Bizarre Patents
Self Containing Enclosure for Protection from Killer Bees
A self contained protective enclosure with an opening for entry and egress and a screen for ventilation and viewing.
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 |
| 8068754 | Image forming apparatus equipped having a hinge portion that connects an image forming portion and image reading portion An image forming apparatus including: an image forming portion for forming an image on a sheet; an image reading portion for reading an original, the image forming portion having a printed board having a projecting board surface projecting on an image reading portio... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8005385 | Electrophotographic system to enable direct sensing of toner quantity A system is provided that determines the amount of toner on a photo receptor in a xerographic operation. A photo receptor is charged in one or more locations to create an image. A developer places a patch of a predetermined amount of toner onto the one or more charg... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7894733 | Process cartridge and image forming apparatus A process cartridge detachably is mountable to a main assembly of the apparatus of an image forming apparatus including an urging member and a positioning portion. The cartridge includes a photosensitive drum; a positionable portion positioning the cartridge by enga... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7885566 | Toner consumption-calculating apparatus, image forming apparatus, and toner consumption calculating method A toner consumption-calculating apparatus includes a printed portion area-detecting unit that detects an area of a printed portion of image data of a latent image that is formed on a latent image-bearing member; a latent image portion area-detecting unit that detect... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7773901 | Image forming apparatus and control method thereof An image forming apparatus includes a transport unit having a transport belt which transports a printing medium in a transport direction along a transport path, an image forming unit which transfers toner to the printing medium to form an image, a density evaluation... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7646997 | Toner replenishing device and image forming apparatus having the same A toner replenishing device of a toner consumption calculating portion calculates a toner consumption using a gray scale value of each pixel in a multiple-value image inputted from an image data input portion. The calculated toner consumption is corrected by a corre... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7546048 | Method for determining ink usage efficiency in commercial printing processes using pigments and quantitative tests A method for determining printing ink usage efficiency (weight of ink required to print a given area) in a printing process is disclosed where the method is based on the analysis of pigment in the printed ink. ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7360886 | Position deviation detecting method and image forming device In a position deviation detecting method for an image forming device, first and second patterns formed in different colors on image supporting mediums are transferred to an intermediate transfer medium in an overlapping manner, the first patterns formed in a color w... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359652 | Image forming apparatus with tone correction and control method thereof A first pattern is formed on a recording medium using a dark color substance and light color substance with substantially the same hue by supplying first pattern data to an image forming unit, and the density of the pattern is detected. If a variation in the detecte... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7327963 | Image forming apparatus for determining and correcting magnification and location of image formation An image forming apparatus equipped with a fixing device that fixes an unfixed image formed on a transfer sheet thereto, the image forming apparatus having: an image forming device for forming the unfixed image on the basis of image data; and an image pattern sensor... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324769 | Image forming apparatus having a changeable adjustment toner image positioning feature In an image forming apparatus in which an maximum image width for image forming is smaller than the sum of a maximum recording material width of a usable recording material and length of two pattern images for a density correction and a registration deviation correc... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315704 | Wet-type image forming apparatus, a toner concentration sensing method, and a method for controlling wet-type image forming apparatus A wet-type image forming apparatus and method is provided to sense and maintain a toner concentration level of a developer, and includes a counter for counting the number of dots of input print data, a memory for storing an average coverage of a print medium which c... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7298980 | Feed forward and feedback toner concentration control utilizing post transfer sensing for TC set point adjustment for an imaging system A toner concentration control system for maintaining image quality in a developer structure, the toner concentration control system including: a transfer efficiency estimator for measuring a transfer efficiency estimate associated with a developed image on an imagin... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7286778 | Feed forward mitigation of development transients A development system for an electrophotographic system including: a magnetic brush roll speed selector for selecting a rotational speed for a magnetic brush roll in a development system of the electrophotographic system; and a controller, responsive to the rotationa... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280788 | Image forming apparatus and transferring method An image forming apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a plurality of image bearing members, an intermediate transfer member, a plurality of first transfer devices, a second transfer device, and a charge amount adjustment section. The image b... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274887 | System and method for setup of toner concentration target for a toner concentration sensor A method by which the target of a toner concentration (TC) sensor can be set up based on the equivalent developability concept without using an expensive patch generator. First, use a black toner area coverage (BTAC) sensor to measure the relative reflectance (RR) o... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272333 | Image quality measurements using linear array in specular mode A method and system for controlling a printing device's tone reproduction curve, which may minimize contouring and help maximize the number of shades or colors available for an output image. ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269362 | Image forming apparatus, control method and toner consumption calculating apparatus and method When the remaining toner amount within a developer is relatively large, a control target value of a toner amount is set to Ttgt1, and a lower limit value of a toner amount which can regarded proper is set to TL1. When the density of a patch image forme... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7239427 | Method of making correction for color sensor output values in color image forming apparatus, and color image forming apparatus Provided are a method of making correction for color sensor output values in color image forming apparatus, which succeeds in improving color reproducibility of the color image forming apparatus, and the color image forming apparatus provided with the method. For th... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239816 | Automated image appearance control method An input image capture device, capable of sampling the color density and gloss of the fused printed image (thus not requiring the printing of density patches on a separate calibration page), may compare the printed image's color density and gloss to a predicted valu... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236711 | Full-width array sensing of two-dimensional residual mass structure to enable mitigation of specific defects A defect analysis system for a xerographic print engine includes a residual mass sensor that senses the two-dimensional signature structure of residual mass remaining on a photoconductive or other substrate surface after image transfer. Preferably, the sensor is a f... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228007 | Resolution correction apparatus, resolution correction program, and computer-readable recording medium having same program recorded thereon A resolution correction apparatus of the present invention includes: an outline signal generator for generating an outline signal, which represents an outline of an image, based on an image signal; an outline correction signal generator for generating an outline cor... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221882 | Image forming apparatus and image formation control method in the same An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming parts, a moving medium continuously moving on the image forming parts, first and second image forming devices, a test image density measuring device, and a control device. The first test image forming ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218870 | Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a developing apparatus, a developer density detection portion, an image density detection portion, an environment detection portion, and a developer replenishing apparatus. The image forming apparatus fur... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215812 | Image processing method recording medium with recorded image processing program and image processing apparatus An image processing method for carrying out predetermined correction processing with respect to one or more items regarding the quality of color images and the image processing method comprises a judgment step for judging the necessity/nonnecessity of correction wit... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206068 | Image forming device, post-processing device and color calibration method An image forming device includes: a toner image forming unit that forms a toner image onto a recording medium; a controlling unit that controls the toner image forming unit such that a test image is formed on the recording medium; a sheet transfer unit that transfer... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202968 | Print layout apparatus and method This invention relates to a technique that prevents an image from falling outside a given range when a printer is controlled to form an image on an arbitrary medium while assuring a margin of a predetermined amount. A host computer shifts an image by only a partial ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7190912 | Tandem type color image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image bearing members that bear a latent image each and a detector corresponding to each image bearing member. The detectors optically detect density of toner images present on corresponding one of the image bearing... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7183534 | Photodetector, method of using the same, and image forming apparatus A photodetector includes a light emitting portion for applying light, a light receiving portion for sensing the light, and a light guiding member 3 for guiding the light from the light emitting portion to a surface to be measured and guiding detection light f... | 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 |
| 7162187 | Image forming apparatus and image forming method In an image forming apparatus, a toner image is formed on a photosensitive element and a transfer roller, which carries a transfer medium, is pressed against a photosensitive element at a pressure of from 20.4 N/cm2 to 200 N/cm2. ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158732 | Method and system for using toner concentration as an active control actuator for TRC control A method of using toner concentration (TC) as an active actuator in the tonal reproduction curve (TRC) controller, so that not only will the TRC controller maintain the TRC of the output, but also all the electrostatic actuators will not diverge, and the toner conce... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7149439 | Method and device for estimating toner concentration and image forming apparatus equipped with such device A method and device for estimating toner concentration in a two-component developer consisting of toner and carrier for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and an image forming apparatus equipped with such device. The above method and device calculate an... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7147025 | Image forming apparatus capable of counting consumable consumption amount, and control method and control program therefor An image forming apparatus which is capable of accurately performing a video count process based on image data and thus maintaining the quality of images even where DMA transfer processing is used. An image forming device performs a process using a consumable materi... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7133148 | Digital camera for image device calibration The invention is directed to an apparatus for calibrating an output of an image output device, comprising an image input device configured to image an output of the image output device; and a test pattern generator having an output of a dynamic test patch area and a... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120369 | Method and apparatus for correcting non-uniform banding and residual toner density using feedback control A feedback control method for controlling an ununiform banding on a photoreceptor is disclosed that includes arranging optical sensors on a photoreceptor, transferring an amount of toner on a piece of paper, measuring the resulting amount of banding, and adjusting t... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113310 | Method of processing image An attentional portion to be corrected in gradation of an image is specified, and a gradation corrective function with respect to a density of the specified attentional portion is generated. Preset gradation conversion characteristics are corrected with the gradatio... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7099600 | Image forming device that performs density detection During a first rotation of a photoconductor, latent electrostatic images for color correction processing patterns are formed on the photoconductor, and the latent electrostatic images are developed into the color correction processing patterns in each of four colors... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7097270 | Color image forming apparatus and method for controlling color image forming apparatus The invention makes it possible to realize controlling of the density-gradation characteristics that is superior in that gray balance of tertiary color is taken into account as compared to conventional control of the density-gradation characteristics that uses only ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092647 | Image forming apparatus This invention realizes and provides an image forming apparatus in which the presence or absence of a toner remaining in a toner storing portion is judged by a patch detecting method, characterized in that the wrong detection of the judgment of the presence or absen... | 08/15/2006 |
