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| Patent # | Description |
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| 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... |
| US-7,689,712 |
Techniques for integrating note-taking and multimedia information Techniques to improve a user's note-taking experience. While taking notes for a presentation, a user can request one or more portions of information recorded... |
| US-7,689,691 |
Method and system for remote diagnostic, control and information
collection based on various communication... A method, system, and program product for communicating with machines and end users connected to a network. Information sent to or from the machines is... |
| US-7,689,153 |
Image forming system having charge balancing system An image formation system is configured by connecting two or more image formation devices. The system includes a fixing device fixing an unfixed development... |
| US-7,689,145 |
Replacement unit, image forming apparatus, and method of attaching
replacement unit of image forming apparatus A replacement unit having a toner bottle and a fixing liquid bottle integrated with each other is attached to a printer main body (image forming apparatus main... |
| US-7,689,142 |
Image forming apparatus, and processing unit and latent image writing
device mounted therein An image forming apparatus capable of suppressing drop in the write positional accuracy of the optical write while improving the maintenancability of the... |
| US-7,689,119 |
Digital camera that stores the location of an object An image processing device including an optical system, a storage device, a position detecting device, and a direction detecting device. An optical system... |
| US-7,688,695 |
Method of writing multi-level data using adjusted recording waveform A method of writing multi-level data to a recording medium is disclosed. The multi-level data is written by the emission of light beam. The method is... |
| US-7,688,491 |
Diffractive-optical element, scanning optical system, optical scanner, and
image forming apparatus A diffractive-optical element that is transparent includes a diffraction surface that is formed by a step. A width of the step is set substantially equal to a... |
| US-7,688,488 |
Image reading device and image forming apparatus including the same An image reading device including a plurality of image sensors configured to read image data of an original document, each of which having a reading range... |
| US-7,688,047 |
Power circuit and method of rising output voltage of power circuit The power circuit includes a switching regulator part, a series regulator part and a control circuit part for controlling operation of the switching regulator... |
| US-7,687,762 |
Monitoring device, light source device, optical scanning device, and image
forming apparatus having an aperture... A monitoring device includes a first aperture plate, a second aperture plate, and a photodiode. The first aperture is disposed in a light path of a light beam... |
| US-7,686,158 |
Belt-conveyor device and image forming apparatus A belt-conveyor device includes a detecting unit that detects a belt position in a width direction of the endless belt for a plurality of times within more than... |
| US-RE41,176 |
Liquid crystal display device having electrodes connected at a location
close to an outside edge of a contact hole A liquid crystal display device including a first substrate having a contact hole and second substrate substantially in parallel with the first substrate. Each... |
| US-7,685,428 |
Transmission of event markers to data stream recorder An information stream (media stream) can be "bookmarked" with event markers to note points in time in the information stream of occurrences of interesting... |
| US-7,684,742 |
Image forming method, and image transferring mechanism, a method of scale
reading, a belt transfer unit, and... An image forming apparatus includes an image transferring device having a belt transfer unit for effectively performing an image transfer operation. The belt... |
| US-7,684,741 |
Image forming apparatus An endless belt is extended over extending rollers, and carries a toner image transferred from an image carrier or a transfer sheet. The endless belt includes a... |
| US-7,684,740 |
Belt driving controller, belt rotating device, and image forming apparatus A belt driving controller is disclosed. The belt driving controller executes driving control of a belt that is wound around plural sustaining rollers by... |
| US-7,684,732 |
Process unit and image forming apparatus including the same An image forming apparatus includes at least a latent image carrier, a latent image forming mechanism, a developing mechanism and a charger. The latent image... |
| US-7,684,721 |
Image forming device and image input device In an image forming device which acquires image information of a document and forms an image on a recording sheet, an image forming device body has a first... |
| US-7,684,648 |
Reducing the size of a document image An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, capable of reducing the size of an original image. The method segments the original image into a... |
| US-7,684,637 |
Method, computer program, and apparatus for detecting specific information
included in image data of original... An image processing apparatus includes an image input device that reads an original image and obtains image data from the original image by selecting one of... |
| US-7,684,531 |
Data recovery method and data recovery circuit A data recovery method includes the steps of: (a) oversampling data that have been transmitted serially in sync with a first clock of frequency f1, using a... |
| US-7,684,458 |
Surface-emission laser diode and fabrication process thereof A surface-emission laser diode comprises a cavity region over a semiconductor substrate and includes an active layer containing at least one quantum well active... |
| US-7,684,456 |
Laser diode and semiconductor light-emitting device producing
visible-wavelength radiation A laser diode includes a substrate having a lattice constant of GaAs or between GaAs and GaP, a first cladding layer of AlGaInP formed on the substrate, an... |
| US-7,684,163 |
Abnormal connection detecting circuit and driving device including the
same A device for detecting an abnormal connection status of a load connected between a first connection terminal and a second connection terminal is disclosed. An... |
| US-7,684,100 |
Optical-element holding device, method of adjusting shape of optical
element, optical-element shape adjusting... An optical-element holding device includes an elastic member that presses an optical element with an elastic force in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis... |
| US-7,684,068 |
Method and system for automatically and transparently archiving documents
and document meta data According to the present invention, an automatic archiving system that makes document archiving largely transparent to the user. In one embodiment, documents... |
| US-7,684,067 |
Approach for securely processing an electronic document A method and apparatus for processing an electronic document in a secure manner is provided. A first facsimile machine may verify that the configuration state of... |
| US-7,684,065 |
Unauthorized copy preventing system, unauthorized copy preventing method,
unauthorized copy preventing program... An unauthorized copy preventing system for preventing unauthorized copy of an image in an image forming apparatus which carries out image forming, by carrying... |
| US-7,683,939 |
Method of and unit for inputting an image, and computer product The image input unit comprises a pixel shift evaluation value and reliability calculating section that calculates a pixel shift evaluation value based on image... |
| US-7,683,297 |
Electric power supply control device, heating device and fixing device An electric power supply part supplies electric power to a heat-generating member and a power requiring part. A control part controls electric power supplied to... |
| US-7,682,844 |
Silicon substrate processing method for observing defects in semiconductor
devices and defect-detecting method A silicon substrate processing method for reducing the thickness of an area of a silicon substrate on which a metal layer is formed to implement a semiconductor... |
| US-7,682,016 |
Stably operable image-forming apparatus with improved paper conveying and
ejecting mechanism An image-forming apparatus includes an endless conveyor belt, a counter roller, and a clutch part. The endless conveyor belt is rotatable to convey paper with a... |
| US-7,682,011 |
Recording ink, ink cartridge, ink record, inkjet recording apparatus and
inkjet recording process The object of the present invention is to provide a recording ink which is excellent in color developing properties, has a high delivery stability, can improve... |
| US-7,681,987 |
Inkjet recording head An inkjet recording head includes a nozzle plate, chamber plate, and a diaphragm plate. The nozzle plate includes a plurality of nozzles for ejecting ink... |
| US-7,681,981 |
Inkjet printer with improved cleaning and adjustment capabilities, and
image processing apparatus In an inkjet printer including at least a printhead of inkjet type configured to eject ink according to print data and a cleaning unit configured to perform a... |
| US-7,681,881 |
Sheet aligning device and image forming apparatus A sheet aligning device includes a sheet feeder that discharges a sheet in a first direction, a sheet tray on which the sheet is stacked, a sheet jogger that... |
| US-7,681,874 |
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-7,681,873 |
Sheet processing apparatus and image forming apparatus comprising same The present invention provides a sheet processing apparatus, such as a finisher or sorter, for implementing predetermined processing such as alignment and... |
| US-7,681,716 |
Work conveying apparatus, method for producing work and method for
producing image forming apparatus A work conveying apparatus including at least one movable work conveying device to support a work, a drive device capable of reciprocating by a predetermined... |
| US-7,681,498 |
Printer A printer of the present invention includes a print drum around which a master made by cutting a stencil is to be wrapped, an ink feeding device for feeding ink... |
| US-7,681,119 |
Method and apparatus for providing a graphical user interface for creating
and editing a mapping of a first... A method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing a graphical user interface for creating and editing a mapping of structured information to... |
| US-7,680,877 |
Implementing a web service application on a device with multiple threads Techniques are provided for efficiently processing SOAP requests at a Web service application (WSA) of a multi-functional device (MFP). In one technique, a WSA... |
| US-7,680,446 |
Cleaning device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging member, an electrostatic latent image forming member, a developing member, a transferring... |
| US-7,680,443 |
Developing device including an advance impeding member and an image
forming apparatus using the same A developing device is provided with which the increase in torque of a supply roller, unevenness of image density, and wear to the supply roller caused by the... |
| US-7,680,435 |
Flange, flange processing device, and method of processing flange To provide a flange to be attached to an end of a photoconductor drum, the flange including: a drum engagement part capable of being engaged with an inner... |
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