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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190042 | Electrophotographic printing apparatus A system for manufacturing a 3-D display device is disclosed. The system includes a lenticular image former capable of generating a color lenticular image from a plurality of two dimensional color images, and an electrophotographic printing apparatus configured to r... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185001 | Image forming apparatus and method An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member to bear an electrostatic latent image on its surface, a developing device to develop the electrostatic latent image using toner to form a toner image, a transfer device to transfer the toner image onto a re... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180234 | Image forming apparatus with control causing issuance of predetermined information based on sheet information An image forming apparatus has an informing portion that issues information; a storing portion that stores sheets; a sheet detecting portion that detects presence or absence of the sheets in the storing portion; a determination portion that determines a type of the ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170431 | Control apparatus, control method for control apparatus, and storage medium A control method for a control apparatus includes obtaining an amount of a recording material applied on a first area of a sheet and an amount of a recording material applied on a second area of the sheet on the basis of image data recorded on the sheet stacked on a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8150280 | Image forming system An image forming system includes an image forming station for forming a transparent image on a recording material with transparent toner; a selecting portion for selecting one of image forming modes including a first image forming mode for forming a transparent imag... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145081 | Image forming apparatus and control method for the same When image forming is to be successively performed on recording sheets having different sizes, an image forming apparatus suitably executes adjustment processing on a fixing apparatus or the like used in the image forming, and maintains image quality as well as supp... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135294 | Image forming apparatus for forming image on record medium A record medium determining device 1, which determines a kind of a record medium 16 by irradiating a laser light 17 to a surface of the record medium 16, detecting a received light position and a received light intensity of a reflected li... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131171 | Sheet length measurement apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet length measurement apparatus including: a rotating member that comes in contact with a recording sheet conveyed on a conveying path, and rotates along with the conveyance of the recording sheet; a rotation amount detector that detects a rotational amount of ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121501 | Image forming apparatus with color detection of a reference toner image and sheet In an image forming apparatus, the number of components and a size of the apparatus is reduced by realizing both functions for detecting a toner patch image to perform image quality adjustment and for performing precise color adjustment depending on a sheet color wi... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121502 | Fixing unit including heating regulator to adjust a heating width of a heating member An image forming apparatus for forming an image includes a first control table and a second control table. The first control table includes information on widths of a recording sheet, categorized into a plurality of groups of different widths thereof in a direction ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8103180 | Image forming device and image forming method thereof An image forming device includes a first measuring unit to measure a size of the recording medium when the image is formed on the first surface by the image forming unit, and a second measuring unit to measure the size of the recording medium prior to an image being... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099003 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method for eliminating image defects by considering a kind of transfer material An image forming apparatus and method which can take a countermeasure against a tail or the like in consideration of differences of various conditions such as a kind of transfer paper and the like is provided. The apparatus has an image processing portion for extrac... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086121 | Fixing device and image forming device A fixing device comprise an endless fixing belt; a first heater that heats a first predetermined section of the fixing belt, a second heater that heats a second predetermined section of the fixing belt, a switch that determines whether or not the second predetermine... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081890 | Image forming apparatus, and unit removably installed in an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a controller which sets fixing conditions in a fixing unit in accordance with the type of printing medium sensed by a sensor. An intermediate transfer member and sensor are configured as an intermediate transfer member unit. The i... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8080358 | Reusable electrophotographic recording medium and method for producing the same, image forming method, and method for repeatedly using electrophotographic recording medium Disclosed is an electrophotographic recording medium that contains a support and an olefin-maleic anhydride copolymer, wherein the olefin-maleic anhydride copolymer exists at least near the surface of the electrophotographic recording medium on which an image is rec... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8059977 | Method and apparatus for adjusting nip width based on the measured hardness of a fuser roll in an image production device A method and apparatus for adjusting nip width based on the measured hardness of a fuser roll in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving an identification of media type, receiving a signal to measure fuser roll hardness, positioning... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059978 | Image forming apparatus and method of controlling image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus comprising: an image carrier that carries an image; a charging section that electrically charges the image carrier; an exposure section that forms a latent image on the image carrier electrically charged by the charging section; a developm... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055144 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof A printing speed is adaptively set using Fuzzy inference, based on various printing environments including a printing medium width and the average amount of printing, so that the internal temperature of an apparatus can be stably maintained, and the use convenience ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050580 | Continuous-sheet printing tandem electrophotography system and method of printing a continuous sheet A continuous-sheet printing tandem electrophotography system for printing a continuous sheet includes first and second electrophotography units. A first size of the continuous sheet is measured before an image printed by the first electrophotography unit with a firs... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050579 | Image forming apparatus capable of changing fixing temperature and image forming method therefor An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a paper-type detecting unit that detects a paper type of a sheet to be printed, a fixing unit that sets fixing temperature on the basis of the paper type detected by the paper-ty... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045868 | Recording material determination apparatus and image forming apparatus A recording material determination apparatus includes a first detection unit configured to detect a characteristic corresponding to a surface condition of a recording material based on a captured image of a surface of the recording material, a second detection unit ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045869 | Primary transfer device and image forming apparatus having the same A primary transfer device includes a primary transfer roll that is capable of being engaged with and disengaged from an intermediate transfer member to which a developer image is primarily transferred; and a setting-changing unit that changes a setting of pressure o... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041239 | Image forming apparatus controlling the recycling of toner based on paper quality An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes an image supporting body, a developing device, a cleaning device, an input device, a recycling mechanism, and a controller. The image supporting body is for having a latent image based on image data formed... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036550 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image bearing members, a developing unit, an intermediate transfer belt, a secondary transfer body, and a registration roller. A linear speed difference between the intermediate transfer belt and the secondary trans... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036549 | Method of revising medium resistance and image forming device using the same A method of revising a medium resistance to determine a transfer voltage and an image forming device to perform the same. The method includes supplying a medium recognition voltage to recognize a print medium, and reading medium resistances according to a predetermi... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032040 | Image forming apparatus and method thereof An image forming apparatus includes a static electricity eliminator to remove residual charge from a printing medium. A selector is provided to connect the static electricity eliminator to ground through a selected resistance, and a controller is provided to control... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027603 | Fuser apparatus having fuser cleaner web and corresponding methods Disclosed are methods of controlling a speed of a fuser cleaner web in a fuser apparatus, and the corresponding fuser apparatus. The method utilizes a fuser apparatus having a fuser roll and a web nip roll, the fuser cleaner web for cleaning the fuser roll and being... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023843 | Method and apparatus for media thickness measurement in an image production device A method and apparatus for media thickness measurement in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving images of a media stack from an imaging device, measuring one or more sheet-to-sheet interfaces in the media stack from the received i... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7991310 | Image forming apparatus with a line sensor and a method of image forming of an image forming apparatus with a line sensor A record medium determining device 1, which determines a kind of a record medium 16 by irradiating a laser light 17 to a surface of the record medium 16, detecting a received light position and a received light intensity of a reflected li... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986890 | Image forming apparatus and method of setting printing condition in the same Using an operation panel a user selects group to which a recording medium to be subjected to image formation belongs out of plural groups of recording media classified according to grammages, a classification processing unit sub-classifies the group selected, to whi... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7970301 | Methods, apparatus and systems to compensate for distortions caused by fusing Disclosed are printing methods, apparatus and systems to compensate for distortion caused by fusing toner to a media substrate. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method includes processing image data according to media characterization data for a measured f... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970300 | Image forming apparatus having toner charge amount control An image forming apparatus including a toner charge amount control portion for controlling the toner charge amount based on the property of a recording material; a recording material charging section for charging the surface of the recording material based on the to... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970302 | Image forming apparatus and printing method therefor An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an apparatus main body, an image creating unit that is provided in the apparatus main body and creates an image to be printed on recording paper, a paper feeding mechanism on whi... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957656 | Apparatus, method and system for feedforward of sheet electrostatic tacking parameters to image transfer subsystem in image transfer apparatus A toner image transfer assembly has a tacking assembly, an image transfer assembly, and a media transport assembly. The tacking assembly senses critical properties of media while electrostatically tacking media to a transport device. The tacking assembly forwards da... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953333 | System for measuring print sheet moisture and controlling a decurler in a xerographic printer In a xerographic printer, a transfer station is controlled to apply a constant current to the photoreceptor. A print sheet having a high moisture content will cause the control system to make a high voltage drain to maintain the constant current. A signal related to... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945177 | Image forming apparatus with first and second settable resolution grades An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member and a toner image forming device forming a toner image on the image bearing member, using light toners, and dark toners which have a same hue as that of the light toners and are darker than the light toners... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945176 | Image forming apparatus including a gap forming unit An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries an image and rotates, a transfer member that rotates in contact with the image carrier and transfers an image formed on the image carrier to a recording medium, a conveying unit that conveys the recor... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937005 | Image forming apparatus for processing an image in accordance with a sheet size of an image transfer sheet A ROM (18) stores image forming driver information associated with a plurality of size groups into which a plurality of sets of sheet sizes close to each other are respectively sorted. When a sheet size of an image transfer sheet designated by an operator thr... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7937006 | Image forming apparatus with improved pressure control An image forming apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a fixing/pressurizing roller pair that nips a transfer sheet and transports to fix toner on the transfer sheet; a pressure control unit that controls a pressure demonstrated by the f... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933527 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and transfer device In an image forming apparatus, an electrostatic latent image formed on a surface of a photoreceptor is developed into a toner image. A printing paper transported on a transport belt is brought into contact with the surface of the photoreceptor and an electric field ... | 04/26/2011 |
