Patents Assigned to Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20210302864
    Abstract: A light emitting device, includes: a base plate extending in a first direction; multiple light emitting units arranged on a surface of the base plate while being shifted from each other in the first direction, and each including a support body extending in the first direction and multiple light sources supported on the support body while being arranged in the first direction; and a flow path disposed over the surface of the base plate to surround at least part of the light emitting units and allowing air to flow therethrough in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke KASUYA, Tsutomu OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20210302855
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes a toner particle, an external additive A, and an external additive B. At least the external additive A is present on the surface of the toner particles. At least the external additive B is present on the external additive A. The number of peaks of the external additive B on the external additive A is 5 or more and 100 or less per 30 ?m peripheral length of the toner particle, the peaks having a height from the surface of the toner particle of 80 nm or more and 250 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuko TORII, Yosuke TSURUMI, Atsushi SUGAWARA, Yoshimasa FUJIHARA, Moegi IGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210302850
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer on the conductive substrate. The electrophotographic photoreceptor has an outermost surface layer that contains fluorine-containing resin particles and a fluorine-containing graft polymer. The fluorine-containing resin particles contain 0 or more and 30 or less carboxy groups per 106 carbon atoms. The outermost surface layer has a dielectric constant of 3.75 or more and 3.90 or less. The contact angle of pure water on the outermost surface layer is 90° or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuto OKAZAKI, Wataru Yamada, Masahiro Iwasaki, Keisuke Kusano, Taisuke Fukui
  • Publication number: 20210302906
    Abstract: A powder processing apparatus includes a processing engine, a carrying region forming unit, a door, a powder storage unit. The processing engine is mounted inside an apparatus housing. The processing engine includes one or plural processing units each at least including a movable powder carrier that carries powder, and a powder supply unit. The carrying region forming unit forms a region in the powder carrier where powder can be carried. The door opens and closes an opening formed in a side wall of the apparatus housing. The powder storage unit stores the powder. The powder storage unit moves along with the opening and closing of the door. When the door is opened, an insertion and extraction path that is wide enough to insert and extract the processing engine is ensured in the opening, excluding a region blocked by the powder storage unit that moves along with the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi ANZAI, Takahiro KIMURA, Kazuaki IIKURA, Tetsuji OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210302848
    Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer on the conductive substrate. The electrophotographic photoreceptor has an outermost surface layer that contains fluorine-containing resin particles and an antioxidant. The fluorine-containing resin particles contain 0 or more and 30 or less carboxy groups per 106 carbon atoms. A decrease in weight of the antioxidant when heated at 150° C. for 10 minutes in an air atmosphere is 40 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke KUSANO, Wataru YAMADA, Masahiro IWASAKI, Yuto OKAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210302865
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a base plate extending in a first direction; a plurality of light emitting units arranged over a front surface of the base plate while being shifted from each other in the first direction, and each including a support body extending in the first direction and a plurality of light sources supported on the support body while being arranged in the first direction; a flow path disposed on a side of the base plate opposite to a side facing the light emitting units to feed air therethrough in the first direction; and a wire electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of the light emitting units, and disposed inside the flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke KASUYA, Takahiko KOBAYASHI, Tsutomu OTSUKA
  • Publication number: 20210306471
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, upon distribution of a firmware to plural target apparatuses connected to a predetermined communication network, divide in advance and hold the firmware into a predetermined number of pieces of divided firmware; and distribute the pieces of divided firmware to each of the plural target apparatuses with the pieces divided into distribution number of divisions set for the target apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jo SUDA
  • Publication number: 20210302876
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a black image carrier that holds toner images of black, a yellow image carrier that holds toner images of yellow, a magenta image carrier that holds toner images of magenta, a cyan image carrier that holds toner images of cyan, at least one spot-color image carrier, and multiple collecting units. The at least one spot-color image carrier holds toner images of a spot color other than black, yellow, magenta, and cyan. Each of the collecting units collects waste toner. The collecting units include a first collecting unit that collects waste toner removed from the black image carrier, and waste toner removed from the spot-color image carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Go MIURA, Seigo SHINOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210294237
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner particles including a binder resin and a release agent, an external additive A, and an external additive B. At least the external additive A is present on the surface of the toner particles. At least the external additive B is present on the external additive A. The external additive B is an aggregate of two or more particles. The toner particles have an average circularity of 0.8 or more and 0.94 or less. The amount of the release agent present at the surface of the toner particles is 5 area % or more and 30 area % or less based on the total surface area of the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Moegi IGUCHI, Yosuke Tsurumi, Atsushi Sugawara, Yoshimasa Fujihara, Yasuko Torii
  • Publication number: 20210294227
    Abstract: An electrostatic image developing toner includes toner particles, an external additive A, and an external additive B. At least the external additive A is deposited on the surfaces of the toner particles. At least the external additive B is deposited on the external additive A. The external additive B includes an aggregate of two or more particles. The coverage of the toner particles with the external additive B is 3% by area or more with respect to the total surface area of the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi SUGAWARA, Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuko TORII, Yoshimasa FUJIHARA, Moegi IGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210294239
    Abstract: A discharger includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a tensioning member, a protrusion, and a pressing member. The first electrode extends in a longitudinal direction. The second electrode is disposed between the first electrode and an image carrier member, and includes a netlike portion including multiple openings through which electric charges discharged from the first electrode pass. The tensioning member supports the second electrode while exerting a tension on the second electrode in the longitudinal direction. The protrusion is disposed on the second electrode on an outer side of the netlike portion in the longitudinal direction. The protrusion protrudes beyond the netlike portion in a thickness direction of the second electrode. The pressing member presses the second electrode in the thickness direction. The pressing member is noncontact with the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki NAGAMORI, Go MIURA
  • Publication number: 20210294263
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a medium transport path; a first image transport path that is disposed so as to oppose the medium transport path and along which an image to be formed on the medium is transported; an image forming part that forms the image and is disposed adjacent to the first image transport path; and a second image transport path that is disposed so as to oppose the medium transport path, that is located at a distance from the image forming part, and along which an image to be formed on the medium is transported, the second image transport path, the first image transport path, and the medium transport path, together surrounding the image forming part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro GODA, Yukihiro ICHIKI, Akira SHIMODAIRA, Keita HASHIMOTO, Masaki SUTO
  • Publication number: 20210294589
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor that executes a first program. The processor is configured to acquire update information for executing update from the first program to a second program, execute the update by using the update information, accept a request for a function of the first program in a case where at least one of plural information processing apparatuses constituting a cluster has not completed the update, the plural information processing apparatuses being the information processing apparatus and one or more other information processing apparatuses, and provide a function of the second program to a user in a case where all the plural information processing apparatuses have completed the update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro KANEKO
  • Publication number: 20210291396
    Abstract: A trimming device includes: a moving unit including a transport unit that transports a booklet which includes one or more sheets and which is folded in half at a center portion of the booklet, with a folded portion of the booklet at a front, a correction unit that corrects a posture of the booklet in response to a leading end of the booklet transported by the transport unit abutting against the correction unit, the correction unit being capable of advancing to an abutting position on a path of the booklet and retracting from the path, and an upper guide unit that extends at least between the transport unit and the correction unit, the upper guide unit that guides an upper surface of the booklet, the moving unit being movable in a transport direction between (i) a predetermined upstream position and (ii) a downstream position downstream of the upstream position in the transport direction; a lower guide unit that guides a lower surface of the booklet transported by the transport unit; and a cutting unit that cu
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigehiko HASEBA, Shiro YAMAHASHI, Nobutoshi HAMASAKI, Kazutoshi SHIMA, Hiroaki MOGI, Shoya KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20210286303
    Abstract: A heating device includes: a rotating body; a heating body as defined herein; and a contact mechanism, in a non-existence state where a material to be heated does not exist between the rotating body and the heating body after the material to be heated passes between the rotating body and the heating body, configured to cause the rotating body to be in contact with the heating body at a central portion of the rotating body in a rotation axis direction of the rotating body, so that an area of the rotating body in contact with the heating body is smaller at each of both end portions of the rotating body than at the central portion of the rotating body in the rotation axis direction, or configured to switch the rotating body between a first contact state and a second contact state as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki YAMAZAKI, Mizuki Sugino
  • Publication number: 20210286284
    Abstract: A carrier for developing an electrostatic charge image has magnetic particles and a resin coating that covers the magnetic particles and contains at least one lubricant. The resin coating has a dispersed phase of the lubricant and meets requirement (1). Requirement (1): the lubricant content in a top layer>the lubricant content in a middle layer>the lubricant content in a bottom layer The top, middle, and bottom layers are of the resin coating divided into three in the direction of thickness, and the lubricant content is the percentage area of the dispersed phase of the lubricant in a cross-section of the layer taken along the thickness thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro YOSHIHARA, Asafumi FUJITA, Teppei YAWADA, Motoko SAKAI
  • Patent number: 11121937
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a control section that makes display of an image of a configuration different between a case where the image of the configuration used for a cooperation function is displayed in a region for setting a cooperation function and a case where the image is not displayed in the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo Tokuchi
  • Publication number: 20210278773
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing carrier includes: magnetic particles; and a resin layer coating the magnetic particles and containing inorganic particles, in which an average particle diameter of the inorganic particles is 5 nm or more and 90 nm or less, an average thickness of the resin layer is 0.6 ?m or more and 1.4 ?m or less, and a ratio B/A of a surface area B of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier to a plan view area A of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is 1.020 or more and 1.100 or less when a surface of the electrostatic charge image developing carrier is three-dimensionally analyzed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jumpei IWASAKI, Yasuo Kadokura, Shintaro Anno, Kazutsuna Sasaki, Satoshi Miura
  • Publication number: 20210278784
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing mechanism and a transfer belt mechanism. The image bearing mechanism is attachable to and detachable from an apparatus body in a first direction and supports multiple image bearing members. Each image bearing member has a surface onto which an image is formed while the image bearing member rotates. The transfer belt mechanism includes a transfer belt onto which the images on the multiple image bearing members are transferred while the image bearing members rotate. The transfer belt mechanism is attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body in a second direction different from the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Iikura
  • Publication number: 20210281693
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a processor configured to receive an addition of additional information by an administrator, and cause a display position of an image representing the additional information to be restricted in a case where an important attribute indicating importance is assigned to the additional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoko SATO