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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8099004 | Image forming apparatus and image forming apparatus control method An image forming apparatus includes a first image carrier that carries a first latent image. A first charging section charges the first image carrier. A first exposure section exposes the first image carrier charged by the first charging section. A first developing ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7949269 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a black image forming unit that can be used in a black monochrome mode to form supply toner images corresponding to color patches and cause the supply toner images to be carried by an intermediate transfer belt. During the black m... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7822351 | Filling-rate lowering and rolling rate adjusting image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a toner-layer filling-rate lowering unit that causes a toner layer of toner images to be formed on an image carrier so that the toner layer has sufficient optical transparency for exposing and the toner-layer filling rate is set r... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7725046 | Image forming apparatus with ion generator Ions generated by the ion generating section are discharged from a paper sheet conveyer belt nozzle and an intermediate transfer belt nozzle, so that (i) a toner image transferred from a photosensitive drum onto an intermediate transfer belt and having yet to be tra... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7587148 | Image formation apparatus, an image formation method, an image formation program, and a recording medium An image formation apparatus, an image formation method, an image formation program, and a recording medium are disclosed. The image formation apparatus includes a first driving source for driving a feed roller and a fixing unit, a second driving source for driving ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7379681 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof Image forming apparatus in which surface electric potentials of a plurality of surface areas are detected by charging a photoconductor with a different applied bias for each predetermined timing and exposing a plurality of surface areas of the photoconductor by scan... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7366438 | Image forming apparatus which can optimize cleaning time of transfer member contacting inter-image area of image bearing member An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a toner image forming section for forming toner images on the image bearing member, whereby the toner image forming section forms a detection patch on the image bearing member; a transfer member for contac... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7348946 | Energy sensing light emitting diode display A display that includes energy sensors within the display itself is disclosed. An Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) can be made to operate both as a light emitter and as an energy detector. When forward biased with an appropriate driving signal, the OLED emits lig... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343109 | Electrophotographic printer having developer and transfer bias control An image forming apparatus including: a developing device that develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image bearing body into a visible image by using a charged developer, so as to form a developer image on the image bearing body; a developing-bias supp... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340190 | Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus, an image forming condition is changed depending on whether or not a recording material on which a toner image is formed is ordinary high gloss paper or thermoplastic resin coated paper. More specifically, in the case where a high gloss... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336910 | Image forming apparatus with gamma conversion means The invention provides an image forming apparatus and an image forming method, capable of providing an image with little deterioration, even in case the image contrast has to be adjusted not for the purpose of image adjustment, such as for reducing the toner consump... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324766 | Cross-process charge uniformity scanner In a xerographic printing apparatus, feedback on surface charge at a plurality of locations across a length of a photoreceptor may be desirable to assess charge uniformity, for example, to ensure color consistency across multiple marking engines in tightly integrate... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324765 | Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus, an image forming condition is changed depending on whether or not a recording material on which a toner image is formed is ordinary high gloss paper or thermoplastic resin coated paper. More specifically, in the case where a high gloss... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319842 | Pivotal sheet conveying apparatus for skew correction and image forming apparatus To provide a sheet conveying apparatus capable of enhancing an accuracy of correcting a skew of a sheet, and of preventing position shift of a sheet. The present invention provides a sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet by a sheet conveying unit disposed ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7312890 | Printing apparatus A method of applying a control strip having an appropriate size in accordance with the size of a print image is provided. Print image data is rasterized or RIP-processed in Step S1. Image layout data is acquired from the print image data in Step S2. Th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307754 | Density control method for image control apparatuses and image forming apparatus capable of executing the method There is provided an image forming apparatus which is capable of quickly performing measurements required for obtaining a proper image density. The image forming apparatus having a plurality of image forming apparatuses performs an image density adjustment control p... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7292798 | Image-forming device that sets image-forming conditions A control section sets the transfer bias level applied between a transfer roller and a photosensitive drum in the printer to a “ghost generation level.” The control section forms a test pattern on the recording medium by applying a transfer bias set to the ghost... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288058 | Semi-conductive roll A semi-conductive roll is provided including a shaft, a low-hardness base layer formed on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft, and a coating layer formed by coating the low-hardness base layer radially outwardly. The coating layer includes one of a rubber ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289133 | Method and apparatus for toner identification A simple and economical method and apparatus for identifying the toner installed in a multi-toner printer by identifying the toner holder installed in the printer is disclosed. Additionally, the multi-toner printer is controlled based on the toner holder installed a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287698 | Automatic cleanup of machine readable codes during image processing A method and apparatus for automatically scanning and/or rewriting a machine readable code (MRC) of a document are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes capturing an original machine-readable code (MRC) at a location of a document and generating a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283777 | System and method for characterizing fuser stripping performance Disclosed herein are several embodiments to facilitate the characterization of fuser stripping performance. Recognizing that the characteristics of a substrate exiting a fusing nip are indicative of the operation of the nip and the stripping operation itself, severa... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7273688 | Image forming method and image forming apparatus for same An electrophotographic image forming apparatus capable of reliably forming an image with density gradation, one which does not have a low-quality appearance. The estimated average halftone granularity of the toner image after developing but before electrostatic tran... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7259885 | Image forming apparatus with gamma conversion means The invention provides an image forming apparatus and an image forming method, capable of providing an image with little deterioration, even in case the image contrast has to be adjusted not for the purpose of image adjustment, such as for reducing the toner consump... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254349 | Image forming apparatus having means to control condition of current supply to discharge wire and grid of charging member An image forming apparatus is provided with an image bearing member, a charging member with a discharge wire and a grid, and a first current supply controlling member, which controls a current supply to the discharge wire. Also provided are a second current supply c... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251422 | Image correction method and image forming apparatus One embodiment of an image correction method is an image correction method for correcting image forming condition(s). The image correction method includes forming, on photoreceptor(s), correction test pattern(s) having continuously varying toner gradation; wherein a... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245313 | Image forming device An image forming device includes a main frame of the image forming device having a body, a drum shaft which is positioned and supported by the body of the main frame of the image forming device, a photoconductive drum which is provided removably in the main frame of... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245842 | Image forming apparatus, image forming system, image forming condition adjusting method, computer program carrying out the image forming condition adjusting method, and recording medium storing the program An image forming apparatus including: at least one image forming unit including an image bearing member bearing a latent image and a developing device configured to develop the latent image with a developer including a toner to form a toner image thereon; optionally... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7233755 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus which reduces abrasion of a photosensitive drum caused by a rotary brush such as an charging brush for electrically charging the surface of a photosensitive drum or a cleaning brush for cleaning the surface of a photosensitive drum. The ro... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7218879 | Image forming apparatus controlling polarity of residual toner and process cartridge for use in the same An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a charging device configured to uniformly charge a surface of the image carrier with a charging member applied with a bias of a first polarity (e.g. a negative polarity) for charging. A latent image forming devic... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7212226 | Image density control apparatus and image formation apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a memory which stores test pattern data. The test pattern data are configured for detecting a density of image data formed on a photo conductor. The image forming apparatus includes a laser unit which forms a plurality of test pat... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7202551 | Display device having underlying insulating film and insulating films A resin material having low dielectric constant is used as an inter-layer insulating film and its bottom surface is contacted with a silicon oxide film across the whole surface thereof. Thereby, the surface may be flattened and capacity produced between a thin film ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7187879 | Image forming apparatus At power-on, an image forming apparatus is in a state after it is leftstanding for some time in many cases, so that an image characteristic is largely different from that when γLUT correction table is prepared by an immediately before correction and is close to tha... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184675 | Fixing temperature control method and image forming apparatus with detection of thickness of a print medium In an image forming apparatus which has a medium thickness detecting unit for detecting a thickness of print medium and forms an image by an electrophotographic process, the apparatus has a unit for detecting the thickness of print medium that is used after a predet... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7164868 | Image forming apparatus with changeable image forming conditions due to changes in a surface layer thickness of an image bearing member An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member having a surface layer; an electrostatic image forming device for forming an electrostatic image on the surface layer; a developing device, containing at least toner and a carrier, for developing the electr... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162169 | Control system and method for mitigating transients in a machine due to occasional maintenance or service A control system and method of predicting how a machine will respond to occasional or periodic service, and adjusting the machine accordingly to account for the change in machine behavior due to the service, mitigates transients in machine performance. A prediction ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151901 | Image forming apparatus and associated method of detecting developer deterioration An image forming apparatus including a latent carrier and a charging device. The charging device is configured to charge a surface of the latent carrier. An exposure device is configured to expose a surface of the latent carrier for forming a latent image thereon. A... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7127187 | Tone reproduction curve and developed mass per unit area control method and system A method of controlling the solid developed mass per unit area and the tone reproduction curve in a printing machine by reading data from a sensor, comparing the data to an acceptable range of data values, where the data is not within the acceptable range of data va... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7125638 | Image forming method and image forming apparatus for same An electrophotographic image forming apparatus capable of reliably forming an image with density gradation, one which does not have a low-quality appearance. The estimated average halftone granularity of the toner image after developing but before electrostatic tran... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7123850 | Control system and method for mitigating transients in a machine due to occasional maintenance or service The exemplary embodiments are directed to a control system and method of predicting how a machine will respond to occasional or periodic maintenance or service, and adjusting the machine accordingly to account for the change in machine behavior due to the maintenanc... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123251 | Image display device The present invention aims at acquiring a display device with no brightness irregularities of display. A plurality of drain signal lines are formed in parallel on a pixel-forming-side surface of a substrate. With respect to the respective drain signal lines, a plura... | 10/17/2006 |
