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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7689153 | Image forming system having charge balancing system An image formation system is configured by connecting two or more image formation devices. The system includes a fixing device fixing an unfixed development image to a record medium and a charge elimination device eliminating a charge of the record medium in an inle... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7395004 | Image forming apparatus featuring first and second toner removing sequence selected on the basis of a toner amount per unit area An image forming apparatus includes an executing portion, which executes a first removing sequence and a second removing sequence when removing a toner image borne on an intermediate transfer member. The first removing sequence passes the toner image through a prima... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7369147 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof An image forming apparatus includes a first writing control device configured to control a writing of a first latent image, a second writing control device configured to control a writing of a second latent image, and a criterion timing determination device configur... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359663 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus has a plurality of developing units for developing toner images of different colors, an intermediate transfer belt for transferring the toner images of the respective colors onto a surface of the belt or onto a recording sheet transported ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7303243 | Pattern drawing apparatus and pattern drawing method for forming patterns, that have mirror image relationship to each other with respect to a substrate, on both sides of the substrate, and test apparatus for use in the pattern drawing apparatus A pattern drawing apparatus for forming patterns, that have a mirror image relationship to each other with respect to a substrate, on both sides of the substrate forms the patterns on both sides of the substrate by drawing the patterns directly on both sides of the ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295795 | Image forming apparatus and an impurity collecting device associated with registration rollers An image forming method begins with a first image transfer step for thermally transferring a first toner image from a first image carrier to a second image carrier contacting it. Subsequently, in a second image transfer step, the first toner image carried on the sec... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295799 | Synchronous duplex printing systems using pulsed DC fields An imaging system may use pulsed dc voltages to synchronously image on both sides of a receiver material, such as during a single pass of the receiver material through the imaging system. The imaging system may use electrophotographic processes to image on the recei... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7221894 | Image forming apparatus which prevents misregistration To provide an image forming apparatus including a first image bearing member, first toner image forming means which forms a first toner image on the first image bearing member, an intermediate transfer member in which a circumferential face is formed, the circumfere... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7212321 | Simple and compact automatic document feed device containing a single adjusting unit An automatic document feed device having reading means for stopping a conveyed document to a reading position on a platen and sequentially reading images of two sides of the document one side by one, includes an adjusting unit, provided upstream of the reading posit... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7136614 | Duplex printer Provided is a duplex printer and method of duplex printing. The duplex printer and method of printing includes a paper feeding belt that is vertically installed to form a first vertical surface; a photosensitive drum that is installed to contact the first vertical s... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7103306 | Double-sided printing apparatus and double-sided printing method A double-sided printing apparatus includes: a first printing control unit which receives printing data including page-number information per slip so as to print a slip on the obverse of a sheet by selecting printing data for printing on the obverse; and a second pri... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7097297 | Ink jet printer, and image printing apparatus having the printer This invention relates to an ink jet printer including a printing-head which discharges photo-curing ink toward a printing sheet, and a light irradiation unit which irradiates the ink landing surface of the printing sheet with light, wherein the light irradiation un... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099029 | Method for aligning two or more independent printing systems with a single control unit and intelligent print controllers A method and system receives a print job from a host device, parses the print job into individual print data for at least two separate printing devices, generates a random set of marks for identification of the print job, embeds the identification marks into the ind... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7082980 | Adhesive applicator in a page printing and binding process A binding process includes the application of respective parts of a two-part binding adhesive as strips at either side of a page to be bound. Part A of a two-part adhesive is applied to one side of a page and Part B of the two-part adhesive is applied to the reverse... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082282 | Image formation method and image formation apparatus for same An image formation method and image formation apparatus capable of forming images on both sides of a recording medium even if a first image formation unit or a second image formation unit does not have the required functions. Detection is conducted to determine whet... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7054587 | Image forming apparatus for recording on two sides in a single pass An image forming apparatus for recording on two sides in a single pass, with which the transfer of a toner image onto one side of a recording medium and the transfer of a toner image onto the other side can both be performed under optimal conditions, which results i... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7039349 | Image forming apparatus transferring toner images to both surfaces of a recording medium An image forming apparatus operable in a duplex print mode includes an image carrier and an image transferring device including a first and a second intermediate image transfer body whose surfaces are movable in contact with each other while forming a nip therebetwe... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7018680 | Method for simultaneously powder coating both surfaces of a continuous web A continuous web having a first surface and a second surface is coated with a coating powder by allowing the web to move between a first and a second electrode, which are in different potentials and are located on the opposite sides of the web, applying the coating ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016636 | Double-sided image forming apparatus and method In a double-sided image forming apparatus and method, back-side images are developed on a first middle transfer belt prior to developing of front-side images on the first middle transfer belt, and the back-side images are transferred to a second middle transfer belt... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010260 | Method and transport apparatus for pre-fusing toner on a print material Transporting print material covered on the front side with toner for back side printing in which the toner is prefused on the front side of the print material by heating the toner over its glass transition temperature prior to returning the print material for back s... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6965750 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus of this invention is provided with a conveying guide that is curved in the direction reverse to the curved shape of a nip portion of a fixing unit in order for leading sheet paper that is vertically conveyed at the time of fixing in the ho... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6963715 | Image transfer section of color image forming apparatus A color image forming apparatus comprises photoconductor drums on which toner images of each color are developed and formed; an endless intermediate transfer belt arranged in a contactable state with the photoconductor drums to run; first bias transfer rollers which... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6941086 | Image forming apparatus and image forming system for forming an image on two sides of a recording medium A photoreceptor transfers a first image to a first side of a paper, an intermediate transfer belt transfers a second image to a second side of the paper. The intermediate transfer belt also conveys the paper. A conveying unit directly conveys the paper, with the ima... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6934503 | Printer A printer prints on two sides of a sheet of paper having continuous pages, and discharges the paper to a postprocessor for disconnecting the paper in page units and storing the disconnected sheets of paper in a stack. Depending on whether the postprocessor has an in... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6918665 | Printing system with compact transfer roller A compact motorized transfer roller for a printer is disclosed. The roller has a cylindrical body with an outer surface and an interior space. A motor is located in the interior space and rotates the body. The rotating body advances and prints on a sheet of media. I... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6764800 | Image forming process, and photosensitive member employed therefor In an electrophotographic image process, a latent image is formed on a photosensitive drum, and a toner image is formed on the latent image. The toner image is temporarily transferred onto an intermediate image-transfer element. The photosensitive drum and the inter... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6671486 | Common polarity toner duplexing electrostatographic reproduction machine A common polarity duplexing electrostatographic reproduction machine is provided and includes (i) a first plurality of toner image producing electrostatographic modules that each include a first image forming surface, image forming devices, and charged to... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6608985 | Image-forming apparatus and method for image recording on two sides of a medium using a positioning mark An image forming apparatus includes a first image bearing member, a second image bearing member, a positioning mark forming device configured to form a positioning mark on the second image bearing member, and a positioning mark detecting device configured... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6608988 | Constant inverter speed timing method and apparatus for duplex sheets in a tandem printer The disclosed embodiments are directed to a method and apparatus for duplex imaging in a tandem print engine system. The features of the disclosed embodiments include imaging a first side of a sheet in a first marking module in the system, inverting the s... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6584295 | Method and apparatus for forming an image in a duplex print mode An image forming apparatus of the present invention is operable in a duplex print mode for printing images on both sides of a recording medium. A toner image is transferred from a first image carrier to a second image carrier and then transferred from the... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6556804 | Printer or copier for simultaneously printing a supporting material on both sides A printer or copier operates to print a carrier material on both sides. A transfer station in the printer or copier has two transfer bands which transfer toner images onto the supporting material. A transfer corotron recharges the toner particles to a pol... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6535711 | Process for the double-sided printing and/or coating of a substrate A process is proposed for the double-sided printing and/or coating of a substrate using at least one liquid or dry toner that has at least one polymer. It is provided that at least one toner layer or a first image that has at least one toner layer is tran... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6393244 | Color shift correcting structure of image forming apparatus An image-forming device such as a full color printer is provided which is designed to correct the speed of an image carrier such as a sheet conveyer belt for compensating for a shift between colors. The image-forming device forms electrostatic marks on th... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6385426 | Image forming apparatus having contact area between recording material bearing member and transfer means that is less than contact area between image bearing member and recording material An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for bearing an image, a recording material bearing member for bearing a recording material electrostatically, and a transfer member for transferring the image on the image bearing member electros... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6360070 | Image forming apparatus including a plurality of closely spaced transfer stations for sequentially transferring aligned, superimposed image portions to a printing medium Assuming the photosensitive drum for black as a reference, the phase of the adjacent photosensitive drum for cyan leads by about 60 deg. Similarly, the phase of the photosensitive drum for magenta leads by about 120 deg., and the phase of the photosensiti... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6347200 | Duplex image forming apparatus The present invention concerns a duplex image forming apparatus, which can form images on both sides of a transfer sheet by employing an intermediate transfer element. The duplex image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a toner image form... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6337958 | Matching the printing characteristics between two engines of a duplex print system A duplex printing system including two print engines arranged in tandem for printing a first and second density patch on a print medium, at least one density sensing device adapted for measuring the density of the first and second density patches printed ... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6334039 | Method and apparatus for image forming apparatus capable of accurately detecting toner image patterns An image forming apparatus includes a belt member to convey a sheet-formed medium, a belt supporting device to support the belt member, and a plurality of recording units including rotating image bearing members arranged in a conveying direction of the sh... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6253054 | Modular electrophotographic multicolor printer An electrophotographic printer includes a print unit with a photoconductor that receives a toner image and another printing unit to produce another toner image. The printer unit is removably fastenable in a receptacle in the printer, and other identically... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6246856 | Printer and copier device and method for performance-adapted, monochrome and/or chromatic, single-sided or both-sided printing of a recording medium A printer or copier and method generates toner images for transfer onto a recording medium. A latent charge image is generated on a photoconductor and is developed by the application of toner by at least one developer station to generate the toner image f... | 06/12/2001 |
