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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190079 | Image forming apparatus, print control method, and computer product An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a conveyor unit, a printing unit, a data acquiring unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit forms an image based on image data. The conveyor unit conveys a transfer medium onto which the image is to ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8036589 | Image forming apparatus including a stopping unit and method of forming image In an image forming apparatus, a recording medium is temporarily stopped at an upstream of a fixing unit when the recording medium needs to be stopped for a longer time between the fixing unit and a curved path. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7376382 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method In an image forming apparatus that uses a stackless ADU and executes image formation on both sides of a paper sheet in a facedown mode, a CPU confirms, when double-side image formation is to be executed with two paper sheets, image formation on reverse surfaces of w... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7370860 | Automatic edge guide assembly using springs and tapered surfaces An automatic edge guide assembly comprises a sheet feeding mechanism, a slide housing mounted within the sheet feeding mechanism and an edge guide slidably connected to the slide housing. The edge guide is biased by a first biasing force and a second biasing force, ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7349109 | Imaging apparatus and print control method for an imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus comprises a plurality of different types of imaging means, each associated with one of a plurality of different types of imaging applications, each imaging application producing a print job containing image data; an engine configured to cause th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7290764 | Modular guide apparatus for tab stock received in a feeder tray A tab guide is provided for aligning tab stock in a paper tray of a printer having a trail edge guide including a substantially planar sheet-engaging face and a stack height finger extending from the sheet engaging face in a process direction for engaging a top surf... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7267338 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus ejects the sheet to witch image processing unit perform to an ejection tray or a staple stacker by a pair of ejection rollers and the like. A sheet path for guiding the sheet to the ejection rollers is opened and closed in conjunction w... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7245855 | Opening and closing device, sheet conveying apparatus, and image forming apparatus An opening and closing device including: a fixed side member; a movable side member retained by the fixed side member to be opened and closed freely; a wire member that is fixed at one end thereof to one of the fixed side member and the movable side member; a rotary... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7224916 | Image forming apparatus using toner containing wax with image density detecting means used for image density adjustment The image forming apparatus including a heat roller fixing apparatus for heat-fixing an image obtained through development using toner to a recording medium, and a density sensor for detecting density of the image after the fixing, the image forming apparatus servin... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7213988 | Image forming device An image forming device is provided in which erroneous printing on a sheet of paper rather than the rear surface of the desired paper during manual double-side printing can be prevented. An image forming device for executing manual double-side printing in which a us... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7198419 | Apparatus and method of performing double-sided printing A method and an apparatus for forming an image on a medium having first and second surfaces wherein an image is formed on the first surface of the medium using a printing unit. After the image formation on the first surface of the medium is completed, the medium is ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188929 | Parallel printing architecture with containerized image marking engines An integrated printing system is provided and includes at least two image marking engines and at least one media feeder module. The printing system further includes a first forward generally horizontal interface media transport between the at least two image marking... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7177585 | Image forming apparatus and method An image forming apparatus registers both sides of sheets with great precision in a sheet transportation direction in both-side image formation. The image forming apparatus includes: photoconductive drums holding toner images; an intermediate transfer belt temporari... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170631 | Information processing unit, printing control unit, and control method thereof, and storage medium, and control program thereof The present invention has an object to provide a mechanism which gives an output result desired by the user when printing a document comprising a plurality of paper sizes in mixture. In the information processing unit disclosed in the embodiments, when paper sizes a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7151900 | Image formation device, image formation method, information processing device, and information processing method An image forming device and control method thereof. The image forming device includes a printer engine control unit capable of detecting failure in transport of a sheet on which image data of a page is to be printed, a printer controller controlling output of image ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7142805 | Manual feeding tray and image forming apparatus Image forming apparatus having a manual feeding tray on which transfer sheet is placed and an image forming device to form images on the transfer sheet fed from the manual feeding tray, wherein the image forming apparatus has a storage section to store the sheet fee... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7079803 | Electrophotographic printer A controller outputs a PRE CPF-N signal and a CPF-N signal following the PRE CPF-N signal to an electrophotographic printer. The electrophotographic printer 1 starts a predetermined preparation process in response to the PRE CPF-N signal, and starts irradiati... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7064847 | Copying system for enhanced color copying processor The invention provides a copying system that can perform copying processing for a color original document within a short time. In a color copying system, images on a color original document are read by a scanner of a multi-function center (MFC), as analog RGB data. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7044464 | Apparatus for reversing sheet An apparatus for reversing a sheet, such as a banknote, from a front face to a rear face. In the reversing apparatus a first end of a common path communicates with an exit of a first conveyance path, a second end of common path communicates with an exit of a second ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7020430 | Image forming apparatus with reversing section for selective sheet reversal and sheet inserter An image forming apparatus has an image forming section for forming images on sheets; a sheet supply section for holding the sheets and supplying them to the image forming section; and a reverse section, disposed between the sheet supply section and the image formin... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6993282 | Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet which is again conveyed to an image forming section passes through a re-feeding passage. A reference member is provided on one end of the re-feeding passage which is perpendicular to a sheet-conveying direction, and is provided with a plurality of reference ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6969206 | Tension generating mechanism for a printing apparatus A printing apparatus includes a conveyance mechanism for conveying a web to a transfer unit, and a tension generating mechanism for applying a tension to the web fed to the conveyance mechanism, wherein the tension generating mechanism includes a tension generating ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6961526 | Image forming apparatus which performs image formation control based on the image after fixing An image forming apparatus is provided in which, by detecting an image formed on a recording medium, at least one of the density and chromaticity of the image can be properly controlled. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming a toner ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6909872 | Multipath printers A printer device has first and second print media paths to carry paper from a sheet pickup mechanism to the printer device and then to a sheet exit opening. A third print media path carries the sheet from the sheet exit opening back to the printer device for duplex ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6848849 | Medium supplying apparatus The present invention provides a medium supplying apparatus that enables a user to easily remove medium and prevents medium from slanting or transferring improperly. The medium supplying apparatus comprises a first frame and a second frame that rotates freely with r... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6778288 | Image capturing system Processes from the scanning of a document in a preset scan mode to a process executed for the scanned image are set as scan jobs. When an icon associated with the scan job is selected, the scan job is executed. Thereby, the processes from the scanning of the documen... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6751438 | Paper feeding apparatus and method for use in a printer A paper feeding apparatus for use in a printer includes a sheet feeding path between a sheet feeding section and a developing section, a sheet ejecting path disposed such that a sheet on which an image is printed at the developing section is fed via a fixing section... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6711377 | Double-sided image forming device having a turnable guide guiding a rear end of a large-size sheet A double-sided image forming device comprises a double-side operation unit. The double-side operation unit includes a sheet reversing unit including a switchback conveying path for reversing a front side and a back side of a sheet conveyed from an image forming unit... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6690477 | Printing control apparatus and method A host device successively sends print data constituting a plurality of sets of copies of a document to be printed to a printer capable of printing on both sides of printing paper. If each set of copies to be printed consists of an odd number of pages, a ... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6687019 | Device and method of printing data in multiple copies A device and method of printing data in multiple copies in a collated or uncollated copy mode. A number of print copies, desired, is set and the data is converted to a predetermined format suitable for printing. The converted data is stored in a storage u... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6643492 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus has a double-sided image forming mode. In this mode, a paper sheet is fed to a printer section to form an image on its first side and reversed through a reversing path of a reversing mechanism. The reversed paper sheet is stacke... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6567644 | Image forming apparatus An automatic both-side feed unit incorporated in a copy machine automatically reverses paper sheets, each having its one side printed with an image by the printing section, and re-feeds them to the printing section. The automatic both-side feed unit has a... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6549749 | Printers employing duplex registration for post printing operations Duplex printers are provided with sheet registration utilization devices that take further advantage of the sheet registration capabilities of such printers. These sheet registration utilization devices include staplers, gluing devices and 2 or 3 hole pun... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6542714 | Image forming method and apparatus that uses an external sheet discharge tray for double-side copying After a printer section is used to form an image on one surface of a sheet, the sheet is once discharged into a sheet discharge tray disposed outside an apparatus main body. Thereafter, the sheet is supplied into the apparatus main body, and the printer s... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6526255 | Copying apparatus having paper inverting unit In the copying apparatus, recording paper with an image on one side thereof formed in an image forming section is inserted into an auto document unit. In the auto document unit the recording paper is inverted upside down, while intervals of a plurality of... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6470169 | Image forming apparatus and method, a printer, a copying machine, a facsimile device set, and complex machine An image forming apparatus of an electrophotographic type including a paper feeding device for separating and feeding piled recording paper, an image forming device for forming the image in order on the fed recording paper, a paper turning-over device for... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6466764 | Electrophotographic printer employing heated presser rollers to precondition print media Electrophotographic printers are provided with a roller type, sheet pretreatment device for providing successive sheets with substantially the same moisture content and, hence, substantially the same electrostatic properties.... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6444379 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing printed wiring board There are provided a method for preparing a printed wiring board which can form electrostatic latent images at the desired positions of a substrate with good precision, and a uniform and good image can be formed for preparing a printed wiring board having... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6313919 | Printing control apparatus and method A host device successively sends print data constituting a plurality of sets of copies of a document to be printed to a printer capable of printing on both sides of printing paper. If each set of copies to be printed consists of an odd number of pages, a ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6290410 | Modular autoduplex mechanism with simple linkage A modular duplex media handling system used in conjunction with a simplex media handling print recording apparatus, includes a drive roller having a simple gear linkage. The simple gear linkage provides a fixed rotational relationship between the drive ro... | 09/18/2001 |
