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Electrophotographic Photoreceptor
22 Apr 20
There is provided an electrophotographic photoreceptor obtained by sequentially laminating at least a photosensitive layer and an outermost layer on a conductive support, wherein the outermost layer contains a polymerized and cured product of a composition containing a polymerizable monomer and a filler, and the filler includes a conductive first filler surface-treated with a surface treatment agent having a silicone chain in a side chain, and a second filler having a relative dielectric constant which is lower than that of the first filler and 5 or less.
Mayuko Matsusaki, Tomoko Sakimura, Hiroki Takao, Kengo Ikeda
Filed: 2 Oct 19
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Image Forming Method
22 Apr 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 the recording medium has a surface with an arithmetic mean height Sa of 1.000 or more.
Michiyo FUJITA, Ryuichi Hiramoto, Tomoko Mine, Kaori Matsushima
Filed: 10 Sep 19
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Image Forming Apparatus
22 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus includes a cleaning member formed by an elastic body, and a member to be cleaned in which toner added with an external additive adheres to a surface, and the toner is to be cleaned by the cleaning member being in contact with the surface, wherein the cleaning member has a protrusion disposed on a cleaning surface extending from a contact part with the member to be cleaned, and facing a side where the toner is to be cleaned, of the member to be cleaned.
YOSHIKI NAKANE, TAKENOBU KIMURA, KEI OKAMURA, HIROSHI MORIMOTO, NATSUKO MINEGISHI
Filed: 15 Oct 19
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Image Forming Apparatus, Method for Controlling Image Forming Apparatus, and Program for Controlling Image Forming Apparatus
22 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor; a transferer; a remover that removes toner on a surface of the photoreceptor; and a hardware processor that: performs a control to form a toner image based on a print image on paper according to a first formation condition by using at least the photoreceptor and the transferer; performs a control to form a toner patch on the surface of the photoreceptor according to a second formation condition determined on the basis of the first formation condition at the time of forming the toner image on the paper by the hardware processor; and controls a voltage applied to the transferer to be a voltage at which the toner patch formed on the photoreceptor is not transferred when the toner patch formed on the surface of the photoreceptor passes through a region facing the transferer.
Yusuke Murakami
Filed: 8 Oct 19
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Image Forming Method
22 Apr 20
The present invention provides an image forming method for forming a decorated image, including: softening a resin layer contained in a resin image including a recording medium having a surface with an arithmetic mean height Sa less than 1.000 and the resin layer formed on the recording medium; and supplying a powder onto a surface of the resin layer.
Michiyo FUJITA, Ryuichi Hiramoto, Tomoko Mine, Kaori Matsushima
Filed: 24 Sep 19
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Information Processing Apparatus and Recording Medium
22 Apr 20
An information processing apparatus includes a hardware processor which (i) performs learning by a learning data set associated with a correct answer label for a preset problem and creates a machine learning model for estimating a correct answer to the preset problem for input data, (ii) estimates the correct answer to the preset problem for the input data by using the machine learning model, (iii) in response to a user operation, determines a label indicating a result of the estimation as a correct answer label of the input data or corrects the label to determine the corrected label as a correct answer label of the input data, and (iv) additionally registers the determined correct answer label as learning data in association with the input data in the learning data set.
Hirotake MINAMI
Filed: 7 Oct 19
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Fluorescent marker for tissue staining containing phosphor-containing nanoparticle and method using same
20 Apr 20
A tissue staining method which comprises: staining a tissue with a staining reagent wherein a biosubstance recognition site is bonded to particles carrying multiple fluorescent substances accumulated therein; in the stained tissue, counting fluorescent points or measuring fluorescent brightness; and evaluating the expression level of a biosubstance, which matches the biosubstance recognition site, in the aforesaid tissue on the basis of the number of the fluorescent points or fluorescent brightness that was measured.
Takuji Aimiya, Hideki Gouda, Hisatake Okada, Yasushi Nakano
Filed: 18 Feb 15
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Gas monitoring program, system, recording medium, and method
20 Apr 20
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a gas monitoring program causes a computer to acquire a continuous frame of an infrared image, to calculate a concentration-thickness product of leaking gas in the infrared image, to assume a gas leakage location of the leaking gas in the infrared image, to set a gas type which circulates in a pipe proximate to the gas leakage location as a gas type of the leaking gas by referring to circulating substance information of the piping equipment and matching the gas leakage location, to set a maintenance threshold value for the concentration-thickness product of the leaking gas, to estimate a leakage volume from the gas leakage location per unit of time of the gas type, and to predictively calculate a timing when the concentration-thickness product exceeds the maintenance threshold value on a basis of a time-changing leakage volume per unit of time.
Seiichi Tsuzuki, Kiyotaka Murakami, Hisanori Kawashima, Ryo Minegishi
Filed: 11 Apr 17
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Image forming method
20 Apr 20
Provided is an image forming method using an electrostatic image developing toner containing: toner mother particles including a binder resin; and an external additive, wherein the binder resin contains a vinyl resin in an amount of 40 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the binder resin, the image forming method including a step of: forming an image so that an image surface resistance value at 70° C. by a temperature change method of the formed image is set to be 5×1013 Ω or less.
Tatsuya Fujisaki, Ami Motohashi, Takaki Kawamura
Filed: 16 Oct 18
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Image forming apparatus
20 Apr 20
In an image forming apparatus, when a fixing device is in a non-fixing state and a transfer device is in a non-transfer state, an ejection device increases a conveying force by a pair of ejection rollers as compared to the conveying force in the fixing state.
Takahiro Hara
Filed: 27 Jul 16
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Image forming method
20 Apr 20
In an image forming method according to the present invention, an image is formed by removing residual charge from the image on an image recording medium.
Junya Onishi, Kentarou Mogi, Ami Motohashi, Shiro Hirano
Filed: 8 Nov 18
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Image forming apparatus and image forming program for reducing occurrences of color misregistration and density unevenness using fluctuation pattern of difference values
20 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that performs feedforward control on a motor; a driving roller that drives an intermediate transfer belt for transferring a toner image; a drive transmission system that transmits a driving force of the motor; a first detector that detects a speed of a driving shaft of the motor; a second detector that detects a speed of a driving shaft of the drive transmission system; and a storage that stores a plurality of sets of control data having different conformity states, wherein the plurality of sets of control data include pairs of a feedforward operation pattern and a drive transmission system deformation pattern, the drive transmission system deformation pattern corresponds to a fluctuation pattern of difference values, and the hardware processor compares the fluctuation pattern of difference values with the plurality of sets of control data.
Jun Onishi, Masahito Takano, Takashi Fujiwara
Filed: 31 Jan 19
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Image forming apparatus and method of discharge of deteriorated toner
20 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that has an image carrier for supporting toner and prints a first image formed by exposure to the image carrier and a developing processing on continuous paper; and a hardware processor that controls the image former so as to print a second image on the continuous paper in a case where information on at least one of coverage and a printing distance of the first image formed by the image former meets a predetermined condition, wherein the hardware processor controls the image former so as to stop forming the second image on the image carrier before a toner amount of the second image per unit width at a predetermined position on the image carrier in a main scanning direction exceeds a threshold value affecting an exposure memory.
Toshiaki Tomino
Filed: 20 Mar 18
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Image forming apparatus and computer readable storage medium storing program
20 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus which forms a toner image on an image carrier based on image formation data, and transfers the toner image onto a sheet having an unevenness on a surface and forms an image, the image forming apparatus including a hardware processor which detects a parameter value regarding a charging amount of a toner that forms the toner image, sets a size of a dot of the toner image according to the detected parameter value, and generates the image formation data of the dot of the set size.
Takashi Kawanago, Satoshi Nishida, Takeshi Maeyama, Toshiki Hayami, Tomo Kitada, Daisuke Murakami
Filed: 14 Nov 18
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Image forming method and image forming device
20 Apr 20
An image forming method forms an image by performing charging, exposing, developing, and transferring in a rotation direction of a rotationally driven photoreceptor, wherein the charging is performed by a roller charging method, exposing a surface of the photoreceptor to light and eliminating charges on the surface of the photoreceptor are included between the developing and the transferring, the photoreceptor includes at least a charge transporting layer and a protective layer laminated on the charge transporting layer on a conductive support, and energy of light for irradiation in the exposing the surface of the photoreceptor to light is in a range of 0.0001 to 500 μW/mm2 on the surface of the photoreceptor.
Kazuhiro Kuramochi
Filed: 8 Aug 18
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Developing device and image forming apparatus
20 Apr 20
A restriction member is disposed above a central axis of a developing roller.
Toshiaki Hiroi
Filed: 24 Mar 19
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Image forming device and storage medium
20 Apr 20
An image forming device of an intermediate transfer method of transferring a toner image formed on an image carrier to a sheet of paper through an intermediate transfer body, the image forming device including a transfer roller which is disposed facing the image carrier across the intermediate transfer body, and which forms a nip part with the image carrier; a movement mechanism which moves the transfer roller in a direction along a movement direction of the intermediate transfer body; a pressure varying mechanism which changes a pressing force of the transfer roller on the intermediate transfer body; and a hardware processor which controls the movement mechanism and the pressure varying mechanism, and which sets a contact position and the pressing force of the transfer roller on the intermediate transfer body based on paper information of the sheet of paper as an image formation target.
Daisuke Murakami
Filed: 16 Apr 19
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Information processing equipment having a hard key that is provided separately from a console panel and that is inaccessible with the console panel in a closed state
20 Apr 20
Information processing equipment includes: a main body housing unit; and a console panel provided at the main body housing unit, the console panel having a front surface which has a display unit visible on the main body housing unit and does not include at least a hard key for switching an operation mode to a maintenance mode, the hard key being provided on a surface other than the front surface of the console panel.
Yoshitada Ichikawa, Hideyuki Nukumi
Filed: 19 Feb 18
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Medical image display device, touch operation control program, and touch operation control method
20 Apr 20
A medical image display device having a touch panel that displays a medical image, includes: a hardware processor that accepts an operation on the touch panel and detects a drag operation on a mark corresponding to a function selected from a plurality of functions; calculates a movement position of the mark according to a rule corresponding to at least one of the selected function, an object, and a user based on coordinates of a touch position in the drag operation; and causes the touch panel to display the medical image and the mark and to move the mark on the medical image based on the calculated movement position, wherein the hardware processor calculates the movement position of the mark such that a movement trajectory of the touch position and a movement trajectory of the mark are different from each other.
Yusuke Tanabe
Filed: 30 Apr 18
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Image forming apparatus having function to perform authentication printing with user terminal device that does not have dedicated print driver, control method of image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing control program of image forming apparatus
20 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus, in a case a user is authenticated, allocates a sub address provided under the network address of the image forming apparatus to the user, outputs destination information including the network address and the sub address along with a job file for setting to the outside, in a case the job file for setting is received, associates the sub address and identification information of the user with one another, in a case the sub address and the identification information of the user are associated with one another, associates the printing data with the identification information of the user, and stores the printing data on a storage.
Masao Takahashi
Filed: 19 Feb 18