| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE38759 |
DIGITAL STILL VIDEO CAMERA, IMAGE DATA OUTPUT SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL STILL VIDEO CAMERA, FRAME FOR D |
July 19, 2005 |
| The digital still video camera according to the present invention comprises a liquid crystal monitor and an operation display section and picture information input means for inputting picture information for a printer, an MEM as a memory means for storing inputted picture means, and a CP |
| RE33155 |
Aqueous ink for ink jet printing |
January 30, 1990 |
| An aqueous ink is disclosed, which comprises a first magenta dye having the formula (I), a second magenta dye having the formula (II), a water-soluble organic solvent having a boiling point of 100.degree. C. or higher, water and a preservative and anti-mold agent: ##STR1## wherei |
| 7623821 |
Conveyor device, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and method of forming image |
November 24, 2009 |
| A conveyor device includes a conveyor belt and a driving unit that applies a driving force to the conveyor belt at different portions in a width direction of the conveyor belt to drive the conveyor belt. The driving unit includes a driving shaft having a projection corresponding to each |
| 7621519 |
Sheet conveying apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus |
November 24, 2009 |
| A first conveying unit conveys a sheet. A second conveying unit conveys the sheet conveyed by the first conveying unit in a direction different from a sheet conveying direction of the first conveying unit, and is disposed on a downstream side in the sheet conveying direction of the f |
| 7619796 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus |
November 17, 2009 |
| An aperture has an aperture opening that transmits a predetermined portion of a light beam. A phase optical element changes a phase of a portion of a light beam. A scanning lens focuses the light beam into a beam spot on a scanning surface. The phase optical element has a function of |
| 7616923 |
Power guiding device and image forming apparatus having power guiding device |
November 10, 2009 |
| A shutter is rotatably supported by a first powder guiding member. When the first powder guiding member and a second powder guiding member occupy powder guiding positions, the shutter takes an open position. At this moment, a rear end of an upper surface of an open/close plate of the |
| 7612570 |
Surface-potential distribution measuring apparatus, image carrier, and image forming apparatus |
November 3, 2009 |
| A surface-potential distribution measuring apparatus includes an electron gun, an electron-beam optical system, an electron-emission panel, a detector, and a control system. The electron-beam optical system is located between the electron gun and a sample, and focuses a beam of elect |
| 7610008 |
Cleaning device, and process unit and image forming apparatus including the cleaning device |
October 27, 2009 |
| A cleaning device including an elastic blade whose tip is contacted with a surface of a rotating member in such a manner as to counter the rotated member to remove particles of a toner on the rotated member; and a holder configured to support the elastic blade, wherein a nip formed by |
| 7607537 |
Packaging box |
October 27, 2009 |
| A packaging box includes a first wall portion (11) and a second wall portion (12) opposed to the first wall portion (12). A shrinkable container (140a) filled with the contents is sandwiched between the first wall portion (11) and the second wall portion (12), and the container (140a |
| 7603071 |
Lubricity maintaining image forming apparatus and process cartridge |
October 13, 2009 |
| An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer that carries a toner image and a lubricant supplying device that supplies lubricant to the surface of the image bearer. The lubricant supplying device is provided in the image forming apparatus and includes a lubricant block and a brush |
| 7603061 |
Image forming apparatus |
October 13, 2009 |
| An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording medium, capable of reducing deterioration of image bearer, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a driver to move the image bearer, a image forming device to form a visible ima |
| 7603055 |
Cover for image forming apparatus to facilitate parts recycling |
October 13, 2009 |
| A cover for use in an apparatus includes a plate and at least one rib. The plate has an inner surface, and at the least one rib is formed on the inner surface of the plate to define one or more compartments. Each compartment is configured to receive a corresponding part removed from |
| 7603054 |
Image forming apparatus, powder supplying unit, toner container, powder container, and method of |
October 13, 2009 |
| 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 toner container |
| 7602540 |
Optical deflector, optical scanner, and image forming apparatus |
October 13, 2009 |
| An optical deflector includes a rotary body including a polygon mirror; a rotation shaft fixed to the rotary body; a bearing unit rotatably supporting the rotation shaft; and a board to which the bearing unit is fixed. Where P [rpm] is the number of revolutions of the rotary body, l |
| 7599650 |
Developer bearing member, developing device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus |
October 6, 2009 |
| A developer bearing member on which grooves slanting in a thrust direction of the developer bearing member cross other grooves reversely slanting relative to the thrust direction, wherein each of the grooves and the reversely slanting grooves is slanting at an angle of greater than 0 |
| 7598972 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus |
October 6, 2009 |
| A deflecting unit deflects a light beam emitted by each of a plurality of light-beam emitting units independently to scan surfaces of different bodies to be scanned. Each of a plurality of light-receiving units receives the deflected light beam at a predetermined position in a direct |
| 7596749 |
Method and system for script processing in script implementation of HTTP to obtain information f |
September 29, 2009 |
| A method, system, and computer program product for extracting status information from within a script of a web page stored on a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network using an HTTP communication protocol. The method includes the steps of obtaining, based on vendor and |
| 7595812 |
Image forming apparatus, printer apparatus, facsimile apparatus, and copying machine |
September 29, 2009 |
| An image forming apparatus includes a light source that emits a light beam in a main scanning direction according to image data to be used for image formation, a control unit that controls the light source, and detectors that detect the light beam. The main scanning direction is divided |
| 7593679 |
Heat recycling image forming apparatus |
September 22, 2009 |
| In an image forming apparatus, a recording medium with a toner image is heated in a heat fusion region to fix the toner image on the recording medium. The image forming apparatus includes a heat pump. The heat pump includes a heat absorbing unit that absorbs heat from the recording m |
| 7593652 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming system that calculate operation amount of components t |
September 22, 2009 |
| Process units, a transfer unit, a belt cleaning unit, a secondary transfer unit and a fixing unit each include a storage unit that stores therein information on the operation amount thereof measured by a controller as operation record with respect to each unit. The controller updates the |
| 7589756 |
Optical scanning device, image forming apparatus, optical scanning correcting method, and image |
September 15, 2009 |
| A beam detecting unit detects at least one of a position of an optical beam in a sub scanning direction and a position of the optical beam in a main scanning direction. A color-misalignment correcting unit changes an optical-beam irradiating position on a photosensitive element based on |
| 7586633 |
Image processing apparatus, and method of and system for managing image processing apparatus |
September 8, 2009 |
| A managing apparatus connected to a computer network manages an image processing apparatus via the computer network. The image processing apparatus is connected to the computer network via a firewall that allows data transmitted using predetermined protocols to pass through, and at l |
| 7583925 |
Lubricant application device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus |
September 1, 2009 |
| A lubricant application device including a solid lubricant, a brush, and a first lubricant scattering prevention member. The solid lubricant is in a non-contact state with a rotating member and provided below a horizontal line of an axis of the rotating member. The brush rotates and cont |
| 7583922 |
Image forming apparatus with a pressing member and transfer fixing member |
September 1, 2009 |
| For an image forming apparatus, a transfer fixing apparatus and a transfer fixing method fix a toner image onto a record medium. The fixing apparatus and the image forming apparatus have a structure to reduce adverse heat influences impacting on an intermediate transfer member, and c |
| 7581803 |
Image forming apparatus, method and computer readable medium for executing predetermined error p |
September 1, 2009 |
| In an image forming apparatus, an image forming unit includes a movable member that is rotationally driven by a driving unit. A moving distance or a moving speed of the movable member is detected. The driving unit is controlled based on a quantity of control. An occurrence of a detection |
| 7579795 |
Brushless-motor driving control device, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus |
August 25, 2009 |
| A drive control device for a brushless motor having a rotor and a plurality of coils with different phases can be included in an image reading apparatus or an image forming apparatus. The drive control device may include a detection target configured to rotate in synchronization with |
| 7579716 |
Power storage device and image forming apparatus |
August 25, 2009 |
| A power storage device includes an alternating current (AC) power source, a field effect transistor (FET), a capacitor bank, a direct current (DC) fixing heater, a step-down chopper circuit, and an output control unit. The FET switches between a first path and a second path to supply pow |
| 7577954 |
Process management method and image forming apparatus |
August 18, 2009 |
| Management of a process having a kernel mode and a user mode and executed on an operation system is performed by receiving a request for moving to a user system mode from a user process, and changing the user process into a kernel mode in response to the request. |
| 7576509 |
Drive control method, drive control device, belt apparatus, image forming apparatus, image readi |
August 18, 2009 |
| Driving of a pulse motor is controlled in such a manner that a rotating body driven by the pulse motor rotates at a uniform angular velocity. Angular displacement of the rotating body is detected, a difference between a detection value of the angular displacement and a target value o |
| 7574619 |
Apparatus, method, and program for selecting an energy-saving communication speed in a network c |
August 11, 2009 |
| A network communication apparatus includes: a self-apparatus setting unit that sets a communication speed to be applied to communications between the network communication apparatus itself and another apparatus that is connected to the network communication apparatus via a network; and a |
| 7574162 |
Toner container, and image forming apparatus |
August 11, 2009 |
| A toner container includes a container member with a spiral member therein that contains toner and conveys the toner toward an opening in conjunction with a rotation of the spiral member. A toner supply device includes a conveyor tube through which the toner discharged from the toner |
| 7574152 |
AC high-voltage device, image forming apparatus, and AC high-voltage output controlling method w |
August 11, 2009 |
| An AC high-voltage device includes a voltage controlling unit that controls an AC transforming unit. The AC transforming unit transforms supplied power to an AC high voltage. The voltage controlling unit includes a constant-voltage controlling unit and an turn-off unit. The constant- |
| 7570278 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus |
August 4, 2009 |
| Light beams emitted from a light source, which is a semiconductor laser, are changed to weak diverging rays by a coupling lens, pass through an aperture, and are changed to parallel beams in a main scanning direction and light beams, which focus near a polygon mirror, in a sub-scanning |
| 7567268 |
Image forming apparatus and abnormality detecting method |
July 28, 2009 |
| A light-emission control unit controls an emission of a light beam from a light-beam generating unit based on an input image signal. A light-beam scanning unit deflects the light beam in a main scanning direction and irradiates the deflected light beam on an image carrier. An anomalo |
| 7564607 |
Light source module, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus |
July 21, 2009 |
| A coupling lens collimates an optical beam emitted from a laser light source. An aperture shields a peripheral light flux area of the collimated optical beam. A phase adjusting element partially changes a phase of wavefront of the optical beam. An auxiliary aperture is formed on an o |
| 7563555 |
Toner, developer including the toner, and method for fixing toner image |
July 21, 2009 |
| A toner composition including toner particles including a binder resin including a modified polyester resin, and a second resin having a weight average molecular weight of from 2,000 to 10,000; a colorant; a release agent; and a particulate material which is present at least a surface |
| 7561835 |
Developing device, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge using the developing device |
July 14, 2009 |
| A developing device including a developing unit configured to develop an electrostatic latent image with a toner; a toner cartridge configured to contain the toner and supply the toner to the developing unit, and including an agitator configured to agitate the toner, wherein the toner |
| 7561826 |
Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively supporting a process cartridge |
July 14, 2009 |
| A support device for use in an image forming apparatus includes a process cartridge and an apparatus main body. The process cartridge further includes an image carrier, at least one sub unit, and a cartridge-side fitting portion. The at least one sub unit includes a rotational member |
| 7559470 |
Positioning controlling apparatus, positioning control method, program for making computer execu |
July 14, 2009 |
| A positioning controlling apparatus includes: a current speed calculator that calculates a current speed of a conveyor belt from a detected moving distance; a position determining unit that determines the position of a conveyor belt for determining its stop position also from the detecte |
| 7558515 |
Powder container and image forming apparatus |
July 7, 2009 |
| A powder container that is detachably installed in a container housing unit of an image forming apparatus includes a container body including an opening located at a head of the container body, and an engaging part located at a bottom of the container body, the engaging part being en |
| 7558510 |
Image forming apparatus including a phase adjusting unit for adjusting the phase of rotational f |
July 7, 2009 |
| An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers, a driving unit that rotationally drives the image carriers in an individual manner, and a phase adjusting unit that adjusts, based on a reference rotation position on one of the image carriers, phase of rotational flu |
| 7557839 |
Electronic imaging device and mobile terminal including the electronic imaging device |
July 7, 2009 |
| An electronic imaging device includes a zoom lens that includes a plurality of lens groups and an imaging element that converts an optical image formed by the zoom lens into an electric signal. The zoom lens includes at least a first lens group having a negative focal length and a se |
| 7556906 |
Toner, and image forming method, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge using the toner |
July 7, 2009 |
| A toner is provided including a colorant; a resin composition (A) comprising at least one binder resin and a hydrocarbon wax having a melting point of 70-90.degree. C. in an amount of from 6 to 30% by weight based on total weight of resin composition (A), and having a softening point |
| 7556903 |
Electrophotographic photoreceptor, and image forming method, apparatus and process cartridge the |
July 7, 2009 |
| An electrophotographic photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate and a photosensitive layer overlying the electroconductive substrate. An outermost layer of the electrophotographic photoreceptor is a crosslinked layer including a radical polymerizing monomer having three |
| 7555662 |
Two controller communication control apparatus with power-saving control and power-saving contro |
June 30, 2009 |
| A communication control apparatus having a function for shifting a mode to a power-saving mode that suppresses the power consumption to the level thereof lower than that in a normal mode upon satisfying a given condition includes a normal-operation control mechanism and a power-savin |
| 7553598 |
Electrophotographic carrier, developer, developer container, process cartridge, image forming ap |
June 30, 2009 |
| A carrier contains a core; and a cover layer located overlying the core, wherein the cover layer comprises a binder resin, a first particulate material and a second particulate material, wherein the following relationships are satisfied: 1<(D1/h)<10, and 0.001<(D2/h)<1, w |
| 7551862 |
Developing device, and process unit and image forming apparatus using the developing device |
June 23, 2009 |
| A developing device including a developer bearing member configured to configured to bear thereon a developer including a toner and a magnetic carrier to develop an electrostatic image on an image bearing member with the developer; a developer container configured to contain and feed the |
| 7551194 |
Optical writing device, image forming device, and optical writing method |
June 23, 2009 |
| An optical writing device includes a scanning unit that scans an optical beam in a main scanning direction while shifting a scanning position in a sub-scanning direction by a predetermined pitch, a clock frequency changing unit that changes a frequency of a write clock at a position in |
| 7550242 |
Toner, toner manufacturing method, developer, image forming apparatus, and process cartridge for |
June 23, 2009 |
| A toner having a core containing a colorant, a release agent and a binder resin (A), and a shell containing a binder resin (B), the shell overlying the core, wherein the binder resin (A) contains a resin having a polyester skeleton, the binder resin (B) contains a vinyl copolymer res |
| 7548718 |
Fixing device for fixing an unfixed toner image on a recording medium and image forming apparatu |
June 16, 2009 |
| A fixing device, which fixes an unfixed toner image on a recording medium, includes a heating roller, a fixing roller, a pressurizing roller, and an endless belt that stretches over the heating roller and the fixing roller. A heat source and a heat pipe are arranged in a heating roller. |
