Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130022905 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An electrostatic image developing toner includes (A) an amorphous polyester resin containing at least a repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid component and a repeating unit derived from a dialcohol component represented by the specific formula, and (B) an amorphous polyester resin differing in the weight average molecular weight from the amorphous polyester resin (A), wherein the difference (absolute value) in the weight average molecular weight between the amorphous polyester resin (A) and the amorphous polyester resin (B) is from about 30,000 to about 100,000. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022906 | POLYESTER RESIN FOR TONER, TONER, DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A polyester resin for a toner including: a repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid component; and a repeating unit derived from a diol component represented by Formula 1: | 01-24-2013 |
20130022908 | POLYESTER RESIN FOR TONER, ELECTROSTATIC-IMAGE-DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - There is provided a polyester resin for a toner, including: a polycondensate of a polyvalent carboxylic acid component and a polyhydric alcoholic component, wherein the polyhydric alcoholic component contains a rosin diol represented by the following Formula (1) and a content of the rosin diol is 80 mole % to 100 mole % based on the total polyhydric alcoholic component. | 01-24-2013 |
20130029264 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An electrostatic image developing toner contains toner particles containing a polyester resin having a repeating unit deriving from a dicarboxylic acid and a repeating unit deriving from a rosin diol, and an external additive containing silica particles, wherein a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of the soluble matter in tetrahydrofuran of the toner is from about 60,000 to about 200,000. | 01-31-2013 |
20130058682 | UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME - A unit, which is configured to be attachable to and detachable from a body of an apparatus, includes: a holding portion for holding the unit to attach and detach the unit to and from the apparatus body, the holding portion being projected from a housing of the unit; and a lock mechanism for fixing the unit to the apparatus body, wherein an operating portion of the lock mechanism is operated to retract inside a projection end portion of the holding portion, by an operation of moving the lock mechanism to a lock cancel position. | 03-07-2013 |
20130083107 | INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND ABNORMAL NOZZLE DETERMINATION METHOD - According to the present invention, the occurrence of an ejection abnormality can be determined at an early stage by using a waveform for abnormal nozzle determination, before an image defect producing a visible density non-uniformity (stripe non-uniformity) occurs due to an ejection defect in an output image recorded by a drive signal having a recording waveform. Consequently, recording stability and throughput can both be achieved. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084520 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE SAME, ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An electrostatic image developing toner of the exemplary embodiment of the invention contains an amorphous first polyester resin of a polycondensation product of at least a carboxylic acid component and an alcohol component containing rosin, and a second polyester resin having the difference (absolute value) in parameter of solubility relative to the first polyester resin of from about 0.3 (cal/cm | 04-04-2013 |
20130085213 | RESIN COMPOSITION - To provide a resin composition which can suppress discoloration caused by heat history applied at the time of molding. A resin composition containing: (A) a cellulose ester, (B) a styrene-based resin, and (C) a titanium dioxide, and not containing a compatibilizer between the component (A) and the component (B), in which the content of the component (A) is within a range of 95 to 50% by mass, the content of the component (B) is within a range of 5 to 50% by mass, and the content of the component (C) relative to 100 parts by mass of the sum of the amount of component (A) and the amount of component (B) is within a range of 0.1 to 10 parts by mass. | 04-04-2013 |
20130089359 | Electrostatic Latent Image Developing Toner, Electrostatic Latent Image Developer, Image Forming Apparatus, and Apparatus for Manufacturing Electrostatic Latent Image Developing Toner - An electrostatic latent image developing toner has an average sphericity of at least 0.94 but no more than 0.98, the particles for which the accumulated equivalent spherical diameter on a number basis is at least 90% and the sphericity is less than 0.92 account for less than 3% of the entire toner, the proportion of particles having a sphericity of at least 0.90 but less than 0.95 is at least 20% but no more than 40% of the entire toner, and a proportion of particles having a sphericity of at least 0.95 but no more than 1.00 is at least 60% but no more than 80% of the entire toner. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089816 | Black Particles and a Manufacturing Method of the Same, A Black Toner Using the Same, and a Particle Container and a Toner Container - Black particles include a black pigment; and a cyan pigment, wherein when the reflectance to light of wavelength of 420 nm and the reflectance to light of wavelength of 770 nm of plural samples are measured, the standard deviations (1σ) of the measured values are about 1 or less with respect to both wavelengths. | 04-11-2013 |
20130120503 | LIQUID EJECTION APPARATUS AND DRIVE METHOD FOR INKJET HEAD - A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a gas chamber surrounding a piezoelectric element in an inkjet head; and a dry gas supply device configured to start supply of dry gas to the gas chamber before supply of electric power to the inkjet head is started, to continue the supply of the dry gas while the supply of the electric power to the inkjet head is continued, and to halt the supply of the dry gas after the supply of the electric power to the inkjet head is halted. While the dry gas supply device halts the supply of the dry gas to the gas chamber, a dry gas supply flow channel opening and closing device is closed to disconnect the dry gas supply device and the gas chamber, and a gas return flow channel opening and closing device is closed to disconnect the gas chamber and the external air. | 05-16-2013 |
20130126361 | Method for Manufacturing Silver Triangular Pyramid Particles and Silver Triangular Pyramid Particles - The present invention provides a method for manufacturing silver triangular pyramid particles including: forming an electric field in an electrolytic solution including silver ions and a surfactant to reduce the silver ions into silver triangular pyramid particles. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132486 | SERVICE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SERVICE PROCESSING METHOD - In a case where a service for performing specified processings of document data as one job is processed in a cooperative manner on a network, a service processing state is exhibited in a proper notice form in each job unit and in each processing unit in the job, so that the processing state can be properly recognized from the viewpoint of accounting, security and privacy. | 05-23-2013 |
20130139086 | SERVICE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND SERVICE PROCESSING METHOD - In a case where a service for performing specified processings of document data as one job is processed in a cooperative manner on a network, a service processing state is exhibited in a proper notice form in each job unit and in each processing unit in the job, so that the processing state can be properly recognized from the viewpoint of accounting, security and privacy. | 05-30-2013 |
20130143043 | SILICA COMPOSITE PARTICLES AND METHOD OF PREPARING THE SAME - Silica composite particles include silicon oxide and titanium in an amount of from 0.001% by weight to 10% by weight, wherein the silica composite particles have an average particle diameter of from 30 nm to 500 nm, a particle size distribution index of from 1.1 to 1.5, and an average degree of circularity of primary particles of from 0.5 to 0.85. | 06-06-2013 |
20130143152 | CARRIER AND DEVELOPER FOR ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPMENT, AND IMAGE FORMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A carrier for electrostatic image development, and a developer, an image formation method and an image formation apparatus using the carrier. The carrier is carrier particles. When the carrier particles each have a coating layer on a magnetic particle, the carrier has a total energy amount of 1500 to 3000 mJ. When the carrier particles each have a coating layer on a magnetic powder-dispersed particle, the carrier has a total energy amount of 1000 to 1500 mJ. The total energy amount is measured with a powder rheometer at a tip end speed of a rotor of 100 mm/s and a helix angle of the rotor of −5°. The total energy amount is a value of a portion of the carrier in a measurement container which portion is contained in the region between the packed surface of the carrier and a surface disposed under the packed surface by 70 mm. | 06-06-2013 |
20130148134 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - According to an aspect of the invention, an image processing apparatus includes a generating unit, a calculating unit, a receiving unit, and a changing unit. The generating unit generates a plurality of histograms of images with respect to each color based on an input image. The calculating unit calculates a plurality of first image densities of the images from the histograms. The receiving unit receives a content of image quality adjustment performed on the input image. The changing unit changes one of the histograms based on the content of the image quality adjustment. The one of the histogram corresponds to one of the images on which the image quality adjustment is performed. The calculating unit calculates a second image density corresponding to the one the images based on the one of the histogram changed by the changing unit. | 06-13-2013 |
20130156448 | CLEANING DEVICE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS - Provided is a cleaning device including a brush roll that removes residual toner remaining on a surface of a toner image carrier provided in an electrophotographic apparatus, and a pressure detector that contacts the surface of the brush roll with preload, and outputs a detected pressure value to a determination unit that is provided in the electrophotographic apparatus to determine the adhesion state of toner to the brush roll. | 06-20-2013 |
20130162605 | ELECTRONIC PEN - An electronic pen includes a housing that is provided with an opening and a guide groove guiding a penholder inserted from the opening side, a holding portion that is fixed to the housing and holds the penholder fitted into the guide groove, and a first circuit board that is fixed to the housing at a position opposite the housing with the guide groove interposed therebetween, and has an imaging device mounted on one board surface thereof to image reflected light from a medium onto which light is irradiated by an irradiation unit irradiating light from the opening onto the medium outside the housing, wherein, in the housing, the portion of the guide groove, a portion where the holding portion is fixed, and a portion where the first circuit board is fixed are formed by a single member. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163844 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, a setting unit, a filter setting unit, a generating unit, and a determination unit. The obtaining unit obtains a captured image of a test piece including a target cell having a nucleus. The first extraction unit extracts pixels which are candidates for the nucleus from pixels included in the captured image. The second extraction unit extracts a connected-pixel group which is a candidate for the target cell. The setting unit sets rectangular regions in the captured image. The filter setting unit sets a filter including regions. When the filter is disposed in each of the rectangular regions, the generating unit generates an image feature value. The determination unit determines, on the basis of whether the image feature value satisfies a condition, whether the target cell is included in the rectangular region. | 06-27-2013 |
20130176583 | PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A processing apparatus includes a provision unit that is connected to a communication unit used to communicate with plural actual apparatuses and a manipulation unit which is used to manipulate the actual apparatuses, that forms virtual image processing functions which control operations of the actual apparatuses based on manipulation of the manipulation unit, and that provides services using the virtual image processing functions, and a control unit that, when an operation execution instruction of the actual apparatuses is given using the manipulation unit, limits the processes which exceed an amount of licenses indicating a previously contracted number of actual apparatuses, throughputs of the previously contracted number of actual apparatuses, or a previously contracted number of virtual image processing functions, and that controls the provision unit such that the services are provided based on the operation execution instruction. | 07-11-2013 |
20130182312 | WHITE PARTICLES FOR DISPLAY, PARTICLE DISPERSION FOR DISPLAY, DISPLAY MEDIUM AND DISPLAY DEVICE - White particles for display including at least one of a chain or cyclic polysilane compound having a polysilane structure represented by the following Formula (I) or a halogen-substituted compound thereof: | 07-18-2013 |
20130185235 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM, SEARCH APPARATUS, SEARCH METHOD, AND CLUSTERING DEVICE - Provided is a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to function as a learning data acquiring unit that acquires learning data, a memory unit that performs machine learning using the learning data about cluster division where Markov chains of transition via a link from a node to a node on a network formed from plural nodes are divided into plural clusters each of which is indicated by a biased Markov chain and calculates a steady state of each biased Markov chain, a search condition receiving unit that receives a search condition from a user, a cluster extracting unit that extracts clusters suitable for the search condition, a partial network cutting unit that cuts a partial network formed by a node group belonging to the clusters, and an importance calculating unit that calculates importance of each node on the partial network. | 07-18-2013 |
20130188659 | SURFACE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER AND ITS MANUFACTURING METHOD, SURFACE EMITTING SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DEVICE, OPTICAL TRANSMITTER, AND INFORMATION PROCESSOR - A surface emitting semiconductor laser includes a substrate; a first semiconductor distributed bragg reflector of a first conductive type; an active region; a second semiconductor distributed bragg reflector of a second conductive type; a current confinement layer that confines current in the active region; an optical confinement layer that confines light in the active region; and an optical loss unit including center and periphery portions in a predetermined direction, and gives a larger optical loss to the periphery portion than that of the center portion. Also, Do | 07-25-2013 |
20130188986 | POLYESTER RESIN FOR TONER, TONER, DEVELOPER, TONER CARTRIDGE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A polyester resin for a toner containing: a repeating unit derived from a dicarboxylic acid component; and a repeating unit derived from a dial component represented by Formula (1): | 07-25-2013 |
20130194598 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print control apparatus includes rendering units performing rendering in response to a print instruction described in a page description language; a print instruction storage unit storing the print instruction for printing pages; a distribution unit sequentially distributing process requests, each specifying which page is to be rendered, and reference information for accessing the print instruction, to the rendering units; and a process request storage unit storing process requests. The rendering units each execute rendering by accessing the print instruction based on the reference information, and extracting a part of the print instruction of a specified page to image data. The distribution unit distributes a process request when there is a rendering unit to which the process request is distributable in ascending order, and, when there is no such rendering unit, stores the process request, and selects and distributes a smallest-page-number process request to one rendering unit. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195508 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier, a first developing unit, a second developing unit, a transfer unit, a removing member, and a fixing unit. An average circularity of particles having an average particle diameter of no less than 100 nm and no more than 300 nm among particles included in a second external additive is less than an average circularity of particles having an average particle diameter of no less than 100 nm and no more than 300 nm among particles included in a first external additive. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195512 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a container; a cylindrical first developer-transporting member rotatably supported by the container and whose rotation axis is substantially parallel with a rotation axis of a subjected-to-development member; a first magnet disposed inside the first developer-transporting member and secured to the container; a swinging member supported so as to be capable of swinging relative to the container around the rotation axis of the first developer-transporting member; a cylindrical second developer-transporting member at least one end portion of which is rotatably supported by the swinging member, the second developer-transporting member being adjacent to the first developer-transporting member and rotating in the circumferential direction to transport the developer to the subjected-to-development member; and a second magnet disposed inside the second developer-transporting member and secured to the swinging member. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195513 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes a first developer transporting member, a first magnet member, a second developer transporting member, a second magnet member, and a passage regulating member. Among magnetic poles of the first magnet member and magnetic poles of the second magnet member, the magnetic poles having different magnetic properties that are disposed closest to each other and that oppose each other are disposed in an area that is opposite an area at whose side a latent image carrying member exists with a virtual straight line being a boundary thereof, the virtual straight connecting a center position of the first magnet member corresponding to a center of rotation of the first developer transporting member and a center position of the second magnet member corresponding to a center of rotation of the second developer transporting member with each other. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195514 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a latent image carrier, and a developing device. The developing device includes a container, a supporter, first and second developer-transporting members, first and second magnets, a pair of first urging members, and a pair of second urging members. The pair of first urging members presses the container toward the latent image carrier while being interposed between the supporter and the container. The first urging members serve as two vertexes of a first triangle surrounding the center of gravity of part of the developing device excluding the supporter. The pair of second urging members presses the container toward the latent image carrier while being interposed between the supporter and the container. The second urging members serve as two vertexes of a second triangle surrounding the center of gravity of part of the developing device excluding the supporter. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195515 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A developing device includes a first developing unit, a second developing unit, a rotating member, a magnetic pole forming member, a first separating pole, a second separating pole, a developer supplying unit, and a path formation member. The developing device is provided with a magnetic structure, in which, when a value of a magnetic flux density at which the developer is separated is a reference separation value, at a side of the first separating pole at the separation area of the second developing unit, a position where a magnetic flux density of a vertical component of a magnetic force becomes less than or equal to the reference separation value is disposed downstream in the direction of rotation of the rotating member of a position where a magnetic flux density of a horizontal component of the magnetic force becomes less than or equal to the reference separation value. | 08-01-2013 |
20130201505 | PRINT CONTROL APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A print control apparatus includes a rendering unit, a sending unit, a distribution unit, and a saving unit. The rendering unit performs rendering in response to a print instruction described in a page-dependent page description language where details of a change of a print resource on a certain page are applied to other pages. The sending unit sends the entire print instruction including pages to the rendering unit. The distribution unit distributes, to the rendering unit, a process request specifying which of the pages is to be rendered. The saving unit saves a process state of the rendering unit after rendering a preset page. When executing rendering by extracting the print instruction of the page specified by the distributed process request to image data, if the process request is distributed in descending order, the rendering unit resumes the process state saved in the saving unit, and renders the specified page. | 08-08-2013 |
20130202330 | DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes first and second developing members facing an image bearing member and respectively having substantially-cylindrical first and second sleeves rotationally driven in a circumferential direction and first and second magnet rollers fixedly supported within the first and second sleeves and provided with magnetic poles in the circumferential direction; a supply member supplying a two-component developer onto the first sleeve; a layer regulating member facing the first sleeve and regulating a layer of the two-component developer thereon; and a magnetic member facing the second sleeve with a certain distance therebetween at a position facing a magnetic pole provided downstream of a development pole and upstream of a removal pole, which are included in the magnetic poles of the second magnet roller, in a rotational direction of the second sleeve. The development pole faces the image bearing member. The removal pole removes the two-component developer from the second sleeve. | 08-08-2013 |