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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098270 | Method of creating a digital mask for flexographic printing elements in situ A method of creating a digital mask in situ for use in a process of making digital flexographic printing elements. The digital mask is created by laminating the negative image that is the by-product of a thermal proofer to a photosensitive printing plate. Thereafter... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7796150 | Image forming apparatus with multi-color dot image formation An image forming apparatus which can prevent degradation of image quality in a case where dot patterns for preventing the formation of image stripes are superimposed on respective developed images corresponding to image signals. Developed images are formed on a phot... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7705866 | Image forming apparatus with an image exposure unit light emission control feature An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a charging unit for charging the image bearing member, and an image exposure unit including a light emitting portion for emitting light to form an electrostatic image. The image forming apparatus also inc... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7667724 | Customer replaceable unit with high voltage power supply A customer replaceable unit installable in a printing apparatus comprises a component requiring high voltage electric power for operation, a low voltage power input, and that cooperates with the low voltage power input in order to transform low voltage electric powe... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7372479 | Apparatus and method for optical image formation control An image forming apparatus for forming images with an electrophotographic system. The image forming apparatus includes a laser drive unit configured to control a laser light, and an image data transfer control unit configured to control image data from to the laser ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7304657 | Image processing apparatus, method, and program An image processing apparatus including an exposing device, a developing device, a density measuring device to measure a density value of the developed film sheet, a calibrating device to calibrate the density value based on measured density values of a test image b... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300129 | Inkjet printer An inkjet printer includes: a recording head for jetting ink cured with irradiation of light, onto a recording medium; a light source for irradiating the light toward the ink jetted on the recording medium, the light source being provided so as to face the recording... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289695 | Optical switching device and optical member unit The present invention relates to an optical switching device capable of reducing the number of members such as a movable mirror for reflecting light beams to a relatively small number and suppressing the deterioration of the yield. The optical switching device is co... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7256917 | Two-dimensional scanning apparatus and scanning type image displaying apparatus using the same A two-dimensional scanning apparatus has light source means, deflecting means for deflecting a beam emitted from the light source means in a two-dimensional direction, and scanning optical means for directing the beam deflected by the deflecting means onto a surface... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7255500 | Heat developing method and heat developing apparatus The present invention provides a heat developing method and a heat developing apparatus for stabilizing density and making image quality stable when executing a heat developing process by a rapid process of 10 seconds or less. The heat developing method is a method ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248279 | Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same Disclosed is an optical scanning device which includes a light source device, a deflecting system for deflecting a light beam emitted from the light source device, and a scanning optical system for scanning a surface to be scanned, with the light beam deflected by t... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7212221 | ROS shutter system Raster Output Scanner (ROS) shutter system capable of blocking and unblocking harmful radiation selectably, semi-automatically or automatically. The system and uses thereof can be applied to various fields including scanners and printers. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7199813 | Photographic printer using hyper-pigment loaded toners A set of color toners for use in an electrophotographic image forming device is disclosed. The set of color toners include a cyan toner having high cyan pigment load, a magenta toner having a high magenta pigment load, and a yellow toner having a high yellow pigment... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7180575 | Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method An exposure apparatus includes a projection optical system for projecting a multigradation pattern onto an object, a spatial modulation element that includes plural, two-dimensionally arranged pixels, and forms an optical image by binary control over each pixel, and... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180533 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus, comprising: an exposing device for exposing an image forming material so as to form a latent image on the image forming material based on image data; a developing device for developing and visualizing the latent image on the exposed im... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167192 | Image forming device An image forming device has a recording unit for recording a recording material in a sheet form in a major scanning direction based on an input image signal and a conveyance unit for conveying the recording material in a sub-scanning direction substantially perpendi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7166408 | Image forming method using photothermographic material Provided is an image forming method including providing a photothermographic material having image forming layers containing at least a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a binder on both surfaces of a suppo... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7162167 | Image forming apparatus, method of adjusting developing unit of the apparatus, developing unit, and storage medium In adjustment control of a developing device, the number of printed sheets and the toner consumption amount per sheet are calculated. If the accumulated toner consumption amount is smaller than a predetermined amount when a predetermined number of sheets are printed... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158162 | Heating control method of heat development recording device and heat development recording device A heating control method of a heat development recording device includes a heating step in which after start-up of the heat development recording device, a heat development section is heated to a target temperature by a plate heater, a temperature holding step in wh... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158164 | Thermal development method and apparatus In a thermal development method for generating a image from a latent image recorded on an image formation layer of a photosensitive photothermographic recording material, by means of heating the photosensitive photothermographic recording material, a first surface, ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149697 | Printer-based consumables price searching A printer comprising one or more consumables and a network connection searches a network connected via the network connection for pricing for the one or more consumables. A user is notified when pricing below a user-specified amount is found. ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145587 | Thermal development apparatus A thermal development apparatus comprises: a photothermographic recording material feed section that contains a supply tray in the photothermographic recording material feed section, the supply tray being for containing a photothermographic recording material; an ex... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7138221 | Photothermographic material A photothermographic material comprising: a transparent support; and a photosensitive layer comprising a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, a thermal developer and a binder, wherein the photosensitive silver halide comprises silv... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7126620 | Thermal development method and apparatus In a thermal development method for generating an image from a latent image recorded on an image formation layer of a photosensitive photothermographic recording material, by means of heating the photosensitive photothermographic recording material, a first surface,... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123281 | Thermal development method and apparatus In a thermal development method for generating a image from a latent image recorded on an image formation layer of a photosensitive photothermographic recording material, by means of heating the recording material, a first surface, which is one surface of the record... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110684 | Cartridge for replenishing developer including a memory device and a control system featuring the cartridge Using two or more developer replenishing units, each of which has a first storage for storing identification information related to developer and a second storage for storing history information related to the developer, if the identification information read out fr... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7075690 | Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same An optical scanning device is provided, which includes: a light source unit for emitting at least one light flux having a wavelength equal to or smaller than 500 nm; a deflection unit for deflecting at least one of the light fluxes emitted from the light source unit... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7064877 | Scanning optical apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same A scanning optical device including: a light source unit; a first optical element that inputs a light flux emitted from the light source unit to output the light flux; a second optical element that converts the light flux emitted from the first optical element into ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057633 | Thermal development recording apparatus A thermal development recording apparatus has a recording portion for exposing a thermal development recording material to form a latent image, a thermal-developing portion for heating the thermal development recording material to execute a thermal development, and ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050209 | Scanning optical apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same A scanning optical device including: a light source unit; a first optical element that inputs a light flux emitted from the light source unit to output the light flux; a second optical element that converts the light flux emitted from the first optical element into ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042482 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus, comprising: an exposing device for exposing an image forming material so as to form a latent image on the image forming material based on image data; a thermal developing device for developing and visualizing the latent image on the ex... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7034857 | Light and thermal energy image-recording apparatus An image-recording apparatus. In a housing of the apparatus are a casing section that encases a light and heat sensitive recording material, an optical recording section that exposes the light and heat sensitive recording material fed from the casing section to reco... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7002615 | Laser beam isolation apparatus of a laser printer A laser beam isolation apparatus of a laser printer includes a blocking portion formed on the laser scanning unit to be moved between a blocking position to block a passing hole of the laser scanning unit and an open position to open the passing hole, a guide portio... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6992807 | Optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same This invention provides an optical scanning apparatus in which the degree of sensitivity of the bending of a scanning line on a surface to be scanned resulting from the disposition error of a scanning optical system is reduced, whereby good images can always be obta... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6961529 | Charging device using a charge roller and image forming apparatus including the same An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a charging device including a charge roller formed with annular grooves at opposite end portions thereof and configured to charge an image carrier. Annular gap forming members each are fitted in the annula... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6956639 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program A density adjustment method for adjusting a density of a diagnostic image, having the steps of; exposing an image; developing the latent image; measuring a density of the developed image; creating a lookup table for relating the diagnostic image data and amount of e... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6939651 | Electrophotographic photoconductor, and process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus using the same An electrophotographic photoconductor comprising at least an electroconductive support and a photoconductive layer which is formed on said electroconductive support, the outermost layer of the photoconductor contains particles comprising a polyorganosiloxane-contain... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6911994 | Thermal development apparatus, thermal development method and thermal development photosensitive material used in thermal development apparatus A thermal development apparatus capable of preventing thermal development failure because of improvement on a characteristic required of a resilient member. The thermal development apparatus has: a heating section for heating thermal development photosensitive mater... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6906791 | Image recording apparatus Mounting trays for storing therein sheet-shaped recording materials are used to record thereon images. A laser exposing unit forms a latent image of an image on the recording material in an exposure process by irradiating laser. A heat development unit performs a he... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6891557 | Thermal developing image forming apparatus and method for photothermographic imaging material An image forming apparatus includes an exposure portion having a light source, for forming a latent image on a photothermographic imaging material by exposing a light beam, a thermal development portion having a heating portion for thermally developing by heating th... | 05/10/2005 |
