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20080252930 | IMAGE FORMING DEVICE - An image forming device is disclosed that is able to prevent halt of operations due to full memory occupation, and prevent the full occupation of the memory. The image forming device includes a reading unit; an image data storage unit; a vacancy waiting unit that, when allocating a storage area for storing image data in the image data storage unit, waits until the storage size of a vacancy in the image data storage unit becomes greater than a predetermined value when allocation of the storage area fails; a failure processing unit that, when allocating the storage area for storing the image data in the image data storage unit, performs failure processing when allocation of the storage area fails; and a control unit that controls one of the vacancy waiting unit and the failure processing unit according to image forming conditions in the image forming device. | 10-16-2008 |
20100134820 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - An accumulating unit accumulates image data of an original read by a reading unit. A combining unit combines the image data accumulated in the accumulating unit in a single printing sheet according to a predetermined copy mode. An output unit prints and outputs the image data according to the copy mode. An input unit receives an input of a read instruction. When a total number of originals read by the reading unit is smaller than a total number of originals specified in the copy mode and when the input unit does not receive an input of the read instruction within a predetermined time, a discard determining unit discards the image data accumulated in the accumulating unit, and finishes a printing process. | 06-03-2010 |
20100206723 | PHOTOCATALYST ELEMENT, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREPARING THE SAME - A photocatalyst according to the invention comprises a photocatalytic film of a compound of titanium and oxygen and is characterized in that the photocatalytic film is made porous and has 0.02 or higher value as a value calculated by dividing the arithmetical mean deviation of profile Ra with the film thickness. The photocatalytic film can also be specified by the intensity ratio between x-ray diffraction peaks of the anatase structure of titanium oxide. Such a porous photocatalytic material can be obtained by a reactive sputtering method in conditions of adjusting film formation parameters such as the film formation rate, the sputtering pressure, the substrate temperature, the oxygen partial pressure and the like in proper ranges, respectively, and the photocatalyst material is provided with excellent decomposition and hydrophilization capability. | 08-19-2010 |
20100210447 | PHOTOCATALYST ELEMENT, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREPARING THE SAME - A photocatalyst according to the invention comprises a photocatalytic film of a compound of titanium and oxygen and is characterized in that the photocatalytic film is made porous and has 0.02 or higher value as a value calculated by dividing the arithmetical mean deviation of profile Ra with the film thickness. The photocatalytic film can also be specified by the intensity ratio between x-ray diffraction peaks of the anatase structure of titanium oxide. Such a porous photocatalytic material can be obtained by a reactive sputtering method in conditions of adjusting film formation parameters such as the film formation rate, the sputtering pressure, the substrate temperature, the oxygen partial pressure and the like in proper ranges, respectively, and the photocatalyst material is provided with excellent decomposition and hydrophilization capability. | 08-19-2010 |
20120070772 | ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTROSTATIC IMAGE DEVELOPING TONER, DEVELOPER, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD - An electrostatic image developing toner including: a toner matrix particle having an adhering particle adhered onto the surface of a central particle, wherein a volume average value of a ratio X of a peripheral length PM to a circle-corresponding diameter D is from 3.6 to 5.0. | 03-22-2012 |
20120215883 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A document management apparatus delivers a to-be-delivered document to a delivery destination and collects information about browsing history of the document. The document management apparatus includes: a delivery-pattern determining unit; a delivery-information generating unit; a document delivery unit that delivers the document by transmitting the information of the delivery pattern to a network address of the delivery destination; and a browsing-history management unit that acquires information about browsing history. The delivery-pattern determining unit, when the type of the device is a type not adapted to a function of collecting information about browsing history, determines that a pattern for delivering a program for implementing collection of the information about browsing history together with the document as the delivery pattern. Otherwise, the delivery-information generating unit generates associating information that associates the document with the program such that the program is to be executed when the document is browsed. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221947 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus is connected to a viewing apparatus through which a document is viewed. A view management part creates view information that indicates a viewed portion of the document where the document has been viewed. A document management part creates change information that indicates a changed portion of the document where the document has been changed. A creation part creates individual apparatus basis change information that indicates a coincident portion where the viewed portion indicated in the view information and the changed portion indicated in the change information are coincident with each other. A transmission part transmits the individual apparatus basis change information to the viewing apparatus through which the document was viewed. | 08-30-2012 |
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20090260026 | Recording medium changer - A recording medium changer includes a storage block that is movable in a longitudinal direction, a drive block that processes data recorded on a recording medium, a conveying block that is movable in a vertical direction and conveys the recording medium for mounting onto the drive block or for storage into the storage block, and a power supply block that supplies drive power to individual sections. The rear position of the storage block is present above the drive block, the driving delivery position of the conveying block is present forward of the drive block, the conveying block is present in the driving delivery position at the time of movement of the storage block in the longitudinal direction, and the storage block is present in the forward position when storage and ejection of the recording medium into and from the storage block are performed via an opening. | 10-15-2009 |
20140301812 | CABLE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM CHANGER - A cable processing apparatus includes a first pulley, a second pulley, and a cable. The first pulley is configured to rotate about a rotational axis. The second pulley is configured to rotate about the rotational axis together with the first pulley. The cable includes a fixation region to be fixed to the first pulley and the second pulley. The first pulley is configured to rotate about the rotational axis, to thereby perform one of winding of the cable from the fixation region to one end portion and unwinding of the wound cable. The cable includes a predetermined-length portion from the fixation region to the other end portion, which is wound around the second pulley. The second pulley is configured to rotate about the rotational axis together with the first pulley, to thereby perform one of rewinding and tightening of the wound predetermined-length portion of the cable. | 10-09-2014 |
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20150055062 | OPTICAL FILM, POLARIZER AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - An optical film, has a film thickness of 15 μm to 45 μm, Rth (440 W, 30% RH) and “Rth (440 W, 30% RH)−Rth (440 W, 80% RH)” of the optical film satisfy Expression (1) −20 nm≦Rth (440 W, 30% RH)≦5 nm and Expression (2) 0 nm≦Rth (440 W, 30% RH)−RH (440 W, 80% RH)≦18 nm, here, in Expressions (1) and (2), Rth (440 W, 30% RH) represents a retardation value in a film thickness direction at a wavelength of 440 nm measured at 25° C. and at a relative humidity of 30% and Rth (440 W, 80% RH) represents a retardation value in the film thickness direction at a wavelength of 440 nm measured at 25° C. and at a relative humidity of 80%; a polarizer and liquid crystal display device. | 02-26-2015 |
20150062502 | POLARIZATION PLATE AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A polarization plate includes a first protective film, a polarizer, and a second protective film in this order, in which the first protective film is a film including a (meth)acryl-based resin, a thickness of the first protective film is in a range of 20 μm to 30 μm, a thickness of the second protective film is in a range of 1.5 times to 1.8 times of the thickness of the first protective film, and a humidity dimensional change ratio of the second protective film in the direction orthogonal to an absorption axis of the polarizer is in a range of 0.45% to 0.8%. | 03-05-2015 |
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20140362399 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a registration unit and a display. The registration unit registers an address that has been inputted. The display displays, in the case where the number of addresses that have been registered is less than a threshold, a first operation image, the first operation image including a first image for operating the image forming apparatus. The display displays, in the case where the number of addresses that have been registered is not less than the threshold, a second operation image, the second operation image including the address that has been registered and a second image for operating the image forming apparatus, the second image being smaller in display size than the first image. | 12-11-2014 |
20150026633 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing device includes a first output unit and a second output unit. The first output unit displays a start screen including a first image for giving an instruction for switching to a screen corresponding to a user, and a second image for giving an instruction for switching to an edit screen. If the second image is selected, the second output unit outputs an edit screen including, in the same arrangement as the first image, a third image for switching to a screen for editing the screen corresponding to a user. | 01-22-2015 |
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20110087777 | Information-processing device, information-processing method, and program - An information-processing device includes an execution unit configured to execute a plurality of application programs, an evaluation order decision unit configured to decide an evaluation order based on a degree of reliability of each of the plurality of application programs, and an execution management unit configured to manage execution, by the execution unit, of each of the application programs based on the evaluation order that is decided by the evaluation order decision unit. | 04-14-2011 |
20120179781 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device capable of communicating with an external device connected thereto via a network and includes an application acquisition unit that obtains an application program to be used to control a function of the external device from an application distribution device present on the network, an external device search unit that searches for external devices on the network and an application execution unit that controls the function of the external device by executing the obtained application program, is provided. The application program obtained by the application acquisition unit includes a function of searching for the external device via the external device search unit, which executes an external device search in response to a request issued from the application execution unit executing the application program. | 07-12-2012 |
20130077762 | RADIOLOGICAL IMAGE DETECTION APPARATUS - A radiological image detection apparatus includes: a lock mechanism including at least one first lock mechanism and at least one second lock mechanism, each including a coupling member moving between a coupling position at which the lock mechanism is coupled to a battery and a non-coupling position, the coupling member being installed with a manipulation part exposed to an outer surface of a portion of a case in which a battery accommodating part is installed, and the first lock mechanism setting a first direction of a movement direction of the corresponding coupling member from the coupling position to the non-coupling position and the second lock mechanism setting a second direction of a movement direction of the corresponding coupling member from the coupling position to the non-coupling position, being different from the first direction. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077764 | CASSETTE - A cassette includes: an image capturing unit including: an image receiving unit having a flat panel shape on which a plurality of pixels are arranged on a substrate converting radiation into electric charges and accumulating the converted electric charges; and a support to which the image receiving unit is attached; and a case in which the image capturing unit is accommodated in an unfixed state, in which the support supports the image receiving unit, and an outer edge of the support is disposed on an outer side of an outer edge of the substrate of the image receiving unit in a direction parallel to an image receiving surface of the image receiving unit. | 03-28-2013 |
20140037070 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING DEVICE - There is provided a radiographic imaging device including: a radiographic imaging device main body; and a protective cover that is removably applied to a surface of the radiographic imaging device main body, a thickness including the radiographic imaging device main body in the state in which the protective cover is applied being at most 16 mm. | 02-06-2014 |
20140195953 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a screen which displays information; a coordinate input unit which inputs coordinates instructed by a user to the screen; and a control unit which determines a user instruction based on a track of a user input via the coordinate input unit and controls an operation of the screen in accordance with a determination result. | 07-10-2014 |
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20090135706 | Optical recording medium, and optical recording method and optical recording apparatus thereof - The present invention provides an optical recording medium including a substrate and a recording layer on the substrate having a squarylium metal chelate compound with a central metal. The recording layer includes a mixture of squarylium metal chelate compounds having ligands of the same type as well as metals of two or more types as the central metal. It is preferable that the recording layer includes a squarylium metal chelate compound having a bivalent metal as its central metal and a squarylium metal chelate compound having a metal other than a bivalent metal as its central metal. | 05-28-2009 |
20120086762 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD - A method of ink jet recording including forming an uncured first ink layer of a first ultraviolet curable ink A on a recording medium, forming an uncured second ink layer having a recording pattern inside the uncured first ink layer of the ink A by discharging a second ultraviolet curable ink B from an ink jet head, and curing the uncured first ink layer by irradiating the uncured first ink layer with ultraviolet light after forming the uncured second ink layer, wherein the ink A contains a photoradical generator and the ink B contains a photobase generator and a coloring agent. | 04-12-2012 |
20120147103 | ULTRAVIOLET CROSSLINKING INKJET INK, INK CARTRIDGE CONTAINING SAME, AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING SAME - An ultraviolet crosslinking inkjet ink including a radically polymerizable monomer including a methacrylate and no acrylate; and a photoradical generator. An ink cartridge including the ultraviolet crosslinking inkjet ink and a container containing the ultraviolet crosslinking inkjet ink therein. An image forming method including ejecting droplets of the ultraviolet crosslinking inkjet ink toward a recording material to form an image on the recording material; and irradiating the image with ultraviolet light to crosslink the image. An image forming apparatus including a recording device to eject droplets of the ultraviolet crosslinking inkjet ink toward a recording material to form an image on the recording material; and an ultraviolet irradiator to irradiate the image with ultraviolet light to crosslink the image. | 06-14-2012 |
20120176456 | ULTRAVIOLET CROSSLINKING INK AND INKJET RECORDING METHOD - An ultraviolet crosslinking ink including a radically polymerizable and anionically polymerizable monomer; a photoradical generator; and a photo-base generator. An inkjet recording method including ejecting an ultraviolet crosslinking ink including a radically polymerizable and anionically polymerizable monomer; a photoradical generator; a photo-base generator; and a colorant, toward a surface of a recording material to form an ink image, and irradiating the ink image with ultraviolet light using a light emitting diode. | 07-12-2012 |
20120242768 | INK JET RECORDING METHOD, INK JET RECORDING APPARATUS, AND INK JET RECORDED MATTER - An ink jet recording method including: applying at least two energy beam curable liquids different from each other in surface tension on a recording medium to form an energy beam curable liquid layer having a distribution pattern of different surface tensions; ejecting an energy beam curable ink on the energy beam curable liquid layer formed on the recording medium; and irradiating the energy beam curable liquid layer and the energy beam curable ink with energy beams to cure the energy beam curable liquid layer and the energy beam curable ink to form an image. | 09-27-2012 |
20120283378 | A SILICONE COMPOUND, PHOTOCURABLE LIQUID INK USING THE SILICONE COMPOUND, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE INK - A silicone compound represented by the following Chemical Structure 1: | 11-08-2012 |
20130005849 | ACTIVE RAY CURABLE INK COMPOSITION, ACTIVE RAY CURABLE INKJET INK COMPOSITION AND PRINTING METHOD USING THE SAME - An active ray curable ink composition including a photoreaction initiator generating both a base and a radical through irradiation of active rays and a compound having both a functional group reactive with the base and a functional group reactive with the radical. | 01-03-2013 |
20130065024 | METHOD OF PRODUCING FILM BY INKJET PROCESS, AND FILM - To provide a method of producing a film, comprising: ejecting a liquid B over a liquid surface of an active energy ray-curable liquid as a liquid A by an inkjet process, according to a predetermined periodic signal; and subsequently applying an active energy ray to the liquid A and the liquid B so as to perform curing and obtain a film which comprises a pattern according to any one of (1) to (4) below, (1) a smooth pattern having a periodic amplitude based upon a trigonometric function, (2) a pattern having a periodic depression, (3) a pattern in the form of a periodic flat surface, and (4) a pattern having a periodic semicylindrical shape. | 03-14-2013 |
20130267625 | ACTIVE RAY CURABLE COMPOSITION, ACTIVE RAY CURABLE INK COMPOSITION FOR INKJET PRINTING, ACTIVE RAY CURABLE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION, AND METHOD FOR STABILIZING ACTIVE RAY CURABLE COMPOSITION - An active ray curable composition, including: a photobase generator; a polymerizable compound; and an acid, wherein the photobase generator is a salt of a carboxylic acid and a basic compound, wherein a ratio by mole of a carboxyl group of the carboxylic acid:a basic functional group of the basic compound is 1:1, and wherein the acid is an acid that loses a function thereof as acid by light or heat. | 10-10-2013 |
20140045965 | ACTIVE RAY-CURABLE COMPOSITION, AND ACTIVE RAY-CURABLE INKJET PRINTING INK COMPOSITION AND ACTIVE RAY-CURABLE ADHESIVE COMPOSITION USING THE SAME - An active ray-curable composition characterized by containing a photobase generator, a double bond-containing compound, and a β-dicarbonyl compound. | 02-13-2014 |
20140120326 | POLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND, INK CARTRIDGE CONTAINING INK INCLUDING THE POLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND, INKJET RECORDING APPARATUS USING THE INK CARTRIDGE, AND PRINT FORMED BY INK INCLUDING THE POLYMERIZABLE COMPOUND - A polymerizable compound is provided. The polymerizable compound has two or more polymerizable functional groups in a molecule thereof, wherein one of the two or more polymerizable functional groups of the polymerizable compound is an acrylamide group having the below-mentioned formula (1). The polymerizable compound can be preferably used for inkjet ink. | 05-01-2014 |
20140363634 | INK, INK CARTRIDGE, INK JET RECORDING DEVICE, INK JET INK PRINTEDMATTER, COMPOUND, AND COMPOSITION - Ink contains at least one of a compound represented by the following chemical formula 1, a compound represented by chemical formula 2, a compound represented by chemical formula 3, or a compound represented by chemical formula 4. | 12-11-2014 |
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20130065136 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - A lithium ion secondary battery which meets the requirement [1] of satisfying the formulae (a) to (c) or the requirement [2] of satisfying the formulae (b), (d), and (e): (a) 5≦A≦25, (b) 10≦B≦60, (c) 40≦2A+B≦90, (d) 0.2≦C≦1.2, and (e) −80 200C<3B≦150, wherein A (μm) represents an average particle size of a positive electrode active material; B (vol. %) represents a volume concentration of a fluorinated ether in a nonaqueous electrolyte solution; and C (m | 03-14-2013 |
20130122373 | LITHIUM ION SECONDARY BATTERY - Provided is a lithium ion secondary battery which is low in capacity drop of the battery during fast-charge and has high energy density. In the present lithium ion secondary battery, the positive electrode contains a lithium nickel manganese oxide represented by formula (I): | 05-16-2013 |
20130136987 | POSITIVE ELECTRODE ACTIVE MATERIAL FOR SECONDARY BATTERY AND SECONDARY BATTERY USING THE SAME - Provided is a lithium ion positive electrode active material for a secondary battery that can realize a high operating voltage and a high capacity while suppressing capacity drop with cycles by using a low-cost material. A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, which is a lithium manganese composite oxide represented by the following general formula (I) | 05-30-2013 |
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20090019347 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEM, DOCUMENT INPUT-OUPUT DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DOCUMENT INPUT-OUTPUT PROGRAM, AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - A document processing system, which includes a document management device having: a management section that manages document information including association between a document and identification information; and an accumulation section that accumulates an electronic document corresponding to the document, and a document input-output device having: a generation section that generates the electronic document; an extraction section that extracts the identification information; a determination section that obtains the document information and determines whether pages are overlapped; a detection section that detects whether an added portion exists in each of the overlapped pages; a deletion section that deletes a page not having the added portion; a controller that controls to incorporate the page having the added portion to a corresponding page in the electronic document; and an output section that outputs the electronic document including the incorporated page, or outputs the electronic document through image formation on a medium. | 01-15-2009 |
20090161149 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA SIGNAL - An image processing device, which includes a reading section that reads image information on both sides; an inquiry section that inquires operational authority; and an execution section that executes a desired operation if the operational authority exists, wherein the document is synthesizedly printed, and the image processing device further includes: an extraction section that extracts added image information; a first determining section that, if the added image information is not extracted, determines whether the information is included in a next surface or in a preceding surface; a second determining section that, if included, determines whether a attribute is imparted to the information, and whether a logical page number agrees with a logical total number of pages; and an image processing section that, if the attribute is imparted and the numbers agree, ignores the image information of the printing surface, and subjects image information of another surface to image processing. | 06-25-2009 |
20120113455 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes an analysis result reception unit, an inclination reception unit, a date and time reception unit, a date and time extraction unit, a determination unit, an adjustment unit, an information image generation unit, and an output unit. The analysis result reception unit receives an analysis result of an information image scanned by an information image scan unit. The inclination reception unit receives inclination when the information image scan unit scans the information image. The date and time reception unit receives a date and time when the information image scan unit scans the information image. The date and time extraction unit extracts a date and time when the information image scanned by the information image scan unit is printed. The determination unit determines whether or not to adjust a size of a pixel cluster constituting the information image. | 05-10-2012 |
20130215475 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Provided is an image processing device including an image sequence acquisition unit acquiring a read image sequence made up of images read from each of recording media on which a two-dimensional code enabling a page number of a document to be specified is printed, a page number specifying unit specifying the page number corresponding to each of the read images in the read image sequence based on a reading result of the two-dimensional code image, and a page number determining unit determining the page number corresponding to a target image which is a read image of which the page number is not specified based on a position of the target image in the read image sequence, a position in the read image sequence, of the read image of which the page number is specified, and the page number corresponding to the read image of which the page number is specified. | 08-22-2013 |
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20090263021 | MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING METHOD AND PROGRAM - In order to appropriately detect abnormalities for the purpose of surveillance with it being possible to prevent an unnecessary increase in data amount of the monitoring images, a monitoring system includes an image capturing section that captures a moving image of a monitored area, a variation reduced image generating section that generates a variation reduced image by reducing a temporal variation in an image, based on a plurality of moving-image making-up images included in the moving image captured by the image capturing section, a condition storing section that stores thereon a condition which is required to be satisfied by a variation reduced image which is generated by using a plurality of moving-image making-up images included in a moving image which is judged to show an abnormality, a satisfaction judging section that judges whether the variation reduced image generated by the variation reduced image generating section satisfies the condition, an output moving image generating section that, when the satisfaction judging section judges negatively, generates an output moving image which has a lower image quality than when the satisfaction judging section judges positively, based on the moving image captured by the image capturing section, and an output section that outputs the output moving image generated by the output moving image generating section. | 10-22-2009 |
20100158398 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus, including a characteristic region detecting section that detects a characteristic region from an input image; an image generating section that generates, from the input image, a low-quality image, which is of lower quality than the input image, and a characteristic region image, which is of higher quality than the low-quality image at least the characteristic region; a difference processing section that generates a characteristic region difference image indicating a difference between an image of the characteristic region in the characteristic region image and an image of the characteristic region in the low-quality image; and an encoding section that encodes the characteristic region difference image and the low-quality image. | 06-24-2010 |
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20080286013 | DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPER SUPPLYING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer container has a main part accommodating a developer therein and is detachably attached to a main part of an image forming apparatus. The developer container comprises an outlet provided at a side of the developer container to discharge the developer from the developer container. An input unit is provided adjacent to the outlet and has a small-diameter portion an inside diameter of which is smaller than a diameter of the container main part wherein, when the developer container is attached to the image forming apparatus, the input unit is engaged with a drive motor of the image forming apparatus to receive a rotating force of the drive motor. A developer guiding unit causes the developer inside the developer container to be moved to the outlet beyond the small-diameter portion of the input unit by rotation of the developer container. | 11-20-2008 |
20090175660 | DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPER SUPPLYING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer container has a main part accommodating a developer therein and is detachably attached to a main part of an image forming apparatus. The developer container comprises an outlet provided at a side of the developer container to discharge the developer from the developer container. An input unit is provided adjacent to the outlet and has a small-diameter portion an inside diameter of which is smaller than a diameter of the container main part wherein, when the developer container is attached to the image forming apparatus, the input unit is engaged with a drive motor of the image forming apparatus to receive a rotating force of the drive motor. A developer guiding unit causes the developer inside the developer container to be moved to the outlet beyond the small-diameter portion of the input unit by rotation of the developer container. | 07-09-2009 |
20090190154 | Image Forming System and Method, Management Apparatus, and Recording Medium - An image forming system includes one or more image forming apparatuses and a management apparatus. The management apparatus includes: a software component retention part configured to retain one or more software components in a storage unit, the software components each being configured to generate output format data in a data format interpretable by a printer engine of a corresponding one or more of the image forming apparatuses from application data; a determination part configured to determine, based on the specified image forming apparatus, one of the software components to be used to generate the output format data corresponding to the specified image forming apparatus; and a transmission part configured to transmit the generated output format data to the specified image forming apparatus. The specified image forming apparatus includes an image forming part to form a predetermined image on an image forming medium based on the transmitted output format data. | 07-30-2009 |
20090201547 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM USING A MANAGEMENT APPARATUS TO MANAGE SOFTWARE COMPONENTS - An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses, a management apparatus configured to manage and operate the image forming system, and a plurality of communication control apparatuses each configured to control data communication between the management apparatus and a corresponding image forming apparatus, wherein the management apparatus includes a software component storing unit configured to store one or more software components in a predetermined storage area of a storage device of the management apparatus, the one or more software components being each configured to generate print data recognizable by a corresponding image forming apparatus and a selecting unit configured to select a software component from the one or more software components in response to the print request, the selected software component being used to generate print data corresponding to the image forming apparatus selected as a printing apparatus. | 08-13-2009 |
20110026973 | DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPER SUPPLYING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A developer container has a main part accommodating a developer therein and is detachably attached to a main part of an image forming apparatus. The developer container comprises an outlet provided at a side of the developer container to discharge the developer from the developer container. An input unit is provided adjacent to the outlet and has a small-diameter portion an inside diameter of which is smaller than a diameter of the container main part wherein, when the developer container is attached to the image forming apparatus, the input unit is engaged with a drive motor of the image forming apparatus to receive a rotating force of the drive motor. A developer guiding unit causes the developer inside the developer container to be moved to the outlet beyond the small-diameter portion of the input unit by rotation of the developer container. | 02-03-2011 |
20110249991 | DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPER SUPPLYING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus for use with a toner container which dispenses toner to the image forming apparatus, depending on an angular position of a rotatable cap of the toner container. The rotatable cap has a handle attached thereto. There is a toner container holder to support the toner container which permits the cap of the toner container to rotate. The image forming apparatus has a cover to selectively cover and uncover the toner container. There is also a device which moves with movement of the cover which interacts with the handle of the toner container. | 10-13-2011 |