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Utility
Sheet feeding apparatus and image forming system
7 Oct 19
There are provided a sheet feeding apparatus and an image forming system which can horizontally maintain a posture of a topmost envelope in stored envelopes, by a simple configuration.
Kazuyoshi Kimura
Filed: 3 Jan 16
Utility
Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus
7 Oct 19
A sheet conveying apparatus includes: a plurality of conveyors provided along a sheet conveying direction; a plurality of main driving parts that is respectively provided to the plurality of conveyors and independently drives the conveyors; an auxiliary driving part that drives the plurality of conveyors; and a transmitter that transmits driving force between the plurality of conveyors and transmits driving force of the auxiliary driving part to the plurality of conveyors.
Satoshi Miyajima, Takanobu Shiki, Tadayuki Ueda, Hiroshi Oyama, Remi Ishikawa
Filed: 6 May 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
A sheet feeding device includes: a sheet storage that stores a plurality of sheets; a conveyer that conveys, in a sheet conveyance direction, sheets stored inside the sheet storage; a driver that drives the conveyer in such a manner that a conveyance speed of the sheet is switchable between two or more speeds; a corrector that corrects inclination of the sheet more on a downstream side in the sheet conveyance direction than the conveyer is; a first sheet detector that detects a sheet positioned at a first predetermined position between the conveyer and the corrector; and a hardware processor that controls the driver to change a conveyance speed of the sheet conveyed by the conveyer in accordance with a detection result of the first sheet detector.
Yoshiyuki Masuda
Filed: 12 Jul 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
Provided is a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic latent image incorporating: toner particles each containing a toner mother particle having an external additive on a surface of the toner mother particle; and carrier particles each having a core material particle and a covering layer containing a resin on a surface of the core material particle, wherein the external additive contains inorganic particles; the inorganic particles are subjected to surface modification with silicone oil; a carbon content remained on a surface of the inorganic particle after the surface modification is within 3.0 to 10.0 mass %; a free carbon ratio on the surface of the inorganic particle is 70.0% or more; the carrier particles have a resistance in the range of 1.0×109 to 5.0×1010 Ω·cm; and the resin in the covering layer contains a resin formed from a monomer containing an alicyclic methacrylic acid ester monomer.
Koji Shibata, Shinya Obara, Satoshi Uchino
Filed: 20 Sep 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
Disclosed is an intermediate transfer belt used for an electrophotographic image-forming apparatus, wherein the intermediate transfer belt contains a substrate layer and a surface layer; the intermediate transfer belt has a relative dielectric constant of 15 or more, and a volume resistivity at an applied voltage of 100 V in the range of 1.0×105 to 9.0×109 Ω·cm under an environment of temperature of 23° C. and humidity of 50% RH; and the surface layer has a relative dielectric constant of 6 or less.
Ito Koga, Sadaaki Sakamoto, Shiori Tsugawa, Eiichi Yoshida
Filed: 11 Feb 19
Utility
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7 Oct 19
A developing device includes a developing agent carrier body that carries a developing agent; a supplier that has a plurality of movement areas for moving the developing agent and that supplies the developing agent to the developing agent carrier body; a confluence path that combines the developing agent moving in each of the plurality of movement areas and thereafter returns the developing agent to the plurality of movement areas; and a mixing member that mixes the developing agent entered in the confluence path.
Kazuteru Ishizuka, Hideaki Tanaka, Shunichi Takaya, Shota Sakurai, Kei Okamura, Kei Yuasa
Filed: 10 May 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
An image forming method uses a toner including toner particles including a binder resin and an ultraviolet light absorber.
Haruo Horiguchi, Seijiro Takahashi
Filed: 4 Jul 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
An image forming apparatus which forms an image on a recording medium, includes: a belt which is endless and rotationally driven; a drive roller which is wound around the belt to rotationally drive the belt; a position detector which is arranged along an axial direction of the drive roller to detect deviation of the belt; a steering roller which is wound around the belt and corrects the deviation of the belt detected by the position detector; and a controller which controls the steering roller, wherein the controller determines a deterioration state of the belt based on a change amount linked with change of a friction coefficient of the belt until a predetermined period elapses after starting use of the belt.
Akihiko Shimazu
Filed: 9 Jul 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
An image forming apparatus includes: a fixing apparatus including a heating member that is heated by a heater and a pressure member that forms a fixing nip between the pressure member and the heating member by pressing the heating member; and a supplier that, when toner images of a plurality of images including non-image regions overlapping each other are consecutively fixed by the fixing apparatus, supplies a cleaning sheet on which a cleaning image is formed on one surface, to the fixing nip in a state where the one surface faces the pressure member, wherein the non-image regions are regions extending along the conveyance direction from an upstream side end in the conveyance direction in an image to a downstream side end in the conveyance direction, and not including a toner image having a length of equal to or more than a first value in the conveyance direction.
Etsuaki Urano
Filed: 10 Oct 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
A fixing device includes: a fixer that includes a heater controlled and lighted on the basis of a detection result of a temperature sensor, and melts and fixes an unfixed toner on a recording medium, using heat of when the heater is lighted; a lighting rate acquirer that acquires a first lighting rate of the heater after jam recovery and a second lighting rate of the heater before jam occurrence in a case where a jam of the recording medium occurs at a fixing nip position of the fixer; and a determiner that compares the first lighting rate with the second lighting rate, and determines whether the recording medium remains between the temperature sensor and the heater according to a result of the comparison.
Nobuyasu Tamura
Filed: 4 Oct 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
A cleaning device scrapes off and removes toner that has adhered to a surface of a rotating photoreceptor, and includes: a cleaning member formed of an elastic body; a leaf spring member for pressing the cleaning member against the surface of the photoreceptor; and a support portion supporting the leaf spring member.
Junji Murauchi, Noritoshi Hagimoto, Yoshiki Nakane, Takuya Okada
Filed: 14 Mar 17
Utility
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7 Oct 19
A method includes: associating content with erasure completion information indicating the content has been erased; forming an image of the content and an image at a time of formation indicating the erasure completion information; in a case where an erasure image is formed to be superimposed on at least a part of the image of the content on the recording medium, forming an image at a time of discarding indicating the erasure completion information and the erasure image, where the image at the time of discarding is associated with the content; and in a case where the erasure completion information is identified by the image at the time of formation and the image at the time of discarding included in single image data output when the image capturing device image-captures the recording medium, determining that the content associated with the erasure completion information has been erased.
Yuji Tanaka, Hirokazu Kubota, Hiroaki Kubo, Toshimichi Iwai, Hisashi Uchida, Hironori Harada
Filed: 16 Apr 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium; a server unit having a server function; a casing having the image forming unit housed therein; and a cabinet arranged below the casing and having the server unit housed therein.
Hironori Akashi, Ryutaro Taira, Hironao Miyamoto
Filed: 2 Jan 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
Disclosed is a handwritten contents aggregation device including: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first file and a second file in each of which written information indicating handwritten contents is added to a same original file; and a processor configured to: analyze the first file and the second file and extract the written information from the first file and the second file, prepare a third file by aggregating the written information extracted from the first file and the written information extracted from the second file in the original file, and output the third file.
Tetsuren Nogawa
Filed: 14 Jul 16
Utility
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7 Oct 19
A display includes a display unit, an image sensor that takes an image of a predetermined area and outputs the taken image, and a hardware processor that detects the marker in the taken image, generates differential color information between color data of the marker in the taken image and color data of the marker in the print image data, displays a virtual object which reproduces the print image data in the display unit, sets an object adjustment value for adjusting a color tone of the virtual object displayed on the display unit based on the differential color information, and calculates a print adjustment value for adjusting a color tone reproduced by the image forming apparatus based on the object adjustment value.
Shuta Saito
Filed: 22 May 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
An image reading apparatus includes: a paper path; an image reader which reads a side of the sheet conveyed along the paper path in a reading position; a sheet support member located opposite to the image reader to support a rear surface opposite to a surface to be read of the sheet; a spectrophotometer which colorimetrically measures color of an image formed on the sheet; and an image reading housing which accommodates the image reader and the spectrophotometer.
Kenji Kawatsu
Filed: 19 Feb 18
Utility
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7 Oct 19
A radiographic image capturing apparatus, includes the following.
Ryouhei Kikuchi
Filed: 4 Apr 17
Utility
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7 Oct 19
A conductive pattern formation method includes: a step of patterning a base member with an ink in which conductive particulates are distributed to form a pattern; a step of making a conductive developer act on the pattern; and a pressurization step of pressurizing the pattern.
Dai Suwama, Sayaka Morita, Keita Saito, Midori Shimomura
Filed: 14 Jun 15
Utility
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30 Sep 19
A fixing belt having high separability is provided.
Izumi Mukoyama, Naoko Uemura, Akiko Kawamura, Asao Matsushima
Filed: 15 Jan 19
Utility
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30 Sep 19
Disclosed is a window change control method for controlling a change in a window displayed on an operation panel, including: changing a state of the operation panel from a first state to a second state in accordance with a user's operation; measuring the first elapsed time which elapses since the state of the operation panel is changed from the first state to the second state, or the second elapsed time which elapses since a final operation is received, as a non-operation continuation time; automatically changing the state of the operation panel from the second state to the first state when the non-operation continuation time exceeds a threshold value; and changing the threshold value in accordance with a use result of the first electronic apparatus and the second electronic apparatus.
Yoshifumi Wagatsuma
Filed: 16 Aug 16