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Utility
Image forming apparatus provided with recovery container for waste toner
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
Utility
Heater and inkjet printer
7 Sep 20
A heater includes: a planar heat generator; a power supply circuit that controls supply of power to the planar heat generator; a plurality of temperature sensors that is provided on the planar heat generator and measures a temperature; and a hardware processor that detects abnormality of the temperature sensor in a case where a difference in temperature measured by each of two of the temperature sensors out of the plurality of temperature sensors exceeds an abnormality threshold value after a predetermined waiting time has elapsed since the supply of power to the planar heat generator is stopped.
Yasuhiro Ishihara, Yuhei Tatsumoto, Toshikazu Higashi, Makoto Shimazoe
Filed: 2 Jul 19
Utility
Sheet conveyance device and image forming apparatus
7 Sep 20
A sheet conveyance device includes: a container that accommodates loaded sheets; a feeding mechanism that continuously feeds the sheet from the container; a conveyance path on which the sheet is conveyed; and a pitch adjustment mechanism provided on the conveyance path and which adjusts a pitch of a preceding sheet and a subsequent sheet, wherein the pitch adjustment mechanism includes a pitch adjustment roller pair including a first pitch adjustment roller and a second pitch adjustment roller that sandwich the conveyance path and are in pressure contact with each other, the first pitch adjustment roller is driven and rotated in a direction following a sheet conveying direction, the second pitch adjustment roller is driven and rotated in the direction following a sheet conveying direction, and the second pitch adjustment roller is connected to a drive shaft that drives the second pitch adjustment roller via a one-way clutch.
Haruka Tai
Filed: 21 Feb 18
Utility
Surface defect inspection device and method
7 Sep 20
According to a surface defect inspection device and a surface defect inspection method according to the present invention, an inspection face of an inspection object is irradiated with illumination light, and a defect at the inspection face is detected, based on an image including the inspection face captured.
Koji Harada, Masato Kashihara, Taizo Wakimura
Filed: 5 Apr 18
Utility
Method of calibrating spectral apparatus and method of producing calibrated spectral apparatus
7 Sep 20
Spectral apparatus includes sensors that output signals indicating the respective energy amounts of a plurality of wavelength components.
Yoshiroh Nagai, Toshio Kawano, Takashi Kawasaki
Filed: 5 Jul 16
Utility
Image forming apparatus, information processing system, image forming method, and program
7 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on paper in accordance with a printing job includes: a communication unit that receives meeting information concerning a meeting; a storage unit that stores the meeting information received by the communication unit; an editing control unit that edits the meeting information stored in the storage unit in accordance with an execution time of the printing job; an operation display unit that freely outputs images or voices captured in the meeting based on the meeting information edited by the editing control unit; and an output control unit that controls output of the images or voices captured in the meeting and output from the operation display unit, wherein the output control unit finishes output of the images or voices captured in the meeting and output from the operation display unit before completion of the printing job.
Akihiro Nagata
Filed: 7 May 17
Utility
Service providing device and program that are capable or providing a relatively large number of services
7 Sep 20
A service providing device includes a hardware processor that: accepts a providing request of one service; determines whether or not the one service can be provided by using any of a plurality of applications installed in an own device; and controls service processing, wherein in a case where it is determined that the one service can be provided, the hardware processor uses an application corresponding to the one service to start the service processing, and in a case where it is determined that the one service cannot be provided, the hardware processor transmits the providing request of the one service to an external server, so as to cause the external server to start the service processing, and downloads a specific application from the external server or another external device to install the specific application in the own device, takes over the service processing, and then executes the service processing.
Hiroaki Maekawa
Filed: 14 Apr 19
Utility
Speaker Determination Apparatus, Speaker Determination Method, and Control Program for Speaker Determination Apparatus
2 Sep 20
A speaker determination apparatus includes a hardware processor that: acquires data related to voice in a conference; determines whether the voice has been switched in accordance with a feature amount of the voice extracted from the data related to the voice acquired by the hardware processor; recognizes and converts the voice into text in accordance with the data related to the voice acquired by the hardware processor; analyzes the text converted by the hardware processor and detects a sentence break in the text; and determines a speaker in accordance with timing of the sentence break detected by the hardware processor and timing of the voice switching determined by the hardware processor.
Yoshimi NAKAYAMA
Filed: 3 Feb 20
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus and Storage Medium for High-accuracy Colorimetry
2 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus that prints an adjustment pattern on a sheet includes a generator and an image former.
Masanori YOSHIZAWA
Filed: 17 May 20
Utility
Image Forming System, Image Forming System Control Method, and Non-transitory Computer-readable Recording Medium Storing a Program
2 Sep 20
An image forming system which, even when overprinting is made on a sheet processed by an external device, prevents misregistration of the image formed on the sheet, and a control method for the image forming system, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program.
Hiroaki YAGO
Filed: 15 Jan 20
Utility
Image Forming Apparatus
2 Sep 20
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes: an image former which forms an image on a recording medium; a pressure member; a fixing member which is pressed against the pressure member to form a nip portion and comes into contact with the unfixed image formed on the recording medium conveyed at the nip portion; and a hardware processor which causes one member, either the pressure member or the fixing member, to function as a driving member which conveys the recording medium in a normal mode and causes the other member of the pressure member and the fixing member to perform an assist operation for reducing torque of the driving member compared to the normal mode to increase gloss of the image in a high-gloss mode.
Dai SUWAMA
Filed: 23 Jan 20
Utility
Inkjet Recording Apparatus and Cleaning Method of Intermediate Transfer Body
2 Sep 20
An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink jetter; a transfer unit that has an intermediate transfer body and transfers ink on its transfer surface to a recording medium to record an image; a thickening device that thickens the ink landed on the transfer surface before transfer to the recording medium; a cleaner that removes residual ink remaining on the transfer surface; and a hardware processor.
Yusuke NISHISAKA, Hajime KAWAKAMI, Mei SUZUKI, Keishi SUZUKI
Filed: 24 Feb 20
Utility
Resin Composition, Method for Manufacturing Three-dimensional Object Using Resin Composition, Three-dimensional Object, and Object-gripping Attachment, and Industrial Robot Using Object-gripping Attachment
2 Sep 20
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a resin composition which is capable of producing a three-dimensional object having high tensile strength and dimensional accuracy and is easily detectable by a metal detector.
Ayumi YONEZAKI
Filed: 17 Sep 18
Utility
Inkjet Recording Apparatus and Maintenance Method
2 Sep 20
An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink ejection head that includes an ink ejector with a nozzle to which ink is supplied, a hardware processor that causes the ink ejector to perform an ejecting action of ejecting ink from the nozzle and/or an projecting action of projecting ink from an opening of the nozzle, and a wiping unit that performs a wiping action of wiping a nozzle opening surface of the ink ejection head, the opening of the nozzle being formed on the nozzle opening surface.
Yohei ITO
Filed: 24 Feb 20
Utility
Display device, screen display method, and recording medium
31 Aug 20
A display device includes: a display; a touch panel disposed on the display; a memory that stores screen configuration information essentially including information of a base area of a fixed size and an extra area of an unfixed size; a retrieving portion that retrieves the screen configuration information therefrom; a display processor that allocates the base area in an image displayable area of the display on the basis of a reference point of the screen of the display and displays a first screen in the allocated base area, and that further allocates the extra area in an area other than the base area and displays a second screen in the allocated extra area when the image displayable area of the display is larger than the base area; and a judgment portion that judges whether or not a user stretches the extra area toward the base area on the touch panel.
Masao Hosono, Shigeyuki Ueda, Tadashi Suzue, Satoshi Osako
Filed: 30 Nov 16
Utility
Image processing apparatus and program
31 Aug 20
An image processing apparatus capable of performing image processing by communicating with a remote terminal includes: a communication part that communicates with the remote terminal; a display part; and a hardware processor that: is capable of obtaining a file having a format corresponding to a first icon image, the file being a file as an image processing target; is capable of performing image processing involving file format conversion of the obtained file; obtains a second icon image corresponding to a format of a file after undergoing processing generated by the image processing, from the remote terminal; and causes the display part to display the second icon image obtained by the hardware processor, for the file after undergoing processing.
Hozuma Nakajima, Kazuaki Tomono, Kenzo Yamamoto
Filed: 12 Jun 18
Utility
Radiation image capture system and body system estimation method with scatter reduction
31 Aug 20
A radiation image capturing system includes a radiation image capturing apparatus, an irradiation apparatus and an image processing apparatus.
Ryohei Ito, Tatsuya Takagi, Keita Yoshida
Filed: 14 Apr 16
Utility
Image processing apparatus and computer-readable recording medium storing program
31 Aug 20
An image processing apparatus includes: an input receiver into which a fluorescent image and a morphological image are input; and a controller.
Yuka Yoshihara
Filed: 12 Jan 17
Utility
Laminated scintillator panel
31 Aug 20
Tadashi Arimoto, Kei Isoda
Filed: 14 Jun 17
Utility
Developing device and image forming apparatus
31 Aug 20
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