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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,792,463 |
Image forming apparatus including a brush member to temporarily capture
toner A brush member includes plural raisings and contacts a surface of an image bearer downstream of a transfer station and temporary captures toner remaining on the... |
| US-7,792,441 |
Image formation apparatus An image formation apparatus is disclosed. The image formation apparatus includes a transfer effectiveness detector that further includes a computing unit for... |
| US-7,792,439 |
Image forming apparatus and associated method of tracking recycling
information An image formation unit detached to an image forming apparatus integrally mounts at least one replacement member, and a nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile... |
| US-7,792,388 |
Controlling format of a compound image A source image having a foreground section and a background section is segmented into a first image corresponding to the foreground section and a second image... |
| US-7,792,362 |
Reformatting documents using document analysis information A method and apparatus for reformatting electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing layout analysis on an electronic... |
| US-7,791,754 |
Operation request accepting apparatus, computer-readable program,
computer-readable storage medium, control... An operation request accepting apparatus is provided with a reading part to read from a detachable recording medium setting information that is used when a... |
| US-7,791,666 |
Unit for setting function of displayed menu In a unit for setting a function of a displayed menu, a choosing and displaying operation of selecting one of a plurality of groups of a menu and displaying all... |
| US-7,791,635 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method In a disclosed image forming apparatus, a developing bias applied to a developer carrier or exposure energy with which an image carrier is exposed is adjusted... |
| US-7,791,634 |
Pixel clock generator, pulse modulator, and image forming apparatus A comparator compares a time interval between a first synchronization signal and a second synchronization signal with a target value, and outputs an error... |
| US-7,791,628 |
Deviation amount detecting device, deviation amount detecting method, and
computer-readable recording medium A deviation amount detecting device for use in an electrophotographic color image forming device is configured to correct, during an inter-cycle period in which... |
| US-7,790,344 |
Method of preparing powder and toner for electrophotography, and toner
therefor A method of preparing a powder, including bombarding a spray gas to a liquid material through a spray nozzle to form an atomized liquid material; and solidifying... |
| US-7,790,343 |
Process, toner, process cartridge and apparatus for developing a toner
image A process includes developing toner images on a photoconductor, transferring to an intermediate transfer belt and a transferring-and-fixing roller. The toner... |
| US-7,789,475 |
Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus, a control unit determines that dirt is present on the linear scale when a detecting unit detects a change in a moving direction of... |
| US-D623,221 |
Inkjet printer |
| US-7,788,712 |
Managing access to a document-processing device using an identification
token A method and apparatus for accessing a document-processing device is provided. A request to access the document-processing device is received by the... |
| US-7,788,579 |
Automated document layout design A method and apparatus for automated document layout creation is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a first layout of document image... |
| US-7,788,388 |
Method and apparatus for appliance host supported network-based
application delivery A method and apparatus for appliance host supported network-based application delivery is described. In one embodiment, a local client device requests access to... |
| US-7,788,377 |
Method and apparatus for providing a service for sharing a printing
environment A method of providing a service for sharing a printing environment using multiple service providing apparatuses connected via a network is disclosed. The method... |
| US-7,788,367 |
Remote system usage monitoring with flexible packaging of data 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-7,788,318 |
Printing management system and electronic file printing method A user sends a printing request of a cost estimate to an electronic file management server, applying a user terminal. The electronic file management server that... |
| US-7,788,179 |
Printing system using a portable terminal and printing charge collecting
method A cellular phone company closes a contract with a user to the effect that the cellular phone company collects a predetermined basic charge from the user together... |
| US-7,788,080 |
Paper interface for simulation environments Techniques for using a paper interface to replay time-based media information captured for a simulation and/or restart execution of a simulation program from a... |
| US-7,787,815 |
Image forming device An image forming device is disclosed that is able to superpose a smooth sheet on a toner image on a recording sheet after common thermal fusing, perform... |
| US-7,787,813 |
Image forming apparatus capable of stably conveying recording medium An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism, a toner image carrier, a transfer unit, and a contact-separate mechanism. The image forming... |
| US-7,787,795 |
Angle adjustment device and image forming apparatus An angle adjustment device includes a main body, an operation panel supported for up-down rotation with respect to the main body, a block mechanism to block... |
| US-7,787,794 |
Setting angle adjusting device and setting angle adjusting method A setting angle adjusting device, includes a first input part configured to input an instruction for changing a setting angle of an operations panel in a first... |
| US-7,787,788 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus including fixing device A fixing device includes a fixing member, pressure member, first temperature detector, and pressure adjustment mechanism. The pressure member presses against the... |
| US-7,787,787 |
Image forming apparatus including controller driving image carriers An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes image carriers arranged side by side in a preselected direction, developing means each for forming a... |
| US-7,787,784 |
Powder conveying device, developing device, process cartridge, and image
forming apparatus A powder conveying device includes a powder container, a powder conveying tube, a powder conveying member, and a detecting unit. The powder container is... |
| US-7,787,712 |
Electronic document creating apparatus An electronic document creating apparatus includes a document information obtaining device that obtains and inputs document identification information put on a... |
| US-7,787,511 |
Array of surface-emitting laser diodes having reduced device resistance
and capable of performing high output... A surface-emitting laser diode device that oscillates in a direction perpendicular to the substrate is provided. This surface-emitting laser diode device... |
| US-7,787,157 |
Image reading apparatus, image reading method and image processing
apparatus An image reading apparatus is disclosed. The image reading apparatus provides plural sensors and a correction unit that corrects displacement of image data... |
| US-7,787,137 |
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-7,787,025 |
Image pickup device that cuts out a face image from subject image data An image pickup device includes an image pickup unit configured to convert a subject image to image data and to output the image data and a face image... |
| US-7,787,002 |
Digital writing apparatus In transfer of even pixel data, focusing on even-number data, only the even data is selected out of eight pixels of image data read out from a storage circuit... |
| US-7,787,001 |
Image processing apparatus, image display apparatus, image processing
method, and computer product An image processing apparatus that performs resolution conversion on image data to output to a display unit includes a resolution converting unit configured to... |
| US-7,786,794 |
Amplifier circuit An amplifier circuit is disclosed that includes a first input terminal; a second input terminal; a first differential amplifier circuit that samples signals... |
| US-7,785,762 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member for bearing a latent electrostatic image including a substrate, an intermediate layer containing a... |
| US-7,785,760 |
Toner and method of preparing the toner A toner is provided including a binder resin, a colorant, and a release agent, which has a volume average particle diameter (Dv) of from 3 to 9 .mu.m, and... |
| US-7,784,900 |
Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus is disclosed that includes a carriage that moves back and forth along the main scanning direction, plural recording heads mounted on the... |
| US-7,784,780 |
Manual sheet-feeding device and image forming apparatus An adjusting member is positioned in a sheet feeding opening. The adjusting member is adjusted according to the size of the paper sheet. The adjusting member... |
| US-D622,759 |
Toner cartridge |
| US-7,784,091 |
Data processing system A data processing system is disclosed that includes a read unit configured to read unique information identifying an individual from an individual identification... |
| US-7,783,890 |
Multimedia recording apparatus, object-specifying information providing
apparatus, server apparatus,... A multimedia recording system verifies whether or not multimedia data created from an object belongs to the intended object, and has a multimedia recording... |
| US-7,783,707 |
Communication apparatus and method for providing broadcast communication
using electronic mail A communication terminal for providing broadcast communication using electronic mail via a network. The communication terminal includes a storing unit configured... |
| US-7,783,244 |
Paper-sheet punching device, paper-sheet folding device, and image forming
device A paper-sheet punching device punches a hole in a paper sheet. The paper sheet punching device includes a punching unit that receives a paper sheet via an inlet,... |
| US-7,783,240 |
Fixing device, image forming apparatus including the fixing device, and
fixing method A fixing device includes a magnetic flux generator, a rotating heat generation member, a magnetic flux adjuster, and a driver. The magnetic flux generator... |
| US-7,783,235 |
Hopping toner development apparatus and image formation apparatus A development apparatus using a hopping method and an image formation apparatus including the development apparatus are disclosed. The development apparatus... |
| US-7,783,233 |
Developing device including improved conveying device, process cartridge
and image forming apparatus using the same A developing device for an image forming apparatus that uses developing agent supplied from a supplying device. The developing device includes a developing... |
| US-7,783,231 |
Developing device used in image forming apparatus, and process cartridge
with the developing device A developing device that has a reduced size and prevents a low-concentration developer to be drawn up to the developer carrier again, and further prevents the... |
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