| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6385410 |
Fixing apparatus using a thin-sleeve roller which achieves a good fixing result while suppressin |
May 7, 2002 |
| A fixing apparatus using a thin-sleeve roller is provided which gives a good fixing result while suppressing electric power consumption. The fixing apparatus includes a hollow cylindrical heating roller, a heat source positioned inside the heating roller, a pressing roller that is in |
| 6383729 |
Photographic support and photothermographic material by use thereof |
May 7, 2002 |
| A polyester film is disclosed, exhibiting a minimum value of not more than 0.15 with respect to the tan .delta. value obtained at a frequency of 0.01 Hz within the range of 100 to 160.degree. C., the tan .delta. being determined in a tensile viscoelasticity measurement. A photographic |
| 6383621 |
Thermal transfer image forming material |
May 7, 2002 |
| A thermal transfer image forming material is disclosed, which comprises a intermediate layer, and an image forming layer onto a support. The thermal transfer image forming material comprises a matting material having a number average grain diameter greater than the average thickness of t |
| 6381439 |
Document feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus |
April 30, 2002 |
| An apparatus for feeding a both-sided document having images on both sides thereof is provided with a document stand; a reading section; a feeder having a feeding passage and to feed the both-sided document from the document stand to the reading section along the feeding passage; a pair |
| 6377752 |
Zoom camera and adjusting method for field ratio of zoom finder of zoom camera |
April 23, 2002 |
| A camera includes: a lens barrel having a lens; a driving element for driving the lens barrel to move in a direction of an optical axis thereof; a finder of which magnification varies in accordance with a movement of the lens barrel driven by the driving element; a position sensor for |
| 6376165 |
Preparation method photothermographic material |
April 23, 2002 |
| A method of preparing a photothermographic material, comprising a support having thereon at least a layer, the method comprising the steps of:coating a coating solution containing an organic silver salt, a photosensitive silver halide and a reducing agent on the support to form a coated |
| 6376161 |
Image information recording method |
April 23, 2002 |
| An image information recording method is disclosed. The method comprises the steps ofimagewise exposed to light a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a light-sensitive layer comprising light-sensitive silver halide and a coupler,color d |
| 6373993 |
Image processing method and image processing apparatus |
April 16, 2002 |
| An image processing apparatus is provided with an optical system to for irradiating light to an image document, for detecting light transmitting through the image document or light reflected from the image document and for converting the light into electric signals, thereby obtaining a f |
| 6370229 |
Radiation image reading system and radiation image reading method |
April 9, 2002 |
| A radiation image reading system, comprises a plurality of reading apparatus to read a radiation image and to produce image data; and an information transmitting apparatus to transmit information regarding a patient to at least a reading apparatus of the plurality of reading apparatu |
| 6370103 |
Objective lens for correcting chromatic aberration for use in recording to or reproducing from o |
April 9, 2002 |
| An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from one of different kinds of optical information recording medium, each having a transparent substrate in different thickness, or for recording information onto one of the different kinds of optical information recording medium, |
| 6368767 |
Image forming material and production method of the same, and an image forming apparatus |
April 9, 2002 |
| An ablation image forming material is disclosed. In the image forming material the colorant particles are metal particles which are magnetized upon application of to magnetic force, a production method of the same, and an image forming apparatus. |
| 6366542 |
Optical pickup apparatus and objective lens |
April 2, 2002 |
| An optical pickup apparatus to conduct reproducing and/or recording information of an optical information recording medium, comprises a light source to emit a light flux having a wavelength of .lambda. (nm); a converging optical system to converge the light flux emitted from the ligh |
| 6365909 |
Radiographic image reading apparatus |
April 2, 2002 |
| An apparatus for reading a radiographic image is provided with a holding section for holding a medium taken out from a cassette, wherein the medium has a recording surface on which the radiographic image is stored, the hold section holding the medium such that the orientation of the reco |
| 6360063 |
Image forming apparatus wherein writing of an image is conducted before feeding of a transfer ma |
March 19, 2002 |
| In an image forming apparatus, in which toner images formed on an image forming body are formed on double sides of a transfer material, a writing of an image on the image forming body by a writing device according to image data for an intermediate transfer body is conducted before a feed |
| 6356721 |
Image forming apparatus having controller which controls jobs including image forming processing |
March 12, 2002 |
| There is described an image forming apparatus favorably applied to a copying machine equipped with a control function for jobs including image forming processing. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming section to form an image, a sheet-feeding/conveyance section to convey |
| 6355407 |
Thermally developable photosensitive material |
March 12, 2002 |
| A thermally developable photosensitive material comprising organic silver salts, photosensitive silver halides, and reducing agents. The thermally developable photosensitive material has a support having am moisture content of not more than 0.5 percent by weight. |
| 6355355 |
Packaging materials for electrophotographic development materials, a packaging method, and toner |
March 12, 2002 |
| A packaging material for electrophotographic development materials is disclosed. The packaging material comprising a film having a moisture permeability of 0.7 g/m.sup.2 /day, or a packaging material for electrophotographic development materials in which inner-most layer is an adhesi |
| 6351604 |
Lens-fitted film unit |
February 26, 2002 |
| In a lens-fitted film unit provided with an unexposed film having an ISO sensitivity Sviso; a lens having a fixed focal length of f (mm) and a fixed f-number F; a shutter having a fixed shutter speed T (sec); a system sensitivity index S is larger than 0 and not larger than 4.5; wherein |
| 6349083 |
Near field type optical disk recording reproducing apparatus, optical information recording medi |
February 19, 2002 |
| In a near field type optical disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus, provided with a light source; an objective single lens to converse light from the light source to a focusing point; an optical disk; and a rotating device to rotate the optical disk; the objective lens has a first |
| 6347200 |
Duplex image forming apparatus |
February 12, 2002 |
| The present invention concerns a duplex image forming apparatus, which can form images on both sides of a transfer sheet by employing an intermediate transfer element. The duplex image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a toner image forming section to form a toner image |
| 6346368 |
Silver halide light sensitive color reversal photographic material |
February 12, 2002 |
| A silver halide color reversal photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler and a |
| 6345169 |
Fixing apparatus with heat ray generating device |
February 5, 2002 |
| A fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image on a transfer sheet with heat and pressure is provided with (A) a heating roller including a cylindrical light transmitting base member; a heat ray generating device, provided inside of the cylindrical light transmitting base member, to generat |
| 6344303 |
Image forming material and preparation method thereof |
February 5, 2002 |
| A preparation method of an image forming material comprising a support having thereon at least an image forming layer is desclosed, comprising subjecting one side of the support to a treatment to modify the surface of the support and coating an image forming layer on the surface-modified |
| 6344075 |
Dye and image recording material, and thermal transfer material and ink-jet recording liquid |
February 5, 2002 |
| A dye and a recording material employing the dye are disclosed. The dye is represented by formulaIn the formula, A represents a metal-free atomic group necessary to form a condensed ring having --NR.sub.1 R.sub.2 as a substituent on the ring, except for one ring in which a carbon atom on |
| 6342909 |
Method and apparatus for image formation while considering a position of a transfer sheet in a p |
January 29, 2002 |
| An image forming apparatus includes: a writing device for writing an image on the basis of image data thereof; a controller for controlling a writing position in a primary scanning direction by the writing device; a conveying device for conveying a recording material; and a position |
| 6341904 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming process |
January 29, 2002 |
| An image forming apparatus,-in which an ink sheet is superimposed onto an image receiving sheet and subjected to imagewise exposure to light to allow an image in the ink sheet to transfer to the image receiving sheet to form an image is disclosed, comprising a drum, an exposure device, a |
| 6340984 |
Image forming apparatus for correcting an angle of inclination of the recording material and for |
January 22, 2002 |
| An image forming apparatus has: an image memory for storing image data; an image recording device having an image recording position for recording an image onto a recording material at the image recording position; a conveying device for conveying the recording material to the image |
| 6338940 |
Silver halide photographic light sensitive materials and image forming method by use thereof |
January 15, 2002 |
| A silver halide photographic light sensitive material IS DISCLOSED, comprising a support having thereon a yellow dye image forming layer, a magenta dye image forming layer and a cyan dye image forming layer, wherein when the photographic material is subjected to exposure of not more |
| 6337304 |
Thermal transfer recording material |
January 8, 2002 |
| An image receiving sheet characterized by comprising an image receiving layer composed of a metal ion containing compound capable of forming chelate with athermally transferable dye and an acryl resin composed of styrene and acrylonitrile as component unit, and an image forming method em |
| 6335808 |
Image reading apparatus |
January 1, 2002 |
| To provide an image reading apparatus which is capable of easily and quickly specifying a frame of a transparency original for which image reading is desired from the transparency original having a plurality of frames and of image reading with high accuracy at the time of final readi |
| 6328488 |
Automatic processor for silver halide photographic light-sensitive material |
December 11, 2001 |
| An apparatus for processing a photographic light sensitive material with a processing solution, comprises a jetting head provided so as to face the photographic light sensitive material with air space and having a plurality of orifices through which the processing solution is jetted |
| 6324146 |
Disk driving apparatus |
November 27, 2001 |
| In a disk driving apparatus in which a disk cartridge having therein an information recording medium and a clutch on a part of the disk cartridge is inserted for reproducing or recording information on the information recording medium, the apparatus includes: a clutch provided on a part |
| 6321064 |
Document feeding apparatus |
November 20, 2001 |
| A document feeding apparatus includes a paper feeding tray, on which a document is placed, a transfer unit that transfers the document placed on the paper feeding tray to a platen glass, a paper delivery tray for receiving the document transferred to the platen glass, and a platen cover |
| 6320950 |
Communication control unit having a free dial and collect call function by utilizing caller ID s |
November 20, 2001 |
| In a communication control unit, CPU judges whether a telephone number of a caller is included in caller ID signals and communicating section starts communicating with the caller when the CPU judges that the telephone number of the caller is not included in the caller ID signals; or call |
| 6320682 |
Image forming apparatus |
November 20, 2001 |
| In an apparatus for forming multi-color image provided with a rotatable image carrying member and a plurality of image forming means each having a charging device, a scanning exposure device and a developing device; each scanning exposure device includes a beam generator and a polygonal |
| 6320674 |
Image forming apparatus |
November 20, 2001 |
| An image forming apparatus is equipped with a document reading device for reading image data on a document at a reading section; a memory to store the image data therein, the memory capable of storing the image data of plural pages of documents; and an image recording system for recordin |
| 6320042 |
Polarizing plate protective cellulose triacetate film |
November 20, 2001 |
| A cellulose triacetate film characterized in being comprised of cellulose triacetate which is prepared by employing cotton liter as the raw material, having a value of weight average molecular weight Mw/number average molecular weight Mn of 3.5 to 4.5, or being comprised of cellulose |
| 6319598 |
Electromagnetic wave attenuating transparent member |
November 20, 2001 |
| An electromagnetic wave attenuating transparent member includes; a transparent base material, and a plurality of structural layers including at least one transparent conductive layer. Sheet resistivity of the electromagnetic wave attenuating transparent member is 100 .OMEGA./cm.sup.2 |
| 6313956 |
Optical pickup apparatus and objective lens |
November 6, 2001 |
| An optical pickup apparatus for reproducing information from or recording onto one of different kinds of optical information recording medium comprises a first light source for emitting first light flux whose wavelength is .lambda.1; a second light source for emitting second light fl |
| 6310711 |
Optical defection device, stop control method thereof, and image forming apparatus therewith |
October 30, 2001 |
| An optical deflection device includes: a fixed supporting member; a coil supporting member fixed on the fixed supporting member; a coil fixed on the coil supporting member; a rotary body having a rotary polygon mirror, a magnet facing and apart from the coil and a rotary supporting membe |
| 6307685 |
Zoom lens |
October 23, 2001 |
| A zoom lens includes, in the order named from an object side: a first lens group having a positive focal length; a second lens group having a negative focal length; and a third lens group having a positive focal length.A magnification is changed by moving said second and third lens group |
| 6297872 |
Image forming apparatus |
October 2, 2001 |
| An image reading apparatus includes: a size detector for detecting a first size of a first image recorded on an original; an input device for inputting a second size of a second image to be recorded on a recording medium by an image recording apparatus; a determining device for deter |
| 6295117 |
Printing apparatus and printing system |
September 25, 2001 |
| There is described a system for producing prints, which includes inputting device to input image data and information corresponding to the image data, a selector to select either a first mode or a second mode and a printer to print images on a recording medium. In the first mode, the |
| 6295080 |
Image recording apparatus with print head having plural light emitting elements |
September 25, 2001 |
| An image recording apparatus is provided with a recording head in which a plurality of light emitting sections are aligned along a single dotted line or plural dotted lines, and a shifting device for shifting photosensitive material relatively to the recording head so that an image i |
| 6294319 |
Silver halide photographic emulsion |
September 25, 2001 |
| A method for preparing a silver halide emulsion is disclose, wherein during the course of preparing a silver halide emulsion, a compound having a group capable of releasing a bromide ion or iodide ion and represented by the following formula is used:wherein X represents a chlorine atom o |
| 6288733 |
Image forming apparatus employing dots of a predetermined diameter |
September 11, 2001 |
| An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, an exposure device for exposing the photoreceptor with a laser beam dot by dot so as to form a dotted latent image on the photoreceptor, and a developing device for developing the dotted latent image with developer. The apparatus also |
| 6285841 |
Image forming apparatus using an asymmetric wave pattern of developing bias voltage |
September 4, 2001 |
| An image forming apparatus, including: a charger, arranged around an image carrier, for charging a surface of the image carrier; an exposure device, arranged around the image carrier, for exposing the surface of the image carrier, after it is charged by the charger, and for forming an |
| 6285513 |
Optical element |
September 4, 2001 |
| An optical element, comprises a silicon based resin satisfying following three conditional formulas: (1) (number of silicon atoms residing as R1SiO.sub.3/2 in the silicon based resin)/(total number of silicon atoms in the silicon based resin).gtoreq.0, (2) (number of silicon atoms re |
| 6283354 |
Sheet processing apparatus |
September 4, 2001 |
| A sheet processing apparatus has a function of stapling sheets together, wherein the sheets are fed from an image forming apparatus one by one after images are formed on the sheets. The sheet processing apparatus includes a stapler to staple the sheets together, a sheet guide which g |
| 6282399 |
Fixing apparatus |
August 28, 2001 |
| A fixing apparatus that fixes, on a transfer material, toner images on the transfer material through heating and pressing, wherein, a ray-radiating member that radiates rays is provided, and a roll-shaped rotary member for applying heat is formed by providing a cylindrical ray-transmitti |
