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Utility
Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus
4 May 20
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus generating an ultrasound image of inside of a test object based on ultrasound signals reflected and received from the inside of the test object includes: a candidate region extracting unit which extracts a plurality of candidate detection regions in a needle position range corresponding to a position of a puncture needle inserted into the test object; a needle identification range setting unit which determines a needle identification range including the needle position range from the ultrasound image based on the extracted candidate detection regions; a needle position range estimating unit which determines an estimated range of the needle position range in the needle identification range based on a value indicating an aggregation state related to a distribution of the candidate detection regions in the needle identification range; and a needle emphasizing unit which performs a process for emphasizing the estimated range in the ultrasound image.
Yoshihiro Takeda, Kazuya Takagi, Jo Shikama, Makoto Horiuchi
Filed: 9 Dec 15
Utility
Inkjet head and method of manufacturing the same, and inkjet recording apparatus
4 May 20
An inkjet head configured to eject inkjet ink includes a piezoelectric layer of a thin film and a diaphragm.
Kenji Mawatari
Filed: 25 Oct 16
Utility
Ink-jet recording apparatus
4 May 20
An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a first electrification adjuster and a second electrification adjuster.
Shigeo Uetake, Shigetaka Kurosu, Atsuto Hirai
Filed: 25 Feb 19
Utility
Drive apparatus and image forming apparatus
4 May 20
A drive apparatus according to the present invention includes a stepping motor that transmits power to a rotating shaft of a conveyance roller, a brushless motor that transmits power to the rotating shaft of the conveyance roller, a first controller that controls an operation of the stepping motor so that the stepping motor rotates at a constant speed, and a second controller that controls an operation of the brushless motor.
Satoshi Miyajima, Hiroshi Oyama, Remi Ishikawa, Tadayuki Ueda
Filed: 25 Oct 18
Utility
Paper reversing apparatus, image forming system and computer readable storage medium storing program
4 May 20
A paper reversing apparatus includes a main conveyance path, a reversing path, first and second guiding plates and a hardware processor.
Masaaki Uchiyama
Filed: 23 Oct 18
Utility
Cell morphology image processing and corrections
4 May 20
Provided is a technology in which an image accurately representing a distribution of an area where a specific portion of a cell in an image capturing a cell morphology is captured can be stably acquired.
Yuka Yoshihara
Filed: 23 May 16
Utility
Optical writing device and image forming apparatus
4 May 20
An optical writing device includes: a light emitting member on which a plurality of light emitting elements are arranged in a row; and a holding member on which a plurality of projections are arranged at intervals.
Takahiro Matsuo, Atsushi Nagaoka, Masahiko Takahashi
Filed: 4 Nov 18
Utility
Management system, management apparatus, management method, and management program
4 May 20
A management system includes a camera that shoots a code where item information related to a target item has been encoded, a reader that detects the code from an input image obtained by shooting the code, and read the item information from the code, a camera controller that acquires an item image representing the target item from the camera after the code is detected, and a storage that stores the item image acquired by the camera controller, associating the item image with the item information.
Kentaro Aoki, Akinori Tadokoro
Filed: 5 Nov 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus
4 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier rotatably supported; a lubricant supplier that supplies lubricant to a surface of the image carrier; a blade that levels the lubricant supplied from the lubricant supplier in a film-like form on the surface of the image carrier; and a controller that controls image formation, wherein the controller has a lubricant removal mode to remove the lubricant accumulated on the blade, the lubricant removal mode includes a plurality of displacement modes each of which imparts different displacement to the blade, in each of the displacement modes, one of a displacement amount, a displacement speed, a displacement period, a displacement angle, and a displacement position of the blade is different, and the controller performs switching between the displacement modes dining execution of the lubricant removal mode.
Yuji Kamoda, Shota Sakurai, Hiroyuki Saito, Tatsuya Furuta
Filed: 6 Aug 19
Utility
Information processing apparatus
4 May 20
An information processing apparatus includes: a user interface unit including a display unit and an input unit; and a processor outputting, by an operation of a user, a diagnostic/recovery menu in which a processing detail of each of a plurality of diagnostic/recovery processing is associated with importance of the processing detail on the display unit as well as determining a range and a type of information to be acquired for a trouble analysis on the basis of diagnostic/recovery processing selected by the user on the diagnostic/recovery menu and storing the determined information into a storage unit along with the importance.
Masao Takahashi
Filed: 17 Nov 16
Utility
Control apparatus for assigning a print job, image forming apparatus, image forming system, and program
4 May 20
A control apparatus includes: a communicator that communicates with an image forming apparatus capable of executing a print job; and a hardware processor that obtains, for each of the image forming apparatuses in communication with the communicator, a degree of variations in remaining endurance of each of a plurality of units included in the image forming apparatus, wherein the hardware processor assigns a print job to the image forming apparatus having the smallest degree of variations.
Kei Yuasa, Natsuko Minegishi, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Hiroki Shibata
Filed: 13 Feb 19
Utility
Image forming device that determines whether additional information is necessary to execute a print job received from a terminal device, and image forming system and non-transitory readable recording medium
4 May 20
An image forming device comprises: an additional information determining part that determines necessity of additional information required for execution of a print job based on information received from a terminal device; a print job storage that temporarily stores therein the print job received from the terminal device when the additional information determining part determines the additional information is necessary; an additional information requesting part that requests for the additional information to the terminal device when the additional information determining part determines the additional information is necessary; an additional information obtaining part that obtains the additional information from the terminal device; a print setting applying part that applies the additional information to the print job stored in the print job storage; and a printing part that produces the printed output based on the print job to which the additional information is applied by the print setting applying part.
Shohei Iwamoto
Filed: 12 Jul 16
Utility
Image forming apparatus
4 May 20
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet includes: a rotating body that forms the image; a motor that rotationally drives the rotating body; a current measurer that measures a motor current flowing through a current supply path including a winding of the motor at a measurement timing that is a timing after the motor is started; a torque acquisitor that acquires a torque value of the motor, based on a measured value of the motor current; and a corrector that performs correction to cancel a current change amount based on a characteristic change depending on a temperature state of the motor at the measurement timing, in acquisition of the torque value by the torque acquisitor.
Katsuhide Sakai, Yasuhiro Ishihara, Satoshi Chikazawa
Filed: 27 Jan 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus with abnormality diagnosis, image forming system with abnormality diagnosis, and control program of image forming apparatus with abnormality diagnosis
4 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a first rotor and a second rotor that are each a rotatable member; a first movable member including the first rotor or a transferer that transfers power of the first rotor to another member; a second movable member including the second rotor or a transferer that transfers power of the second rotor to another member; a hardware processor that drives simultaneously the first rotor and the second rotor at mutually different numbers of revolutions or speeds, and performs abnormality diagnosis on the first movable member and the second movable member, based on the sounds of operation acquired by the sound acquirer; and a sound acquirer that acquires sounds of operation of the first movable member and the second movable member with the first rotor and the second rotor being driven by the hardware processor.
Hiroshi Eguchi, Natsuyo Ida, Junichi Masuda, Masahiro Nonoyama, Akimasa Ishikawa
Filed: 25 Feb 19
Utility
Data communication and transmission for information processing devices in a network
4 May 20
An information processing device is provided together with other information processing devices in a network and is capable of communicating with a server, and includes: a data communicator that transmits a predetermined kind of information about the respective other information processing devices to the server when the information processing device is in a first mode, and transmits the predetermined kind of information about the information processing device to a device functioning in the first mode when the information processing device is in a second mode; an acquisitor that acquires load information; a determiner that determines a smallest load device; a mode setter that performs a mode setting process to realize a state where in the device determined to be the smallest load device is in the first mode, and the other devices are in the second mode; and a mode notifier that notifies the other information processing devices of the state.
Takashi Oikawa
Filed: 28 May 18
Utility
Intermediate Transfer Body, Image Forming Device, and Image Forming Method
29 Apr 20
An intermediate transfer body used for image formation using an active energy ray includes a transmissive member that is disposed on an outermost layer of the intermediate transfer body and transmits an active energy ray, and a reflective member that reflects the active energy ray that has passed through the transmissive member to a front layer side of the intermediate transfer body.
Satoru SHIBUYA, Takuya Okada
Filed: 17 Oct 19
Utility
Sheet Type Discrimination Device and Sheet Type Discrimination Device Control Program
29 Apr 20
A sheet type discrimination device includes a holder that holds a sheet, a conveyor that conveys a sheet from the holder along a conveyance path, a measurer that measures a basis weight of the sheet conveyed along the conveyance path, a storage that stores a type discrimination table describing a relationship between the basis weight and a type of a sheet, and a hardware processor that sets the type of the sheet held in the holder on the basis of the basis weight measured by the measurer.
Mie KAWABATA, Akira MURAKAWA, Atsushi KAWAI
Filed: 27 Oct 19
Utility
Inkjet Recording Apparatus
29 Apr 20
An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink jetter that jets ink and a transfer unit that has a ring-shaped intermediate transfer body.
Takahiro HARA
Filed: 24 Oct 19
Utility
Image Forming System, Control Device, and Image Forming Apparatus
29 Apr 20
An image forming system includes a control device and a plurality of image forming apparatuses.
Teppei NAKAMURA
Filed: 24 Oct 19
Utility
Optical Characteristic Evaluation Method and Optical Characteristic Evaluation System
29 Apr 20
An optical characteristic evaluation method evaluates unevenness of an optical characteristic in an optical film based on analysis of a polarized state of light transmitting through an optical film and an analyzer.
Osamu MASUDA, Kazuhiko HIRABAYASHI, Hirofumi TANAKA, Koji NAKASHIMA
Filed: 14 Oct 19