Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8355640 | Document feeding device that performs an initial operation, image forming apparatus including the same, and method of controlling a document feeding device that performs an initial operation Provided is a document feeding device including: a document feeding portion for feeding a document; a document set detecting portion for detecting presence/absence of a set document; a determination portion for determining whether power supply to the device is start... | 01/15/2013 |
| 7357387 | Sheet feed device for feeding cut sheets while interposing shortened interval between successive fed two sheets A sheet is firstly fed only by a sheet feed roller and then relayed to a transportation roller. When the transportation roller starts conveying the sheet, a motor coupled to the sheet feed roller is deenergized so that the sheet feed roller is not rotated by the pow... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355763 | Image scanning apparatus, method and business machine using the same Scanning errors and document feed errors are prevented by pressing originals, including thin originals and thick originals of greatly different thicknesses, to the scanning surface (1a) of an image sensor (1) with pressure appropriate for the re... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7305619 | Image processing method, device and storage medium therefor The invention significantly improves operability by automatically discriminating a plurality of image orientations, which are not assured of always being fed in common orientations, and reduces possible burdens to operators by eliminating efforts required to arrange... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302203 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, is provided with an image forming section, an image carrying member, a transferring section to transfer the toner image from the image carrying member to a recording sheet, and a cleaning section including a cleaning blade being in contac... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7251449 | Rotating member One embodiment of a mechanism may include a member having a first axis and a surface non-concentric with said first axis, a first gear rotatably mounted on said member at a second axis different from said first axis, and a device coupled to either of said member or ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7199907 | Image processing apparatus, control method of image processing apparatus, control method, memory medium and programs For the purpose of omitting troublesome operations in page printing, and improving operability, when a page information output mode is specified, a continuous-read mode is automatically started up under specific conditions, and image information having page informat... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197254 | Adjusting method for image-forming apparatus and image-forming apparatus An image-forming unit 100 in a complex device A forms a correction-use image onto a sheet in accordance with data, in such a manner that the correction-use image thus formed partly on and partly off the sheet and includes edges of the sheet, the date being pr... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7187479 | Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes a sensor including a plurality of photoelectric converters for reading information on a document, a detecting circuit for detecting movement of a document cover, a drive circuit for supplying driving pulses for driving the sensor,... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7130997 | Method of registering a portion of RAM with firmware to preserve the portion during reboot Processor(s) operating a random access memory is subject to reboot processing which comprises clearing the random access memory. Registration is provided of a portion of the random access memory, the registration indicating that data stored in the registered portion... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123851 | Adjustment method of image forming device, image forming device, adjustment method of image forming system, image forming system, and adjustment method of image scanning device An adjustment method for an image forming device, for adjusting image forming condition with respect to a sheet by using image forming means. The adjustment operation is performed in such a manner that: a first image, that is used for detecting scanning error of an ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7119931 | Image reading apparatus, image processing system, image reading method, and image processing method that determine a document An image reading apparatus includes a reading part reading original, a time measuring part being able to measure different times selectively, and a defining part determining separation of sheets of the original read by the reading part. The time measuring part selec... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116439 | Scanner system and scanner driver A scanner system having an image scanner and a control device for controlling the image scanner. The control device has a scanner driver installed thereinto. The operator can carry out entering for setting a reading size and a direction of an original on the operati... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110698 | Original reading apparatus with openable and closable state and control based thereon An original reading apparatus with an original feeding apparatus pivotally connected thereto, including a detecting device for detecting the opened state and the closed state of the original feeding apparatus, and a controller for rendering a part or the whole of th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107003 | Image forming apparatus and document size determination method thereof A image-forming apparatus has a light projection unit for projecting light onto a document. A reflection plate having a predetermined pattern corresponding to a size of the document reflects the light projected onto the document. The light reception unit receives th... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7077589 | Image forming apparatus Recording medium feeding means includes a recording medium determination device, in which an arm biased by a spring toward recording medium loading means is rotatably attached to a lever rotated by a rotatably driven cam member, two holder segments are rockingly att... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7061637 | Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively collating a stack of single-/double-sided recording sheets in a desired ejection tray An image forming apparatus includes first and second image carrying members, ejection trays, and a sheet transferring mechanism. The first image carrying member carries images in increasing order of corresponding sheet numbers. The second image carrying member carri... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7046953 | Image formation apparatus equipped with automatic document feeder In an image forming apparatus having a document feeder for taking up a document from a document bundle placed on a document tray, a controller has a normal mode to perform a normal-size conveyance control by taking up each document from a bundle of documents having ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7032899 | Print media feed alignment mechanism To maintain quality printed images in high speed photographic quality printing it is necessary to ensure accurate registry of the print media with the printheads. To ensure this result an alignment mechanism is provided for the stack of print media to be fed to the ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031001 | Print control apparatus and control method A print control apparatus and a print control method perform optimum page layout processing in accordance with properties of output apparatus capable of book bind printing. The order of sheets and the order of sides are obtained as book bind print setting informatio... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7022972 | Image reader with a closed-state detector and image forming apparatus using same An image reader includes a first image-reader unit, mounted on a body of the image reader, for reading image information of an original document on a first image-reader section, a closing unit which is openably supported on the body of the image reader through a clo... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019852 | Image forming apparatus capable of image formation in a plurality of modes A user-friendly, image forming apparatus capable of reducing operation errors by users provides a permission to change a print mode to the staple print mode when the device is placed in the original mixed mode and the image data of originals all have a same length i... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6999196 | Color image forming apparatus The color image forming apparatus (1) of the present invention has two intermediate transfer media. With at least two of color images (Y+M+C+K) layered previously, the other remaining images are further layered thereon by a between-intermediate-transfer-media... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999211 | Original conveying apparatus, light amount adjustment method for light-emitting section thereof, image forming apparatus, control method therefor, storage control device, storage control method, and storage medium There is provided an original conveying apparatus for conveying an original to an image reading section of an image forming apparatus, which is capable of preventing the number of times of writing to a nonvolatile storage medium that stores a correction value for th... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6952537 | Original feeding apparatus having a plurality of sensors An original feeding apparatus has a sensor for detecting an original by a light emitting element and a light receiving element. A first detector for detecting presence/absence of a sheet, and a second detector capable of being electrically switched between a detecti... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6930798 | Image formation system control method, image formation system, and storage medium In case of outputting data including mixed plural different-type images, productivity and cost performance are improved without an operator's complicated manual intervention. To do so, a color printer, a black and white printer and a finisher are electrically connec... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6920296 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is controlled so that, in a standby state before an image forming part becomes able to perform image forming, documents are successively conveyed to a predetermined read position on a platen glass by a document feeder and images are read f... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6647240 | Original feeding apparatus having a plurality of sensors An original feeding apparatus has a sensor for detecting an original by a light emitting element and a light receiving element. A first detector for detecting presence/absence of a sheet, and a second detector capable of being electrically switched betwee... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6636720 | Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, image forming method, and storage medium It is intended to obtain outputs of insert sheets suitable for an inserter without delay. Thus, it is controlled to sort sheets on which pages of an image, being the print object in a mode to output the sheets to be set to an inserter provided in another ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6636703 | Digital image reproduction device with a double-sheet detector An image reproduction device is provided with an automatic feed unit for documents; a double-sheet detector for detecting more than one sheet as the document for copying; an operator control unit provided with an operator control panel; and a control unit... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6505017 | Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, image forming method, and storage medium It is intended to obtain outputs of insert sheets suitable for an inserter without delay. Thus, it is controlled to sort sheets on which pages of an image, being the print object in a mode to output the sheets to be set to an inserter provided in another ... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6366743 | Image processing device An image processing device comprising a second side image sensor to determine whether the second side of a document also requires processing. The second side image sensor preferably uses a camera or measures reflected infrared light with an infrared photo... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6285853 | Two-sided reading-out apparatus and an image forming apparatus A two-sided reading-out apparatus and an image forming apparatus including the two-sided reading-out apparatus are capable of simplifying processing at a time of reading out the image respectively for one-side surface reading-out and two-side surface read... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6263173 | Image formation apparatus having selection of different image types for image formation A CPU circuit unit of a copying machine judges based on image data read by a reading unit whether or not the image data represents a color image, and controls according to the judged result whether or not image forming of the image data is to be performed... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6243541 | Image reader and printing system An image reading is executed to only specific originals among plural originals. An original information detecting part detects original information on each original based on the result of prescanning. A judging part, based on copying conditions set by a u... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6163659 | Scanning status indicating device for automatic document feeder The present invention provides an automatic document-feeding device. The device includes a scanning area facing the scanner; a document-feeding path for transmitting therein a document to the scanning area to be scanned by the scanner; a document urging d... | 12/19/2000 |
| 5960229 | Image processing method and apparatus The type of a document placed on the platen of an image forming apparatus is designated by the operator, a character area in the document is discriminated based upon an image signal obtained by reading the document, the orientation of the document is sens... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5953553 | Automatic document feeder When copying is automatically started using an automatic original document feeder, an automatic start operation is prohibited after an original document jam is eliminated. When copying operations are interrupted due to an original document jam during the ... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5923919 | Image forming apparatus with power shut-off device An image forming apparatus has an automatic power-off function for automatically shutting off a power source of the image forming apparatus when it is not operated for a predetermined time. A time until the automatic power-off function operates is made di... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5918101 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a original stacking tray capable of stacking a plurality of originals; feeding means for feeding the original one by one; means for detecting sizes of the originals; image forming means for reading an image of the origi... | 06/29/1999 |
