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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180268 | Method and apparatus for automatic fuser web material advancement in an image production unit A method and apparatus that automatically advances fuser web material in an image production unit is disclosed. The method may include receiving a signal to advance fuser web material, retrieving stored fuser web material position information, automatically advancin... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180245 | Xerographic machine toner contamination control system This is a toner control system for use in a cleaning station of a xerographic marking apparatus. A sensor is located in the air conduits of the system to measure airflow throughout the system. The sensor is in contact with a controller that is configured to adjust t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178169 | Methods of leveling ink on substrates using flash heating and apparatuses useful in printing Methods of leveling ink on substrates and apparatuses useful in printing are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the methods includes irradiating ink disposed on a first surface of a porous substrate with radiation emitted by at least one flash lamp. The radiation ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177332 | Method and apparatus for fixing a radiation-curable gel-ink image onto a substrate An apparatus prints and/or fixes ink on a substrate, such as in ink-jet printing with UV-curable inks. A conformable member is positioned to contact an ink-bearing side of the substrate at a nip. The conformable member substantially comprises a silicone-based elasto... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175634 | Software switch for separating work and personal information on cell phone devices This is a cell phone system that provides for use of a single phone for both business and personal calls. This system permits the user to extract personal calls from the system, thereby preserving the confidential nature of some of these personal calls without the b... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170440 | Method and apparatus for corotron cleaning management in an image production device A method and apparatus for corotron cleaning management in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving an input from the corotron cleaning counter, determining if the corotron cleaning counter exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170436 | Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of controlling a temperature of a surface in apparatuses useful for printing Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of controlling a temperature of a surface in an apparatus useful for printing are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the apparatuses includes a first roll including a first outer surface and at least one first heating e... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169633 | Method and apparatus for attempted secure print job release notification A method and apparatus for notifying a user of an attempted secure print job release from an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a secure print job and secure print job instructions from a user, wherein the secure print job instruc... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166912 | Powder spray coating discharge assembly A powder spray coating discharge assembly (230, 260, 216, 228, 232) for connection to an electrostatic spray coating gun (210), the gun (210) having a gun body (212), means for connecting to a supply of coating powder and means for supply... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166122 | Method and apparatus for generating a figure of merit for use in transmission of messages in a multi-level secure environment A method and apparatus that generate a figure of merit for use in transmission of messages in a multi-level secure environment. The method may include receiving a message having a data provenance wrapper, examining each data provenance record of the message and any ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162472 | Apparatus and method for metering fluid film in an ink jet printing system An apparatus (100) and method that meters fluid film in an ink jet printing system is disclosed. The apparatus can include a source of fluid film (110) and a source metering assembly (120) rotatably supported in the apparatus. The source meterin... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160475 | Cart with xero module lift assist This involves a cart that can be used in changing a marking module in a xerographic color marking system. The cart has a lifting mechanism securely attached to its upper surface. When the marking module is to be changed and a new replacement module installed, the li... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160467 | Apparatus and method for print apparatus rotational assembly cleaning blade adjustment An apparatus (100) and method (200) for print apparatus rotational assembly cleaning blade adjustment is disclosed. The apparatus can include a printer rotational transport assembly (110) configured to transport a substance in a printer. The app... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159701 | Printer driver, apparatus and methods for conrolling a printer from a devmode data structure Disclosed are methods of controlling operation of a printer, apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments control operation of a printer by receiving a print command for printing from a user, displaying a print user interface including selectable document... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155547 | Apparatuses useful for printing and corresponding methods Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of are provided. The apparatus includes a user interface for operating the printing apparatus, a fuser for fusing media, the fuser having a plurality of temperature settings, a gloss meter for measuring gloss of an image f... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150290 | Method and apparatus for saving power in an image production device A method and apparatus for saving power in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include determining if the image production device has been inactive for a predetermined period of time, wherein if it is determined that the image production device h... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145110 | Apparatuses useful for printing and corresponding methods Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of cleaning debris from a surface in an apparatus useful for printing are provided. An exemplary embodiment of an apparatus useful for printing includes a first roll, a belt including an inner surface and an outer surface,... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145087 | Effective scheduling algorithm for belt space conservation This is a method for placing test patches along the surface of a photoconductive belt. A novel feature of this invention is locating optimum times and locations for placing the test patches by rotating the belt backwards after the first normal forward rotation of th... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143558 | Apparatuses useful for printing and methods for controlling the temperature of media in apparatuses useful for printing Apparatuses useful for printing and methods for controlling the temperature of media in apparatuses useful for printing are disclosed. An embodiment of the apparatuses includes a heated first roll including a first outer surface; a heated second roll including a sec... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139993 | Web cleaning systems including an electrostatic cleaning brush and methods of cleaning printed webs Web cleaning systems, apparatuses useful in printing onto webs, and methods of cleaning webs are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the web cleaning systems includes a first web cleaning device having a rotatable first electrostatic cleaning brush for contacting a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139992 | Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of treating marking material on media Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of treating marking material on media are provided. An exemplary embodiment of an apparatus useful for printing includes a continuous belt including an inner surface and an outer surface, a first roll including a first out... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139969 | Apparatuses useful in printing, printing apparatuses and methods of fixing marking material on media Apparatuses useful in printing, printing apparatuses and methods of fixing marking material on media are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the apparatuses useful in printing includes a marking device; a first transport device which transports a first medium and a... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135321 | Gas knife apparatus and methods for stripping media from surface in printing apparatus Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of stripping media from surfaces in apparatuses useful for printing are provided. An exemplary embodiment of an apparatus useful for printing includes a first member including a first surface; a second member including a s... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131288 | Seamless transitioning of air-to-ground traffic An apparatus and a method may be provided by which a user aboard an aircraft may use a processing device to communicate with another device, which is not located aboard the aircraft, via an air-to-ground network connection. A communication satellite may provide conn... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131170 | Method and apparatus for controlling level of marking material in a waste sump A printing apparatus and corresponding method for maintaining a level of a marking material in a marking material waste sump of a printing apparatus to a desired level. The printing apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a cleaning blade for cleaning marking material f... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126382 | Passive IR oil rate sensor This is a system to coat oil on a fuser roller in a xerographic marking procedure. The system has an IR sensor which is located adjacent to the metering roller and which measures the emissivity of an oil film on the metering roller. Once the IR sensor determines the... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126367 | Scorotron apparatus for charging a photoconductor An apparatus (100) useful in charging a photoconductor in printing is disclosed. The apparatus can include a scorotron insulator (200) having a longitudinal axis, where the scorotron insulator can have a first insulator end at one end of the longitudin... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126347 | Apparatus and method for fuser and pressure assembly temperature control An apparatus (100) and method (700) that can control fuser temperature is disclosed. The apparatus can include an image fuser member (110) rotatably supported in the apparatus, where the image fuser member can be configured to fuse an image on m... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121528 | Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of treating marking material on media Apparatuses useful for printing and methods of treating marking material on media are provided. An exemplary embodiment of the apparatuses useful for printing includes a roll including a first outer surface; a continuous belt including an inner surface and a second ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118506 | Idler roller assembly for printing apparatus Disclosed is an idler roller assembly for a printing apparatus. The idler rolling assembly includes a shaft, at least one idler rolling element connected to the shaft, the at least one idler rolling element having an inner surface and an outer surface and being conn... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116671 | Apparatuses useful in printing onto media and methods of mitigating media edge wear effects on fixing belts in printing Apparatuses useful in printing and methods of mitigating media edge wear effects on fixing belts in printing are provided. An exemplary apparatus useful for printing onto media includes a first roll including a first surface; a second roll including a second surface... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116649 | Apparatus and method for adjusting cleaning station operation in a printing apparatus An apparatus (100) and method (200) that adjusts cleaning station operation in a printing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus can include a charge receptor (110) movable in a process direction P, where the charge receptor can have a main surfa... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116640 | Apparatus and method for sensing photoreceptor failure in a xerographic printing apparatus An apparatus (100) and method (200) that senses photoreceptor failure in a xerographic printing apparatus is disclosed. The xerographic printing apparatus can include a rotatable photoreceptor (110) having a photoreceptor surface (111), a... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112009 | Electrophotographic apparatus having fuser temperature control and corresponding methods Disclosed are a method of forming images on media in an electrophotographic apparatus, and corresponding electrophotographic apparatus. The method includes measuring a temperature of the media with a sensor after the toner particles have been fused to the media, and... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8104756 | Method and apparatus for selecting media trays for hole punching in an image production device A method and apparatus for selecting media trays for hole punching in an image production device in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving a request to print a print job, the print job having a required number of media sheets, dete... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8086120 | Method and apparatus for predicting blade life in an image production device A method and apparatus for predicting blade life in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include retrieving a number of print starts, a number of print cycles, a wear rate for print starts, and a wear rate for print cycles from a memory, calculati... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081915 | Apparatus and method for controlling the change of direction of a fusing belt in a printing apparatus An apparatus (100) and method (500) that controls the change of direction of a fusing belt in a printing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus can include a fusing belt (120) configured to rotate about an axis of rotation (128). The appar... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081914 | Apparatus and method for detaching media from a fuser in a printer An apparatus (100) and method (200) that detaches media from a fuser in a printer is disclosed. The method can include feeding (220) a media sheet through a fuser member and applying (230) gas from an air knife to the media sheet on the f... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081901 | Xerographic marking module useful in a xerographic color marking system This invention provides a xerographic marking module that has a built-in lifting mechanism that is useful in installing a new module in a xerographic marking system. The lifting mechanism forms the bottom portion of the marking module and comprises an upper cradle t... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078975 | Method for adding metadata to scanned documents A method for creating a metadata field in a template, which includes receiving a template selection, receiving a selection of a new metadata field, receiving properties of a metadata field to be added to the template, storing the properties of the metadata field, an... | 12/13/2011 |
