FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. patent applications published on September 28th, 2023

FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17949699)

Abstract

A feeding device includes: a supply unit that supplies air into space between plural media loaded to float the media; a feeder that adsorbs the media floated by the supply unit and feeds the media; a separator that supplies air to a second medium disposed immediately below a first medium adsorbed by the feeder to separate the second medium from the first medium; a detector that detects a position of at least one of the first medium and the second medium after air is supplied by the separator; and a modifier that modifies a condition related to a feeding operation of the feeder based a position detected by the detector.

Inventor

Hiroaki FUJIKURA

RECORDING-MATERIAL-TRANSPORTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM (17943894)

Abstract

A recording-material-transporting apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a recording material along a transport path; at least one image reader that reads an image formed on the recording material transported by the transport unit; and a common housing that supports the transport unit and the at least one image reader. The transport path is accessible by a user through at least one gap existing between the transport path and the at least one image reader.

Inventor

Masakazu SHIRAI

MEDIUM CONVEYANCE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (18177768)

Abstract

A medium conveyance device includes: a plurality of roller pairs arranged in a width direction of a recording medium, the plurality of roller pairs including at least two end-side roller pairs respectively located near two ends of the recording medium in the width direction and at least one center-side roller pair located near a center of the recording medium in the width direction, the plurality of roller pairs each including a pair of rollers that convey the recording medium while nipping the recording medium and are individually contactable with and separable from each other; and a contact and separation mechanism that moves a first roller of the pair of rollers of the at least one center-side roller pair in a thickness direction of the recording medium or moves a first roller of the pair of rollers of each of the at least two end-side roller pairs in the thickness direction of the recording medium, to make a difference in separation timing.

Inventor

Ryuga OISHI

FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (18177770)

Abstract

A feeding device includes: a supply unit that supplies air to a space between a plurality of loaded media to float the media; a feeding unit that feeds out the media floated by the supply unit; and a detection unit that detects whether or not a medium bundle is present among the plurality of media in a state of being floated by the supply unit.

Inventor

Yoshiyuki KITAZAWA

RECORDING-MATERIAL-TRANSPORTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM (17946569)

Abstract

A recording-material-transporting apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a recording material by using a driving rotating member that performs a rotational driving operation and a driven rotating member that rotates upon receiving a driving force from the driving rotating member; a number-of-rotation information acquisition unit that is connected to the driven rotating member and that acquires information regarding a number of rotation of the driven rotating member; and a restricting portion against which the number-of-rotation information acquisition unit is pressed and that restricts a movement of the number-of-rotation information acquisition unit.

Inventor

Koji KAWANO

CELLULOSIC PARTICLE (17983410)

Abstract

A cellulosic particle contains 90 parts by mass or more and 99.5 parts by mass or less of cellulose; and 0.5 parts by mass or more and 10 parts by mass or less of a cellulose derivative.

Inventor

Kenji YAO

SCREW FASTENING STRUCTURE AND DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME (17894168)

Abstract

The screw fastening structure includes a nut and a nut holding portion that holds the nut displaceably in at least one direction, which are provided on at least one of a first member and a second member screw-fastened to each other with a screw and the nut.

Inventor

Shogo FUJITA

LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND MEASUREMENT APPARATUS (17976879)

Abstract

A light emitting device includes: a light emitting section that includes a light emitting element; a capacitor section connected to the light emitting section; and a control section that controls a potential of the capacitor section when the light emitting element of the light emitting section emits light.

Inventor

Kei TAKEYAMA

LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT ARRAY AND DETECTION APPARATUS (17985084)

Abstract

A light emitting element array includes: plural light emitting elements that emit light having different wavelengths to a detection target object and are arranged to be adjacent to each other.

Inventor

Daisuke IGUCHI

BASE MATERIAL FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (18177126)

Abstract

A base material for an electrophotographic photoreceptor, in which in a spectrum of a period and an amplitude obtained by performing fast Fourier transform of surface roughness of a 10 mm portion in an axial direction of a surface of the base material for an electrophotographic photoreceptor, an amplitude in a range of a period of 0.4 mm or more and 0.7 mm or less is 0.22 mm or less.

Inventor

Masaki HIRAKATA

METHOD FOR PRODUCING TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE, TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD (17940112)

Abstract

A method for producing a toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes preparing a dispersion that contains first resin particles; forming first aggregated particles at a pH of less than 7.0 by adding an aggregating agent to the dispersion so as to aggregate the first resin particles; forming second aggregated particles by adding second resin particles to the dispersion that has undergone the forming of the first aggregated particles so as to aggregate the second resin particles onto the first aggregated particles; adjusting a pH of the dispersion that has undergone the forming of the second aggregated particles to 7.0 or more so as to prepare a dispersion of aggregated particles in which aggregation of the resin particles has been terminated; adding an anionic surfactant to the dispersion having a pH adjusted to 7.0 or more; and forming core-shell toner particles by heating the dispersion containing the anionic surfactant so as to fuse and coalesce the aggregated particles in which aggregation of the resin particles has been terminated. Releasing agent particles are added to the dispersion during the preparing of the dispersion or during the forming of the second aggregated particles, or during both the preparing of the dispersion and the forming of the second aggregated particles.

Inventor

Atsushi Sugawara

METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER (17944629)

Abstract

A method for producing an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes forming aggregated particles by aggregating at least resin particles in a dispersion liquid containing the resin particles, and fusing/coalescing the aggregated particles by heating an aggregated particle dispersion liquid containing a base having volatility and the aggregated particles dispersed therein in a fusion/coalescence tank which houses the aggregated particle dispersion liquid. In fusing/coalescing the aggregated particles, at least one of conditions (1) to (3) below is satisfied,

Inventor

Takahiro YAMASHITA

METHOD FOR PRODUCING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPMENT TONER (18178543)

Abstract

A method for producing an electrostatic charge image development toner includes: a first step of aggregating polyester resin particles and a flat color material to produce a first aggregated particle dispersion in which first aggregated particles having a number-average particle diameter of 1 μm or more are dispersed; a second step of adding a non-crystalline resin particle dispersion in which non-crystalline resin particles are dispersed to the first aggregated particle dispersion to cause the non-crystalline resin particles to be attached to the first aggregated particles and obtain second aggregated particles; and a third step of heating a second aggregated particle dispersion in which the second aggregated particles are dispersed to cause the second aggregated particles to coalesce, wherein the non-crystalline resin particle dispersion satisfies Formulas (1) to (3), Formula (1): −0.01×A−0.25×B+9.2≤pH≤−0.01×A−0.25×B+10.0, Formula (2): 100 nm≤A≤250 nm, Formula (3): 5 mgKOH/g≤B≤20 mgKOH/g, in which A is a particle diameter of the non-crystalline resin particles, B is an acid value of the non-crystalline resin, and pH is a pH of the non-crystalline resin particle dispersion.

Inventor

Kotaro YOSHIHARA

ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD (18155070)

Abstract

An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles, silica particles (A) that are added to an exterior of the toner particles and contain a nitrogen element-containing compound containing a molybdenum element, and inorganic particles (B) that are added to the exterior of the toner particles and other than the silica particles (A), in which in the silica particles (A), a ratio N/Nof Net intensity Nof the molybdenum element measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis to Net intensity Nof a silicon element measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis is 0.035 or more and 0.45 or less, and an average primary particle size of the inorganic particles (B) is 10 nm or more and 80 nm or less.

Inventor

Yasuko TORII

DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17960157)

Abstract

A developing device includes: a rotating member that delivers a developer to a latent image of an image holding body while rotating; a supply member that extends in an axial direction of the rotating member and is disposed diagonally below the rotating member as viewed from the axial direction, transports the developer while rotating, and supplies the developer to the rotating member; and an upper member disposed on an opposite side of the rotating member with respect to a tangent line extending in an upward-downward direction in contact with a portion of the rotating member on a supply member side and above the supply member, as viewed from the axial direction.

Inventor

Kenji HAYAMIZU

DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17948205)

Abstract

A developing device includes a first housing member, and a second housing member that is configured by combining a housing, in which a developer accommodation space accommodating a developer and a roll accommodation space accommodating a development roll are provided, and the first housing member with each other and that includes an integrated member obtained by integrally forming a frame-shaped seal attachment portion and an outer shell portion with each other, the seal attachment portion being a portion to which a seal member separating the developer accommodation space and the roll accommodation space from each other is attached, the outer shell portion constituting an outer shell that separates an inside and an outside of the housing from each other.

Inventor

Tadashi KUREYAMA

CONNECTION STRUCTURE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17900890)

Abstract

A connection structure includes a receiving port for a developer, that is provided in a developing machine, a supply port for a developer, that is provided in a replenisher, a connecting portion that is provided in a vicinity of the supply port of the replenisher and connects the developing machine and the replenisher to each other in a state where a developer is suppliable from the supply port to the receiving port in a case where a portion in a vicinity of the receiving port of the developing machine is inserted, a leading surface that is provided at the connecting portion and leads the portion in the vicinity of the receiving port of the developing machine to the connecting portion, an opening and closing member that opens and closes the receiving port by moving in an insertion direction of the developing machine, and a contact member that is provided at the opening and closing member and comes into contact with the leading surface in an elastically deformed state in a case where the developing machine and the replenisher are connected to each other.

Inventor

Tadashi KUREYAMA

DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17887503)

Abstract

A developing device includes a holding body that holds a developer; an agitating unit that agitates the developer; a supply unit that supplies the developer that flows in from the agitating unit to the holding body; a filling portion provided above the agitating unit and filled with the developer; a closing portion that closes a lower portion of the filling portion, and causes the developer to drop from the filling portion into the agitating unit in a case where the closing portion is removed; and a duct portion that connects a space in the filling portion and a portion above the holding body.

Inventor

Taichiro OKUNO

DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17960156)

Abstract

A developing device includes: a housing which includes an opening portion open downward and in which a developer is stored in an internal storage space, the storage space being formed of a region of the internal space in which the developer is present; a sealing part that seals the opening portion and is removed to allow the developer to fall through the opening portion; a storage part that stores the developer having fallen through the opening portion; an inlet that is provided in the housing, allows the developer floating from the storage part to flow into the storage space from which the developer has fallen, and is different from the opening portion; and a collecting part that is provided on the housing and collects the developer having flowed into the storage space through the inlet.

Inventor

Takafumi WAKAI

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17866565)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium in contact with one surface of the recording medium along a conveyance path; a plural intermediate transfer bodies that are arranged in a conveyance direction on the other surface side of the recording medium of the conveyance path and to which toner images formed by a plural image forming sections are primarily transferred; a plural secondary transfer units that are arranged in a conveyance direction and secondarily transfers the toner images of the plural intermediate transfer bodies to the other surface of the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit; and one or more rotating bodies of which peripheral surfaces are in contact with the other surface of the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit between one secondary transfer unit and another secondary transfer unit, among the secondary transfer units arranged in the conveyance direction.

Inventor

Satoshi TEJIMA

TRANSFER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17898477)

Abstract

A transfer device includes: an endless member in an endless shape that orbits; primary transfer members that are respectively arranged on an opposite side of plural image holding bodies disposed side by side in a circumference direction of the endless member with the endless member interposed between the primary transfer member and the image holding body, and transfer an image held by the image holding body to the endless member; a secondary transfer member that transfers the image transferred to the endless member to a recording medium; an applying roll around which the endless member is wound, that is disposed on a downstream side of all the primary transfer members and on an upstream side of the secondary transfer member in the circumference direction, and that urges the endless member from an inner peripheral surface of the endless member to apply tension to the endless member; an upstream roll around which the endless member is wound, and that is disposed on the downstream side of all the primary transfer members and on an upstream side of the applying roll in the circumference direction; a contact and detachment member that moves at least some of the plural primary transfer members, and contacts and detaches the endless member and the image holding body to change a posture of the endless member; a detection member that faces a portion of the endless member between the upstream roll and the applying roll to detect the image transferred to the endless member; and a positioning mechanism that changes a posture of the detection member according to the change in the posture of the endless member to position the detection member at the endless member.

Inventor

Satoshi TEJIMA

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17880636)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit that conveys a recording medium in contact with one surface of the recording medium along a conveyance path; a first image forming group that is provided on the other surface side of the recording medium in the conveyance path, and includes plural image forming sections that form a toner image; a second image forming group that is provided on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the first image forming group on the other surface side of the recording medium in the conveyance path, and includes plural image forming sections that form a toner image; a first intermediate transfer body that is provided on the downstream side in the conveyance direction of the first image forming group, and to which the toner image formed by the plural image forming sections of the first image forming group is primarily transferred; a second intermediate transfer body that is provided on an upstream side in the conveyance direction of the second image forming group, and to which the toner image formed by the plural image forming sections of the second image forming group is primarily transferred; a first transfer unit that secondarily transfers the toner image from the first intermediate transfer body to the other surface of the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit; and a second transfer unit that secondarily transfers the toner image from the second intermediate transfer body to the other surface of the recording medium conveyed by the conveyance unit.

Inventor

Akira SHIMODAIRA

CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17888405)

Abstract

A cleaning device includes a blade-shaped cleaning member of which a tip formed by an elastic body is arranged to be pressed against an endless belt and that cleans a surface of the endless belt; and a driven roller that is arranged to face the cleaning member via the endless belt and is driven and rotated with movement of the endless belt and of which an outer peripheral surface is formed by an elastic body.

Inventor

Naoya MITAMURA

CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17902888)

Abstract

A cleaning device includes a cleaning member that removes toner from a surface of an image holder by bringing an upper end portion into contact with the surface from a downstream side in a rotation direction of the image holder, a housing that supports the cleaning member and that stores the toner removed from the surface of the image holder by the cleaning member, and a transport member that is provided in the housing and that transports the toner stored in the housing to an outside of the housing at the same height as a contact portion of the cleaning member that comes into contact with the surface of the image holder or at a position above the contact portion.

Inventor

Akira SHIMODAIRA

TRANSPORT DEVICE (17947866)

Abstract

A transport device includes: a belt member that runs in a loop to transport an object to be transported, the belt member having an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface; a rotary member that is pressed against one of the outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the belt member and that is movable in a predetermined moving direction; and a pressing member that presses the rotary member toward the one of the outer and inner circumferential surfaces of the belt member and that moves in the moving direction while maintaining the angle thereof with respect to the moving direction when the rotary member moves in the moving direction.

Inventor

Kazuya FUKUNAGA

FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17955523)

Abstract

A fixing device includes a fixing member that has an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface, is rotatably provided, comes into contact with, of a recording material on which an image is formed, a surface on which the image is formed, and fixes the image to the recording material, a rotating member that is rotatably provided and includes, at an outer peripheral portion, a contact surface coming into contact with the inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, and a removing member that is disposed to be in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the fixing member, is rotatably provided, and removes an attached object attached to the outer peripheral surface using a rotation speed difference with respect to the fixing member.

Inventor

Takashi OHASHI

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17903579)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus, for forming an image with a fixing unit that fixes a toner image to a recording material and with a first transport path, includes: a first guide unit that guides one side of a recording material discharged from the fixing unit and transported through the first transport path; a second guide unit that guides the other side of the recording material transported thorough the first transport path; a blowing part through which gas is sent to the one side of the recording material transported through the first transport path; and a gas guiding part that faces the second guide unit with the first transport path interposed between the gas guiding part and the second guide unit and that guides, in a direction away from the first transport path, gas that is sent from the blowing part and whose traveling direction is changed by a recording material.

Inventor

Kazunari ISHII

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17939907)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body that includes an image formation unit forming an image on a recording material, a fixation unit that includes a fixing unit fixing the image formed by the image formation unit onto the recording material and that is attachable to and detachable from the apparatus main body, a first duct that is attached to the fixation unit to face the fixing unit and through which a gas that cools the fixing unit flows, and a second duct that is attached to the apparatus main body to be adjacent to the first duct and through which a gas that cools the fixing unit flows.

Inventor

Koji YOSHITSUGU

FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17888416)

Abstract

A fixing device includes an endless belt-shaped section; a supply section that supplies a lubricating material to an inner surface of the belt-shaped section; a heating section that supports and rotates the belt-shaped section and generates heat during energization to heat the belt-shaped section; a power feed section that is electrically connected to an end part of the heating section and feeds power to the heating section; and a regulating section that is disposed on an outer surface side of the heating section and inside the power feed section with respect to an axial direction of rotation of the heating section to regulate movement of the lubricating material to a power feed section side.

Inventor

Takashi MATSUBARA

FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17882597)

Abstract

A fixing device includes an endless belt-shaped section; a heating section that supports and rotates the belt-shaped section and generates heat during energization to heat the belt-shaped section; and a terminal portion that is provided at an end part of the heating section and feeds power to the heating section. An outer diameter of the terminal portion is equal to or smaller than an outer diameter of the heating section.

Inventor

Takashi MATSUBARA

FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17895014)

Abstract

A fixing device includes a fixation member, a fixing member that has an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface, is rotatably provided with respect to the fixation member, comes into contact with, of a recording material on which an image is formed, a surface on which the image is formed, and fixes the image to the recording material, a rotating member that includes a contact surface, which is in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the fixing member, at an outer peripheral portion, includes a heat generating portion generating heat due to electric resistance, and is rotatable together with the heat generating portion with respect to the fixation member, and a power receiving member that includes a power receiving surface receiving power from the fixation member with a peripheral surface, has a spring characteristic of biasing the power receiving surface in a direction of the fixation member, and rotates together with the rotating member.

Inventor

Takashi OHASHI

HEATING DEVICE AND APPARATUS UTILIZING OBJECT TO BE HEATED (17902887)

Abstract

A heating device includes a heating roller that includes a resistance heating layer, a bearing that supports the heating roller to allow the heating roller to be rotatable, and a connection power feeder that is mounted on an end portion of the heating roller, is connected to the resistance heating layer, and feeds power to the resistance heating layer, in which the connection power feeder includes an annular frame that is disposed to be concentric with the heating roller and is conductively connected to the resistance heating layer, a power feed shaft of which a portion is disposed in the frame and which feeds power, and plural rolling bodies that roll while being in conductive contact with an inner peripheral surface of the frame and an outer peripheral surface of the power feed shaft, and the bearing is mounted on a portion of the end portion of the heating roller that is closer to an inside than the connection power feeder in an axial direction.

Inventor

Takashi OHASHI

HEATING DEVICE AND APPARATUS UTILIZING OBJECT TO BE HEATED (17953319)

Abstract

A heating device includes a heating roller that includes a resistance heating layer, and a connection power feeder that is mounted on an end portion of the heating roller, is connected to the resistance heating layer, and feeds power to the resistance heating layer, in which the connection power feeder includes an annular frame that is disposed to be concentric with the heating roller and is conductively connected to the resistance heating layer, a power feed shaft of which a portion is disposed in the frame and which feeds power, plural rolling bodies that roll while being in conductive contact with an inner peripheral surface of the frame and an outer peripheral surface of the power feed shaft, and a non-conductive cover that holds and covers the frame and the rolling bodies in a state where a portion excluding the portion of the power feed shaft is exposed, and the connection power feeder excluding the power feed shaft is mounted on the heating roller so as to be integrally rotated with the heating roller.

Inventor

Takashi OHASHI

RECORDING-MATERIAL-TRANSPORTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM (17942723)

Abstract

A recording-material-transporting apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a recording material and causes the recording material to pass through an upstream location and a downstream location that is positioned downstream of the upstream location in a recording-material-transporting direction in which the recording material is transported; an upstream reader including a light receiver that receives light reflected by the recording material, the upstream reader reading an image that is formed on a portion of the recording material positioned at the upstream location and that is formed on one surface of the recording material; and a downstream reader including a light receiver that receives light reflected by the recording material, the downstream reader reading an image that is formed on a portion of the recording material positioned at the downstream location and that is formed on other surface of the recording material. The light receiver of the upstream reader is positioned downstream of the upstream location in the recording-material-transporting direction, and/or the light receiver of the downstream reader is positioned upstream of the downstream location in the recording-material-transporting direction.

Inventor

Masakazu SHIRAI

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (18177772)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyance section that sequentially conveys a plurality of recording media; a transfer member that transfers an image formed on an image carrier to each of the recording media conveyed by the conveyance section, with a potential difference; a detection section that detects an electrical characteristic value of the transfer member in transferring the image to each of the recording media; and a determination section that determines multi feeding of the recording media, by comparing an electrical characteristic value in transferring the image to each of the recording media with an electrical characteristic value in transferring the image to each of the recording media.

Inventor

Hiromoto YAMAKI

RECORDING-MATERIAL-TRANSPORTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM (17941228)

Abstract

A recording-material-transporting apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a recording material along a transport path; an image reading unit that is disposed on one side of the transport path and that reads an image formed on the recording material transported along the transport path; and a rotating member disposed opposite the image reading unit with the transport path provided therebetween. At least one portion of the rotating member contacts the image reading unit, or a rotating member support that supports the rotating member contacts the image reading unit.

Inventor

Seiichi TAKAYAMA

BINDING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM, AND METHOD (17950470)

Abstract

A binding apparatus includes a binder configured to bind sheets of paper by advancing binding teeth toward the sheets of paper, a water supplier configured to supply a preset amount of water to the sheets of paper to be bound by the binder, and a processor configured to, if a specific condition is satisfied, make a setting to reduce the amount of water to be supplied to the sheets of paper by the water supplier.

Inventor

Nobuhide INABA

DISCHARGE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17894138)

Abstract

A discharge device includes a placement part on which a medium discharged from an apparatus body is placed and from which the medium is returned to the apparatus body, a loading part which is disposed on a lower side of the placement part to have a space between the loading part and the placement part and on which the medium discharged to the space from the apparatus body in a predetermined discharge direction is loaded, a support portion that is provided on the loading part to protrude toward an upper side of the loading part, includes an inclined surface having an upward gradient toward a downstream side in the discharge direction, and supports the medium which is loaded on the loading part at an upper end of the inclined surface, and an opening/closing part of which one end is rotatably mounted on a downstream portion of the loading part in the discharge direction and is opened and closed to a closed position where the opening/closing part closes a downstream portion of the space in the discharge direction and an open position where the downstream portion is open and a part of the medium loaded on the loading part is loaded on the opening/closing part; and an angle of a loading surface of the opening/closing part at the open position with respect to a horizontal is set to an angle at which a movement of the medium to the downstream side in the discharge direction is limited such that a centroid of a longest medium loaded on the loading part and the loading surface is positioned upstream of a downstream end of the opening/closing part in the discharge direction, and an imaginary line extending to the upper end from an upstream end of the inclined surface of the support portion in the discharge direction is along the loading surface of the opening/closing part at the open position.

Inventor

Yoshinori SHUIN

ROTATION TRANSMISSION STRUCTURE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17869741)

Abstract

A rotation transmission structure includes: a first member that is provided on a rotating body and includes a plural straight teeth extending in an axial direction of the rotating body and arranged in a circumferential direction; a second member that is provided on a moving body moving in the axial direction of the rotating body, includes a plural straight teeth extending in the axial direction of the rotating body and arranged in the circumferential direction, and is fitted to the first member to transmit rotation of the rotating body to the moving body in a case where the moving body approaches the rotating body; a biasing member that biases the first member toward the moving body; and a rotation mechanism that is provided between the first member and the rotating body and rotates the first member in a case where the first member is moved toward the rotating body.

Inventor

Yuya SHIOKAWA

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17951110)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a housing; a powered body for image formation provided inside the housing; an attachable/detachable body that is attached to and detached from the housing; a power supply path body that is attached to and detached from the attachable/detachable body to form a power supply path; and a substrate that supplies power to the powered body, is directly mounted on the attachable/detachable body or the power supply path body, and is separated from the attachable/detachable body or the power supply path body.

Inventor

Atsushi KANEKO

SENSOR CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17948235)

Abstract

A sensor cleaning device includes: a cleaning member including an inclined portion that wipes and cleans an entire surface of a sensor, which includes a long side portion extending in a longitudinal direction and a short side portion extending in a lateral direction intersecting with the longitudinal direction, while moving relative to the surface of the sensor in the longitudinal direction of the surface of the sensor and is disposed obliquely to a wiping direction so that an upstream end portion of the inclined portion in the wiping direction is positioned outside the surface of the sensor in the lateral direction; and a moving mechanism that moves the cleaning member in the wiping direction and in a direction opposite to the wiping direction.

Inventor

Keiji SANEKATA

CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17948546)

Abstract

A cleaning device includes: a cleaning brush that has bristles that rotate and contact a surface, to which toner has adhered, of a cleaning member to be cleaned, the cleaning brush removing the toner adhered to the surface of the cleaning member; a first contact member that contacts the bristles without a position of the first contact member relative to a position of the cleaning brush being changed; and a second contact member that contacts the bristles at a location downstream from the first contact member in a direction of rotation of the cleaning brush and without a position of the second contact member relative to the position of the cleaning brush being changed, and that is disposed on an extension line extended from a line between an axial center of the cleaning brush and a base of the bristles that move away from the first contact member.

Inventor

Haruyuki IDEURA

DEVICE WITH COVER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17902889)

Abstract

A device with a cover includes a cover that is provided at an apparatus body, an opening and closing cover that is provided at the apparatus body to be adjacent to the cover in a state where a gap with the cover is provided, that is opened and closed by rotating around a shaft portion arranged on an inside with respect to a portion of the opening and closing cover on a cover side, and that is adjacent to the cover on a shaft portion side, and an overhanging portion that is formed at an end portion of the opening and closing cover on the cover side and in which an end portion on the inside overhangs from an end portion on an outside to the cover side in a range of a rotation trajectory having a largest radius formed at the end portion on the cover side with the shaft portion as a rotation center.

Inventor

Toyohide SAKAMOTO

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17902115)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section that forms, with a developer containing toner, a toner image on a recording material; a fixing unit that fixes a toner image formed at the image forming section to a recording material; a recovery unit that recovers waste powder containing toner discharged from the image forming section; and a gas circulation unit in which gas for cooling the vicinity of the image forming section or the vicinity of the fixing unit circulates and that has a portion disposed between the recovery unit and the fixing unit.

Inventor

Yuta SHIMATATE

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM (17871981)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform a process including acquiring relevant information related to setting of a first device that needs to be changed depending on an environment from a device other than the first device, the first device not being capable of detecting predetermined device environment information, and controlling the first device by using the acquired relevant information.

Inventor

Yoshimi UEZU

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17894400)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract, as an inspection target item, product manufacturing information needed for inspection from three-dimensional model data including the product manufacturing information needed when a molded product is manufactured; and decide an inspection method to be used for inspection as to the product manufacturing information as the inspection target item according to information related to the extracted product manufacturing information.

Inventor

Atsushi OGIHARA

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17885513)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to change a power saving setting of an apparatus to a third setting in which a power saving effect is higher than in a second setting based on a usage status of the apparatus in a case where the power saving setting of the apparatus is changed from a first setting to the second setting; in which the first setting is a default setting of the apparatus, and the second setting is different from the third setting.

Inventor

Takaki SAIKI

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17895035)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to output a set value of a transition time until an apparatus transitions to a power saving state, which is obtained based on a first history of a time interval of each processing executed by the apparatus and a target value of a return time required until the apparatus returns from the power saving state.

Inventor

Dai TAKESHIMA

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17859402)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect a state in which a finger of a user stays in space above one of multiple selection elements for a predetermined time or longer, the state being detected by using a touch panel, the multiple selection elements being displayed on the touch panel; and perform control of the touch panel when the state is detected, the control being performed to turn the selection element into a selected display form. The predetermined time is a period of time set to prevent the processor from turning a nontarget selection element of the selection elements into the selected display form when the finger of the user passes space above the nontarget selection element toward a target selection element of the selection elements.

Inventor

Jun SATO

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM (17863386)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: display a screen including an operation icon on a display; detect an operation object that is brought close to the operation icon while facing the operation icon and is provided for performing a non-contact operation on the operation icon; in a case where the operation object that is brought close to the operation icon while facing the operation icon is continuously detected for an operation confirmation time from a detection start time point at which detection of the operation object that is brought close to the operation icon while facing the operation icon is started, execute a process associated with the operation icon; and change the operation confirmation time in response to a movement of the operation object that is brought close to the operation icon while facing the operation icon.

Inventor

Kazuko KIRIHARA

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17859006)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect a closest portion being a portion having a shortest distance from an operation surface in a perpendicular direction of the operation surface among portions of an object in a spatial region facing the operation surface; determine a position on the operation surface corresponding to a position of the closest portion as an instruction input position by a non-contact operation of a user; and, in a case where a distance between a first position of the closest portion, which is detected at a first time point, and a second position of the closest portion, which is detected at a second time point after a minute time has elapsed from the first time point, in a plane direction parallel to the operation surface is equal to or longer than a threshold distance, invalidate an instruction input on a position on the operation surface corresponding to the second position or output a warning to the user.

Inventor

Kohshiro INOMATA

INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM (17862577)

Abstract

An information processing system includes a processor configured to: receive a first input operation performed by a user on a thumbnail image of an electronic document displayed on a display; perform control including enlarging and displaying an image of a predetermined page included in one or more pages constituting the electronic document and an operation unit on the display such that the image of the predetermined page and the operation unit are displayed larger in size than the thumbnail image, the operation unit at least including an operation image that receives a second input operation for displaying the image of the predetermined page for each version; and perform control including superimposing the image of the predetermined page of a first version and the image of the predetermined page of a second version on each other and enlarging and displaying the superimposed image on the display in accordance with the second input operation performed on the operation image.

Inventor

Motoharu HIRATA

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM (17953295)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to transmit data obtained by optically scanning a target object to a service for executing a predetermined process on the data, encrypt processing information for acquiring a result of the predetermined process of the service and executing a process for the result of the predetermined process, and transmit the encrypted processing information to another image forming apparatus.

Inventor

Masato SUGII

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD (17891094)

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: in a case of printing data to be printed, perform masking processing on a predetermined concealed portion according to a predetermined access policy; and perform a process of embedding and outputting inquiry information for inquiring about the concealed portion in the data to which the masking processing has been performed.

Inventor

Masaki ABE

PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND METHOD (17948234)

Abstract

A portable terminal device includes a processor configured to, in receiving a notification indicating that a user has entered a region in which authentication of the user is necessary at a time of entry, notify, in a case where a selection related to a service provided in the region is made in advance, a system providing the service of a content of the selection.

Inventor

Sho NAGASE

NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR REPRODUCING IMAGE (17880639)

Abstract

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer, which reproduces a color tone of a printed matter and displays the color tone on a screen before printing, to realize a function of acquiring a density value of a color material that develops a color by absorption of a specific wavelength component and a property of paper related to the absorption of the specific wavelength component, and a function of displaying an image that reproduces the color tone of the printed matter based on the density value and the property of the paper.

Inventor

Koichi MATSUBARA

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD (17880829)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to: in a case where the image forming apparatus delegates a process to an external apparatus, acquire from the external apparatus to which the process is delegated, first information with regard to progress of the process delegated to the external apparatus; and present the acquired first information in a listing screen for information with regard to executed-process history.

Inventor

Makoto YOSHIMI

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR STOPPING PRINTING (17939292)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to command a second image forming apparatus, if the second image forming apparatus exists, to stop printing a second document related to a first document when a stoppage of printing of the first document is received, the second image forming apparatus being responsible for printing the second document.

Inventor

Kunikazu UENO

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17862387)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where a document is converted to a document in a document format that is displayed in a state where the document is actually printed on a page, manage the documents before and after conversion in association with each other, extract an object that is displayed to straddle pages in the document after the conversion from the document before the conversion associated with the document after the conversion, and convert the extracted object into the document format.

Inventor

Shiori ARAI

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17862629)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: execute a first acceptance process of accepting one or more manipulations each performed on a corresponding piece of data in a manipulation screen; execute a recording process of recording each of the one or more manipulations in association with the corresponding piece of data; execute a second acceptance process of accepting a search manipulation in a search screen configured to imitate the manipulation screen; and execute a presentation process of presenting at least one piece of data associated with the search manipulation accepted in the second acceptance process.

Inventor

Atsushi MARUYAMA

DESIGN SUPPORT APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND DESIGN SUPPORT METHOD (17888301)

Abstract

A design support apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract a component from a three-dimensional model that includes a combination of multiple components; and display determination results, in a display form predetermined in the determination results, the determination results being obtained by determining whether a component other than the extracted component interferes with a virtual model, generated on the three-dimensional model, in a relationship between the virtual model and the extracted component.

Inventor

Kakeru KODAMA

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17885530)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire information from an external link destination inserted into a document in a document format that can be viewed without depending on a software environment; in a case where the acquired information is a web page, convert the web page into a file in the document format; and store the file obtained from the external link destination in an offline environment in association with the document.

Inventor

Toru MORITA

INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17875396)

Abstract

An information processing system includes: a processor configured to: manage feature information on each feature of one or more objects included in an electronic document including plural pages, for each version of the electronic document; extract a difference in the feature information between versions of the electronic document; and in a case where a user performs an input operation on an image representing the electronic document displayed on a display unit, perform a control of displaying the difference on the display unit in a mode identifiable by the user.

Inventor

Atsushi WATANABE

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION (17891796)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: read plural pieces of character string information written on a form; obtain feature information indicating a feature relating to an arithmetic operation in which numerical information included in the plural pieces of character string information is used and arrangement information indicating a positional relationship between the plural pieces of character string information; and define, on a basis of the feature information and the arrangement information, an arithmetic expression for performing an arithmetic operation using an operator relating to the plural pieces of character string information.

Inventor

Miho ISHIZUKA

CONSUMABLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND CONSUMABLE MANAGEMENT METHOD (17893150)

Abstract

A consumable management system includes a processor configured to acquire usage information of a consumable from an apparatus to be managed for which a collection time period is set, determine a replacement time period of the consumable based on the usage information, and provide an instruction of replacement or replenishment of the consumable in a case where the replacement time period satisfies a predetermined condition based on the collection time period and not to provide the instruction of the replacement or the replenishment of the consumable in a case where the replacement time period does not satisfy the condition.

Inventor

Kento KOBAYASHI

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17893141)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire an operation history of each user for a series of work performed in cooperation by plural users on an electronic device; and display the operation history of the series of work separately for each process in the work and for each user.

Inventor

Shota KIRIKAWA

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17864373)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire work logs that are work logs in which an operation of data selected by a user and a work other than the operation of the data performed between a start of creation of the data and the creation of the data are recorded, and include a feature of the data, and present the acquired work logs for each user involved in the creation of the data.

Inventor

Satoshi KONDO

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17901678)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: extract, as an inspection target item, product manufacturing information needed for inspection from three-dimensional model data including the product manufacturing information needed when a molded product is manufactured; and set one or more measurement points at which an inspection target site is to be measured and a number of the one or more measurement points according to information related to the extracted product manufacturing information as the inspection target item.

Inventor

Atsushi OGIHARA

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM (17893461)

Abstract

An information processing device includes a processor configured to: acquire image data; detect a position on a predetermined stage of each of plural real objects placed on the stage, the plural real objects being candidates onto which the image data is to be projected; receive a selection of a real object as a projection target from among the plural real objects according to content of an operation performed by a user on the plural real objects and the position of each of the plural real objects on the stage; and cause the image data to be printed after projecting the image data onto the selected real object according to the position of the selected real object on the stage.

Inventor

Kohei KAJIYAMA

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17873169)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire plural objects indicating virtual image forming apparatuses generated by using setting information set in a predetermined image forming apparatus and capable of simulating a process executed by the image forming apparatus, perform control to synchronize the setting information between a first object among the plural objects and the image forming apparatus, and perform control to simulate the process executed by the image forming apparatus using a second object different from the first object.

Inventor

Masahiro YASUI

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD (17901471)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: determine a relationship between first product manufacturing information and second product manufacturing information included in three-dimensional model data; and generate, on a basis of the determined relationship, information indicating the relationship between the first product manufacturing information and the second product manufacturing information.

Inventor

Ryosuke HIGASHIKATA

INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM (17896805)

Abstract

An information processing device includes a processor configured to: successively execute two or more processes as processes for reading character information and converting the character information into data, and thereby output processing results; receive an operation by a user with respect to the outputted processing results; and display, on a display device and in response to the operation, a progress of the individual processes among the two or more processes leading up to the processing results.

Inventor

Takanori ONO

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION (17895432)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain related information regarding a first form; identify a second form associated with related information similar to the related information regarding the first form; obtain definition information indicating a definition of processing for a check on information written on the second form as items; and output the definition information as a candidate for definition information to be applied to items on the first form.

Inventor

Masashi BAN

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION (17896669)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive, from a user, first check processing information that is set for an item on a first form and that indicates first check processing relating to a check on information written on the first form as the item; obtain second check processing information that is check processing information indicating same check processing as the first check processing and that indicates second check processing relating to a check on information written, as an item, on a second form, which is different from the first form; propose unification of the first check processing information and the second check processing information; allow the user to determine whether to unify the first check processing information and the second check processing information with each other; and reflect, if the user determines that the first check processing information and the second check processing information are to be unified with each other and at least a part of the check processing indicated by the first check processing information or the second check processing information is changed, change information indicating the changed part in another of the first check processing information and the second check processing information.

Inventor

Masashi BAN

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17887773)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: separate a header part and a body part from a read image obtained by reading a facsimile document which is a document received by facsimile; and switch preprocessing in accordance with a header recognition result which is a recognition result obtained through character recognition on the header part, the preprocessing being performed before character recognition on the body part.

Inventor

Masanori YOSHIZUKA

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17881668)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive first image data representing persons and objects excluding the persons; register a person represented by the first image data as an owner of an object represented by the first image data; receive second image data that represents an object serving as an identification target and owned by an owner that is not identified; and in accordance with the second image data and contents that are registered, identity the owner of the object serving as the identification target.

Inventor

Ryo AKAMINE

LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT, LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT ARRAY, LIGHT EMITTING COMPONENT, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS (17951134)

Abstract

A light emitting element includes: a substrate; a light emitting unit that is laminated on the substrate; and a thyristor that is laminated on the light emitting unit and performs setting so as to cause the light emitting unit to emit light or increase an amount of emitted light by being turned into an ON state, the thyristor having a low resistance layer with a resistance which does not electrically separate the thyristor at a position where a current flows from an electrode being in contact with the thyristor.

Inventor

Takashi KONDO

LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT, LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT ARRAY, LIGHT EMITTING COMPONENT, OPTICAL DEVICE, AND OPTICAL MEASUREMENT APPARATUS (17938920)

Abstract

A light emitting element includes: a light emitting unit that has multiple semiconductor layers laminated, the light emitting unit having a length from a center of the light emitting unit to an end portion in a first direction shorter than a length from the center to an end portion in a second direction intersecting the first direction, in plan view; and a connection part that extends from the light emitting unit in the first direction and connects the light emitting unit to another semiconductor layer.

Inventor

Takashi KONDO

LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE (18326981)

Abstract

A light emitting device includes a wiring substrate, a light emitting element array that includes a first side surface and a second side surface facing each other, and a third side surface and a fourth side surface connecting the first side surface and the second side surface to each other and facing each other, the light emitting element array being provided on the wiring substrate, a driving element that is provided on the wiring substrate on the first side surface side and drives the light emitting element array, a first circuit element and a second circuit element that are provided on the wiring substrate on the second side surface side to be arranged in a direction along the second side surface, and a wiring member that is provided on the third side surface side and the fourth side surface side and extends from a top electrode of the light emitting element array toward an outside of the light emitting element array.

Inventor

Kazuhiro SAKAI

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17897210)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: register, in a system in which a management policy for managing a safety of information is defined, as the management policy of an apparatus that is not connected to the system, restriction information indicating more restrictions than restriction imposed on an information resource of which the safety with respect to the system is guaranteed in a case where a connection request to the system is received from the apparatus; and enable a connection from the apparatus to the information resource connected to the system within a scope of the restriction indicated by the registered restriction information.

Inventor

Masaru FUJII

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17889045)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: identify, for an event that occurs in association with an instruction for executing a process given by a user using a messenger application, the event occurring at a place other than a location of the user, a responder who is present at the place of occurrence of the event and who is able to respond to the event, with reference to schedule information of possible responders and history information of conversations made by the possible responders using the messenger application; and make a request to the responder to respond to the event, by using the messenger application.

Inventor

Naoki SHIBUYA

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM (18326005)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus, method and non-transitory computer readable medium are provided. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to: align and display a first conversation screen for making a conversation with a first conversation partner, and a second conversation screen for making a conversation with a second conversation partner to a user; when a gesture movement performed toward the second conversation screen is received from a message transmitted by a person other than the user, included in the first conversation screen, comprising: in response to the gesture movement ending on the second conversation screen, copy a message transmitted by the person other than the user as a message with the user as a transmitter and the second conversation partner as a destination, and in response to the gesture movement not ending on the second conversation screen, not copy the messages transmitted by the person other than the user.

Inventor

Kengo TOKUCHI

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17873172)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform a process including acquiring a detection result of a state of a receiver who receives a call request at a receiver side terminal or a measurement result of a degree of concentration of the receiver measured from the detection result in a case where the call request is accepted from a caller side terminal, and notifying the receiver side terminal of the call request in a case where the degree of concentration measured from the acquired detection result or the degree of concentration that is the measurement result is decreased to a predetermined degree of concentration.

Inventor

Shota NAKAMURA

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRODUCT, AND METHOD WHEREIN A PRINT FROM ONE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS IS READ BY ANOTHER AND A SCREEN IS GENERATED INCLUDING DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INFORMATION (17939397)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a result of diagnosis of one image forming apparatus made on a basis of a result of reading of a recording medium on which an image has been formed by the one image forming apparatus and that has been read by another image forming apparatus having an image reading function; acquire other apparatus information, which is information concerning the other image forming apparatus; and generate a screen including both of the result of the diagnosis and the other apparatus information.

Inventor

Shinsuke SUGI

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17952650)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording medium includes: an image former that forms an image on a recording medium and is capable of forming an image for diagnosis, which is an image used for diagnosis of the image forming apparatus; an image reader that reads the image for diagnosis formed on a recording medium; and a processor configured to change at least one of a reading condition under which the image reader reads the image for diagnosis and a processing condition under which a read image obtained by the reading is processed in accordance with a mode of diagnosis of the image forming apparatus.

Inventor

Shinya MIYAMORI

IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD (17952740)

Abstract

An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording medium includes: an image former that forms an image on a recording medium; an image reader that reads an image formed on a recording medium; an adjuster that adjusts the image former on a basis of a reading result obtained by the image reader by reading an image formed on a recording medium by the image former; and a processor configured to output, to an external apparatus used for diagnosis of the image forming apparatus, the reading result of the image formed on the recording medium by the image former when adjustment is performed by the adjuster.

Inventor

Shinya MIYAMORI

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17885527)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire sound data representing a sound emitted by an apparatus; generate plural pieces of section sound data by dividing the sound data into sections where detection of words is not possible; and transmit specific section sound data among the plural pieces of section sound data, and operation information that indicates an operation of the apparatus and corresponds to the specific section sound data, to an external apparatus that analyzes the sound data of the apparatus, in association with each other.

Inventor

Yuya HIRAYAMA

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17903742)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a read image resulting from reading a recording medium where a diagnostic image to be used to diagnose an image forming apparatus is formed; acquire, from the read image, an image read portion of the recording medium from which the diagnostic image is read and one specific portion of a non-formation read portion, the non-formation read portion resulting from reading a non-formation portion of the recording medium where the diagnostic image is not formed; and output the image read portion and the one specific portion.

Inventor

Yuki TANAKA

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM (17867180)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: when receiving an instruction for image formation of a printing target file issued to an image forming apparatus, transmit image data generated based on the printing target file and processing information to a server, the processing information including access information regarding access to the information processing apparatus and information for forming an image represented by the image data, and store the image data into the information processing apparatus; when the printing target file is updated, perform at least one of processing for providing a notification of the update in the printing target file and processing for updating the image data transmitted to the server and the image data stored in the information processing apparatus to image data generated based on the updated printing target file; and perform control for transmitting the image data to the image forming apparatus in response to a request from the image forming apparatus for transmission of the image data.

Inventor

Dawei YANG

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM (17868090)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: when receiving an image forming instruction issued to an image forming apparatus, transmit image data and processing information to a server, the processing information including information for forming an image represented by the image data, and store the image data into the information processing apparatus; and perform control for transmitting the image data to the image forming apparatus in response to a request from the server for transmission of the image data.

Inventor

Wenjin ZHANG

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17858613)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: detect, via a reader, a memory when placed in close proximity to the reader or when spaced apart from the reader after being in close proximity to the reader; and at each timing when the memory is detected, perform display control such that a selection element, out of multiple selection elements displayed on a display, is in a selected display state.

Inventor

Shungo NAKAYAMA

FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17951604)

Abstract

A feeding device includes: a feeder that feeds a first medium disposed on a top of plural media loaded; a detector that detects at least one of a curved state and an inclination of the first medium and following media including a second medium disposed immediately below the first medium; and a modifier that modifies a condition related to a feeding operation of the feeder based on the at least one of the curved state and the inclination detected by the detector.

Inventor

Yohei ONOUE

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD (17891264)

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a read image of a document that is read by a document reading apparatus; and control an image output device such that the read image is outputted to a medium with a significance portion and an edge region prevented from overlapping, and a length of the medium in a sub scanning direction is increased in a case where the significance portion of the read image and the edge region in the sub scanning direction in which the read image is outputted to the medium overlap.

Inventor

Koichi SUZUKI

IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM (17944271)

Abstract

An image reading apparatus including: a transport path along which a recording material is transported from an upstream location toward a downstream location; and an image reader that reads an image formed on a portion of the recording material in the transport path, the portion being positioned at a specific location on the transport path. A width of the transport path in a thickness direction of the recording material transported along the transport path at the specific location is less than an upstream width and/or less than a downstream width, the upstream width being a width of the transport path at a location upstream of the specific location, the downstream width being a width of the transport path at a location downstream of the specific location.

Inventor

Naoto HAMABATA

IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17888413)

Abstract

An image reading device includes a placement portion in which a placement surface on which an original document is placed is formed, an imaging portion that is arranged on a center side of the placement surface in an apparatus width direction above the placement surface in an apparatus upward and downward direction and images the original document, a display portion having a display screen of which at least a part is arranged on a far side of the placement surface in an apparatus depth direction and the center side of the placement surface in the apparatus width direction between the placement surface and the imaging portion in the apparatus upward and downward direction, an irradiation portion that is arranged on the center side of the placement surface in the apparatus width direction above the display portion in the apparatus upward and downward direction and irradiates the placement surface with light, and a pair of other irradiation portions that are respectively arranged on both sides of the irradiation portion in the apparatus width direction above the display portion in the apparatus upward and downward direction and irradiate the placement surface with light.

Inventor

Takuya ISHIKAWA

IMAGE READING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE READING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE READING METHOD (17874297)

Abstract

An image reading device includes a single light source that irradiates an image reading target with light, a traveling change member that changes a traveling direction of the light from the light source and irradiates the image reading target with the light at an incidence angle different from an incidence angle of the light directly applied from the light source to the image reading target, and a switching mechanism that switches traveling of the light from the light source to an optical path for directly irradiating the image reading target or an optical path for irradiating the image reading target via the traveling change member.

Inventor

Takaharu SATO

IMAGE READING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE READING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE READING METHOD (17948215)

Abstract

An image reading device includes plural light sources that irradiate an image reading target with light at different angles; and a switching mechanism that sequentially switches the light incident to the image reading target from the plural light sources during an image reading operation on the image reading target.

Inventor

Takaharu SATO

IMAGE READING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS (17880667)

Abstract

An image reading device includes a placement portion in which a placement surface on which an original document is placed is formed, an imaging portion that is arranged above the placement surface and images the original document, a support portion of which a base end portion is attached to an apparatus main body and that supports the imaging portion in a part on a tip end side, an adjustment portion for adjusting a position of the imaging portion with respect to the placement surface, and a covering portion that covers the adjustment portion.

Inventor

Takuya ISHIKAWA

IMAGE-READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE-FORMING SYSTEM (17945521)

Abstract

An image-reading apparatus includes: a light-receiving unit that receives reflected light from a recording material on which an image is formed; and multiple light-reflecting members that reflect the reflected light from the recording material toward the light-receiving unit. At least one light-reflecting member of the multiple light-reflecting members reflect the reflected light multiple times.

Inventor

Tadashi SUGIZAKI

IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND METHOD (17891667)

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire a read image of a document that is read by a document reading apparatus; and control an image output device such that the read image and an additional image are outputted to a medium with a significance portion and the additional image prevented from overlapping, and a length of the medium in a sub scanning direction is increased in a case where the significance portion of the read image and a specified region of the read image to which the additional image is decided to be added overlap.

Inventor

Kazutoshi SUZUKI

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17953282)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive print data and designation of a facility selected by a user from a user terminal operated by the user, transmit the print data to an apparatus that is installed in the designated facility, transmit receipt information, which is information that enables reception of a printed matter related to the print data, to the user terminal, and charge the user for the printed matter in a case in which the user who has entered the facility receives the printed matter using the receipt information and leaves the facility.

Inventor

Kazunari TANAKA

CONTROL DEVICE AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM (17891747)

Abstract

A control device includes a processor configured to: instruct a document reading apparatus that reads a document at a first speed to read image data of the document; and control an image output device that outputs an image to a medium at a second speed higher than the first speed such that the image data of the document starts to be outputted to the medium after reading is started and after a wait time depending on a position at which an additional image starts to be composited when it is determined that reading is finished has elapsed.

Inventor

Takeshi KANEKO

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD (17899578)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to assign a maintenance worker operation permission of a maintenance work applied for in advance for the information processing apparatus in accordance with an input received from a manager user, and after a return from a restart, cancel the operation permission in a case where the maintenance work applied for in advance is finished, and maintain a state of the assigned operation permission in a case where the maintenance work applied for in advance is not finished.

Inventor

Hirochika SHIONOIRI

NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS (18177761)

Abstract

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium records program for causing a computer that reproduces an image of a printed matter before printing and displays the image on a screen to implement: a changing function of, in a case where a first image generated according to a density value of a color material and a second image representing a surface of a sheet to be used for printing are combined to generate an image of a printed matter, changing appearance of the second image, according to a total amount of the color material to be used for printing the corresponding first image, for each pixel position.

Inventor

Daichi KUROTSU

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM (17869760)

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, in a case where a first color material, a second color material, a third color material, and a fourth color material in which a difference between the first color material and the fourth color material in a color space is less than a threshold value, are capable of being used, output combinations of values of color materials reproducing a first color, which is used for expanding a color gamut of a secondary color of the first color material and the second color material, and a second color, which is used for expanding a color gamut of a secondary color of the first color material and the third color material.

Inventor

Toshihiro IWAFUCHI