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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7961206 | Attachment for use in image-forming apparatus to connect external device thereto An apparatus for image formation is disclosed which includes an imaging device forming images on record media; a housing defining a front face, a rear face, both side faces, a top face and a bottom face, to thereby house the imaging device; a recessed portion config... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956879 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a main body frame; an image formation section contained in the main body frame that forms an image on a recording medium; an ejection mechanism contained in the main body frame that ejects the recording medium on which an image ha... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7791623 | Optical component bowing device, optical device, optical scanning device, and image forming apparatus An optical component bowing device is configured to include a bending moment generating structure that generates a bending moment in a supported portion of an optical component that reflects or shapes a light beam. ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7787003 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus including: a photoconductor, adapted such that an electrostatic latent image is formed thereon and extending in a first direction; and an optical scanner, operable to emit a light beam to expose the photoconductor while scanning in the fir... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782348 | Exposing device and image forming apparatus incorporating the same An exposing device includes a light source that emits scanning light, a polygonal rotating mirror that scans and deflects the scanning light in a specific scanning direction, a reflection mirror that reflects the scanning light that has been scanned and deflected at... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7755655 | Exposure device and image forming apparatus An exposure device for exposing the charged surface of a photoconductive drum is provided with a light source for emitting light based on image information; a rotary multifaceted mirror for reflecting the light emitted from the light source to scan the surface of th... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7656421 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a main body including an opening; a plurality of process units which are arranged in the main body in an arrangement direction with a gap therebetween; a plurality of exposure units which are arranged in the arrangement direction... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7619643 | Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively avoiding an adverse temperature effect to an optical scanning system An image forming apparatus includes a first support member, an image carrying member configured to carry a toner image thereon, and an optical writing apparatus connected to the first support member and configured to form an electrostatic latent image on the image c... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7605833 | Writing device A writing device to write an image onto a photoconductor, including a print head having plural LEDs, a first supporting member, having a position determining section to determine the position of the print head, and an adjustment screw, and a second supporting member... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7589751 | Image forming apparatus and method for adjusting the interval between a write head and a photoreceptor An image forming apparatus comprises an adjusting mechanism that adjusts an interval between an LED head writing an optical image on a photoreceptor and a photoreceptor drum to a reference interval (A), and the adjusting mechanism includes a regulating member attach... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7586508 | Image-forming device with scanner unit An image-forming device includes: a housing; an endless belt; a plurality of process units; and a plurality of scanner units. Each scanner unit and each process unit are inclined obliquely to a vertical direction. At least a part of each process unit is inserted int... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7460142 | Image processing device An image processing apparatus having a structure in which the positioning accuracy of the optical instruments related to image processing are hardly influenced from the condition of the installation surface of the apparatus body. Near the edges of floor plate 60 | 12/02/2008 |
| 7446786 | Image forming device An image forming device, comprising: a cylindrical rotatable photoreceptor rotatably supported by an apparatus body; an exposure device in which plural exposure heads which expose an outer circumferential surface of the rotatable photoreceptor are disposed in a comm... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7436417 | Color image forming apparatus, and toner replenishing apparatus The color image forming apparatus comprises a transfer belt device which feeds a transfer member such as a paper and a plurality of image forming units. The image forming units are disposed facing towards the transfer belt device. The transfer belt device, at least ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7388191 | Mirror positioning unit of laser scanning unit and laser scanning unit employing the same A mirror positioning structure of a reflection mirror for correcting skew and bow and a laser scanning unit employing the same are provided. The mirror positioning structure includes a mirror holder, a fixing member, and a positioning cap. The mirror holder has a re... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388593 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes LED heads protected from scratching. An optical head is mounted on an inner side of a lid pivotally mounted to a body of the apparatus. A protector is mounted to the lid. A mechanism is operatively coupled to the lid such that whe... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7369794 | Image recording apparatus and opening and closing mechanism An image recording apparatus including: upper and lower unit cases; a stand member having first and second end portions, the first end portion attached to one of the upper unit case and the lower unit case; a guide member attached to the other of the upper unit case... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366445 | Image forming apparatus including a plurality of image bearing members having a speed variation suppression feature An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, wherein a toner image is formed on the image bearing member and is transferred onto a recording material, thus forming an image on the recording material; a shaft for rotating the image bearing member, whe... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7340199 | Image forming device The present invention provides an image forming device, which facilitates maintenance and replacement of an intermediate transfer body and an image carrier, and prevents a deterioration in image quality which accompanies the formation of the intermediate transfer bo... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7293870 | Supporting structure and business machine utilizing the same A supporting structure and a Business machine utilizing the same. The business machine includes a main body, cover and supporting structure therebetween. The sleeve connected to the main body has a guiding groove with a lug portion. The connecting rod is connected t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7262787 | Laser scanning unit assembly and laser printer having the same In a laser printer using a plurality of laser scan units, a laser scan unit is capable of manually adjusting a plurality of laser beams to be parallel. The laser scan unit assembly includes a laser scan unit having a window on a front surface through which a laser b... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251055 | Image forming apparatus having a function for correcting color deviation and the like An image forming apparatus using an exposure unit of a solid-scanning type such as an LED head, reads out linear distortion correction data of an LED unit, then, calculates an amount of correcting color deviation based on the read-out data, and after that, carries o... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248279 | Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus using the same Disclosed is an optical scanning device which includes a light source device, a deflecting system for deflecting a light beam emitted from the light source device, and a scanning optical system for scanning a surface to be scanned, with the light beam deflected by t... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242888 | Image forming apparatus with processing unit that can be removed from the image forming apparatus without removing exposing devices A tandem color laser printer, in which processing units can be smoothly attached to and detached from its casing, is provided while an adequate accuracy of exposure to photosensitive drums is maintained. In the color laser printer, scanning units are fixed to the pr... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233752 | Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes first and second end covers, first and second bottom-surface portions to be guided by first and second main assembly guide portions, first, second,... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231157 | Image forming apparatus The image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a latent image forming device, a developing device, a transferring device, and a corona charging device having a discharge wire and a surrounding shield member and being arranged downstream of a ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227562 | Electrophotograhic apparatus Provided is a small-sized electrophotographic apparatus for which maintenance such as disposal of a jam of sheets, replacement of consumables including toner, or replacement of components to be periodically replaced can be facilitated. Thus, there is provided... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224379 | Printer using direct-coupled emissive array A contact printing apparatus (100), using a direct-coupled emissive array (20) of individual light emitting pixels (22), forms an image from digital data onto a photosensitive medium (16). The direct-coupled emissive array (20) is ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7215349 | Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively avoiding an adverse temperature effect to an optical scanning system An image forming apparatus includes a first support member, an image carrying member configured to carry a toner image thereon, and an optical writing apparatus connected to the first support member and configured to form an electrostatic latent image on the image c... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212221 | ROS shutter system Raster Output Scanner (ROS) shutter system capable of blocking and unblocking harmful radiation selectably, semi-automatically or automatically. The system and uses thereof can be applied to various fields including scanners and printers. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7203447 | Image forming apparatus with first and second openable portions The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus comprising an image carrier for carrying an image, an intermediate transfer body to which the image on the image carrier is transferred, a transfer material conveying unit for conveying a transfer material ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7184687 | Process cartridge mountable to image forming apparatus having positioning portion to engage a member of the apparatus and having member to contact urging member of the apparatus and such image forming apparatus A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a process device actable on the drum, a cartridge positioning portion for engaging a main assembly pos... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7183506 | Measuring and printing device The present invention is to provide to provide a measuring and printing device by which an operation for replacing a label paper can be performed from the front face of the device and a desired size of the operation screen (display operation unit) can be employed in... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184681 | Image forming apparatus with integral recording material supply and power supply units It is an object of the present invention to provide an image forming apparatus with a small installation area. In order to attain this object, an image forming apparatus in accordance with the present invention includes: a recording material unit which stores record... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181153 | Apparatus for precisely adjusting the position of work stations in a document printer/copier Apparatus for precisely positioning one or more of the work stations of a document printer/copier relative to an internal drum, including a first member, attached to either a work station or the internal drum, having two sections, each section having a reference sur... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7167663 | Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus A sheet feeding device for an image forming apparatus can perform various operations. These are, for example, an operation to start an image formation and an output process that inhibits opening and closing of a feeding route interlocked with opening and closing of ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7123856 | Support structure for image processing apparatus A support structure for an image processing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus has an apparatus body, a base provided at a lower portion of the apparatus body for supporting the body, and an image processing unit disposed inside the apparatus body or attached the... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7116925 | Process cartridge and image forming apparatus A process cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a process device actable on the drum, a cartridge positioning portion for engaging a main assembly pos... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7106990 | Image forming apparatus The image forming apparatus is equipped with a straight handle that can be pushed into and pulled out of an outer wall through a hole provided to the outer wall, and has a protruding component on the outer wall in the vicinity and next to the hole. The handle is con... | 09/12/2006 |
