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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185012 | Developer storage container and image forming apparatus provided therewith To a lower part of a housing 20 of a development unit 3a, a cover 21 is detachably fitted by using snap fittings 40. To a fitting surface 41a of the housing 20 and a fitting surface 41b of the cov... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181223 | Electronic apparatus conducting two-port authentication, method of authenticating and receiving job data, an recording medium containing job data authentication-reception program The present invention provides an electronic apparatus such as a printer with a signal control port for authenticating a job and a job data port for receiving job data of the job authenticated via the signal control port. Namely, the job data port accepts job data o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180273 | Meandering detection device, meandering detection method, meandering correction device, and image forming apparatus A meandering detection device capable of detecting meandering of a subject with high accuracy includes: a contact which has an open end making contact with and following a subject body and which is supported by a support part; a reflection part integrally provided t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8164805 | Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus therewith An image reading apparatus includes: a lamp shining light on a target original document to be read; a lamp operating circuit for turning on the lamp; an image sensor receiving light shone from the lamp to the original document and reflected from the original documen... | 04/24/2012 |
| D658228 | Toner cartridge | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161406 | Image processing device An image processing device 100 includes a mode selection processing portion 50 capable of selecting a desired operational mode, a program registration processing portion 51 for storing in a program memory portion 57 the selected operation... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155570 | Developing device and image forming apparatus with the same A first bias Vslv is applied to a development roller 22 and a second bias Vmag is applied to a magnetic roller 23 to perform development; after completion of development, without changing the setting of Vslv, of the AC component Vpp2 of Vmag, the peak ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155562 | Image reading device and image forming device A copy machine is provided which includes: a fluorescent lamp; a mirror group having a plurality of mirrors that forms a light path by reflecting luminous flux from an original once on each of the plurality of mirrors, and is configured so that an imaging-side mirro... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154763 | Image forming device, color data conversion method, and color data conversion program The present invention claims and discloses an image forming device for generating color data contained in a second color gamut of a second device based on color data contained in a first color gamut of a first device. The image forming device comprises a color data ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8141161 | System and method for managing trace of certifications A certificate server 10, in response to a request from a client 131, extracts certificate data from a certificate database 102 to create a certificate file including print-job log data, and transmit the file to the client 131. The client ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139964 | Fixing device, control method for a fixing device and image forming apparatus Provided is a fixing device including: a heater; a heating body that is heated by the heater and is caused to rotate; a pressure body that is in contact with the heating body, and is caused to rotate; a plurality of temperature sensor units each including a temperat... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135317 | Development device and image forming apparatus having same A development device 4a is separated into a toner agitating portion 21 and a toner supply portion 22 by a boundary wall 23 in which a first opening 28 and a second opening 29 are formed. Inside the toner agitating por... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135289 | Image formation apparatus, image formation system and component An image formation apparatus includes a receiving unit that is removably receiving a component, a determination unit that determines the acceptability of the component received in the receiving unit, and a control unit that, if the determination unit does not confir... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130398 | Job handling in image forming system during power-off An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus connected to a host device via a network. The host device transmits a power-off notification notifying the image forming apparatus on the network that power is to be turned off, together with job informatio... | 03/06/2012 |
| D655332 | Toner cartridge | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121507 | Image forming apparatus preventing sheet transfer deviation or slippage through fine detection of loop amount An image forming apparatus capable of forming an image without transfer deviation or rumples by detecting the loop amount of the sheet material with a plurality of thresholds at multiple stages through a loop amount detecting portion detecting the loop amount of a s... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116647 | Image forming apparatus and method for controlling same An image forming apparatus includes: a photoconductive drum; a developing roller carrying toner; a DC voltage application portion outputting a DC voltage to be applied to the developing roller, and receiving a feedback voltage; an AC voltage application portion appl... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112020 | Developing device and image-forming apparatus Embodiments relate to a developing device for use in an image-forming apparatus including a developing roller having a conductive base surface which may be covered with a resin layer containing an ion conductive material and a silicone-modified urethane resin having... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109504 | Paper feeding cassette The paper feeding cassette 10 has the cassette frame 10 for loading and storing paper, and the width-wise cursor 20 which is disposed in the cassette frame 10 and movably carries out the positioning of paper in the paper-width direction i... | 02/07/2012 |
| D653283 | Toner cartridge | 01/31/2012 |
| D652863 | Toner cartridge | 01/24/2012 |
| D652073 | Toner cartridge | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090290 | Attachment structure of automatic document feeder, and image-reading device and image-forming apparatus including the same An attachment structure is provided that includes a hinge unit for supporting a document feeder and a hinge attachment for fixing the hinge unit having an engagement pin and a retainment hook. ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090284 | Image forming apparatus and printing control method Provided is an image forming apparatus comprising: mixed printing control unit that performs, in a situation where the job instruction to perform single-sided printing and the job instruction to perform double-sided printing coexist in a plurality of jobs continuous... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089657 | Device, program and method for calibration of an image presenting system A calibration device comprises a relative-value correction unit that performs a normalization for the measured output value based on a possible range of a measured output value and a normalization for a desired output value corresponding to the measured output value... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086123 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: an image formation control unit for forming print images on an image carrier and for forming a reference toner pattern having a predetermined size between the print images formed on the image carrier; a reference image density de... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078991 | Electric appliance, image display controlling method, and computer-controlled readable recording medium storing image display controlling program An electric appliance according to an embodiment of the present comprises a graphical image generation unit generates a graphical image from frame data and pane images generated by a pane image generation unit, and allows the display unit to display the graphical im... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8074976 | Image forming system including finisher with stapler for binding printed papers In an image forming device, images of originals up to an upper limit number of stapling are read (S1 to S5) and image data thereof are processed (S6 to S8). If a paper sensor has detected a subsequent original even when the number of page... | 12/13/2011 |
| D650415 | Toner cartridge | 12/13/2011 |
| D650413 | Toner cartridge | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073351 | Image forming device An image forming device includes: a fixing portion including a nip that is formed between a heat roller and a back-up roller pressurized by a pressurizing mechanism and holds and conveys a toner-bearing sheet; a pressure switching mechanism for changing a pressurizi... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065689 | Release-dependant filenames for device drivers A method for providing release-dependant filenames for a device driver, by providing Config information and a table of the driver's component files; assigning unique, release-dependant filenames for the component files; and producing the device driver containing the... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065357 | Output management system and method for enabling access to private network resources A system and method for managing output such as printing, faxing, and e-mail over various types of computer networks. In one aspect, the system and method provides for accessing print and/or document resources located on private networks behind firewalls. A pass-thr... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055148 | Image forming apparatus and method in which printing time is shortened and printing engine is not driven unnecessarily, and recording medium storing program for same Embodiments relate to an image forming apparatus including a print job input unit; an image data storing unit that stores the image data by dividing the image data into a band basis; a job managing unit that outputs a primary sheet supply numerical order of the band... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8054491 | Communication apparatus that prevents the wasteful printing of error reports A communication apparatus preventing output of wasteful error reports is provided. To this end, first, the communication apparatus comprises a display means displaying an error report regarding a communication error and a print means printing an error report regardi... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8047536 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has a sheet feeding portion feeding a sheet; a conveyance passage for conveying the sheet inside the apparatus; an image forming portion forming an image on the sheet; a skewing detector disposed in the conveyance passage between the sheet... | 11/01/2011 |
| D647558 | Toner cartridge | 10/25/2011 |
| D647557 | Toner cartridge | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041260 | Member mounting arrangement A member mounting arrangement mounts a proximity mounting member to a proximity object at a predetermined position relative thereto. The arrangement includes an intermediate fixing member attached to a fixing frame supporting the proximity object, the intermediate f... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036587 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus 10 includes: a body frame 11 including an image forming section 60; and an image reading section 40, as an upper member openably mounted on top of the body frame, that is provided with a document stage on which ... | 10/11/2011 |
