| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7483179 |
Method and system for sending material |
January 27, 2009 |
| A method for distributing a document by email. The method includes scanning a business document, extracting an email address from the business document, scanning a document and automatically emailing the scanned document to the email address extracted from the business document. |
| 7482729 |
Hypersonic transducer |
January 27, 2009 |
| This invention provides methods and apparatus for focusing a hypersonic beam to control both a direction and depth of audible information delivery. Signals that are delivered to each of a plurality of hypersonic transducer elements are adjusted in phase so that transmitted hypersonic |
| 7482492 |
Cost effective method for synthesis of triarylamine compounds |
January 27, 2009 |
| A process for forming a triarylamine compound includes reacting a halogenated aryl alcohol with an alcohol protecting agent and a first base to form a halogenated protected aryl alcohol compound, and reacting the halogenated protected aryl alcohol compound with an amine in the presen |
| 7482103 |
Imaging member having antistatic anticurl back coating |
January 27, 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 an additive of ammonium or phosphonium salts or mixtures |
| 7481374 |
System and method for placement and retrieval of embedded information within a document |
January 27, 2009 |
| A system and method for the placement and retrieval of embedded data blocks within a document includes converting a document into a bitmap image; calculating a total area required to embed information; analyzing the bitmap image for areas for placement of at least one embedded data b |
| 7480936 |
Generic application architecture suitable for firewall traversal |
January 20, 2009 |
| Communication systems and methods transfer information between a client device and a vendor device through a firewall between the client device and the vendor device by using a communications protocol that will normally allows pass through the firewall and/or by e embedding the infor |
| 7480469 |
System and method for determining an amount of toner mass on a photoreceptor |
January 20, 2009 |
| A system that determines an amount of toner mass present on a toner application surface, and comprises a specular reflection sensor, a diffuse reflection sensor, an output combination module, and a mass determination module. The specular reflection sensor receives electromagnetic rad |
| 7480078 |
Method and system for performing multi-pixel parallel error diffusion enabling high-speed diffus |
January 20, 2009 |
| A method and system for performing error diffusion are disclosed. An ordered set of pixels, including a pixel intensity value for each pixel, is received. Each pixel intensity value includes a value within a range from a low value to a high value, inclusive. An initial error value is |
| 7480077 |
Billing process for printing systems |
January 20, 2009 |
| The present invention provides a paperless billing process for enabling expedited and simplified payments of print volume bills by customers of printing systems. A method of performing a billing process for the copies or prints produced by customer of a printing system is provided where |
| 7480076 |
Moire-free color halftone configuration |
January 20, 2009 |
| Disclosed herein is a Moire-free color halftone configuration for clustered dots. Unlike conventional methods, the disclosed method produces periodic hexagon rosettes of identical shapes. These exemplary hexagon rosettes have three fundamental spatial frequencies exactly equal to hal |
| 7479942 |
Stylus writing architectures for erasable paper |
January 20, 2009 |
| Methods and systems for writing and erasing electric writeable media are disclosed. An electric writeable medium may include a backplane electrode, a display layer including a plurality of elements and a top layer. The medium may further include a plurality of island electrodes. To e |
| 7479358 |
Ether and thiophosphate containing photoconductors |
January 20, 2009 |
| An imaging member containing an optional supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer of at least one charge transport component, at least one C-ether of the formula ##STR00001## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independentl |
| 7479321 |
Fuser member having high gloss coating layer |
January 20, 2009 |
| A fuser component useful in electrostatographic machines is provided. The fuser component has a substrate, and thereover a coating composition comprising a haloelastomer, such as, for example, a fluoroelastomer, and a filler having a particle size of less than about 3 micrometers and a |
| 7479307 |
Toners and processes thereof |
January 20, 2009 |
| Disclosed are toner compositions comprised of a polymer, an optional colorant, and an UV light curable oligomer. Also disclosed are methods for producing a UV curable toner compositions, the toner compositions produced thereby, and methods of utilizing the UV curable toner compositio |
| 7478060 |
On-site E-commerce parts ordering from products being serviced |
January 13, 2009 |
| A method for ordering parts for a machine being serviced within an e-commerce environment transmits diagnostic data from a local computing device at the machine to a host computing device via a network. A part to be replaced within the machine is identified as a function of the diagn |
| 7477239 |
Reconfigurable lighted keypad |
January 13, 2009 |
| A dynamically reconfigurable input button display provided on an operational face of multi-function physically displaceable buttons allows easy dynamic display of various operating modes or functions associated with operation of the button. The button forms part of a user interface o |
| 7476480 |
Processes for producing toner by treatment with enzyme |
January 13, 2009 |
| Herein is disclosed a process for producing emulsion aggregation toner including (i) adding a base to an emulsion aggregation toner to increase the pH of the toner to from about 7 to about 12; (ii) sieving and filtering the toner; (iii) washing the toner with an enzyme selected from |
| 7476479 |
Hydrolyzed semi-conductive nanoparticles for imaging member undercoating layers |
January 13, 2009 |
| An imaging member includes a substrate, an intermediate layer, and a photoconductor layer, where the intermediate layer includes hydrolyzed semi-conductive nanoparticles, such as hydrolyzed semi-conductive nanoparticles formed by reaction of a metal alkoxide and an amine. |
| 7476478 |
Polyphenyl thioether and antioxidant containing photoconductors |
January 13, 2009 |
| An imaging member containing an optional supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer and at least one charge transport layer of at least one charge transport component, at least one polyphenyl thioether of the formula ##STR00001## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 are independ |
| 7476477 |
Thiophosphate containing photoconductors |
January 13, 2009 |
| An imaging member containing an optional supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer and at least one charge transport layer, and wherein the at least one charge transport layer contains at least one thiophosphate, and wherein the thiophosphate is present in an amount of from about |
| 7475971 |
Ink delivery system |
January 13, 2009 |
| An ink delivery device for depositing ink onto a media includes an ink reservoir, a reaction chamber situated near the reservoir, and a valve situated between the reservoir and the reaction chamber. A method of depositing ink onto a media is also disclosed. |
| 7475356 |
System utilizing mixed resolution displays |
January 6, 2009 |
| A system utilizing two or more display units with different resolutions are combined such that the geometry of images displayed across the multiple display units is preserved and the image appears to be substantially continuous to a viewer of the image. Compatibility of the sizes of |
| 7475249 |
System and method for providing S/MIME-based document distribution via electronic mail mechanism |
January 6, 2009 |
| A content or document management system includes a content or document repository; a dedicated e-mail account; and a mail agent associated with the dedicated e-mail account. The mail agent processes a received e-mail message to determine a sender's identity; authenticates the identity of |
| 7474861 |
Consumable selection in a printing system |
January 6, 2009 |
| A marking engine includes a plurality of components which each perform a portion of a marking operation. A processing component receives information on a replacement module, such as a toner cartridge selected from a set of different toner carridges, which is to be incorporated into t |
| 7474783 |
Systems and methods for associating color profiles with a scanned input image using spatial attr |
January 6, 2009 |
| Methods and systems used to associate color calibration profiles with scanned images based on identifying the marking process used for an image on a substrate using spatial characteristics and/or color of the image. Image types which are classified and identified include continuous tone |
| 7474433 |
Print driver based marketing system and method |
January 6, 2009 |
| A method of providing access to an online marketplace via a printer driver that is in communication with a networked printing device. The marketplace offers printer capabilities which are compatible with the networked printing device. The computing device receives a request to purcha |
| 7474428 |
Multifunction device system using tags containing output information |
January 6, 2009 |
| A method for completing a document job that includes delivering at least one print job to a printing device, bringing a tag containing information regarding the document job into close proximity to the printing device so that the device receives the information from the tag, and using th |
| 7473785 |
Photoconductive members |
January 6, 2009 |
| A compound comprising a tetrahalobenzamidazolebenzene or a bis(tetrahalophenyl)biphenylbisimidazole of the alternative following formulas or dimers thereof ##STR00001## wherein each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, and R.sub.5 are the same or different and are independently se |
| 7473505 |
Ether and antioxidant containing photoconductors |
January 6, 2009 |
| A photoconductor containing an optional supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer, at least one C-ether of the formula ##STR00001## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently selected from the group consisting of hydr |
| 7473310 |
Nanosized particles of monoazo laked pigment and non-aqueous compositions containing same |
January 6, 2009 |
| A nanoscale pigment particle composition includes an organic monoazo laked pigment including at least one functional moiety, and a sterically bulky stabilizer compound including at least one functional group, wherein the mono-azo laked pigment includes a nono-azo dye molecule laked with |
| 7472902 |
System and method for improving top sheet acquisition in a printing machine |
January 6, 2009 |
| An apparatus that is useful for acquiring and conveying a sheet includes a plenum having an opening for coupling a vacuum source to the plenum, a slide plate having a stop member positioned proximate a drop box opening in the slide plate, and a drop box adapted to slide within the drop b |
| 7471923 |
Linear fusing nip zone |
December 30, 2008 |
| An image forming apparatus defined by two flat, linear surface plates and two belts independently routed outside one of the two flat linear surface plates using a combination of rollers providing a stiff, linear, no-friction plane scalable in dimension to form the linear nip zone. The |
| 7471922 |
Segmented transfer assist blade |
December 30, 2008 |
| Embodiments herein include a transfer assist blade that is adapted to bias media toward a marking device. The transfer assist blade has a plurality of movable blade segments that overlap one another. In one embodiment, a first movable blade segment (comprising a first wear layer and a fi |
| 7471420 |
Method of uniformity correction in an electrostatographic printer by using a second actuator |
December 30, 2008 |
| Various exemplary embodiments include an electrostatographic printing apparatus and a method of correcting one or more associated uniformity profiles. In various exemplary embodiments the apparatus includes first and second actuators. In various exemplary embodiments the method inclu |
| 7471418 |
Image/document analysis tool and method for multi-station image forming device |
December 30, 2008 |
| A document analysis tool may generate a halftone image corresponding to the output of an image forming device and may display the generated halftone image for a document designer. The halftone image may include halftone dots displaced from each other, depending on a misregistration b |
| 7471405 |
Augmented operating system printing architecture |
December 30, 2008 |
| An augmented operating system printing architecture is provided to permit certain print job attributes from a client to have a desired effect on a print server in a networked environment. The augmented operating system printing architecture includes: 1) an augmented print driver for |
| 7471385 |
Systems and methods for selecting a reference database for determining a spectrum of an object b |
December 30, 2008 |
| To determine the spectra of objects that have different degrees of fluorescence, a plurality of reference databases are provided, each reference database being suited to a different degree of fluorescence. A most appropriate one of the reference databases is selected based on a predi |
| 7471327 |
Image sensor array with variable resolution and high-speed output |
December 30, 2008 |
| A photosensitive imaging apparatus has a linear array of groups of photosensors. In a low-resolution scanning mode, all of the photosensors in each group act together as one large photosensor. In a high-resolution scanning mode, each photosensor in a group acts outputs image-based si |
| 7470493 |
Imaging member |
December 30, 2008 |
| Provided are a silane-phenol compound, a crosslinked siloxane outmost protective layer thereof, and an electrophotographic imaging member such as photoreceptor. The silane-phenol compound comprises (i) a phenol group and (ii) a silane group selected from the group consisting of alkox |
| 7470320 |
Nanosized particles of monoazo laked pigment with tunable properties |
December 30, 2008 |
| A nanoscale pigment particle composition includes an organic monoazo laked pigment including at least one functional moiety, and a sterically bulky stabilizer compound including at least one functional group, wherein the functional moiety on the pigment associates non-covalently with the |
| 7469121 |
Soft contact portion flicker bar assembly and a toner image reproduction machine including same |
December 23, 2008 |
| In order to prevent built up crusts on the flicker assembly from being detrimentally dislodged due to the cleaning fibers impacting the flicker bar assembly, there is provided a soft contact portion flicker bar assembly for mounting in a machine to contact and flick the cleaning fibe |
| 7468806 |
System and method for selective image acquisition |
December 23, 2008 |
| A method selectively acquiring one or more images from a hardcopy document is provided. The method includes demarking boundaries on one or more hardcopy pages using a writing instrument to differentiate a selected image portion from a non-selected image portion, scanning the one or more |
| 7468232 |
Processes for forming latexes and toners, and latexes and toner formed thereby |
December 23, 2008 |
| A process for preparing a latex includes polymerizing at least one monomer in the presence of an initiator to form a polymer emulsion; and adding an odor-scavenging bismuth compound to the formed polymer emulsion. |
| 7468231 |
Imaging members |
December 23, 2008 |
| An imaging member comprising a supporting substrate; a single layer photoreceptor for both charge generation and charge transport disposed on the supporting substrate, the single layer photoreceptor comprising a binder containing a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane; a cross-linking |
| 7468229 |
Polyphenyl thioether and thiophosphate containing photoconductors |
December 23, 2008 |
| An imaging member containing an optional supporting substrate, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer of at least one charge transport component, at least one polyphenyl thioether of the formula ##STR00001## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 are indepen |
| 7468208 |
Polytetrafluoroethylene-doped photoreceptor layer having polyol ester lubricants |
December 23, 2008 |
| An imaging member containing a substrate, and a layer containing a polytetrafluoroethylene and a polyol ester, and an image forming apparatus for forming images on a recording medium including the imaging member above, a development component to apply a developer material to said cha |
| 7467879 |
Document illuminator with stepped optical element |
December 23, 2008 |
| An apparatus for scanning a document comprises a platen for supporting at least a portion of the document; a light source; and an optical element for directing light from the light source to the platen. The optical element defines a plurality of small planar surfaces, the small planar |
| 7467838 |
System and method for controlling a print head to compensate for subsystem mechanical disturbanc |
December 23, 2008 |
| An apparatus compensates for mechanical disturbances during a print process by adjusting the generation of image generating head actuation signals in anticipation of a mechanical disturbance. The apparatus includes a printer controller for generating signals to coordinate movement of |
| 7466942 |
Direct charging device using nano-structures within a metal coated pore matrix |
December 16, 2008 |
| In accordance with the invention, there is an electrophotographic charging device including a first electrode, a second electrode adjacent the first electrode, a plurality of nanostructures adhering to the first electrode, and voltage supplies electrically connected to the first electrod |
| 7466940 |
Modular marking architecture for wide media printing platform |
December 16, 2008 |
| In one embodiment, a printing platform is illustrated which includes two or more marking modules offset perpendicular to a process direction to create an aggregate imageable area that is wider than an imageable area of any of the individual marking modules. |
