Patents by Inventor Frederick R. Ruckdeschel

Frederick R. Ruckdeschel 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: 4395471
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a developer composition comprised of a resin, a colorant such as cyan, magenta, yellow, or mixtures thereof, and a single carrier. In one embodiment there is combined with a single carrier material, such as a steel carrier or a nickel berry carrier, a cyan toner, such as a styrene/n-butyl methacrylate resin, and copper tetra-4-(octadecylsulfonomido) phthalocyanine, a magenta toner material comprised of styrene/n-butyl methacrylate copolymer resin and 2,9-dimethyl substituted quinacridone, and/or a yellow toner material comprised of styrene/n-butylmethacrylate copolymer resin and a diaryldide yellow 3,3-dichlorobenzidene aceto acetanilide. The developer composition is useful for developing color images in an electrophotographic imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1983
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Oscar G. Hauser, Frederick R. Ruckdeschel
  • Patent number: 4312932
    Abstract: This invention relates to an improved color developing composition, the composition being comprised of toner resin particles, with each of said particles containing therein up to four pigments, and a single carrier. Suitable pigments include magenta, cyan, yellow or white, and/or mixtures thereof. The pigments are present in an amount of from about 1 percent (part) to about 20 percent by weight. Such compositions are useful in obtaining color images utilizing a single pass xerographic imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1982
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Oscar G. Hauser, Frederick R. Ruckdeschel
  • Patent number: 4139296
    Abstract: An apparatus in which particles are mixed. The particles are disposed in an inner member having an outer member spaced therefrom and positioned concentrically thereover. A helical magnetic pole pattern is impressed on the outer member. Relative angular rotation between the outer member and the inner member translates the particles generating mixing therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Frederick R. Ruckdeschel
  • Patent number: 4130841
    Abstract: An apparatus in which an original document is reproduced. The original document is scanned to determine the tonal graduations thereof and a signal generated indicative thereof. An image of the original document having a plurality of half-tone dot spacial frequencies is formed. Each half-tone dot spacial frequency is selected from a plurality of selected spacial frequencies corresponding to a pre-determined signal range. In this manner, the selected half-tone dot spacial frequencies are a function of the signal indicating the tone graduations of the original document.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThis invention relates generally to an electrophotographic printing machine, and more particularly concerns a printing machine arranged to reproduce an original document as a copy having the half-tone dot frequency thereof dependent upon the tonal graduations of the original document.In a typical electrophotographic printing machine, a photoconductive member is charged to a substantially uniform level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1978
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Arthur M. Walsh, Frederick R. Ruckdeschel
  • Patent number: 4111151
    Abstract: An apparatus in which the developability of a development system comprising a mixture of particles having at least two different colors is regulated. The quantity of each of the differently colored particles is maintained at a pre-scribed level to form a mixture of particles having a pre-determined color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1978
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Frederick R. Ruckdeschel
  • Patent number: 4098228
    Abstract: An apparatus in which at least a pair of developer rollers deposit toner particles on an electrostatic latent image recorded on a photoconductive member to render it visible. One of the rollers rotates at a first tangential velocity being spaced a first distance from the photoconductive member. The other roller rotates at a second tangential velocity being spaced a second distance from the photoconductive member. The second tangential velocity is greater than the first tangential velocity with the second distance being less than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1978
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick R. Ruckdeschel, Oscar G. Hauser, Charles A. Whited, Robert E. Gary
  • Patent number: 4097139
    Abstract: A reproducing machine in which a member has successive latent images recorded thereon. The reproducing machine includes a pair of developer units. One developer unit is located in the operative position in the reproducing machine with the other unit being remote therefrom. Each developer unit contains different colored particles. Color changes are achieved by interchanging developer units to develop one latent image with particles of one color and the other latent image with particles of the other color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1978
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Oscar G. Hauser, Thomas Meagher, Frederick R. Ruckdeschel
  • Patent number: 4086006
    Abstract: An apparatus in which a latent image recorded on a member is developed with particles. The apparatus includes a housing having a chamber for storing a supply of particles therein. During the development process, particles are deposited on the latent image recorded on the member. These particles are purged from the chamber of the housing to permit particles of a different color to be disposed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Oscar G. Hauser, Frederick R. Ruckdeschel
  • Patent number: 4043293
    Abstract: An apparatus which regulates the developability characteristics of a development system employing a developer mixture comprising at least carrier granules and toner particles. A transparent electrode attracts toner particles from the carrier granules. Light rays are transmitted through the electrode with the particles thereon. Sensors having peak transmittances corresponding to the peak transmittance and absorbence of the toner particles, detect the intensity of the light rays transmitted through the electrode and generate electrical output signals indicative thereof. These signals are processed and a control signal is developed which regulates the dispensing of additional toner particles into the developer mixture. In this manner, the concentration of toner particles within the developer mix is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1977
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Frederick R. Ruckdeschel