Patents by Inventor John Joseph Darcy, III

John Joseph Darcy, III 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).

  • Process for producing an imaging member belt having an angular seam
    Patent number: 8016968
    Abstract: There is provided a process for producing a seamed, flexible electrostatographic imaging member belt comprising providing a flexible, substantially rectangular, electrostatographic imaging sheet having a first major exterior surface opposite and parallel to a second major exterior surface and a first marginal end region of said sheet opposite and parallel with a second marginal end region; shaping said first marginal end region at an angle to form a first new sloping surface between the first major exterior surface and the second major exterior surface, shaping said second marginal end region at an angle to form a second new sloping surface between the first major exterior surface and the second major exterior surface, wherein the second new sloping surface is substantially parallel with the first new sloping surface; forming the sheet into a loop and overlapping said first new sloping surface with said second new sloping surface to form a mated region; and, joining said first new sloping surface to said seco
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Stephen Roetker, Donald Laflair, David Martin, Felix J. Santana, John Joseph Darcy, III, Scott Griffin, Robert C. U. Yu
  • Apparatus for producing an imaging member belt having an angular seam
    Patent number: 7685913
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus for producing a cross-sectional angular surface along a substrate, such as a flexible electrostatographic imaging member belt. The apparatus may include a support body, and a blade support member connected to the blade support body. The blade support member comprises a cutting blade having a straight blade edge. The cutting blade may be positioned at an angle relative to a plane of an associated substrate to be cut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Stephen Roetker, Donald Laflair, David Martin, Felix J. Santana, John Joseph Darcy, III, Scott Griffin, Robert C. U. Yu
  • Laser ablation of welded seam area
    Patent number: 7531283
    Abstract: A seamless flexible electrophotographic imaging member comprising a flexible substrate strip material having an unmelted photodecomposed seam of carbon-black loaded polyimide polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John Joseph Darcy, III, Michael Stephen Roetker
  • Treatment for ultrasonic welding
    Patent number: 7229523
    Abstract: A metal welding horn having tripartite ceramic coating on its welding horn tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John Joseph Darcy, III, Michael Stephen Roetker, David W. Martin, Felix J. Santana, Scott Griffin