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Utility
Image forming apparatus
30 Dec 19
An image forming apparatus includes a heater, a first heater drive circuit which rectifies AC power from an AC power supply and subjects a current to be conducted to the heater to PWM control, and a second heater drive circuit which allows conduction from the AC power to the heater.
Takeshi Tamada, Hiroaki Takatsu, Takahiro Tsujimoto, Tianhua Xu
Filed: 26 Aug 18
Utility
Fixing device and image forming apparatus
30 Dec 19
The fixing device includes an endless fixing belt, a pressing member, a pressing rotator, and a heating unit.
Naoki Yamamoto
Filed: 20 Mar 19
Utility
Portable radiographic imaging apparatus
30 Dec 19
A portable radiographic imaging apparatus includes a sensor and a case that houses sensor panel.
Kohei Miyoshi
Filed: 16 Nov 17
Utility
Image formation apparatus
30 Dec 19
An image formation apparatus includes an image carrier, a first charging member which abuts on the image carrier and charges the image carrier, a second charging member which abuts on the image carrier and charges the image carrier, the second charging member having such resistance characteristics as being less in variation with environmental variation than the first charging member, a power supply apparatus which can apply a voltage to each of the first and second charging members, and a control device which sets a voltage to be applied to the first charging member by the power supply apparatus based on a first amount of current which flows from the power supply apparatus through the first charging member to the image carrier and a second amount of current which flows to the image carrier through the second charging member.
Takahiro Tsujimoto, Natsuyo Higashi, Hirotada Seki, Hiroshi Eguchi
Filed: 29 Apr 18
Utility
Cleaning blade and image forming apparatus including cleaning blade
30 Dec 19
A cleaning blade that removes a foreign matter adhering to a rotational body includes: an abutment member; a supporting member that supports the abutment member; and a holding member that holds the supporting member, wherein the abutment member includes: an abutment layer abutting on the rotational body; and an adjustment layer that is a part other than the abutment layer, and an elongation percentage of the adjustment layer is larger than an elongation percentage of the abutment layer in a case where frictional force is applied from the rotational body to the abutment member during rotation of the rotational body.
Noritoshi Hagimoto
Filed: 17 Jan 19
Utility
Image-forming-apparatus managing device, image-forming-apparatus managing method, image-forming-apparatus managing program, and image forming system
30 Dec 19
An image-forming-apparatus managing device includes: a memory that stores a plurality of pieces of setting data of an image forming apparatus; a communication interface that communicates with the image forming apparatus; and a hardware processor that writes the plurality of pieces of setting data into the image forming apparatus, wherein the hardware processor writes the plurality of pieces of setting data into the image forming apparatus in a mode appropriate to order of priority in the plurality of pieces of setting data based on a characteristic of the image forming apparatus.
Koichi Shibata
Filed: 19 Jun 18
Utility
Image processing device, image processing method and image processing program
30 Dec 19
An image processing device performing image processing on images obtained by shooting an object to be monitored at a plurality of time points.
Motohiro Asano, Takashi Morimoto, Rui Watanabe
Filed: 16 Oct 18
Utility
Color verification apparatus, color verification system, and computer-readable storage medium storing a program
30 Dec 19
A color verification apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention uses a color measuring instrument to measure an estimation object in a printed matter including a RIP image formed by an image forming apparatus and thereby acquires a measured color value of the estimation object.
Ryohei Inada
Filed: 6 Dec 18
Utility
Image forming device and control program of image forming device
30 Dec 19
An image forming device includes: a first display function unit which displays screen data to be displayed on a screen of an operating unit as a remote panel screen on a browser; a second display function unit which displays a content screen in a data description language on the browser; and a third display function unit which displays the remote panel screen and the content screen in the browser in a split manner.
Tomohiro Iwase
Filed: 16 Aug 16
Utility
Image forming apparatus, image inspection apparatus, and program
30 Dec 19
An image forming apparatus includes: an image former that forms an image on a recording medium; a slip sheet inserter that inserts a slip sheet; and a hardware processor capable of controlling image formation, slip sheet insertion and post-processing, wherein the hardware processor acquires a read image obtained by reading the recording medium on which the image is formed and determines whether an abnormality is present in the image on the recording medium based on the read image, and when detecting the abnormality in the image on the recording medium of a page to which bundle post-processing to bundle recording media as one bundle is applied, the hardware processor performs control to discharge the slip sheet after producing a bundle including the recording medium by the bundle post-processing without inserting the slip sheet.
Tetsu Kawasaki
Filed: 7 Feb 19
Utility
Organic electroluminescent light emitting device
30 Dec 19
Provided is a highly reliable organic EL light emitting device that is equipped with: an organic EL element having a first electrode, an organic EL layer, and a second electrode, which are provided on a flexible base material; a first sealing section that seals, on the flexible base material, the organic EL element; a moisture absorbent layer that is provided on the first sealing section; and a second sealing section covering the moisture absorbent layer and the first sealing section.
Koutarou Kikuchi
Filed: 31 Aug 16
Utility
Image forming method and image forming apparatus
23 Dec 19
An image forming method includes developing an electrostatic latent image formed on a photoreceptor with a toner, transferring a formed toner image onto a recording material, and fixing the toner image on a surface of the recording material, in which a storage elastic modulus of the toner is 2.0×106 Pa or more at 70° C. and 4.0×104 Pa or less at 90° C., and in the fixing, a fixing belt having an elastic layer which contains a material having a storage elastic modulus of 1.0×106 Pa or more and 2.5×106 Pa or less at 200° C. is used.
Susumu Sudo
Filed: 10 Apr 19
Utility
System and method for reproducing guidance, and non-transitory recording medium storing computer readable program
23 Dec 19
A system for reproducing guidance on a task including a plurality of steps is provided.
Tatsunori Okada, Kenichi Komaba, Akito Ota, Hiroshi Sugiura, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Atsushi Tomita
Filed: 12 Nov 17
Utility
Image forming apparatus and image forming control method
23 Dec 19
An image forming apparatus includes: a lubricant supply section that supplies a lubricant of a lubricant rod extending along an axial direction of an image bearing member onto the image bearing member; and a hardware processor that controls displacement of a sheet conveyance member so as to displace a sheet along a width direction of the sheet.
Yoshiteru Kawakami, Yasuo Shiokawa, Takahiro Okubo
Filed: 3 Mar 19
Utility
Observation optical system
23 Dec 19
An observation optical system of a real-image type includes, in order from the object side, an objective system, a reverse-erecting system that erects an inverted image formed by the objective system, and an eyepiece system that allows a pupil to observe an erect image formed by the reverse-erecting system.
Maiko Nishida, Naoki Hirose
Filed: 7 Jun 17
Utility
Active ray-curable inkjet ink and image forming method
23 Dec 19
The present invention relates to: an active ray-curable inkjet ink which has high gloss and is capable of forming an image that is suppressed in gloss difference between itself and a base; and an image forming method which uses this active ray-curable inkjet ink.
Takayuki Toeda
Filed: 21 May 17
Utility
Spectrocolorimetric device and conversation rule setting method
23 Dec 19
Spectrocolorimetric device includes a light source, a light-receiving unit, a calculation unit, a storage unit, an acquisition unit, and a conversion unit.
Yoshiroh Nagai
Filed: 13 Apr 16
Utility
Image forming device
23 Dec 19
An image forming device that forms an image on a sheet under an operating condition set according to a type of the sheet, includes a hardware processor that: accepts a manual input specifying any one of a plurality of types; stores manual mode setting information and automatic mode setting information; detects which of a plurality of types included in an automatic type group the type of the sheet is based on an output of a sensor; and sets an operating condition value corresponding to a type detected out of the operating condition values indicated by the automatic mode setting information as the operating condition in an automatic mode, and sets an operating condition value corresponding to the type specified by the manual input out of the operating condition values indicated by the manual mode setting information as the operating condition in a manual mode.
Kazuya Kitamura
Filed: 17 Feb 19
Utility
Inspection apparatus, image forming system, inspection method, and program
23 Dec 19
There is provided an inspection apparatus that inspects a printed material for a smudge, in accordance with an inspection image formed by reading a printed material, a print image being formed on the printed material, the inspection apparatus including: a hardware processor that: performs position adjustment between a reference image serving as an inspection standard for the print image, and the inspection image; detects a region presumed to be a smudge on the printed material as a smudge candidate region, in accordance with a difference image generated from the reference image and the inspection image after the position adjustment; and determines whether the smudge candidate region is a false smudge candidate region resulting from a positional shift of an object in the print image, in accordance with the smudge candidate region detected by the hardware processor and difference data characteristics of the difference image.
Kenji Yamanaka, Makoto Oki
Filed: 26 Nov 18
Utility
Image processing apparatus and computer readable medium for image processing
16 Dec 19
An image processing apparatus contains an input unit to input a fluorescent image and a morphological image of a tissue.
Shuji Ichitani
Filed: 29 Nov 15