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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8374538 | Sheet humidifier, sheet finisher, and image forming system A sheet humidifier which executes a humidifying process to a sheet, the sheet humidifier including: a pair of humidifying rollers each of which has a first surface layer formed of rubber containing plasticizer, the pair of humidifying rollers nipping and conveying t... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8170461 | Image forming apparatus including pre-heating unit An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, a transfer unit, a pre-heating unit, a fixing unit, a first temperature sensor, and a first heat controller. The image carrying member carries a toner image. The transfer unit transfers the toner image ca... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8139995 | Image forming apparatus To remove also VOC gas generated from the discharged sheets, an image forming apparatus comprises an image forming unit which forms an image on a sheet; a tray on which sheets on which images are formed by the image forming unit are stacked; a suction device which s... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7917079 | Recording material charging apparatus and image forming apparatus A recording material charging apparatus comprises: a pre-transcription charging section arranged between a transcribing section that transcribes a toner image retained by a toner image retaining body on a recording material having concavity and convexity and a conve... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7813693 | Print media preheating system and method of use A print media preheating system and method of preheating print media that includes an upper heating plate that is arranged to heat a pre-printed side of the print media with a pressure of the upper heating plate on the print media being relieved by lifting the upper... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7734244 | Apparatus for conditioning a substrate An image development method implemented on a substrate conditioning unit for the drying and compression of a print substrate in an electrophotographic imaging process. The conditioning unit includes a heating mechanism for maintaining the heat of compression rollers... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7647018 | Printing system A printing system and method is provided. The printing system includes one or more printing system modules, at least one media sheet path interfacing the printing system modules, and a job scheduler for executing one or more printing system print jobs. The job sched... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7639979 | Preconditioning media sheets to reduce transfer voltage Image transfer quality in an electrophotographic image forming device is improved by preconditioning a media sheet prior to transferring a toner image thereto at an image transfer station. The media sheet is preconditioned by applying a static charge to it. In a col... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7522872 | Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus A sheet conveying device includes: a conveyance unit that conveys a sheet along a sheet conveying path; a paper dust removal roller that is provided in the sheet conveying path to cover a range that is longer than a width of the sheet, the paper dust removal roller ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7392010 | Image forming apparatus with preheating mode operating before image formation An image forming apparatus having an image forming device for forming an image on a recording material, a fixing member for fixing the image formed on the recording material in a fixing nip, and a pressure member brought into pressure contact with the fixing member ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7376383 | Device for regulation of the sliding properties of a print substrate in an electrophotographic printer or copier In an electrophotographic printer or copier, toner images of images to be printed onto a printing substrate are generated and fixed, causing sliding characteristics to be worsened. In order to remedy this problem, a moistening device is provided that applies on the ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373343 | Requirements management semantics modeling Described is a method and system of requirements management including the expression in a requirements management tool of a relationship selected from the group consisting of a satisfaction relationship, an alternative relationship, a conflict relationship, and a co... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367732 | Method and apparatus for controlling the sheet feeding speed in a printer In order to adjust a position of a cut sheet when the cut sheet begins to be sent to a printing positions a leading edge of the cut sheet is fed towards a pair of sending rollers for sending the cut sheet to a printing position, wherein the sending rollers are held ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364150 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus using heating member on sheet tray An air duct is disposed in the vicinity of a heating member generating the heat for heating sheets stacked in a sheet tray, and the air in the air duct is heated by the heat generated by the heating member. The air duct is connected to an air blowing portion blowing... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7319842 | Pivotal sheet conveying apparatus for skew correction and image forming apparatus To provide a sheet conveying apparatus capable of enhancing an accuracy of correcting a skew of a sheet, and of preventing position shift of a sheet. The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet by a sheet conveying unit disposed ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7303191 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus The present provides a sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet by sheet conveying device, including detection device which detects a skew of a conveyed sheet with respect to a sheet conveying direction, skew correcting device which pivots, in a state nipping... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300054 | Sheet conveying apparatus, image forming apparatus and image reading apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet along a sheet path, has a skew detecting unit for detecting the skew of the sheet being conveyed, a skew correcting unit rotatable in a direction to correct the skew of the sheet in a state nipping the sheet in its s... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295795 | Image forming apparatus and an impurity collecting device associated with registration rollers An image forming method begins with a first image transfer step for thermally transferring a first toner image from a first image carrier to a second image carrier contacting it. Subsequently, in a second image transfer step, the first toner image carried on the sec... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283758 | Apparatus for forming erasable and inerasable images and/or for detecting and erasing erasable images An image forming apparatus is capable of forming an image on any of an image-erasable recording medium having recording-medium identification information and a recording medium and is capable performing image formation according to a first mode for forming an erasab... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280798 | Image forming apparatus with conveying device urging a recording material toward a charge eliminating member The image forming apparatus has an image bearing member for bearing a toner, a transfer device which forms a transfer area in cooperation with the image bearing member for transferring the toner on the image bearing member onto a recording material, a charge elimina... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272351 | Transfer of a media sheet within an image forming device Devices and methods for directing a media sheet along a media path within an image forming apparatus. The media path includes rollers that form a media nip, one or more deflectors, and a transport belt. The media nip conveys the media sheet along the media path into... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7249759 | Sheet feeding apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus including a stacking portion for stacking a plurality of sheets thereon, a sheet feeding portion for feeding the sheets stacked on the stacking portion, a fan for sending air to the sheets to loosen the sheets stacked on the stacking portio... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248454 | Static eliminator There is provided a static eliminator which comprises an ion generating portion in the form of tape. There is also provided a self-discharged static eliminator comprising an conductor provided with discharge whiskers in which the conductor is applied with a predeter... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248828 | Device for regulation of the sliding properties of a print substrate in an electrophotographic printer or copier In an electrophotographic printer or copier, toner images of images to be printed onto a printing substrate are generated and fixed, causing sliding characteristics to be worsened. In order to remedy this problem, a moistening device is provided that applies on the ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7233765 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and electrophotographic print An image forming apparatus includes a forming unit configured to form a latent electrostatic image on a latent electrostatic image bearing member based on a digital image; a developing unit configured to develop the latent electrostatic image with a toner to form a ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233767 | Heating apparatus, sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus is provided with a sheet stacking device for stacking sheets thereon, a sheet feeding device for feeding the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking device, and a heating device for heating the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking device. The ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7215921 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, such as a printer, having a frame member, wherein there is provided, inside the frame member and on the upstream side of a sheet discharging portion with respect to the sheet conveying direction, a buffering device equipped with a rotary ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7211932 | Apparatus for megasonic processing of an article A transducer assembly used for the megasonic processing of an article. In one aspect, the transducer assembly comprises: a vibration transmitter having a rear portion adapted to be supported adjacent to an article to be processed and having an elongated forward port... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7195177 | Method and apparatus for humidity control within a housing An apparatus includes a housing having a chamber, having a replaceable part which has a moisture adsorption characteristic and which is in communication with the chamber, and having a humidity monitoring section which is responsive to the humidity within the chamber... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193834 | Static charge-immune enclosure A static charge dissipater for a card slot of an electronic device includes a plurality of filaments on a conductive strip, with tips of the filaments disposed along the slot to induce ionization in the presence of the electrical field of a statically charged card i... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7189484 | Reduced light scattering in projected images formed from electrographic toners A method of manufacturing transparencies reduces light scattering in a projection transparency formed with an electrostatically deposited color image. The method comprises: providing a transparent support substrate; | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180623 | Method and apparatus for print error recovery An information processing apparatus which generates print data includes a range setting module which sets the print range of each printer in order to distribute a print job to a plurality of printers and perform print processing, a recognition module which recognize... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167674 | Sheet storage cassette and image forming apparatus A sheet storage cassette includes: a case provided with a storage portion; a stacking plate on which a sheet is placed; and a lifting unit that lifts the stacking plate. The lifting unit has: a driving gear that communicates with an output gear of the device main bo... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164881 | Apparatus and method for establishing a default media size for an imaging device An imaging device, such as a printer, scanner, copier, multifunctional printer, and the like includes a sensor to detect the size of media fed into the imaging device. The detected media size can be set as the default media size for further operations, if desired. | 01/16/2007 |
| 7151603 | Overhead transparency clarity simulator A method and apparatus for evaluating the scattering properties of a transparency image comprises projecting radiation through the transparency image to form a transmitted beam of radiation; splitting the transmitted beam of radiation into at least two distinct beam... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7140606 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same A sheet feeding apparatus for feeding sheets supported by sheet stacking means capable of ascending and descending by sheet feeding means is provided. The sheet feeding apparatus includes sheet position detection means for detecting that an upper surface of a sheet ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7142804 | Toner, toner cartridge that holds the toner therein, and image forming apparatus into which the toner cartridge is attached A toner is used in an image-forming apparatus that incorporates a toner-collecting member. The toner-collecting member collects residual toner on a surface of an image-bearing body. The toner includes a spherical toner having at least a binder resin, and an irregula... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7140605 | Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus equipped with this sheet feeding apparatus It is one objective of the present invention to provide a sheet feeding apparatus that can steadily separate and feed individual sheets without causing an image detect, such as a transfer failure. The sheet feeding apparatus, for employing a sheet feeding portion to... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7123873 | Printing system with inverter disposed for media velocity buffering and registration Parallel printing systems and methods incorporate inverter assemblies for not only inverting media during transport through the system but also to register the media or provide a velocity buffer transports with different drive velocities. The inverter assemblies can... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7095976 | Heating apparatus, sheet feeding apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus is provided with a sheet stacking device for stacking sheets thereon, a sheet feeding device for feeding the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking device, and a heating device for heating the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking device. The ... | 08/22/2006 |
