Patents Assigned to Konica Minolta, Inc.
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Publication number: 20240181708Abstract: A manufacturing method of a three-dimensional fabricated object using an additive manufacturing technology, the method including: detecting, in situ, data on a physical or chemical characteristic of a three-dimensional object under fabrication.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Takashi Washizu
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Publication number: 20240187534Abstract: An image forming device includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a transfer medium; and a controller that controls multiple image readers capable of performing image reading for the same surface of the transfer medium, and acquires reading results from the image readers. The controller is capable of performing failure/no-failure determination for the image on the transfer medium based on the reading results, of switching image reading by the multiple image readers between reading by a first number of image readers and reading by a second number of image readers, the second number being smaller than the first number, and of enabling, while the second number of image readers perform reading, at least one of the other image readers to execute a maintenance operation for the at least one of the other image readers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Tomohiro Iwase
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Patent number: 12001160Abstract: An image forming system includes: a sheet feeder; an image former that forms an image on a paper sheet; a conveyor that conveys a paper sheet to a sheet ejection destination; a switcher that switches sheet ejection destinations; a reader that optically reads a paper sheet, and outputs a read image; an abnormal sheet detector that detects an abnormal paper sheet by analyzing the read image; a storage; a display; and a hardware processor that performs: ejection destination switch control to control the switcher to eject an abnormal paper sheet and a succeeding paper sheet to a second ejection destination different from a regular ejection destination; storage control, for each of the abnormal paper sheet and the succeeding paper sheet, to associate sheet information, the read image, and a stacking order with one another, and store them into the storage; and display control to cause the display to display them.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Kazunari Shimono
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Patent number: 11998380Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causes a computer to perform an analysis process based on a radiation moving image in which a dynamic state of a specific site of a subject is captured. The program includes the analysis process in which, an analysis is performed based on the radiation moving image wherein when a plane in which the specific site is movable is to be a movable plane, the radiation moving image is obtained by irradiating radiation on the specific site in a state in which the radiation is orthogonal to the movable plane.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Shikou Kaneko, Sumiya Nagatsuka
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Patent number: 11994827Abstract: A photoresponsive polymer includes a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1), the photoresponsive polymer being fluidized by light irradiation, and reversibly non-fluidized: [Chemical formula 1] R1—Z1?Z2—R2??General formula (1) in the formula, Z1 and Z2 each represent CH or N, and Z1?Z2, R1 represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group having a substituent Ra selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, and a halogen atom at each of two ortho positions with respect to Z1, R2 represents an aromatic heterocyclic group with or without a substituent, and at least one of the R1 and the R2 is bonded to a group containing a structure derived from a polymerizable group.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kouji Sugama, Yukiko Nakai, Kazuaki Nakamura, Toyoko Shibata
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Patent number: 11994653Abstract: A transparent member according to the present invention is formed by providing at least a substrate or a layer on the substrate, and has a surface section in which the contact angle with respect to water continuously changes.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Kento Hasegawa, Yasushi Mizumachi
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Patent number: 11993728Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing: a composition for electronic devices in which when a film is formed therefrom, the amount of residual solvents including fluorine-containing solvents within the film is reduced, the effects of residual solvents on a device are minimized, and it is thus possible to achieve high element performance; an ink for electronic devices that is suitable for wet processes and that makes it possible to achieve high liquid stability and element performance as a result of containing the composition for electronic devices; and a method for producing an electronic device. This composition for electronic devices contains a component A and a component B and is characterized in that the component A is a fluorine-containing solvent and the component B is a compound having a structure represented by general formula (1).Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Akihiro Kimura, Miyuki Okaniwa, Hiroto Ito
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Patent number: 11995360Abstract: A control method for an image processing apparatus having a remote control mode in which a control instruction is received from a terminal device, includes: causing the image processing apparatus to transition to the remote control mode; receiving, by the terminal device, an operation by RPA and giving a control instruction to the image processing apparatus, wherein the image processing apparatus cancels the remote control mode when a period during which there is no communication with the terminal device reaches a certain period of time, and in the receiving, the terminal device repeats communication with the image processing apparatus at a cycle shorter than the certain period of time after giving the control instruction to the image processing apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Takashi Sugaya
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Patent number: 11993080Abstract: A drive circuit of a recording head having a recording element is provided. The drive circuit supplies a load element for recording operation of the recording element with an output signal of electric power according to operation of the load element. The drive circuit includes a voltage amplifier that amplifies a voltage of an analog drive waveform signal for operation of the recording element to generate a drive voltage signal. The voltage amplifier includes amplifiers. Among the amplifiers, at least one of subsequent-stage amplifiers which are a second and subsequent amplifiers from an upstream side includes a signal feedback unit that returns a signal to be output to an input side of the subsequent-stage amplifiers.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Shinichi Kawaguchi, Hajime Nakamura
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Patent number: 11991812Abstract: A radiation imaging system includes a radiation source and a notifying unit. The radiation source is for still image shooting and moving image shooting performed by the radiation imaging system to obtain image data of a subject. The notifying unit notifies whether a type of imaging to be performed is the still image shooting or the moving image shooting in a mode in which the type is instinctively recognizable by at least one of sense of sight, sense of hearing, and sense of touch.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Yuuichi Nishijima, Tetsu Hosoki, Nobuyuki Miyake
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Patent number: 11990856Abstract: A rotation detector includes a motor, a current detector and a hardware processor. The motor includes coils of two or more phases and a rotor. The current detector detects currents flowing in coils of at least two phases among the coils of two or more phases. The hardware processor estimates an initial position of the rotor based on current values of the currents detected by the current detector to start the motor, controls an energization pattern on the phases to rotate and start the motor based on the estimated initial position, and determines whether the rotor stops or is rotating before completing the estimation of the initial position.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Yuta Tachibana, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Kazumichi Yoshida, Satoshi Miyajima, Kouei Cho
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Publication number: 20240161231Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores instructions causing a computer to execute: acquiring first information indicating a first lesion candidate area in a medical image, and causing a display to display the medical image attached with first display information that is based on the first information. When causing the display to display the medical image attached with the first display information, in a case that the first lesion candidate area or the first display information is not displayed within an image display area of the display, the computer causes the display to display presence information on the first lesion candidate area or the first display information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Hidekazu Takahashi, Hisashi Wada, Ken Satou, Seiji Nomura, Ryuta Ogawa
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Publication number: 20240161453Abstract: A detection method includes: preparing sample image data of a sample in which a target substance is labeled with a labeling substance; acquiring first background image data in which an image feature amount of a single bright spot in the sample image data is reduced by a first filter; acquiring second background image data in which an image feature amount of a dense bright spot in the sample image data is reduced by a second filter; synthesizing the first background image data and the second background image data on a basis of brightness information of the sample image data and acquiring synthesized background image data; and obtaining difference image data that is a difference between the sample image data and the synthesized background image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: kONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Tsukasa MATSUO, Hiroshi NEGISHI, Keisuke YAMAGUCHI, Yuki MIYAKE, Toshihiko IWASAKI
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Publication number: 20240160140Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor that conveys continuous paper, a speed detector that contacts the continuous paper conveyed by the conveyor to detect a conveyance speed of the continuous paper, and a hardware processor that controls the conveyor based on a detection result detected by the speed detector so that the conveyance speed of the continuous paper reaches a target value, wherein the hardware processor adjusts the target value based on at least one of information about the continuous paper and information about a job.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Nobuhiko OKANO
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Patent number: 11980503Abstract: Ultrasound signal processing device including: transmitter causing transmission array composed of all or some transducer elements of ultrasound probe to transmit ultrasound; reception aperture setter designating reception array having center position corresponding to center position of transmission array; transmission time calculator calculating, for each of measurement points arranged within area of reach of ultrasound, transmission time from transmission of ultrasound until arrival of ultrasound at measurement point; reception time calculator calculating reception time from reflection of ultrasound at measurement point until arrival of ultrasound at reception transducer element; delay amount calculator calculating total propagation time being sum of transmission time and reception time, and calculating delay amount for reception transducer element based on total propagation time; delay processor specifying reception signal value corresponding to delay amount, from reception signal sequence corresponding toType: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Mineo Tsushima
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Patent number: 11985289Abstract: An image forming apparatus performs the following. An imaging range imaged by each of the plurality of imaging sensors includes an overlapping portion between the imaging sensors adjacent in a width direction orthogonal to a conveying direction along the conveying path. A hardware processor performs a calibration operation of a first sensor based on a color measuring result of a predetermined inspection image measured within a standard imaging range of the first sensor among the plurality of imaging sensors, and a standard imaging result within the standard imaging range imaging an inspection image with a same pattern as the inspection image. The hardware processor compares imaging results by the plurality of imaging sensors in the overlapping portions and performs the calibration operation of another sensor different from the first sensor using the standard imaging result as a standard.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Hiroshi Isokawa
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Patent number: 11981120Abstract: An image-forming apparatus which can improve the heating stability of the recording material in the heating unit is provided. An image-forming apparatus constitutes an image forming apparatus having: a recording-material heating unit disposed in an upstream side of an image-former; a chassis that covers the recording-material heating unit; a pressurizer that is provided in the chassis and increases an air pressure in the chassis; and a gas inflow opening that is provided in the chassis and supplies air to the pressurizer from outside the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Shinichi Nagao
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Patent number: 11981073Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a powder material that has good wettability with respect to an aqueous solvent and that can be applied to a method for producing a three-dimensional molded object in which a bonding fluid and a peeling fluid are applied. In order to solve the abovementioned problem, a powder material according to the present invention is used in a method for a producing a three-dimensional molded object that includes formation of a thin layer containing the powder material, application of a bonding fluid containing an aqueous solvent and an energy-absorbing agent to the thin layer, and irradiation of the thin layer with energy. The powder material contains molding particles comprising: resin particles containing a thermoplastic resin; and an organic resin layer that is arranged around the resin particles and that contains an organic resin having a surface tension of 30-45 mN/m.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Kazuya Isobe
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Patent number: 11980500Abstract: Provided is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including a touch panel monitor and a palm rest that supports a hand when a touch operation is performed on the touch panel monitor.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Takahiko Shiraishi, Tatsushi Chihara
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Patent number: 11976230Abstract: A composition includes an isomerized polymer containing a structural unit containing an isomerized structure and an isomerized low molecular weight compound, the composition being fluidized by light irradiation from a solid state and being reversibly non-fluidized.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventors: Yukiko Nakai, Kouji Sugama, Haruo Horiguchi, Toyoko Shibata, Hirofumi Hayata