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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190043 | Toner image processing machine with charge compensation and method thereof A method for compensating a charge retentive imaging surface for a photoreceptor in a toner image processing machine, the surface including a plurality of panels, each panel including a document printing zone (DPZ) and an interdocument zone (IDZ), and the machine in... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8185002 | Image forming apparatus including belt surface state detection An image forming apparatus includes; an image forming unit; an annular belt that moves circularly; a detection unit that detects a state of a surface of the belt; and a tension increase unit that increases a tension of the belt, at a detection position by the detect... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185003 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof featuring image member surface data detection There is provided an image forming apparatus including a rotation member used for image forming and a detector for detecting light from the rotation member. First waveform data of an image-formed surface used to form an image on the rotation member is acquired by th... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185005 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including an image carrier, a plurality of forming devices, a detecting device configured to perform a steady-deviation detection for detecting steady positional deviation and a varying-deviation detection for detecting varying positional ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185004 | Method and arrangement for setting the dot size of printed images generated with the aid of an electrographic printing or copying system In a method or system to set a dot size of toner images, at least one latent raster image is generated that is not to be inked with toner particles in at least one region to form a first toner image. At least one additional latent raster image is generated that is t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180235 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has a control unit that outputs the state of a belt member on the basis of the result of detection by a toner image detecting unit, of a toner image formed by a developing unit in a charged region of an image bearing member charged by appl... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175474 | Image forming apparatus with dynamic characteristic calculation There is provided an image forming apparatus that accurately obtains the dynamic characteristic of the apparatus when a foreign substance is adhered to a driving roller for driving an endless belt, such as a facing roller. To accomplish this, the image forming appar... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170432 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member on which a toner image is to be formed; a transferring device for transferring the toner image onto a transfer material at a transfer position; a separating member, disposed downstream of the trans... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8155543 | Image forming apparatus capable of reducing a lengthy duration of an adjustment control An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying member, an image forming mechanism, an optical sensor, and a controller. The image forming mechanism performs an image forming operation for forming a reference toner image on the image carrying member under a sp... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155544 | Image forming apparatus and image adjusting method involving a fluctuation-information acquiring unit and a control unit that forms a gradation pattern A technique that can stably realize highly accurate image adjustment processing regardless of deterioration in an image forming characteristic and the like is provided. An image forming apparatus that forms, on an image formation medium, a gradation pattern formed a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150281 | Image forming apparatus In the case where a peripheral velocity of photosensitive drums differs from a peripheral velocity of an intermediate transfer belt, the peripheral velocity of the intermediate transfer belt or the peripheral velocity of the photosensitive drums is corrected. The ve... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150283 | Method and system for minimizing non-uniformities in output images using halftone correction patches Disclosed herein are a method and a printing apparatus implementing the method to minimize cross-process direction non-uniformities of color images in printed documents. When printing images on a photoreceptor, halftone test patches are generated for each color. A f... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150282 | Toner adhesion amount measuring apparatus, and toner adhesion amount measuring method An apparatus includes an irradiation unit configured to irradiate a light onto a toner image, a detection unit configured to detect reflected light from the toner image, and a deriving unit configured to derive a toner adhesion amount of the toner image, based on de... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145083 | Toner calibration in an image forming device The present disclosure relates to a method, system and apparatus for calibrating toner measurement in an image forming device. A toner patch is deposited onto a control surface, the toner patch reflecting light in a plurality of wavelengths in the infrared spectrum.... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145082 | Image forming apparatus and method of controlling toner supply The image forming apparatus includes: a photoconductor including a photoconductive layer and an overcoat layer containing electroconductive particles; a charging unit charging the photoconductor to first potential; an exposure unit setting an exposure region to have... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139966 | Image forming system having a density correction unit An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a measurement unit, a correction unit, and an inhibition unit. The image forming unit forms an image. The measurement unit measures densities of a plurality of density patches formed by the image forming unit. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126343 | Image forming apparatus including density control and control method thereof An image forming apparatus is provided that forms an image using developers of different tone and the same hue. When forming images for measurement for density control, the apparatus performs density control by forming a greater number of density levels of an image ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116646 | Image forming apparatus and method for the same To solve a problem of an increase of kinds of toner patches required for an adjustment accompanying an increase of kinds of half tones to be coped with that results from an intention of acquiring more stable image by forming the toner patches between paper sheets. I... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107835 | Abnormality detecting method and image processing method for image processor An abnormality detecting method and an image processing method for an image processor is provided. The image processor can easily detect an abnormal rotation of a photosensitive drum without having a special detecting means but using an existing sensor, and keeps im... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107837 | Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, program and recording medium An image forming apparatus is provided which is of an electrophotographic type, and is capable of setting a gradation number of a patch pattern to be formed corresponding to various factor information, and to perform a process control. The image forming apparatus in... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107838 | Method and device for processing a measurement signal for detecting a property of a toner mark In a method or system for processing a measurement signal for detecting a property of a toner mark, the toner mark is produced and detected. A measurement signal is output, a signal curve of the measurement signal being determined. A temporal measurement window is p... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107836 | Image forming apparatus having density detecting unit for detecting density of patch An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming units, a patch forming unit which actuates the respective image forming units to form density detection patches of the respective colors, a density detecting unit that detects a density of the density ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8099006 | Image forming apparatus and image quality correction method used therein An image forming apparatus includes multiple image forming units to form different single-color images with respective different color developers and a control system to selectively perform a multicolor image forming operation, a specific-color image forming operati... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095025 | Image forming apparatus capable of efficient toner concentration control An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a plurality of toner images on an image carrier, an optical detector configured to detect reflection light from the toner image, and dedicated to detect infrared rays and near-infrared rays... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090281 | Image forming apparatus and tone correction method A tandem-type color image forming apparatus forms a toner pattern and toner markers on an intermediate transfer member. Tone levels in the toner pattern vary in a sub scanning direction, and the toner markers which are a same color with the tone pattern each oppose,... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090280 | Color registration apparatus and method, image forming apparatus employing the same apparatus, and image output method of the image forming apparatus A color registration apparatus that independently forms images of predetermined respective colors and compensates a mis-registration between the overlapped images of respective colors employed in an image forming apparatus of forming a color image by overlapping the... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086123 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: an image formation control unit for forming print images on an image carrier and for forming a reference toner pattern having a predetermined size between the print images formed on the image carrier; a reference image density de... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086122 | Image forming apparatus, image adjusting method A technique that can stably realize highly accurate image adjustment processing even when unexpected toner density unevenness occurs on an identical sheet because of fluctuation in an image formation characteristic and the like is provided. An image forming a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081891 | Image quality adjustment method, image forming apparatus and computer readable medium When an image forming job is completed that records onto a recording sheet an image formed on a photoconductor drum and conveys the recording sheet, a simple process control is carried out that forms some filled patch images with using some toners. After the simple ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078070 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof An image forming apparatus is provided that uses a table generated in advance to correct a gradation characteristic of an image to be formed when carrying out image forming using an image carrier. A patch is formed in an area where the image is not formed on the ima... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078069 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method It is judged whether a sufficient time for executing all of three correction processings (a high density correction processing, a halftone correction processing, and a registration correction processing) can be secured or not. When the sufficient time cannot be secu... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073349 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus capable of keeping reproducibility and gradation in balance and outputting high-quality images. A primary electrostatic charger charges a photosensitive drum. A polygon scanner irradiates the drum with a laser beam to form an electrostatic... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8055145 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a controller for detecting the opening and closing of a shutter from the output from an optical sensor and controlling the opening and closing operation of the shutter based on the detected result. The controller determines that i... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8055146 | Image forming apparatus with image covering density calculating section An image forming apparatus, including: an image carrier; an image forming section to form a toner image on the image carrier; a transfer section to transfer the toner image formed on the image carrier to an intermediate transfer body or a recording sheet; a cleaning... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045871 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method on measured physical quantity An image forming apparatus for performing an image forming operation is disclosed that includes an image carrier on which a toner image is formed, an intermediate transfer member configured to transfer the toner image to a recording medium, the intermediate transfer... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045872 | Image-forming apparatus containing electrophotographic system and image-forming method An image-forming apparatus includes: an optical sensor that includes a light source unit which applies light having a light-emission main wavelength λ to a peripheral face of an image-supporting member, and a light-receiving unit ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045873 | Image forming apparatus and image density adjusting method In an image forming apparatus, when photosensitive members 4Y, 4M, 4C are in contact with a transfer belt, then color adjustment is performed. When the photosensitive members 4Y, 4M, 4C are not in contact with a transfer bel... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045874 | Image forming apparatus and image density control method An image forming apparatus includes a control device that calculates a developing ability of the developing device based on a detection value detected by an optical detection device from the plural toner patches. The control device adjusts an image formation conditi... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036551 | Image forming apparatus with a correcting section An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a controlling section, a detecting section, and a correcting section. The image forming section forms an image on an object. The controlling section controls the image forming section to form a calibratio... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036553 | Image forming apparatus provided with calibration function An image forming apparatus is provided with an image bearing member, a line test image forming section for forming a line test image made up of a plurality of line images arranged side by side on the image bearing member, an image density detecting section for detec... | 10/11/2011 |
