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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7095965 | Image forming apparatus When a plurality of toner containers mounted on a developing rotary unit are simultaneously determined as toner-absent toner containers, toner container replacement may not be efficient because toner containers are replaced at a replacement position. Therefore, when... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095966 | Image forming apparatus and unit, and storage medium mounted in the unit An image forming apparatus which forms an image by using a unit having at least a member associated with image formation and storage unit storing information, comprising, an image carrier, developing unit for developing a latent image formed on said image carrier by... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095970 | Developer supplying cartridge, developer receiving cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A developer supply cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus, includes a developer accommodating portion of accommodating a developer; a discharging opening for discharging the developer accommodated in the developer accommodati... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095964 | Image forming apparatus determining an indicating level of a utilized amount of a developing apparatus and a control method thereof The image forming apparatus, to which a developing apparatus for developing a latent image on an image bearing member corresponding to image information is detachably attachable, includes, a first detection device for detecting an amount of developer in the developi... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7092648 | Method of controlling an amount of toner charging in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus and apparatus using the same A method of controlling an amount of toner charging in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus using a two-component developing agent, and an apparatus using the method. The method includes counting an agitation time when a toner and a carrier are mixed and a... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092647 | Image forming apparatus This invention realizes and provides an image forming apparatus in which the presence or absence of a toner remaining in a toner storing portion is judged by a patch detecting method, characterized in that the wrong detection of the judgment of the presence or absen... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088938 | Seal member, developing apparatus, process cartridge and image forming apparatus A seal member for sealing the developer container at a boundary between the developer container and a developer carrying member is disposed at an opening of a developer container containing developer. The sealing member includes a warp pile fabric, and is formed by ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088929 | Apparatus to measure an amount of toner consumed and method thereof A toner consumption measuring apparatus having an effective signal generating unit to receive inputs of printing data and a video clock signal to synchronize the printing data and to generate a count effective signal, a counting unit to count the generated count eff... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088930 | Image forming apparatus and toner replenishing method A printer control CPU of the image forming apparatus controls the normal toner replenishing rotation after rotating a toner bottle in the normal rotating direction by about ¾ turn and then immediately in the direction reverse to the normal rotating direction by abo... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085503 | Device management system, printer management system, printer management terminal, network printer, program for terminal and program for printer, and device management method There is provided a device management system suitable for accurately calculating an average consumption quantity of toner and the like per print sheet and thereby accurately calculating a printing cost depending on use environments. A network printer 200 dete... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085506 | Method for controlling the state of developer material A method for maintaining developer material within in a predefined state through the scheduling of increased toner throughput coordinated among multiple developer housings. The method monitors developer material health at each developer station within a plurality of... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085505 | Image forming apparatus which monitors lifetimes of expendables An image forming apparatus disclosed herein includes a detecting section for detecting that the lifetime of an expendable used to form images is expiring, a counting section for counting a used amount of the expendable when the detecting section detects that the lif... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080040 | Printing machine and printing system A printing machine (1) and a printing system (A) are disclosed as having a ROM (5) which stores, in addition to a program for realizing a specific function available for service, all programs for realizing specific functions rendered non-available for ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079793 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method A developing unit has first and second partition walls and which divide the inside of a developer reservoir into first to third chambers parallel to the developing roller, and first to third mixers which are disposed in the first to third chambers. The first mixer s... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079787 | Parts, and part supplying methods A part is capable of being retained in a guide for retaining a plurality of such parts in such a manner so as to stack the parts in a direction in which gravity act on the parts and supplying parts to a predetermined position. The part has a plurality of abutment po... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7077520 | Electrophotographic apparatus An electrophotographic apparatus is equipped with one or more printing sections including a photoreceptor, a charger that electrically charges the surface of the photoreceptor, an optical scanning section that optically scans the surface of the charged photoreceptor... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079794 | Material state management via automatic toner purge A method for operating a printing machine to maintain developer material within in a predefined state by monitoring the state of materials in a developer and automatically scheduling corrective action before print quality becomes significantly impacted. The correcti... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076180 | Toner cartridge A toner cartridge includes a housing, which has a first chamber and a second chamber, a rotary member mounted in the first chamber and rotatable relative to the housing by an external rotary driving force, a first magnet fixedly fastened to the rotary member, an axi... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076179 | Image forming apparatus and a storage controlling method for information on an improper detachment of developer cartridge to be written in a cartridge storage means When an apparatus is turned on, one developer is positioned to a reading/writing position and a specific area of a cartridge memory is read to judge whether or not an improper detachment flag is set. Unless the improper detachment flag is set, the improper detachmen... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072594 | Developing apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus A developing apparatus is for developing a latent image formed on an image bearing member. The apparatus includes: a developer accommodating portion for accommodating the developer; a developing device for developing the latent image; a light transmitting portion, p... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072601 | Process cartridge, method of assembling process cartridge, and connecting member A process cartridge detachably mountable on a main body of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and including a first unit for supporting an electrophotographic photosensitive member and a charging member for acting on the photosensitive member, a second ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072603 | Process cartridge and holding member When a space holding member for holding a photosensitive drum and a developing roller in a spaced-apart state act on a process cartridge main body, the photosensitive drum and the developing roller are held in the spaced-apart state, and when the holding member is a... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072063 | Information processing apparatus and system, method of controlling same, peripheral apparatus and printer driver Disclosed is an information processing system in which a host computer and a printer are connected so as to be capable of communicating in both directions. Model-specific information, which is information relating to number of tones of image data handled by the prin... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068955 | Image forming apparatus having developer amount detector An image forming apparatus or a cartridge detachably attachable to the image forming apparatus is provided, wherein the apparatus comprises developer container for containing developer, developer amount detecting means for detecting an amount of the developer contai... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068956 | Image forming apparatus and control method for the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, including: an image bearing member on a surface of which an electrostatic latent image is formed; a developing device which contains a developer and which has a rotatable developer carrying member, which abuts against the surface of the i... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068965 | Developing cartridge, side cover mounting method and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A developing cartridge detachably mountable to an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The cartridge includes a frame, a developing roller, a frame groove, a frame projection, a bearing configured and positioned to rotatably support a developing roller shaft... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065305 | Toner supplying method for image forming apparatus When shortage of a toner residual quantity is detected during printing, toner redetection is performed immediately after completion of printing. This toner redetection is carried out by stopping supply of a high-voltage power to, e.g., a transfer charger and supply ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065304 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus including an electrostatic latent image carrier, a plurality of development units each accommodating a toner to develop the electrostatic latent image, a development unit holder for holding the development units, and a control unit for con... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065306 | Toner residual amount detection apparatus In order to prevent a toner residual amount from being erroneously judged as “toner present” after the toner residual amount has been judged to be insufficient, a toner residual amount detection apparatus includes a developing device for developing an electrosta... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062190 | Image forming apparatus, interface apparatus, control apparatus, image forming apparatus setting operation method, and control method An image forming apparatus includes resource amount designation keys for allowing a user to designate an amount of resource, display control keys for controlling to display a plurality of setting options which enable image formation with the designated amount of res... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062206 | Toner supplying apparatus and image forming apparatus A toner supplying apparatus for feeding a toner to a developing device to develop a latent image on an image bearing member. The apparatus includes: a toner separating member communicating to the developing device, to separate the toner from the mixed fluid containi... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062195 | Toner seal member, and process cartridge A toner seal member which is maintainable in contact with a rotating member to seal a toner. The toner seal member has a non-woven fabric sheet on a support layer formed of an elastic member, and the non-woven fabric sheet has a fiber diameter of from 2 μm to 10 μ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062192 | Electrophotographic image forming apparatus, process cartridge and discharge preventing mechanism An electrophotographic image forming apparatus on which a process cartridge is detachably mountable forms an image on a recording medium, and has a main body electrical contact electrically connected to a cartridge electrical contact when the cartridge is mounted on... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061391 | Method, system, and program for monitoring a consumable resource used by a system Provided is a method, system, and program for monitoring depletion of a consumable resource in a monitored system. Information is received on at least one unit of work to be processed by the monitored system, wherein the monitored system would deplete the consumable... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062182 | Method, device, system and recording medium for detecting improper cartridge, and cartridge A cartridge is set in a printer main unit, and has a remaining toner measurer which measures toner in a toner chamber upon setting of the cartridge. A cartridge memory stores information of a remaining toner amount measured previously. CPU compares the remaining ton... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062181 | Systems and methods for single wire communication and interaction with a customer replaceable unit monitor Single-wire data communications with data storage memory units that may be coupled with a wirelessly energized power supply is enabled in electronic monitoring modules in customer replaceable units (CRUs) such as toner bottles in image forming devices. Communication... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058337 | Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus that includes a cam movable between first and second positions. The cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developing roller de... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058321 | Device and method of calculating toner consumption, and image forming apparatus using the same In a device for calculating a total amount of toner consumed from a toner cartridge, a first amount of the toner, which is consumed in a first region of a recording medium at which a toner image is formed, is obtained. A time period of which the toner cartridge is i... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058319 | Image forming apparatus and cartridge detachably mountable thereto An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device for forming an image on a recording material. At least a part of the image forming device is in the form of a unit which is detachably mountable to a main assembly of the apparatus. The apparatus includes a... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058320 | Image forming apparatus, cartridge detachably mountable to the image forming apparatus, developer remainder displaying method and system An image forming apparatus includes a developer container for containing a developer; a developer amount detector for detecting the amount of the developer contained in the developer container; a memory; and a calculator for calculating a display level of the remain... | 06/06/2006 |
