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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,165,510 |
Development device and image forming apparatus having electrodes that
cause toner particles to form a toner... The development device includes a toner carrier, a toner supplier, and a surface electrical potential controller. When the toner supplier supplies toner... |
| US-8,165,508 |
Developer loading method, loaded developer accommodating container,
developer replenishment device, and image... A method for loading a replenishment developer into a developer accommodating container such that when the replenishment of the replenishment developer inside... |
| US-8,165,502 |
Belt driving controller, belt rotating device, and image forming apparatus A belt driving controller is disclosed. The belt driving controller controls driving of a belt that is wound around plural sustaining rollers by controlling a... |
| US-8,165,498 |
Image forming device An image forming device is disclosed that is able to enlarge a gap of a nipping portion with a simple and inexpensive structure, and able to reduce impact when... |
| US-8,165,490 |
Image forming apparatus including a collecting portion inside guide
members to collect and store liquid droplets An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit, a fixing unit, a discharging unit, and multiple guide members. The transfer unit transfers an image onto a... |
| US-8,165,488 |
Output control device, image forming apparatus, and output control method A storage unit stores therein a first correction amount and a second correction amount for correcting a first output amount of a first device. A correcting unit... |
| US-8,165,483 |
Image forming apparatus with control unit and for control method for
controlling the same An image forming apparatus including a latent image bearing member a surface of which is rotated, a charging device, an irradiating device, a developing device,... |
| US-8,165,481 |
Image forming method and apparatus that detect an image density An image forming method includes detecting a toner degradation state by detecting an image density on an electrostatic latent image carrier with high... |
| US-8,165,404 |
Method and apparatus for creating document data, and computer program
product In an apparatus for creating document data, an acquiring unit acquires a handwritten figure; and a recognizing unit converts the handwritten figure acquired by... |
| US-8,164,780 |
Appropriate printer selection simulation system, ink consumption amount
simulation device, and cost server An appropriate printer selection simulation system for selecting an appropriate printer providing more expressive output with lower running cost is disclosed.... |
| US-8,164,767 |
Print driver with processed print data management capability A print driver is configured to store, retrieve and re-print processed print data that has been generated by the print driver. Processed print data may be... |
| US-8,164,612 |
Light source unit, phase type optical element, and laser beam scanning
device A light source unit is disclosed. The light source unit includes a phase type optical element which modulates a phase distribution of laser beams emitted from a... |
| US-8,164,611 |
Multibeam image forming A first beam splitter splits each laser beam into a first beam and a second beam. A deflecting unit deflects a direction of the second beam. A second beam... |
| US-8,164,610 |
Apparatus for writing an image on the target object to be managed A surface-condition-information obtaining unit obtains information on a surface condition of a rewritable display medium on which information is reversely... |
| US-8,164,180 |
Functional element package and fabrication method therefor A functional element package includes a silicon substrate with a functional element having one of a mobile portion and a sensor thereon; a seal member being... |
| US-8,163,455 |
Toner for image formation, method for producing toner, container
containing toner, two-component developer,... Provided is a toner for image formation, granulated by dispersing, emulsifying, or both dispersing and emulsifying an oil phase containing toner constituting... |
| US-8,163,450 |
Toner, and image forming apparatus and image forming method using the
toner A toner including toner particles; and external additives including a fatty acid metal salt having an average primary particle diameter of from 0.5 to 1.5... |
| US-8,163,366 |
Write-once-read-many optical recording medium The present invention provides a write-once-read-many optical recording medium comprising a substrate, a recording layer comprising any one of bismuth and an... |
| US-8,162,485 |
Intermediate image formation optical system, image formation device, and
methods thereof An image projection device performing pixel shift in synchronization with sequential updating of image data is disclosed that is able to start and stop pixel... |
| US-8,162,306 |
Sheet aligning apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming
apparatus A sheet aligning apparatus includes an alignment surface formed in a planar shape and that presses an end of a sheet to move and align the sheet; and a holding... |
| US-8,162,305 |
Sheet processing system, sheet-supply control method, and computer program
product A sheet processing system includes a sheet processing device that includes a post-processing unit that performs a predetermined post-processing on a sheet... |
| US-8,161,409 |
Re-writable cover sheets for collection management A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for using rewritable sheets. In one embodiment, the method comprises representing a first collection of media objects... |
| US-8,161,153 |
Method and system for remote diagnostic, control and information
collection based on various communication... A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines and end users connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is... |
| US-8,160,484 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same In a fixing device, a fixed member is fixedly provided inside a loop formed by a belt, and is pressed against a pressing rotary member via the belt to form a... |
| US-8,160,482 |
Belt device and image forming apparatus A belt member is supported by a plurality of roller members including a first roller member and moves in a predetermined direction of movement. A coupling... |
| US-8,160,476 |
Latent image carrier having pairs of first and second positioning
protrusions and image forming apparatus There is disclosed an image forming apparatus including: a latent image carrier; a latent image writing unit; a development unit; a latent image carrier unit... |
| US-8,160,468 |
Image forming apparatus, memory management method, memory management
program product An image forming apparatus includes a storage area used as a work area of programs for implementing functions, the programs including a basic function program... |
| US-8,160,462 |
Image forming apparatus having a transport status detection unit A disclosed image forming apparatus includes a transport unit configured to transport a recording medium along a transport path, a transport status detection... |
| US-8,160,461 |
Toner container and image forming apparatus A toner container detachably attached to a toner-container holder of a main body of an image forming apparatus includes a container body that includes an... |
| US-8,160,459 |
Image forming apparatus, tray ID management method, and computer-readable
recording medium An image forming apparatus includes an accumulating unit to accumulate a correspondence of tray classification information that represents a classification of... |
| US-8,160,378 |
Apparatus, method and system for image processing An apparatus, method, and system for image processing are provided, each capable of consecutively capturing a plurality of images of an object, and selecting a... |
| US-8,159,800 |
Semiconductor device In a semiconductor device, low-level signals are output from a terminal voltage detecting circuit when the connection between an external terminal and a... |
| US-8,159,727 |
Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus An image reading apparatus is disclosed that includes a contact glass on which a document is placed; an imaging device configured to image a document image... |
| US-8,159,726 |
Image reader, image processor, and computer program product An image processor includes a reading unit that moves a scanning optical system toward a reference white sheet to read the reference white sheet from a... |
| US-8,159,722 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus capable of accurately compensating an increase or decrease of a toner area coverage resulting from shifting that is performed to... |
| US-8,159,708 |
Apparatus for accelerated processing of print data by maximizing
word-boundary accesses of image data A graphic-drawing processing unit performs a rendering process of print data with respect to a band memory or a page memory. When there is a rendering engine... |
| US-8,159,706 |
Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and
information communication method When an information processing apparatus is present in a communication area of a first communicating unit, the first communicating unit transmits communication... |
| US-8,159,692 |
Automatic and transparent document archiving An automatic archiving system makes document archiving largely transparent to the user. In one embodiment, documents scanned in or printed during the course of... |
| US-8,159,684 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program
product each to process a plurality... An image processing apparatus can process a plurality of printer languages having respectively different ROP calculation rules, and inputs a drawing command... |
| US-8,159,673 |
Light amount detector, misalignment amount detector, and image density
detector A light amount detector includes a light emitter, a light receiver, and a light amount detection unit. The light emitter emits light on a detection pattern... |
| US-8,159,601 |
Sequential shooting controller A sequential shooting controller includes both high and low load drive modes, and first and second power-voltage detectors. The high/low load drive modes drive... |
| US-8,159,506 |
User interface device and image displaying method An operation displaying unit displays thereon a preview image of input information. A receiving unit receives a request for rotating displayed preview image. A... |
| US-8,158,323 |
Method of manufacturing toner and toner produced by the method A method of manufacturing toner including the steps of preparing a preliminary mixture by mixing a colorant and a release agent; preparing a raw material... |
| US-8,158,313 |
Image forming apparatus for forming a color image, and image forming
method for forming a color image An image forming apparatus configured (a) to charge uniformly an image bearing member once, (b) to form a latent image including n levels of electric potential... |
| US-8,158,310 |
Aberration evaluation pattern, aberration evaluation method, aberration
correction method, electron beam... A method of evaluating astigmatism of an irradiation system irradiating an electron beam is disclosed. In this method, a figure pattern consisting of plural... |
| US-8,158,020 |
Liquid crystal element, optical path deflecting element, and image
displaying apparatus A liquid crystal element comprising a pair of transparent substrates, a liquid crystal layer which fills in between the pair of substrates and can form a chiral... |
| US-8,157,342 |
Liquid-jet device, image forming apparatus, and method for adjusting
landing positions of liquid droplets A disclosed liquid-jet device includes a liquid-jet head configured to jet liquid droplets; a pattern formation control unit configured to control the... |
| US-8,157,257 |
Sheet feeding device and electrophotographic image forming apparatus with
rotating charged belt A sheet feeding device incorporable in an image forming apparatus includes a sheet holder to hold a stack of sheets including an uppermost sheet, an endless... |
| US-8,157,093 |
Packing unit A packing unit includes a pallet, a structural base, and a fixing device. The pallet mounts an article thereon. The structural base has a fixed portion and is... |
| US-8,156,551 |
Preventing network traffic blocking during port-based authentication A network device is allowed to transmit only authentication protocol traffic and no other traffic on an interface that is coupled to a port using port-based... |
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