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Utility
Electrostatic image developer
29 Jun 20
Provided is an electrostatic charge image developer containing toner particles and carrier particles, wherein the toner particles contain at least silica particles or alumina particles as an external additive; the carrier particles contain core material particles and a coating resin layer covering a surface of the core particles; the coating resin layer contains metal oxide particles; an element measured by XPS (photoelectron spectroscopy) of the carrier particle is at least Si or Al; and a content of Si or Al in the carrier particle is in the range of 1 to 6 at % with respect to the total elements constituting the carrier particles.
Futoshi Kadonome, Keiji Arai, Junichi Furukawa, Ikuko Sakurada
Filed: 29 Apr 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus
29 Jun 20
An image forming apparatus including a polygon mirror that deflects a light beam includes: a light emitter that emits the light beam; an optical sensor that is disposed at a position on which the light beam deflected by the polygon mirror is incident; a detector that detects a minimum level being a light intensity level of the light beam, the lowest within a range detected by the optical sensor; a switcher that switches a light intensity level of the light beam emitted from the light emitter until the detector detects the minimum level; and a determiner that determines a degree of contamination of a component on an optical path of the light beam extending from the light emitter to the optical sensor, on the basis of the minimum level detected when the light intensity level is switched by the switcher.
Tatsuya Eguchi, Hidenari Tachibe, Makoto Obayashi
Filed: 16 Jun 19
Utility
Sandwich assay using labeled lectin and kit therefor
29 Jun 20
The present invention provides a sandwich assay for quantifying a glycoprotein, which is a substance to be detected, in a sample using a labeled lectin, wherein the effect attributed to a contaminant, namely noise on the quantified value of the substance to be detected, is suppressed by introduction of a simple treatment.
Tomonori Kaneko, Takatoshi Kaya
Filed: 31 May 15
Utility
Mirror unit and optical-scanning-type object detection device
29 Jun 20
An optical unit contains an optical element made of resin obtained by integrally forming a reflector in which a reflecting surface which reflects a light flux is formed on an outer peripheral side surface, and a flange extending in a direction orthogonal to the reflector to support the reflector; a rotary driving body which rotates the optical element; and a connecting device which connects the flange of the optical element to the rotary driving body, the optical element being capable of rotating around a rotational axis of the rotary driving body.
Naoki Kaneko, Yoshinori Ide, Yoshifumi Tamura, Hajime Mori
Filed: 7 Jun 16
Utility
Image forming apparatus
29 Jun 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a light-emitting element that includes light-emitting point groups; and an optical system that includes imaging systems focusing light from light-emitting points of the light-emitting point groups, wherein the light-emitting point groups and the imaging systems are combined into sets, the light-receiving surface has a cylindrical shape, each imaging system has a negative imaging magnification, light-emitting point groups are arranged at different positions, the imaging systems adjacent to each other have optical axes non-parallel to each other, each optical axis has an angle being not zero relative to the central normal, and a plane including the optical axis and the central normal is perpendicular to a rotational symmetry axis, and an angle between the optical axis and a line normal to the light-receiving surface is smaller than an angle between the central normal and a line normal to the light-receiving surface.
Yoshihiro Inagaki, Makoto Ooki, Daisuke Kobayashi, Kazuki Ikeda, Nurnabila Mohdmakhtar
Filed: 16 Oct 19
Utility
Developer replenishment container
29 Jun 20
A developer replenishment container attachable to and detachable from a container receiver of a developer supply device is provided.
Takeru Kinoshita
Filed: 19 Aug 19
Utility
Image formation apparatus
29 Jun 20
The image formation apparatus includes: a multi-core processor having a plurality of cores; and an image forming mechanism configured to form an image on a recording medium.
Shigeki Nozawa
Filed: 28 Oct 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus and storage medium for high-accuracy colorimetry
29 Jun 20
An image forming apparatus, including: an image former; a first reader which outputs a first color value and a second reader which outputs a second color value; and a hardware processor, wherein the first reader reads a partial region, the second reader is capable of reading an entire region, the adjustment pattern has a first patch region readable by the first reader and a second patch region readable by only the second reader, the second patch region includes a common color patch, the hardware processor obtains an estimate first color value by converting a second color value in the second patch region into a first color value, obtains a correction value of the estimate first color value for the common color patch, and corrects the estimate first color value obtained from every patch in the second patch region based on the correction value.
Masanori Yoshizawa
Filed: 1 Oct 17
Utility
Information processing apparatus and data storage program
29 Jun 20
An information processing apparatus includes: a non-volatile memory; and a hardware processor that controls the non-volatile memory, wherein the hardware processor determines whether communication speed of a communication path to the non-volatile memory is equal to or less than a threshold value and encrypts the data transmitted to the non-volatile memory when the communication speed is determined to be equal to or less than the threshold value.
Takehisa Yamaguchi, Yuji Okamoto, Hidetaka Iwai, Nobuhiro Mishima, Atsushi Tamura, Katsuyuki Sugita
Filed: 3 Jun 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus, Halftone Processing Method, and Halftone Processing Program
24 Jun 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a nozzle head in which nozzles that form dots on a recording medium by ejecting ink onto the recording medium are arranged in a row in a first direction; a moving mechanism that moves at least one of the recording medium or the nozzle head relative to another in a second direction intersecting the first direction; an image acquirer that acquires image data for forming an image of dots on the recording medium; and a halftone processor that determines whether to form a dot at each pixel position of the image on the basis of the image data, wherein the halftone processor includes: an n-value processor; a grouping processor; a total value calculator; and a rearrangement processor.
Makoto HORI, Toshiyuki MIZUTANI
Filed: 3 Dec 19
Utility
Image Forming Device, Controlling Method and Non-transitory Recording Medium
24 Jun 20
An image forming device comprising: a feeder that feeds a sheet; a resisting unit that corrects skew of the sheet fed by the feeder and carries the sheet toward downstream side; a detector that detects the sheet carried toward downstream side by the resisting unit after the skew of the sheet is corrected; and a hardware processor that drives the feeder and the resisting unit, respectively.
Yasuji WATANABE
Filed: 22 Dec 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus, Image Forming System, and Deterioration Detection Method
24 Jun 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance path that conveys a sheet; registration rollers that are arranged across the conveyance path and each comprise a nip part; a sheet locking member that locks a front end of a sheet conveyed in the conveyance path, where the sheet locking member swings between a first attitude and a second attitude, in the first attitude the sheet locking member locks the sheet on an upstream side of the nip part, and in the second attitude the sheet locking member is retracted to a downstream side of the nip part and allows the sheet to pass through the nip part; an energizer that energizes the sheet locking member to maintain the first attitude; and a hardware processor that detects deterioration of the energizer.
Taku Kimura, Masahiro Kamiya, Junichi Masuda, Masahiro Nonoyama, Kouei Cho, Akimasa Ishikawa
Filed: 3 Dec 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus and Foil Sheet Usage Method
24 Jun 20
An image forming apparatus includes an image former, a superposing unit, a fixing unit, and a hardware processor.
Shinobu KONNO
Filed: 22 Dec 19
Utility
Printing System, Information Processing Device and Data Processing Method
24 Jun 20
A printing system which prevents a printer productivity decline due to a bottleneck in time required to read raster image data from an HDD.
Yuhei KURIGATA
Filed: 9 Oct 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus and Storage Medium Storing Control Program for Image Forming Apparatus
24 Jun 20
An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes a first conveyance member, a second conveyance member, and a controller.
Sho OKUZAWA
Filed: 17 Dec 19
Utility
Specimen Detection Device and Specimen Detection Method
24 Jun 20
By irradiating a sensor chip including an analyte labeled with a fluorescent substance with excitation light from an excitation light irradiation unit for emitting the excitation light using a specimen detector including the excitation light irradiation unit and a fluorescence detection unit for detecting fluorescence, fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent substance is detected by the fluorescence detection unit.
Tetsuya NODA
Filed: 12 Feb 18
Utility
Dynamic analysis apparatus
22 Jun 20
A dynamic analysis apparatus includes: an obtainment unit configured to set a region of interest in dynamic images obtained by photographing a dynamic state by irradiation of a check target part with radial rays, and obtain movement information on movement of the region of interest; a determination unit configured to determine an emphasis level of a pixel signal value of an attentional pixel corresponding to a pixel in the region of interest on the basis of the movement information of the region of interest obtained by the obtainment unit; and a correction unit configured to correct the pixel signal value of the attentional pixel of the dynamic images or analysis result images generated by analyzing the dynamic images, on the basis of the emphasis level determined by the determination unit.
Hitoshi Futamura, Koichi Fujiwara, Sho Noji, Akinori Tsunomori
Filed: 29 Jun 17
Utility
Surface plasmon-enhanced fluorescence measurement device and surface plasmon-enhanced fluorescence measurement method
22 Jun 20
The surface plasmon-enhanced fluorescence measurement device has: a light source that irradiates the diffraction grating with a linearly polarized excitation light; a rotating part that changes the direction of the optical axis of the excitation light with respect to the diffraction grating when seen in plan view, or changes the polarization direction of the excitation light with respect to the diffraction grating; a polarizer that extracts linearly polarized light from the fluorescence emitted from the fluorescent substance; and a light detection unit that detects the linearly polarized light extracted by the polarizer.
Yukito Nakamura, Kosuke Nagae, Takatoshi Kaya
Filed: 30 Nov 15
Utility
Ultrasonograph
22 Jun 20
Disclosed is a technology that prevents a part of a touch panel-equipped display displaying an ultrasonic tomographic image from getting dirty with a fingerprint or scratch when using a drag operation to change the content of the ultrasonic tomographic image displayed on the touch panel-equipped display.
Seiichi Fukai, Masahiro Saito, Takashi Sakai, Yukiko Okamoto
Filed: 1 Mar 09
Utility
Wide-angle optical system, lens unit, and imaging apparatus
22 Jun 20
A wide-angle optical system including, in order from an object side: a negative first lens that is a glass lens having a convex shape on the object side, a concave shape on an image side, and a spherical surface on either side; a negative second lens that has an aspherical surface on at least one side, and a concave shape on the image side; a positive third lens; an aperture; a fourth lens that has an aspherical surface on at least one side; and a fifth lens that has an aspherical surface on at least one side.
Kentarou Nakamura
Filed: 23 Mar 17