Patents Represented by Attorney Richard Spooner

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  • Thin walled fuser roll with stress redirected from axial to radial direction
    Patent number: 6983118
    Abstract: A thin-walled fuser roll core cylinder assembly permitting fast warm-up times and improved energy efficiency wherein cracking of the thin walls of the core cylinder due to cyclic compression is prevented by redirecting axial stress at the terminus of an axial keyway to a radial direction. The keyway is for coupling the core cylinder to a drive gear. Use of such a thin-walled fuser roll in an imaging system and a process of fusing toner onto a copy substrate using the thin-walled fuser core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy R. Jaskowiak, James A. Herley, Linda Gail Price
  • Illuminated components for guiding maintenance and repair sequence
    Patent number: 6658218
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for guiding human operators through a sequence of maintenance and repair tasks such as the removal of paper jams in complex reprographic equipment. The invention comprises the placement of human interpretable indicators in locations corresponding to various operations to be performed by an operator and then activating such indicators in sequence when sensors and a control algorithm confirm that operations preceding the operation in the sequence are completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Marc J. Krolczyk, Ken Hayward, Jeffrey M. Zielinski, William Skillern, Kenneth J. Rieck