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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,496,324 |
Lubricant applying unit and image forming apparatus A lubricant applying unit includes a lubricant applying member, and a leveling member for use in an image forming apparatus having a photosensitive member. The... |
| US-7,496,323 |
Lubricant applying unit, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A lubricant applying unit includes application mechanism that applies a lubricant from a solid lubricant on a surface of an image carrier that carries an image.... |
| US-7,496,312 |
Auxiliary power supply unit and image forming apparatus An auxiliary power supply unit, which is attachable to and detachable from an apparatus, includes a charge unit configured to store electric charge, a terminal... |
| US-7,496,309 |
Image forming apparatus with auxiliary power source Power is supplied from a capacitor of an auxiliary power source to a secondary heating element of a heating unit, thereby preventing temperature drop of a fixing... |
| US-7,496,307 |
Fixing device and electro-photographic recording apparatus using the same An axis-to-axis distance between a heating roller and a back-up roller is expanded beforehand in inserting a thick paper to prevent a rush/exhaust impact when... |
| US-7,496,305 |
Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively correcting
output from toner density sensor An image forming apparatus using a two-component developer includes a sensor mechanism, an image forming mechanism, a toner supply controller, a memory, an... |
| US-7,496,121 |
Laser modulating and driving device and image reproducing apparatus using
the same A laser modulating and driving device comprises a modulation signal generating unit configured to generate a laser modulation signal consisting of a pair of... |
| US-7,496,027 |
Optical information recording medium, optical information recording
apparatus, information processing... An optical disk 101 includes a plurality of recording layers 102 and 103 and allows recording of information on each of the recording layers 102 and 103. A... |
| US-7,496,021 |
Method and device for recording optical data There is provided a method and a device for recording optical data able to improve recording power setting during recording by means of PWM with a small number... |
| US-7,495,831 |
Optical device, display device, and three-dimension image display device
for changing a polarization state of a... An optical element, an optical device, and a display device are disclosed that are able to change a polarization state in time order and to produce polarized... |
| US-7,495,813 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus A vibration mirror used in an optical scanning device has two reflection surfaces on opposite sides. A pair of light beams corresponding to a pair of different... |
| US-7,495,795 |
Interface for printing multimedia information Techniques for printing stored or recorded information that may include information of one or more types and may be stored in one or more multimedia documents. A... |
| US-7,495,787 |
Method and system for controlling and communicating with machines using
multiple communication formats A method and system which allows a remote monitoring and diagnostic computer or system to communicate using different communication protocols which are stored... |
| US-7,495,682 |
Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus An image reading apparatus, including point light sources, arranged in a straight line state, configured to output light to light a document, and a light leading... |
| US-7,495,418 |
Semiconductor apparatus for charging capacitors A semiconductor apparatus is disclosed, including: multiple parallel monitor circuits each configured to control charge to a capacitor by controlling a... |
| US-7,494,699 |
Low energy thermal transfer recording medium and method Thermal-transfer recording medium comprises a substrate, a releasing layer that overlies the substrate and mainly includes wax, and an ink layer that overlies... |
| US-7,494,210 |
Inkjet recording head having dynamic vibration absorber An inkjet recording head includes a base member, an ink channel unit, a plurality of piezoelectric elements, and a dynamic vibration absorber. The ink channel... |
| US-7,494,205 |
Maintenance/recovery device for liquid discharge device and image forming
device In a maintenance/recovery device for a liquid discharging device, a cap member covers a surface of a nozzle of a liquid discharging head, the liquid discharging... |
| US-7,494,199 |
Head control device and image recording apparatus There is provided a head control device able to re-charge an electromechanical transducing element with a driving pulse without requiring an additional... |
| US-D587,292 |
Digital camera |
| US-7,493,571 |
Electronic apparatus with display unit, information-processing method, and
computer product An electronic apparatus with a display unit that can display icons indicating an apparatus state or an operating condition based on an on-screen display function... |
| US-7,493,559 |
System and method for direct multi-modal annotation of objects The system includes an image display system, a direct annotation creation module, an annotation display module, a vocabulary comparison module and a dynamic... |
| US-7,493,472 |
Meta-address architecture for parallel, dynamically reconfigurable
computing A set of S-machines, a T-machine corresponding to each S-machine, a General Purpose Interconnect Matrix (GPIM), a set of I/O T-machines, a set of I/O devices,... |
| US-7,493,323 |
Document group analyzing apparatus, a document group analyzing method, a
document group analyzing system, a... Disclosed are a document group analyzing apparatus, a document group analyzing method, a document group analyzing system, a program, and a recording medium that... |
| US-7,493,075 |
Cleaning device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus A cleaning device, a process cartridge, and an image forming apparatus including an antifriction agent coating part and a toner removing part. The antifriction... |
| US-7,493,072 |
Image forming device, image formation operation correcting method, and
image formation operation correcting program In an image forming device, a correction unit corrects image formation operation based on a plurality of correction patterns. A pattern creation unit forms an... |
| US-7,493,064 |
Electric conductive member, process cartridge and image forming apparatus An electrical conductive member is configured to prevent a shape distortion in gap retaining members caused by that the gap retaining members are fitted to an... |
| US-7,493,063 |
Image-forming device comprising a contact charging unit An image-forming device including a plurality of supporting rollers, a photosensitive belt, a pressing roller, an intermediate roller, and a charging roller. The... |
| US-7,493,061 |
Process cartridge including at least one replaceable member and image
forming apparatus A process cartridge is provided with a frame body made up of at least first and second frame bodies that are movable relative to each other to form a space, a... |
| US-7,493,059 |
Method and apparatus for image forming with an improved warm-up control An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism, a fixing roller, a heater, a sensor, a warm-up mechanism, and a controller. The image forming... |
| US-7,493,058 |
Image forming apparatus and toner concentration controlling method The image forming apparatus includes a developing device that holds a two-component developer to develop an image, a detecting unit that outputs a reference... |
| US-7,492,990 |
Optical switching element, optical switching device, and color image
displaying apparatus An optical switching element includes a resonant reflection element and a driving unit. The resonant reflection element has a thickness portion functioning as a... |
| US-7,492,955 |
Method and apparatus for compression using reversible wavelet transforms
and an embedded codestream A compression and decompression system in which a reversible wavelet filter are used to generates coefficients from input data, such as image data. The... |
| US-7,492,951 |
Image processing method and apparatus, and computer-readable storage
medium An image processing apparatus is provided with an image expansion unit to expand an image compressed code and to output an expanded image data, the image... |
| US-7,492,694 |
Optical pickup device and optical disk drive using the same An optical pickup device includes a light source unit an optical system which leads a return light beam to a predetermined light-receiving location and includes... |
| US-7,492,674 |
Loading mechanism, drive unit, and information processing apparatus A loading mechanism includes a frame and a tray on which an information recording medium is placeable. The tray includes a groove part and is movable between a... |
| US-7,492,557 |
Switching device and electric apparatus A switching device is provided that includes a switching mechanism unit and a switch drive control circuit. In the switching device, an operating member is... |
| US-7,492,525 |
Zoom lens, camera apparatus and portable information terminal apparatus A zoom lens having five lens groups arranged in succession. The zoom lens is configured such that when zooming from a short focal length end toward a long focal... |
| US-7,492,471 |
Image forming apparatus for printing images properly arranged relative to
index tab An image forming apparatus prints images on print sheets, and insets tab-index sheets between the printed print sheets. The image forming apparatus includes an... |
| US-7,491,917 |
Fuser and image forming device A fuser includes a magnetic flux generation unit to generate a magnetic flux, a heating member which is heated by electromagnetic induction of the magnetic flux,... |
| US-7,491,436 |
Optical information recording medium An optical information recording medium comprising a substrate, recording layer and reflecting layer, characterized in that a layer containing a mixture of... |
| US-7,491,142 |
Belt driving device, driving device, method, image forming apparatus A belt driving device is provided and includes a plurality of rollers including a driving roller. A belt is configured to be tensioned by the plurality of... |
| US-7,490,930 |
Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method An inkjet recording apparatus, includes: a black ink ejecting portion configured to eject a black ink containing a self-dispersion pigment; color ink ejecting... |
| US-7,490,827 |
Image forming apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus, an automatic draft conveying apparatus, a paper feeding apparatus, and an image forming apparatus capable of preventing... |
| US-7,490,826 |
Sheet feed apparatus A sheet feed apparatus including: a sheet storage tray that store a plurality of sheets; an suction belt that suctions an uppermost one of the sheets and conveys... |
| US-7,490,765 |
Method of manufacturing rating label, and program for manufacturing rating
label A management computer 21 extracts product type information from a product type data storing unit 23 based on an input product type identifier, and receives... |
| US-7,490,146 |
System, method, and computer program product for collecting and sending
various types of information to a... In a monitoring system for networked devices, a system, method, and computer program product for collecting and sending information related to monitored devices.... |
| US-7,490,139 |
Embedded business apparatus including web server function In an embedded business apparatus, a Web server function receives a network protocol request including an IP address by a network protocol daemon and a port... |
| US-7,490,136 |
Digital contents distributing system and distributing method A contents server, a plurality of user terminals, and contents holder terminal 4 as a copyright holder are mutually connected to one another via the Internet. A... |
| US-7,490,087 |
System for document management and information processing A system for document management and information processing including a plurality of databases, a plurality of data processing parts, a user interface part, and... |
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