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Utility
Developer storage container
5 Oct 20
A developer storage container includes a container body, and a discharge member, wherein the container body includes a first opening on a downstream side in a conveyance direction in which the developer is conveyed, and includes a first side wall, the first side wall includes on an inner surface a protrusion, the discharge member is provided at the first opening to close the first opening, and includes a discharge port, and includes a suppressor, and includes a second side wall, the suppressor includes a plurality of scooping-up members, each of the plurality of scooping-up members includes a scooping-up surface, and a plurality of second openings connecting to the space is provided on the scooping-up surface of any of the plurality of scooping-up members at respective positions different from each other in the conveyance direction.
Takenori Suenaga
Filed: 25 Nov 19
Utility
Fixation apparatus and image forming apparatus
5 Oct 20
A fixation apparatus includes an endless fixation belt, a pad portion, an opposing rotating body, a heat source, a tensioned support portion, a support portion, and an opposing portion.
Yusuke Mamiya
Filed: 8 Apr 19
Utility
Image forming device, image printing method, and computer program of foil printing
5 Oct 20
An image forming device that prints a first image using first toner and prints a second image using foil on a sheet of paper, includes: a former that forms a first toner image by the first toner of the first image on the paper and forms a second toner image by second toner different from the first toner of the second image on the paper; a fixer that fixes the first toner image and the second toner image formed on the paper; a melter that melts the second toner out of the first toner and the second toner fixed to the paper; and a foil printer that prints the second image by bonding the foil to the melted second toner.
Tetsuya Sakai, Yoshinori Tsutsumi, Kenji Tsuru, Munenori Nakano
Filed: 29 Aug 19
Utility
Cleaning Device, Head Cleaning Device and Inkjet Image Forming Apparatus
30 Sep 20
A cleaning device includes: a cleaning member that comes into contact with a cleaning subject member and cleans the cleaning subject member using a liquid; and a liquid supply member that holds the liquid on a surface that is in contact with the cleaning member and supplies the held liquid to the cleaning member via the surface.
Satoru OSAWA
Filed: 18 Mar 20
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus
30 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an imaging device that captures a reference facial image used for determining a change in a facial expression, and a user facial image; a processor that determines an emotion in the user facial image based on an amount of the change in the facial expression from the reference facial image, and performs message support corresponding to the emotion in the user facial image; and a user interface that detects an input operation by a user without delay in setting a printing condition when a print job is executed in response to a request made by the user.
Ayana Kutsuzawa
Filed: 26 Mar 20
Utility
Sheet Conveyance Apparatus, Image Reading Apparatus, and Image Forming Apparatus
30 Sep 20
Provided is a sheet conveyance apparatus armored with a housing, the sheet conveyance apparatus includes: a sheet conveyor that feeds a sheet to a downstream side in a direction of conveyance; a conveyance guide that guides the sheet to be conveyed; an ultrasonic sensor that detects the sheet guided by the conveyance guide; and a shield member that is conductive, wherein the ultrasonic sensor includes: a transmitter that transmits an ultrasonic wave having a predetermined frequency; and a receiver that receives the ultrasonic wave, the transmitter and the receiver are arranged along the conveyance guide, and the shield member is disposed between the housing and the receiver in a sheet-face perpendicular direction at an ultrasonic-irradiation position of the sheet being conveyed, the shield member covering an entirety of the receiver in plan view in the sheet-face perpendicular direction.
MASAHIRO NONOYAMA, MASAHIRO KAMIYA, KATSUHIDE SAKAI, JUNICHI MASUDA, TAKU KIMURA
Filed: 29 Mar 20
Utility
Inspection Device, Inspection Method, And Recording Medium
30 Sep 20
An inspection device that inspects eligibility of a subject image, the inspection device including a hardware processor and a recording medium including instructions that when executed by the hardware processor cause the inspection device to: acquire the subject image and a reference image corresponding to the subject image; acquire a judgment criterion indicating a range of eligibility for differences between images; detect a difference between the subject image and the reference image; and when the difference is detected, judge eligibility of the subject image by determining whether or not the difference is included in the range indicated by the judgment criterion.
Kazuki HARADA
Filed: 19 Mar 20
Utility
Gas Image Device and Image Acquisition Method
30 Sep 20
This gas imaging device makes it possible to photograph gas without placing a burden on a user while enhancing the evidential reliability of imaging results.
Kyuichiro IMADE
Filed: 11 Jul 18
Utility
Sheet conveyance apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same
28 Sep 20
A sheet conveyance apparatus that conveys a sheet along a curved path shorter than the sheet and corrects skew of the sheet, includes: a conveyance roller that sends the sheet into the curved path; a guide that guides the sheet along the curved path; and a gate that is hinders advance of the leading end, generates a moment about a normal of the sheet passing through the leading end, and allows advance of the leading end by being pushed away by the leading end, wherein the guide includes a projection projecting toward a movement space for the sheet on a surface facing the movement space, and the projection abuts a center portion of the sheet in a longitudinal direction and generates a moment about an axis parallel to an advance direction of a portion that has come into contact with the projection.
Naoki Matsui, Koji Soda, Yasuaki Tomoda
Filed: 13 Mar 18
Utility
Ink-jet recording apparatus
28 Sep 20
An ink-jet recording apparatus may include an ink-jet head having: individual connection flow channels through which ink can be discharged from pressure chambers; and a common flow channel at which ink from the individual connection flow channels merges, wherein when the ink is ejected, in a nozzle through which the maximum amount of ink per unit time is ejected, the relationship of (Fn/Fi)≤10 is satisfied, Fn representing the amount of ink ejected per unit time from the nozzle, and Fi representing the average flow rate of ink discharged per unit time from the individual connection flow channels, and the relationship of (Rc/Rt)≤10 is satisfied, Rc representing the flow channel resistance of the common flow channel, and Rt representing the synthetic resistance of the individual connection flow channels.
Hikaru Hamano
Filed: 20 Jun 17
Utility
Inkjet recording device having controller for bubble discharging operation
28 Sep 20
There is provided an inkjet recording device including an inkjet head provided with a nozzle(s); an ink supplier which supplies ink to the inkjet head; a driver which performs a driving operation to cause pressure variation of ink; and a controller.
Hiroyuki Tokimatsu
Filed: 11 May 17
Utility
Image forming apparatus
28 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus including a polygon mirror that deflects a light beam, the image forming apparatus includes: an optical sensor arranged such that the light beam deflected by the polygon mirror enters the optical sensor; and a hardware processor that measures an output level of the optical sensor and calculates, as a remaining life of the polygon mirror, an operation time of the polygon mirror to when the output level becomes a threshold value in a case of assuming that the output level ongoingly changes at a rate of change over time that is a change amount of the output level per unit operation time of the polygon mirror, using the measured output level.
Yutaka Yamamoto, Tatsuya Eguchi, Shigetaka Kato, Taku Kimura
Filed: 6 Mar 19
Utility
Correction value calculation method, image forming apparatus, program, and inspection image
28 Sep 20
A correction value calculation method includes: forming, on a recording medium, an inspection image in which two or more types of individual inspection images is formed; calculating a first correction value group including first correction values, and a second correction value group including second correction values, wherein, in the calculating, a combination of the first correction value regarding positional deviation of a light beam that affects density of the individual inspection image, of the first correction value group, and the second correction values regarding an influence amount of multiple exposure effect according to an image pattern corresponding to the individual inspection image, of the second correction value group, and the first correction value group and the second correction value group are calculated on the basis of density information regarding each density of the individual inspection image and the combination of the first and second correction values.
Shoichi Nomura
Filed: 28 Oct 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus and correction control program
28 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image, which is desired by a user and different from a predetermined pattern, on a sheet; an output information detector that detects output information on a first image formed on a first sheet by the image former; and a hardware processor that: acquires an correction amount of a third image, which is formed on a third sheet after the first sheet and a second sheet, according to a detection result of the first image by the output information detector and image information on a second image formed on the second sheet after the first sheet by the image former; and controls the image former so as to correct the third image based on the correction amount acquired by the hardware processor.
Daiki Yamanaka, Takaaki Kooriya, Hiroshige Kidera
Filed: 2 Aug 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus locks down storage area of cache memory stores portion of image forming program for executing real-time image forming process
28 Sep 20
An image forming device that executes an image forming program for real-time mechanical control and another program, using a single cache memory for the image forming program and said another program.
Yuji Toshinaga, Shigeki Nozawa
Filed: 16 Jul 17
Utility
Touch panel sharing support apparatus, touch panel sharing method, and computer program
28 Sep 20
A touch panel sharing support apparatus applicable for sharing a touch panel by a first system and a second system independent of each other, includes: a storage that stores definition data defining a first region for the first system and a second region for the second system, on a touch surface of the touch panel; a hardware processor that discriminates which of the first region and the second region a touched position on the touch surface belongs to on the basis of the definition data; and a transmitter that transmits operation data concerning operation onto the touch surface to the first system in a case where the hardware processor discriminates that the position belongs to the first region and transmits the operation data to the second system in a case where the hardware processor discriminates that the position belongs to the second region.
Satoshi Uchino
Filed: 16 Dec 18
Utility
Image inspection system, image inspection method, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing image inspection program
28 Sep 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
Decorative image forming method
28 Sep 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, in viscoelasticity measurement of the resin layer, storage modulus G′(1) at 90° C. is 1.0×103 Pa or more and 1.0×106 Pa or less upon carrying out the measurement from 30° C. to 100° C. under conditions of a frequency of 1 Hz and a temperature increasing rate of 3° C./min.
Kazumi Oura, Michiyo Fujita, Kaori Matsushima
Filed: 10 Oct 19
Utility
Radiographic imaging apparatus and radiographic imaging system
28 Sep 20
A radiographic imaging apparatus includes a base, a signal line, a reader and a hardware processor.
Keisuke Koeda, Kazuhiro Sakino
Filed: 23 Apr 18
Utility
Radiographic image processing apparatus, scattered radiation correction method, and computer readable storage medium
28 Sep 20
A radiographic image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor, which determines the intensity of an edge in a radiographic image obtained by radiographically imaging a subject, sets a weighting factor to be used in extracting a frequency component from the radiographic image according to a determination result of the edge intensity, extracts the frequency component from the radiographic image using the weighting factor having been set, multiplies the extracted frequency component by a scattered radiation content rate to estimate a scattered radiation component in the radiographic image, multiplies the estimated scattered radiation component by a scattered radiation removal rate to generate a scattered radiation image representing the scattered radiation component to be removed from the radiographic image, and performs scattered radiation correction on the radiographic image by subtracting the scattered radiation image from the radiographic image.
Eri Nemoto, Ryohei Ito
Filed: 22 Jan 19