3025 patents
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Utility
Image Processor and Program
13 Nov 19
An image processor includes: a hardware processor that receives an instruction for setting an operation condition of a job issued by voice of a user via a voice input device, and sets the operation condition based on the instruction; and a storage that stores one or more default values regarding the operation condition, and a changed content when at least one of the default values is changed.
Bounta Chitpasong
Filed: 6 May 19
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus
13 Nov 19
An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyor including a conveyance belt that conveys a recording medium along a conveyance direction; at least one or more heads that discharge ink to the conveyed recording medium; and a suction part that causes the recording medium to be adsorbed to the conveyance belt, wherein the conveyor is provided with: a first suction region including at least a region where the head discharges ink in accordance with an image forming region of the recording medium; and a second suction region located in a periphery of the first suction region, and suction force by the suction part is larger in the first suction region than in the second suction region.
Tomoyoshi Yukimoto, Masahiro Yamaguchi, Seiji Shibata, Shoichi Yoshikawa
Filed: 14 Apr 19
Utility
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13 Nov 19
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an image reading unit, an image inspecting unit and a history generating unit.
Makoto OKI
Filed: 25 Jul 19
Utility
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13 Nov 19
An operation screen display device includes a display; a keyword is retrieves from a user input and a setting of an operation condition of a job is searched out by the keyword, the setting being associated with the keyword.
Taiju INAGAKI
Filed: 9 May 19
Utility
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13 Nov 19
Disclosed is a developing device, which may include: a casing that stores developer containing toner; and a screw arranged inside the casing, wherein the screw includes: a rotary shaft; and a screw blade that is spirally arranged around the rotary shaft and conveys the toner from an upstream side to a downstream side by rotation of the rotary shaft, the screw blade includes a discontinuous region, a paddle extending in a radial direction of the rotary shaft is provided along an axial direction of the rotary shaft on a surface of the rotary shaft located in the discontinuous region, and a recess and a protrusion are provided at an edge side in a radial direction of the paddle.
Mei SUZUKI
Filed: 11 Apr 19
Utility
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13 Nov 19
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that has multiple developing units, arranged in series for basic colors in a rotational driving direction of a transfer body, for developing toner images of the basic colors based on input image data and forms the overlapped toner images on a surface of the transfer body in a state in which the toner images are aligned; a transferring unit that transfers the toner images onto a sheet; and a controller that calculates a difference between color information of an image obtained by reading the toner images and color information of the input image data, calculates a color change direction of the toner images with respect to a color of the input image data based on the difference, and refers to a table and determines a shape of a surface of the sheet based on information of the color change direction.
Takahiro KUSUNOKI
Filed: 8 May 19
Utility
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13 Nov 19
An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet; and a post-processor including a punch unit that forms a punch hole on the sheet conveyed from the image forming apparatus, wherein the image forming apparatus includes a conveyance control part that controls conveyance of the sheet to be conveyed to the post-processor, and the punch unit includes: a perforating part that forms the punch hole on the sheet; a detection part that performs sheet side end portion detection for detecting a side end portion in a main scanning direction, and paper dust detection for detecting a paper dust amount in a detection region; a swinging part that moves the perforating part to an arbitrary position; and a hardware processor that, when a punch job is performed, controls the detection part to perform the paper dust detection.
Teruhiko TOYOIZUMI, Tatsuo ISHIZUKA, Hirofumi NAKAJIMA, Akira OKAMOTO
Filed: 4 Apr 19
Utility
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13 Nov 19
Prevention of an image defect due to discharging in a transfer portion and ensured transfer efficiency are both achieved.
Makiko WATANABE, Eiji TABATA, Nofumi MIZUMOTO, Toshiya NATSUHARA
Filed: 21 Apr 19
Utility
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13 Nov 19
Provided are a print controller for controlling print processing that divides a one-page document into page pieces and prints multiple page pieces per sheet, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a print control method.
Yasufumi Aoyama
Filed: 30 Apr 19
Utility
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13 Nov 19
An image forming method includes developing an electrostatic latent image formed on a photoreceptor with a toner, transferring a formed toner image onto a recording material, and fixing the toner image on a surface of the recording material, in which a storage elastic modulus of the toner is 2.0×106 Pa or more at 70° C. and 4.0×104 Pa or less at 90° C., and in the fixing, a fixing belt having an elastic layer which contains a material having a storage elastic modulus of 1.0×106 Pa or more and 2.5×106 Pa or less at 200° C. is used.
Susumu Sudo
Filed: 10 Apr 19
Utility
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13 Nov 19
An image analysis processing system includes: a plurality of image forming apparatuses including an image former; an image reader that reads an image formed on a recording medium; an analysis adjuster capable of performing adjustment on the image former by obtaining printing information on the recording medium and analyzing the printing information; and an adjustment timing determiner that obtains information regarding usage status in the image forming apparatus having been subject to the adjustment, determines, at least on the basis of the information regarding the usage status, a timing for performing adjustment on another predetermined image forming apparatus incapable of performing the adjustment on the basis of a result of analysis of the printing information, and transmits information regarding the timing to the predetermined image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus, the image reader, the analysis adjuster, and the adjustment timing determiner being connected to a network.
Tomohiro Iwase
Filed: 17 Apr 19
Utility
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13 Nov 19
Provided is a production method for a magnetoresistive element including treating a stacked layer into a predetermined shape.
Yasuo ANDO, Mikihiko OOGANE, Kosuke FUJIWARA, Junichi JONO, Koujirou SEKINE, Masaaki TSUCHIDA
Filed: 15 Jan 18
Utility
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11 Nov 19
An X-ray image capturing apparatus includes: scanning and signal lines; an X-ray sensor; detecting elements; a switching element to make charges accumulated in response to an OFF voltage and released in response to an ON voltage; a scan driving unit to switch a voltage applied to the scanning lines between ON and OFF voltages; a readout circuit to read the charges as image data; and a control circuit to detect an irradiation start by a first scheme based on a current increase due to X-ray irradiation or a second scheme based on an output from the X-ray sensor and to turn off the switching element to make charges accumulated if the first or second scheme detects the irradiation start, wherein a detection threshold is set such that the second scheme has a slower response and can detect an X-ray at a lower dose rate than the first scheme.
Ikuma Ota, Ryouhei Kikuchi, Yoshihiko Eguchi
Filed: 3 May 17
Utility
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11 Nov 19
An ultrasound signal processing device: performing events involving transmitting ultrasound towards a subject; receiving ultrasound reflection from the subject in response to each event; and generating a frame signal from sub-frame signals generated based on the ultrasound reflection.
Mineo Tsushima
Filed: 10 Mar 16
Utility
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11 Nov 19
There is provided an inkjet recording apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a head unit, an attachment member, a fixing member, and a support member.
Takeshi Urakami
Filed: 21 May 17
Utility
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11 Nov 19
A fixing device is configured to fix a toner image to a sheet by heat and includes: a heating rotator; a pressurizing roller contacting with the heating rotator; a heater configured to heat the heating rotator such that the heat is transferred to the sheet passing through a contact portion between the heating rotator and the pressurizing roller; a plurality of separation claws configured to separate the sheet from the heating rotator such that the sheet passing through the contact portion is not caught in the heating rotator, the separation claws being provided opposite to the heating rotator; and an adjustor configured to adjust positions of the separation claws relative to the heating rotator such that distances between the separation claws and the heating rotator are equal to each other.
Toru Hayase, Koji Yamamoto
Filed: 21 Feb 17
Utility
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11 Nov 19
A fixing device fixes a toner image onto a piece of paper by conveying the piece of paper formed with the toner image while nipping the piece of paper at a fixing nip, and includes: an endless belt that is rotated; a pressing member that presses the belt; a support member that supports the pressing member; a sheet wound around the pressing member along the conveyance direction; and a pressurizing member that forms the fixing nip with the belt, wherein a part of an upstream region of the sheet existing more on an upstream side in a winding direction than a contact region contacting the belt and the pressing member and a part of a downstream region of the sheet existing more on a downstream side in the winding direction than the contact region are interposed between the pressing member and the support member, and are fixed by pressing force.
Masashi Sonoyama, Hidetoshi Katayanagi, Yoshikazu Kuribayashi, Tomoya Sato, Hiroyuki Maeda
Filed: 17 Oct 18
Utility
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11 Nov 19
An image forming device includes: a conductive roller that abuts an image carrier to rotate; a power supply circuit that applies voltage to the roller; a controller that controls the power supply circuit so as to apply the voltage to the roller over a predetermined detection period in a state in which the image carrier and the roller are rotated; a detection value acquirer that acquires a detection value acquired by the application of the voltage indicating a state of the image carrier in the detection period; and a state detector that detects a state of the image carrier on the basis of a plurality of acquired detection values, wherein a length of the detection period is set to a length at which both the numbers of rotations of the image carrier and the roller from a start of the detection period are integers.
Akihiro Hayashi, Yuhei Tatsumoto, Koji Ohara, Makoto Shimazoe, Yasuhiro Koide
Filed: 8 Jan 19
Utility
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11 Nov 19
An image forming apparatus includes a causal member identifying section, and a judgement section.
Daisuke Murakami
Filed: 29 Nov 18
Utility
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11 Nov 19
An image formation apparatus includes a conveyor configured to convey a moving element on which an image is formed, a generator configured to generate a first image and a second image by shooting the conveyed moving element at different timing, a detector configured to sense a first distance between the generator and the moving element at the time of shooting of the first image and sense a second distance between the generator and the moving element at the time of shooting of the second image, and a hardware processor configured to calculate a speed of conveyance of the moving element based on the first image, the second image, the first distance, and the second distance, and output the speed of conveyance.
Yuji Kobayashi, Takaki Kato, Masayuki Fukunaga
Filed: 4 Dec 16