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Utility
Image forming apparatus and computer-readable recording medium storing program
31 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that has multiple developing units, arranged in series for basic colors in a rotational driving direction of a transfer body, for developing toner images of the basic colors based on input image data and forms the overlapped toner images on a surface of the transfer body in a state in which the toner images are aligned; a transferring unit that transfers the toner images onto a sheet; and a controller that calculates a difference between color information of an image obtained by reading the toner images and color information of the input image data, calculates a color change direction of the toner images with respect to a color of the input image data based on the difference, and refers to a table and determines a shape of a surface of the sheet based on information of the color change direction.
Takahiro Kusunoki
Filed: 8 May 19
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
Utility
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31 Aug 20
A fixing device includes: a fixing member that heats a toner image formed on a recording sheet in order to fix the toner image on the recording sheet; a pressurizing member that nips the recording sheet together with the fixing member to pressurize the toner image on the recording sheet; a heater that heats the pressurizing member; and a hardware processor that controls a heating temperature of the pressurizing member by the heater, wherein the hardware processor acquires setting of glossiness of the toner image and controls the heating temperature to be higher as the glossiness in the setting is lower.
Chiaki Yamada, Naoki Yoshie, Hirofumi Nakagawa
Filed: 5 Jun 19
Utility
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31 Aug 20
An image sensor unit includes: a light source that illuminates a document; a rod-shaped light guide including a reflection surface that reflects light from the light source and an emission surface provided on a side opposite to the reflection surface that emits light reflected by the reflection surface to the document; a thermal conductor provided so as to cover the reflection surface of the light guide; an image forming element that forms an image of reflected light from the document on a photoelectric conversion element; a sensor substrate on which the photoelectric conversion element is mounted; and a frame including a locator for mounting the light guide.
Hiroshi Uga
Filed: 25 Nov 18
Utility
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31 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a determination part that performs an accomplishment determination process which is a process of determining whether or not a job is accomplishable prior to a billing process using a pre-billing method which is a billing method of billing for execution of the job before completion of the job; and a decision part that decides whether or not to perform the billing process based on the determination result of the accomplishment determination process, wherein the decision part decides that the billing process is to be performed for the execution of the job when it is determined that the job is accomplishable, and decides that the billing process is not to be performed for the execution of the job when it is determined that the job is not accomplishable.
Yuji Kawamura, Yoichi Kurumasa, Takatsugu Kuno
Filed: 22 Aug 19
Utility
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24 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus including: a fixer that fixes a toner image formed on a recording medium by pressing and heating the recording medium nipped in a nip portion formed by causing two rotating bodies to pressedly abut on each other, and conveying the recording medium by rotating the rotating bodies; a motor that drives the rotating bodies by transmitting a torque to at least one of the rotating bodies; a torque detector that detects the torque transmitted to the rotating body by the motor; a temperature detector that detects temperature of the rotating body; a speed detector that detects a conveyance speed for conveying the recording medium by the fixer; and a controller that corrects the detected torque based on at least any one of the detected temperature and the detected conveyance speed and predicts a life of the fixer based on the corrected torque.
Masayuki Fukunaga, Toshiaki Tanaka, Masayuki Watanabe, Mineo Yamamoto
Filed: 13 Feb 19
Utility
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24 Aug 20
Provided is a fixing belt that is used in a fixing device, the fixing device nipping, between a heated fixing belt and a roller, a recording material in which an unfixed toner image is formed on a surface, and fixing the toner image onto the recording material, and the fixing belt has a fixing temperature that causes a tipping point in a characteristic of a change in glossiness of the toner image that has been fixed with respect to a change in the fixing temperature.
Susumu Sudo
Filed: 17 Oct 19
Utility
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24 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus includes an image former, an informing unit, and a hardware processor.
Masahiro Matsuo
Filed: 4 Jul 19
Utility
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24 Aug 20
An image post-processing method includes a glossiness control step of irradiating a fixed toner image with a glossiness control light.
Haruo Horiguchi, Seijiro Takahashi, Toyoko Shibata
Filed: 8 Nov 18
Utility
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24 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor including CPUs each including cores, a process being executed by the CPUs, wherein the hardware processor managing the cores causes a first process or a second process to be executed, when the first process is executed, while electric power is uniformly supplied to the cores, allocates a pre-process in which sequential processing is performed to a part of the cores and a post-process in which parallel processing is performed to another part of cores, and when the second process is executed, for a part of the CPUs, allocates the pre-process to a part of the cores while electric power is supplied thereto and causes electric power supply to another part of cores to be stopped, and for another part of the CPUs, allocates the post-process to at least a part of the cores while electric power is uniformly supplied to the cores.
Munetoshi Eguchi
Filed: 14 Nov 18
Utility
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24 Aug 20
An information processing system includes a first communication interface, an information processing apparatus which obtains job data through the first communication interface, and an image processing apparatus which executes a print job defined by the job data.
Toshinobu Yamaguchi
Filed: 25 Feb 18
Utility
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24 Aug 20
Provided are a print controller for controlling print processing that divides a one-page document into page pieces and prints multiple page pieces per sheet, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a print control method.
Yasufumi Aoyama
Filed: 30 Apr 19
Utility
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24 Aug 20
An information processing apparatus processes an electronic document including operation target data items.
Jun Kuroki
Filed: 10 Jan 18
Utility
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24 Aug 20
An information processing device includes: a storage that stores data; and a hardware processor.
Hiroaki Sugimoto, Takeshi Hibino
Filed: 2 Apr 19
Utility
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24 Aug 20
The present disclosure pertains to an image reading device that may include an image reader, an operation detector, a correction parameter adjuster, an entry detector, and a document reading controller.
Keishi Sakuma
Filed: 11 Feb 19
Utility
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17 Aug 20
A radiation image processing device which performs image processing to a moving image that is obtained by emitting radiation to a subject, the radiation image processing device including a hardware processor that: extracts a reference region from each of a plurality of frame images which form the moving image; calculates an image processing condition of the reference region for each of the frame images from which the reference region is extracted; determines a standard image processing condition which is a standard based on the calculated image processing condition of each of the frame images; and performs image processing by applying the determined standard image processing condition to each of the frame images.
Hirotake Minami, Tatsuya Takagi
Filed: 8 Mar 18
Utility
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17 Aug 20
An ultrasound signal processor that selectively drives a plurality of transducer elements arrayed in an ultrasound probe and executes ultrasound transmission and reception to a subject to perform velocity analysis by a color flow mapping method includes: a transmitter configured to select a transmission transducer element array from the plurality of transducer elements and perform transmission from the transmission transducer element array; a receiver configured to generate a received signal sequence for a transducer element of a reception transducer element array; a phasing adder configured to generate an acoustic line signal; and a velocity calculator configured to generate a complex acoustic line signal and calculate an average velocity, wherein the phasing adder performs delay processing for changing a method for calculating a transmission time in which the ultrasound transmitted reaches each of the observation points in at least one of the main target area and the sub-target area.
Mineo Tsushima
Filed: 9 Mar 17
Utility
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17 Aug 20
An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid droplet ejection head and a liquid droplet ejection apparatus in which viscosity resistance of a liquid to be ejected is reduced on an ejection side of a nozzle to prevent pointed-end ejection and to improve accuracy of an ejection angle.
Akito Shimomura, Kusunoki Higashino
Filed: 9 Aug 17
Utility
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17 Aug 20
An optical print head that performs optical writing to a photoreceptor includes: a light transmissive substrate; a light emitting unit including light emitting element groups, each of which includes two or more light emitting elements disposed on a first main surface of the substrate; a lens array including lenses that correspond one-to-one to the light emitting element groups; light detection units disposed above the second main surface of the substrate in one-to-one correspondence to the light emitting element groups and that detects the light from each of the light emitting elements; and correction unit that corrects light amounts of the light emitting elements of the light emitting element group based on detection of the light detection units.
Takaki Uemura, Makoto Obayashi, Masayuki Iijima
Filed: 3 Mar 19
Utility
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17 Aug 20
A paper feeder includes: first and second accommodation units which are arranged side by side in a casing along a recording paper conveyance direction and in which recording paper is loaded in a specified accommodation orientation; and an erroneous loading detection unit which is provided in a non-loaded region between the first and second accommodation units, detects whether or not the recording paper is loaded, and detects recording paper accommodated in an orientation other than the specified accommodation orientation, wherein the paper feeder can shift a bundle of the recording paper loaded in the second accommodation unit to the first accommodation unit arranged on a downstream side of the recording paper conveyance direction.
Shinya Naoi, Hideyuki Nukumi
Filed: 28 Oct 15