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20120114367 | DEVELOPER COLLECTING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer collecting device includes a housing provided with an opening opposed to a developer carrying member, a collecting member provided along an edge of the opening at a downstream end of the opening in a transporting direction in which the developer carrying member transports the developer, a sealing member provided along an edge of the opening at an upstream end of the opening in the transporting direction, a suction path that extends along a longitudinal direction of the housing and that is connected to a suction unit for sucking the developer into the housing, a developer transporting unit that is provided between the opening and the suction path and that transports the developer collected in the housing, a filter member disposed between the developer transporting unit and the suction path, and a hood member disposed between the opening and the filter member and separated from the filter member. | 05-10-2012 |
20120114368 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus includes a housing provided with an opening opposed to a developer carrying member that carries developer; a collecting member provided along a downstream edge of the opening in a transporting direction of the developer and capable of coming into contact with and separating from the developer carrying member; a sealing member provided along an upstream edge of the opening in the transporting direction; a suction member that sucks air from the opening; a suction path provided between the opening and the suction member; an opening-closing unit that opens or closes the suction path; and a controller that controls the opening-closing unit so as to open the suction path at a time that is before separation of the collecting member from the developer carrying member and a predetermined time period after the time of contact between the collecting member and the developer carrying member. | 05-10-2012 |
20130077992 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TRANSFER DEVICE - A transfer assembly includes a support member having a side wall that extends in such a direction as to intersect a line extending from the rotation axis of a transfer roller and that has a hole through which a support shaft is inserted with some play being present. The hole has such a shape that, at the beginning of a period when a door is rotated from an open state to a closed state and a positioned portion is in contact with a positioning member, gaps are formed between the support shaft and a wall surface of the hole on both sides of the support shaft in a radial direction crossing an arc that is drawn from a center of the arc at the center line of rotation of the door and that passes through the support shaft. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077995 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND TRANSPORT GUIDING DEVICE - An image forming apparatus includes a body frame, a transport unit, an image carrier, a transfer device, a fixing device, a guide member assembly, a door, and a positioning member. The guide member assembly includes a guide member, a positioned portion, and a support member. The support member supports the guide member and has a side wall that extends in such a direction as to intersect a line drawn in the width direction and that has a hole through which the support shaft is inserted with some play being present. The guide member assembly is supported by the door with some play being present between the guide member assembly and the base plate and is urged by the urging member. The hole is a long hole having a major axis extending in an opening direction of the door away from the center line of rotation of the door. | 03-28-2013 |
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20090155707 | TONER FOR ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF, AND ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - There is provided a toner for electrostatic charge image development, which includes a binder resin that includes a non-crystalline polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin, and a colorant, wherein in a measurement of an acetone-soluble fraction of the toner by gel permeation chromatography, in which W1 represents the total area of an elution curve of the acetone-soluble fraction, F(0-10) represents an eluate corresponding to from the beginning of the elution to 10% elution of W1 over time, and F (80-100) represents an eluate corresponding to from 80% elution to 100% elution of W1 over time, the amount of an aliphatic unsaturated dicarboxylic acid-derived component of the resins contained in the eluate F(0-10) is in the range of from about 0 mol % to about 10 mol % relative to the total amount of the acid-derived components of the resins contained in the eluate F(0-10), and the amount of the aliphatic unsaturated dicarboxylic acid-derived component of the resins contained in the eluate F(80-100) is in the range of from about 20 mol % to about 60 mol % relative to the total amount of the acid-derived components of the resins contained in the eluate F(80-100). | 06-18-2009 |
20140112677 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a toner image forming unit that forms and continuously transfers a toner image based on image data onto a transported sheet from the front to the rear in a sheet transport direction as the sheet is transported, a fixing unit positioned downstream of the toner image forming unit in the transport direction and that fixes the transferred toner image onto the sheet, an image determining unit that determines whether the formed toner image is a scattering toner image that causes toner scattering during the transfer, and a speed controlling unit that controls, when it is determined that the toner image is a scattering toner image, a transport speed of the sheet and a transfer speed of the toner image to the sheet such that the speeds are slower than those when it is determined that the toner image is not a scattering toner image. | 04-24-2014 |
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20090279507 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND HANDOVER METHOD - A communication device can perform handover in accordance with a traffic type. In a non-real time communication, it is possible to prevent loss of packet data. In a real time communication, a handover can be rapidly performed without causing a delay. In this device, a handover control unit ( | 11-12-2009 |
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20130279419 | BASE STATION DEVICE AND TRANSMITTING METHOD - The present invention provides a base station device capable of improving the throughput of a whole network by minimizing interference between respective base stations. In a communication system including a plurality of base stations, which transmit a signal by using any of a plurality of different ABS patterns which are sub frame ABS patterns represented by the combination of a transmission sub frame for transmitting a signal and a non-transmission sub frame for suspending the transmission of the signal, a determining unit ( | 10-24-2013 |
20130288696 | SERVER APPARATUS, SMALL BASE-STATION APPARATUS, AND INTERFERENCE CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a server apparatus and an interference control method, wherein interference between cells is inhibited, and a drop in throughput of the entire network is also inhibited. An ABS configuration determining unit ( | 10-31-2013 |
20140155063 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND BASE STATION DEVICE - Provided are a wireless communication system and a base station device. An entrance cell base station ( | 06-05-2014 |
20140378135 | MANAGEMENT SERVER, MOBILE BASE STATION AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - This management server avoids inter-cell interference on mobile terminals even if a relay node (RN) accommodating the mobile terminals has moved. The management server determines the almost blank subframe (ABS) pattern and the application period of the ABS pattern of a macrocell to which an RN is to move to next on the basis of RN location information, speed information and direction of movement transmitted from the RN, and macrocell information that is to be retained, and transmits said information to the RN. On the basis of the information transmitted from the management server, the RN performs scheduling for user equipment (UE) that is undergoing interference. | 12-25-2014 |