3025 patents
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Utility
Image Inspection System, Image Inspection Method, Non-transitory Computer-readable Recording Medium Storing Image Inspection Program
25 Mar 20
An image inspection system including: an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet; an image reading apparatus that reads the image formed on the sheet through the image forming apparatus; and an image inspector that inspects the image read by the image reading apparatus.
Masaya IKUTA
Filed: 28 Aug 19
Utility
Input Device and Image Forming Apparatus
25 Mar 20
An input device includes: an operation panel that receives an operation input; a vibration element that is mounted to the operation panel and that vibrates the operation panel in at least one vibration direction; a vibration absorber that connects the operation panel to an apparatus main body and that absorbs a vibration of the operation panel; and a CPU that causes the vibration element to vibrate based on the operation input, wherein the vibration element is mounted on a gravity center axis of the operation panel in the vibration direction.
Hisataka Funakawa
Filed: 14 Jul 19
Utility
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25 Mar 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a sheet-like recording medium; a cutting processor that cuts, into divided areas, a recording medium conveyed from the image former; a reversing processor having a function to reverse the recording medium cut by the cutting processor; and an image forming data generator that generates image forming data, wherein the image forming data generator generates, the image forming data in which the images are imposed on a front surface and a back surface of the recording medium before the cutting, the image former forms the images on the front surface and the back surface of the recording medium based on the image forming data, and the reversing processor aligns the cutoff sides of the recording media after the cutting, by executing front-back reversal for some of the recording media cut into sheets by the cutting processor.
Akio UEDA
Filed: 15 Sep 19
Utility
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23 Mar 20
An operation terminal is held by and detachable from a holder on an MFP.
Mineo Yamamoto, Isao Watanabe, Toshikazu Higashi, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Filed: 10 Jan 17
Utility
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23 Mar 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixer including a halogen heater; and a hardware processor that controls power supplied to the halogen heater, wherein the hardware processor switches, according to a state of the fixer, a control state for controlling the power supplied to the halogen heater between a first control state in which a lower limit of an amount of power per cycle of the power supplied to the halogen heater is set to a first value and a second control state in which the lower limit of the amount of power per cycle of the power supplied to the halogen heater is set to a second value lower than the first value.
Satoshi Hasegawa
Filed: 9 Jul 18
Utility
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23 Mar 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a printing part including: an image carrier on a surface of which an electrostatic latent image is to be formed; a developing device that develops the electrostatic latent image to generate a toner image; a transfer device that transfers the toner image to a paper sheet; a fixing device that fixes the toner image; and a cleaner that removes toner remaining on the image carrier; a selection part that allows a user to select one of a plurality of automatic detection modes; a paper conveying part including: a paper feeder that supplies the paper sheet; a conveying roller that conveys the paper sheet; and a timing roller that supplies the paper sheet to a transfer position; a detector that detects a characteristic of the paper sheet; and a hardware processor that detects a paper type category, and controls the printing part under image forming conditions.
Tomohisa Yoshida
Filed: 17 Apr 19
Utility
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23 Mar 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a continuous transfer medium on the basis of image data of a job; and a controller configured to manage the job and control the image forming unit, wherein the controller has a function of adjusting an image print position on the continuous transfer medium when a job medium width size specified in the job is different from a fed medium width size used in printing.
Ken Miyazaki
Filed: 22 Mar 17
Utility
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23 Mar 20
An image forming apparatus which includes a plurality of parts including a rotating unit and which uses the plurality of parts to form an image on a sheet is shown.
Hiroshi Ishii
Filed: 29 Jan 19
Utility
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23 Mar 20
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet, and a finisher that performs a post-printing process with the sheet.
Akio Kasuga, Kenji Kawatsu
Filed: 27 Aug 17
Utility
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18 Mar 20
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming unit which forms an image on a sheet; an abnormality detector which detects an image abnormality from the sheet on which the image is formed; and a hardware processor which, at the time of execution of a job, causes the image forming unit to form a test image for checking a detection level of the image abnormality by the abnormality detector, causes the abnormality detector to detect the image abnormality from the sheet on which the test image is formed, and performs an operation confirmation process of generating operation confirmation information of the abnormality detector on the basis of a detection result by the abnormality detector.
Takeshi YOSHINO
Filed: 25 Aug 19
Utility
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18 Mar 20
Spectral apparatus includes sensors that output signals indicating the respective energy amounts of a plurality of wavelength components.
Yoshiroh NAGAI, Toshio KAWANO, Takashi KAWASAKI
Filed: 5 Jul 16
Utility
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18 Mar 20
A printing system includes print controllers provided respectively for print engines and a hardware processor that selects a print controller for performing job allocation processing for determining a job executing printer, from the print controllers.
Ryosuke INODA
Filed: 9 Sep 19
Utility
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18 Mar 20
According to a surface defect inspection device and a surface defect inspection method according to the present invention, an inspection face of an inspection object is irradiated with illumination light, and a defect at the inspection face is detected, based on an image including the inspection face captured.
Koji HARADA, Masato KASHIHARA, Taizo WAKIMURA
Filed: 5 Apr 18
Utility
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18 Mar 20
A joining structure of a packaging container is divided into at least two packaging members, and the joining structure includes: first slits formed in a dividing direction and located on both side of at least one corner of a joining-side end of a first packaging member, the first packaging member and a second packaging member being joined to each other; an engaging corner formed at a joining-side end of the second packaging member, the engaging corner being engaged with each of the first slits and being located on an inner side of a corner of the first packaging member, the engaging corner being formed at a corner corresponding to the corner of the first packaging member; and a cover that continues to the engaging corner and is located to cover an outer side of a joining end of the first packaging member on an outer side of the first slits.
Masato SHIMOKAWARA, Yuichi ANDO, Shougo KAMIYA, Sakiko KITAMURA
Filed: 13 Aug 19
Utility
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18 Mar 20
A developer container includes: a container body storing a developer, and having an opening at an end on a downstream side in a conveyance direction for conveying the developer, a side wall having a circular cross section perpendicular to the conveyance direction, and a first protrusion spirally continuing in a continuous manner or at certain intervals toward the downstream side in a specific winding direction and provided on an inner surface of the side wall; a discharge member having a connection part fixed to the opening and a discharge port from which the developer is discharged; and a regulation member having a curved surface member with a cross section perpendicular to the conveyance direction on an upstream side of the connection part, and a second protrusion spirally continuing to the downstream side in the specific winding direction and provided on an outer surface of the curved surface member.
Takenori SUENAGA
Filed: 9 Sep 19
Utility
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16 Mar 20
The present invention relates to an image forming method and an image forming apparatus by an inkjet method using a gel ink, which minimize a gloss difference between an image-formed region and an image-less region, regardless of a type of a paper substrate used.
Yusuke Takaku
Filed: 3 Apr 17
Utility
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16 Mar 20
An object of the present invention is to provide an ink jet image forming method capable of obtaining a high grade image quality in which blur is suppressed even in the case of performing printing with respect to a low water-absorption recording medium.
Haruka Moriyama
Filed: 16 Oct 16
Utility
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16 Mar 20
A reading apparatus that performs colorimetry for an image on a sheet, includes a conveyor that conveys the sheet along a conveyance path; a first guide member that includes a reference surface arranged to face the conveyance path and to oppose the sheet and provided with an opening, and, guides the sheet; a first opposite member that urges the sheet toward the reference surface, and, brings the sheet in contact with the reference surface; a colorimetry unit that is disposed at a side opposite to the conveyance path so as to sandwich the first guide member, and, performs colorimetry for the image through the opening; and a processor that controls the conveyor and the first opposite member so as to convey the sheet in a state of being brought in contact with the reference surface, before the colorimetry unit performs colorimetry for the image.
Tianzi Xu
Filed: 28 Mar 18
Utility
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16 Mar 20
An image forming system includes a hardware processor that acquires results of reading of an image on a recording medium read by an image reader, determines quality of the image, and controls an ejector and sheet ejection into the ejector, the recording medium being ejected into the ejector, the ejector including a stacker, wherein the stacker includes an elevating tray on which ejected recording mediums are stacked, and has a mechanism that enables removal of a recording medium placed on the elevating tray while the elevating tray is descending, the elevating tray being capable of ascending and descending, and, when the stacker is set as an ejection destination at a time of reading of the image and ejecting the recording medium into the ejector, and the image is determined to be abnormal, the hardware processor determines a timing to cause the elevating tray of the set stacker to descend.
Hiroki Ueda
Filed: 28 Nov 18
Utility
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16 Mar 20
A colorimetric value detection system detects a colorimetric value at a colorimetric position of a printed material using a colorimeter, and the colorimetric value detection system includes: a hardware processor that: calculates an output color of an object at the colorimetric position on the basis of target profile information of a printing device and object information of the printed material; and compares the colorimetric value of the colorimeter with the output color calculated by the hardware processor, wherein the colorimetric value of an object or at a position desired by a user is specified from a degree of coincidence of phase profiles of the colorimetric value.
Koichi Ono
Filed: 14 Nov 18