Patents Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
  • Publication number: 20230102627
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: accumulate use-record information in a storage unit, the use-record information including utilization of multiple functions in a device in a predetermined period, the device having software including the functions; and, when the software needs to be updated, exert control to cause a function to be selected, for update, among the functions included in the software, the selected function having been used in the device, the selection being performed by referring to the use-record information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Jo SUDA
  • Publication number: 20230103101
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive toner includes toner particles containing a composite resin that includes a styrene-based resin and a (meth)acrylate-based resin. The difference between a lowest glass transition temperature of the composite resin and a highest glass transition temperature thereof is 30° C. or more, and the toner particles have a gel fraction of from 1.0% by mass to 8.0% by mass inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Takeshi IWANAGA, Takako KOBAYASHI, Mieko SEKI, Kiyohiro YAMANAKA, Satoshi KAMIWAKI
  • Publication number: 20230102476
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: receive an electronic document generated while maintaining text information by an application program or an electronic document generated by reading an image with a document reading apparatus; perform type determination as to whether the received electronic document including a portion representing a text is generated by the application program or generated by the document reading apparatus; and determine based on a result of the type determination whether an optical character recognition process is to be performed on the electronic document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Kunihiko KOBAYASHI, Shintaro ADACHI, Junichi SHIMIZU, Akane ABE, Shinya NAKAMURA, Akinobu YAMAGUCHI, Masanori YOSHIZUKA, Naomi TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230103095
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a toner particle that contains a pyrazolotriazole-based dye and a zirconium oxide particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yukiaki NAKAMURA, Tomoaki TANAKA, Ryutaro KEMBO
  • Publication number: 20230095411
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles and silica particles that are added to an exterior of the toner particles and contain a nitrogen element-containing compound containing a molybdenum element, in which in the silica particles, a ratio (Mo/Si) of Net intensity of the molybdenum element to Net intensity of a silicon element measured by X-ray fluorescence analysis is 0.035 or more and 0.35 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shimpei TAKAGI, Sakae TAKEUCHI, Yuka ZENITANI, Koji SASAKI, Yoshifumi ERI, Mai MOCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230103207
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles that contain a binder resin, in which each of a loss modulus G?5 (150) of the electrostatic charge image developing toner determined by measuring dynamic viscoelasticity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at a temperature of 150° C. and a strain of 5% and a loss modulus G?50 (180) of the electrostatic charge image developing toner determined by measuring dynamic viscoelasticity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at a temperature of 180° C. and a strain of 50% is 1×103 Pa or more and 1×104 Pa or less, and a relationship between a loss modulus G?5 (t1) of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at a first temperature t1 in a temperature range of 150° C. or higher and 180° C. or lower and a strain of 5% and a loss modulus G?50 (t2) of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at a second temperature t2 higher than the first temperature t1 in the temperature range of 150° C. or higher and 180° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yumi TANAKA, Shinya SAKAMOTO, Masaki IWASE
  • Publication number: 20230101897
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire information indicating a size of an external shape of each of characters in data of a first image and data of a second image that are used for comparison; and determine a presence or absence of a fault in the data of the second image with respect to each of the characters with reference to a degree of a difference that is between the data of the second image and the data of the second image and is detected in accordance with a detection condition varying in response to the size of the external shape of each of the characters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
    Inventor: Daigo HAMA
  • Publication number: 20230095496
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image incorporates toner particles that contain binder resins including an amorphous polyester resin and a crystalline polyester resin, an ester-based release agent, and a polycondensate of a styrene-acrylic resin and a polyolefin resin. The polycondensate of styrene-acrylic and polyolefin resins has a storage modulus G?SP (70) at 70° C. of 1×104 Pa or more and 1×107 Pa or less and a storage modulus G?SP (90) at 90° C. of 1×103 Pa or more and 1×106 Pa or less in dynamic rheometry. The toner particles have a storage modulus G?T (70) at 70° C. of 1×104 Pa or more and 1×106 Pa or less and a storage modulus G?T (90) at 90° C. of 1×103 Pa or more and 1×105 Pa or less in dynamic rheometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Shinya SAKAMOTO, Daisuke ISHIZUKA, Keita YAMAMOTO, Eiji KAWAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20230101891
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles, and an external additive that contains particles A containing a perovskite-type compound and having an equivalent circle diameter of 15 nm or greater and 90 nm or less and particles B containing a perovskite-type compound and having an equivalent circle diameter of 1.0 ?m or greater and 3.0 ?m or less, in which the particles B occupy 0.3% by number or greater and 3.5% by number or less of an entirety of the toner particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yosuke TSURUMI, Yasuaki HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230103062
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process including: receiving registration of information on a meeting including plural agendas, information on participants who participate in each of the plural agendas, information on a scheduled start time and a scheduled end time of each of the plural agendas, and information on a document used for each of the plural agendas; receiving start and end of each of the plural agendas; and notifying participants of a progress status while an agenda of the plural agendas is in progress, the progress status being based on a display state of a document scheduled to be used in the agenda, the participants being scheduled to participate in agendas subsequent to the agenda currently in progress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Misaki MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230094009
    Abstract: A gear includes a gear body to be attached to a distal end of a driving shaft in an axial direction of the driving shaft and including teeth each extending obliquely with respect to the axial direction, and a stopping portion included in the gear body and configured in such a manner as to allow the driving shaft to which the gear body is attached to move in a circumferential direction. When the driving shaft moves in the circumferential direction, the stopping portion is enabled to stop the gear body from moving in the axial direction, the stopping portion stopping the gear body by coming into contact with a portion of the driving shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kenta OKADA
  • Publication number: 20230102175
    Abstract: A toner for developing an electrostatic charge image includes toner particles having an average circularity Cc of 0.80 or more and less than 0.98, and an external additive containing monodisperse silica particles and titanate compound particles, in which a ratio Rt/Rs of an average primary particle diameter Rt of the titanate compound particles to an average primary particle diameter Rs of the monodisperse silica particles is 0.50 or more and 3.50 or less, and a ratio A/B of an external additive coverage A (%) of the monodisperse silica particles on surfaces of the toner particles to an external additive coverage B (%) of the titanate compound particles on the surfaces of the toner particles satisfies formula (1): 0<A/B?2.00.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Ryo OTAKE, Sakon TAKAHASHI, Yosuke TSURUMI, Moegi IGUCHI, Yasuaki HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230094671
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process is provided, and the process includes extracting at least one message that satisfies a condition specified by a user from one or more messages in a chat room to which one or more users are allowed to write and saving the at least one extracted message or forwarding the at least one extracted message to another chat room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Kazuko KIRIHARA
  • Publication number: 20230095393
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform connection to an external server that can be connected from the information processing apparatus and instruct the external server to execute processing as a first job, and then release a resource used in the first job, make an inquiry about whether or not the processing is completed to the external server, and wait for a response from the external server, in a case where a response indicating that the processing by the external server is completed is received in response to the inquiry, execute a second job that is different from the first job and is cooperated with the first job, and, in a case where a connection between the information processing apparatus and the external server is disconnected before or during the execution of the second job, make an inquiry about whether or not the processing is completed to the external server again and wait for a response from the external server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Satoshi WATANABE, Masato SUGII, Hiroshige NONAKA
  • Publication number: 20230095449
    Abstract: An electrostatic charge image developing toner contains toner particles that contain a binder resin, in which in a case where G?1 (90) represents a storage modulus G? of the electrostatic charge image developing toner determined by measuring dynamic viscoelasticity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at a temperature of 90° C. and a strain of 1%, G?50 (90) represents a storage modulus G? of the electrostatic charge image developing toner determined by measuring dynamic viscoelasticity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at a temperature of 90° C. and a strain of 50%, and G?50 (180) represents a storage modulus G? of the electrostatic charge image developing toner determined by measuring dynamic viscoelasticity of the electrostatic charge image developing toner at a temperature of 180° C. and a strain of 50%, the electrostatic charge image developing toner satisfies the following Formulas (1) to (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Masaki IWASE, Shinya SAKAMOTO, Yumi TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230095406
    Abstract: A toner for electrostatic charge image development has toner particles containing a binder resin including 90 mass % or more of an amorphous resin. In a differential molecular weight distribution curve of tetrahydrofuran soluble matter as measured by gel permeation chromatography, the toner has a maximum peak Ma in a molecular weight range of 2,500 or more and 8,000 or less, a minimum value Mm in a molecular weight range of more than 8,000 and less than 280,000, and a maximum peak Mb in a molecular weight range of 280,000 or more and 900,000 or less. When the area of the differential molecular weight distribution curve in a range of a molecular weight of 100 or more and less than the minimum value Mm is defined as A, and the area of the differential molecular weight distribution curve in a range of the minimum value Mm or more and a molecular weight of 10,000,000 or less is defined as B, the area ratio A/B is 5.5 or more and 10 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Koji FUNABA, Yuka ISHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20230100755
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain, during an online meeting, when a participant has left halfway through the online meeting, an absent period of the participant and a remaining time of the online meeting, the absent period being a period of time for which the participant is absent after the participant has left the online meeting, the remaining time being a time from when the participant returns to the online meeting until an end time of the online meeting, the online meeting being a meeting conducted via a communication network; and switch a format of content presentation information to be presented to the participant having left halfway through the online meeting in accordance with a combination of the obtained absent period and the obtained remaining time, the content presentation information being information on content of the online meeting during the absent period of the participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Hirooki OKA
  • Publication number: 20230094281
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a body of the image forming apparatus; an opening and closing unit that is supported by the body of the image forming apparatus so as to rotate relative to the body of the image forming apparatus and that opens and closes an inside of the body of the image forming apparatus, the opening and closing unit having a rotating shaft; a first coupling unit that has a first tube portion having a tube shape and having an inside through which the rotating shaft of the opening and closing unit passes, the first coupling unit being supported by the opening and closing unit; and a second coupling unit that has an extension portion supported by the body of the image forming apparatus and extending toward the first coupling unit, a bent portion having a first end portion that is connected to an end portion of the extension portion and being formed to be bent relative to an extension direction of the extension portion and to extend toward the rotating shaft, and a second tube portion disp
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yutaro KANZAWA, Yoichi TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230096234
    Abstract: An information processing system receives an evaluation on one evaluation target by a user in an aggregate of evaluation targets, to which results of evaluations are to be individually given, and gives a result of the evaluation to another evaluation target different from the one evaluation target in a case where the one evaluation target is evaluated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Ryo AKAMINE
  • Publication number: 20230096044
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire an object image that is an image obtained by imaging an object; identify, at each step of a procedure to be performed on the object, whether or not the object image is in a specific state associated with the step; display, in a case where the object image is in the specific state, the object image in such a manner that first content associated with the specific state is superimposed on the object image; and display, in a case where the object image is not in the specific state, second, different content associated with the step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki SHIMIZU