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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,697,395 |
Optical device, method of producing the same, optical pickup, and optical
information processing device An optical device having a sub-wavelength grating formed in a specified region is disclosed that is able to prevent wave front degradation accompanying a phase... |
| US-7,697,184 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus An optical scanning device includes a polygon mirror, a beam detector, a correcting unit, and a controller. The polygon mirror deflects and scans a light beam in... |
| US-7,697,180 |
Light deflector, optical scanner, and image forming apparatus A light deflector is disclosed that includes a movable mirror serving as a deflector supported by a rotary shaft and configured to deflect a light beam emitted... |
| US-7,697,179 |
Light deflecting method and apparatus efficiently using a floating mirror Method of deflecting light includes the steps of providing a substrate and forming a supporting member on the substrate. Next forming step forms electrodes at... |
| US-7,697,154 |
Generating multiple image files from an original document or original
image data A disclosed image file generating apparatus includes an original document reader, a dividing preferences input, a name preferences input, and an image file... |
| US-7,697,057 |
Image-pickup apparatus indicating a focused area and camera An image-pickup apparatus including: a photographing optical system (100); an image-pickup device (102) having a first driving mode for outputting charges in a... |
| US-7,697,033 |
Imaging apparatus having image blur suppression function An imaging apparatus, including an image pick up device capable of moving in a transverse direction to a photographing optical axis, a drive circuit configured... |
| US-7,697,002 |
Varying hand-drawn line width for display The present invention overcomes the deficiencies of the prior art with a system for varying hand-drawn line width as a function of geometric or temporal... |
| US-7,696,713 |
Drive control method, drive control device, belt apparatus, image forming
apparatus, image reading apparatus,... Driving of a pulse motor is controlled in such a manner that a rotating body driven by the pulse motor rotates at a uniform angular velocity. Angular... |
| US-7,695,885 |
Developer and image forming method using the developer A negatively-chargeable non-magnetic one-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image using a contact DC-bias development method, having a... |
| US-7,695,883 |
Toner and developer, toner container, process cartridge, image forming
apparatus, and image forming method... To provide a toner containing an ethyl acetate-soluble polyester component and an ethyl acetate-insoluble polyester component, wherein the toner is granulated in... |
| US-7,695,878 |
Image forming apparatus, process cartridge and toner for use in the image
forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including an image bearer; a charging device charging the image bearer; a light irradiating device irradiating the charged image... |
| US-7,695,116 |
Liquid droplet discharging device and image forming apparatus In a disclosed recording head, a piezoelectric element applies pressure to a liquid chamber by causing an oscillating plate of the liquid chamber to be... |
| US-7,695,114 |
Inkjet head and method of producing the same A disclosed inkjet head includes an ink channel unit formed by stacking a channel plate having a nozzle hole formed therein, a channel plate having a pressure... |
| US-7,694,966 |
Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet processing apparatus includes a first processing unit, a second processing unit, a roller, a guide member, and a conveying unit. The first processing... |
| US-7,694,958 |
Sheet feeding cassette and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding cassette, including a main body of the sheet feeding cassette accommodating sheets having a trench; a fence movably attached to the main body... |
| US-7,694,886 |
RFID tag and manufacturing process thereof An RFID tag comprises a semiconductor chip storing therein information of an object to be discriminated and carrying out radio communication with a reader/writer... |
| US-7,694,333 |
Communication apparatus, communication system, certificate transmission
method, anomaly detection method and a... A communication apparatus has a communication part and authenticates a communication partner by using a digital certificate, wherein the communication apparatus... |
| US-7,693,994 |
Intermediary apparatus, distributed processing system, data-transfer
method, program and recording medium An intermediary apparatus for intermediating communications between a first communications apparatus and multiple second communications apparatuses is disclosed.... |
| US-7,693,480 |
Sheet post-processing apparatus, and image forming system including the
same A sheet post-processing apparatus, e.g., that is included in an image forming system, includes: a sheet stacking unit configured to stack a plurality of sheets... |
| US-7,693,476 |
Image forming apparatus with protective agent applying unit and process
cartridge An image forming apparatus includes a charger, a developing device, a cleaning device, a protective-agent bar, and a brush. The charger uniformly charges an... |
| US-7,693,475 |
Lubricant supplying device, cleaning device, process cartridge, and image
forming apparatus A lubricant supplying device that supplies lubricant onto a surface of an image carrier includes a lubricant carrying unit and a transfer unit. The lubricant... |
| US-7,693,471 |
Sheet wrapping avoidable fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus A fixing apparatus includes a fixing member to be heated and a pressure-contacting member for pressure contacting the fixing member. The fixing apparatus directs... |
| US-7,693,468 |
Image forming apparatus capable of effectively forming a quality color
image An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers, an optical writing unit, a plurality of developing units, a transfer member, a transfer unit,... |
| US-7,693,466 |
Method for arranging image forming sections A method of arranging a plurality of image forming sections, each of which includes a developing device and a cleaning device. The method includes arranging the... |
| US-7,693,465 |
Image forming apparatus and process cartridge An image forming apparatus and process cartridge which uses a two-component developer comprising a toner and a carrier. By using toner and carrier having a... |
| US-7,693,462 |
Process cartridge and image forming apparatus using image developer
providing reduced toner cohesion An image developer, including a rotatable developer bearer; a rotatable developer feeding member contacting the developer bearer; a developer container located... |
| US-7,693,459 |
Charging device for charging a surface of a latent image bearing member
and an image forming apparatus... A charging device and an image forming apparatus using the charging device. The charging device includes a charging member to uniformly charge a surface of a... |
| US-7,693,458 |
Charging device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus Toner having spindle-shaped particles is used to form images in an image forming apparatus. Each spindle-shaped particle has a ratio of a length in a minor axis... |
| US-7,693,456 |
Conductive member and process cartridge having it and image forming
apparatus having the process cartridge A conductive member including a conductive supporting body (1), an electric resistance adjusting layer (2) formed on the conductive supporting body (1), and... |
| US-7,693,455 |
Conductive member, process cartridge having conductive member, and image
forming apparatus having process cartridge A conductive member to be disposed so as to abut on an image carrier is provided. The conductive member includes an elongate conductive supporter, an electrical... |
| US-7,693,440 |
Image forming apparatus for forming image with fixing device power supply
control method for controlling the... An image forming apparatus for forming an image with a fixing member, which fixing member includes a first heating member and a plurality of second heating... |
| US-7,693,439 |
Fixing device, and method and device for heating control used in the same A fixing device includes a pair of rotating members, a heater, a detector, a calculator, a pulse width modulation circuit, and a controller. In at least one... |
| US-7,693,204 |
Surface-emitting laser device and surface-emitting laser array including
same A surface-emitting laser device is disclosed that includes a substrate connected to a heat sink; a first reflective layer formed of a semiconductor distributed... |
| US-7,693,196 |
Semiconductor laser driving unit and image forming apparatus having the
same A semiconductor laser driving unit is disclosed that includes a first part generating a bias current; a second part generating a first current for causing the... |
| US-7,693,019 |
Information recording device, method of controlling recording operation of
said device, and program for... An information recording device having a recording head for recording information on a recording medium includes: an inherent ID generator that generates an... |
| US-7,692,816 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer product When first image data, which is in a first color space, is converted into second image data, which is in a second color space corresponding to an image output... |
| US-7,692,808 |
System, method and computer program product for controlling image
information An image information control method and apparatus, the apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive bit map image data sent from an information... |
| US-7,692,801 |
Optical stacked structure inspecting method and optical stacked structure
inspecting apparatus An inspecting method inspects an optical stacked structure having a reflection layer and at least one light transmitting thin film sequentially stacked on a... |
| US-7,692,715 |
Digital camera A digital camera according to the present invention includes a device to set up a plurality of exposure conditions, a device to obtain a plurality of imaging... |
| US-7,692,709 |
End-to-end design of electro-optic imaging systems with adjustable optical
cutoff frequency An optical system that behaves like an integrated low pass filter with an adjustable optical cutoff frequency. The filter behavior is "integrated" in the sense... |
| US-7,692,416 |
Voltage up-and-down DC-DC convertor A voltage up and down synchronization and rectification type DC-DC converter goes up and down an input voltage using an inductor. The voltage up and down... |
| US-7,692,319 |
Efficient provision of alignment marks on semiconductor wafer A semiconductor wafer includes multi chip areas each including two or more device chip areas and arranged in an X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction, a... |
| US-7,691,931 |
Organic-inorganic hybrid material and method of preparing the
organic-inorganic hybrid material, and... An organic-inorganic hybrid material, including a charge transportable organic polymer and a metal oxide. |
| US-7,691,791 |
Lubricant molded body, lubricant application apparatus, process cartridge,
and image forming apparatus A lubricant molded body, which is to be applied to a surface of a photosensitive layer for electrophotography in an image forming apparatus, for example, is... |
| US-7,690,763 |
Color imaging apparatus configured to reduce bidirectional color
difference An imaging apparatus is disclosed that includes plural heads that are arranged in a main scanning direction, the heads including plural nozzle arrays that are... |
| US-7,690,757 |
Head capping member, head maintenance or recovery device, device for
ejecting a liquid drop, and image forming... A head capping member for capping an ejection face of a liquid ejecting head which face is provided with a nozzle for ejecting a liquid drop is provided, which... |
| US-7,690,639 |
Sheet conveying device, and image forming apparatus including same A sheet conveying device, that can be included in an image forming apparatus, includes a first conveying unit to convey a sheet in a first sheet conveying... |
| US-7,690,633 |
Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus including stapling
and folding mechanism A sheet processing apparatus may include a conveyance path and a tray. The conveyance path may convey sheets. The tray may receive the sheets conveyed from the... |
| US-7,689,830 |
Communications apparatus and service providing technique using
communications apparatus A communications apparatus configured to provide a prescribed service via a network based on a standardized interface of a prescribed communications protocol is... |
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