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| 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... |
| US-8,046,702 |
Screen editing apparatus, screen editing method, and computer program
product An attribute storing unit stores a type attribute indicating a type of a selection component for defining how a selection component having a plurality of... |
| US-8,046,613 |
Power control system A power mode designating unit of a main system outputs an operation mode designating signal to a sub system. Upon shifting from the normal operation mode to the... |
| US-8,046,328 |
Secure pre-caching through local superdistribution and key exchange A distributed peer-to-peer document archival system provides the version-control, security, access control, linking among stored documents and remote access to... |
| US-8,046,276 |
System and method for managing product reserve A receiving section receives a supply request for product from a terminal set up at a shop or a terminal used by a client. A first determination processing... |
| US-8,046,088 |
Dependent power supplying apparatus and electronic instrument A semiconductor power supplying apparatus driven by a power source includes at least two driven circuits for performing prescribed data processing when electric... |
| US-8,045,900 |
Developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus that
house a developing agent for forming an... A developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus, have transport members with screw and shaft portions, transporting developer within the... |
| US-8,045,898 |
Powder conveyance unit and image forming apparatus including same A powder conveyance unit, providable to an image forming apparatus, includes a path forming member configured to form a powder conveyance path including an... |
| US-8,045,893 |
Developing device and image forming apparatus including inclined transport
screw A developing device that can discharge developer by an amount of developer in the developing device increased by a carrier supplemented into the developing... |
| US-8,045,892 |
Developing unit, process cartridge, and image forming method and apparatus
incorporating an agitation compartment A developing unit used in an image forming apparatus with a latent image carrier includes a developer carrier, a supply compartment, a recovery compartment, a... |
| US-8,045,888 |
Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus A conveying device conveys a sheet of non-blank recording medium recorded with an image formed in an image forming unit, and includes a container that is... |
| US-8,045,887 |
Image forming apparatus An intermediate transfer unit includes a stand member that is integral with an intermediate-transfer-unit body of the intermediate transfer unit. The stand... |
| US-8,045,875 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method capable of generating
stable transfer electric field An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier for carrying a toner image and a transfer device. In the transfer device, a voltage applier applies a... |
| US-8,045,874 |
Image forming apparatus and image density control method An image forming apparatus includes a control device that calculates a developing ability of the developing device based on a detection value detected by an... |
| US-8,045,873 |
Image forming apparatus and image density adjusting method In an image forming apparatus, when photosensitive members 4Y, 4M, 4C are in contact with a transfer belt, then color adjustment is performed. When the... |
| US-8,045,871 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method on measured physical
quantity An image forming apparatus for performing an image forming operation is disclosed that includes an image carrier on which a toner image is formed, an... |
| US-8,045,809 |
Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus includes a quantization threshold value to convert input image data of an N value to output image data of an M value based on... |
| US-8,045,277 |
Lens barrel, camera and information device A cam locus of the cam surface on the image plane side of the first group cam groove of the rotating cylinder has an angle to a flat surface where the optical... |
| US-8,045,249 |
Optical scanning device An optical scanning device including a light source, a deflection device to deflect a light beam from the light source, an image focus optical system to focus... |
| US-8,045,248 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus An optical scanning device includes a light source, a light-beam splitting unit, a deflector, and a scanning optical system. The light-beam splitting unit... |
| US-8,045,237 |
Data processing apparatus and method of using the same In a data processing apparatus of the present invention, a disk unit storing a disk is mounted on the apparatus such that the surface of the disk is parallel to... |
| US-8,045,232 |
Image display medium, method and system for preparing composite image
display data An image display medium displays an image including a first region having a first composite image. The first composite image includes a first display image and... |
| US-8,045,230 |
Image processing apparatus, method, computer program product, and image
forming apparatus, detecting a halftone... A halftone pixel detection unit detects pixels near center pixels of halftone pixels by comparing a density difference between a target pixel and each of... |
| US-8,045,228 |
Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus including a data inputting part for inputting image data, a document recognizing part for recognizing the image data as a... |
| US-8,045,222 |
Image processing method, image processing apparatus, computer program
product, and recording medium for image... An image processing apparatus converts an input color signal into a color signal which falls within a color reproduction range of an image output device. The... |
| US-8,045,043 |
Optical module and imaging device It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical module which can extract only light components satisfying predetermined conditions, and an... |
| US-8,045,035 |
Imaging apparatus, imaging control method and recording medium readable by
computer A timing signals generator, a frequency divider, an oscillator, and a signals processing IC generates driving signals and transfer signals of a CCD. When the... |
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