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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7361441 | Color toner, and full-color image-forming method A yellow toner in which, in a spectral-distribution diagram in which the reflectance (%) is plotted as ordinate and the wavelength (nm) as abscissa, the reflectance determined for a toner in a state of powder ranges from 15% to 20% at a wavelength of 500 nm and rang... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7354534 | Composition for overcoat layer of organophotoreceptor, organophotoreceptor manufactured by employing the same and the electrophotographic imaging apparatus containing the same A composition for an overcoat layer suitable for use in an organophotoreceptor for liquid toner, an organophotoreceptor manufactured by employing the composition and an electrophotographic imaging apparatus containing the organophotoreceptor. Since the organophotore... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7340202 | Image forming apparatus and process cartridge for use therewith An image forming apparatus and process cartridge that achieves extended operating life of a two-component developer without generating such problems as toner scattering, etc. either in the initial period or over time. The gap between the image support member and the... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324240 | Color correction method with transparent toner insignia images A method for color correction of an image having an insignia portion in a multi-module printer (10). A first color profile is calibrated for a four-color image. A second color profile is calibrated for a four-color image with a transparent toner layer on top ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7323280 | Chemically produced toner and process therefor A toner for developing an electrostatic image comprising toner particles which include a binder resin, a wax and a colorant, wherein the wax has a melting point of between 50 and 150° C., the wax exists in the toner particles in domains of 2 μm or less mean partic... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320850 | Magenta toner A magenta toner is provided which contains at least a binder resin, a colorant, and a wax, in which a maximum heat-absorption peak temperature as measured using a differential scanning calorimeter, a reflectance at a predetermined wavelength when measured in a powde... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313350 | Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus A developing apparatus develops an electrostatic latent image formed on a photoconductive drum with toner into a toner image. A developing roller has a surface on which a thin layer of toner is formed. The developing roller has a ten-point height of irregularities R... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309553 | Oilless toner An oilless toner including at least (A) a cyclic olefin resin; (B) a resin having one or more carbon-carbon double bonds therein; and (C) a wax. ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7303273 | Heated roll system for drying printed media A system and method for drying a printed medium includes a heated roll and a transport mechanism which moves the printed medium against the heated roll to dry the printed medium. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301675 | Glossmark images with clear toner The present invention relates to creating differential gloss images in clear toner by the manipulation of halftones employed prior to the depositing of the clear toner layer upon a substrate. By selectively applying halftones with anisotropic structure characteristi... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302203 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, is provided with an image forming section, an image carrying member, a transferring section to transfer the toner image from the image carrying member to a recording sheet, and a cleaning section including a cleaning blade being in contac... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7300733 | Black toner with defined loss tangent To provide a black toner having excellent charging property and transferring property against a severe environmental change. The black toner includes toner particle containing at least a binder resin, carbon black and a releasing agent, wherein: the toner particles ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7294443 | Toner composition and method for manufacturing the toner composition A toner composition including toner particles including a binder resin; and a colorant, and a charge controlling agent which is at least located on a surface of the toner particles, wherein the toner composition has a spherical degree of from 0.96 to 0.99, and where... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7288356 | Toner kit, deep-color cyan toner, pale-color cyan toner, and image forming method The present invention provides: a toner kit having a deep toner and a pale toner which are separated from each other, wherein: the deep toner and the pale toner satisfy prescribed conditions for an L*a*b* color coordinate system where a* represents a hue in the red-... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286781 | Developer, image forming method and image forming apparatus A toner for developing a latent image includes, at least, a binder resin, a releasing agent, a coloring agent and a fluidizing agent. A melting point Tw of the releasing agent is higher than or equals to a softening temperature Ts of the developer measured by a capi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277649 | Developing apparatus and image forming method A developing apparatus for developing an electrostatic image with light chromatic toner and dark chromatic toner which have the same hue, the developing device includes a light color developing device for accommodating a developer containing the light chromatic tone... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273686 | Toner In a toner comprising toner particles which comprise toner base particles containing at least a binder resin and a magnetic material, and inorganic fine particles, the toner base particles have been obtained through a pulverization step; and, the toner base particle... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274830 | System for multi-sensor image fusion A method and system for fusing image data includes an electronic circuit (L) for synchronizing image frames. An adaptive lookup table unit (302a, 302b) receives the image frame data sets and applies correction factors to individual pixels... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272348 | Developing method using a developer with a specified degree of compression and shearing stress A developing method using a developing device including at least: a first developer bearing member arranged to be opposed to an image bearing member; and a second developer bearing member arranged on a downstream side of a rotation direction of the image bearing mem... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270923 | Image forming method An image forming method for forming a full color toner image by overlaying four color electrostatic image developing toners of black, yellow, magenta and cyan, wherein at least one of the four color electrostatic image developing toners is a toner containing a large... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267919 | Toner A toner of the present invention comprises at least a binder resin comprising as a main component a polyester resin, a wax, and a colorant, in which in case of measuring a wettability of the toner with respect to a mixed solvent of methanol and water in terms of an ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7254363 | Image-forming process and image-forming apparatus using flash fusing An image-forming process for forming a full-color image including: forming a full-color toner image by supplying at least a cyan toner, a magenta toner, and a yellow toner onto a recording medium; and fixing the toner image on the recording medium by flash fusing, w... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7252915 | Magnetic mono-component toner composition The present invention relates to a magnetic mono-component toner composition, and more particularly to a mono-component toner composition that comprises magnetic toner particle comprising a binder resin, a magnetic component, and a charge control agent; a hydrophobi... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7252914 | Toner for electrophotography and developer for electrophotography using the same, process cartridge, apparatus for forming image, and method for forming image A toner for electrophotography fulfilling both the fixability and the void resistance at high level, and forms a high-quality image. The toner for electrophotography contains: a binder resin; and a wax component which contains: a first wax having an endothermic peak... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250239 | Yellow toner for flash fixation, and electrophotographic developer and image forming method using the same The present invention discloses a yellow toner for flash fixation, comprising an infrared absorbent, one or more yellow colorants, and a binder resin, wherein a* of the infrared absorbent in an CIELAB color space is less than 0, and a* of one or more of the yellow c... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7246528 | Toner evaluation method, toner cartridge, and image forming apparatus A toner evaluation method that enables accurate evaluation of fixation performance of toner such as low temperature fixability and offset resistance, and a toner cartridge and an image forming apparatus adopting the toner positively evaluated by the evaluation metho... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7247414 | Method for producing resin particles and toner using the resin particles A method for producing resin particles mainly made of a resin material using a dispersion liquid in which a dispersoid containing the resin material is finely dispersed in a dispersion medium, the method comprising a dispersion medium removing step which comprises e... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7244540 | Liquid toners comprising amphipathic copolymeric binder having insoluble components in the shell portion thereof The invention provides liquid electrographic toner compositions comprising a liquid carrier having toner particles dispersed in the liquid carrier. The liquid carrier has a Kauri-Butanol number less than about 30 mL. The toner particles comprise polymeric binder com... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242878 | Image forming apparatus and management system An image forming apparatus includes a developing device for developing an electrostatic latent image, formed on an image-bearing member, with toner; a developer supply container which contains developer containing toner and a carrier and is detachably mountable to a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239816 | Automated image appearance control method An input image capture device, capable of sampling the color density and gloss of the fused printed image (thus not requiring the printing of density patches on a separate calibration page), may compare the printed image's color density and gloss to a predicted valu... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236292 | Components and methods for use in electro-optic displays A front plane laminate useful in the manufacture of electro-optic displays comprises, in order, a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer, a layer of an electro-optic medium in electrical contact with the electrically-conductive layer, an adhesive layer and... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7236734 | Method and apparatus for electrostatographic printing with enhanced color gamut A color electrostatographic printer apparatus applies respective color separation toner images to a receiver member to form a color image. A fuser station fuses, or at least tacks, the color image to the receiver. A clear toner overcoat is then applied to the fused ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7232632 | Color toners and image forming method using the color toners A method for forming a full color image including: forming at least yellow, magenta and cyan color toner images on a receiving material to form a full color image thereon; and fixing the full color image upon application of heat thereto while not contacting the full... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230638 | Image forming apparatus having a plurality of laser scanner units An image forming device, characterized in that the shape of the optical path of a third laser beam from a third semiconductor laser (19M) to a third photo-sensitive member drum (IM) is approximately the same as that of the optical path of a first laser beam f... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7229727 | Color toner, and full-color image forming method A yellow toner in which, in a spectral-distribution diagram in which the reflectance (%) is plotted as ordinate and the. wavelength (nm) as abscissa, the reflectance determined for a toner in a state of powder ranges from 15% to 20% at a wavelength of 500 nm and ran... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225081 | Application specific integrated circuitry for controlling analysis of a fluid A circuit chip is disclosed. The circuit chip includes analog-to-digital processing circuitry that is capable of interfacing with a sensor and host electronics. The analog-to-digital processing circuitry includes a frequency generator configured for providing stimul... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220526 | Image forming method An image forming method which can provides excellent cleaning property, no occurrence of unusual noise or curling of a blade, and a high quality image. The method includes forming a latent image on a cylindrical electrophotographic photoconductor including a mass ad... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7220528 | Amphipathic polymer particles and methods of manufacturing the same The invention is directed to amphipathic polymeric particles that serve as both the dispersant and the binder in water based inks, ink compositions containing these particles, and methods for making the particles. The polymeric particles contain both hydrophilic and... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7214458 | Toner compositions A toner that contains resin, colorant, wax and an aromatic hydrocarbon compatibilizer. ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7214460 | Yellow toner To provide a yellow toner allowing formation of an image with an excellent transparency for an OHP, an excellent coloring power, and an excellent light resistance. In the yellow toner including at least a yellow pigment containing a monoazo compound represented by t... | 05/08/2007 |
