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| Patent # | Description |
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| US-9,052,659 |
Reflective optical sensor and image forming device incorporating the same A reflective optical sensor includes a light emitting element to irradiate a target object with a light beam, a light receiving element to receive the light... |
| US-9,052,658 |
Fixing device with a temperature detector adjacent an easily deformable
location and image forming apparatus... A fixing device for fixing an unfixed image onto a recording medium includes a fixing belt, a nip forming member, an opposing rotary member, a heater, and a... |
| US-9,052,652 |
Fixing device including a friction reducer and an image forming apparatus
including the fixing device A fixing device includes a nip formation pad disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of an endless belt and pressing the endless belt against a... |
| US-9,052,650 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device fixes a toner image on a recording medium by heating the recording medium, with a heating area and a non-heating area selected in accordance... |
| US-9,052,649 |
Apparatus for producing detachable information sheet and method of
producing detachable information sheet An apparatus for producing a detachable information sheet includes an image forming device, an applying and curing unit, and a heating and pressing unit. The... |
| US-9,052,643 |
Image forming method and image forming apparatus for transforming a toner
image into a semi-film The image forming method comprising: forming a toner image on an image carrier; transferring the toner image formed on the image carrier onto a recording... |
| US-9,052,633 |
Exposure device and image forming apparatus An exposure device, which emits light according to a gray level of image data, includes plural light emitting element lines arranged at different positions in a... |
| US-9,052,631 |
Image forming apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming method An image forming apparatus, including: an image bearing member; a charging unit; an exposure unit; a developing unit; a transfer unit; a fixing unit; and a... |
| US-9,052,629 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus forms a color image, and includes an endless intermediate transfer belt which rotates and carries a toner image and plural image... |
| US-9,052,621 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including: image bearing member; latent image forming unit; developing unit; transfer unit; fixing unit, wherein toner in the... |
| US-9,052,618 |
Overcoat composition for electrophotography, electrophotographic image
forming method and electrophotographic... An overcoat composition for electrophotography includes at least one of compounds having the following formulae (1) to (3): ##STR00001## wherein R1 represents... |
| US-9,052,580 |
Outer housing for an image projection apparatus An image projection apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image using light from a light source; a projecting optical unit that forms a... |
| US-9,051,481 |
Active energy ray-curable ink, ink cartridge containing ink, image or
cured product forming method, and image... An active energy ray-curable ink which contains: polymerizable compounds containing a monofunctional polymerizable monomer a homopolymer of which has Tg of... |
| US-9,051,145 |
Slide rail assembly, sheet feeder, and image forming apparatus A slide rail assembly includes an inner rail unit, a pair of first and second outer rails, first and second roller mounted to the inner rail unit, and third and... |
| US-9,050,838 |
Image forming apparatus with carriage mounting recording head for ejecting
liquid droplets An image forming apparatus includes a main body and a printing assembly. The printing assembly includes a carriage, an encoder scale, an encoder sensor, and a... |
| US-9,050,811 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a recording head having a nozzle surface including plural nozzles configured to eject liquid droplets, a suction cap... |
| US-9,050,810 |
Image forming apparatus configured with recording head cap having plural
release valves An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a recording head, a cap member, and release valves. The head has a nozzle face with nozzles to eject... |
| US-9,050,803 |
Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus including the liquid
ejection head A liquid ejection head includes nozzles, a channel member, a common liquid chamber member, a damper member, a damper chamber formation member, a first adhesive,... |
| US-9,050,772 |
Sheet processing apparatus, image forming system, and sheet-bundle
fold-enhancing method A sheet processing apparatus includes: a pressing member that presses a fold part of a bundle of folded sheets so as to perform fold-enhancing; and a moving... |
| US-D731,509 |
Display screen with graphical user interface |
| US-9,049,331 |
Electronic device and computer program product An electronic device has, as operation modes, a first mode and a second mode reduced in power consumption from the first mode. The electronic device includes a... |
| US-9,049,328 |
Automatic document feeding apparatus, image scanning apparatus, and image
forming system A CPU checks a detecting state of a document set sensor at a point when the trailing end of a document sheet is assumed to pass through a separating position at... |
| US-9,048,687 |
Power supply device and control method for power supply A power supply device includes: a main power supply configured to feed power to a load with constant-voltage output using an external power supply; an auxiliary... |
| US-9,048,677 |
Semiconductor device for protecting secondary battery, battery pack, and
electronic device using same A battery pack includes a secondary battery, a discharge-control transistor, a charge-control transistor connected in series with the discharge-control... |
| US-9,048,676 |
Charging circuit and charging method A charging circuit that simultaneously charges a battery with an electrical current supplied from an external power source and supplies the electrical current... |
| US-9,047,556 |
Media determination for a print job from a rasterization process Methods and systems herein provide for identifying multiple types of media that will be used for print a print job by rasterizing raw print data for the print... |
| US-9,047,543 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and computer
program product A designating unit designates any of three edge faces other than an edge face corresponding to a spine of a book-bound article generated by a printer. A... |
| US-9,047,282 |
Document management systems, apparatuses and methods configured to provide
user interface customized for... Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for accessing a document management application through a network, wherein user interface information comprising... |
| US-9,047,031 |
Process-related record information recording device and method An image forming device is capable of executing an application. In the image forming device, a determining unit is configured to determine, in response to a... |
| US-9,047,026 |
Labeling inserted pages within print previews of a print job Systems and methods are provided for labeling inserted pages within a print preview of a print job. The system receives print data comprising logical pages, and... |
| US-9,047,022 |
Method and apparatus for a print spooler to control document and workflow
transfer A method and apparatus for a print spooler to control document and workflow transfer are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request... |
| US-9,046,902 |
Power supply circuit Disclosed is a power supply circuit of an electric device. The power supply circuit comprises a power source configured to output a power source voltage; a... |
| US-9,046,872 |
Cooling device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A cooling device includes a cooling member to cool a recording material. The cooling member includes a cooling surface member, a heat exchanging member, and a... |
| US-9,046,865 |
Cleaner, image forming apparatus using the cleaner, and voltage setting
device A cleaner includes at least two cleaning brush members to electrostatically remove toner on an object; a memory; a voltage applicator to apply a voltage to the... |
| US-9,046,864 |
Cleaning blade, and image forming apparatus using same and process
cartridge Provided is a cleaning blade formed of an elastic blade and configured to abut on the surface of a cleaning target member, which allows a leading end edge... |
| US-9,046,863 |
Image forming apparatus, and image forming method An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor; a charger to charge a surface of the photoreceptor; a circulating... |
| US-9,046,858 |
Cooling device and image forming apparatus including same A recording-material cooling device includes a first cooling member, a second cooling member, an approach-and-separation member, and a positioning member. The... |
| US-9,046,853 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a primary transfer bias adjuster to adjust, in a second mode, a primary transfer bias by a correction amount in accordance... |
| US-9,046,852 |
Method for determining abnormality of temperature sensor and image forming
apparatus using the same A method for determining abnormality of a temperature sensor and the image forming apparatus, the method comprises: detecting an actual temperature of a fixing... |
| US-9,046,850 |
Image forming apparatus capable of reducing image density irregularity In an image forming apparatus, a first controller forms a first image pattern on an image bearer and determines a first image formation condition based on a... |
| US-9,046,849 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and
display method An information processing apparatus includes: a total amount control unit that applies a total amount controlling process to perform correction such that a sum... |
| US-9,046,843 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a fixing rotary body and a pressing rotary body disposed opposite the fixing rotary body. A pivotable pressurization member contacts... |
| US-9,046,841 |
Gloss applicator and image forming apparatus including same A gloss applicator includes a heater member to be heated by a heat source; an endless belt to rotate while being heated by the heater member; a pressure member... |
| US-9,046,839 |
Fixing device including a heat shield and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a fixing rotator rotatable in a predetermined direction of rotation, a heater disposed opposite the fixing rotator to heat the fixing... |
| US-9,046,838 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a fixing rotary body and a heater disposed opposite the fixing rotary body. A heat shield is movable in a circumferential direction of... |
| US-9,046,837 |
Fixing device and method, and image forming apparatus incorporating same A fixing device includes a heater to generate heat based on soft-start control. The heater is supplied with power using different power-turn-on-duty control... |
| US-9,046,833 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A fixing device included in an image forming apparatus includes a fixing rotary body, a heater disposed opposite the fixing rotary body, an opposed body... |
| US-9,046,832 |
Fixing device having heat shielding device and image forming apparatus
incorporating same A fixing device includes an endless belt formed into a loop and rotatable in a given direction of rotation. An opposed rotary body contacts the endless belt to... |
| US-9,046,830 |
Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a nip forming member, and a power source. The rotatable image bearing member bears a toner... |
| US-9,046,821 |
Development device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A developing device to develop with two-component developer an electrostatic latent image includes a developer bearer to carry thereon developer supplied to the... |
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