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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190055 | Electronic device with a functional unit arranged adjacent to an operating surface A flat surface is arranged, adjacent to an operating surface of an image forming apparatus, at a lower position than the operating surface. A small-object placing member for placing clips is arranged on the flat surface. The small-object placing member includes a sl... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190054 | Image forming apparatus fixing unit and method of adjusting position of fixing unit In an image forming apparatus, a fixing unit is supported by a unit holder attached to a structure frame. The structure frame includes a first upright panel and a second upright panel. A protrusion is provided on the first upright panel and a guide groove that recei... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180248 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a first unit including at least a development unit that develops an electrostatic latent image and a first developer container containing a developer; an image carrier that holds an electrostatic latent image to be developed by t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175491 | Image forming apparatus including frame structure for supporting image forming unit An image forming apparatus includes: upper frames opposed to each other across an image forming unit; a scanner supporting member that couples the upper frames and supports the scanner unit; and a frame coupling member that couples the upper frames on an opposite si... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8160472 | Image forming device having a structure capable of facilitating positioning of an image forming unit provided in the image forming device An image forming device having a frame, a door, and a movable image forming unit to be assembled in the frame when the door is open. Positioning of the image forming unit relative to the frame and a closing position of the door are maintainable when the door is clos... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155556 | Image forming apparatus having two front curved planes one having radius curvature larger than the other An image forming apparatus includes: a printer unit that forms an image on a recording sheet; an operation panel for operating and/or setting the printer unit, a side on which the operation panel is provided is defined as a front side; and an ejection space on which... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8145094 | Frame and image forming apparatus using the frame A frame for an image forming apparatus including at least one functional unit includes a front member, a rear member, a base member, and a pair of elevated supporters. The front and rear members at least support the functional unit. The base member supports at least... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139977 | Image forming apparatus with supporting member An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units; a pair of supporting members for supporting both end portions of each of the image forming units; and a leg portion abutting against a mounting surface at a lower surface of each of the supporti... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8121515 | Image-forming apparatus An image-forming apparatus includes: first and second frame members opposing each other; image-holding members each having a rotation shaft; a supporting unit provided to the first frame member and having insertion holes each supporting an end portion of a rotation ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116658 | Marking engine viewing system A printing system includes a housing and a marking engine within the housing for marking print media conveyed on a paper path through the housing. A viewing system, such as a window in the housing, is positioned so as to enable an observer outside the housing to vie... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112013 | Image forming device An image forming device includes a frame, a subunit detachably attached to the frame, a frame-side positioning portion, a subunit-side positioning portion, the subunit being positioned relative to the frame by making the subunit-side positioning portion contact the ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107851 | Image forming apparatus provided with image reading unit An image forming apparatus has a wide first main body, a narrow second main body below the first main body, and a cover on at least on one side of the second main body. The cover includes first and second walls. The first wall connects a side edge of the first main ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099017 | Frame structure and image forming apparatus A frame structure includes three or more supporting members, a scanner support, a scanner cantilever support, and an adjuster. Three or more supporting members are provided vertically from a base portion. The scanner support is provided horizontally between upper po... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099016 | Image-forming apparatus An image scanner section is disposed above a printer section. The image scanner section is supported by the printer section in such a manner as to be pivotable about a pivotal axis. The printer section has a lower housing having a substantially rectangular shape as ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095034 | Image input/output apparatus and operating device An image input/output apparatus includes an image input/output section, an operation section, a cover member, and an electrostatic eliminating device. The image input/output section can perform at least one of an image input operation and an image output operation. ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8073358 | Image forming device and cartridge An image forming device is described according to an aspect comprises: a photoconductive drum; a developing roller opposed to the photoconductive drum; a developer container; a cartridge; a second portion; and a second terminal. The cartridge comprises: a cartridge ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8041252 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus and printer are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a plurality of side frames opposed to each other; an intermediate frame provided between the plurality of side frames; a plurality of first screws for connecting the side frame... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036569 | Image forming apparatus having co-planer top cover and operation panel An image forming apparatus has a first body with a scanner and an operation panel disposed on one side of the scanner. A top surface of the scanner and a top surface of the operation panel are in a same plane. A second body is disposed below the first body, to suppo... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8019251 | Angular position adjusting apparatus, angular position adjusting method, and computer-readable recording medium for angular position adjustment An angular position adjusting apparatus for adjusting the angular position of a control panel of an image processing apparatus is disclosed that includes a rotary member attached to the control panel, an input part for generating an input signal indicative of changi... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014698 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a main body in which a cassette unit to accommodate a plurality of sheets of paper, a toner cartridge unit to contain toner, an imaging unit to flow into the toner contained in the toner cartridge unit, a transfer unit which trans... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7995948 | Image forming device having side cover with inclined surface An image forming device includes a device body, a side cover fixed to the device body to cover a side face of the device body, a top cover attached swingably to the device body to cover an upper face of the device body, the top cover and the side cover defining a ma... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991320 | Image forming device and method of manufacturing the same In an image forming device, at an end portion of a middle frame, a first protrusion and a second protrusion are arranged so as to protrude substantially parallel to each other. A plate-shaped arm extends from a leading end of the second protrusion in a direction tow... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983593 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including: a cylindrical photoconductor; a laser scanning section for forming an electrostatic latent image on a peripheral surface of the photoconductor; an image development section for developing the electrostatic latent image by using ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974550 | Image forming apparatus, image forming structural body, method of mounting image forming structural body and method of pulling out image forming structural body The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including: a conveyer that conveys a developer image or a transfer medium to which the developer image is transferred; an image carrier that carries the developer image transferred to the conveyer or the tran... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7962061 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus may include a casing including an image forming section, an ejecting section provided above the image forming section and an image scanning section provided above the ejecting section, formed with ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957667 | Intermediate coupling unit between two image forming apparatuses and image forming apparatus adaptable thereto Provided are intermediate coupling unit that can maintain universal applicability of image forming apparatus so it can singly form images/be installed in small offices, but can also couple two apparatuses if necessary, and image forming apparatus adaptable to this u... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957666 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus may include a casing including an image forming section, an ejecting section above the image forming section and an image scanning section above the ejecting section, formed with an ejecting port c... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7941072 | Cartridge A cartridge includes; a first gear rotatably provided at the casing; a second gear including a toothed portion and a toothless portion; and a storing portion configured to store the second gear. The second gear includes an arm that is flexible and extends substantia... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937019 | Image forming apparatus having power circuit board arranged on side thereof A high-voltage circuit board and a main circuit board are arranged on the outer side surface of a left frame, and a conveyance path is provided so as to downwardly incline from a feed position near the uppermost part of the outer peripheral surface of a paper feed r... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7903997 | Coupling apparatus and image forming apparatus employing the same An image forming apparatus includes a main body unit which has an image forming unit; a door unit which couples with the main body unit to open and close the main body unit, and has a projection at one side thereof; a mid-transfer unit which couples with the door un... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7894743 | Image-forming device having side walls An image-forming device includes: a plurality of components that cooperate to form an image on a recording medium; and a housing that accommodates the components therein. The housing has a side wall unit. The side wall unit includes: a resin frame defining, on its o... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894744 | Color image forming apparatus, and toner replenishing apparatus The color image forming apparatus comprises a transfer belt device which feeds a transfer member such as a paper and a plurality of image forming units. The image forming units are disposed facing toward the transfer belt device. The transfer belt device, at least i... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7894745 | Holding member and unit using the holding member A holding member is provided in a gap between a plurality of elements of a unit in a non-usage state to maintain a relative position between the plurality of elements, and is removed from the gap to put the unit into a usage state. The holding member includes an att... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890017 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a pair of first frames that support an axis of each of a fixing roller and a pressing roller and a pair of second frames arranged in parallel to an axial direction of the fixing roller to connect the first frames to each other. The second fr... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890018 | Architecture for an image-forming device An image forming device includes a body having a top, a bottom, a front and a back. In one embodiment, a plurality of horizontally-aligned imaging units, each comprising a photoconductive member, transfer toner images to an intermediate transfer mechanism located be... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7873299 | Conveyed material conveying apparatus, image forming apparatus, conveying method, and image forming method A conveying apparatus includes a conveying unit that includes a conveying passage for conveying a conveyed material, and a positioning and holding unit that holds the conveying unit while positioning the conveying unit. The positioning and holding unit includes a pl... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869738 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a main body housing including a plurality of walls, a duplex unit openably provided to one of the walls of the main body housing, that reverses a recording medium, and a handle that advances from and retracts to the wall of the ma... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869739 | Two-color IOI drum module enabling N-color monochrome, highlight, full color, phototone color and extended color architectures A xerographic marking device includes an intermediate transfer unit, a media transport path and at least one two-color image-on-image (IOI) drum module. Each two-color IOI drum module includes in a process order around a photoreceptor: a) a first charging unit; b) a... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7860431 | Image forming apparatus having a single device for detecting when covers of the apparatus are all closed An image forming apparatus employs a device that detects the opening and closing of covers. Two covers are pivotally mounted to a body of the image forming apparatus, each of the two covers being movable either to its opening position to open with respect to the ima... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848676 | Internal output type image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a main apparatus body, an image reading block located above the main apparatus body, a sheet output portion provided with a sheet output tray onto which each sheet is ejected upon completion of image forming operation, the sheet o... | 12/07/2010 |
