Celebrity Inventors
Superstar singer Michael Jackson co-patented a "Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion" in 1993.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8077190 | Exposure head, an image forming apparatus and an image forming method An exposure head, includes: imaging optical systems which are arranged in a first direction; light emitting elements which are arranged in a second direction orthogonal to or substantially orthogonal to the first direction and emit lights to be imaged by the imaging... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8063924 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus having; a photoconductive drum, a LED print head to write an image on a surface of the photoconductive drum, and a positioning device to locate the LED print head in a relative position in respect to the photoconductive drum, includes; cen... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8035668 | Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method An exposure apparatus which forms a pattern on an object. The apparatus includes an exposure head structure in which a plurality of elemental exposure units are arrayed, each elemental exposure unit including (i) at least one light source for emitting exposure light... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7948509 | Line head and image forming device using the same A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of t... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7859555 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus according to this invention prevents adverse effects on peripheral circuits and speeds up data transfer by preventing a mutual interference among signals. In the image forming apparatus, a transfer controller which converts into a differen... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7800805 | Optical Scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus In an optical scanning apparatus, when it is assumed that a scanning direction of light beams defected from a deflector is a main scanning direction, and a direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction and to optical axes of both a first and a second optical s... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7787002 | Digital writing apparatus In transfer of even pixel data, focusing on even-number data, only the even data is selected out of eight pixels of image data read out from a storage circuit and transferred to an LED head in a unit of four bits. Four pixel data are simply selected out of eight pix... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782347 | Light source using large area LEDs A printing apparatus (100) for printing digital images onto a photosensitive medium (140) employing, for exposure energy, a light source (20) that uses various arrays of LEDs (32). The printing apparatus (100) may form the print im... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7760215 | Line head and an image forming apparatus using the line head A line head, includes: a substrate which is transmissive and includes a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface; a plurality of light emitting elements which are arranged on the first surface of the substrate and emit light beams; a wiring which ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7719553 | Exposure apparatus and image forming apparatus An exposure apparatus comprises: a plurality of light sources; a first condensing unit, arranged to contact a light emitting surface of each of the light sources, that condenses the lights emitted from the plurality of light sources; and a second condensing unit tha... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7675531 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus capable of forming wide images, includes: an exposing unit having a plurality of LED (light-emitting diode) heads arranged alternately in a main scanning direction, in which the resolution of an LED row formed in at least one of the plural... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7564471 | Line head module, exposure apparatus, and image forming apparatus Provided is a line head module including line heads on which a plurality of light emission elements are arrayed and exposing a photosensitive body by the light from the light emission elements, including: a support having a rotation axis parallel to the photosensiti... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7508403 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus utilizing a light-emitting diode (LED). The image forming apparatus includes: an LED head including an LED array that has a plurality of dots, in which a resolution a (dpi) of the LED array and a resolution b (dpi) in a main scanning direc... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7499067 | Line head and image forming device using the same A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of t... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7479973 | Method and apparatus for producing an image An image producing apparatus includes a photoconductor. A photonic energy device is positioned adjacent the photoconductor. A reflecting member is located adjacent the photonic energy device, whereby at least a portion of the reflecting member is operable to deform ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7466327 | Line head and image forming apparatus A line head includes pixel circuits each of which has a plurality of light-emitting elements and circuit elements arranged in a line, and which allow the light-emitting elements to selectively emit light, based on selection signals and data signals; data lines that ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7411598 | Line head and image forming apparatus A line head includes pixel circuits each of which has a plurality of light-emitting elements and circuit elements arranged in a line, and that make the light-emitting elements emit light selectively, based on selecting signals and data signals; selecting circuits th... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403735 | Image formation apparatus using an electrophotographic process An image formation apparatus using an elecrophotographic process for obtaining a high quality image with tone value R2 of equal to or more than 0.98 is provided. The resolution for light-writing is equal to or more than 1200 dpi and/or light-writing is pe... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7382391 | Line head module and image forming apparatus A line head module faces a photoconductor drum, and is disposed such that light-emitting elements are arranged parallel to a rotational axis of the photoconductor drum to carry out exposure on the photoconductor drum, and the photoconductor drum is rotatably dispose... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7315396 | Systems and methods for generating banner pages Disclosed are systems and methods for generating customized banner pages. In one embodiment, a system and a method pertain to creating a banner page document on a word processing application such that the document includes at least one token that is indicative of dy... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7286147 | Line head and image forming device using the same A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of t... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286764 | Reconfigurable modulator-based optical add-and-drop multiplexer An optical add and drop multiplexer system comprising a first module for providing a first signal; a second module for providing a second signal; and a modulator for receiving a channel of the first signal at a first location, the first location configured to actuat... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286148 | Line head and image forming apparatus incorporating the same A first power line is adapted to be electrically connected to a power source. A second power line is adapted to be grounded. A plurality of photo emitters are arrayed in a first direction, each of which is electrically connected between the first power line and the ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277106 | Scanning apparatus having a fluorescent lamp and control method thereof A scanning apparatus having a cold cathode fluorescent lamp includes a central processing unit (CPU) controlling a scan unit to be in one of the stand-by mode, a scan mode and a sleep mode and outputting a PWM signal having a variable duty ratio based on an operatio... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271402 | Optical module and methods for optically aligning and assembling the same An optical alignment method is for an optical module including a housing unit, a light-sensing unit, and a lens unit. The method includes: (a) through image-capturing techniques, finding a light-sensing component of the light-sensing unit and a predetermined referen... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269375 | Image transfer device and method for cleaning a part thereof An image transfer device for a sheet-fed image reproduction system is disclosed in which an improved removal of contaminants from the surface of an image transfer member is possible by using a tacky surface cleaning member contacting the image transfer member surfac... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265769 | Device and method for registering multiple LED bar imagers in an image-on-image system A method and apparatus adjusting the lateral position of an LED bar may minimize image banding in image-on-image systems having multiple LED bar imagers. A photoreceptor may be transported past a plurality of marking stations. At each marking station an LED bar imag... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7239333 | LED array package structure and method thereof According to the method, a trench structure is formed in a substrate. LED arrays and driver ICs are located in the corresponding trenches. An insulating layer is formed over the substrate, the LED arrays and the driver ICs. A photolithography process forms an electr... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236845 | Selecting OLED devices using figure of merit A method of selecting an OLED device to be manufactured based on customer requirements, including the customer providing first and second sets of requirements, providing a plurality of OLED device constructions based on the first and second sets of requirements, dev... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7207677 | Image display device and projector A display device using a tilt-mirror device and a projector. The image display device may include a first color-ray light-source for supplying a G-ray, a second color-ray light-source for supplying a R-ray or B-ray, and a tilt-mirror device having a plurality of mov... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7201472 | Inkjet nozzle having fluidic seal between ink ejection member and stationary member An inkjet nozzle is provided. The nozzle comprises: a nozzle chamber having an ink ejection aperture defined therein; a stationary member; and an ink ejection member for ejecting ink from the aperture. The ink ejection member is moveable relative to the stationary m... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7188922 | Recording apparatus equipped with heatsink A recording apparatus having: (a) a head unit including an actuator which generates energy required for recording predetermined patterns of image on a recording medium; (b) a circuit board including a driver element which drives the actuator of the head unit; and (c... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180103 | III-V power field effect transistors A field effect transistor configured for use in high power applications and a method for its fabrication is disclosed. The field effect transistor is formed of III-V materials and is configured to have a breakdown voltage that is advantageous for high power applicat... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177081 | High contrast grating light valve type device A grating light valve has with a plurality of spaced reflective ribbons are spatially arranged over a substrate with reflective surfaces. The grating light valve is configured to optimized the conditions for constructive and destructive interference with an incident... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7165845 | Image display device and projector An image display device and a projector using th image display device includes a tilt-mirror device having a plurality of movable mirror elements. A first color-ray light-source may be arranged so that a first color-ray light is reflected in a predetermined directio... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7161611 | Exposure system In an exposure system for exposing a color photosensitive body including first, second and third photosensitive materials which respectively develop into cyan, magenta and yellow, the same parts of the photosensitive body are exposed a plurality of times respectivel... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158161 | Organic electroluminescence element and an exposure unit and image-forming apparatus both using the element Providing an exposure unit using an organic electroluminescence element with a large emitted light quantity. The organic electroluminescence element has, on a substrate 31, an anode 32 acting as a hole injection electrode, a cathode 33 ac... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157741 | Silicon optoelectronic device and optical signal input and/or output apparatus using the same A silicon optoelectronic device and an optical transceiver, wherein the silicon optoelectronic device includes an n- or p-type silicon-based substrate and a doped region formed in a first surface of the substrate and doped to an opposite type from that of the substr... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7145590 | Apparatus with offset light source for forming images on photosensitive surface Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which provides an image of an excellent quality which has a less variation in resolution and suppressed linear irregularity. A rod lens array includes two rows of rod lenses stacked one on the other. An LED array is offset by ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7131748 | Decorative lights with addressable color-controllable LED nodes and control circuitry, and method A decorative lighting apparatus includes a decorative light strand having a plurality of addressable color-controllable red-green-blue (RGB) light-emitting diode (LED) nodes positioned therealong; a decorating selector which provides a plurality of user-selectable s... | 11/07/2006 |
