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20100021195 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FIXING AN IMAGE - An apparatus and method for image fixing are disclosed. A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressure member, a heater, and a pressure controller. The fixing member and the pressure member face with each other to form a nip. The heater heats a surface of the fixing member when the fixing member rotates. The pressure controller changes a pressure generated at the nip, according to an operation of the fixing device. | 01-28-2010 |
20120045235 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member to bear a latent image on a surface thereof, a developing unit to develop the latent image on the image bearing member with toner, a driving unit to drive the developing device, a storage unit to store a cumulative travel distance of the developing roller at predetermined timing, a total travel distance of the developing unit, and control conditions for the developing unit, a controller to obtain a difference between the total travel distance of the developing roller and the cumulative travel distance up to a predetermined point in time in image forming operation and to instruct intermittent printing in which continuous printing is limited to a certain number of pages in a predetermined time period when the difference is equal to or greater than a threshold travel distance, and an operation unit in which the control conditions are set. | 02-23-2012 |
20120093528 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a developing device including a developing roller to bear a developing agent to develop a latent image formed on an image bearing member, a cooling device to reduce an internal temperature of the image forming apparatus, a controller to calculate a travel distance of the developing roller to control the cooling device, and a memory unit to store the total travel distance of the developing roller. The controller calculates the total travel distance of the developing roller every Y minutes in the last X minutes, and a difference between the latest total travel distance of the developing roller and the total travel distance stored Z minutes ago by the memory unit to obtain the total travel distance during Z minutes and operate the cooling device for W minutes after image forming operation where the difference is equal to or greater than a threshold value M. | 04-19-2012 |
20120114358 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a fixing unit configured to fix a not-yet-fixed image on a recording medium, includes a fixing target temperature changing part configured to change a fixing target temperature at a time of a fixing process; and a gradation processing part configured to carry out gradation processing on image information. For each sheet of a recording medium on which the fixing process is carried out, the fixing target temperature is changed based on whether halftone processing is carried out and a type of gradation processing to be used. | 05-10-2012 |
20120114359 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF OBTAINING GOOD FIXED CONDITION REGARDLESS OF TYPE OF GRADATION SEQUENCE PROCESSING - An image forming apparatus comprises an image information obtainer that obtains image information, a gradation sequence processor that applies multiple types of gradation sequence processing to the image information, and a toner image formation device that forms a toner image based on the image information. A fixing device is provided to fix the toner image onto a recording medium in a fixing process. A temperature controller is also provided to change a start-up temperature of the fixing device before the fixing process. The start-up temperature is changed in accordance with inclusion of a halftone process and a type of the gradation sequence processing applied to the image information. | 05-10-2012 |
20120315060 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - Disclosed is an image forming device including a fixing unit that fixes a first image to be fixed onto a sheet, the first image to be fixed being supported on the sheet, a target fixing temperature varying unit that varies a target fixing temperature during a time period in which a fixing process is performed, and a gradation processing unit that applies a gradation process to first image information. The target fixing temperature varying unit varies the target fixing temperature for the sheet of the recording medium to which the fixing process is applied, depending on presence or absence of a halftone process, and depending on a type of the gradation process to be utilized. | 12-13-2012 |
20140064756 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming apparatus capable of executing continuous image forming operation forming images on more than one page includes a temperature detector that detects internal or surrounding temperature of a developing device correspondingly changing to temperature of a developer bearer. A temperature information acquiring device acquires information of ambient temperature outside of the image forming apparatus. A controller switches a current operation mode to an intermittent image forming operation mode intermittently including a braking time period not to allow image formation and cancels the intermittent image forming operation mode in accordance with detection result of the temperature detector. The intermittent image forming operation mode allowed to continuously form images only on a prescribed limited number of sheets. The controller varies the braking time period in accordance with the ambient temperature detected by the temperature information acquiring device. | 03-06-2014 |
20140233972 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus capable of continuous image formation on multiple pages includes an image bearer to bear an image, a latent image forming unit to form a latent image on the image bearer, a developing device to develop the latent image with toner, a temperature sensor to detect temperature inside the developing device or adjacent to the developing device, a controller to impose a limit on a quantity of pages in continuous image formation and cancel the limit according to a detection result generated by the temperature sensor, and a report unit to report time data indicating when the limit is imposed. | 08-21-2014 |
20150050038 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - An image forming apparatus includes a fixing member, a pressing member, heat generators, temperature detectors, a power source, and a heat controller. The heat generators include a first heat generator and second heat generators corresponding to an imaged area and a blank area, respectively, of a recording medium. The heat controller controls a power source according to data provided by the temperature detectors, such that a heating area of the fixing member heated by one of the second heat generators located adjacent to the first heat generator acquires a temperature of T | 02-19-2015 |
20150234316 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING CONTROLLER FOR DETERMINING EXPOSURE USED FOR IMAGE FORMATION AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD FOR DETERMINING EXPOSURE USED FOR IMAGE FORMATION - An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a charger, an exposure device, a developing device, an image density sensor, and a controller. The controller is configured to charge the image bearer, expose the image bearer with a first exposure that saturates potential of the image bearer after exposure to form a latent image pattern on the image bearer, develop the latent image pattern into a toner pattern while changing a developing electrical field, detect a first image density of the toner pattern, determine developing bias and charging bias, form patterns with the first exposure and a second exposure smaller than the first exposure, detect a second image density of the patterns, and determine an exposure to output an image based on the second image density, the first exposure, and the second exposure. | 08-20-2015 |
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20090311006 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a charging unit including a charge member that is disposed facing the image carrier across a gap therebetween and charges the image carrier by using electrical discharge caused by applying thereto a voltage including an alternating current component superimposed on a direct current component, a latent image forming unit, a developing unit to supply toner for developing the latent image formed on the image carrier into a toner image and to collect residual toner remaining on the image carrier, a transfer unit, and a toner spreading member to spread toner on the image carrier and disposed upstream from the charging unit in a direction of movement of the image carrier and downstream from the transfer unit in the direction of movement of the image carrier. | 12-17-2009 |
20100098446 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus including a latent image carrier, a charger to evenly charge a surface of the latent image carrier, a writing device to irradiate a charged surface of the latent image carrier to form an electrostatic latent image, a writing device control unit to control the writing device, a developing device to develop the electrostatic latent image to form a toner image, a transfer device to transfer the toner image onto a transferred member, and a pre-transfer irradiating device to irradiate the charged surface of the latent image carrier during a period after development and before transfer. The writing device control unit controls the writing device based on a target image signal A and an image signal B output a single rotation of the latent image carrier after output of the target image signal A in a sub-scanning direction. | 04-22-2010 |
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20130194300 | DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control program causing a processor to execute display control process includes: specifying relationship between a first page screen and a second page screen; allocating the first page screen and the second page screen respectively to a first unit region and a second unit region in one display window in a case that the specified relationship is dependent relationship; and displaying the one display window having the first page screen and the second page screen placed in the first unit region and the second unit region. | 08-01-2013 |
20140156721 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - An information processing system includes a processor configured to predict an in-use situation of a communication terminal at a time of use of an application executed on the communication terminal, and prepare adjusted content of at least a portion of the application based on an in-use situation of the communication terminal as predicted by the circuitry. | 06-05-2014 |
20140289741 | COOPERATION METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND MEDIUM - A cooperation method executed by a computer, the cooperation method includes: extracting, based on a first application that is executed, kind of data being processed by the first application, and history information, at least one second application that was executed next to the first application before; executing processing the data using the at least one second application; evaluating a result of the processing by the at least one second application; and suggesting a second application, among the at least one second application, based on a result of the evaluating. | 09-25-2014 |
20150067873 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR LIMITING FUNCTION - An information processing device includes, a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, determining, when an execution of one of a first application and a second application is requested, an execution state of the other of the first application and the second application; and limiting a function of the requested application based on the execution state of the other application. | 03-05-2015 |
20150100626 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD - A processor searches, when the communication terminal obtains an application, whether information that includes an origin of the application is stored in the storage device. The processor sets, when the information that includes the origin is not stored, information that includes an origin used within the communication terminal in a manner such that the information that includes the origin used within the communication terminal is different from information that is stored in the storage device and includes an origin. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106904 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION PROCESSING METHOD - A processor stores authentication information managed by a native environment of the communication terminal in a first storage region of the storage device. The processor stores authentication information of an application to be executed on a Web application execution environment of the communication terminal in a second storage region of the storage device. The processor performs a control to write the authentication information stored in the first storage region to the second storage region when authentication information used by the application is not stored in the second storage region and is stored in the first storage region. | 04-16-2015 |
20150281868 | DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A distribution apparatus includes: a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: storing information of at least one of a device that is available in a predetermined location and an application for controlling the device in a storage unit; distributing the application to a mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is detected in the predetermined location. | 10-01-2015 |
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20080275047 | TETRAHYDRO-NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVES - This invention relates to tetrahydro-naphthalene derivatives and salts thereof which are useful as an active ingredient of pharmaceutical preparations. The tethrahydro-naphthalene derivatives of the present invention have excellent activity as VR1 antagonist and useful for the prophylaxis and treatment of diseases associated with VR1 activity, in particular for the treatment of urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, urge urinary incontienence, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, post-operative pain, rheumatoid arthritic pain, neuralgia, neuropathies, algesia, nerve injury, ischaemia, neurodegeneration, stroke, inflammatory disorders, asthma and COPD. | 11-06-2008 |
20090209514 | Tetrahydro-Naphthalene Derivatives as Vanilloid Receptor Antagonists - This invention relates to tetrahydro-naphthalene derivatives and salts thereof which is useful as an active ingredient of pharmaceutical preparations. The tetrahydronaphthalene derivatives of the present invention have an excellent activity as VR1 antagonist and useful for the prophylaxis and treatment of diseases associated with VR1 activity, in particular for the treatment of urinary incontinence, urge urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, postoperative pain, rheumatoid arthritic pain, neuralgia, neuropathies, algesia, nerve injury, ischaemia, neurodegeneration, stroke, inflammatory disorders, asthma and COPD. | 08-20-2009 |
20110178088 | TETRAHYDRO-NAPHTHALENE DERIVATIVES - This invention relates to tetrahydro-naphthalene derivatives and salts thereof which are useful as an active ingredient of pharmaceutical preparations. The tetrahydro-naphthalene derivatives of the present invention have excellent activity as VR1 antagonist and useful for the prophylaxis and treatment of diseases associated with VR1 activity, in particular for the treatment of urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, urge urinary incontinence, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, post-operative pain, rheumatoid arthritic pain, neuralgia, neuropathies, algesia, nerve injury, ischaemia, neurodegeneration, stroke, inflammatory disorders, asthma and COPD. | 07-21-2011 |
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20090280711 | PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT METHOD APPLIED TO OPTICAL DISPLAY DEVICE PRODUCTION SYSTEM - The invention provides a production management system and a production management method which are applied to an optical display device production system which can more precisely carry out a production management. A memory stores a panel information allocated per an optical display unit, and a roll information including a positional information of optical films in a material roll before the optical films bonded to the optical display unit are cut so as to coordinate. A position in the material roll before the optical films bonded to the optical display unit are cut is specified based on the panel information corresponding to the optical display unit of the optical display device determined by an inspecting apparatus that a defect exists, and the roll information coordinated to the panel information. If it is possible to recognize what position in what material roll the defect exists, as mentioned above, it is possible to carry out a production management more precisely. | 11-12-2009 |
20110126988 | MANUFACTURING METHOD AND MANUFACTURING SYSTEM FOR OPTICAL DISPLAY DEVICE - The invention is directed to a method for manufacturing an optical display device comprising an optical film including a polarizing plate and a rectangular optical display unit having a surface to which the optical film is bonded, the method comprising the steps of: preparing a material roll which is a roll of a long sheet material obtained by lengthwise slitting a long material comprising an optical film into a width corresponding to a short or long side of the optical display unit, wherein the optical film includes a polarizing plate having a longitudinal direction parallel to its absorption axis; and unwinding the long sheet material from the material roll, cutting at least the optical film of the long sheet material to form an optical film having a length corresponding to a long or short side of the optical display unit, and then bonding the optical film to a surface of the optical display unit. | 06-02-2011 |
20120132369 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A system for manufacturing an optical display device includes an optical display unit feeding apparatus with a counting section counting the number of optical display units fed, an optical film feeding apparatus with a roll exchanging section exchanging a roll of a previous category for a roll of a latter category and joining the optical films on each, a bonding apparatus bonding a cut optical film onto a surface of an optical display unit, and a controller storing the number N of optical display units that are bonded correspondingly with the optical films that are present from a joining position to a bonding position of the optical film, and stops the apparatuses when the number of remaining sheets of the optical display units of the previous category prior to bonding becomes substantially equal to the number N at the time of exchanging categories based on information from the counting section. | 05-31-2012 |
20120193034 | MANUFACTURING SYSTEM AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR OPTICAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A manufacturing system is provided with a supplying apparatus of a first sheet material supplying after cutting into a predetermined length, and a supplying apparatus of a second sheet material supplying after cutting into a predetermined length, and the supplying apparatus of the first sheet material and the supplying apparatus of the second sheet material are structured such that one supplying apparatus cuts a long sheet material having a width corresponding to a short side into a length corresponding to a long side, and the other supplying apparatus cuts a long sheet material having a width corresponding to the long side into a length corresponding to the short side, in correspondence to the long side and the short side of the optical display unit. | 08-02-2012 |
20120238176 | METHOD FOR CONTINUOUSLY MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL AND INSPECTION METHOD - The invention is a method for continuously manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel. In the method, the manufacturing step and the inspection step are performed on a continuous feeder. The inspection step includes applying a line-shaped light beam from one side with respect to the feeder to the liquid crystal display panel being fed; and imaging a region irradiated with the line-shaped light beam in the liquid crystal display panel, wherein the imaging is continuously performed in a line pattern parallel to a width direction of the feeder and performed at a position that is on another side with respect to the feeder and tilted at a predetermined angle to a feed direction of the feeder or a direction opposite thereto with respect to a direction in which the line-shaped light beam is applied. | 09-20-2012 |
20130126080 | OPTICAL FUNCTIONAL FILM, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING SAME - Provided is an optical functional film in which air bubbles can be effectively prevented from forming during lamination, and preferably in which a carrier film does not tear readily. Also provided is a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device using this optical functional film. A belt-shaped optical functional film is used in order to cut away the optical functional film at predetermined intervals from the belt-shaped optical functional film to which a carrier film is bonded, with the carrier film remaining uncut; to subsequently turn over the carrier film by an edge-shaped member and peel away the optical functional film; and to laminate the exposed surface of the optical functional film to a sheet member while the optical functional film is being peeled away, wherein the optical functional film is characterized in that the flexural rigidity of the carrier film per unit length in the longitudinal direction is from 5.0×10 | 05-23-2013 |
20130292058 | SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DISPLAY DEVICE - It is provided that a method and a system for manufacturing an optical display device, which make it possible to bond an optical member and an optical display unit together with a certain degree of cleanliness maintained. The method for manufacturing an optical display device including an optical display unit(W) and an optical member( | 11-07-2013 |
20140290826 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANELS - A method for manufacturing an LCD panel comprises: (a) continuously feeding an LC cell comprising first and second substrates, the first substrate being relatively less susceptible to electrostatic decay than the second substrate, (b) laminating a first polarizing plate to the first substrate of the LC cell while avoiding direct contact between the first laminating member and the first substrate; (c) laminating a second polarizing plate to the second substrate with the first substrate being in contact with a second laminating member through the first polarizing plate laminated to the first substrate in the step (b) while avoiding direct contact between the second laminating member and the first substrate, thereby obtaining an LCD panel, and (d) conducting an inspection of the LCD panel without applying voltage, wherein steps (a), (b), (c) and (d) are performed sequentially in a single continuous feed line. | 10-02-2014 |
20150047766 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for manufacturing a liquid-crystal display device in which at least an absorptive polarizing film is arranged on a viewing side of a rectangular liquid-crystal display panel and at least the absorptive polarizing film and a reflective polarizing film are arranged on a non-viewing side thereof, the liquid-crystal display panel having a long side and a short side and of VA mode or IPS mode is provided. | 02-19-2015 |
20150234096 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for manufacturing an optical display device comprising: after completing lamination of a preceding optical film sheet to one of opposite surfaces of a preceding panel component at the predetermined laminating position, unwinding the carrier film in a state where another surface thereof folded to inside at a tip-end configuring a head portion of a peeling member and the carrier film is passed around the peeling member, and backwardly feeding a leading end of the optical film sheet supported on the carrier film to a predetermined feeding position provided at upstream of the tip-end of the peeling member. | 08-20-2015 |
20150277162 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A method for manufacturing an optical display device comprises: sequentially peeling a plurality of optical film sheets continuously supported via an adhesive layer on one of opposite surfaces of a carrier film, together with the adhesive layer from the carrier film under peeling action of the movable peeling member by winding a long web of the carrier film in a state where the other of opposite surfaces thereof being folded to inside at a tip-end of the movable peeling member having the tip-end and passed around the peeling member; and laminating the plurality of optical film sheets to one of opposite surfaces of respective ones of panel components via the adhesive layer under laminating action of the closed lamination rollers. | 10-01-2015 |