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Inkjet recording method and set of substrate and ink
25 May 20
An inkjet recording method includes: applying an active ray curable inkjet ink onto a coating layer disposed on a substrate by an inkjet method to form an ink layer, and subsequently irradiating the ink layer with an active ray to cure the ink layer, wherein the substrate has an outermost layer formed by at least one selected from polyethylene terephthalate, nylon, and aluminum, the coating layer is disposed on the outermost layer of the substrate and satisfies a condition that a chlorine/carbon ratio (Cl/C) by surface element analysis using electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) is 0.025≤(Cl/C)≤0.43, and the active ray curable inkjet ink contains at least a photopolymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, a pigment, and a gelling agent.
Go Yamaguchi
Filed: 16 Apr 19
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Ink jet recording apparatus
25 May 20
An ink jet recording apparatus contains a conveyer which conveys a recording medium, the conveyer having conveyance members on which the recording medium is mounted; a recorder which jets ink onto the recording medium being conveyed; and a fixer which fixes the ink landed on the recording medium.
Takashi Muramatsu, Mitsuo Kaburagi, Masashi Ikeda
Filed: 10 May 17
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Method for manufacturing lens array optical system and lens array optical system
25 May 20
Plurality of glass droplets are simultaneously dropped toward center of a regular polygon of each unit on a first transfer surface of a first forming die where a plurality of the units is regularly arranged along the same plane, taking, as one unit, three or more first optical transfer surfaces for forming a lens portion placed in such a manner as to overlap vertices of the regular polygon respectively.
Takashi Sannokyou
Filed: 22 Jan 15
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Colorimetric sensor device and image formation apparatus
25 May 20
A housing (20) has a passage port (3) that serves as both the outlet for the illumination light (IL) to go out of the housing (20) toward a sample surface (S) and the inlet for the reflection light (RL) reflected on the sample surface (S) to enter the housing (20).
Takuma Morikawa, Masafumi Hashimoto
Filed: 19 Nov 15
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Scintillator panel
25 May 20
A scintillator panel includes a laminated scintillator having a structure obtained by repeatedly disposing a scintillator layer and a non-scintillator layer in a direction substantially parallel to an incident direction of a radiation, wherein the scintillator layer contains at least a phosphor, a binder resin, and voids, and the non-scintillator layer is transparent, and an average refractive index n1 of the binder resin and the voids of the scintillator layer and a refractive index n2 of the non-scintillator layer satisfy a relationship of formula (A) 0.9≤(n2/n1).
Kiyoshi Hagiwara, Hiromichi Shindou
Filed: 13 Jan 19
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Image forming apparatus
25 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixer including fixing rotation body and pressing rotation body with a fixing nip therebetween, and heats and presses a fed sheet through the fixing nip to fix a toner image on the sheet to the sheet; and a hardware processor making a velocity difference between respective surface velocities of the fixing rotation body and the sheet passing through the fixing nip during a high-gloss mode operation to adjust a gloss of the toner image on the sheet.
Yasuo Shirodai, Makoto Fujii, Masahiro Onodera
Filed: 25 Jul 19
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Gloss reduction in image post-processing method, image post-processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus
25 May 20
There is disclosed an image post-processing method for adjusting glossiness of a fixed toner image.
Haruo Horiguchi, Seijiro Takahashi, Toyoko Shibata
Filed: 8 Nov 18
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Image forming apparatus
25 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes the following.
Katsuyuki Taima
Filed: 6 Nov 18
Utility
Optical connector
25 May 20
An optical connector for connecting single mode optical fibers includes a ferrule that connects to and holds an optical fiber, and a resin optical element coupled to the ferrule and that includes a lens positioned relative to an end of the optical fiber held in the ferrule, and the lens is provided with an antireflection structure.
Kazuhiro Wada, Yasushi Mizumachi
Filed: 13 May 18
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Electrophotographic photoreceptor, and electrophotographic image forming method and electrophotographic image forming apparatus using the same
25 May 20
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes an outermost layer formed of a polymerized cured product of a composition containing a polymerizable monomer and metal oxide particles surface-treated with a surface treatment agent having a silicone chain, wherein a ratio (r/r′) between a number average primary particle diameter (r) of metal oxide particles which are untreated base particles of the metal oxide particles surface-treated with the surface treatment agent having a silicone chain and a sphere equivalent particle diameter (r′) of the untreated base particles calculated from a specific surface area measured by a nitrogen adsorption method is 1.5 or more and 6.0 or less, and a surface treatment amount with the surface treatment agent having a silicone chain per surface area of the untreated base particles is 0.0005 g/m2 or more and 0.0015 g/m2 or less.
Tomoko Sakimura, Hiroki Takao, Mayuko Matsusaki, Kengo Ikeda
Filed: 21 Jul 19
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Projection-type display device
25 May 20
A projection-type display device, provided with: a reflection-type image display element (DP), in which illumination light is reflected at an image display surface so as to be converted to image light and emitted; a prism unit (PU1) that bends a light path of the illumination light and transmits image light; and a projection lens system (PO) that projects the image light transmitted through the prism unit onto a screen.
Masayuki Imaoka
Filed: 25 Jul 17
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Image processing apparatus, control method and customizing information
25 May 20
An image processing apparatus includes: a processor; a first interface that acquires information for user authentication; a second interface that acquires information for user identification; and a memory that stores a customization information table defining information for customizing an operation screen displayed on the first interface.
Kenichi Nagasawa, Nordès Ménard-Lamarre
Filed: 7 May 19
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Biological material quantifying method, image processing device, pathological diagnosis support system and recording medium
18 May 20
A method of quantifying a specific biological material in a specimen stained using fluorescent dye accumulating particles capable of binding to the material includes: inputting a first fluorescence image obtained by capturing an image of the specimen; extracting a certain region from the first fluorescence image and calculating a first luminance integrated value by integrating luminance values of the certain region; and calculating the number of the particles included in the certain region from the first luminance integrated value and an average luminance value per fluorescent dye accumulating particle, wherein the average luminance value is calculated from a distribution of second luminance integrated values obtained by integrating luminance values for individual bright spot regions, which indicate emission of light by the fluorescent dye accumulating particles, in a second fluorescence image obtained by capturing an image of a preparation onto which the fluorescent dye accumulating particles are dispersed without agglomerating.
Yuichi Ozaki, Kensaku Takanashi, Daisuke Tomioka
Filed: 1 Jun 17
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Structural color changeable material and strain detection apparatus
18 May 20
A structural color changeable material includes a strain body and surface plasmon generating particles.
Kazuki Ikeda, Makoto Ooki, Hideo Uemura
Filed: 5 Sep 17
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Intermediate transfer member and image forming apparatus
18 May 20
An intermediate transfer member that is used for electrophotographic image formation, includes carbon nanotubes and ferroelectric fillers in a base material layer containing a resin material as a principal component.
Shiori Tsugawa, Sadaaki Sakamoto, Shinichi Hamaguchi, Ito Koga
Filed: 9 Oct 19
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Image forming apparatus with a charging power supply that outputs an AC bias and a DC bias
18 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a photoreceptor; a charging member that charges the photoreceptor; a charging power supply that outputs an AC bias as a charging bias to be applied to the charging member during image formation, and outputs a DC bias as the charging bias during a non-image forming operation, the AC bias being obtained by superimposing an alternating current voltage and a direct current voltage, the image formation forming a latent image, the DC bias being a direct current voltage, the non-image forming operation rotating and driving the photoreceptor; a processor that performs predetermined processing on the photoreceptor; and a controller that controls the charging power supply and the processor such that a value of a potential difference of the photoreceptor before and after being charged by the DC bias is a value equal to or less than a setting value during the non-image forming operation.
Tsugihito Yoshiyama, Masayasu Haga, Sayaka Morita, Kunitomo Sasaki
Filed: 22 Aug 19
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Control electrode for image formation apparatus
18 May 20
Prevention of an image defect due to discharging in a transfer portion and ensured transfer efficiency are both achieved.
Makiko Watanabe, Eiji Tabata, Nofumi Mizumoto, Toshiya Natsuhara
Filed: 21 Apr 19
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Image forming apparatus and control program
18 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a sheet conveyance unit which includes a sheet conveyance path and conveys a sheet; a sheet detector which detects the sheet in the sheet conveyance path; a job acquiring unit which acquires a print job related to the sheet; an image forming unit which forms an image on the sheet; and a processor which controls the sheet conveyance unit to perform one of first sheet conveyance and second sheet conveyance, the first sheet conveyance being performed to convey the sheet in accordance with sheet information, the second sheet conveyance being performed to convey the sheet and discharge the sheet to outside in accordance with a result of detection, wherein when sheet conveyance is resumed after suspension, the processor controls the sheet conveyance unit to perform the second sheet conveyance on a remaining sheet.
Minoru Asakawa
Filed: 14 Feb 17
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Fixing device and image forming device
18 May 20
A fixing device including a heated endless belt, a first member, a second member, a pressure roller, a guide member, a sliding member, and a lubricant application member.
Naoki Kataoka
Filed: 25 Feb 19
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Information processing system controlling performance of virus detection processing at devices included in the system, and information processing apparatus and recording medium
18 May 20
One information processing apparatus among a plurality of information processing apparatuses performs virus detection processing for detecting a computer virus.
Katsuhiko Akita, Yuji Okamoto, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Masami Yamada, Atsushi Tamura, Yasutaka Ito, Yoshikazu Ikenoue
Filed: 9 Oct 17