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Utility
Image forming method
27 Apr 20
The present invention provides an image forming method for forming a decorated image having a resin layer and a powder contacted with each other, the method including: forming a resin layer on a recording medium; and supplying a powder onto the recording medium, in which the recording medium has a surface with an arithmetic mean height Sa of 1.000 or more.
Michiyo Fujita, Ryuichi Hiramoto, Tomoko Mine, Kaori Matsushima
Filed: 10 Sep 19
Utility
Cleaning device and image forming apparatus
27 Apr 20
Provided is a cleaning device that prevents abrasion of a cut surface of a cleaning blade by stably supplying toner to the cleaning blade.
Taichi Meguro
Filed: 10 Apr 19
Utility
Fixing device and image forming apparatus providing adjustable gloss to toner image
27 Apr 20
A fixing device for fixing a toner image on a paper sheet by conveying the paper sheet on which the toner image has been formed while holding the paper sheet at a fixing nip, the fixing device includes an endless belt that rotates, a pressing member that presses the belt from the inner side, a pressure member that forms the fixing nip between the pressure member and the belt by pressing, from the outer side of the belt, a portion of the belt pressed by the pressing member, and a hardware processor that controls glossiness of the toner image formed on the paper sheet by changing a shear force to be applied to the toner image formed on the paper sheet within a predetermined range from a nip inlet that is an end of the fixing nip, located upstream in a direction in which the paper sheet is conveyed.
Noboru Oomoto
Filed: 28 May 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus and failure point estimation method
27 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus, including: an image former; a sheet detection sensor; an image reader; and a hardware processor that: detects an image abnormality by analyzing the read image data and obtains a position in a sheet conveyance direction of the detected image abnormality in the read image data for each piece of the read image data corresponding to each of the sheets; estimates a conveyance interval of the plurality of sheets based on a detection result by the sheet detection sensor, and determines whether a specific periodicity exists based on the estimated conveyance interval and the position of the image abnormality detected from the read image data corresponding to each of the sheets; and when the specific periodicity is determined to exist, estimates a part corresponding to the specific periodicity as a failure point.
Makoto Ikeda
Filed: 23 Oct 18
Utility
Non-transitory recording medium storing information processing program and information processing method
27 Apr 20
A method of information processing includes: obtaining either or both a plurality of behavior logs that include a plurality of behavior history records and a plurality of communication information that indicate plural aspects of communication behavior given by processing the plurality of behavior logs for an individual; determining a behavioral characteristic that indicates how the individual is likely to behave by weighting either or both of the plurality of behavior logs and the plurality of communication information using predetermined weightings and combining the plurality of behavior logs and the plurality of communication information that have been weighted; and recording the behavioral characteristic into a database in the storage device.
Nobuhiro Nojima
Filed: 12 Feb 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus, image forming control method and storage medium for detecting an image defect and entering a recovery mode
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
Optical writing device and image forming device
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
Utility
Fixing device and image forming apparatus
27 Apr 20
A fixing device includes a pressure roller and a pressure pad that form a nip portion, and a nip member disposed opposite to the pressure roller as viewed from the pressure pad.
Shinichi Yabuki
Filed: 20 Jan 19
Utility
Fluorescent marker for tissue staining containing phosphor-containing nanoparticle and method using same
20 Apr 20
A tissue staining method which comprises: staining a tissue with a staining reagent wherein a biosubstance recognition site is bonded to particles carrying multiple fluorescent substances accumulated therein; in the stained tissue, counting fluorescent points or measuring fluorescent brightness; and evaluating the expression level of a biosubstance, which matches the biosubstance recognition site, in the aforesaid tissue on the basis of the number of the fluorescent points or fluorescent brightness that was measured.
Takuji Aimiya, Hideki Gouda, Hisatake Okada, Yasushi Nakano
Filed: 18 Feb 15
Utility
Gas monitoring program, system, recording medium, and method
20 Apr 20
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a gas monitoring program causes a computer to acquire a continuous frame of an infrared image, to calculate a concentration-thickness product of leaking gas in the infrared image, to assume a gas leakage location of the leaking gas in the infrared image, to set a gas type which circulates in a pipe proximate to the gas leakage location as a gas type of the leaking gas by referring to circulating substance information of the piping equipment and matching the gas leakage location, to set a maintenance threshold value for the concentration-thickness product of the leaking gas, to estimate a leakage volume from the gas leakage location per unit of time of the gas type, and to predictively calculate a timing when the concentration-thickness product exceeds the maintenance threshold value on a basis of a time-changing leakage volume per unit of time.
Seiichi Tsuzuki, Kiyotaka Murakami, Hisanori Kawashima, Ryo Minegishi
Filed: 11 Apr 17
Utility
Image forming method
20 Apr 20
Provided is an image forming method using an electrostatic image developing toner containing: toner mother particles including a binder resin; and an external additive, wherein the binder resin contains a vinyl resin in an amount of 40 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the binder resin, the image forming method including a step of: forming an image so that an image surface resistance value at 70° C. by a temperature change method of the formed image is set to be 5×1013 Ω or less.
Tatsuya Fujisaki, Ami Motohashi, Takaki Kawamura
Filed: 16 Oct 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus
20 Apr 20
In an image forming apparatus, when a fixing device is in a non-fixing state and a transfer device is in a non-transfer state, an ejection device increases a conveying force by a pair of ejection rollers as compared to the conveying force in the fixing state.
Takahiro Hara
Filed: 27 Jul 16
Utility
Image forming method
20 Apr 20
In an image forming method according to the present invention, an image is formed by removing residual charge from the image on an image recording medium.
Junya Onishi, Kentarou Mogi, Ami Motohashi, Shiro Hirano
Filed: 8 Nov 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus and image forming program for reducing occurrences of color misregistration and density unevenness using fluctuation pattern of difference values
20 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that performs feedforward control on a motor; a driving roller that drives an intermediate transfer belt for transferring a toner image; a drive transmission system that transmits a driving force of the motor; a first detector that detects a speed of a driving shaft of the motor; a second detector that detects a speed of a driving shaft of the drive transmission system; and a storage that stores a plurality of sets of control data having different conformity states, wherein the plurality of sets of control data include pairs of a feedforward operation pattern and a drive transmission system deformation pattern, the drive transmission system deformation pattern corresponds to a fluctuation pattern of difference values, and the hardware processor compares the fluctuation pattern of difference values with the plurality of sets of control data.
Jun Onishi, Masahito Takano, Takashi Fujiwara
Filed: 31 Jan 19
Utility
Image forming apparatus and method of discharge of deteriorated toner
20 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that has an image carrier for supporting toner and prints a first image formed by exposure to the image carrier and a developing processing on continuous paper; and a hardware processor that controls the image former so as to print a second image on the continuous paper in a case where information on at least one of coverage and a printing distance of the first image formed by the image former meets a predetermined condition, wherein the hardware processor controls the image former so as to stop forming the second image on the image carrier before a toner amount of the second image per unit width at a predetermined position on the image carrier in a main scanning direction exceeds a threshold value affecting an exposure memory.
Toshiaki Tomino
Filed: 20 Mar 18
Utility
Image forming apparatus and computer readable storage medium storing program
20 Apr 20
An image forming apparatus which forms a toner image on an image carrier based on image formation data, and transfers the toner image onto a sheet having an unevenness on a surface and forms an image, the image forming apparatus including a hardware processor which detects a parameter value regarding a charging amount of a toner that forms the toner image, sets a size of a dot of the toner image according to the detected parameter value, and generates the image formation data of the dot of the set size.
Takashi Kawanago, Satoshi Nishida, Takeshi Maeyama, Toshiki Hayami, Tomo Kitada, Daisuke Murakami
Filed: 14 Nov 18
Utility
Image forming method and image forming device
20 Apr 20
An image forming method forms an image by performing charging, exposing, developing, and transferring in a rotation direction of a rotationally driven photoreceptor, wherein the charging is performed by a roller charging method, exposing a surface of the photoreceptor to light and eliminating charges on the surface of the photoreceptor are included between the developing and the transferring, the photoreceptor includes at least a charge transporting layer and a protective layer laminated on the charge transporting layer on a conductive support, and energy of light for irradiation in the exposing the surface of the photoreceptor to light is in a range of 0.0001 to 500 μW/mm2 on the surface of the photoreceptor.
Kazuhiro Kuramochi
Filed: 8 Aug 18
Utility
Developing device and image forming apparatus
20 Apr 20
A restriction member is disposed above a central axis of a developing roller.
Toshiaki Hiroi
Filed: 24 Mar 19
Utility
Image forming device and storage medium
20 Apr 20
An image forming device of an intermediate transfer method of transferring a toner image formed on an image carrier to a sheet of paper through an intermediate transfer body, the image forming device including a transfer roller which is disposed facing the image carrier across the intermediate transfer body, and which forms a nip part with the image carrier; a movement mechanism which moves the transfer roller in a direction along a movement direction of the intermediate transfer body; a pressure varying mechanism which changes a pressing force of the transfer roller on the intermediate transfer body; and a hardware processor which controls the movement mechanism and the pressure varying mechanism, and which sets a contact position and the pressing force of the transfer roller on the intermediate transfer body based on paper information of the sheet of paper as an image formation target.
Daisuke Murakami
Filed: 16 Apr 19
Utility
Information processing equipment having a hard key that is provided separately from a console panel and that is inaccessible with the console panel in a closed state
20 Apr 20
Information processing equipment includes: a main body housing unit; and a console panel provided at the main body housing unit, the console panel having a front surface which has a display unit visible on the main body housing unit and does not include at least a hard key for switching an operation mode to a maintenance mode, the hard key being provided on a surface other than the front surface of the console panel.
Yoshitada Ichikawa, Hideyuki Nukumi
Filed: 19 Feb 18