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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-7,570,910 |
Image forming apparatus, fixing unit, and image forming method using
induction heater An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism configured to form a toner image on a recording medium according to image data and a fixing... |
| US-7,570,904 |
Image forming apparatus In the image forming apparatus by: visualizing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrostatic charge carrying member; transferring a toner image, which... |
| US-7,570,898 |
Image forming apparatus including a wiring housing member According to an aspect of the invention, an image forming apparatus comprises: a manuscript reading device reading a manuscript and converting the manuscript... |
| US-7,570,563 |
Optical recording method of a phase-change optical recording medium having
improved recording characteristics... The object is to provide an optical recording method improving the recording characteristics and uniformity in a CAV recording on a phase-change optical... |
| US-7,570,556 |
Method and apparatus for recording information A method and apparatus for recording information with improved capabilities of suitably updating numerous setting items addressing the change in recording... |
| US-7,570,412 |
Reversible recording material and displaying element A reversible recording material is disclosed. The reversible recording material includes one or more kinds of compounds having a structure shown in Chemical... |
| US-7,570,398 |
Secure scanning device A scanning device includes a mechanism and/or process for scanning a document and generating scan data that reflects the document. The scanning device is... |
| US-7,570,380 |
Printer user interface A multifunction printer enables the printing of time-based media and is operated via a user interface. The user interface includes a touch screen for accepting... |
| US-7,570,278 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus Light beams emitted from a light source, which is a semiconductor laser, are changed to weak diverging rays by a coupling lens, pass through an aperture, and are... |
| US-7,570,034 |
Step-up/down DC-DC converter A step-up/down DC-DC converter is disclosed that includes: a step-up/down part generating an output voltage by stepping up or down an input voltage; and a... |
| US-7,569,808 |
Rotary encoder, belt conveyance apparatus, and image forming apparatus A rotary encoder includes a shaft which serves as a rotation axis, a disc supporting plate fixed to the shaft, an encoder disc having a center hole, a first side... |
| US-7,568,688 |
Sheet alignment device, sheet finishing apparatus including the same, and
image processing system including the... A sheet alignment device, that is included in a sheet finishing apparatus integrally mounted with an image forming apparatus to an image forming system or... |
| US-7,567,730 |
Detecting an orientation of characters in a document image An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of detecting an orientation of characters in a document image are disclosed. The... |
| US-7,567,268 |
Image forming apparatus and abnormality detecting method A light-emission control unit controls an emission of a light beam from a light-beam generating unit based on an input image signal. A light-beam scanning unit... |
| US-7,567,065 |
Switching regulator and method for changing output voltages thereof A switching regulator including two switching elements and a control switching part. The two switching elements perform a switching operation according to a... |
| US-7,566,607 |
Semiconductor device and fabrication process thereof A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a polysilicon pattern formed on the semiconductor substrate via an insulation film, an interlayer... |
| US-7,566,521 |
Toner, developer, toner container, process cartridge, image forming
apparatus, and image forming method To provide a toner that can provide long-term removability and high-definition images with reduced image layer thickness and densely-packed toner particles, a... |
| US-D597,130 |
Toner cartridge holder |
| US-D597,129 |
Process cartridge for image forming apparatus |
| US-7,565,098 |
Developing device, process cartridge and image forming apparatus A developing device includes a developer carrier opposed to an image carrier for carrying an electrostatic latent image, and a rotatable developer transferring... |
| US-7,565,087 |
Fixing device, image forming apparatus including the fixing device, and
fixing method A fixing device for fixing an image formed on a recording material in an image forming apparatus includes a fixing member, a heating part that heats the fixing... |
| US-7,564,886 |
Semiconductor laser diode array In a semiconductor laser diode array, first electrodes of a laser chip are coated with an insulating substance, and contact holes are formed in the insulating... |
| US-7,564,607 |
Light source module, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus A coupling lens collimates an optical beam emitted from a laser light source. An aperture shields a peripheral light flux area of the collimated optical beam. A... |
| US-7,564,604 |
Color signal processing and color profile creation for color image
reproduction A signal processing method for converting input color value information (Lab) represented in a uniform color space into a set of five output color levels of... |
| US-7,564,588 |
Image forming device, image forming method, and recording medium that
provide multi-level error diffusion An image forming device includes a quantization unit which quantizes each pixel of an M-level gradation input image into one of N levels (M>N.gtoreq.2)... |
| US-7,564,585 |
Wavelet-based image processing path A system is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises an image processing path and a print engine coupled to the image processing path. The image... |
| US-7,564,574 |
Image forming apparatus and fixing device therefor An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a fixing device for fixing a toner image on a sheet with heat. A main and an auxiliary power supply... |
| US-7,564,508 |
Light path shift device and image display device A light path shift device is disclosed that is able to divide an effective region of a light path and drive the divided regions independently. The light path... |
| US-7,564,464 |
Image forming apparatus, operation panel control method, and computer
product In a multifunction product, it is determined whether a detachable expansion board for realizing an electronic watermark function has been mounted. When the... |
| US-7,564,196 |
Power supply device, and LED device and electronic device using same A power supply device includes a step-up circuit configured to supply a driving voltage to a load, a comparison circuit configured to compare an output voltage... |
| US-7,564,002 |
Electromechanical device for controlling an image forming apparatus An electromechanical device including a key top member (i.e., a push button cover device) used in a push button mechanism. The key top member has a main body, a... |
| US-7,563,555 |
Toner, developer including the toner, and method for fixing toner image A toner composition including toner particles including a binder resin including a modified polyester resin, and a second resin having a weight average molecular... |
| US-7,562,350 |
Processing system and method using recomposable software An inspecting apparatus for inspecting a performance of a circuit baseboard. The inspecting apparatus includes a PLD having a circuit for inspecting the circuit... |
| US-7,562,302 |
System and method for automatic generation of visual representations and
links in a hierarchical messaging system A multimedia message system automatically generates visual representations (thumbnails) of message or media objects and references (links) between media objects;... |
| US-7,562,301 |
Techniques for generating and using playlist identifiers for media objects Techniques for creating a playlist for media objects are provided. The techniques include receiving a selection of a set of IDs. Each ID is generated based on... |
| US-7,562,286 |
Apparatus, system, method and computer program product for document
management A document management apparatus is configured to designate a desired document in a series of documents managed under a DMA document object model and to make a... |
| US-7,562,217 |
Web service provider and authentication service provider A Web service providing method of a Web service provider providing a Web service comprises a decoding request transmission step transmitting, in response to a... |
| US-7,561,985 |
Maintenance mediation apparatus, maintenance target apparatus maintenance
method, and maintenance system A maintenance mediation apparatus mediating maintenance information includes a maintenance center giving an instruction for a maintenance operation to... |
| US-7,561,835 |
Developing device, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge using
the developing device A developing device including a developing unit configured to develop an electrostatic latent image with a toner; a toner cartridge configured to contain the... |
| US-7,561,830 |
Rotation device, method for controlling rotation of a driving source,
computer readible medium and image... A rotation device includes a rotation member, rotation driving source, transmission mechanism, rotation pulse generation mechanism, target value arrangement... |
| US-7,561,826 |
Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively supporting a
process cartridge A support device for use in an image forming apparatus includes a process cartridge and an apparatus main body. The process cartridge further includes an image... |
| US-7,561,507 |
Information recording and reproducing apparatus An information recording and reproducing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a running power controlling and recording unit and an interval adjusting... |
| US-7,561,503 |
Clock signal generating device and an optical disc apparatus incorporating
the device A clock generating circuit includes: a clock data extracting circuit extracting a clock data signal from a wobble signal detected from an optical disc by passing... |
| US-7,561,428 |
Information processing apparatus A disclosed information processing apparatus includes a central processing unit; a substrate on which the central processing unit is mounted; a housing... |
| US-7,561,348 |
Fixing structure, lens block, image reading unit and image forming
apparatus A lens block according to the present invention includes a lens cylinder; and at least one lens accommodated in the lens cylinder and dividing a space in the... |
| US-7,561,336 |
Micro-optical device, spatial optical modulator and projector utilizing
the micro-optical device A micro-optical device includes a plurality of minute optical elements each having a curved surface operable to condense incident light. The minute optical... |
| US-7,561,318 |
Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus A disclosed optical scanning apparatus for scanning a scanning surface using a light beam, the optical scanning apparatus comprises: a light source having a... |
| US-7,560,911 |
Step-up/step-down switching regulator A disclosed step-up/step-down switching regulator includes a step-up/step-down part using an inductor for stepping up or stepping down an input voltage from an... |
| US-7,560,216 |
Image-fixing method and image-fixing device, and, image-forming method and
image-forming apparatus An image-fixing method contains: passing a recording medium bearing an image through a nip between two or more fixing members to fix the image onto the recording... |
| US-7,560,204 |
Latent electrostatic image bearing member, and the method for producing
the same, image forming method, image... The present invention provides a latent electrostatic image bearing member which includes a support, a charge generating layer, and a charge transporting layer,... |
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