latent... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20090324303 - Hybrid single pass, multi-pass full color printing system: A hybrid single pass, multi-pass full color printing system is provided and includes (a) a moveable intermediate transfer belt (ITB) mounted within a machine frame and having a path of movement; (b) a plurality of single pass image output modules mounted along the path of movement, each having imaging devices... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090324305 - Image forming apparatus, control apparatus, computer readable medium and control method: The image forming apparatus is provided with: a toner image carrying member that moves while carrying a toner image; a transferring member that transfers, on a recording medium, the toner image that the toner image carrying member carries; a transporting unit that transports the recording medium along a transport path... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090324304 - Intermediate transfer belt and methods for making the same: An image forming apparatus having an improved intermediate transfer belt, and processes for making the same. More specifically, there is provided an intermediate transfer belt having one or more steering ribs formed into the belt such that a separate steering rib need not be employed.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP Xerox Corporation

20090324306 - Transfer device and image forming apparatus: A transfer device for use in an image forming apparatus includes at least two belt members constituting a secondary nip portion therebetween. The transfer device electrostatically transfers a toner image from one of the belt members onto a recording medium when the recording medium passes through the secondary nip portion.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090324307 - Fixing apparatus: In one embodiment, when a hot roller is driven to rotate, a driving gear rotates so that a swing gear and a swing cam rotate. Then, a sliding contact edge on the right side of a swing lever that abuts against the circumferential face of the swing cam repeatedly moves... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090324308 - Oil less fusing using nano/micro textured fusing surfaces: Exemplary embodiments provide a fixing member having a textured surface, and methods for making and using the textured fixing member. The fixing member can include a substrate having one or more functional layers formed thereon. The one or more functional layers can include an outermost or top surface having a... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20090324309 - Fixing apparatus using fixing solution and image forming apparatus including the fixing apparatus: A fixing apparatus to fix unfixed toner carried on a surface of a recording medium by attaching a fixing solution capable of softening toner onto the unfixed toner is provided. The fixing apparatus includes a sprayer to spray the fixing solution; a fixing solution charging part to charge the fixing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090324310 - Lubricant applying device, and image forming assembly and image forming apparatus which employ the same: A lubricant applying device that faces a rotatable body, and that applies a solid lubricant to the rotatable body, includes: a lubricating roll in which the solid lubricant for application is formed into a circular sectional shape around a rotatable support shaft, and that is contacted with the rotatable body;... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090324311 - Medium transporting apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same: A medium transporting apparatus includes a first transport member and a movable guide member. The first transport member transports a medium in the medium transport direction. The movable guide member comes into contact with and guides the medium transported by the first transport member along a medium transport path. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090324312 - Document feeding device: A document feeding device includes: a document placing tray; a document ejection tray disposed above the document placing tray; a feeding path; a separating mechanism; and ejection rollers. A nip position of the ejection rollers is arranged in a side opposite to a side where the document placing tray is... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090317095 - Automatic document feeder: An automatic document feeder includes a controller that compares an input original length that is received from a main operating unit and an actual original length that is calculated based on a detection result from a registration sensor arranged, on a conveying path, downstream of a separation feeding unit. The... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090317096 - Image forming apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium: An image forming apparatus capable of performing operation-checking and an operation for clearing a counter value for a replaced component at component replacement with a simple manipulation, and simple in construction and low in costs. After criterion values for jam detection by a recording-sheet-conveyance-state detection unit that detects sheet feed... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090317097 - Image forming apparatus, sheet supply supporting method and control program: An image forming apparatus comprises a sheet tray to store sheets to form an image thereon; a detecting section to detect a capacity of empty space of each of the sheet tray; and a sheet managing section to compare the capacity of empty space of the sheet tray with a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317098 - Image forming apparatus, cartridge, storage device and developer supplying method: An image forming apparatus is provided which includes a developing apparatus configured to form a developer image; a supply apparatus configured to supply developer to the developing apparatus; a detector configured to detect an amount of developer consumed during an image forming process; and a controller configured to perform an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090317099 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes a replaceable unit in which a plurality of replaceable parts are installed, a storage section to store a replacement time count value, a life duration time count value and a use count value, a display section and a control section... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317100 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device includes a fixing roller, a pressure roller and a soaking roller. Temperature of the soaking roller, which contacts with the pressure roller, is measured by a temperature measurement section. This makes it possible to precisely estimate the temperature distribution of the fixing roller and the pressure roller... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317101 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a belt, an image forming section, a displacement operation section and a displacement control section. The image forming section includes a color image forming unit and a monochrome image forming unit. The displacement operation section conducts a press-contact operation and a release operation. The press-contact... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090317102 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: The image forming apparatus includes: an image former which, upon receiving a first instruction, feeds a sheet and performs an image forming operation to form an image on the sheet; a fixing part which (i) secures a fixing nip by bringing outer circumferential surfaces of first and second rotating bodies... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090317103 - Image formation apparatus and preparation operation execution method: Upon completing a preparation operation including different processes, an image formation apparatus shifts to ready state in which image formation is executable, the processes including at least one process executed using a corresponding motor. The image formation apparatus comprises: an obtainer for obtaining, for each process, an estimated time period... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090317104 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism, a transfer mechanism including a first endless belt receiving a toner image formed on an image carrier and a second endless belt receiving the toner image formed on the first endless belt, a first detector to detect a speed of movement... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090317105 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developer is appropriately replenished at the desired toner concentration even with bare minimum stirring. A developer container (11) in which a developer containing toner and carrier is received, a developer replenishing container (23) in which a developer containing toner and carrier is received and which replenishes the developer container... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317106 - Developing device using two-component developing agent and image forming apparatus provided with same: A developing device capable of mixing and agitating toner and a developing agent efficiently and without applying unnecessary stress, efficiently adjusting the amount of charge on the developing agent without being affected by external disturbing conditions, and continuously supplying a developing agent having the appropriate toner concentration and amount of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090317107 - Multiple-channeled layer printing by electrography: Electrographic printing of one or more multi-channeled layers having a particular pattern by electrographic techniques. Such electrographic printing includes the steps of forming a desired print image, electrographically, on a receiver member utilizing predetermined sized marking particles; and, where desired, forming one or more final multi-channeled layers utilizing marking particles... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20090317108 - Image forming apparatus: Bias correction control of an intermediate transfer belt 21 on which an image of each color formed on a surface of a photoconductive body 31 is transferred, and a second transfer belt 24 in pressure contact with the intermediate transfer belt 21 to transfer a toner image onto a recording... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090317110 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier for carrying a toner image, a drive device for driving the image carrier at a predetermined speed, a control device for giving instruction to the drive device to perform predetermined operation, and a transfer device for nipping a recording sheet with a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317109 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: A driving motor for a color black is shared between a photosensitive body for the color black and a driving roller that drives an intermediate transfer belt not shown. Furthermore, a driving motor for colors yellow, magenta, and cyan is shared between photosensitive bodies for the colors yellow, magenta, and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090317111 - Fixing device usable with an image forming apparatus: A fixing device usable with an image forming apparatus having a fixing roller to fix a toner on a recording medium, a heater to heat the fixing roller, and an alternating current (AC) power source to supply an AC electric power to the heater may include a power converting part... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090317112 - Fixing device usable with an image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a fixing roller to fix a toner on a recording medium; a heater to heat the fixing roller; an alternating current (AC) power source to generate an AC electric power such that the heater heats the fixing roller according to the AC electric power; a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090317113 - Heater, fixing unit and image forming apparatus: A heater is operable with a main power supply unit and a chargeable auxiliary power supplying unit. The heater includes a heater part having one or a plurality of heater elements to receive power from the main and auxiliary power supplying units, a detecting part to detect information related to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090317116 - Image forming apparatus and paper ejection method of image forming apparatus: A drive unit for changing the driving rate of paper ejection rollers for ejecting sheets of paper after fixing is installed, and an image forming apparatus has an option, and when ejecting the sheets of paper to an intra-body paper ejection unit, after the sheets of paper pass a fixing... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090317115 - Image heating apparatus: An image heating apparatus heating an image on a recording material and the image heating apparatus includes a rotatable belt member; a pressing member contacting to the belt member to nip and feed the recording material; a stretching member stretching the belt member; belt position detecting means detecting a position... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090317114 - Recording-medium positioning device and image forming apparatus employing the device: A recording-medium positioning device includes a gate, a roller pair, a roller-pair shift unit, a recording-medium detector, and a drive control device. The gate is disposed at an upstream side of a fixing device in a conveyance direction of a recording medium. The roller pair includes two roller members disposed... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090317117 - Image formation apparatus and image formation method: A standby state is a state in which a pair of rotating bodies stops rotating, and temperature control is performed so that at least one of the rotating bodies reaches a standby temperature. A fixing state is a state in which the rotating bodies are rotating and temperature control is... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090317118 - Image forming apparatus: A color printer of the invention is controlled to select DC motors needed to be newly activated according to a print mode when a print job occurs, determine an activation start time of each selected DC motor by sequentially going back activation times stored in relation to the selected DC... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090317122 - Image forming apparatus and control method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes an input unit configured to input image data, an image processing unit configured to process the image data, a transfer unit configured to form a developer image corresponding to the processed image data and transfer the developer image onto a sheet, a fixing unit configured... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090317121 - Image forming apparatus and job execution method: An image forming apparatus is provided with a job storage portion that stores a print job relating to an image forming process and a command job relating to a control process of operation of the image forming apparatus, a job management portion that registers the print job and the command... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317120 - Image forming apparatus and printing control method: Provided is an image forming apparatus comprising: mixed printing control unit that performs, in a situation where the job instruction to perform single-sided printing and the job instruction to perform double-sided printing coexist in a plurality of jobs continuously, double-sided printing process with a blank page set to be printed... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090317119 - Tandem finishing: Systems and methods are described that facilitate permitting a high-speed marking system or printer to run at maximum speed without being impeded by a relatively slow, low-speed finisher. A plurality of low-speed finishers are coupled to the high-speed marking system in a tandem, and optionally parallel-tandem, arrangement, where the number... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090317123 - Image forming apparatus: When a number of print pages, a driving time or a toner adhering amount exceeds a cleaning trigger value during no transfer operation, a circumferential speed of a secondary transfer roller is changed with respect to a circumferential speed of an intermediate transfer belt so as to clean the secondary... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317124 - Method for producing cleaning device and cleaning device: A method for manufacturing a cleaning device of the image forming apparatus, the method includes: applying a liquid material to an area outer than an edge located at an end portion of a toner accommodating portion in the longitudinal direction of a toner removing member, wherein the liquid material is... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090317128 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus in which an exposing unit is mounted on a cover unit for improved space utilization. The image forming apparatus includes a body, a plurality of developing units arranged in the body along vertical direction of the body, a cover unit that opens or closes a side... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090317127 - Image forming apparatus having movable drawer detachably supporting a plurality of process cartridges: An image forming apparatus capable of easily performing exchange in a process cartridge with a new cartridge and performing removal of a jammed sheet without detachment of a drawer from a casing. The drawer detachably holds a plurality of process cartridges, and is movable in frontward/rearward direction to one of... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090317125 - Image forming device: An image forming device having a frame, a door, and a movable image forming unit to be assembled in the frame when the door is open. The image forming unit has a support shaft, and frame has a hole on which the support shaft abuts for positioning of the image... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090317126 - Image forming device: An image forming device having a frame, a door, and a movable image forming unit to be assembled in the frame when the door is open. Positioning of the image forming unit relative to the frame and a closing position of the door are maintainable when the door is closed.... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090317129 - Process cartridge and electrostatic image forming apparatus: A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, which includes a rotating force applying portion. The cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a first frame unit supporting the drum, a second frame unit supporting the roller and swingably connected... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090317130 - Tandem type image forming apparatus: To facilitate replacing photosensitive drums and/or developing devices in an image forming apparatus, a photosensitive member unit including a plurality of photosensitive members is loaded in a main casing. A developing device unit including a plurality of developing devices is also loaded in the main casing. Both an intermediate transfer... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090317131 - Process cartridge and electrographic photosensitive drum unit: A process cartridge usable with an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the process cartridge includes i) an electrophotographic photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis and having a photosensitive layer at its peripheral surface; ii) process means actable on the drum; iii) a coupling member for receiving an external force for rotating... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090317132 - Process cartridge, electrophotographic image forming apparatus and electrographic photosensitive drum unit: A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including a driving shaft having a rotational force applying portion by moving in a direction substantially perpendicular to an axis of the driving shaft. The cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a coupler engageable... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090317134 - Cartridge, assembling method for cartridge, and disassemblying method for cartridge: A cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes a developer accommodating portion for accommodating a developer; a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum with the developer accommodated in the developer accommodating portion; a cartridge frame... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090317135 - Cartridge, mounting method for coupling member, and disassembling method for coupling member: A cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes a developer accommodating portion for accommodating a developer; a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum with the developer accommodated in the developer accommodating portion; a coupling member... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090317133 - Image forming device having detachable developing device unit: An image forming device includes a main casing, a photosensitive drum unit and a developing device unit. The photosensitive drum unit includes a plurality of photosensitive drums that forms electrostatic images thereon, each photosensitive drum having an axis, the plurality of photosensitive drums being juxtaposed along a line extending in... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090317136 - Multilayered electrophotographic photoreceptor and image formation apparatus provided with the same: wherein R1 to R9, which may be the same or different, respectively represent a hydrogen atom; a halogen atom; or an alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl or alkoxy group which may have a substituent, provided that either one of R2 and R3 represents —N(Ar1)(Ar2); and Ar1 to Ar4, which may be the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090317137 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an optical scanning device including a light source including multiple light-emitting elements, the multiple light-emitting elements being arranged in a linear manner, a collimator lens to collimate a light beam from the light source, a light-deflecting device to deflect a light beam having passed through the collimator lens... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090317138 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a rotary for changing an attitude of a developing device to a first attitude in which developer in a developer accommodating chamber is feedable to a developer feeding member and to a second attitude in which the developer having been located above a nip between... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090317139 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a developing apparatus for developing an electrostatic image with a developer comprising at least a toner and a first external additive, the developing apparatus including a plurality of developing devices, containing toners different in color or lightness from each other, in which at least two... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090317141 - Development apparatus and image forming apparatus: A development apparatus 8 has developer transport members 26 and 27 respectively contained in containers 22 and 23 and transporting developer while stirring the developer and passing the developer to each other at a passing portion 41 and a passing portion 42, thereby causing the developer to circulate in a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317140 - Toner supplying device and image forming apparatus: A toner supplying device which supplies toners contained in a toner container to a developing device is disclosed. The toner supplying device includes a toner tank which stores the toners discharged from the toner container, a toner carrying section which carries the toners stored in the toner tank, a toner... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090317142 - Developing device and image forming apparatus equipped with the same: The present invention provides a developing device that is provided with: a developer containing a toner and a carrier; a first transporting member placed at an opening portion of a developer vessel used for housing the developer; a second transporting member that faces the first transporting member with a first... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317143 - Image forming apparatus: There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of realizing Improvement of an image density by improving dot reproducibility and reducing fog as well. An alternating voltage is applied to a development sleeve so that a first period during which a first peak-to-peak voltage Vpp(1) is applied and a second... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090317145 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a pair of regulating members, for regulating movement of a recording material conveyed from a secondary transfer portion toward an intermediary transfer belt side, configured to be contactable to the recording material at both end portions with respect to a width direction perpendicular to a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090317144 - Image forming unit and image forming apparatus: An image forming unit includes a developer bearing body that supplies a developer to an image bearing body that bears a latent image, and a developer layer forming member that forms a layer of the developer on the developer bearing body. The developer has a mean volume diameter in a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090317146 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units arranged to form toner images of different colors on surfaces of photoconductive drums, an intermediate transfer unit that has an intermediate transfer belt arranged in the vicinity of the photoconductive drums and a plurality of intermediate transfer rollers opposed... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20090317149 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a control unit configured to cause an image forming unit to form an adjustment image on an image bearing member, and a detection unit configured to detect the adjustment image, wherein the control unit controls gradation for forming an image by the image forming unit... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090317148 - Image forming apparatus and method for controlling same: In full-color printing, one of first and second rotary members is activated with a time lag after the other of the first and second rotary members is activated such that the phase difference between the first and second rotary members is an adjusted phase difference. In addition, every time monochrome... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090317147 - Sheet color image forming apparatus: A color image forming apparatus for forming toner images by carrying out charging, exposure, and development on at least one photoreceptor drum, and forming color images by transferring the toner images onto sheets, the color image forming apparatus including: a photoreceptor drum which rotates around an axis; an exposure section... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317150 - Image forming apparatus and transfer device thereof: An image forming apparatus and a transfer device thereof are disclosed. The transfer device includes an intermediate transfer belt, at least one intermediate transfer belt roller to maintain tension in the intermediate transfer belt, transfer rollers to press the intermediate transfer belt to image carriers and a state changing device... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090317151 - Feeding and fixing apparatus for feeding and fixing a functional element to a sheet of film: A feeding and fixing apparatus for feeding and fixing a functional element, such as a closure element, to a sheet of film includes a feed unit for holding a functional element. The feed unit includes at least one holding device for holding the functional element, the at least one holding... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090317152 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: A fixing device has a fixing roller, a pressure roller, an electromagnetic-induction heating section, and a heat pipe. The pressure roller has a metal layer, so that heat transferred directly from the fixing roller to the pressure roller is thermally transported by the metal layer of the pressure roller, whereby... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317154 - Fixing device and image formation apparatus: Fixing belt is brought into pressure-contact with the surface of fixing roller such that fixing belt rotates according to rotation of fixing roller, thereby forming, between fixing belt and fixing roller, fixing nip portion through which recording sheets pass. A pressing area of an opposing surface of pressing member contacting... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317155 - Fixing device and image formation apparatus: Disclosed is a fixing device that easily suppresses an excessive temperature increase in a guide plate without extending a warm-up period, the device comprising: guide plate 156 that includes a low-resistance, electrically conductive layer, and guides fixing belt 155 in its rotation direction by contacting its inner surface inside its... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317153 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus, a fixing unit and a belt assembly thereof are disclosed. The image forming apparatus, the fixing unit and the belt assembly includes a frame, a belt rotatably disposed at an outer periphery of the frame, and a lateral slip prevention member which presses at least a... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090317159 - Fixing apparatus for forming an image: A fixing apparatus according to the invention comprises an elastic member, a heating roller including a conductive metal layer on the outside of the elastic member, a pressurizing roller for supplying a predetermined pressure to the heating roller, and a driving mechanism for rotating the heating roller through the conductive... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090317158 - Fixing device and image formation apparatus: A fixing device forms a fixing nip by pressing a first roller, which is inside a rotation path of a rotating belt, with a second roller via the belt, and thermally fixes an unfixed image formed on a sheet S by passing the sheet S through the fixing nip while... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317157 - Fixing device having good warm-up property and image formation apparatus: Disclosed is a fixing device having a self-temperature control function, and reducing a heat capacity of a heat generation member for saving energy and achieving good warm-up property. The fixing device includes a fixed plate inside a closed rotation path of a belt, contacting an inner circumferential surface of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090317156 - Selective polishing of fuser members: A method of forming and a resulting selectively polished fuser member. The method includes selectively polishing that portion of the fuser member surface not subject to rapid natural wear. The method further includes polishing both a surface region subject to rapid sheet edge wear and a surface region not subject... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP (cust. No. W/xerox)

20090317160 - Sheet processing apparatus and image forming system: A sheet processing apparatus including: a humidifier that humidifies a sheet; a curl correcting section that corrects a curl by applying mechanical bending force on a sheet; and a control section that causes humidification by the humidifier and curl correction by the curl correcting section to be possible for a... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.

20090310980 - Paper sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus having same: A paper sheet conveying apparatus includes: a paper sheet conveying portion that conveys a paper sheet and has an opening; a distance detection portion that projects light to a paper sheet through the opening, receives reflected light from the paper sheet, and detects a distance to the paper sheet; and... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090310981 - Grammage detection sensor of recording medium and image forming apparatus: A grammage detection sensor which detects a grammage of a recording medium using an ultrasonic wave includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit the ultrasonic wave and a receiving unit including a first vibration member configured to receive the ultrasonic wave that is transmitted from the transmitting unit and passes... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090310982 - Image forming apparatus and control method for image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a first conveying unit that conveys a sheet, an image forming unit that forms an image on the sheet, a switch that switches a discharge destination for the sheet having the image formed thereon to a first direction and to a second direction, a stacking... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090310983 - Image forming apparatus: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that includes a recording medium feeding unit that feeds a recording medium to a predetermined conveyance path; a conveyance unit that conveys the recording medium fed from the recording medium feeding unit on the conveyance path; a conveyance status detection unit that detects a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090310984 - Developing apparatus and image forming machine: The developing apparatus, having stirring members for conveying and stirring developer-tank-contained developer and a developer holder, comprises a developer replenishing tank; a toner concentration detecting sensor; a trickle-type discharging mechanism; a developer amount estimating sensor; and a controller for controlling replenishment operation for replenishing the toner and the carrier for... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090310985 - Developing apparatus and image forming machine: The developing apparatus, having stirring members for conveying and stirring developer-tank-contained developer and a developer holder, comprises a developer replenishing tank; a magnetic-type toner concentration detecting sensor; a trickle-type discharging mechanism; conveying state switching device for temporarily blocking the flow of the developer-tank-contained developer and for temporarily switching the circulating... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090310986 - Image forming apparatus, intermediate transfer belt drive control method, computer program, and recording medium: An image forming apparatus includes a primary transfer unit, a secondary transfer unit, a belt drive unit, and a swingable assembly. The primary transfer unit primary transfers an image from an image carrying member to an intermediate transfer belt. The secondary transfer unit secondary transfers the image, primary-transferred onto the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090310987 - System and method for detecting a fire in a fixer unit of a printer or copier: In a fixer unit system and method to detect a fire in a fixer unit of an electrographic image generation device, at least one portion of a fixer region of the fixing unit is monitored with a photoelectric sensor arranged adjacent to a substrate material having a toner image to... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090310988 - Method for preventing the influence of the transfer of vibrations during the printing of images on an end image carrier: In a method for electrographic printing of color images on a final image carrier, charge images of the images to be printed are generated on a charge image carrier and are developed into toner images with toner, the toner images being transferred onto an intermediate carrier from which they are... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20090310989 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus which is free from occurrence of image noise due to the bleed phenomenon even without providing any contact-and-separation mechanism for the transfer member includes a control device which counts stop time elapsing from a stop to a restart of the image carrier, calculates an avoidance sheet... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090310990 - Image forming apparatus executing stabilization process at proper frequency: In an MFP, when a count of printed sheets of paper exceeds a predetermined count, a controller reads, from internal counters, a frequency of a stabilization process executed in return, a frequency of a stabilization process executed automatically in printing, a frequency of a stabilization process executed manually based on... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090310991 - Image forming apparatus, image forming system, computer readable medium storing program and image forming method: a scanning unit that scans a document image on the basis of the document size detected by the detecting unit, a storage unit that stores a plurality of image data pieces regarding the document image scanned by the scanning unit, an adding unit that adds, to the image data stored... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090310992 - Recording medium determination apparatus and image forming apparatus: A recording medium determination apparatus that determines grammage of a recording medium by using an ultrasonic wave includes a transmission unit configured to output an ultrasonic wave having a predetermined frequency, a reception unit configured to receive the ultrasonic wave output from the transmission unit and transmitted through the recording... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090310993 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: An image forming apparatus capable of suppressing occurrences of image defects and maintaining the image density constant while improving the development ability. The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum on which an electrostatic latent image is carried, a developing sleeve on which developer is carried, an AC high-voltage drive... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090310994 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: An image forming apparatus is provided with a control section which stores detection results of a toner sensor regarding detection patterns. When forming a plurality of detection patterns on an intermediate transfer belt, the control section determines circumference-directional lengths of the detection patterns formed this time, based on the detection... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090310995 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: In case new and old toners may be mixed, a developing bias is set as follows. The time is first clocked. The number of times toner is replenished from a hopper into a buffer for a clocked period is counted. If a replenishment amount per clock time is a threshold... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090310996 - Safety device and fixing device: A fixing device has a fixing roller, a pressure roller, an electromagnetic induction heating section, a heat pipe, a temperature sensor and a control section. The fixing roller is heated by the electromagnetic induction heating section. The heat pipe is in contact with the pressure roller. The temperature sensor is... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090310997 - Image forming apparatus which presents pattern and method thereof: An image forming apparatus which displays a preset pattern is provided, including a fixing unit, and a cover unit which is mounted on a main body in which the fixing unit is installed, and displays the preset pattern if the cover unit is heated by the fixing unit. Accordingly, the... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090310998 - Image forming device and image forming method: To control a temperature of a rotating member for fixing an image during standby, an image forming device can suppress overshoot of the temperature of the rotating member occurred when a fixing state is switched to a standby state. Determining the standby temperature is higher than the fixing temperature (Step... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090310999 - Sheet post-processing apparatus, image forming system and power saving control method: A sheet post-processing apparatus has a sheet conveying portion which receives and conveys a sheet discharged from an apparatus on an upstream side, and discharges it to an apparatus on a downstream side or a discharge tray, a sheet post-processing portion which carried out post-processing on the sheet, and a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090311000 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a heat source, a toner containing member containing toner, and an electric fan for generating air flow in an air flow path formed between the heat source and the toner containing member. In the image forming apparatus, a temperature of the heat source reaches a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090311001 - Wiping assembly in an image forming device: The invention provides a wiping assembly in an image forming device, to clean at least one sensor lens in the image forming device. The wiping assembly includes a bracket to move between a first position and a second position across the sensor lens. Further, the wiping assembly includes a wiper... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090311004 - Cleaning device and image forming apparatus: A cleaning device 20 for removing a toner remaining on an image bearing member 5A after transfer, including: a polarity control member 23 configured to unify polarities of the remaining toner on the image bearing member 5A, a cleaning member 25 configured to remove the remaining toner having a polarity... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090311002 - Cleaning device and image forming apparatus incorporating same: A first roll brush is formed from material having the positive triboelectric charge polarity against toner. A positive bias is applied to the first roll brush through a first collection roller by a first bias application device. A second roll brush is formed from material having the negative triboelectric charge... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090311003 - Cleaning roller for cleaning image bearing member: A cleaning roller has a core and a polyurethane foam layer covering the core to form a peripheral surface of the cleaning roller adapted to be in contact with a peripheral surface of the toner image bearing member. The polyurethane foam is designed so that the number of cell per... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090311005 - Image forming unit and image forming apparatus: An image forming unit is provided with a regulating member placed in such a way as to surround a charging roller to regulate movement thereof. The regulating member has a pressing section inclined with respect to a straight line connecting the center of the charging roller to the axis of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090311006 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a charging unit including a charge member that is disposed facing the image carrier across a gap therebetween and charges the image carrier by using electrical discharge caused by applying thereto a voltage including an alternating current component superimposed on a direct... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090311007 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including: a first and a second photoconductor groups constituted of one or more photoconductors respectively; a first and a second drive control sections for controlling the drive of the first and the second photoconductor groups respectively to rotate the photoconductors thereof, wherein the rotational phases of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090311008 - Ion generating element, charging device, and image forming apparatus: In an ion generating element, (i) an induction electrode and a heater electrode are provided away from each other on one surface of an insulating base material such that the induction electrode and the heater electrode are insulated from each other, (ii) a dielectric layer is provided on the surface... Agent: Mark D. Saralino ( Sharp ) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090311009 - Developing device and image forming apparatus having the developing device: In a developer cartridge of toner and carrier, uneven distribution of the carrier at least in the vicinity of a replenishing port is eliminated regardless of the composition ratio between the carrier and the toner and the specific gravity of the carrier. Provided is a construction including a developer container... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090311010 - Developer supplying apparatus and developing apparatus having the same: A developer supplying apparatus includes a developer lump prevention unit that reduces the aggregation of developer into lumps in the path, which defines the supply passage of developer from the developer cartridge, in which the developer is stored, to the developing cartridge, which houses the developing roller. The developer lump... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090311011 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: The present invention provides a developing device which is capable of suppressing the generation of a fogging phenomenon and deposition of carrier particles to an electrostatic latent image carrier and developing the electrostatic latent image efficiently, the device comprising a development sleeve and a magnet body onto which the sleeve... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090311012 - Developing device and image-forming apparatus: This invention relates to a developing device 18 for use in an image-forming apparatus comprising a developing roller 100 having a conductive base surface 19 which may be covered with a resin layer 17 layer comprising an ion conductive material and a silicone-modified urethane resin having an ether structure.... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090311013 - Transfer belt unit for image forming apparatus: A flywheel is coupled to a driven roller to support, at a secondary transfer position, an intermediate transfer belt that, together with a secondary transfer roller, nips and conveys a sheet. A direction of a shaft of the flywheel has an angle of 90° with respect to a direction of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090311014 - Image-bearing member protecting agent, protective layer forming device, image forming method, image forming apparatus and process cartridge: To provide an image-bearing member protecting agent used in an image forming method which includes applying or attaching the agent onto a surface of an image bearing member, the agent including: a fatty acid metal salt and boron nitride, wherein the boron nitride includes secondary particles composed of aggregated fine... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090311015 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus: In a fixing device including a fixing roller, a pressure roller and an external heating section, a scraper is arranged to contact a circumferential surface of an external heating belt and scrape toner and the like on the circumferential surface to thereby clean the circumferential surface. In addition, a material... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090311016 - Fixing device and image forming apparatus including same: A fixing device to fix a toner image on a sheet includes a flexible endless belt that rotates in a predetermined direction, an inner circumferential surface of which includes a fluorine-containing surface layer, a rotary member that contacts an outer circumferential surface of the belt, a fixed member fixed inside... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090311017 - Cleaning blade and image forming apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming method using the same: A cleaning blade for removing fine particles from a cleaning target by contact with the cleaning target is provided. The cleaning blade includes an elastic blade A leading edge of the elastic blade includes a friction coefficient of 0.5 or less. The cleaning blade also includes a surface layer that... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090311018 - Duplex printing apparatus: A duplex printing apparatus is equipped with: a first printing section for printing on first sides of sheets; a storage section for storing a plurality of the sheets, the first sides of which have been printed on; a second printing section for printing on second sides of the sheets; a... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett PC

20090311019 - Face-to-face printing within booklet: Method for printing pages within a booklet to improve the appearance of images on opposing pages includes sequencing images such that opposing pages are printed with the same print engine and/or fused the same number of times. Booklets include opposing pages having images fused the same number of times and/or... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090311020 - Auto document feeding device and feeding method: An auto document feeding device of an embodiment includes triple paper discharge rollers forming an upper paper discharge port for discharging a document at the time of one-sided reading and a lower paper discharge port for discharging a document reversed at the time of both-sided reading. A flap which covers... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20090311021 - Tab sheet setting apparatus, and computer readable recording medium stored with tab sheet setting program: A tab sheet setting apparatus displays sheet images which correspond to sheets for consecutive two or more pages among a plurality of pages and a tab ear icon that functions as a tab image which corresponds to a tab of a tab sheet on an operating screen. In case when... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090311022 - Method and device for the alignment of sheet-shaped substrates: Provided is a device (1) for the alignment of sheets in a printing machine, said device comprising two pairs of rollers for the alignment of the sheets in their advance direction, for the alignment transverse to their advance direction and with respect to skewing, whereby each pair of rollers consists... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20090311023 - Bookbinding apparatus, image forming apparatus, and control method: A bookbinding apparatus which makes it possible to shorten a time period required to heat an adhesive when the power of the bookbinding apparatus is turned on again. A glue preparation section heats glue. A glue applying section applies the heated glue to a recording sheet bundle. A CPU of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090304398 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus which can draw out a pre-fixing conveying portion and a fixing device from an apparatus body has an abutment member which can abut a conveying surface of the pre-fixing conveying portion and can be separated therefrom, the abutment member being separated from the conveying surface of... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090304399 - Image forming apparatus, and method and program for determining timing to execute image adjusting processing: An image forming apparatus includes a toner replenishing device that supplies toner, based on a detection result from a sensor that detects a toner density in a developing device that develops an electrostatic latent image based on an image signal with toner, so that the toner density takes a given... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090304400 - Apparatus and method for mounting an rf monitoring device onto a fuser roll: A replaceable unit monitor assembly includes a substrate member, multiple thermal insulating stand-off members, and a monitor device mounted on the substrate member. The stand-off members mount the substrate member to an end hub of a fuser roll of a printing machine while limiting conductive heat transfer to the monitor... Agent: Clifford P. Kelly Alix, Yale & Ristas, LLP

20090304401 - Electronic device and image forming apparatus: An electronic device and an image forming apparatus capable of notifying that a voltage drop will occur during operation of the device due to an abnormality of a power source facility before actual operations. A load is configured to operate on electric power supplied from a commercial power source. A... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20090304402 - Cleaning method for compensating for environmental conditions and blade age in a cleaning subsystem: A method for controlling blade interference in a single blade or multi-blade xerographic cleaner based on a look-up table for environmental conditions and blade age. Temperature and humidity sensors and a blade age counter are used to provide information to a controller, which adjusts the blade interference through a stepper... Agent: Williams A. Henry , Ii

20090304404 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method: Developing bias is set as follows. An electric field intensity between a developing roller and a photoconductor is set to cause normally-charged toner to fly in an image area and not to cause the toner to fly in a background area. Thus, the normally-charged toner does not fly in the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090304403 - Image forming apparatus and method of cleaning secondary transfer roller used therein: To provide an image forming apparatus: in which a toner image is formed on an image carrier using a toner supplied from a developing roller to which a controlled bias voltage is applied; the toner image is primarily transferred onto an intermediate transfer member; the toner image is secondarily transferred... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090304405 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit, a temperature sensor including an element in which a resistance value increases as a temperature decreases and configured to detect a temperature of the fixing unit, a connector configured to transmit an output signal of the temperature sensor,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090304406 - Method for adjusting cleaning blade load on a photoreceptor: A method for controlling a xerographic single or multiple blade cleaning subsystem includes sensing the actual cleaning blade load against a photoreceptor with a transducer and adjusting it to a desired value. A feedback loop through a stepper motor will set the desired load by changing blade to photoreceptor interference.... Agent: Williams A. Henry , Ii

20090304407 - Variable interference cleaning blade method: A control method for monitoring the cleaning performance of a single or multiple blade xerographic cleaning subsystem includes looking at the photoreceptor post-cleaner with a full width array sensor and adjusting the blade load on the photoreceptor to the minimum required to maintain effective cleaning. Blade load is adjusted using... Agent: Williams A. Henry , Ii

20090304409 - Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium: An image forming apparatus for processing a print job includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire information about a set of printed sheets to be post-processed by a post-processing apparatus, the post-processing apparatus not being connected to the image forming apparatus via a conveying path of the print sheets output... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090304408 - Multi-color printing system and method for high toner pile height printing: Document processing systems and methods are presented in which one or more pages of a print job are segmented into two or more parts, with the first part being transferred and affixed to the printed medium prior to transferring and affixing the second part, in order to facilitate high TMA... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090304410 - Cleaning device, charger unit using the same, image forming assembly and image forming apparatus: A cleaning device includes a pair of bilateral cleaning members arranged with an interval in a length direction of a wire rod, an intermediate cleaning member located on an opposite side of the pair of bilateral cleaning members via the wire rod and arranged at an intermediate position between the... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090304411 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a first drive member located downstream of an image bearing member and upstream of a transfer portion and a second drive member located downstream of the transfer portion with respect to a direction of conveying a recording material on a conveyance belt member and configured... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090304412 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a main body; process cartridges, each including a photosensitive drum and a developing roller; a body frame including a abutment portions and projecting portions; fixing members configured to rotate to a locked state where the fixing members bring the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 016689

20090304413 - Image forming apparatus, developing device and developer cartridge thereof: An image forming apparatus, a developing device and a developer cartridge are disclosed. The developer cartridge includes a cartridge housing and a developer delivery unit to deliver a developer received in the cartridge housing. The developer delivery unit includes a delivery member and a contact portion to come into contact... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090304414 - Image forming apparatus: There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of realizing improvement of an image density by improving dot reproducibility and reducing fog at the same time. An alternating voltage is applied to a development sleeve so that a first period during which a first peak-to-peak voltage Vpp(1) is applied and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090304415 - Developing device and image forming apparatus: A developing device includes a housing in which nonmagnetic one-component toner is housed, a developing roller which horizontally extends in an opening of the housing, and a feed roller which is set in the housing in pressure contact with the developing roller so as to form a nip portion and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090304416 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carrier rollers placed on an inner circumferential side of an annular conveying path so as to face the annular conveying path and so as to be juxtaposed in a sheet conveying direction along the annular conveying path. Opposed rollers are provided... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090304418 - Image formation device: An image formation device has an image formation section, a pattern image detection section and a registration correction section. The image formation section forms an image to be outputted and a pattern image on an image-bearing body, the pattern image is formed at a non-image creation region outside an image... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090304417 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has: an image forming section that forms a toner image corresponding to image information; an intermediate transfer belt, which is an endless belt stretched between a plurality of rollers and traveling between the plurality of rollers, the toner image being transferred to a surface thereof or... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090304419 - Active rotation of air knife for increased performance: According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided a method of optimizing an electro-photographic reproduction machine having a fusing subsystem and an air knife. The methods acquire at least one electro-photographic reproduction machine objective and media characteristic; and the acquired objective and characteristic are used to determine values for... Agent: Prass LLP

20090304420 - Chemically-treated cleaning web: c

20090304422 - Fixing belt, fixing unit and image forming apparatus: In a fixing unit which drivingly rotates an endless fixing belt having a lubricant applied to an inside surface thereof and which presses the fixing belt against a recording medium formed with a toner image thereon thereby fixing the toner image to the recording medium, the inside surface of the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090304421 - Image heating apparatus: A ceramic heater in contact with an inner surface of an endless belt includes a substrate made of alumina and a heat generation resistor provided on the substrate. The heat generation resistor is disposed at a surface reverse to a surface facing the inner surface of the endless belt on... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090304423 - Image forming apparatus and process cartridge: An image forming apparatus including a charging unit configured to charge a surface of an image bearing member utilizing discharge generated by applying a voltage containing an alternating current component to a charging member disposed in contact with or close to the image bearing member, so that a latent electrostatic... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090304424 - Pneumatic transfer assist baffle:

20090304425 - Document reading apparatus: A document reading apparatus includes a first reading section for reading a first side of a document and a second reading section for reading a second side of the document, wherein a first reading position and a second reading position are disposed front and back in a conveyance direction at... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.

20090304426 - Image conveyance unit, intermediate transfer unit, electrostatic transfer unit, and image forming apparatus: A belt cover is configured to approach an intermediate transfer belt when an intermediate transfer portion retracts from a photosensitive drum. This allows the space required for the retraction of the belt cover to be made smaller when the intermediate transfer portion retracts from the photosensitive drum. Therefore, a color... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090304427 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section for forming a toner image on a sheet; a fixing device for fixing the toner image on the sheet with heat; a reversal conveyance section which reverses a conveyance direction of the sheet which has passed through the fixing device; a... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090304428 - Image forming system: An image forming system including: an image reading portion, which reads an image on an original; an image forming portion, which forms an image on a sheet; and a storage device, which stores an original before the image reading portion reads an image thereon and a sheet before the image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090304429 - Image forming apparatus: There is a provided a curl corrector which corrects a curl formed by a fixer when a duplex image formation mode is selected. The curl corrector is provided in a conveying path other than conveying paths commonly used in a conveying path for multiple image formation and a conveying path... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.