38th week of 2020 patent applcation highlights part 44 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20200292929 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, ILLUMINATION APPARATUS, AND PROJECTOR - A light source device of the present disclosure includes a plurality of light source sections, each light source section having at least one light source and the light source sections emitting light beams of mutually different colors, at least one light source substrate mounted with at least one light source section among the plurality of light source sections, and an optical-path combining optical system that combines optical paths of light beams emitted from the respective light source sections, in which the at least one light source section mounted on the light source substrate includes a plurality of the light sources that emits light beams of an identical color. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292930 | Quick release projector screen - A quick release projector screen includes a rectangular frame; two folding posts secured to a rear end of the frame using a plurality of first screws; and a screen attached to a front end of the frame using the first screws. There are further provided two first folding mechanisms disposed on each of top and bottom of the frame, two second folding mechanisms disposed on either side of the frame respectively, and two third folding mechanisms disposed on either post. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292931 | CUSTOMIZED REFLECTION PROFILES FOR RETRO-REFLECTIVE DISPLAY SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION - The present disclosure provides a display system that may comprise a retro-reflective screen having retro-reflective screen elements that reflect incident light and comprising at least one projector that (i) generates light characterizing an image or video and (ii) projects the light on the retro-reflective screen, wherein the projected light has a nominal profile. Additionally, the retro-reflective screen may reflect the light characterizing the image or video to a viewer in a manner such that an intensity profile of the light is offset away from the projector and has a uniform brightness profile within a field of view of the viewer with respect to the retro-reflective screen. The projected light may have an intensity drop-off that has at least a 200% or 2×, or at least a 500% or 5× intensity reduction per 0.5 degrees outside of the nominal region. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292932 | RETICLE AND METHOD OF DETECTING INTACTNESS OF RETICLE STAGE USING THE SAME - In some embodiments, a reticle structure is provided. The reticle structure includes a reticle stage and a reticle mounted on the reticle stage. The reticle stage includes plural first burls and plural second burls, in which the second burls are disposed on a center of the reticle stage and the first burls disposed on an edge of the reticle stage such that the first burls surround the second burls. The reticle includes a base material and a pattern layer overlying the base material. The base material is secured on the first and second burls of the reticle stage. The pattern layer includes plural first gratings, and each of the first burls is vertically aligned with one of the first gratings. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292933 | Method of Separating a Template from a Shaped Film on a Substrate - A method of separating a template from a cured layer on a substrate. Including, sending instructions to move the template away from the cured layer at a first rate, at a second point in time. Including, receiving a first data set as a function of time starting after the second point in time. Including, fitting a model of the first data set to a database of historical data sets. Including, identifying a target data set in the historical data sets based on results of the fit of the model of the first data set and information in the target data set. Including, sending instructions to move the template away from the substrate at a second rate at a third point in time after the second point in time based on the identified target data set. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292934 | Methods of Generating Drop Patterns, Systems for Shaping Films with the Drop Pattern, and Methods of Manufacturing an Article with the Drop Pattern - One embodiment is a method that includes generating drop pattern information. The method may comprise receiving pattern information. The pattern information may include one or both of: a substrate pattern of a representative substrate; and a template pattern of a representative template. The method may further comprise receiving offset information about a particular substrate that is representative of a measured state of the particular substrate relative to a reference state. The drop pattern information may represent a plurality of positions to place droplets of formable material on the particular substrate. The method may further comprise outputting the drop pattern information that is representative of the formable material that fills a volume between the template and the particular substrate that is in the measured state and the formable material does not spread into a border region at an edge of the particular substrate. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292935 | IMPRINT APPARATUS, IMPRINTING METHOD, AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An imprint apparatus that forms a pattern of an imprint material on a substrate using a mold having a pattern formation area. The imprint apparatus includes a mold measurement unit configured to measure a position of the pattern formation area of the mold, a light modulation element configured to control an intensity distribution of irradiation light applied to the substrate, an irradiation light measurement unit configured to measure a position of the irradiation light, and a control unit configured to control the position of the irradiation light with respect to the position of the pattern formation area based on a measurement result of the position of the pattern formation area by the mold measurement unit and a measurement result of the position of the irradiation light by the irradiation light measurement unit. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292936 | METHOD FOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FABRICATION - A method for producing an optical waveguide by: (a) depositing a first composition: (i) a polysiloxane comprising epoxy and alkenyl groups with refractive index no greater than 1.50, (ii) a compound comprising at least one epoxy group and refractive index no greater than 1.49, and (iii) a polysiloxane having refractive index at least 1.50; (iv) a photo acid generator; (v) a hydrosilylation catalyst, (vi) an inhibitor for hydrosilylation; (b) curing by exposure to ultraviolet light; (c) removing the uncured portion to produce a patterned core layer; (d) after a time from 20 to 300 hours depositing a second composition comprising: (i) a polysiloxane comprising epoxy groups with refractive index no greater than 1.49, and (ii) a compound comprising at least two epoxy groups with a refractive index no greater than 1.49 and an alcohol having refractive index no more than 1.45 (iii) at least one photo acid generator. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292937 | RADIATION BASED PATTERNING METHODS - Stabilized precursor solutions can be used to form radiation inorganic coating materials. The precursor solutions generally comprise metal suboxide cations, peroxide-based ligands and polyatomic anions. Design of the precursor solutions can be performed to achieve a high level of stability of the precursor solutions. The resulting coating materials can be designed for patterning with a selected radiation, such as ultraviolet light, x-ray radiation or electron beam radiation. The radiation patterned coating material can have a high contrast with respect to material properties, such that development of a latent image can be successful to form lines with very low line-width roughness and adjacent structures with a very small pitch. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292938 | Photosensitive Resin Composition, Dry Film Resist, And Cured Objects Obtained Therefrom - A purpose of the present invention is to provide a photosensitive resin composition which retains satisfactory image resolution and gives cured objects reduced in wet-heat dissolution or contamination and having satisfactory wet-heat adhesiveness. The photosensitive resin composition of the present invention comprises: (A) a cationic photopolymerization initiator which comprises a salt of a cation with an anion represented by formula (1) (wherein R | 2020-09-17 |
20200292939 | PHOTOSENSITIVE RESIN COMPOSITION, PHOTOSENSITIVE DRY FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PHOTOSENSITIVE DRY FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PATTERNED RESIST FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SUBSTRATE WITH TEMPLATE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PLATED ARTICLE - A photosensitive resin composition; a photosensitive dry film which includes a photosensitive resin layer formed from the composition; a method of manufacturing the photosensitive dry film; a method of manufacturing a patterned resist film using the composition; a method of manufacturing a substrate with a template using the composition; and a method of manufacturing a plated article using the substrate with the template. In a photosensitive resin composition containing a resin which includes a (meth)acrylic polymer including a carboxy group, a specific amount of compound including a phenolic hydroxyl group and/or a mercapto group is contained together with a polyfunctional vinyl ether monomer. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292940 | SILSESQUIOXANE COMPOSITION WITH BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE PHOTO RESIST CHARACTERISTICS - This invention pertains to a photo sensitive composition that can be used as both positive and negative photo resist comprising: (A) a siloxane resin composition comprising 0 to 95 mole present of R | 2020-09-17 |
20200292941 | CONDUCTIVE POLYMER COMPOSITION, COATED PRODUCT AND PATTERNING PROCESS - An object of the present invention is to provide a conductive polymer composition which has good filterability and good film formability of a flat film on an electron beam resist and can be suitably used for an antistatic film for electron beam resist writing, showing excellent antistatic property in the electron beam writing process due to the property of low volume resistivity (Ω·cm), and, reducing an effect on lithography by making an effect of an acid diffused from the film minimum, and further having excellent peelability by H | 2020-09-17 |
20200292942 | POLYMER BRUSH ADHESION PROMOTER WITH UV CLEAVABLE LINKER - A method of making an adhesion layer of an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) stack is presented. The method includes grafting an ultraviolet (UV) sensitive polymer brush on a hardmask, the polymer brush including a UV cleavable unit, depositing EUV resist over the polymer brush, exposing the EUV resist to remove the EUV resist in exposed areas by applying a developer, and flooding the exposed area with a UV light and a solvent developer to remove exposed portions of the polymer brush. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292943 | FAST FABRICATION OF POLYMER OUT-OF-PLANE OPTICAL COUPLER BY GRAY-SCALE LITHOGRAPHY - A lithographic method for making an out-of-plane optical coupler includes forming a photoresist layer of positive photoresist material over a substrate. The positive photoresist layer undergoes a flood exposure to light through a binary mask to pattern a latent image of a mirror blank in the photoresist layer. A laser beam is scanned over the latent image of the mirror blank to apply controlled dosages of light at specified locations to form a latent image of a planar mirror surface that is oriented at a prescribed non-zero angle to a plane in which the substrate extends. The positive photoresist material is developed so that a remaining portion of the developed positive photoresist material forms an out-of-plane optical coupler having a planar mirror surface that is oriented at the prescribed angle. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292944 | METHOD OF MAKING A PATTERNED HYDROGEL AND KIT TO MAKE IT - Customizable hydrogel patterned into arrays of microwells, microchannels, or other microfeatures, and a process to prepare patterned hydrogel adherent to a solid support, are provided. A pattern of light is applied to photopolymerizable hydrogel precursor solution on a solid support, resulting in the formation of a patterned hydrogel bonded to the solid support. Hydrogel precursor solution is held by a ring of a customized height secured to a photomask or to a surface allowing transmission of a pattern of light. This process allows for facile customization and repeated fabrications of hydrogel microwells of desired heights and geometries with a micron or submicron scale resolution, adherent on various solid supports. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292945 | EXPOSURE APPARATUS AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURING METHOD - An exposure apparatus that projects a pattern of an original onto a substrate via a projection optical system and exposes the substrate is provided. The apparatus comprises an aberration correction member arranged on an optical path of exposure light between the original and the substrate, and a driver which drives the aberration correction member. The aberration correction member includes a first optical element including a first surface having a three-fold rotational symmetric aspherical shape with respect to an optical axis of the exposure light, and a second optical element spaced apart from the first optical element along the optical axis and including a second surface facing the first surface and having an aspherical shape that complementarily corrects an aberration generated by the first optical element. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292946 | LITHOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A method includes providing a plurality of fuel droplets into an EUV source vessel by a fuel droplet generator, in which the fuel droplet generator has a first portion inside the EUV source vessel and a second portion outside the EUV source vessel; generating a plurality of output signals respectively from a plurality of oscillation sensors on the fuel droplet generator; determining whether the output signals are acceptable; and determining whether an unwanted oscillation originates from the first portion of the fuel droplet generator or the second portion of the fuel droplet generator when the output signals is determined as unacceptable. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292947 | SUBSTRATE HOLDER AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A DEVICE - A substrate holder, a method of manufacturing of the substrate holder and a lithographic apparatus having the substrate holder. In one arrangement, a substrate holder is for use in a lithographic apparatus. The substrate holder is configured to support a lower surface of a substrate. The substrate holder has a main body, a plurality of burls and a coating. The main body has a substrate-facing face. The plurality of burls protrudes from the substrate-facing face. Each burl has a distal end configured to engage with the substrate. The distal ends are configured for supporting the substrate. The coating is on the substrate-facing face between the burls. Between the burls the substrate-facing face has an arrangement of areas. Adjacent areas are separated by a step-change in distance below the support plane. Each step-change is greater than a thickness of the coating. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292948 | SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ARTICLE MANUFACTURING METHOD - The present invention provides a substrate processing apparatus that processes a substrate, the apparatus including a stage configured to hold and move the substrate, a conveying unit configured to hold and convey the substrate between conveying unit and the stage, an accumulation unit configured to accumulate control information concerning the stage and the conveying unit which is generated by processing the substrate, and a determination unit configured to determine a conveying procedure when conveying the substrate between the stage and the conveying unit by selecting one of a plurality of conveying procedures which can be set for the stage and the conveying unit based on control information accumulated in the accumulation unit. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292949 | ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - Provided are an electrophotographic apparatus and a process cartridge each capable of suppressing the occurrence of a black spot (white background contamination) in an output image under a low-temperature and low-humidity environment. The electrophotographic apparatus includes: an electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support, a photosensitive layer, and a protective layer in the stated order; an exposing device; a developing device; and a cleaning device, wherein the protective layer has a triarylamine structure and a specific structure at a ratio in a specific range, and a toner contains toner particles each containing at least a resin, and an external additive. The toner has a volume-average particle diameter of 7 μm or more. The external additive contains a compound containing a titanium atom. The ratio of the mass of the compound containing a titanium atom to the total mass of the toner is 0.6 mass % or more. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292950 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE, ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE DEVELOPER, AND TONER CARTRIDGE - A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles containing a binder resin; and an external additive containing silica particles, in which a coefficient of variation of a Si content is determined by determining the Si content in 0.5 μm×0.5 μm square regions in a surface of each of the toner particles after performing a process of dispersing the toner in water and drying the dispersed toner, and an amount of change between this coefficient of variation of the Si content and a coefficient of variation of a Si content before the process ((coefficient of variation of Si content after process)−(coefficient of variation of Si content before process)) is 0.05 or more and 0.60 or less. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292951 | ELECTROSTATIC-IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, ELECTROSTATIC-IMAGE DEVELOPER, AND TONER CARTRIDGE - An electrostatic-image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin including an amorphous resin including a polyester resin segment and a styrene acrylate resin segment and a release agent. The content of 5′-chloro-3-hydroxy-2′-methoxy-2-naphthanilide in the electrostatic-image developing toner is 1,000 ppm by mass or less. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292952 | TONER FOR DEVELOPING ELECTROSTATIC CHARGE IMAGE - A toner for electrostatic charge image development is a toner for electrostatic charge image development including toner particles containing a binder resin and an external additive, wherein the binder resin contains a crystalline polyester resin and an amorphous polyester resin, the external additive includes Al—Si composite oxide particles, and a Si element content of the Al—Si composite oxide particles is in the range of 50 to 90 mass % and a Si element ratio on surfaces of the Al—Si composite oxide particles is in the range of 3 to 35 at %. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292953 | TONER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING TONER - A toner comprising: a toner particle that includes a binder resin, and an external additive, wherein the toner particle includes a polyester resin on the surface; the toner particle includes a polyvalent metal element; where an electrical resistivity of the polyvalent metal element at 20° C. is denoted by A Ω·m, and an amount of the polyvalent metal element in the toner particle is denoted by B μmol/g, a following relationship is satisfied: | 2020-09-17 |
20200292954 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An image forming apparatus including developing unit to develop electrostatic latent image with toner to form visible image, and cleaning unit including elastic member including surface layer and configured to remove the toner, wherein Martens hardness A and Martens hardness B of the surface layer measured by applying load of 1 μN and load of 1,000 μN, respectively, to position of the surface layer in thickness direction thereof using nanoindenter are both 2.5 N/mm | 2020-09-17 |
20200292955 | TONER - A toner comprising: a toner particle that contains a release agent-containing toner base particle, and an organosilicon polymer on a toner base particle surface, and an external additive A, the organosilicon polymer has a T3 unit structure; the organosilicon polymer forms protruded portions on the toner base particle surface; the number-average value of the protrusion height H is from 30 nm to 300 nm; the ratio of the number-average primary particle diameter R of the external additive A to the number-average value of the protrusion height H is from 1.00 to 4.00; the number-average primary particle diameter R of the external additive A is from 30 nm to 1,200 nm; and, in an image obtained by observing the toner surface with SEM, the area percentage for the bright region area in the image with reference to the total area of the image is from 30.0% to 75.0%. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292956 | TONER - A toner comprising: a toner particle; and an external additive, wherein the external additive includes spherical silica particles and hydrotalcite particles, a number average particle diameter Da of the spherical silica particles is from 10 nm to 40 nm, a circularity of the spherical silica particles is at least 0.80, and the toner satisfies formula (1) below: | 2020-09-17 |
20200292957 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image holding section; a transfer section that includes a transfer member, applies a transfer electric-field to a transfer region between the image holding section and the transfer member, and electrostatically transfers an image held by the image holding section onto a recording medium; a contact section that acts as an electrode to ground while being in contact with the recording medium when the recording medium passes through the transfer region; a first resistance detection section; a second resistance detection section; a comparison section that compares a first system resistance detected by the first resistance detection section with a second system resistance detected by the second resistance detection section; and a switching section that switches between constant voltage control and constant current control for the transfer electric-field produced by the transfer section depending on a result of comparison by the comparison section. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292958 | SEMICONDUCTOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE, EXPOSURE HEAD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is a semiconductor light-emitting device including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of transfer diodes connecting the nodes, and gates of a shift thyristor and a light-emitting thyristor are connected to each of the nodes. Each of the transfer diodes includes a stacked structure including a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type provided over a semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, which is different from the first conductivity type, provided over the first semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type provided over the second semiconductor layer, a fourth semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type provided over the third semiconductor layer, and a fifth semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type provided over the fourth semiconductor layer, and a diode is formed by a p-n junction between the fourth and fifth semiconductor layers. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292959 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus, having first, second, and third photosensitive drums, a first developing cartridge including a first developing roller, a second developing cartridge including a second developing roller, a third developing cartridge including a third developing roller, an exposure device, a conveyer, and a moving mechanism, is provided. The first developing roller, the second developing roller, and the third developing roller are arranged in the recited order from upstream to downstream in a moving direction for the sheet to be conveyed. When the second developing roller is at the separated position thereof, the second developing cartridge coincides with a light path of the laser beam for scanning the first photosensitive drum. When the third developing roller is at the separated position thereof, the third developing cartridge coincides with a light path of the laser beam for scanning the second photosensitive drum. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292960 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member configured to bear an electrostatic latent image, a developing container configured to accommodate developer comprising toner, a developing member configured to develop the electrostatic latent image born on the image bearing member into a toner image by using the developer in the developing container, a transfer member configured to transfer the toner image born on the image bearing member onto the recording material, and a notification portion configured to notify replenishment information for prompting replenishing the developing container with the developer. The notification portion is configured to notify the replenishment information in a state in which an index correlated with a ratio of an amount of paper dust mixed in the developer in the developing container to an amount of the developer in the developing container has not exceeded a preset threshold value of the index. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292961 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming units, each including a developing device, a non-developing device, and an image carrier between the developing device and the non-developing device. The non-developing device of the first image forming unit is adjacent to the developing device of the second image forming unit. The apparatus includes a belt above the developing device, the non-developing device, and the image carrier of the image forming units, that moves as the image carrier rotates. A first gap between the non-developing device of the first image forming unit and the belt is larger than a second gap between the developing device of the second image forming unit and the belt. A third gap between the non-developing device of the first image forming unit and the developing device of the second image forming unit is smaller than the second gap. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292962 | CORNER TIE ATTACHMENT FOR A BAG LINER FOR RECEIVING A POWDER SUCH AS TONER - A tie attachment assembly, including a first layer including a first surface and a second surface, the first surface including an adhesive, a fold line, a second layer, including a third surface, a fourth surface connected to the first surface, a first cutout arranged on a first side of the fold line, and a second cutout arranged on a second side of the fold line, opposite the first side. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292963 | TONER CONTAINER, TONER SUPPLY DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A toner container includes a cylindrical container body having a head with an opening in the head, a cap into which the head of the container body is inserted, and a sheet member attached inside the cap. The cylindrical container body rotates around a rotation axis extending in a longitudinal direction of the container body to transport toner contained in the container body toward the opening. The cap has a toner outlet through which the toner discharged from the opening is discharged outside the toner container. The sheet member includes a first elastic-deformation portion that is elastically deformable and located near the toner outlet, and a second elastic-deformation portion that is elastically deformable and located in the container body and near the opening. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292964 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING A TRANSPORTER HAVING BLADES AND ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER WITH SPECIFIED VISCOSITY - An image forming apparatus includes a developing section that includes a container containing an electrostatic charge image developer including toner and a carrier and also includes a transporter, the transporter having a rotary shaft and helical blades on the outer circumferential surface of the rotary shaft with a phase shift therebetween, the helical blades having a break zone, a zone in which the helical blades are discontinuous along the axis of the rotary shaft; a transfer section; and a fixing section. The toner satisfies the following relations: (ln η(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)≤−0.14; (ln η(T2)−ln η(T3))/(T2−T3)≥−0.15; and (ln η(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)<(ln η(T2)−ln η(T3))/(T2−T3), where η(T1) represents the viscosity of the toner at 60° C., η(T2) represents the viscosity of the toner at 90° C., and η(T3) represents the viscosity of the toner at 130° C. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292965 | DEVELOPING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING UNIT, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developing device includes first and second chambers, a developing roller, first and second mixers, and one or more removable seals. The developing roller is in the first chamber. The first mixer is in the first chamber and configured convey developer in a first direction along a rotational axis of the developing roller. The second chamber is connected to the first chamber via a first port and a second port that are spaced apart from each other in in the first direction. The second mixer is in the second chamber and configured to perform convey developer in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The one or more removable seals cover the first and second ports. A developer is contained in one of the first or second chambers. A developer discharge port is provided on the other one of the first or second chambers. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292966 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a notification portion configured to notify replenishment information for prompting replenishing a developing container with developer in a case where an index is equal to or larger than a preset threshold value. The index is set such that the index increases in accordance with rotation of the developer bearing member and decreases in accordance with replenishment of the developing container with the developer. An amount of increase of the index per predetermined amount of rotation of the developer bearing member is larger in a case where an amount of the developer in the developing container is smaller. An amount of decrease of the index according to the replenishment of the developing container with the developer is larger in a case where an amount of replenished developer is larger. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292967 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that carries a toner image, a developer that develops a toner image on the image carrier, with a developing agent containing toner and carrier, a transferor that transfers the toner image being carried by the image carrier, a collection mechanism that collects the carrier on the image carrier by a magnetic force and an electrostatic force, and a hardware processor that controls removal of the toner adhering to the collection mechanism. The collection mechanism includes a collection roller that incorporates a magnet and that is rotatable while facing the image carrier, and a voltage applicator that applies a voltage to the collection roller. The hardware processor performs a toner removal mode to remove the toner, by setting a peripheral speed of at least one of the image carrier and the collection roller to less than a peripheral speed thereof for image formation. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292968 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a transfer member, a fixing member, a guide member, and an attraction member. The transfer member transfers a developer to a medium. The fixing member fixes onto the medium the developer transferred to the medium. The guide member is disposed between the transfer member and the fixing member to guide the medium. The attraction member attracts the developer through the opening. An opening is located upstream of the guide member in a medium transport direction. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292969 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming apparatus includes: a developing section that forms a toner image by developing an electrostatic latent image using toner. The toner satisfies the following relations: (lnη(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)≤−0.14; (ln η(T2)−ln η(T3))/(T2−T3)≥−0.15; and (ln η(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)<(ln η(T2)−ln η(T3))/(T2−T3), where η(T1) represents a viscosity of the toner at 60° C., η(T2) represents a viscosity of the toner at 90° C., and η(T3) represents a viscosity of the toner at 130° C.). | 2020-09-17 |
20200292970 | INTERMEDIATE TRANSFER MEDIUM - An object of the present invention is to provide an intermediate transfer medium having high durability, as well as high smudge resistance and image stability. The intermediate transfer medium of the present invention includes: a substrate, and a transfer layer including a first intermediate layer, a second intermediate layer and a receiving layer; in which the first intermediate layer contains a (meth)acrylic polyol resin with a glass transition temperature of 80° C. or higher; in which the second intermediate layer contains a polyester with a glass transition temperature of 45° C. or higher and a filler with a mean particle diameter of 2 μm or more and 5 μm or less; and in which the content of the filler in the second intermediate layer is 0.5% by mass or more and 5% by mass or less. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292971 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - Provided is an image forming apparatus including a positioning portion provided upstream of a transfer portion in a transport direction of a recording medium. The positioning portion positions the medium using a leading end of the medium. Additionally included is a detector that is disposed downstream of the positioning portion in the transport direction, and that detects passage of the leading end of the medium; and a controller that controls a transport speed in a period from when the leading end of the medium passes through the detector to when the leading end of the medium passes through a target position situated downstream of the detector in the transport direction, in accordance with a time since transport of the medium is started from the positioning portion until the leading end of the medium passes through the detector. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292972 | HEATING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A heating device includes an endless rotator that rotates in a rotation direction. A heater contacts the endless rotator. An elastic body is disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of the endless rotator and disposed downstream from the heater in the rotation direction of the endless rotator. A holder holds the heater and the elastic body. A pressure rotator is disposed opposite the heater and the elastic body via the endless rotator to form a nip between the endless rotator and the pressure rotator. A slide sheet covers a surface of the elastic body. The slide sheet includes an upstream end in the rotation direction of the endless rotator. The upstream end is sandwiched between the heater and the elastic body and between the elastic body and the holder. The upstream end is secured to the holder. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292973 | HEATER, HEATING DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A heater includes a base layer, a heat generator mounted on the base layer, and a slide layer mounted on the base layer. A sliding face of a counterpart slides over the slide layer. The slide layer is made of a material containing fluorine and includes a slide face that contacts the sliding face of the counterpart. The slide face of the slide layer has a surface roughness that is greater than a surface roughness of the sliding face of the counterpart. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292974 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME - A fixing device includes a fixing rotator, a pressure rotator, a heat source, a nip formation pad, and a support. The nip formation pad presses against the pressure rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. The support supports the nip formation pad toward the fixing nip. A longitudinal end portion of the pressure rotator has an outer diameter greater than that of a longitudinal center portion of the pressure rotator. The pressure rotator includes a grip that contacts the nip formation pad via the fixing rotator outside a recording medium with a maximum width conveyable passing through the fixing nip and applies a frictional force to the fixing rotator. The nip formation pad includes a nip face having an inflection point from which a longitudinal direction of the nip face is curved toward the support within an area opposite the grip. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292975 | FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A fixing device includes a roller, an endless belt, and a heat generating member disposed in a space inside the endless belt, extending in a width direction of the endless belt, and pressing the endless belt against the roller. A sheet is passed through a nip formed between the roller and a portion of the endless belt pressed by the heat generating member, such that an image on the sheet is fixed thereto. The heat generating member includes first and second heat generating portions that are adjacent to each other along the width direction, and the first portion heat generating is independently operable from the second heat generating portion. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292976 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus ( | 2020-09-17 |
20200292977 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet; a second reading sensor, and a controller. The first reading sensor is provided on a conveyance path, and is configured to read a first surface of the sheet conveyed along the conveyance path. The second reading sensor is provided at a position different from a position of the first reading sensor, and is configured to read a second surface which is on a side opposite to the first surface of the sheet conveyed along the conveyance path. The controller is configured to control the image forming unit to form measurement images for measurement of printing positions on the sheet, control the first reading sensor to read end portions of the sheet, and to control the second reading sensor to read the end portions of the sheet. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292978 | IMAGE PRINTING APPARATUS, READING APPARATUS, IMAGE PRINTING METHOD, AND PRINTING MEDIUM CONVEYANCE METHOD - To provide an image printing apparatus, a reading apparatus, an image printing method, and a printing medium conveyance method, with which occurrence of image unevenness or streaks due to conveyance is prevented, an image sensor reads an image area, so as to detect a conveyance amount of a printing medium. Further, the conveyance amount is corrected according to a distance between the image sensor and the printing medium, which is detected by a height detection sensor, so as to obtain a highly accurate conveyance amount. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292979 | DETERMINING THICKNESS OF A LAYER OF WET PRINTING FLUID - A printing apparatus is described in which a guide member biases a printing substrate with a layer of printing fluid toward an electrode array with a plurality of electrodes. Processing circuitry determines a dryness of the layer of printing fluid based on an output of the electrode array when the plurality of electrodes is in electrical contact with the printing substrate. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292980 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING ABNORMALITY - An image forming device includes a photoconductor, a motor, a charging member, a cleaning blade, and an abnormality determining unit. The motor is configured to drive the photoconductor to rotate. The charging member is configured to charge the photoconductor. The cleaning blade is configured to contact the photoconductor and remove residual toner from a surface of the photoconductor. The abnormality determining unit is configured to determine abnormality of the cleaning blade based on a motor current flowing in the motor and a gap between the photoconductor and the charging member. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292981 | FIXING APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING HEAT GENERATION MEMBER TO WHICH ELECTRIC POWER IS BEING SUPPLIED, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The fixing apparatus includes a heater including at least two heat generation members, a relay, a triac, a zero-crossing circuit unit connected between a first pole and a second pole of an AC power supply, and configured to output a zero-crossing signal, and a CPU configured to control the relay and the triac, and the CPU determines which one of the at least two heat generation members is the heat generation member to which electric power is being supplied from the AC power supply, based on the zero-crossing signal output from the zero-crossing circuit unit. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292982 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier; a charging section that charges a surface of the image carrier; an electrostatic charge image forming section that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the image carrier; a developing section that has a container containing an electrostatic charge image developer and develops the electrostatic charge image formed on the surface of the image carrier into a toner image using the electrostatic charge image developer, the electrostatic charge image developer including toner for electrostatic charge image development, the toner containing toner particles and an external additive; a transfer section that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the image carrier to a surface of a recording medium; a cleaning section that has a cleaning blade with which the cleaning section cleans the surface of the image carrier; and a lubricant supplying section that has a lubricant supplying member that supplies a lubricant to the contact portion between the cleaning blade and the image carrier. The toner satisfies the following relations: (ln η(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)≤−0.14; (ln η(T2)−ln η(T3))/(T2−T3)≥2−0.15; and (ln η(T1)−ln η(T2))/(T1−T2)<(ln η(T2)−ln η(T3))/(T2−T3), where η(T1) represents a viscosity of the toner at 60° C., η(T2) represents a viscosity of the toner at 90° C., and η(T3) represents a viscosity of the toner at 130° C. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292983 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes: an image holding member; a charging unit that charges a surface of the image holding member; an electrostatic image forming unit that forms an electrostatic image on the charged surface of the image holding member; a developing unit that houses a toner for electrostatic image development and develops the electrostatic image formed on the surface of the image holding member with the toner to thereby form a toner image; a transfer unit that transfers the toner image formed on the surface of the image holding member onto a surface of a recording medium; a cleaning unit that includes a cleaning blade and cleans the surface of the image holding member; and a fixing unit that fixes the toner image transferred onto the surface of the recording medium. The cleaning blade has a contact portion that contacts the surface of the image holding member, the contact portion having a JIS-A hardness of from 90° to 130° inclusive. The toner for electrostatic image development satisfies the following formulas: | 2020-09-17 |
20200292984 | CLEANING MEMBER USED IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING OPTICAL PRINT HEAD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING OPTICAL PRINT HEAD - A cleaning member for use in an image forming apparatus and configured to be inserted into the apparatus, the apparatus comprising a holding body that holds a substrate and lenses, the cleaning member comprising a rod, a cleaning portion provided in the rod to clean a light emission surface of each lens, a magnet attached to the rod, the magnet emitting a magnetic field to generates a magnetic force to draw the holding body thereto so that the cleaning portion maintains contact with the light emission surface, a yoke member attached to the rod and in contact with the magnet. The yoke member is configured to protrude, with respect to the magnet, towards a side on which the holding body is disposed, and a contact portion that is configured to contact the holding body and that to protrude, with respect to the yoke member, towards the above side. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292985 | CLEANING MEMBER USED IN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING OPTICAL PRINT HEAD, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING OPTICAL PRINT HEAD - A cleaning member that is used in an image forming apparatus and that is inserted from outside the image forming apparatus, the apparatus including a holding body that holds a substrate on which light emitting elements that expose a photosensitive drum are aligned and that holds lenses, the cleaning member including a rod-shaped rhabdoid formed of resin, a cleaning portion provided in the rhabdoid to clean a light emission surface of each lens, the cleaning portion moving together with the rhabdoid inserted in the image forming apparatus and opposing the light emission surface in an optical axis direction of the lens, and a magnet provided on the rhabdoid, the magnet emitting magnetic force that generates force drawing the holding body thereto so that the cleaning portion continues to contact the light emission surface. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292986 | TONER CARTRIDGE, TONER SUPPLYING MECHANISM AND SHUTTER - According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a toner cartridge detachably mountable to a receiving device, the toner cartridge comprising a container including a accommodating portion for accommodating the toner and a discharge opening for discharging the toner from the accommodating portion into the receiving device; and an open/close member including a closing portion for closing the discharge opening and an engaging portion movable relative to the closing portion, the open/close member being rotatable relative to the container between (a) an opening position for causing the closing portion to open the discharge opening and (b) a closing position for causing the closing portion to close the discharge opening, wherein the engaging portion is movable relative to the closing portion between (c) a engaging position for engagement with the receiving device to receive a force for moving the open/close member from the opening position to the closing position when the toner cartridge is dismounted from the receiving device and (d) a retracted position retracted from the engaging position, and wherein the engaging portion is movable from the retracted position to the engaging position with rotation of the open/close member from the closing position to the opening position. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292987 | DRUM CARTRIDGE IN WHICH FIRST STORAGE MEDIUM OF TONER CARTRIDGE AND SECOND STORAGE MEDIUM OF DRUM CARTRIDGE ARE ALIGNED IN MOUNTING DIRECTION, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO WHICH DRUM CARTRIDGE IS MOUNTABLE - A drum cartridge mountable to an image forming apparatus in a mounting direction, the drum cartridge including: a frame having an opening, the frame allowing a toner cartridge to be attached, and the frame including a housing configured to accommodate therein a toner and a first storage medium including a first electric contact; a photosensitive drum; and a second storage medium including a second electric contact and located at an outer surface of the frame, and in a state where the toner cartridge is mounted to the frame, the first storage medium is exposed via the opening and the second storage medium is aligned with the first storage medium in the mounting direction of the drum cartridge. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292988 | LIGHT DIFFRACTION LAYER LAMINATED SHEET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING CARD - Provided are: a light diffraction layer laminated sheet which enables easy production of a card that has a light analysis structure; and a card. A light diffraction layer laminated sheet material which forms a part of a laminated structure of a card by being laminated on top of a card base material. This light diffraction layer laminated sheet material is provided with: a transparent sheet layer; a hologram layer that has a contour smaller than the contour of the transparent sheet layer and is laminated on one surface, which is the upper surface, of the transparent sheet layer; and an HS layer that bonds the transparent sheet layer and the hologram layer with each other. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292989 | METHOD FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE INFORMATION OF OBJECT TO BE MEASURED, DEFECT DETECTION METHOD, AND DEFECT DETECTION DEVICE - This application relates to a method of generating three-dimensional (3D) shape information of an object to be measured from an image including intensity information of an object hologram generated by interference between a reference light reflected from an optical mirror and an object light affected by the object. In one aspect, the method includes checking at least one frequency component included in the image and extracting real image components corresponding to a real image from the frequency component. The method also includes generating a correction light and a real image hologram based on the real image components, generating an intermediate hologram based on the correction light, and generating curvature aberration correction information from the intermediate hologram. The method further includes generating a correction hologram based on the curvature aberration correction information and generating the 3D shape information of the object from the correction hologram. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292990 | LASER MODULATION - There is provided a holographic image generation system comprising: a spatial light modulator (SLM) having pixels; a light source configured to illuminate the SLM; a temporal modulator; a light sensor associated with the SLM; and a demodulator. The temporal light modulator is arranged to modulate an output intensity of the light source over time to encode holographic data representing a hologram. The light sensor is configured to receive light from the light source and generate a signal representative of the output intensity of the light source. The demodulator is connected to the light sensor to receive the signal, and is arranged to decode the signal to obtain the holographic data. The demodulator is further connected to the SLM to set the pixels of the SLM in accordance with the holographic data to display the hologram ready for illumination by the light source to form a holographic reconstruction. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292991 | Watch Component, Watch Movement And Watch - For example, an escape gear wheel part as a watch component includes a base member including a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the base member being mainly composed of silicon, and a light reflecting layer provided at the first surface of the base member, the light reflecting layer having a three-layer structure in which a first silicon oxide layer, a silicon layer, and a second silicon oxide layer are layered in this order. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292992 | REGULATOR KEY - A regulator key whose arms ensure clearance of a balance spring even in event of shocks. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292993 | A DIAL FOR A CERAMIC TIMEPIECE AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING - The present disclosure relates to a dial for a ceramic timepiece. The dial comprises a casing, configured to accommodate a movement. The casing includes a first groove, defined in an inner periphery of a first side of the casing. The first groove accommodates a glass of the timepiece, within a thickness of the casing. Further one or more provisions are provided in a second side of the casing, where each of the one or more provisions is configured to receive an adapter. Each of the adapter receives a fastening member, for securing a back plate of the timepiece within the height of the casing. The dial is also provisioned with a pair of projections, extending outwardly from two opposing portions of an outer periphery of the casing. The pair of projections receives a strap of the timepiece. The configuration of the dial helps in reducing the thickness of the timepiece. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292994 | TIMEPIECE COMPRISING A DIAL ATTACHMENT DEVICE - A timepiece includes a drive module, a dial including a central opening, an hour pipe passing through the central opening of the dial and driven in rotation by the drive module, and a dial attachment device. The attachment device includes a holding tube arranged around the hour pipe and mechanically connected to the drive module. The holding comes to bear against the dial or against a dial support to which the dial is attached. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292995 | ROTATING BEZEL BLOCKING DEVICE - A case for a timepiece
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20200292996 | EXTERNAL ELEMENT OR DIAL FOR HOROLOGY OR JEWELLERY MADE OF CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL - A method for fabricating a timepiece component made of conductive material includes: making a base from conductive material; coating the base with a first layer of sacrificial metal protection material; etching a recessed decoration mechanically or with a laser; coating the first recessed decoration and the remaining part of the first layer with a second metal and/or coloured decorative treatment layer; and removing each first sacrificial metal protection layer by chemical devices, to obtain a blank including a first decoration formed by the remaining part of the second layer. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292997 | COMPOSITE TIMEPIECE OR JEWELLERY COMPONENT WITH PROTECTION FOR THE SUBSTRATE AND ITS DECORATION - A method for fabricating a composite timepiece or jewellery component: a base is made in a substrate with an apparent surface remaining visible; each visible apparent surface is mirror polished; each polished apparent surface is coated with a first transparent or coloured semi-transparent layer of a first material in a dry process, or PVD or CVD or ALD process, or lacquering or zapon varnish process; a decorative element is affixed and bonded to an external surface of the first layer; the first layer and each decorative element is coated with a second layer of a transparent treatment material in a dry process, or PVD or CVD or ALD process, or lacquering or zapon varnish process. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292998 | Electronic Device - A convenient electronic device is provided. An electronic device from which a user can easily read the displayed data is provided. The user can read data with a small motion. A housing of the electronic device includes a first portion positioned on a front surface of the housing, a second portion positioned on a side surface of the housing, a first band attachment portion, and a second band attachment portion. The second portion is configured to display an image. The first band attachment portion is positioned on the side surface on the top side when seen from the front surface side of the housing. The second portion and the second band attachment portion are positioned on the side surface on the bottom side when seen from the front surface side of the housing. The first portion is configured to display an image or includes at least one of an hour hand, a minute hand, and a second hand. | 2020-09-17 |
20200292999 | COMPOSITE COMPONENT FOR HOROLOGY OR JEWELLERY WITH A CERAMIC STRUCTURE AND INSERTS - A method for fabricating a composite component for horology or jewellery including making a base from a first material, with a first visible apparent surface, and a first support surface; a structure from a second ceramic, or sapphire or at least partially amorphous material, with a second apparent surface and a second support surface, including a through bore machined over the entire thickness thereof; at least one insert made of a third material, for each through bore, and arranged to fit together in a complementary manner with this through bore; bonding this base and each structure to each other, with each first support surface and each second complementary support surface bearing against one another; securing each insert with its respective through bore. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293000 | TIMEPIECE - Provided is a watch, including: an exterior case having electroconductivity; an operating member having electroconductivity, which is inserted into the exterior case through an opening formed through the exterior case, and which is configured to accept an operation performed by a user; and an electrostatic motor including: an electret substrate having an electret surface on which electret films being electrically charged are provided; a counter substrate, on which electrodes to be arranged so as to be opposed to the electret films are provided; and a rotary shaft configured to rotate the electret substrate and the counter substrate relative to each other, wherein the operating member and the exterior case are electrically continuous with each other via a conduction path formed so as to avoid overlapping with the electret surface in plan view. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293001 | CERAMIC-BASED TIMEPIECE OR JEWELLERY COMPONENT WITH A STRUCTURED DECORATION - A method for fabricating a timepiece or jewellery component with a structured decoration: a ceramic base is made; mirror polishing is performed; laser and/or mechanical machining of a surface relief is carried out; a relief is coated with a first layer of a first metal decorative treatment and/or coloured decorative treatment material; prior to or after the coating, deep etching is performed to produce a first hollow decoration having a depth greater than the thickness of the first layer, penetrating the base beneath its apparent surface and beneath the valleys of the relief; laser ablation is performed on the first layer in pockets at the bottom of which the ceramic is revealed; all the visible surfaces of the component are coated with a second layer of a second material. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293002 | Timepiece And Control Method Of A Timepiece - A timepiece reduces power consumption while maintaining required precision. The timepiece has a frequency divider that frequency divides an oscillation signal and outputs a reference signal; nonvolatile memory that stores information related to a temperature characteristic of the oscillation frequency of the crystal oscillator; multiple registers; a temperature measuring circuit; an evaluation circuit; and a temperature compensation circuit. The temperature compensation circuit reads the information from one of the registers and corrects the reference signal based on the read information and the temperature measurement information when the evaluation circuit determines the information stored in the multiple registers is the same; and when the evaluation circuit determines the information stored in the multiple registers is different, reads the information from the nonvolatile memory, stores the read information in the multiple registers, and corrects the reference signal based on the read information and the temperature measurement information. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293003 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ALARM-CLOCK OF SMART MIRROR - A method for controlling alarm-clock of an smart mirror ( | 2020-09-17 |
20200293004 | VARIABLE RATE DAMPING BASED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR BACKDRIVEN CONTROL INPUT DEVICES - A control system for a machine having variable rate damping based control (VRDC) is disclosed, and includes one or more processors and a memory coupled to the processors storing data comprising a database and program code that, when executed by the processors, causes the control system to receive an inceptor position from one or more active inceptors and calculate an operator command based on at least the inceptor position. The control system is caused to determine an amplitude of the operator command. The control system is caused to determine a variable gain based on the amplitude of the operator command and determines an actuation command based on the variable gain. The control system sends the inline actuators the actuation command. The inline actuators actuate into a total actuator position to variably damp movement of the machine as a function of the magnitude of the operator command. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293005 | MACHINE TOOL, PROCESSING SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A machine tool according to the present invention includes: a turret capable of holding a plurality of tools; a spindle that selectively holds one of the plurality of tools held by the turret; a control unit that controls the operation of the turret and the spindle in accordance with a control parameter; a weight acquisition unit that, every time one tool is attached to the turret, acquires a weight of the attached one tool; and a weight setting unit that sets the weight acquired by the weight acquisition unit or an index associated with said weight in the control unit in association with the attached one tool, wherein the control unit sets the control parameter on the basis of the weights of the individual tools, which are set by the weight setting unit. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293006 | HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING A HEALTH CHANGE BASED UPON A DATA TREND AND BIOMETRIC CHARACTERISTIC AND RELATED METHODS - A home automation (HA) system may include at least one HA operation device and a biometric sensor. The HA system may also include an HA hub device to provide communications for the at least one operation device, and at least one controller. The at least one controller is configured to cooperate with the biometric sensor to monitor a biometric characteristic of a user, store historical operational data for the at least one HA operation device based upon the user, and determine a data trend of the at least one HA operation device based upon the stored historical operational data. The at least one controller may also be configured to correlate the data trend with the biometric characteristic of the user, and use machine learning to predict a health change of the user based upon the correlated data trend and biometric characteristic of the user. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293007 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING, VISUALIZING, AND TRIGGERING WORKFLOWS FROM AUTO-SUGGESTED ACTIONS TO RECLAIM LOST BENEFITS OF MODEL-BASED INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CONTROLLERS - A method includes obtaining data associated with operation of an industrial process controller and identifying impacts of operational problems of the industrial process controller. The method also includes generating a graphical display for a user, where the graphical display presents one or more recommended actions to reduce or eliminate at least one of the impacts of at least one of the operational problems. The method further includes triggering at least one of the one or more recommended actions based on input from the user. The method could also include executing one or more analytic algorithms to process the obtained data and identify the operational problems of the industrial process controller. Each of the one or more analytic algorithms could be instantiated as a container, and multiple containers could be instantiated and executed as needed. Results of executing the one or more analytic algorithms could be transformed into a standard format. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293008 | CONTROLLING TENANT SERVICES BASED ON TENANT USAGE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS - A control system controls tenant services to various tenants by obtaining tenant attributes for each tenant, with respect to a particular workload. A model is generated that models tenant usage performance for a set of best performing tenants. The model is then applied to a remainder of the tenants to obtain a metric indicative of a likely tenant capacity for incremental usage of the workload. The control system controls the services provided to the tenant based upon the likelihood of adoption metric. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293009 | Model Predictive Control of Systems with Continuous and Discrete Elements of Operations - A controller for controlling a system with continuous and discrete elements of operation accepts measurements of a current state of the system, solves a mixed-integer model predictive control (MI-MPC) problem subject to state constraints on the state of the system to produce control inputs to the system, and submits the control inputs to the system thereby changing the state of the system. To solve the MI-MPC, the controller transforms the state constraints into state-invariant control constraints on the control inputs to the system, such that any combination of values for the control inputs, resulting in a sequence of values for the state variables that satisfy the state constraints, also satisfy the state-invariant control constraints, and solve the MI-MPC problem subject to the state constraints and the state-invariant control constraints. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293010 | Model-Based Control with Uncertain Motion Model - A system is controlled using particle filter executed to estimate weights of a set of particles based on fitting of the particles into a measurement model, wherein a particle includes a motion model of the system having an uncertainty modeled as a Gaussian process over possible motion models of the system and a state of the system determined with the uncertainty of the motion model of the particle, wherein a distribution of the Gaussian process of the motion model of one particle is different from a distribution of the Gaussian process of the motion model of another particle. Each execution of the particle filter updates the state of the particle according to a control input to the system and the motion model of the particle with the uncertainty and determines particle weights by fitting the state of the particle in the measurement model subject to measurement noise. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293011 | PRODUCTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PRODUCTION METHOD - A production system includes an information processing device that carries out the processes of: (i) generating one or more production condition candidates each of which is a candidate for a production condition under which the product is produced; (ii) determining, using a prediction model, a prediction of a production result of a case in which the product is produced under each of the one or more production condition candidates; and (iii) generates, by evaluating a result of the prediction based on a predetermined evaluation standard, an evaluation of each of the one or more production condition candidates. The information processing device repeats the process (ii) while changing between the one or more production condition candidates, and determines a production condition candidate, the evaluation of which in the process (iii) satisfies a predetermined standard, to be the production condition under which the product is produced. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293012 | RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND MONITORING SYSTEM - A retrieval system includes a first storage unit ( | 2020-09-17 |
20200293013 | METHOD FOR REPLACING LEGACY PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS - Over the past several decades, rapid advances in semiconductors, automation, and control systems have resulted in the adoption of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in an immense variety of environments. Machine learning techniques help train replacement PLCs when a legacy PLC must be replaced, e.g., due to aging or failure. The techniques facilitate the efficient adoption and correct operation of replacement PLCs in the industrial environment. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293014 | CASTING EQUIPMENT MONITORING SYSTEM AND CASTING EQUIPMENT MONITORING METHOD - A casting equipment monitoring system detects that the condition of casting equipment is deteriorating before the casting equipment fails, or detects that the quality of castings produced by the casting equipment is deteriorating before it becomes clear that the castings are defective products. The casting equipment monitoring system includes: an information collecting device that collects, in real time, data measured by equipment within the casting equipment; and a diagnostic device that compares, in real time, the collected data with a control value, and displays a diagnosis result if the diagnostic device determines that the collected data has deviated from the control value. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293015 | PATH REPEATABLE MACHINING FOR FULL SIZED DETERMINANT ASSEMBLY - Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for machining a part. Methods include generating a first spatial representation identifying a first orientation of a machining tool, and mechanically coupling an end effector to the part at a first position, the end effector including the machining tool and a coupling tool. Methods include generating a second spatial representation identifying a second orientation of the machining tool relative to the part, the first and second spatial representations being generated based on images captured by at least one imaging device and measurements from a plurality of sensors. Methods include identifying a plurality of differences that result from the coupling and that include a rotational distance and translational distance, the identifying being based on a comparison of a first image and a second image. Methods include adjusting the machining tool to return the machining tool to the first orientation at the first position. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293016 | NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE AND MACHINE TOOL - A numerical control device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a numerical control device for controlling at least two oscillating drive axes which linearly drive so as to cause mutually differing targets to change speed regularly at a fixed period, based on a machining program, in which the numerical control device controls the at least two oscillating drive axes so as to keep fixed a phase difference of periodic variable components of the at least two oscillating drive axes. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293017 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND DISPLAY METHOD OF OPERATION SCREEN IMAGE - To reduce the disadvantage caused by low communication quality. A control system includes a controller configured to control an industrial machine, and a terminal device configured to communicate with the controller. The control system includes a communication quality measurement unit configured to measure as index indicating communication quality between the controller and the terminal device, a communication quality determination unit configured to determine the communication quality between the controller and the terminal device on the basis of the index measured by the communication quality measurement unit, a display unit configured to display an operation screen image for the controller, and a display control unit configured to control a display item of the operation screen image to be displayed on the display unit on the basis of result determined by the communication quality determination part. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293018 | TIME SERIES DATA MONITORING SYSTEM AND TIME SERIES DATA MONITORING METHOD - A time series data monitoring system includes: a series pattern candidate generating unit that generates series pattern candidates included in time series data obtained from a monitored system using the time series data and a prediction model of the time series data; and a series pattern generating unit that classifies the series pattern candidates generated by the series pattern candidate generating unit and outputs, as a series pattern of the time series data, a candidate satisfying a predetermined condition among the classified series pattern candidates. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293019 | ASSEMBLY ERROR CORRECTION FOR ASSEMBLY LINES - Aspects of the disclosed technology provide a computational model that utilizes machine learning for detecting errors during a manual assembly process and determining a sequence of steps to complete the manual assembly process in order to mitigate the detected errors. In some implementations, the disclosed technology evaluates a target object at a step of an assembly process where an error is detected to a nominal object to obtain a comparison. Based on this comparison, a sequence of steps for completion of the assembly process of the target object is obtained. The assembly instructions for creating the target object are adjusted based on this sequence of steps. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293020 | SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM WITH INTELLIGENT ROBOTIC SURVEILLANCE DEVICE - A surveillance system may comprise one or more computing devices and one or more robotic surveillance devices. The one or more computing devices may be configured to obtain video data captured by one or more cameras. The one or more computing devices may analyze the video data to determine whether there is any trigger event. In response to determining that there is a trigger event, the one or more computing device may determine an optimal robotic surveillance device among the one or more robotic surveillance devices based on the trigger event and provide an instruction to the optimal robotic surveillance device. The optimal robotic surveillance device may be configured to perform a responding action in response to receiving the instruction. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293021 | METHOD OF OPTIMIZING MACHINING SIMULATION CONDITION, MACHINING SIMULATION DEVICE, MACHINING SIMULATION SYSTEM AND PROGRAM - A method of optimizing a machining simulation condition includes a step of receiving a setting condition of a machine tool at the time of performing a prescribed machining detail, a step of calculating a first machining result that is a machining result assumed when the machine tool performs machining under the received setting condition, a step of acquiring a second machining result that is a machining result when the machine tool performs machining under the received setting condition, and a step of evaluating a degree of coincidence between the first machining result and the second machining result, and repeatedly performs the calculation of the first machining result while changing the precondition of the calculation until the degree of coincidence is equal to or more than a prescribed threshold value. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293022 | MACHINING SIMULATOR AND STORAGE MEDIUM ENCODED WITH MACHINING SIMULATION PROGRAM - A machining simulator that virtually executes a CNC program to simulate a machining result, includes: a 3D model generating unit that virtually executes a plurality of CNC programs to generate a 3D model from respective machining results obtained; a reference position specifying unit that specifies a predetermined coordinate common to a generated plurality of 3D models as a reference position; a superimposed model generating unit that generates a superimposed model in which a plurality of 3D models is superimposed at the reference position; a finite difference model generating unit that generates a finite difference model obtained by taking a finite difference of the 3D models included in the superimposed model generated; and a display control unit that controls display of at least one of the superimposed model generated and the finite difference model. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293023 | Synchronized Parallel Tile Computation for Large Area Lithography Simulation - Examples of synchronized parallel tile computation techniques for large area lithography simulation are disclosed herein for solving tile boundary issues. An exemplary method for integrated circuit (IC) fabrication comprises receiving an IC design layout, partitioning the IC design layout into a plurality of tiles, performing a simulated imaging process on the plurality of tiles, generating a modified IC design layout by combining final synchronized image values from the plurality of tiles, and providing the modified IC design layout for fabricating a mask. Performing the simulated imaging process comprises executing a plurality of imaging steps on each of the plurality of tiles. Executing each of the plurality of imaging steps comprises synchronizing image values from the plurality of tiles via data exchange between neighboring tiles. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293024 | DIGITAL MANUFACTURING PLATFORM - An on-demand digital manufacturing platform receives digital design files for a product and analyzes producibility of the product by at least one digital manufacturing technology based on whether a set of attributes of the digital design files satisfies producibility requirements for the manufacturing technology. If the attributes do not satisfy the producibility requirements, the platform generates a modified digital design that satisfies the producibility requirements. A customer can place an order for the product from the platform. In response, the platform selects a target fabrication machine to manufacture the product. The target fabrication machine can be selected based at least in part on a determined match between specifications of the target fabrication machine and fabrication parameters that are associated with manufacturing of the product based on the modified digital design. The modified design can then be sent to the target fabrication machine to manufacture the product. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293025 | Plausibility Checking Method For Additive Manufacturing Methods - The invention relates to a plausibility checking method for rapid prototyping devices, in particular for stereolithography devices. In this connection, input data ( | 2020-09-17 |
20200293026 | NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEM OF INDUSTRIAL MACHINE - Provided is a numerical control system of an industrial machine that makes it possible to eliminate overshoot occurred at the time of stopping, thereby preventing interference of the machine, for example, in a case in which the torque of a motor such as a servomotor used in a feed axis of a machine tool is limited by a command unit of a CNC. A numerical control system of an industrial machine includes a command unit and a control unit configured to control driving of a motor of the industrial machine in accordance with a command from the command unit, and to perform position control by receiving a command of an end point position from the command unit or without receiving a command of the end point position from the command unit, and the control unit includes an in-deceleration torque limit release unit that, in a case of performing torque limitation of the motor, releases the torque limitation only during deceleration. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293027 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND CONTROL PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing system with which manufacturing efficiency of a plant when an anomaly occurs can be improved, said information processing system comprising: a storage means which stores a plurality of operators, in association with current operations and work histories; a detection means which detects an anomaly; an anomaly responder determination means which determines a first operator who is intended to respond to the anomaly, from among the plurality of operators who are stored in the storage means, on the basis of the work histories; an operation assignment means which carries out an assignment of a new operation cluster upon a second operator who had been engaged in an interrupted operation which could not be advanced due to the occurrence of the anomaly; an unfulfilled operation identification means which identifies an unfulfilled operation which has arisen due to the first operator responding to the anomaly; and an operator determination means which determines an operator who is intended to respond to the unfulfilled operation on the basis of the current operations of each of the operators which are stored in the storage means. | 2020-09-17 |
20200293028 | TRANSPORTATION OPERATION CONTROL DEVICE, TRANSPORTATION OPERATION CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH TRANSPORTATION OPERATION CONTROL PROGRAM IS STORED - This transportation operation control device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires presence status information of an article; an influence degree calculation unit that calculates, by employing a calculation criterion, the magnitude of the degree of influence on a transportation source site by a pre-process site that influences the transportation source site based on the presence status information related to the transportation source site and the pre-process site; an importance degree calculation unit that calculates the importance degree of a transportation operation from the transportation source site to a transportation destination site based on a transportation cost required for the transportation operation, the presence status information, and the magnitude of the degree of influence; and an updating unit that updates the calculation criterion based on the presence status information after the execution of the transportation operation selected based on the importance degree. | 2020-09-17 |