Bizarre Patents
Hands free towel carrying system
A hands free towel carrying system for coupling a towel to a user to prevent loss, theft or contamination.
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 |
| 8180254 | Dynamic image positioning and spacing in a digital printing system A dynamic positional shifting, in the process direction, of the images on the second print engine of a tandem machine printing system in order to increase the time (and number of prints) between skipped pitches. Although the photoreceptor belts of each print engine ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175496 | Endless belt, production method thereof and image forming apparatus The present invention provides an endless belt superior in peelability even under a low temperature and low humidity environment. An endless belt includes: a first region and a second region, which contain a polyimide-based resin, a contact angle to water of an oute... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8112015 | Belt unit and image forming apparatus At least one of a plurality of rollers supporting an endless belt includes a flange arranged on an end portion of the roller. The flange includes a cylindrical portion that is inserted into an opening portion of the roller at its end. Outer circumference of the cyli... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8081904 | Belt drive control unit, belt drive control method, belt drive control program, and image forming apparatus using same A belt drive control unit controls a rotation of belt supported by first and second rollers. Each of rotations of the first and second rollers are detected as first and second results. A rotation of the first roller is controlled in connection with thickness fluctua... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8023862 | Belt transfer type image forming apparatus An unit is provided with a friction member which is disposed at a position that is on a downstream side of a drive roller driving a belt and is on an immediate upstream side of a position sensor. The friction member wipes off contaminants adhering to a rear surface ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7979004 | Electrophotographic belt, production method of electrophotographic belt, and electrophotographic apparatus The electrophotographic belt of the present invention is characterized that, in the electrophotographic belt composed of the thermoplastic resin composition containing thermoplastic resin, with respect to a flake-shaped portion having an arc length of 5% of the inne... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7920811 | Storage container and image forming apparatus A storage container includes: a storage container main body; a flow-out opening; a shutter; a seal member; a restricting portion; and an open-close movement restricting portion. ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7826770 | Printing apparatus and method Disclosed is a printing apparatus and method to correct for image non-uniformities. The printing apparatus comprises a photoreceptor (P/R) belt charging device positioned to charge the P/R belt after an image is transferred to a media sheet. Subsequently, an image s... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7778574 | Image forming apparatus with an intermediary transfer belt having a referential mark An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for carrying a toner image; a toner image forming device for forming a toner image on the image bearing member; a detector for optically detecting a mark bonded on the image bearing member; an adjusting for... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7706722 | Method and apparatus for shifting image forming apparatus photoreceptor to reduce ghost formation A method and apparatus for shifting a photoreceptor in a cross-process direction to reduce the formation of a paper edge ghost on the photoreceptor. The shifting can occur continuously or in steps. ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7558508 | Image forming apparatus having belt wound around roller with specific roughness An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of rollers; and an endless belt wound around said rollers, said rollers including: a driving roller which drives said belt wound around said rollers and a driven roller set which is driven by said driving roller via t... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7509074 | Method and apparatus for image forming capable of effectively reducing unevenness of density and color displacement of images An image forming apparatus including an image carrying member, a transfer member, support rollers, a detecting mechanism, and a controller. The image carrying member supported by the support rollers, forms a toner image on its surface facing a surface of the transfe... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7424251 | Film driving apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same The invention provides a film driving apparatus in which no adverse effect is caused by a change in the circumferential length of a film even if there arises the change in circumferential length of the film due to environmental fluctuation. In the film driving appar... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7389068 | Image forming apparatus with adjustment of belt member The image forming apparatus includes a belt member having a convex portion, effecting a circular movement, a first support member and a second support member for supporting the belt member, and a drive receiving unit for receiving force from circular movement of the... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379690 | Image forming apparatus with adjustment of belt member The image forming apparatus includes a belt member having a convex portion, effecting a circular movement, a first support member and a second support member for supporting the belt member, and a drive receiving unit for receiving force from circular movement of the... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376375 | Belt-drive control device, color-shift detecting method, color-shift detecting device, and image forming apparatus A mark detecting unit detects a mark that is a reference position of an endless belt. An angular-displacement-error detecting unit detects an angular displacement error of an encoder caused by thickness fluctuation of the endless belt. A first calculating unit calcu... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7358014 | Electrophotographic organophotoreceptors with novel charge transport compounds A novel charge transport compound, a novel process using that novel compound and an organophotoreceptor includes: (a) a novel charge transport compound having the formula | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356284 | Image forming device An image forming device comprises; an endless-belt shaped image carrier that circulates along a predetermined locus of movement and is trained around a plurality of rollers, the plurality of rollers being structured by at least one driving roller that receives drivi... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352985 | Image forming apparatus capable of suppressing deterioration of image when toner image on image bearing member is transferred to intermediate transfer member An image forming apparatus having: an image bearing member, which bears an electrostatic image thereon; a developing device, which develops the electrostatic image with toner to form a toner image, and an intermediate transfer member, which is in contact with the im... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343108 | Apparatus and process for altering timing in an electrographic printer The invention is in the field of timing control of electrographic machines. The invention is particularly suited for changing from one frame mode to another. Printing processes and apparatus are provided wherein timing signals are generated, such as one periodic tim... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7338043 | Method and apparatus for feeding a document An apparatus for feeding a document includes a chassis, a copying device coupled to the chassis, a feed tray coupled to the chassis and moveable between a first position and second position, a first feed mechanism operable to accept a document from the feed tray and... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327972 | Belt driving control apparatus, belt apparatus and image forming apparatus A belt driving control apparatus which realizes high-precision belt driving by specifying with high precision the pitch line distance (PLD) that affects the belt movement speed. This belt driving control apparatus controls the driving of the belt by controlling the ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324767 | Systems and methods for diagnosing color image forming devices A diagnostic routine for determining the cause of color non-uniformity in a full color image forming device, by selecting a substation of one print station and using it in combination with a substation from another print station, while functionally omitting the inte... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320822 | Electrophotographic conductive member and electrophotographic apparatus In an electrophotographic conductive member composed of at least a thermoplastic resin composition, the thermoplastic resin composition contains a thermoplastic resin, a conductive filler and a conductive-filler dispersing agent, and the conductive-filler dispersing... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7310488 | Belt device and image forming apparatus A belt device includes an endless belt, a plurality of rollers around which the endless belt is wound, and a foreign material entry preventing member disposed on at least one side of the endless belt in the width direction. The foreign material entry preventing memb... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308220 | Belt unit of electrophotographic printing apparatus A belt unit of an electrophotographic printing apparatus, includes: two rollers for supporting a belt so as to be substantially in parallel with each other; two frames for supporting the rollers and attached to opposite ends of one of the rollers respectively so as ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7292807 | Assembly and method for reducing shaft deflection A shaft mounting and loading arrangement includes a shaft rotatably mounted within a frame of an imaging machine by a pair of spaced mounting bearings. A belt is entrained on the shaft between the bearings. The belt applies a belt load to the shaft along an axially ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283755 | Remaining toner detection apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with same A pair of indentations is formed with a vertical spacing on a side wall of a toner cartridge, respective translucent windows are arranged on opposing upper and lower surfaces of the indentations protruding into the toner cartridge, and a light-emitting element and a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266329 | Toner image carrying member and manufacturing method thereof, and electrophotographic apparatus A toner image carrying member can be rotationally driven, and a plurality of grooves are formed on an outer peripheral surfaces of the toner image carrying member, the plurality of grooves extending along a rotation direction of the toner image carrying member and a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7251448 | Cleaning blade control apparatus and method An apparatus includes a xerographic cleaning blade, an actuator member operatively connected to the cleaning blade and movable over a first stroke from a first actuator position to a second actuator position, and a damper operatively connected to the actuator member... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245857 | Belt driving apparatus A belt driving apparatus for driving a belt has the belt hung around and between rollers, and has a meandering prevention member provided in each end part of each roller to restrict the meandering of the belt in the roller axial direction. A cut is formed to be open... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245856 | Systems and methods for reducing image registration errors An image processing apparatus including tandem print engines is provided for forming an image on an image receiving substrata. The apparatus includes a first print engine and a second print engine downstream from the first print engine. The second print engine is sl... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242897 | Image forming apparatus, roller, belt, and fixing unit of image forming apparatus A tubular roller to support a belt having an inner surface provided with a protruding circumferential edge having a width includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The first portion has a first outer radius and contacts the inner surface of th... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7228095 | Transfer apparatus, image forming apparatus, and method of correcting moving speed of belt A scale is provided along at least one side of a portion of a belt. A sensor reads the scale on the belt to obtain scale information. An actual speed calculating unit calculates a speed of the belt from the scale information. A speed calculating unit calculates a sp... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7205081 | Imaging member An imaging method utilizing an imaging member containing a supporting substrate, a layer of a charge carrier injecting surface, a hole blocking layer, an optional adhesive layer, a layer of a charge carrier transport material, a layer of an charge carrier generating... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197265 | Color image forming devices for use in color printers A color image forming device includes a photosensitive unit, an exposing unit, a plurality of developing units, a first transfer body, a second transfer body and a fixing unit. The photosensitive unit includes a photosensitive member with a photosensitive layer. The... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7171140 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, includes an image bearing member having an endless belt shape, on which a toner image is formed, and the image bearing member, a drive roller, which rotates the image bearing member laid around the drive roller, a drive gear, which is con... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162177 | Back of the belt cleaner in an imaging system A rotating cleaning brush positioned to clean toner and debris from the back of an imaging belt. Additionally, a plurality of cleaning brushes assembled to clean the back of the imaging belt wherein charging a first and a second brush to approximately equal potentia... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7150908 | Conductive belt A conductive belt having a base layer (3) electroconductive and made of a resin, an intermediate layer (5) ionic-conductive and made of an elastomer, and a surface coating layer (7). The base layer (3) has a tensile modulus of elasticity ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151905 | Roller for supporting an imaging belt in a printing apparatus A belt photoreceptor in a xerographic printer is entrained on a roller formed from a set of discs. Each disc defines an outer circumference and a flexible main portion. The outer circumferences of a set of discs effectively form a single outer surface of the roller.... | 12/19/2006 |
