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Utility
Lubricant coating device and image forming apparatus
17 Aug 20
A lubricant coating device preventing coating unevenness of lubricant powders is provided.
Yukimasa Azuma
Filed: 11 Apr 18
Utility
Reflection characteristic measuring device
17 Aug 20
The reflection characteristic measuring device according to the present invention is a device that includes a diffuse reflecting surface and measures a plurality of mutually different types of reflection characteristics by using a plurality of optical systems having mutually different geometries, which corrects the reflection characteristics to be measured by an error generated when light emitted from an object of measurement is reflected from the diffuse reflecting surface and illuminates the object of measurement.
Toshio Kawano, Takashi Kawasaki
Filed: 23 May 17
Utility
Biological substance quantitation method, pathological diagnosis support system, and recording medium storing computer readable program
17 Aug 20
There is provided a biological substance quantitation method of quantitating a biological substance in a sample stained with a staining reagent including a fluorescent particle encapsulating a fluorescent substance, based on a fluorescence of the fluorescent substance.
Takeshi Isoda, Naoko Furusawa, Yasuyuki Motokui, Kohsuke Gonda, Noriaki Ohuchi, Mika Watanabe
Filed: 14 Jan 16
Utility
Light scanning type object detecting device
17 Aug 20
Kazutaka Noguchi, Ryouta Ishikawa, Kazuki Matsui
Filed: 3 Oct 16
Utility
Fixing apparatus for inhibiting the meandering of a fixing belt
17 Aug 20
A fixing apparatus includes: a heating rotor having one or more rotational axis and including a heater; a fixing pad that is a non-rotor; a belt stretched around at least the heating rotor and the fixing pad; a pressure roller capable of sandwiching the belt in cooperation with the fixing pad; and a driving source that supplies rotational driving force to the heating rotor, in which the pressure roller is allowed to have a first mode and a second mode, the pressure roller being pressed against the fixing pad in the first mode, the pressure roller being separated from the fixing pad in the second mode, and the heating rotor is given rotational driving force from the driving source at both ends sandwiching the belt.
Akio Kasuga
Filed: 13 Jun 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and non-transitory recording medium storing computer-readable program for image forming apparatus
17 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor that conveys a recording medium; an image former that performs image formation for the recording medium; a receiver that receives an instruction of adjustment start of post pressing condition by a post processing apparatus without stopping a print job during continuous output operation that performs image formation continuously for a plurality of recording mediums, performs post processing by the post processing apparatus, and outputs the plurality of recording mediums; and a hardware processor that performs interval widening control for the recording medium being conveyed on a conveyance passage so as to convey the recording medium by widening an interval with a preceding recording medium from a time when the instruction of adjustment start of the post processing condition has been received.
Yong Zuo
Filed: 7 Dec 17
Utility
Image forming apparatus
17 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus cooperates with a flying vehicle, and includes: a communicator that exchanges data with another device; a printer that performs printing on a paper sheet; a storage that stores positional information of seats, positional information of image forming apparatuses, and a moving speed of the flying vehicle; and a hardware processor that controls the image forming apparatus, wherein the hardware processor is to: obtain delivery destination information from a print job; receive positional information from the flying vehicle; read out the positional information of a seat as a delivery destination and the positional information of the image forming apparatuses; calculate a travel time until the flying vehicle reaches the delivery destination; transfer the print job to another image forming apparatus; and transmit information regarding the other image forming apparatus to the flying vehicle via the communicator.
Toshimi Shinchi
Filed: 22 Dec 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus
17 Aug 20
Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of preventing or suppressing occurrence of density unevenness even when a shearing force is applied between an image face on paper and a fixing belt.
Masahiro Onodera
Filed: 17 Dec 19
Utility
Image forming system which handles a sheet bunch including a sheet with a defect based on a number of sheets remaining under transportation in the system
17 Aug 20
An image forming system which reduces the number of sheets invalidated upon detection of an image defect, without an escape area.
Minoru Asakawa
Filed: 8 Oct 19
Utility
Communication control system, image processing unit, router, communication relay device and non-transitory recording medium
17 Aug 20
A communication control system comprises: a router that connects a first network and a second network; a communication relay device that connects the first network and the second network; and a hardware processor that: determines whether a first packet received from the first network is a packet to be discarded by the router; transmits a second packet corresponding to the first packet to the second network when the first packet is determined as the packet to be discarded by the router; and rewrites a transmitter IP address of a response packet corresponding to the second packet to an IP address of the router and sends the response packet to the first network when the response packet is received from the second network.
Hiroki Tajima
Filed: 8 Jul 18
Utility
Affinity calculation apparatus, affinity calculation method, and computer program
17 Aug 20
An affinity calculation apparatus for calculating a degree of affinity between a first element and a second element that are not directly relevant among three or more elements includes: an extraction section configured to extract, from a document, relevance of each of pairs of two directly relevant elements of the three or more elements; and a calculation section configured to calculate the degree, of the pairs, based on the relevance of each of pairs of two elements of the first element, the second element, and one or more intermediate elements that lie between the first element and the second element.
Kouichi Tomita
Filed: 30 Mar 17
Utility
Device including replaceable component
17 Aug 20
A device including a replaceable component, in which the component is not electrically connected to the device and includes a component-side storage, a component-side transmitter/receiver, a component-side hardware processor, and a component-side power generator, the device includes a main-body side storage, a counter which counts up the consumption degree of the component stored in the main-body storage, a main-body side transmitter/receiver, a main-body side hardware processor, a main-body side power generator, and a detector which detects attachment and detachment, the main-body side hardware processor causes the main-body side transmitter/receiver to transmit the specific identification information of the component and the consumption degree of the component when detachment is detected, and the component-side hardware processor rewrites the information in the component-side storage on the basis of the specific identification information of the component and the consumption degree of the component.
Akihiro Nagata
Filed: 3 Jun 19
Utility
Image processing device and program
17 Aug 20
An image processing device and a program capable of extracting a cell region as a diagnosis target more accurately may be provided.
Yusuke Mimura
Filed: 21 Dec 16
Utility
Dynamic image processing apparatus
17 Aug 20
A dynamic image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor.
Satoshi Kasai, Akinori Tsunomori
Filed: 4 Jan 18
Utility
Image inspection apparatus
17 Aug 20
An image inspection apparatus includes a hardware processor that performs an image diagnosis on the basis of a read image obtained by reading images printed in both sides of a recording medium, wherein the hardware processor: acquires a read image obtained by reading an image on the recording medium to which at least a first chart and a second chart are output; and performs a diagnosis by determining a side to be used in the diagnosis depending on an image diagnosis item on the basis of the read image.
Kazuomi Sakatani
Filed: 22 Jan 19
Utility
Ultrasound diagnostic device and ultrasound image processing method
10 Aug 20
An ultrasound diagnostic device including an ultrasound image acquirer that acquires a plurality of ultrasound image signal frames; an angle information acquirer that acquires angle information of an ultrasound probe when each frame is being acquired; an evaluation determiner that analyzes the frames to determine whether an object image portion is included; a disease score calculator that calculates a disease score that quantitatively indicates a degree of disease from a signal of the object image portion; and a display controller that makes the diagnostic image be displayed.
Yuki Matsumoto
Filed: 22 Mar 17
Utility
Relative position detection method, optical print head, and image forming device
10 Aug 20
A relative position detection method detecting a position of a light-emitting member relative to a lens array or a position of the lens array relative to the light-emitting member, in which the light-emitting member includes light-emitting elements arranged in a first direction and the lens array includes lenses arranged in the first direction and condenses light from the light-emitting elements to image positions of the light-emitting elements, optical axes of the lenses being orthogonal to the first direction.
Masayuki Iljima, Takaki Uemura, Makoto Obayashi
Filed: 4 Dec 17
Utility
Piezoelectric element, method for producing the same, ultrasound probe, and ultrasound imaging apparatus
10 Aug 20
The piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric composite including a plurality of piezoelectrics and a reaction product, and an electrode pair.
Kiyokazu Morita
Filed: 4 Jan 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus and conveyance control method
10 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer section including a transfer body that transfers an image onto a sheet in a transfer nip; a belt position correction section that performs operation of correcting misalignment of a position in an axial direction of a transfer belt in the transfer nip; a sheet conveyance member that is provided on the upstream side of the transfer nip in a sheet conveyance direction and conveys the sheet; and a hardware processor that controls the sheet conveyance member so as to displace the sheet along a width direction of the sheet.
Yasuo Shiokawa, Yoshiteru Kawakami, Takahiro Okubo
Filed: 3 Mar 19
Utility
Post-processing apparatus, image forming system, and control program for post-processing apparatus
10 Aug 20
A post-processing apparatus that performs, by one or more functional units which can be switched one another, predetermined post-processing corresponding to a function of the one or more functional units on a conveyed paper includes: a plurality of slots in which the one or more functional units can be loaded at respective loading positions along a conveyance path; a loading detector that detects that the one or more functional units are loaded in the slots; and a condition output part that outputs a condition that allows the post-processing depending on the loading positions of the slots in which the one or more functional units are loaded.
Tomohiro Kiriyama
Filed: 28 Nov 18