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Utility
Ink-jet recording apparatus
4 May 20
An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a first electrification adjuster and a second electrification adjuster.
Shigeo Uetake, Shigetaka Kurosu, Atsuto Hirai
Filed: 25 Feb 19
Utility
Drive apparatus and image forming apparatus
4 May 20
A drive apparatus according to the present invention includes a stepping motor that transmits power to a rotating shaft of a conveyance roller, a brushless motor that transmits power to the rotating shaft of the conveyance roller, a first controller that controls an operation of the stepping motor so that the stepping motor rotates at a constant speed, and a second controller that controls an operation of the brushless motor.
Satoshi Miyajima, Hiroshi Oyama, Remi Ishikawa, Tadayuki Ueda
Filed: 25 Oct 18
Utility
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4 May 20
A paper reversing apparatus includes a main conveyance path, a reversing path, first and second guiding plates and a hardware processor.
Masaaki Uchiyama
Filed: 23 Oct 18
Utility
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4 May 20
Provided is a technology in which an image accurately representing a distribution of an area where a specific portion of a cell in an image capturing a cell morphology is captured can be stably acquired.
Yuka Yoshihara
Filed: 23 May 16
Utility
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4 May 20
An optical writing device includes: a light emitting member on which a plurality of light emitting elements are arranged in a row; and a holding member on which a plurality of projections are arranged at intervals.
Takahiro Matsuo, Atsushi Nagaoka, Masahiko Takahashi
Filed: 4 Nov 18
Utility
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4 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier rotatably supported; a lubricant supplier that supplies lubricant to a surface of the image carrier; a blade that levels the lubricant supplied from the lubricant supplier in a film-like form on the surface of the image carrier; and a controller that controls image formation, wherein the controller has a lubricant removal mode to remove the lubricant accumulated on the blade, the lubricant removal mode includes a plurality of displacement modes each of which imparts different displacement to the blade, in each of the displacement modes, one of a displacement amount, a displacement speed, a displacement period, a displacement angle, and a displacement position of the blade is different, and the controller performs switching between the displacement modes dining execution of the lubricant removal mode.
Yuji Kamoda, Shota Sakurai, Hiroyuki Saito, Tatsuya Furuta
Filed: 6 Aug 19
Utility
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4 May 20
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet includes: a rotating body that forms the image; a motor that rotationally drives the rotating body; a current measurer that measures a motor current flowing through a current supply path including a winding of the motor at a measurement timing that is a timing after the motor is started; a torque acquisitor that acquires a torque value of the motor, based on a measured value of the motor current; and a corrector that performs correction to cancel a current change amount based on a characteristic change depending on a temperature state of the motor at the measurement timing, in acquisition of the torque value by the torque acquisitor.
Katsuhide Sakai, Yasuhiro Ishihara, Satoshi Chikazawa
Filed: 27 Jan 19
Utility
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4 May 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a first rotor and a second rotor that are each a rotatable member; a first movable member including the first rotor or a transferer that transfers power of the first rotor to another member; a second movable member including the second rotor or a transferer that transfers power of the second rotor to another member; a hardware processor that drives simultaneously the first rotor and the second rotor at mutually different numbers of revolutions or speeds, and performs abnormality diagnosis on the first movable member and the second movable member, based on the sounds of operation acquired by the sound acquirer; and a sound acquirer that acquires sounds of operation of the first movable member and the second movable member with the first rotor and the second rotor being driven by the hardware processor.
Hiroshi Eguchi, Natsuyo Ida, Junichi Masuda, Masahiro Nonoyama, Akimasa Ishikawa
Filed: 25 Feb 19
Utility
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4 May 20
An information processing apparatus includes: a user interface unit including a display unit and an input unit; and a processor outputting, by an operation of a user, a diagnostic/recovery menu in which a processing detail of each of a plurality of diagnostic/recovery processing is associated with importance of the processing detail on the display unit as well as determining a range and a type of information to be acquired for a trouble analysis on the basis of diagnostic/recovery processing selected by the user on the diagnostic/recovery menu and storing the determined information into a storage unit along with the importance.
Masao Takahashi
Filed: 17 Nov 16
Utility
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4 May 20
A control apparatus includes: a communicator that communicates with an image forming apparatus capable of executing a print job; and a hardware processor that obtains, for each of the image forming apparatuses in communication with the communicator, a degree of variations in remaining endurance of each of a plurality of units included in the image forming apparatus, wherein the hardware processor assigns a print job to the image forming apparatus having the smallest degree of variations.
Kei Yuasa, Natsuko Minegishi, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Hiroki Shibata
Filed: 13 Feb 19
Utility
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4 May 20
An information processing device is provided together with other information processing devices in a network and is capable of communicating with a server, and includes: a data communicator that transmits a predetermined kind of information about the respective other information processing devices to the server when the information processing device is in a first mode, and transmits the predetermined kind of information about the information processing device to a device functioning in the first mode when the information processing device is in a second mode; an acquisitor that acquires load information; a determiner that determines a smallest load device; a mode setter that performs a mode setting process to realize a state where in the device determined to be the smallest load device is in the first mode, and the other devices are in the second mode; and a mode notifier that notifies the other information processing devices of the state.
Takashi Oikawa
Filed: 28 May 18
Utility
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4 May 20
An image forming device comprises: an additional information determining part that determines necessity of additional information required for execution of a print job based on information received from a terminal device; a print job storage that temporarily stores therein the print job received from the terminal device when the additional information determining part determines the additional information is necessary; an additional information requesting part that requests for the additional information to the terminal device when the additional information determining part determines the additional information is necessary; an additional information obtaining part that obtains the additional information from the terminal device; a print setting applying part that applies the additional information to the print job stored in the print job storage; and a printing part that produces the printed output based on the print job to which the additional information is applied by the print setting applying part.
Shohei Iwamoto
Filed: 12 Jul 16
Utility
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4 May 20
A management system includes a camera that shoots a code where item information related to a target item has been encoded, a reader that detects the code from an input image obtained by shooting the code, and read the item information from the code, a camera controller that acquires an item image representing the target item from the camera after the code is detected, and a storage that stores the item image acquired by the camera controller, associating the item image with the item information.
Kentaro Aoki, Akinori Tadokoro
Filed: 5 Nov 18
Utility
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27 Apr 20
Disclosed is an ultrasound diagnostic imaging apparatus including an ultrasound probe which outputs transmission ultrasound to a subject according to a drive signal, a puncture needle being inserted in the subject, and which outputs a received signal obtained by receiving reflected ultrasound from the subject.
Yoshihiro Takeda
Filed: 21 Apr 14
Utility
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27 Apr 20
In an image forming apparatus, in which a belt driving device, provided in an image forming part, has: plural rollers including a driving roller; an endless belt; a driver, with one roller as a tension control roller to control tension applied to the endless belt, that moves the tension control roller in a vertical direction to an axis of another roller; a position detector that detects the position of the tension control roller; a pressure detector that detects pressure added with the endless belt to the tension control roller; and a controller that controls movement of the tension control roller.
Ryoichiro Kanno
Filed: 12 Jul 18
Utility
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27 Apr 20
An air cushioning material includes: a belt-like part between a first and second air cells into which air is sealed, wherein side edges of the first and second air cells are connected to each other via the belt-like part; and an air flow passage that is formed in the belt-like part and communicates the first and second air cells, wherein at least a part including the air flow passage in the belt-like part is in a shape folded in a way from the first air cell to the second air cell.
Takeshi Hashimoto, Hiromi Mizuguchi
Filed: 5 Feb 18
Utility
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27 Apr 20
An image processing apparatus reads an image depicted on paper to create image data of the image and saves the image data in a storage; selects an intermediary from among one or more servers based on an e-mail address designated; sends location data indicating a saving location of the image data or the image data to the intermediary in order to provide a terminal with the image data via the intermediary; sends, to the e-mail address, an message including access information for accessing the location data or the image data saved to the intermediary; and sends, when the intermediary is accessed by the terminal based on the access information and reques4USts the image data, and further, when data corresponding to the access information is the location data, the image data to the requesting server.
Hiroyuki Kawabata
Filed: 12 Mar 17
Utility
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27 Apr 20
A control device that controls an image former, includes: a second power supply that performs power feeding to a detector during a power feeding suspension period during which power feeding from a first power supply to the image former and the detector is not performed, the detector detecting an environment variable around the image former, the environment variable affecting quality of an image formed by the image former; and a determiner that determines a control condition for the image former in accordance with a result of detection performed by the detector during the power feeding suspension period, when power feeding from the first power supply to the image former is started at an end of the power feeding suspension period and the image former enters an image formation ready state in which the image former can perform image formation.
Katsuyuki Ikuta, Takeshi Tamada, Yoshihito Sasamoto, Masahiro Kamiya, Shota Igo
Filed: 6 Mar 18
Utility
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27 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus, including: an image former; and a hardware processor which detects a density of an image formed by the image former, controls the image former to continuously perform image formation on a predetermined number of sheets and thereafter form a plurality of types of halftone test images on a sheet, determines whether an image defect is generated and determines a factor causing the image defect by analyzing densities of the plurality of types of test images, executes a recovery mode which is set for each of the factor when the image defect is determined to be generated, and controls the image former to form a charged test image which is formed by the charger charging the surface of the image carrier and an uncharged test image which is formed without charging of the surface of the image carrier by the charger.
Kuniaki Kashiwakura
Filed: 17 Feb 19
Utility
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27 Apr 20
An optical writing device includes a light source, a deflector, an imager, and a casing, wherein the imager includes a scanning optical member, the casing includes an optical axis direction positioner, the optical axis direction positioner includes two one side positioners, and one other side positioner, a central position in a sub-scanning direction of the one other side positioner is located between central positions in the sub-scanning direction of the two one side positioners, the scanning optical member is bonded to the casing at a bonding position, and a position in the sub-scanning direction of the bonding position and a position in the sub-scanning direction of the optical axis direction positioner overlap with each other, a main-scanning direction positioner is further provided, and the main-scanning direction positioner is located on the other side with respect to the central position of the scanning optical member in the main-scanning direction.
Wataru Senoo, Hidenari Tachibe, Takafumi Yuasa
Filed: 3 Sep 19