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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2007
Applicants:
Kamran U. Zaman, Pittsford, NY (US);
Stanley J. Pietrzykowski, Jr., Rochester, NY (US);
Inventors:
Kamran U. Zaman, Pittsford, NY (US);
Stanley J. Pietrzykowski, Jr., Rochester, NY (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A small vibrator is connected to a cleaning blade or cleaning blade holder in an electrostatic marking system. This vibrator in a cycle out step moves the blade up and down and reduces thereby overall contact with the photoconductor surface; this reduces any noise caused by blade contact with the photoconductor surface during cycling out or down of the marking procedure.