| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,548,720 |
Image reading apparatus capable of reading an image with improved accuracy An image reading apparatus includes a body and an auto document feeder. The body includes an exposure glass, a reader for reading an image of an original sheet... |
| US-7,548,719 |
Fixing unit including heat roller with tubular heater and fitting surface A fixing unit includes: a casing; a heat roller that is rotatably supported and that supplies heat for fixing; and a tubular heater disposed in parallel in the... |
| US-7,548,718 |
Fixing device for fixing an unfixed toner image on a recording medium and
image forming apparatus including the... A fixing device, which fixes an unfixed toner image on a recording medium, includes a heating roller, a fixing roller, a pressurizing roller, and an endless belt... |
| US-7,548,717 |
Fixing apparatus A fixing apparatus that fuses and firmly adheres an unfixed developer onto a recording medium includes a heating roller and a pressure roller; a belt-shaped... |
| US-7,548,716 |
Color gamut and enhanced transfer using hybrid architecture design A color printing machine with a hybrid development architecture is provided including a photoreceptor, a first and second set of development housings, a biased... |
| US-7,548,715 |
Container for toner cartridge A container for a toner cartridge includes a hollow main body defining a longitudinal central axis. The main body has a first section near a rear end thereof, a... |
| US-7,548,714 |
Developer container and image forming apparatus An object of the invention is to provide a developer container in which a container main body is protected against damage by an external torsional and bending... |
| US-7,548,713 |
Drive transmitting device, and image forming apparatus In a driving motor that rotates and drives a rotor by a magnetic force generated between a rotor and a stator, a constant velocity joint that transmits a... |
| US-7,548,712 |
Image forming apparatus, drum unit, image forming module, and method of
insertion and removal of a damper into... A latent image carrier includes a thin-walled cylinder with a chargeable photosensitive layer. The latent image carrier is configured to form an electrostatic... |
| US-7,548,711 |
Web cleaning apparatus for electrographic printer A cleaning station for removing particulate material from a moving web in an electrographic printer/copier includes a customer-replaceable web-cleaner device... |
| US-7,548,710 |
Dual sliding shutter system An image forming device includes a removable cartridge holding toner, supplying toner to a developer. The cartridge and developer each include a shutter to... |
| US-7,548,709 |
Transfer unit, transfer method, and image forming apparatus A transfer unit includes: an intermediate transfer belt that (i) holds a toner image that has been transferred from a photoreceptor drum and (ii) moves a surface... |
| US-7,548,708 |
Power supply unit in image forming apparatus A power supply unit in an image forming apparatus is provided. The power supply unit includes a piezoelectric transformer, an output voltage detecting circuit... |
| US-7,548,707 |
Image-forming apparatus, control apparatus, control method, and
computer-readable medium An image-forming apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives a request of a user; a fixing unit that heats an unfixed image on a recording medium to... |
| US-7,548,706 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method for adjusting heat
applied during the fixing stage An image forming apparatus that performs fixing processing on a sheet having a transferred toner image in smaller area units than the size of the sheet includes... |
| US-7,548,705 |
Systems and methods for marking test patches for calibrating and/or
visually confirming color accuracy of a... A printer or other marking device forms a first desired image in a first area, such as a main image area, of a first substrate; forms a first portion of a set of... |
| US-7,548,704 |
Image forming apparatus effectively conducting a process control An image forming apparatus includes at least one image bearing member, an intermediate transfer member, a secondary transfer member, and at least one optical... |
| US-7,548,703 |
Image forming apparatus administration system with developer density
detection and developer lifetime... An image forming apparatus including an electrostatic image forming device, which forms an electrostatic image on an image bearing member, a developing... |
| US-7,548,702 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method for preventing paper jams
in a fixing unit There is provided a technique in which a paper jam in a fixing unit can be prevented without adding a special part or the like, and without causing a damage of a... |
| US-7,548,701 |
Reusable image forming medium and apparatus for reusing the image forming
medium For a sheet paper used for forming a toner image or ink image, a surface layer that can be stripped is stacked on a plastic layer. A sliding member is caused to... |
| US-7,548,700 |
Receiving apparatus and method thereof According to the invention, there is provided a receiving apparatus including: a first threshold voltage generation unit which generates a first threshold... |
| US-7,548,699 |
Channel-length modulation (CLM) compensation method and apparatus A power supply generates a supply voltage that varies from a first voltage level to a second voltage level. A first current source is coupled to the power supply... |
| US-7,548,698 |
Light communication system and illumination apparatus therefor An illumination apparatus is used in the light communication system. The apparatus receives electricity from a commercial alternating-current power source and a... |
| US-7,548,697 |
Method and device for controlling a remote vehicle A system and method for controlling a remote vehicle comprises a hand-held controller including a laser generator for generating a laser beam. The hand-held... |
| US-7,548,696 |
Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) optical receiver with distributed gain control A fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) system transmits forward and reverse optical signals, such as video, voice, and data signals, via optical fiber, and includes a... |
| US-7,548,695 |
Wireless signal distribution system and method A communications system connects one or more BTS hotels with several remote access nodes on a transmission ring. Each operator has one or more separate optical... |
| US-7,548,694 |
Apparatus of adjusting optical signal transmission timing In a light reception element such as an APD (Avalanche Photo Diode) used for receiving a high-speed and weak optical signal, it is possible to prevent the... |
| US-7,548,693 |
Relay transmission apparatus A relay transmission apparatus in which the effectiveness of a protecting function is improved by suppressing variation of an OSNR value of a signal regardless... |
| US-7,548,692 |
Bit error rate based system and method for optimizing communication system
performance A system (50) includes a communication path (170) and transmits data on a network (103, 106). A transmitter (101) transmits data on the network and a receiver... |
| US-7,548,691 |
Camera module for combining distant image and close image into single
image A camera module is advantageously used in a vision system mounted on an automotive vehicle. The camera module includes a first optical system focused on distant... |
| US-7,548,690 |
Shutter device There is provided a shutter device which is used in a camera having two image-capturing optical systems and enables a significant reduction in the number of... |
| US-7,548,689 |
Image processing method In a method for processing an image, a scene to be captured is divided into multiple zones and statistical values for a plurality of the multiple zones are... |
| US-7,548,688 |
Optical apparatus An optical apparatus having a viewfinder optical system includes a Fresnel lens capable of converging light onto a focusing screen and a plurality of microprism... |
| US-7,548,687 |
Focus detecting apparatus and optical device In a camera of the invention, during focus detection, luminous flux from an object is transmitted by a main mirror via an imaging lens, and then, is reflected by... |
| US-7,548,686 |
Image-capturing apparatus and driving method of optical system An image-capturing apparatus for controlling a drive system for an optical system corresponding to the position of an operation unit includes a motor for driving... |
| US-7,548,685 |
Rotating device, barrel unit, image sensing apparatus installed with the
same A rotating device 9 is for rotating a vertically long drivable element 90 about specified two axes (rotation axis A, rotation axis B) and is provided with a... |
| US-7,548,684 |
Air treatment apparatus and refill pack Air treatment apparatus comprises an electric heating element (5) and a refill pack containing wax or paraffin granules (2) incorporating a fragrance or other... |
| US-7,548,683 |
Coolant conditioning system and method for a fuel processing subsystem A coolant conditioning system is provided for supplying a coolant flow to a fuel processing subsystem. The coolant conditioning system includes a coolant... |
| US-7,548,682 |
Optical fiber array alignment unit An optical fiber alignment unit for the easy precise alignment of optical fibers in and array. In a preferred embodiment the positioning array is incorporated... |
| US-7,548,681 |
Prevention of optical fiber darkening A technique enables the reduction or prevention of galvanic action by electrically insulating components of a system. Fiber optic systems can be protected with... |
| US-7,548,680 |
Fiber optic local convergence points for multiple dwelling units There are provided fiber optic local convergence points ("LCPs") adapted for use with multiple dwelling units ("MDUs") that facilitate relatively easy... |
| US-7,548,679 |
Container for accommodating optical fiber coil and optical fiber module
having the container A container for an optical fiber coil and an optical fiber module including the container is provided, wherein an excess length portion of a pigtail fiber is... |
| US-7,548,678 |
Optical element and method for producing the same An optical element is provided that includes a base substrate, a waveguide substrate, and a thin film layer that is provided between the base substrate and the... |
| US-7,548,677 |
Interactive display using planar radiation guide An interactive display that uses a planar radiation guide (such as a planar light guide) to perform display and/or imaging. The planar radiation guide has a... |
| US-7,548,676 |
Apparatus and method for forming an optical converter An optical converter and method for making same is provided. In accordance with the method, the present invention provides an improved apparatus and methods for... |
| US-7,548,675 |
Optical cables for consumer electronics Digital optical cables for communication between digital consumer electronic devices. The digital optical cable can include an optical fiber, a first interface... |
| US-7,548,674 |
Alignment method for circular multi-core optical fiber The present invention relates to a method of aligning circular multi-core fibers, wherein the method utilized independent and individually selected cores to... |
| US-7,548,673 |
Methods and apparatus for alignment and assembly of optoelectronic
components Apparatus and methods are disclosed for precision alignment and assembly of opto-electronic components relative to one another. |
| US-7,548,672 |
Fiber-based light source device The present invention provides a fiber-based light source device, which includes a plurality of first, second or third light-emitting devices for respectively... |
| US-7,548,671 |
Optical device including waveguide grating structure Optical devices including waveguide grating structures are described. In accordance with one embodiment, an optical device is provided comprising a horizontal... |