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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,377,627 |
Ink cartridge, housing therefor, ink bag, ink-jet recording apparatus, ink
container, and image-forming apparatus An ink cartridge includes an ink containing part and first through third housings. The ink containing part includes a holding member with an ink supply opening... |
| US-7,377,379 |
Transport belt drive control device, image forming device, and transport
belt drive control method In a transport belt drive control device, a first detection unit has a first resolution and indirectly detects a feed amount of a transport belt, a control unit... |
| US-D569,741 |
Watch |
| US-7,376,728 |
Method and system for monitoring, collecting information, diagnosing and
servicing a remote system A monitoring system, method, and computer-program product tracks events and device states in a device and sends those events and states to a remote central... |
| US-7,376,380 |
Image forming apparatus, process cartridge, and toner An image forming apparatus includes units for electrostatically charging a surface of an image carrier, exposing the surface according to image data to write a... |
| US-7,376,376 |
Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively adjusting
image shifts An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image bearing members configured to bear respective images, an optical writing unit configured to write the... |
| US-7,376,375 |
Belt-drive control device, color-shift detecting method, color-shift
detecting device, and image forming apparatus A mark detecting unit detects a mark that is a reference position of an endless belt. An angular-displacement-error detecting unit detects an angular... |
| US-7,376,363 |
Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively performing
color image position adjustment An image forming apparatus including a plurality of detachable image forming devices each for forming a color image, an image carrying device for carrying the... |
| US-7,376,268 |
Image processing apparatus for transmitting image data to an external
device The image data corresponding to an image is separated into areas corresponding to contents of the image. The image data in each of the area is subjected to an... |
| US-7,376,164 |
Vertical cavity surface emitting semiconductor laser, light emission
device, and optical transmission system A semiconductor laser is disclosed with which a VCSEL can be constituted with a simplified configuration for optical transmission at a transmission rate higher... |
| US-7,376,066 |
Information recording method and an information recording apparatus An information recording method and an information recording apparatus are disclosed, wherein x-bit long binary data are converted into m multi-level data of n... |
| US-7,375,864 |
Document reading apparatus and imaging apparatus implementing same A document reading apparatus arranged to reduce inconsistencies in the output signals of its linear image sensor is provided. The document reading apparatus... |
| US-7,375,853 |
Image processing apparatus and method A separating unit determines, for an image data, whether there exists black data, and generates density data from the black data when the black data exists, and... |
| US-7,375,836 |
Copier with job sharing and forwarding capability A copy machine is configured to determine a set of one or more resources that are both external to the copy machine and available to process one or more portions... |
| US-7,375,835 |
E-mail transmission of print-ready documents A method, system, and computer program product for transmitting print-ready electronic documents to a printer using e-mail as a transport mechanism. Responsive... |
| US-7,375,515 |
Magnetic sensor circuit and semiconductor device capable of temperature
compensation A magnetic sensor circuit supplying an excitation current to an MI device, and having a detection signal supplied thereto corresponding to a magnetic field... |
| US-7,374,851 |
Toner, and, developer, toner container, process cartridge, image forming
apparatus and image forming method A toner which includes a toner material, wherein the toner satisfies the following formula: 0.degree. C..ltoreq..DELTA.Tm.ltoreq.20.degree. C. where .DELTA.Tm... |
| US-7,374,848 |
Toner and method or preparing the toner A toner including a binder; a colorant; and a wax, wherein the binder includes a polyester resin; and a reaction product of a polymer having a group capable of... |
| US-7,374,608 |
Ink for ink jet recording, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge and ink
jet recording apparatus An ink for ink jet recording which is used for an ink jet printer in which at least a portion of a member being in contact with the ink is formed by any one of a... |
| US-7,374,279 |
Liquid jet recording apparatus, liquid jet head and recording liquid A liquid jet head includes a nozzle element having nozzles from which a recording liquid is ejected to a recording medium, wherein the recording liquid contains... |
| US-7,374,166 |
Sheet conveying unit, and image reading unit, post-processing unit, and
image forming apparatus employing the... A sheet conveying unit includes a lower sheet conveying guide on which a sheet material is placed. The sheet conveying unit conveys the sheet material while the... |
| US-7,374,089 |
IC-tag read-write apparatus A radio data communication apparatus includes first antennas, modulation circuits, an oscillating circuit, a switch circuit, a memory, and a control circuit. The... |
| US-7,373,347 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing method In an information processing apparatus connectable to a terminal through a network, a terminal type of the terminal is specified based on a first request... |
| US-7,373,101 |
Method and apparatus for image forming and effectively applying lubricant
to an image bearing member A lubricant supplying device including a molded lubricant having a Martens hardness of approximately 40 N/mm.sup.2 to approximately 70 N/mm.sup.2 measured with a... |
| US-7,373,097 |
Printer engine and color image forming device using this printer engine
for preventing deviation of transfer... In cases where the transfer positions of toner images of respective colors that are formed on respective photosensitive bodies show a positional deviation, the... |
| US-7,373,094 |
Fixing unit having a plurality of heaters, image forming apparatus and
method of determining temperature... A fixing unit thermally fixes a toner on a recording medium by a fixing member having a plurality of internal heaters and an outer peripheral surface, and a... |
| US-7,373,093 |
Apparatus and method for color image forming, and computer program product
for driver controller A color image forming apparatus including a plurality of photosensitive drums on which toner images of different colors are respectively formed. An endless belt... |
| US-7,373,092 |
Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively collecting
waste toner An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a transfer device, cleaning devices, and a waste toner collecting unit. The cleaning devices... |
| US-7,373,007 |
Encoded data generation apparatus and a method, a program, and an
information recording medium An encoding process and a recompression process of encoded data are disclosed that appropriately select low-order bit planes and low-order sub bit planes, codes... |
| US-7,372,999 |
Image coder and image decoder capable of power-saving control in image
compression and decompression An image decoder comprises a code decompression/decoding unit that decodes code data produced through compression and encoding of image data, a power supply... |
| US-7,372,992 |
Image data processing machine An image data processing machine implementing image processing of image data input with different resolution values in consideration of resolution and qualities... |
| US-7,372,902 |
Pulse with modulation signal generating circuit A PWM signal generating circuit outputs a stable PWM signal for increasing and deceasing a duty ratio at a predetermined rate within a predetermined period... |
| US-7,372,800 |
Optical recording medium and optical recording process using the same An optical recording medium having two recording layer structures which includes a cover substrate, a grooved substrate, a first recording layer structure, an... |
| US-7,372,636 |
Zoom lens and image-taking device A zoom lens including subsequently from an object side of the zoom lens to an image side of the zoom lens: a first lens group with a positive focal length; a... |
| US-7,372,604 |
Multi-beam scanner, multi-beam scanning method, synchronizing beam
detecting method and image forming apparatus A multi-beam scanner includes light sources, a deflector deflecting the beams emitted from the light sources at an equiangular velocity, a scanning image-forming... |
| US-7,372,599 |
Image processor An image processor has a controller unit connected to at least one of functional units such as an image reading unit, detects a source of input of image data... |
| US-7,372,592 |
Information processing control method, image processing control method,
image processing control apparatus,... A digital signal processor (DSP) realizes an image processing function by downloading at least one of a computer program and data to realize image processing. A... |
| US-7,372,486 |
Photographing apparatus and method of adjusting an image of a
photographing object A photographing object image adjusting apparatus including a plurality of adjusting operation devices corresponding to a plurality of object image adjusting... |
| US-7,372,479 |
Apparatus and method for optical image formation control An image forming apparatus for forming images with an electrophotographic system. The image forming apparatus includes a laser drive unit configured to control a... |
| US-7,372,462 |
Three-dimensional geometry processing system and method for CAD apparatus
restricted in surface representations... A three-dimensional geometry processing system and method for converting boundary representations solid data in a first format into output solid data in a second... |
| US-7,371,708 |
Thermoreversible recording medium, thermoreversible recording label and
thermoreversible recording member, and,... The object of the present invention is to provide a thermoreversible recording medium which possesses not only such an excellent property that the electrostatic... |
| US-7,371,497 |
Electrophotographic image forming method An electrophotographic image forming apparatus comprising: an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising: an electroconductive substrate; a charge... |
| US-7,371,491 |
Electrophotographic photoreceptor, method for manufacturing the
electrophotographic photoreceptor, and image... A photoreceptor including an electroconductive substrate; and a charge blocking layer; a moire preventing layer; and a photosensitive layer, which are overlaid... |
| US-7,371,490 |
Photoconductor, image forming apparatus, image forming process, and
process cartridge The object of the present invention is to provide a photoconductor that is highly sensitive, stable in image quality under repeated usages, and affords prolonged... |
| US-7,370,952 |
Ink, and, inkjet recording process, ink cartridge, recording unit, and
inkjet recording apparatus using the ink A water-based ink containing a surface treated pigment as a coloring material, a water-soluble organic solvent, water, both for dispersing the pigment, an... |
| US-7,370,950 |
Electronic device, replacement part thereof, package of replacement part,
and method for arranging identifying... An ink cartridge used in a color printer, comprises at the surface, a convexity or convexities (identifying section) that correspond to a color of an ink, and... |
| US-7,370,940 |
Liquid ejection head having improved durability against liquid, liquid
cartridge having such a liquid ejection... A liquid ejection head includes therein a movable member, wherein the movable member is formed of lamination of at least three layers, at least one layer thereof... |
| US-D568,928 |
Toner cartridge |
| US-7,369,807 |
Cleaner, and process cartridge and image forming apparatus using the
cleaner A cleaner for cleaning a surface of a rotating material, including an elastic blade arranged to counter the rotating material while a tip of the elastic blade is... |
| US-7,369,803 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus using the same A fixing device for fixing image information on a recording medium passing a nip of the present invention includes a rotatable member for transferring and... |
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