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Utility
Fixing device and image forming apparatus
27 Apr 20
A fixing device includes a pressure roller and a pressure pad that form a nip portion, and a nip member disposed opposite to the pressure roller as viewed from the pressure pad.
Shinichi Yabuki
Filed: 20 Jan 19
Utility
Fixing device and image forming apparatus providing adjustable gloss to toner image
27 Apr 20
A fixing device for fixing a toner image on a paper sheet by conveying the paper sheet on which the toner image has been formed while holding the paper sheet at a fixing nip, the fixing device includes an endless belt that rotates, a pressing member that presses the belt from the inner side, a pressure member that forms the fixing nip between the pressure member and the belt by pressing, from the outer side of the belt, a portion of the belt pressed by the pressing member, and a hardware processor that controls glossiness of the toner image formed on the paper sheet by changing a shear force to be applied to the toner image formed on the paper sheet within a predetermined range from a nip inlet that is an end of the fixing nip, located upstream in a direction in which the paper sheet is conveyed.
Noboru Oomoto
Filed: 28 May 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus and failure point estimation method
27 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus, including: an image former; a sheet detection sensor; an image reader; and a hardware processor that: detects an image abnormality by analyzing the read image data and obtains a position in a sheet conveyance direction of the detected image abnormality in the read image data for each piece of the read image data corresponding to each of the sheets; estimates a conveyance interval of the plurality of sheets based on a detection result by the sheet detection sensor, and determines whether a specific periodicity exists based on the estimated conveyance interval and the position of the image abnormality detected from the read image data corresponding to each of the sheets; and when the specific periodicity is determined to exist, estimates a part corresponding to the specific periodicity as a failure point.
Makoto Ikeda
Filed: 23 Oct 18
Utility
Non-transitory recording medium storing information processing program and information processing method
27 Apr 20
A method of information processing includes: obtaining either or both a plurality of behavior logs that include a plurality of behavior history records and a plurality of communication information that indicate plural aspects of communication behavior given by processing the plurality of behavior logs for an individual; determining a behavioral characteristic that indicates how the individual is likely to behave by weighting either or both of the plurality of behavior logs and the plurality of communication information using predetermined weightings and combining the plurality of behavior logs and the plurality of communication information that have been weighted; and recording the behavioral characteristic into a database in the storage device.
Nobuhiro Nojima
Filed: 12 Feb 18
Utility
Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus
22 Apr 20
Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including: a power storage that stores electric power and that releases the stored power; a first hardware processor that receives power and supplies the received power to a gel heater, in which the gel heater heats gel by the power; and a second hardware processor that receives either power supplied from an external power source or the power released from the power storage and supplies the received power to the first hardware processor.
Yasuhiro NAKAMURA, Tomohiko SATSUKA
Filed: 7 Oct 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus, Basis-weight Deriving Method, and Basis-weight Deriving Program
22 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source, an optical sensor, a storage, and a hardware processor that controls operation of the image forming apparatus, wherein the first wavelength and the second wavelength have a wavelength having a high correlation between the transmittance and the basis weight, compared with those at other wavelengths, and the hardware processor calculates a first transmittance from the amount of the first emission light and the amount of the first transmission light, calculates a second transmittance from the amount of the second emission light and the amount of the second transmission light, derives a first basis weight corresponding to the first transmittance, derives a second basis weight corresponding to the second transmittance, and derives a first average basis weight obtained by averaging the first basis weight and the second basis weight.
Shogo ASAOKA
Filed: 9 Oct 19
Utility
Ink Mist Collection Device and Inkjet Recording Apparatus
22 Apr 20
An ink mist collection device includes: a vent including a mist inflow port that allows ink mist to flow thereinto, the ink mist being generated when an ink ejector that ejects an ink toward a recording medium ejects the ink; a suction fan that causes the ink mist to flow into the vent via the mist inflow port and sucks the ink mist that has flowed in; and a collection member provided between the mist inflow port inside the vent and the suction fan, the collection member collecting the ink mist that has flowed into the vent, and the suction fan and the collection member are configured such that a travel speed of the ink mist travelling inside the collection member in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a suction direction of the ink mist is uniform.
Junichiro TAKAHASHI
Filed: 15 Oct 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus, Basis-weight Deriving Method, and Basis-weight Deriving Program
22 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source, an optical sensor, a storage, and a hardware processor, wherein the storage stores a first threshold for determining a type of the recording material based on the basis weight, and the hardware processor calculates a first transmittance from the mount of the first emission light and the amount of the first transmission light, calculates a second transmittance from the amount of the second emission light and the amount of the second transmission light, derives a first basis weight corresponding to the first transmittance and a second basis weight corresponding to the second transmittance, by using predetermined determination criteria, determines the type of the recording material based on the first basis weight and the second basis weight, and derives the basis weight according to the determination criteria based on the determined type of the recording material.
Shogo ASAOKA
Filed: 9 Oct 19
Utility
Image Forming Device, Paper Feeding Mechanism Deterioration Determining Method and Non-transitory Recording Medium
22 Apr 20
An image forming device comprising: a tray in which multiple number of sheets are stored; a feeder that feeds the sheet stored in the tray; and a hardware processor that: measures a carrying speed of the sheet fed by the feeder; determines whether or not the measured carrying speed is affected by the following sheet; corrects the carrying speed upon determining the carrying speed is affected by the following sheet; and detects a wear status on the feeder based on the measured carrying speed or the corrected carrying speed.
Masatoshi HITAKA
Filed: 6 Oct 19
Utility
Physical Property Detecting Device and Image Forming System
22 Apr 20
A physical property detecting device, includes: an insertion part that includes an insertion port through which a sheet is inserted and removed; a first physical property detector that detects a first physical property of the sheet in a non-nipping state; and a second physical property detector that nips the sheet and detects a second physical property of the sheet in a nipping state, wherein the first physical property detector and the second physical property detector are disposed at different positions in an insertion and removal direction of the sheet.
Yumiko Izumiya, Satoshi Ogata, Kazutoshi Yoshimura
Filed: 21 Oct 19
Utility
Stacker Device and Image Forming System
22 Apr 20
A stacker device includes: a discharger that discharges sheets in response to a print job; a first tray on which the discharged sheets are stacked; a second tray that serves as a delivery destination of the sheets stacked on the first tray; a shutter that covers an opening on a front side of a housing; a driver that moves the first tray in an up-down direction; and a hardware processor that shuts off power to the driver based on a height position of the shutter and a position of the second tray in a front-rear direction.
Tatsuo ISHIZUKA, Akira OKAMOTO, Teruhiko TOYOIZUMI
Filed: 7 Oct 19
Utility
Paper Sheet Stacking Apparatus and Image Forming System
22 Apr 20
A paper sheet stacking apparatus, includes: a first tray that stacks a paper sheet; a sheet discharger that discharges a paper sheet supplied from the outside of the apparatus to the first tray; a second tray that receives the paper sheet stacked on the first tray and discharges the received paper sheet to the outside of the apparatus; and a hardware processor that controls operation states of the first tray and the second tray, wherein the first tray and the second tray have: a first operation state in which the first tray is positioned at a paper sheet stacking position; a second operation state in which the paper sheet stacked on the first tray is deliverable to the second tray; and a third operation state in which the first tray that has delivered the paper sheet to the second tray is returned to the paper sheet stacking position.
Tatsuya KATAGIRI
Filed: 14 Oct 19
Utility
Organic Electroluminescent Element Material, Organic Electroluminescent Element, Display Device, Lighting Device, and Compound
22 Apr 20
Yukihiro MAKISHIMA, Noriko UEDA, Yasuo MIYATA
Filed: 12 Feb 18
Utility
Image Inspection Apparatus and Image Inspection Program
22 Apr 20
An image inspection apparatus includes a hardware processor that inspects an abnormality of printed matter by comparing a preliminarily prepared answer image with an image obtained by reading a printed image, wherein the hardware processor generates a plurality of answer images based on a combination of pieces of arrangement information on a reusable object and a variable unique object in variable printing.
Kouichirou MATSUSHITA
Filed: 10 Oct 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus, Voice Recognizing Device, and Non-transitory Recording Medium Storing Computer Readable Program
22 Apr 20
Tatsuya KAWANO
Filed: 6 Oct 19
Utility
Image Processing Apparatus, Operation Control Method for Same and Non-transitory Computer-readable Recording Medium
22 Apr 20
Provided are an image processing apparatus, an operation control method and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium.
Daiki NISHIOKA
Filed: 10 Oct 19
Utility
Sample Detecting System
22 Apr 20
To provide a sample detecting system capable of suppressing a temperature gradient and temperature unevenness in a sensor chip and controlling the temperature of a reaction portion with higher accuracy regardless of the temperature of an environment in which a sample detecting apparatus is disposed.
Tetsuya NODA, Atsuo IWASHITA, Yuuya SHOUJI
Filed: 14 Feb 18
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus
22 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body and an intermediate transfer unit including an intermediate transfer belt, the intermediate transfer unit being provided as being attachable to and removable from the apparatus main body by sliding movement in a first direction.
Yuta SUZUKI, Yusuke HASHIMOTO, Teruo NAGASHIMA
Filed: 14 Oct 19
Utility
Blood Inspection Device
22 Apr 20
This blood inspection device is for inspecting blood in a blood collection tube.
Masanao MAJIMA
Filed: 8 Apr 18
Utility
Sheet Conveyance Method, Sheet Conveyance Apparatus, and Image Forming System
22 Apr 20
A sheet conveyance method using a sheet conveyance apparatus that includes a conveyance path and a plurality of alignment members disposed along the conveyance path, the method includes: determining a set of alignment members to be operated based on a length of the paper sheet from among the plurality of alignment members; and aligning the paper sheet conveyed on the conveyance path using the determined set of alignment members.
Hiromu Nagato
Filed: 20 Oct 19