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Utility
Toner replenishing apparatus with agitation member, developer, and image forming apparatus
3 Aug 20
A toner replenishing apparatus includes: a toner storage that stores toner for replenishment; an agitation paddle that is arranged in the toner storage and rotates to agitate toner stored in the toner storage; a conveyance member that is disposed in a lower part of the toner storage and is used to convey the toner stored in the toner storage toward a developer; and an agitation member that moves along with rotation of the agitation paddle, wherein the conveyance member is arranged away from the agitation paddle in a plan view, and the agitation member agitates the toner located above the conveyance member, which is a part of the toner stored in the toner storage.
Hideji Higashimura
Filed: 13 Aug 19
Utility
Data processing apparatus, method of controlling data processing apparatus, and recording medium
3 Aug 20
A data processing apparatus includes a first processor, a second processor, a first power source which performs electric power supply to the first processor, a second power source which preforms electric power supply to the second processor, a detector which detects an abnormality of the second power source, and a switcher which is capable of switching a power supply target of the first power source between the first processor and the second processor.
Kenichi Takahashi
Filed: 23 Oct 17
Utility
Screen and head-up display device
3 Aug 20
A screen for a head-up display device includes a main body layer sandwiched between a first concave optical surface located at an observation side and a second convex optical surface located at a side opposite to the observation side.
Eiji Nomura
Filed: 23 Feb 17
Utility
Image forming apparatus and management method for image forming apparatus
3 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus includes a counter that counts number of sheets of paper on which printing is performed; a calculator that calculates a coverage rate of each sheet of the paper; a derivation part that derives a reference line to be a replacement indicator for a consumable part based on replacement history information including: number of printed sheets from start of using the consumable part provided in the image forming apparatus until replacement of the consumable part; and an average coverage rate obtained by averaging coverage rates on the sheets of the paper corresponding to the number of printed sheets, and a communicator that provides a notification of arrival of replacement timing of the consumable part based on the reference line.
Hirofumi Ishida
Filed: 25 Jun 19
Utility
Image formation apparatus with two types of storage
3 Aug 20
An image formation apparatus includes a first non-volatile memory, a second non-volatile memory smaller in allowable number of times of rewriting of data than the first non-volatile memory and higher in rate of reading of data than the first non-volatile memory, and a processor.
Masatoshi Hitaka
Filed: 7 Jun 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus
3 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus forms an image on a print medium, and the image forming apparatus includes: a storage that stores medium information including profile information corresponding to the print medium and attribute information of the print medium; and a medium detection sensor that detects attribute actual information of the print medium; wherein the medium information is configured such that the profile information corresponding to the print medium is associated with the attribute information of the print medium, and the attribute information or the print medium includes information detectable by the medium detection sensor.
Fusako Ozawa
Filed: 9 Sep 18
Utility
Message conversion system, message conversion method, and message conversion program
3 Aug 20
A message conversion system converts a message regarding one operation screen out of an operation screen after the customization and a default screen before the customization to a message regarding the other operation screen, and includes: a first obtainer that obtains a name of the operation item and identification information of operation control; a second obtainer that obtains a name of the operation item and identification information of operation control; a creator that creates a comparison table; and a replacer that specifies the identification information corresponding to the name of the operation item included in the message regarding one operation screen, and obtains the name of the operation item of the other operation screen and replaces the name of the operation item of the one operation screen included in the message with the name of the operation item of the other operation screen.
Hiroyuki Kawabata
Filed: 5 Aug 19
Utility
Image processing apparatus and program
3 Aug 20
An image processing apparatus is capable of judging a pass/fail for an inspection image which is an image of a job used for printing on a recording medium, by comparing the inspection image with an original image correlated with the inspection image and the image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that judges a pass/fail for an image, wherein in accordance with a predetermined inspection mode set for the job, the hardware processor judges the inspection image to be abnormal when the inspection image and the original image match, and judges the inspection image to be nominal when the inspection image and the original image do not match.
Keisuke Morita
Filed: 15 Oct 18
Utility
Display device, image processing device and non-transitory recording medium determining continuity of operation two or more display areas
3 Aug 20
A display device, comprises: a display part that displays a first display area and a second display area across a boundary and displays operation screens in the respective first and second display areas; a manipulation part that detects a user operation performed to a display screen of the display part; and a hardware processor that: determines whether or not a first operation and a second operation have continuity when the second operation is detected in the second display area after the first operation is detected in the first display area; and updates the operation screen in the first display area in response to the second operation when the first operation and the second operation are determined to have continuity, and updates the operation screen in the second display area in response to the second operation when the first operation and the second operation are determined not to have continuity.
Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Takuto Matsumoto
Filed: 17 Dec 18
Utility
Device for generating display data, information device, and display system for displaying scroll region and operation region
3 Aug 20
A device for causing a display unit to partially display a screen having a scroll region in which a content is scrolled and an operation region is provided.
Hiroshi Murakami, Jun Kunioka, Koichi Amiya, Yukina Hisada, Tomokazu Kato
Filed: 24 Mar 14
Utility
Motor controller, conveyor, image forming apparatus, and motor control method
3 Aug 20
A motor controller that controls a motor in which a rotor using a permanent magnet is rotated by a rotating magnetic field due to a current flowing through a winding: performs hold control that continuously causes a fixed excitation current to flow through the winding to cause a fixed magnetic field for suppressing rotation of the rotor to be generated in a suspension period in which the motor is stopped; performs hold enhancement control that enhances the fixed magnetic field with input of a timing signal defined in advance as a trigger, in the suspension period; and starts rotational excitation control that generates the rotating magnetic field when a rotation start timing arrives.
Harumitsu Fujimori, Yuji Kobayashi, Kazumichi Yoshida
Filed: 10 Apr 19
Utility
Sheet feeder, sheet conveyer having the same, and image forming device having the same
3 Aug 20
In a paper cassette, a guide slides on a tray to place a sheet at a proper position.
Yuki Doshida, Masanobu Tomiyasu, Shigeru Sawano
Filed: 14 Mar 18
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus, Image Forming System, and Controlling Method of the Image Forming Apparatus
29 Jul 20
An image forming apparatus that can reduce an information leak risk is provided.
Tatsuya KAWANO
Filed: 16 Jan 20
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus and Image Forming Method
29 Jul 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a drop applier that applies a drop to a surface of a coating layer formed on a surface of a recording medium; a viscosity improver that improves viscosity of the drop on the surface of the coating layer; and a roller that rolls the drop improved in viscosity, wherein the drop at a time of rolling has lower viscosity than the coating layer.
Hajime KAWAKAMI, Yusuke MAMIYA, Yusuke NISHISAKA, Shinya TOKUTAKE
Filed: 25 Dec 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus
29 Jul 20
Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of preventing or suppressing occurrence of density unevenness even when a shearing force is applied between an image face on paper and a fixing belt.
Masahiro ONODERA
Filed: 17 Dec 19
Utility
Optical Writing Device
29 Jul 20
An optical writing device includes: an image carrier; an exposer that exposes a curved surface of the image carrier; and a control circuit that controls the exposer, wherein the exposer includes a plurality of light-emitting element groups having different positional relationships from one another with the image carrier, and has a configuration that is adjusted in accordance with at least one of an angle at which light reaching the curved surface of the image carrier from each light-emitting element group enters the image carrier, and a distance of each light-emitting element group from the image carrier.
Ryo HASEGAWA, Takahiro MATSUO, Hajime TANIGUCHI, Atsushi NAGAOKA
Filed: 6 Jan 20
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus
29 Jul 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a controller that controls the image forming apparatus; a memory that stores noise levels produced by a plurality of devices constituting the image forming apparatus during operation of the devices; and a microphone that accepts a speech instruction for the image forming apparatus.
Satoshi UCHINO
Filed: 28 Jan 20
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus and Control Method
29 Jul 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a latent image carrier on which a latent image is formed; a developing device that develops the latent image formed on the latent image carrier, using developer; a supply member that supplies the developer to the developing device; and a hardware processor that: performs control of the supply member; and acquires an atmospheric pressure value in a position where the image forming apparatus is installed, wherein the hardware processor changes a method of controlling the supply member based on the atmospheric pressure value acquired by the hardware processor.
Kazuki KOBORI
Filed: 25 Dec 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus and Image Forming Method
29 Jul 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a printer that prints a plurality of images in a state where the plurality of images are divided in a plurality of lanes on a continuous sheet, the plurality of lanes respectively corresponding to the plurality of images; an inspector that reads each of the plurality of images printed on the continuous sheet and conducts an inspection; and a hardware processor that controls the printer to reprint an image that has been detected to be abnormal on the continuous sheet on which the image that has been detected to be abnormal has been printed, in a case where any of the plurality of images has been detected to be abnormal in the inspection conducted by the inspector.
Ken MIYAZAKI
Filed: 7 Jan 20
Utility
Image Forming Device, Information Processing Device, Display Control Method, and Non-transitory Computer-readable Recording Medium Storing a Program
29 Jul 20
An image forming device which permits easy adjustment of post-processing setup information.
Kazuto TANAKA
Filed: 30 Dec 19