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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185950 | Image forming apparatus, method for management of authenticating information and computer readable medium storing program thereof An information forming apparatus includes: a communication unit that carries out data communication with an authentication card inserted into a card slot; an authentication unit that authenticates that a user who attempts to operate the apparatus is an authorized us... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185452 | Document processing system and computer readable medium A document processing system includes: an activity storage; a business process narrative storage; a risk storage; a control storage; an information extracting unit; and a document preparing and outputting unit. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185361 | Unmoldable portion detection system, computer readable medium, and unmoldable portion detection method An unmoldable portion detection system includes: a normal line arithmetic unit; a backward component determination unit; and an unmoldable portion determination unit, wherein the system further includes one of the following (A) units and (B) units: (A) a concave con... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185038 | Curl correction device and image forming apparatus A curl correction device that corrects curl, including: a curl correction shaft that drives to carry a sheet; a first supporting member that supports the curl correction shaft; a curl correction roll that holds the sheet between the curl correction shaft and the cur... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185036 | Medium transport apparatus, image forming apparatus and medium transport method The medium transport apparatus is provided with: a transport unit that transports a recording medium continuing in a direction, in the direction where the recording medium continues; a detection unit that detects a mark formed on the recording medium transported by ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185034 | Storage container, powder processing device, and image forming apparatus using the same A storage container includes: a container body that is detachably disposed on a predetermined container receiver, wherein powder to be supplied or recovered powder is stored in the container body; and a powder driving transmitting mechanism that is disposed in the c... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185029 | Fixing device including deformable peeling member and image forming apparatus including the same A fixing device comprises: a pair of fixing rotors, at least one of which has a heating source and both of which are rotated in pressure contact with each other; and a click-shaped peeling member provided on a downstream side of the fixing rotor with respect to a tr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185027 | Image forming apparatus, method of allowing driven member to be mounted on apparatus body in image forming apparatus and method of allowing drive force to be transmitted to belt unit in image forming apparatus The image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus body including a drive source; a driven member detachably attachable to the apparatus body; a first transmission member in the apparatus body, including a base rotatable around a rotation axis, and transmitting driv... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185024 | Developing unit having a magnet member and image forming apparatus including the developing unit A developing unit including a retainer receiving portion for receiving a developer retainer, a first agitation portion adjacent to the retainer receiving portion, a second agitation portion adjacent to the first agitation portion, a first conveyance member received ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185000 | Electrostatic charging apparatus, and image forming assembly and image forming apparatus which employ the same An electrostatic charging apparatus, includes: an endless-shaped electrostatic charging belt having electrical conductivity, the electrostatic charging belt being arranged in a state of having a predetermined contact zone being in contact with a moving to-be-charged... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184343 | Image forming apparatus, apparatus for creating electronic album, image forming method, method for creating electronic album, program and index sheet There are provided a first section for acquiring image data; a second section for storing the acquired image data; a third section for acquiring accessory information; a fourth section for storing the accessory information; a fifth section for generating an image ID... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184319 | Print management apparatus, print apparatus, print system, computer readable medium and computer data signal that notify specific print information A print management apparatus includes a detection unit, a determination unit and a notification unit. The detection unit detects a specific print command. The determination unit determines a second person who gives another print command. The second person is differe... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182973 | Electrostatic-image-developing toner, process for producing electrostatic-image-developing toner, electrostatic image developer, image-forming method, and image-forming apparatus An electrostatic-image-developing toner is obtained by aggregating: resin particles, each of which has a core-shell structure, in which a difference in glass transition temperature between a resin constituting the core and a resin constituting the shell is about 20Â... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180258 | Image forming apparatus with reduction of operation noise A replacing mouth 5 for replacing each of toner cartridges 40 is provided at such a position that when any of developer units 32 stops at a developing position 38, the toner cartridge 40 adjacent to the pertinent developer unit ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180248 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a first unit including at least a development unit that develops an electrostatic latent image and a first developer container containing a developer; an image carrier that holds an electrostatic latent image to be developed by t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180233 | Cooling device for cooling the inside of an image forming apparatus by a fan and image forming apparatus having the cooling device A cooling device that cools the inside of an image forming apparatus provided with a developer carrier that carries an image developed with a developer while being rotated. The cooling device includes: a counting unit that counts an accumulative number of rotation o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179569 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes image forming sections that forms images of different colors, respectively, a correction image formation controlling section that forms correction images of the respective colors, a density sensor that detects a density of each of... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179484 | Display medium and writing apparatus The present invention provides a display medium which prevents a decrease in reflectance during storage at high temperatures, and a writing apparatus using the display medium. A photoconductive layer 24, a selective light transmission layer 22, and a l... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177334 | Method of manufacturing substrate and substrate, method of manufacturing liquid drop ejecting head and liquid drop ejecting head, and liquid drop ejecting device The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a substrate which forms a wiring pattern on a substrate having a plurality of through-holes. In the method, the wiring pattern is formed, after burying a filling material into the through-holes and planarizing... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176630 | Method of producing liquid droplet ejection head A liquid droplet ejection head includes: a nozzle plate that has a plurality of nozzles ejecting a liquid droplet; a flow path member that includes: pressure generating chambers that communicate with the nozzles; and liquid supply paths through which liquid is suppl... | 05/15/2012 |
| D659752 | Toner cartridge | 05/15/2012 |
| D659751 | Toner cartridge | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176566 | Information distribution device, method and storage medium storing program, and data signal for information distribution processing An information distribution device including a storage section, a reception section, a selection section and a distribution section. The storage section stores, for each of predetermined distribution destinations, at least one set of output destination information r... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176538 | Information processing system, recording medium storing control program, and computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave An information processing system, which includes: an information distribution server; a client apparatus; and a plurality of service providing servers that provide service to a user of the client apparatus, and the information distribution server including: a user a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176535 | Information processing system, information processing method, and computer readable medium An information processing system includes: an organization information storage that stores organization information which defines an organization including users and groups of the users; a usage control information storage that stores usage control information which... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8176329 | Scanned image disclosure apparatus, method and storage medium; electronic mail transmission apparatus, method and storage medium; and internet facsimile transmission apparatus A scanned image disclosure apparatus has a disclosure unit that encrypts and discloses to a disclosure destination a scanned image by using a public key or a private key relating to a public key certificate that has been verified to be valid, a re-verification unit ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175496 | Endless belt, production method thereof and image forming apparatus The present invention provides an endless belt superior in peelability even under a low temperature and low humidity environment. An endless belt includes: a first region and a second region, which contain a polyimide-based resin, a contact angle to water of an oute... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175494 | Intermediate transfer device, transfer device and image forming apparatus for wrinkle suppression An intermediate transfer device includes an endless-belt-form intermediate transfer material; a first moving member that is movable between a first position-1 and a second position-1, which is farther from the intermediate transfer material than the fi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175483 | Image forming apparatus and gradation correction test chart An image forming apparatus includes: print data generating unit for generating gradation correction test chart print data to juxtapose and draw a basis density pattern having a basis density of a yellow color and plural reference density patterns having respective d... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175477 | Image forming apparatus including position adjusting member An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, an endless intermediate transfer member having a transport surface and being tensioned to transport a developer image, transferred from the image carrier to the intermediate transfer member, from a first transfer... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175473 | Charging device and image forming apparatus A charging device includes: a charging member; a charging power source that applies a charging voltage to the charging member; a temperature dependence storage unit that stores preset temperature dependence; a humidity dependence storage unit that stores preset humi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175401 | Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium storing program therefor An image processing apparatus includes an image partitioning unit that partitions an image represented by input image information into image partitions, each containing plural pixels; a run coding unit that run-length encodes image partitions for which all pixels co... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174491 | Image display medium and image display device An image display medium including a pair of substrates, a transparent dispersion medium, one or more kind of colored particles and larger sized colored particles. The pair of substrates is disposed with a separation therebetween and at least one of the pair of subst... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174031 | Light-emitting element chip, exposure device and image forming apparatus The light-emitting element chip includes: a substrate; a light-emitting portion including plural light-emitting elements each having a first semiconductor layer that has a first conductivity type and that is stacked on the substrate, a second semiconductor layer tha... | 05/08/2012 |
| D659186 | Toner cartridge | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171082 | Information processing system, information processing method and computer readable medium An information processing system includes: a room specifying unit that specifies a room; an equipment coordinate storing unit that stores a correspondence between the room and a placing location of an information processing equipment equipped in the room; a document... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8171024 | Job log processing apparatus and computer-readable medium A job log collection unit cooperates with job log management programs of copying machines to collect job logs held in the copying machines and store the collected job logs in a job log storage unit. A user change history creation unit refers to a human resource data... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170982 | Computer readable medium and information processing apparatus A computer readable medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute information processing is provided, wherein plural pieces of management object information are stored in a storage device with unique identification information and non-unique name inform... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170862 | Document image processing device and document image processing program for maintaining layout in translated documents A document image processing device includes a region dividing unit that divides a document image into sentence regions, a character recognizing unit that recognizes characters in each sentence region obtained by the region dividing unit, a classifying unit that clas... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170447 | Image forming apparatus, developing apparatus and contact-retracting method The image forming apparatus is provided with: an image carrier; an exposure member that exposes the image carrier and forms an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier; a developing member that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carri... | 05/01/2012 |
