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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8055179 | Image forming apparatus, method therefor, and program An image forming apparatus capable of efficiently performing an image forming processing even in a case where a post-processing apparatus performs a post-processing during a both-sides printing. A first time period needed by a first both-sides image forming processi... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8000645 | Print engine productivity module inverter A productivity module for increasing duplex throughput of a first print engine includes a second print engine, a controller, and an inverter. The controller is configured to receive one or more timing signals from the first print engine and synchronize timing of the... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7881652 | Modular printer and scanner ADF duplexer feedpath including second tray A modular duplexing housing for an all-in-one device which may be added at a final stage of assembly in order to convert a simplex printing unit into a duplex printing and duplex ADF scanning unit. The modular duplexing unit includes a duplexing feedpath which may b... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7664454 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a medium transporting mechanism. A first transporting section transports a recording medium on which an image is formed. A second transporting section receives the recording medium from the first transporting section and then furt... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7620359 | Method for processing a duplexed document A method for processing a duplexed document having a first side with a first image and a second side with a second image includes scanning only the first side of the document under a first imaging condition to retrieve first information relating to each of the first... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7561843 | Method and system of paper registration for two-sided imaging A registration and measurement system for a printing machine includes two drive rollers and two opposing idler rollers. Each drive roller and idle roller combination respectively form a drive nip. A single servo or stepper motor is operably connected to the drive ro... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7483668 | Method for achieving accurate page margins on a media and duplex imaging apparatus thereof A method for achieving accurate page margins on a media and a duplex imaging apparatus thereof. The method comprises: detecting a leading edge position by an edge sensor and a first left-to-right position of the media by an alignment sensor in a first imaging path; ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7444115 | Two-side image forming apparatus A two-side image forming apparatus of the present invention is provided with a first sheet-transferring path, for use in one-side image formation, for transferring, to a printed sheet storage section via an image transcribing section, a sheet supplied from an unprin... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444095 | Image forming apparatus and printing control method therefor The present invention is an image forming apparatus having no two-sided printing mechanism in which, by setting a front side printed paper sheet in a manual paper feed section, the paper sheet is taken from the manual paper feed section and a back side printing is e... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7413359 | Method and apparatus for printing A printing apparatus includes a base coupled to a copying device and a printing device. A feed mechanism is provided which is operable to couple to the base in one of either a first position or a second position, whereby the feed mechanism is operable to feed a docu... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414762 | Single pass duplex document path for a digital scanner A document handling system includes an imaging area; a light source located in proximity to the imaging area; a raster imaging scanning system located in proximity to the imaging area; and a looped document path, located in proximity to the imaging area, having an e... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7414764 | Duplex/simplex automatic sheet feeder A duplex/simplex automatic sheet feeder includes a sheet input tray, a sheet output tray, a first sheet-feeding path, a temporary storage region, a first sheet-feeding mechanism, a second sheet-feeding path and a second sheet-feeding mechanism. The temporary storage... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7400855 | Winding media Embodiments of device and methods for winding media are illustrated and described. ... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7391986 | Image forming system for forming images on one side or both sides of recording media An image forming system includes a document conveying section that reversely conveys documents such that a front side and back side of the documents pass through a reading position, an image reading section for reading images on the documents conveyed to the reading... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7389085 | Image forming apparatus and sheet conveying apparatus When a recording material is conveyed to a double surface conveying portion, a second conveying roller pair is forward driven to convey the recording material conveyed by a first conveying roller pair forward driven. A control portion performs control so that the dr... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7349110 | Method and server for managing printer The present invention realizes resource saving and energy saving by grasping and managing a usage efficiency of an image forming apparatus. To accomplish this, a method in accordance with the present invention is an information processing method of managing usage in... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345776 | Information processing apparatus and method In an information processing apparatus when the body pages are set to start from the back side of the cover, the cover is printed on the first side of the first sheet, the first page of the body is printed on the second side of the first sheet, and the second and su... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7331647 | Image recording apparatus and image recording method for the image recording apparatus image An apparatus and method for printing images on both sides of a recording medium. The timing of starting conveying the next recording medium is determined from a schedule that satisfies three conditions. The first condition a leading end of the next medium reaches a ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324781 | Automatic document transportation device An automatic document transportation device includes a document tray, a document discharge tray, a transportation path, a document feed roller, a separating pad, transportation rollers, a Charge Coupled Device (CCD) scanning unit, a Contact Image Sensor (CIS) scanni... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318585 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus to reverse a sheet, includes a branched conveyance path branched from a connection point between an entry and conveyance path and a reversal and conveyance path provided downstream of the entry and conveyance path. When a sheet conveyor fe... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317885 | Image forming apparatus mounted with an open and close unit An image forming apparatus includes a first frame plate and a second frame plate, which has an extended portion horizontally extending by a predetermined length compared with the first frame plate. The first and second frame plates are oppositely disposed spaced apa... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7292820 | Integrated media input tray including electronics A removable media tray for an image forming apparatus includes a housing, an exit port in the housing, a primary media stack, and a multi-purpose tray (MPT) input. Within the tray are first and second pick mechanisms operative to select a media sheet from the primar... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7274903 | Integrated fuser unit and drive system for use in an electrophotographic imaging process An integrated fuser unit has a drive system with a motor and a drive train mounted in the fuser unit frame. A swing arm assembly engages and disengages the hot roll from the drive train. ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7260339 | Fuser unit operation for gloss consistency A method of operating a fuser for duplex printing includes equilibrating the fuser roll surface temperatures by rotating the rolls at a speed faster than the process speed between fusing an image on a first side of the media and fusing an image on a second side of t... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258500 | Media processing apparatus and scanner unit The media processing apparatus has a first transportation path for guiding the check, a second transportation path and a third transportation path that diverge from the first transportation path, a front scanner that is rendered along the first transportation path f... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258340 | Sheet registration within a media inverter Parallel printing systems and methods incorporate inverter assemblies for not only inverting media during transport through the system but also to register the media and to provide a velocity buffer transport with different drive velocities. The inverter assemblies ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7249760 | Paper pickup mechanism A paper pickup mechanism mounted in a feeder includes several driving gears, connecting rods, a pickup roller and a twist restricting gear. By means of the twist restricting gear, the paper pickup mechanism provides an equal pickup force under different paper loads.... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7248378 | Image reader with two duplex copy modes An image reader has an original tray for feeding an original from a bundle of originals, a first transport passage for transporting the original fed by the original tray, a scanner for reading an image on one side of the original from one side of the transported ori... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245844 | Printing system A printing system includes first and second marking engines. First and second fusers are associated with the marking engines, respectively. The printing system has a first mode of operation in which print media is fused by both fusers and a second mode of operation ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245871 | Image forming system having switching section for stackers and image forming method thereof An image forming system including: an image forming section for forming an image on a paper; a transporting path for transporting the paper on which the image has been formed in the image forming section; a plurality of stackers for stacking the paper transported by... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7231165 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a recording medium supplying device that supplies a recording medium; an image carrier arranged beneath the recording medium supplying device in a gravitation direction; a carrying passage that transports the recording medium sup... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227394 | Signal synchronizer system and method A signal synchronizer according to embodiments herein uses a delay register that receives a feedback signal. The delay register has many delay circuits, each of which are adapted to delay the feedback signal at different time intervals. A storage register made up of... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7222955 | Both-side recording apparatus The recording paper is transported to a paper inversion unit in such a manner that, when recording of a first surface of a recording paper is performed, the recording paper is transported to a position where a rear end of the recording paper is released from a pair ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7209249 | Method of and apparatus for image formation, and computer product Common portions of applications are extracted as common system service. A platform is formed by the common system service and a general purpose OS. A printer application, a copy application, and various applications are mounted on the platform. As a result, each sof... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7203435 | Image forming apparatus and printer having a double-sided printing mode An image forming apparatus operating in a double-sided print mode, includes a charger for charging an image carrier, a charge voltage loader for applying a charge voltage to the charger, an image forming device for forming an image on a recording material, and a con... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7192026 | Duplexer having an auxiliary roller that exhibits slippage This invention relates to a duplexer, comprising; a media input nip, an auxiliary roller nip located downstream of the media input nip such that the auxiliary roller nip comprises an auxiliary drive roller that exhibits slippage so that the auxiliary roller nip main... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7192207 | Both-side recording apparatus and recording method In both-side recording, wherein the fed recording sheet is conveyed to the recording portion and after the recording is executed on a face side surface, the recording sheet is conveyed to a sheet reversing portion where both sides are reversed, and is sent to the re... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7185962 | Ink jet apparatus and ink jet print method having a plurality of double-sided printing modes An ink jet print apparatus having a plurality of double-sided printing modes (e.g., automatic double-sided printing mode and manual double-sided printing mode) produces a sufficient image quality whichever mode is executed. For this purpose, image data to be printed... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7170630 | Communication terminal device A communication terminal device capable of efficiently using an image memory for storing a received image when performing both-side receiving by using both-side receiving function. A main control unit makes an image memory store the received image when performing bo... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7149005 | Depth of field control device A depth of field control device is provided. The depth of field control device is installed on an automatic document feeder having a scan glass surface. The depth of field control device comprises a plate member having at least one protrusion on its front side and a... | 12/12/2006 |
