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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7432504 | Dicorotron wire assembly removal and storage tool A system and apparatus that removes and collects non-functional wire assemblies from dicorotron units is described. It has a removal tool mounted on the top of a storage box. The removal tool has an open top and bottom, the open bottom is aligned with an opening in ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420169 | Dicorotron wire assembly removal-insertion tool Electrostatic printing processes utilize corona-charging units. When those units wear out or become faulty, they need to be replaced. This embodiment provides a tool that can be used to remove a faulty electrode wire assembly from the unit. This same tool when loade... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7339778 | Corona discharge static neutralizing apparatus A corona discharge static neutralizing device includes a wire electrode retained in tension between spaced ends of a resilient support member that is positioned within a flowing air stream. Another electrode aligned with and spaced from the wire electrode promotes a... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7264752 | Conductive coatings for corona generating devices Conductive coatings usable for coating various elements of corona generating devices and method of forming such coatings are provided. The coatings include graphite and at least one transition metal oxide catalyst. When the conductive coatings are employed in elemen... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7251439 | Shield for charging device in xerographic printing device having reduced rate of contamination A xerographic printing device, including a charging device having a shield. In some embodiments of the shield of the charging device in the xerographic printing device, a plurality of holes are provided in an evenly spaced linear fashion extending nearly a full leng... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7199374 | Corona discharge lamps Excimers are formed in a gas (30,130) by applying a pulsed potential between a first electrode (14,114) and a counter electrode (26, 126) so that corona discharge occurs, substantially without arcing, when the potential is on. The pulses or on-t... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7149458 | Xerographic charging device having three pin arrays In a xerographic printing apparatus, a scorotron places a uniform charge on a photoreceptor for forming electrostatic latent images. Three conductive pin arrays are disposed in a housing defined by sidewalls and a screen adjacent the photoreceptor. There can be prov... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7123860 | Small footprint charge device for tandem color marking engines In a xerographic printing apparatus, a small footprint charging device may provide uniformity of charge and/or long life in a small diameter photoconductive drum. A grid to be parallel to the drum surface and including small wing shields may reduce or even prevent l... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7105041 | Grid type electrostatic separator/collector and method of using same An electrical type grid electrostatic collector/separator removes particles from an air stream. The apparatus includes multiple parallel grids that act as the porous material, enclosed in a sealed compartment so that the entrained air flows parallel and between one ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7092659 | Discharge methods and systems in electrophotography Latent charge images are provided on a photoconductor element having a photoconductive layer with a conductive stripe. This process is performed by charging the photoconductive layer with a charge having a particular vector to form a uniform charge on the photocondu... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7050743 | Self-regenerative xerographic coatings The invention is directed to self-regenerative, polymeric coatings and methods of using the coatings in xerography to increase the life and effectiveness of catalytic surfaces, such as, for example, charging device surfaces, by neutralizing ozone and nitrogen oxide ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039342 | Charging device and image forming apparatus where the charging device is composed of a sufficient amount of nickel to suppress oxidation A charging device has a discharging electrode, a stabilizer plate having a rectangular section and accommodating the discharging electrode, and a grid arranged in a opening of the stabilizer plate, and at least one member of the discharging electrode, the stabilizer... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035571 | Grid, scorotoron charger having the grid, process unit having the scorotoron charge, and image forming device installing the process unit A grid has a frame body in a U-shaped cross-section defining a main plate section and two side plate sections. A rectangular opening is formed at the main plate section, and a plurality of grid wires extend in a lengthwise direction of the main plate section and at ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7003896 | Radiation curing and drying An improved apparatus and method for drying materials. A hot surface in a strong electrostatic field is used to ionize a stream of heated gasses passing over the surface, which assists in directing the stream against the object to be dried, and ionizes the vapors an... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6966762 | Device for opening and distributing a bundle of filaments when producing a nonwoven textile web The invention concerns a device for opening and distributing a bundle of filaments when producing a nonwoven textile web by a technique which consists in: extruding melted organic polymer through a die perforated with holes, so as to form a bundle or curtain of fila... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6963479 | Method of and apparatus for electrostatic fluid acceleration control of a fluid flow A device for handling a fluid includes a corona discharge device and an electric power supply. The corona discharge device includes at least one corona discharge electrode and at least one collector electrode positioned proximate each other so as to provide a total ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6917776 | Discharge wire, method of manufacturing discharge wire and electrification device A discharge wire usable in an electrification device includes a tungsten wire subjected to mirror finish processing and an oxidized layer formed by heating the surface of the tungsten wire at a temperature in the range 400 to 600° C., wherein the film has a thickne... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6900436 | Corona wire tensioning mechanism A wire tensioning mechanism for tensioning a wire having an end one and an end two in a machine in which the wire has a means for attachment on end two and is fixed to the machine at end one, comprises a slide block, and a spring. The slide block is slidably ... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6819893 | Image forming apparatus and charging device An image forming apparatus uses a developer that includes toner with volume average particle size between 5 μm and 10 μm and 60 to 80 number percentage particles having a particle size less than or equal to 5 μm. A charging unit charges a latent image carrier. Th... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6787774 | Corotron comprising a fixing elements on supports, an assembly with a power supply unit and an assembly for replacing a corotron wire The corotron wire of a corotron device is introduced with a retainer element, such as in a printer or copier. At least one corotron wire is held by the retainer element and the carrier material for a latent image residing there opposite is conducted past the corotro... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6740878 | System and method for automatically tensioning wires and for retaining tensioned wires under tension A wire tensioning apparatus and method tensions one or more wires by moving the tensioning function from a wire module to an apparatus external to the wire module. Within the wire module, the wire is placed between a movable member and a stationary member. Tension i... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6653638 | Ion generating apparatus In an ion generating apparatus, an electric field for generating ion is obtained between an electrode needle 3 and a counter electrode plate 4. A surface discharge path A (passing through an air discharge port 13a) which has the shortest distance between ... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6624413 | Corona treatment apparatus with segmented electrode A corona treating apparatus has an electrically conductive electrode housing with a downwardly opening channel, within which are adjustably positioned a number of conductive electrode segments. Each segment has a stem which extends into the channel, and a... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6603121 | High-efficiency plasma treatment of paper An apparatus for treating paper web materials with a plasma, said apparatus comprising a dark space generated by a treatment electrode in a treatment zone. There is a counter electrode having a surface area in said treatment zone which is not greater than... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6477343 | Image forming method and apparatus with means for reducing the accumulation of particle on a charging device An image forming method and apparatus, wherein the charging amount that a charging device charges a photosensitive drum is controlled so as to reduce the charging amount in a period, except for the image forming period, than that during the image forming ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6411794 | Discharge device and image forming apparatus A discharge device has a discharge wire for discharge in response to a voltage, a supporting block for supporting the discharge wire, an electric contact receiving an AC voltage, and a resistor element placed between the discharge wire and the electric co... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6407382 | Discharge ionization source A discharge ionization source, for use for example with an ion mobility spectrometer or atmospheric pressure ionization mass spectrometry. The source uses two or more electrodes for ionization and control, and solid state circuitry for operation. Inductiv... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6345159 | Charging apparatus and image forming apparatus The present invention relates to a corona charging apparatus for charging a body to be charged that has a discharge wire electrode to which a voltage is applied, a shield electrode having an opening opposed to the body to be charged, a grid electrode disp... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6338663 | Low-voltage cathode for scrubbing cathodoluminescent layers for field emission displays and method The present invention includes a low voltage, high current density, large area cathode for scrubbing of cathodoluminescent layers. The cathodoluminescent layers are formed on a transparent conductive layer formed on a transparent insulating viewing screen... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6308032 | Rotatable charging apparatus, and printing machine including the same A rotatable charging apparatus includes a length extending between a first end and a second end, with the rotatable charging apparatus centered about an axis parallel to the length. The rotatable charging apparatus outer periphery forms N apparatus positi... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6303933 | Apparatus and method of attaching corona wire to corona charger housing An apparatus comprising: (i) a corona charger housing including at least two cavities; (ii) a corona wire strung across the housing, the corona wire having at least one end located in one of the cavities; and (iii) a pin at least partially located inside ... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6294782 | Corona charger with a serpentine strung corona wire An apparatus for a corona wire housing comprising a continuous piece of corona wire mounted in a serpentine fashion around multiple pulleys with a single tension spring tensioning the continuous piece of corona wire and fixed terminals supporting the ends... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6285032 | Device for removing the gaseous laminar boundary layer of a web A device for removing the gaseous laminar boundary layer from at least one of the two sides of a material web moved in transport direction preferably at high speed, for example said web being made of paper, characterized by at least one corona-charging el... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6255649 | Charging device with grid tensioning shafts A charging device comprises a housing defining a charging chamber. Two tensioning shafts are mounted on opposite ends of the housing. The charging device comprises a control grid attached to the grid tensioning shafts, thus substantially covering the cham... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6034368 | AC corona current regulation In an electrostatographic imaging apparatus employing at least one charging device, in an electrostatic charge process involving the creation of latent electrostatic images, A method for controlling corona current generation by said at least one charging ... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6025594 | Support mounting for a pin array corona generating device A support mounting supports the corona generating electrode of a corona generating device. A corona generating assembly includes a corona generating electrode member having an elongated length defining a plurality of support openings spaced along the leng... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5970287 | Charging device for charging charged body in non-contact state A low-cost non-contact type charging device having excellent uniform charging performance and long stable charging characteristic includes an insulating support body having an insulating surface, first electrodes, to which a first voltage is applied, and ... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5909608 | Tension support mounting for a corona generating device A tension support mounting for applying tension to the corona generating electrode of a corona generating device. A corona generating electrode is placed in cooperative engagement with a fixedly mounted end block via a torsion spring member mounted on the... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5907155 | Constant DC offset coronode voltage tracking circuit An apparatus for maintaining a substantially consistent current to voltage relationship in a corona charging device having an electrode energized by an AC voltage biased by a first DC offset voltage which is modified by a second DC voltage, and a control ... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5907753 | Charging device having an electrode with integral electrical connector A charging apparatus for applying a uniform electrostatic charge to a charge retentive surface is provided. The charging apparatus is operably electrically connectable to a power supply for supplying an electrical bias to the charging apparatus. The appar... | 05/25/1999 |
