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| US-7,894,745 |
Holding member and unit using the holding member A holding member is provided in a gap between a plurality of elements of a unit in a non-usage state to maintain a relative position between the plurality of... |
| US-7,894,744 |
Color image forming apparatus, and toner replenishing apparatus The color image forming apparatus comprises a transfer belt device which feeds a transfer member such as a paper and a plurality of image forming units. The... |
| US-7,894,740 |
Method and apparatus for directly transferring powder toner, and method
and apparatus for filling with powder toner Methods of transferring powder toner and filling a toner container or a development mechanism of an electronographic image forming apparatus with powder toner... |
| US-7,894,736 |
Image forming apparatus including control for main and auxiliary heating
members An image forming apparatus which causes a long recording medium carrying a toner image thereon to pass between a fixing roller and a pressure roller to fix the... |
| US-7,894,315 |
Optical disk, recording method, recording medium, and optical disk unit,
for recording information on... A method of recording information using a laser on a multilayer optical disk having a plurality of recording layers is provided. The plurality of recording... |
| US-7,894,133 |
Optical element and optical device A disclosed optical element includes: a transparent substrate; a subwavelength structure layer disposed on the transparent substrate, the subwavelength structure... |
| US-7,894,118 |
Electrochromic compound, electrochromic composition and display device An electrochromic compound having in the molecule at least an adsorbable group, a redox chromophore and a spacer portion, and represented by the following... |
| US-7,894,106 |
Image reading device and image forming apparatus A driving-force transferring unit is extended in a predetermined direction, with a predetermined portion attached to a running unit. A driving unit changes a... |
| US-7,894,093 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method,
information processing program and computer... In an information processing apparatus having a service mode for a service person to carry out maintenance of the apparatus enters for carrying out the... |
| US-7,893,752 |
Charge pump circuit with control circuitry A reversal charge pump circuit generates a negative voltage from an input voltage received from an input terminal, and provides an output terminal with the... |
| US-7,893,648 |
Stepping motor driving device, sheet processing device, and image
processing apparatus A stepping motor driving device drives a stepping motor according to a drive pulse of a step signal. A phase matching unit matches, at a time when there is a... |
| US-7,893,394 |
Optical device, image reading device, and filter manufacturing method A light emitting element has spectral characteristics in a predetermined optical wavelength range. A photodetecting unit includes a photodetecting element... |
| US-7,893,192 |
Pi-conjugated polymer Provided are pi-conjugated polymer materials that are useful for photoelectric transducer elements having high hole transportability and excellent durability,... |
| US-7,892,718 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming method and process cartridge Provided are image forming apparatuses, image forming methods, and process cartridges using a toner that is excellent in low temperature fixing ability, hot... |
| US-7,892,340 |
Ink-jet recording ink, ink-jet recording ink set, ink-jet recording ink
media set, ink cartridge, ink-jet... An ink-jet recording ink including water, a water-soluble organic solvent, a pigment (P1) as a colorant (B), and at least one fluorochemical surfactant selected... |
| US-7,891,805 |
Image forming device An image forming device, includes a recording head configured to jet a liquid drop of recording liquid to a recording medium so that an image is formed; and a... |
| US-7,891,657 |
Sheet feeder, image forming apparatus, and sheet feeding method, utilizing
sheet deformation prevention member A sheet feeder includes a sheet tray, a feed roller, a separating pad, a feed motor, a conveying roller pair, and a deformation prevention member. The feed... |
| US-7,891,292 |
Printing method and printing apparatus A printing method and a printing apparatus including a stencil printing apparatus and so on. Focusing on the relationship that exists between copy number and... |
| US-7,891,094 |
Method of manufacturing a hollow body used in an image forming apparatus A method of manufacturing a hollow body having an external surface randomly provided with a large number of depressions is provided. The method includes... |
| US-7,890,805 |
Regression testing of a printing system A standard input for a regression test is processed in a printing system in a first (standard) configuration to generate a standard output. The standard output... |
| US-7,890,784 |
Power supplying mode switching controller, image forming apparatus, and
image reading apparatus A power supplying mode switching controller is disclosed. The power supplying mode switching controller includes a main controller which controls an image... |
| US-7,890,660 |
Data processing system, data processing apparatus and server apparatus A data processing system having a client apparatus for requesting target data to be processed and a server apparatus for performing a process on the target data... |
| US-7,890,535 |
Management of processes based on reference information An apparatus for managing one or more processes includes a reference relation information managing unit configured to manage information about reference... |
| US-7,890,044 |
Powder conveyance device, toner conveyance device, process cartridge and
image forming apparatus A powder conveyance device capable of removing toner (powder) stuck to a conveyor belt easily and reliably comprises a powder conveyor belt having a plurality of... |
| US-7,890,039 |
Sheet separation device, sheet conveyance apparatus, and image forming
system A sheet separation member having a separation pick includes a substrate made of hard material, which is swingable around a support shaft connected to a stable... |
| US-7,890,033 |
Developing device, process unit, and image forming apparatus which
prevents ingrass of the developing agent in... A developing device that prevents the formation of agglomerated masses of developing agent in the bottom of the developing agent housing chamber near the... |
| US-7,890,031 |
Developing device and process cartridge used in image forming apparatus The invention provides a developing device, a process cartridge and an image forming apparatus that allow preventing abrupt variations in toner charge on a... |
| US-7,890,030 |
Magnetic roller, developer carrier, developing device, process cartridge,
and image forming apparatus A magnetic roller includes a cylindrical magnetic field generation part (140), a cylindrical support part (143) that contacts both of the edges of the magnetic... |
| US-7,890,028 |
Developing device and image forming apparatus comprising the same A developing device and image forming apparatus that can satisfy stability over time in relation to amount of developer carried, and prevent developer retention,... |
| US-7,890,017 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a pair of first frames that support an axis of each of a fixing roller and a pressing roller and a pair of second frames arranged in... |
| US-7,890,007 |
Image formation apparatus, an image formation method, an image formation
program, and a computer-readable... An image formation apparatus, an image formation method, an image formation program, and a computer-readable recording medium are provided, a rotation of the... |
| US-7,890,001 |
Image forming apparatus and output setting method of consumed status of
consumable items of the image forming... An image forming apparatus including a plurality of consumable items. The apparatus includes a consumption status detecting unit that detects a respective... |
| US-7,889,816 |
Clock and data recovery circuit and communications apparatus including the
clock and data recovery circuit A clock and data recovery circuit that includes a unit to output N-phase clocks each of which has a phase shifted from the others by a time T2 obtained by... |
| US-7,889,409 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same An optical scanning device including a light beam emission unit configured to emit a light beam, a main scanning line deflection unit configured to deflect the... |
| US-7,889,405 |
Image processing apparatus and computer program product for overlaying and
displaying images in a stack A finished-image generating unit generates a finished image showing a result of a process performed on a target image. A transparent-finished-image generating... |
| US-7,889,404 |
Image reading device, image forming apparatus, and reading-unit install
method An adjusting unit adjusts an output level of digital data converted from image data, based on a correction coefficient for each color. A color correction unit... |
| US-7,889,393 |
Document reading apparatus and an image formation apparatus therewith A document reading apparatus and an image formation apparatus are disclosed. The document reading apparatus detects a locally patent image pixel in a main... |
| US-7,889,385 |
Digital image printing system, control method therefor, printing device,
control method therefor, and computer... In a digital image printing system, an external device capable of storing digital image data, and a printing apparatus capable of printing the digital image data... |
| US-7,889,362 |
Image forming apparatus for printing images properly arranged relative to
index tab An image forming apparatus prints images on print sheets, and insets tab-index sheets between the printed print sheets. The image forming apparatus includes an... |
| US-7,889,344 |
Transmitted-light-intensity measuring device, medium identifying device,
medium conveying device, and image... A device for measuring intensity of a transmitted light, includes a first measuring unit that measures a first intensity of a light transmitted through a medium... |
| US-7,889,264 |
End-to-end design of superresolution electro-optic imaging systems A superresolution electro-optic imaging system operates in a manner that takes into account the different subsystems. For example, rather than designing the... |
| US-7,889,240 |
Digital camera which detects a connection to an external device An electronic camera and method of operating an electronic camera which detects whether an external device such as a personal computer is properly connected to... |
| US-7,889,224 |
Optical path switching device, optical scanning device, and image forming
apparatus A disclosed optical path switching device includes a polarization bistable VCSEL that emits a beam having a rising polarization plane, a laser light source... |
| US-7,889,153 |
Projection-type display device and software program A projection surface on which a predetermined projection image is projected is provided; a writing surface on which an image can be drawn directly in a... |
| US-7,888,146 |
Method for assembling array-type semiconductor laser device According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for assembling a semiconductor laser device, including: preparing a laser chip... |
| US-7,887,151 |
Method for adjusting uniformity of liquid ejection from a liquid ejection
head An image forming apparatus having a liquid ejection head including a plurality of nozzles for ejecting droplets and a plurality of piezoelectric elements for... |
| US-7,887,051 |
Stack alignment device, sheet discharge device and image forming apparatus A catch tray for stacking sheets discharged from an apparatus that includes a first sheet-stacking area and a second sheet-stacking area. The tray further... |
| US-7,886,268 |
Information processing apparatus and computer product An activation program first activates a basic program and a first functional program, which realizes a specific function, among a plurality of functional... |
| US-7,886,228 |
Method and apparatus for storytelling with digital photographs A method and system for digital story authoring, viewing and storing is described. A display showing an imported story track, an authored story track, and a... |
| US-7,885,955 |
Shared document annotation A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes... |
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