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US-7,554,574 |
Abnormal state occurrence predicting method, state deciding apparatus, and
image forming system In a state deciding apparatus, an information acquiring unit acquires pieces of information of different types related to a state of an image forming apparatus.... |
US-7,553,796 |
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-7,553,599 |
Toner, method of preparing the toner and apparatus for preparing the toner A toner, a method of and an apparatus for preparing a permanently-charged electret toner, including discharging a solution or dispersion including a resin and a... |
US-7,553,598 |
Electrophotographic carrier, developer, developer container, process
cartridge, image forming apparatus and... A carrier contains a core; and a cover layer located overlying the core, wherein the cover layer comprises a binder resin, a first particulate material and a... |
US-7,553,375 |
Fabrication of functional device mounting board making use of inkjet
technique An apparatus for fabricating a functional device mounting board comprises a holder for holding a substrate on which functional devices are to be formed, a jet... |
US-7,552,998 |
Method and apparatus for image forming capable of increasing maintenance
efficiency An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of recording liquid cartridges, a cartridge holder, and a cover. The plurality of recording liquid cartridges... |
US-7,552,995 |
Duplex printing system An operator sets a distance from the page head of an alignment mark using a mark position setting switch mounted in a duplex printing system. A first printer... |
US-7,552,381 |
Check boxes for identifying and processing stored documents A user selects one or more check boxes on a collection coversheet to identify, by location on the coversheet, target documents within a previously stored... |
US-7,552,339 |
Image transmission device, operations management method, and
computer-readable medium having operations... An image transmission device is disclosed. When a device user starts to use the device or logs in, authentication is done. If the device user is identified as a... |
US-7,552,111 |
System, method, and computer program product for identification of vendor
and model name of a remote device... There is provided a method, system, and computer program product for extracting information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network... |
US-7,551,882 |
Image forming apparatus equipping improved transfer fixing apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a latent electrostatic image forming unit, a developing unit, an intermediate transferring unit... |
US-7,551,879 |
Charging device, process unit, image forming apparatus, and method for
producing rotating member An image forming apparatus has a latent image supporting body configured by a substrate and a covering layer provided on the substrate; and a charging device... |
US-7,551,869 |
Fixing device, image forming apparatus including the fixing device, and
fixing method A fixing device for fixing an image formed on a recording material includes a fixing member disposed on a recording material conveyance path, a heating part that... |
US-7,551,868 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus is disclosed, including a fixing device and a sheet storing member. The fixing device performs both tentative fixing and regular... |
US-7,551,867 |
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-7,551,866 |
Image forming method and apparatus with improved conversion capability of
amount of toner adhesion An image forming method and apparatus capable of implementing accurately and constantly an improved conversion of the amount of toner adhesion over the entire... |
US-7,551,864 |
Image forming apparatus and method of controlling an image quality An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an image forming mechanism configured to perform an image formation by performing a first image... |
US-7,551,862 |
Developing device, and process unit and image forming apparatus using the
developing device A developing device including a developer bearing member configured to configured to bear thereon a developer including a toner and a magnetic carrier to develop... |
US-7,551,805 |
Converting the resolution of an image using interpolation and displaying
the converted image An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of converting a resolution of an image using an interpolation method. The interpolation... |
US-7,551,796 |
Image processing apparatus, image data generation and transmission method
and image data generation and... An image processing apparatus connected to an external apparatus via a network includes an selecting unit for selecting an application mode and an image quality... |
US-7,551,780 |
System and method for using individualized mixed document A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes... |
US-7,551,376 |
Lens barrel, and camera, mobile information terminal and image input
device using the lens barrel The invention is directed to a lens barrel and an image input device including the lens barrel. The invention includes a third lens retention frame. The third... |
US-7,551,339 |
Optical scanning apparatus, optical writing apparatus, image forming
apparatus, and method of driving vibration... An optical scanning apparatus includes a vibration mirror having a mirror surface that reflects an optical beam. A pair of torsion beams swingably support the... |
US-7,551,337 |
Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus A light source part has a light source unit in which the plurality of light sources respectively emitting the light beams at angles different in a sub-scanning... |
US-7,551,319 |
Printer device, printing method, printing program, and recording medium A printer device is provided that includes: an authenticating unit that performs user authentication; a determining unit that determines whether a print job is... |
US-7,551,312 |
Annotable document printer A printer receives a multimedia document as input and creates two documents as output: a paper version of the multimedia document and a "mapping" file that maps... |
US-7,551,307 |
Image formation apparatus and image formation system In an image formation system, at least two copying machines are connected to each other. One of these machines functions as a master machine and the other... |
US-7,551,297 |
Controlling access to a portable medium inserted in an image processing
apparatus An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, capable of controlling access to a portable medium inserted in a medium interface of an image... |
US-7,551,194 |
Optical writing device, image forming device, and optical writing method An optical writing device includes a scanning unit that scans an optical beam in a main scanning direction while shifting a scanning position in a sub-scanning... |
US-7,551,192 |
Optical-beam scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus A scanning time is divided by the number of sides of a polygon mirror to obtain a value N. Then, it is determined whether an error has occurred. When no error... |
US-7,550,955 |
Power supply circuit A disclosed power supply circuit (1) for receiving an input voltage at an input terminal (VDD), converting the input voltage to an output voltage and outputting... |
US-7,550,837 |
Semiconductor device and voltage regulator A semiconductor device having a chip size package is disclosed. The chip size package comprises a semiconductor chip having at least a bonding pad, at least a... |
US-7,550,819 |
Metal thin-film resistance element on an insulation film A semiconductor device having a metal thin-film resistance on an insulation film includes first and second contact holes formed in the insulation film, a first... |
US-7,550,554 |
Aryl amine polymer, thin film transistor using the new aryl amine polymer,
and method of manufacturing the thin... An aryl amine polymer is provided which contains a specific repeat unit, its use in preparing an organic semiconductor material which contains the aryl amine... |
US-7,550,245 |
Toner and production method of the same, and image forming method The object of the present invention is to provide a toner having a uniform composition of toner materials among toner particles, excelling in charge stability,... |
US-7,550,243 |
Toner, developer, toner container, process cartridge, fixing process,
image forming apparatus, and image... The object of the present invention is to provide a toner characterized in that the toner comprises a first binder resin and a second binder resin, the first... |
US-7,550,242 |
Toner, toner manufacturing method, developer, image forming apparatus, and
process cartridge for the image... A toner having a core containing a colorant, a release agent and a binder resin (A), and a shell containing a binder resin (B), the shell overlying the core,... |
US-7,550,238 |
Process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and image forming process An image forming process using an electrostatic latent image carrier containing a support and a photoconductive layer including: a charge generating layer, a... |
US-7,549,716 |
Method of ejecting microdroplets of ink The method of ejecting microdroplets of ink includes a first step for generating one ink column on the outside of the nozzle and for separating a tip end of the... |
US-7,549,573 |
Message system, message creating method and message creating program Attribute information representing at least one attribute of each member in a system is recorded on a card. The attribute information includes fixed information... |
US-7,548,721 |
Sheet transferring device and image forming device A sheet transferring device includes a feeding roller configured to feed a sheet; a transferring roller configured to transfer the sheet to the feeding roller; a... |
US-7,548,720 |
Image reading apparatus capable of reading an image with improved accuracy An image reading apparatus includes a body and an auto document feeder. The body includes an exposure glass, a reader for reading an image of an original sheet... |
US-7,548,718 |
Fixing device for fixing an unfixed toner image on a recording medium and
image forming apparatus including the... A fixing device, which fixes an unfixed toner image on a recording medium, includes a heating roller, a fixing roller, a pressurizing roller, and an endless belt... |
US-7,548,713 |
Drive transmitting device, and image forming apparatus In a driving motor that rotates and drives a rotor by a magnetic force generated between a rotor and a stator, a constant velocity joint that transmits a... |
US-7,548,712 |
Image forming apparatus, drum unit, image forming module, and method of
insertion and removal of a damper into... A latent image carrier includes a thin-walled cylinder with a chargeable photosensitive layer. The latent image carrier is configured to form an electrostatic... |
US-7,548,704 |
Image forming apparatus effectively conducting a process control An image forming apparatus includes at least one image bearing member, an intermediate transfer member, a secondary transfer member, and at least one optical... |
US-7,548,654 |
Header-based scaling and cropping of images compressed using multi-scale
transforms A method and apparatus are described for performing header-based scaling and cropping of images compressed using multi-scale transforms. In one embodiment, the... |
US-7,548,635 |
Method and apparatus for image processing capable of preventing
unauthorized reproduction of an image An image reading apparatus including a copy protection control apparatus including a radio frequency tag data communicating mechanism configured to receive... |
US-7,548,581 |
At-command analyzing device An UART receives asynchronous transmission serial data based on a baud-rate clock from a DTE. An MPU analyzes the data received by the UART. A baud-rate... |
US-7,548,498 |
Optical disk unit capable of reading out data normally and continuously
after suspension of data writing An optical disk unit includes the following: a storage part temporarily storing data to be written to an optical disk; a processing part processing the data; an... |