G03G 15/161
With means for handling the intermediate support
Official title: {with means for handling the intermediate support, e.g. heating, cleaning, coating with a transfer agent}
G03G15/161 (With means for handling the intermediate support) appears on 1,702 US grants and 1,681 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03G- Granted patents
- 1,702
- Published applications
- 1,681
- Assignees
- 116
- Inventors
- 2,489
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2025 | 38 | 48 |
| 2026 | 23 | 42 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Light emitting members6 Oct 2026US 12,754,493 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Intermediate transfer unit and image forming apparatus with replaceable cleaning device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,495 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,748,371 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Image-forming apparatus generating electrical discharge upstream of transfer portion22 Sep 2026US 12,743,041 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus8 Sep 2026US 12,730,395 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Image forming apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310118 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Digitally printed and produced heat transfer and method of manufacture1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299467 A1Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
- Image forming apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288037 A1Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Coating material, transfer member, transfer device, and image forming apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0275155 A1Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Image forming apparatus10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267266 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Intermediate transfer apparatus88US 4,684,238 AXerox Corporation · 1987
- Transfer apparatus86US 4,690,539 AXerox Corporation · 1987
- Printing system58US 6,438,352 B1Indigo N.V. · 2002
- Method and apparatus for image forming performing improved cleaning and discharging operations on image forming associated members56US 6,269,228 B1Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2001
- Imaging system with rigidizer and intermediate transfer member55US 5,028,964 ASpectrum Sciences B. V. · 1991