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Utility
Toner supply device with movable toner bottle
6 Jul 20
A toner supply device includes: a device body; and a toner bottle, wherein a toner supply port is formed in each of the device body and the toner bottle, either one of the device body and the toner bottle includes: a shutter that can be selectively moved between a shielding position and an open position; and a first engagement part, the other one of the device body and the toner bottle includes a second engagement part, the shutter is moved from the shielding position to the open position and the shutter opens the toner supply port, and then the first engagement part is engaged with the second engagement part, and the shutter is moved from the open position to the shielding position and the shutter closes the toner supply port, and then engagement between the first engagement part and the second engagement part is disengaged.
Keiko Yasuda, Hideaki Ikeda
Filed: 4 Apr 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus, image forming system, control method for image forming apparatus, and program
6 Jul 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyer that conveys continuous paper; an image creator that outputs an image onto the continuous paper, a heat source that imparts heat to the continuous paper; and a hardware processor that controls a printing action for forming an image on the continuous paper conveyed in a forward direction by the conveyer, using the image creator and the heat source, wherein when interrupting the printing action, the hardware processor performs withdrawal control in which the continuous paper is conveyed in a reverse direction such that a final image formed on the continuous paper before interruption of the printing action reaches a withdrawal position defined upstream of the heat source in the forward direction.
Masahiro Matsuo, Makoto Ui
Filed: 31 Oct 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus and conveyance control method
6 Jul 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a transferer that forms a transfer nip for transferring an image to a sheet; a conveyance roller pair disposed on an upstream side relative to the transfer nip in a conveyance direction of the sheet; and a hardware processor that controls the conveyance roller pair such that the sheet conveyed to a conveyance nip formed by the conveyance roller pair is conveyed with a predetermined nip pressure so as to cause slack in the sheet between the transfer nip and the conveyance nip in which the hardware processor controls the conveyance roller pair so as to reduce the nip pressure at the conveyance nip in accordance with an increase in a conveyance amount of the sheet at the conveyance nip.
Yoshiteru Kawakami, Yasuo Shiokawa, Takahiro Okubo
Filed: 5 Feb 18
Utility
Print system with a printer driver storing personal panel setting information and non-transitory recording medium storing a computer readable program
6 Jul 20
Disclosed is a print system, including a printer driver; and a print device, wherein the printer driver obtains personal panel setting information of a user having the printer driver and stores the personal panel setting information, and prepares a print job including identification information of the user and stored personal panel setting information and transmits the print job to the print device; and the print device comprises: a job memory which stores the print job received from the printer driver; and a hardware processor which allows a printing in accordance with the print job in case that an authenticated user is coincident with the user who is indicated in the identification information, and which displays an operation window customized in accordance with the personal panel setting information in case that the authenticated user is coincident with the user who is indicated in the identification information.
Tomohiro Ozawa
Filed: 24 May 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus, server, control program of image forming apparatus, and control program of server
6 Jul 20
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that may communicate with a server, which may include: a storage that stores a virus pattern file; and a hardware processor that discriminates, when a transition is made from a state in which power supply to the hardware processor is interrupted to a state in which the power supply to the hardware processor is made, whether the virus pattern file in the storage is a latest version, in communication with the server, includes an updater that updates, when discriminating that the virus pattern file is not the latest version, the virus pattern file to a virus pattern file from the server, discriminates whether a job accepted is a first type of job using data from outside the image forming apparatus or a second type of job using data generated inside the image forming apparatus, and executes the first type after the update by the updater.
Kazusei Takahashi, Yuki Asai, Katsuhiko Akita, Shinya Hashimoto
Filed: 17 Jun 19
Utility
Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program
6 Jul 20
An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition part that obtains an image including a captured target object; a first recognition part that extracts a feature related to the target object in the image and discriminates a category related to the target object based on a result of the feature extraction; a reliability acquisition part that obtains reliability of a discrimination result of the first recognition part with reference to data indicating reliability of the discrimination result stored in association with a candidate category classified by the first recognition part; a second recognition part that executes discrimination processing in accordance with the discrimination result of the first recognition part, extracts a feature related to the target object in the image, and discriminates the category related to the target object based on the result of the feature extraction and the reliability of the discrimination result of the first recognition part.
Tamaki Eyama
Filed: 4 Jul 18
Utility
X-ray imaging system
29 Jun 20
An X-ray imaging system includes an X-ray Talbot imaging apparatus and an image processing apparatus.
Mitsuharu Kitamura
Filed: 24 Jan 19
Utility
Two-component developer for electrostatic charge image development
29 Jun 20
To provide a two-component developer for electrostatic charge image development, the two-component developer enabling a high image quality to be kept and enabling the occurrence of fogging to be suppressed even in continuous printing of an image high in coverage rate.
Shinya Obara, Koji Shibata, Junya Ueda, Takuya Takahashi, Satoshi Uchino
Filed: 5 May 19
Utility
Electrostatic image developing toner
29 Jun 20
Takaki Kawamura, Shiro Hirano, Junya Onishi, Ami Motohashi
Filed: 27 Dec 18
Utility
Electrostatic image developer
29 Jun 20
Provided is an electrostatic charge image developer containing toner particles and carrier particles, wherein the toner particles contain at least silica particles or alumina particles as an external additive; the carrier particles contain core material particles and a coating resin layer covering a surface of the core particles; the coating resin layer contains metal oxide particles; an element measured by XPS (photoelectron spectroscopy) of the carrier particle is at least Si or Al; and a content of Si or Al in the carrier particle is in the range of 1 to 6 at % with respect to the total elements constituting the carrier particles.
Futoshi Kadonome, Keiji Arai, Junichi Furukawa, Ikuko Sakurada
Filed: 29 Apr 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus
29 Jun 20
An image forming apparatus including a polygon mirror that deflects a light beam includes: a light emitter that emits the light beam; an optical sensor that is disposed at a position on which the light beam deflected by the polygon mirror is incident; a detector that detects a minimum level being a light intensity level of the light beam, the lowest within a range detected by the optical sensor; a switcher that switches a light intensity level of the light beam emitted from the light emitter until the detector detects the minimum level; and a determiner that determines a degree of contamination of a component on an optical path of the light beam extending from the light emitter to the optical sensor, on the basis of the minimum level detected when the light intensity level is switched by the switcher.
Tatsuya Eguchi, Hidenari Tachibe, Makoto Obayashi
Filed: 16 Jun 19
Utility
Sandwich assay using labeled lectin and kit therefor
29 Jun 20
The present invention provides a sandwich assay for quantifying a glycoprotein, which is a substance to be detected, in a sample using a labeled lectin, wherein the effect attributed to a contaminant, namely noise on the quantified value of the substance to be detected, is suppressed by introduction of a simple treatment.
Tomonori Kaneko, Takatoshi Kaya
Filed: 31 May 15
Utility
Mirror unit and optical-scanning-type object detection device
29 Jun 20
An optical unit contains an optical element made of resin obtained by integrally forming a reflector in which a reflecting surface which reflects a light flux is formed on an outer peripheral side surface, and a flange extending in a direction orthogonal to the reflector to support the reflector; a rotary driving body which rotates the optical element; and a connecting device which connects the flange of the optical element to the rotary driving body, the optical element being capable of rotating around a rotational axis of the rotary driving body.
Naoki Kaneko, Yoshinori Ide, Yoshifumi Tamura, Hajime Mori
Filed: 7 Jun 16
Utility
Image forming apparatus
29 Jun 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a light-emitting element that includes light-emitting point groups; and an optical system that includes imaging systems focusing light from light-emitting points of the light-emitting point groups, wherein the light-emitting point groups and the imaging systems are combined into sets, the light-receiving surface has a cylindrical shape, each imaging system has a negative imaging magnification, light-emitting point groups are arranged at different positions, the imaging systems adjacent to each other have optical axes non-parallel to each other, each optical axis has an angle being not zero relative to the central normal, and a plane including the optical axis and the central normal is perpendicular to a rotational symmetry axis, and an angle between the optical axis and a line normal to the light-receiving surface is smaller than an angle between the central normal and a line normal to the light-receiving surface.
Yoshihiro Inagaki, Makoto Ooki, Daisuke Kobayashi, Kazuki Ikeda, Nurnabila Mohdmakhtar
Filed: 16 Oct 19
Utility
Developer replenishment container
29 Jun 20
A developer replenishment container attachable to and detachable from a container receiver of a developer supply device is provided.
Takeru Kinoshita
Filed: 19 Aug 19
Utility
Image formation apparatus
29 Jun 20
The image formation apparatus includes: a multi-core processor having a plurality of cores; and an image forming mechanism configured to form an image on a recording medium.
Shigeki Nozawa
Filed: 28 Oct 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus and storage medium for high-accuracy colorimetry
29 Jun 20
An image forming apparatus, including: an image former; a first reader which outputs a first color value and a second reader which outputs a second color value; and a hardware processor, wherein the first reader reads a partial region, the second reader is capable of reading an entire region, the adjustment pattern has a first patch region readable by the first reader and a second patch region readable by only the second reader, the second patch region includes a common color patch, the hardware processor obtains an estimate first color value by converting a second color value in the second patch region into a first color value, obtains a correction value of the estimate first color value for the common color patch, and corrects the estimate first color value obtained from every patch in the second patch region based on the correction value.
Masanori Yoshizawa
Filed: 1 Oct 17
Utility
Information processing apparatus and data storage program
29 Jun 20
An information processing apparatus includes: a non-volatile memory; and a hardware processor that controls the non-volatile memory, wherein the hardware processor determines whether communication speed of a communication path to the non-volatile memory is equal to or less than a threshold value and encrypts the data transmitted to the non-volatile memory when the communication speed is determined to be equal to or less than the threshold value.
Takehisa Yamaguchi, Yuji Okamoto, Hidetaka Iwai, Nobuhiro Mishima, Atsushi Tamura, Katsuyuki Sugita
Filed: 3 Jun 19
Utility
Dynamic analysis apparatus
22 Jun 20
A dynamic analysis apparatus includes: an obtainment unit configured to set a region of interest in dynamic images obtained by photographing a dynamic state by irradiation of a check target part with radial rays, and obtain movement information on movement of the region of interest; a determination unit configured to determine an emphasis level of a pixel signal value of an attentional pixel corresponding to a pixel in the region of interest on the basis of the movement information of the region of interest obtained by the obtainment unit; and a correction unit configured to correct the pixel signal value of the attentional pixel of the dynamic images or analysis result images generated by analyzing the dynamic images, on the basis of the emphasis level determined by the determination unit.
Hitoshi Futamura, Koichi Fujiwara, Sho Noji, Akinori Tsunomori
Filed: 29 Jun 17
Utility
Ultrasonograph
22 Jun 20
Disclosed is a technology that prevents a part of a touch panel-equipped display displaying an ultrasonic tomographic image from getting dirty with a fingerprint or scratch when using a drag operation to change the content of the ultrasonic tomographic image displayed on the touch panel-equipped display.
Seiichi Fukai, Masahiro Saito, Takashi Sakai, Yukiko Okamoto
Filed: 1 Mar 09