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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175485 | Image heating apparatus An image heating apparatus includes an image heating rotational member configured to heat an image on a recording material, a pressure member configured to form a nip portion with the image heating rotational member and pinch the heated recording material in the nip... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170438 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on recording paper, a first control unit configured to control the image forming unit, a second control unit configured to control the image forming unit, and a power supplying uni... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170439 | Voltage supplying unit of developing device and image forming apparatus having the same, and a method thereof An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of developing devices, a voltage generating part to generate a developing voltage, first switching parts to supply the voltage generated in the voltage generating part to a predetermined developing device out of the pl... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165488 | Output control device, image forming apparatus, and output control method A storage unit stores therein a first correction amount and a second correction amount for correcting a first output amount of a first device. A correcting unit corrects, when the first output amount is smaller than a first target value, the first output amount base... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155551 | Power supply control method and apparatus This disclosure provides power supply control methods and apparatus. According to one aspect of the disclosure, a method of operating a power supply operatively connected to a developer unit associated with a printing apparatus is disclosed. The method includes gene... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8126351 | Printing apparatus with energy management and display An aspect of the invention provides a printing apparatus having a plurality of operation modes that comprises: a storage unit configured to store power consumption values per unit time for each operation mode and a standard power consumption value indicating an ener... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121511 | Image forming apparatus and operation system for image forming apparatus The present invention includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to a network, and a server which controls the operation state of the image forming apparatuses via the network. The image forming apparatuses are operable in a normal operation mode an... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112011 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a placement tray, an image forming unit, a drive unit, a control board, a power supply substrate, a high-voltage board, and low-voltage power supply harnesses. The placement tray holds a recording sheet thereon. The image forming ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107846 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof An image forming apparatus having a normal mode and a standby mode includes an image forming unit to form an image, a switching unit which selectively allows power to be supplied to the image forming unit, a controller to control the switching unit based on a phase ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8090285 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a body casing, a fixing part, an inlet terminal and an interfering member. The fixing part is removably mounted inside the body casing and fixes a developer image onto a recording medium. The inlet terminal is provided inside the ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8064790 | Information forming apparatus having a variable power fixing unit An invented image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit for fixing a developer image transferred onto a conveyed medium; a temperature detecting unit for detecting a temperature of said fixing unit, a first power supply controller for controlling power supply to ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050588 | Image forming apparatus with low voltage power supply An image forming apparatus capable of shortening a time needed for the assembly work is provided. The image forming apparatus of the invention comprises a low-voltage power supply and a housing, wherein the low-voltage power supply includes a substrate provided with... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8045878 | Device for fusing toner on print medium A device for fusing a predetermined toner image on a paper and which electrically insulates a heating body of a fusing unit from a power supply unit by heating the heating body using an induced current generated by a transformer. The fusing device includes an insula... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8010010 | Energy storage device, image forming apparatus including energy storage device, and discharge control method An energy storage device that includes capacitor cells of a first type having a first internal resistance and capacitor cells of a second type having a second internal resistance which is higher than the first internal resistance. Further, there is a detection unit ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000624 | Fusing circuit for driving operation of heating unit in an image forming apparatus and control method thereof An image forming apparatus is provided with: a heating unit which generates heat to fuse a toner on a printing medium; a switch which selectively supplies alternating current (AC) power to the heating unit; a first switching driver which drives the switch to supply ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7986896 | Image forming apparatus to control noise and method thereof Provided is an image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same. When an external power is supplied to a heating resistance member of a fusing unit in the image forming apparatus that is in a standby mode, a power supply unit supplies an internal power t... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7962059 | Voltage supplying unit of developing device and image forming apparatus having the same, and a method thereof An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of developing devices, a voltage generating part to generate a developing voltage, first switching parts to supply the voltage generated in the voltage generating part to a predetermined developing device out of the pl... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957665 | Dual-range power supply for an image forming device The embodiments disclosed herein are directed to methods and devices for a control system to regulate the output voltage of a high voltage power supply (HVPS) in an image forming device. In one embodiment, the HVPS comprises at least two voltage sources connected in... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953338 | Heating apparatus, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus which charges an auxiliary power unit to less than a maximum value in a standby status A disclosed heating apparatus comprises: a heat generator for receiving electric power supply from a main power source and an auxiliary power unit and generating heat; a heating unit heated by the heat generator; a charging unit for charging the auxiliary power unit... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7933532 | Method and apparatus for generating a spread spectrum signal in a printer power supply unit A method and apparatus that generates a spread spectrum signal in a printer power supply unit is disclosed. The method may include receiving an enable signal to power on the printer power supply unit, generating an initial power signal for the printer power supply u... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7912397 | Fuser, image forming apparatus, and method to control the apparatus A fuser, an image forming apparatus, and a method to control the apparatus includes a power supply unit to supply power to a plurality of heat sources provided in the fuser, and is controlled to gradually increase and change in a stepwise manner an amount of current... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907864 | High voltage power controlling apparatus of image forming apparatus including multiple DC power supplies A high voltage power controlling apparatus of an image forming apparatus includes a DC (direct current) power controller connected to a plurality of DC supplies to output DC power at respective predetermined levels. A plurality of AC (alternating current) power cont... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7899351 | Image forming device There is provided an image forming device, including: a first electrical load; a second electrical load; a voltage generation circuit that generates a second voltage to be applied to the second electrical load; a shunt circuit that located between an output side of ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7885571 | Image forming apparatus, fixing unit, and heating system capable of heating at increased speed with reduced power An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism configured to form a toner image on a recording medium with a toner according to image data and a fixing unit configured to fix the toner image on the recording medium. The fixing unit includes first and... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881632 | Image forming apparatus for controlling fixing operation with auxiliary power source In an embodiment of the invention, it is detected whether an auxiliary power source device is mounted in an apparatus main body or not. When the auxiliary power source device is mounted in the image forming apparatus, after a specified time has passed in a printable... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7877035 | Electronic device and image forming apparatus An electronic device includes: a first electrical component; a second electrical component; a drive control unit that controls a driving of the second electrical component; and a power supply unit that supplies power to the first electrical component, wherein the dr... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7877036 | Power supply device and image forming apparatus having the same A power supply includes a transformer to transform an input voltage into an output driving voltage for one of a plurality of components of an image forming apparatus, and an output converter to detect the driving voltage being output from the transformer, to amplify... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7873294 | Image forming apparatus with increased noise resistance An image forming apparatus includes a placement tray, an image forming unit, a drive unit, a control board, a power supply substrate, a high-voltage board, and low-voltage power supply harnesses. The placement tray holds a recording sheet thereon. The image forming ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7873295 | Image forming system, image forming apparatus, and method of recovering from energy saving mode An energy-saving control unit detects a supply of power to an image forming apparatus and performs an energy saving control of an external controller. A switching unit switches a start and a stop of supply of power to an onboard circuit of the external controller. U... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7865106 | Sheet post-processing apparatus, image forming system and power saving control method A sheet post-processing apparatus has a sheet conveying portion which receives and conveys a sheet discharged from an apparatus on an upstream side, and discharges it to an apparatus on a downstream side or a discharge tray, a sheet post-processing portion which car... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860426 | Image forming apparatus to detect a power malfunction and control method thereof An image forming apparatus includes a heat radiation unit to emit heat by an operating power supplied to the heat radiation unit, a switching unit to supply the heat radiation unit with the operating power, a relay unit to control the operating power to be supplied ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7848674 | Image forming apparatus It is possible to provide a technique capable of attaching a reactor to a power source unit even upon shipping a package containing an image forming apparatus from a factory as well as opening the package and installing the image forming apparatus in a place for ins... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840153 | Image forming apparatus with a supplemental power supply unit An image forming apparatus having (1) a main power supply unit (PSU), which converts an AC power source into an AC power and a first DC power, provides the AC power to a fusing unit, and provides the first DC power to a plurality of DC-powered units in the image for... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7787796 | Power saving system for image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus operable in power saving modes The present invention includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses connected to a network, and a server which controls the operation state of the image forming apparatuses via the network. The image forming apparatuses are operable in a normal operation mode an... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783223 | Image forming apparatus with plurality of AC power cords There is described an image forming apparatus, in which a plurality of AC power cords are combined with each other, so as to stably supply the electric power to the loading sections from the combined points, regardless of the fluctuation of the electric power consum... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7761022 | Image forming apparatus having delayed power supply cutoff time when cover is opened An image forming apparatus including: a main body; a cover rotatably connected to the main body; a power-supply unit to generate a first power-supply voltage and a second power-supply voltage; an image forming engine to receive the first power-supply voltage from th... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756438 | Device for fusing toner on print medium A device for fusing a predetermined toner image on a paper and which electrically insulates a heating body of a fusing unit from a power supply unit by heating the heating body using an induced current generated by a transformer. The fusing device includes an insula... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751742 | Image forming apparatus and image forming system An image forming apparatus having a main body unit for forming an image on a recording medium, connectable to at least one post-processing unit for performing post-processing for the recording medium on which the image is formed, the image forming apparatus includes... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7729632 | High voltage power supply and a high voltage power control method thereof A high voltage power supply and a high voltage power control method thereof. The high voltage power supply includes a high voltage generation part to generate a high voltage, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) generation part to generate a pulse width modulation sig... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7702250 | Heating system and image forming apparatus adopting the same A heating system including: a heating device including a first heat generator supplied with electric power by a commercial power source device, and a second heat generator and a third heat generator supplied with electric power by an auxiliary power source device; a... | 04/20/2010 |
