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20090052939 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND CHARGING DEVICE AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE USED IN THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The invention provides a charging device used in an image forming apparatus such as a copier, a fax machine, a printer or the like, the charging device including: a gold-plated discharge wire for charging an image carrier such as a photoconductive member or the like; and a cleaning member, having an abrasive, for cleaning the discharge wire, with the gold plating being maintained over time satisfactorily, and provides a process cartridge having this charging device. The cleaning member has an abrasive containing alumina and/or silicon, the grain size of which ranges from #6000 to #8000. The discharge wire is a tungsten wire on which a plating film is formed by gold plating, such that the thickness of the plating film is not smaller than 1.5 μm, and the diameter of the tungsten wire is not smaller than 30 μm. | 02-26-2009 |
20100278549 | IMAGE FOMRING APARATUS AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING CHARGE BIAS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier configured to carry an image and a charger to which a direct current voltage overlapped with an AC voltage is applied as a charging bias to charge the image carrier. The charger is positioned in contact or contactlessly with the image carrier. The AC voltage applied to the charger in an adjustment of the AC voltage is not less than twice a charging start voltage Vth at which the image carrier starts to be charged. | 11-04-2010 |
20110026992 | Image forming apparatus - In an image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming devices, a first image forming device in which a leveling blade that functions as a lubricant leveling blade is easily worn away over time uses an obtuse-angle blade as a first leveling blade, and a second image forming device being other image forming device among the plurality of image forming devices uses a right-angle blade as a second leveling blade. | 02-03-2011 |
20120134725 | CLEANING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A cleaning device to remove untransferred toner from a surface of an image carrier rotatable in a predetermined direction. The cleaning device includes a lubricant supply roller contacting the surface of the image carrier to supply a lubricant carried thereon to the surface of the image carrier, a first blade provided upstream from the lubricant supply roller in the direction of rotation of the image carrier, and a second blade provided downstream from the lubricant supply roller. The first blade contacts the surface of the image carrier to level the untransferred toner attaching to the surface of the image carrier to a thin layer. The second blade contacts the surface of the image carrier to level the lubricant supplied to the surface of the image carrier by the lubricant supply roller to a thin layer and to remove the untransferred toner from the surface of the image carrier. | 05-31-2012 |
20120163837 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a cleaning device that collects a waste toner attached to the surface of the image carrier using a cleaning member, a waste container that is removable from an image forming apparatus body, a temporary storage unit that is provided in the image forming apparatus body to temporarily store a waste including the waste toner collected in the cleaning device before the waste is transported to the waste container, and a waste transport unit that transports the waste to the temporary storage unit, wherein a discharge speed of the waste from the temporary storage unit by the waste discharge unit is lower than a transport speed of the waste to the temporary storage unit by the waste transport unit. | 06-28-2012 |
20120195664 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - When the acute angle between a normal line, oriented outward from a blade abutting portion of a photosensitive member over which a cleaning blade remains abutted before separation of the surface of the photosensitive member from the cleaning blade, and a horizontal plane, passing through the origin of the normal line, is expressed as a positive value when the normal line lies above the horizontal plane and expressed as a negative value when the normal line lies below the horizontal plane; an imaging unit frame so supports a photosensitive module that the photosensitive member can rotate to a specific rotational position having a greater angle than the angle at the time of separation of the surface of the photosensitive member from the cleaning blade. Until the photosensitive member rotates from a normal rotational position to the specific rotational position, the photosensitive module cannot be removed from the imaging unit frame. | 08-02-2012 |
20120315053 | LUBRICANT SUPPLY DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A lubricant supply device including a solid lubricant, a lubricant supply roller, a detector, and a varying device is provided. The lubricant supply roller is adapted to supply the lubricant to a toner image bearing member and is rotatable in a predetermined direction while slidably contacting both the solid lubricant and the toner image bearing member. The detector is adapted to detect an absolute humidity around the lubricant supply device. The varying device is adapted to vary an amount of the lubricant to be supplied to the toner image bearing member based on the absolute humidity detected by the detector. | 12-13-2012 |
20120321330 | LUBRICANT SUPPLYING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A lubricant supplying device includes a lubricant supplying roller configured to rotate in a certain direction and makes a sliding contact with an image carrier on which a toner image is carried; a solid lubricant arranged to slide in contact with the lubricant supplying roller; a changing unit configured to change a revolution of the lubricant supplying roller to adjust an amount of the solid lubricant supplied onto the image carrier; and a calculation unit configured to obtain a product life or total consumption of the solid lubricant from a total running distance or total operating time of the image carrier or the lubricant supplying roller, the product life or the total consumption of the solid lubricant being corrected based on the amount of the solid lubricant supplied onto the image carrier. | 12-20-2012 |
20120328332 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH NEUTRALIZER AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus including an image bearing member, a charger, an irradiator, a developing device, a transfer device, a neutralizer, and a varying device is provided. The neutralizer is adapted to neutralize the image bearing member by emitting neutralization light thereto, after a toner image formed on the image bearing member is transferred therefrom. The varying device is adapted to vary an amount of the neutralization light to be emitted to the image bearing member by pulse-width modulation of a voltage to be supplied to the neutralizer. The image forming apparatus satisfies the following formula: | 12-27-2012 |
20140027012 | POWDER REFILLING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME, AND POWDER REFILLING METHOD - A powder refilling device includes a refill powder chamber to accommodate a powder bag containing powder, an opener to open the powder bag inside the refill powder chamber, and a squeezer to squeeze the opened powder bag to discharge powder therefrom and reduce a volume of the opened powder bag. | 01-30-2014 |
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20130154178 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND SHEET PROCESSING METHOD - A sheet processing apparatus performs predetermined processing on a sheet or a sheet bundle. The sheet processing apparatus includes: a conveying unit that conveys a sheet along a conveying path; an aligning unit that, each time a sheet is conveyed by the conveying unit, aligns the sheet; a stacking unit that reverses a conveying direction of a sheet to convey the sheet backward to a branch path branched from the conveying path, and stacks the sheet in the branch path; and a binding unit that binds a sheet bundle aligned by the aligning unit, in the conveying path. | 06-20-2013 |
20130264762 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes a stacking channel to stack multiple sheets into a sheet bundle, and a binding device to bind together the sheet bundle, the binding device including multiple clamping portions to clamp the sheet bundle to create multiple clamping marks on the sheet bundle. When the binding device binds a corner area of the sheet bundle, a longitudinal direction of each of the multiple clamping marks forms an angle within a range from 30 degrees to 60 degrees with a side of the corner area of the sheet bundle. | 10-10-2013 |
20130270762 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes a conveyance unit to transport a sheet bundle including multiple sheets in a sheet conveyance direction and a binding device including a clamping unit. The clamping unit includes multiple projections and multiple recesses to engage the respective projections to clamp the sheet bundle inserted therebetween. At least one of the multiple projections includes an inclined portion facing a sheet conveyance direction, and an inclination of the inclined portion is 45 degrees or smaller relative to a face parallel to the sheet conveyance direction. | 10-17-2013 |
20130300050 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND SHEET BINDING METHOD - A sheet processing apparatus includes a pair of squeezing members having a projection and a recess to engage each other, to squeeze a sheet bundle inserted therebetween in a direction of thickness of the sheet bundle, and a pressure applying unit to apply pressing force to the squeezing members to squeeze and bind the sheet bundle. The pressing force generated between the squeezing members by the pressure applying unit increases in strength as a relative distance between the squeezing members decreases. | 11-14-2013 |
20140138896 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - According to an aspect of an embodiment, a sheet processing apparatus includes: a conveying unit configured to convey sheets; a stacking unit configured to stack the conveyed sheets to form a sheet stack; and a binding unit configured to include a pair of toothed jaw and bind the sheet stack by pressing the sheet stack between the pair of toothed jaw, wherein at least one portion of edges of the toothed jaw is rounded. | 05-22-2014 |
20140151951 | POSTPROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE POSTPROCESSING APPARATUS - A postprocessing apparatus includes a stacking unit that stacks a sheet, an abutting unit that corrects a conveying direction of the sheet, a return roller that abuts the sheet against the abutting unit, a shift conveying unit that shifts the sheet in a width direction, and a width direction detector that detects a width direction position of the sheet. When the sheet is shifted by the shift conveying unit by a predetermined amount, passed to the return roller, and abutted against the abutting unit, distances A and B are nearly the same, where the distance A is a distance from a conveying direction position of a side of the sheet to a rear end of the sheet and the distance B is a distance from the return roller to the abutting unit. | 06-05-2014 |
20140219747 | SHEET BINDING DEVICE, SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND SHEET BINDING METHOD - A sheet binding device binds a sheet bundle by causing a movable-crimping-member moving unit to move a movable crimping member thereby holding a sheet bundle between crimping members. The movable-crimping-member moving unit includes: a link mechanism that includes a first link member rotatably connected to the movable crimping member, a second link member rotatably connected to a fixed member fixed to a device body and connected to the first link member through a connecting part; a connecting member rotatably connected to the connecting part, and capable of moving between a first position causing the link mechanism to be extended and a second position causing the link mechanism to be more flexed than in the first position; and a connecting-member moving unit that includes a rotary member capable of rotating on a displaceable rotating shaft, and reciprocates the connecting member by rotation of the rotary member in one direction. | 08-07-2014 |
20150030414 | METHOD FOR ATTACHING CRIMPING MEMBERS, SHEET BINDING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The present invention is concerning a method for attaching a pair of crimping members in a sheet binding device that binds a sheet bundle by engagement of the pair of crimping members, wherein at least one of the crimping members is attached to a member to which the one of the crimping members is to be attached in a state where the pair of crimping members is in engagement. | 01-29-2015 |
20150076759 | SHEET BINDING DEVICE, SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet binding device includes: a pair of crimping members each including alternately-arranged multiple recesses and multiple protrusions to bind a sheaf of sheets by fitting the recesses and the protrusions with the sheet sheaf interposed therebetween. When the recesses and the protrusions of the pair of crimping members are fitted, slanted side faces of the protrusions of one of the pair of crimping members and that of the other one of the pair of crimping members are in contact with each other with a clearance left both between top portions of the protrusions of the one of the crimping members and bottom portions of the recesses of the other one of the crimping members and between top portions of the protrusions of the other one of the crimping members and bottom portions of the recesses of the one of the crimping members. | 03-19-2015 |
20150091246 | SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing apparatus includes: a loading tray on which a sheet is loaded; a pair of ejection rollers that eject the sheet to the loading tray and in which a pair or roller members are configured to be able to contact with and separate from each other; a pair of shift rollers that is provided upstream of the pair of ejection rollers in a sheet conveyance direction, are movable in a sheet width direction that is a direction perpendicular to the sheet conveyance direction, convey the sheet towards the loading tray, and performs a shift operation of shifting the sheet to a different position in the sheet width direction; and a control unit that performs control to change, based on sheet information, a shift operation timing of the sheet by the pair of shift rollers and a contacting and separating timing of the pair of ejection rollers. | 04-02-2015 |
20150093214 | PAPER BINDING DEVICE, PAPER PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A paper binding device comprises: a pair of binding members that has a pair of teeth portions, and presses to bind a bundle of paper sheets; a moving unit that causes one of the pair of binding members to move along with the other of the pair of binding members between a binding position at which the bundle of paper sheets is bound and a retracted position; a separating unit that moves coordinating with movement of the one of the pair of binding members, and when the one of the pair of binding members moves from the binding position to the retracted position, that contacts with the bundle of the paper sheets and causes the bundle of paper sheets to separate from the one of the pair of binding members; and a restricting member that stops the separating unit at a restricting position between the binding position and the retracted position, when the one of the pair of the binding members moves from the binding position to the retracted position. | 04-02-2015 |
20150360899 | SHEET PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet processing device is for binding sheets together. The sheet processing device includes binding units differing from each other in maximum sheet count, the maximum sheet count being a maximum number of sheets that can be bound at a time; a sheet tray configured to hold sheets until all to-be-bound sheets are placed therein, the number of the to-be-bound sheets being a largest one of the maximum sheet counts of the binding units or smaller; and a stacked-sheet-count limiting unit situated in a thickness direction of the sheets held in the sheet tray. The stacked-sheet-count limiting unit is configured to limit the number of sheets held in the sheet tray by varying a distance from a sheet support surface of the sheet tray on which the sheets are placed, depending on one of the binding units by which the sheets held in the sheet tray are to be bound. | 12-17-2015 |
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20120065779 | ROBOT - A robot includes a gripping section adapted to grip an object by open and close a pair of finger sections, a moving device adapted to relatively move the object and the gripping section, and a control device adapted to control the moving device to move the gripping section relatively toward the object, and dispose the pair of finger sections in a periphery of the object, and then control the gripping section to open and close the pair of finger sections in a plane parallel to a mounting surface on which the object is mounted, pinch the object between the pair of finger sections from a lateral side of the object, and grip the object with the gripping section at least three contact points. | 03-15-2012 |
20120065780 | ROBOT - A robot includes a gripping section and a main body section to which the pair of finger sections are attached, having one end sections of the pair of finger sections rotatably connected to each other around a first rotating shaft disposed at a position separate from the main body section, and adapted to open and close the pair of finger sections by swinging the other side of the pair of finger sections on a plane parallel to a mounting surface on which an object is mounted centered on the first rotating shaft to thereby grip the object, a moving device adapted to relatively move the object and the gripping section, and a control device adapted to control the moving device to move the gripping section relatively toward the object, and grip the object with the gripping section at at least three contact points. | 03-15-2012 |
20120153652 | ROBOT AND ROBOT HAND - A recess has a proximal-end-side surface and a distal-end-side surface. When an intersection between a straight line included in the proximal-end-side surface and a straight line included in the distal-end-side surface is a base point, a line passing through the base point is a base line, a line between two claw portions, passing through an end point of the recess and orthogonal to the base line is an orthogonal line, the angle α made between the base line, and the straight line included in the distal-end-side surface is greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees, the angle β made between the orthogonal line, and the straight line included in the proximal-end-side surface is greater than 0 degrees and less than 90 degrees, and the length d from the base point to the orthogonal line is greater than 0. | 06-21-2012 |
20120205932 | ROBOT HAND AND ROBOT APPARATUS - A robot hand includes a first finger unit and a second finger unit, a driving unit that causes the finger units to perform an opening and closing action, and a finger-unit moving mechanism that changes a direction in which the opening and closing action of the first finger unit and the second finger unit is performed. The finger-unit moving mechanism includes a worm wheel, a motor, and a worm. A first gear that rotates in a direction different from the rotating direction of the worm in association with the rotation of the worm is provided in the first finger unit. A second gear that rotates in a direction opposite to the rotating direction of the first gear in association with the rotation of the worm is provided in the second finger unit. | 08-16-2012 |
20130183129 | ROBOT HAND AND ROBOT APPARATUS - A robot hand is provided, the robot hand including three finger sections, a supporting section which supports a proximal end of each of the three finger sections, and a circumferential movement section which circumferentially moves a second finger section and a third finger section of the three finger sections about a position where the three finger sections are supported on the supporting section is provided. The circumferentially moving second finger section and third finger section are circumferentially movable in a range of 180 degrees or greater in a circumferential direction substantially around a hand axis of the robot hand, about the position where the three finger sections are supported on the supporting section. | 07-18-2013 |
20130197696 | ROBOT APPARATUS, ASSEMBLING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A robot apparatus includes a gripping unit configured to grip a first component, a force sensor configured to detect, as detection values, a force and a moment acting on the gripping unit, a storing unit having stored therein contact states of the first component and a second component and transition information in association with each other, a selecting unit configured to discriminate, on the basis of the detection values, a contact state of the first component and the second component and select, on the basis of a result of the discrimination, the transition state stored in the storing unit, and a control unit configured to control the gripping unit on the basis of the transition information selected by the selecting unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130218331 | ROBOT CONTROL DEVICE, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, ROBOT CONTROL PROGRAM, AND ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot control device of a vertical articulated robot having seven axes and an offset structure includes: a storage unit which stores a condition of a status of the vertical articulated robot including a position of an elbow in the vertical articulated robot and control information for controlling the vertical articulated robot such that the condition is satisfied to match each other; an input unit to which the condition of the status of the vertical articulated robot including the position of the elbow is input; and a robot control unit which controls the vertical articulated robot such that the input condition is satisfied on the basis of the control information stored in the storage unit to match the same condition as the condition input to the input unit. | 08-22-2013 |
20140103673 | ROBOT HAND, ROBOT DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ROBOT HAND - A robot hand includes a finger unit that is in contact with an object. The finger unit includes: a first member in which a tip portion and a base portion connected to the tip portion are formed as a single member; and a second member that covers a surface of the first member. | 04-17-2014 |
20140103676 | ROBOT HAND AND ROBOT DEVICE - A robot hand includes a finger unit that includes a first knuckle section that is supported to a predetermined base section and a second knuckle section that is supported to the first knuckle section; a drive section that includes a male screw that is rotatable around a predetermined screw axis by a predetermined drive source and a female screw that is screw-coupled with the male screw and moves in an axial direction of the screw axis according to rotation of the male screw, in which the female screw and the first knuckle section are connected to each other so that the first knuckle section moves in association with movement of the female screw; and a link section that connects the first knuckle section and the second knuckle section so that the second knuckle section moves in association with movement of the first knuckle section. | 04-17-2014 |
20140214202 | ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, ROBOT CONTROL DEVICE, ROBOT, AND ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot control method includes a first step of selecting a holding form in which a robot holds an object and a second step of determining whether the object can continue to be stably held when a predetermined external force is applied to the object in the selected holding form. In the second step, it is determined that the object can continue to be stably held when a force which should be generated by a contact portion to generate resistance to the predetermined external force is included in a friction cone of a force generated by driving the contact portion and enlarged by a suction force from the suction mechanism. | 07-31-2014 |
20140249677 | ROBOT - A robot includes a gripping section and a main body section to which the pair of finger sections are attached, having one end sections of the pair of finger sections rotatably connected to each other around a first rotating shaft disposed at a position separate from the main body section, and adapted to open and close the pair of finger sections by swinging the other side of the pair of finger sections on a plane parallel to a mounting surface on which an object is mounted centered on the first rotating shaft to thereby grip the object, a moving device adapted to relatively move the object and the gripping section, and a control device adapted to control the moving device to move the gripping section relatively toward the object, and grip the object with the gripping section at at least three contact points. | 09-04-2014 |
20150127152 | ROBOT APPARATUS, ASSEMBLING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A robot apparatus includes a gripping unit configured to grip a first component, a force sensor configured to detect, as detection values, a force and a moment acting on the gripping unit, a storing unit having stored therein contact states of the first component and a second component and transition information in association with each other, a selecting unit configured to discriminate, on the basis of the detection values, a contact state of the first component and the second component and select, on the basis of a result of the discrimination, the transition state stored in the storing unit, and a control unit configured to control the gripping unit on the basis of the transition information selected by the selecting unit. | 05-07-2015 |
20150148950 | ROBOT CONTROL DEVICE, ROBOT CONTROL METHOD, ROBOT CONTROL PROGRAM, AND ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot control device of a vertical articulated robot having seven axes and an offset structure includes: a storage unit which stores a condition of a status of the vertical articulated robot including a position of an elbow in the vertical articulated robot and control information for controlling the vertical articulated robot such that the condition is satisfied to match each other; an input unit to which the condition of the status of the vertical articulated robot including the position of the elbow is input; and a robot control unit which controls the vertical articulated robot such that the input condition is satisfied on the basis of the control information stored in the storage unit to match the same condition as the condition input to the input unit. | 05-28-2015 |
20150202778 | ROBOT HAND, ROBOT DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ROBOT HAND - A robot hand includes a finger unit that is in contact with an object. The finger unit includes: a first member in which a tip portion and a base portion connected to the tip portion are formed as a single member; and a second member that covers a surface of the first member. | 07-23-2015 |
20150217458 | ROBOT HAND, ROBOT, MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR ROBOT HAND - A robot hand is a robot hand including a finger section. The robot hand includes an elastic body provided in the finger section and including an attracting section that attracts an object and a sensor provided in the finger section and configured to detect deformation of the elastic body. | 08-06-2015 |
20150367506 | ROBOT SYSTEM - A robot includes a gripping section adapted to grip an object by open and close a pair of finger sections, a moving device adapted to relatively move the object and the gripping section, and a control device adapted to control the moving device to move the gripping section relatively toward the object, and dispose the pair of finger sections in a periphery of the object, and then control the gripping section to open and close the pair of finger sections in a plane parallel to a mounting surface on which the object is mounted, pinch the object between the pair of finger sections from a lateral side of the object, and grip the object with the gripping section at at least three contact points. | 12-24-2015 |
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20120308289 | TAPE CUTTING APPARATUS, TAPE PRINTING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING STEPPING MOTOR - A tape cutting apparatus including: a half cutter configured to cut a body tape or a release tape with respect to a processed tape having the release tape adhered to the body tape; a stepping motor configured to cause the half cutter to perform a cutting operation; and a motor control unit configured to control the stepping motor, wherein the motor control unit is configured to continue the cutting operation until the stepping motor loses steps. | 12-06-2012 |
20130064593 | HALF-CUT DEVICE, TAPE PRINTER INCLUDING THE SAME, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR STEPPING MOTOR - A half-cut device including: a half cutter for cutting a main tape or a released tape of a processed tape which the released tape is affixed to the main tape; a stepping motor for driving the half cutter to cut; and a motor control unit for controlling the stepping motor, wherein the motor control unit controls the stepping motor to maintain the condition which the half cutter cuts the main tape or the released tape for a predetermined time. | 03-14-2013 |
20130193902 | DRIVING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS HAVING DRIVING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DRIVING APPARATUS - A driving apparatus including: a stepping motor configuring a drive source; an operating portion configured to reciprocate corresponding to forward and reverse rotations of the stepping motor; a home position detecting unit configured to detect a home position which corresponds to an outward movement starting position and a homeward movement terminating position of the operating portion; a homeward movement detecting unit configured to detect the driving amount of the stepping motor in a homeward movement of the operating portion from a start of the homeward movement of the operating portion driven by the stepping motor until a detection of the home position by the home position detecting unit; and an operation determining unit configured to determine that the operating portion is not operated normally when the driving amount detected by the homeward movement detecting unit is smaller than a predetermined driving amount. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195535 | MEDIUM FEEDER AND PRINTER INCLUDING THE SAME - A medium feeder includes a first rotation body; a second rotation body which engages with the first rotation body while overlapping with the first rotation body, and disengages from the first rotation body in response to the presence of the feed target medium nipped between the first and second rotation bodies; a rotation body support member which supports the second rotation body, and is configured to be movable between an advancing position where the second rotation body engages with the first rotation body and a retreating position where the second rotation body disengages from the first rotation body; and a detection unit which detects migration of the rotation body support member to the retreating position. | 08-01-2013 |
20130202342 | TAPE PRINTER AND TAPE PRINTER CONTROL METHOD - A tape printer including: a printing unit which performs printing on a tape-shaped printing medium having a plurality of layers; a half cutter mechanism which has a stepping motor and cuts a part of the layers of the tape-shaped printing medium after printing using a driving force of the stepping motor; and a control unit which varies driving current supplied to the stepping motor in accordance with types of the tape-shaped printing medium. | 08-08-2013 |
20150124041 | TAPE CARTRIDGE AND TAPE PRINTER - A tape cartridge | 05-07-2015 |
20150174926 | TAPE PRINTING APPARATUS - A tape printing apparatus includes: a feed unit configured to feed a tape-like member having a printing tape to be printed and a release tape adhered to the printing tape; a half cutter having a cutting blade configured to cut into the tape-like member and a blade receiving member configured to receive the cutting blade cut into the tape-like member, and configured to cut one of the printing tape and the release tape in a width direction; and a downstream-side restricting portion provided on the downstream side of the feeding direction of the tape-like member, and configured to restrict the movement of the cutting blade cutting into the tape-like member in the downstream side of the feeding direction of the cutting blade. | 06-25-2015 |
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20110139065 | Cutting Device and Tape Printer Including Cutting Device - A cutting device which cuts a tape-shaped material in a width direction of the tape-shaped material, includes: a tape pressing mechanism which presses the tape-shaped material at the time of cutting the tape-shaped material, the tape pressing mechanism, a tape guiding unit which has a guiding surface for guiding the tape-shaped material and a receiving surface as a concaved portion with respect to the guiding surface, and a tape pressing unit which has a pressing surface for pressing the receiving surface of the tape guiding unit with the tape-shaped material sandwiched between the pressing surface and the receiving surface. | 06-16-2011 |
20110158732 | Cutting Device And Tape Printing Apparatus Equipped Therewith - A cutting device which carries out cutting operations in a width direction of a tape-like member, includes: a cutter unit having a cutter blade; and a cutter operation mechanism having a power transmission mechanism which transmits power for causing the cutter unit to operate and carry out a circulatory movement including the cutting operations, a full cutting and a half cutting, with one mechanism, wherein the power transmission mechanism has a rotating circular plate which rotates by means of power input from a drive portion, and the rotating circular plate has on each surface an engagement portion which branches and transmits power caused by the rotation. | 06-30-2011 |
20110158733 | Cutting Device And Tape Printing Apparatus Equipped Therewith - A cutting device which carries out cutting operations in a width direction of a tape-like member, includes: a cutter operation mechanism which causes the cutting operations, a full cutting and a half cutting, to be carried out with one mechanism; and a tape discharge mechanism having a tape discharge roller which, by rotating, causes the tape-like member to move to a discharge side, wherein the tape discharge mechanism comes in conjunction with the cutter operation mechanism, and the tape discharge roller rotates only after the cutting operation at a time of the full cutting finishes. | 06-30-2011 |
20110158734 | Cutting Device And Tape Printing Apparatus Equipped Therewith - A cutting device which carries out a cutting operation on a tape-like member in a width direction thereof, includes: a cutter operation mechanism, as well as making a cutting start position different between a full cutting and a half cutting in the cutting preparation operation, causes a cutter unit to carry out a first cutting operation, which causes the cutter unit to move in the width direction from the cutting start position to a predetermined position, and a second cutting operation, which causes the cutter unit to advance from the predetermined position to the cutting completion position in a direction approximately perpendicular to a tape surface of the tape-like member, on the tape-like member in the cutting operation. | 06-30-2011 |
20110158735 | Cutting Device And Tape Printing Apparatus Equipped Therewith - A cutting device includes: a cutter unit having a cutter blade; and a cutter operation mechanism which causes the cutter unit to carry out a circulatory movement including a cutting preparation operation which causes the cutter unit to advance toward a tape-like member from a cutting start position, a cutting operation which causes the cutter unit to move to a cutting completion position, a withdrawal operation which causes the cutter unit to retreat from the cutting completion position to a withdrawal position, and a return operation which causes the cutter unit to return to a cutting stand-by position, wherein the cutter operation mechanism, in the return operation, makes the cutting start position and withdrawal position of the cutter unit different between a full cutting which cuts all of the tape-like member and a half cutting which cuts one portion of the tape-like member. | 06-30-2011 |
20110158736 | Cutting Device And Tape Printing Apparatus Equipped Therewith - A cutting device includes: a cutter unit having a cutter blade; and a cutter operation mechanism which causes the cutter unit to carry out a circulatory movement including a cutting preparation operation which causes the cutter unit to advance toward a tape-like member from a cutting stand-by position to a cutting start position, the cutting operation which causes the cutter unit to move from the cutting start position to a cutting completion position, a withdrawal operation which causes the cutter unit to retreat from the cutting completion position to a withdrawal position, and a return operation which causes the cutter unit to return from the withdrawal position to the cutting stand-by position, wherein the cutter operation mechanism, in the cutting preparation operation, makes the cutting start operation different between a full cutting and a half cutting. | 06-30-2011 |
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20110198582 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - An organic light-emitting device includes an organic compound layer containing an organic compound in which the 3-position of a benzo[k]fluoranthene ring is bonded to the 8-position of a fluoranthene ring, and an organic compound having a pyrene ring. | 08-18-2011 |
20110227057 | PERYLENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE USING THE COMPOUND - Provided is an organic light emitting device having high light emitting efficiency and good emission color purity. The organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic compound layer which is sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, in which one of the anode and the cathode is transparent or semi-transparent and the organic compound layer contains at least one kind of perylene compound represented by the following general formula (1): | 09-22-2011 |
20110240974 | NOVEL BENZO[b]CHRYSENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT INCLUDING THE SAME - The present invention provides a benzo[b]chrysene compound represented by general formula [1] below and an organic light-emitting element including the compound. | 10-06-2011 |
20110272683 | NOVEL BICHRYSENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE HAVING THE COMPOUND - Provided are a novel bichrysene compound and an organic light emitting device having high light emitting efficiency and excellent driving durability. The organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and a layer formed of an organic compound interposed between the anode and the cathode. The layer formed of an organic compound has a bichrysene compound represented by the following general formula (1). | 11-10-2011 |
20110279025 | NOVEL CHRYSENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE HAVING THE COMPOUND - To provide a novel chrysene compound and an organic light-emitting device having high emission efficiency and excellent driving durability, provided is a novel triaryl-substituted chrysene compound represented by the general formula [1]: | 11-17-2011 |
20120013700 | NOVEL FUSED POLYCYCLIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided is a fused polycyclic compound represented by general formula 1: | 01-19-2012 |
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20130033416 | ORGANIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - An organic compound contains indacenodiperylene as the basic skeleton. | 02-07-2013 |
20130037788 | NOVEL m-TERPHENYL COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An organic light emitting device which includes a m-terphenyl compound having a high T1 energy is provided. In addition, a novel m-terphenyl compound is provided. | 02-14-2013 |
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20130049581 | NOVEL ORGANIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT USING THE SAME - An organic compound represented by the following general formula [1] is provided. In the general formula [1], R | 02-28-2013 |
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20130228768 | QUINOLINO[3,2,1-KL]PHENOXAZINE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT USING THE SAME - Provided is an excellent organic light emitting element having high emission efficiency and a low drive voltage. The organic light emitting element includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic compound layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, in which the organic compound layer includes a quinolino[3,2,1-kl]phenoxazine compound represented by the following general formula [1]: | 09-05-2013 |
20130228770 | INDOLOPHENOXAZINE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE USING THE SAME - Provided is an organic light emitting device having high emission efficiency and excellent driving durability. The organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic compound layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, in which the organic compound layer includes an indolophenoxazine compound represented by the following general formula [1]: | 09-05-2013 |
20140264312 | NOVEL ORGANIC COMPOUND AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE - The present invention relates to a novel stable benzo[h]hexaphene compound and an organic light-emitting device including the compound. The present invention provides a benzo[h]hexaphene shown in Claim | 09-18-2014 |
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20150162549 | ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING ELEMENT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - An organic light emitting element contains an anode and a cathode, and a light emitting layer arranged between the anode and the cathode, and the organic light emitting element further contains an organic compound layer which is arranged between the cathode and the light emitting layer, and touches the cathode. The organic compound layer contains an organic compound represented by the following general formula [1], where R | 06-11-2015 |
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20150311441 | METAL COMPLEX COMPOUND, AND ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND DISPLAY DEVICE CONTAINING THE SAME - A metal complex compound is expressed by the following general formula [1]: | 10-29-2015 |
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20150333279 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is an organic light-emitting element having high luminous efficiency and a long lifetime. The organic light-emitting element includes a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer placed between the pair of electrodes, in which the organic compound layer includes an iridium complex having a benzo[f]isoquinoline of a specific structure as a ligand and a metal complex compound of a specific structure. | 11-19-2015 |
20150357586 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT - Provided is an organic light-emitting element having high light-emitting efficiency and a long element lifetime. Specifically, provided is an organic light-emitting element, including: an anode; a cathode; and an organic compound layer placed between the anode and the cathode, in which: the organic compound layer includes an emission layer; the emission layer includes at least a host and a guest; the guest is an iridium complex of a specific structure; the host is a heterocycle-containing compound; and a content of the host is 50 wt % or more with reference to a total amount of constituent materials for the emission layer. | 12-10-2015 |
20150357587 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING ELEMENT - Provided is an organic light-emitting element having high light-emitting efficiency and a long element lifetime. The organic light-emitting element includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic compound layer placed between the anode and the cathode, and the organic compound layer includes an iridium complex represented by the following general formula [1] and a metal complex represented by the following general formula [9]. | 12-10-2015 |
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20150364703 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is a long-lifetime organic light-emitting element having a good device lifetime characteristic. The organic light-emitting device includes: a pair of electrodes; and an organic compound layer placed between the pair of electrodes, in which the organic compound layer includes an iridium complex having a specific structure and a different kind of metal complex. | 12-17-2015 |
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20090115323 | OLIGOFLUORENE COMPOUND AND ORGANIC EL ELEMENT USING SAME - An oligofluorene compound is represented by the General Formula (1) below | 05-07-2009 |
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