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7620353 Image forming apparatus and control method for driving the same  
An image forming apparatus and control method, the image forming apparatus including: a first image bearing body and a second image bearing body aligned to form predetermined color images; a...
7616916 Image forming device  
An image forming unit 100 has a main body 1 and an opening unit 22 that can be opened and closed with respect to the main body 1 . An installation unit 99 is provided to install the...
7616914 Color image forming apparatus  
There is described a color image forming apparatus, which makes it possible to prevent the intermediate transfer belt from slacking. The apparatus includes a plurality of image bearing members; an...
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...
7610004 Apparatus for detecting amount of toner deposit and controlling density of image, method of forming misalignment correction pattern, and apparatus for detecting and correcting misalignment of image  
An image forming apparatus includes a reference-pattern detecting transfer-body, a reference-pattern detecting unit, and a condition changing unit. The reference-pattern detecting transfer-body...
7609998 Transfer unit and image forming apparatus  
A transfer belt is driven by a plurality of supporting rollers. A unit frame supports the supporting rollers in a rotatable manner. At least one of the supporting rollers includes a cylindrical...
7609997 Transfer belt unit mounting/dismounting device and method  
There is provided a transfer belt unit mounting/dismounting device constituted by a decreased number of component parts capable of using the guide rails not only to guide the insertion of the...
7606521 Desktop color image forming apparatus and method of making the same  
The present invention relates to an electrophotographic color image forming apparatus using a tandem-drum development, an indirect image-transfer method, and a vertical sheet supply path. An...
7606507 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes: a primary transfer section which transfers a toner image formed in an image forming section onto an intermediate transfer belt; a back-up roller arranged on an...
7603047 Image forming apparatus capable of forming high-quality image  
A printer detects density of a toner pattern on an intermediate transfer belt, operates a differential value for the detection value, and compares the differential value with a threshold value. If...
7599651 Image forming apparatus including grooved cam and link mechanism engaging with grooves of the grooved cam  
An image forming apparatus has: an intermediate transfer member to which a toner image developed on a photosensitive material is transferred while the intermediate transfer member rotates plural...
7599646 Image forming apparatus with an endless belt for receiving toner images and a controller for controlling surface speed of an image bearing member or the moving speed of the endless belt in accordance with surface conditions of the endless belt  
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section for forming a plurality of toner images on a plurality of image bearing members respectively by an electrographic system; an endless...
7593676 Image-forming apparatus with improved intermediate transfer body  
An image-forming apparatus including: an image holding member; a charging device that charges the image holding member; an electrostatic latent image-forming device that exposes a surface of the...
7593675 Color image forming apparatus having a discharging unit to discharge an electrical charge of a toner image transferred on an intermediate transfer member  
A color image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of image carriers each on which a toner image having a color different from each other is formed; an intermediate transfer member to which each...
7593664 Image-forming device and belt unit having belt tension-adjusting mechanism  
A color laser printer includes a plurality of photosensitive drums and a paper-conveying belt disposed in confrontation with the photosensitive drums. The paper-conveying belt conveys a sheet of...
7590375 Image-forming apparatus having movable tensioner and electrode member that reduce toner scatter  
An image-forming apparatus includes an image-carrying belt that is rotated while carrying toner images on an outer circumferential surface thereof; a movable tensioner applying tension to the...
7587159 Image forming method and apparatus including a relationship between secondary roller diameter and recording medium ingress position  
Provided is an image forming method that comprises a charging step, an exposing step, a developing step, an intermediate transfer step and a secondary transfer step, wherein the diameter R (mm) of...
7587158 Second transfer area for an image forming device and methods of use  
The present application is directed to second transfer areas and methods of transfer toner images from an intermediate member to a media sheet. The second transfer area comprises a second transfer...
7580815 Information processing apparatus and its control method  
When the convey behavior of a flexible medium conveyed in a conveying path is analyzed by simulation, a design support apparatus of this invention executes 1) processing for approximating a nip on...
7580663 Image forming apparatus comprising a move member which moves to the surface of the photosensitive drums  
A transfer roller drive unit sets an all-separate mode after setting a full-color mode, sets a monochrome mode after setting the all-separate mode, and sets a full-color mode after setting the...
7580662 Image forming apparatus with sensing member that senses reflection of light rays from an intermediate transfer belt  
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt having a coated layer as a surface layer that carries an developer image on the surface layer, a light-emitting member that emits...
7572348 Method and device for printing objects  
Method for printing objects, whereby these objects ( 15 ) are provided with a multi-layered print, characterized in that to this aim, on one hand, two or more layers of printing medium ( 10 - 11 -...
7570908 Image forming device and image forming device control method  
A technique capable of preventing deterioration of image quality resulting from a band-shaped toner image created on a photosensitive surface in order to prevent so-called carrier attraction is...
7570907 Image forming apparatus and image forming method  
If a velocity calculated by a velocity calculating unit deviates from a normal range, a target velocity is used as a feedback amount, an actuation amount corresponding to a deviation Ve=0 between...
7567775 Image forming apparatus having a retracting and a moving mechanisms and image forming method thereof  
An image forming apparatus includes a transparent image forming unit having a transparent image carrier; plural color image forming units arranged on a downstream side in a process direction of the...
7565100 Electrophotographic apparatus and intermediate transfer member partitioned by multiple slits  
An image forming apparatus including an image carrier on which a toner image is formed, a charging unit that charges a surface of the image carrier, a latent image processing unit that forms a...
7561839 Image forming apparatus and image forming method  
An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes a first toner-image forming unit that forms a first monochrome toner image, a first intermediate transfer drum onto which the...
7560209 Electrophotographic image forming apparatus and image forming unit  
An electrophotographic image forming apparatus, comprises an electrophotographic photoreceptor; an image forming section for forming a toner image on a surface of the electrophotographic...
7558517 Image forming apparatus featuring alleviation of toner image deformation resulting from a rotational speed change of an image bearing member  
An image forming apparatus is constituted by an image bearing member rotatable while bearing a toner image; and a transfer member for transferring the toner image onto a transfer medium, the...
7558508 Image forming apparatus having belt wound around roller with specific roughness  
An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of rollers; and an endless belt wound around said rollers, said rollers including: a driving roller which drives said belt wound around said rollers...
7558497 Image forming apparatus and image forming method  
An image forming apparatus increases a primary-transfer pressure contact force at the times of primarily transferring black color to a first sheet and yellow and black colors to a second sheet or...
7551881 Image forming apparatus with feature for decreasing the influence of electric discharge in image transfer member  
An image forming apparatus includes a movable belt; a first image carrying member for carrying a toner image; a first transfer member for electrostatically transferring a toner image onto the belt...
7551880 Image forming apparatus featuring a cleaning device including a conductive support member provided so as to intersect a line segment connected between rotational centers of a charge member of a first image forming unit and a developing member of a second image forming unit  
A support member for supporting a cleaning blade of an upstream side is arranged between a charging roller of an image forming unit of the upstream side and a developing sleeve of an image forming...
7551876 Image forming apparatus featuring accurate positioning of an intermediate transfer roller relative to a main body of the apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member which bears a toner image; an intermediate transfer member on which the toner image on the image bearing member is primary transferred;...
7548716 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 transfer belt, and a fuser. The first...
7548704 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 sensor. In the image forming apparatus,...
7546075 Image forming apparatus featuring a multilayer member with a roughened layer surface to irregularly reflect incident light and method for making the multilayer member  
A belt includes a surface layer and an underlayer. An interface between the surface layer and the underlayer is roughened to irregularly reflect incident light.
7546074 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus includes at least one image forming unit, a primary transfer belt, and a secondary transferer. The image forming unit includes an image carrier and a primary transfer...
7546073 Image forming apparatus having an intermediate transfer member wrapped around and driven by a photoconductor drum  
There is provided an image forming apparatus including: a photoconductor drum; an intermediate transfer belt that is wrapped around and stretched between the photoconductor drum and a plurality of...
7542707 Image forming apparatus  
An image forming apparatus including: colored toner image forming devices each developing an electrostatic image with colored toner to form a colored toner image; a transparent toner image forming...
7542690 Color image forming apparatus, and program and method of controlling a color image forming apparatus  
In a color image forming apparatus, a color mode is switched from a full color mode to a single color mode as follows. When the length of an image of a last page in the full color mode is less than...
7536144 Endless belt and image forming apparatus  
An endless belt including a belt main body in which a ten-point average roughness (Rz) of an inner peripheral surface thereof is in a range of 2.0 μm or higher and 10.0 μm or lower and an average...
7519319 Image forming device having a sheet delay transfer mode  
An image forming device includes an intermediate transfer member to which a toner image formed on an image bearing member is primarily transferred and which is able to simultaneously support a...
7519303 Image forming apparatus with color shift correction  
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer belt that moves while keeping contact with a photosensitive element at a transfer position, a control pattern forming unit that forms a...
7505712 Image forming apparatus  
The image forming apparatus according to the present invention has: a transfer unit including an intermediate transfer medium that circularly moves; plural image forming sections provided in...
7502584 Image forming apparatus sensing displacement of an intermediate image transfer body  
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of belt position sensors adapted to sense the position of an intermediate image transfer belt in a direction perpendicular...
7502583 Transfer device and image forming apparatus for enhancement of an image stored on a recording medium  
A transfer device includes an endless belt, an external roller, and an internal roller. The external roller is arranged outside of the loop of the endless belt and the inner roller is arranged...
7499669 Transfer unit and image forming apparatus  
Latent images of different colors are superimposed on an intermediate transfer belt of an endless type from image carriers, to form a full color toner image. A tension roller maintains a tension of...
7499668 Image forming apparatus including belt member with non-image forming area  
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier an outer face on which a plurality of color images are formed; a plurality of roll portions; a belt member including an inner side, an outer...
7499667 Endless belt drive controlling apparatus including angular displacement error calculation and associated image forming apparatus  
An endless belt drive controlling apparatus includes an endless belt and its drive unit, a first detector that detects a belt mark, a second detector that detects a detected angular displacement...