Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 07/07

20070171244 - Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection head includes: a liquid flow channel of which at least one wall is constituted by an elastic member; a nozzle which is provided at an end of the liquid flow channel; and a pressure generating device which generates a pressure pulse wave in liquid inside the liquid... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171245 - Data processing apparatus capable of calibrating print data to reduce ink consumption: An ink reduction rate is set in accordance with the type of image and the type of recording medium. For example, when a photograph is to be printed on a glossy paper with low resolution, the ink reduction rate is set to 10%. When a photograph is to be printed... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070171247 - Printer, dither matrix generation method, and recording medium: A printer has a head where outlets are arranged in a width direction perpendicular to a predetermined scan direction, and a printing paper moves under the head in the scan direction. In a basic dither matrix which is an array where element values are arranged in a column direction corresponding... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070171248 - Method and apparatus for compensating image skew and electro-photographic image froming apparatus incorporating the same: A method and apparatus for compensating image skew and an electro-photographic image forming apparatus including the same are provided. Image skew of a toner image transferred onto a paper is compensated for by inclining a photosensitive medium onto which a light beam is scanned to be parallel to a scanning... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070171250 - Ink supply control apparatus, ink jet printer and method of controlling ink supply: An ink supply control apparatus includes: a driver, operable to drive a selector provided between a recording head and an ink tank to control an ink supply from the ink tank to the recording head; a detector, operable to detect that the selector is disposed in a predetermined position between... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070171249 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting apparatus including an ejecting head that ejects a liquid from at least one row of nozzles of the ejecting head to an object, a capping unit that caps a nozzle-formed surface of the ejecting head, a suction unit that suctions a space in the capping unit, a... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

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20070171252 - Liquid ejection apparatus: A liquid ejection apparatus including a liquid ejection head, a liquid receiver, a liquid receiver movement mechanism, and a lid body is provided. The liquid ejection head has a nozzle surface. The nozzle surface includes a nozzle opening. The liquid ejection head ejects a liquid from the nozzle surface. The... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171254 - Liquid ejection apparatus, capping device, and installation device for liquid absorber: A capping device provided in a liquid ejection apparatus having a liquid ejection head is provided. The liquid ejection head has a nozzle-forming surface in which a nozzle for ejection liquid is formed. The capping device includes a cap, a liquid absorber, and a fixing member. The cap is capable... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171257 - Thermo-buckled micro actuation unit made of polymer of high thermal expansion coefficient: Disclosed is a thermo-buckled micro actuation unit made of parylene, which is a polymer having high thermal expansion coefficient, for delivering liquid from a source liquid section to a target liquid section, including a substrate on which a thermo-buckled micro actuation unit is formed. The thermo-buckled micro actuation unit includes... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070171259 - Inkjet printer head and fabricating method thereof: An inkjet printer head and fabricating method thereof are disclosed. An inkjet printer head, which includes: a lower board, in which a nozzle part and a restrictor are formed; an upper board attached to an upper portion of the lower board, in which an ink chamber and an ink inlet... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070171261 - Array inkjet printhead: An array inkjet printhead includes a substrate including an ink chamber to store ink to be ejected, a heater to apply heat to the ink, a TFT (thin film transistor) to control a voltage supplied to the heater, and a manifold to supply ink to the ink chamber, the ink... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070171260 - Piezoelectric inkjet printhead and method of manufacturing the same: A piezoelectric inkjet printhead including an upper substrate formed of a single crystal silicon substrate or an SOI substrate and having an ink inlet therethrough, and a lower substrate formed of an SOI substrate having a sequentially stacked structure with a first silicon layer, an intervening oxide layer, and a... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070171265 - Ink supply apparatus of inkjet printing system: An ink supply apparatus of an inkjet printing system includes an ink tank including a pressure port and an ink supply opening connected to a print head, a flexible ink package connected to the ink supply opening to accommodate ink, and a pressure supply device to supply a purging pressure... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070171246 - Ink jet printer capable of forming high definition images: An ink jet printer ejects ink droplets of a plurality of sizes based on image data, and prints dots of a plurality of sizes corresponding to the ink droplets of the plurality of sizes for recording the image. In the ink jet printer, in order to print a smoothing dot... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070171253 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a printing unit configured to form an image on a recording medium, and a guide device configured to guide the printing unit to be drawn in a direction perpendicular to a recording medium conveying direction in which the recording medium is conveyed. Thus, because the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070171256 - Inkjet printhead with a two dimensional array of ink ejection nozzle arrangements: A printhead is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead includes a wafer substrate assembly defining a plurality of spaced apart groups of ink inlet channels. Groups of ink ejection nozzle arrangements extend from the wafer substrate assembly and are in fluid communication with respective ink inlet channel groups. Each... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070171255 - Nozzle arrangement with thermally operated ink ejection piston: A nozzle arrangement is, provided for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a wafer substrate assembly defining an ink inlet channel. A nozzle chamber structure is mounted to the wafer substrate assembly and defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink inlet channel. The nozzle chamber structure... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070171258 - Drive power control device, liquid ejection apparatus, and drive power control method: A drive power control device according to the present invention includes a transistor, which is input with a driving signal before current amplification into a base thereof, and which amplifies a current of the driving signal to drive an actuator; a switching element, which switches an input of a supply... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171262 - Inkjet printhead having piezoelectric actuator and method of driving the piezoelectric actuator: An inkjet printhead and a method of driving the inkjet printhead include a flow channel substrate having a pressure chamber, and a piezoelectric actuator formed on the flow channel substrate to apply a driving force to the pressure chamber to eject ink. The piezoelectric actuator includes a piezoelectric layer formed... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070171263 - Liquid supply system, fluid communicating structure, ink supply system, and inkjet recording head utilizing the fluid communicating structure: A liquid (ink) supply system having a closed structure with respect to an inkjet recording head is configured such that a gas hindering a recording operation and a liquid supply operation can be rapidly and smoothly eliminated from a liquid supply system without involving any complication in structure. An ink... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070171264 - Storage and ink refilling station for a cartridge or a printhead: A station for storing and refilling a cartridge of a printhead has a container in which a seat is arranged for accommodating the cartridge to be refilled; the ink for refilling being contained in a collection chamber located in the bottom part of the container. The collection chamber communicates freely... Agent: Venable LLP

20070171267 - Inkjet-recording method and injet-recording material: The invention provides an inkjet-recording method of recording an image on an ink-receiving layer, comprising ejecting ink droplets of a water-soluble ink containing a water-soluble phthalocyanine dye on the ink-receiving layer of an inkjet-recording medium having a substrate and an ink-receiving layer containing a water-soluble bivalent metal salt in an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070171268 - Pigment black and dilute dye inks in ink set: An ink jet printhead includes at least three separate chambers. Each of the chambers has an exit orifice. The printhead contains an ink set including at least three separate inks. Each separate ink is contained in the separate chambers, the ink in the chambers being subject to some moderate entry... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070171266 - Recording liquids: Aqueous recording fluids comprising (a) at least one disperse dye, (b) at least two wetting agents.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070171269 - Ink jet recording apparatus and a method of assembling the same: To print an excellent image formed without distortion or image failure by mitigating irregularities, inclination, or the like of an installation floor surface. In an ink jet recording apparatus including an ink jet recording apparatus main body and a leg portion, a deformation absorbing member is interposed in a joint... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq. Suite 1231

20070171270 - Thermal head and manufacturing method thereof: A thermal head and a manufacturing method are provided. The thermal head includes an insulating head substrate, a heat insulating layer formed in the shape of a circular arc with a desired height and base dimension on a surface of the head substrate, heat radiating parts composed of resistive elements... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070171271 - Driver and method for driving a semiconductor light emitting device array: A driver and method for driving a semiconductor light emitting device array is provided. The driver includes at least one current regulator unit having a plurality of controllable switches to regulate the current of each set of cascaded light emitting devices in the semiconductor light emitting device array. The currents... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070171272 - Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus equipped with the same: An optical scanning device is configured in such a manner that, of four light beams for colors corresponding to cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, the number of folding mirrors disposed in the optical path of a light beam corresponding to an mage in yellow having the highest brightness and the... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070165052 - Printer and transferring body: On a transferring surface of a transferring body, lyophilic areas arranged in a scanning direction and in a circumferential direction of the transferring body, and a liquid repellent area which surrounds the lyophilic areas are formed. In a circumferential area between one of the lyophilic areas and the liquid repellent... Agent: Eugene Ledonne

20070165057 - Substrate structure and method for forming patterned layer on the same: A substrate structure includes a substrate and a plurality of unitary layer partition walls with ink repellent characteristic provided on and connected with the substrate, the partition walls cooperatively defining a plurality of separated first accommodating rooms configured for containing ink therein, at least one of the partition walls includes... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070165059 - Recording apparatus, computer readable medium storing thereon recording control program and recording method: A recording apparatus includes: a carriage having a recording head including a nozzle array with a plurality of nozzles thereon and being capable of reciprocably moving over a recording medium to a main-scanning direction a recording medium conveying unit that conveys the recording medium to a sub-scanning direction intersecting the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070165061 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus has a recording head for recording an image on a recording medium, an ink supply source for supplying an ink to the recording head through an ink tube, a carriage for mounting the recording head thereon reciprocating in a primary scanning direction, and first and second... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070165063 - Inkjet recording apparatus: In a cleaning unit that cleans nozzles are provided a support base, a wiping portion that moves together with the support base to clean an ink on the nozzles, and a suction nozzle that is provided on the support base through a spring behind the wiping portion with respect to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070165069 - Droplet ejection head and droplet ejection apparatus: A droplet ejection head includes a nozzle plate that has nozzles and includes a polymer material. The polymer material forming the nozzle plate includes a lubricant having an average particle size of not smaller than 0.01 μm and not larger than 8% of a hole diameter of each of the... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070165071 - Ink-jet head: An ink-jet head includes two shield plates extending on the surface of the passage unit in a longitudinal direction of the passage unit. Two shield plates confront each other. The surface of the passage unit is provided with two grooves extending up to the middle of the passage unit in... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070165074 - Droplet ejection head driving circuit and method, and droplet ejection device: A driving circuit of a droplet ejection head which, by supplying analog driving signals to driving elements, ejects droplets from nozzles which are provided in correspondence with the driving elements. The driving circuit includes a driving signal generation unit, a pulse modulation unit, a switching signal generation unit, an amplification... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070165076 - Flexible circuits having ink-resistant covercoats: A circuit article for use with an inkjet printer pen. The circuit article comprises a flexible circuit having a plurality of conductive traces disposed on a dielectric film, an adhesive film disposed adjacent the dielectric film of the flexible circuit, and a carrier film disposed adjacent the first adhesive film,... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070165080 - Liquid droplet jetting apparatus and ink-jet printer: A head is formed by stacking a plurality of plates including a cavity plate and a manifold plate, and includes a plurality of manifolds formed in the manifold plate, a communicating channel which makes the manifolds formed in the manifold plate communicate, and a plurality of pressure chambers formed in... Agent: Eugene Ledonne, Esq. Reed Smith LLP

20070165081 - Liquid discharge head and manufacturing method of the same: In a liquid discharge head having a vibration plate provided with piezoelectric driving sections and a substrate which supports the vibration plate and in which pressure generating chambers communicating with discharge ports to discharge a liquid are arranged to correspond to the piezoelectric driving sections, at a region of an... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070165083 - Inkjet printer with cartridge for ink pellets: An inkjet printer including a cartridge for holding ink pellets and means for separating and releasing a single ink pellet and feeding it to the ink-supply unit of a printing head, the cartridge having at least one exit for releasing an ink pellet, wherein the separating and releasing means includes... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165053 - Ink detecting device, image recording apparatus, ink detecting method and program recording medium: A transmission/reception element transmits an ultrasound wave to an ink liquid contained in an ink tank. At this time, a near sound field of the ultrasound wave is formed within a propagating member when it propagates the ultrasound wave transmitted from the transmission/reception element to the ink liquid. The transmission/reception... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070165055 - Element board for printhead, and printhead having the same: In a printhead element board including a plurality of printing elements which align in a predetermined direction, driving circuits which drive the printing elements, and an element selection circuit which selects printing elements within each group for each group having a predetermined number of adjacent printing elements, a plurality of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070165054 - Inkjet printing apparatus, inkjet printing method, program, and storage medium: The invention obtains superior printing quality even when printing at high speed, thinning the number of multi-pass inkjet printing scans. The inkjet printing apparatus comprises a printhead composed of multiple printing element arrays that are arranged corresponding to ink colors in the main scanning direction, and a unit that makes... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070165056 - Recording apparatus and recording method thereof, and program: Printed pages of a stably high image quality can be produced when performing printing using a recording apparatus having an elongate joint head. The recording apparatus determines whether an end of an image to be printed is included in a joint of overlapping chips. If the end of the image... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070165058 - Device and method for detecting temperature of head driver ic for ink jet printer: Each of a plurality of driver ICs, which drives an associated print head, includes an analog voltage provider, which provides an analog voltage which is inversely proportional to a temperature of the driver IC, a reference temperature provider, which provides a digital value corresponding to a reference temperature, a D/A... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165060 - Nozzle head: A nozzle head, having a feed line for a high-pressurized fluid, a channel for delivering an abrasive substance, with which the fluid can be loaded, as well as a discharge line, from which the fluid, loaded with abrasive substance, can issue, is designed such that the feed line and the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070165062 - Inkjet printer and printing head capping method: An inkjet printer has a printing head having a nozzle surface on which a plurality of nozzles are located that spray a plurality of kinds of ink and a cap that covers the nozzle surface of the printing head. This cap includes a ring-shaped seal lip that is constructed so... Agent: Eugene Ledonne Reed Smith LLP

20070165064 - Ink jet printing apparatus and ink jet printing method: In a structure in which a printing medium is subjected to a maintenance ejection in order to maintain a favorable ink ejection performance of a printing head, dots formed on the printing medium by the maintenance ejection have a reduced visibility. Specifically, an area of dots formed by landing ink... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070165065 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording medium by ejecting drops of recording fluid from a recording head includes a waste tank having a space for containing waste fluid, a part for obtaining a correlation value that has a correlation to a deposited state of the... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070165066 - Image forming device capable of stably supporting carriage: A downward component force of a tensile force exerted on a timing belt at a belt coupling part and the weight of a carriage act upon a first sliding surface of a first guide member and a second sliding surface of a second guide member via a first sliding protrusion... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070165067 - Liquid discharge head: A recording head including outlets disposed in a staggered pattern so that the distances from an ink inlet to the outlets differ alternately for adjacent outlets. A recording head includes an outlet group including a plurality of outlets on at least one side of an ink inlet. The outlet group... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070165068 - Apparatus and method for ink jet printing: An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for ink jet printing which can reduce density unevenness caused by an end deviation condition associated with ink droplets ejected from a print head, regardless of gray scale of a printed image. The present invention thus sets... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070165070 - Liquid-jet head and liquid-jet apparatus: A liquid-jet head includes: a plurality of head bodies, each having: a nozzle plate having a plurality of nozzles bored therein; a passage-forming substrate having a pressure generating chamber formed therein, which communicates with the nozzle and receives a pressure for use in ejecting a liquid droplet from a pressure... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070165072 - Ink jet recording method, pigment dispersion and actinic radiation curable type ink jet ink composition: Disclosed is an ink jet recording method by ejecting microscopic ink droplets, and curing the ink via actinic radiation. The ink contains pigment dispersion including photopolymerizable compounds and pigments, hydrophilicity δm of the surface of pigments incorporated therein being at most 22 cal1/2·cm−1/2.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070165073 - Printing apparatus, printing method, program and printing system: A printing apparatus can improve the image quality by improving uneven print density or graininess. A printing apparatus is provided with (A) a carry mechanism that carries a medium along a predetermined direction, (B) a nozzle that performs a moving and ejecting operation for ejecting ink toward the medium while... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165075 - Flexible circuits having ink-resistant covercoats: A circuit article for use with an inkjet printer pen. The circuit article comprises a flexible circuit having a plurality of conductive traces disposed on a dielectric film, an adhesive film disposed adjacent the dielectric film of the flexible circuit, and a carrier film disposed adjacent the first adhesive film,... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070165077 - Head module, liquid jetting head, liquid jetting apparatus, method of manufacturing head module, and method of manufacturing liquid jetting head: A head module includes a head chip provided with an array of heat generating elements, a nozzle sheet provided with nozzles, a barrier layer for forming ink liquid chambers, a module frame adhered to the nozzle sheet to thereby support the nozzle sheet and provided with a head chip arranging... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070165078 - Liquid ejection head, liquid cartridge, liquid ejection apparatus, image forming apparatus and manufacturing method of liquid ejecting head: A liquid ejection head includes therein a movable member, wherein the movable member is formed of lamination of at least three layers, at least one layer thereof having a free edge part covered with another layer.... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070165079 - Method for operating an inkjet printing apparatus: A method for operating an inkjet printing device with at least one inkjet printhead having a row of nozzles through which ink can be directed onto the substrate to be printed, which is guided over a cylinder or over a curved guide element. The inkjet printhead or each inkjet printhead... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070165082 - Liquid delivering apparatus and method of producing the same: A liquid delivering apparatus includes at least one piezoelectric element which deforms upon application of a drive voltage thereto, an oscillating plate on which the piezoelectric element is laminated and which is oscillated by deformation of the piezoelectric element, and at least one liquid chamber which stores liquid and which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070165084 - Accommodation device for ink cartridge: An ink-cartridge accommodation device including: a case which has a front opening and which accommodates an ink cartridge storing ink so as to permit the ink cartridge to be inserted into and withdrawn from the case through the front opening; and a connector which is disposed in a rear portion... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070165085 - Recording head and inkjet recording apparatus: A recording head includes: an ink reservoir; ejection nozzles; and at least one ink supply path through which ink, reserved in the ink reservoir, is supplied to the ejection nozzles. The ink supply path includes: a pressure chamber having a piezoelectric element for changing pressure inside of the ink supply... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP Attn: Patent Records Department

20070165088 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus has a shear mode liquid ejection head for ejecting ink, the shear mode liquid ejection head including: a pressure chamber into which the ink is filled; and a liquid affinity film which is made from a material containing a polyparaxylylene or a derivative of polyparaxylylene and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070165087 - Low-gloss ink-jet ink: Non-visible ink-jet printing ink composition for marking a substrate, comprising at least one marking compound absorbing light outside the visible wavelength range of about 400-700 nm, and which comprises a hydrocarbon compound, having two to six carbon atoms carrying two or three hydroxyl groups, as a non-particulate matting agent, so... Agent: Shoemaker And Mattare, Ltd

20070165086 - Recording fluid and recording method using the same: Disclosed is a recording liquid essentially composed of water, a coloring material, an organic solvent and a surfactant. The surfactant is composed of a specified ethylene oxide/propylene oxide/ethylene oxide block copolymer, a specified ethylene oxide/butylene oxide/ethylene oxide block copolymer or a specified propylene oxide/ethylene oxide/propylene oxide block copolymer. The recording... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070165089 - Image forming apparatus having urging member for urging feeeding roller toward recording medium: A supporting member is swingable about an imaginary swing axis that is parallel to an imaginary rotational axis of a feeding roller. The imaginary swing axis is located above a recording medium accommodated in a recording-medium accommodating section and is located upstream in a feeding direction of the recording medium... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070165090 - Printer module incorporating a quartet of co-operating rollers: A printer module includes an elongate body. A motor assembly is operatively mounted to an end of the body. A quartet of rollers is rotationally mounted with respect to the body and extends along the inside of the body. The rollers include a pair of driven rollers coupled to the... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070165092 - Ink jet recording apparatus: There are provided an ink jet recording apparatus which includes an ink jet recording head; an upstream side transport unit arranged upstream of a recording position; a downstream side transport unit arranged downstream of the recording position; a platen arranged to be spaced apart from the ink jet recording head... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165091 - Inkjet drawing device and inkjet drawing method: The inkjet drawing device and method form an image on a sheet-like image recording medium relatively transported in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to a main scanning direction by using photocurable ink with an inkjet head moving in the main scanning direction. The device and method cause the inkjet head to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165093 - Inkjet drawing method and inkjet drawing device: The inkjet drawing device and method form an image on an image recording medium relatively transported in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to a main scanning direction by using photocurable ink with an inkjet head moving in the main scanning direction. The device and method cause the inkjet head to eject... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070165094 - Thermal printing apparatus: A thermal printing apparatus (1) includes an erasing unit (51) and a printing unit (52) that are positioned along a paper guide (53). Between the erasing unit (51) and the printing unit (52), cooling fans (46) are located. The erasing unit (51) has an erasing roller (37) for applying heat... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070165095 - Image forming apparatus and image density controlling method: An image forming apparatus, forming an image by two-dimensionally fast and slow-scanning and exposing with light that has been modulated in accordance with image data representing an image and visualizing an electrostatic latent image with toner, includes a calculating unit that divides an image region in a fast-scanning direction into... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070165096 - Optical device: An optical device includes a movable portion having a light reflection portion formed thereon, a drive mechanism operable to pivot the movable portion so as to scan light reflected from the light reflection portion on an object, and a cooler configured to cool the movable portion. The movable portion is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070165097 - Image-forming device: An image-forming device has a plurality of cylindrical image-carrying members, and an optical scanning unit. The plurality of cylindrical image-carrying members is provided in a main casing for rotating about respective rotational axes. The rotational axes are parallel to one another and juxtaposed in a single direction. The optical scanning... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070165098 - Method for high precision printing of patterns: The present invention includes a method to print patterns with improved edge acuity. The method for printing fine patterns comprises the actions of: providing an SLM and providing a pixel layout pattern with different categories of modulating elements, the categories differing in the phase of the complex amplitude.... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070165099 - Image forming apparatus, optical writing device, and housing molding method providing simple structure: An image forming apparatus includes an electrostatic latent image carrier, and an optical writing device including at least one light source, at least one aperture, at least one light shield, a light deflector, an image forming lens, and a housing. The aperture adjusts a light beam generated by the light... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070165100 - Light scanning device: A light scanning device includes a light source that emits a laser beam, a deflector that deflects the laser beam emitted from the light source, a motor that drives the deflector so as to scan the deflected laser beam, an optical system that converges the deflected laser beam on an... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070165101 - Light beam scanning apparatus and controlling method for image forming apparatus: A light beam scanning apparatus that causes a beam generated by a light source to scan corresponding to recording direction along a photosensitive medium by rotating polygonal mirrors, wherein to form a latent image on the photosensitive medium, comprising a first polygonal mirror that rotates at a first velocity, a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070165102 - Control method for marking label side of optical disc: An inner ring signal and an outer ring signal according to specific patterns formed on the label side of the optical disc are generated. Timing starts when the outer ring signal reveals the end of a positioning pattern and stops to obtain a timing value when the inner ring signal... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070159507 - Piezoelectric actuator drive control method, piezoelectric actuator drive control apparatus, and electronic device: A piezoelectric actuator drive control method, piezoelectric actuator drive control device, and electronic device greatly reduce power consumption. The piezoelectric actuator drive control device stores as a speed setting the minimum speed at which a rotor (driven body) turns when driven by the minimum torque required to turn the rotor... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070159509 - Image recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus includes a recording head, a carriage mounted with the recording head and reciprocates in a reciprocation direction, a conductive wire extending from the carriage, a regulating wall which extends along a reciprocation direction of the carriage and suppresses the conductive wire from swelling in a direction... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070159510 - Mems switch: A Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) switch includes a substrate, a fixed signal line formed on the substrate, a movable signal line spaced apart from one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the fixed signal line, and at least one piezoelectric actuator connected to a first end... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070159513 - Ik-jet head: An ink-jet head includes a passage unit in which a common ink chamber and individual ink passages are formed, and an actuator unit fixed to the passage unit. A closed passage having a shape of the individual ink passage being partially closed is formed in the passage unit.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070159514 - Inkjet head and method of manufacturing inkjet head: An inkjet head including a substrate having a manifold supplying ink, a chamber formed of a photocurable epoxy resin, the chamber having a heat source and forming an ink chamber to temporarily storing the ink, and a nozzle plate formed on the chamber using a thermocurable epoxy resin and including... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070159504 - Internet printing: A network printing system includes a keypad (54, 59, 60) and a printer (55, 57, 58). The user of the printing system can print documents on the Internet without the personal computer and web browser Using Print Number System (PNS) and Universal Resource Locator (URL), a method for the printing... Agent: Lin Feng

20070159503 - Printing apparatus: A low cost printing device where a document sheet and a recording paper sheet are transferred by a single drive motor. A facsimile device as a printing device with an inkjet printer section has a single drive motor for producing a driving force for transferring a document sheet or a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159505 - Liquid tank and ink jet printing apparatus: There is provided a liquid tank having a liquid remaining amount sensing module that makes it possible to reliably determine that the amount of ink has reached a predetermined value, in spite of its simple and compact configuration. In the ink tank, an information storage element and a module are... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070159506 - Ejection control device, liquid ejecting device, liquid ejecting method, and recording medium and program used therewith: A liquid ejecting device includes an ejection pattern storage unit and a read-address shifting unit. In the ejection pattern storage unit, ejection patterns corresponding to grayscale data items, each data item representing a grayscale by using the number of droplets to be delivered to pixel regions, are stored so as... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070159508 - Wiper device and liquid ejection apparatus: A wiper device wipes a nozzle surface of a liquid ejection head along a wiping direction. The nozzle surface has a plurality of nozzle openings for ejecting liquid and step. The steps are located outside of the area in which the nozzle openings are provided and extend along the wiping... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070159511 - Method of manufacturing an ink jet head: A manufacturing method that includes the steps of forming an actuator unit, disposing a metallic bond and a thermosetting resin; pressing the land and the terminal; and heating the metallic bond and the thermosetting resin so that the land and the terminal are electrically connected to each other with the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070159512 - Ink jet head substrate having heat generating resistor and ink jet head and recording method using same: An ink jet recording method of ejecting ink using an ink jet head substrate provided with a heat generating resistor which is coated with a protecting film, wherein the ink is ejected by a pressure produced by generation of a bubble created by film boiling of the ink caused by... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070159515 - Bridging wick and method for an inkjet printhead: Some embodiments of the present invention provide an inkjet printhead within which a removable ink cartridge can be installed. Upon installation, the ink cartridge can be coupled to one or more wicks in the printhead for establishing fluid communication between one or more chambers in the ink cartridge and nozzles... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070159516 - Ink composition for ink jet recording, recording method and recorded matter: Disclosed is an ink composition for ink jet recording, which possesses excellent gloss and good color reproducibility on various recording media, especially printing paper for running-on. The ink composition for ink jet recording comprises at least a colorant, water, an alkanediol, and a surfactant, wherein the alkanediol comprises a water... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070159517 - Method of erasing image, image erasing apparatus, and method of recycling recording medium: A method of erasing an image for erasing an image formed by applying ink containing a dye to a recording medium. The image is exposed to an oxidizing gas generated by dielectric barrier discharge. An apparatus for performing the method and a method of recycling the recording medium are also... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070159518 - Phase change ink imaging component having elastomer outer layer: An offset printing apparatus having a coated imaging member for use with phase-change inks, has a substrate, an optional intermediate layer, and thereover an outer coating having an elastomer of monomers selected from the group consisting of halogenated monomers, polyorganosiloxane monomers, and mixtures thereof, and an optional heating member associated... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070159519 - Printer and recording method: A printer is provided with a recording portion including a recording head for recording on one side of a recording medium, a thermal activation portion including a thermal head for heating the other side of the recording medium, a first discharge port disposed on a downstream side of the recording... Agent: Bruce L. Adams, Esq.

20070159520 - Optical scanning system and image forming apparatus using the same: p

20070153034 - Circuit of multiplexing inkjet print system and control circuit thereof: A circuit of a multiplexing inkjet print system and a control circuit thereof for driving a plurality of jet orifices. A signal generating unit generates an enable signal according to a first clock signal and data. Then, a counter counts according to the enable signal to generate a plurality of... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070153035 - Inkjet image forming apparatus and control method of the same: An inkjet image forming apparatus includes a printhead including a nozzle array having a plurality of nozzles arranged in a main scanning direction, an auxiliary printhead having an auxiliary nozzle to fire ink to assist the nozzles to print the image and capable of reciprocating in the main scanning direction,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070153040 - Installing unit for data recording/reproducing device and photo-printer having the same: An installing unit to stably install a data recording/reproducing device, such as a hard disk drive (HDD) into a photo-printer body, and a photo-printer having the installing unit are provided. The installing unit includes: a supporting bracket to support the data recording/reproducing device; a first vibration prevention member to support... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070153047 - Ink path structure, inkjet printhead having the same and method of manufacturing the inkjet printhead: An ink path structure, an inkjet printhead having the same and a method of manufacturing the inkjet printhead includes an ink chamber in which ink to be ejected is filled, nozzles through which ink is ejected from the ink chamber, an ink feed hole through which ink is supplied to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070153051 - Manufacturing flat panel displays with inkjet printing systems: An inkjet printing system for manufacturing displays includes a stage on which a substrate is mounted, an inkjet head for depositing ink on the substrate, and a transfer device for controllably moving the inkjet head to selected positions above the substrate. The inkjet head includes a frame having a plurality... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070153056 - Inkjet printing system and method of manufacturing display device using the same: An inkjet printing system includes a stage configure to mount a substrate thereon, a head unit which drips ink onto the substrate, and a moving device which moves the head unit to predetermined positions. The head unit may include an inkjet head and a plurality of nozzles having a long... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070153071 - Apparatus and method for ink-jetting and gas-supplying unit: An inkjet apparatus comprising a jetting unit comprising a stage on which a substrate to be jetted is seated, a nozzle head disposed on the stage; a gas supplying unit comprising an auxiliary gas supply supportively supplying a gas to the jetting unit, and a gas supply selector which selects... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070153029 - In-car entertainment unit with print capability: An in-car entertainment (ICE) unit includes a compact disc (CD) player configured to play a CD. A radio receiver is configured to receive a radio broadcast. A first user console is provided to permit a user to control operation of the CD player and the radio receiver. A liquid crystal... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070153030 - Printer having unevenly controlled printhead modules with shift registers: A printer is provided having a printhead of first and second elongate printhead modules and first and second printer controllers configured to receive print data and process the print data to output dot data to the printhead. The printhead modules are parallel to each other, are disposed end to end... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070153031 - Printhead system having power and data connectors: A printhead system is provided having at least one printhead module and at least one controller. The printhead module(s) has at least two print nozzle integrated circuits, a support member supporting and carrying the printing fluid for the print nozzle integrated circuits, and a plurality of electrical connectors individually connected... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070153032 - Microinjection apparatus integrated with size detector: The invention provides a microinjection apparatus for a fluid. The microinjection apparatus includes a substrate, a manifold, a fluid chamber, a dummy chamber, a detecting device, and a pair of parallel conductive plates. The manifold is formed on the substrate and supplies the fluid chamber and the dummy chamber, also... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070153033 - Micro-droplet injection apparatus and injecting process using the same: A micro-droplet injection apparatus and the injecting process using the same are provided for fabricating a micro-element. The apparatus includes an injection module, a moving stage module, an image detection module, and a temperature controlling module. The injection module is provided for injecting a micro-droplet on a substrate carried on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070153038 - Method for controlling nozzle firing in overlapped printhead segments: A method of controlling the firing of nozzles within overlapped segments of a printhead is provided, in which temperatures of adjacent segments are measured to determine an overlapped region of the adjacent segments and a half toning firing pattern of a continuous tone image for coextensive nozzles of the adjacent... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070153037 - Printing device and method for controlling such a printing device: A printing device and method for printing the surface of a substrate with a printing ink wherein a primary printing component and a secondary printing component are heated to their respective surface temperatures through the cooperation of a controller.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070153036 - Recording head substrate, recording head, and recording apparatus using the recording head substrate and the recording head: A recording head circuit is configured to drive a plurality of recording elements by dividing the plurality of recording elements into a plurality of blocks. The circuit delays not only heat signals, which are used to drive the recording elements in each of the blocks, but also block signals. Consequently,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070153039 - Printhead having rows of symmetrically arranged nozzles: A printhead is provided which has a plurality of rows of print nozzles. Each row has first and second drive circuitry for each nozzle respectively positioned at opposite sides of each nozzle with respect to the row. The respective positions of the first and second circuitry of each nozzle of... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070153041 - Ink-jet recording apparatus and control method of said apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus applicable for two-side recording, which permits reliable reduction of smears caused by contact of the recording medium or secondary smears staining the following recording media by the ink adhering in the conveyance path, and obtaining high-quality images. After performing recording on the surface of the recording... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070153042 - Multi-pass print apparatus and method: A multi-pass printing apparatus and a method thereof are provided. The print data is divided into multiple passes of print data. Each of the print passes is printed according to different delay position signals, such that a complete print output is achieved. Each pass of the print data to be... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070153043 - Printing apparatus and method for forming patterns for liquid crystal display device using the same: A printing apparatus includes at least one printing nozzle for applying a material, at least one first printing plate, at least one second printing plate, at least one printing roll for transcribing a portion of the pattern material on one of a first substrate and a second substrate, the transcribed... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw, LLP

20070153045 - Methods and apparatuses for regulating the temperature of multi-via heater chips: Heater chips for use with a printing device, such as heater chips that include a first heater array, positioned substantially adjacent a first via, and a second heater array, positioned substantially adjacent a second via. The heater chip can also include a region, positioned between the first heater array and... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070153044 - Methods and apparatuses for sensing temperature of multi-via heater chips: Heater chips for use with a printing device, such as heater chips that include a first heater array, positioned substantially adjacent a first via, and a second heater array, positioned substantially adjacent a second via. The heater chip can also include a region, positioned between the first heater array and... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070153046 - Inkjet printing apparatus and inkjet printing method: An inkjet printing apparatus includes an edge detecting unit adapted to detect an edge portion or a non-edge portion in the image data a memory adapted to store a plurality of edge reducing masks used to reduce image data in the edge portion and a plurality of non-edge reducing masks... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070153049 - Droplet dispensation from a reservoir with reduction in uncontrolled electrostatic charge: Devices and methods are provided for reducing the uncontrolled electrostatic charges that can alter the volume and/or trajectory of a droplet, which is typically ejected through the application of focused acoustic radiation. Also provided are reservoirs and substrates, e.g., well plates formed from a material that is at least partially... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20070153048 - Fluid ejection head assembly: A fluid ejection head of a fluid ejection device is provided, the fluid ejection head having a substrate, a fluid ejection die coupled with the substrate, an electromagnetic radiation-curable adhesive disposed on the substrate, and a cover coupled with the substrate via the electromagnetic radiation-curable adhesive, wherein the cover includes... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070153050 - Apparatus and method for ink-jetting: An inkjet apparatus comprising a stage which has a seating area on which a substrate is seated; a plurality of nozzle heads having a plurality of nozzles disposed in a first direction; an ink supply which jets ink through the nozzle heads; a driver which moves the nozzle heads in... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070153052 - Inkjet printhead assembly with parallel ranks of spaced apart printheads: An inkjet printhead assembly includes an elongate support. The support defines a plurality of longitudinally extending ink supply channels. A shim is mounted to the support and defines a plurality of rows of openings through which ink from respective supply channels can be provided. A plurality of printhead carriers is... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070153053 - Nozzle for inkjet printer head and method of manufacturing thereof: A nozzle of an inkjet printer which can improve straightness of an ink, and a method of manufacturing the same. Initially, a seed metal layer can be formed on a nozzle having an ink path and a liquid photocurable resin is filled therein. The photocurable resin is hardened by emitting... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070153054 - Ink jet print head adapted to minimize orientation-induced line-width variation: n

20070153055 - Ink jet print head adapted to minimize orientation-induced line-width variation:

20070153057 - Printhead assembly with thermally aligning printhead modules: A printhead assembly that includes an elongate support beam having a silicon core, an intermediate elastomeric layer mounted to the core and an outer support structure mounted to the elastomeric layer. A plurality of printhead modules is mounted to the support beam. The printhead modules and support beam are configured... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070153059 - Inkjet printhead having independent modular components: An inkjet printhead is provided having at least one printhead module and drive electronics removably mounted to a support frame. The printhead module(s) has inkjet integrated circuits, a support member supporting and carrying ink for the inkjet integrated circuits and an electrical connector for connecting drive signals to the inkjet... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070153058 - Inkjet printhead with ink spread restriction walls: A printhead is provided for an inkjet printer. The printhead includes a wafer assembly defining a plurality of spaced apart groups of ink supply channels. A plurality of groups of ink ejection nozzle arrangements is provided in fluid communication with respective ink supply channel groups. Each group of nozzle arrangements... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070153060 - Fluid ejector having an anisotropic surface chamber etch: A fluid ejecting device and method of forming same are provided. The fluid ejecting device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface located opposite the first surface. A nozzle plate is formed over the first surface of the substrate. The nozzle plate has a nozzle through... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20070153061 - Inkjet printhead assembly with obliquely oriented printheads: An inkjet printhead assembly includes an elongate ink feed structure defining a plurality of longitudinally extending ink supply passages and a plurality of spaced apart sets of outlet holes with the holes of each set being in fluid communication with respective ink supply passages. A plurality of printhead modules is... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070153063 - Method and apparatus for ejecting liquid: In a method and an apparatus for ejecting liquid, the processing accuracy of an ejection unit for ejecting ink can be easily increased and the variations in the volume of ink drops, the ejection angle thereof, etc., can be reduced even when dust is mixed in ink. In addition, a... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070153062 - Monolithic fabrication method and structure of array nozzles on thermal inkjet print head: A fabrication method and structure of array nozzles on thermal inkjet print head is provided. Volcano shape array nozzles and inkjet vaporization chambers with accurate alignment to the individual positions of micro-heating elements on the wafer surface are obtained by using lithography and copper plating methods. The nozzles are made... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070153064 - Liquid ejection head, liquid ejector and process for manufacturing liquid ejection head: The present invention relates to a liquid jet head, a liquid jet apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a liquid jet head, and when applied, for example, to an ink jet printer based on the thermal system, the invention makes it possible to sufficiently secure the film thickness of a... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070153065 - Inkjet jet stack external manifold: An inkjet external ink manifold is provided that allows for use of a jet stack that does not internally contain ink manifolds. The external ink manifold has a manifold body that includes one or more ink manifold chambers and includes ports arranged to connect the chambers to one or more... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070153067 - Liquid ejection apparatus: A liquid ejection apparatus includes liquid cartridges, each of which includes a liquid container and a pressure chamber, the liquid container having a flexible portion and storing liquid therein, and the pressure chamber applying pressure to the flexible portion of the liquid container; a liquid ejection head, which ejects the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070153066 - Marking material cartridge with processor having configurable logic: A processor is provided for use with a marking material cartridge the processor having configurable logic for configuring the processor for use with an associated printing device. A print cartridge includes a housing defining a chamber for storing a marking material therein and a circuit on the housing. The circuit... Agent: Timothy E. Nauman, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070153068 - Rolling ink stick: An ink stick for use in a phase change ink jet printer is provided wherein the ink jet printer has an ink feed channel having a feed direction leading to a melt plate. The ink stick comprises an ink stick body having an external surface and an axis of rotation.... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070153069 - Circuitry for printer: A print head has an array of jets formed in a jet stack to deliver ink to an image receptor and at least one ink reservoir to deliver ink to the jet stack. Control circuitry is arranged on the jet stack with an actuator array arranged on the control circuitry... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070153070 - Filter for printhead assembly: A method of supplying liquid ink to a printhead assembly including a carrier, a printhead die mounted on the carrier, and a fluid delivery assembly communicated with the carrier includes communicating a fluid manifold of the carrier with the printhead die, communicating the fluid delivery assembly with the fluid manifold... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070153072 - Water-based ink for ink-jet recording: A water-based ink for ink-jet recording contains water, a water-soluble organic solvent, a coloring agent and a crown ether. Even when the water-based ink is employed in the ink passage of an ink-jet recording apparatus and comes into contact with rubber members employed in the ink passage, the occurrence of... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070153073 - Pad mounting for a pad printer: Pad mounting for a pad printer including a pad printer having a frame; a pad coupler attached to the frame; a printing pad; and a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism removably secures the printing pad to the pad coupler.... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20070153075 - Inkjet printing system and method of manufacturing display device using the same: An inkjet printing system includes a stage having a substrate mounted thereon, a head unit for dripping ink onto the substrate, a drying unit for drying the ink dripped onto the substrate, and a moving device for moving the head unit and the drying unit to predetermined positions, wherein the... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070153074 - Systems and methods for synchronized on-carrier printing and drying: Printing systems such as those comprising a printing device operable for depositing one or more inks upon a substrate and a drying device, such as one operable for emitting radiation having a pre-selected electromagnetic wavelength, for the purpose of drying the one or more inks in a predetermined time period... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070153076 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus comprises rollers, an endless conveyor belt, a nip roller, and an ink-jet head. The endless conveyor belt is stretched between the rollers. The nip roller cooperates with an outer surface of the conveyor belt to sandwich a recording medium. The ink-jet head has nozzles from which... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070153077 - Image printing apparatus and image printing method: When images are to be printed on two, front and lower surfaces of a sheet, in order to register the position of the image on the front surface and the position of the image on the back surface highly accurately, an image printing apparatus of this invention includes an image... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070153078 - Cartridges for reprographics devices: A removable cartridge for a reprographics device, such as a printer, is described. The removable cartridge comprises a signature scanning unit for use in generating a signature based upon an intrinsic characteristic of an article, such as a paper sheet, determined by illuminating the article with a coherent beam. By... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070153079 - Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively avoiding an adverse temperature effect to an optical scanning system: An image forming apparatus includes a first support member, an image carrying member configured to carry a toner image thereon, and an optical writing apparatus connected to the first support member and configured to form an electrostatic latent image on the image carrying member. The optical writing apparatus includes an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070153080 - High-speed continuous film writer: A high-speed writer suitable for continuous writing of data onto a photosensitive medium is disclosed. The system includes an illumination source having a plurality of individual colors. An illumination optical element distributes individual color onto distinct areas of the high-speed area array modulator, wherein each distinct area is proportionally related... Agent: Pamela R. Crocker, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company