Patents Assigned to Xerox
  • Patent number: 7798590
    Abstract: The system and process enable a printer to more realistically apprise whether internal components require additional power in order for them to be ready for use. The process includes detecting a user operating a device that is coupled to a printing device and setting a higher power consumption level for the printing device in response to the detection of the user operation. This process may be enhanced by compiling a printing device usage profile for each user of the printing device and determining whether the usage profile indicates the power consumption level is to be increased in response to the detection of the user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Trevor James Snyder
  • Patent number: 7801455
    Abstract: A xerographic printing system and method of printing that includes two photoreceptor drums, each configured to enable printing with a different type of toner, a first pathway that connects the two photoreceptor drums, a second pathway that bypasses either of the photoreceptor drums, and an intermediate transfer belt, configured for either a one or two pass architecture, for transferring an image created by the toner to print media. This system and method of printing is specially adapted to enable efficient use of different combinations of toners within one printing system. In one embodiment, this system is able to limit use of a special toner to situations where one photoreceptor drum is not in bypass mode, thus conserving the more expensive special toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Edward John Solcz, Roger Derek Masham
  • Publication number: 20100231954
    Abstract: A printing control device includes: a banner data detecting unit that detects banner data from print data; a data acquiring unit that acquires, when the banner data are detected by the banner data detecting unit, data for designating a printing condition for printing a text located after the banner data in the print data; and a printing condition setting unit that sets, when the data for designating the printing condition for printing the text are acquired by the data acquiring unit, the printing condition as a printing condition for printing the print data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiko SUZUKI, Tadashi MIMURA, Yuji ONOZAWA, Hisashi SHIRAKAWA, Koichiro TAKAHASHI, Kazuya KAWABATA, Yoshifumi KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20100231934
    Abstract: In the image forming apparatus, a color shift correction execution check unit detects positions of density correction patches of respective colors according to binary signals of density detection outputs by a density sensor on the density correction patches. When distances corresponding to intervals of time from starts of image drawing of the density correction patches of the respective colors to the detection of the positions of the density correction patches of the respective colors and distances between the density correction patches of the respective colors are shifted from a value, the color shift correction execution check unit determines color shift correction processing is required to be executed, and it gives an instruction to a color shift correction control unit to execute the color shift correction processing. And the color shift correction control unit forms a color shift correction patch to execute the color shift correction processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Susumu TAKAGAKI, Hajime MISUMI, Fujio OSAWA, Kanou SAITOU, Mitsunori SHIOI, Takashi KUBO, Tadakazu TSUTEHIRA, Yuji SATO, Hideo KAGEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20100231829
    Abstract: An optical recording display medium comprises: a display layer whose display changes according to an applied voltage; a photoconductive layer that is provided opposing the display layer and changes a voltage applied to the display layer according to irradiated light; and a selective transmission layer that is provided on a light path to where light irradiated toward the photoconductive layer arrives at the photoconductive layer, and whose transmissivity with respect to the irradiated light increases as an intensity of the irradiated light increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi MORIKAWA, Hiroshi ARISAWA, Haruo HARADA, Chisato URANO, Yasunori OKANO, Atsushi HIRANO, Taijyu GAN
  • Publication number: 20100235444
    Abstract: A discussion support apparatus includes a holding unit, an accepting unit and a generating unit. The holding unit holds pieces of discussion state information each indicating a state of a discussion at a corresponding one of points in time included in a period of time during which discussions are performed. The accepting unit accepts a discussion start operation indicating a start of discussion on a topic for which discussion has been started. The generating unit generates, based on one or more of the pieces of discussion state information indicating states of discussions at points in time before a point in time when the accepting unit accepts a discussion start operation for a certain topic, topic-related information indicating at least one piece of discussion state information which is related to the certain topic and which is specified from among the one or more of the pieces of discussion state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki YAMAZOE
  • Publication number: 20100231709
    Abstract: A position measurement system includes a marker set attached to an object, a camera and a computing apparatus. The marker set includes three or more directed basic markers each having a shape indicating a direction. The directed basic markers are oriented in directions toward a specific point. A positional relationship among the directed basic markers is known. The camera includes a two-dimensional imaging device configured to take an image of the marker set. The computing apparatus computes at least one of a position of the object and an angle of the object based on an image, taken by the camera, of the directed basic markers, which are oriented in the directions toward the specific point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuji Seko, Hiroyuki Hotta, Yasuyuki Saguchi
  • Publication number: 20100233597
    Abstract: A method of handling documents which can be imaged and erased comprises entry of a scheduled time which a device such as a multipurpose imager and eraser has a low probability of being used. At the scheduled time, erasure of transient documents to be erased is initiated. A transient document to be erased is transported from a first transient document storage area to an erasure area where it is erased, then transported to a second, erased transient document storage area. Upon receipt of a user interrupt during the scheduled erasure, any partially erased transient document is returned to the first transient document storage area for later erasure. The method thus allows for more efficient use of equipment resources, for example in an office environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Bryan J. Roof
  • Publication number: 20100231682
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes: a substrate; a reflection layer that is provided on the substrate, and that reflects light in a wavelength band set in advance; and a light-emitting layer that is provided on the reflection layer, and that includes a light-emitting region emitting light having wavelengths overlapping in the wavelength band and a surface having unevenness at plural distances from the reflection layer. The surface is provided on a side opposite to the reflection layer across the light-emitting region. The plural distances are set so that wavelengths forming standing waves depending on each of the distances in the wavelength band are interposed each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seiji Ohno
  • Publication number: 20100232823
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing body on which surface an image is formed and borne; an image forming section that forms the image; a transfer device that transfers the formed image to a transferring body; a cleaning member that comes into contact with the surface of the image bearing body to scrape an adhesion substance after the image is transferred; a storage tank in which the removed adhesion substance is stored; a damming member that obstructs a region between the cleaning member and the storage tank to temporarily dam the adhesion substance moving from the cleaning member to the storage tank on the cleaning member side, the damming member including overlapped members having openings, the members including a movable member that is slidable with respect to other member; and a driving section that drives the movable member to change an overlapping amount between the openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka KURIBAYASHI, Toyofumi INOUE, Yoshinari UENO, Takafumi KOIDE, Naoki OHNISHI
  • Publication number: 20100231635
    Abstract: A system evaluates image quality in an image generating system in a manner that accounts for the interaction of the calibration tools used to evaluate and correct image quality in the image generating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bhaskar T. Ramakrishnan, Andrew S. Yeh, Mary Lynne Morrow, Ernest I. Esplin, Pieter John Ganzer, John Albert Wright, Brent Edward Fleming
  • Publication number: 20100232092
    Abstract: An image writing unit includes an image writing member writing images to an image holding member on a recording device body, a support mechanism including a supporting section allowing the writing member to be supported on a cover opened and closed for the device body, and a supported section on the member to be supported, the support mechanism supporting the writing member on the cover when the cover opens, and a positioning mechanism including a positioning section on the device body for positioning the writing member, and a positioned section on the member to be positioned, the positioning mechanism positioning the member for the holding member depending on a relationship between the positioning and positioned sections when the cover is closed. The supporting or supported section has a guide surface along a direction perpendicular to the open/close direction, and the other section allows the writing member to swing upon positioning the member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20100233465
    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: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jin WU
  • Publication number: 20100233608
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing carrier includes a ferrite particle that contains from about 1.0% by weight to about 14.0% by weight of elemental magnesium, wherein an average distribution ratio D of the elemental magnesium in the ferrite particle is from about 1.1 to about 2.0, wherein the average distribution ratio D is defined as an average value of D? of at least 50 ferrite particles, wherein D? is defined as W1/W2, wherein W1 is a weight ratio of elemental magnesium content Mg to elemental iron content Fe, Me/Fe, in a whole cross-section of the ferrite particle, and W2 is a weight ratio of elemental magnesium content Mg to elemental iron content Fe, Me/Fe, in a square, the two opposite vertices of which are located at two points on a diameter of a circle circumscribing the cross-section, each being half a radius distant from the center of the circumscribing circle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke TSURUMI, Rieko KATAOKA
  • Publication number: 20100235610
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes: an operation detection unit that detects an operation; a request unit that requests other processing apparatuses to transmit functions when the operation is detected by the operation detection unit; a receiving unit that receives replies in response to the requests of the request unit from the at least one of the other processing apparatuses; a selection unit that selects at least one of the other processing apparatuses from which the receiving unit has received the replies; and a communication unit that performs communication with the at least one of the other processing apparatuses selected by the selection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Ueno, Toshiroh Shimada, Yoko Kurihara, Naoki Hayashi, Tomoyuki Shoya, Hitsohi Ikeda, Yasunori Saito, Masamichi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20100235162
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and a computer program product are provided for improving the translation quality of text when a text sequence, such as a sentence, includes a parenthetical part delimited by a separator or separators, such as parentheses, quotation marks, or the like. The apparatus applies an algorithm which is configured for using several methodologies in sequence to identify an optimum position for insertion of the translated parenthetical in the main part of the translated text sequence. As a result, the translated parenthetical is more likely to be correctly delimited by separators and more likely to be correctly placed in the main part than in a conventional translation system which automatically translates each sentence as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Jean Baptiste FADDOUL, Francois Pacull
  • Publication number: 20100233488
    Abstract: A polyamic acid composition including a polyamic acid, the polyamic acid having an imidization ratio of from about 5.0% to about 25.0%, and being obtained by reacting a diamine compound, a tetracarboxylic dianhydride and an acid monoanhydride at an amount ratio that satisfies the following formula (1): 0.970<Y/X<0.998 and Formula (2): 0.00<Z/2(X?Y)<0.50. In Formula (1) and Formula (2), X represents a content (mol) of the diamine compound, Y represents a content (mol) of the tetracarboxylic dianhydride, and Z represents a content of the acid monoanhydride (mol).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenya SONOBE
  • Publication number: 20100233494
    Abstract: In accordance with the invention, there are fuser subsystems including a fuser member and methods of making a member of the fuser subsystems. The fuser member can include a substrate and a top-coat layer disposed over the substrate, the top-coat layer including a plurality of fluorinated nanoparticles substantially uniformly dispersed throughout a bulk of a fluoropolymer to provide a continual self-releasing surface to the top-coat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Carolyn MOORLAG, Nan-Xing HU, Guiqin SONG
  • Publication number: 20100233604
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner, includes: a block copolymer that contains: a block A that has a glass transition temperature of about 60° C. or more; and a crystalline block B that has a melting point of about 25° C. or more derived from an ethylenically unsaturated compound, wherein the block copolymer satisfies the following equations (1) to (3): 30° C.?[T(0.5 MPa)?T(30 MPa)]?80° C. ??( 1 ) 60° C.?T( 0.5 MPa) ??( 2 ) T(30 MPa)?80° C. ??( 3 ) wherein T( 0.5 MPa) represents a temperature at which a viscosity of the block copolymer is 104 Pa·s when a pressure applied by a flow tester is 0.5 MPa; and T(30 MPa) represents a temperature at which a viscosity of the block copolymer is 104 Pa·s when a pressure applied by a flow tester is 30 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo MAEHATA, Yasuo MATSUMURA, Takashi IMAI
  • Publication number: 20100231953
    Abstract: A character output device includes: a character direction specification unit that specifies a drawing direction of characters for each processing-target region of a processing-target page; a character rotation determination unit that determines as to whether the processing-target page rotates or not based on a relation between the specified drawing direction and a direction of an output medium; and an output unit that performs an output processing based on the determination by the character rotation determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaya MIYAZAKI