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Utility
Image forming apparatus
18 May 20
An image forming apparatus, includes: an image former that forms an image on a sheet; an inspector that inspects an object; and a feed path that conveys the object to the inspector, wherein the feed path is installed to bypass the image former.
Hiroshi Isokawa
Filed: 22 Feb 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus with a detector that detects a type of sheet
18 May 20
Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of detecting a type of a sheet accommodated in a sheet feeding tray in advance.
Dong Wei
Filed: 21 Jan 19
Utility
Radiation Imaging Apparatus and Radiation Imaging System
13 May 20
A portable radiation imaging apparatus including: a detection section which includes a plurality of radiation detection elements for accumulating electric charges corresponding to a radiation amount, the radiation detection elements being two-dimensionally arranged; and a control section which controls accumulation of the electric charges in the radiation detection elements and reading of the accumulated electric charges from the radiation detection elements and generates a plurality of frame images of a subject, the electric charges to be accumulated corresponding to the radiation amount of radiation emitted in a pulsed manner by a radiation source and transmitted through the subject, wherein the control section adjusts a synchronization timing between the radiation source and the detection section by using a waveform of radiation emitted by the radiation source, the waveform being obtained by reading electric charges from at least a part of the plurality of radiation detection elements.
Tetsu HOSOKI, Tomonori GIDO, Nobuyuki MIYAKE
Filed: 12 Jan 20
Utility
Stapling Apparatus, Image Forming Apparatus, Method of Stapling Sheet Bundle, and Non-Transitory Computer Readable Data Recording Medium Having Program Stored Thereon
13 May 20
A stapling apparatus includes a sheet insertion portion that receives insertion of a sheet bundle, a stapler that staples the sheet bundle, a drive apparatus that drives the stapler, and a controller that controls the drive apparatus.
Takeshi ISHIDA, Tatsuya EGUCHI, Takashi WATANABE, Masayuki WATANABE, Akinori KIMATA
Filed: 12 Nov 19
Utility
Image Forming Method
13 May 20
An image forming method which enables more homogenous image gloss of an image made of gel ink and formed by lump-sum irradiation of active rays.
Masashi IKEDA, Shogo WATANABE
Filed: 27 Mar 18
Utility
Information Processing System, Information Processing Apparatus, Job Control Method, and Job Control Program
13 May 20
An information processing system includes a voice collecting device that collects a voice, and an information processing apparatus capable of generating a job, wherein either of the voice collecting device and the information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that specifies a user who has uttered, and the hardware processor of the information processing apparatus generates, as the job, based on information obtained from a voice in which a first user and a second user are individually specified by the hardware processor, a request job that the first user has requested the second user to execute.
Kazumi SAWAYANAGI, Tomoaki NAKAJIMA, Katsuhiko AKITA, Toshikazu KAWAGUCHI, Takashi OTSUKA, Daisuke NAKANO
Filed: 15 Oct 19
Utility
Image Inspection Apparatus, Image Inspection Method, and Image Inspection Program
13 May 20
An image inspection apparatus includes: an image reader that reads an original image on a recording material based on a print job and generates a read image; and a hardware processor that analyzes the read image acquired from the image reader and performs image inspection, in which the hardware processor: performs predetermined filter processing on the read image and generates a first reference image; acquires background density from the first reference image and sets a threshold based on the background density; compares the read image to the first reference image and generates a first comparison image; and binarizes the first comparison image by using the threshold, detects a part where a specific abnormality has occurred, and outputs a detection result.
Jun ITOU, Makoto IKEDA
Filed: 14 Oct 19
Utility
Image Forming System, Image Forming Method, Image Forming Program, And Image Inspection Device
13 May 20
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus including an image former that forms an image on a sheet of paper, and an image inspection device including a reader that reads the sheet of paper, and the image forming system includes a storage that stores information, and a hardware processor that causes the reader to read a pre-image formation paper to store information of a defect present on the pre-image formation paper in the storage as defect information, and causes the reader to read a post-image formation paper on which the image has been formed by the image former to perform quality determination on a basis of the defect information.
Yoshiyuki SUWA
Filed: 6 Nov 19
Utility
Measurement Device
13 May 20
A measurement device is for measuring a sample arranged on a thick film transparent medium.
Hidetaka NINOMIYA, Yukito NAKAMURA, Takatoshi KAYA
Filed: 19 Apr 18
Utility
Backup Apparatus
13 May 20
A backup apparatus includes a hardware processor that selects one of a plurality of devices, the devices being communicably connected to each other and each including a storage apparatus and a connection I/F to connect to an external storage apparatus, and collectively makes a backup of backup target data held by the plurality of devices into the external storage apparatus connected to the connection I/F of a selected device, wherein the hardware processor selects one of the plurality of devices on a basis of a predetermined selection condition including an amount of data of backup target data held by each of the devices.
Yoshio MIYAMOTO
Filed: 29 Oct 19
Utility
Electrostatic Image Developing Toner and Developer
13 May 20
An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner base particles, wherein the toner base particles contain: an amorphous polyester resin; a crystalline resin; and o-acetoacetaniside, and the content of the o-acetoacetaniside in the toner base particles is 0.1 ppm by mass or more and 200 ppm by mass or less.
Takanari KAYAMORI, Masaharu MATSUBARA, Naoya TONEGAWA, Atsushi IIOKA
Filed: 1 Oct 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus and Control Program for Image Forming Apparatus
13 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that detects multiple files stored in the external storage when an external storage is installed to the image forming apparatus, determines a scan order of each of the multiple files detected by the hardware processor, and scans each of the multiple files for viruses in the scan order; and an acceptor that accepts a print instruction for a file stored in the external storage, wherein the hardware processor determines whether it is necessary to execute virus scanning on a print target file before printing depending on whether the hardware processor has completed virus scanning on the print target file, which is the file for which the print instruction has been accepted by the acceptor.
Kazuhiro TOMIYASU, Kaoru FUKUOKA, Hiroaki SUGIMOTO
Filed: 29 Oct 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus, Correction Image Forming Method, and Image Forming System
13 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a correction content extractor that compares original image data of an original image formed on an image-formed recording material, with corrected original image data of the original image that is corrected, and extracts a correction content of the original image; a correction position extractor that compares the original image data with read image data read from the image-formed recording material, and extracts a correction position of the correction content according to a shape of the image-formed recording material; a correction image data generator that generates correction image data for forming a correction image in accordance with a shape of the image-formed recording material based on the correction content and the correction position; and an image former that forms the correction image at the correction position of the image-formed recording material based on the correction image data.
Youichirou NISHI, Hiroyuki ARAI, Shingo SASAMI
Filed: 11 Nov 19
Utility
System, Image Forming Apparatus, Method, and Program
13 May 20
A system includes: an image forming apparatus; a voice processing device that collects voice of an utterance, and generates voice data of the collected voice; and a server, wherein the server includes: a hardware processor that controls the server; and a communication circuit that communicates with the image forming apparatus and the voice processing device, the hardware processor performs a recognition process on the voice data received from the voice processing device, to generate a command for operating the image forming apparatus, and in a case where the image forming apparatus has received the voice data from the voice processing device while executing a job, when the image forming apparatus is in a predetermined state of executing the job, or when the command generated from the voice data is a predetermined command, the hardware processor controls the communication circuit to transmit the generated command to the image forming apparatus.
Yi-Tsung CHANG
Filed: 29 Oct 19
Utility
Fixing Belt, Fixing Device, Image Forming Apparatus, and Image Forming Method
13 May 20
Provided is a fixing belt that is used in a fixing device, the fixing device nipping, between a heated fixing belt and a roller, a recording material in which an unfixed toner image is formed on a surface, and fixing the toner image onto the recording material, and the fixing belt has a fixing temperature that causes a tipping point in a characteristic of a change in glossiness of the toner image that has been fixed with respect to a change in the fixing temperature.
Susumu SUDO
Filed: 17 Oct 19
Utility
Image Forming Device, Image Forming Method and Non-transitory Recording Medium
13 May 20
An image forming device provided with a wear part arranged in a manner being in contact with a surface of an image carrier to wear the surface of the image carrier, comprises: a hardware processor that: detects a film thickness of the image carrier; detects a deterioration progress degree of the image carrier; and compares the detected film thickness with the detected deterioration progress degree, and adjusts a wear amount of wear due to the wear mean based on the comparison result.
Hideo YAMAKI
Filed: 28 Oct 19
Utility
Image Forming Method
13 May 20
The present invention provides an image forming method for forming a decorated image having a resin layer and a powder contacted with each other, the method including: forming a resin layer on a recording medium; and supplying a powder onto the recording medium, in which, in viscoelasticity measurement of the resin layer, storage modulus G′(1) at 90° C. is 1.0×103 Pa or more and 1.0×106 Pa or less upon carrying out the measurement from 30° C. to 100° C. under conditions of a frequency of 1 Hz and a temperature increasing rate of 3° C./min.
Kazumi OURA, Michiyo FUJITA, Kaori MATSUSHIMA
Filed: 10 Oct 19
Utility
Systems, methods, and devices for detecting substances in a sample collection well
11 May 20
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a detection method which can safely recover a remaining sample from a detection device without causing a biological disaster.
Youichi Aoki, Masataka Matsuo, Tetsuya Noda
Filed: 28 Jan 16
Utility
Optical sample detection system
11 May 20
An optical sample detection system includes: a sensor chip including a dielectric member, a metal film adjacent to an upper surface of the dielectric member, a reaction layer adjacent to an upper surface of the metal film, and a lid member disposed on an upper surface of the reaction layer; a chip holding unit for holding the sensor chip; and a light projecting unit that irradiates the metal film with excitation light through the dielectric member.
Fumio Nagai, Tetsuya Noda
Filed: 24 Oct 16
Utility
Scanning optical system and radar
11 May 20
A scanning optical system, includes a mirror unit equipped with a first mirror surface and a second mirror surface each of which inclines to a rotation axis; and a light projecting system which includes at least one light source to emit a light flux toward the first mirror surface.
Ryouta Ishikawa, Shoji Kogo
Filed: 5 Oct 15