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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367668 | Fixed material transportation apparatus, fixed material discharging apparatus, method for discharging the fixed material, liquid fixing apparatus A fixed material transportation apparatus having a reciprocating stage, plural sucking holes, a decompression chamber connecting to the plural sucking holes, and a sucking device sucking air in the decompression chamber set at a discharging side of the fixed materia... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7367653 | Laser ink jet printer An ink ejecting apparatus that rapidly heats a small volume of ink using radiative heating from pulsating laser light radiation (as opposed to surface conductive heating from a thin film electrical resistive heater). The laser light travels through a bubble that has... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364264 | Inkjet printer cradle with single drive motor performing multiple functions An inkjet printer cradle complementary to an inkjet printer cartridge of a type including a pagewidth printhead, said cradle including an air compressor for producing air to be directed over the pagewidth printhead, a print media transport assembly arranged to conve... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364271 | Nozzle arrangement with inlet covering cantilevered actuator A nozzle arrangement is provided for an inkjet printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate assembly defining an ink inlet channel. A nozzle extends from the substrate assembly. The nozzle defines a nozzle chamber in fluid communication with the ink inlet ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364286 | Print engine incorporating a quartet of printhead modules arranged in pairs A print engine is provided for a printer. The print engine includes a pair of opposed print head assemblies between which a print media path is defined and which is configured to perform duplex printing on print media fed along the print media path. Each print head ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364251 | Inkjet recording apparatus and recording medium movement control method An inkjet recording apparatus including: a recording head; a recording medium moving section; a position information detecting section synchronized with a movement of the recording medium moving section; a mark recording section for recording a mark on the recording... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360887 | Image forming apparatus and method The image forming apparatus comprises: a first inkjet head which ejects ink for forming a first image to be recorded on a recording medium; a first intermediate transfer medium on which the first image is formed by the ink ejected from the first inkjet head, the fir... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360854 | Ink jet recording apparatus An ink jet recording apparatus includes a conveying mechanism configured to sequentially convey recording sheets, and a detector including a light source and a light-receiving element. The detector is configured to detect an edge position of each of the recording sh... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360876 | Liquid supply system, fluid communicating structure, ink supply system, and inkjet recording head utilizing the fluid communicating structure A liquid (ink) supply system having a closed structure with respect to an inkjet recording head is configured such that a gas hindering a recording operation and a liquid supply operation can be rapidly and smoothly eliminated from a liquid supply system without inv... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360888 | Printing up to edges of printing paper without platen soiling This invention allows images to be printed up to the edges of printing paper while preventing ink droplets from depositing on the platen. Ink droplets Ip are ejected from a print head 28 and printing is started when printing paper P is fed in the sub-scanning... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359664 | Fixing device for an image forming apparatus including supporting members for fixing belts of the fixing device A fixing device for fixing a toner image on a recording medium includes first and second belts rotatably disposed opposite to each other such that the recording medium having the toner image thereon moves therebetween, a fixing roller disposed in contact with an inn... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357752 | Power train system having creeper module A power train assembly is driveably engaged with an input source and includes a transmission module having a casing and a drive member. The transmission module is driveably connected to the input source and a creeper module is driveably engaged with the drive member... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354146 | Dryer Structures and methods are disclosed for at least partially forming an image on a media disposed on a platen, directing air from a dryer at the platen, and circulating the air from the platen back to the dryer. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354147 | Platen having channels and method for the same A method and apparatus providing a platen for supporting a media sheet. The platen includes a contact surface, a channel and air passage. The channel is defined in the contact surface and includes a varying cross-sectional area along at least a portion of a length o... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7354148 | Inkjet printer An inkjet printer includes an inkjet head, a sheet supply unit and a sheet supply position switching unit. The sheet supply unit has two sheet trays corresponding to two printing positions of the inkjet head which are shifted from each other in the width direction o... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7354211 | Perforation forming mechanism for use in an imaging apparatus An apparatus for perforating a sheet of print media having a front side and a back side includes a printhead carriage for carrying a printhead. A perforator carriage carries a perforation forming mechanism. An isolation damper having elastic, vibration absorbing, ch... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352382 | Thermal printer A thermal printer includes an upstream conveying device and a downstream conveying device that are respectively arranged upstream and downstream of a recording device. The upstream conveying device conveys a recording sheet while a first half of a print region that ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347415 | Paper feeding apparatus of image forming apparatus A paper feeding apparatus of an image forming apparatus has a paper setting unit that includes a knock-up plate raising/lowering portion raising and lowering a knock-up plate with respect to a pickup roller, a paper guide slidably formed on the knock-up plate to gui... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350218 | Optical-disk drive and optical-disk ejection control method An optical disk drive comprises a drive body, a spindle motor, an optical pickup device, a sled motor, a tray, a loading motor, and a controller. When the loaded optical disk is ejected, the controller controls the sled motor and the loading motor so that the return... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7344238 | Inkjet recording device The present invention provides an inkjet recording device for forming an image on a recording medium with an inkjet recording head. The inkjet recording device is provided with a conveyance section and a switchback section. One face of the recording medium is adhere... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341339 | Tray transferring controller, recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus In a printer capable of performing recording on a recording medium such as an optical disk, a tray on which the recording medium is set is sent upstream or downstream by being nipped by a driving transfer roller rotatably driven by a motor and a driven transfer roll... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341338 | Inkjet printer An inkjet printer includes a single transport roller (4), two first driven rollers (A: A1, A2), two first driven rollers (B: B1, B2), and a single first driven roller (C). The rollers (A1, A2, B1, B2, C)... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7341336 | Print media cartridge with integral print media and collapsing ink supply chambers A cartridge for use with a digital printing device includes a casing that incorporates an ink storage portion and a print media storage portion. The ink storage portion includes at least one ink chamber in which ink of a particular color is stored and that defines a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342596 | Method for direct xerography A system for printing is described. The system uses at least one cantilever, and more typically a plurality of cantilever to transfer charge, either to or from a dielectric surface. The resulting charge distribution represents an image. Toner deposited over the diel... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339784 | Fastening and automatic ejecting structure for battery of a notebook A fastening and automatic ejecting structure for a battery of a notebook is provided, which comprises: a first fastening element disposed on a predetermined position of the computer and swinging to and fro between a first position and a second position in a predeter... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338155 | Printing device A printing device, which reduces weight and space while ensuring excellent stability, includes a medium conveyance section on which a workpiece such as a fabric can be set, a fixed side structure for supporting the same, and a head for performing printing onto the w... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338156 | Alignment of recording material in a printing device A sheet of recording material is fed along a sheet guide defining an at least partially curved transport path until a leading edge of the sheet contacts a first of at least two alignment pins defining an alignment line and sheet feeding is continued until the leadin... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334890 | Recording apparatus In second transport means (12), nipping pressure of each of outermost star wheels (6a), (6e) located at opposite ends in the primary scanning direction is set higher than that of each of star wheels (6b) to (6 | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336291 | Thermal image forming apparatus A thermal image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording medium having first and second sides, the apparatus including a recording head to form the image by heating the recording medium, wherein the recording head rotates between first and second locations ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334858 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus can form a high-quality image while acquiring a stable conveyance performance. A conveyance belt (21) conveys a recording medium (12) by attracting the recording medium (12) by an electrostatic force. A recording head ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331728 | Printer having a platen A printer includes a print head for printing on a print medium and a platen which supports the print medium, and is located opposite to the print head. The print head is linearly moved along the print medium. The platen includes first and second end portions and an ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333765 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having a discharge port for discharging a sheet after forming an image on the sheet by an image forming portion, and a discharge tray disposed on a downstream side of the discharge port for laminating the sheet discharged from the discharg... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331647 | Image recording apparatus and image recording method for the image recording apparatus image An apparatus and method for printing images on both sides of a recording medium. The timing of starting conveying the next recording medium is determined from a schedule that satisfies three conditions. The first condition a leading end of the next medium reaches a ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328994 | Print engine assembly with slotted chassis A print engine assembly includes an elongate chassis that defines a channel and a slot. A printhead assembly is fast with respect to the chassis and is configured to print upon print media fed through the chassis. A pair of bearing moldings is located within the cha... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328993 | Printer A printer including a printhead which is displaceable at the level of a print surface in a main scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction with respect to a substrate situated in the print surface, and a supply unit for storing the substrate which is dispose... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7329061 | Ink jet printer with a belt-loading mechanism An ink jet printer includes a housing that defines a print media entrance opening and a print media exit opening. A support frame is arranged in the housing between the openings. A print media feed roller assembly is mounted on the frame proximal the entrance openin... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7325802 | Aligning device and image forming system including the same An aligning device in accordance with the present invention is arranged in such a manner that a feed section for feeding a sheet and a release section for releasing a pinching force exerted to the sheet by the feed section are driven by a single motor. With this arr... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325918 | Print media transport assembly A printer of a type having a page width printhead includes opposed first and second platens. Spanning the space between the platens is a drive roller that is arranged to urge portions of print media supported by the first and second platens in opposite directions in... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7325897 | Printing cartridge with pressure sensor array identification A printing cartridge (1230) includes a housing (1231). An array (1232) of pressure sensor actuators (1236) is positioned on the housing. The array of pressure sensor actuators represents data relating to at least one of: a serial number o... | 02/05/2008 |
