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Utility
Image forming apparatus and standby temperature setting
10 Aug 20
A fixing device of an image forming apparatus includes: a fixing belt, a heat source that heats a portion of the fixing belt; and a pressure roller that forms a nip between the pressure roller and the fixing belt and that transports a sheet.
Taiga Hiate, Takuto Shibuya
Filed: 4 Apr 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus
10 Aug 20
There is provided an image forming apparatus that includes a color image former that forms a color image with a plurality of process color toners, a spot color image former that forms a spot color image with a spot color toner, a transfer unit that transfers the formed color image and the formed spot color image onto a recording material, a fixing unit that fixes the transferred color image and the transferred spot color image onto the recording material, and a hardware processor that selects a first mode or a second mode depending on whether or not a type of the recording material and an amount of toner to be attached onto the recording material satisfy a predetermined condition.
Shinichi Tsukamura
Filed: 21 Oct 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus, image forming system and computer readable recording medium
10 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former which forms one or more images on at least one sheet fed from each of a plurality of feed trays; a first adjuster which adjusts positions of the images formed on the sheet by the image former such that the positions of the images match on both sides of the sheet fed from each of the feed trays; and a second adjuster which further adjusts the positions of the images on the sheet, the positions having been adjusted by the first adjuster, such that the positions of the images match between the sheets fed from the feed trays.
Tomohiro Kiriyama
Filed: 10 Oct 17
Utility
Electrostatic image developing toner and developer
10 Aug 20
An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner base particles, wherein the toner base particles contain: an amorphous polyester resin; a crystalline resin; and o-acetoacetaniside, and the content of the o-acetoacetaniside in the toner base particles is 0.1 ppm by mass or more and 200 ppm by mass or less.
Takanari Kayamori, Masaharu Matsubara, Naoya Tonegawa, Atsushi Iioka
Filed: 1 Oct 19
Utility
Gas leak position estimation device, gas leak position estimation method and gas leak position estimation program
10 Aug 20
This gas leak position estimation device is provided with a specifying unit and a first determination unit.
Xiaochen Zhang, Motohiro Asano, Toshitsugu Yamamoto
Filed: 27 Feb 17
Utility
Image forming apparatus, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing display control program, and display control method
10 Aug 20
Disclosed are an image forming apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a display control program, and a display control method.
Satoshi Osako
Filed: 4 Apr 19
Utility
Operation processing device, method for controlling information device, and computer-readable storage medium for computer program
10 Aug 20
An operation processing device used to operate an information device is provided.
Takashi Sugaya, Jun Kunioka, Hiroshi Iwamoto, Takeshi Hibino, Yukina Hisada
Filed: 20 Jan 15
Utility
Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus
10 Aug 20
There are provided an image reader, a noise canceller, and an image processor.
Kosuke Masumoto
Filed: 9 Jan 19
Utility
Light-receiving element and near infrared light detector
10 Aug 20
The present invention addresses the issue of providing: a light-receiving element that has an absorption layer of germanium (Ge), is capable of efficiently receiving near infrared light having a large light-reception sensitivity in the absorption layer, from a free space, and has high productivity and low production cost; and a near infrared light detector comprising said light-receiving element.
Yuichi Takeuchi, Takuji Hatano, Yasuhiko Ishikawa
Filed: 19 Jul 17
Utility
Radiography supporter and radiography support method
3 Aug 20
A radiography supporter supports a radiography system including a radiation generator and a radiography apparatus in taking radiographic images, and the radiography supporter includes a hardware processor that: acquires an examination order; transmits corresponding radiation irradiation conditions to the radiation generator, for each examination order; and restricts transmission of irradiation conditions corresponding to a second examination order to be executed after a specific first examination order in a case where a plurality of the examination orders has been acquired for a same examination object, and the irradiation conditions corresponding to the first examination order have been changed.
Takahisa Uehara
Filed: 10 Sep 18
Utility
X-ray imaging system containing X-ray apparatus having gratings and object housing for setting environmental condition independent of external environment
3 Aug 20
An X-ray imaging system including: an X-ray Talbot imaging apparatus which is provided with an object table, an X-ray source, a plurality of gratings, and an X-ray detector side by side in a direction of an X-ray radiation axis, and irradiates the X-ray detector with an X-ray from the X-ray source through an object and the plurality of gratings to obtain a moire image required for forming a reconstruction image of the object; and an object housing inside which the object is housed and an environmental condition independent of an external environment is set, wherein the object housing is provided detachably with respect to the object table.
Mitsuharu Kitamura, Yasunori Tsuboi
Filed: 18 Nov 18
Utility
Toner replenishing apparatus with agitation member, developer, and image forming apparatus
3 Aug 20
A toner replenishing apparatus includes: a toner storage that stores toner for replenishment; an agitation paddle that is arranged in the toner storage and rotates to agitate toner stored in the toner storage; a conveyance member that is disposed in a lower part of the toner storage and is used to convey the toner stored in the toner storage toward a developer; and an agitation member that moves along with rotation of the agitation paddle, wherein the conveyance member is arranged away from the agitation paddle in a plan view, and the agitation member agitates the toner located above the conveyance member, which is a part of the toner stored in the toner storage.
Hideji Higashimura
Filed: 13 Aug 19
Utility
Data processing apparatus, method of controlling data processing apparatus, and recording medium
3 Aug 20
A data processing apparatus includes a first processor, a second processor, a first power source which performs electric power supply to the first processor, a second power source which preforms electric power supply to the second processor, a detector which detects an abnormality of the second power source, and a switcher which is capable of switching a power supply target of the first power source between the first processor and the second processor.
Kenichi Takahashi
Filed: 23 Oct 17
Utility
Screen and head-up display device
3 Aug 20
A screen for a head-up display device includes a main body layer sandwiched between a first concave optical surface located at an observation side and a second convex optical surface located at a side opposite to the observation side.
Eiji Nomura
Filed: 23 Feb 17
Utility
Image forming apparatus and management method for image forming apparatus
3 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus includes a counter that counts number of sheets of paper on which printing is performed; a calculator that calculates a coverage rate of each sheet of the paper; a derivation part that derives a reference line to be a replacement indicator for a consumable part based on replacement history information including: number of printed sheets from start of using the consumable part provided in the image forming apparatus until replacement of the consumable part; and an average coverage rate obtained by averaging coverage rates on the sheets of the paper corresponding to the number of printed sheets, and a communicator that provides a notification of arrival of replacement timing of the consumable part based on the reference line.
Hirofumi Ishida
Filed: 25 Jun 19
Utility
Image formation apparatus with two types of storage
3 Aug 20
An image formation apparatus includes a first non-volatile memory, a second non-volatile memory smaller in allowable number of times of rewriting of data than the first non-volatile memory and higher in rate of reading of data than the first non-volatile memory, and a processor.
Masatoshi Hitaka
Filed: 7 Jun 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus
3 Aug 20
An image forming apparatus forms an image on a print medium, and the image forming apparatus includes: a storage that stores medium information including profile information corresponding to the print medium and attribute information of the print medium; and a medium detection sensor that detects attribute actual information of the print medium; wherein the medium information is configured such that the profile information corresponding to the print medium is associated with the attribute information of the print medium, and the attribute information or the print medium includes information detectable by the medium detection sensor.
Fusako Ozawa
Filed: 9 Sep 18
Utility
Message conversion system, message conversion method, and message conversion program
3 Aug 20
A message conversion system converts a message regarding one operation screen out of an operation screen after the customization and a default screen before the customization to a message regarding the other operation screen, and includes: a first obtainer that obtains a name of the operation item and identification information of operation control; a second obtainer that obtains a name of the operation item and identification information of operation control; a creator that creates a comparison table; and a replacer that specifies the identification information corresponding to the name of the operation item included in the message regarding one operation screen, and obtains the name of the operation item of the other operation screen and replaces the name of the operation item of the one operation screen included in the message with the name of the operation item of the other operation screen.
Hiroyuki Kawabata
Filed: 5 Aug 19
Utility
Image processing apparatus and program
3 Aug 20
An image processing apparatus is capable of judging a pass/fail for an inspection image which is an image of a job used for printing on a recording medium, by comparing the inspection image with an original image correlated with the inspection image and the image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor that judges a pass/fail for an image, wherein in accordance with a predetermined inspection mode set for the job, the hardware processor judges the inspection image to be abnormal when the inspection image and the original image match, and judges the inspection image to be nominal when the inspection image and the original image do not match.
Keisuke Morita
Filed: 15 Oct 18
Utility
Display device, image processing device and non-transitory recording medium determining continuity of operation two or more display areas
3 Aug 20
A display device, comprises: a display part that displays a first display area and a second display area across a boundary and displays operation screens in the respective first and second display areas; a manipulation part that detects a user operation performed to a display screen of the display part; and a hardware processor that: determines whether or not a first operation and a second operation have continuity when the second operation is detected in the second display area after the first operation is detected in the first display area; and updates the operation screen in the first display area in response to the second operation when the first operation and the second operation are determined to have continuity, and updates the operation screen in the second display area in response to the second operation when the first operation and the second operation are determined not to have continuity.
Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Takuto Matsumoto
Filed: 17 Dec 18