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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120070170 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A developing device which includes a developing roller which supplies a toner to a photoreceptor and a supply roller which performs supply of a toner to the developing roller and peeling of a toner from the developing roller, and applies a bias voltage to the developing... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120045236 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a developing device for accommodating a transport toner and a carrier; a transferring device for transferring a transparent toner image from the image bearing member onto a surface of a recording material; a h... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039620 | Method and Arrangement For Inking Up an Applicator Element of an Electrophotographic Printer or Copier In a method or system for generation of a toner image layer with a preset layer thickness on a surface of a photoconductor, the two-component mixture of electrically charged toner particles and carrier particles is directed on an auto-surface of a roller adjacent a surf... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120020688 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME A developing device includes an applying portion for applying a bias at a first voltage value and a first frequency, to a toner bearing member during a development period in which toner particles are supplied to an image bearing member. A controller executes a removal c... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120020684 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND PROGRAM USING THE SAME Provided are an image forming apparatus that, when a difference between a developing bias in correcting an image density and a reference developing bias has a value not less than a prescribed value that is set preliminarily, replenishes or consumes a toner forcibly, exe... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120002987 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus including: an image carrier; a latent image forming unit; a developing unit; a fixing unit; a toner cartridge; a battery in the toner cartridge; a temperature sensor in the toner cartridge driven by the battery; a f... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002990 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD Certain embodiments provide an image forming apparatus comprising an image forming part, a detection part, an arithmetic part, a storage device and an image quality maintaining control part. The image forming part forms an image quality maintaining adjustment pattern on... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110318027 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS TO CONTROL THE DONOR ROLL TO MAG ROLL DEVELOPMENT FIELD (Vdm) ASSOCIATED WITH A PRINTING DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM Disclosed are printing methods, apparatus and systems for developing a latent image recorded on a surface, for example, a photoreceptor with developer material. According to an exemplary embodiment, the development method applies a development field voltage between a de... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110318025 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING PRINTING APPARATUS CLEANER PERFORMANCE An apparatus (100) and method (200) that evaluates printing apparatus cleaner performance. The method can be performed in a printing apparatus that can include an intermediate transfer belt (150), an intermediate transfer belt sensor (155), a... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110311254 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member configured to bear an electrostatic latent image, a plurality of development devices including a developer bearing member configured to bear a developer for developing the electrostatic latent image, a... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110280602 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes a charging device that charges an electric charge to an image carrier, a developing device supplying the image carrier with a developer, and a transfer device that transfers a toner image formed on the image... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110262157 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE STABILIZATION CONTROL METHOD IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS According to one embodiment of the present invention, an image forming apparatus includes: an image formation unit; an image formation frequency count unit; a first control unit; a target contrast potential determination unit, and a second control unit. The image format... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255887 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes a latent image holder that holds a latent image; a developing unit that contains developer including toner particles and carrier particles, develops a latent image with the toner particles, and forms a toner image; a voltage applying ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110243592 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING A PERIODIC WAVE AS A DEVELOPING BIAS An image forming apparatus comprises an image carrier, a developing unit, a supply unit and a control unit. A developing unit visualizes an electrostatic latent image formed on a surface of the image carrier, using a developing material. A supply unit supplies a periodi... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110229175 | DEVELOPING APPARATUS A developing apparatus including a developing container for containing developer, the developing container having an opening portion, a developer carrying member for carrying the developer at the opening portion, a detecting member for detecting a developer amount, the ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110229165 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus has a job-content recognition device for judging whether a number inputted as the number of print copies to be made is larger or smaller than a predetermined reference value; a print-data recognition device for judging whether or not inputted ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110222878 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE A developing device includes: a plurality of developer retaining bodies that retain developer and rotate, and that respectively convey the developer, which is supplied to each of the developer retaining bodies from a developer supply section, to an image bearing body th... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110206394 | Image forming apparatus In a RAM are stored a first deflection information table representing the relationship between the rotation amount and the deflection amount of a photosensitive element, a second deflection information table representing the relationship between the rotation amount and ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110206397 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD An image forming apparatus comprising a latent image carrier for supporting a latent image, a charging unit for charging the latent image carrier, a developing unit for developing the latent image supported by the latent image carrier which has a developing member for s... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110182605 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING DENSITY OF FORMED IMAGE An image forming device includes a toner supplying unit to supply the toner to a storage unit, a mixer to supply developer in the storage unit to a developing roller, a developer sensor to detect the amount of developer on the surface of the developing roller, a toner c... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110164892 | DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE INCORPORATING SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME A development device includes a developer container, a rotary developer carrier that is disposed facing the latent image carrier and including multiple outer electrodes arranged in a circumferential direction of the developer carrier, an inner electrode electrically ins... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110150513 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A charge bias causing the surface potential of a photosensitive drum to be lower than that in image formation is applied to a charge roller during a period in which the stop position of a rotary is moved from an unknown state to a home position to cause a developing bia... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110142466 | REDUCING RELOAD IMAGE QUALITY DEFECTS An image forming apparatus includes a sensor that is configured to detect a property of a developer material, a transport unit that is operatively in contact with the developer material and that is configured to move the developer material toward a recording medium, and... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110097097 | Image forming apparatus with developing units having different voltage levels An image forming apparatus is disclosed. Zener diode separately installed to correspond to each developing device so as to form a difference in potential between the developing bias voltage and the supply bias voltage of each developing device, is installed at a common ... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110085811 | Image Forming Device An image-forming device can include an image acquiring unit that acquires image data, an image forming unit that forms an image based on the image data, a determining unit that determines whether the image data includes a part having density greater than or equal to a p... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110085810 | Method and apparatus for controlling voltage of image forming apparatus According to a method and apparatus for controlling a voltage of an image forming apparatus, a transferring roll resistance, which indicates the resistance between a transferring roller and a photoconductor drum, is detected by applying a first voltage to the transferri... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110064429 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a developing unit configured to store a developer includes a toner and a carrier and to form a developer image, a toner attachment amount detection portion configured to detect an attachment amount of a to... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110064432 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A disclosed developing device includes a toner carrying member having electrodes, a toner supply unit supplying the toner to the toner carrying member, and a hopping electric field generator unit generating electric field to cause the toner hopping on the toner carrying... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110058833 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes: a charging unit which charges a surface of an image bearing member by contacting the image bearing member with a charging member to which a charging bias is applied, the charging bias being a voltage obtained by superimposing an AC v... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110058835 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF A developing device is provided with a first transporting member for transporting a developer containing a toner and a carrier; a second transporting member opposite to the first transporting member to interpose a first spatial region therebetween and opposite to an ele... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110058836 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF A developing device is provided with a developer transporting member for transporting a developer containing a toner and a carrier; a toner transporting member opposite to the developer transporting member and opposite to an electrostatic latent image carrying member; a... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110052230 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD An embodiment of an image forming apparatus may include a photosensitive member, a development unit, a transfer member, a sensor, and a correcting unit. The development unit may form a toner image on the photosensitive member. The toner image member may be transferred o... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110044705 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A color image forming apparatus having photosensitive members; developing devices for developing electrostatic latent images formed on the photosensitive members into toner images with developers comprising toner and carriers; toner concentration sensors for detecting t... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110033196 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH DENSITY CORRECTION FUNCTION AND DENSITY CORRECTION METHOD An image forming apparatus with a correction function for correcting density of an image, including: an image bearing member configured to convey the image in a first direction; and a controller configured to perform a bias correction and a γ correction for the density... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110026955 | Image Forming Apparatus and Exposure Control Method of Controlling Exposure Therein An image forming apparatus comprising a photosensitive body, a charger configured to charge the photosensitive body, an exposure unit configured to expose the photosensitive body charged by the charger, a developer transport section configured to cause relative movement... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026957 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a charging device to be applied with a charging voltage, an exposure device, a developer carrier to be applied with a development voltage, a developer supplying member to be applied with a supply voltage, a developer... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100329709 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier; a charging device that charges a surface of the image carrier; an exposure device that forms an electrostatic latent image on the charged surface of the image carrier; a developing device that forms a toner image by ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100322649 | Image forming device and method An image forming device and method improves image quality by detecting the density of a pattern and adjusting the voltage applied to a developer supply member if necessary in response to the detected density. The pattern can be a medium duty tone pattern, which is relat... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322647 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus, wherein a plurality of each including an electrophotographic photosensitive drum are detachably mountable to a main assembly of the apparatus, the apparatus includes an exposure device for forming an electrostatic lat... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100316402 | DEVELOPING DEVICE A developing device includes a developer bearing member for bearing a developer so as to develop an electrostatic image, a restricting member for restricting the amount of developer born on the developer bearing member, a detector for detecting information on the amount... | 12/16/2010 |
