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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169459 | Compensation method in radial direction on label side of optical disc The disclosure discloses a compensation method in a radial direction on a label side of an optical disc. An optical disc is inserted into an optical disk drive. The data side of the optical disc is divided into at least one compensation area. An optical pick-up head... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8130255 | Method and system for selecting total job time print A system and a method for improving total job time without needing to know a job size. An engine dynamically decides which process speed to warm up to based on a number and size of pages currently submitted to the engine, and thus deliver the best job time dynamical... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8094180 | Conveying apparatus and recording apparatus A conveying apparatus includes a lever swinging in contact with a recording medium conveyed along a conveying path in a conveying direction, a sensor detecting the swinging of the lever, a moving unit for moving the lever from a position where the lever is allowed t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7929009 | Electrophotographic photosensitive drum, electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and method of manufacturing electrophotographic photosensitive drum An electrophotographic photosensitive drum with a simple structure for realizing a seamless digital photosensitive drum having an exposure source and a photosensitive member which are integrated with each other. The electrophotographic photosensitive drum includes a... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7876349 | Image forming apparatus for forming an image in an accurate position An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet tray; an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording sheet; a sheet transporting path that allows a transportation of the recording sheet fed from the sheet tray to the image forming unit; and a sheet detecting ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7852367 | Sublimatic laser printer This printer includes a print head portion having a laser application portion emitting a laser beam, for performing printing by applying the laser beam from the laser application portion in a state bringing an ink sheet and a paper into contact with each other while... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7852366 | System and method for printing reimageable transient documents A system and a method print one or more images to one or more reimageable documents, wherein the one or more representative of at least a portion of a digital file. The method includes a connecting a portable printer to a computing device. Moreover, the method inclu... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7728865 | Beam imprinting disk A beam imprinting disk which is provided with a supporting layer, a photosensitive printing layer is formed on the supporting layer, and a paint printing layer is formed on the photosensitive printing layer. One surface of the disk is a data-rewriting surface for wr... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7688343 | Device for measuring sheet length and image forming apparatus A measuring device for measuring a length of a sheet includes a sheet-carrying unit for carrying a sheet, a reading unit having an area sensor and configured to repeatedly read the surface of the sheet from the leading end to the trailing end of the sheet while the ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7671885 | Ink-jet recording apparatus having curl restraining mechanism An ink-jet recording apparatus is provided which can perform image recording on a recording medium being conveyed while restraining a curl at the front end of the recording medium. The ink-jet recording apparatus has an upstream curve forming portion that curves a r... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7528859 | Electrophotographic image forming apparatus A simple structure of a digital photosensitive drum having an exposure source and a photosensitive member which are integrated with each other. The drum is mountable to a structure of a conventional electrophotographic image forming process. An interval between phas... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7525564 | Image printing apparatus An image printing apparatus, which can correct variation in inter-sheet distance at the time of conveyance of transfer sheets, comprising an image printing section which performs image printing by sequentially conveying a plurality of transfer sheets at predetermine... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7508410 | Printing apparatus and information processing apparatus, control method thereof, program, and storage medium A printing apparatus executes a print process of body text and a 2-sided print process of tab paper sheets by a single operation at an information processing apparatus. After one face of each tab paper sheet undergoes a print process, the printed tab paper sheets ar... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7502047 | Image forming apparatus for forming an image in an accurate position An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet tray; an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording sheet; a sheet transporting path that allows a transportation of the recording sheet fed from the sheet tray to the image forming unit; and a sheet detecting ... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7499073 | Optical disc and method of labeling the same An optical disc has a first plate, a second plate adhered to the first plate, and an optically-activated colorant disposed between the first and second plates. ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7411602 | System, method, and program for alternating sheets of media Systems, methods, and programs for adjusting marking data for use with alternately stacked multi-thickness media. The systems, methods, and programs input marking data and determine an orientation of sheets of the multi-thickness media that is alternated within a st... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408568 | Image forming apparatus and network system provided with the same A controller stops a registration roller to temporarily hold a recording sheet and restarts the registration roller at a timing of transferring an image formed on an intermediate transferring belt to a predetermined position of the recording sheet. Then, an adjustme... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7407250 | Apparatus, system, and method for multi-dimensional registration printing An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for multi-dimensional registration printing. One embodiment of the apparatus includes an image module, a print module, and an object registration module. The image module stores a digital representation of an image. The... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7397487 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus that forms images, while continuously conveying, a long flexible recording medium in a constant conveyance direction on a conveyance path, the image forming apparatus comprising: a belt conveyance mechanism that is disposed on the conveyan... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394475 | Apparatus, system, and method for image registration An apparatus, system and method of print registration are provided. The invention includes first and second optical channel modules configured to communicate light from a page to a sensor module. The sensor module sums the light from the first and second optical cha... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394524 | Lithographic apparatus, device manufacturing method, and device manufactured thereby Apparatus and methods for compensating for the movement of a substrate in a lithographic apparatus during a pulse of radiation include providing an optical structure configured to move a patterned projection beam incident on the substrate in synchronism with the sub... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7388694 | Method, program and system for image drawing Laser information is prepared which indicates the irradiation interval and intensity level to be irradiated on an optical disc in advance. Then, when image drawing is indicated together with the indication of the forming spacing for pits, a laser is controlled so as... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7368222 | Optical data storage media with enhanced contrast Disclosed is an optical data storage medium with enhanced contrast. The optical data storage medium includes a substrate having oppositely facing first and second surfaces. A first metal/alloy layer is formed overlaying the first surface of the substrate. The first ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369152 | Laser marking method In a marking device, by illuminating a laser beam onto an X-ray film which is a light-photosensitive heat-developing photosensitive material, an inner portion of a surface layer is melted, a cavity is formed, and a dot, which projects a surface out in a convex shape... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7358984 | Image forming apparatus including multibeam exposure unit having surface emitting laser array An image forming apparatus includes: an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer provided on the conductive substrate; a charging unit for charging the electrophotographic photoreceptor; an exposure unit for exposing... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359084 | Preview display for multiple-sided printing Displaying of document information to be printed in a printing apparatus capable of inserting, during printing on print sheets fed from a predetermined sheet feed unit, a plurality of types of sheets from sheet feed units different from the predetermined sheet feed ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353937 | Method of monitoring belt orientation and/or belt travel of a band belt conveyor apparatus and a band belt conveyor A method of monitoring belt orientation and/or belt travel of a belt conveyor apparatus includes measurement of compression and/or thrust stress patterns within the belt as it passes over a support roller arrangement by measuring means embedded in the belt. The meas... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352784 | Laser burst boosting method and apparatus Methods and apparatus for managing thermal loads on a laser gain medium and for boosting the output power of a diode pumped laser are disclosed. The short-term average pumping power to the gain medium is increased, to provide a burst of pumping energy to the laser g... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349130 | Automated scanning system and method A system and method for mass, automated scanning of objects, including dental study casts, housing parts, and other objects. The system and method are able to function with little or no human operator intervention, thereby facilitating high volume scanning and reduc... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7333128 | Laser shutting device and laser scanning unit employing the same A laser shutting device blocks laser beams in a laser scanning unit that includes a light source that emits laser beams and a beam deflecting unit that deflects the laser beams in a main-scanning direction and is adapted to form an image on a photosensitive body usi... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330202 | Method for correcting skewed recording when exposing printing originals A method for correcting the skewed recording of a printing original on a recording material in an exposer includes the steps of projecting, with an exposure head, a linear array of exposure points generated by N laser beams onto the recording material and moving the... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7310108 | Printing system A printing system includes first and second marking engines which are operatively connected to each other for printing images onto print media. A print media transport system collects printed media from the marking engines. The print media transport system includes ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301554 | Light scanning device, scanning line adjusting method, scanning line adjusting control method, image forming apparatus, and image forming method A light scanning device includes an optical element that images, on an image holding body, a light beam emitted from a light source. The light scanning device further includes a holding member that holds the optical element, and scanning line curve correcting mechan... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298389 | Method and apparatus for drawing visible image on optical disk by vibrating laser beam focus A method and an apparatus for drawing a visible image on an optical disk incorporate an optical pickup, which irradiates an optical beam onto the optical disk through its objective lens. The optical disk, which has a target layer on which the drawing is to be perfor... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7285579 | Solventless, non-polluting radiation curable coatings Solventless siloxane epoxy-based coating compositions for use on metals, plastics, wood, and glass are disclosed. The compositions are cationically curable in air by U.V. or by electron beam radiation. The siloxane epoxy coating compositions exhibit excellent film p... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284485 | Alignment elements for an apparatus for handling printing plates An apparatus for handling printing plates contains at least one image-setting device and a frame that at least partially encloses the image-setting device. The image-setting device is decoupled from the frame via decoupling feet that stand on the floor through cutou... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280777 | Image forming apparatus with fixing control based on recording material type An image forming apparatus has an image forming device for forming an image on a recording material; a heating member heating the image formed on the recording material in a nip portion; an endless belt conveying the recording material toward the nip portion formed ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280947 | Gear-driving-system designing system Featured are a system and method for designing a gear driving system. The designing system includes a characteristic setting section, calculating section and comparing section. The calculating section simulates an oscillation that is caused in the final gear of the ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277114 | Image recording apparatus and method A photographic printer is loaded with two webs of photographic paper, and produces photographic prints by exposure thereto. Initially, the photographic paper is advanced from two photographic paper rolls in parallel. Those two are combined together to constitute a p... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270932 | Imaging composition and method Imaging compositions and methods of using the compositions are disclosed. The imaging compositions are sensitive to low levels of energy such that upon application of the low levels of energy the compositions change color or shade. The compositions may be used in me... | 09/18/2007 |
