| KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Patent applications |
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| 20120034007 | SHEET MOISTURIZING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A sheet moisturizing device including paired moisturizing rollers, which are configured to be in contact with each other and to apply liquids onto a recording sheet while nipping to convey the recording sheet, wherein the paired moisturizing rollers are configured to include a mandrel, and a moisturizing layer which is formed on the mandrel and is formed of a porous body carrying independent cells which are not interconnected with each other, and a liquid supplying member which is configured to supply the liquid onto surfaces of the paired moisturizing rollers. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120032873 | MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - Disclosed is a management apparatus, which makes it possible to use an information viewing apparatus without considering the residual amount of the buttery, provided therein. The apparatus includes: a plurality of slots to support a plurality of information viewing apparatuses, each of which is activated by an electric power fed from a buttery provided therein and is to be inserted into each of the slots in a detachable manner; and a controlling section to control the plurality of information viewing apparatuses, respectively inserted into the slots. When a predetermined information viewing apparatus is inserted into one of the plurality of slots, the controlling section moves data stored in the predetermined information viewing apparatus to another information viewing apparatus, which is currently inserted into another one of the plurality of slots, depending on a residual amount of the buttery provided in the predetermined information viewing apparatus. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120028186 | PRODUCTION METHOD OF TWO-COMPONENT DEVELOPER - Disclosed is a production method of a two-component developer for developing an electrostatic image comprising a toner and a resin coated carrier having a porous magnetic core particle and a resin coated layer, wherein the porous magnetic core particle are composed of a porous ferrite material and have pit apertures on a surface of the particle, and the method comprises steps of blocking the pit apertures of the porous magnetic core particle with rubber particles by dry mixing of the porous magnetic core particle and the rubber particles, forming the resin coated carrier by forming a resin layer on the porous magnetic core particle whose pore openings have been blocked, and mixing the resin coated carrier and the toner. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120028175 | FOIL TRANSFERRING FACE FORMING TONER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A method for forming an image at least comprising steps of forming an electrostatic latent image by exposing an electrophotographic photoreceptor, forming a foil transferring face by supplying a toner onto the electrophotographic photoreceptor having the electrostatic latent image, transferring the foil transferring face formed on the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a base substance, fixing the foil transferring face transferred on the base substance, supplying a transfer foil to the base substance fixed with the foil transferring face, adhering the transfer foil onto the foil transferring face by heating under a condition of contacting the transfer foil with the foil transferring face; and removing the transfer foil from the base substance while leaving the foil adhered onto the foil transferring face, wherein the toner comprises a binder resin having a softening temperature in the range of from not less than 105° C. to not more than 140° C., and having a molecular weight of not less than 60,000 in a ratio of not less than 10% and not more than 30% based on the total binder resin constituting the toner. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027424 | REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A replacement toner cartridge management apparatus is provided with: a receiver which receives first information indicating that a toner cartridge has been replaced with a new one and second information indicating that the remaining amount of toner contained in a toner cartridge reaches a predetermined value, from one or more than one image forming apparatus which the replacement toner cartridge management apparatus can access via a communication circuit; a determiner which determines the right type of a replacement toner cartridge to be loaded in place of the toner cartridge causing the first information or the second information, depending on which is received by the receiver, the first information or the second information; and a transmitter which outputs an instruction to deliver a replacement toner cartridge of the type determined by the determiner. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120027423 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus is provided with: an obtainer which obtains first information indicating a new toner cartridge having just been loaded thereon or a toner cartridge to be replaced with a new one and second information indicating the current condition under which a fusing process is performed for image forming; a determiner which determines the right type of a replacement toner cartridge to be loaded in place of the toner cartridge causing the first information obtained by the obtainer, based on the second information also obtained by the obtainer; an output portion which outputs an instruction to deliver a replacement toner cartridge of the type determined by the determiner; a detector which detects a new toner cartridge having just been loaded thereon; and a fusing processor which performs a fusing process under the optimal condition based on the amount of the toner supplied from the detector's detected new toner cartridge which is a replacement toner cartridge delivered according to the delivery instruction outputted by the output portion. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026689 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DRIVING AND CONTROLLING FANS IN THE APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of fans; a drive part for driving each of the fans; and a controller for controlling the drive part in such a way that while the apparatus is operated, a part of the plurality of fans are stopped and the fan to be stopped is changed and the amount of change in a noise level of all the fans before and after the change of the fan to be stopped is limited to within a specified range. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026543 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Provided is an image processing apparatus previously storing information in which an executable output process is associated with a region on an image on which the output process is to be performed, and executing the processes of acquiring a first image, discriminating whether or not the executable output process has been performed on the first image by determining the region on the first image associated with the executable output process, and determining the executable output process discriminated as having been performed on the first image, as a setting for the output process on a second image different from the first image. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026525 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF FUNCTION SETTING SCREEN, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing system includes an information processing apparatus and one or a plurality of image processing apparatuses that can be connected to the information processing apparatus via a network. A function whose function set value is to be displayed on a function setting screen is identified from identifying information included in screen information made by the information processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes an identifying information storage part in which identifying information of a function is stored, and of the functions whose identifying information is stored, all function set values of the identified function are displayed on a display part in a mode that can be selected by a user. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120026522 | GUI-IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM, GUI-IMPLEMENTATION APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF GUI-IMPLEMENTATION - A GUI implementation program stored in a non-transitory computer readable recording medium is a program for presenting at least one page of image on a preview screen based on a printing setup for a document comprising a plurality of pages be printed, and causing a computer to execute a process comprising the steps of determining a page turning direction based on a binding position specified as the print setup, which is a position for binding said document as a printed material; and implementing a GUI to the preview screen display, the GUI comprising the page forward turning button with a form to turn a page forward as well as the page backward turning button with a form to turn a page backward, and the GUI being positioned relative to each other according to said page turning directions. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120025440 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system includes: a ring bookbinding section which perform a ring bookbinding to a bundle of sheets by using a binder provided with a spine portion and a plurality of finger portions; and a judging section, wherein a last page is firstly fed immediately after job initiation and, subsequently after having fed the last page, image formation based on the image data is initiated, when the judging section judges that an image is not formed on the last page, and wherein all of the image data is firstly acquired completely after job initiation, subsequently the last page is fed and formed image thereon, and then image formation of remaining pages is carried out, when the judging section judges that image is formed on the last page. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120021353 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING TONER - Disclosed is a method for producing toner, comprising (1) mixing, with an aqueous medium, a resin solution of an organic solvent in which amorphous polyester resin having unsaturated dicarboxylic acid monomer units is dissolved, and forming an amorphous polyester resin particle dispersion; (2) adding a radical polymerization initiator to the amorphous polyester resin particle dispersion obtained in (1), cross-linking the amorphous polyester resin, and forming a cross-linked amorphous polyester resin particle dispersion; and (3) mixing at least the cross-linked amorphous polyester resin particle dispersion obtained in (2), with a crystalline polyester resin particle dispersion, aggregating cross-linked amorphous polyester resin particles and crystalline polyester resin particles, and forming toner particles. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120021352 | TONER MANUFACTURING METHOD - Disclosed is a manufacturing method of toner which includes at least polyester resin and colorant, comprising the steps of: (A) dissolving, into an organic solvent, the polyester resin and ultrahigh molecular weight styrene resin in which a peak is present in a range larger than 500 thousands and smaller than 3 million in a molecular weight distribution, and preparing a binder resin solution; (B) dispersing the binder resin solution as binder resin solution droplets into an aqueous medium; (C) removing the organic solvent from the binder resin solution droplets, and preparing a resin particle dispersion; and (D) aggregating resin particles from which the organic solvent is removed and colorant particles containing the colorant with each other, and forming toner particles. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020693 | CLEANING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning device for cleaning a belt member, includes a cleaning blade; a removing member coming in contact with the surface of the belt member so as to remove foreign matter adhering on the surface of the belt member; and a contact pressure changing section to change a contact pressure between the removing member to the belt member, wherein, when the contact pressure between the removing member and a region of the belt member corresponding in position to a toner image to be not transferred to a paper sheet is made P | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120020682 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD EMPLOYED BY IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a plurality of replaceable parts and a control section which manages an accumulated amount of work of each of the parts; wherein the control section comprises reference values for replacement of each of the parts and performs, a first mode which carries out a prescribed control in case where an accumulated amount of work of any one of parts of the plurality of parts reaches one of the reference values for replacement; and, a second mode which carries out the prescribed control in case where an accumulated amount of work of a specific part of the plurality of parts reaches one of the reference values for replacement. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120019554 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING POP-UP WINDOW, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a display device that displays a plurality of windows having hierarchy levels in such a manner that a low-level window overlaps a high-level window, each of the plurality of windows containing a first object to close the subject window and one or more second objects to select items; an extraction portion that extracts, from one or more second objects in the high-level window, a selection candidate object that is likely to be selected by a user after the low-level window is closed; and a control portion that controls, when the extraction portion extracts the selection candidate object, the display device in such a manner that the first object in the low-level window overlaps the selection candidate object, or the first object in the low-level window is disposed close to the selection candidate object. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120018948 | POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING THEREOF - A post-processing apparatus including: a conveyance unit which conveys a sheet, having been carried-in, to a selected conveying destination among a plurality of conveying destinations; a stiffness imparting unit which imparts stiffness to the sheet being conveyed by the conveyance unit; and a control section which controls the stiffness imparting by the stiffness imparting unit, wherein the control section controls whether to impart or not to impart stiffness to the sheet, according to the selected conveying destination. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120014727 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a fixing device thermally fixing toner images on recording sheets of various sizes, (i) a conductive heat generating rotational body configured to heat toner images, (ii) an excitation coil positioned along a part of an outer circumferential surface of the heat generating rotational body and configured to generate a magnetic flux to heat the heat generating rotational body by electromagnetic induction, and (iii) a demagnetization coil positioned close to the excitation coil so as to cover a part of the excitation coil and configured to cancel, when a toner image is being fixed on a smaller-sized recording sheet, a part of the magnetic flux generated by the excitation coil so that overheating is prevented in a non sheet-passing region, are provided. The demagnetization coil has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the excitation coil in an axis direction of the coils. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014724 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER - In order to provide a highly durable intermediate transfer member utilized for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, with which generation of rubbing scratches and cracks is suppressed, and no filming is generated, and a method of manufacturing the intermediate transfer member, disclosed is an intermediate transfer member for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, possessing a support and provided thereon, an elastic layer and a surface layer in this order, wherein the elastic layer has an elastic modulus of 10-200 MPa, and the thickness thereof is 50 μm to 500 μm. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014701 | REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A replacement toner cartridge management apparatus is provided with: a receiver which receives toner cartridge replacement information indicating a toner cartridge loaded on an image forming apparatus which the replacement toner cartridge management apparatus can access via a communication circuit, has been replaced with a new one; an information obtainer which obtains remaining toner information of the toner cartridge removed from the image forming apparatus, when the toner cartridge replacement information is received by the receiver; a time determiner which, if the remaining toner information obtained by the information obtainer indicates a value smaller than a predetermined value, determines that an instruction to deliver a replacement toner cartridge should be outputted when the toner cartridge replacement information is received, or if the remaining toner information indicates a value larger than or equal to a predetermined value, determines that an instruction to deliver a replacement toner cartridge should be outputted at a different time; and a transmitter which outputs a delivery instruction according to the determination made by the time determiner. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120014700 | REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A replacement toner cartridge management apparatus is provided with: a receiver which receives toner cartridge replacement information indicating a toner cartridge loaded on one or more than one image forming apparatus which the replacement toner cartridge management apparatus can access via a communication circuit has been replaced or needs to be replaced with a new one; a life information obtainer which obtains the life information of a consumable unit other than the toner cartridge causing the toner cartridge replacement information received by the receiver, a replacement consumable unit for which will be delivered to the same delivery address as a replacement toner cartridge for the toner cartridge causing the toner cartridge replacement information; a determiner which determines a right type of replacement toner cartridge for the toner cartridge causing the toner cartridge replacement information, based on the life information obtained by the life information obtainer; and a transmitter which outputs an instruction to deliver the right type of replacement toner cartridge determined by the determiner. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013957 | DOCUMENT READING DEVICE WHICH INCLUDES AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT CONVEYING MECHANISM AND READS PLURAL DOCUMENTS ONE BY ONE - A digital multi function peripheral includes a scanner for reading an image in a document read position; a document retaining cover for being able to change an opening and closing state between a state in which the scanner is closed and a state in which the scanner is opened, and conveying a document to the scanner when the scanner is closed; a registration sensor for detecting a leading end portion and a rear end portion of the document conveyed by the document retaining cover; and a controller for determining the opening and closing state of the document retaining cover based on a state of the leading end portion and the rear end portion of the document in the image read by an IR module at a time when a predetermined time frame elapses since a detection state of the registration sensor changes. Therefore, the opening and closing state of the conveyance unit for conveying the document can accurately be detected. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013950 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REDUCING GRADATION LEVEL OF IMAGE - An image processing apparatus includes a first generation portion that generates a first low-gradation image by performing a first process on an input image to reduce the number of gradations of the input image, a second generation portion that generates a second low-gradation image by performing a second process on the input image to reduce the number of gradations of the input image, a density detector that detects a density of the input image, a determination portion that determines, based on the density, a ratio at which the first low-gradation image and the second low-gradation image are blended together, and a mixing portion that blends the first low-gradation image and the second low-gradation image in accordance with the ratio. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013947 | PRINT DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS, PRINT DATA RECEIVING METHOD AND PRINT DATA RECEIVING PROGRAM - A print data receiving apparatus for receiving pint data from an external, equipped with a first arithmetic unit for controlling at least a first storage device for storing the print data, and a second arithmetic unit for issuing an activation command to the first arithmetic unit and controlling a second storage device for temporarily storing the received print data when the print data is received from the external under a power saving mode that stops operation of the first arithmetic unit. The second arithmetic unit consumes less power than the first arithmetic unit and controls receiving speed of the print data in such a manner as to cause a free space of the second storage device to be used up when an activation of the first arithmetic unit is completed. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120013704 | TELECONFERENCE SYSTEM - A teleconference system for connecting a plurality of conference bases via a network, each of the conference bases having: a display device for displaying an image on a screen; a video camera that is capable of measuring a depth; a person identifying section for identifying a participant who has made a specified gesture as a speaker, from a video picture taken by the video camera; an image input/display control section that usually keeps the display device displaying predetermined conference material on the screen and that turns the screen blank triggered by the person identifying section's identifying a speaker; a motion identifying section for identifying and digitalizing a motion of the speaker's hand to make motion data; and an image generating section for making a line drawing in accordance with the motion data made by the motion identifying section; wherein the image input/display control section controls the display device to display the line drawing made by the image generating section on the screen. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120011585 | AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM FOR INSTRUCTION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AUTHENTICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND AUTHENTICATION CONTROL PROGRAM - An authentication system for an instruction processing apparatus includes first and second authentication portions each for performing user authentication at the time of using the instruction processing apparatus, and a controller which makes the first authentication portion execute the user authentication and switches from the first authentication portion to the second authentication portion when the user authentication by the first authentication portion cannot be established. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120009515 | DEVELOPER FOR ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY - The present invention provides a developer for electrophotography which is superior in property of build up of electrification and in charge stability even in environments of high temperature and high humidity or in an environment of low temperature and low humidity where it is difficult for a developer to retain its electrostatic charge performance, and which can provide an image free from fogging and decrease in density for a long term, that is, a developer for electrophotography containing composite oxide particles which include metal titanate particles containing titanium as a first metal atom and a second metal atom and containing therein 0.009 to 0.350% by weight of a third metal atom selected from the group consisting of the metal atoms belonging to Group 5A of the long form of the periodic table of elements. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008997 | SHEET FEEDING DEVICE, AUTOMATIC SHEET TRANSFER DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A sheet feeding device comprising a supply roller for feeding sheets mounted on a tray, a drive shaft for supporting the supply roller and rotationally driving the same, first and second supporting arms swingably supported on the drive shaft, a feed roller rotatably supported on the first and second supporting arms, a feed roller transmission mechanism for rotating the feed roller in conjunction with the rotation of the supply roller, first and second transmission mechanisms for swinging the first and second supporting arms, and first and second resilient retaining members which are capable of retaining the first and second supporting arms, the first and second transmission mechanisms shifting the timings that the respective first and second supporting arms are swung against the corresponding resilient retaining members. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008993 | IMAGE FORMATION DEVICE AND IMAGE CORRECTION METHOD - An image formation device comprises imaging units creating toner images in a corresponding color; an intermediate transfer body where the toner images are overlaid in a primary transfer; a secondary transfer unit performing secondary transfers of the overlaid toner images onto a recording sheet; a first misregistration correction unit operable to cause each imaging unit to form a reference pattern, execute a first misalignment reading acquisition process of acquiring a misalignment reading for each pattern, and adjust the imaging units to correct the readings; a storage unit storing the readings; and a second misregistration correction unit operable to cause an imaging unit subset to form reference patterns, execute a second misalignment reading acquisition process of acquiring readings for the subset of patterns and estimating readings in colors for which no pattern is formed from the acquired readings and the stored readings, and adjust the imaging units to correct all readings. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008967 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STOPPING DRIVING IMAGE CARRIER - An image forming apparatus comprising: an image carrier to carry a toner image; a driving unit to drive the image carrier to rotate; a transfer unit to transfer the toner image at a transfer position; a cleaner at a cleaning position to remove toner remaining on the image carrier after transfer; an obtaining unit to obtain information indicating a likelihood of the remaining toner adhering to the image carrier; a judging unit to judge whether or not the likelihood is equal to or lower than a predetermined value; and a controller to control the driving unit (i) to stop driving the image carrier before a rear end of an area of the image carrier on which the toner remains reaches the cleaning position, when the judging unit judges affirmatively, and, (ii) to stop driving the image carrier after the cleaner removes the remaining toner, when the judging unit judges negatively. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120008165 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND HIBERNATION START-UP METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a volatile main memory, a first non-volatile memory for storing a plurality of types of partial snap shot images, a second non-volatile memory from which information can be read faster than from the first non-volatile memory, for storing an entire snap shot image, and a processor. The processor reads a partial snap shot image corresponding to a state after change from the first non-volatile memory and updates a corresponding portion of the entire snap shot image in the second non-volatile memory. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120006173 | SHEET PUNCHING DEVICE, SHEET FINISHER HAVING THE SHEET PUNCHING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM EQUIPPED THEREWITH - A punching device includes: plural punches and a die having plural punching holes with each of which each punch is engaged and arranged to be spaced apart; a support member which supports rotatably each punch and movably in a direction of each rotation axis, on which a fixed cam member including a first cam hole having a first vertical and inclined portions, is provided; and a movable cam member including a second cam hole having a second inclined portion, provided on the fixed cam member, movable in an orthogonal direction; wherein each punch has a pin passing through each of the first and second cam holes, and when each pin is regulated by the first vertical and second inclined portions, each punch moves toward the die, and when each pin is regulated by the first and the second inclined portions, each punch moves toward the die and rotates about each axis. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120003014 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A two-component developing device using a developer containing toner and magnetic carrier particles. The developing device comprises a housing, a developing roller, a magnetic field generator mounted inside the developing roller, and a developer restricting member, and further comprises a developer guide member providing a developer guide path for guiding the developer to the developer amount restricting clearance, providing a developer circulation path for circulating the developer to an upstream end of the guide member, and providing a communication path for bringing the developer guide path into communication with the developer circulation path, an upstream end of the guide member being positioned above the position of a peak of magnetic flux density of the magnetic pole of the magnetic field generator which is closest to a low-magnetic force area downstream of the low-magnetic force area or positioned upstream of such a position and downstream of the low-magnetic force area. An image forming device in which such a two-component developing device is employed as at least one developing device. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002992 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a low cost color image forming apparatus in which the density of the image having been fixed is optimally adjusted and jamming in the fixing device is prohibited. The toner adhering amount of each single color toner image to form a color toner image is controlled based on the density detection result of the yellow test toner image having been fixed and the degree of fixation is controlled base on the density detection result of the black test toner image having been fixed | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002983 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DEVELOPING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus comprises: a developing device having an outlet from which a two-component developer is partially discharged while the two-component developer is conveyed; a hopper to which (i) a first cartridge containing a first developer including carriers and (ii) a second cartridge containing a second developer including toner and not carriers are attachable, and operable, when the first cartridge is attached thereto, to supply the first developer to the developing device, and when the second cartridge is attached thereto, to supply the second developer to the developing device; and a switching part operable, when the first developer is supplied, to switch the developing device to a first state in which the two-component developer is partially discharged from the outlet, and when the second developer is supplied, to switch the developing device to a second state in which the two-component developer is not discharged from the outlet. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002262 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE - An optical scanning device having: a light source for emitting a light beam; a deflector having a plurality of flat reflecting surfaces; a first optical system disposed between the light source and the deflector; and a second optical system disposed between the deflector and a photoreceptor surface, and configured such that the reflecting surfaces of the deflector and the photoreceptor surface are conjugated in a sub-scanning direction at every deflection angle in a main-scanning range. In the optical scanning device, the light beam traveling from the first optical system to the deflector has a width greater than a dimension in a main-scanning direction of each reflecting surface of the deflector, and the light beam passes through different portions of the first optical system depending on whether the light beam is to be deflected by the deflector to be directed to an edge portion of the main-scanning range or to be directed to a center portion of the main-scanning range such that the light beam traveling to the deflector has a smaller average wavefront curvature in a sub-scanning direction when the light beam is to be deflected by the deflector to be directed to an edge portion of the main-scanning range than when the light beam is to be deflected by the deflector to be directed to the center portion of the main-scanning range. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110319244 | PAPER FOLDING DEVICE FOR THREE-FOLDING SHEET OF PAPER - In a paper folding device, a first driving unit for forming a first folding line on the paper moves a first folding plate member to the paper fed to a first feeding position until load on the first folding plate member reaches a prescribed value or higher. A time period from the start of driving of the first folding unit by the first driving unit to the start of driving of a second folding unit by a second driving unit is determined based on characteristic of paper. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318681 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR - An electrophotographic photoreceptor is disclosed, comprising, on an electrically conductive substrate, a photosensitive layer and a surface layer provided sequentially in that order, in which the surface layer is a layer formed by polymerizing a polymerizable compound (I) containing seven to ten functional groups and exhibiting a reactive group equivalent of not more than 140 and not less than 100. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110318077 | HEAT-PRODUCING ELEMENT FOR FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A heat-producing element for fixing a toner image on an image support, in which the heat-producing element comprises a heat-resistant resin and electrically-conductive fiber having a shape stipulated by conditions 1, 2 and 3.
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| 20110317192 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INTERFACE SCREEN, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus having a plurality of functions includes a scroll display portion that displays a row of markers and a slider for specifying one or more markers sequentially by moving along the row, an image display portion that displays functional images for representing functions corresponding to the markers specified by the slider, a setting portion that receives setting item details for a function specified by one of the functional images selected, and an extraction portion that extracts a function having the setting item details received by the setting portion different from an initial value. The image display portion displays a functional image for a longer time when the functional image represents the function extracted by the extraction portion than when the functional image does not represent the function extracted by the extraction portion. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110314311 | COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A communication control device capable of performing data communication with an information processing device connected through a network, for performing data communication corresponding to a command from an application part which requests data communication with the information processing device, comprises: a communication control part for outputting response information obtained through the data communication corresponding to the command from the application part; and a virtually response part and for generating virtual response information, containing information as to the information processing device, responding to the command from the application part. The communication control part manages registration information including at least one command for requesting virtual data communication performed hypothetically with the virtually response part registered. The communication control part obtains the virtual response information from the virtually response part and outputs to the application part when the command received from the application part is registered in the registration information. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314102 | CONTENT COLLECTING APPARATUS, CONTENT COLLECTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH CONTENT COLLECTING PROGRAM - A content collecting apparatus, capable of accessing a plurality of electronic communities which each exchange contents among users via a network, includes a content accepting portion to accept a content input by a user as a question content, a selecting portion to select at least one of the electronic communities for posting the question content thereon, a posting portion to post the question content on the selected electronic community, and an evaluating portion to evaluate the electronic community on which the question content was posted, on the basis of an answer content posted in correspondence with the question content on that electronic community. The selecting portion, on the basis of the evaluation result by the evaluating portion, selects a second electronic community from among the plurality of electronic communities that is different from the first electronic community on which the question content was posted. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314053 | PRESENTATION SUPPORT DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A presentation support device, comprises: a storage part for storing the presentation data and search filter information in which a keyword to specify the content of the presentation is registered; a data projection part for reading the presentation data in the storage part and causes the presentation data to be projected; a data distribution part for causing the information processing terminal to display the presentation data; and an answer generation part for obtaining an answer to a request on question toward the presentation and generating answer information in response to the request on question. The answer generation part reads the keyword registered in the search filter information and searches a predetermined database by a combination of the read keyword and a search keyword contained in the request on question, thereby obtaining the answer to the request on question and generating the answer information when the request on question is received. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311907 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Reduced are interferential streaks in a halftone image, which are produced when using a cylindrical photoreceptor conductive substrate having been subjected to tool bit cutting processing, and provided are an electrophotographic photoreceptor capable of obtaining high image quality in response to a light printing field or the like and an image forming method employing the electrophotographic photoreceptor. Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor possessing a cylindrical substrate having been finished via cutting processing and provided thereon, a photosensitive layer, wherein among peaks other than at a lag of 0 in a correlogram of a substrate surface profile in a direction along a central axis of the substrate, a mean value from a maximum peak in height to a third peak in height is 0.3-0.8, each of the peaks in height corresponding to an autocorrelation coefficient. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311279 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - A developing device comprising: a first transport member disposed in a first transport passage and configured to rotate and thereby transport developer; a second transport member disposed in a second transport passage and configured to rotate and thereby transport the developer; and a developer carrier configured to carry the developer supplied from the first transport passage, wherein the second transport passage is composed of an upstream section and a downstream section, the second transport passage communicates with the first transport passage via a first communication passage and a second communication passage, the upstream section is configured to receive refill toner, and V | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311250 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device for thermally fixing image onto recording sheet by causing recording sheet to pass through fixing nip, while heating electromagnetic induction heating layer provided in heating rotation body by flux generated by flux generator including exciting coil located a distance away from circumferential surface of heating rotation body along width direction of heating rotation body. The flux generator includes: magnetic cores arranged to be separated from each other in width direction, to face heating rotation body via exciting coil; holder holding predetermined magnetic cores, arranged in correspondence with non-paper-pass area of heating rotation body, in displaceable state; displacement unit displacing predetermined magnetic cores in predetermined move unit, which is a unit of one magnetic core or a unit of a predetermined number of consecutively placed magnetic cores; and controller controlling displacement unit to displace predetermined magnetic cores in sequence in predetermined move unit. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311245 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DENSITY CORRECTION METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus includes: sensor detecting light intensity and output voltage based on the light intensity; data acquisition part setting reference voltages for the sensor to detect light intensity of bare surface of intermediate transfer member, acquiring, at set reference voltage, voltage output by the sensor on the bare surface as detection data; storage storing the detection data corresponding to the reference voltages; judgment part judging whether to perform image density correction processing; voltage calibration part adjusting output level at light intensity detection; density acquisition part forming toner pattern, and acquiring density data of the toner pattern by causing the sensor having adjusted output level to detect its light intensity; density data correction part reading one piece of detection data referring to output level, and correcting the density data based on the detection data; and image density correction part performing the processing based on the density data. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311243 | REPLACEMENT CONSUMABLE UNIT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A replacement consumable unit management apparatus is provided with: a receiver which receives consumable unit replacement information indicating that one consumable unit of one color or more than one consumable unit of different colors has been replaced with a new one, from one or more than one image forming apparatus which the replacement consumable unit management apparatus can access via a communication circuit; a consumable unit manager which manages the remaining amount information or the life information of the one or more than one consumable unit, and stock information indicating the states of the stocks of replacement consumable units for the one or more than one consumable unit; a determiner which, if the receiver receives the consumable unit replacement information while a consumable unit which cannot be replaced with a new one because of no stock and a consumable unit whose remaining amount information or life information is smaller than a first predetermined value are both used at the same place as the new consumable unit most recently loaded, makes a first determination that a first replacement consumable unit of the same color as the consumable unit which cannot be replaced with a new one because of no stock and a second consumable unit of the same color as the consumable unit whose remaining amount information or life information is smaller than the first predetermined value should be delivered together; and a transmitter which outputs a delivery instruction as determined by the determiner. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110311239 | REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, REPLACEMENT TONER CARTRIDGE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUMS - A replacement toner cartridge management apparatus comprising: a remaining toner information obtainer that obtains remaining toner information of a toner cartridge loaded on an image forming apparatus which the replacement toner cartridge management apparatus can access via a communication circuit; a life information obtainer that obtains life information of an expendable item for image forming which receives toner supply from the toner cartridge loaded on the image forming apparatus, when there is a need to replace a toner cartridge, based on the remaining toner information obtained by the remaining toner information obtainer; a determiner that determines a right type of replacement toner cartridge based on the life information obtained by the life information obtainer; and an output portion that outputs an instruction to deliver a replacement toner cartridge of the type determined by the determiner. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310456 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE - An optical scanning device for scanning a photoreceptor surface with a beam, said optical scanning device having: a light source for emitting the beam; an optical system for causing the beam emitted from the light source to converge; and a deflector that includes a polygon mirror with a plurality of reflecting surfaces and that deflects the beam that has passed through the optical system by rotations of the polygon mirror. Between the deflector and the photoreceptor surface, no optical system for causing the beam to converge or diverge is disposed. The optical system for causing the beam emitted from the light source to converge generates spherical aberration depending on which part of the optical system in a main-scanning direction the beam passes through. The beam enters into three or more adjacent reflecting surfaces of the polygon mirror at a time. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310454 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An optical scanning device for scanning a photoreceptor surface with beams, said optical scanning device comprising: a light source that emits a plurality of beams in one direction; a deflector for deflecting the beams; a detector for detecting light intensities of the beams; and a switch for switching travel routes of the beams between a first route leading from the light source to the deflector and a second route leading from the light source to the detector. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310432 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PRINT SETTING PROGRAM, PRINT SETTING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM OF PRINTING APPARATUS, AND PRINTING APPARATUS - The printer driver according to the present invention causes the PC to execute steps of: determining whether or not the printer for executing print data is equipped with a Japanese device font based on information acquired from the printer (S | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310413 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS PERFORMING POWER-SAVING OPERATION - An image processing apparatus includes a CPU, a memory, and a bus connecting the CPU and the memory, and performs a process for printing print data. The image processing apparatus includes an input unit for inputting print data from an external device, a conversion unit for converting print data into raster data, and a measuring unit for measuring a time required for conversion in the conversion unit. Measurement is performed by the measuring unit, and based on the measurement result, the setting for slowing down the speed of conversion processing in the conversion unit is made (for example, the setting for reducing at least one of the operating frequency of the CPU, the power supply voltage of the CPU, and the operating frequency of the bus). Thus, an effective power saving process can be performed. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110310412 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, NOISE CANCELLATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus comprising: a sound-level meter that measures operating noise of a rotating portion; a sound data generator that generates a noise control sound data object with the same amplitude but with the inverted phase to the operating noise; a speaker that emits sound based on the noise control sound data object; a memory that stores in advance a noise control sound data object generated to cancel out operating noise measured while the rotation frequency of the rotating portion is changed from a first rate to a second rate; and a controller that measures operating noise of the rotating portion and generates a noise control sound data object to cancel out the operating noise, then emits sound based on the noise control sound data object, while the rotating portion runs in steady state, meanwhile reads out from the memory, a suitable noise control sound data object from the memory and emit sound based on the noise control sound data object, during the transition of the rotation frequency of the rotating portion. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309573 | SHEET DISCHARGE ROLLER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In a sheet discharge roller, a transportation roller includes a roller portion formed integrally on a rotation shaft, and an annular elastic member attached to a surface of the roller portion, each of rigidity increasing portions includes a plurality of plate members axially spaced from each other by a predetermined distance, and the plurality of plate members have forms each obtained by circumferentially dividing a circular plate, respectively, are arranged in positions circumferentially shifted from each other, respectively, and thereby exhibit an outer periphery of a substantially circular form when viewed in the axial direction. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110309563 | POST FINISHING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM USING THE SAME - A post finishing device for attaching a binder into punched holes of bundled sheets to bind the bundled sheets, and producing a booklet bound with the binder, including: a stacking section for stacking the booklet produced; and a position adjusting section for adjusting a stacking position of the booklet on the stacking section, in such a way that when the booklet is stacked on the stacking section, the binder to bound the booklet does not come into contact with a binder of another booklet having been stacked on the stacking section. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110307575 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH DATA TRANSMISSION PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a content obtaining portion to obtain content written in a markup language; an extraction portion to extract destination information by analyzing the obtained content; a content display portion to display the obtained content; a generation portion to generate a set of destination information by successively adding a plurality of destination information extracted from a plurality of contents displayed by the content display portion; and a transmission portion to transmit data based on the generated set of destination information. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305487 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER BELT AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - An intermediate transfer belt has an elastic layer and a modified layer formed by a surface-modifying treatment of a surface of the elastic layer, wherein the surface of the elastic layer with the modified layer has a surface hardness of 0.01 GPa or more and exhibits 50 nm or more of displacement at the time of pushing the surface at a load of 20 μN by means of a cube corner tip having a tip sharp angle of 90 degree. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305477 | DEVELOPER CONTAINING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer containing device for containing a developer includes a partition arranged between an outer space and an inner space for containing the developer, a bearing arranged on the partition, a rotation shaft carried by the bearing and extending from the outer space to the inner space, a sealing member arranged on the inner space side, having one end side fixed to the partition and the other end side being in contact with a surface of the rotation shaft, and thereby isolating the bearing from the inner space, a communication groove arranged at the surface of the rotation shaft, and connecting the outer space to a closed space isolated from the inner space by the sealing member, and a communication passage arranged on the partition for connecting the outer space to the closed space. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110304871 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, PRINTING DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PRINTING DATA GENERATION METHOD - Disclosed is an image formation apparatus, comprising: a reception section to receive PDL data; an image processing section including a plurality of operation sections, each of which executing a task performing processing by a page or a task performing processing by a band to generate printing data based on the PDL data; a control section to analyze the PDL data to obtain the number of printing pages, the control section dynamically setting the number of the operation sections assigned to each of the task performing the processing by the page and the task performing the processing by the band in accordance with the obtained number of the printing pages; and a printing section to form an image on a printing medium based on the generated printing data. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110303114 | SLIDE RAIL AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH THE SAME - A slide rail includes an outer rail and an inner rail. The inner rail includes a top face portion, main-portion side walls, outer deck portions, and end-portion side walls. The outer rail includes a bottom wall and a storage portion. The main-portion side walls and the end-portion side walls are both provided adjacently on both sides of the top face portion in a width direction thereof, and bent toward outer rail. The main-portion side walls are provided in a portion other than one end portion in the longitudinal direction. The end-portion side walls are provided in the one end portion. Each outer deck portion extends outward in the width direction to be continuous to an edge of each main-portion side wall opposite the top face portion. The storage portions are provided adjacently on both sides of the bottom wall in the width direction and bent toward the inner rail to cover the outer edge portions. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110300481 | PYRAZOLOTRIAZOLE COMPOUND AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER - A compound represented by Formula (X-1) is disclosed. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299903 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is a fixing device for thermally fixing an unfixed image onto the recording sheet, the fixing device comprising: a fixing belt; and a meander regulation member provided adjacent to an edge of the fixing belt in a width direction thereof, and operable to prevent meandering of the fixing belt, wherein the fixing belt includes: a resistive heat layer that is tubular and generates heat when an electric current is applied thereto; and first and second electrodes that are provided circumferentially on an outer circumferential surface of the resistive heat layer, and that receive and apply the electric current to the resistive heat layer, and the first electrode is provided closer to the meander regulation member than to the second electrode, and is at a distance from the edge of the fixing belt in the width direction thereof. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299902 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device for thermally fixing an unfixed image formed on a recording sheet by passing the recording sheet through a fixing nip. The fixing device has a heat-generating endless belt that includes: a resistive heat layer that generates heat upon receiving electric current; and a pair of electrode layers each disposed along a different one of widthwise edges of the heat-generating endless belt. The resistive heat layer has (i) reduced thickness portions each along a widthwise edge thereof and (ii) a middle portion between the reduced thickness portions. Each reduced thickness portion is thinner than the middle portion and connected to the middle portion with a wall surface upright in a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis of the heat-generating endless belt to define a stair shape. Each electrode layer is disposed on the resistive heat layer to be in contact with a corresponding one of the wall surfaces. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299901 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device for thermally fixing an unfixed image formed on a recording sheet by passing the recording sheet through a fixing nip. The fixing device has: a heat-generating endless belt having, on a circumferential surface thereof, a sheet passing area through which the recording sheet passes; a first pressure member disposed inside a running path of the endless belt; and a second pressure member disposed to press the endless belt against the first pressure member from outside the running path to form the fixing nip. The endless belt includes: a resistive heat layer that generates heat upon receiving electric current; and a pair of electrode layers that receive electric current. The electrode layers flank the sheet passing area. The resistive heat layer is in contact with the electrode layers at a different one of end faces opposing each other in a width direction of the resistive heat layer. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299900 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device thermally fixes an unfixed image on a recording sheet by passing the recording sheet through a fixing nip. The fixing device has: a heat-generating endless belt; a first pressure member inside a running path of the endless belt; a second pressure member pressing the endless belt against the first pressure member from outside the running path to form the fixing nip, and a pair of power feeders. The endless belt includes: a circumferential resistive heat layer that generates heat upon receiving electric current; and a first electrode and a second electrode flanking a sheet passing area of the circumferential surface of the endless belt. Each electrode is composed of a pair of electrode layers, one on the inner and another on the outer circumferential surface of the resistive heat layer. Each power feeder is in contact with both the electrode layers of a different electrode. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299898 | FUSING APPARATUS USED TO FUSE TONER IMAGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fusing apparatus allows a recording member to pass through between a heat member and a pressure member, to transport and heat the recording member, and thereby fuses a toner image on the recording member. The fusing apparatus includes a temperature detector for detecting a surface temperature of the heat member in a non-contact manner. A surface of the heat member is configured such that a region of the surface all around a cylindrical configuration that faces a temperature detection area of the temperature detector has a higher emissivity than other regions. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299897 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CLEANING METHOD - An image forming apparatus, capable of cleaning a fixing member by conveying a blank sheet, including: an image forming section for forming a toner image on a sheet; a feeding section for feeding a sheet to the image forming section; a fixing section for fixing a toner image onto a sheet at a nip formed between a fixing member and a pressure member; and a control section for controlling the image forming section and the fixing section to feed a sheet from the feeding section, wherein, when a toner is adhered to a fixing section, the control section controls to feed a sheet from the feeding section, convey to the fixing section without forming a toner image thereon, and transfer a toner, having been adhered onto the fixing member, onto a downstream side of the sheet from a leading edge area of the sheet in a sheet conveying direction. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299893 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND DEVELOPING METHOD - A developing device having a plurality of toner carrying members for carrying toner on their outer peripheral surfaces, the plurality of toner carrying members being placed along a rotating direction of an image carrying member and out of contact with the image carrying member; and a developer carrying member for carrying a developer composed of toner and carriers and for supplying the toner to the plurality of toner carrying members. In the developing device, AC bias voltages are applied to the toner carrying members so as to cause the toner carried by the toner carrying members to stick to an electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrying member by the effect of electric fields induced by a voltage of the electrostatic latent image and the AC bias voltages applied to the toner carrying members. The amount of developing toner sticking on the image carrying member immediately after the image carrying member has passed a development area in an upstream side in the rotating direction of the image carrying member is larger than the amount of developing toner sticking on the image carrying member immediately after the image carrying member has passed a development area in a downstream side in the rotating direction of the image carrying member. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299892 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device, includes a developer agitating member, an upstream side developing miler, and a downstream side developing roller; wherein the toner in the developer handed over from the upstream side developing roller to the downstream side developing roller has a volume average particle size larger than a volume average particle size of the toner in the developer conveyed by the upstream side developing roller to the facing position between the upstream side developing roller and the photoreceptor. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299870 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a controller, when a continuous two-sided printing is carried out, which causes two image forming sections to print images of image data on an Nth page and an (N+1)th page onto respective surfaces of a preceding recording sheet, causes the same image forming section as the image forming section that has formed the image on the (N+1)th page to print an image of image data on an (N+2)th page onto a following sheet, causes a sheet reversing section to reverse the sheet on which the image of the (N+2)th page has printed before the sheet is ejected from the apparatus, and then controls a sheet ejection so that a surface of the (N+1)th page of the preceding sheet faces a surface of the (N+2)th page of the following sheet. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299794 | BACKGROUND PATTERN IMAGE COMBINING APPARATUS, BACKGROUND PATTERN IMAGE COMBINING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A background pattern image combining apparatus for combining a background pattern image with an input image is provided. The background pattern image includes a plurality of first isolated points having a size that can be read by an image reader and a plurality of second isolated points having a size that cannot be read by the image reader. The background pattern image combining apparatus includes a detector that detects, in the input image, a specific area which is an area having a specific state, and a combining portion that combines the background pattern image with the input image by placing not the plurality of first isolated points but the plurality of second isolated points in the specific area, and, by placing the plurality of first isolated points and the plurality of second isolated points in an area other than the specific area. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299127 | Print Data Generating Apparatus, Print Data Generating Method, and Computer Readable Storage Medium Storing Print Data Generating Program - The print data generating apparatus capable of generating print data for VDP in a plurality of formats, classifies an object layout of the print data (steps from S | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299121 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device for installing and executing an application program which enables at least one of a plurality of information processing functions comprises: a storage part for storing functional restriction information configured for each of a plurality of users is defined; an obtaining part for obtaining, based on the functional restriction information, common functional restriction information in which restriction on use of at least one of the plurality of information processing functions except for a common available function commonly available for all the plurality of users is defined; a determination part, in installation of the application program, for determining whether or not a command contained in the application program enables an unavailable function restricted with the common functional restriction information by analyzing the command; a rewrite part for rewriting the command; and an installation part for installing the application program containing the command rewritten by the rewrite part. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299119 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including: at least one replaceable part constituting the image forming apparatus; and a control section for controlling the replaceable part, wherein the control section is provided with a plurality of replacement standards for one replaceable part, and performs a replacement standard process in conformance to each of these replacement standards. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110299114 | PRINT SERVER, PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM AND PRINT CONTROL METHOD - A print server is linked through a communication network to a client device for sending PDL data, and an image forming apparatus provided with a RIP section for creating raster data by rasterizing the PDL data and a printer section for executing printing according to the raster data. This print server is provided with at least a RIP section for creating raster data by rasterizing the PDL data received from the client device, and a control section that compares the time to be taken before output when the PDL data received from the aforementioned client device is sent to the image forming apparatus with the time to be taken before output when the raster data created by the RIP section of the printer server is sent to the image forming apparatus, whereby the data whose length of time before the output is shorter is sent to the image forming apparatus. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110296439 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, APPLICATION EXECUTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device, comprises: a storage part for storing a plurality of application programs allowing a specified function to operate under operating conditions differ among the plurality of application programs; a configuration part for configuring a setting to reflect the operating conditions corresponding to one application program selected from the plurality of application programs; an application management part for managing the respective operating conditions of the plurality of application programs, for obtaining a current setting configured by the configuration part when allowing the specified function to operate and for selecting, based on the respective operating conditions of the plurality of application programs, the one application program takes the shortest amount of processing time required for an operating conditions reflection executed by the configuration part; and an application execution part for allowing the specified function to operate with execution of the one application program selected by the application management part. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110296297 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH DISPLAY PROGRAM - A display device displaying presentation data including a plurality of pages includes: a presentation data reception portion to receive the presentation data from a presenter device; a page number reception portion to receive from the presenter device a page number of a page displayed by the presenter device among a plurality of pages of the presentation data; a display control portion to display an image of a page having the received page number among a plurality of pages of the presentation data, in a follow mode, and to display an image of any given page of a plurality of pages of the presentation data, in a write mode; a handwritten image detection portion to detect a handwritten image in the write mode; a temporary storage portion to, if a follow mode set instruction to set the follow mode is accepted in the write mode, store temporary storage data in which the handwritten image detected by the handwritten image detection portion is associated with a page number of a page displayed by the display control portion when the follow mode set instruction is accepted, among a plurality of pages of the presentation data; and a return control portion to, if a return instruction is accepted in the follow mode, allow the display control portion to display an image in which a handwritten image specified by the temporary storage data is superimposed on an image of a page having a page number specified by the stored temporary storage data among a plurality of pages of the presentation data. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110294059 | TONER AND TONER MANUFACTURING METHOD - Disclosed is a toner comprising at least a binder resin, a colorant and a polyurethane resin, wherein the polyurethane resin is a carboxy-denatured polyurethane resin. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110293343 | FUSING APPARATUS USED TO FUSE TONER IMAGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fusing apparatus allows a recording member to pass through between a heat member and a pressure member, to transport and heat the recording member, and thereby fuses a toner image on the recording member. The heat member has a release layer, a low emissivity member, and an elastic layer. The release layer is formed on an outermost layer of the heat member. The low emissivity member is provided between the heat source and the release layer so as to abut on the release layer, and is made of a material with a lower emissivity than a material forming the release layer. The elastic layer is provided between the heat source and the low emissivity member. The release layer has infrared transmission properties at wavelengths of 2 to 10 μm. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110293342 | HEAT-PRODUCING ELEMENT FOR FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A heat-producing element for a fixing device to carry out heat-fixing after a toner image having been formed using a pulverized toner is transferred on an image support, a heat-producing element for a fixing device in which a thin-leaf graphite-pulverized material of a volume specific resistance of 10 | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110293340 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device for thermally fixing an unfixed image onto a recording sheet by causing the sheet to pass through a fixing nip. The fixing device includes: heat belt formed in an endless shape and provided with a resistance heat layer; first pressure member provided inside a running path of the heat belt; and second pressure member pressing the first pressure member from over the running path to form the fixing nip. At least one of the first and second pressure members is rotating body. The heat belt has a pressure-receiving area and two non-pressure areas. The pressure-receiving area receives pressures from both the first and second pressure members. The non-pressure areas have been arranged at outside of the pressure-receiving area in an axis direction of the rotating body. Two ring-like electrodes have been formed on circumferential surfaces of the non-pressure areas and are used to supply power to the resistance heat layer. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110293297 | FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND HEAT GENERATING ROTATIONAL BODY - The present invention provides a fixing device that can interrupt power supply to the resistive heat layer more reliably than the conventional technology, for example, at occurrence of abnormality. Electrodes | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292462 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus is provided for performing image processing on an image containing a first image and a second image representing a translucent object. The image processing apparatus includes a detector that detects a non-overlapping region in the second image, the non-overlapping region being a region that does not overlap the first image, and an equalizing portion that makes gradations in the non-overlapping region uniform. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110292448 | PROGRAM EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD - A program execution control method for a printer provided with a controller including a CPU, a RAM and a ROM, wherein a first program to be operated in a printing state, a second program to be operated in a sleep state and a third program to be operated in a standby state are stored in the ROM, the program execution control method includes the steps of: executing by the CPU, in the printing state, the first program by expanding the first program on the RAM, and by using a work area of the RAM; executing by the CPU, in the sleep state, the second program without expanding the second program on the RAM, and without using the work area of the RAM; and executing by the CPU, in the standby state, the third program without expanding the third program on the RAM, and by using the work area of the RAM. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110287351 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An electrophotographic photoreceptor having a photosensitive layer on a conductive support, wherein the photosensitive layer comprises a pigment containing an adduct of titanyl phthalocyanine and 2,3-butanediol, and a ratio of an absorbance at a wavelength of 780 nm of the photosensitive layer (referred to as Abs780) divided by an absorbance at a wavelength of 700 nm of the photosensitive layer (referred to as Abs700) is 0.8 to 1.1, the ratio being referred to as Abs780/Abs700, and Abs780 and Abs700 each being calculated from a relative reflectance spectrum of the electrophotographic photoreceptor, wherein the relative reflectance spectrum is determined using an aluminum conductive support using a reflectance spectrum of the aluminum conductive support as a base line. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286775 | FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND HEAT GENERATION BELT - The present invention provides a fixing device for fixing an unfixed image onto a recording sheet by applying heat and pressure to the unfixed image while the recording sheet having the unfixed image formed thereon is passing through a fixing nip, the fixing nip being formed by pressing a pressurizing roller against a heat generation belt, wherein the heat generation belt rotates around a rotational axis and includes a resistive heat layer extending in a rotational axis direction thereof, the resistive heat layer configured to generate heat when electricity is supplied thereto and having a plurality of holes provided therein, and the holes are distributed unevenly in the resistive heat layer such that electrical resistivity of the resistive heat layer varies in the rotational axis direction. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110286672 | TRANSLUCENT IMAGE DETECTION APPARATUS, TRANSLUCENT IMAGE EDGE DETECTION APPARATUS, TRANSLUCENT IMAGE DETECTION METHOD, AND TRANSLUCENT IMAGE EDGE DETECTION METHOD - A translucent image edge detection apparatus is provided with a detector that detects isolated point pixels in an image, the isolated point pixels being pixels having a density higher than that of neighboring pixels adjacent to the isolated point pixels; a determination portion that detects periodic pixels from the isolated point pixels, the periodic pixels being seen at regular intervals; a closing processing portion that performs closing processing on a region containing the periodic pixels, and thereby, obtains a post-closing region; an expanded region calculation portion that obtains an expanded region by expanding the post-closing region; a reduced region calculation portion that obtains a reduced region by reducing the post-closing region; and an edge calculation portion that detects an edge of a translucent image based on a difference between the expanded region and the reduced region. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110285075 | PAPER SHEET CASSETTE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A paper sheet cassette includes a paper sheet containing part for loading and containing paper sheets, a pair of side edge positioning members provided so as to move toward or away from each other in a width direction of the paper sheets for determining a position of the paper sheets in their width direction, an interlock mechanism for synchronously moving the pair of side edge positioning members toward or away from each other, a latch member which is movable along with a first member of the pair of side edge positioning members and is provided with a lock tooth portion formed thereon, and a lock member which has a latch claw which can be brought into or out of engagement with the lock tooth portion and is movable along with a second member of the pair of side edge positioning members. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110283345 | MATERIAL OUTPUT SYSTEM FOR OUTPUTTING MEETING MATERIAL FOR PROSPECTIVE PARTICIPANT IN MEETING - In a material output system, if it is determined that a meeting management server has stored therein meeting information in which an authenticated person is included in prospective participants in a meeting, in which an installation place of MFP that has performed authentication agrees with a meeting room where the meeting is held, and in which the present date and time is included in a meeting room reservation time, MFP is instructed to output a material saved in a location associated with the meeting information. If it is determined that such meeting information is not stored in the meeting management server, the material output system displays a screen to allow output of the material saved in the associated location, for at least one piece of meeting information in which the authenticated user is included in prospective participants in a meeting. Accordingly, the material can be promptly distributed to the participant in the meeting. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110281710 | SHEET FOLDING DEVICE AND SHEET POST-PROCESSING DEVICE USING SAME - Sheet pressing means ( | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110281709 | SHEET FOLDING DEVICE AND SHEET POST-PROCESSING DEVICE USING SAME - Sheet pressing means ( | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110281211 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER - Provided is an electrostatic image developing toner containing, (i) toner particles containing: a binder resin having a domain-matrix structure; and (ii) a colorant; wherein the toner particles have a volume-based median diameter of 4.3 to 7.0 μm; a domain phase in the binder resin contains a polymer containing a structure unit derived from a diene monomer, the domain phase has a Feret diameter of 50 to 300 nm; and a glass transition temperature of the polymer composing the domain phase is −85 to +35° C. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280637 | CLEANING DEVICE AND IMAGE-FORMING DEVICE - A cleaning device comprises: a rotational brush disposed to touch an image holder and a lubricant, the brush which scrapes the lubricant and applies the scraped lubricant to the image holder, the brush including: a rotational axis; and a plurality of looped bristles disposed around the rotational axis, wherein a contact length of the bristles to the lubricant is longer than a contact length of the bristles to the image holder. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280634 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a heating member to heat a sheet on which a toner image is supported; a pressing member to contact with the heating member so as to form a nip portion; a temperature detecting sensor to detect a temperature of the heating member without contacting with a surface of the heating member; and an air separating section to separate the sheet from the heating member by blowing air from a outlet to the sheet conveyed out from the nip portion, wherein the heating member is arranged to interrupt a straight line which connects the outlet and the temperature detecting sensor. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110280607 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED THEREWITH - A fixing device by fixing an image on a recording material at a nip portion, includes: an air blower which blows air sent by a fan on the neighborhood of an exit of the nip portion; a pressure contact and separation switching section which switches from a separated state in which a pressure member is separated from a fixing member to a pressure contact state in which the pressure member is in contact with the heating member at a moment that is earlier by a predetermined period of time than a time when a leading edge of the recording material arrives at the nip portion; and a controller which controls the fan to start its rotation within a first time period between a time when a changeover from the separated state to the pressure contact state is started and a time when the leading edge of the recording material arrives at the nip portion. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279858 | Image Forming System, Image Forming Apparatus, Image Forming Method, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium Encoded with Image Forming Program - An image forming apparatus includes a portion to receive a print job, a portion to generate print data of the print job, a portion to perform prescribed processing on the print data to convert it into processed data, a portion to form an image of the print data or the processed data, a portion to generate first reduction information including a difference in the amount of resources consumed when an image is formed under a print condition included in the print job and when an image is formed under a predetermined print condition, a portion to generate second reduction information including a difference in the amount of resources consumed when an image is formed from the print data and when an image is formed from the processed data, and a portion, when an image is formed from the processed data, to store history information which associates the first and second reduction information with the print job. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110279855 | RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A retrieval system comprises an image forming apparatus having a box which is a data storage area and a terminal device for retrieval, which is connected to the image forming apparatus via a network, and retrieves information stored in the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus has a storage part for storing bookmark information including list information of item names of items in an electronic document file stored in the box and a transmission part for transmitting the bookmark information to the terminal device. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110274456 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device having a heater, a signal generator for generating a prescribed cyclic signal in conformity with a waveform of an AC power supply applied to the heater, and a controller for controlling power feed to the heater. The controller determines whether a cycle of the prescribed cyclic signal becomes shorter than a prescribed period or not. When the controller has determined that the cycle has become shorter than the prescribed period, the controller controls power feed to the heater under phase control and when the controller has determined that the cycle has not become shorter than the prescribed period, the controller controls power feed to the heater under zero crossing control. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110273733 | Method for Storing a Profile Set, a Computer Readable Recording Medium Stored with a Profile Set Storage Program, a Profile Set Storage System, and a Color Conversion Process Device - The method of storing profile set storage method according to the present invention comprising (a) selecting as reconstruction data that enables to reconstruct a profile set, either size prioritized data, which is smaller than said profile set, or reconstruction speed prioritized data, which enables to be reconstructed within a shorter time period than is required for reconstructing the size prioritized data, and which is smaller than the profile set but is larger than the size prioritized data; (b) for generating the selected reconstruction data based on the profile set; and (c) storing the reconstruction data generated in the step (b) in a storage device. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110268466 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CLEANING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: an image holder on which a toner image is formed; a lubricant applying section which applies a lubricant to the image holder; a torque calculation section which calculates torque of a drive motor which drives the image holder; a cleaning section which cleans the image holder; and a control section which calculates a print rate of the toner image formed on the image holder, makes determination of an adhering lubricant amount of the lubricant adhering to the image holder based on the print rate and the torque, and forms a toner image of a toner forcibly-discharging-pattern or increases an applied lubricant amount of the lubricant applied to the image holder by the lubricant applying section according to the determination. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110268463 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CLEANING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes: an image holder on which a toner image is formed; a developing device which is filled with a toner including a lubricant, and forms the toner image by making the toner adhere to the image holder; a torque calculation section which calculates torque of a drive motor which drives the image holder; a cleaning section which cleans the image holder; and a control section which calculates a print rate of the toner image formed on the image holder, makes determination of an adhering lubricant amount of the lubricant adhering to the image holder based on the print rate and the torque, and changes a toner image of a toner forcibly-discharging-pattern according to the determination. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110267650 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium to output the image based on a print job, and the image forming apparatus includes: a control section which controls an output operation performed by the image forming apparatus; and an informing section; wherein the control section causes the informing section to inform output content confirmation information for confirming one or more contents each being of an image output operation corresponding to the print job and one or more contents each being of a predetermined output operation set in the image forming apparatus, based on the print job and a setting content of the predetermined output operation set in the image forming apparatus, the setting content being set independently of a setting of the image output operation corresponding to the print job. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110267634 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a creation unit that creates a preview image showing a print output state regarding a target image of printing processing, and an input/output unit that displays a screen including a preview display region as a display region of the preview image and a re-set item display region as a display region of a menu image having a setting item for re-set regarding the printing processing, and accepts a setting change input regarding the setting item for the re-set in the menu image. The creation unit recreates the preview image based on setting contents after a setting change, the setting contents being accepted with regard to the setting item for the re-set. The input/output unit displays the recreated preview image on the preview display region. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110266740 | TAB SHEET INSERTION APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a tab sheet supply unit and a control unit. The tab sheet supply unit supplies tab sheets of an identical type from an identical sheet supply tray as a chapter tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a first level of classification of a document to be printed, as well as a section tab sheet to be inserted at a breakpoint of a second level that is a finer level of classification than the first level of classification. The control unit causes the tab sheet contained in the sheet supply tray to be discharged as an unnecessary tab sheet, if the tab position of the tab sheet to be supplied next from the sheet supply tray does not match with the tab position of the tab sheet to be inserted next during the printing of the document, until both of the tab positions match. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110264756 | DATA COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND MANAGING DATA - A data communication device capable of facilitating file management compared to conventional methods is provided. The data communication device includes an image file storage portion for memorizing an image file to be sent to a user at the other end, a transmission information setting portion for setting transmission information necessary for sending the image file to the user at the other end, a file combining portion for generating a composite file by adding the transmission information to the image file and an e-mail message transmission portion for sending the generated composite file to the user at the other end. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110262164 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A POWER SUPPLY FOR TRANSFER - An image forming device comprising a rotatable image carrier, a transfer member which is a rotatable transfer member for transferring a toner image on the image carrier onto a recording paper sheet and forms a pressing nip by being pressed against the image carrier, a power supply for transfer for applying a voltage for transfer for transferring the toner image on the image carrier onto the recording paper sheet to the transfer member, and a recording paper sheet feed device for feeding the recording paper sheet into the pressing nip, and the method for controlling a power supply for transfer. The power supply for transfer is turned on by a power supply ON instruction signal, turned off by a power supply OFF instruction signal, and has a voltage set by an output voltage setting signal as an output voltage when it is on. The power supply for transfer is turned on and the output voltage of the power supply for transfer is set to 0 V before the transfer member is pressed against the image carrier, and the output voltage of the power supply for transfer is switched from 0 V to a high voltage for transfer after the transfer member is pressed against the image carrier. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261418 | IMAGE SCANNING DEVICE - An image scanning device includes: a light source; a light guide for converting light from the light source into a linear light beam and applying the linear light beam onto a reading position; an image reading element for receiving the light beam reflected from the reading position; and a light intensity sensor for detecting an intensity of the light emitted from the light source. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261405 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL AND POWER STATE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS - The distance between an information processing terminal and each image forming apparatus is detected based on the position information of the information processing terminal and each image forming apparatus, and the difference in elevation and layout drawing are checked to determine whether or not the image forming apparatus is located in the same floor or room with the information processing terminal, whereby the image forming apparatus is selected, and a request to shift the power state to the power-on side is sent to the selected image forming apparatus. Further, the server device provides such power control as to acquire the information on the position and number of terminal devices in the started-up state and the information of the position of each image forming apparatus, and to select the image forming apparatus to be set to the power-on state out of plural image forming apparatuses, based on this information. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261383 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND DATA OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD EXECUTED BY IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The image forming apparatus according to the present invention is controlled in such a way that it can generate from document data, original copy data for outputting an original copy of the document data and carbon copy data for outputting a carbon copy of the document data (S | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110261378 | PRINTING PROCESSING SYSTEM, PRINTING PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The printing processing system of the present invention includes an image data generating unit for generating multiple types of image data, each of which corresponds to each individual purpose of document data, deriving from the document data; and a control unit for executing a control for performing a designated post-process on a sheet of paper on which an image is formed based on the specific type of image data among the multiple types of image data. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110260394 | MOVEMENT ROLLER, AND BELT DRIVING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE USING SAME - A protrusion ( | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110256479 | IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method is disclosed, comprising transferring and fixing steps, wherein fixing is performed by a fixing device in which at least one of a heating member and a pressing member comprises an endless belt entrained about plural rollers, and the heating member and the pressing member are pressed against each other to form a fixing nip, and wherein toner particles contains a binder resin which has a domain/matrix structure constituted of a high-elastic resin forming a domain and a low-elastic resin forming a matrix in an elastic image obtained when observing the toner particles by an atomic force microscope with respect to a section of the individual toner particles, in which an arithmetic average value of a ratio (L/W) of a major axis (L) to a minor axis (W) of individual domains is 1.5 to 5.0, and domains having the major axis (L) of 60 to 500 nm account for not less than 80% by number of total domains and domains having the minor axis (W) of 45 to 100 nm account for not less than 80% by number of total domains. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110256476 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A toner for developing electrostatic image comprising a toner particle containing a binding resin is disclosed. which, and In the toner the binding resin has a domain-matrix structure composed of a high elastic resin composing a domain and a low elastic resin composing a matrix, an arithmetic mean value of ratio (L/W) of the Length L to Width W of the domains is 1.5 to 5.0, domains having Length L in the range of 60 to 500 nm exist 80 number % or more, and domains having Width Win the range of 45 to 100 nm exist 80 number % or more, in a viscoelastic image of a cross section of the toner particle observed via an atomic force microscope. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255121 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system comprises an access control part, a storage part, an extraction part, and an acquisition part. The access control part determines whether to allow or prohibit access to a security image in which a password for access control is embedded. The storage part stores sharing member information which is information on sharing members who are users allowed to share the security image and a check image which is an image for check on the security image, being associated with each other. The extraction part for extracts the check image out of one or more images including the check image on the basis of a determination result on coidentity between the security image and each of the one or more images. The acquisition part acquires the sharing member information associated with the check image. Further, the access control part allows a login user who logs in to the image forming system to have access to the security image without requiring the login user to enter the password on condition that the login user is determined to be one of the sharing members on the basis of the sharing member information. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255116 | INFORMATION VIEWING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION VIEWING APPARATUS - Disclosed is the information viewing system, which makes it possible to speedily output an image represented by data even when an operation for outputting the image onto a predetermined medium is disabled. The system includes an information viewing apparatus, a supporting device to detachably support the information viewing apparatus and the image forming apparatus onto which the supporting device is mountable. The system is so constituted that, in case that a data writing operation onto the printing medium becomes impossible at the time of commencing or in mid-course of implementing the data writing operation onto the printing medium, while the data writing operation onto the information viewing apparatus is enabled, the image forming apparatus changes the writing destination medium from the printing medium to the information viewing apparatus, in order to continuously implement the data writing operation onto the information viewing apparatus instead of the printing medium, and vice versa. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110254260 | IMAGE PRINTED MATTER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming method for forming an image printed matter, includes the steps of: forming a toner image with toner particles on a photoreceptor; transferring the toner image from the photoreceptor onto a substrate; laminating an toner holding material layer on the substrate so as to embed the toner image in the toner holding material layer so that the toner holding material layer holds the toner image therein and the image printed matter is formed, wherein the toner holding material layer is composed of a gel including a liquid dispersion medium having a contact angle of 20 to 110 degrees to the image supporting substrate. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110254217 | SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A sheet feeding apparatus includes: a loading platen on which sheets are loaded, an air blowing section which blows air to sides of a loaded sheet bundle loaded on the loading platen, and an adsorption/conveyance mechanism which adsorbs and conveys a sheet, a driving section moving the loading platen up and down, wherein the air blowing section includes a plurality of air blowing openings facing both sides of the loaded sheet bundle and blowing air to the both sides, wherein each of the plurality of air blowing openings is formed so that a first air flow flows above the loading platen and a second air flow flows below the loading platen when the loading platen reaches a highest position by the driving section, and wherein the loading platen is provided with a penetration thorough which the second air flow flows from below to above the loading platen. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110249993 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including; an image carrier carrying a toner image; a transfer belt making pressure contact with the image carrier through a sheet of paper and transferring the toner image onto the sheet of paper; a plurality of supporting rollers stretching and supporting the transfer belt; and a transfer roller to which transfer electrical current is applied, as well as making pressure contact of the transfer belt with the image carrier from a back surface of the transfer belt, wherein at least one roller of the supporting rollers is formed in an inverted crown shape with a size of the center portion is smaller than a size of the end portion, and the transfer belt is rotationally driven for a prescribed time without applying transfer electrical current both or in either of before and after transfer of a toner image. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249285 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, LINKING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming system includes: an image forming apparatus; and a linking apparatus that is linked with the image forming apparatus. The linking apparatus is operable in any of a plurality of modes including a first mode of contacting the image forming apparatus and executing a specific operation and a second mode of not contacting the image forming apparatus for a purpose of executing the specific operation. The image forming apparatus includes a mode shift command unit that, when the image forming apparatus shifts to a power saving mode, notifies the linking apparatus of a shift command indicating that the linking apparatus should be shifted to the second mode. Moreover, the linking apparatus includes: an operation mode control unit that shifts the linking apparatus to the second mode based on the shift command; and an access control unit that, after the shift to the second mode, prohibits the contact with the image forming apparatus, which is performed for the purpose of executing the specific operation. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110249277 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS IN WHICH INTERMEDIATE GRADATION REPRODUCIBILITY IS ENHANCED - A first screen group and a second screen group are stored in an image forming apparatus. In the first screen group, the first region expands with increasing gradation value based on a first rule. In the second screen group, the first region expands with increasing gradation value based on an independent second rule different from the first rule. A screen selector relocates a first portion and a second portion such that the first portion and the second portion are joined by a second region that is not a toner adhesion control target, when the first portion and the second portion are adjacent as a result of the selection of the screen in each unit region of the input image. The first portion includes the screen included in the first screen group, and the second portion includes the screen included in the second screen group. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110243618 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including: an endless belt; a steering roller for supporting the endless belt and correcting a deviating motion of the endless belt; and a conveying section for conveying a recording material, wherein the conveying section has a position control mechanism of a recording material, and said mechanism conveys the recording material along a conveyance reference, established at a predetermined position in a width direction of the recording material, said width direction is perpendicular to a conveying direction of the recording material, wherein the steering roller is configured to be supported on a supporting point at a side on which the conveyance reference is established, and to be tilted at a side which is opposite to the side on which the conveyance reference is established, with respect to the width direction of the recording material. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243448 | HANDWRITTEN DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, HANDWRITTEN DATA MANAGEMENT PROGRAM AND HANDWRITTEN DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD - A handwritten data management system having an input device, and a handwritten data management apparatus having a screen to draw an image, wherein the input device has a sensor section to detect input device conditions, and sends the condition information to the management apparatus, wherein the management apparatus includes: a graphic data extracting section which extracts basic drawing data from trajectories of the input device on the screen; a break discrimination section which discriminates a break portion of the basic drawing data based on the condition information, and determines its break level by referring to a previously stored table; and a group data management section which groups plural basic drawing data, and registers the group data at a higher hierarchy level, and further sequentially groups the plural group data based on the break level, and registers a higher level group data at a higher hierarchy level. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110242602 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a plurality of components, a display section to display information of the components, a storage section to store replacing person information of the components and a control section to make the information of the components which are displayed in the display section be different according to the replacing person information of the components. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110239060 | DISPLAY SCREEN CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY SCREEN CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A display screen control device comprises: a browser for acquiring a display screen from the web server and displaying on a predetermined display part; an error detection part for detecting whether or not a display error of an image contained in the display screen acquired by the browser is occurred with the display screen being displayed on the display part when instructions on execution of a job given by the user is detected; a confirmation screen creation part for creating a setting confirmation screen including a set value of each of at least one set item corresponding to the image in which the display error is detected when the display error is detected; and a screen change part for changing the display screen displayed on the display part to the setting confirmation screen created by the confirmation screen creation part prior to start of execution of the job. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110239059 | DISPLAY SCREEN CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY SCREEN CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A display screen control device comprises: a communicating part for performing data communication with a web server; a browser for acquiring a display screen available for the user to make the entry operation from the web server via the communicating part and displaying the acquired display screen on a display part; an error detecting part for detecting whether or not a display error of a content contained in the display screen acquired by the browser is occurred with the display screen being displayed; an error determining part for determining whether or not the content in which the display error is detected is necessary for the user to continue the entry operation when the display error is detected by the error detecting part; and an annunciation controlling part for controlling displaying or not displaying an annunciation image to alert the user to again acquire the display screen on the display part. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110238617 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A document management apparatus includes a document storing portion to store a document, a designated part accepting portion to accept any part designated by a user within the stored document as a designated part, an associating portion to associate the accepted designated part with a notification destination, an altering portion to alter the stored document, and a notifying portion to notify the notification destination associated with the designated part when at least a portion of an altered part altered within the stored document by the altering portion is included in the designated part. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236819 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC TONER AND PRODUCTION METHOD OF THE SAME - Provided is a toner containing toner particles containing a polyester resin which has a structure part represented by Formula (1): | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236652 | IMAGE PRINT AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Disclosed is an image print which has a toner-holding layer on an image-supporting substrate in which the toner-holding layer holds a toner image formed by toner particles, wherein the toner-holding layer is composed of a hydrogel having a water content of 10% by mass or more and not more than 90% by mass. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236080 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEMBER AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS - An intermediate transfer member has an elastic layer and a surface layer formed on the elastic layer, said intermediate transfer member exhibiting 25 to 75% of Er/Ep ratio (wherein Ep is a product of a pushing displacement (μm) and a testing force (mN) at the time of compressing the surface layer by means of an indenter, and Er is a product of a pushing displacement (μm) and a testing force (mN) at the time of releasing the indenter from the surface layer). An image-forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer member; an image-forming unit for forming a toner image on the intermediate transfer member; and an transferring unit for transferring the toner image formed on the intermediate transfer member onto a recording material, wherein the intermediate transfer member is the same as the one mentioned above. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236074 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device that circulates developer in a circulation passage having first and second conveyance passages, so that the developer is supplied to a developing roller along the first or second conveyance passages, comprising: a first conveyance member in the first conveyance passage driven to rotate to convey the developer in a first conveyance direction; a communicating passage through which the developer flows from the first to second conveyance passages; a second conveyance member in the second conveyance passage driven to rotate to convey the developer in a second conveyance direction; a discharge passage extending from an end portion of the first conveyance passage located downstream in the first conveyance direction; and a passing developer amount changing mechanism configured to change an amount of developer passing through the communicating passage, according to a pressure applied to the developer at a junction between the first conveyance passage and the discharge passage. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236070 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device for fixing a toner image onto a recording paper sheet includes a heating member for heating the recording paper sheet, a pressing member for applying a pressure by forming contact with the heating member, a casing accommodating the heating member and the pressing member, and provided with an exit port for discharging the recording paper sheet, and a closing portion arranged at the exit port for keeping a temperature of the casing. The closing portion has a rotation member, and an opposed member forming a nip region together with the rotation member. A separating unit for changing at least a part of the closing portion from a closed state to an open state. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236049 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including: a memory unit to store various pieces of information; and a control unit to execute backup control to store information stored in the memory unit into an external memory device and to make the image forming apparatus shift from an operating state to a predetermined standby state, wherein with the backup control, the control unit makes the image forming apparatus shift from the operating state to the standby state. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110236041 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device which can feed a recording paper sheet of a normal size from a paper sheet feed part by a paper sheet feed roller unit to a transport roller unit on a next stage; can form an image on the paper sheet by feeding the sheet from the transport roller unit to an image forming part; and have the paper sheet feed roller unit transport the paper sheet in feeding the paper sheet from the transport roller unit to the image forming part, the image forming device comprising a paper sheet transport path which leads the paper sheet from the paper sheet feed roller unit to the transport roller unit; a paper sheet detection sensor disposed downstream of the paper sheet feed roller unit but upstream of the transport roller unit, facing the paper sheet transport path; and a size error judgment part which is for detecting a recording paper sheet size error when a small size recording paper sheet is mixed in the recording paper sheets of the normal size. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235911 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The image processing apparatus includes: a storage section including a region to be used when rasterization processing is performed with respect to intermediate language form data created by a band based on page description language form data; a plurality of operation sections; and a control section to perform the rasterization processing with respect to the intermediate language form data by using the operation sections. The control section generates a plurality of segmented regions by dividing the band constituting each pieces of the intermediate language form data into a plurality of pieces based on the number of the operation sections, and assigns a segmented region for executing the rasterization processing among the segmented regions to each of the operation sections. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235906 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a storage that stores, therein, edge position data indicating the position of a first edge image that represents a first edge of a first object image representing an object in a first image, a determination portion that detects a second edge image based on the edge position data and a specific scaling factor, the second edge image representing a second edge of a second object image that represents the object in a second image, the second image being obtained by modifying the size or the resolution of the first image by increasing the number of pixels by α times (α>1) corresponding to the scaling factor, the second edge having a width equal to that of the first edge, and a removal portion that performs a process for deleting an edge of an inner area surrounded by the second edge image. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235254 | CONTROL PANEL SUPPORT MECHANISM, CONTROL PANEL ASSEMBLY, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a control panel support mechanism having a first support member attached to an image forming apparatus, a second support member supporting a control panel and axially supported by the first support member to be vertically swingable with respect to the first support member, a lock member slidable towards or away from a swing axis of the second support member, and a biasing unit to bias the lock member to slide towards the swing axis. The first support member has a plurality of engaging grooves each positioned along a radial direction with respect to the swing axis and having an opening at an end of the first support member opposite the swing axis, the plurality of engaging grooves being aligned vertically. The biasing unit biases the lock member so that the lock member enters one of the plurality of engaging grooves through the opening to lock in engagement with the engaging groove. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235129 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a storing section, an image forming section to form a measurement image to output a measurement chart, and a control section for inputting density information indicating densities at positions of the measurement image, to calculate a correction value corresponding to each position based on the density information, to store the value in association with an output condition including a screen condition indicating a screen processing at the time of outputting the chart, to determine the output condition of the image data, to read the value corresponding to the output condition, and to correct the image data based on the value, wherein the image forming section forms an image based on the corrected image data, and when no correction value corresponding to the screen condition of the input image data is stored in the storing section, the control section inhibits the correction from being executed. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235127 | HALFTONE IMAGE GENERATION, DEVICE, HALFTONE IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - A halftone image generation device is provided that, by partially selecting and blending a first halftone image obtained by halftone processing a specific image using a first method and a second halftone image obtained by halftone processing the specific image using a second method different from the first method, generates a third halftone image of the specific image. The device includes a detector detecting, from the first halftone image, a dot pixel in which a dot is disposed, and a blender blending the first halftone image and the second halftone image by, when a dot is not disposed in any of neighboring pixels in the first halftone image that neighbor the dot pixel, employing, as binary values of isolated-point related pixels in the third halftone image that are in a same position as the dot pixel and the neighboring pixels, binary values of the dot pixel and the neighboring pixels. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235105 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which generates print data based on control data for page print inputted from an external device and which forms an image based on the print data. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit having a plurality of arithmetic processing units, and an image forming unit for forming an image based on the print data which is outputted by the control unit. The control unit generates the print data by carrying out a rasterizing process of one page in band unit constituted by a predetermined number of lines based on the control data for page print and sequentially outputs the generated print data at output timings defined in a constant output interval, wherein the rasterizing process is controlled based on whether or not generation of print data is to be completed within the output interval for all of bands in the one page. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235080 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a control section including a plurality of computing sections, each of the plurality of computing sections to perform language analyzing processing to perform language analysis on PDL data to generate a display list of an object, drawing processing to rasterize an object of the display list, and combining processing to combine data of the rasterized object, to generate printable data based on the PDL data, wherein each of the plurality of computing sections is set to any one of two or more resolutions for rasterizing; the rasterizing in the drawing processing is performed parallel in each of the computing sections at the resolutions set in each computing section; and the combining processing enlarges the data of the rasterized object of a low resolution to the highest resolution and combines the data. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110235070 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The data processing apparatus according to the present invention has the image data preparation unit that prepares various kinds of image data deriving from document data depending on various purposes of the document data; and the image synthesis instructing unit that instructs images to be synthesized based on the image data comprising a plurality of page portions on one sheet of paper for at least one kind of image data prepared by the image data preparation unit from various kinds of document data. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110234641 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH PROGRAM IS STORED - A display device includes: a display unit that displays a screen based on display screen data including a plurality of pieces of component image data; and a control unit that causes the display unit to display an image in a display region on the display unit in a form of scroll display by which the image is moved as time advances, when a size of the image displayed on the display unit based on a first piece of the pieces of component image data is larger than a size of the display region for the image on the display unit. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110233858 | SHEET EJECTION DEVICE, POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet ejection device including: a sheet stacking section; a sheet trailing edge hitting section; a pair of sheet holding members for holding a sheet or plural sheets placed one on top of another at a sheet holding position, and moving the same to the sheet stacking position; and a friction member that is provided on one of the sheet holding members and that comes in contact with the topmost sheet of the sheets stacked on the sheet stacking section; wherein, when the sheet holding members reach the sheet stacking position, one of the sheet holding members is moved upstream in the sheet ejecting direction, whereby the trailing edge of the held sheet is made to hit against the sheet trailing edge hitting section, and the friction member comes in contact with the topmost sheet, and then the topmost sheet is biased toward the sheet trailing edge hitting section. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110231906 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH CONTENT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a storage portion having a plurality of storage areas; an authentication portion for authenticating a user; a content setting portion for storing content set public by the authenticated user in a public storage area with no access restriction, of the plurality of storage areas of the storage portion, and for storing content set private into a personal storage area accessible only by the authenticated user, of the plurality of storage areas of the storage portion; and an access permission portion for, when a predetermined process is executed on the content set private stored in the personal storage area, making the content set private accessible by others through the public storage area. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231800 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes: a display portion that is capable of: displaying in an icon display area, icons that correspond to function buttons for calling out setting screens for setting functions installed on the image processing apparatus, being organized in groups by function attribute; and displaying in a function button display area, function buttons that correspond to some of the icons, which exist at a position that a user points to; a position identification portion that identifies the position that a user points to in the icon display area; and a display controller that makes the display portion display: the icons in the icon display area; the function buttons that correspond to the icons existing at the position identified by the position identification portion, in the function button display area; and state information indicating the current state of at least one of the functions and/or attribute information indicating the current attribute of at least one of the functions, on/near a function button of the function and/or on/near an icon corresponding to this function button. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231774 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprising: a display; an embedded web browser that displays hypertext-coded information on the display; a data input and output module that inputs and outputs hypertext-coded data and can be accessed from the embedded web browser and another web browser of an external machine; a judgment portion that judges which the data input and output module is accessed from, the embedded web browser or the web browser of the external machine; a data generator that generates different display data depending on the judgment made by the judgment portion; and a transmitter that transmits the display data generated by the data generator, to the embedded web browser or the web browser of the external machine. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231591 | RETAINING DEVICE OF INFORMATION BROWSING DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A retaining device, having: a structure to retain one or a plurality of information browsing devices having a display section and a control section, wherein the structure is fixed onto a main body or an accessory of a processing apparatus to process a document to be displayed on the information browsing device, and configured in a way that at least a portion of the display section of the information browsing device plugged in a front can be seen squarely from a front of the display section. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110231430 | CONTENT COLLECTING APPARATUS, CONTENT COLLECTING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH CONTENT COLLECTING PROGRAM - A content collecting apparatus includes a portion accepting a key sentence, a portion extracting keywords from the key sentence, a portion setting the keywords as search keywords, a portion acquiring contents extracted by performing search using the search keywords, a portion selecting at least one of the acquired contents, a portion storing the selected content, a portion storing history data in which the selected content is associated with the key sentence, a portion acquiring a new key sentence, a portion extracting new keywords from the new key sentence, a portion adding the new keywords to the search keywords, a portion acquiring contents extracted by performing search using the search keywords, a portion selecting at least one of the acquired contents, a portion additionally storing the newly selected content, and a portion adding to the history data new history data in which the newly selected content is associated with the new key sentence. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110230977 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A control device for generating a second trigger with a delay of a predetermined time from generation of a first trigger, said control device having; a counter for counting numbers from 0 to n−1 at a frequency with cycles of a first period; a control section, which operates at a frequency with cycles of a second period that is longer than the first period, for calculating a remainder of a division by adding a number of counts of the counter corresponding to the predetermined time to a count value of the counter at the time of generation of the first trigger and by dividing a result of the addition by n; and an output section for outputting the second trigger at a time when the count value of the counter becomes equal to the remainder. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110230625 | FLAME-RETARDANT POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION - Provide is a flame-retardant polyester resin composition exhibiting excellent flame-retardant performance, specifically flame self-extinction performance and excellent mechanical performance such as elastic modulus, bending strength, and impact strength. Also provided is a flame-retardant polyester resin composition exhibiting excellent flame-retardant performance, specifically flame self-extinction performance and excellent mechanical performance such as elastic modulus, bending strength, and impact strength, even when at least one of a polyester resin and a polycarbonate resin obtained from molded products having become waste materials is recycled. A flame-retardant polyester resin composition comprising: (A) 50-80% by mass of a polyethylene terephthalate (PET), (B) 5-40% by mass of a polycarbonate resin, (C) 5-30% by mass of a polymer of a glass transition temperature Tg of less than 35° C., (D) 0.5-5% by mass of a polymer of a carbon residue rate resin of at least 15%, and (E) 1-10% by mass of a polyethylene naphthalate (PEN). | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229819 | METHOD OF FOIL TRANSFER EMPLOYING FOIL TRANSFERRING FACE FORMING TONER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - A method of transferring a foil comprising: forming a foil transferring face on a photoreceptor employing a foil transferring face forming toner; transferring the foil transferring face onto a base substance, followed by fixing the foil transferring face; supplying a transfer foil having at least a foil and an adhesive layer on the base substance having the fixed foil transferring face, heating the transfer foil and the foil transferring face while the adhesive layer of the transfer foil is in contact with the foil transferring face to adhere the foil onto the foil transferring face; removing the transfer foil from the base substance while leaving the foil adhered onto the foil transferring face, wherein the foil transferring face forming toner comprises at least a binder resin, wherein the binder resin comprises a polymer formed by using a vinyl monomer comprising at least a carboxyl group. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229818 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a developing device that uses a developer carrier to advance to an image carrier a developer including a toner and a carrier and supplies the toner to the image carrier by applying a developing bias between the developer carrier and the image carrier. In the image forming apparatus, the following operation is performed before the developer in the developing device is taken out. The toner is supplied to the image carrier by applying the developing bias between the developer carrier and the image carrier, the developing bias increased in a direction to supply the toner to the image carrier. The toner supplied onto the image carrier is not transferred to a transfer receiving material but is advanced into a toner recovery device for recovery. The recovered toner is prevented from being returned to the developing device. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229673 | FLAME-RETARDANT POLYESTER RESIN COMPOSITION AND BLOW MOLDED CONTAINER - Provide is a flame-retardant polyester resin composition exhibiting excellent flame-retardant performance, specifically flame self-extinction performance and excellent injection moldability and blow moldability by biaxially-stretch blow molding method, by solving problem of poor injection moldability of the conventional polyester. A flame-retardant polyester resin composition comprising: (A) 50-80% by mass of a polyester resin, (B) 10-40% by mass of a polycarbonate resin, (C) 5-30% by mass of a polymer of a glass transition temperature Tg of less than 35° C., and (D) 0.5-5% by mass of a polymer of a carbon residue rate resin of at least 15%. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229240 | CONNECTION TRANSPORT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - A connection transport device (horizontal transport unit) which serves as a mediation device between an image forming device body and a post-processing device. The connection transport device comprises a first transport part for receiving a recording paper sheet on which an image is formed from a discharge part of the image forming device body and transporting the recording paper sheet to the post-processing device, a second transport part for receiving a recording paper sheet on which an image is formed from the discharge part of the image forming device body and transporting the recording paper sheet to the post-processing device, and a merging portion for stacking the recording paper sheets from the first and second transport parts and at the same time directing the recording paper sheets to the post-processing device. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229235 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING STEPPING MOTOR ARRANGED IN CONVEYING PATH FOR PAPER, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING STEPPING MOTOR IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a stepping motor arranged in a conveying path for a paper; a driver for driving the stepping motor; a current detecting unit for detecting an actual current value; and a control unit for providing a set current value for every predetermined cycle. The control unit determines an estimated load torque value corresponding to the set current value in a previous cycle and the actual current value in a present cycle, by referring to a relationship between actual current and load torque of the stepping motor with respect to the set current value, determines a target load torque value based on the estimated load torque value, and determines, as the set current value, a current value corresponding to the target load torque value, by referring to a relationship between maximum output torque of the stepping motor and current supplied to the stepping motor. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229230 | FIXING ROLLER, FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing roller for fixing a toner image onto a recording sheet by heat, the fixing roller has a cored bar; an open-cell foam sponge layer provided around the cored bar; and a closed-cell foam sponge layer provided around the open-cell foam sponge layer. A fixing device has the fixing roller, and an image forming apparatus has the fixing device. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229223 | FIXING DEVICE - A fixing device having: a heating roller and a presser that form a fixing nip portion therebetween; a pair of brackets having holes for supporting both end portions of the heating roller; a biasing member for pressing the presser against the heating roller to form the fixing nip portion; and a pair of semicircular arc slide bearings that are fitted in the holes of the respective brackets so as to be located between the respective brackets and the heating roller, on an opposite side of the heating roller to a side thereof pressed by the presser. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229222 | FIXING DEVICE FOR FIXING TONER IMAGE ON RECORDING MEDIUM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A fixing device fixes a toner image on a recording medium. In the fixing device, a heating unit heats a recording medium. A pressing unit presses a recording medium in pressure contact with the heating unit. The heating unit and the pressing unit are accommodated in a casing. A heat reflecting unit is provided between the heating unit and the casing. An intermediate member is provided between the heating unit and the heat reflecting unit. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229209 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device having a housing that houses two-component developer containing carrier and toner, replenishing replenishment carrier to the housing while gradually ejecting developer to outside from an outlet. The developing device includes: transport passage provided in the housing so that developer is transported therein; transport member provided in the housing and rotates to transport the developer; ejection passage having diverged from the transport passage so that a part of the developer transported in the transport passage is conveyed therein to the outlet; and restriction unit configured to restrict an amount of ejected developer so that a first amount of developer is ejected from the outlet when the transport member rotates at a first speed, and a second amount of developer is ejected when it rotates at a second speed. The second amount is smaller than the first amount. The second speed is higher than the first speed. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229208 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a housing that encloses: a first developer transport member that transports developer, which includes toner, laterally in a first direction; a second developer transport member that transports the developer in a second direction opposite to the first direction; a first communication passage configured to direct the developer transported by the first developer transport member to an upstream edge, along the second direction, of the second developer transport member; and a second communication passage configured to direct the developer transported by the second developer transport member to an upstream edge, along the first direction, of the first developer transport member. The second communication passage progressively reduces the amount of developer directed through the second communication passage to the upstream edge of the first developer transport member as an inclination angle of the housing increases so that the second communication passage is lower than the first communication passage. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229204 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND CHARGING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, a discharging device that discharges the photoreceptor, to regard a potential of the photoreceptor as a first potential, a charging device that charges the photoreceptor by proximity discharge, to regard a potential of the photoreceptor as a second potential. The charging device charges the photoreceptor for a plurality of times when changing the potential of the photoreceptor from the first potential to the second potential, and a change amount in potential of the photoreceptor in each charge is substantially the same. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229189 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, IMAGING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device that develops a latent image on an image carrier with use of developer, comprising: a developer carrier provided to face the image carrier, and configured to rotate while magnetically holding the developer on an outer circumferential surface thereof; and a magnetic member elongated along a rotational direction of the developer carrier to surround the outer circumferential surface with a gap therebetween, wherein when viewed from a direction perpendicular to a rotational axis of the developer carrier, the magnetic member overlaps an end of a developing region in a direction of the rotational axis, and when a side of the magnetic member close to a center of the developer carrier is divided into first and second sides respectively located downstream and upstream in the rotational direction, the first side is set back further from the center than a position where the first and second sides meet each other. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229185 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having an image carrier that carries a toner image; an opposed member that is provided so as to be opposed to the image carrier; an application device that applies a bias to the opposed member; and a control device that controls the application device to apply a first bias and thereafter a second bias to the opposed member so as to remove toner from the opposed member. The first bias has an absolute value that is large enough to cause discharge from the opposed member into air. The second bias has an absolute value that is too small to cause discharge from the opposed member into the air, and has a reverse polarity to the first bias. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229183 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE FOR PROCESSING JOBS TO BE EXECUTED BY IMAGE FORMING DEVICE INCLUDING FIXING UNIT - An image processing device processes jobs to be executed by an image forming device incorporating a fixing unit. The image processing device receives a plurality of jobs. Based on an attribute of each of the plurality of jobs, the image processing device determines, out of the plurality of jobs, at least one job for which fixing can be performed after heating of the fixing unit is stopped and for which fixing is performed after fixing for another job is finished. The image processing device reorders the processing of the plurality of jobs so that fixing is performed for the at least one job after the fixing for the other job is finished. In this way, an image processing device and a method of controlling an image processing device can be provided where power consumption can be reduced. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229176 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has an image carrier that carries a toner image; a transfer member that is opposed to the image carrier, a transfer voltage being applied to the transfer member so that the toner image is transferred from the image carrier to a print medium passing between the transfer member and the image carrier; a first voltage application device that applies the transfer voltage to the transfer member; a separation member to which a separation voltage is applied so that the print medium is separated from the image carrier; a second voltage application device that applies the separation voltage to the separation member; a sensing device that senses an image density of the toner image; and a control section that controls a magnitude of the separation voltage based upon the image density of the toner image. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229170 | FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An excitation coil positioned along an axial direction of a fixing rotational body having a heat generating layer causes the heat generating layer to generate heat by electromagnetic induction. Magnetic flux shielding members positioned outside the excitation coil in a radial direction of the fixing rotational body cover at least one end of a maximum sheet passing region. A controller moves the magnetic flux shielding members along the excitation coil, and when a fed sheet has a width smaller than a width of the maximum sheet passing region, a center hole of the excitation coil is more widely covered. In a plan view, a circumference of each of the magnetic flux shielding members partially and obliquely crosses with the center hole in the axial direction of the fixing rotational body. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229169 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming system including: a fixing device for fixing a toner image on the recording sheet; a curl flattening section for flattening a curl formed on the recording sheet, and conveying the recording sheet in a downstream direction against the fixing device; a first conveying route for conveying the recording sheet having been processed by the fixing device to the curl flattening section; a second conveying route, being longer than the first conveying route, for conveying the processed recording sheet to the curl flattening section; a switching section for switching the conveying route, to guide to the first conveying route or the second conveying route; and a control section for controlling the switching section to guide the recording sheet to the first conveying route or the second conveying route, based on a type of the recording sheet, having been processed by the fixing device. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229165 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a job-content recognition device for judging whether a number inputted as the number of print copies to be made is larger or smaller than a predetermined reference value; a print-data recognition device for judging whether or not inputted print data include image data and/or graphic data; and a control device for controlling executions of image stabilization control in a printing section. The control device sets a predetermined period as intervals among executions of the image stabilization control, and sets a period shorter than the predetermined period as the intervals among executions of the image stabilization control when the number inputted as the number of print copies to be made is larger than the predetermined reference value and also the inputted print data include image data and/or graphic data. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229160 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries a toner image, an image forming device that forms the toner image on the image carrier, a sensing device that senses a toner concentration of the image carrier and a control device that makes the image forming device form a test toner image on the image carrier, and determines necessity to execute each adjustment operation for adjusting a plurality of kinds of driving conditions for the image forming device at the time of forming the toner images, based upon a toner concentration of the test toner image. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229158 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE WHICH INCLUDES AT LEAST ONE MOTOR THAT GENERATES MOTIVE POWER BY CURRENT - An image forming device includes a motor which generates motive power by current, a component driven by the motive power of the motor, and a motor current waveform determining unit which determines a condition of the image forming device on the basis of a current waveform of the current flowing through the motor while the motor is being driven. Accordingly, the image forming device which is capable of determining the condition of the device while suppressing an increase in the number of components and preventing reduction of productivity can be provided. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229157 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A controlling system comprising an image forming device and a controlling device for the image forming device, the image forming device having an indicating device which can indicate that a toner cartridge is in a toner near empty state and a communication part for communicating with the controlling device via a communication network, and when the toner near empty state of the toner cartridge is detected, the communication part transmits the information to the controlling device. The controlling device has a controlling condition table in which a controlling condition set for each image forming device to be controlled is recorded, and when a toner near empty signal is received from the image forming device to be controlled, the controlling device refers to the controlling condition of the image forming device recorded in the table, and outputs or does not output a toner near empty indication instruction signal depending on the controlling condition. When the image forming device receives the toner near empty indication instruction signal, it displays so on the indicating device. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228328 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COOPERATIVE JOB EXECUTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH COOPERATIVE JOB EXECUTION PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus can communicate with a server in which an application program is installed so as to be executable. The information processing apparatus includes a browsing portion to display a screen received from the server. If receiving from the server a setting screen for setting an execution condition for executing the application program, the browsing portion allows the server to execute the application program in accordance with the execution condition set in the setting screen. The information processing apparatus further includes a style sheet reception portion to receive a style sheet corresponding to the application program from the server, a process execution portion to execute a prescribed process, a display control portion, if the process execution portion produces display information to notify a user as a result of executing the prescribed process, to display a first display screen including the display information, and a screen generation portion to generate a second display screen based on the display information and the style sheet, if the display information is produced. While the screen received from the server is being displayed by the browsing portion, the display control portion displays the second display screen in place of the first display screen. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110228305 | MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL SELECTING APPARATUS AND MULTIFUNCTION PERIPHERAL SELECTING METHOD - A multifunction peripheral selecting apparatus for selecting a multifunction peripheral which is capable of controlling a power supply condition to a plurality of units and executing a plurality of functions each requiring different units, including: an acquisition section which acquires the power supply condition by each of the plurality of units of the multifunction peripheral; a memory section which previously stores required unit information indicating a correspondence relation between a function and units required for executing the function; an input section which receives a designation of the function; a selection section which selects a suitable multifunction peripheral for executing the designated function from a plurality of managed multifunction peripherals, based on an acquisition result by the acquisition section and the required unit information stored in the memory section; and a notification section which notifies a user of the selected suitable multifunction peripheral. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110227951 | CONFERENCE SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ENCODED WITH DISPLAY PROGRAM - A conference system includes a display apparatus and an information processing apparatus communicable with the display apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a portion to acquire a source content, a display control portion to cause the display apparatus to display the acquired source content, a portion to extract subcontents included in the acquired source content, a portion to determine a target subcontent from among the extracted subcontents, a portion to accept an input content input externally, and a portion to generate a modified content in which an insert area for arranging the input content therein is added at a position in the source content that is determined with reference to a position where the target subcontent is located. The display control portion causes the display apparatus to display an image in which the input content is arranged in the added insert area in the modified content. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110223534 | HYDROPHOBILIZATION METHOD FOR PARTICLES - A hydrophobilization method is disclosed, comprising subjecting particles to a hydrophobilizing treatment in an aqueous medium with a hydrophobilizing agent to hydrophobilize surfaces of the particles, wherein the surfaces of the particles are hydrophobilized with the hydrophobilizing agent in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110223528 | ORANGE TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGES - An orange toner for developing electrostatic charge images includes a binder resin; and a colorant including a first color material and a second color material; wherein the first color material has a hue angle of −20° to 80° in a L*a*b* color system, the second color material includes C.I. Solvent Orange 63, and the second color material has a content of 0.05 to 0.2 parts by mass to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222932 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes: a heating rotary member having a heating layer generating heat upon current application; a pressurizing rotary member brought into pressure-contact with an outer circumferential surface of the heating rotary member to form fixing nip, through which a sheet on which unfixed toner image is formed passes for heat fixing; circular electrodes that are circumferentially formed at two respective positions sandwiching a sheet passing region therebetween, on the outer circumferential surface, and feed electrical power to the heating layer, the electrodes are each metallic and formed of at least two electrode layers including a first electrode layer layered directly on the heating layer and a second electrode layer as an outermost layer, linear expansion coefficient difference between the first layer and the heating layer is smaller than that between the second layer and the heating layer, and the second layer is more oxidation-resistant than the first layer. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222907 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus capable of reducing deterioration of image quality caused by instantaneous fluctuation of driving speed of an image bearing member and intermediate transfer member, the apparatus including: an image bearing member; a primary transfer section to transfer toner image from the image bearing member onto an intermediate transfer member; a secondary transfer section, including a secondary transfer member to secondarily transfer the toner image from the intermediate transfer member onto a recording medium, capable of bringing the secondary transfer member into contact with the intermediate transfer member under pressure and then releasing the contact; a motor to drive the secondary transfer member, and a driving section configured to drive the secondary transfer section so as to bring the secondary transfer member into contact with the intermediate transfer member with pressure and then to release the contact, wherein the motor is not provided inside the secondary transfer section. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222895 | IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMATION SYSTEM, AND OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD - An image formation apparatus is connectable to a post processing apparatus for performing a post process to a sheet. The image formation apparatus includes: a power source for outputting a voltage to a first load and a second load, the first load being provided in the image formation apparatus and being involved in image formation, the second load being provided in the post processing apparatus and being involved in the post process; a power source controller for increasing the output voltage of the power source during an operation of the second load; and a load controller for controlling an operation of the first load such that an output of the first load falls within a predetermined range during the operation of the second load. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222894 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device for fixing a toner image onto a recording sheet, the fixing device comprising: a fixing belt including, on an inner circumference side thereof, a resistance heating layer, extending over entire circumference of the fixing belt, operable to emit heat upon flowing of an electric current therethrough; a pressing member operable to press an outer circumference of the fixing belt to form a fixing nip therebetween so that, while the recording sheet passes through the fixing nip, the toner image is fixed onto the recording sheet; and a pair of power supply members arranged inside the fixing belt along the circumferential direction with a predetermined distance therebetween, the power supply members being in contact with the inner circumferential surface of the resistance heating layer in an electrically conductive state along a direction perpendicular to the circumferential direction. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222885 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a cleaning blade provided on an intermediate transfer member to which a toner image formed on at least one image forming section is primary transferred and on a secondary transfer section which transfers the toner image transferred on the intermediate transfer member onto a transfer material, respectively, which cleans the toner image remained thereon, respectively; a bias power source which is electrically connected to the secondary transfer section; and a controller which causes the image forming section to form a patch toner image onto a non-image area on the image carrier corresponding to an area between adjoining two transfer materials, and causes the bias power source to conduct a power control in synchronization with a positional movement timing of the patch toner image, to supply selectively the patch toner image to the intermediate transfer member and the secondary transfer section. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222883 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus having a first photosensitive member and a second photosensitive member that are arranged side by side along a moving direction of a transfer member, the first photosensitive drum being disposed at an upstream position with respect to the moving direction of the transfer member and the second photosensitive member being disposed at a downstream position; a light source for emitting a beam; and an optical system for directing the beam emitted from the light source to the first and the second photosensitive drums. The optical system comprises a switching optical element that is capable of turning into a first state to direct the beam emitted from the light source to the first photosensitive drum and into a second state to direct the beam to the second photosensitive drum, and a condition, A+B | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222869 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DENSITY ADJUSTMENT METHOD - An image forming apparatus including: an image forming section which forms a belt-shaped pattern having a specific gradation and a prescribed length extending in a main-scanning direction; and a control section which receives pieces of density information each of which indicates a density of the belt-shaped pattern at a measurement position of measurement positions; detects a minimum density from the pieces of density information; sets the minimum density as a target density; identifies a first error between the target density and each of densities respectively indicated by the pieces of density information; sets a gradation correction amount at each of the measurement positions, respectively corresponding to the pieces of density information, based on the respective first errors; and corrects a gradation of image data based on the gradation correction amounts, wherein the image forming section forms an image based on the image data of which the gradation is corrected. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222868 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND IMAGE DENSITY ADJUSTMENT METHOD - An image forming apparatus including: an image forming section; and a control section allowing the image forming section to form a belt-shaped pattern on sheets in such a way that a formation starting position of the belt-shaped pattern is shifted for a distance, obtained by dividing a measurement-distance by a number of sheets to be used, in a main-scanning direction sheet by sheet; collecting, sheet by sheet, pieces of density information each of which indicates the density of the belt-shaped pattern at a measurement position of measurement positions; creating data in which the pieces of density information respectively correspond to the measurement positions arranged in the main-scanning direction on each of the sheets; and correcting density unevenness of image data in the main-scanning direction based on the created data, wherein the image forming section forms an image based on the image data of which the density unevenness is corrected. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222135 | OPTICAL SCANNING DEVICE - An optical scanning device has a light source comprising a plurality of light emitting points arranged on a plane two-dimensionally; a deflector for deflecting beams emitted from the light emitting points in a main-scanning direction; a first optical system for directing the beams emitted from the light emitting points to the deflector; and a second optical system for directing the beams deflected by the deflector to a photosensitive member and for imaging the beams on a surface of the photosensitive member. The plurality of light emitting points are arranged in a parallelogram lattice composed of M by N lattice points, wherein M and N are integers equal to or greater than six, with none of the light emitting points allocated on central (M−4) by (N−4) lattice points. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222116 | PULL PRINTING SYSTEM, SERVER MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR MANAGING PRINT JOB - An image forming apparatus includes a request portion that requests, from a server machine, access information used for reading out a job, and an access information reception portion that receives the access information. The server machine includes a job reception portion that receives the job and stores the job into a first area, a second area into which the job is to be stored for the image forming apparatus, a storage portion that stores, therein, second read-out information used for reading out the job from the second area, and a response portion that receives a request, and if there is first read-out information used for reading out the job from the first area, then sends the first read-out information to the image forming apparatus as the access information, and otherwise, moves the job to the second area, and sends the second read-out information to the image forming apparatus. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222115 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, PRINTING INSTRUCTION APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORED WITH A PROGRAM FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS OR PRINTING INSTRUCTION APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - The image forming apparatus comprising a judgment unit for judging whether an instruction for preparing a carbon copy exists or not, and a print data preparation unit for preparing a plurality of print data based on a single document data when the judgment unit determines that an instruction for preparing the carbon copy exists. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222103 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR MANAGING PRINT JOB, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image forming apparatus is configured to access a storage that stores, therein, first associating information indicating a first terminal identifier for identifying a terminal and a first user identifier for identifying a user. The apparatus receives data based on which a print job is to be executed and which contains a second terminal identifier. If the second terminal identifier contained in the data matches the first terminal identifier indicated in the first associating information, then the apparatus executes the print job. Otherwise, the apparatus suspends execution of the print job. The apparatus receives an input of a second user identifier. If the second user identifier matches the first user identifier indicated in the first associating information, and, if the print job whose execution is suspended is selected, then the apparatus stores, into the storage, second associating information indicating the second terminal identifier and the second user identifier. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222086 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - An image forming apparatus comprises: an image forming section that forms an image on a sheet; a density sensor that measures the image formed on the sheet and outputs a measured value corresponding to a density of the image; a conversion data storing section that stores plural conversion data showing relationship between the measured value outputted from the density sensor and the image density, for each sheet type and each screen for an image; a conversion data selection section that selects at least one conversion data from the plural conversion data stored in the conversion data storing section; and a density adjustment section that adjusts a density for an image formed by the image forming section based on a measured value acquired by measuring a prescribed image formed on a sheet and on the conversion data selected by the conversion data selection section. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222078 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPERATION MODE SETTING METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises a display; a customization portion; a mode setting portion; and a controller that forcibly changes a value set for a first operation mode to a first parameter, still keeps the first parameter after cancellation of the second operation mode, and changes the first parameter according to a user operation, if a second operation mode is employed by the mode setting portion while an operation key for setting a value for the first operation mode is not hidden by the customization portion, meanwhile changes the value set for the first operation mode to a second parameter and changes the second parameter to a third parameter after cancellation of the second operation mode, if the second operation mode is employed by the mode setting portion while an operation key for setting a value for the first operation mode is hidden by the customization portion. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110222077 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND DENSITY UNEVENNESS CORRECTION METHOD - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming section to write a latent image, and to develop the latent image to form an image; a misalignment detecting section to detect misalignment amount of a sheet in the main scanning direction on a sheet conveying path to the image forming section; a storage section to store the misalignment amount; a density measuring section to measure density of a plurality of preset positions and to generate measurement data; and a control section to adjust a writing position on the image carrier; to allow the image forming section to output the sheet on which a density measuring image is formed; and to convert the position on the sheet of the measurement data to the writing position on the image carrier and to generate correction data; and a density unevenness correcting section to correct the density of the image. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110219301 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PREVIEW DISPLAY METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes: an information taker that obtains information of a key selection screen previously customized on the image forming apparatus itself or information of a key selection screen customized on a different image forming apparatus; and a comparison portion that compares second features currently installed on the image forming apparatus to first features installed on the image forming apparatus originally before the customization or to first features installed on the different image forming apparatus. And if it is judged based on the comparison results that the second features include one or more than one feature of the print function, not included in the first features, a controller makes a display portion indicates that there is a new feature having been installed on the image forming apparatus while displaying a preview image of print data to be outputted. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219250 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE WHICH PERFORMS POWER SAVING CONTROL UPON AUTHENTICATION PRINTING - An image forming device can operate in a print mode, a first power saving mode, and a second power saving mode. In the print mode, a first circuit having a unit to acquire the state of the image forming device and a second circuit are both activated. In the first power saving mode, neither the first circuit nor the second circuit is activated. In the second power saving mode, only the first circuit is activated. When a secure print instruction is received in the first power saving mode, the operation mode is switched to the second power saving mode. When the identity of the user is authenticated in the second power saving mode, the operation mode is switched to the print mode. Accordingly, it is possible to provide the image forming device which can restrict power consumption and also reduce the time required for printing out after the identity authentication. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110217651 | IMAGE FORMATION METHOD AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS - Disclosed is an image formation method comprising the steps of charging an organic photoreceptor by a charging device, the organic photoreceptor comprising a substrate and provided thereon, a photoreceptive layer and a protective layer in that order; imagewise exposing the charged organic photoreceptor by an exposure device to form an electrostatic latent image; developing the electrostatic latent image by a developing device to form a toner image, the developing device comprising a developer containing a toner; transferring the toner image to a recording medium by a transfer device; and then removing, by a cleaning device, a toner remaining on the organic photoreceptor from the organic photoreceptor, wherein the protective layer is formed by polymerization of a polymerizable composition containing a polymerizable compound with a polymerizable functional group, and wherein the toner contains an antioxidant. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110217641 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Reduced can be interferential streaks produced in a halftone image when using a photoreceptor support (also called a drawn tube) having been subjected to tool bit cutting processing, and provided can be an electrophotographic photoreceptor capable of obtaining high quality in response to the light printing field or the like and an image forming method employing the electrophotographic photoreceptor. Also disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor possessing a cylindrical support and provided thereon, a photosensitive layer, the cylindrical support possessing a processing profile regularly fanned along a central axis, provided on a circumferential surface of the cylindrical support, wherein the processing profile satisfies Formula 1: Formula 1 ΔL≧10 μm, where ΔL, represents a difference between a processing period width and another processing period width in a central axis direction of the cylindrical support in an image region. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110217078 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC PHOTORECEPTOR AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An organic photoreceptor having a photosensitive layer on a conductive support is disclosed, in which the photosensitive layer contains a pigment containing an adduct of titanyl phthalocyanine and at least either of (2R,3R)-2,3-butanediol and (2S,3S)-2,3-butanediol, the spectrum of the photosensitive layer has the absorption maximum value in the region of 750 to 780 nm, and the ratio of the absorbance at 780 nm (Abs 780) to the absorbance at 750 nm (Abs 750) (Abs 780/Abs 750, a value obtained by correcting the absorbance at 1000 nm as 0) is 0.6 to 1.0. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110217065 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has a toner image carrier that rotates in a specified direction, a developing device comprising a toner supporting member that faces to a surface of the toner image carrier to form a developing area and that rotates in a same direction with the toner image carrier at the developing area, a transfer member for transferring a toner image from the surface of the toner image carrier onto a recording sheet, a guide for guiding a recording sheet to between the toner image carrier and the transfer member, and an air aspirator for aspirating air from the developing area and a location of the guide to a location of the transfer member. The air aspirator causes a first airflow, which carries toner, from the developing area and a second airflow, which does not carry toner, from the location of the guide. The second airflow prevents the first airflow from flowing to the location of the guide. Further, an opening is made at a position upstream from the guide with respect to a direction of the second airflow as an air inlet of the second airflow. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110217054 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF EFFECTIVELY SUPPRESSING THERMAL ENERGY RELEASED EXTERNALLY FROM DEVICE DUE TO THERMAL CONVECTION AND HOT AIR FLOW - A fixing device for fixing a toner image onto a recording paper includes a heating member for heating the recording paper, a pressing member for pressing the heating member by pressure-applying contact, a casing accommodating the heating member and the pressing member, and being provided with an exit port for discharging the recording paper, and a closing unit added to the exit port for keeping a temperature of the casing. The closing unit has a rotation member, and an opposed member forming a nip region together with the rotation member. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110216381 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a color converter for converting cyan, magenta and yellow components of a first image signal to equivalent neutral density, calculating a first gray component from cyan, magenta and yellow components of equivalent neutral density, subtracting the first gray component from each of the cyan, magenta and yellow components of equivalent neutral density, subjecting each of the cyan, magenta and yellow components of equivalent neutral density from which the first gray component is subtracted to an inverse conversion of the equivalent neutral density conversion, and outputting a second image signal comprising cyan, magenta and yellow components which are obtained by carrying out the inverse conversion to the cyan, magenta and yellow components of equivalent neutral density from which the first gray component is subtracted, the first black component and the first gray component; an image forming section for forming an image on a paper based on the second image signal by using cyan, magenta, yellow, black and gray toners; and a controller for controlling the color converter and the image forming section. | 09-08-2011 |
