1367 patents
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Utility
Image forming apparatus and method of controlling the same
6 Jul 21
An image forming apparatus includes: a job acquirer that acquires a print job; a photoconductor including a surface on which a toner image is to be formed; an electrifying member that electrifies the photoconductor; an exposure member that exposes the photoconductor; a developing member that supplies toner to the photoconductor; a cleaner that cleans the photoconductor; and a controller connected to the job acquirer to control the image forming apparatus, wherein the controller computes a first non-toner region that is provided on the surface of the photoconductor when the toner image is formed on the photoconductor, the first non-toner region not containing toner in a longitudinal direction of the surface of the photoconductor, and the controller causes the exposure member and the developing member to form the toner image on the photoconductor and to form a set of toner patches in the first non-toner region.
Yan Shen, Hideo Yamaki, Futoshi Okazaki, Yasuyuki Inada, Takahiro Kuroda, Yu Mukobayashi, Yoshitaka Nomura, Motoki Nakano
Filed: 9 Apr 20
Utility
Spectrophotometer
6 Jul 21
Observation light can be applied to a position for measurement without providing large space in a spectrophotometer, and the position for measurement can be easily known.
Takashi Kawasaki, Hidehiko Fujii, Katsutoshi Tsurutani
Filed: 24 Apr 18
Utility
Fluorescent nanoparticles for biomolecular staining and manufacturing method for same
6 Jul 21
For fluorescent nanoparticles having a zeta potential of −10 mV to −60 mV at pH 7.0 or a zeta potential of 0 mV to −10 mV in a buffer of pH 6.0 to 8.0, an appropriate electrical repulsive force can be generated between biomolecules that are generally negatively charged and the fluorescent nanoparticles.
Hideki Gouda, Masaru Takahashi, Kensaku Takanashi, Fuminori Okada
Filed: 23 Apr 14
Utility
Image forming apparatus and method for controlling image forming apparatus
6 Jul 21
An image forming apparatus includes: a first hardware processor that outputs guidance information for setting a predetermined function to a user; a second hardware processor that receives voice input from the user according to the guidance information; a third hardware processor that executes a process of setting the predetermined function according to the voice input received by the second hardware processor; and a fourth hardware processor that outputs a masking signal for masking voice from the user based on the guidance information.
Hiroyuki Kawabata
Filed: 9 Apr 20
Utility
Liquid delivery method, and detection system and detection apparatus for implementation of this method
29 Jun 21
Aiming to provide a method capable of reciprocatingly delivering various liquids without bringing air into a microchannel, a detection system and a detection apparatus for implementation of this method.
Youichi Aoki, Takanori Murayama
Filed: 2 Feb 16
Utility
Measurement method, measurement apparatus, and measurement system
29 Jun 21
A specimen containing a substance to be measured is introduced into a flow path of a measurement chip including a flow path which is a cavity for accommodating liquid and a reflecting unit which specularly reflects light which passes through the flow path so as to pass through the flow path again and a measurement value indicating an amount of the substance to be measured in the specimen is acquired.
Fumio Nagai, Tetsuya Noda, Hideyuki Fujii
Filed: 1 Aug 17
Utility
Dynamic analysis device and recording medium
29 Jun 21
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: 28 Feb 20
Utility
Radiation image capturing apparatus
22 Jun 21
A radiation image capturing apparatus includes: scanning lines and signal lines; radiation detection elements; a scan driver switching a switching element of the radiation detection elements between on and off; and a readout IC incorporating readout circuits reading, as image data, electric charges from each radiation detection element, the readout circuit including: an integrating circuit outputting a voltage value corresponding to the electric charges; a reset switch resetting the integrating circuit; a first sample-and-hold circuit holding, as a reference value, the voltage value before the electric charges flow; a second sample-and-hold circuit holding, as a signal value, the voltage value after the electric charges flow; and a difference circuit outputting difference between the signal value and the reference value, the radiation image capturing apparatus further including a mechanism changing the voltage value from completion of the resetting and turning off of the reset switch until holding of the reference value.
Ikuma Ota, Kazuhiro Sakino
Filed: 13 Mar 18
Utility
Image processing device, pathological diagnosis support system, storage medium for image processing, and image processing method
15 Jun 21
An image processing device (2A) comprises: an input means for inputting a brightfield image representing cell morphology in a tissue section, and a fluorescence image representing, by fluorescent bright spots, the expression of a specific protein in the same range of the tissue section; a first generation means for generating a cell image obtained by extracting a specific site of a cell from the brightfield image; a second generation means for generating an image obtained by extracting bright spot regions from the fluorescence image, creating a brightness profile for each bright spot region, and generating a fluorescent particle image obtained by extracting the fluorescent particles in the bright spot regions on the basis of the fluorescence profile for one fluorescent particle, which serves as a fluorescence bright spot source; and a calculation means for superimposing the cell image and the fluorescent particle image on one another.
Yasuhiro Watanabe, Shuji Ichitani, Kohsuke Gonda, Noriaki Ohuchi, Mika Watanabe
Filed: 18 Jul 19
Utility
Image forming device, developer stirring method and non-transitory recording medium
15 Jun 21
An image forming device to and from which a developing unit in which a developer containing toner is filled is detachable and removable, comprises a hardware processor that: enables the developing unit to perform a stir operation of the developer filled in the developing unit as an initial operation of the developing unit; obtains a reference value of a toner density set in advance in time of a factory shipment of the developing unit at time the stir operation is performed; and compares a toner density received from the developing unit during the stir operation with the reference value to determine a stir condition of the developer.
Teppei Kunihisa, Soh Hirota, Shigeki Naiki, Hironori Akashi
Filed: 21 Aug 20
Utility
Image formation system having a plurality of image formation apparatuses and method for controlling them
15 Jun 21
An image formation system includes a plurality of image formation apparatuses.
Shoko Haba, Taketoshi Yamahata
Filed: 11 Nov 19
Utility
Computer-readable recording medium, contract creation system, contract verification system, and final cipher creation system
15 Jun 21
A computer-readable recording medium records a contract creation program for creating a contract image of a contract executed by parties each having private key.
Kazuya Takahashi, Toshinobu Yamaguchi
Filed: 30 Mar 16
Utility
Radiographing control apparatus, radiographic imaging apparatus and radiographic imaging system
8 Jun 21
A radiographing control apparatus includes a hardware processor.
Tatsuya Takagi
Filed: 17 Jan 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus, and method for controlling the same
1 Jun 21
An image forming apparatus includes: a housing part that is capable of housing a plurality of recording materials in such a manner that one recording material is put on another; a transport part that transports a recording material from the housing part; and a hardware processor that detects a kind of the recording material transported by the transport part, detects an amount of the recording materials housed in the housing part, detects replacement of recording materials housed in the housing part, or addition of recording materials in the housing part, on the basis of a result of the detection by the hardware processor, and, on the basis of a result of the detection by the hardware processor, switches whether or not to execute, by the hardware processor, the kind detection of the recording materials housed in the housing part.
Shota Igo, Masahiro Kamiya, Katsuyuki Ikuta, Toshio Tsuboi, Tatsuya Eguchi
Filed: 28 Nov 18
Utility
Image forming system and program between a portable terminal and an image forming device with confirmation feature
1 Jun 21
A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program causes a computer included in a portable terminal to communicate with an image forming device to execute: a) a step of acquiring communication information from the image forming device via first wireless communication, the communication information being information for executing second wireless communication; b) a step of executing processing of confirming existence of a user who possesses the portable terminal in the vicinity of the image forming device; and c) a step of, on condition that existence of the user in the vicinity of the image forming device is confirmed in the step b), permitting registration processing of registering the communication information in the portable terminal in order to execute the second wireless communication, the communication information being communication information for the second wireless communication with the image forming device and being acquired in the step a).
Kenichi Nagasawa
Filed: 6 Aug 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus, recording medium. and control method for reducing pressure gradient between rollers
1 Jun 21
An image forming apparatus according to the present invention includes: a driver that presses and separates two rollers via a belt; a detector that detects a position of the belt in an axial direction of one roller of the two rollers; and a hardware processor that calculates, based on a detection result by the detector, a first movement amount of the position of the belt in the axial direction when the belt is made to travel for a predetermined time in a state where the two rollers are separated and a second movement amount of the position of the belt in the axial direction when the belt is made to travel for the predetermined time in a state where the two rollers are pressed.
Daisuke Murakami
Filed: 3 Apr 20
Utility
Image forming apparatus
1 Jun 21
An image forming apparatus includes: a controller that controls the image forming apparatus; a memory that stores noise levels produced by a plurality of devices constituting the image forming apparatus during operation of the devices; and a microphone that accepts a speech instruction for the image forming apparatus.
Satoshi Uchino
Filed: 29 Jan 20
Utility
Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus
25 May 21
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe and a display.
Yuki Muramatsu, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Yosuke Kimura
Filed: 31 Oct 17
Utility
Ink jet head and ink jet recording apparatus
25 May 21
An ink jet head with a head chip including a nozzle layer with nozzles for jetting ink and a pressure chamber layer with pressure chambers communicated respectively with the nozzles; and a manifold which stores the ink to be supplied to the pressure chambers; where the head chip has individual communication flow paths which are communicated respectively with the pressure chambers and which are capable of discharging the ink in the pressure chambers; and a common communication flow path which is disposed in a part facing the nozzle layer of the pressure chamber layer and which is connected to the individual communication flow paths to join the ink discharged from the individual communication flow paths together.
Hikaru Hamano, Souichi Tanaka, Tomohiro Nishiura, Jun Marubayashi, Yusuke Hayashi
Filed: 13 Mar 17
Utility
Image forming apparatus, basis-weight deriving method, and basis-weight deriving program
25 May 21
An image forming apparatus includes a first light source, a second light source, an optical sensor, a storage, and a hardware processor, wherein the storage stores a first threshold for determining a type of the recording material based on the basis weight, and the hardware processor calculates a first transmittance from the mount of the first emission light and the amount of the first transmission light, calculates a second transmittance from the amount of the second emission light and the amount of the second transmission light, derives a first basis weight corresponding to the first transmittance and a second basis weight corresponding to the second transmittance, by using predetermined determination criteria, determines the type of the recording material based on the first basis weight and the second basis weight, and derives the basis weight according to the determination criteria based on the determined type of the recording material.
Shogo Asaoka
Filed: 10 Oct 19