Patents by Inventor W. Bradford Willard

W. Bradford Willard has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8693905
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sensor that detects a property of a developer material, a transport unit that contacts the developer material and moves the developer material toward a recording medium, and a controller that receives the data regarding the property of the developer material from the sensor unit and sets both a voltage and a velocity of the transport unit, wherein the voltage and the velocity is determined based on data regarding the detected property of the developer material received from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: W. Bradford Willard
  • Patent number: 8655209
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of forming a toner image, comprising: electrically charging a photoreceptor by a charging roller being brought into contact with the photoreceptor, the photoreceptor comprises a photosensitive coating layer on a cylindrical conductive substrate; correcting line width variation using an exposure adjustment calculation (y); and, wherein the exposure adjustment calculation uses a factor based on a ratio (m) of a coefficient of line width variation due to toner age divided by the coefficient of line width variation due to laser power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: W. Bradford Willard, Paul L. Jacobs, Brian Robert Conrow
  • Patent number: 8577236
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sensor that is configured to detect a property of a developer material, a transport unit that is operatively in contact with the developer material and that is configured to move the developer material toward a recording medium, and a controller that receives the property of the developer material from the sensor unit and sets a voltage of the transport unit, wherein the voltage is determined based on the property of the developer material received from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: W. Bradford Willard, Brian Robert Conrow, Kimberly Anne Stoll
  • Patent number: 8442407
    Abstract: Disclosed are printing methods, apparatus and systems for developing a latent image recorded on a surface, for example, a photoreceptor with developer material. According to an exemplary embodiment, the development method applies a development field voltage between a development station donor member and a development station transport member as a function of a humidity measurement associated with the developer material, the humidity measurement providing a surrogate tribo measurement of the developer material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: W. Bradford Willard, Kimberly Anne Stoll, David R. Stookey, Paul L. Jacobs, Robert W. Phelps, Jyothsna Ram
  • Patent number: 8411324
    Abstract: Line width of images marked by an image marking device is adjusted by reading a calibration patch marked by the marking device, and then adjusting one or more settings of the marking device, such as exposure intensity or cleaning field intensity, independent of the digital control of the tone reproduction curve so that the line width of subsequently marked images becomes closer to a target value. A digital control may be implemented to compensate for the impact of the modification of the one or more settings on the tone reproduction curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Paul L. Jacobs, W. Bradford Willard, Brian R. Conrow
  • Publication number: 20130002788
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of forming a toner image, comprising: electrically charging a photoreceptor by a charging roller being brought into contact with the photoreceptor, the photoreceptor comprises a photosensitive coating layer on a cylindrical conductive substrate; correcting line width variation using an exposure adjustment calculation (y); and, wherein the exposure adjustment calculation uses a factor based on a ratio (m) of a coefficient of line width variation due to toner ager divided by the coefficient of line width variation due to laser power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: W. BRADFORD WILLARD, Paul L. Jacobs, Brian Robert Conrow
  • Publication number: 20120207499
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sensor that detects a property of a developer material, a transport unit that contacts the developer material and moves the developer material toward a recording medium, and a controller that receives the data regarding the property of the developer material from the sensor unit and sets both a voltage and a velocity of the transport unit, wherein the voltage and the velocity is determined based on data regarding the detected property of the developer material received from the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventor: W. Bradford WILLARD
  • Publication number: 20120028173
    Abstract: Disclosed are printing methods, apparatus and systems for developing a latent image recorded on a surface, for example, a photoreceptor with developer material. According to an exemplary embodiment, the development method applies a development field voltage between a development station donor member and a development station transport member as a function of a humidity measurement associated with the developer material, the humidity measurement providing a surrogate tribo measurement of the developer material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: W. Bradford Willard, Kimberly Anne Stoll, David R. Stookey, Paul L. Jacobs, Robert W. Phelps, Jyothsna Ram
  • Publication number: 20110318027
    Abstract: Disclosed are printing methods, apparatus and systems for developing a latent image recorded on a surface, for example, a photoreceptor with developer material. According to an exemplary embodiment, the development method applies a development field voltage between a development station donor member and a development station transport member as a function of a humidity measurement associated with the developer material, the humidity measurement providing a surrogate tribo measurement of the developer material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: W. Bradford Willard, Kimberly Anne Stoll, James Patrick Kitchen
  • Publication number: 20110188087
    Abstract: Line width of images marked by an image marking device is adjusted by reading a calibration patch marked by the marking device, and then adjusting one or more settings of the marking device, such as exposure intensity or cleaning field intensity, independent of the digital control of the tone reproduction curve so that the line width of subsequently marked images becomes closer to a target value. A digital control may be implemented to compensate for the impact of the modification of the one or more settings on the tone reproduction curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Paul L. JACOBS, W. Bradford WILLARD, Brian R. CONROW
  • Publication number: 20110142466
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a sensor that is configured to detect a property of a developer material, a transport unit that is operatively in contact with the developer material and that is configured to move the developer material toward a recording medium, and a controller that receives the property of the developer material from the sensor unit and sets a voltage of the transport unit, wherein the voltage is determined based on the property of the developer material received from the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: W. Bradford WILLARD, Brian Robert CONROW, Kimberly Anne STOLL
  • Patent number: 5518230
    Abstract: An active stack height sensing mechanism that operates through a cam off a disc stacker which performs one cycle per sheet stacked. After a sheet is stacked, a stack height clamp contacts the stack and stops. If the stack height is too low or within a predetermined range, a flag attached to the clamp will block a light beam path between an emitter and receiver and trip the stack height sensor. If the stack height is too high, the stack height sensor will not be made indicating that the stacker should be indexed down.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Richard F. Scarlata, Jose J. Soler, W. Bradford Willard