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20090121349 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A technique which improves the reliability in coupling between a bump electrode of a semiconductor chip and wiring of a mounting substrate, more particularly a technique which guarantees the flatness of a bump electrode even when wiring lies in a top wiring layer under the bump electrode, thereby improving the reliability in coupling between the bump electrode and the wiring formed on a glass substrate. Wiring, comprised of a power line or signal line, and a dummy pattern are formed in a top wiring layer beneath a non-overlap region of a bump electrode. The dummy pattern is located to fill the space between wirings to reduce irregularities caused by the wirings and space in the top wiring layer. A surface protection film formed to cover the top wiring layer is flattened by CMP. | 05-14-2009 |
20110018129 | Semiconductor Device - To provide a technique capable of reducing the chip size of a semiconductor chip and particularly, a technique capable of reducing the chip size of a semiconductor chip in the form of a rectangle that constitutes an LCD driver by devising a layout arrangement in a short-side direction. In a semiconductor chip that constitutes an LCD driver, input protection circuits are arranged in a lower layer of part of a plurality of input bump electrodes and on the other hand, in a lower layer of the other part of the input bump electrodes, the input protection circuits are not arranged but SRAMs (internal circuits) are arranged. | 01-27-2011 |
20130020701 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A technique which improves the reliability in coupling between a bump electrode of a semiconductor chip and wiring of a mounting substrate, more particularly a technique which guarantees the flatness of a bump electrode even when wiring lies in a top wiring layer under the bump electrode, thereby improving the reliability in coupling between the bump electrode and the wiring formed on a glass substrate. Wiring, comprised of a power line or signal line, and a dummy pattern are formed in a top wiring layer beneath a non-overlap region of a bump electrode. The dummy pattern is located to fill the space between wirings to reduce irregularities caused by the wirings and space in the top wiring layer. A surface protection film formed to cover the top wiring layer is flattened by CMP. | 01-24-2013 |
20130344693 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A technique which improves the reliability in coupling between a bump electrode of a semiconductor chip and wiring of a mounting substrate, more particularly a technique which guarantees the flatness of a bump electrode even when wiring lies in a top wiring layer under the bump electrode, thereby improving the reliability in coupling between the bump electrode and the wiring formed on a glass substrate. Wiring, comprised of a power line or signal line, and a dummy pattern are formed in a top wiring layer beneath a non-overlap region of a bump electrode. The dummy pattern is located to fill the space between wirings to reduce irregularities caused by the wirings and space in the top wiring layer. A surface protection film formed to cover the top wiring layer is flattened by CMP. | 12-26-2013 |
20140312493 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A technique which improves the reliability in coupling between a bump electrode of a semiconductor chip and wiring of a mounting substrate, more particularly a technique which guarantees the flatness of a bump electrode even when wiring lies in a top wiring layer under the bump electrode, thereby improving the reliability in coupling between the bump electrode and the wiring formed on a glass substrate. Wiring, comprised of a power line or signal line, and a dummy pattern are formed in a top wiring layer beneath a non-overlap region of a bump electrode. The dummy pattern is located to fill the space between wirings to reduce irregularities caused by the wirings and space in the top wiring layer. A surf ace protection film formed to cover the top wiring layer is flattened by CMP. | 10-23-2014 |
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20100200987 | Semiconductor Device and a Method of Manufacturing the Same - A semiconductor device manufacturing technique which allows reduction of semiconductor chip size. First, a pad and other wires are formed over an insulating film. A surface protective film is formed over the insulating film including the pad and wires, and an opening is made in the surface protective film. The opening lies over the pad and exposes a surface of the pad. A bump electrode is formed over the surface protective film including the opening. Here, the pad is smaller than the bump electrode. Consequently, the wires are arranged just beneath the bump electrode in the same layer as the pad | 08-12-2010 |
20120139106 | Semiconductor Device and a Method of Manufacturing the Same - A semiconductor device manufacturing technique which allows reduction of semiconductor chip size. First, a pad and other wires are formed over an insulating film. A surface protective film is formed over the insulating film including the pad and wires, and an opening is made in the surface protective film. The opening lies over the pad and exposes a surface of the pad. A bump electrode is formed over the surface protective film including the opening. Here, the pad is smaller than the bump electrode. Consequently, the wires are arranged just beneath the bump electrode in the same layer as the pad | 06-07-2012 |
20130075901 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device manufacturing technique which allows reduction of semiconductor chip size. First, a pad and other wires are formed over an insulating film. A surface protective film is formed over the insulating film including the pad and wires, and an opening is made in the surface protective film. The opening lies over the pad and exposes a surface of the pad. A bump electrode is formed over the surface protective film including the opening. Here, the pad is smaller than the bump electrode. Consequently, the wires are arranged just beneath the bump electrode in the same layer as the pad | 03-28-2013 |
20140103525 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND A METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A semiconductor device manufacturing technique which allows reduction of semiconductor chip size. First, a pad and other wires are formed over an insulating film. A surface protective film is formed over the insulating film including the pad and wires, and an opening is made in the surface protective film. The opening lies over the pad and exposes a surface of the pad. A bump electrode is formed over the surface protective film including the opening. Here, the pad is smaller than the bump electrode. Consequently, the wires are arranged just beneath the bump electrode in the same layer as the pad | 04-17-2014 |
20140361429 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE WITH BUMPS AND DISPLAY DEVICE MODULE INCORPORATING THE SAME - A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor chip having a main face which has a pair of long sides parallel to each other and a pair of short sides orthogonal to the pair of long sides; first bumps arrayed in a first bump placement region of the semiconductor chip, the first bump placement region being positioned along one of the pair of long sides; second bumps arrayed in a second bump placement region of the semiconductor chip, the second bump placement region being positioned along the other of the pair of long sides; first power lines disposed in a region between the first bump placement region and the second bump placement region, the first power lines extending in a direction parallel to the pair of long sides; and third bumps integrated on the semiconductor chip. Each of the third bumps provides short-circuiting of the first power lines. | 12-11-2014 |
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20100084175 | COMPONENT BUILT-IN WIRING SUBSTRATE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A component built-in wiring substrate ( | 04-08-2010 |
20100163168 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WIRING BOARD WITH BUILT-IN COMPONENT - A method for manufacturing a wiring board includes a core substrate preparation step, a component preparation step, an accommodation step, a resin layer formation step, a fixing step, an insulation layer and a surface modification step. In the accommodation step, a component is held in an accommodation hole of a core substrate. In the resin layer formation step, a gap between an inner wall surface of the accommodation hole and a side surface of the component is filled with a resin layer. In the fixing step, the resin layer is hardened. In the insulation layer formation step, a resin insulation layer is formed on a second major surface and a second component major surface. In the surface modification step, a surface of the resin layer is modified, after the fixing step but before the insulation layer formation step. | 07-01-2010 |
20100163172 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING WIRING BOARD WITH BUILT-IN COMPONENT - A method for manufacturing a wiring board includes a core substrate preparation step, a component preparation step, an accommodation step, a resin layer formation step, a fixing step, an insulation layer and a surface activation step. In the accommodation step, a component is held in an accommodation hole of a core substrate. In the resin layer formation step, a gap between an inner wall surface of the accommodation hole and a side surface of the component is filled with a resin layer. In the fixing step, the resin layer is hardened. In the insulation layer formation step, a resin insulation layer is formed on a second major surface and a second component major surface. In the surface activation step, a surface of the resin layer is activated by means of plasma treatment, after the fixing step but before the insulation layer formation step. | 07-01-2010 |
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20090092403 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an image forming apparatus having a toner density sensor which emits light to a developer carried on a developing sleeve and which detects developer density by a reflection output value from the developer, when a reflection output value when the developer is initially set with respect to the illumination light of the toner density sensor is defined as A and a reflection output value of a region of at least the developing sleeve which is opposed to the toner density sensor when the developer is not carried on the developing sleeve is defined as B, a value of B/A is in a range of 0.3 | 04-09-2009 |
20100158554 | COLOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming method includes forming toner images on first and second image bearing members; transferring a first toner image on the first image bearing member and a second toner image on the second image bearing member, in mutually superposed manner, onto a recording material; heating the first and second toner image thereby fixing the same to the recording material; detecting alignment marks on the first and second image bearing members in the course of a continuous job for continuously forming images; controlling relative positions of the first toner image and the second toner image, based on a result of detection of the alignment marks; and increasing a frequency of execution of the relative position control in the continuous job, as the recording material to be subjected to image formation in the continuous job has a smaller width in a direction perpendicular to a transport direction of the recording material. | 06-24-2010 |
20110262161 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a developing container for containing a developer including toner and a carrier; a feeding member for feeding the developer contained in the developing container; a drive control portion, capable of selectively executing at least operations in a first mode in which the developer is fed at a first feeding speed by the feeding member to form an image and a second mode in which the developer is fed at a second feeding speed, different from the first feeding speed, by the feeding member to form an image, for controlling the feeding speed of the developer by the feeding member depending on the operation in the mode to be executed; a toner content detection sensor for detecting toner content by using magnetic permeability of the developer contained in the developing container; and a voltage control portion for controlling a control voltage to be inputted into the toner content detection sensor. When the operation in the second mode is executed after the operation in the first mode is executed, the voltage control portion controls the control voltage in the second mode on the basis of a latest output value outputted by the toner content detection sensor in a preceding first mode. | 10-27-2011 |
20120106991 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a correcting portion for correcting an image forming condition on the basis of a result of detection of a first control toner image; a supply controller for controlling a supplying device on the basis of a result of detection of a second control toner image; an executing portion for executing an operation at least in a first image forming mode in which the image is formed at a first speed and in a second image forming mode in which the image is formed at a second speed; and a controller for controlling an image forming condition such that during the second image forming mode, the first control toner image is formed at the speed of the second image forming mode, and the second control toner image is formed after the speed is changed to a third speed which is higher than the second speed. | 05-03-2012 |
20120114348 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A control unit decreases the potential difference according to an increase in the drive amounts of the image bearing member and the developer bearing member, based on a first information about a drive amount of the image bearing member and second information about a drive amount of the developer bearing member, in a case that an integrated value of the first information and the second information from initial installation or replacement of the developing device is greater than a predetermined value. | 05-10-2012 |
20130101321 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In an apparatus which controls the bias of an intermediate transfer belt, the position shift of the width direction between a toner image and a recording material is reduced. Based on the results of estimating the variation moving in the width direction of the intermediate transfer belt, the position in the width direction of the recording material conveyed to a transfer position is changed to match the positions in the width direction of the toner image and the recording material. | 04-25-2013 |
20130164006 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING PATCH IMAGE INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF REGIONS - An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of developing units configured to develop latent images formed on a plurality of photosensitive members by a exposure units; an image carrier, on which the developed images formed on the plurality of photosensitive members are transferred; a sensor configured to irradiate the image carrier with light, and detect an amount of reflected light; a patch detection unit configured to detect a position of a patch image, formed on the image carrier, based on the amount of reflected light detected by the sensor, wherein the patch image has a first region and a second region formed on the same photosensitive member, the second region is formed to be adjacent to the first region, and a density of the second region is lower than that of the first region. | 06-27-2013 |
20130302053 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus of a representative configuration of the present invention includes a photosensitive drum, which carries an electrostatic latent image, and a developing sleeve, which carries a two-component developer and develops the electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive drum into a toner image. Moving directions of the photosensitive drum and the developing sleeve are opposite at an opposing portion in a developing device having a speed changing portion, which changes the driving speed of the developing sleeve, and a controller, which switches a target speed of the developing sleeve so that it is driven at a second velocity, before it is driven at the first velocity set in a lower speed mode, when the lower speed mode is executed in which the photosensitive drum is driven at a lower speed than in the normal image forming. | 11-14-2013 |
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20090123017 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, ELECTRONIC COMPONENT UNIT, SPEAKER, AND MOBILE TERMINAL INCLUDING SPEAKER - To provide an electronic component, an electronic component unit, a speaker, and a mobile terminal including the speaker which can realize the stable electrical conduction. An electronic component includes a frame, an electric circuit which is provided on the frame, a coil spring which is electrically connected to the electric circuit, and a rib which is provided on the frame and is inserted into the coil spring. | 05-14-2009 |
20100073604 | RETARDATION FILM, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND DISPLAY - A retardation film which is manufacturable by a simple process, and being capable of preventing a decline in light use efficiency is provided. A retardation film includes: a substrate having a plurality of grooves extending in a specific direction on a surface thereof; and a retardation layer arranged in contact with the surface of the substrate, and including a liquid crystal material, the liquid crystal material being aligned along the extending direction of the plurality of grooves and being polymerized. | 03-25-2010 |
20120007275 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RETARDATION FILM - A method of manufacturing a retardation film includes: a first step of forming, on the same metal master, a main region having several kinds of groove regions having different extending directions of grooves, and a sub region having one kind of groove region having a predetermined extending direction of grooves or several kinds of groove regions having different extending directions of grooves; and a second step of collectively transferring reverse patterns of the main and sub regions on the metal master to a base, and then forming, on a surface of the base, a layer including an alignable material to be aligned in correspondence to irregularity of the surface of the base, thereby forming a patterned retardation region in a site having a reverse pattern of the main region, and forming an alignment mark region in a site having a reverse pattern of the sub region. | 01-12-2012 |
20130052341 | ALIGNMENT FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE ALIGNMENT FILM, AND RETARDATION FILM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE RETARDATION FILM - A method of manufacturing an alignment film includes directly pressing a master having fine linear concavity-convexity in order of nanometer on a surface thereof to a surface of a base film at a temperature lower than a glass transition temperature of the base film, and thereby transferring a pattern corresponding to the concavity-convexity on the master to the surface of the base film. | 02-28-2013 |
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20110186102 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT MANUFACTURING METHOD - A photoelectric conversion element includes a substrate with an insulation layer having a metallic substrate and an electrical insulation layer formed on a surface of the metallic substrate, a diffusion prevention layer made of nitride and formed on the electrical insulation layer, an alkali supply layer containing an alkali metal element and formed on the diffusion prevention layer, a lower electrode formed on the alkali supply layer, a photoelectric conversion layer including a compound semiconductor layer and formed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed on the photoelectric conversion layer. The electrical insulation layer includes an anodized film of aluminum, and the diffusion prevention layer prevents at least diffusion of the alkali metal element from the alkali supply layer to the substrate with the insulation layer. | 08-04-2011 |
20110186103 | PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT, THIN-FILM SOLAR CELL, AND PHOTOELECTRIC CONVERSION ELEMENT MANUFACTURING METHOD - A photoelectric conversion element includes a substrate with an insulation layer having a metallic substrate and an electrical insulation layer formed on a surface of the metallic substrate, a diffusion prevention layer formed on the electrical insulation layer, an alkali supply layer being electrically conductive and formed on the diffusion prevention layer, a lower electrode formed on the alkali supply layer, a photoelectric conversion layer comprising a compound semiconductor layer and formed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed on the photoelectric conversion layer. The diffusion prevention layer prevents at least diffusion of alkali metal from the alkali supply layer to the substrate with the insulation layer. | 08-04-2011 |
20110192451 | METAL SUBSTRATE WITH INSULATION LAYER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND SOLAR CELL AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A metal substrate with an insulation layer has a metallic substrate having at least an aluminum base, and an insulation layer formed on the aluminum base of the metallic substrate. The insulation layer is a anodized film of aluminum that has a porous structure having plural pores and a Martens hardness of 1000 N/mm | 08-11-2011 |
20140170345 | BARRIER LAMINATE AND NOVEL POLYMER COMPOUND - The present invention provides a barrier laminate with enhanced heat resistance performance, comprising at least one organic layer and at least one inorganic barrier layer, the organic layer being formed by curing a polymerizable composition comprising a polymerizable compound having two or more polymerizable groups, and the total quantity of uncured component in the organic layer being 1.5 weight % or less of the total weight of the organic layer, and a novel polymerizable compound that can preferably used as the polymerizable compound, which is denoted by general formula (11): | 06-19-2014 |
20150050479 | GAS BARRIER FILM - The present invention provides, as gas barrier film having improved adhesiveness between a base material and a barrier laminate, a gas barrier film including a plastic film, an organic layer and an inorganic layer in this order, the gas barrier film having a silicon compound layer including one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of silicon oxide, silicon nitride and silicon carbide between the plastic film and the organic layer; the plastic film and the silicon compound layer, and the silicon compound layer and the organic layer being directly in contact to each other respectively; the thickness of the silicon compound layer being 40 nm or less; the organic layer being a layer formed of a composition containing a polymerizable compound and a silane coupling agent; and the thickness of the inorganic layer being larger than the thickness of the silicon compound layer. | 02-19-2015 |
20150050480 | GAS BARRIER FILM - The present invention provides, as gas barrier film having improved adhesiveness between a base material and a barrier laminate, a gas barrier film comprising a plastic film, an organic layer and an inorganic layer in this order, the gas barrier film having an aluminium compound layer containing one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of aluminium oxide, aluminium nitride and aluminium carbide between the plastic film and the organic layer; the plastic film and the aluminium compound layer, and the aluminium compound layer and the organic layer being directly in contact to each other respectively; the thickness of the aluminium compound layer being 40 nm or less; and the organic layer being a layer formed of a composition containing a polymerizable compound and a phosphate compound. | 02-19-2015 |
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20120038731 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus comprises: an exposure unit configured to irradiate each of a plurality of photosensitive members with a light beam, a light amount control unit configured to control a light amount of the light beam, a plurality of developing units configured to develop electrostatic latent images, formed on the plurality of photosensitive members by exposure with the light beams, and a transfer unit configured to transfer toner images formed on the plurality of photosensitive members onto an image carrier; a pattern forming unit configured to control the image forming unit to form, a misalignment detection pattern for detecting a relative misalignment between the toner images transferred onto the image carrier; a pattern reading unit configured to read the misalignment detection pattern; and a correction unit configured to correct the relative misalignment between the toner images based on the reading result obtained by the pattern reading unit. | 02-16-2012 |
20120045234 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - No registration pattern can be formed with a reference density due to environmental changes. In such a case, any registration cannot be formed until an image forming apparatus is controlled to be able to form a registration pattern with the reference density. To solve this problem, a CPU included in the image forming apparatus controls pattern forming conditions so that registration patterns of respective colors can match one another in density lower than the reference density. The CPU controls each image forming unit to form a registration pattern based on the controlled pattern forming conditions. | 02-23-2012 |
20130164047 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING COLOR REGISTRATION CONTROL BASED ON DETECTION RESULT OF PATCH IMAGE - An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier on which images formed by a plurality of image forming units are transferred; a sensor configured to irradiate the image carrier with light, and detect reflected light; a detection unit configured to detect, based on an output value of the sensor, a feature value of an edge of a patch image which has been formed by the image forming unit and transferred to the image carrier; a determination unit configured to determine a position of the patch image using the output value of the sensor corresponding to the patch image and the feature value of the edge; and a color registration control unit configured to perform color registration control based on the determined position of the patch image. | 06-27-2013 |
20130266331 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING DENSITY OF IMAGE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An image forming apparatus which reduces downtime by starting image density detection without waiting for identification of the same position on a rotary member. A detection unit detects a surface condition of a rotary member on which a toner image on a photosensitive drum is transferred. An identifying unit matches first data detected by the detection unit on a reference point on the surface of the rotary member and second data detected by the detection unit after obtainment of the first data to identify the reference point. A control unit controls image density based on a detection result obtained by the detection unit on a base of the rotary member corresponding to a range where a measurement image is formed and an obtained detection result on the measurement image by referring to the reference point identified as a reference. | 10-10-2013 |
20140151950 | SHEET MATERIAL BINDING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - Provided is a sheet material binding apparatus capable of shortening a user's waiting time required to bind sheets through a manual operation with a movable stapler. A CPU ( | 06-05-2014 |
20140169804 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING IMAGE CARRIER AND BELT MEMBER - An image forming apparatus which is capable of reducing downtime while preventing generation of friction between an image carrier and a belt member when the image carrier or the belt member is replaced. Whether or not a photosensitive drum should be replaced is determined based on usage conditions of the photosensitive drum, and when it is determined that the photosensitive drum should be replaced, a separating operation of separating an intermediate transfer belt from the photosensitive drum is carried out after an image formed on the intermediate transfer belt is transferred to a recording medium. When it is not determined that the photosensitive drum should be replaced, the separating operation is not carried out after the image formed on the intermediate transfer belt is transferred to the recording medium. | 06-19-2014 |
20140239571 | IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM HAVING MOVABLE STAPLER, SHEET POST-PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD - An image forming system which is capable of, when a manual stapling process is to be carried out on sheets, reducing waiting time for a user and decreasing power consumption. The image forming system has an image forming apparatus, which forms images on sheets, and a sheet post-processing apparatus. When the sheet post-processing apparatus is to shift into a power-saving state, a movable stapler is moved to a manual stapling position. When it is detected that sheets have been set into a sheet setting unit in a state in which the image forming apparatus and the sheet post-processing apparatus have shifted into the power-saving state, the image forming apparatus is held in the power-saving state, and the sheet post-processing apparatus is returned from the power-saving state. | 08-28-2014 |
20140334901 | SHEET BINDING PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM - A sheet binding processing apparatus for avoiding the residual of binding member is provided. The sheet binding processing apparatus comprises a sheet insertion port through which a sheet bundle formed of a plurality of sheets S is inserted, a movable stapler for binding the sheet bundle inserted through the sheet insertion port, and a manual stapling sheet sensor for detecting, at a predetermined detection time interval, existence or non-existence of the sheet bundle in the sheet insertion port. When the manual stapling sheet sensor detects the existence of the sheet bundle, the sheet binding processing apparatus gives permission to bind the sheet bundle by the movable stapler. | 11-13-2014 |
20150016835 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - The power source board is arranged at a lower side on the back side of the main body of the image forming apparatus. The load control board is arranged at an upper side in a vertical direction of the power source board in such a manner that the load control board does not overlap with the power source board. For a board and load at a lower side when viewed from a load control board, a connector is arranged near the lower side of the load control board. For a board and load at an upper side of the load control board, a connector is arranged near the upper side of the load control board. Similarly, for boards and loads of right and left side, connectors are arranged near the respective right and left sides of the load control board. | 01-15-2015 |
20150034623 | HEATER UNIT - In a heater unit for heating a sheet stored in a cassette, respective heating wires of a plurality of heater wires are arranged along an outer periphery of a heat transfer plate so as not to overlap each other, respective power supply wires of the plurality of heater wires are arranged inside a path formed by the heating wires, and both ends of each of the plurality of heater wires are connected to a connector. | 02-05-2015 |
20150037051 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a developing unit configured to develop an electrostatic latent image, a mounting detection unit configured to detect that a container T is mounted on a mounting unit, a driving unit configured to rotate the container T, a rotation detection unit configured to detect rotation information about the container T, and a controller configured to control the driving unit based on the rotation information. If the container T is detected to be mounted on the mounting unit, control of the driving unit is not carried out based on the rotation information until replenishment information satisfies a predetermined condition. | 02-05-2015 |
20150037072 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a developing unit configured to develop using toner an electrostatic latent image formed on a photosensitive member, a mounting unit to which a container is mounted, the container including a containing unit configured to contain toner and a pump unit, and performing a supplying operation for supplying toner by expansion and contraction of the pump unit, a driving unit configured to rotationally drive the container to cause the container to perform the supplying operation, and a controller configured to control a rotational speed of the container based on a time for which the supplying operation has been performed. | 02-05-2015 |
20150071657 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH DEVELOPER REPLENISHMENT MECHANISM - An image forming apparatus capable of reducing an image defect even when an container is rotated for checking. A development unit forms an image by developing an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive member. A drive unit rotates the container mounted to a mounting portion for replenishing the toner to the development unit. An output unit outputs a specified signal when detecting a predetermined portion of the container. A determination unit determines whether the container is mounted to the mounting portion according to the specified signal. A decision unit decides a toner replenishing amount based on image data. A controller controls the drive unit to execute a detecting operation that rotates the container when the determination unit does not determine that the container is mounted. A correction unit corrects the toner replenishing amount based on the output of the output unit when the detecting operation is executed. | 03-12-2015 |
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20120081731 | PRINTING SYSTEM, PRINTING METHOD, PRINT SERVER, CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A print server which communicates with an information processing apparatus including a virtual printer driver that generates a print job of an intermediate format independent of a printing apparatus, and a printing apparatus, comprises: a storage unit configured to store the print job of the intermediate format received from the information processing apparatus; a conversion unit configured to convert the print job of the intermediate format stored in the storage unit into a first PDL print job printable by the printing apparatus by using a printer driver of the printing apparatus; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the first PDL print job to save the first PDL print job converted by the conversion unit in the printing apparatus. | 04-05-2012 |
20120224197 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit, an installation unit, a processing unit, and a transmission unit. The storage unit stores data to be printed in an intermediate format independent of a specific model of a printing apparatus. The installation unit installs a printer driver corresponding to a printing apparatus in response to a request from the printing apparatus. The processing unit causes the printer driver installed by the installation unit to generate, from the intermediate-format data, data capable of recognizing output settings used for actual printing apparatus printing and outputs the generated data to a storage area inside the information processing apparatus. The transmission unit acquires information about the output settings from the data output by the processing unit and transmits the information about the output settings to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus displays the information about the output settings of the data to be printed. | 09-06-2012 |
20130033727 | PRINTING SYSTEM, SERVER APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A printing system, responsive to a request from an image forming apparatus, applies general-purpose print setting to print setting information of a printer driver in the image forming apparatus specified in the request, applies dedicated print setting using a ticket in a print job stored in a storage device to the print setting information to which the general-purpose print setting has been applied, reflects the print setting information of the printer driver to which the dedicated print setting has been applied, on the print setting information in the print job, generates a print job including the reflected print setting information in the print job and print data in the print job, and outputs the generated print job to the image forming apparatus. | 02-07-2013 |
20130182281 | DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There are cases where an OS running on an information processing apparatus cannot automatically prompt the user to enter user input information at the time of an output operation. In such cases, where the user cannot enter user input information at the time of an output operation, a device cannot acquire user input information necessary to output print data. | 07-18-2013 |