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20110081155 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable drum; charging means for charging the drum, the charging means including a first carrying member for carrying electroconductive magnetic particles and a second carrying member for carrying the magnetic particles, the second carrying member being disposed at a downstreammost position with respect to a rotational direction of the drum, wherein the magnetic particle is in contact with the drum while charging the drum; latent image forming means, disposed at a position downstream of the charging means, for forming a latent image on the drum; potential detecting means for detecting a surface potential of the drum, the potential detecting means being disposed downstream of the charging means and upstream of the latent image forming means; phase detecting means for detecting information relates to a rotational phase of the second carrying member; control means for controlling voltages applied to the first carrying member and to the second carrying member; and wherein the control means is capable of executing an operation in a control mode for controlling the voltages applied to the first carrying member and to the second carrying member, on the basis of a result of detection by the potential detecting means and a result of detection by the phase detecting means. | 04-07-2011 |
20140064790 | CHARGING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - To provide a charging device and an image forming apparatus that can restrict generation of a winding-seam irregularity of a roll brush for a long period. A charging device | 03-06-2014 |
20150098720 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided an image forming apparatus including: a rotatable photosensitive member; a rotatable charging brush for electrically charging the photosensitive member by injecting electric charges into a surface of the photosensitive member in contact with the surface of the photosensitive member; a power source for applying a voltage to the charging brush; a potential sensor for detecting a surface potential of the photosensitive member; an executing portion for causing the potential sensor to execute detection in such a manner that after a first potential which is the potential of the photosensitive member charged by applying a first voltage to the charging brush is detected by the potential sensor, the electric charges are removed from the photosensitive member by applying a second voltage smaller in absolute value than the first potential to the charging brush, and then a second potential which is the potential of the photosensitive member after removal of the electric charges is detected by the potential sensor; and a notifying portion for providing notification of information on a lifetime of the charging brush or information on exchange of the charging brush on the basis of the first potential and the second potential. | 04-09-2015 |
20150227087 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: a developing container; a concave-convex member which has a plurality of grooves formed in a rotation direction; a collecting portion; and a receiving member, wherein each groove has side surfaces including a first side surface formed in one direction and a second side surface formed in the other direction in a circumferential direction of the concave-convex member, wherein the first side surface has a smaller inclination angle than the second side surface, and when a direction which moves down the first side surface in the circumferential direction of the concave-convex member is set to be positive, a relative velocity of a surface velocity of the concave-convex member to a surface velocity of the receiving member is set to be positive, at a position in which the concave-convex member and the receiving member come into contact with each other. | 08-13-2015 |
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20120201448 | ROBOTIC DEVICE, INSPECTION DEVICE, INSPECTION METHOD, AND INSPECTION PROGRAM - A robotic device includes an imaging section adapted to take an image of an object having a hole, and generate an image data of the object including an inspection area of an image of the hole, a robot adapted to move the imaging section, an inspection area luminance value detection section adapted to detect a luminance value of the inspection area from the image data, a reference area luminance value detection section adapted to detect a luminance value of a reference area adjacent to the inspection area from the image data, and a determination section adapted to determine a state of the inspection area based on one of a ratio and a difference between the luminance value of the inspection area detected by the inspection area luminance value detection section and the luminance value of the reference area detected by the reference area luminance value detection section. | 08-09-2012 |
20120209429 | ROBOT APPARATUS, POSITION DETECTING DEVICE, POSITION DETECTING PROGRAM, AND POSITION DETECTING METHOD - A robot apparatus includes: an image pickup device; a goal-image storing unit that stores, according to sensitivity represented by an amount of change of a pixel value at the time when a target aligned with a goal position on an image at a pixel level is displaced by a displacement amount at a sub-pixel level, goal image data in a state in which the target is arranged; and a target detecting unit that calculates a coincident evaluation value of the target on the basis of comparison of image data including the target and the goal image data stored by the goal-image storing unit and detects positional deviation of the target with respect to the goal position on the basis of the coincidence evaluation value. | 08-16-2012 |
20130182903 | ROBOT APPARATUS AND POSITION AND ORIENTATION DETECTING METHOD - A robot apparatus includes a reference-model storing unit configured to store a reference model of an object, a feature-value-table storing unit configured to store a feature value table that associates position data and orientation data of the reference model and a feature value, a photographed-image acquiring unit configured to capture a photographed image of the object, a detecting unit configured to calculate a photographed image feature value from the photographed image, and a driving control unit configured to control a robot main body on the basis of the position data and the orientation data to change the position and the orientation of a gripping unit. | 07-18-2013 |
20130195345 | INSPECTING APPARATUS, ROBOT APPARATUS, INSPECTING METHOD, AND INSPECTING PROGRAM - An inspecting apparatus includes an image pickup unit configured to pick up a plurality of images of an inspection target object with different exposure times and generate, image data of an inspection target object image including an inspection region, a weighted-image-data generating unit configured to weight, for each of the image data generated with the exposure times different from one another, data of pixels indicating a region where a difference in gradation of pixel values is relatively large among regions of pixels included in the image data and generate weighted image data, an image-data combining unit configured to generate combined image data obtained by combining the generated respective weighted image data, and a determining unit configured to determine a state of the inspection region on the basis of image data of a reference image set and the generated combined image data. | 08-01-2013 |
20150109203 | PERFORMING METHOD OF DEVICE CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING IMAGES ACCORDING TO BODY MOTION OF USER - A performing method of a device capable of adjusting images according to a body motion of a user, the device comprising a display unit, at least one camera unit, and a control unit electrically coupled to the display unit and the camera unit, the performing method comprising: capturing at least one motion image of the user by the at least one camera unit; receiving the at least one motion image of the user by the control unit; and adjusting the display unit according to the least one motion image of the user by the control unit, whereby the images displayed by the display unit moving as does the user. | 04-23-2015 |
20150217451 | ROBOT, ROBOT SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD - A robot includes: a hand; and a control unit that operates the hand, in which the control unit generates three-dimensional point group information for a partial image forming a captured image obtained by an imaging unit, and causes the hand to hold an object included in the partial image. | 08-06-2015 |
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20130090227 | LEAD-FREE GLASS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR ENCAPSULATION - The technical task of the present invention is to provide a lead-free glass for semiconductor encapsulation, which is easy to automate an appearance inspection, and furthermore, has excellent refinability and encapsulatability of semiconductor devices. In the lead-free glass for semiconductor encapsulation according to the present invention, a temperature at which the viscosity of glass is 10 | 04-11-2013 |
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20140066284 | LEAD-FREE GLASS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR ENCAPSULATION AND ENCAPSULATOR FOR SEMICONDUCTOR ENCAPSULATION - The present invention provides a lead-free glass for semiconductor encapsulation, which can encapsulate semiconductor devices at a low temperature and has an excellent acid durability, and an encapsulator for semiconductor encapsulation made of the glass. The glass comprises, as a glass composition, from 46 to 60% of SiO | 03-06-2014 |