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Method for producing piezoelectric element, and piezoelectric element
11 Apr 23
There is provided a method for producing a piezoelectric element, which allows for forming a columnar microstructure with a small width and a high aspect ratio.
Kazunari Tada, Naoki Shimizu
Filed: 15 Feb 17
Utility
Post-processing device, image forming device, adjustment method for post-processing device, and recording medium
11 Apr 23
A post-processing device includes: multiple types of post-processing modules that are disposed at predetermined installation positions within the post-processing device and each execute post-processing to an output sheet on which an image is formed; and a controller that (i) detects the post-processing modules at the installation positions and (ii) determines and controls adjustment contents of the post-processing modules based on a detection result.
Masayuki Watanabe, Hidenori Mine, Satoshi Ogata, Kazutoshi Yoshimura
Filed: 22 Jul 21
Utility
Electrostatic Charge Image Developing Toner and Production Method of Electrostatic Charge Image Developing Toner
6 Apr 23
Kazuya ISOBE
Filed: 14 Sep 22
Utility
Image Reading Apparatus, Image Forming System, Curl Amount Calculation Method, and Storage Medium
6 Apr 23
An image reading apparatus including: a conveyor that conveys a sheet on which an image is formed by an image forming apparatus; a reader that reads the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, by using a contact image sensor; and a first hardware processor that extracts an edge of the sheet by analyzing a read image by the reader, calculates a blur amount of the edge based on the extracted edge, and calculates a curl amount of the sheet based on the calculated blur amount.
Yoshihiro ESUMI
Filed: 19 Sep 22
Utility
Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus, Method for Controlling Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus, and Non-transitory Computer-readable Recording Medium Storing Program for Controlling Ultrasound Diagnostic Apparatus
6 Apr 23
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a hardware processor that detects a region of a blood vessel appearing in a tomographic image; calculates a diameter of the blood vessel by analyzing the tomographic image; specifies, based on the diameter of the blood vessel calculated in each of a plurality of frames obtained within a predetermined period of the tomographic image, a frame of interest from among the plurality of frames, the frame of interest corresponding to a frame obtained when the diameter of the blood vessel is maximum and/or minimum; performs measurement on the blood vessel appearing in the frame of interest of the tomographic image, the measurement being measurement of a blood flow of a subject or a property of the blood vessel of the subject; and displays the frame of interest of the tomographic image at a predetermined timing.
Makiko URABE, Akihiro Kawabata, Yoshihiro Takeda
Filed: 14 Sep 22
Utility
Image forming device and controlling method
4 Apr 23
An image forming device may comprise: an attaching unit to which a removable toner bottle is attached; a toner storage that stores toner supplied from the toner bottle attached to the attaching unit; a detector that detects an empty state of toner in the toner storage; and a hardware processor that: supplies toner to the toner storage from the toner bottle when the toner bottle attached to the attaching unit is new; and switches a state of the toner bottle to an old state from a new state if the empty state detected by the detector is released.
Junichi Arai
Filed: 11 Oct 21
Utility
Image inspection device, image inspection method, and image inspection instructions
4 Apr 23
An image inspection device inspects an inspection image obtained by reading a sheet.
Yasumasa Tsukamoto
Filed: 22 Sep 20
Utility
System, Method, or Program for Evaluating Content Spoken at Meeting or Briefing
30 Mar 23
A system that evaluates spoken content, includes: an acquirer that acquires each content spoken by a plurality of participants in a meeting or a briefing; an identifier for identifying each speaker of the each spoken content; and an evaluator for evaluating the each spoken content, wherein the identifier identifies whether the each spoken content is content spoken by a first speaker, or by a second speaker or apparatus that interprets content spoken by the first speaker, and the evaluator evaluates content spoken by an identified speaker that is the first speaker, or the second speaker or apparatus.
Takashi OTSUKA
Filed: 30 Aug 22
Utility
Image Formation Apparatus and Image Formation Method
30 Mar 23
An image formation apparatus includes: a transferrer that forms a toner image on an image formation surface of paper; a fixer that fixes the toner image on the paper; a paper conveyor that conveys the paper between an upstream side of the transferrer and a downstream side of the fixer in a paper conveyance direction; and a paper pre-heater that heats, on the upstream side of the transferrer in the paper conveyance direction, the image formation surface of the paper.
MIKIHIKO TAKADA
Filed: 12 Sep 22
Utility
Image Forming System and Control Method of the System
30 Mar 23
An image forming system includes: an image forming device that is disposed at a first conveyance path and forms an image on a recording medium that is a continuous sheet or a long sheet; a first conveyor that conveys the recording medium on the first conveyance path in a conveyance direction; an image reader that reads the image formed on the recording medium at a second conveyance path on a downstream side of the first conveyance path in the conveyance direction; a second conveyor that conveys the recording medium on the second conveyance path; and a controller that controls a speed of a drive source of the first conveyor and controls a torque of a drive source of the second conveyor.
Hidenori Mine, Masayuki Watanabe, Harumitsu Fujimori, Takanobu Shiki
Filed: 12 Jul 22
Utility
Ultrasonic Transducer, Ultrasonic Probe, Ultrasonic Diagnostic Apparatus, and Method for Manufacturing Ultrasonic Transducer
30 Mar 23
KIYOKAZU MORITA
Filed: 19 Aug 22
Utility
Ultrasound transducer and ultrasound diagnostic apparatus
28 Mar 23
An ultrasound transducer in which a plurality of pMUT cells are arranged.
Kenji Suzuki, Yuta Nakayama
Filed: 16 Oct 18
Utility
Setting method of monitoring system and monitoring system
28 Mar 23
A setting method of a monitoring system including a light projecting and receiving unit having an emitting section and a scanning section to make light flux scan within a monitoring space, a processing section to measure a distance to an object by processing signals from the light projecting and receiving unit and to output a measurement point marker group provided with three-dimensional distance information for each measurement point, a display device, and a user interface to perform input of temporary attitude information, includes: inputting the temporary attitude information via the user interface to adjust an attitude or position of the measurement point marker group displayed on the display device; performing coordinate conversion for at least the measurement point marker group on a basis of the temporary attitude information having been input; and displaying the measurement point marker group after having been subjected to the coordinate conversion on the display device.
Junichi Fujita
Filed: 9 May 17
Utility
Control Device, Image Forming System, Control Method, and Recording Medium
23 Mar 23
A control device of an image forming system including an image former that forms an image on a recording medium formed of a continuous sheet or a long sheet includes a hardware processor that calculates a width of the recording medium on a downstream side of a fixer included in the image former in a transport direction of the recording medium and outputs a shrinkage amount or a shrinkage rate of the recording medium in the transport direction due to the fixer based on the width of the recording medium and shrinkage characteristic information of the recording medium.
Hiroshi YAMAGUCHI, Masayuki WATANABE, Hiroshi OYAMA, Hidenori MINE, Takanobu SHIKI, Kyouhei KUBOTA, Kazuya OGIWARA
Filed: 9 Sep 22
Utility
Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles and Method for Manufacturing Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles
23 Mar 23
The present invention relates to providing fluorescent silica nanoparticles having high luminance even when many fluorescent dyes are contained in silica particles.
Tomohiro KUDO, Takato CHIBA
Filed: 29 Jan 21
Utility
Method for Assessing Differentiation State of Cells, Gelatin Nanoparticles and Gelatin Nanoparticle Set
23 Mar 23
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for assessing a differentiation state of cells, capable of assessing a differentiation state of a wide variety of cells, and gelatin nanoparticles and a gelatin nanoparticle set that can be used in the method.
TEMMEI ITO, AKIHIRO MAEZAWA, YASUHIKO TABATA, YUKI MURATA
Filed: 12 Mar 20
Utility
Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, storage medium, and method for setting of attenuation correction
21 Mar 23
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a hardware processor which performs control of causing a display to display an ultrasound image subjected to attenuation correction, based on a received signal and setting of the attenuation correction, the attenuation correction correcting strength of the received signal lowered due to attenuation of ultrasound waves inside a subject based on a correction amount according to a reflection depth of the ultrasound waves inside the subject; and an input receiver which receives an input operation that designates an adjustment amount, wherein the hardware processor changes the setting of the attenuation correction based on the adjustment amount, and in the changing the setting of the attenuation correction, sets the correction amount, for each of different reflection depths, to an amount according to a product of the adjustment amount and a predetermined weighting factor, the predetermined weighting factor being set correspondingly to each of the reflection depths.
Jo Shikama, Takashi Kimoto
Filed: 24 Dec 18
Utility
Inspection system, storage medium storing inspection program, and inspection method
21 Mar 23
An inspection system according to the present invention includes: an abnormality detector that performs automatic inspection for detecting an abnormality on the basis of a read image obtained by causing a reader to read an image that is formed on a recording medium by executing a print job; and a hardware processor that, when the abnormality is detected in the automatic inspection, causes the reader to perform specific shading operation involving cleaning the reader after stopping the print job but before restarting the print job, wherein the specific shading operation is performed in a shorter time than normal shading operation involving cleaning the reader, the normal shading operation being performed except when the abnormality is detected in the automatic inspection.
Takashi Yamashita
Filed: 9 Jun 20
Utility
Information processing device and information processing method
21 Mar 23
An information processing device includes: a plurality of identifiers that discriminates whether abnormal data that is information indicating an abnormal value is included in treatment data and detects the abnormal data; and a hardware processor that: customizes evaluation data used when evaluating discrimination accuracy of the plurality of identifiers; calculates the discrimination accuracy of each of the plurality of identifiers using the evaluation data customized by the hardware processor; and selects one identifier out of the plurality of identifiers as an identifier used for discrimination based on a calculation result by the hardware processor.
Hiroaki Matsumoto, Hitoshi Futamura, Satoshi Kasai, Shinsuke Katsuhara, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi
Filed: 6 Dec 18
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus and Storage Medium
16 Mar 23
An image forming apparatus forms a color image on a recording medium by superimposing images of colors formed by image forming units.
Shoichi NOMURA
Filed: 10 Aug 22