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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7756456 | Image forming apparatus including shifted roller An image forming apparatus includes: a belt member stretched across at least two rollers; a protrusion disposed, such that it protrudes along the traveling direction of the belt member, on an inner surface of one edge side of the belt member; an engagement portion t... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7623816 | Belt conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus using such a belt conveyance apparatus In an intermediate transfer part (100), a bead 107 is formed on an inner side of an intermediate transfer belt (102), which is rotated by an intermediate transfer belt drive roller (101). Driven roller bearings (104a, 104... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7532846 | Treating transport mechanism in a printing press Treating a transport mechanism (5) for transporting print material (2) in a printing press (1) that uses toner in which oil-bearing substances (27) adhere to the transport mechanism (5). A cleaning device (30) is provided wi... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7376375 | Belt-drive control device, color-shift detecting method, color-shift detecting device, and image forming apparatus A mark detecting unit detects a mark that is a reference position of an endless belt. An angular-displacement-error detecting unit detects an angular displacement error of an encoder caused by thickness fluctuation of the endless belt. A first calculating unit calcu... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7346295 | Belt member and belt device using the same A belt member of the present invention includes ribs that prevent the belt member from being shifted to either side. A plurality of cuts are formed in each rib at preselected intervals in the circumferential direction of the belt member, and each extends from the to... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343126 | Image forming apparatus including a transfer belt having image forming units disposed thereabout A tandem image forming device for an image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of image forming means arranged side by side along an intermediate image transfer belt. The image forming means each include a developing device and a cleaning... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7314129 | Image forming apparatus The image forming apparatus includes two tension rollers; a conveyor belt movably supported at the two tension rollers; a plurality of transfer parts that are arranged on the back surface side of the conveyor belt and between the two tension rollers, that contact on... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310488 | Belt device and image forming apparatus A belt device includes an endless belt, a plurality of rollers around which the endless belt is wound, and a foreign material entry preventing member disposed on at least one side of the endless belt in the width direction. The foreign material entry preventing memb... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7302218 | Image forming apparatus with constant conveying velocity An image forming apparatus includes plurality image carriers sequentially arranged, a conveying belt, which conveys a print medium onto which color-separated images formed on the plurality of image carriers are overlapped, and a plurality of image transfer rollers i... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302217 | Image forming apparatus and transfer apparatus employing endless belt Transfer roller(s) is/are such that either end thereof is formed from fibrous electrically conductive component(s) and such that cylindrical portion(s) in central region(s) is/are, for example, formed from metal roller-like structure(s), either fibrous electrically ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7251438 | Image forming apparatus using a contact or a proximity type of charging system including a protection substance on a moveable body to be charged An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a movable body to be charged and a charger including a charging member that contacts or adjoins the body to be charged and applies a voltage, including an AC component, to the charging member for thereby c... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245857 | Belt driving apparatus A belt driving apparatus for driving a belt has the belt hung around and between rollers, and has a meandering prevention member provided in each end part of each roller to restrict the meandering of the belt in the roller axial direction. A cut is formed to be open... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7158750 | Paper transport apparatus and paper transport method Provided are photosensitive body or bodies 31b carrying toner; transfer roller(s) 31d, rotating and coming in contact with photosensitive body or bodies 31b, for causing toner image(s) formed on photosensitive body or bodies... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7150908 | Conductive belt A conductive belt having a base layer (3) electroconductive and made of a resin, an intermediate layer (5) ionic-conductive and made of an elastomer, and a surface coating layer (7). The base layer (3) has a tensile modulus of elasticity ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7144621 | Method of manufacturing laminated seamless belt and laminated seamless belt A laminated seamless belt having at least a base layer and an outer layer. The base layer contains a polyester thermoplastic elastomer as its main component. The base layer has a volume resistivity set to not less than 1.0×106(Ω·cm) nor more than 1.0×... | 12/05/2006 |
| 6941096 | Belt drive control device and image forming apparatus including the same A belt drive control device constructed to sense the angular displacement or the angular velocity of a driven roller. The belt drive control device separates, from a sensed angular displacement or the angular velocity, an AC component having a frequency that corresp... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6922543 | Image forming apparatus and cleaning unit An image forming apparatus has a cleaning blade adapted to scrape off the residual toner adhering to the surface of the image carrier, a brush arranged upstream relative to the cleaning blade in the direction of revolution of the image carrier and adapted to apply s... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6914619 | Device for driving an endless belt and image forming apparatus using the same A device for driving an endless belt of the present invention includes a drive roller and a roller pair adjoining the drive roller at a side where a photoconductive element is positioned and contacting the belt. The eccentricity of the drive roller and that of the r... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6912371 | System for regulating the sliding force of a fusing belt in an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a roller having a central portion and an outer edge portion, a fusing belt positioned over at least a portion of the central portion of the roller, and a belt regulating part, positioned on the outer edge portion of the roller, th... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6852400 | Endless belt electrophotography, process for producing the endless belt, and image forming apparatus having the endless belt An endless belt for electrophotography is disclosed which is obtainable continuously by melt extrusion from a circular die. The endless belt has a layer containing a thermoplastic resin having a diphenyl sulfone structure represented by the following Formula (1) | 02/08/2005 |
| 6745001 | Web conditioning charging station A method and apparatus for conditioning a moving transport web for neutralizing or modifying polar charge density and net charge density on the moving transport web included, for example, in an electrostatographic printer. The web conditioning includes a charging st... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6738595 | Oxidized transport transfer member adhesives An endless seamed flexible belt comprising a first end and a second end which join together to form a seam, the seam having an adhesive with an oxidized charge transport molecule, a charge transport molecule, or mixtures thereof. ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6736500 | Image forming method and apparatus that form and transfer image of liquid drops of increased viscosity A method of forming an image includes causing a material, that increases a viscosity of liquid drops by contact with the liquid drops, to adhere to a transfer medium, causing a liquid drop to contact the material according to an image signal such that an image is fo... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6636714 | Roll having relieved edges for low stress belt tracking for belt loops An apparatus for steering a moving web, particularly in an electrophotographic printing machine of the type having an endless photoreceptor belt supported by a plurality of rolls and arranged to move in a predetermined path through a plurality of processi... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6615016 | Transfer medium bearing member and image forming apparatus employing transfer medium bearing member A transfer material carrying member for carrying a transfer material for receiving an image from an image bearing member, includes a first layer having a thickness Ha and a second layer having a thickness of Hb. A change, Xa, due to an ambient condition, ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6600894 | Method and apparatus for forming image, and method for absorbing transcriptional material A convey belt is charged only while a sheet is placed and chucked on it. A transfer member for applying a transfer bias is grounded while a transfer bias is not applied, and an electric field is formed on the transfer member side, so that discharge from t... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6526249 | Color image forming apparatus and color image forming method thereof Disclosed a tandem type color image forming apparatus and a color image forming method to reduce the cost of production without lowering the transfer efficiency. An electric potential setting member (170) is disposed in the tandem color image forming appa... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6376033 | Fixing belt for an electrical appliance and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed is a transfer-fixing belt for an electronic appliance, comprising a seamless reinforcing layer made of a continuous string, a heat resistant rubber layer formed on the reinforcing layer, and a heat resistant resin layer formed on the heat resist... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6370351 | Device for transporting a band-shaped recording medium in an electrographic printing or copying unit An apparatus for transporting web-shaped recording media through an electrographic printer or copier has a support member which supports driving and guiding elements. The support is pivotally mounted in the housing via a support shaft. The recording mediu... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6347209 | Electric charge devices for an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing an image, a recording material bearing member for bearing a recording material, a first charge supplying device for supplying an electric charge having a predetermined polarity onto a... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6295434 | Porous transfer members and release agent associated therewith A transfer member having a porous substrate, and a release agent material associated therewith, are discussed.... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6198900 | Charge supply device for charging bodies in image forming apparatus and the like A region with high resistance equal to the atmosphere is provided in a transfer roller. A discharge electrode capable of performing discharge between a base member and the discharge electrode is arranged within the region. When a predetermined electric po... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6167229 | Image forming apparatus for enabling easy separation of recording sheets from photosensitive member A copying machine is provided with a transfer belt which is in contact with the surface of a photosensitive drum and which is made to run in an endless manner. A transfer roller and an auxiliary roller are arranged inside the region defined by the transfe... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6160980 | Method and apparatus for reducing contamination of a tackdown, capture or transfer roller on a spliced photoconductor or transport web In a method and apparatus for transferring a toner image to a receiver sheet, there is provided an endless belt that is mounted for movement in a direction along a lengthwise dimension of the belt and through an endless path. The belt includes a splice se... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6125994 | Image forming apparatus and a belt conveyor system A belt conveyor system has a rotatable first roller and a second roller tapered toward a first end thereof and located substantially parallel to and at a distance from the first roller. The system also has a conveyor belt passed around and stretched betwe... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6108510 | Tandem-type image forming apparatus having full-color print mode and single-color print mode A color image forming apparatus having a plurality of image forming units, a first attraction unit and a second attraction unit for attracting a recording sheet to a transport belt, and a controller for operating the first attraction unit when a first mod... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6097922 | Image forming apparatus The present invention provides an image forming apparatus comprises an image bearing member for bearing a toner image, a rotatable transfer material bearing member for bearing a transfer material, a convey means for conveying the transfer material to the ... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6094558 | Transfer belt and electrophotographic apparatus A transfer belt for use in an electrophotographic apparatus for transporting an image support onto which a toner image formed on a surface of a photoconductor containing a photoconductive layer is transferred, and the transfer belt includes a surface laye... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6070043 | Device for cleaning a transfer belt of an image-forming machine A device for cleaning a transfer belt of an image-forming machine in which the transfer belt is wound around a drive roller and a driven roller that are disposed at a predetermined distance, in parallel with each other and is positioned opposite a photose... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6044244 | Image forming apparatus for enabling easy separation of recording sheets from photosensitive member A copying machine is provided with a transfer belt which is in contact with the surface of a photosensitive drum and which is made to run in an endless manner. A transfer roller and an auxiliary roller are arranged inside the region defined by the transfe... | 03/28/2000 |
