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Image forming apparatus capable of supressing toner remaining in an outer region of a photoconductor
19 Oct 21
An image forming apparatus includes: a photoconductor; a charging roller; an exposure device; a developing device that is provided on a downstream side of the charging roller in a rotation direction of the photoconductor, and forms a toner image by supplying toner to a latent image; a cleaning blade that is provided between a transfer part of a surface of the photoconductor located on a downstream side of the developing device in the rotation direction of the photoconductor and the charging roller, and removes residual toner adhering to a part of the surface of the photoconductor on a downstream side of the transfer part; a lubricant supplier that supplies a lubricant to the surface of the photoconductor; and a voltage controller that controls a charging voltage to be applied to the charging roller.
Junichi Arai
Filed: 5 Mar 21
Utility
Backup apparatus
19 Oct 21
A backup apparatus includes a hardware processor that selects one of a plurality of devices, the devices being communicably connected to each other and each including a storage apparatus and a connection I/F to connect to an external storage apparatus, and collectively makes a backup of backup target data held by the plurality of devices into the external storage apparatus connected to the connection I/F of a selected device, wherein the hardware processor selects one of the plurality of devices on a basis of a predetermined selection condition including an amount of data of backup target data held by each of the devices.
Yoshio Miyamoto
Filed: 30 Oct 19
Utility
Zoom lens, imaging optical device, and digital device
19 Oct 21
A zoom lens includes: in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having negative refractive power; a fifth lens group having positive refractive power; and a sixth lens group having negative refractive power.
Hiroaki Tanaka
Filed: 13 Nov 19
Utility
Image forming device, paper feeding mechanism deterioration determining method and non-transitory recording medium
12 Oct 21
An image forming device comprising: a tray in which multiple number of sheets are stored; a feeder that feeds the sheet stored in the tray; and a hardware processor that: measures a carrying speed of the sheet fed by the feeder; determines whether or not the measured carrying speed is affected by the following sheet; corrects the carrying speed upon determining the carrying speed is affected by the following sheet; and detects a wear status on the feeder based on the measured carrying speed or the corrected carrying speed.
Masatoshi Hitaka
Filed: 7 Oct 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus
12 Oct 21
An image forming apparatus including a belt, a plurality of color information detectors, and a hardware processor.
Katsuya Toyofuku
Filed: 27 Aug 20
Utility
Image forming apparatus and conveyance control method
12 Oct 21
The image forming apparatus includes a transfer section that transfers an image to a sheet; a sheet conveying member that is provided on an upstream side of the transfer section in a conveying direction of the sheet and that conveys the sheet; and a hardware processor that controls displacement of the sheet conveying member such that the sheet is displaced in a width direction of the sheet.
Yasuo Shiokawa, Yoshiteru Kawakami, Takahiro Okubo
Filed: 23 May 18
Utility
Image forming system and image forming apparatus with voice instruction to reform print setting operation
12 Oct 21
An image forming system includes: a display panel; a voice inputter that receives an instruction by voice; and a hardware processor that: analyzes a voice content that has been received by the voice inputter; determines input regarding setting of at least one or more of preliminarily provided adjustment functions based on an analysis result from the hardware processor; determines whether the voice content contains input of a setting value of a corresponding adjustment function based on a determination result from the hardware processor; and displays a selection screen on the display panel based on a determination result from the hardware processor when the voice content does not contain the input of a setting value of a corresponding adjustment function.
Hidekazu Takahama, Kazuhiro Ishiguro
Filed: 2 Jul 20
Utility
Head cleaning device, inkjet image forming apparatus, and cleaning method
5 Oct 21
A head cleaning device includes: a cleaning member that comes into contact with a nozzle surface of an inkjet head from which ink is ejected, and performs a cleaning operation of cleaning the nozzle surface; and a hardware processor that controls the cleaning operation, wherein the hardware processor brings the nozzle surface of the inkjet head heated and the cleaning member into contact with each other, the hardware processor maintains the contact until a temperature of the nozzle surface that has decreased to a temperature below a threshold due to the cleaning member being brought into contact therewith reaches a temperature equal to or higher than the threshold, and the hardware processor controls the cleaning operation after the temperature of the nozzle surface has reached a temperature equal to or higher than the threshold.
Toshiaki Hiroi
Filed: 12 Nov 19
Utility
Method for estimating Gleason score of prostate cancer, method for estimating pathological stage, and method for acquiring supplementary information, all on the basis of specific PSA content in specimen
5 Oct 21
The present invention provides methods that are for acquiring various types of supplementary information used for diagnosis or treatment of prostate cancer, and that can be implemented in a less-invasive manner at a low cost.
Tomonori Kaneko, Takatoshi Kaya, Chikara Ohyama, Tohru Yoneyama, Yuki Tobisawa
Filed: 29 Nov 17
Utility
Radiation image display apparatus and radiation imaging system
5 Oct 21
A radiation image display apparatus that constitutes a radiation imaging system includes a displayer and a hardware processor that acquires image data of a dynamic image constituted of a plurality of frame images, image data of an analysis dynamic image obtained by applying predetermined image processing to the image data of the dynamic image and image data of a related dynamic image which is related to the dynamic image or the analysis dynamic image respectively, and causes the displayer to display the related dynamic image together with the dynamic image and the analysis dynamic image.
Takanori Ando, Yuuichi Nishijima, Kenichi Yanagisawa, Ichirou Hamamoto
Filed: 10 Apr 19
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Radiography apparatus and radiography system
28 Sep 21
The present invention provides a radiography apparatus that can effectively exhibit the advantages of individual image capturing modes, namely, a controlled mode and an autonomous mode.
Akira Hiroshige, Wataru Matsushita, Nobuyuki Miyake, Hidetake Tezuka, Tetsu Hosoki, Tomonori Gido
Filed: 23 Dec 19
Utility
Inkjet head and inkjet recording apparatus
28 Sep 21
Provided is an inkjet head including: ink discharge sections with pressure chambers, nozzles, and first individual ink ejection flow paths and second individual ink ejection flow paths; a first common ink ejection flow path which communicates to the first individual ink ejection flow paths and into which ink flows through the first individual ink ejection flow paths in a first flow-in section; and a second common ink ejection flow path which communicates to the second individual ink ejection flow paths and into which ink flows through the second individual ink ejection flow paths in a second flow-in section.
Souichi Tanaka, Hikaru Hamano
Filed: 28 Dec 17
Utility
Silicone rubber composition, fixing member, manufacturing method of fixing member, and image forming apparatus including fixing member
28 Sep 21
A silicone rubber composition is a silicone rubber composition, in a fixing member having a rubber member on a surface, for forming the rubber member, and an integrated value of a high-molecular component from 32 minutes to 37 minutes of retention time in measurement of gas-chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS method) conducted under a predetermined condition is 3.0 or more.
Hiroyuki Yasukawa, Hirofumi Koga, Yoshiyasu Matsumoto
Filed: 20 Jun 19
Utility
Paper feeding parameter management system
28 Sep 21
A paper feeding parameter management system may include air paper feeding devices and a management device.
Eiji Nishikawa, Takahiro Yokoya
Filed: 9 Jul 19
Utility
Head-up display apparatus
28 Sep 21
A head-up display apparatus 200 includes: a projection optical system 30 that projects a virtual image; an environment monitor portion 72 as an object detection part that detects an object present in a detection region and detects a distance from the projection optical system 30 to the object as a target distance; an arrangement change apparatus 462 as a projection distance change part that periodically changes a projection distance of a virtual image from the projection optical system 30; and a main control apparatus 90 and a display control portion 18 as an image addition part that adds a related-information image as a virtual image by the projection optical system 30 to the detected object at timing when the target distance substantially matches the projection distance.
Norihide Yamada, Junji Hashimura, Osamu Tannai, Toshiyuki Kojima, Kazuhiro Sugawara
Filed: 22 Mar 18
Utility
Intermediate transfer body and electrophotographic image forming apparatus
28 Sep 21
Provided is an intermediate transfer body comprising a layer containing ferroelectric particles, wherein the ferroelectric particles has an average primary particle diameter in the range of 200 nm or less; and when three-dimensional axes of crystal lattices of the ferroelectric particles are a-axis, b-axis, and c-axis, a ratio of lattice constants of the c-axis and the a-axis (c/a) is in the range of 1.006 or more.
Daisuke Ikeda, Sadaaki Sakamoto, Ito Koga, Shiori Tsugawa
Filed: 24 Aug 20
Utility
Control apparatus, radiographic imaging system, control method, and recording medium
28 Sep 21
A control apparatus connected to a plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, includes a receiver that receives state information indicating whether a state is a first state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is not connected to or synchronized with a specific synchronization source or a second state in which the radiographic imaging apparatus is connected to and synchronized with the specific synchronization source, from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, a hardware processor that makes a first determination that at least one of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses is in the first state or a second determination that all of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses are in the second state, based on the state information received from each of the plurality of radiographic imaging apparatuses, and an outputter that outputs whether a determination result by the hardware processor is the first determination or the second determination.
Masahiro Kuwata
Filed: 5 Jun 20
Utility
Image scanning device
28 Sep 21
An image scanning device includes: a storage that stores therein an image feature of image data attached to a sent email; an image scanner that scans a document to obtain scanned data; and a hardware processor.
Kohei Yamazaki
Filed: 20 Apr 20
Utility
Cleaning device and image forming apparatus
21 Sep 21
A cleaning device includes a thin plate-shaped first blade that cleans a surface of a toner carrying body by making a tip portion come in contact with the toner carrying body to carry toner.
Satoshi Nishida, Tomo Kitada, Takeshi Maeyama
Filed: 8 Jul 20
Utility
Developing device and image forming apparatus
21 Sep 21
A developing device includes a case, a developer holder, a suction duct and a carrier catcher.
Kei Kitamura
Filed: 11 Sep 20