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Toner for developing electrostatic images
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
Image forming apparatus
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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7 Sep 20
An image management device that is communicably connected to a client terminal and a plurality of image storage devices, includes: a storage that stores identification information of image data with the identification information associated with an image storage device in which the image data is stored; a hardware processor that identifies an image storage device that stores image data specified by an image-data transmission request received from the client terminal based on the identification information of the image data stored in the storage, and instructs the identified image storage device to subject the image data specified by the transmission request to image processing; and a communicator that receives, from the identified image storage device, processed image data that has been subjected to the image processing, and transmits the processed image data to the client terminal.
Kenichirou Suzuki, Takao Shiibashi, Akira Kurahashi
Filed: 25 Jul 17
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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31 Aug 20
Tadashi Arimoto, Kei Isoda
Filed: 14 Jun 17