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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7200354 | Image heating apparatus An image heating apparatus comprising first and second belts for forming a nip for heating an image on a recording material; a first pressing pad for pressing the first belt at the nip; a first roller, provided spaced from the first pressing pad with a gap therebetw... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200345 | Image forming apparatus with a fixing device employing a plurality of pressing members An image forming apparatus is provided with a fixing section, including a heating member, a pressing member, in which the heating member and the pressing member are arranged to form a nipping section therebetween, and a belt member inserted through the nipping secti... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200355 | Image heating apparatus using roller having adiabatic layer of porous ceramics An image heating apparatus is for heating an image formed on a recording material, and has a first roller, a second roller cooperating with the first roller to form a conveying nip portion for passing the recording material therethrough, and heating means for heatin... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196827 | Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus An image reading apparatus is capable of preventing generation of a streaked image or the like while maintaining the requisite precision level for the original reading position. The image reading apparatus includes a lead roller for supplying an original, a platen g... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193181 | Image heating apparatus and heater used therefor The image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material includes a heater having a substrate and first and second heat generating resistors, most of the region of said first heat generating resistor having smaller resistance value per unit le... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194234 | Electromagnetic induction heat generating roller, heating device, and image forming apparatus An electromagnetic induced heating roller comprises a core member, an elastic layer, induction heating layer, and a mold release layer in this order from inside to outside. Further, a magnetic shield layer for preventing a magnetic flux from penetrating into the cor... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194233 | Variable power fuser external heater An external heater for a fuser assembly for a reproduction apparatus. The fuser assembly includes a fuser member for fusing a marking particle image to a receiver member. The external heater has a heat transfer surface adapted to be selectively engaged with the fuse... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190914 | Image heating apparatus having heater for externally heating fixing roller The image heating apparatus for heating a toner image formed on a recording material, includes a rotatable member; heating device for heating an outer peripheral surface of the rotatable member, the heating device including a heater for forming a heating nip portion... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190917 | Image forming apparatus with divided output of DC high voltage source An output of a DC high voltage source is supplied as a bias to a heat fixing apparatus. An output of the DC high voltage source is divided by resistors, and a divided output is supplied as a DC bias to a charging apparatus. A feedback circuit generates a feedback si... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7186959 | Fixing apparatus A fixing apparatus an aspect of the present invention includes, a heating object which generates the heat by a magnetic flux produced from a coil which generates a predetermined magnetic flux by electromagnetic induction in accordance with a frequency of an input cu... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187900 | Image forming apparatus having a fixing device for fixing toner image formed on a sheet by an endless fixing belt engaged with a fixing roller An image forming apparatus comprising a fixing roller, an endless fixing belt engaged at least with the fixing roller, and a pressing roller opposite to the fixing roller with the endless fixing belt between them; wherein the image forming apparatus is equipped with... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185979 | Transferring pressure roll, transferring unit and ink jet recording apparatus The transferring pressure roll comprises a roll main body and an elastic material layer which covers the surface of the roll main body and comes in contact with a transferring film during pressing and the hardness of the elastic material constituting the elastic mat... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187878 | Image forming apparatus and its control method In continuous printing operation which repeatedly sets a state in which when a preceding printing material passes through the nip area of a thermal fixing unit, a succeeding printing material has been supplied to an image forming unit and image forming operation has... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187883 | Image forming apparatus having fixing device with cooling device An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device for fixing developer on a recording medium; a heating device for heating the fixing device; a cooling device for cooling the fixing device; a temperature detecting device for detecting a temperature of the fixing d... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177578 | Process for cleaning and image forming apparatus therefor There is provided a process for cleaning wherein a cleaning sheet fed through an image forming apparatus is heated and pressured by at least one of a fixing belt and a fixing roller, and the cleaning sheet removes stains, wherein the cleaning sheet has a support and... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177579 | Image heating apparatus An image heating apparatus has a flexible rotatable member, a slidable member contacting an internal surface of the flexible rotatable member, a holder for holding the slidable member, and a pressure roller for applying a pressure to the flexible rotatable member th... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171150 | Belt-type fixing device A belt-type fixing device is provided in which a nip pressure distribution in a fixing nip is made generally uniform with respect to a paper feeding direction and which thereby prevents occurrence of image noise even when a thick paper is fed. The belt-type f... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167670 | Electro-photographic apparatus with a heating roller and pressurizing member An electro-photographic apparatus for conducting printing includes a fixing member fixing an unfixed toner image on a surface of a recording medium onto the recording medium. The fixing member includes a heating roller and a pressurizing member, and a mounting membe... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164875 | Electrophotographic image forming apparatus having a plurality of mounting portions for detachably mounting a plurality process cartridges An electrophotographic image forming apparatus usable with process cartridges. The apparatus includes mounting portions for detachably mounting the cartridges. In each mounting portion, a cartridge is inclined downwardly from an upstream to a downstream side with re... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162194 | Image heating apparatus The present invention provides an image heating apparatus including: a conveying roller for conveying the recording material; a heat supply member which supplies heat to the conveying roller, the heat supply member... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7160963 | Toner fuser member with release layer formed from silsesquioxane-epoxy resin composition A toner fuser member contains a substrate on which is disposed a toner release surface layer formed from a composition that includes a silsesquioxane and a curable epoxy resin. On curing, the composition forms an interpenetrating polymer network of the silsesquioxan... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158747 | Belt-type fixing device A belt-type fixing device is provided by which driving torque for a fixing belt can be reduced. The belt-type fixing device has the fixing belt wound around a heating roller and around a nip forming member, and has a pressurizing roller that is in pressure co... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157843 | Transfer film, method for forming metal back layer, and display device A transfer film comprising a base film (11), a parting-agent layer (12), a protective film (13), and a metal film (14), the latter three being formed on the base film (11) in order, wherein the protective film (13) contains ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155142 | Tension control for a belt fuser/finisher A belt fuser/finisher including an endless fusing/finishing belt directed around a closed loop path defined by a heated roller and at least one unheated roller. The endless fusing/finishing belt and rollers are mounted on a belt frame that is pivotally attached to a... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155155 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus To provide a fixing device which can suppress the occurrence of a temperature droop phenomenon, and to stably peel off a recording sheet from a fixing roll side. There are provided a fixing belt module and a pressure belt module, and the fixing belt module and the p... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155154 | Fixing device and image forming device A fixing device including a fixing belt module is formed of a fixing roller having a heat source, one or more tension rollers at a fixing side and an endless fixing belt looped and stretched around the rollers to thereby rotate and a pressure belt module including a... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7155136 | Image heating apparatus having heater for externally heating fixing roller The image heating apparatus for heating a toner image formed on a recording material, comprising, a rotatable member; heating device for heating an outer peripheral surface of the rotatable member, the heating device including a heater for forming a heating nip port... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151908 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is capable of connecting to a finisher which requires a warm-up process before use. The image forming apparatus comprises an input port which inputs warm-up information from the finisher, and a controller which controls the image forming a... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151907 | Fixing device, image forming apparatus using the same and process cartridge A fixing device configured to fix the toner image borne on a side of a transfer material. The fixing device including a heating member configured to heat the toner image while contacting the toner image borne on the transfer material and a pressing member configured... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7150909 | Electrophotographic image-receiving sheet and process for image formation using the same The present invention aims to provide an process for image formation using an electrophotographic image-receiving sheet having excellent anti-offset properties, adhesion resistance, paper transport properties and gloss, and being resistant to cracks, and able to for... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149464 | Belt-type fixing device A belt-type fixing device is provided in which a wide fixing nip having a generally flat pressure distribution with respect to a paper feeding direction can be formed. The belt-type fixing device of the invention has a nip forming member that is fixed inside ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149442 | Electric potential sensor An electric potential sensor includes a detecting electrode, a capacitor modulating unit for modulating a coupling capacitance between the detecting electrode and a measurement object by using an electrostatic force, and a shielding unit for electrically shielding t... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146126 | Flexible and durable fixing members and apparatus, and image forming apparatus A fixing member includes a base member and an outermost layer located overlying the base member and having different fluororesins to fix a toner onto a sheet. ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142803 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a roller; an endless belt which is in contact with the roller and rotates with a circulation of the roller in a follower manner; a heating source in at lease one of an inside of the roller and an inside of the endless belt; and a pressure-ap... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139520 | Fixing device, nipping device, and image forming apparatus A fixing device including a fixing belt, a drive roller and a press roller. The drive roller is configured to drive the fixing belt, and press roller is arranged so as to face the drive roller across the fixing belt, and exert pressure toward the fixing belt. The dr... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136615 | Heat fixing unit with improved belt handling A fixing unit that is provided in an image forming device and fixes a toner image transferred to paper is constructed of two belts, belt guides each of which guides the inner periphery of each of the belts, a heating member arranged in one of the belts or heating me... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7133634 | Circulating body and fixing device A circulating body driven with its surface being circulated along a fixed route and having a base material provided with a tubular outside peripheral surface and a surface layer covering the outside peripheral surface of the base material, the surface static frictio... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7130572 | Image heating apparatus using a flexible sleeve The image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material includes a flexible sleeve and a regulating member disposed at a position opposed to an end surface of the sleeve for regulating the movement of the sleeve in a generatrix direction ther... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127204 | Belt fixing unit with heat-resisting resin base member and image forming toner for use in the fixing unit A belt fixing unit, an image forming apparatus, and a toner material are disclosed capable of obviating undesirable fixing belt deformation and low image quality. The belt fixing unit includes a fixing roller, a heating roller, a fixing belt, and a pressing roller i... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7122768 | Heating roller, image heating apparatus, and image forming apparatus A heating roller (21) includes a heat generating layer (22) that generates heat by electromagnetic induction, a heat insulating layer (23), and a supporting layer (24), which are provided inwardly in this order. The supporting layer (2... | 10/17/2006 |
