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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185036 | Medium transport apparatus, image forming apparatus and medium transport method The medium transport apparatus is provided with: a transport unit that transports a recording medium continuing in a direction, in the direction where the recording medium continues; a detection unit that detects a mark formed on the recording medium transported by ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8000646 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus includes: an image transfer unit that transfers an image to continuous paper provided with a plurality of sprocket holes along a paper length direction on both sides in a paper width direction; an image fixing unit that fixes the image tra... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7894763 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes at least one paper supply portion including a roll paper accommodating portion adapted to accommodate a paper roll constituted by winding long paper around a shaft, a roll paper holding portion on which the paper roll is temporari... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7865125 | Continuous feed printing system A continuous feed (CF) printing module, printing system, and method is provided. The CF printing module comprising an image transfer system configured to selectively mark a media web, and a media web transport system configured to selectively advance a media web wit... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865126 | Image forming apparatus The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including: a drive roller; an image forming unit; a fixing unit; a sub drive roller provided at the downstream side of the fixing unit, nipping and conveying a continuous-form-paper, on which the toner image ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7747209 | Printing apparatus A printing apparatus including a first component having a photosensitive member and a transcribing portion transcribing a toner image formed on the photosensitive member onto a web, and a second component having a web guide portion guiding the web transported to the... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7610009 | Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus includes: a transfer roller that transfers an image formed on a photoconductor drum onto continuous paper pressed against the photoconductor drum; and guide rollers that regulate the position of the continuous paper with respect to the p... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7590378 | Device and method for guiding a continuous web by means of a pivotable apparatus In a method or device for guiding an endless web, the endless web is guided via a first positionable roll to an additional positionable roll with a predetermined angle of wrap on each roll, shafts of the rolls lying parallel to one another in a plane and being held ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7539453 | Printer capable of reserving sheet wrapping width To provide a printer capable of minimizing the effect of a wrapping member, which is used for wrapping a recording form around a photoconductor, on image quality and realizing high image quality printing, a conveying roller 6, wrapping roller 8, and tr... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7406284 | Apparatus for improving image fidelity on high-speed electrophotographic printing systems An electrophotographic printing system having an apparatus for improving image fidelity is disclosed. The electrophotographic printing system includes a photosensitive drum, a first and second retractors and a paper presser. The first and second retractors position ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7401913 | Recording apparatus A conveying roller and a paper expelling roller provided upstream and downstream, respectively, of a recording portion in a conveyance direction are connected via an idler gear so as to be able to perform drive transmission, a rotation drive amount of the idler gear... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7395025 | Feeding device and feeding method, and image forming device A paper transporting apparatus transporting continuous paper to a paper processing part that performs designated processing on the continuous paper includes a drive roller that transports the continuous paper in a forward direction with respect to the paper processi... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7390084 | Ink jet printer having multiple transfixing modes An ink jet printer has an intermediate transfer drum that rotates past a print head and a downstream transfixing station. The surface of the drum is coated with a release agent. The print head ejects ink droplets onto the coated drum surface to form images thereon. ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7369800 | Device for preventing contact between transfer body and transfer medium tail edge portion in image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is constituted so as to be equipped with transfer apparatus(es) having transfer roller(s) electrostatically transferring development image(s) from photosensitive drum(s) to transfer medium/media, and so as to be provided with transfer medi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7332887 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a stepping motor that drives a rotor by rotating in accordance with an input of a drive pulse, a drive pulse profile storage portion that stores the drive pulse profiles corresponding to temporal changes of the drive pulse inputte... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7332361 | Xerographic micro-assembler Xerographic micro-assembler systems and methods are disclosed. The systems and methods involve manipulating charge-encoded micro-objects. The charge encoding identifies each micro-object and specifies its orientation for sorting. The micro-objects are sorted in a so... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7303165 | Roll positioning mechanism An apparatus for supporting rolls of work material for a printer includes first and second mandrel support plates each having a pair of mandrel supports spaced equidistant one from the other, along a length thereof. The first and second mandrel support plates are co... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7286147 | Line head and image forming device using the same A line head, includes a light-emitting element row, having a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction; a plurality of feeding portions; a first power supply line for power supply, connected to a first feeding portion for a power supply of t... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7274901 | Method and arrangement for generating positionally accurate print images on a carrier material The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for generating positionally-accurate print images on a carrier material with the aid of an electrophotographic printer or copier. A positioning error of the position of the carrier material with respect to a toner... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268905 | Bidirectional pre- and post- processor conduit through a bidirectional printing data stream A system and method for communicating commands and data to a printer and pre- and post-processors through a link using different protocols. In the exemplary embodiment, UP3I finishing instructions for a print file are specified in a MO:DCA Form Definition... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7257364 | Paper feeding mechanism for continuous form printer A paper feeding mechanism for a printer includes a discharging unit located on a downstream side of a paper feed path, a feeding unit located on an upstream side with respect to the image transfer station, a tension applying unit that operates to apply tension to th... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252914 | Toner for electrophotography and developer for electrophotography using the same, process cartridge, apparatus for forming image, and method for forming image A toner for electrophotography fulfilling both the fixability and the void resistance at high level, and forms a high-quality image. The toner for electrophotography contains: a binder resin; and a wax component which contains: a first wax having an endothermic peak... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251443 | Laser printer with diselectrification brush A laser printer includes a photoreceptor drum, a transfer roller contacting the photoreceptor drum, a transfer roller frame holding the transfer roller, an outer frame holding the transfer roller frame, a diselectrification brush fixed to the transfer roller frame, ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249903 | Assembly for feeding a continuous roll of web material to a sheet fed printing device An assembly for feeding, printing, and cutting a continuous web of material is provided. The web is fed from a roll supported in a roll feeding unit to a printer unit. The web can carry distinct image-receiving media items or can be a plain continuous web material. ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7236721 | Image forming device An image forming device includes a device main body, a process unit which is inserted into and removed from the device main body, and a lock mechanism which fixes a position of the process unit inserted in the device main body. The lock mechanism includes a slide me... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233765 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and electrophotographic print An image forming apparatus includes a forming unit configured to form a latent electrostatic image on a latent electrostatic image bearing member based on a digital image; a developing unit configured to develop the latent electrostatic image with a toner to form a ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7232122 | Jam detection method and system for an inserter A document assembly system with jam detection capability. The system including an accumulation chassis having a series of pusher fingers for pushing collations of documents. Above the chassis, document feeders release documents to the chassis to form the collations.... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7224255 | Overheat protection device for movable body surface, overheat protection apparatus using the same and temperature control device An overheat protection device for a movable body surface includes a thermal fuse having a fuse element which melts at a predetermined temperature, bridges electrodes in a pair and melts at a temperature equal to or higher than the predetermined temperature to break ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221893 | Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus such as a color laser printer wherein a toner image is transferred onto a continuous paper, one or more of a exposure timing of each exposure device, a rotation speed of each image carrier device, a transfer bias voltage applied to each... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215921 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus, such as a printer, having a frame member, wherein there is provided, inside the frame member and on the upstream side of a sheet discharging portion with respect to the sheet conveying direction, a buffering device equipped with a rotary ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7196809 | Printing system using printing plan There is provided a printing system which allows efficient printing at a low cost. In a printing system, unprocessed order information is arranged so as to be sequentially processed from order information which can be processed by a printer without changing paper du... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7192205 | Method for reducing printing position error and image forming apparatus using the same An apparatus and method are provided for reducing a printing position error, in which the method includes the steps of (a) driving an encoder wheel as many times as a predetermined number of forward counts at a predetermined initial acceleration, thereby making the ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7174125 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus of the invention at least includes: a transport control component for controlling a transporting component so that transporting of the continuous paper is stopped when a print job is finished, the continuous paper is back-transported to an... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167673 | Method and apparatus for using continuous media stock in a cut-sheet image forming device A device and method for applying images to continuous media stock, such as rolls of paper, blank labels, etc., using a cut-sheet image forming device. While the continuous media stock moves along a media path in the cut-sheet image forming device, one or more sensor... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7165765 | Sheet feeding apparatus and recording apparatus A sheet feeding apparatus for separating and feeding a plurality of sheets stacked on a sheet stacking portion one by one includes feeding means for feeding the plurality of sheets stacked on the sheet stacking portion, separation means for separating the sheets one... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158750 | Paper transport apparatus and paper transport method Provided are photosensitive body or bodies 31b carrying toner; transfer roller(s) 31d, rotating and coming in contact with photosensitive body or bodies 31b, for causing toner image(s) formed on photosensitive body or bodies... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7139522 | Image forming apparatus Provided is an image forming apparatus, in which liable to produce remaining curl, highly effective curl correction is performed. The image forming apparatus includes: a roll receiving portion for receiving a continuous recording sheet wound into a roll shape; a she... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7123871 | Neutralizing apparatus and image forming apparatus having the neutralizing apparatus An image forming apparatus having a sharp neutralizing member which can perform uniform neutralizing effects for a long period of time. The sharp neutralizing member includes sharp projections in which tip portions having the following relationship between a distanc... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7124117 | Method and apparatus for dynamically locating and printing a plurality of postage payment indicia on a mailpiece A processor based postage metering system includes structure for entering user input data including first and second fold configurations selected from a plurality of fold configurations; apparatus for accounting for postage dispensed by the processor based postage m... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7120381 | Image-forming machine A copier comprising rolled paper accommodation units in which the rolled papers are installed, paper feed rollers and paper conveying rollers for conveying the papers delivered from the rolled papers along a paper conveying passage, a cutter and an image-forming mea... | 10/10/2006 |
