Patents Assigned to Xerox
  • Patent number: 8097320
    Abstract: A dual layered intermediate transfer member, such as a belt, that includes a substrate that is coated with a layer of a mixture of a glycoluril resin, and a self crosslinking acrylic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Wu, Jonathan H Herko, Scott J Griffin, Michael S Roetker, Dante M Pietrantoni, David W Martin
  • Patent number: 8096650
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for controlling printing in a solid ink jet printing system. The method comprises forming a first ink image and a second ink image on a transfer surface; passing a receiving substrate through a first nip simplex path of a first ink jet printer at a first print speed; exerting a first pressure on the receiving substrate in the first nip to transfer the first ink image from the transfer surface to a first side of the receiving substrate; moving the receiving substrate through an inverter path; passing the receiving substrate through a second nip simplex path of a second ink jet printer at a second print speed; and, exerting a second pressure on the receiving substrate in the second nip to transfer the second ink image from the transfer surface to a second side of the receiving substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Paul McConville
  • Patent number: 8097339
    Abstract: A method of forming and a resulting selectively polished fuser member. The method includes selectively polishing that portion of the fuser member surface not subject to rapid natural wear. The method further includes polishing both a surface region subject to rapid sheet edge wear and a surface region not subject to rapid sheet edge wear, and polishing the surface region not subject to rapid sheet edge wear more than the surface region subject to rapid sheet edge wear. The rapid natural wear corresponds to sheet edge wear on the fuser member surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel L. Coughlin, Jr., Patrick J. Finn
  • Patent number: 8097319
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide a fuser member containing an interfacial layer and methods for forming the interfacial layer and the fuser member. In one embodiment, the fuser member can include a substrate, a resilient layer, a surface layer and an interfacial layer disposed between the resilient layer and the surface layer. The resilient layer can include, for example, a silicone rubber layer and the surface layer can include, for example, a fluoropolymer such as a fluoroplastic of PFA or PTFE. The interfacial layer can include a diamond-containing polymer composite to provide improved thermal/electrical/mechanical properties. The surface layer and the fuser member can thus be treated at a temperature of about 250° C. or higher with high quality and an improved adhesion between layers of the fuser member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Jin Wu
  • Patent number: 8098925
    Abstract: The presently disclosed embodiments relate in general to electrophotographic imaging members, such as layered photoreceptor structures, and processes for making and using the same. More particularly, the embodiments pertain to an improved photoreceptor that exhibits little to no response to injected charges and demonstrates excellent ghosting properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Markus R. Silvestri, Jin Wu, M. John Hinckel, David M. Skinner, Kent J. Evans, Robert J. Meyer, Kathleen M. Carmichael, Dale S. Renfer
  • Patent number: 8099015
    Abstract: A developing device includes: a housing that has a developer containing part and an opening, the developer containing part containing a developer, and the opening allowing the developer to flow through; a sheet member that is provided in the housing, seals the opening when unused, and is pulled out in one direction to open the opening when used; and a loosening regulation unit that is provided on the housing or the sheet member, and regulates loosening of the sheet member, wherein the housing has a guide hole, the guide hole allowing the sheet member to be inserted in when sealing the opening with the sheet member, and guiding the sheet member when the sheet member is pulled out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Isao Ito
  • Patent number: 8098880
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods directed to the generation of multi-layer digital watermarks, including the generation of distinct watermarks on each of at least two color layers or channels within an image such that each may be retrieved or viewed independently of the other in the output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Shen-ge Wang
  • Patent number: 8099013
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit. The image forming unit is detachable with respect to the image forming apparatus. The image forming unit includes a development part, a developer accommodation part, a connection part and a sealing member. The development part develops an electrostatic latent image held on an image holding body by a developer. The developer accommodation part accommodates the developer. The connection part connects the development part and the developer accommodation part. The sealing member unsealably seals the connection part. The sealing member is drawable to outside the image forming apparatus in a direction intersecting with a detaching direction of the image forming unit in such a state that the image forming unit is held therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Naomasa Okimura, TaeSung Kim
  • Patent number: 8099035
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide an induction heating member including a substrate and a heating layer disposed on the substrate. The heating layer includes carbon nanotubes and metal. An outer layer is disposed on the heating layer and includes a fluoropolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Qi, Qi Zhang, Nan-Xing Hu, Gerald A. Domoto, Nicholas P. Kladias
  • Patent number: 8098404
    Abstract: As provided herein, there are supplied teachings to systems and methods for resizing a digital uniform rosette halftone image composed of multiple colorant separations, by using uniform rosette halftone tile parameters and iterative determination of energy metrics. One approach entails receiving into a digital imaging system, a digital uniform rosette halftone image and a desired resizing factor for that digital uniform rosette halftone image. Subsequently the system will define uniform rosette screen parameters to define uniform rosette Holladay halftone tiles within the color uniform rosette digital halftone image. From the defined uniform rosette cells, a number of uniform rosette halftone tile seams are determined for manipulation. The orientation of the number of uniform rosette halftone tile seams is dictated by the received desired resizing factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Edgar Bernal, Robert P Loce, Shen-Ge Wang
  • Patent number: 8096634
    Abstract: A method and system for compensating for temperature changes is disclosed that includes a mounting bar, a plurality of imaging chips adaptively mounted on the mounting bar, each imaging chip including a plurality of imaging elements, and a temperature determiner to determine a temperature of the mounting bar. A control module enables and disables at least one imaging element based on the determined temperature of the mounting bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Douglas Wiggins
  • Patent number: 8099027
    Abstract: A developer containing device includes: a developer container configured to contain developer and to be inserted into a receptacle defined in an image forming apparatus main body; a developer feed inlet provided in a forward end of the developer container which is inserted into the receptacle in an insertion direction and for feeding the developer contained in the developer container into the image forming apparatus main body; and an opening and closing member that opens the developer feed inlet with movement of the developer container in the insertion direction when the developer container is inserted into the receptacle and closes the developer feed inlet with movement of the developer container in opposition to the insertion direction when the developer container is removed from the receptacle, the opening and closing member having a protrusion formed to protrude inward of the opening and closing member and allowed to engage with a recess provided in the developer container and being arranged to be allowed
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kazunori Koshimori, Hirokazu Murase
  • Patent number: 8099413
    Abstract: A relative document presenting system includes: a first storage; a relevancy degree calculating unit; a receiving unit; a specifying unit; a totaling unit; and a presenting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20120011001
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for embedding variable advertising content into an electronic book including a receiver positioned about the electronic book and configured to receive information; a processor for determining whether one or more tags are present in the information received and a replacement module for replacing the one or more tags with the advertising content, the advertising content derived from profile data associated with a plurality of users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Eric M. Gross, Peter Paul
  • Publication number: 20120009352
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide methods and apparatus for forming intermediate transfer belts (ITBs) by combining a dip-coating process with a UV-curing process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Geoffrey M.T. Foley, Jin Wu, Satchidanand Mishra, Kent J. Evans
  • Publication number: 20120010742
    Abstract: A system and method for routing and processing jobs in a production environment considers the setup characteristics of each print job. Each set of jobs may be classified as a first job processing speed set, a second job processing speed set, or another job processing speed set based on the corresponding setup characteristics. First job processing speed sets are routed to a first group of job processing resources, while second job processing speed sets are routed to a second group of job processing speed resources. Each resource group may include an autonomous cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sudhendu Rai
  • Publication number: 20120009099
    Abstract: Microfluidic devices are prepared by providing a substrate material having a solid adhesive thin sheet, printing solid ink on the substrate using a conventional printer, selectively etching the substrate using a wax masking layer to obtain a desired pattern, removing the masking layer from the substrate, aligning and bonding together the pattern of the substrate to a pattern of a second substrate to form a layer of substrates, and curing the layer of substrates to result in a three-dimensional microfluidic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Pinyen LIN
  • Publication number: 20120006215
    Abstract: Methods and devices detect a first lateral measure of an edge of a belt loop supported by rollers within an apparatus using a first sensor to find an amount of misalignment of the edge of the belt loop relative to a known alignment position. The first sensor is positioned at a first location within the apparatus. The methods and devices also detect a second lateral measure of the edge of the belt loop within the apparatus relative to the known alignment position using a second sensor. The second sensor is positioned at a second location within the apparatus that is different than the first location. The methods and devices use a processor to determine the non-linear shape of the edge of the belt loop based on the second lateral measure of the edge of the belt loop detected by the second sensor. The methods and devices correct the amount of misalignment detected by the first sensor based on the non-linear shape of the edge of the belt loop to generate a corrected misalignment value, using the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joannes N.M. DeJong, Lloyd A. Williams, Rudy Castillo, Matthew Dondiego
  • Publication number: 20120008000
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a memory that memorizes a plurality of pickup images in which an object has been picked up by varying an irradiation direction of a light; an extracting portion that extracts an area image of an area indicated by a user from each of the pickup images memorized in the memory; a calculating portion that calculates at least one illumination parameter for each area image by one of calculating an amount of edges from each extracted area image, executing a clustering process to brightness of each extracted area image, and executing a totaling process of totaling differences in brightness between the extracted area images; and a generating portion that generates at least one synthetic image by synthesizing the extracted area images with the at least one illumination parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun SHINGU, Shingo UCHIHASHI
  • Patent number: D652535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenjiro Hamanaka, Takahiro Hashimoto, Hideshi Nagata, Seiji Ohno