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| US-8,059,981 |
Image forming apparatus and control method therefor An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, an exposure mechanism, a latent-image forming mechanism, at least one image forming mechanism including a... |
| US-8,059,512 |
Information recording medium, recording method, data structure,
information recording apparatus, program, and... A disk-shaped rewritable information recording medium having at a first recording layer and a second recording layer is disclosed. The information recording... |
| US-8,059,299 |
Apparatus and method for controlling an image-data imput/output process
performed by an image forming apparatus... A storage unit temporarily stores first image data input from an input device and second image data to be output to an output device. An image-data input/output... |
| US-8,059,291 |
System, computer program product and method for managing documents A system, method and computer program product for managing documents. The system includes an image forming apparatus configured to display interactive menus so... |
| US-8,059,287 |
Image forming apparatus having an image forming part that can be set in a
standby state in response to image... An image forming part performs an image forming operation. A higher-order component sends an image forming request to perform the image forming operation of... |
| US-8,059,285 |
Image forming apparatus, image processing unit, image processing method,
and recording medium having image... A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an image scanning unit configured to generate image data by converting light reflected from an optically scanned... |
| US-8,059,149 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus An optical scanning device includes a light source, a pre-deflection optical system, a polygon mirror, and a scanning optical system. The pre-deflection optical... |
| US-8,058,862 |
Reference voltage generation circuit A basic structure of a reference voltage generation circuit is formed by a buffer amplifier (21) and a resistive element (22) without using a band gap... |
| US-8,058,791 |
Electronic circuit board manufacturing apparatus and electronic circuit
board In an electron-emitting device manufacturing apparatus for forming a surface conduction electron-emitting element by a conductive thin film, a discharge head of... |
| US-8,058,209 |
Heat-sensitive recording material To provide a heat-sensitive recording material including a substrate; a heat-sensitive color-developing layer over the substrate, the heat-sensitive... |
| US-8,057,001 |
Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus is provided that includes a liquid discharge head configured to discharge recording liquid as one or more recording liquid droplets; a... |
| US-8,056,250 |
Rotary disk eccentricity measurement method, rotary encoder, and rotary
member control device An eccentricity measurement method of measuring the eccentricity between a center of a connection portion of a rotary disk of a rotary encoder connected to a... |
| US-8,056,120 |
Authentication apparatus, authentication method, and computer program
product A monitoring unit monitors a client terminal used by a user, and when there is a predetermined access operation to a resource from the client terminal, acquires... |
| US-8,055,824 |
Interface unit for interfacing host unit and peripheral unit An interface unit for interfacing a host unit and first and second peripheral units includes a connector, an identification circuit, and first and second... |
| US-8,055,752 |
Application unit monitoring and reporting system and method with usage
data logged into a map structure A system for monitoring a user's usage of a target application. Such a target application can, as examples, be a software program running on a computer or a... |
| US-8,055,712 |
System for assisting collaborative activity A system for assisting a collaborative activity includes a plurality of work interfaces, a role management unit, a workflow management unit, a collaborative... |
| US-8,055,178 |
Cleaning device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus having a
pressing member which contacts an... A cleaning device capable of reducing the apparatus and prolonging the service life of the cleaning blade is disclosed. The cleaning device includes a cleaning... |
| US-8,055,174 |
Fixing device using induction heating and image forming apparatus using
the fixing device In a fixing device for fixing a toner image on a recording medium, a fixing roller and a heating roller support a fixing belt. A pressing roller presses against... |
| US-8,055,084 |
Image processing device, image compression method, image compression
program, and recording medium In an image processing device which compresses image data which is created by electronizing of a document, to generate compressed image data, a document type... |
| US-8,054,559 |
Zoom lens, information device, and imaging apparatus A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refracting power, a second lens group having a negative refracting power, a third lens group having a... |
| US-8,054,508 |
Image processing apparatus, method, and computer program product that
generates and encodes coupled information... An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit that acquires an original image data containing first data, and a data processing unit that edits... |
| US-8,054,483 |
Image reading system, electronic paper used in the image reading system,
and image reading method for handling... An image reading system, in which an image reading method is performed, includes a document feeder, a media determination unit, a transfer controller, an image... |
| US-8,054,327 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same An optical deflector of the present invention includes a movable mirror and torsion bars supporting the mirror and formed integrally with the mirror. The mirror... |
| US-8,054,052 |
Constant voltage circuit A constant voltage circuit converts a voltage input to an input terminal and outputs a predetermined constant voltage from an output terminal. The constant... |
| US-8,053,154 |
Toner and image forming method A toner for electrostatic charge development is provided where the toner comprises a colorant and a resin and contains an organic boron compound represented by... |
| US-8,052,276 |
Image forming apparatus and belt conveying device An image forming apparatus includes an image forming member and a belt conveying device. The image forming member is configured to form an image on a sheet. The... |
| US-8,052,274 |
Ink-jet recording apparatus, ink-jet copier and recording medium A containing member contains a recording medium which has a base member and granular material coated on both sides of the base member, and roughness of the... |
| US-8,052,262 |
Liquid container and image forming apparatus employing the liquid
container A liquid container is detachably mountable in an image forming apparatus having a liquid introducing member. The liquid container includes a storage unit, a... |
| US-8,052,249 |
Liquid discharge head, liquid supply cartridge, and liquid jet apparatus
having electrostatic actuator formed... An approach applying a semiconductor manufacturing process in the manufacturing of an electrostatic actuator, such as for a droplet discharging head, liquid... |
| US-8,052,248 |
Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus Disclosed is a liquid ejection head that includes a flow path member having provided therein plural liquid chambers respectively in communication with plural... |
| US-8,052,247 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of heads each of which discharges liquid droplets, a base member to hold the heads arranged thereon, and a... |
| US-8,052,144 |
Method, apparatus, and system for forming image An image forming apparatus connectable to a first feed tray and a second feed tray includes an image forming unit, a feed path, and a detecting unit provided on... |
| US-8,052,141 |
Recording-medium storage device and image forming apparatus A first engaging member makes a first engagement with a first locking member to lock an edge guiding unit. A second engaging member makes a second engagement... |
| US-8,051,137 |
Multifunctional input/output device A disclosed multifunctional input/output device has an e-mail client function for sending/receiving e-mails to/from a mail server. The multifunctional... |
| US-8,050,953 |
Use of a database in a network-based project schedule management system A system is used for the creation, maintenance, and management of an overall project schedule, of individual project member schedules, and of project task... |
| US-8,050,607 |
Image forming apparatus, fixing unit, and image forming method with a
cleaning mechanism that contacts a... An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism for forming an image on a recording medium with a developer according to image data and a fixing... |
| US-8,050,597 |
Toner container having a gear portion and image forming apparatus A toner container includes a container body that contains toner therein, and a cap portion that is held by a toner-container holding unit and includes a toner... |
| US-8,050,593 |
Image forming apparatus including a mechanism for reliably mounting a
process unit An image forming apparatus capable of reliably positioning a process unit in a main image forming apparatus body, without impairing ease of mounting/dismounting... |
| US-8,050,583 |
Fixing device having heaters controlled based on temperatures detected by
first and second temperature detectors A fixing device, an image forming apparatus using the fixing device, and a temperature control method therefor. The fixing device includes a fixing roller, a... |
| US-8,050,580 |
Continuous-sheet printing tandem electrophotography system and method of
printing a continuous sheet A continuous-sheet printing tandem electrophotography system for printing a continuous sheet includes first and second electrophotography units. A first size of... |
| US-8,049,923 |
Method and apparatus for image processing capable of efficiently
interfacing with different digital signal... An image processing apparatus includes a signal input mechanism, a signal output mechanism and a control device. The control device controls a writing of data... |
| US-8,049,907 |
Data processing apparatus, data processing system, method for controlling
data processing apparatus, method for... A data processing apparatus is monitoring the first port of itself and the second port of itself. If the data processing apparatus receives data via the second... |
| US-8,049,906 |
Print control unit, a control method thereof, a print control program, and
a recording medium for converting... A print control unit, a control method of the print control unit, a print control program, and a computer readable recording medium are disclosed, The print... |
| US-8,049,771 |
Multi-beam image forming apparatus A multi-beam image forming apparatus includes a beam generating unit 101, an optical scanner 102, an image processing unit 103 for dividing image data into... |
| US-8,049,211 |
Laminate structure and its manufacturing method, including wettability
variable layer of material of variable... A disclosed laminate structure is capable of having its surface free energy changed with a small amount of UV irradiation. The invention also discloses a method... |
| US-8,049,138 |
Method and apparatus for processing three-dimensional structure, method
for producing three-dimensional shape... An apparatus for processing a three-dimensional structure having a fine three-dimensional shape and a smooth surface is disclosed in which the three-dimensional... |
| US-8,047,940 |
Heat-resistant resin belt, manufacturing method thereof and image forming
apparatus A heat-resistant endless resin belt including a heat-resistant resin sheet, which can be employed in a thermal fixing apparatus, wherein the sheet includes two... |
| US-8,047,637 |
Piezoelectric actuator and manufacturing method thereof, liquid ejecting
head, and image forming apparatus A piezoelectric actuator is disclosed. The piezoelectric actuator includes a base member and three or more piezoelectric element members in which plural... |
| US-8,047,630 |
Liquid drop ejecting head and image forming apparatus, liquid drop
ejecting apparatus, recording method The same water-repellent process is provided on a nozzle forming part and the outer circumferential part of a nozzle formation member. A first water-repellent... |
| US-8,047,437 |
Card access apparatus and electronic apparatus implementing the same A card access apparatus is provided that is adapted to be connected to plural types of cards, the apparatus including plural connection points adapted for the... |
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