Patents Assigned to Xerox
  • PROCESS FOR COATING FLUOROELASTOMER FUSER MEMBER USING FLUORINATED SURFACTANT
    Publication number: 20100221410
    Abstract: A process for producing a fuser member coating including a) adding and reacting a fluoroelastomer, a crosslinking agent, a polar solvent, and a fluorinated copolymer surfactant to form a coating solution, and b) providing said coating solution on said fuser member to form a fuser member coating, wherein said fluorinated copolymer surfactant comprises a fluorinated acrylate copolymer having pendant fluorinated alkyl groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Samuel KAPLAN, Alexander N. KLYMACHYOV, Robert N. FINSTERWALDER, Kenneth W. SCHLAFER, Jarad N. KOHL, Joy L. LONGHENRY, Alan R. KUNTZ
  • THERMALLY RESPONSIVE COMPOSITE MEMBER, RELATED DEVICES, AND APPLICATIONS INCLUDING STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS
    Publication number: 20100221517
    Abstract: In accordance with the invention, there are temperature sensing and temperature control devices and methods of making them. The temperature sensing and control devices can include a composite member, the composite member including a non-metallic binder material, and one or more non-metallic, electrically conductive fibers disposed in the non-metallic binder material. The temperature sensing and control devices can also include a plurality of contacts disposed on the one or more non-metallic, electrically conductive fibers, wherein the composite member has a substantially continuous decrease in electrical resistance with an increase in temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph A. Swift, Stanley J. Wallace, Roger Bullock
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
    Publication number: 20100223507
    Abstract: The invention provides an information processing apparatus including: a plurality of abnormality detection sections provided in each of a plurality of detection target portions, that detect an abnormality caused by high temperature at a predetermined first frequency; an indication detecting section that detects an indication that the abnormality will occur; and a controller that controls to set the detection frequency of the plurality of abnormality detection sections to a second frequency which is higher than the first frequency, when the number of times that the indication is detected within a predetermined period is more than a predetermined number of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko NARUSHIMA, Shigekazu Yamagishi, Makoto Hashimoto, Ken Ikeda, Masafumi Ono, Hinki Ryu, Kenji Kuroishi
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING TIME SERIES DATA
    Publication number: 20100223506
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing fault analysis using numerically coded time series data are disclosed. First time series data, including a plurality of first time entries and an associated first data value for each first time entry, may be received for a machine variable for a first printer. Second time series data, including a plurality of second time entries and an associated second data value for each second time entry, may be received for the machine variable for each of a plurality of second printers. For each second printer, a similarity measurement may be determined for the first time series data for the first printer and the second time series data for the second printer. One or more closest matching second printers may be determined based on the similarity measurements. An association may be displayed between the first printer and each closest matching second printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: John C. Handley, Sankar Virdhagriswaran
  • Directed flow drip bib for printhead with three point contact
    Publication number: 20100220145
    Abstract: A drip bib for use with a printhead of an imaging device includes a plate having an upper surface having an upper edge, an intermediate surface angled with respect to the upper surface, and a lower edge. The intermediate surface includes a plurality of fastener openings. The lower edge includes a drip point projecting from the lower edge with remaining portions of the lower edge being upturned and angled downwardly from at least one end of the lower edge toward the drip point. A plurality of protrusions protrudes from a back side of the upper surface. The protrusions in the plurality of protrusions are spaced from each other and proximate the upper edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Roland Koehler, Edward Charles Grenier, Gerard Rousseau, Garry Adam Jones, Michael Edward Norkitis, James Matthew Cunnington, Hattie Raeann Hiatt
  • EPOXY CARBOXYL RESIN MIXTURE HOLE BLOCKING LAYER PHOTOCONDUCTORS
    Publication number: 20100221651
    Abstract: A photoconductor that includes, for example, a substrate; an undercoat layer thereover wherein the undercoat layer contains a metal oxide, and a mixture of an epoxy resin and a carboxyl resin; a photogenerating layer; and at least one charge transport layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Jin Wu, Marc J. Livecchi, Robert W. Hedrick, John J. Wilbert
  • ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20100221652
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate, and at least a photosensitive layer on the conductive substrate, a layer located at a surface of the photosensitive layer side of the electrophotographic photoreceptor contains fluorine containing resin particles and a fluoro graft polymer having a fluoroalkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, and an area for a polystyrene equivalent molecular weight of 700,000 or more is from about 5% to about 20% of the total area in a gel permeation chromatography (GPC) chart for the fluoro graft polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidemi NUKADA, Masaru MIURA, Shinya YAMAMOTO, Isamu ISHIKO, Tetsuya EZUMI
  • PACKAGE GENERATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100222908
    Abstract: A system for creating a package includes a processor, a memory, and computer-readable instructions that instruct the processor to receive a package description and generate content, formatting instructions, and a structural design features for a package. The system applies the content and structural design features to a substrate to convert a flat substrate into a three-dimensional package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Barry Glynn Gombert, John O. Walker, Philip Crane Rose, Jennifer C. Perrotti, Robert Roy Buckley
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INDUCING SUBSTRATE TRANSPORT FAULTS IN IMAGE FORMING MACHINES
    Publication number: 20100221022
    Abstract: A method of inducing a substrate transport fault in an image forming apparatus having a substrate transport assembly includes prompting a user to provide one or more substrate transport fault conditions, starting an image forming job, and inducing a substrate transport fault during the image forming job in accordance with the one or more fault conditions. An image forming machine is described having a substrate transport assembly for moving substrate sheets through the image forming apparatus for forming images thereon, a User Interface for prompting a user to provide one or more substrate transport fault conditions, and a controller for inducing a substrate transport fault in the image forming apparatus in accordance with the one or more substrate transport fault conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Douglas Bisset, Martin Walsh, Annmarie Brinsley
  • POLYTHIOPHENES AND DEVICES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20100219409
    Abstract: An electronic device containing a polythiophene wherein R represents a side chain, m represents the number of R substituents; A is a divalent linkage; x, y and z represent, respectively, the number of Rm substituted thienylenes, unsubstituted thienylenes, and divalent linkages A, respectively, in the monomer segment subject to z being 0 or 1, and n represents the number of repeating monomer segments in the polymer or the degree of polymerization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Beng S. Ong, Ping Liu, Lu Jiang, Yu Qi, Yiliang Wu
  • Smart start of scan (SOS) detector
    Patent number: 7787162
    Abstract: A technique for achieving a smart start of scan (SOS) detector that is related with line scan timing on raster output scanners by expanding the available functions to include beam size and position. A start of scan detection system adapted to provide beam size and position control. The system includes a CPU, a data source and laser driver managed by the CPU, and a multiple element pre-patterned detector managed by the CPU and enabling a sensor pattern through which laser beams from the laser driver are passed and detected. According to a method for managing beam size and position in a image processing system, a multiple element pre-patterned detector adapted to enable a sensor pattern is provided wherein at least one laser beam is passed through said sensor pattern enabled by the multiple element pre-patterned detector, analyzed and used by the image processing system to adjust beam size and position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Martin Pepe
  • Electronic file conversion program, electronic file conversion apparatus, electronic file conversion system, computer data signal, and electronic conversion method
    Patent number: 7788221
    Abstract: An electronic file conversion program that causes a computer to perform a function including: converting a description format of an electronic file stored in a memory; detecting, from the memory, an electronic file of which description format is to be converted; and controlling to store in the memory, the electronic file of which description format is converted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuo Tanaka
  • Thermally uniform paper preheat transport
    Patent number: 7787816
    Abstract: A pre-heater system and adapted to be used on an electrostatic marking apparatus for improving gloss on media having marking thereon at a location in the apparatus prior to a conventional fuser roll assembly or station, the system including a primary heater adapted to blow pressurized hot air into a surface of an image receiving media in order to substantially dispense hot air throughout an entire paper or media surface; and a preheat media transport for transporting media from the location in the apparatus prior to the conventional fuser roll assembly or station through the primary heater, the preheat media transport includes means for maintaining the preheat media transport at a substantially uniform predefined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Kladias, Gerald A Domoto, Igor A Podzorov, Paul M Fromm, Anthony S Condello, Augusto Barton, Charles D Rizzolo, Elias Panides
  • Storage medium storing image processing program, image processing apparatus and image processing method
    Patent number: 7787144
    Abstract: A storage medium readable by a computer, stores a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for executing an image processing on an image defined by vector data containing a plurality of lines having different line widths, the function including calculating the line widths of the plurality of lines so as to maintain the number of types of line widths of the plurality of lines and a thinner-or-thicker relation among the line widths of the plurality of lines before executing the image processing, and setting the line widths calculated by the calculating step as line widths of the plurality of lines after the image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru Yokota
  • Smart string replacement
    Patent number: 7788085
    Abstract: String replacement is performed in text using linguistic processing. The linguistic processing identifies the existence of direct or indirect links between the string to be replaced and other strings in the text. Morphological, syntactic, anaphoric, or semantic inconsistencies, which are introduced in strings with the identified direct or indirect links to the string that is to be replaced are detected and corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Caroline Brun, Herve Dejean, Caroline Hagege
  • Hologram recording method and device, hologram reproduction method and device, and optical recording medium
    Patent number: 7787346
    Abstract: There is provided a hologram recording method, including generating a signal light which is spatially modulated such that digital data is represented by an image of intensity distribution, irradiating the signal light on an optical recording medium after a Fourier transformation of the signal light such that a zero-order component of the signal light comes into focus at a point removed from the optical recording medium, forming a diffraction grating in the optical recording medium by interference between the zero-order component of the signal light and a high-order component thereof, and recording digital data represented by the signal light as a hologram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Ogasawara, Jiro Minabe, Shin Yasuda, Katsunori Kawano, Kazuhiro Hayashi, Koichi Haga, Hisae Yoshizawa, Makoto Furuki
  • Overcoated photoconductors with thiophosphate containing charge transport layers
    Patent number: 7785756
    Abstract: A photoconductor containing an optional supporting substrate, a containing photogenerating layer, at least one thiophosphate containing charge transport layer, and a top overcoating crosslinked polymer layer in contact with and contiguous to the charge transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John F. Yanus, Jin Wu, Kenny-Tuan Dinh, Michael A. Morgan, Anthony M. Horgan, Kathleen M. Carmichael
  • Method and system for extending binary image data to contone image data
    Patent number: 7787703
    Abstract: A method and system converts a binary image into an analog image by first tagging pixels that are part of edges in the digital image and using this tagging information to eliminate such tagged pixels from the digital filtering process. The elimination of such tagged pixels from the digital filtering process substantially eliminates artifacts near the edges, thereby reducing any distraction from the perceived quality of the output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Peter D. McCandlish
  • Cleaning device and image forming device
    Patent number: 7787799
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming device. The image forming device includes a photosensitive body, a charging roller, a cleaning member, and a controller. The charging roller, while rotating in a first direction, charges the photosensitive body for image formation. The cleaning member, formed by an elastic body, contacts the charging roller and cleans the charging roller. The controller, when the charging roller is not carrying out charging of the photosensitive body for image formation, rotates the charging roller in a direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Ando, Masayuki Kono
  • System for reliable collaborative assembly and maintenance of complex systems
    Patent number: 7787981
    Abstract: A system and method of tracking location and orientation of power tools utilized in the assembly and maintenance of complex systems is disclosed. The system can facilitate collaboration between maintenance and alert maintenance personnel to complete complex system activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Austin, Gregory F. Weselak, Scott David Weber