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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,459,252 |
Electrophotographic toner An electrophotographic toner for visualizing an electrostatic latent image formed by an electrophotographic process, an electrostatic printing process, an... |
| US-7,458,674 |
Ink drying time creating duplex printing apparatus A duplex printing apparatus includes a conveying device that conveys the printing sheet at a prescribed average line speed, a comparison device that compares... |
| US-7,458,570 |
Sheet-supplying device A sheet-supplying device has a sheet-accommodating tray, a raising/lowering unit, a first position sensor, a second position sensor, a controlling unit. The... |
| US-7,458,567 |
Sheet finisher and image forming system using the same A sheet finisher for performing preselected processing with a sheet or a sheet stack conveyed thereto of the present invention includes a cutter unit configured... |
| US-7,458,253 |
Method for evaluating fixing member and fixing belt and thermal fixing
roller In a method for evaluating a fixing member to fix a toner having a surface layer, a hardness test is carried out by applying a pressure deformation from the... |
| US-7,457,942 |
PC card control device, computer system using the PC card control device,
and PC card identifying method A PC card control device includes a PC card identifying part configured to identify a type of a card connected with the connector. An identification information... |
| US-7,457,907 |
Method and circuit for interfacing card memory, asic embedded with the
interface circuit, and image forming... An SD card interface, which is an interface for a detachable SD card requiring an access in sector units (a specific size), has a function to initialize an SD... |
| US-7,457,889 |
System using an internet application for monitoring an image-forming
device A method and system for monitoring, controlling and diagnosing operation of a machine such as a business office machine including a facsimile machine, a copier,... |
| US-7,457,839 |
Selective rejection of access to parameters of an option application
detachable from an embedded apparatus... In an embedded apparatus including a Web server function and a plug and play function which enables and disables an operation of an option application by a... |
| US-7,457,784 |
Contents management apparatus, contents management system, contents
management method, computer product, and... A contents management apparatus that manages contents including a plurality of contents elements representing information to be provided to a user includes a... |
| US-7,457,571 |
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-7,457,570 |
Image forming apparatus including a magnetic brush developing system using
a two-component developer comprising... It is an object of the present invention to provide a process unit and an image forming apparatus in which generation of loss of image density due to flying off... |
| US-7,457,564 |
Container holding device, conveying device, image forming apparatus, and
method of fixing container A container holding device includes a container guide member (60) that holds a toner container (50). The toner container (50) can be detachably attached to the... |
| US-7,457,562 |
Image forming apparatus with image forming cartridges arranged one above
another An image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming cartridges arranged one above another each configured to form an image on a medium. An optical... |
| US-7,457,561 |
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-7,457,550 |
Abnormality determining apparatus, image forming apparatus, copying
machine, and information obtaining method A time point at which a predetermined period elapses since the start of use of a copying machine as a detection subject after factory shipment or repair is... |
| US-7,457,473 |
Method for block sequential processing A method and apparatus for performing block sequential processing is described. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a determine pass logic, selection... |
| US-7,457,417 |
Approach for configuring wireless devices According to an approach for configuring wireless devices, a wireless device determines whether it is currently configured to use secure wireless communications... |
| US-7,457,225 |
Apparatus and method for recording data in optical recording medium An optical data recording method for recording data in a phase-change optical recording medium using a sequence of one or more short pulses is provided. In this... |
| US-7,457,222 |
Optical element, optical pickup unit, and optical disk drive unit An optical pickup unit includes first and second light sources of first and second wavelengths, respectively, a diachronic element, a phase plate, and an... |
| US-7,457,216 |
Method for recording/reproducing dye-based recordable DVD medium and
apparatus thereof A recording and reproducing method, wherein, on recording and reproduction of a recordable DVD medium, which has a recording layer containing an organic dye on a... |
| US-7,457,019 |
Light deflecting method and apparatus efficiently using a floating mirror A light deflecting apparatus deflecting input light in directions for at least one deflection-axis includes a plate-like-shaped member configured to reflect... |
| US-7,456,987 |
Digital image forming apparatus In a digital image forming apparatus, desired ones of different data stored in a hard disk are selected and given serial numbers in the order of selection. The... |
| US-7,456,985 |
Image forming apparatus that performs wireless communication with radio
tag attached to document or recording... An image forming apparatus, which forms an image of a document on a recording medium, includes: a transport path through which the recording medium is... |
| US-7,456,856 |
Clock signal generation circuit, optical scanning apparatus, and image
forming apparatus The present invention discloses a clock signal generation circuit for generating one or more clock signals for performing a scanning operation by scanning a... |
| US-7,456,844 |
Image transmission method, computer-readable image transmission program,
recording medium, and image... An image transmission method comprises the steps of: receiving a request including request information having size information concerning an image and/or area... |
| US-7,456,369 |
Push button mechanism, operation panel, and image forming apparatus A push button mechanism that includes plural push button members and one or more positioning members. The plural push button members have push portions for... |
| US-7,456,132 |
Phenol compound, reversible thermosensitive recording medium, reversible
thermosensitive recording label,... The present invention provides a reversible thermosensitive recording medium including a support and a thermosensitive recording layer thereon, in which the... |
| US-7,455,942 |
Toner, developer, toner container, process cartridge, image forming
apparatus, and image forming method using... It is an object of the present invention to provide a toner that can sustain favorable transferability and cleaning ability for prolonged periods; prevent... |
| US-7,455,465 |
Optical system apparatus, camera and portable information terminal
apparatus An optical system apparatus having a lens barrel, including multiple lenses, that is shifted between a stored position in which the lenses are collapsed and a... |
| US-7,454,881 |
Method of sealing a cylindrical inlet of a bag A method of sealing a liquid container, including filling a liquid into a liquid containing bag including a cylindrical inlet; and sandwiching the cylindrical... |
| US-7,454,694 |
Method and system for organizing document information in a non-directed
arrangement of documents A graphical user interface that presents information about documents organized in a non-directed arrangement to the user is provided by the present invention. In... |
| US-7,454,613 |
Information processing apparatus, session recovery method, recording
medium for storing session recovery program An information processing apparatus, a session recovery method and a recording medium for storing a session recovery program are disclosed. According to one... |
| US-7,454,540 |
Data transferring system and electronic apparatus A data transferring system based on the PCI Express standard in which power saving is realized is disclosed. In the data transferring system, a data transferring... |
| US-7,454,528 |
Image output apparatus using close range radio contact wherein radio
contact element is attached to document on... An image output apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives first information from a first radio contact element that performs a close-range radio contact;... |
| US-7,454,157 |
Image forming device and unit position adjustment method The present invention provides an image forming device capable of forming high-quality images and affording high-precision rotating shaft parallelism between... |
| US-7,454,151 |
Image forming apparatus, fixing unit having a selectively controlled power
supply and associated methodology A fixing unit for use in an image forming apparatus includes a fixing member, a heating source, and a controller. The fixing member is supported rotatably. The... |
| US-7,454,150 |
Image forming apparatus having a resist rotary member An image forming apparatus includes a belt stretched across rollers and a resist rotary member that feeds out a recording medium on the belt. A correlation... |
| US-7,454,148 |
Image forming apparatus There is provided an image-forming apparatus having a transmitting and receiving device for transmitting and receiving system information to a host computer by... |
| US-7,454,086 |
Techniques for positioning images in electronic documents Techniques for positioning images in an electronic document. The images may encode information that can be decoded by devices configured to read the images. An... |
| US-7,454,069 |
Image processing apparatus, image compressing apparatus, image
decompressing apparatus, image processing... A code stream generating part converts image data into two-dimensional wavelet coefficients, quantizes the same and coding the quantization result so as to... |
| US-7,454,061 |
System, apparatus, and method for providing illegal use research service
for image data, and system, apparatus,... In a system for providing an illegal use research service for image data, the image data received from a terminal apparatus is registered as a research subject,... |
| US-7,453,784 |
Information recording method, information recording apparatus, and optical
information recording medium An information recording technique for forming a recording mark with a multi-pulse sequence, which is increased by one pulse with an irradiation power Pw for... |
| US-7,453,783 |
Information storage apparatus An information storage apparatus records, reproduces and/or erases information with respect to a recording medium. The apparatus includes a servo error... |
| US-7,453,615 |
Optical scanning apparatus having support members outside the housing for
supporting a housing and reflectors,... An optical scanning apparatus includes a housing that positions and holds a plurality of light sources emitting light beams, a deflection mirror that deflects... |
| US-7,453,594 |
Document filing apparatus for storing information added to a document file An image memory stores image data of a document file. A bit map developing part converts the document file into bit map image data. A difference information... |
| US-7,453,501 |
Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus comprises a slot to insert an external memory. An information file in which a fixed form phrase is inputted in the external memory is... |
| US-7,453,485 |
Image writing apparatus for controlling transfer of image data A light-emitting-element array unit includes a plurality of light-emitting-element arrays in which a plurality of light-emitting elements that is controlled... |
| US-7,453,096 |
Method of fabricating a semiconductor light-emitting device A semiconductor light-emitting device has a semiconductor layer containing Al between a substrate and an active layer containing nitrogen, wherein Al and oxygen... |
| US-7,452,847 |
Reversible thermosensitive recording medium, reversible thermosensitive
recording label, reversible... A reversible thermosensitive recording medium including a substrate, and a thermosensitive layer including an electron donating coloring compound, an electron... |
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