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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-8,066,281 |
Sheet tip contacting belt conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding device that feeds a sheet, and a conveyance belt that conveys the sheet toward a printing region while... |
| US-8,065,723 |
Network communication device A disclosed network communication device corresponds to IP communications and is capable of performing IPsec communication. The network communication device... |
| US-8,065,507 |
Data processing device that displays a setting screen for setting
operations of a connected apparatus A data processing device is disclosed that is able to limit functions of a connected apparatus without providing additional components in the apparatus and... |
| US-8,065,321 |
Apparatus and method of searching document data An apparatus and method of searching an electronic document are disclosed. A document that is assumed to contain a search symbol set is searched. The search... |
| US-8,064,807 |
Developer supply system and image forming apparatus incorporating same A developer supply system includes a container, a memory, and a positioning mechanism. The container has a deformable bag formed of flexible material to... |
| US-8,064,804 |
Conductive member, process cartridge using the conductive member, and
image forming device using the process... A conductive member includes, a conductive supporting body, an electric resistance-adjusting layer formed in the conductive supporting body, and a space holding... |
| US-8,064,802 |
Driving-force transmission device and image forming apparatus A driving-force transmitting member is formed of a material having a linear expansion coefficient larger than that of a sleeve bearing, and ... |
| US-8,064,801 |
Drive transmission device, and image forming apparatus and process
cartridge using same A drive transmission device that performs drive transmission through a plurality of systems and includes a first involute spline joint to perform drive... |
| US-8,064,798 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus with heating member heated
uniformly in circumferential direction In a fixing device, a belt moves in a predetermined direction to heat and melt a toner image on a recording medium. A pressing rotary member is pressed against... |
| US-8,064,795 |
Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and process cartridge An electrophotographic image forming apparatus, including a photoreceptor, a charger charging the surface of the photoreceptor, an irradiator irradiating the... |
| US-8,064,789 |
Apparatus including authentication capability An apparatus including: a processor configured to execute system side software that provides system side services to application software; an authentication... |
| US-8,064,784 |
Image forming apparatus and output setting method of consumed status of
consumable items of the image forming... An image forming apparatus in which a first consumable item and a second consumable item are loadable to the image forming apparatus, includes a consumption... |
| US-8,064,782 |
Management device of an image forming apparatus A management device for an image forming apparatus including a status data collection unit where multiple types of status data are received from the image... |
| US-8,064,690 |
Color profile creating apparatus and color profile creation method Colorimetric data of a tone patch of a specific color is transmitted from a specific-color-data extracting unit to a hue characteristic calculator, to obtain a... |
| US-8,064,316 |
Optical system, optical pickup apparatus, and optical disc apparatus for
extracting signal beams An optical system for efficiently extracting plural signal beams from a bundle of rays reflected from a multilayer optical disc. |
| US-8,064,099 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer program
product An image forming apparatus includes an attribute determining unit that determines an attribute concerning a hue of an original; a multi-page layout unit... |
| US-8,064,094 |
Method and apparatus for performing image size adjustment A position deciding unit decides a correction target position in the image data from a position of a reference pixel in the image data based on size-adjustment... |
| US-8,064,078 |
Image forming apparatus, user restriction method and use history
generation method An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes a user database in which user identification information for identifying... |
| US-8,064,075 |
Image processing apparatus, count management server, and count management
method An image processing apparatus for executing a process based on a count available for each group is disclosed, including: a remaining count acquisition part... |
| US-8,063,887 |
Thin multiple layer input/output device A multilayer input/output device with a low power and a high resolution display suitable for use in paper-like computing includes a first display layer, a... |
| US-8,062,821 |
Toner, and process cartridge and image forming apparatus using the same A toner containing a binder resin including a unit of a polyester resin I having an amino group and another unit of a polyester resin II having an anion... |
| US-8,060,726 |
SIMD microprocessor, image processing apparatus including same, and image
processing method used therein A SIMD microprocessor, which can be included in an image processing apparatus using an image processing method used therein, includes a global processor and... |
| US-8,060,662 |
Recording control apparatus, recording control method, and computer
program product A determining unit performs a position determination determining whether a nonvolatile memory is mounted in a right position or in a wrong position. When the... |
| US-8,059,998 |
Image forming device adapted to control speed difference between first
rotary member and second rotary member In an image forming device including a first rotary member arranged to drive an intermediate transfer belt, a first motor arranged to rotate the first rotary... |
| US-8,059,996 |
Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus A developing apparatus performs image visualization processing by electrostatically adhering toner carried on a developer carrying member onto an electrostatic... |
| US-8,059,992 |
Corona charger, and process cartridge and image forming apparatus using
same A corona charger including a corona discharge electrode and a control electrode is provided. A layer including a zeolite, a conductive agent, and a binder resin... |
| US-8,059,991 |
Belt-conveyance control device, image forming apparatus, belt-conveyance
control method, and computer program... A control unit calculates a difference between a displacement of a belt detected by an encoder and a predetermined target value, calculates a pulse frequency of... |
| US-8,059,990 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having an image bearing member having a substrate and a photosensitive layer having a charge generating layer and a charge transport... |
| 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... |
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