Konica Minolta (KNCAY) USPTO patents

An inkjet recording apparatus includes an inkjet head that ejects ink from a nozzle and records an image; a wiping and cleaning mechanism that wipes a nozzle surface with a cleaning member, the inkjet head has the nozzle surface at which an ejection port of the nozzle of is formed; and a hardware processor that controls operation including the recording operation. the hardware processor performs dry maintenance control in which dry wiping using the wiping and cleaning mechanism is controlled, and wet maintenance control in which wet wiping using the wiping and cleaning mechanism and including wetting at least a part of a wiping surface of the cleaning member is controlled.

An abnormality handling data aggregating system includes the following.

An image forming apparatus incudes: a reservoir that stores a liquid; a moving part that is movable in a predetermined direction; and a circulation path part that allows the liquid in the reservoir to circulate between the reservoir and the moving part, wherein the moving part includes: an ejector that ejects the liquid to a recording medium; a communication path part that communicates with an ejection flow path of the ejector and communicates with the circulation path part; and a pressure adjuster that is provided in a portion of the communication path part, the portion communicating with the circulation path part, and that adjusts a pressure in order that the liquid supplied from the circulation path part passes through the ejector and returns to the circulation path part.

An image forming apparatus includes: a state monitor that monitors an apparatus state; an electrostatic noise detector that detects electrostatic noise; and an erroneous detection determiner that determines whether or not the state monitor has erroneously detected a change in the apparatus state due to electrostatic noise from a detection result of the change in the apparatus state by the state monitor and a detection result of the electrostatic noise detector.

An image scanning device may comprise a microphone for receiving a voice, an image scanning section for scanning an image, and a control section for instructing the image scanning section to start scanning after a delay time elapses after the voice.

Provided is an image forming system including a first image forming device, a second image forming device; and an image reading device.

A flicker measuring device of the present invention: receives light emitted from an object to be measured and outputs a light reception signal corresponding to an amount of received light; acquires the output light reception signal a plurality of times from a measurement start time point to a steady time point at which the object to be measured is in a steady state, obtains a flicker value of the object to be measured for each of the plurality of times on the basis of the acquired light reception signal, and stores the flicker value obtained for each of the plurality of times in a storage in association with an acquisition time point of the light reception signal; and performs an arithmetic processing of obtaining a flicker shift time by using each flicker value stored, in which in the arithmetic processing, an amount of overall change is obtained that is an amount of change of the flicker value from the initial flicker value to the steady flicker value, a predetermined ratio time point is obtained at which an amount of change of the flicker value from the reference flicker value is a predetermined ratio of the amount of overall change, and an elapsed time between the predetermined ratio time point and the reference time point is obtained as the flicker shift time.

An image forming method uses an electrophotographic photoreceptor and a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image.

Supplying a liquid to a detection chip including a housing having an opening portion and internally housing the liquid and including an elastic sheet covering the opening portion and having a penetrating portion providing communicating between the inside and the outside of the housing, specifically by inserting a liquid delivery nozzle to the housing via the penetrating portion and supplying the liquid into the housing in a state where the nozzle is in contact with the elastic sheet so as to close the penetrating portion.

In an image forming system, a hardware processor controls whether the first sheet is conveyed to an upstream side of the image former via a first conveying path which reverses sides of the first sheet or via a second conveying path which does not reverse the sides of the first sheet as well as the first conveying path, when images are formed on both sides of a plurality of the first sheets by the image former, in order to narrow a space between a plurality of the first sheets.

Provided is a light emitting member that emits near-infrared light, containing a surface light source that emits at least red light and a wavelength conversion film that converts visible light of the surface light source into near-infrared light, wherein the light emitting member has a maximum emission wavelength in the wavelength range of 700 to 1500 nm.

An imaging control device includes a hardware processor.

An image former includes: an inkjet head; a plurality of ink storages that is connected to the inkjet head and stores ink; a pressure generator that generates a difference in internal pressure between the plurality of ink storages so that ink flows between the plurality of ink storages and the inkjet head; and a storage communicator that causes the plurality of ink storages to communicate with each other so that the difference in internal pressure decreases.

An image forming apparatus is operable in a normal image forming mode and an uneven lubrication detecting mode, and includes: an image carrier; a lubricant applying device that applies lubricant to the image carrier; and a processor that detects uneven lubrication on a surface of the image carrier in the uneven lubrication detecting mode in which an amount of the lubricant applied to the image carrier is increased to exceed an amount of the lubricant applied in image forming.