3025 patents
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Utility
Information Processing Apparatus, Function Executability Determination Method and Non-transitory Computer-readable Recording Medium Encoded with Function Executability Determination Program
9 Sep 20
An information processing apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: confirms whether a program is registered in a whitelist; estimates whether the program is risky of causing infection with a computer virus; determines whether the program that has been confirmed as registered but estimated as risky is present in a function requested by a user; and upon determining that the program that has been confirmed as registered but estimated as risky is present in the function, determines whether to execute the function based on one or more processes defined by the function.
Shinya Hashimoto
Filed: 24 Feb 20
Utility
Image Forming Method
9 Sep 20
Provided is an image forming method using an electrophotographic photoreceptor provided with a photosensitive layer and a protective layer in this order on a conductive support, and a toner, and the image forming method containing a charging step, an exposure step, a development step, a transfer step, a fixing step, and a cleaning step, wherein the protective layer contains at least a cured resin obtained by curing a polymerizable compound; the toner contains 50% by number or more of toner particles having a shape factor calculated by the equation (1) in the range of 1.2 to 1.6, and a variation coefficient of the shape factor is 16% or less; and the toner contains alumina particles having a number average particle diameter in the range of 5 to 60 nm and silica particles having a number average particle diameter in the range of 80 to 200 nm.
Tomoko MINE, Michiyo FUJITA, Ryuichi HIRAMOTO, Kaori MATSUSHIMA
Filed: 2 Feb 20
Utility
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9 Sep 20
An image inspecting apparatus includes a reader that reads an image on a recording material formed in an image forming apparatus and generates read image data and an image analyzer that performs analysis to determine abnormality for the read image data by using a threshold value and creates an analysis result.
Makoto IKEDA
Filed: 28 Jan 20
Utility
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9 Sep 20
A toner for developing an electrostatic image includes toner base particles containing a binder resin and an inorganic pigment, and an external additive, wherein the external additive contains alumina particles, and the number average particle size of primary particles of the alumina particles is in the range of 5 nm to 60 nm.
Masaharu MATSUBARA, Ikuko SAKURADA, Tomoko MINE, Kazuhiko NAKAJIMA
Filed: 9 Feb 20
Utility
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9 Sep 20
An image reading device that connects to a network, the image reading device exemplarily including: an operation panel that has a display; a document reader that generates scan data by reading a document placed on a document plate when a scan instruction specifying a save destination is received from an information terminal via the network; and a controller.
Toshinobu Yamaguchi
Filed: 1 Mar 20
Utility
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9 Sep 20
Yuya Kubo, Kazuhiko Nakajima
Filed: 20 Jan 20
Utility
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9 Sep 20
An image inspection apparatus includes: a central processing unit (CPU) that inspects an image obtained by reading a printing paper after image formation in which an original image is laid out on the printing paper and an image is formed by an image forming apparatus, obtain a printing area of the original image on the printing paper, designates an inspection exclusion area on the printing paper, and in response to a change in the printing area of the original image on the printing paper, changes the inspection exclusion area on the printing paper based on the change in the printing area.
Yasumasa Tsukamoto
Filed: 10 Feb 20
Utility
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9 Sep 20
In an image forming device, a sheet type detector that detects a sheet type before the sheet reaches a fixing member; a temperature detector that detects a temperature of the fixing member; and a CPU that controls a heater based on the temperature detected to (a) after receiving an image formation start instruction and before a start of detection of the sheet type by the sheet type detector, start an increase in temperature of the fixing member towards a first target temperature higher than the temperature of the fixing member when image formation start instruction is received, and (b) after completion of the detection of the sheet type and before the sheet reaches the fixing member, adjust the temperature of the fixing member to a second target temperature depending on the sheet type detected.
Tatsutoshi YAMADA
Filed: 6 Mar 20
Utility
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9 Sep 20
A dynamic image analysis system includes a modality and a hardware processor.
Sumiya NAGATSUKA, Naoki HAYASHI
Filed: 23 Feb 20
Utility
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9 Sep 20
A dynamic analysis device including a hardware processor that generates, from each of a first chest dynamic image and a second chest dynamic image generated by radiographing dynamics of a chest at different times, a plurality of pieces of waveform information including at least waveform information indicating a respiratory state and waveform information indicating a heartbeat state; selects, from the second chest dynamic image, a comparative image to be compared with a reference image included in the first chest dynamic image, according to the generated plurality of pieces of waveform information; and subjects the reference image and the comparative image to a comparison analysis process.
Hirotake MINAMI
Filed: 27 Feb 20
Utility
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7 Sep 20
A dynamic analysis system includes a hardware processor.
Shinsuke Katsuhara, Shikou Kaneko, Keiko Itaya, Akinori Tsunomori
Filed: 4 Feb 18
Utility
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7 Sep 20
A radiographic imaging apparatus including a radiation detecting element that detects radiation with which a subject is irradiated and a casing that houses a battery, the casing being provided with a vent hole that circulates internal and external air, the radiographic imaging apparatus comprising: an air pressure measurer that measures an internal air pressure of the casing; a hardware processor that inspects, after the internal air pressure of the casing changes due to operation of pressure, waterproof performance of the radiographic imaging apparatus on a basis of a changing aspect of the internal air pressure due to termination of the operation of the pressure, and a flow rate regulator that reduces a flow rate of the air through the vent hole in a case where the battery is charged.
Tomonori Komasaka, Ikuma Ota
Filed: 14 Feb 19
Utility
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7 Sep 20
A toner for developing electrostatic images includes at least a binder resin and a colorant containing a copper phthalocyanine compound, wherein in X-ray diffraction using a CuKα ray, the toner has peaks at a Bragg angle of 2θ=7.0±0.1° and at a Bragg angle of 2θ=9.1±0.2° and additionally has a peak between the two peaks.
Miyuki Yamada, Takanari Kayamori
Filed: 26 Aug 19
Utility
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7 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a light emitting substrate, and imaging optical systems, wherein an optical axis of the imaging optical systems are parallel, imaging magnifications of the imaging optical systems are substantially equal for the light emitting point groups, the imaging optical systems includes a first lens array, a second lens array, and apertures, central points of the light emitting point group exist in a first plane, central points of the imaging lenses exist in a second plane, central points of the apertures exist in a third plane, central points of the imaging lenses exist in a fourth plane, the first plane forms a non-zero predetermined angle with respect to a plane perpendicular to an optical axis direction, and the angle formed with respect to the plane perpendicular to the optical axis direction is greater in the order of the first, second, third, and the fourth plane.
Kazuki Ikeda, Makoto Ooki, Yoshihiro Inagaki, Daisuke Kobayashi, Mohdmakhtar Nurnabila
Filed: 2 Oct 19
Utility
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7 Sep 20
An image formation apparatus includes a first electrode portion including a contact electrode and a counter electrode, a second electrode portion arranged as not being in contact with a recording medium, a first sensing unit configured to sense a first current which flows to the first electrode portion as a result of application of a voltage across the contact electrode and the counter electrode while the recording medium lies between the contact electrode and the counter electrode, a second sensing unit configured to sense a second current which flows from the charged recording medium to the second electrode portion, and a control unit.
Yuusuke Mandai, Kanji Nakayama
Filed: 18 Jun 18
Utility
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7 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet, and includes: a rotator used to form the image; a motor that drives the rotator rotationally; a current measurer that measures motor current flowing through a current-carrying path including a winding of the motor, at measurement timing that is timing after the motor starts up; a torque acquirer that acquires a torque value of the motor based on a measured value of the motor current; and a corrector that performs correction for cancellation of an amount of error based on one or both of a variation in characteristic corresponding to motor speed of the motor and a variation in characteristic corresponding to the motor current at the measurement timing, at the acquisition of the torque value by the torque acquirer.
Katsuhide Sakai, Yasuhiro Koide, Toshiaki Tanaka, Akihiro Hayashi
Filed: 6 Aug 19
Utility
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7 Sep 20
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus including a housing where an image forming unit is provided and a strain detector, a hardware processor, and a storage.
Kenichi Yamamoto
Filed: 28 Feb 19
Utility
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7 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus includes an image former and a hardware processor.
Keiki Katsumata
Filed: 28 Oct 19
Utility
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7 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus including: a cyclone which centrifugally separates toner from air containing the toner scattered; a storage which stores the toner separated by the cyclone; a filtering portion which allows air to pass, the air being obtained after the toner is separated by the cyclone; a duct which guides the air that passes through the filtering portion; a fan which generates a flow of the air to discharge the air that passes through the filtering portion; and a hardware processor which measures a rotational speed of the fan, detects a full state in which the storage is filled with the toner based on change of the rotational speed of the fan, and issues a warning in a case in which a variation rate of rotational speeds of the fan measured a plurality of times is a predetermined value or more.
Takahiro Iwasaki
Filed: 27 May 19
Utility
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7 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit for forming an image on a sheet and a sheet conveying unit for conveying the sheet along a conveying path extending in a substantially horizontal direction in a lower portion of the image forming unit.
Takenori Suenaga, Ryo Goto
Filed: 19 Mar 18