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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7532412 | Zoom lens having image stabilizing function A zoom lens includes, in order from object to image sides, first and second lens units having positive and negative refractive power, respectively, and a rear lens group including at least one lens unit having positive refractive power. The rear lens group includes ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7509086 | Image forming apparatus In a toner collecting device of the cyclone separator type that collects toner separated from air, exhaust of the air including unseparated toner to outside the cyclone separator, which is caused by an unstable sucking operation of a cyclone blower, can be prevented... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7498765 | Method of controlling charging secondary battery based on type of secondary battery and apparatus A rechargeable battery charging apparatus includes a type detection section for determining the type of rechargeable battery, a power-supply section for charging the rechargeable battery, and a charging control section for controlling the power-supply section. The c... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7463424 | Wide converter lens and image pickup apparatus equipped with the wide converter lens A compact wide converter lens having a small front-lens diameter. When attached to an object side of a main lens system, the wide converter lens provides reduced degradation of aberrations to achieve high optical performance. The wide converter lens includes a first... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463372 | Recording system and control method therefor A recording system including a recording apparatus connectable to a plurality of host devices via a plurality of interfaces with different transfer rates. When image data is transferred from one of the host devices to the recording apparatus via the respective inter... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460311 | Zoom lens system and image pickup apparatus including the same A compact zoom lens system having excellent optical performance. The zoom lens system includes a first lens unit of negative optical power, a second lens unit of positive optical power, a third lens unit of positive optical power, and an F-number defining member. Th... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457552 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof Image forming apparatus in which surface electric potentials of a plurality of surface areas are detected by charging a photoconductor with a different applied bias for each predetermined timing and exposing a plurality of surface areas of the photoconductor by scan... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7451973 | Sheet feeding unit, sheet feeding apparatus, and image forming apparatus A feeding unit is detachably attached to a sheet cassette in which sheets are loaded. The feeding unit includes a sheet tray on which sheets are loaded, and a fan for blowing air against the side surface of a stack of sheets loaded on the sheet tray, the sheet tray ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7450896 | Sheet transport apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet transport apparatus includes a fixed driving roller and a driven roller capable of coming into contact with or being separated from the driving roller, the driving roller and driven roller being capable of rotating and transporting a sheet interposed therebe... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448740 | Inkjet cartridge An inkjet cartridge having a plurality of ink reservoirs and a plurality of nozzle rows without variations in lengths of ink flow paths communicating the ink reservoirs with the nozzle rows. An inkjet cartridge includes a tank part having a plurality of ink reservoi... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448738 | Recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes a recording-head replacing portion, a feeding unit that feeds a recording sheet, and an eject unit that ejects the recording sheet on a front side of the apparatus. The apparatus further includes a head mount that is movable between th... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448712 | Signaling module, liquid container, recording apparatus, and control method An ink tank receives data signals from a printer and an LED provided on the ink tank is driven on the basis of the received data signals. The LED is driven in an inactive time period that is different from the time period in which the date signals are input to the i... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7448609 | Sheet feeding device A sheet feeding device includes a guiding member having an upper guiding surface for guiding the upper surface of a document and a lower guiding surface for guiding the lower surface of the document to guide the document to a support portion. The guiding member is m... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7444062 | Playback system A playback system for playing back image data from a recording medium on which image data of a plurality of titles is recorded and for outputting the played-back image data to an external display device while an image related to the played-back image data is being d... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440144 | Image input/output apparatus An image input/output apparatus having a scanner unit disposed at an upper stage of an apparatus body and a liquid jet recording unit installed at a lower stage of the apparatus body includes a window which light passes through between the scanner unit and the liqui... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7428107 | Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus having the same A zoom lens includes first to fifth lens units arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side, and having positive, negative, positive, negative, and positive refractive powers in that order. The zoom lens performs zooming by moving the first to fifth len... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7422305 | Inkjet recording apparatus and inkjet recording method for complement recording An inkjet recording apparatus which utilizes a recording head including a plurality of nozzles arrayed on the head. The present invention complements a point where an image is to be formed by a defective nozzle utilizing other nozzles while preventing the uneven use... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415200 | Imaging device A lens control device, for controlling driving of a second lens unit for correcting image movement regarding movement of a variating first lens unit, comprises: a storage unit for storing data indicating the position of the second lens unit corresponding to the posi... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7396123 | Transport apparatus and recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes a recording unit for recoding on a recording medium by ejecting ink, a conveyor belt for transporting the medium, first and second electrode groups including a plurality of electrodes inside the conveyor belt, a charging unit for charg... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392005 | Image heating apparatus An image heating apparatus includes a rotatable heating member configured to heat an image on a recording medium at a nip, driving means configured to drive the heating member, an endless belt configured to form the nip with the heating member, and a driving roller ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388684 | Image transfer apparatus Image data for a page having an amount of data exceeding the capacity of a printer memory is suitably output. A comparison is made among areas of buffer management blocks (TIME) in four data queues in which cyan, magenta, yellow, and black image data commands are st... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7387379 | Liquid container A liquid container is provided with an atmospheric air communicating port communicated with atmospheric air in an upper portion thereof, and a liquid supply port for supplying ink contained in the liquid container to a recording head in a lower portion thereof. A ne... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7387360 | Ink jet recording head, liquid storage container and ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording head is detachably attached to an ink jet recording apparatus including a carriage operable to reciprocally move and an optical encoder scale. An ink jet recording head, a liquid storage container, or an ink jet recording apparatus includes at l... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386247 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an image heating unit, an air circulating unit, and a filter. The air circulating unit circulates air around the image heating unit. The filter absorbs a volatile organic substance in an air circulation path... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7384123 | Inkjet recording apparatus and method for estimating the amount of waste ink in the inkjet recording apparatus A print buffer for storing recording data is divided into a plurality of segments and the amount of recording data causing a recording head to perform a recording operation is counted on a segment-by-segment basis. A recording medium is compared to the print buffer ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382481 | Image communication device, method of communicating image, program and recording medium An image communication device transmitting image information selectively generates a transmission-result report, where the contents of the transmission-result report vary depending on selected transmission conditions. Under a first condition, the transmission-result... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379681 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof Image forming apparatus in which surface electric potentials of a plurality of surface areas are detected by charging a photoconductor with a different applied bias for each predetermined timing and exposing a plurality of surface areas of the photoconductor by scan... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7377625 | Method for producing ink-jet recording head having filter, ink-jet recording head, substrate for recording head, and ink-jet cartridge In a method for producing an ink-jet recording head, a plurality of through-holes is formed in a heat storage layer formed on one surface of a silicon substrate, subsequently, heating elements are formed, and a protective layer is formed on the substrate. A passage-... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7364246 | Liquid supplying method A liquid-supplying method includes the steps of controlling a magnitude of negative pressure generated by a negative-pressure generating member provided in each of first liquid-tank components included in a first liquid tank such that the magnitude of the negative p... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7354129 | Ink jet printer and a method of computing conveyance amount of a conveyance roller of the ink jet printer A method of computing a conveyance variance from a difference of two adjustment patterns in order to measure a variance in a conveyance amount occurring while a sheet is conveyed. By using this method, the variance that occurs during one rotation of the roller occur... | 04/08/2008 |
