Patents Assigned to Fuji Xerox
  • Publication number: 20200028983
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a first controller, a selection section, and a second controller. The first controller performs control in which a second operation screen is displayed on a terminal apparatus that is connected to the image forming apparatus in a manner communication is possible, the second operation screen being generated on the basis of a first operation screen of the image forming apparatus. The selection section selects either one of a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which an operation from the first operation screen is acceptable, the second mode being a mode in which remote control from the second operation screen is acceptable. The second controller performs control in which, if the second mode is selected by the selection section, a display state of the second operation screen is prohibited from being changed in accordance with an operation occurred in the image forming apparatus other than an operation from the second operation screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoaki SAITO
  • Publication number: 20200027369
    Abstract: A creativity assessment apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires bio-data indicating a measurement result of a biological state of a user, a computing unit that computes a degree of change in a balance between sympathetic nerve activity and parasympathetic nerve activity in accordance with the bio-data acquired by the acquisition unit, and an assessment unit that assesses creativity of the user in accordance with the degree of change computed by the computing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryoji HORITA
  • Publication number: 20200026233
    Abstract: A guide structure includes a first guide member that guides a recording medium from a fixing unit to a transport roller unit, the fixing unit fixing an image formed on the recording medium to the recording medium by heating the recording medium that is transported, the transport roller unit transporting the recording medium; and a second guide member that comes into contact with the recording medium to which the image has been fixed by the fixing unit and guides the recording medium to the transport roller unit, the second guide member being disposed downstream of the first guide member in a transporting direction in which the recording medium is transported and being made of a material having a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of a material of the first guide member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira SHIMODAIRA
  • Publication number: 20200026912
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that previously stores a classification rule corresponding to an attribute of an applicant, an acquisition unit that acquires content of an electronic document from an image of the document, and a setting unit that reads the classification rule corresponding to the attribute of the applicant of the document from the storage unit, and sets a classification item of the document based on the content of the document, which is acquired by the acquisition unit, and the classification rule which is read from the storage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yutaka SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20200023523
    Abstract: A robot control system includes a robot apparatus that operates autonomously in accordance with control information provided to the robot apparatus, the robot apparatus receiving update information to be used to update the control information and updating the control information in accordance with the received update information, an imaging apparatus that captures an image of the robot apparatus, and a control apparatus including a transmitting unit that transmits to the robot apparatus update information generated in accordance with the image captured by the imaging apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimi UEZU, Junichi TAMURA, Takahiro MINAMIKAWA, Kunitoshi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200026229
    Abstract: A fixing member includes a substrate, an elastic layer on the substrate, and a surface layer on the elastic layer. The surface layer has transverse microhardness values within the range of 85 to 89, inclusive, and a transverse filtered maximum waviness (Wcm) of 0.1 ?m or more and 4 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Takuro HOSHIO, Ryosuke FUJII, Kenji OMORI, Jun KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200026223
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying unit that carries a toner image on a surface of the image carrying unit along with rotation of the image carrying unit to transfer the toner image onto a target transfer unit, and a supply unit that supplies a larger amount of fatty acid metal salt to the image carrying unit as a rotation speed of the image carrying unit increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasutaka MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10542623
    Abstract: A porous polyimide shaped article has a thickness in a range from 550 ?m to 3,000 ?m and has a relative dielectric constant of 1.8 or less and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.01 or less at 1 MHz. The porous polyimide shaped article satisfies the following formula: 1.2?A?1.6 wherein A represents a square root of a ratio of a pore size D84 where a cumulative percentage by number of pores from smaller sizes is 84% to a pore size D16 where the cumulative percentage by number of the pores from smaller sizes is 16% ((D84/D16)1/2) in a pore size distribution measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Sugahara, Hidekazu Hirose, Katsumi Nukada, Tomoya Sasaki, Kosaku Yoshimura, Akira Imai
  • Patent number: 10539916
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image holder; a developing device that creates a toner image by developing a latent image held on the image holder; and an application member that scrapes a lubricant from a solid lubricant and applies the scraped lubricant onto the image holder, wherein a surface of the application member is a fabric member that holds toner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jin Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 10539909
    Abstract: An endless belt includes a polyamide imide resin layer in which a content of at least one solvent selected from a solvent group A consisting of a urea solvent, an alkoxy group-containing amide solvent, and an ester group-containing amide solvent is from 0.005 parts by weight to 3 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the polyamide imide resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Miyamoto, Kana Miyazaki, Wataru Yamada
  • Patent number: 10539895
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that includes a conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer and a surface protection layer; a developing device that includes an electrostatic image developer containing a toner, and develops the electrostatic image to form a toner image. The toner contains an amorphous polyester resin and has a weight average molecular weight Mw in a range of from 25,000 to 60,000, and a ratio of the weight average molecular weight Mw to a number average molecular weight Mn (Mw/Mn) is in a range of from 5 to 10. In the toner, a ratio of an absorbance for a wavelength of 1500 cm?1 to an absorbance for a wavelength of 720 cm?1 is 0.6 or less, and a ratio of an absorbance for a wavelength of 820 cm?1 to the absorbance for a wavelength of 720 cm?1 is 0.4 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Kamisaki, Naoki Ota, Tatsuhiro Igarashi, Yasuhisa Morooka, Jun Sekiya
  • Patent number: 10539914
    Abstract: A binding processing device includes: a needle binding unit that forms a needle binding portion that binds a paper bundle using a needle; a needleless binding unit that forms a needleless binding portion that binds the paper bundle without using a needle; and a plurality of exit rolls that exit the bound paper bundle. A distance between the needleless binding portion and a center of the plurality of exit rolls is equal to or longer than a distance between the needle binding portion and the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Awano, Masashi Matsumoto, Takuya Makita, Katsumi Harada, Kojiro Tsutsumi, Toshiyasu Yukawa, Takashi Ogino
  • Patent number: 10540558
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: determination units that make determinations on an input using different methods, and obtain determination results for the input; a first output unit that outputs, when a certain percentage or more of the determination results match, a determination result matched at the certain percentage or more; a second output unit that outputs, when the first output unit does not find a determination result matched at the certain percentage or more, a final determination result for the input; and an accuracy rate calculation unit that calculates, when a determination result obtained by a determination unit of interest among the determination units corresponds to a determination result matched at the certain percentage or more or matches the determination result output by the second output unit, an accuracy rate of the determination unit of interest, regarding that the determination result obtained by the determination unit of interest is correct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shunichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10539911
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a circulating endless belt, a fixing unit that is in contact with the belt to form a fixing nip, a heat source provided on an inner side of the belt or on an inner side of the fixing unit, a pressurizing unit arranged on the inner side of the belt to pressurize the belt against the fixing unit, a sheet interposed between the belt and the pressurizing unit to reduce a sliding resistance, and a restricting unit that restricts movement of the sheet in a direction opposite to a moving direction of the belt at a position near a downstream side of the pressurizing unit in the moving direction of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Imazu
  • Patent number: 10538097
    Abstract: An ejection device includes: ejection portions that eject liquids; supply portions that supply the liquids to the ejection portions respectively; a common pressure applying mechanism that applies pressure onto the liquids at the supply portions; and a pressure difference generating mechanism that generates a relative pressure difference between the ejection portions for the liquids to be supplied from the supply portions to the ejection portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Murakami, Masashi Hiratsuka, Masaki Kataoka
  • Patent number: 10542163
    Abstract: An image forming device includes: a post processor that performs post processing for folding or forming crease on an adjustment sheet including a reference mark and an adjustment pattern filled in with black, across the adjustment pattern based on a predetermined reference position; an image reader that reads an image of the adjustment sheet under a condition that an orientation of the adjustment sheet is changed according to the post processing type or characteristics of the adjustment sheet which is placed on the platen so that the reference mark is in a predetermined direction; a position identifying unit that identifies a fold line or crease position based on the fold line or crease that appears in the adjustment sheet; and a position adjusting unit that adjusts a fold or crease position of the post processor based on a difference between the fold or crease position and the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 10542234
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes solar cells, an accumulation portion that accumulates power generated by the solar cells, an electronic apparatus main body portion that is operated by using power accumulated in the accumulation portion, and an operation control circuit that performs control so that, in a case where a voltage of the accumulation portion increases, an operation of the electronic apparatus main body portion is started if the voltage of the accumulation portion exceeds a first threshold voltage, and, in a case where a voltage of the accumulation portion decreases, an operation of the electronic apparatus main body portion is stopped if the voltage of the accumulation portion is less than a second threshold voltage which is smaller than the first threshold voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiro Matsuda, Tohru Fuse, Akihiko Naya, Takahiro Saito
  • Patent number: 10538434
    Abstract: A titanium oxide aerogel particle includes a metallic compound that has a metal atom and a hydrocarbon group, the metallic compound being bonded to a surface of the aerogel particle via an oxygen atom. The titanium oxide aerogel particle has a BET specific surface area of 120 m2/g to 1000 m2/g, and has absorption at wavelengths of 450 nm and 750 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sakae Takeuchi, Hiroyoshi Okuno, Hideaki Yoshikawa, Yasuo Kadokura, Yasunobu Kashima, Takeshi Iwanaga, Shunsuke Nozaki, Yuka Zenitani
  • Patent number: 10539921
    Abstract: A support for an electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a cylindrical cut pipe having a cut surface as the outer peripheral surface. The outer peripheral surface has an arithmetic average waviness Wa of 0.15 ?m or less in the axial direction and a peak count PPc of 100 or more and 990 or less in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayuki Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10542373
    Abstract: An information offering apparatus includes an offering unit that offers target information concerning a target of a user's action to the user; and a changing unit that changes the target information in accordance with history information concerning the user's action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kagawa, Kengo Tokuchi, Takatoshi Baba