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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8448193 | Image forming device, information processing method, and information processing program In an image forming device which is capable of executing an application program, a plurality of interface providing units are arranged each providing the application program with an interface which enables the application program to use a function of the image formi... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8447221 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A fixing device includes a fixing belt looped over a heating rotary body and a stationary pad and an anti-slip member contacting an outer circumferential surface of the fixing belt in a lateral end span in an axial direction of the heating rotary body to press the f... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8447212 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an endless belt member; a drive unit moving the endless belt member; a first detecting unit detecting a rotating speed of the drive unit; a second detecting unit detecting an endless transport speed of the endless belt member; and... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8447198 | Detector and roller arrangement for an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an endless intermediate transfer belt rotatably stretched over a plurality of rollers, and a detector to read a pattern on the intermediate transfer belt. One of the rollers includes a first portion disposed opposite an area on th... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8446642 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus in which the reusability of digital image data is improved is disclosed. The apparatus includes an image reading unit reading a draft and obtaining the digitized image data; an image writing unit printing image data on a transfer paper;... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8446621 | System, method and apparatus using a locked print job ticket A method, apparatus, and system for outputting a locked print job by a printing device connected to a client device over a network. The method includes transmitting, by the client device, a request to print the locked print job, which includes print data that is pro... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8446605 | Division of rendering block in image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus for printing an image of print data includes a generating unit to analyze the print data to generate rendering command data, which includes rendering commands regarding rendering objects for each page, a storing unit to store the rendering... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8446601 | Control device and image forming apparatus A disclosed control device includes a first unit configured to generate image data of multiple images to be superposed one on the other to form a single image and transmit the image data. The second control unit transmits to the first control unit a horizontal sync ... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8446513 | Imaging apparatus with light transmissive filter An imaging apparatus includes a light receiving device array having light receiving devices, a light transmissive filter including plural types of band-shape light transmissive sections arranged in sequence to form a light transmissive section pattern, and an arithm... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8446446 | Optical device, optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus An optical device includes at least one surface emitting laser device having a dielectric film for causing a central portion of a light emitting region to have a comparatively higher reflectivity than a peripheral portion; a light receiving element disposed, with re... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8446444 | Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus A deflector deflects a light beam emitted from a light source including a plurality of light-emitting units. A scanning optical system focuses the light beam deflected by the deflector on a scanning target surface. A monitoring photoreceiver receives a part of a lig... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8446215 | Constant voltage circuit A constant voltage circuit is disclosed that includes an output control transistor and an overcurrent protection circuit. The overcurrent protection circuit includes a proportional current generation circuit part, a current division circuit part, a division ratio co... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8445628 | Copolymer resin composition, molded product, and method of manufacturing a copolymer resin composition Disclosed is a copolymer resin composition including a lactic acid copolymer, the lactic acid copolymer containing monomer units represented by the following chemical formulas [1], [2], and [3], wherein a content of a monom... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8445172 | Method for producing toner and toner A method for producing a toner, containing: ultrasonically vibrating a liquid toner composition in which a toner material containing at least a binder resin and a colorant is dissolved or dispersed in a solvent; introducing the liquid toner composition to a liquid c... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8444755 | Ink-jet recording ink, ink-jet recording ink set, ink-jet recording ink media set, ink cartridge, ink-jet recording method and ink-jet recording apparatus An ink-jet recording ink including water, a water-soluble organic solvent, a pigment as a colorant (B), and at least one fluorochemical surfactant selected from compounds represented by Structural Formula (1) below, Structural Formula (1) where R1 denotes... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8444135 | Sheet conveyance device, and image forming apparatus and image reading unit including same A sheet conveyance device includes a loading section, a first conveyance member a separation section, a first sheet length detector to detect whether the sheet is longer than a predetermined length slightly longer than a specific sheet size in the sheet conveyance d... | 05/21/2013 |
| 8444073 | Kneading apparatus and method for producing toner A continuous kneading apparatus including: a stationary portion having an internal space where matter is conveyed; a rotary disc member and a screw member which are configured to convey the matter in the internal space; a drive shaft member to which the rotary disc ... | 05/21/2013 |
| D682926 | Powder container | 05/21/2013 |
| 8442856 | Translation support apparatus and computer-readable storage medium A translation support apparatus manages a series of processes related to a translation work of an original text and a proofreading work of a translation. A payable translation fee may be calculated by subtracting a reduction fee calculated based on a proofread recor... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8442270 | Object detecting method and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an object detection program An object detecting method includes dividing a standard pattern into two or more areas radially from a central point; selecting, in each divided area of the standard pattern, a standard pattern pixel position at the maximum distance from the area dividing central po... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8442101 | Tone signal detection apparatus A tone signal detection apparatus for detecting a tone signal of a specific frequency is disclosed. The tone signal detection apparatus includes a detecting unit, a determining unit, a time measuring unit, and a time comparing unit. A time during which a signal is n... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441713 | Electrophoretic liquid and display device using electrophoretic liquid An electrophoretic liquid is disclosed that includes first particles that have the property of scattering light over an entire visible range and are positively or negatively charged; second particles that have the property of absorbing light of a specific wavelength... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441673 | Image forming apparatus with reduced start-up time A disclosed image forming apparatus forming a visible image on a recording medium includes: a functional element required for an image forming operation; a first control unit controlling the functional element; an input unit inputting an external instruction; and a ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441672 | Image forming apparatus and scanned data process method An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data tran... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441663 | Apparatus information obtaining apparatus, operation information providing apparatus, operation information providing method, operation information providing program and the recording medium An apparatus information obtaining apparatus for obtaining apparatus information including model information of an image output apparatus from the image output apparatus via a network is disclosed. The apparatus information obtaining apparatus includes: an image out... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441662 | Print driver for printing policy-enabled electronic documents using locked printing An approach is provided for printing policy-enabled electronic documents using locked printing. A client device includes a user interface, an application program and a print driver. The application program allows a user to generate an electronic document. The print ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441661 | Image processing apparatus with power control unit An image processing apparatus includes a platform and plugins installed in the platform to cause devices to perform functions, wherein the platform includes a power control unit to control supply of power to the devices and a first power control interface to transmi... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441513 | Light source device and image forming apparatus A light source device includes a surface emitting laser, a surface emitting laser holding unit on which the surface emitting laser is mounted, a parallel plate that is arranged on a light path of a light flux from the surface emitting laser so that the light flux en... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8441511 | Surface-emitting laser element including dielectric film selectively provided to control reflectance in emission region, surface-emitting laser array, optical scanner device, and image forming apparatus A disclosed surface-emitting laser element includes a substrate, multiple semiconductor layers stacked on the substrate including a resonator structure including an active layer, a semiconductor multilayer mirror on the resonator structure, and a confined structure ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8440713 | [1]benzothieno[3,2-B][1]benzothiophene compound and method for producing the same, and organic electronic device using the same A [1]benzothieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene compound expressed by General Formula (I): General Formula (I) where X and Y are each independently a hydrogen atom; a halogen atom; or a functional group having a straight or branched aliphatic alkyl group optionally having ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8440474 | Chip quality determination method and marking mechanism using same A chip quality determination method includes the steps of (a) determining the continuity of defective chips in at least four directions of an X-axis and a Y-axis on a wafer based on the wafer test result of determining the acceptability of chips arranged in a matrix... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8440380 | Toner and method for producing the same A toner containing core particles each containing at least a resin A having a polyester skeleton and a colorant; and vinyl resin fine particles each of which encapsulates a resin B having at least a polyester skeleton and an endothermic peak measured by differential... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8439476 | Method of adjusting optical axis of ink droplet detecting device, method of assembling ink droplet detecting device, and apparatus for adjusting optical axis After a light emitting element holder is rotated, it is detected from the output value of a position adjusting light receiving element that a light beam formed by light emitted from a light emitting element is incident on a positioning target provided in a light emi... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8439350 | Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus In an image reading apparatus, the linear coefficients of expansion of conveyance drive rollers and a linear coefficient of expansion of the holding unit are determined such that the amount of change in the outer diameter of each of the conveyance drive rollers due ... | 05/14/2013 |
| 8439347 | Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus A sheet conveying device includes an attractive separation unit and a contacting and separating device. The attractive separation unit includes an attraction belt arranged to face the upper surface of a sheet stack, two rollers that stretch the attraction belt taut,... | 05/14/2013 |
| D682348 | Printer | 05/14/2013 |
| 8438567 | Information processing device and image processing apparatus An information processing device includes an input unit configured to input data, a processing unit configured to process the data, an output unit configured to output the data, and an execution unit configured to execute a first process, a second process, and a thi... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8438478 | Displaying an overlapped print preview for multiple pages with different finishing options An analyzing unit analyzes components of input information. An area generating unit generates information on an area-representing image. A preview generating unit generates information on a preview in which the area-representing images are overlapped for each page. ... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8438273 | Network device management with self learning capability to extract information from a device A method and apparatus for extracting information from a network device. The method includes retrieving first device information from the network device using a first communication protocol, and attempting to determine a parameter value of interest based on the firs... | 05/07/2013 |
| 8438082 | Consumable supply management system, consumable supply management method, and consumable supply management program A consumable supply management system, connected to an image forming apparatus storing an apparatus identification data and using a consumable supply, includes a system controller and a management information storage. The management information storage stores manage... | 05/07/2013 |
