| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7579394 |
Adhesion promoter |
August 25, 2009 |
| An adhesion promoter for a hot melt adhesive or a pressure sensitive adhesive prepared by admixing a hydrolytic silane compound with an aqueous buffer solution. The adhesive is able to bind at very low surface free energy substrates, such as Xerographic prints contaminated by silicon |
| 7579128 |
Toner compositions including styrene containing external additives |
August 25, 2009 |
| Toner compositions of toner particles including additive particles upon an external surface of the toner particles, wherein the additive particles include crosslinked styrene containing polymer particles, exhibit reduced sensitivity to relative humidity. The crosslinked styrene containin |
| 7579126 |
Hole blocking layer containing photoconductors |
August 25, 2009 |
| A photoconductor containing a substrate; an undercoat layer thereover wherein the undercoat layer includes an electroconducting component dispersed in a rapid curing polymer matrix; a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer. |
| 7579125 |
Imaging member |
August 25, 2009 |
| An imaging member has a crosslinked overcoat layer which holds fluorinated nanoparticles. The overcoat layer is formed from an overcoat solution comprising a polymer binder; a hole transport molecule; fluorinated nanoparticles; a fluorinated surfactant; a crosslinking agent; and a free |
| 7578875 |
Black inks and method for making same |
August 25, 2009 |
| Disclosed is a phase change black ink composition comprising (1) a low polarity ink carrier comprising (A) an ester-terminated polyamide, (B) a Guerbet alcohol or a Guerbet alcohol mixture including at least one linear alcohol, and (C) a low polarity wax, and (2) a black colorant. The |
| 7578587 |
Curable overcoat for wax-based inks |
August 25, 2009 |
| An ink jettable overprint composition includes at least one of a polymerizable monomer and/or a polymerizable oligomer; at least one photoinitiator; and at least one wax. |
| 7578586 |
Transfix roller load controlled by force feedback |
August 25, 2009 |
| A printing device has an image receptor adapted to have an image formed thereon. The printing device also includes a transfer roller and a motor. A transfer roller load mechanism moves the transfer roller into contact with the image receptor in response to the motor output. A controller |
| 7578503 |
Variable pressure belt driven sheet registration system |
August 25, 2009 |
| A sheet registration system for a sheet handling device has a plurality of driven belts. Each belt is entrained about a driven roller and an idler roller. The driven rollers are fixedly mounted on a common drive shaft that is connected to a motor. The idler rollers each have a shaft and |
| 7577706 |
Integrating a document management system with a workflow system and method |
August 18, 2009 |
| A document management system includes one or more document repositories for storing documents and a document notification and delivery service (DNDS) for detecting documents pertaining to subjects that are stored in the document repositories. A plurality of workflow modules subscribe to |
| 7577384 |
Collapsible packaging system |
August 18, 2009 |
| A package suitable for containing marking material used in a printing machine. The package includes a package surface adapted to engage one or more surfaces of the printing machine and a material identifier mechanism for verifying the marking material. The package may also include a |
| 7577302 |
Compressed image data enhancement |
August 18, 2009 |
| An image background remover is disclosed that performs background removal of JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) compressed image data without first performing a complete decompression of the compressed image data. |
| 7576893 |
Correlated secondary TRC calibration method |
August 18, 2009 |
| This invention is a method of producing a set of TRC's for a color printer's secondary halftone screens that is correlated with the printer's primary halftone screens. The method makes use of the printer/screen characteristic data that is normally gathered during screen calibration. |
| 7576889 |
Cascade of matrix-LUT for color transformation |
August 18, 2009 |
| Various implementations of this invention provide a method of color transformation of image data that included: providing at least two units, each unit comprising a combination of a plurality of look-up tables and a M.times.N matrix; providing image data configured in a first color space |
| 7576885 |
Balancing grays on color printers |
August 18, 2009 |
| A gray balancing technique wherein color data values are modified only if the color data values include a gray component. |
| 7576883 |
Secure printing via a wireless internet service |
August 18, 2009 |
| At a user terminal (10) operatively connected with a mobile device (20), a print job is formed into an incomplete print job envelope (32) and completing data (34, 40) including at least print job accounting information (40). The completing data (34, 40) including at least the print j |
| 7576874 |
Methods and systems for mixed chroma print jobs |
August 18, 2009 |
| A method for processing a print job including both monochrome and color pages may include receiving values for characteristic parameters, selecting an optimization criterion and determining a process mode that corresponds to a minimum value of the selected criterion. The characterist |
| 7576763 |
Hybrid imager printer using reflex writing to color register an image |
August 18, 2009 |
| Reflex writing is a group of algorithms developed to maintain color registration in xerographic systems using multiple imagers, in which sequential color separations are written based on events in the spatial domain. The imaging system includes a raster output scanner imager for the |
| 7576756 |
System and method for interaction of graphical objects on a computer controlled system |
August 18, 2009 |
| A user interface method and system for performing sensemaking tasks using visual information objects. The present invention provides techniques for the system to perform operations for creating, rearranging visual information objects, reallocating display space and scaling user input |
| 7576753 |
Method and apparatus to convert bitmapped images for use in a structured text/graphics editor |
August 18, 2009 |
| An image analysis and conversion method and system. Bitmapped ink images are converted to structured object representations of the bitmapped images, which may be read and edited by a structured text/graphics editor. The structured object representations correlate to perceptually sali |
| 7576240 |
Arylamine processes |
August 18, 2009 |
| Processes for selectively hydrogenating double and/or triple bonds in organic molecules include providing at least one organic molecule containing a double and/or triple bond, providing at least one hydrogen donor molecule, and hydrogenating the double and/or triple bond in the prese |
| 7576235 |
Processes for preparing bis(urea-urethane) compounds |
August 18, 2009 |
| Processes for preparing bis(urea-urethane) compounds ##STR00001## wherein R.sub.1 is alkyl, aryl, arylalkyl, or alkylaryl, R.sub.2 is alkylene, arylene, arylalkylene, or alkylarylene, R.sub.3 is alkylene, arylene, arylalkylene, or alkylarylene, and R.sub.4 is hydrogen or alkyl, comp |
| 7576149 |
Varnish |
August 18, 2009 |
| A recording medium with an ink image thereon, wherein a varnish at least partially covers the ink image, and wherein the varnish composition prior to application comprises at least one latex emulsion, water, at least one base and at least one surfactant. |
| 7575838 |
Imaging members and method for sensitizing a charge generation layer of an imaging member |
August 18, 2009 |
| An imaging member including a substrate; thereover a charge generation layer comprising a thiophosphate; and at least one charge transport layer positioned on the charge generation layer. |
| 7575302 |
Circuitry for printer |
August 18, 2009 |
| A printing system includes a print head to deliver ink to an image receptor and at least one ink reservoir to deliver ink to the print head. Driving circuitry provides signals to the print head to control delivery of the ink and a flexible circuit interposed between the print head and |
| 7575293 |
Dual drop printing mode using full length waveforms to achieve head drop mass differences |
August 18, 2009 |
| A dual-drop mode for a printer uses at least two full length waveforms and switches between the waveforms according to one or more patterning methodologies to print a page length document having a dual drop size print pattern across the printed portion of the page. This achieves prin |
| 7575232 |
Media path crossover clearance for printing system |
August 18, 2009 |
| A media path crossover for a printing system includes a first crossover pathway on which sheets of print media are conveyed across a crossover junction without interruption and a second crossover pathway on which sheets of print media are conveyed across the crossover junction without |
| 7574474 |
System and method for sharing and controlling multiple audio and video streams |
August 11, 2009 |
| At least one multimedia presentation is selected by a user of a first device, accessed from a storage source, and presented to the user. Simultaneously, information is transmitted to at least a second device to cause the selected multimedia presentation to be presented by the at leas |
| 7574349 |
Statistical language-model based system for detection of missing attachments |
August 11, 2009 |
| A method for processing electronic mail includes computing a probability that a text string in an electronic mail message refers to an attachment as a function of a stored probability value for each of a plurality of sequences of words within the text string. Where the email message lack |
| 7573621 |
Color printing |
August 11, 2009 |
| A method of printing a pixel defined by C, M, Y color values having a sum that is not less than a maximum allowed paper coverae max_cov, including assigning a maximum of the C, M, Y values to max_color; assigning a minimum of the C, M, Y values to min_color; selecting a black color value |
| 7573609 |
Color printing |
August 11, 2009 |
| A method of printing a pixel defined by C1, M1, Y1, K1 color values having a sum that is not less than a maximum allowed paper coverage max_cov, including obtaining an adjusted cyan color value Cadj that depends on C1 and K1, an adjusted magenta color value Madj that depends on M1 and K1 |
| 7573589 |
Methods and systems for automated color proofing |
August 11, 2009 |
| Offline proofing systems and methods for color image processing may include receiving a digitized image document to be press printed in a job, determining job status as corresponding to one of a color managed proof and a color managed press, installing a proofer profile as an output |
| 7573063 |
Organic thin film transistors |
August 11, 2009 |
| A thin film transistor having an improved gate dielectric layer is disclosed. The gate dielectric layer comprises a poly(4-vinylphenol-co-acrylonitrile) based polymer. The resulting gate dielectric layer has a high dielectric constant and can be crosslinked. Higher gate dielectric la |
| 7572845 |
Phase change inks |
August 11, 2009 |
| Disclosed are colorant compounds of the formula ##STR00001## wherein R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 each, independently of the others, is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, and wherein R, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 each can b |
| 7572569 |
Inkless printing paper and method |
August 11, 2009 |
| An image forming medium includes a substrate and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into the substrate, where the imaging layer includes a photobase generator and coupling agent. In the image forming medium, irradiation of the imaging layer causes the photobase generator to ge |
| 7572567 |
Processes for aggregating toner components |
August 11, 2009 |
| Processes for preparing toner compositions used with electrostatographic imaging members. The processes utilize screw extruders to facilitate continuous dispersion and aggregation of toner components, such as color pigments and wax. The continuous dispersion produces the toner components |
| 7572565 |
Carrier particle compositions for xerographic developers |
August 11, 2009 |
| Carrier includes a mixture of carrier particles. The mixture may contain first carrier particles containing carrier cores that are coated with a polymer coating, the coating containing polymer and conductive particles, and second carrier particles containing carrier cores that are not co |
| 7572562 |
Imaging member having antistatic anticurl back coating |
August 11, 2009 |
| The presently disclosed embodiments relate in general to electrophotographic imaging members, such as layered photoreceptor structures, and processes for making and using the same. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to the incorporation of metallic compounds in the anticurl b |
| 7572561 |
Imaging member |
August 11, 2009 |
| An imaging member with a unique overcoat composition adapted for forming protective, scratch-resistant overcoats is disclosed. The overcoat composition comprises a binder component that includes particular proportions of a acrylated polyol and propylene glycol. The overcoat compositi |
| 7572560 |
Inkless reimageable printing paper and method |
August 11, 2009 |
| An image forming medium includes a substrate, and an imaging layer coated on or impregnated into said substrate, wherein the imaging layer includes an imaging composition including a photochromic or photochromic-thermochromic material dissolved or dispersed in a solvent or polymeric |
| 7572325 |
Ink carriers, phase change inks including same and methods for making same |
August 11, 2009 |
| Disclosed is an ink carrier comprising (A) an antioxidant mixture comprising (a) a hindered phenol antioxidant, and (b) a hindered amine antioxidant, (B) a polyalkylene wax, (C) a functional wax, and (D) an ester-terminated amide. The low polarity ink carrier is substantially resista |
| 7571999 |
Overcoat compositions, oil-based ink compositions, and processes for ink-jet recording using ove |
August 11, 2009 |
| Overcoat compositions include film-forming resins and organic liquids. Overcoat compositions are included in ink sets that also include oil-based ink compositions. Methods for ink-jet printing use oil-based ink compositions and overcoat compositions. |
| 7571996 |
Apparatus for reducing particulate in an ink jet printer |
August 11, 2009 |
| An apparatus in an ink jet printer reduces the risk of clogged nozzles in ink jet printing machines by providing a negative pressure area in the vicinity of a localized high shear stress region that is located about a print head perimeter. The apparatus includes a print head protector |
| 7571992 |
Pressure compensation structure for microelectromechanical systems |
August 11, 2009 |
| A fluidic micro-electromechanical device includes a pressure compensating subsystem that enables the device to operate consistently in changing environmental pressure conditions. Such a fluidic micro-electromechanical device includes an actuator having an actuator cavity underneath an |
| 7571980 |
Cleaning method and apparatus for a printhead assembly |
August 11, 2009 |
| A method and apparatus are provided for cleaning a first set and a second set of a staggered full-width array printhead assembly (SFWA) in an inkjet printer. The apparatus for the method includes (a) a wiper blade carriage assembly (WBCA) having a wiper blade unit at a first set point; |
| 7571970 |
Self-aligned precision datums for array die placement |
August 11, 2009 |
| A method and resulting device for accurately positioning an array of die modules in an imaging array, including larger partial width arrays and full page width arrays, is described herein. The method includes forming physical reference datum directly on an individual silicon die module, |
| 7571904 |
Control system for indexing compiler drive shaft that senses drive torque to initiate indexing |
August 11, 2009 |
| A finishing-compiling station or structure is disclosed where marked copies of paper or other media are transported into a compiling tray for paper registration by paddle wheels or other such deflection loaded compiler drive elements. These sheets of paper after registration are then |
| 7570912 |
Pressure roll for fusing operation |
August 4, 2009 |
| Washers are used for a pressure roll in a fusing system of an electrophotographic system that improve the functionality and durability of the pressure roll. These washers are made up of a rigid ring section having flexible (less rigid) fingers projecting from the inner periphery of t |
| 7570394 |
System for determining the size of an original image, such as in a digital copier |
August 4, 2009 |
| An input scanner, such as used in a digital copier, accepts original documents on sheets of any number of possible sizes within a single job. The video output of the scanner is applied to an algorithm to determine the length, along a process direction, of useful image data on each sh |
| 7569321 |
Toner compositions |
August 4, 2009 |
| Single component toners having a core with a first latex having a specific glass transition temperature and molecular weight, further having a shell surrounding the core with a second latex having a specific glass transition temperature and molecular weight, and additives added thereto, |
| 7569317 |
Imaging member |
August 4, 2009 |
| An imaging member is disclosed which includes a charge generating layer and a charge transport layer. The charge transport layer includes a first charge transport layer adjacent the charge generating layer and at least a second charge transport layer adjacent the first charge transport |
